The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-03


If the feeding only returned you the actual feed
ing value of the hay, you would have made a
market for the hay and would have the manure
as further profit. This is far better than turn
ing under crop. When one has his land In
fairly good heart II is always a matter OF good
farm economy to feed all forage crops rather than
use them manure direct
CORN AND COTTON BREEDiNG-There
should be nothing wonderful about making 100
bushels of corn to the acre, for with good rota-
tive farming and the feeding OF stock any natur-
ally good land in the South could be made to
make that much IL good seed OF prolific corn
is used Cotton can be greatly improved by care
full and systematic selection of seed but one
ever improved II by crossing with okra. as one
newspaper yarn tells, and do not believe that
any such cross has ever been made
WILD ONIONS.-The only way To clean wheat
of wild onions so that the -four will not have the
onion flavor Is TO abolish the onions In the land
Once in the wheat you can not remove the flavor
from the -four. But you clean the land of
wild onions. Mr.. j. s. Gates. one OF my old
students. is devoting his whole time TO the
study OF the habits of weeds and devising means
for their eradication. lie is the Weed Expert of
the United States Department OF Agriculture. He
has prepared bulletin telling how TO get rid OF
the wild onions. Any farmer can get this APP
plicaton 10 the Secretary OF Agriculture. Wash
ington. ID. c.
CRIMSON CLOVER on RED LAND.-seed
can be sown now at any time up TO the last OF
September. but the earlier the better Sow Is
pounds and work in. in tho preparation
OF the land. 800 10 400 pounds of acid phosphate.
This will all be there for the corn when the
clover is turned under. and that should not be
done till the clover is dead. for you have plenty
IN ms Ia ufYa 49,. srt.
will be all the better If you get the clover
the homemade manure all winter as fast rs
made.
sAND-HILL tLAND.-one reader has bought
sand-hill land and planted II In corn and made
some nubbins Has peas among the corn eight
inches high. When the peas come OF he wants
10 SOW Veteh. clover or something else, and Is
more particular about improving the land than
setuhg a forage crop. In the first place. the peas
should not come OF at all. Humus-making ma
aerial Is badly needed on that land and while
ADVISE saving forage crop under ordinary con
diuohs' he should use every means TO get humus
into the soil. Disk down the meas I'm Son,emher
ana SOW crimson clover seed and roll the soil To
PACK the SAND TO the seed TO insure termination.
IN disklhg the land, work in 800 pounds OF acid
phosphate and 20 pounds OF muriate of potash
an acre. Then get the manure out ~, the clover
ana turn all under for when the clover is
ripe and dead. Sow peas among the corn a,
last working. Cut the corn OFF and eure In
shocks, and disk the peas down with more of the
ACID phosphate and potash and SOW oats in Sep
TENDER Follow the oats with peas for hay and
SOW crimson clover again on the pea stubble In
September and again put all manure on the clover
ana turn In spring either for corn or cotton If
cottoh, plow as soon as clover blooms and SOW
clover among the cotton in September and ma
nnre 1t for corn. Sow peas in this corn and re-
peat rotation Mr.. Tufts. at Pinehurst n G. has
gotten MS sand-hill land to make 80 bushels OF
corn an acre by growing forage and feeding II