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1000 (4) -the frame is banked with eartfr it-will- vembery Theri- for the frames t Dea. Vioin, is cncaycr .ai uc ugusv ur cariy m eptejnber anfl than glass but in the long run-the tlie; plants in the frames 8x10 fart A sashes , are cheaper. I have; sashes as soon as large enough. The fra made of clear cypress and have had 'are stuffed. : with-manure that them in use for ten years, and they, been piled and turned all - ne rrnnA oe AVPf wlii1( rlnt h "-h rx fin k" iX n A kl Al - TU .... fi. cr till The Moon H&S Nothing to Do With It fire and burn the plant and seed. But t0 be renewed at least every two to grow - I s catter , nitrate of soda be. never cui ana inrcsu iuc tivvci-ituiu years, men ine giass iuukcs a.iniru tween meMOws and niitiv ii. . better lettuce, I begin sowing lettuce For a succession crop I sow the nrst weetc in August i or a crop to ; irame in uctober and set th ni.-f THE Pr.OGr.ESSlVE FARMER 1 WiMFahners W0t toMnow sow Dy W. F. MACSEY 'T WANT to know" w that spot. If you gather and examine 1 moon to cut the second .crop of red clover to prevent its salivating horses. I have heard there is a cer tain time to cut it by the moon." Better drop all notice of the moon in farm matters. The moon does not care when you cut the clover. You can cut it as soon as the heads are well trrnwn and heffinninor to mature. but I have never-found that any time of cutting will make it safe for horses. Feed it to cattle. Sowing Cabbage Seed for Winter Plants the seed you will be able to detect them in clover, yas they; have a gen eral resemblance to clover seed, and you should v never sow clover with these seed in them. In buying clover seed I always get a sample and exam ine them with, a magnifying glass, and never buy seed with this seed in them. nor any other weed -seed. Bet ter pay three , prices for the clover seed than sow seed full of weeds, and dodder is the worst weed you can sow. head outside in the fall. These plants 'along in ADe.cember. or January to su are Big Boston and Hanson, and;I: "ceedv the crop grown for Chnstm set tnem in peas six icci.wmc auu ieu uuc uo not set in the same nlar 1 inches apart each way and keep them first crop grew. After setting C well watered and fill the beds withplants in the frame in the fall a . . 4 .'- ' , 'J t- "- . . J UUL put on glass or cloth till the. mf. rotten manure before setting, and use nitrate of soda between the rows. These will 'head in October and No- cet finite frnstv and . . all warrmand sunny days. $500 More a Year for the ern Farmer Averag e South- MORE FOOD AND FEED AND MORE COTTON ON FEWER ACRES ByPROF.W.F.MASSPY - V . for sale in winter and fall?". . . , profitable in North Carolina. My fig The best time v depends -somewhat orchard consists of 100 trees on one on the season, l usuauy sow irom v acre oi grouna ieiestiai ngs;. inesc Growing Figs in North Carolina VflfHEN is the best time to sow MT AM trying to prove that field cul- V cpH nf ruhhatrp tn linvp-nlants A tnrp nf fip-R is nracticable and . - - MVwMO . . - r , " -o- --- r--------- mtm m. timnAtm .1 . J ..2. -.1.1!. A r. . IU 'iMrxvU v r. tne xana anu gei ruiauon. mter a lew rounds of this more than the $500 per . year rotation you . wilt find that the peas . you-., must get ; out of the idea : sowed Jn the corn will get too heaw the 15th to the :20th of. September trees . were imported from South ;that all other crops ; but cotton are Jor the; disk,-and jthese too can be here in southeast Maryland. ; Some America ihree years ago. They are simply -"supplies':-to enable . you to mowed: and: cured to Ueed. seasonsrthese may get overgrown, .now -four, feet high and beginning to: -grow more cotton. Tru6, every, farm--:-. i. he,Tws,-where:..the vcorn' shocks and I make another sowing. the, last fruit. Is there a' fig growers': organi- ,ef; should grow the feed supplies for .stood; can be sowed to pats as soon of the month, for while I want to get . zation in the state?" . v -, , ; his 'stock, and a large .part of .the as. the .shocks .can be .removed after good. plants I do not want overgrown.- You are in the southern -end of the 'family" supplies. He; should; he inde- the, cordis shucked , but. , Then it will ones, that may, run: to seed in. spring, central : Piedmont section. , You v can.' pendent of purchased corn and feed usually: pay to. have the corn stover - In Johnston County, N, C; from the grow figs probably in good shape for of all sorts; , and should have, home- shredded More;of .it will ,he eaten in 9rttVi.frt tti a nf QnntprnKpr will hp rinni net Vitit tiftw in A Via vmi will vmadp ivmeat and make it better and 'this wav.J and whatever is leff wi'll h ' the safestHime to sow. Do not ow v have 'as winter-that will cuf them, Figs cheaper thannhe packing housejpro- ' in better; shapetO go into the manure . . ". . t . . i . . . . . . ' . 