The Southern farm gazette., 1908-07-04

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disc on both ways, and repeat this as fast as
weeds show. any
Remember that every time you 20 ovo, -
the disc you are increasing the chance o, vim
stand. Then, Just before sowing and befo,s ,
last narrowing. get some soil from a feld w,sl e
alfalfa has made nodules. and scatter 100 norn.
or more per acre and at once harrow Il ~,
posure to the sun will kill the bacteria. "a
Sow not less than twenty-five pounds n, 49,,
and more will do no harm. Then II you %,
good stand the following spring before prov.s
starts apply twenty bushels OF Stacked lime ~.
acre and run the smoothing harrow over II ~.
ways.
Alfalfa and Johnson Grass.-Seyerai year, 49,.
was at the Mississippi college, where I lectursS
for a week to the public school teachers and Cour,
Supcrintendenis methods of teaching apricri
ture In the schools was taken their lar,.
farm In a section where Johnson grass has A.,
cred the whole country. They took to see the,,
alfalfa. At n distance II looked like nothing I'm,
Johnson grass. but on walking into IL I found the
alfalfa aourishing. though the grass was taller
They told me that there had already been three
crops cut and fourth was then ready. The John
son grass did no; seem To have hurt IL. and there
was crab grass that could see. johnson grssa
ia valuable. but had rather have a grass that
could control rather than one that controls me-
sweet Iotntoc~.-Cutttnga can be made OF The
tops of the sweet potato vines for late crop ice
winter keeping. For making crop OF bedding
roots. prefer 10 set tho cuttings In August Thea
make them a yard long and coil the cutting
around tho hand and set tho whole coil in the hin
with only tho tip exposed This will give ron
hill full Of i,,ic potatoes that will make far mos
plants per bashcl than tho general crop and thsy
arc tho easiest kcp, In winter.
rin~ Weeds Mould for Sweet Iutatn~s.-If yos,
soil IL rather heavy for sweet potatoes try plos.
Ing under n heavy cover Of half ro,scd trash ffua
a pine woods. pine straw and ro,,ed stud. n
great market crop OF sweet potatoes tho est
rrn shore OF Virginia 10 largely made with tlh
material. Every pine woods there is rakcd eisaa
every spring for tho nwcc, potato crop. And The!
make them too
hut know. too ,ha, crop Of crimson clover
on the land would do better and b. cheaper tAaa
tho iaborious hauling from the wooda Bu, where
there In no clover and you wan, n late crop d
sweets. try tho woods trash.
Plant Enatlagr CoFu.-whcn I was growing
corn for tho silo. and annually putting up 600
tons OF Il. l always planted my silagc corn In
July. for there II followed a crop OF clover hay
on tho Same land and. In tho cultivation Of the
crop. clover sccd were aown again. 80 that %
that rich bottom land generally got two tons or
more OF clover hay and twenty tons of corn siase
every year. ] was engaged In cleaning tho bot
toms OF weeds and making manure for the hills
Tor with this annual treatment there was hardly
any naeh thing an exhaustion OF that bottom land
where tho soil was nearly ten feet deep. beins
the accumulation on an old mill pond bottom
where the stream had cut n deep channel.
On any mois, low-iand of good fertility July
early enough TO plant the cnsage corn. II then
comes In al comparatively leisure season. where
man grows no tobacco or cotton. and even the
cotton will not DO pushing much early In Septem-
bor when tho corn Is ready. ...~
FINALLY. Br~thrcn. Farm. Fnrm!-The whole
.ist OF these suggestions In to farm farm. and for
ever Btop mere pian Nc without o,tt. aim Get