The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-17

/ SELF and do not buy lime and
fertilizer mixed at high price
PRoFEsson MASSEY. for the lime. If you want
fertilizer carrying lime. buy the basic Stag or
Thomas phosphate and you will get 40 per cent of
lime without paying for it, the price of the
phosphate is determined by the percentage of
phosphoric acid it contains. l would never re-
pillow pea stubble deeply, for at this late period
in the season it will be hard to get the soil well
packed down. But disk the surface fine and drill
with disk drill. The disk drill is greatly to be
preferred to the hoe drill.
CANADA PEAS.-Canada peas may do fairl
we'll if sown in October with oats, but the chances
are against them anywhere south of New York
State. 1t is useless to sow them in the South in
the spring as they are sown North. But we do
not need the Canada peas in the South for the
cowpeas soy beans and velvet beans are all far
superior to the Canada peas and make heavier
crops. The South has great advantage over the
North in the great variety Of protein feed crops
that can be grown We oats in the fall,
and after they are harvested get heavy crop
of peavne hay far better and heavier than the
Canada peas make anywhere. Hence, there is no
reason to regret that the Canada pea does not
thrive in the South.
ALFALFA-Alfalfa four years old that has
good deal of bluegrass among it, and alfalfa is in
punches. Cut August /. and now Il inches high.
the sod both ways and SOW 20 pounds more Of
alfalfa seed Then roll the sod down
smooth and top dress with rs bushels of slaked
lime an acre. In spring apply 400 pounds of acid
phosphate an acre. think that you will find the
alfalfa greatly improved another season.
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VETCH AND CRIMSON CLOVER.-One reader
has land in peas that he wants to get in vetch on
part and crimson clover another part. Now
the peas and cure for hay when the pods mature.
For the vetch, would pillow the stubble and har-
row in rs pounds of seed, and after narrowing
well would sow two bushels of oats an acre with
disk drill Get some soil from an old garden
where English peas have been grown and scatter
barrel Of this acre before narrowing, and it
Will inoculate for the vetch. On the part for
crimson clover would simply apply 800 pounds
acid phosphate and rs pounds of murate of pot
ash, II potash is needed, an acre and disk the
stuoDle over lightly and the seed. II you
can get soil from field where this clover has sue
ceeded 1t Will be well to it, but if any sort of
clover wild or cultivated has grown there it will
grow well without any incubation.
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PERMANENT PASTURE.--To make perma-
nent pasture in the coastal section would now
plow the land well and sow rye. Plow the rye
under in the spring and then mark off shallow
burrows two feet apart and plant cuttings of the
running stems OF Bermuda grass in the burrows
and cover them and roll the land tight to them
DO this about the first of May, for Bermuda Is
summer grass and should not be planted in the
1all Then in the fall you stick in pinches Of
seed of the Texas bluegrass about two or three
feet apart. These seed are matted together nv
sort OF spider-web growth that makes them hard To
SOW but planted here and there it will soon run
over land and give you winter grass growth for
1t Is purely winter grass. Or you might scatter