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416 (4) What Farmers Want to Know V By W F. MASSEY , :" c PAffltnp line where the hedge is wanted, set- : Cold Storage for Sweet Potatoes ne inches apart. You can .do f 1 J. M . "RE sweet potatoes ever xeyi m th,s now 7 " - 'ivV: , TllZ i'"CC"ESSIVE FARltjj But if you want the: dry powderuse as a source of nitrogen and : ;the same proportions of air-slaked ' phone-acid-and: I .use it annuall lime and pulverized bluestone and. add : the statement of the nitroi k 1 part of Paris ;green to 50 parts of equal to: 10 per cent amnion? ?ng the powder well mixed. I think you not mean that there is anv a 0es 'will find it.more expensive and trou-m it,; for there is. merely orn KUcnmp than to usey the four-row troeen in it" Snif i;n .jj ga.nic ni- u'v''v" : "T7 .I" -. . m 'v ,w . " v ""1 UUU nOth n sprayer, v . , jr. , : . - ' , - , kU -luc mixture of g Of meal and.acid phosphate, fo?saS A RE. s weet potatoes tms now, i uo uui wru ; . . ture -of ' eaual- nartc inx- cold stHrage like Irish-potatoes? - with-nitrate of sodarbut- if -1 did - I -t4 HAVE plentyof acid phosphate en - , -and SiuScot?0llseed M&ing Fertilizer - Never, for putting sweet potatoes would simply scatter it . along ;the 1 hand.' How will it do "to mix this you sdmeootash anH n i WlU iinto ordinary cold storage would very rows after the corn has attained equally: with cottonseed 'meal ; as a J f 0hohorVr ge perce 1 Eldr destroy; them. After drying tw0 or three feet in height About, fertilizer for corn?" ' , ' ' ' Phosphoric acid. l - . l'i't.r.nMHirA tllP SWeet 1AA A n will lll1n' rnrtl Otl i ' Ti. ...Ill mi.1 i nanr. rtlrA potato must be kept as near 50 de- poor jah(i n0 sugar beets will not giving a moderate -percentage of ni-. ; ' MUHg Bean ' grces as practicable, while Irish po- impr0ve sour land nor any other kind trogen, a small percentage of potash, ' T.AM enclosing seed whirl, t tatoes will keep best at about 35 de- of land for the beets need good land - and a large' percentage of phosphoric 1 arr those of the Mnno. k mto!4 in-eea - ana neayy icriuiAuig. iv,"&"v acta, li win answer very wcu xui man whn mvo fhm :. ' 4M:k Z . , ....... ' j ' 4 : . , . . n . . o a ton oi pure sugar uu auu auu wu corn or cotton. i : . I' ...u ...i k i Tlii Alif ' It WOUlQ IIUl SWCCICH U( lin, uiujr The thing to sweeten acid soil is lime. Sudan Grass Carolina : "What manvwho gave them to me says tW it is vervaluable forage plant " Trouble With Sweet Potatoes UV4. a,w uu snea in ci.rini.. - "6 iur Being a le. v 1' ed 500 bushels" of sweet ootatoes. - f?1 ""ormation will be an-,. yams auu inc. ouutuciii yuctu, iiuo have kept well, but the Southern TJROM -Tennessee; "Last falf I hous;' p.1??' .1 ?uPPse it would help the" Early Garden Peas : . WHEN is the proper time to plant English peas for canning? I am very much interested in What Farm ers Want to Know" in The Progres- : sht Farmer. - Had you signed have sent a reply iiji uuuiwK . . - iimsi it iitr i tmiwii i vrxii iLUL Kiunu iii.u luuillu a t ititiv uiuuuu iv .- . . i uiai oary or February. .Planted late they prontably in North Carolina on poor . outside" is good and 'all : the. insideT. see and nn what they are, but gray land?" ' 4 - hard and bad. Lan you give me the 7 d ora. This I know of Sudan grass only from probable cause?" . - ; : " gar?en able, as the what has been published about it, for It would be purely guesswork for " f0"11 ?oas makc a dish and are I have never grown it, though will me to try to give, you the cause.- It useiul m .0UP' A grow some every 17R0M North P c j i t. :i . lilrA 1a ro11 Kf . QnuTi am fcuuw Oi no Dean ca.1 IpA M.. your name I would Bermuda and Johnson grass? Will it Queens get bad on; the inside,' while , aVa"a Vle.se.ed sent look like seed by mail. The time sorout fr0m the roots the next year or looking perfectly sound' outside, and 0Kra' Y.c 1S not a legume but a npas IS in' lan- -.i-j. Ii. 1- - a U Ua n.nn,n. ,t, VAA nor,r lUfla orntn1 Via "Cai r.CldtlVe tO COttOn. I will ftUt wni nn amount to much, as the hot weather soon burns them up. Mine a arc now ready to bloom, and -will be blooming before this is printed. year. Brome Grass FROM North