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Jtidge Bennett on Winter Farming.
The Good Husbandman Should Have as Many Crops Growing in Winter
as in Summer Rye He. Holds in Great Ssteem as a Forage Crop.
Messrs Editors: Every all-round
farmer should grow during winter
as many crops as during summer.
Some of the crops, demand to be
put under the plow in their season;
others are less exacting in this re
spect. Oats, now growing in public
favor, cry aloud and spare not when
their seeding time is to hand. Wheat
temporizes.
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Black Emmer defies the rigor of
the weather and may be laid down
when you please, though .timed with
oats. This forage plants has been
fetched here from Manchuria since
the war in the Far East. A horse,
mule, cow, or any other animal pre
fers it to any forage.
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Dwarf Essex rape is quickest to
give grazing; forty days from plant
ing is full time. It must be put on
land which fits its natural selection,
such land as you would call moist
and pliable, as differing from stiff,
harsh. soils.
Far and - away from "all forage
plants; I would rank rye. Mine is
now four inches high in some patch
es: They say the apple crop leads all
fruit crops because apples keep so
well; besides, their, unbounded util
ity to man puts them forward.. Then
the trifling affair in Eden, which I
have regarded as metaphorical.shows
the intermediary betwixt ; man, and
wife, and Creator. Rye is related to
all other forage plants as apples to
other fruits. Seed rye spoils from
heat which would not injure wheaL
There is in the growing of crops a
constant satisfaction or pleasure
which religion alone affords.
I read all the old books on farming-
with consuming pleasure. Co
lumella, Virgil's Georgics, General
Armstrong's Agriculture, contrib
uted to the Albany newspaper in
1838, 1839, and 1840; Arthur
Young's Rides in France; Cobbett's
Rural Rides in Great Britain.
- R. T. B.
Anson Co., N. C.
Planting Peas for Hay.
Mr. H. M. Johnson Gives Results of
Seeding Afford
Messrs. Editors : I herewith send
you a statement of some of my ob
servations in pea farming. In plant
ing the crop I endeavored to seed ai
the rate of one peck per acre in three
feet ro ws ; - but in regulating - the
planter there was medium and very
heavy seeding in some rows.
Some time back I read a piece on
pea tutiutc f luicoaui uuuic( au.u
he said that peas should be planted in
two-feet rows with one and one-half
bushels seed per acre. So I have cut
and weighed nine; foot spaces, with
the subjoined results. The peas were
cut and bundled, and cured in house
until fairly dry. .
No. 1. -About one-fourth bushel
per acre planted. - Pea hay in nine
foot space, seventeen ounces. Peas
in hull, seven ounces. Equivalent to
1,700 pounds hay per acre.
No. 2. Seed per acre, two and
one-half pecks. Pea hay, twenty-five
ounces. Peas in hull, ten ounces.
Equivalent topea hay per acre, 2,500
pounds. , '
No. 3. Seed "per acre, nine pecks.
Pea hay, thirty-one ounces. Peas in
hull, four ounces. Pea hay per acre,
3,100 pounds.
No. 4. Better land. Seed per
acre, two pecks. Pea hay, twenty;-
nine ounces. Peas in hull, ten
ounces. Pea hay per acre, 2,900
pounds.
There had been reaped a crop of
wheat from the land fairly heavily
manured with a fertilizer' containing
acid phosphate, cotton'meal, and mu
riate potash, about 300 pounds per
His Experiments Showing That Heavj
ed Best Yield.
acre, and top dressed with one hun
dred pounds nitrate soda ; per acre.
Tield, twelve bushels wheat per acre.
The land was turned with a two
horse plow and guano put in with a
Cole planter. The peas were culti
vated with a weeder. -
These experiments show the im
portance of fairly heavy seeding of
peas when hay is wanted, and I think
they should be drilled in order to cul
tivate so as to keep down weeds,
etc., until the peas can get a good
start. I wish to say to my farmer
friends to sow oats and' wheat and
follow with peas and improve their
land by rotation. I have neglected to
say that peas were manured with
about 1 5 0 - pounds 1 6 per cent acid,
forty pounds cotton meal, and forty
pounds muriate potash per acre.
