North Carolina Newspapers

1476 (4) ' ir ' ' ' : il ' : -if r i .if ? j . . Ii1 . 1 , What Farmers Want to By W. F.-MASSEY Keeping Irish Potatoes 3Vast"p6 ' Car"ots pay. to cultivate can be adeiiito i the rissebut. " Now T ,Crowded ..pasture by sowing: some grass dspm.-pryld p3isUire& JhW of .. with a little fertilizer and then as soote weeds-rowaiidr oTi e 110 U asthe grass at1;,, Wn for v it and pulling the' whole put idf eba.-il1v-:l!l gr.azg irr-sVr..-. .r".V-:.rvu seed an4. e grass -ie' County; wbW it was JWer t k iu - ; '! v : W "'- -f "r H gohFdr ,ar permanent pasture was so iwffiw l ? TV ; we need-ta-Have 'the Jand,ina good, ent. owrf caemeXr h?' cL-- ' state of.' fertility and we heed tbseed S0(I Woduces mo-f a V the UrOWinir WawfrertieS. - . - - :u..:i.f--- :v: :Tj r?T 5?W :Jeed today than . "heavily -and 3give the ; grass time did ,7!? .Vprr .o:' rui inn it ITirn r - t"c P.astur in Davie 4 v , ankie CENTRAL Virginia. "I note what you have said about keeping eVrly. k ootatoes through Winter. . You advised that they cannot be kept parties here who dp keep email nmniint."?. I have- 1( bushels and I have a good concrete stay, there will be a :peffet JmaLon ciellar and advice as xl . - .-. . i ..... . ... . . -i . . i-.A . . ' ' and cieanincr all the errass and weeds p:n.,.: ti,;o u .,.; (Ar u t. Total darkness and a temperature 6xit and cin, U over." ' y9 K nav carr'ed off but little above the freezing point ; ' V- ' - ' CK 1 arc ? u- Kl a 'f '7 m?re' for the grass will keep the potatoes, At-t'sea-- It,-4ces :tt, Pyr -to.ep an, old ..These : arc taking their growth and growf so stronglrthat a great deal , .. - .1- - -i.: k-. natrhf of strawberries. Th best wav makinff their whole bonv system from is tramned down- anrl, .'nAA l . son oi tne year mis ran um . Tj I ' JI . ":t. t.: " c.r.. t-l tu:. u a -:i: . ah.; ;T .uul "e sou IS IU p lit III i paiui .CVCiy 1U vqiliucr. mc giaaa. xiiis xntano uiai incjr aic ivj iuhj, nuu,Ul OIXCC in SIX Of Seven This will bear apartial cfop in the rapidly using up the phosphates in. years . slaked; lime is spread and brushed in with o emKtu: i - - -.uuwuiiiig narrow 1 m Tl lDTU i.-sl.t tf K a oil -AnAitnrh.tA vfo:lA crn r at t A irrs , puti Know "jviv--. y'vuMa- .- ;.iVi v6-""w-tup,.':.;vu yv;4y.f.y,p!'uj,.5.; - utyiuciirass - rand- a mi tBem . in, rrigrjt io. let all the runners , grow it much. , -inen we need to maintain nativeltasses Fbr neraf . 30 : to -125 on the strawberry, bed?, ; If I Jet lll the ; fertiIity ;of fihe land. ;; ; rrio we rs wer e '-k p nf Knt ,ons the v rarmers, are apt to. consmer tnat . wceus uerore tney; bloomed and a would like to have your -tne grpuna. i :iayc. a. new paten nat grass ,s not .exhausting but . tmprov- , ed, and finally they gave uo the le to the best way to treat : X am keeping cW bit haye an old ing ,t0 the soii;, , The f act hat td row. EveVy spring a drel ! . TatrK thsit' T am thinWincr of nlftwinc -i ' --i ilt-5 . ' ; i ' u i 1 . 15 . ebbing ot V V, up done in cold storage. But why any one should this season want to keep over anything more than enough, for home use I cannot understand, when potatoes are selling for more than they will command in the spring. But I give the conditions and you will have to meet them if they .are kept. I keep the early potatoes in a dark cellar till the late crop is dug and keep using them till they are full of sprouts. Black Rot in Sweet Potatoes VIRGINIA: "I have founds a disease' in my sweet potatoes which I did not notice till the last drawing from the bed. It appeared as yellowish matter on the stems, and turned black. I found some small reddish brown in jects on some of the roots. Are these the cause of the trouble ? Are Wake field cabbage as good as Flat Dutch?" Your potatoes are attacked in the"' bed by black rot, or black shank, as some call it. This is due to your bed ding potatoes with the disease on; them, or by the disease developing in a bed where the potatoes have-been bedded before. The bugs have noth ing to do with it. Better grow healthy HOG AND GRAZING CROP SPECIAL, SEPTEMBER 18 WRITE US YOUR EXPERIENCES ON September 18, The Progressive Farmer will issue its Hogs and Grazing Crops Special. ,r': We want to make tljat issue carry, information worth thousands of dollars to the farmers of the South. Actual