The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-06


now we want to advise the Southern farmers to
wait till the imported seed IS in in August for the
home grown seed is now held at $40 bushel, and
1t will be easy, think, to get the imported seed
at Sc, and. perhaps. at IS a bushel. But what
the price, IT, for IL Is far cheaper Mt $40
IA bushcl than $3.50 fertilizer at $40 "A ton.
Anywhere that any clover has been commonly
grown 1t will succeed without any incubation
Where there are clover bacteria In the soil get
some soil from where 1t has grown and scatter IL
the field
We have too much. or rather use too much hu-
labor in the South. So long every mule
takes man in the field no farmer should complain
OF lack of labor. II is rather lack of machin-
cry and mules for one man riding on a cul;lvator
will do more and better work than two each with
a mule and "A single-horsc pillow or cultiyator. The
Iowa farmers have always had lack OF human
labor and have been compelled 10 teams and
machinery and hence one mans labor there pro-
duces far more than one mans labor docs In the
South. Four-legged laborers are cheaper than
two-leggcd ones.
Keep your cows dry in the stable and sigh for
the good old times when you had n free range
the country like the man quoted on the ars,
page of the July IS issue. and some one else may
free the county from ticks. But let the cows out
on the range. and you will never get rid of tho
pastures. and read what Or. Butter says abou,
the ticks. and you will not want TO abolish stock
laws. The saving of fencing alone is reason
enough for shutting stock of the range. for under
such conditions every must fence all the land
he cultivates or have his crops pastured on by
other people. Down with the fences and s,arve
the ticks out.
II you will use the basic Stag or Thomas phos-
phate. you viii not need to buy limo for your
peanuts. for you will get In IL 30 pounds OF lime
In every 100 pounds Four hundred pounds OF
this and so pounds of murate OF potash will be
what the peanuts need. for pops are not caused
10y lack of lime but by lack of potash. and the
lime lis used for releasing potash In the soil Limo
is useful TO sweeten and acid soil. but II Ia not
properly n fertilizer. You will get 200 pounds
of lime free in the Thomas phosphate.
The first of this month sowed my first spinach
and curled kale and will make two moro sowlngs
for winter and early spring. Then the second
week In August / Will some lettuce seed for
the fall crop. / Will set these plants In the
frames SO ms TO have them where they be pro-
tected II necessary, but hardly expect they will
need the sashes never monkey with cloth COW
ers on my frames. and am even doing better for
am now using sashes with two layers OF glass
hVe-eghts OF an inch apart. With frames well
banked these sashes VIII keep out any frost
nave and can head lettuce and bloom some flow
ers under them all winter through I Will have
over thirty sashes the coming winter. and expect
to Increase the number by degrees Even the
double glazed sashes which cost nearly twice as
much as the old style, cheaper In the long run
than cloth. and immensely better Cloth covers
are very poor substitute for glass and In a
series OF years, cost more than the glass.