4 . i J - i. -11 too thickly in the rows but give the plants a chance to develop. Sow early Jersey Wakefield. Growing Wheat grow Detter on tne coast near salt water than - in the interior I, know i of one orchard with trees as large as peach trees near the tip end of Cape . Charles in Virginia, where they" have the ocean-on one side and bay on the other. I have seen a tree on the shore ' oft Chesapeake Bay in1 southeastern .Maryland in which I climbed and ate duct for home use and some to sell. Plan a Rotation' than the long uncut stalks. Com After Clover Pays IN MUCH of the cotton country the DY ADHERING to some such sys farm can be easilv nlanned into aU mo , - JUU 1 YVftii '117'HICH is the best time for sow , m ing wheat? How should the land be prepared? Should it be fer tilized and what kind? Will it grow - figs sitting- on the limbs,-the largest Dest on nign iana or,iowr. is tnere a trce I ever saw north of Florida. At different variety for low or' high Fort Monroe; Va., the officers have land?' ' r big and productive . fig trees "all You are in the lower coast section -around their dwellings. " But where I f North Carolina, and-your land is Hve, only 25 miles from the ocean, we . largely of the black pocosin -sort .1 have to protect .the trees well in win do not know any soil m your section ter with green pine boughs. I have where wheat can be profitably grown. vgrown figs successfully in northern Wheat -grows best on -thevhigh red,Maryiand oniy 25 miles south of the ciay sous oi tne upper country, in Pennsvlvania 1 ne. There I branched find ttat ; your supply crops are get ting larger arid larger, while your cotton crops increase per acre, and will find that there is money in corn when grown, economically by the aid of clover and' manure, and that the corn and oats or wheat will rapidly nn 1 1 nrfAtir hut1 will almost invariably be overrun with - rust and the wheat made almost worthless. You will get straw and ' l.'lll. ' 1' ' i. ' IT A . very, nine wucai. -, j. ou .. migni. iry ; some on a small scale on the highest and stiff est land you have. The .land A should be well prepared a good while - beforehand, and let settle and then them at the ground and bent the In short, then, to increase the rev enue of the farm we? must increase tlie productivity and fertility of the soil, and must make av greater variety three-year rotation, giving cotton , one-third, corn one-third, and whea,t or ; oats . one-third, with peas and clover coming in between, and plenty of pea hay to save the wasteful strip ping of blades, and to supplement the cut down corn and the straw. ;. ; As a small grain winter crop, oats enable you to get on a cash basis, and will prove more profitable than save more than the $500 a year. As wheat on the level sandy soils, .while . have before said, there is as much wheat can be profitably, grown in the . profit in saving expenditures as there upper red clay of the Fiedmont sec- in making more direct. tions. ' .- --. I have often suggested -the ' follow ing rotation, and where .it can be adapted to local conditions it has limbs down in fall and buried them ?ccu IUUI1U :"CIUI l.I!c.raP ot sale, crops; to give us tne neeacu with earth and they did well I do, improvement 01 tne productivity, ot cash, to enable us to buy on Detter not think:you can grow figs and ship e s.oil But hi matter roa- terms . what must be bought. the.fresh:ligs:far, but, canr sell Uhem-tlolong r short is a problem Jor . :rThen,; too the growing, of these bri the Charlotte market or can them. ea( r.me' . t0 f ?ile- What is.es- other crops in the rotation will rap But why import the Celestial a Chi- sential 1S that the rotation should idly . show us that the farmer who . nese fig, from South America? There contain Peas and clover as often as farms' in some such systematic rota ,t. Af Wot,, i'-QVi,-:- practicable, and that they be used for tion and exchanges his cotton seed. r .harrow fine and -tramp: with teams,-senes, arid you could have1 stuck down- :the improvement of the soil either .by for meal will never need to buy mtro - 'arid in November drill in five pecks of cuttings i three Ayears ago ' and " had turning under . . or, cutting and . fee Af a h'earded whpat like FtiWter h'- itl'Sl rv.. ri i-fi-' and returning the manure to 'the -.land. . V whU .tk-i'nVitt3 more hu- - , " - . . - - -- - - mm mm . i r r- I T II 1 1 r 1 I I I J 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 I i r r" 1 I M II I I . 1 1 1 I VAJ . w w - I m m Wkwa..w..ww -." I 11 . .. ' w . - . n n H nlntniH 4- r hnvrA s ...7i.. t 'if f 1 i . xl a1iu tM1.