The Republican journal., 1901-05-30
Waldo County Crop Reports,
From the. Board of Agriculture Bullet

| From the Board of Agriculture Bulletin. !
SEARsMoNT. We have in this vicinity
| almost all varieties of soil, from heavy clay
| to light clay loan, and also sandy and
| gravelly land with very little loan. We
/ also have stony mari and muck lands. On
our place the special crop is Strawberries,
about D acres being cultivated yearly
Last season was so dry that they did not
make plants III due season. but the late fall
| helped them and they never wintered better
In raising Strawberries, experience has
taught us that for best results varieties must
be selected according to soil, some kinds
doing better on one kind of soil, and some
on another No one can afford to neglect
mulching, both for protection in winter and
| Tor conserving moisture during bearing.
For conserving moisture and killing weeds
in hoed crops, run Weeder early and often.
Irrigation, when possible, would be of
immense benefit to a straw berry crop, but
unfortunately there are but few places
where it can be practiced without excessive
eXpense.-Gtis d. Wilson.
THoRNDIKE. The soil in this locality
VARIES some being sandy and some mixed
soil of yellow and dark earth mixed with
small stones. | think the best method of
conserving soil moisture is by level cult
walton. The more thorough the cultivation,
the better the crops. | use Weeder and
like it very much | think using the weeder
often is good method of destroying weeds
AZ ilotu NItllS. / snail Pidlll I'VE ACRES Ol
slage corn this year. My method is to
break under liberal amount of stable
manure in the fall, blowing quite shallow,
and apply about 800 pounds of fertilizer to
the acre. | have never tried following but
think it would be good method where
ground is weedy. Some in this vicinity will
have to reseed their ground that was seeded
last year. What would be your idea about
sowing grain without seeding, then after
the grain is cut narrowing and seeding p
L. &. Lander.
NOTE. The great objection to seeding after re-
Nanced to SOW clover. We would much prefer
sowing grass seed at the time of sowing the
grain. Many, farmers in Western Maine are
seeding their land to grass i'll corn. We shall try
the experiment curse Ives this season. Some Of
the best catches we have ever seen came from
tins method last season.-Sec Secretary
WINTERPORr. We have a diversity of
soil and subsoil in this Northumberland
loan and clay. We"favor the practice of
conserving moisture in the soil by frequent
cultivation and hoeing. For drainage of the
surplus water We pillow what we term back
burrows, commencing in the center of a
piece, which leaves it in beds with bitches
at each side of the piece. For very wet
deep and fill with small stones or old cedar
fence rails laid lengthwise. Both make
good drains. The best method We find for
destroying weeds in hoed crops is the har-
row cultivator. The teeth being small, one
can run it close to the plants without cover
ing them with dirt. 1 tell my men to hoe
morning, noon and evening, for no farmer
can afford to use his fertilizer to raise
weeds. We do not think much of fallow-
ing. but prefer to have the land covered
through hot weather with some crop such
as fiat turnips or buck wheat, and pillow
under. 1t leaves the ground fine and mel
low for or p the following seasonal. W.
Hardy.