experiences pointedly told usually contain the best ideas on any. subject, and we .want, all of you who grow hogs, and grazing crops for them, to write us your experi ences. ; .. V X , !. . ..' .' . . Tell us what kind of crops you have grown; how you planted and handled them; how many hogs you pastured and how long the pasture lasted, and especially how much the hogs gained and what the pasture was worth as a hog feed. Many( farmers in the South who are raising hogs are' coming to real ize that the cheapest pork they maice i that put on by crops which the hogs graze.' You f may have found some crop especially valuable for this use; if so follow the good plan of telling your neighbors and .the world, about it . , ..,, We will give, for the best letter of experience on the subject of Hogs and Grazing Cropsa cash prize of $70; for the second best letter a cash prize of $5, and" for the third best letter a cash prize of $3. Our usual cash rates will be paid for all the other letters we print. No let ter should be - over. 500 words in length and must be mailed by Sep- . tember 4." ' ' ' J ' spring. Then train inali the runners the soil-and if the process -is contin- along the row and make a matted ued 4he grass rapidly fails and the potatoes for bedding; Make cuttings row to fruit the next spring and then poorer grasses like broom sedge come in August, two feet long, from healthy plants, coil the cuttings around your hand and plant the whole coil in the hill leaving only the growing tip above ground. These cuttings will makev small potatoes that, will keep j i. .i . i be turned under, in . this way we in. If we are to have a permanent have a patch in partial fruit and pasture we must lealize that the soil one in full crop. The time to fertilize,, fertility must be kept permanent., We and cultivate is after the fruit is off, so as to get the strongest growth for the next arid final crop. It is easier to better in winter than the early ones. set a new crop than to keep the grass Bed them in a clean place, and never bed twice in. the same place. The Wakefield cabbage is a small cabbage grown only for spring head ing and cannot be compared with the Late Flat Dutch, which is a large win ter cabbage. t 1 Bermuda Grass Seeding MO&TH Carolina: -T enclose some 1 heads of Bermuda grass which look as though; they . might make seed. - They are from- an old estab lished sod ori tie" railroad right of way. One of " bur-farmers here who buys lespedeza seed from Mississippi says that sowed on wheat in spring it grows tall enough to mow for hay. He claims that it Igrows taller than the .native lespedeza or Japan clover." Is this true?" . It is possible that Bermuda may occasionally seed in a humid climate;, but it must be rare! I cannot find-in-the" head sent any evidence of mature seed. In the arid- sections of the Southwest it seeds, but Bermuda seed as a rule has a low germihative power. Possibly on rich, moist soil . the lespedeza seed from -the. South may grow tall, enough to cut. but I have not seen it do so. I sowed the seed from Louisiana more than 30 years ago, and it made good -pasture and ran out the broom sedge on,a piece of virgin soil. But it was no . taller than the wild clover on the rjDadside'. .The tallest I ever saw in -lrlhCarolifia'was in a pine thicket and weeds out of an old one. cannot . eat our cake and keep it too. The stock is constantly carry ing off the fertility of the soil and we must maintain it and make good the loss if th soil is to keep the pro duction up. The neglected pasture A. .... io orevent us raii-inn- ... I believe that now it would be better to use pulverized limestone as this v top dressing for it will not tend to cake on tlit surface, and in the case. of a pasture, it is not possible to harrow the lime into the soil as is best under other conditions. No broom sedge ever shows its head in these.pastures. The cattle are sold pff the grass and replaced by thin cattle in the spring bought at the stockyards. Irish Potato Notes THE planting of a full-crop of the early Irish -potatoes either from cold storage seed or as a second crop from -the -potatoes of this season is very, important. As one paper re marks, potatoes have now fallen to the price of oranges, and there is little: prospect that they will fall lower. The area' planted in the North is said to, be short from scarcity of seed in the spring.. P,6,tatoes of the Cobbler, Triunjph and Early Rose varieties in the South wijl make the best of seed to plant , in the ; spring, and there, is a growing demand for the Southern seed potatoes northward. The Jersey growers especially are in the market for Jarge quantities, as they find the growth more healthy and the crop much heavier than from the Maine seed. I had in my garden a good example of the growth of the Northern seed . 