North Carolina Newspapers

:11.f y, 928 J (4) TFiaf Fdrmers Want to Know DyW.F. MASSEY . : : - THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER the .. "phospho- sour Elberta peaches. But f tiowforl-have ruse' we want quality' horne The; general demand 1 ti Red Mites or Red, Rust . on Cotton THETohe continued drouth ii ored-ther development ::: ' ' mite or - spider -on - cotton J( i sec. thrives in arid conditions and is " weevils. , : : checked by. wet., Kepeatea spraying with $trong 'soapsuds, will help. Dust-. . ; "Ahg withflowers;6f sulphur has been ;5 advised. But nothing U better ,than , moisture in the air. There is hardly . ' 5 ajy. spraying that would be effective' but .'will "cost more than it is 'Worth.. Rainy weather' will do - more good , again: tharf anVthine else. . . . 'i-llJ.J-.... middle v'.- . . . ' yet. Should V -? Tn.n Hatt.- alone? ana the we hatching . and no- harm done to acre.' Now. ..what germ" is I do riot know sis 0! it. Better ask your experiment. ern sections f th ir'?. 1 lhe east. station or the .Virginia'. Board, of jor head "lettuce Tfcl btates is a .:..n.-. : i u R r v ; r.c, " Western nBuwUHu., ; u .v pie, on tne other hand want u names of fertilizers do not amount to; lettuces iiU "j nt.tht of . the i Jiu -w ,v;:a as. article and the loo se evil, nWvented : f rom : anything. Jt the contents of . the lettuce sells bvtir, l,p,a,sv This. r - - - - . . - j iu. -..:ik;i:.. .f ia " yuu ann dm i ruu,tf the head, and planted closed 7y avail the -;.fc'-;-'--.rx--.-u-rr -tr:?TtfifvnHi tarming. 1 Know wnai.ineivai.ue.oi. omfv Wat Man t .Y'"vu w mh yc.udc.uuwKi "V"- i7t.- k.u -T a "u. i rather .-inis-m- ,n a com piace, ana i nave seen uo -v-tor K : , . .... . . anyiumg ,uiu wi. kuuu auwut : ; , . V r i article; '-.v -V r'-n'"'"" " Nevr Plow: Corn Brandnnu nn uV 41C ,western Derv i ii ' . . "W11U want the ids. nd.r ely-under and admin the r.f..i Kapicts, when well grown is cert 7 1, excellent. 4 1 find: that " t is a nly - c:, ;good: vWty: forthe first fall Zl v needs .Winter. Sauasbes "T. HAVE, a held. 01 corn, that was: - ,r -- . .... , . - ; , Vefv rirh a;i r.w.ti . T mJ toWltimaWlthe: "DLEASE teli;me through The Pro .. u .; ettuc does t t 1 ff-L." ..t-. rfec va Kartnr what tft no .withi", -j i' i Fuiy v,0 miaaie and-1. as tft Oi -juiy. 1 ncn 11 mrncu :.wci v 6 v" v. - v"? ' v p " " wiuc:.in.reaay;. lor ' use from la t have' hbt'beenraW'to. plow; it winter, Squashes;. how ;tq keep :them; Npvember 'till -Christmas-Jt isrhow inullta ier' s:havexnot,l)eenT plowed otthe.1 am trymem tnc -nrs? .. . . n it be plowed -again or letV time- l.havethe eiicata jnejle ....... n--"-u iype ot ; v - ; . , , Hubbard. The latter has a Very ZWy: :rr." V ."""oni. ureer's - i-' ' I -I 1' ':vti ili-ffl.-. m rjLL it .hurt Japan, clover to disk h the ground and sow rye for a ffll pasture? I have a good stand of the v clover which , was sowed last spring .and I want something to use this winter, but do-not. want to upset the, plover. Will it be better to sow rye . -and .vetch or, bur clover and how . much an acre?" Japan clover or lespedeza is an an nual and dies With the coming of frost. Of-course it will do no harm ; to disk after it is dead, but I would not disk till the seed are mature, for it is the seed dropped that will make the crop next summer. When the seeds are mature you can disk all you wish .and harrow in. rye and vetch ort ; rye and crimson clover, which I think is better than'vetch.or bur clover. - idiicr iida .... Vijr.;'- AH TlVoi-t ol k I, should never have beea.pW.d -o e4er- -11 .: ..;j f. kuiH cvmlings.- I am afraid I planted too----, , yviL- ,-1t c m ine open sax- early,' for they are-how,-the last of; ,vf v. heavily JulyV as ferge as medium-sized pump-- mfnura d eftl ized f011 nd never r . . ' - -F . allowed,to suffer from lack of water K1 ' , - . Sit-in beds six feet wJHp a ' with Aveede'r, "Winter squashes now well 'grown open- ground set eieht inch, .'