The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-07-24
Notes and Comments.

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'Mol cent issue am made to say the seed that
A-J made the bitter squashes may have been
crossed with cucumbers or melons" | certainly
did not mean TO say anything OF the sort. for
sQuashes will not with melons cucumbers.
and 1T would hardly make them bitter II they
should. What said. meant TO say. that
hey might have been crossed with gourds. There
Is great deal OF misunderstanding In regard to
these cucurbitaceous plants. and some think that
the will mix in general way Watermelons
always watermelons. but the varieties will mix.
Of course But watermelons will not mix with
cucumbers gourds. nor with muskmelons. nor
will muskmelons or cantaloupes mix with cucum-
beers squashes. but all the squashes and gourds
will mix readily.
Mr. Hobbs has struck the right idea In saying
that there great losses from stopping the
cultivation OF cotton too early and Mr. Lane init
mates the same thing. Mr.. French has done be-
fore. in regard TO the cultivation OF corn. Just
why the shallow cultivation OF corn and cotton
should while can still get through the
rows hardly any OF the "laying-by'' folks could
say OF course. II you going stop the Guilt
Walton with n turning plow. tearing the roots and
turning up "a bank OF earth TO dry out. II IS bet
ter 10 lhy~by early and give the some chance
To make new roots, But II you do not disturb
tho roots. and have grown TO know that turn
ing pillow has no business in the field. you
can keep going through with profit till the ears
made.
Like Professor Lloyd. have seen many fields
This season clean OF weeds and grass while right
lear by were fields overgrown with grass and
he excuse the wet season. The real reason
vas that the one man took time by the forelock
and rapidly went over his field with n smoothing
harrow before the corn or cotton came up and
hen used the wccdcr. getting over again between
showers. and the grass had chance TO get
ahead OF him The other man, with single
mule and pillow. did twice much or more.
work. and yet the weeds and grass got ahead OF
him. and now he writes that his corn Is the sor-
REST he ever had and wants n formula for n fer
tilixcr TO get II out OF tho grass.
This dependence on fertilizers in so ingrained
in the minds of the Southern farmers that they
jump To the conclusion that the fertilizer sack is
Tho cure-all for every plant complaint. Just
many people ruin their constitutions by taking
patent medicines. our farmers run their land down
by assuming that all that is needed for farming
IN fertilizer.
Mr.. Ring likes sorghum for silage. but IL is not
worth nearly much ms corn on the same land
Mere bulk does not make quality. and the feeding
value OF corn silage is far ahead of that OF
ghum. Sorghum Is all right set up In shocks for
feeding, but had rather keep IL out OF the $40
and use that room for better silage made from
corn, Thirty-one tons OF silage per acre
we're made last summer In North Carolina
land that IA few years ago would not have made
half ton per acre. | have made slage OF vari-
GUS things and have come to the conclusion that
there Is crop grown that can compare with
Indian corn for the so.