The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14


 to explain the diffreence in results in with Columbian corn, hut am unable 1903 and in 1904. and 4he very large stalk which you send.
 The partridge pea is. I am sure. a valuable ss ( A,improving plant. f have several tim, received promises from prairie farmers to save the seed for me in order that I might compare this plant with the cowpea for fertilizins purposes, but I have not yet been able to get the seed, which am stiIl desirous of obtaining.
 If you have ever known stock to eat this to any considerable extent green or dry, should be glad to have you write me about its apparent feed ing value.
 I am unable to say from the little data available how nearly salt ap- breaches kainit as a means of check ing rust. and for my part would pre- fer to trust one hundred pounds of pounds of salt per acre. I think as kainit rather than several hundred per acre could be applied early with out injury to cotton. and probably with little or no benefit. J. F. D. Removing stumps by Fire. Stockman.
 
 for The Stockman I have been casting about for something to take that would benefit as many readers as possible, and when I spied an old stump in the back lot, I thought here Is just the thing. While there isn't much beauty in an old lighted stump" there Is much else in 1t, and determined to demonstrate some of the main features for your readers.
 It was my first stump picture. and no doubt many who see 1t will be ''stumped" to know, what 1t was ever made for.
 The object Is simply this:
 Most farmers do not know how to re- move stumps from their land the cheapest way. They think they do. but days drive or car ride through almost any farming section will reveal the fact that about nine out of ten farm CTS are rotting their stumps out, which Is the most expensive way.
 It has been said that an average stump occupies piece of ground ten feet square. That is 1t renders that much ground unvailable. That is too much, but we will even it by allowing only ten stumps to the acre, which is too low an estimate. This gives 1000 square feet of land per acre that is worse than lost to the farmers. for he gets nothing for his labor. and it damages his stock and machinery as we'll as his temper. Now what I started out to show is how farmers can get rid of these stumps at a cost so low that 1t will pay if they only had the use of the land for two or three years. once cleared fifteen acres one spring, rented land mostly, that could not rent more tLon at n trnn fo aan6 hrrt two years. yet got fully 25 per cent more hay off of 1t than before 1t was stumped.
 There is science in removing stumps, as well as in any other farm work. and when properly done 1t is neither diff f1cult nor hard work, for at the time cleared my land I had living with me a gentleman afflicted with bronchitis, who was too feeble to even hoe in the garden yet he could. and did remove a large portion of the stumps with benefit to himself.
 Credit is due MT. Dudley of this place for the secret of this method. which is very simple, as follows: With spade dig as small a hole as possible close up between two spur roots of the stump. then move around eighteen in- .ches or two feet and dig another and connect them underneath the roots, and so on until you have worked en- tirely around being careful to leave all possible of the surface soil next to the crown and also to lay the tap root bare as well as the undertakes of the spurs, for therein lies the secret. You have furnace with four or five chimneys and all you have to do is to build a fire in the windward side, replenish with a small chunk three or four times during the day and the wind and fire will do the rest. Build no fire above ground. but rather suppress 1t and take my word for it that one or two small knots or dry roots will burn the stump out as quickly as If the hole is kept full. Have the bottom to slant to the tap root so that as the stump burns away the chunks will roll to it. Most stumps will be burned out before night and you will have the crown for frewood if desired. as they split easily. or you can use for priming other stumps. It is an easy matter to pry out the remainder of the spurs. To back up my argument account of the time required to dig around and burn the large stump (which was twen ty inches in diameter at the top). shown in the accompanying picture. Time required in digging, twenty minutes; time in firing. and renewing
 
 stump to burn, eleven hours; refilling the hole, five minutes. I did not pry out the roots which would have taken ten to twenty minutes. perhaps, but this stump was far above the average In size, so that a haH hours time at $1 per day would make fair estimate of the actual cost per stump for re- moving all over six inches in diameter. and believe on a large scale one could beat that considerably.
 The largest stump burned out was over two foot across the face and 1t required two days to burn.
 first tried digging all the dirt away from the stumps. but 1t took days to burn them and twenty times the labor.
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 Crowm-Gall.
 The disease known as crown-gall is not generally known and understood