Thursday, December 17, 1908.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
5
What Farmers Want to Know.
Answers by Prof. W. F. Massey Unless Otherwise Stated.
MAINTAIN NEW-GROUND CONDITIONS.
To Do This You Must Feed Stock
, and Make Manure and Not Depend
on Fertilizers Alone.
I am a minister . of the Go
pel and a farmer too. All my
work is among farmers, and am
very much interested in the sci
ence of farming. Land sandy,
clay about 20 inches from sur
face, with yellow sand between
tho dark surface and the clay.
Hence we think four inches is
deep enough to plow. 'Our best
farmers plow four inches, work
shallow and lay-by very light.
Are we right? My land is new
and rather fertile but has some
roots and stumps. On most of
it I grew a fair crop of peas this
year. How much fertilizer of 14
per cent acid phosphate, kainit,
cottonseed meal would help this
land to make a bale of cotton
per acre or 40 bushels of corn?
I cannot see any profit in less
than a bale per acre, and we
ought to make 50 bushels of
corn per acre. I made 6 bales
on 5 acres this year, with a light
coat of stable manure and 400
pounds of fertilizer in the fur-
row, on part using 8-4-4 and on
part 8-2-2 goods, and on another
part a mixture of acid phos-
phate, kainit, and cottonseed
meal in equal proportions. This
fruited best, 'though the 8-4-4
made good stalks. On 20 acres
of cotton, with no stable manure ;
this mixture at 400 pounds per
acre "made 14 bales. I usually
trade cottonseed for meal, and
it pays when we can get 1,500 '
pounds of meal for the ton of
seed. I think Prof. Massey is
right about rotating. Am anx
ious to try some crimson clover,
but fear that cattle will not pay .
" here by reason of the distance
from markets. M. H. S.
goods, and have less freight to pay,
if you use muriate of potash. That
is, a ton of muriate of potash con
tains 1,000 pounds of potash, while
a ton of kainit contains but 240
pounds.
Practice ; a good rotation of
crops and grow plenty of feed for
stock, and make manure, and you
will find it worth all the fertilizer
you can make, in the permanent im
provement of your land. With a good
rotation there is no reason' why you
should not make more than a bale
of cotton and nearer 100 buslfels of
corn per acre. I know one man in
Florida who makes 100 bushels of
corn per acre, and you can do it as
easily as he does.
How to Handle Black Swamp Jjand.
I have twenty-five acres of
black loamy level swamp land
that yields from thirty to fifty
bushels of corn per acre; but I
want to make more. I sow cow
peas at last plowing and they
yield well and improve my land.
I do not use any fertilizer. I
cultivate one year and rest the
next. Have rows five feet apart,
and plant two stalks four feet
apart on the drill. What fer
tilizer do I need, and how pre-
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Cattle are the very things that do
pay when some distance from mar
kets, as they can carry themselves to
market, and no system of farming
that depends solely on bought fertil
izers to make the sale crops will ever
be permanently prosperous. No farr
ming is real farming that leaves
out stocky feeding in , some form.
Hogs will ' certainly pay with you,
and bacon is always in demand. Your
land is new and still has some hu
mus in it and fertilizers give better
results in such conditions than on
old land where the humus that dark
ens it and makes it retain moisture
is worn out. Four inches is too shal
low plowing for any land and your
Randy soil will be far better plowed
six inches deep. But the deepening
should be gradual since the turning
up at once of two inches more might
temporarily work harm. With- a
clay 20 inches below you can- plow
as deep as you choose, and a gradual
deepening of the plowing will only
increase the capacity of the soil to
retain moisture. Then by all means
retain the new-ground conditions, by
growing peas and crimson clover ,to
add humus-making material to your
soil. Your mixture is not a bad one
for your soil. . It would be approxi
mately 2 per cent nitrogen, 5 per
cent phosphoric acid and 4 per cent
potash. It is easily gotten and I
WOn 11 eiinnn.A -frVi n 4- ttaii q ti it Tin
better than to keep using it. But
you can get the. same amount of pot
ash in one-fourth the amount of
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