The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11

AS soils differ in fertility and gen eral
composition, no general rule can be laid
down for the application of manure, and
farmers should recognize the fact that
nearly every special case needs special
directions.
With respect to applying manure to the
land for winter crops, there is a division
of opinion among farmers which, when
narrowed down, really amounted h. 10
difference at all.
The farmer who advocates the blowing
of manure into the soil for seeding fan
grain crops does so from practical ex-
perience, and in so far as his Soil is con-
cerned, he is probably right; but his neigh
Dor who reserves his manure for a top
dressing later may be equally in the right.
One has no authority for debating to the
other, and asserting that what applies
to his case must apply to every other
case.
The cause of this division of opinion is
due to the diversity of soils and narrow
minded conclusions drawn from individual
experience. Some soils do better when the
manure is plowed in with the winter
grain, and others do better when it is re-
served for seeding late in the year If
the soil is poor, barren and lacking in the
fertilizing qualities necessary to give the
grain good start, 1t stands to reason
that manure plowed in with the seed VIII
have the best results. If the plants are
put in such barren soil that they cannot
get growth enough to resist th cold Of
winter, and when the time comes for US
ing a top dressing, there are very few
plants left to make use of it The few
that remain have not received sufficient
nourishment to form good roots and
stalks and the chances are the top-dress-
ing win never revive them enough to pro-
duce good grain stalks and heads.
Some Work That Can Be Done in No
vember.-Latitude and elevation deter.
mines what is the appropriate work for
November gardens. The South covers a
good many degrees of latitude and what
may be proper to do in one section win
be Inappropriate in another. In Middle
and Southern Georgia much can be done
that would be "oul of time in Northern.
Georgia or Tennessee.
While such work is more appropriate
for October still time and again we have
sowed spinach and lettuce planted onion
sets and set out cabbage plants during
the second half of November and made
just as good crops as were made from
October paintings. This is always the
case when the winters are mild up to
Christmas as II has been the case for
the three winters Just past and MANY
five years. Drought oftentime causes
work that should be done in October TO
be delayed until November. On one or
two occasions we have put out onion sets
in October when the soil was very dry
and the dry weather continuing through
November, prevented the sets fir I'm sprout-
ing until early in December, and yet the
crop of onions was about as good as the
average, and what was true of the onions
was also true of spinach and cabbage
In regard to cabbage, in fact November
is as early generally as we care to trans
plant in Middle Georgia. Onionl sets put
out in November are less likely to shoot
to seed in March than those put out in
October or September, and spinach sown
in November in Middle Georgia is rarely
heaved out by freezes
In South Georgia cabbage plants usually
are safely transplanteG any time in the
winter. Now. and then only are they kill
ed by December or January freezes. Even
in Middle Georgia they are frequently put
out with success in December
Where no paintings are allowed or call
ed for this month, much can be done in
the way of manuring and preparing the
soil for the early paintings after the Sc
we're weather is over, which may be at the
close of January or delayed, until Februa-
ry. Next month will be early enough
for the first planting of English peas.
All the garden soil that is vacant espec-
tally If there Is much delay in 1t, should
be rldged up-left in a futed condition as
nearly as possible. Frost and ice acting
upon 1t in this condition will leave It fri
able and mellow While in this corruga-
ted condition it should be top-dressed with
stable manure, or other organic manure
that has accumulated about the place.
that is IL the soil is in need of manuring.
and we presume it is. Leave the appli-
cation of any commercial fertilizer to
later on as it is subject to waste where
the stable manure is not.
Side Value of Corn.-There is one point
in favor of corn as a crop which should
not be overlooked and that is the large
amount of fodder produced. The value of
the fodder however. depends upon how 1t