The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-06-18
FARMER ANDPLANTER.
sEAsoNABLE SUGGESTIONS.
o. that May be Considered
~ Timely.
FIRST WORKING.

FIRST WORKING. s
The summer campaign Is now fairly
opened. The main crops have been
planted, are mp and growing, and cul-
tivation must be vigorously pushed.
Grass is also up, the terrible: May
grass, and must be promptly killed.
Where it can be reached by the pillow,
this is easily done, for it is is still
small and is readily covered and
smothered. But in the drill it may
escape and give q world of trouble
later on. Especially if the soil be dry,
it is liable to be busted over by the
hoes, and remain unseen. until a
rain comes, uncovers it and pushes
1t into active growth. The most
grassy crops we ever saw were pre-
coded by dry May. Be not lulled in
to fatal security now because grass
makes little show. See that the hoes
do their work thoroughly.
RUNNING ROUND COTTON.
1t is common practice to run around
young cotton and follow with the hoes
If the blowing is separated from the
hoeing by an interval sufficiently long
for the grass covered by the pillow to
die, it may be we'll; otherwise the hoes
in good measure undo the work of the
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mise Of reta,no mo,srpra ana rrerent.
ing more grass from coming up, be-
cause grass seed will not germinate in
loose, comparatively dry earth.
SECOND WORKING OF CORR,
Whilst deep working of corn in its
earliest stage is advisaDie to encourage
deep-rooting, this is not advisable at
its second working. By this time the
root development mas been very great;
the roots have taken possession OF all
the soil within reach, and should not
be broken or disturbed.
We inve often seen plows when
taken out OF the ground at ends
VI rows, with wads OF corn roots
hung an them. Surely these roots
served some good purpose in the econ
omy OF the pant anu should not have
been destroyed For the second and
later workings the heel-scrape answers
admirably, especially for upiand corn
1t Will etfectuany kiil grass and weed,
II these have NOT been allowed 10 make
too much headway, and will leave the
surface comparatively level, very i'm
portant matter.s'outnern cultivation
Cattle j. the soutn.
In MANY uarta 81 The so,tb ..b.ra {,
an increasing ,n&erest - r.,rfla -r;s,,,g
Ky I'M. Is not m...rt the ,s,s,s -, ne
undertalxinos in ,rex,e e 80 J. "a -
two or three cattle ~ z side sane on
farms. bnt a srstemaric enlarcsrp.n,
of operations ON = large .cale 8 snct