The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30

,.rested fin the peach than in any other If these fruit trees, let us calculate lho amount of fertilizer theoretically nuired to supply the amount or piahs food used annually by proouc.ise ', neach orchard. The nitrogen would pc rurnished by 525 pounds of nitrate or soda. t.,e phosphoric acid by l25 pounos of acid phosphate. and the potash py 57g hounds of kainit. The oemanus made by a productive orchard or other fruits are not far different. Ihese figures for fertilizers are much larger than the amounts ordinarily appllea' This is because the fruit tree Is ordl- narily expected to draw partly upon inc reserve of fertility in the soil, the soil capital so to speak, ana partly because the nitrogen Is usually sup piled by growing of leguminous plants such as cowpeas, vetch, crimson clover etc. It is interesting to notice that inc demand for nitrogen in the case of the peach is about half of what may be expected to be- stored up in falr crop of cowpeas. ,--.-.
 While the above figures are interest ing. readers are cautioned against max in a literal application of such re- suits of chemical analyses. such figures afford hints rather than guides for practice. d. F. N'
 
 The edition of most of our bulletins is exhausted. If copies can re spared of my three bulletins on hog feeding I shall forward them to you.
 In my experience, the most economl- cal hog food here is the peanut on richer land dwarf essex rape IS ex- tremely valuable, and chufas are very useful, especially during the winter With the meagre information before
 t0 piUa nOSlflNe advice as to what you should plant on each of the three enclosures. Assuming that you will buy your carbonaceous grain rather than raise enough corn shall recommend chiefly crops rich m nitrogen, and which are best utilized when some carbohaceous grain IS Tea with them.
 I should plan chiefly peanuts, about half the peanut area to be devoted 10 the Spanish variety, which makes a quick growth, and about half to the running variety, which requires longer season of growth, but which will remain longer in the ground with out rottIng. The next crop in area should, I think, be cowpeas, giving preference to one or more of the bunch varieties. If only one variety is prac- ticabIe, it would be best to SOW the whipporwill However, a longer suc- cession would be obtained by planting New Era for very early use and Whip porwnl for later, and Red Ripper for very late fall use
 The soy bean is an exceedingly val uable crop for hogs, but l am not sure that it has been thoroughly tested in yOur section. The seed remain sound later in the fall or winter than do cow peas or Spanish peanuts and are val uable from September to December. lf while grazing on the seed of these sev eral leguminous crops, the hogs could be induced to eat some sorghum, the ration would be more nearly balanced, but l am very doubtful whether hogs would leave peanuts or soy beans to eat sorghum. At any rate, you might advantageously SOW a small proportion of each lot in drilled sorghum at such date as will cause 1t to mature about the same time as the leguminous crop in the same enclosure.
 While I have great hesitation in sug gesting what to sow in the three lots, 1 would ask you to consider whether there would be objections to the fol- lowing plan.
 Lot 1-For use after August 1: Span ish peanuts, New Era or other early eowpsas, and drilled sorghum
 Lot 2--For use after october Later varieties of eowpeas, late planted span ish peanuts late planted sorghum and late yellow soy aeans.
 Lot 3-For use after December 1: