The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-12
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE
Notes and Comments.

nor ORDINARY farm crops 1t does not pay
II to handle and mix a lot or ditch bank and
l. manure and then dribble 1t in the burrows.
Haul out the manure and spread 1t as fast as
made and IL you have rich earth from ditch
banks haul that out and spread 1t. Mr.. Cooper
is right in making all the manure he can, but
do not think it pays to put too much labor on 1t.
I would get it directly to the land, and 1t will
lose less than anywhere else.
But in the garden believe in composing. for
we want the material fine there. Now, as have
to buy all the manure for my garden, try to make
it a good ways by composing. This is the way
l have built up big compost pile this summer.
Last spring cut lot OF green sods and stacked
them in heap with layers OF rough manure and
sod alternately. This was chopped down in sum-
1uer and we'll mixed. Then alongside this pile
deposited all the scraps of every sort from the
kitchen. A little lime is then busted over the
refuse to rapidly cut 1t down. and few shovels
full of the rotten sods Is thrown over Daily
additions come from the kitchen and are treated
in the same way extending the heap lengthwise
Now at the first end Of the pile | have merely a
black of rotten material which am now
hauling on the garden. When reach that part
OF the heap not yet completely decomposed
shall stop, and start the heap back again. Tho
practice will be kept up all winter, though. OK
course there will not be az rapid decay as In
the hot weather. There is plenty OF sod and
vegetable matter to prevent any damage from tho
lime ammoniating the heap, and now all the gar
den refuse, such as bean vines, tomato vines. egg
plants and everything that will rot viii 90 Into
the heap. or course, where one keeps pigs and
chickens the scraps be utilized by their going
over Them but keep no animals OF any sort and
hence use everything that will decay to make ma
nure.
ROTATION.-The main objection I would
have to the rotation proposed by Mr.. b. J. Moore
Is putting oats after cotton Oats will follow
corn much better and be gotten In earlier.
and early fall sowing Is always better than late
for the oat crop. And II would DO better TO
clean the corn OF by cutting and shocking and
then disk down the peas for the oats Then fol-
lowing the oats with peas for hay. and sowing
crimson clover the pea stubble. one have
clover crop to turn for cotton. In South Caro-
lima. crimson clover turned under for cotton made
twice the crop that was made similar land
alongside with more fertilizer. Then Il Is better
to have corn follow cotton than cotton follow
corn. II crimson clover In sown among tho cot
ton. and all the homemade manure 10 applied TO
II and all turned for corn. the crop can use
the manurial accumulation more probably than
any other crop. and II will be SO assmilated with
the soil that the oats following will need only
acid phosphate. and the same will DO true OF tho
cotton after clover Small grain will always do
better after the corn than after the cotton.
though wheat. sown later than oats. will some
times do very we'll after cotton.
FERTILIZING TOMATOEs.-The plan pro-
posed by Mr.. Jones Of west Tennessee for making
crop OF tomatoes is all right for the tomato crop
simply as crop. but II he wants the crop especial
iy early, he can get an earlier ripenng by leav-
Ing out the manure and using acid phosphate and
potash. But he will make n larger and later
crop with the manure.
What n power FOR good would all thu c,aryv