Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-06-22
SOME NOTES
VI Interest to Truckers, Farmers
and Stock Raisers.

Lana Tor cowpeas needs phosphoric
acid andspotash. Apply 800 lbs. of acid
phosphate or 1000 lbs. of raw phos-
phate rock and so lbs. of muriate of
potash per acre. Lime should be APP
piled on the land after the pea crop is
harvested or plowed under.
Crismon clover should be sowed from
July to the end of September. 1t is
ready for cutting in April and May.
May be grazed lightly during the fall,
winter and up to March. 1t makes no
growth after being cut, as it is only an
annual. 1t makes good hay if cut
when just coming into bloom, but is
not safe to feed to horses if allowed to
stand until the seed forms. 1t does
best on dry land. 1t is a great i'm
proven of land.
The pea crop is over and not dollar
has been made in this section; in fact
the pea crop was loss. The tomato
plants were greatly injured by the cold
nights in early May, and it will require
close work to get plants from the sec
ond sowing large enough to get to
market before the fall frosts. Wheat
is all right; not a large growth of straw.
but good heads, with prospect for filling
out to the normal yield. Apple crop
will be failure, injured by the cold.
The peaches are holding on; still there
willnot be a tree-breaking crop. The May
cherry crop was unusually good. Black
berries will be abundant. The huckle-
berry growth is promising also. There
is traffic in every one of these men
toned. This brings in 1.-THE change
to the country.
In an address before meeting of
stockmen and farmers at Madison.
Wisconsin, Prof. Henry, author of
Feeds and Feeding" in speaking of
the necessity for feeding wood ashes to
hogs, referred to an experiment con-
Quoted by himself in which he found
that it required 629 pounds of corn meal
to make 100 pounds gain when the
ashes were not fed as compared with
49l pounds when they were fed. He
recommended that ashes be kept where
hogs can have access to them at all
times. He also recommended the feed
ing of clover and alfalfa hay to bred
sows and boars, explaining that what
these need is filler rather than a fat
tener, and for this purpose he especially
| recommended alfalfa hay where it can
be grown.
A bushel of corn is a standard and
invariable measure; but not so barrel
of corn. In Virginia barrel of corn is
enough corn in the ear to shell out five
bushels; in the West a barrel of corr
means flour barrel of corn in the ear
which would shell out less than two
bushels. Therefore, when Virginiar
says that his land will produce twent,
barrels of corn to the acre the Western
man will laugh at him and tell him thai
Western land will bring forty and fifty
barrels to the acre. But the Virginiar
means one thing and the Western mar
another. Twenty barrels of corn in Vir
ginia means one hundred bushels; forty
barrels of corn in the West means les,
than eighty bushels. We mention thi
by way of making practical suggestion
to landowners in Virginia. In speakins
of the productive capacity of their land
| let them use the bushel and not the bar
rel as the standard of measure. Times
Dispatch.
What a great discovery the tomat,
was as an article of food. While mos
food plants are of comparatively an
cient origin, there are plenty of peopl
, living today who can remember when j
was only an ornament cultivated 70
. the beauty of its dainty blossoms an
handsome fruit. While its beauty wa
admired, it was considered like tn
poison-oak, dangerous TO even handl
except by clark complicated" persons
Years of acquaintanceship, however
wore off its superstition and fey
..fool-hardy'' actually owned up t
having tasted the fruit. From thi