4 1 l.l potatoes. I sent North and oougni Mal;n o Poet.... ; runs hito broom sedge because the land & r 6 not only gets less fertile but gets acid, seed notatoes nf the old Bovee, a yOW . and broom sedge will thrive under very early and productive potato of THE old joke abrjut a Southern acid conditions . in the -soil Vhere the. Early Rose type They made the ,f t: . 1 ii clover and better grasses will not. usual mWtti nf flip Northern seed, pasture being a place where no grass grows is often too true, lany On nine out of ten pastures we INDEX TO THIS ISSUE Alsike Clover Between Corn Rows.. '.. 10' Appl Growers Interested in Storage - Houses ." :'. .& . ;.. .V. .... .11 Auction Sales," Corhingr.y. ..... 22 Bernmda Grass, Seeding:. ..........3.... 4 BqVs, Success Talk ; for "Taking : a Drink" . . ... 1 . . . . . . . ..... . . . . ... 15 Boys of North Carolina, Course irf Agriculture for 11 Claims Against Railroads and Express Companies 9 Cotton, What It Costs' to Pick' and Gin ? 10 Cows Must -Have Plenty pf Good Fresh" W&tC t 1 4 ' Drain Tile Price's 20 Durocs of Peacock and Hodge," Aver- age $611 23 Egg ProductionV Cost htifw'mSnm.: .20 "Fair Weather andFoul"...;v..;.:...lS Farmers,; Cotton, Must GetRe-ady for Desperate Fight 14 Fertility, Buy Now From Your Seeds-' man..;..;.;..;i.. if......,'.. ,..;.,, 1 Forage,.' Save More .". . 3 Heater,-Kerosene, for Bath Water..... 17 tlogs, Spotted, bell Well ..i... 23 Hogs, Why They Eat Chickens. ...... . 3 Irish Potatoes, Keeping Them...... 4 Irish :Potato Notes..;....;.... ...1.. " 4 Iron, The Gasoline. -17 Le.me: Cover Crops, Cheapest Source of Nitrogen .... i . i . H Livestock Draft Horses i . .V..7;' 12 Molasses Not Salty From Nitrate -of ouua ' ; ........ , Nitrate of Soda, How Long, Does It Last in the Ground?......'...... 10 ..Orchard. and Garden. Notes. . .... ..13':' Pasture, Make and Keep It Good....... 4 Pastbre Making, Essentials of..... 3 Plan 'Meals and Washin g. .... . . . . , . 17 Problems, Soil and. Crop. 10 Purebred Whys, a Column of 7 Railroads, In Dealing With, Care and Courtesy Bring Results 8 Railroads and Farmers, Cooperation , Needed 8 RaleigH, Come to Convention Next' Week . . ; . Reeder, R. K., Makes Homes for Un wanted Calves'.. 14 8 8 20 Shipping Farm Products, Common - bense Methods of......... Shipper's Dictionacy . ........ u"W """6 nV OJ Siltf. -Wills', ,:MaJkiug Air.-tight..'. 20 Ci.....1 : ir.ii j e . oiiawucnics, xiri.cinuus .OI urowing 9 Suggestions, . Seasonable ; 16 Sweet , Potato Curing House, Hollow , Tile for 22 w Sweet Potatoes, Black Rot in;...... 4 Terraces, How Much Fall for?.......... 10 Uncle. John Says, "Keep on the Main juiuv . . . IV i' Virginia-News Notes............;,..'..... 14" Vitamines,5W)jat Are They ?......,..... 16 - ' Waier Systems for A1K... ............... 17 WQW-h'6 in Southeastern Agricul- ' ture (. A ...... v . .... , 22 ; ; WpmangPower 17 " . Work Stock Need Dry Feed.... 5 usual growth of the a bunch of shoots instead of a strong main stem. The reason is that these Northern potatoes are dug earlier than ours and they get to sprouting in the cellar, and the sprouts are rub bed -oft before shipping. This de stroys the strong terminal bud and the shoot from the eyes furnishes only the lateral buds and these grow m a duster from a potato already weaken ed by the sprouting. Our late pota toes grow till cut down by frost and are dug. after frost. Then, planted again in February, , they have not sprouted and -they with the strong terminal bud -will sprout from the eye -arid, make a far stronger plant ana larger crop. .' . RALEIGH. N. C. BIRMINGHAM, ALA. II9W. Har,ettSt. n-o BTTnaowTWinwa SHOULD BB AUJn 4T DEK THB ACT OC0N0BESS OFMABCHJ; . . SUBSCRIPTION RATES! One $1.M 19 Six months . ... !; .80; 'rtf,T ':-t?iir$''-? 1