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4 -: : i - ..... -r : . : :. . "- . t.'y',-: 896 (4) '.IF:: i -it: . I, I Wltat Farmers Want to Know, ge Keeping Vegetables in Winter spread over the ground; ,Thetaftefthe-Iand,rwHfc' the grain- and fora pounds vof-orchard grass-an-acre rto - land now. makes one-third of a b 1 r help out the sod in . winter and brush an acre,: and by good farming h ll-V " V i j cus Dut Worms in Wheat - " ' uuZ:: "Z ""Ke h.e co- SS .te,& Stf .PROM.North CaroHna; "I Have ajot jmpr of-the .and'he wilfat Ely W. F. Masscy it is evident that he da, u... J . uuc one, umu as iuuiu idim io make the ton he hag been making, and in lAi. imnrnvpmpnt nfttio 1a"V4 I noriD drv : llar;Where:there is T'"f . t 1 fe"li?JS? "f wheat -with while-orri have improved. production of 1 -V r.ifirikl heit :;will -be a feooi K""" " ' Xt"r in it. How shall I destroy. them? r have his supplies .but- Dlentfr:,, time and-again how, to.. destroy in-n.d &et a better price-f or than cotton sects in grain, and still 1 get letters uv , , wijriups grown on the far u u cii uncial uoi iv &Vwv wont tr. winter, thf n atitq tor " - ... . r? v - , . uuiv -storage-riace- self Irish potatoes can be we kept in a . them thickly in these open furrows, cool and perfectly dark cellar, or they Qr about twQ Qr three inches apart can be heaped up outside and cover- Then yQU can' thn out f0r sale and ed thick enough ithjarthto keep have the crop remain for heading on out actual freezing. What they need tke'gr0und. ' " - is darkness and a temperature abottt - 35, or just above the freezing point. ' - , In the warmer sections they can be - . Lime ior vauuage daily asking for this information.- The ' UA;1C "".y '-"W on the farm worms are the larvae of the'insects should jroperjy be classed only the-eggs of, which were laid-in4 th ?j .SPP are.the- garden vegeta vm oVn in PolUi, Dies for the farmer's family in pint tins, hea.ded in barrels and these laid .on - Qj Y0U -think it advisable to their sides in ah outbuilding and well J vroun(i limestone costing a covered with pine straw. . When sweet potatoes are grown on a large scale the grower will of course have a curing house, such as 1 have often described. But ; they can be use costing about carboii-disulphide f or W" inc-great-market garden about 25 cents a" can. Put the wheat , vf "V1.1" ""a as "supplies" in boxes that can be closed up tights Icfl -5jro1:- course every IS $2.25 a tbn under cabbage ' plants ? of Ihe chemical in' ar pan and set it on: f 1, Would a ton on quarter of an acre top the wheat and close up tight It . . sole purPse of be too suitable 1 A a1a dllU V.lllt&;U lJ.ld.UUlC UUi nit ,.uv,t uuu " wvvvu m. ;m ' VAtniiA- 4,l, ; ' ' " ' 4 You seem to think'that the lime- When all has evaporated open up an4 J"1" '"tT Vou neea on the , j ia 11 ij 1 r m irn inn -if - . . 1 ' much? If limestone is not . evaporates rapidly and the tumes, be- ft: "rbP: 7 f "n X . llke , h6w would a mixture of dirt ing heavier than air, will sink through - CC7 r Ts ln one A,,'?" tU r1,f 1 o ncprK in if uv,i, , vj.yw ,iWic ui dU me Cronsin kept in heaps if properly; managed. STftnA wiii u a matiurP fnr th rab jfut Dusneis in a piie on a imcK b Li is-hot used as a manure, bed of pine straw and cover the heap thickly with the straw.. Make a shed over the heaps to keep them dy, and when the nights get colder cover with six inches of earth. Earth kept dry will do far better than earth allowed to get wet. I have kept them sound till June in this way. They must be handled carefully and not bruised, and no cut potatoes stored. r "Xabbage and collards - heading in -November should be simply turned over with the head to the north and the soil banked well over the stem and lower part of the head, leaving the top open but sheltered from the winter sun." They keep well in that . way here in southeast Maryland. v Carrots, parsnips, salsify and late begets I leave in the rows where they grew, simply puling the soil to them on each side. Th parsnips and salsify are so . hardy1 that they, will keep growing ' most : of the winter. The carrots will lose most of the "tops, but ; will be all the sweeter for the frost ing. ' ' ' : ' Well grown green tomatoes can be pulled when frost threatens and each wrapped in paper and stored in crates in a cool place away from frost, and then a few can be brought into a . warm room to ripen, up, and in this way I have had tomatoes for slicing till January. Snap beans that are grown late can be packed down