Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-23

This Is one of the most difficult insects
to control The best methods to be pur-
sued are TO dust air-slacked lime over
the plants and to cover those which are
not busted with an arsenical spray In the
proportions of one-quarter pound OF ar
senic to 40 gallons of water. This tends
to control the kbeetles on the plants free
from dust where they are killed by eat
ing the sprayed leaves. Refuse tobacco
dust sprinkled on the hills when the soil
is moist acts as a repellant and as fer
tilizer as well. Pyretrum and other in
sect powders busted on the plants are
useful but expensive. Paris green and
some other poisons may be applied dry,
but they must be renewed frequently, ana
cannot generally be relied on If the bee
ties are very numerous These are about
all the suggestions of value that can be
offered at this time. Arsenate of lead
may be used by mixing two pounds of
arsenate Of lead, two pounds of unslaked
lime and 80 gallons of water. II The ar
senate of lead should be dissolved in a.
small amount of water, and then the
whole added TO a sufficient quantity to
make so gallons and the mixture thor
oughly stirred. .
SOWING PEAS AND SORGHUM FOR
HAY
J. H G., Carrollton, Ca. writes: / have
some land that I am going to SOW in
peas and syrup cane for hay. When will
be the proper time to sow? l also have
some land.--sowed in wheat and eats
Would you advise me to sow it in peas
as soon as the land can be prepared? II
have a Bermuda lot that can turn my
hogs on Can make my meat with less
feed on the grass lot or not?
Peas and sorghum cane may be sown
any time until the 18th of July. The
earlier you sow them, the better, as in
this case you can secure a crop of hay
which may be taken from the land rel
atively early and there win be a good
strong growth or aftermath of peas and
sorghum to pillow under for the enrich
ment of the soil. This will enable you
to get a crop from the land which is
valuable for hay and for the mainte-
nance of live stock, and at the same time
improve your soil considerably by the
bulk of green matter which you can turn
under late in the autumn, though the
work should be done just before frost
falls. BY all means sow your wheat and
oat land in peas as soon as the ground
can be prepared. We prefer to drill peas
rather than SOW them broadcast. For
this purpose we use an ordinary grain
of peas to the acre. The peas should
mature sufficiently to make hay. though
if you wish to enrich your land and build
II up rapidly. it is advisable to pillow them
under. One way to make the pea crop
serve a useful purpose on the farm and
make some money as well is to Craze
them down with hogs. They will gather
most of the grain and some of the vines,
and you will secure several hundred
pounds of pork per acre by this method,
and still leave much vegetable matter to
pillow under. Hogs will gather q consd-
cradle amount of their food when al
lowed to range over a Bermuda lot. OF
course, one must expect to feed them
some grain, as they are omniverous feed
ers and require a variety of food. More
over, the digestive tract of the hog is
not so large as in some. animals or so.
well adaptd to the use of coarse, rough
feed. Therefore, some concentrated food
must be fed them. By arranging series
Of paddocks adjoining your Bermuda lot
and growing thereon variety of legu-
minous crops. peanuts. artichokes, etc,
you can maintain your hogs at a very low
cost and very small consumption 'of
grain.