.I will hardly dp to keep through win- each ; way. I sow the seed thin v ter.' The -keeping is just same - as broadcast so as tn t 7 n has been let alone since the mid- - pumpkins, keeping cold but free frompiarjtS ;forV sowed in rows thev will ot July, 1 ao not tnmK xnai cuin- dtiudi ucwmK. u yuui v.u.it invariably get crowded and and a at all. The.plow is used for br.eakihg the land. After land is well plowed and prepared for corn, the plow has no business in the field, but the culti vation should bt smoothing: harr6w and cultivator, running shallow and. leveU '.As .your corn die vation now will do any good. But if still growing you may have later ones . not 0 g00d for tra-nsplantin But if inC S II Id 11" IUU111 IU111Y alUl iiMl Ukt.ii luai in nvvr. v; kept going it would not be amiss to pumpkins, and are also-sliced and i'" M i ; - ::. ' Basic Slag - J117HAT do you think of basic slag yy for wheat? My land needs lime, 'but distance from railroad and labor shortage almost ' preclude ground - limestone. The': slag. I have in mind " ; contains 19 per cent phosphoric acid- . and 45 per cent lime. Will this1 put enough lime in the land to give me a . Catch of "clover- sowed on' the wheat ' i land, and is the slag a good aid to v wheat production ?" ;Theslag contains a. large percent- THE BUSINESS FARMER'S CALENDAR: SIX THINGS TO DO. THIS WEEK AND NEXT " 1 kHE cotton-picking season U on: do everything possible to savfr every pound of it in the est condition. - , : 2. Compare local cotton market quotations with those of your nearest. large cotton town, and see if ' cooperative carlot shipments would not pay you. r 3. Better order oat, rye and clover seed right away;' in case you haven't them already. 4. If you are tempted to pull fodder, doa't do. it. Save the whole corn plant instead. - . . ' 5. Sell your lottoi slowly, and don't sell at all if prices don't suit, you. - 6. See to it that you have a dry place to "store any cotton held for better prices. run. through, now., plow, into a corn But never put. a field after, it is age of phosphorus, but very little T t ' . - . . T. 1 ' A - J waier-soiuDie pnospnonc acia. itpianiea. ''. ' 1 J .-l.-L1.. ' 1.1 1 it. ' . . .. ' ;x. wouiu propauiy snow more on ine ; fcMlr- - : clover following wheat than on the l-0-s. 'L-.kA- -st- ---.-- .v-'w- ... . . . - . . . Aiiaisaji uii sin un aihsz: m. Mh'. wheat. JLvcn if vou used 400 oounds - . ji -r k. f: .- . i - v - irra irnii tarii i n itpt nnnr ixii i . r - n iri va. tti s tj rpniHiiv 11 ir tmi t (f'k-H-r ?i -"-j -r- . o " v - 'Ht'.t'f W1:-'---. potina.3 ot lime an acre and that insects that destroy squashes. 1 he i4Mi?!B'C.4'Would' do very little towards curing squash bugs ruined my squashes, and i H- i i ; 'lit y'i soil acidity. Why Take a Paper and Not Read It? I H.T, S if ', ' I have more coming on that I wish to protect." - v There is more than", one insect that attacks squashes. The one that often does the most damage is the striped Diabrotica, which attacks and eats the plants just .' as ..they (Tome through the ground. ' Then there is the large squash bug with a vile odor, . . . . . . .. . .' THP. firQf ernn nf tti.a f. U or moU lirtlir rifltrpit acrOSS tne rl npao whirh pate thm latr hpn th( , vi 4Vnui.nui Uic uucu v' 6"' -e in, me ida is- uesr sowed S.Z 'i.i.- ! '.' if S iUIii TT IS evident that there many people who do not read the paper after taking it. Almost daily some one asks how to. destroy moles, and how to' destroy weevils in gravin an "about which we have times' without 'brotica lays eggs in the. base of the number told all that we know. Moles plants and the worm-like larvae eat do harm by uprooting things in their into the stems and destroy the plant, track, but they do not eat plants or Keeping the young plants covered roots. It is the field mice that follow with some dusty material will ' serve in . the runs that do, the damage, to-protect the young plants. But the borne one has suggested that the cal you are going into the cultivation of lettuce on a large scale for shipping, grow the Big BSston like every one else, for. it is the thing to sell. For wintering over outdoors, the Hanson and the Wonderful are best. They seem more hardy than any of the but- , ter type represented by the Big Bos- ton.- ; The-Wonderful, also known in ; North Carolina as the Shellem, makes the largest head of any lettuce. It ajso has a tremendous spread of out side leaves and needs to be set a foot apartv ' It can be set in the open furrows between the early cabbage plants set in the fall, and can be cut out before the -cabbage demands all the room. . Since J grow lettuce for home use ; only and, use small frames each with . three sashes, ; making a bed 6x9 feet, I plant oneframe in Grand Rapids let- tuce and two in Belmont and either baked. They are a favorite vegetable : All Heart or black' seed Tennis Ball, in the North, but in the South we : The Belmont is' rather earlier than have the sweet yam potatoes, which : either of jhe others and makes a suc we