- potash, round of limes the the corn ..ture : of .cottonseed: meal- and '.-add-- ".I,..Ayiv- ;one ' lettucev bed r, under The vrotationv-suggested is; ;i first . crbovThii.wiirieavehim;noJertii- phpsphateint eoial-Tarts"ab6iit3()0 AWthJI and:-wanf:td grow -two crops - year, ;torn;wtthr.peas4sowedatr1ast; ot;iettuce. . Wheil; must . 1 plant n or- working,. The corn is cut at maturity - phosphoruses And here, too,1 he; can der to carry out this plan and set in shocks to cure, and the save, for Aasnis .land gets better sup-,- As a rule it is -not wise to replant shock rows set --as wide apart as. con- oiied with' the1 veiretable' decay he. can the same bed in lettuce after the first venient. Then peas are disked down 1 orofitablv use the pulverized raw . i c . a i acre waxs suwcu m oepxemoerr win t Vnhw nf nrmh Wat nn ' nf a fio- 6 ecu. wiuicr.- -mus.-ne.iWUL una in- wic-rcu. 'make a far tnore.orofitahle c'ron-thari " . v. :'.', ':,-' '-- ---Xv,1 . ... growing.crop on the land to orevent tinnt flint hr nin4s-tOibnv. no wheat in vour sfrtinn. fnr T Vnnw rV ' v ' v - ; . Joss.of 'fertility in winter. Anv rota-. esnrial1v if Jn-each -second. r rib cood wheat soir there. ''The'croo -Vf; iv Cii.- these. thiries the thrpe.veart rotation he- 'pounds an acre. Dodder in Glover Fields I AM sending you sample of a little crop, for you will be sure to have the and the land-disked till the snrfare uJl , far smaller cost yellow f vine. on clover. Some call "drop'1 disease worse. I grow lettuce is fine, and oats sowed in SehtemW. : . a .LuA.r.- and : with; ereat-- . , , ... ... ,. . . , . , - f luau.auu uuujiumv, , . - , . . U eilV vv .fc uviu iui in lumw 5ia wiuc aim use 4sucs in mc nofincrn sections ana uctooer er permanent1 benefit to nis, sou u ; feeder seed? 1 cannot find any root 3x6 feet'with two layers. bf glass with farther south. - The oats are harvest- 'orevention of acidity. ' ' ; that it has. People-say that -it will -a dead air space: between; ' I use,' small ed' and the stubble well broken and- " ' ,i"ij " V ; kill cattle if fed to them. I inteftdto -portable 'frames 'with the.corners fas- .prepared arid peas sowed, oreferablv ' V -' Dont SU Hay- with a wheat drill set to sow two , HHEN, with ; only phosphorus to bushels of. wheat.- Give these peas 1 buy, and buying that in tne thresh the clover for seed." tened with anrie iron These frames ' You. have about the worst weed hold three of trie sashefs, and I find .'. that can infest clover. It is Cuscuta that thev are verv convenient, for I .tnfolii, commonly, known as dodder, can move them to fresh soil -for a cure them for hay, and sow crimson use it lavishly and. at a smaller cost It makes no leaves but a great abund- succession eron: and not renlant tne rlnver nn tUa c.i. .Li: t . -1 -.i.:-.i.r Kiivini? com- . , .... a . - i. rP . r w - - v" "w fv aiuuuic m ocpicm-..inan 10 uc cvcria3ui4j- j . ance of httle flowers and seed, and if same soil. But when I leave .them in ber. P iit tVerv crot. and better a tly ad; you thresh it with the clover you will the same, spot and.. grow a Christmas - Turn this clover for cofton and aid the land getting no have : an abundance to seed another crop of lettuce I replant in January it with liberal amounts of acid phos- time - . . season. The seed germinate on the with beets and radishes in-six-inch phate and some cottnneerl , a mtuu a tt! ground and grow to the extent of the rows. The radishes come out quick- jfood in the seed, and then if it does ly and the beets then have.the 12-inch not catch a clover plant it dies. But rows. .Then in March .the frame is getting hold of a clover plant it lets removed from the beets which no go the ground and inserts its suckers longer need it and is set elsewhere to ms tw - it 1 . 1 a . a m aw . into the clover ana saps xnc ciovcr set tomato plants in from the green ' till it kills iC The best way toman- house to harden them for setting out hay, corn stover and straw age it is as soon as a onncix sccu is m Apm. i nave a number of these the spring disk down the Hover -,nA v t rnnr rnttnn on the one-tnn o put some stW; on it and set ft on small frames and. when the outside of plow it undr rZ trl Vtt ' issuc phate and some cottonseed meal, and With a crood rotation, strictly ao- again sow crimson clover about the . hered to, and . legumes,- humus ana .first picking of the cotton, always us- lime there is no reason why any tarm ing IS pounds of seed an acre. - in. the Cotton Belt should not soon Then during the winter get out on be making more, cotton on one-tmra this clover as fast as made all the its area than" it will now make on tne manure made from feeding th'e pea whole under the old all-cotton mctn and in od of soil destruction.- incn . 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