Thursday, September 26, 1907.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
I j& Plowhandle Talks j&
CRIMSON CIX)VER 18 YEARS.
Some Hints and Ideas From a Farm
er Who Has Grown It Successfully
on Many Soils.
Messrs. Editors: I saw a very in
teresting article in last week's paper
from J. F. Duggar on Crimson
Clover. I have grown it for eighteen
years, successfully, on every grade
of land, from stiffest clay to light
sand. It succeeds best on light
loamy soil, but will grow anywhere.
The land should be broken in time
to sod, then put in fine tilth by shal
low harrowing. I have raised splen
did clover on woods pasture by har
rowing the land and sowing. Do you
want to try it? If so, take any
grove or woodland pasture, harrow
with a sharp-tooth harrow, with
teeth turned back .so that they will
pass over roots. Run harrow several
ways till you pulverize the top of
the ground. Sow one bushel of or
chard grass and 15 pounds crimson
clover seed. You will have a pasture
all summer. Of course land must
be freed from undergrowth.
The inoculation . is to me what' re
ligion is to the Greeksfoolishness.
I have sown on all: sorts of soil, and
have never failed if I got the plant
started time enough to make good
growth before frost, and no amount
of inoculation will avail unless this
fall growth is had.
If you have not broken your land
before this, don't plow it. Crimson
clover will not succeed on fresh
plowed land. Disc the land shallow
both ways, harrow fine, sow and run
a brush over the land.
' J. H. PARKER.
Perquimans Co., N. C. ', ' .
JTow to Cure Peanut Vines.
Messrs. Editors: In this week's
Progressive Farmer some one asks
how to save his peanut hay for feed
Plow up peanuts, vines and all. Af
ter letting them stand one day, shake
clean of dirt; then stack in tall
slender stacks as high as can be
reached standing on ground and not
more than length of one vine from
pole to outside.' In this way your
peanuts will cure bright and hay will
be fine.
J. TI. PARKER.
Perquimans Co., N. C.
the oat. plant is susceptible to attack
only when it is very young, only
prior to the attainment of the length
of a half inch by its first leaf. It
producing an oily appearance errone- tnus happens that if the farmer can
ously called heavy dew. nrotect the oat nlant. in its infnnr.v.
2. To insufficient potash in the Ue can save it from disease. It is
soil. Enough potash is needed to pro- further true that only those snores
duce in the plant sufficient firmness which are on the seed and are con-
of texture to sustain it through
gradual development, to natural ma- to infect the young plants.
turity. Lack of potash is a very com- '
mon cause of premature decay on all Formalin Treatment Kills Smut.
dark soils, either fine or course. The method of preventing:! oat
3. To excessive moisture, or insuf- smut, based unon theso farts. nn-
ficient drainage.
Wayne Co., N. C.
J. W. HALL.
Blue Grass for Groves?
Messrs. Editors: Mr. Tomberlin j
asks about grass that will grow in
shade. What about "blue grass" for
his grove? We had it in our yard,!
sists in so treating the seed before
planting as to kill all of the adhering
spores. This treatment is an, ex
ceedingly simple one and consists in
soaking tne seeds m iormaim, a
chemical which may be had from
any a druggist at small cost, diluted
to the strength of one ounce to three
gallons of water. After so treating,
the oats are allowed to remain wet
40 miles from Chicaeo. where it.
grew under the pines and they made for several hours and are then dried
dense shade.
MRS. E. H. MILLER.
Columfcus, Co., N. C.
Pure Food Law and the Home Can
neries.
'Messrs. Editors: Please publish
in your next issue what effect the
pure food law will have on the can
ning of tomatoes, etc., on the farm;
also any information in regard to
the law that will effect the farmer.
R. L. MEADOWS.
Mecklenburg Co., Va.
and planted. This treatment is ab
solutely perfect, preventing every
single grain of smut. It applies
equally well to wheat, oats, rye and
barley. It costs less than three cents
per acre and in view of its great
efficiency can be applied to these
crops with great profit.
