The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-23
RALEIGH, N. C.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER %, 1900

mer in Iredell county ouoht 10 ha
ashamed to say 20 bushels of corn ner
acre, when any sort of good farnino
on lredell land ought to make if hrinr
oo 70 IS bushels per acre. Far,ned ;n
dh improving rotation you should NOT
only get a great deal more than %
n'isnels OF corn per acre, but more
,hdn 81 bushels of barley or oats. T
hiioW land which is naturally no bet
ter II as good as Iredell county. which
makes IS bushels of winter oats no,.
acre and ,le owner got two tons of
COW pea hay from the same land after
the oats were off. And this was in
western North Carolina too.
4 merchant writes from Rladeo
county: Our farmers are askinn
"hat KIND of fertilizers are best foe.
oats. They have been using cotton
seed, put the seed are now 50 HIGH
,ney y prefer using some other fertilizer
Nouid IKE some information on l..,s
.pJuc'. we are cutting our peavines.
andy q let Us know if it is best to plow
tne land as soon as we get the vines
OF - It is the same old ino,,i,v.
What fertilizer to use.'' Onr farmars
nave gotten into such a habit of using
iertlllzer for every crop sown or plant
ed that this inquiry is the burden ,,f
most OF the letters we get from them
II 'hey had been feeding stock and
growing peas and had put their corn
on d manured pea stubble. there would
De no need of fertilizer on the oats or
wheat following the corn. If the oats
are soWn after pea crop has been cut
from the land, on which acid nbos-
phate and p0vRsh has been used. there
would be no need for fertilizers on the
oats, and the crop of peas would have
peen greatly heavier. But there are
lew OF your farmers who have faith
enough III their land to fertiiize peas
ana hence they are in need of ferti-
lzefs for their oats. They do not feed
One-tenth the cattle thev should and
could feed with profit. hence the land
IS not manured as it should be. There
IS little profit in the direct use of fer-a
hlzers on oats or of complete fertiliz-
| ers on corn either But in regard to
Ihe inquiry as to- the proper fertilizer
, am glad that cotton seed is too high
10 use. Tor 1t never should be used till
, after the oil is extracted. Cotton seed
meal is Il vallla Bile source of NITROGEN
and the oat crops needs nitrogen espe-
clally. But it could be better furnish
ed by peas Or stable manure But in
the absence of these | would advise
mixture of 1,200 pounds of acid phos-
phate, 700 pounds of cotton seed meal
or fish scraps, which can be had in
New Bern or Wilmington, and 100
pounds of muriate of potash to make
Il ton. Use 300 pounds per acre. In
regard to plowing the pea stubble at
ter cutting the hay we would say plow
/ it it you intend to sow q winter crop
on it. If not let it stand till spring.
1t will be better to plow and sOW> q
winter crop as green vegetation pre-
vents the loss of nitrogen in the Win
ter rains. We have always here more
rainy than freezing weather and land
left bare in winter will lose FERTILITY
, faster than in the summer cropping.
No land in this climate should be left
! without a green cover in winter. we
are about to SOW Hairy Netch on our
/ pea stubble to keep up the improve
ment we have been trying to get from
| the peas, and we expect to get a good
crop of hay in the spring in time to
put the land in other crops
| From Guilford county: "How much
! and what per cent. fertilizers Will 1t
! be practical to use for wheat on land
! that made 20 bushels of wheat per
/ acre the past season. Land was sown
in peas after the wheat was cut. Also
what to use for wheat on corn land
which had a light dressing of manure,
and had peas sown among II at las,
working Corn was cut ana bollhn
with machine and shocked in the 1eld
and land prepared with disc harrow.
What is the best distance to set rasp-
berries and bIacl<berries, and should
| they be cultivated or mulched WIN
etrawo | than YOU for the good your
adyice has done me in the past
Here is evidently a man VINO IS ge'tl'iS
o,t Of the ruts, for he cuts his corn
u-;th the binder and soWs peas. but
do not assume that because you gre"
% bushels of wheat per acre TINS yea
that YOU can keep on CROWNS Wilea,
on the same land every year. u IS dil
riobt to grow one crop III fhls way
after YOU have put the land IN peas,
and if YOU had given me peas soue, ,i
dreesinn Of acid phosphate you "oulu 20 no
not need to put any fertilizer az al On o,,
10 wheat. As it is, | Woula use on
hotb nieces of land only aclu piioa, =
,,bato and would use 1T at q rae y ~
l,de ner acre. After the peas 90
i,ot think YOU need on your iail" a4s
t1,inr else But hereafter iel'ii' 'iio
,,a,e and they will do the rest
Cotton Growers Convention.