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

grown on MANFRED crimson clover sod' ana
your land is the usual red land OF the Piedmont
country of the South, would use nothing but
plain acid phosphate, 400 pounds an acre. Where
wheat or oats come in after crop of peas has
been cut would use the same on the same kind
of soil. But on gray or light soil would add
zoo pounds of muriate of potash in a ton with
the acid phosphate.
But there are great many farmers in the
sandy soils and humid climate of the South At
lantic and Gulf coast regions who are asking
about wheat growing. would advise these to
let wheat alone. The coast soils, as a rule, are
too light for wheat and the humidity of the
climate favors the rust fungus to such an extent
that it is hard to make frst-class grain. oats
will always pay better in the coast country than
wheat
CROPS FOR THE HOGS.-If you have series
of lots you should have. for the hogs to feed
succession of crops, you now a lot
in the Dwarf Essex rape, and the hogs can feed
it the greater part of the winter. When you
sow crimson clover with the rape you can take
the hogs off after the is eaten and the clover
will grow up for their spring pasture. Rape is
excellent winter feed for sheep, too.
patch of turnips, too, will keep the hogs in
good health if they are let root them out Just
the sweet potato field that may have been
planted for the hogs, will be coming in and will
keep them roofing till time for them to CLEAN
the peanut fields If you are in peanut section
With little planning ahead there is a great
abundance of crops that be grown for hogs
to gather for themselves till time to finish off
corn. There is no better place for them just
than field of cowpeas, IL you afford to feed
them instead of saving for seed. The hogs will
make good use of them, but every Southern farm
er should have plenty of peas coming on for seed
so that he will not be obliged to pay fancy prices
for seed next spring, but will have some to sell.
Peas are never going to be low in price again,
for the demand comes largely from sections where
they want the peas but cannot mature the seed.
IN THE GARDEN.-My curled kale is Just fair
ly up, but there is still time to this useful
plant for winter green's The grocers here
charge cents pound for the leaves in winter
brought from Norfolk.
My first sowing of lettuce is also just up AS
soon as large enough / will set these plants In
the frames, and hope to have good heads by No.
vember without the aid of the glass. Then In
September | will more seed for setting In
other frames for the winter and early spring
crop. In the frames where the fall lettuce is
grown, will SOW beet seed about the middle of
November, and as / use double glazed sashes I
can grow the beets all winter and have them in
good shape by middle of March or earlier Then
l will also radsh seed at intervals all through the
winter.
l have grown a fine lot OF sets of White Queen
onion and will plant them in September, for |
like to get good fall growth on them before
cold weather comes. These are for early green
onions. For ripe onions SOW in a frame under
glass in late January and transplant the seed
lings in March and get very large onions in this
way.
My spinach. will be sown twice The first
sowing the first week in September and the sec
ond the last of this month. The first sowing
will be for use up to Christmas, and the second