The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-06


Dat aud Glover Crops-Corn Approach
Ing Its Most Critical Period of Growth.
Keeping Down Weeds and Grass
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
ATLANTA, GA, June l, 1897.
The harvesting of the wheat, oat and
clover crops. which usually falls in this
month, together with the imperative
demands of the corn and cotton crops.
net to mention those of the minor for
age and other crops, make June month
OF hard work for both brain and mus.
ole. With all the various claims press
ing for attention, certain amount of
1udicious planning is an absolute me-
cessity. The work cannot be taken up
haphazard. The careful farmer will
not delay preparations for harvesting
his grain crops until the last moment
and then put everything on the farm in
commotion and confusion by his bur-
ried and unconsidered directions. Often
valuable time is lost by waiting to en-
gage machine or to supply some
needed part of the one already on hand,
and then when a messenger is hastily
dispatched to the nearest available point
to secure what is necessary, it is found
that no machine can be hired, or that
the missing link must be ordered and
shipped from a distance. These de-
tails, which, if attended to at the
proper time, seem insignificant and
easily adjusted, if allowed to wait for
attention until the last moment, are
often magnified into mountains of care
and worry Another mistake often
made is to become so absorbed in the
harvest held as to allow the other crops
to suffer for attention. If necessary,
and it is possible to do so, any needed
extra labor should be hired, even if
little more than the usual price has to
be paid.
Work properly done in June will
bring in better returns than at any
other period during the year It is
now that the corn crop is approaching
Its most critical period of growth. and
Is should not be allowed to suffer for
the work, which is 20 essential to its
perfect development and which, if de-
aayed beyand.the proper time, caa never
Office. Upon the premptnsss and char
acter of this cultivation depends the
success or failure of the crop. Keep
the plows running, but set just deep
enough to stir the surface. The finely
pulverized surface soil will act as a
mulch to conserve the mo sture, which
during the hot days is ascending from
lower depths and which would other
wise escape into the surrounding at.
mosphers. After the corn plants at.
tain their full growth, they will serve
to shade the ground and themselves aid
in conserving this moisture. When
giving the last blowing see that it is as
near level as possible and sow peas
broadcast. Don't allow the
WHEAT AND DAT STUMBLE
TO grow up in weeds, which will mature
seeds and thus multiply the vexations
of farm life. These seeds will not only
be scattered far and wide to spring up
in succeeding crops, but the plants them.
selves will take up present fertility.
which ought to be utilized in producing
-sssssc .ssef.,l -ccnr for the ,.,a;ntananne
Of the farm. At the south the field pea
crop fully fills this need
Don't neglect to put out as many
SWEET POTATOES
as time and space will allow. While
potatoes do not equal corn in feeding
value weight for weight, they furnish
no mean substitute and are valuable as
giving the necessary variety to the food
ration. Another point is that a good
crop of potatoes may be grown on sandy
land which will fail to bring paying
corn crop Under favorable conditions
FORAGE CORN
planted all through this month will ma
ture sufficiently to furnish good silage
Il should be planted thick in the drill
and close in the row. but care should be
taken not TO crowd it to such @ degree
rs to shut out sunlight and air and thus
prevent it from forming an ear.on each
stalk Corn, which is managed SO as
to enable it to mature a full ear up to
the glazing stage for each stalk, is much
mare valuable for feeding than if only
nubbins are formed and these at inter
walls.
To maintain the
COTTON FIELDS
3p such condition as to keep down the
weeds and grass and preserve puIver-
ICED surface to the depth of one or two
inches is the main object in cultivation
at this season. Cotton will stand a
much greater degree of bad treatment
than corn, and under favorable condi-
tions recover from the check and go on
TO a moderately satisfactory maturity,
because 1t has longer season in which
10 repair such backsets. But it is an
expensive crop at best, and when to the
usual bills for fertilizers and labor in
making and gathering. is added the loss
from neglect to cultivate properly and
at the right time, it is no wonder that
this crop, from which we should receive
O certain revenue, in many cases will
scarcely pay the cost of production. In
HARVESTING
the grain crops, attention should be
given to the careful forming of the
shocks, in order that they may be able
to resist injury from the heavy rains
which sometimes set in at this season.
A compact, well made shock will resist
even protracted rains, while heaps
loosely thrown together seem to invite,
and are certain to meet with, immense
loss in case of bad weather Another
mistake TO be guarded against is allow
ing the crop to stand too long before
harvesting. in which case much is lost
by the shattering of the grain. Glover
and grass, after being cut, should not