The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-14

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consumer finds anything wrong he viii
buy no more Of that brand.
The claims made for quick cooking
of these goods r generally fallacious.
All of them should be cooked for al
least half an hour to render their
starch digestible, and generally an
hour would be better. Many of them
contain directions for cooking 8, 10, Is
or 20 minutes.
Or all these grains oats are richest in
protein, fats and phosphates, and wheat
stands next. But the flakes made from
corn, If we'll cooked, are very nutritious
and r probably better for old people,
who do not require SO much bone and
muscle food as those that are growing.
1t was found that about 81 per cent.
of the protein, 80 per cent. of the fats
and SO per cent. of the carbohydrates
of cereal foods are digestible. Gener
ally they are pure, wholesome and
cheap foods.
FARM CROPS.
Bulletin AZ of louisiana station, is q
report on last years experiments with
corn, cotton, forage crops and tobacco.
Twenty varieties Of r were tested.
Farmers Pride giving largest yield,
Creole second and Mosby's Prolific
third. Mosby's Prolific gave the largest
per cent. of corn to cob.
Though the station has been trying
for ten years to reach some definite
results in tests of fertilizers for corn,
nothing satisfactory has yet been OBJ
tanned, dry weather or soma other I'm
toward condition interfering at the
critical time every year. However, a
safe rule is to apply phosphate and
potash to COW peas and plant corn on
the pea stubble land the following year.
OF cotton seventeen varieties Of short
staple and ten Of long staple wer
tas5ed. OF short staple Tyler gave the
largest yield, Texas storm and drouth
proof second and Hurley's improved
gold dust third. o. the long staples
Louisiana gave the largest yield. IN
known 8. g. 8 second and Unknown
third-all from India.
or forage crops tested the giant beg
gar weed (desdemodium molle) OF
Florida, yielded AZ 429 pounds green
forage per acre; large African milIet,
80. 345 pounds; black rice corn, % 161
pounds; yellow milo maize, % SIT
pounds; red Kafir corn, 81, 344 pounds;
white milo maize, Is, 1888 pounds;
white Kamr corn, Is, O67 pounds; early
amber sorghum, IL, 577 pounds; early
orange sorghum, Is, GA pounds; pearl
millet, 1901 pounds; Jerusalem corn,
8 ,136 pounds; FeOsinte, 6120 pounds.
The giant beggar weed belongs to
the clover family, improves the land
and makes @ rich, nutritious forage il
soWn thick and not allowed to grow too
large and woody. High water drowned
out the alfalfa and crimson clover
fields, while drouth greatly injured the
plots of orchard grass, all Of which
have given great satisfaction in former
years. On the other hand, red clover
and rescue grass did better than ever
before. Rescue grass is commended as
a grand winter grass, es is Texas blue
grass.
o wing to the dry weather, the tests
OF sugar cane and cigar tobacco were
rendered almost valuelcs3. Results still
point TO the value of fertilizers rich il
nitrogen and phosphoric acid. Though
tobacco ia potash loving plant. potash
seems to do no good On the statian soil,
probably because that soil is already
rich in potash.
In the tests in curing cigar leaf to
Osecos indications are, as the year be-
fore, that fue curing, or the ''saow
process" as it is called, cannot be
recommended In Louisiana. It I'M
doubtedly gives a better yield of cured
tobacco, but a smaller percentage of
wrappers and of inferior quality to that
cured on the stalk.
IMPORTANT F~ERTILIZRR FACTS.
The OHIO Experiment Station he's
been testing home mixed fertilizer by
the side Of fGctory-mixed goods Of
similar analysis and virtue. Theready.
mixed fertilizers used cost $95 to $50
per ton, and the station was able TO
buy the ingredients separately and
mix them az a cost OF $16 per ton, in
Guiding freight and cost of mixing.
The station estimates that a group of
Ohio farmers may avs $500 by pur
chasing a car load (ifteen tons) of
y 80" tgnkage in Chicago, a similar
carload of acid phosphate in Baltimore
and a ton and a half Of muriate of pot