in brine in stone jars and can be used all winter by soaking but to cure unfavorable conditions air out! If morel hatch, out repeat the dose. 1 The fumes are very explosive and all fire,-even a cigar or pipe, must in the soil If your soil is acid and be kept away. Do not keep the stuff ' neds lime, then a ton of the ground .in the house where there is - fire, and limestone spread broadcast and har- do Irtot breathe the fumes more than ' TWELVE THINGS TO DO IN OCTOBER farm, and always have Something to sen wnen cotton, tobacco and peanuts do not pay. ' The farmer who" grows "supplies" enough to feed a bunch of steers in the winter will not be so much both ered about rural credits; for he will have the cash for them in the spring tostart his cropping, .'and will have a good lot of manure to improve the crops, and will have made a market for some, of his "supplies." Let us quit talking about "supplies" and run the farm to make a profit on all the' ; crops : grown", There .is.no. reason on earth why a cotton farmer should not : have" corri 'arid small grains to sell as well' as cotton, and by good farming these will increase on him as well as the cotton. - But do not keep the sur . plus grain- to be eaten up by weevils ; put 'it oh themarket in the late fall and it will enable you-to hold your ; cottonlunder cover, for., that is your one crop the weevils will not bother. The.,. farmer with plenty of other things to sell will not be forced to rush his cottqn on the low market. Growing Wheat FROM North Carolina: "I have a field : of gray sandy soil which I -wish to sow to wheat. Will it pay me to haul pine straw half a mile and spread on this land?" ' Jn nnf nntv will if nnf T).1V. but it rowed in will be of benefit to the soil, Can be avoided, as they are unwhole- would be a disadvantage to the wheat, but the cabbage will need heavy fer- 'Some.. Now I hope that all interested Your soil is already too light for tilization. You can compost the hen will cut this out and keep it for refer- wheat and nine straw would make it uidiiui c ' wuu ; : l itu cdiui iium iuc cuc su nidi 1 may nut nave tO Write woods and make good manure if it is it daily. , r . used heavily enough, But the cabbage ' ' crop will need, if commercial fertiliz- "" - 4 . 4 '' r ers are used, not less tnan i,uw . 1. Keep up with the cotton as fast as it opens; under 12 cents, market ; only as much as is absolutely necessary. ' V - 2. Look to the syrup making, seeing that frost does not catch the cane; 1 3. Store an abundance of potatoes and other vegetables for winter use. , ; ' 4. Plant a big acreage of wheat and oats, treating the seed to prevent smut. 5. There is still time, particularly in the lower half of the Cotton Belt, to . plant vetch, rye and crimson clover. .. Sow liberally, of these , for feed and r . fertilizer. ;.;s ; - :;r-.'; v. '"v,V : :-': i:vi;.f.;"i.' r r " 6, ,:.Get ready to plant fruit and shade trees. 1 - yr, "' r. ' " 7 ; : v ; ' - 7, - Arrange now to run your farm next year according to a well defined ' plan. v:'-:-". v'V-- '.-.' ,,r '' ' '.. : .v"- .Vv 'y 8. . Look to' the terraces, repairing the old ones and building new where necessary. .::; " V ""."';-; '. !; " ;." . . ' , 9. . Drag the roads and keep them in shape for the winter hauling. - 10. Look to the cotton you are holding, and see to it that it is sheltered and perfectly dry. ". ' .''.-"-;" ;'-:;'V: : " ':" 1 1. Save every bit of feed you can for carrying the livestock through the ' winter. .- ; v ":; f ' v-r': ; ' ; ' ' ' ? 12. . Visit your local school, looking to the water supply, heating, ventila tion" and sanitation. - . . .. . , What Are "Supplies0? them overnight in clea.r water, and pounds an acre of a high-grade fer- THERE is nothing that makes me cooking them the next day, and they, tilizer stronger in nitrogen and phos- 1 so , tired as this constant talk are-very good indeed. phoric acid than in potash.' In fact if about "supplies"; regarding. the grain ! ; , you mix one-third acid phosphate and and forage crops as simply supplies Growincr Cahhape Plants for Snrinc two-thirds, cottonseed meal, and use t0 enable the farmer to crow more -r--o .. .. , ftftx . . sA4.M t coast set Heading - n at rate ot i.vaai pounas an acre in --- "r Pwnuts. in a:rc. ftrofitaM the beds under the cabbage, the meal omciai puDiicatipn in Worth Car-" -'."j" Z fvS'rlbv and a less MTTuntfp rA ,rJf nu uu ol na n Ucf rri f itA . needs a sttongrClav warn ana aivuuixv vi w avnuvt ninv Will v Ldll V All uuiasil - " kmvii Ul Llir Kcreapp . ' U.t ' ' . CPP- . - w .. . o'i htimm . i iMit.utnn , in vuui v.u.u6 v w me WH census l"0W f; .a j-u' Wv-'prtinn fining ana rather ancient historvl. in earn nfc-:tlonA , V-f : -f wheat, rye, PeasandVeget ce. of o f 7 trashv and iniure the crowth. In fact, in your humid section and on a sandy soil I do not.think that you can grow wheat profitably. It will be almost cer tain to rust,rand when wheat rusts the grain is. shrunken and unmarketable. You can grow good crops of winter oats all -over; the Coastal Plain sec . tion, and in most of the soils of the coast-section oatSW"l be tar more than- wheat, for wheat A growing cabbage plants for sale or - stone is a fertilizer. It will doubtless setting in the fall. I have already told help your soil,' but . the cabbage Will all about this crop, but people do not need heavy feeding. ' seem to read what is printed;- ; ' v " ' ' ' ; T make the first sowing of cabbage seed just" after the middle of Septem- iui uuyuiiduuii iu icgdiu iu - neeas. oui ao noi imagine inai lime- wmmgay UiC last census (now .a nn fin and ku::- t - ; j- t,. t'.i s . y tion. , And irt any section nning and it says that. these are "jrenprallv- g.real. irnF anH r;ffuui,f n.j ' a. . the wheat crop Getting Bermuda,Grass and rightfully called the sunnlv or subsistence crops, while the money ' crops- are cotton, tobacco . and pea nuts' , ' J r. Now is there any good-reason why ! a; good .fanmer "should not sell corn, wheat, and oats, just as well as cot ton? The list erven classr ihZ Potash in Ashes PLEASE tell 'me -how much potash t is in 100. pounds of hardwood ashes and-how much' in well rotted stable If the ashes are -all hardwood asnes cover b'er, and the last of the month I sow1 ROM- eastern North Carolina : again,' as' the first sowing in a late ; "Which is the best way to start a season may "get too large and be apt Bermuda rgrass pasture, to plant the - ; to run. to seed in spring. We want'1 roots' or sow seed? I can get plenty good-sized plants, but not overgrown. 1 of the roots here." Sow the Early Jersey Wakefield cab- Bermuda grass, either from seed thbusands of acres in VPfaKl.a J . oH f up--t under' co Vbage.- .For planting prepare the or cuttings, should be started only in '- North Carolina as "supplies." What - alf the time and are dry, .they may i grounrTwell and run out furrows two the spring, as it is a warm weather would the truck nf iu c ,onf c nftlinds in'the - . . 7 . -- w vujiviU A1U1 Lll LUlliaiil U. Utl VWlUi m - ' . 1 been-iy . - there will dc and only a 1vc?q cou d , determine the acreacre in the.s sunnlv rrnnD : ,-i" ir ;S'ctiKU mnnfire has been j mum a3 nidi uevoiea saveu wun an mc uuuc j . wm n .,ma14.iiyimrruU "V-" uuC3 nut. grow m winter. Carolina do it they regarded' these 100 bounds. . If they have . these :vturfows:appiy. i, or.rnore . nc seea on-the market sometimes -simply as "supplies", when thev are exoosed to the weather' - 0U- Lr! ffiLT " maiin? ? Vlr " important money crops? little potash left in them, peciauy sirutiK uv uc Kass is pienuiui, as it is 1 And the writer seems to thinlr rlmir,! 9'i nhorica'cid. Cabbage needs less pot- know in your section, it is best to use ash than any other truck crop, and if cuttings of the runnim? stems, which nbnnf fuA - . . v " - .vv u j uiuvu dS L tne nitrocen is irum vuuunvu uivai arc toramoniv caned roots. Hut the tn rrc t fi ..u i -.... . l.i . - . u ..trt, ftAti, i . , - , :. - i'-vi idiucr sure mat iaia out-ana icatucu mwiw- it will furnish all the potash needed real roots are only the fine roots that the ratio is exactly the other way, or some potash in it, but in manure lying TlH n fKpC flirrOWS. WhlCh Should mif nilf rnm 41 t. . .... r. WUJT, Ul SUIUC j;iVdll ill l, uww i ..1.:.,rf iJvu vu v - - - ' i- " vv t ii v. juiuij wi 111COC lull-' IldS DC run east and west, and tnen open lur- ning stems. No root ever makes the farme till recently. He wants to get outdoors and heating .and Meachinff ers to make the ratio half there will 6e"Very little Ahov much it ' T WOnlH crn ' ttirlU !' .'mnnp.iU. frtf tn fn P"MeSS. fOf J J XT . . " . ' " HIV lOUUvlJ iu Hid iuws-umiv ... ..w.w...- jy.uia. nam wic runners in May in and halt. 1 would en furfur ,c' monctiKI. fnr me to .euess, aparf, in .these open furrows, deep and cover lightly, and they will soon crops he gives occupy . one-third of composition varies a great deal. 4 '
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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