The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-09

~ fore September there will be
drop in price Hence would
PROFESSOR MASSEY. not advise the buying Of the
seed now, for they not go higher.
But do not fail to SOW the clover because of the
high price. Even at $40 bushel it is cheaper
than 2-S-2 fertilizer, for a crop Of crimson
clover will give you more ammonia than ton OF
2-8-2 and give humus-making material that
will permanently improve the land. You can not
afford to break up a good rotation of crops be-
cause of high prices of peas and clover seed. You
will lose money by failing to sow them.
Much corn will be laid by in July. Do not do
it with turning pillow, banking up earth to the
and cutting the feeding roots. Shallow and
level cultivation will give far better crops, and
cultivated in this way will stand up in a wind
storm that will blow down that banked up and
the roots weakened.
If you did not use fertilizer enough your
cotton at the start, you still apply dressing
Where the color is pale and the growth weak, nj
trate Of soda alongside the rows, 100 pounds to
the acre. will cause far more rapid growth, and
if there is plenty of phosphoric acid and potash
at the start, the increased vigor will make more
cotton. But rule. believe that all the phos-
phoric acid and potash needed should be applied
before planting, for it will stay by you till the
crops calls for it.
If you have other place for the manure that
should be hauled out to prevent wasting, spread
it down between the cotton 1t will help
the crop and give you a stand of crimson clover
that you should SOW between the rows at first
picking
Clean cultivation during the earlier weeks will
find your peanuts now in good shape for bloom
ing and fruiting. Mine already laid-by, but
with the Spanish nuts, still get through
the rows shallowly. | growing the running
Jumbo nuts merely for home use
. Now is the time to make cuttings of the sweet
kARotato vines for planting. Sweet potatoes grown
rom July cuttings will keep better in winter than
those grown from the spring plants Make the
cuttings about ten inches long and put the whole
in the ridges but the tip Do this after good
rain and they will all grow.
To make small potatoes for bedding next spring
make cuttings about yard long and coil the cut
ting around your hand and plant the coil with
only the tip showing, and every joint will make
bunch or little potatoes that will keep we'll and
be better for bedding than the little ones culled
from the crop.
Rutabaga turnips should be sown early in the
month on well fortified beds and well cultivated
August will be early enough for other turnips
But one Of the best winter turnips-a turnip that
can be left in the ground all winter and pulled
as wanted-is the Long White French or Sugar
turnlp. 1T should be sown in early July, and is
the best of all turnips for table use in winter
Early Irish potatoes being now ripe will be dug
and put in the coolest and darkest place at
hand, but for late crop, shall get seed potatoes
from cold storage. | plant these, after exposing
them to the light and sprouting them in deep
burrows, and cover very lightly. Then the soil
is worked to them as they grow till level and the
cultivation will be level, for at this season we
must conserve the moisture and not hill as we
do early potatoes, but get them deep in the