P. L. STEVENS
Professor of Biology A. & M. Col
lege, Raleigh, N. C. f :
The Charlotte Observer is to be
congratulated upon securing 5 Mr
Joseph Wardin ("Uncle Jo") as ag
ricultural editor. Mr. Wardin j is
pleasing and forceful writer and is
deeply interested in agricultura
progress. -
8 Peri Gent Preferred Stock
' One of Our active corporations has de
cided to pay S per cent on a small issne of
preferred stock to run ten years. The
company- pays the taxes and cannot have
more than one-third of Its stock preferred.
These conditions, together with the excel
lent management make this an attractive
Investment. Will he pleased to furnish
full details. We also have some very de
sirable common stock for sale.
' THRUST DEPARTMENT
SOUTHERN LIFE & TRUST CO.
1 GREENSBORO, N. C
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E. P. WHARTON. President
A. M. SCALES, uen. counsel
C i T V x A A- Mm
THE
Great State Fair,
OCTOBER 11-19, 1 07.
Grand Free Attractions.
'i i
Demarests Hippodrome and Wild West.
Ferarl's Trained Wild Animals, New Shows
on the Midway. Floe Exhibits showing Ed
ucational, Agricultural and Industrial pro
gress. ' ; ;
Oct. 15th.
Oct. 16th,
Oct. 17th,
Oct, 18th,
Opening Day
Masonic Day,
Bryan Day.
Children's Day.
R; L. DAUGHTRIDGE, President.
f a JOS. E. POGUE, Secretary.
CLAUDE B. DENSON, Treasurer.
In Kegard to Mr. Worman's Cotton
Disease.
Messrs. Editors: The decay of cot
ton leaves referred to by Mr. E. S.
Worman can be attributed to one of
three causes:
1. To lice, which feast on under
side of leaf, by sucking, and cause
the sap to ooze out on the top-side,
(Answer by B. W. Kilgore, State
Chemist.)
In reply to inquiry of Mr. Mead
ows, regarding the offect of the pure
food law on the canning of fruits
and vegetables on the farm, we think Why not have EVERY farmer in
that it will exert a beneficial influ- your neighborhood in The Progres
ptipp Thfl law nrohibits the use of sive Farmer Family? Our 15-cen
rhfimir.al preservatives in canned offer will do it.
goods and other food products. These
have been used but little in home
canning, as the products could be put
up in a fresh condition as fast as
thev riDened. Under these condi
tions, where care and cleanliness are
observed, preservatives are not ne
cessary, and products put up without
them are far better and more whole-
same than where they are employed,
and should ensure the farmer a good
price for what he is able to put on
the market. Practically all, manu
facturers are discontinuing the use
of preservatives and only used them
in the past because-they had large
quantities of materials to handle in
a very short time and they could do
this more easily by the use of arti
ficial preservatives.
All letters to advertisers should
be carefully addressed. It is im
portant to give the box, street
number or department in answer
ing advertisements. A Iways state
that you saw the advertisement in
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gressive Farmer Family.
Three Cents sua Acre Will Kill 5mut.
Loss of 15 to 10 Per Cent From Smut in Oats, Wheat, and Rye May
-be Easily Prevented by Formalin Treatment.
Messrs. Editors: All country peo
ple are familiar with a peculiar
blackened condition of oats, wheat,
rye, and barley at harvest time, com
monly known as "black heads,"
"smut," t)r "bunt." . This is a dis
ease and it prevails wherever oats
and other grains are grown, and
often to a very serious extent, much
more always than the farmer is
aware. It is frequent to observe a
loss of as much as 40 per cent of the
value of the whole crop from this
disease in fields in North Carolina.
Throughout the State the average
loss is probably about 15 per cent.
In one case which I visited last sum
mer the loss was more than 10 per
cent oi the total taxes collected in
that county.
What the Smut is.
This disease is caused by another
small plant known as a fungus grow
ing within the oat plant, and the
black cloud of dust shed by the plant
as the oats mature consists of the
spores or reproductive bodies of the
fungus. In function these spores
corresDond with the seed of the
higher plants. If these spores fall
upon the oat plant of susceptible
age they will germinate into the
oat plant, and as the oat arrives at
maturity, cause it to produce smut
instead of seed. A very peculiar
thing concerning this disease is that
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