The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-04-27
WHAT FARMERs WANT 70 KNOW.
Professor MasseY in Progressive Farmer.

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pea Weeyil-The weeyil that infests peas and beans IS a
little black beetle with white markings on the wing covers
md IS moi. more than three-sixteenths of an inch long. lie
has q snout which is inserted into the peas through the green
pod and the female lays an egg tnere, oo; - ;n aa'I the NINA y
wormlike form and feeds on the pea, gong INTO Ine pupa
state in the pea and coming out a full grown peetle READY
for work at once. The full grown beetles i've over We =
and come out in the spring. The sclentlnc name Is Drucnus
nisi. If the seed are heated to a temperature OF l4o dc
grees for an hour they may be DESTROYED m tnG peas = = ~
never oct out After they are out the best thing is 10
smother them with fumes of carbon bisulphide. pint OF
this in a pan set on top of one hundred bushels OF peas ana
the bin closed up will smother all the oeet!es' Is III ume
are heavier than air. They are also explosive and nre must
Fe eSdir Cottonseed Hulls.-Cottonseed huls have a feed
inc TaIna abont the same as wheat straw, but they are hard.
or to digest than the straw. | would prefer corn shucks
and corn slower, and fodder is far away better than cotton-
Spraying Fomatoes-slake 8 pounds of lime and 8
pounds of sulphur together in a barrel covered with a sack
Then add water enough to make so gallons. STRAIN TINS
into a spraying machine, and spray the plants as soon as
set out, and every ten days till the tomatoes are nan grewn
on the Southern bacterial blight. The only thing Tor that
is to avoid infested land.
Keeping Eggs-Yes, you can keep eggs In Water-glass'
Silicate Of soda, for some length of time. But they can
not be sold for the price of fresh eggs, and L never want 10
eat any eggs but the fresh laid ones.
Glover Backward.-Give it a top-dressing of 300 pounds
of Thomas phosphate and 25 pounds OF murlate OF potash
well mixed. ] think this will help it.
Chloride or Sulphate of Potash notice IN a SEEDS
mans catalog that muriate of potash should never be used
nm cabbage Is this correct i know OF no reason why
the muriate should not be as good for, cabbage as the sui
plate. The cabbage in a wild state is a native OF the sea
shore, and there get plenty of chlorine IN the chiordle oil
sodium or salt, and the muriate is the chloride OF potash.
I have found that the sulphate is best for tobacco, and Tor
any plant in which sugar is an important thing as on mel
ons, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. But II L were making a
fertilizer for cabbage, l would get the potash from the
muriate because it is cheaper.
Fertiizing Watermelons-"Shan 1 use manure in the
ills or fertilizer, or both, for watermelons?" We have
long ago quit making hills" for melons or cucumbers.
Melons. both watermelons and cantaloupes and cucumbers,
r very largely grown where i live. The groves run out
deep burrows In January and fill them half full OF manure.
These burrows are six feet apart for cantaloupes and Gu
eumbers and ten feet for w~atermelons. The manure is got
ten in early so as to rot to some extent by planting time.
Then at planting 5OO pounds OF hlgh7grade Go-o-Tertl-
lizer is applied on the manure and bedded. The beds are
rolled fiat and the seed sown In a continuous row. After a
good stand is assured the watermelOns are thinned to SIX
feet, and as the vines start to run about an ounce OF nitrate
of soda is scattered around each plant. 1t is found that
the best melons must have manure and fertilizer both.
phosphate rock. If / use this to same money value that ]
would use acid phosphate on land that has abundance OF
vegetable decay, can | get as good results as from acid
phosphate2" l think that on your swamp soil you will get
even better results with the floats than with acid phosphate
But besides %phosphoric acid, your black soil especially needs
potash more than any other class Of soils. To get the best
results from the floats you should use muriate Of potash
literally with the floats.
Bone Meal-'What do you think of bone meal 3 per
cent ammonia and so per cent some sort of acid or lime? p
l suppose that the article is represented as having 8 pei
cent ammonia and so per cent bone phosphate of lime That
is 3 per cent ammonia and about 25 per cent of phosphate
acid, a large part of which is for the time being unavaila
bic. | think that it is a very costly way to get phosphoriC
acid, and that the sample is not high in ammonia, for
good sample of raw bone meal should have 4 per cent OF
nitrogen. You can get ~phosphoric acid more cheaply il
acid phosphate and ammonia more cheaply by growing
peas and clover. The phosphoric acid In bones is not a par
ticle better than phosphate acid in rock. Both are the
the same identical thing, and the ~phosphoric acid in the
dissolved rock is more readily available than in raw bone
meal, " which must decay and the ammonia become nitrifec
before it comes into use. You can get the nitrogen cheap
er in nitrate of soda If you must buy it.
Peas VS.. Soy Beams field from which soy beans anc
cowpeas were cut was disked fine and sown to wheat las
fall THE wheat, right to a line, is much finer where pea.
were sown. Why is this - 1t is right in line with what
have often observed in regard to these two crops. Soy
beans make a fine crop of excellent forage, but where they
and peas are both cut off the greater development Of thu
root system OF the neas will leave more organic matter, ane
hence more organic nitrogen than the soy beans. If boil
were turned under entire, / don't think that there would b
much difference, for the top growth of the soy beans is very
rich in nitrogen, bnt the greater root development of thu
peas will make a pea sfubble worth more than that from
the beans.
Peanuts and Lime-'FW Will prepared lime iniure a fertili
Ter If mixed with it," How is the best way to use lin,
for peanuts" Lime mixed in a complete fertilizer vii
tend to revert the phosphate acid and make it more slowl,
available and will carbonate and drive off ammonia from