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THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER.
Thursday, March 11, 1909.
What Farmers Want to Know.
Answered by Prof. IV. F. Hassey Unless Otherwise Stated.
Where to Buy the Best! Farm Implements
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ADOPT A SUITABLE ROTATION.
The Only Safe and Economical Way
to Build up the Soil.
I hare some land of dark soil
with red clay, that with using
guano, has been making one
half bale of cotton to the acre.
I sowed it in rye last fall and
hare broadcasted manure on it
this spring. Will you tell me
what is the best' fertilizer I can
uae on it now for cotton? Also
I have some fresh land with
black loamy soil with red clay,
and would like for you to advise
the best fertilizer for that for
cotton. Also some mixed red
land I planted in peas last year
in rows, gathered the peas and
cut. the Tines for hay; have
broadcasted manure over it, and
am asking what is .best to use
under; that of corn. ; W. L.
Granville Co., N. C.
Where you have spread manure
for corn or cotton I would use main
ly acid phosphate. While your land
about Franklinton has a good deal
of potash in it, it is in an insoluble
state and is very slowly available to
plants, and it will pay to use a little
potash. It is always cheaper to get
potash in the muriate than in kainit,
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as the kainit has but 12 pounds of
potash per 100 pounds and the muri
ate has 60 pounds per 100 pounds,
and you have to freight but one
fourth as much to get what potash
you need. f
If the dark soil with red Qjay bot
tom makes a good weed, I would
use here only 400 pounds of acid
phosphate and 25 pounds of muriate
of potash per acre. The same for
the fresh land, and for the corn
where manure has been spread. Put
these broadcast, for cotton and corn
roots run far and wide over the land
and soon get away from a little in
the furrows. Then adopt a regular
rotation of crops, and do not follow
cotton after cotton. , Sow crimson
clover in the cotton and corn every
fall and have a winter cover on the
land: Every corn field here is now
green with crimson clover.
With a good rotation of crops,
growing plenty of forage and feed
ing it for manure, and the use of
only; acid phosphate and potash, you
should soon be able to get a bale or
more of cotton per acre and 75 bush
els of corn, or more.
Some More Cotton formulas.
jl would like to know how late
rye can be turned under for cot
ton. I have three ' acres that
were in cotton last year. After
cotton was all picked I plowed
it up and planted rye. It was
planted late and has just begun
to grow. What would be a good
fertilizer for this plot? . I have
another plot of six. acres that
Ayas in corn last year and peas
sowed, last plowing. What would
be a good fertilizer for this
plot? I have another plot that
was in corn and peas and pea-!
vine hay. I cut off the hay where
there was no corn. After peas
that grew in corn were picked, l
sowed it down in rye about first!
of December. What would be a
good fertilizer for this plot? All
of this land is fairly good land
with clay foundations.
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Plow the rye down as soon as it is
necessary to plow for cotton. It
would have been better had you
sown some crimson clover with the
rye, and it would be still better if
you practiced a good rotation: of
crops and stopped planting cotton
after cotton. Mix 1,200 pounds acid
phosphate, 700 pounds cottonseed
meal and 100 pounds of muriate of
potash for a ton and use 400 pounds
broadcast for the cotton. . For the
cotton after corn and peas,- increase
the acid phosphate 200 pounds, de
crease the cottonseed meal 300
pounds and increase the muriate of
potash 100 pounds and use the same
amount per acre. Same for the pea
land where the hay was cut.
Two Bales of Cotton to the Acre.
I have some fine land. that I
want to plant in cotton, which
has been making a bale per
acre. Last year it was sown to
I oats, and these followed by peas
i for hay. I am now turning the
I stubble, and would appreciate
; your Opinion as to the . best fer
! "tilizer to apply? I am' thinking
i of using a mixture of 300
pounds of acid phosphate and
j 200 pounds of cotton seed meal
per acre, and of top dressing
with 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda. It is clay land? This
I would make 600 pounds per
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