The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-05

4 EMHM | ing less than 800 pounds OF
I MMA acid phosphate should be used
! and it will pay to 400
i pounds. On red land would
AA1 leave out the potash, but on
gray soil l would add 25
PROFESSOR MASSEY pounds Of muriate of potash to
every 500 pounds of acid phosphate
If the wheat is on a pea stubble / would use
ammonia at all at planting time. But in the
spring, If the growth is not satisfactory, it will
pay to apply about rs pounds acre Of nitrate
of soda just the growth starts. The thin
ner the SOIL the thicker the wheat should be
eown, as it will not spread or tiller much. On
an average, five pecks acre is about right.
Use the drill in sowing all sorts of small grain
It will put the seed in at uniform depth and
the growth will be far better than where the seed
are sown broadcast and narrowed in. It will take
u small field not to more than pay for the drill in
the difference in the crop. The wheat drill comes
In also very handily for sowing the cowpeas after
the small grain. and they too, do much better
drilled than broadcasted.
If the oats were not sown in September Octo-
ber 1t would be best now to defer the sowing till
February. But l would still the winter va
rieties, as they will make heavier oats than the
Northern spring oats in the South. But to make
the best crops Of oats in the South, the seed
should be put in during September or October.
If you did not crimson clover among the
cotton, sow some rye between the rows a winter
cover, and do not have dead stalk field all win
some humus-making material to the soil, far in
ferior to clover, of course, but far better than
bare land in winter.
DRAIN WET LANDS.-There are farms all
the South with ditch banks and fence-rows
grown up with bushes, and with ridges along the
bitches that prevent the water draining into them
AS the crops pass, get at the bushes and ditch
banks. Get rid of the bushes and grade the banks
down SO that the bitches will drain. The best
open ditch is one that Is graded back that
teams cross it, and the ditch can be kept
clean with the plow. Then, in blowing field
with open bitches, do not pillow around the outside
but start in the middle and back furrow, that
when you come to the ditch you will always be
throwing the soil from it and not to 1t.
But as fast as possible do away with open
bitches. Cut them out deep as they will drain
we'll; the deeper the better II you have the fall
and IL you can not afford tiles, use green, skinned
pine poles, laying two side by side with space be-
tween them and larger one to cover this space
Then cover with pine straw and fill in the earth
made bitches Of this sort over twenty years age
mat are still keeping the land dry.
Read what Mr.. French has been writing about
drainage, and determine that your land that needs
draining shall be drained and not allowed to
nave lines OF bushes marking open bitches that
Sare OF little use in their grown-up condition.
FIX UP ABOUT THE HOUSE.-If your dwell
ing is Imprinted, the paint is getting shabby,
new is a good time to paint It, Your barn and
stables, and out-houses in general, will be better
on with good coat OF whitewash. | have a lit
lie compassionate spraying apparatus The white
wash is strained into this and is sprayed on the
rough boards five times as fast as any one can put
II on with a brush. Brighten up the whole place
with paint and whitewash
Then II you have grass lawn around your
house now is good time to make it. Prepare
me soil deeply and fine, and any time this month
cow mixture Of bluegrass and redtop so thick as