The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-06

- Jr D.t JIdChnOuDGg ~ W. NAANCS.
- have purchased a small farm in
the mountains OF Western North Car
Olina, which has been neglected and
needs Improvement. The soil is
sandy. will appreciate any sugges-
tons"
Answer: One of the chief needs OF
a sandy soil that has been abused is
undoubtedly vegetable matter. The
soil is also likely to be deficient in
available supplies OF phosphoric acid
and potash. You can add the needed
vegetable matter to the soil cheaply
and to advantage through the use Of
Ieguminous crops. Among the crops
that are grown to advantage in your
locality Will be any Of the clovers, the
cowpea, the vetch, soy bean and vel
vet bean. The velvet bean will hard
1y mature seed, but 1t grows well on
thin land and makes an immense
mass OF green material which can
FIRST be pastured off, thus making the
land produce something Of value and
the refuse plowed under to add veget-
able matter to the soil. Animals pas
ture on the velvet bean to advantage
when they become accustomed to it,
though, of course, one should look
out for bloat, which is liable to hap
pen when animals are pasturing on
any green crop that is wet with dew
or soaked by heavy rains.
Under your conditions 1t Is impor-
fant that you adopt rotation as
nearly as possible. One of the best
you could use would be to SOW the
land in cowpeas this spring, using
200 pounds of sixteen per cent acid
phosphate and seventy-tive pounds Of
muriate Of potash per acre. II the
Hand has not grown peas for several
years get two or three wagon loads
OF earth from an old pea field and
scatter thinly over the surface and
work in with a harrow before seed
fng. Use either the Whipporwill,
New Era or Black pea. Cut the first
crop for hay and let the second crop
grow. as long as possible before turn
ing 1t under. Turn under and seed
to wheat, using complete fertilizer
at the rate of 100 pounds of cotton
seed meal, 100 pounds of sixteen per
cent acid phosphate and twenty-five
pounds of muriate of potash. Apply
the fertilizer we'll away from the
seed, as cottonseed meal sometimes
has an Injurious effect on germina-
tion. In the spring seed the wheat
down to clover and timothy, or il you
prefer, pasture seeded to clover and
orchard grass, Allow to stand two
years in grass, cutting for hay one
year and grazing the second year.
Then turn in the spring and put in
corn, seeding to crimson clover in
the fall to pillow under, and then back
TO cowpeas and wheat and grass.
) You will need to use plentiful sup
plies OF phosphates and potash and
IL your land is acid, give a good coat
ing OF lime, using one ton per acre
This may be purchased in the UNI
Stacked form and distributed in heaps
and scattered over the soil when
properly Stacked, or it may be Stacked
In quantity, and distributed with
machine especially made for the APP
plIcation of lime. Keep all the stock
Won can on the farm, feed as much
OF the roughness produced as posi-
Die, and utilize carefully all avail
able supplies of farm yard manure,
and you should certainly be able to
Improve your land considerably in a
very short time.-Knoxville Tribune.
Destroying Field Mice and Moles'
q. R. r., Jonesboro, Tenn writes:
I would like to know how to poison
or otherwise kill field mice and moles.
They are very destructive in my corn
fields and potato patches.
Answer: Moles and mice may
sometimes be killed to advantage by
the use OF carbon bisulphide. Take
small wads of lint cotton and thor
oughIy saturate with the carbon BIZ
sulphide and put in the holes and
runways If underground. The fresh
runways of the mole are easily dis
covered and If the bisulphlde is put
in the ground and the place where 1t
is inserted covered with earth and
pressed down slightly the fumes Will
penetrate the channels and often
cause the destruction of~moles and
mice. There is difficulty in this
remedy, however, for the runways
are often so near the surface Of the
ground that part of the carbon BIZ
sulphide escapes and becomes mixed
with the air and is not effective.