i' m s 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. ' 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. "' 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. Going to mill or store or church meeting Saturday? Don't forget that club for The Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant. ffiSTf HERCULES STEEL STUMP-PULLER xMALLEABlt IPCM among stamp maenmes. ADsomteiy tne ttuZ-tm,n of eteel, all others cast Iron. Hercules Is nifuugni ikvii - than any other. Catalog Free. Address I HERCULES MANUFACTURING CO., Dept. B34 le only line made avv W. is 400 stronger f -ifi&V fT-V Centsrvllle. 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'4 'winTTipeq8"' 107 First Street PORTLAND, OREO. : General Offices: NEW YORK; 4 4 b. 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. I8A.MUI ; i GREASE 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. STAXUSBGLCCUPAXT a .-I i( p . J3 5