The Southern farm gazette., 1908-07-04
SUGGESTIONS FOR JULY FARM WORK.

clean second grade wheat for milling, and through
the fourth nothing but the heaviest and plumpest
grains for seed.
Is Il any wonder that that man makes forty to
forty-fve bushels OF wheat per acre. and never a
weed to be seen in II? His wheat never turns to
cheat because he never any cheat seed. and
out OF a bushel OF wheat from the thresher he
will get about a peck OF what he calls Arst-class
seed.
About Rotation-If you are going to follow
your corn with oats or wheat the longer you keep
up the shallow and level cultivation the better
But II you sow crimson clover among the corn
and get n good stand. you can prontably repeat
corn on the land one more season BY turning the
clover under.
The crimson clover crop Ia tho only that
would habiiually turn under for corn or cotton.
for II Ia the hardest of all clovers to make into
good hay. al Il comes at a bad season for hay
making. and being n catch crop among the corn.
It can pron'ably be used to turn down either for
corn cotton.
hut II you follow corn with small grain the
beat thing to sow IN cowpcas II tho peas grow
rankly. you can NOW them after cutting the corn.
and II no, too rank. you can chop them up with
the disc harrow and make tho surface anc and
have tho best possible chance for winter grain II
sown with disc drill. for tho trash will be main
y on top and will act a mulch for tho grain
crop In winter.
Laying by Your Cnrn.-ln laying By your corn
determine once for all TO keep tho turning piow
out OF tho field. From that iimc tho corn will
need all tho moisture II Got. and II tho eulsi
sator has been run shallow and a dna, blanket
made over the surface. there will bc moisture for
Tho corn roots. and II you put In p'ow and turn
this up you will simply make a ridge TO dry out
directly and ssarso tho roots even II you by some
chance do no; cut OF most OF them
t~~ q t. -
In getting back food from the sol, Ia that par, Jus,
back O. tho advancing rooslosa iha, is covered
wi'h me hairs. and that II that tip In cut OF these
roots cannot get food from the soft TN moro root,
let's form. and by that umc tho corn will DO 80 far
exhausted that the crop will be- lar grly reduced
DO not Imagine that pilInE earth 10 III. base of
tho stalks will prevent tho corn blowing down. II
all blow down worse. for you will soften the
brace rooss by covering them. and tho cutting OF
the roots ~ill make the corr weaker 10 with.
stand tho wind, nu, with hard and tough brace
roots. wolf act level ground. corn viii rcs,a,
far moro wind
n~gin Now so Select Your s~~d Corn.-Thcn
star; at once TO select and breed your corn to a
better stature. for a stalk ,ha, In very tall and has
the cara far above ground and only a ahor, top
above them will always blow down worao than
corn of fair stature tha, makes ears half way be.
tween ground and taasel.
Test sid~-Dr~ssings Dont Gucss.-Sow expert
mcnt with side-drcaainga on your cotton. Some
think that great deal In gained by tho uac OF
nitrate OF soda alongside tho corn this month
Doubtless II encourages growth but measure OF
two areas and treat ono with the aide -dreaaing
and the other with none. Then compare tho crops
carefully from each and what tho outlay has
paid you There IL entirely too much guessing
among farmers They 500 some result from an
application OF fertilizers but they do no, carefully
compare tho rcaulis with check plot.
MY opinion In that where n farmer farms In
good rotation and grows and feeds plenty OF To-
gnme forage hc can prontabiy dispense with the
pnrchnMe of nitrogen In form IL La fceda