The Southern farm gazette., 1909-11-13

hay Is all right, and the Southern farmers sho,,,
feed It, but not In an undue amount nr,
twice a day for an animal In milk accomnan,os
with plenty OF good roughage. will be found pros,
able Too much cottonseed meal is sent out q, ~
South TO feed stock and make fertilizer for o,h
lands while the growers replace but a small mar,
OF the nitrogen in the soil with the poor 2-s-s
fertilizer.
But do not imagine that you keep cows q,
cottonseed meal and hulls. for you canno, do !,
successfully You kill them faster than vou
are able to buy them The best use for hulls 4. -
the cutters behind tho COWS 20 absorb the manp,o
They arc fine. too. for covering enslage In tho
silo and are unsurpassed for covering half ba,d,
plants I'm the flower garden In winter
COVER CROPS FOR PEANUT LaNDs.-r wan,
TO endorse heartily what Mr.. Blount says abou,
tho Importance OF a winter cover for the peanu,
land and no, only for tho peanut land but for All
land from which late field crop has been re-
moved. In our mild climate there is 4 srea,
waste OF fertility In tho winter rains and nitra,es
arc washed away which could havo been kept and
returned TO tho soil.
hut the man ~ho makes one hundred bushels
ot peanuts per acre fully understands this. The
dimcul,y Ia In getting the 25-bushol to under.
stand the importance OF good farming
THE YOUNG MEN MAKING GOOD.-rarmins.
farming IL what have been working for In the
South for many years. And am glad TO say ,ha,
como trying TO do IL. and the young men
~ho nro getting cn,huscd with advanced ideas Of
farming a, tho colleges OF agriculture 20 ou, from
there. one can calculate what tho effect will be
on tho farming OF tho South
Tho hope OF tho South IN In thcsc young men,
and In tho young mon on the farms who may no,
DO abic TO take tho college course. but who read
and study tn. farm papers Heaven bless the
young men. many OF ~hom havo sent mo most %.
eouraglng letters on my birthday. wc may no,
do much for the old men who so, In their
Nays" but tho young blood OF tho South is awake
10 tho need OF better farming. and better farming
10 being dono by them. and more and moro OF
them will join tho procession.
ORCHARD AND SMALL FRtITS.-Sow 10 the
time for planting fruit ,roos In the South. But
norcr buy any tree older than one year. They
cos, loHa money. cos, losa freight and you
make Just any sort of tree out OF them~-a low
headed tro~ that can DO easily sprayed.
Now. II you havc orchards. determine that you
~lll nght the San Jos, scale without quarter. A.
soon as tho leaves arc OF spray with the lime
sulphur wash. and again In tho early spring
Then spray apple trccs In spring with Bordeaux
mixture and Paris green Just A. tho blossoms
FALL TO KIN the codnE moth.
Never plant peach trees on n sunny slope TO the
south or east. but always high situations
where the cold winds blow and keep them back
from blooming too early In spring.
November II tho best umc In tho year for ses-
Ting strawberry plants After that We seldom
have dry soil. and the plants will no, live we'll Set
In rows feet apart and i6 inches In tho rows.
us'nE 1000 pounds per aero Of . fertilizer high
In nitrogen and potash.
Do~borrics and high bush blackberrics csa
also bc planted In November Plants OF these
that have been grown from root cuttings IN
nurscry arc better than suckers from old stools