Carolina : "Please tell . , me the value of brome grass as a .forage crop' . s.' I suppose that .you ..refer tor,the awnless brome grass about 1 which much has been said of late years. It l has been found valuable in the semi- arid sections of the West, but all ex periments I have seen and read of in . , the South show that it his little value herej I believe that where it suc . ceeds. it is used mainly for pasture. Analyzing Limestone I AM sending you a sample of lime stone and would like you to tell me. ' if it has any value." . .. : No one .ch ctell anything abput such a specimen by looking at it.' I have no laboratory and am ' not an ' analytical chemist, and hence can tell " you nothing about Such a specimen. To learn what it' is send a specimen to your , State . Experiment . Station, eyhave ;.their laboratory and .chemists,, and it is their business to -inform farmers of the state on such matters. There is an experiment station in every state, and such1 mat ters should be referred to them, and they ; are always ' ready to help the farmers of the - state , in every way they" cam p v;.;'f '- Grazing Crimson Clover TWELVE THINGS TO DO IN MAY is 1 . ; Pln now to market your crops cooperatively. Car lot cooperative ship- ments mean profits rdisoifganized selling means lorfses. ' l 2. Screen the house to keep out flies and mosquitoes, and at the same time ; keep these pests from breeding, if possible - 3. Start a green sod on the front yard, in place of having a hard-baked, clean-swept waste. ' , " ' ' " 4. Keep the cultivators and harrows busy. Crops carried into June clean and well worked usually give little trouble thereafter. , 5JThis is Jthe last month forgetting . your boy into the Corn and Pig Clubs - llfHAT plants .aamping. ott or scalding? ' . I have ' about 1,500 plants and have lost probably, half ot them. ' The ; plant are in boxes in a cold frame ' under-;the double-glazed sashes. One morning it turned warni and as they were dry I watered them, and I think , they "were. scalded by the sun." The damping off of young seed- lings- is caused-by a microscopic fun-. girs. As soon fas' any are noticed to : fall the' best thing is to prepare boxes - of fresh spil? and take out all the -s good plants and transplant them to the fresh soil. : Then do not keep the frame too close.: My tomato plants are sturdy ones with the stems of a , purplish color.!; They are set four inches apart in the frame, having been started in the greenhouse, and in the frames Iv expose them to the air , as soon as . the outside temperature is above 40 degrees, for I do not want to set out plants with a tender green stem,- but always expose them to the air till the' stems get the hardy, pur olish color -These plants are now probably , do so this year It belongs seems to be a new sort of -disease, (April 15) plenty large enough to set to the sdrghum . family and is an an-' and the best thing to do will" be to out, but the! weather is still tooun nual, and must be sown every spring, 'send specimens of the potatoes to certain. They will probably go out ;;I:4o not.l?npw any crop that can'be the Tennessee Experiment Station at late iri the month. Thenf frost . profitably grown on poor land except Knoxville. They have the men and threatens .1 have - some heavy card cowpeas .to-turn under to improve it the microscopes -for the study of board" protectors which fold in a r: the growing ofother crops. To these ithingS;; and they are there for conical form : which I can set ov make good. crops of any sort of grass the' purpose .of helping the farmers "them and bank'around with soil, inc you;need to ;have the soil in good As a rule farmers do not t?et in rnn 1 Volants ill be reeularly sprayed with and your girl into the Canning Club. ""Get busy.' 6. 'See that the binders, mowers, rakes and other implements used in har vesting the oat and wheat crops are in perfect shape for the big rush. ' . 7. Save all the clover and vetch seed possible. ' " V 8. If you haven t enough pea and bean seed to go in your corn and on your oat land, better get them before it is too late. , 9. If you haven t a good Bermuda pasture May is a good month to start' . 