The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-01

soil fine plank drag is an
excellent implement to go over
PROFESSOR MASSEY. Just before drilling the oats.
Then drill the seed in with disk wheat drill
This will put the oats in at uniform depth and
they will do much better than broadcasted and
narrowed in.
Then sow clean seed and heavy seed If your
land is not infested with cheat, and you sow seed
clean of cheat, you will never find any oats turn
ing to cheat. for cheat ever came from an oat
seed, or ever will.
PREPARATION FOR WHEAT.-what have
said in regard to the preparation of the soil for
oats applies equally well to the wheat crop.
Every time you run the harrow over the field you
are adding bushels to the crop. You can not get
the land too fine on the surface nor tramped over
too much for the wheat crop But do not SOW
wheat early as oats, as the fall Hessan fly is
apt to be about The best time to wheat is
after the first white frost Drill five pecks
acre, rule. and il the soil is not strong, add
another peck, for the plants will not tiller much
thin soil. Then determine that you will make
the soil strong by good farming. A farmer who
s haA been u for years cultvatng farm should con-
is poor. He is responsible for it's remaining poor
CRIMSON CLOVER-Where the fall weather
of September has been too dry, would not hest
tate to sow crimson clover any time in October
from central North Carolina south. The best
when the weather previous had been SO dry that
it was not practicable to OF course, as
rule. 1t is best to earlier
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CARE OF THE CORN.-Assuming that you
have cut and shocked your corn, see that the tops
of the shocks well tied, or the wind may blow
them down and spoil the slower. AS soon as fair
ly well cured shuck the corn out. Then II you
have the stover shredded you can stack it outside
and it will keep very we'll.
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in THE GARDEN.-Turnips that are intended
only Tor spring green's had rather SOW the first
OF octoDer tnan earlier. In fact, with the quick
growing varieties of the strap-leaved sorts have
made very good turnips from October sowing in
North Carolina, and they were not pthy as the
earher-sown ones apt to be. Sown thickly
now Tor spring greens, they will winter better
than the earlier sOwn ones
am still sowing spinach The late-sown
spinach, 100, will winter better sown thicky
p'oadcast, but 1T can of course be sown in rows
and given cultivation before cold weather
nave gone over the chard and cut out all the
o,d tough leaves SO that will get a fresh new
growth, and they will grow till hard weather
MY onion sets for early green onions have been
painted, but 1t IS still time enough for setting
them These sets raised this season from seed
VI white Queen, fine early onion.
nave grown, to. large lot of asparagus
ROOTS AS soon as the top are mature will make
trenches a foot de- and fill half full with old
rotten manure and ted sods that were piled up
last spring Then t. &c roots will be set on this
compost two feet apart, the rows being three
teet In large field lantation it will be better
10 make them four feet apart. The roots will be
covered only three inc..os. and will not be filled
IN tiii spring after they start to grow. Then