The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-03
ash, and applying 1000 pounds of the


The soil must be prepared like gar
den bed, and the plants must be set
2Ox30 inches, leaving a walk every ten
feet, and fertilizer must be shoveled
in under the plants from these walks,
so none will fall into the buds or axis
OF the leaves. Set the largest plants
obtainable. Plants for setting are suck
ers from old plants.
For mealy, bug and chaff scale, the
only insect enemies thus far developed,
spray with strong solution of tobacco,
or sprinkle with tobacco dust, which is
a good fertilizer. For blight, or tangle
root, prune eff the lower leaves, and if
the trouble remains, take up the plant,
trim tops and roots, and reset. Long
leaf is caused by deep setting or poor
drainage and is easily avoided. Never
use sulphur on pine apple plants; it
rots them.
The varieties are valued in the fol-
lowing order, the best being named
first: Smooth Cayenne, Abbaka, Gold
en- Queen, Enville City, Porto Rico,
Black Jamaica, Prickley Cay Red
Spanish, Sugar Loaf. Black Jamaica
is the best keeper.
The most successful plantations in
Florida are partially shaded from sun
and frost by setting posts Is inches in
ground and 6 feet inches high above
ground, Is feet apart all over the field,
and noct' the tops by stringers
2x6x16 feet, and laying over these
strips 1x3x16, leaving inches between
the strips. This costs $500 to $500 per
acre, but an income of $50 to $500 per
acre per year may be safely counted on
from land thus prepared, and as long
as young plants bring such prices as
they now command, even g, 900 to $3,-
600 per acre may be realized. The new
plants produced now, each year, bring
much more than the fruit.
The average cost Of land, cleared Of
stumps and roots, and ready for the
plants is about $50 per acre, the cost
of fertil z er AID labor per year, 800 per
acre; cost of plants for an acre-nine
thousand at $3.50 per thousand-$1S5O;
cost of shed, $780, This shows total
cost OF 50, 600 per acre, if set in the best
plants, and this may be made back in
two years. The more common plants
set at So to $25 per thousand. Wild
land sells at 81 80 to $50 per acre. The
fret cost of land is mainly in clearing,
grubb:ng, ditchipg, and blowing. Pine
land, with } elbow sub soil is considered
best.
FORAGE CROPS.
Bulletin 1876, of Ithaca, N. Y, Sta
tion, treats of forage crops. For some
time the correspondent Of the station
has shown the keenesG interest in the
relative merits Of various forage crops
particularly for soiling, for feeding
green.
Those which have green greatest
satisfaction at the station are, 1st
corn; ID, a mixture of oats and peas;
p, oats; 4th, mixture Of oats anc
barley 55h, rye; 9th, barley 7Gb, hun
garian of the millets.
Corn for soilinR, should be planted
in succession, and none should be cut
till nearing maturity, as it increases il
nutritive value very greatly as it ap,
proaches maturity.
Ifa mixture of oats and peas is grown,
plow the peas in, then harrow the
ground, drill in the oats and roll. Use
one bushel peas and bushel and half
of oats per acre.
The relative value per acre OF the
feed grown at the station was as foL
lows: Oats and peas, $63 II {; oats alone,
$57 90; oats and barley, $43 80; barley
alone, $31 80.
Sorghum, teosinte, and Sacaline are
not adapted to New York.
For millet, prepare the land thor
oUghly, being particular to crush clods
of clay soils, and in feeding green mil
let, begin gradually and guard against
bloat.
Crimson clover proved very valuable
for late fall pasture and as a cover crop
to be turned under in spring It made
a much heavier fall growth than either
red clover or mammoth clover, and
analyses and weighing on November
2d showed that while crimson clover
had gathered 156 pounds nitrogen per
acre, red clover had gathered but 1OS
pounds and mammoth 146.
THE cow PEA AS A FERTILIZER,
CORRESPONDENCE of The Progressive Farmer.
Tnere is hardly any plant about