T'li-rsday, April 22, 1909.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
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FRUIT, TRUCK, VEGETABLES.
i UK EARLY CABBAGE CROP.
Have Rich, Well-Frepared Land and
Sot Out in November and De
cember. Messrs. Editors: To succeed with
;u;y crop requires mature thought be
ioie the work begins.
Think out your work, and work
out your thoughts." Unless one has
w ry rich land it requires one and
sometimes two years in its prepara
tion in order to grow anything like
a paying crop. We are now breaking
four-year pasture sod for peas to be
followed with oats, grass and clover
this fall. Now is the time to begin
preparation for our fall vegetable
crops such as turnips, cabbage, let
tvice, onions, etc.
Our cabbage crop which has al
io: dy had two workings, and is now
beginning to head, was set out about
the 20th of November, on land which
had been in peas that were cut for
feed and which was then top dressed
with stable manure. ,
Land being well pulverized,
plants were set about half way up on
north side of high ridges running
east and west. This crop will be
ready for market about the 1st of
May.
I wish to say for the benefit of
those' desiring to. grow extra early
cabbage (and these are the ones that
pay best) to be sure and put plants
out between November 20th and De
cember 20th, if possible before the
land gets wet and freezing. They
will then get good root . and stand
zero weather. Not over 2 per cent
of our crop has died.
W. -L. KIVETT.
Guilford Co., N. C.
SWEET POTATOES..
Rot is Caused by a Fungus, and Not
by Fertilizers Sulphate of Potash
Better Than Muriate.
Will commercial fertilizers
cause sweet potatoes to rot?
What formula will suit sweet po
tatoes best? Will kainit mixed
with 28 2 goods to make a
high per cent of potash help
them or cause them to rot? Is
it better to get potash from sul
phate or muriate of potash for
them? I have been informed
that they would keep better
.where sulphate of potash was
used. Will plain shell lime put
on land now that is going to be
put in sweet potatoes this year
do them any good, or cause them
to rot? Also, will acid phosphate
'do any good on high sandy soil
for any crop? W. C. C.
Perquimans Co., N. C.
i (Answer by Prof. Massey.)
Rot in sweet potatoes is caused by
a fungus disease, and manure will
encourage this more than fertilizers
will, but neither will cause it. The
thing is to use healthy seed potatoes
and get healthy plants.
Why the farmers .want to use
2 '6 2 fertilizer, which is fully one
fourth sand, I cannot understand. I
suppose it is because they look at
the; price of an article rather than its
quality. Kainit, too, is the most cost
ly form in which to get potash, for it
has but 12 per cent potash, while
sulphate., and muriate have 50 per
cent, and you . have to freight but
one-fourth as much to get what pot
ash is needed. It would take over
1,600 pounds of kainit in a ton to
make the ten per cent potash that
potatoes should have. High grade
sulphate of potash is better for sweet
potatoes than muriate.
For winter, keeping it is better to
grow the potatoes from -July cuttings
which keep better than the ! spring
plants. Lime is not especially need
ed on sweet potatoes, and nothing
that you put in the soil causes them
jto rot, for, as I have said, the rot is
a specific fungus disease, and if you
have healthy plants you will not have
; rot unless you put them in soil that
; is .infected. Keeping the potatoes
year after year in the same land will
' give you more rot than anything
else, as the soil gets infected!
You can make a good sweet potato
fertilizer by mixing 1,200 pounds of
acid phosphate, 100 pounds of ni
trate of soda, 300 pounds of 'cotton
seed meal, and 400 pounds of high
grade sulphate of potash to make a
ton. Use 500 pounds per acre. Of
course, a smaller quantity can be
mixed in the same proportions.
Fertilizer for Cabbage!
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Will you please give me a for
mula for making a good fertili
zer for cabbage? C. W. S.
Washington Co.rNC.
(Answer by Prof. Massey.)
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Cabbage is a gross feeder and
needs high fertilization. The best
fertilizer for cabbage is good stable
manure. Its main manurial needs
are for nitrogen and phosphoric acid,
and on soils like yours, some potash.
For a cabbage fertilizer I would ad
vise a mixture of 1,200 pounds of
acid phosphate, 100 pounds of nitrate
of soda, 600 pounds of cottonseed
meal and 100 pounds of muriate of
potash. Use 1,000 to 1,500
per acre.
pounds
Rooting Scuppernongs.
Someone asked about
Scuppernong vines. Last
rooting
August,
with a hoe I pulled some dirt over
some limbs that , were lying on the
ground, and this spring had a nice
lot of rooted cuttings.
ALAMANCE.
Truckers Favorite a Good Early
Corn.
Messrs. Editors: For the las
four years I have been planting quite
a lot of the Truckers' Favorite early
corn. The first year I planted one
acre, the second year four acres, the
third year eight acres, last
planted sixteen acres.
I planted so much of it:
year I
(1) be
cause I can sell quite a lot of it
green for roasting ears in July. I
get from 12 to 20 cents per dozen
ears, or about 40 cents a peck on-an
average.. (2) I can cut the corn and
stalks and feed green or dry, then
can plant a late crop of Irish pota
toes. The second lot I sow in soja
beans at the last working for my
hogs and cows to gather as soon as
I gather my corn. (3) I can strip
my fodder the first of August at a
time when I can get the labor before
any one else is thinking about strip
ping fodder. I do not believe in
stripping much fodder but 'like to
have a little for a change. . (4) My
corn is dry enough to gather in Sep
tember, then I can turn in my hogs
and cows long before frost and they
will eat the leaves and the beans,' so
that the lot is ready to plow! by the
first of October and sow in grass or
clover seed. f
I have another field which I plant
ed in the "Horse Tooth" corn- and
sowed soja beans, and cojld not
gather that corn before frost Con
sequently when I did gathel it the
soja beans were nearly all J popped
out and most of them wasted. j
I do' not think any farmet would
make a mistake by planting a part
of his crop in this kind of corn.t I
planted one acre last year about the
last of June and at the last work
ing sowed in crimson clover. fl think
I struck on the right time to plant it
for seed corn, as I have the; best I
ever saw, and my crimson cover is
beautiful. J
I sowed crimson clover 'or the
first time last year in a ten-acre
field of cotton. I expect jto sow
every acre I plant in cotton and
every acre of late corn this year! I
think a good crop of crimson clover
is as good as a crop of peas and it
does not cost one-half as much to
sow an acre of clover as of peasj
From the Truckers' Favorjfte corn
that I planted in June I had good
roasting ears in sixty days from -the
day I planted it. My last planting
was the fourth of August, ;jne'if.ear
gathered from the corn planted in
April. That made good roasting
ears but did not get hard before
frost. 4
W. H. WILSON.
Norfolk Co., Va.
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