The vriety of peas I planted .was
the Iron. The peas were matured
and dry, yet there -were a good
many green vines and leaves, as this
Is a trait of the Iron pea.
I have found since -I have' been us
ing some ammonia for peas that the
crop is much better. When I get
through picking my cotton I will
write up my experience with cotton
on a pea fallow on very sandy poor
land.
H. M. JOHNSON.
Johnston Co., N. C.
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If you have three or more cows and do not own a
Centrifugal Cream Separator.- y on certainly need one
jand doubtless know that you do. If so, do not make i
the mistake of delaying its purchase "until Spring"
Jor for. that matter even another month. Buy it NOW,
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Butter prices at present are unusually high, and it is
being predicted that first class butter will retail at 50
cts. per pound in the large cities this coming Winter.
With butter values so high, can you afford to waste'
from one-third to one-half your butter fat, as you are
surely doing without a separator? A separator will "
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and cut your work in half. ; i
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About Terracing, and Rotation for a
Poor Farm.
Messrs. Editors: Mr. C. S. C. wish
ed to know how to manage " his ter
races so that his rows, could be run
straight, and hoa to bring up his
poor hilly farms.
1. Terracing and straight rows
are practical if you have gentle
slopes, and not rounding hills, pro
vided the grade is not steep enough
to cause washing between terraces.
Begin about, January 1st, and bed on
the line of your terrace. Continue
plowing until your bed is 15 feet
wide; repeat the plowing at intervals
of two weeks, .leaving off two 6r
three furrows on each outer . edge,
every time you plow. Continue to
repeat until sufficiently high to hold
the water of heaviest rains. When
finished the crest of your terrace
ought to be at least 6 to 10 feet
wide. - . 'V. ; -.
2. Divide that poor hilly farm
in three plots. Plant cotton, follow
with corn. When you plant .that
corn the last time, sow at least' one
bushel peas per acre (one and a half
bushels is better) . After your: corn
has been harvested, and you can;
plow, in wheat, about one bushel per
acre, or whatever kind of grain will
pay you best.- Follow the grain with
at least two bushels of peas per acre.
See what a fine : place you have for
your, next year's cotton crop. ( Faith
fully pursue this plan and; your poor
hilly farm .will soon be come a - rich
one, yielding two bales cotton per
acre, 30 bushels of wheat, and 40
to 50 bushels of corn.
J. W. ft ALL. .
Wayne Co., N. C.
When to Gin Damp Cotton.
Messrs. Editors: Out of forty years
of toil and labor, I have run a public
gin for thirty years and gained some
valuable information for ginner and
farmer both-. If water should get on
cotton, pack it closely and tightly in
bulk for two days in siarm weather,
andj for a longer' time,- in cool weath
er, until it goes through a chemical
actioni ; As soon as the. bulk gets
warm J enough to be perceptible to
the jhand, then it will gin - and lint
better the oil of the seed having be
come disseminated through the lint
giving it a soft texture. .
As to the different varieties of
corn," the seven-ear. variety - will
make, r as near as I . can determine
by fair tests by weighing, over the
one-year variety; between 16 and 20
per cent. But since the man to do
the feeding costs so much and it
falls-to the lot of the boss to shuck
the corn, why I find my preference
in favor of the big ears. -
i i- ' REUBEN.
r- Mecklenburg Co., N C.
Like a School Book to Him.
Messrs. Editors: If you will look
back on your book you will see I
have been a subscriber since 18$9.
What little I know I have learned
from The Progressive Farmer. .
i i - T. N. PEARCE.
Beaufort Co., N. C.
clp the Horse
i No article Is more useful
about the stable than Mica
'Axle Grease. Put a little on
th9srindles before vou ' 'hook
up" it wiU help the horse, and
brinfe the load home quicker.
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wars well better than any
other grease. Coats the axle .
with a hard, smooth surface of -powdered
mica which reduces
taction. Ask the dealer for
Mica Axle Grease.
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