Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-09-24

would think OF starting store with
an empty building. Convenient lOca-
ton TO railroads OIL markets doubles
the value OF farm land as IL would
the value OF a store site. Hauling is
among the heaviest items on a farm.
Clearing timber and brush land usu-
ally costs as much as clear land can
be bought Tor.
Start farming as you wsuld any eth
or business. Provide the raw mate
rial for the soil Spreading conner
cial fertilizer with lavish hands is not
always successful ss IL is apt to
wash away. The safest and surest I
road is the one that the Southern /
Planter has pointed out for these /
many years: Growing leguminOus 7!
crops. such as cow peas. clever and /
alfalfa. but to depend upon these agen- |
cies alone would take too long. You |
would be wasting years without re |
Enumeration from your farm. Buy no
more land than you can AFFORD 10 stock
with plant food. and do not buy stock
until the farm produces the where
with 10 feed it. else the cattle. hogs
horses and sheep will eat the bottom
out OF your purse. As a business pro-
position no man can afford 10 waste
his time improving only a few acres.
II you haven't the means 10 handle
| fifty 10 100 acres. try trucking. \
smaller farm Will not be a paying pre-
position.
Next 10 feeding the sell. or perhaps
even more important is proper cult
walton. IL you have settled on your
place disk rs many acres as you know
you will be able to handle. Disk in
half-lap. Then pillow deeply. II you
can. let the subsoiler follow the turn
ing plow. Always harrow immediate
~ after blowing. unless too wet. 70
prevent the land from drying out.
Then disk again until it is warm
enough TO plant. Unless you are To-
Gated in the limestone region. spread
twenty to City bushels OF lime 20 tAe
acre. Lime costs from s. per ton 10
six and seven cents per bushel. Spread
also 800 to 1905 pounds OF ground
rock phosphate. Ii costs s. 70 IS per
ton. Also not less than 200 pounds OF
potassium chloride (muriate Of pot
ash. 1t costs about Sal per ten. liar
row 20 fine filth and SOW OF drill
thickly TO COW peas
Begin blowing the peas under in
August. as the peas Will be then more
nearly matured. Turning a crop OF
peas under when full Of sap anC
growth is apt to sour land IN this WARN
climate. and disk the land every weel
In half lap until time FOR fall sowing
III you have used only twenty bushel.
OF lime in the spring. sow now twenty
bushels more. Also SOW again JO'
pounds rock phosphate and some 20
tassium chloride muriate Of p0tsshl
The land is now ready for alfalfa o
German ,l0ver. Devote as much a
you can 10 alfalfa.
on the land not needed for alfslf
SOW German clover OF hairy WEIGH 10
a winter cover crop. The land or n
J seed should be infected with bacteri
il German clover has never bee
grown in the Reld bacteria can be ha
| from Washington As land is rate
/ by the number Of barrels of corn
| will produce. il should now yield te
| barrels or fifty bushels If properly eli
| tivated. The time mas come, then,
i get some good graded stock ana 10 z,
| tcmd the work Of improving TO the re
OF the farm.
| Don't imag CINE. however. that yo
| can now afford TO let your stock I
| ! fertility run down. OF course. yOl
alfalfa held Will get richer every We.
and you Will have more stable manur
Il but even then il is advisable TO keC
II on growing peas and clover. Land
| the South should never be bare
| vegetation. When a crop is remove
II SOW peas Of clover Immediately, 3
. cording 70 season. peas for SUNNI,
n German clover for winter. Alwa
sh Use lime. phosphorus and pOtassiu
~ Tor these crops.
You have plOweC under forr GRO
d. ~ cost OF s. for SEED. with seven
re bushels Of lime. costing 81 Gin c.
~. lead lotsl. $500 pounds of rock ph'
II phate at $40. and so pounds pot.
90 SUM chloride IT SIC. Your work
IL plowing. Se~ding. GiskinS. etc. shot
b worth SIC per acre. II the IA
Is near market Oh static your
rrcvcments arc more valuable IN
- On land less conveniently located. L.
"a will be easier now since the ala
field has reduced the acreage on,
y plcw The decaying crops have 81
piled The soil with hunUs and the IN
will produce now as well as land s
-. Tor 500 or iaorc IN Illinois. and X
Yer products VIII bring from -dfty TO
per cent more than they would
eos most Western sections.
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