can grow better than we can grow ; cession." The : seed for growing the the squashes, and we can make with plants fo these frames is sowed tljese every dish that the New Eng- about; the middle of September. If land folks make with the winter old rotten cow manure is available, squash, and in my opinion make if there is nothing bettpr for the let better. The Northern folks can beat tuce frames,- and it should be used us in growing the winter squashes, liberally, adding a heavy application but we can beat them a long way in of acid phosphate.. Then to hurry the growing the sweeUpotatoes, and we growth, make small sprinklings of ni do not need the squashes. Those you trate of soda between the plants. In have now mature you had better use setting lettuce plants; either outside up before cold weather. or in the frames, it is important not . . to, set them too deeply. A plant set n; Iff,,,.?, with the base leaves : in the soil will browing Lettuce . never make a eood head Some grow- early Jn August, but good heads can be had from. North, Carolina south ward from seed sowed any time this month. While the market growers all use the Big Boston, there are a best thing is-to destroy the. beetles by Jber of reasons why it is not the mm best for home use. In the' first place, its oualitv ic in. cium' carbide used for making acety-. spraying with lead arsenate 1 pound lene-gas, ifrplaced here and there in in 25 or 30 gallons of water. 'A solu- the -runs,, will, in contact with the tion of nicotine sulphate known Ss ferior to many other varieties TTien damp soil, ge.nef'atevgas enough to de- ."Black- Leaf 40" arid as aphine-poured Jts widespread , outside leaves compel ' strpy' everything in the runs. This around the" base- of - the stems will .wider planting either in the boen. li iands set inc plants. These are , later ' levelled in the cultivation and insure the proper setting. . Grand. Rapids lettuce makes 'a very large head of leaves, and set six inches apart the plants crowd and v blanch flie ; leaves : below and make better v lettuce,- and; the enspest ot looks feasible. Paris: green .and molasses that is' ' . Fertilizer for Wheat made tor cut worms. I make open ings in the runs and stuff some of "T CAN buy "phospho-germ" in bulk this in where I see the mice are doine 1 in carloads delivered for $3Q a tori. d V.rSS'-MS.Ml .,1 . t. . ' 1 1 Lately I have; been prevent the : larvae from gating there, ground or in the frames' Esneriallv using -the mixture of wheat , bran, . . -.' - m .the frames is room 'desirable " T: can get more good crisp lettuce from the Tennis Ball or the' Belmont set six inches apart each way than from the Big . Boston set eight by:'teri inches, and in fact that is rather close for it. The city buyers buy 'by the eye and like big things, and while a head of the Hittinger Belmont looks, smalier than one of the Big Boston, it has just as much-blanched heart as the' widespread Boston: The market' growers are tight of course in grow ing what1 sells just as the growers of Wtii4SJHLJ ,4110(1,1 doine damage, and no more damage is done. Carbon disulphide placed in. teaspoonful doses along the runs has proved effective. Some use - mple traps and catch the mole, but that does not stop the mice in the runs. n.i rieu N. C. IRMINGHAM, ALA. " w. DALLAS, it" Slaughter am. MEMPHIS. TENH. Randolph Bldf. Would this be. better than acid phos phate On wheat after peas I know that 300 to, 400 pounds of 16 per cent s acid pnosphate after peas' will, usually make a good crop of wheat. Two years aero a farmer on ; COMMUNICATIONS BEO ABOWq RJm E88CD OB SUBSCBIPTIONTS SHOULPBK rTEBEDAt TO OFFICE NEABSS1 'THE IBEADEB. W, UN- THB POSTOFFIIIJS AT ""i'Viw MABCH 3. MSU A A AW A. v w-. For the weevils I know of nothing the red Cecil clay, of the. North Caro- -Six months ........ .50 Three month...... ' .25 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: i no Two yeara Three years Five years .$1.50 ' S.09 ..better than the carbon dUiilnTiiH treatment which has been given many many times on this page. Peas may ;; be packed down in air-slaked lime lina Piedmont took my advice and used 400 pounds of acid phosphate on .wheat on a well disked pea stubble, and , made 30 bushels, of wheat an Ben Davis apples and the showy and I"" OUR TWO BEST SUBSCRIPTION OFFE One" old subscribe and one new wbrg. together can get . The Progress re "?gU()ns, it $1.60. A club of threo yearly subsenpu together, all for 13. ALL 8UBSCBI?T:0N3 "3T0? WBI OUT"