10. Keep the garden at work ly planting egg plants,, peppers, pumpkin, squash, tomatoes and corn. 11. Put peas, beans, peanuts, corn, sorghum on every possible acre in order to avoid feed bills next year. -. 4 , 2. Don't forget a liberal second planting of watermelons. ; t Damping Off the cause , of tnmatn THAVE a good stand, of v crimson'. c over and have thougnt ot grazing x. nnA ' i n "7-7. , 1 BCt m con" . 6 v tpaf it, but amtold that it will bloat t:"jf to event U : t w: . .. : like the. Sudan will make the land should. ; h ,Vht and to some extent some oi " V ! -poorer instead of better;; Good farm- OUU 0WU W V W . 1VV.J' saryi for the profitable production of any crop. '. '.. r'y ; 7.7 that will not bloat cattle if , they are suddenly iturned on it when hungry , and 'the clover is wet with dew.:il doV not think that crimson clover is any ' worse than other clovers " To avoid : danger, turn the stock on after they . have been well fed "and the clover is dry, and let them remain at first but 7 avshort tinier and thus" gradually get them used to it. Never turn on when - the cattle are ravenously hungry. Market for Catnip rbiight and to some . me rois.iV ; , Rabbits Eating Plants ; ;' 7 777.C7 -7.7 . T, ,. T AST year I had trouble from rab- Navy BeansIIardlySuitedtouie XJ Kite P'ifinrr" i. . . " " tir tf OTOV a weec potato iKUM Tennessee: i wui, bits plants. (.an vnn c ii rrrv 4. a j 11 . . . . ' -.f Mow Deas Bordeaux Mixture for Irish Potatoes protect them?"-' y lo have T HAVE 109 acres of Irish potatoes'to 1 hae seen it stated that a, tea- "some information as to their cultiva I. spray and .want to make a mixture sponful of asafetida well mixed in tion. What variety will be best, w of lime, bluestone and : Par and want to use it with a machine. If you know a ture I would like to havp ;-- - - -T ... '. . . . . .v nui ., , rt s i nave iuiu .""":. Ln Ao make a regular Bordeaux, mix- veni.tneir Diting the bark. It is also nnirprs von cannot grow JNayy . : a mixture of equal parts -Tin 1 vour climate,; commercially . ture ot the .5-5-50 grade, slake five 1JROM Virginia: "Will you advise pounds of fresh lime in a cask and . :vme where I can finda market for then add water enough to make it 25 catnip and hoarhound?- When do you gallons. In another cask hang five make cuttings of privet for a hedge pounds of bluestone in a flour sack' in ad;bw shall ;I root them? How do hot water to more quickly dissolve it. you' top-dress corn with , nitrate of Then add water enough to make this -soda Will sugar heets improve 25 gallons. . Pour the two together sour land?" ' 77 - : K 7 into a third cask, stirrincr well all the . 1 "u 4 ww .7 , r" J " 1UI Pvcuungme early ammonia, 10 per cent. What ;? vonr .t.- a m a mm rf-w ww-t 1 v fill r a. - w w v ' - - - ini marxei ucuwuu.-tu -vi.k v vau uugiu. ooininn nf i.I n j mi fcA what are iciv Um tttttmtto, Brother To destroy the beetles, add to the rriL . " . "iMiiuK. uliu iiiiii.'n m r 'J im riirmn- iirppiri c . 1 1 11 - v.amv - . nin. stated" that e . . 7 T ciiudi parts in vour climate , cuiui''----'.;,1(;t . auipuur ana sooi profit You can easily . . will repel them , . ls yon would snap beans, an da - - - , loam is -best for them. The t-ea had Salt in n Wiliror . , will be the best to try, f j0v r nV fa.aJtto better try a few first anfftto T AN get fish, scrap analyzing avail- ing them I think you will not ' w able phosphoric acid," 4 pet cent ; ; plant six or eight acres, tor y aim nitrogen, per cent; equal to." have a far larger perccua- & aged-beans and tar mui - . llot ' .Statesville, JN. u, wno aeaiyn nerDs. su gallons a pound and a half of lead seed meal in tlS 7 V7r;:rr ' ! the Nortn. . . I make cuttings 0 inches long of the arsenate. . Strain into . the sp aver ft omScLw. to ut fL ! the be9n Black Eye v b,f ' privet in early "spring and set them and it is far better to use a four-row as Me ris, ; lt U E fn .if they U W iearly.full;.e.;in4he;snl;in the sprayer than the powder S thvod artideoLpr&e tW . A '' " ' r7 . " "-7, r A. v ' ' . - - 7 '. 77 " 7 7 ! ' . ' : ' '-'7 . : - : . . . .7' . '' V. , ' ' ' -
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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