The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-05
NOTES OF THE FARM.
By w. F. MASSEY, Of A. & N College.



mon sense and viii answer questions
asked" / am associate editor OF the
| Practical Farmer, a weekly paper pun
lisbed in Philadelphia at 81 per year
We are irving to make this paper OF es-
neciaI value in the South and have long
| LIST of subscribers in North Carolina.
will take pleasure In sending you or your
friends the paper. and believe 1t VIII help
you as it has others.
correspondent in Vance County, asks
for remedy for weevil in wheat. we
have SO often told how to destroy these
with carbon hi sulphide that it hardy
sooms necessary to repeat it. Put the
wheat in a close room or bin and set car
bon bi sulohide in an open vessel Oh 'op
Of it and close the room or bin tight the
fr,,os arc heavier than air and will sink
through the grain and kill everything III
- uove mn animals about nor any IRE,
as the fumes are unwholesome to breatne
ia viii oxnIode with fire. Use one
hound TO each 100 bushels of wheat. After
it has evaporated open up ana ar anu
e1I traces of it will soon be gone, as II
is very volatile. You can get IL at any
drug store.
! Moore County correspondent has peen
troubled with rot in tomatoes. spraying
with Bordeaux mixture three or loui
times during the season will usually pre-
vent the rot, but you must begin pelore
there is any appearance of it Tor any
remedy against fungus disease must De
preventative rather than curative
From Rowan county: How VIII
crane vines succeed from spring plant
| ing and what varieties are best Tor tnls
mart of the State?" Spring planting does
very we'll. / am now about TO plaIl'
nearly 800 varieties, and after aWnile
viii be in a better position to tell you
which, are best. Still there are some
standard sorts which we know do We'll
For the earliest use Diamond and the
Green Mountain, next Concord, Dela
ware and Niagara, and for the latest set
the Herbemont, an OLD grape of North
| Carolina origin, which is one or the
best.
| From Pamlico county: Il have read
! your letters in the Farmer and Me-
: chanic with much profit, and would hhe
YOU to answer the following questions.
| Will il pay to SOW crimson clover after
| cotton in August or september, ana
where can good seeds be obtained? In
what way can / best utilize my corn
crop. and when and how should II be
! harvested? Please mention the best
hogs and cattle for marketing, those
that will make the most meat per pound
of feed. Give the address of two or
three good journals for the farm. What
can | get from agricultural headquar-
tiers in good reading matter on stock
raising and farming in general? feal
if T undertake TO answer all these ques-
tions in full. the editor will have to
mark this page continued. 1t VIII GER
! tainly pay to SOW crimson clover among
| the cotton as winter cover to the lana
TO prevent the loss of fertility by leach.
| ing in the winter rains. But IN your
soil YOU should give the clover dress
ing of a mixture of acid phosphate anC
kainit in equal parts unless you nave
| put some potash on the cotton. 0oW
fifteen pounds of the seed per acre. Inc
best way to utilize the corn crop, II the
object is to make feed on 1t. is TO puliu
a silo and cut the corn into it as soon
as it reaches the roasting ear stage. OR
if you wish to save the ripe grain, cut
the corn off at the ground as soon as
the ears are we'll glazed and the fodder
still i'm good order, and cure it in shocks
| 2aJDClI
ed fodder through a shredder and store
in the barn for feed. and the cattle Will
eat the whole of it. Here at the col
lege we harvest the corn with machine
drawn by two horses, which cuts the
corn and binds it in bundles easy tC
handle. IT is then set up in shocks and
the tops tied together to keep the
shocks from blowing down. The grain
Ioo all a
chine driven by one horse and when
fed mixed with pea vine hay or clover
hay will make the finest of cattle food.
The best breed of hogs to fatten young
is the Berkshire. Early spring pigs car
be made easily to weigh 200 pounds al
nine months old OF cattle for beef the
Herefords are in our opinion the best
but if you want milk and genera
purpose COW use the Eolstein. BY get.
ting bull of pure blood you can soor
breed up good animals from the com,
mon cows. But to keep up the improve
ment you should get occasionally new
pure blood bull, and never breed from
a grade animal. BY following this prac-
tice faithfully you will finally get q
herd as good as full bloods. You viii
find the Practical Farmer. of Philadel.
phia, and the Southern Planter, O.
Richmond. Va. papers suitable to YOU
needs. l write for both of them. BY
addressing the Commissioner of Agri.
culture, Raleigh, N. c., you can have
your name listed for the bulletin of the
} department, which is published month,
~, and | will have your name listed fol
the station bulletins, which come out al
irregular intervals. Then you can write
to the Secretary of Agriculture a
Washington and ask him to send yol
the monthly list of publications of hi,
department, and from that list you cal
send for such as you want. He will
not list your name for all of them, bu
you can order such as you want from
the monthly list which he will send yo,
regularly. You can get the clover see,
from any good seedmen.
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