The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-18
Progressive Farmer.)
NOTES AND

only feathered friend. / have often
been shocked by the way people in the
South shoot the American ropln IN
passing through. They are all over
my garden and seem to kno" that
when am shooting at he English
sparroWs | am not after them Inc
yagrant cats are the worst enemleS OF
the robin, and Kill a great many Oh
the ones when they first try
their wings and tamble among tf
grass. IN fact, there is only one biru
that / especially dislike and shoot at
every opportunity, and hat IS the
English sparrow. He is an unmltl-
gated cuss. have seen them gather
on a peach tree in spring and pull
the blossoms and throw them on the
ground q piece of pure c~ussedneSs-
The they eat the green peas, ana
fight the Wrens and ground sparrows.
There is another bird protected in
most Southern States, which is d nui-
sanca to the farmer. This is the
turk ey buzzard, the greatest carrier
of hog cholera in the we do
not need him as a S~caVenaer with our
modern sanitary arrangements. and
would be better off without him.
Crimson Clover in Corn and Cotton.
DR.. Butler is right in regard to the
sowing Of crimson clover at layinG-by
of corn or cotton in the South. one
must always take his climate into con-
sideration in everything he does Up
in York county, Pennsylvania. i found
SeVeralS winters ago. when tTaNellnS
there at Farmers Institutes, that it
was the universal practice to SOW TINS
clover among the corn at the last
working, and they found it there per
fectly successful. Here in southeast
Maryland it has been found that his
will not do, and here the clover is
soWn among corn in late August, and
a small tooth harrow or c~ultiNator run
through. 1t is found. too, that the
seed will grow without any prepaIa-
ton of the soil when sowed N Q
the cantaloupe and watermelon vines
in August or among the tomatoes that
are largely grown here for canning.
There is then sufficient shade to pre-
vent loss. Then as We come further
South the later date must be observed
and September and October sire far
better. ! have seen this year a good
stand Of clover SOWed among cotton
last fall at first picking with no cul-
tivation. Once in North Carolina.
when the weather was intensely dry
in September and October, I sowed
crimson clover the first of Noyem-
Der ~ had a fine stand. and the fall
was late and seasonable after that.
Lesumes Aid Crops They Grow With.
/ long ago found that peas among
GUM not Only dld 40 Hd1 III. DuL dCt-
ually helped the corn. Yhe Kansas
Station has demonstrated the same
fact, as they found that corn among
which coWpeas were sOWed made a
heavier crop than similar land where
no peas were planted. Now, the Cor
nell Station has discovered the same
thing. and finds that legumes asso-
ciated with other crops help the crops
they grow With. 1t seems evident that
the work of the bacteria living or the
legumeS is that OF nitric ferments.
OXidiZing the free nitrogen of the air
and forming nitric acid in the soil.
This at once seeks a base and a nitrate
is formed and the legumes use it, and
plants associated with them use it,
too. AS Mr.. T. l.. Adams says. if every
farmer sowed peas among his corn
there would not be such a scarcity Of
seed as has been for several years
past.
The Religious Press Syndicate.
SO the Religious Press Syndicate are
not Jews nor foreigners. SO much
the worse, then. for slandering the
Southern farmers in an ADVERTISE
ment. l take back the Jew" though
/ cannot see hat being a Jew makes
a nan a less valuable citizen, for [
have many good friends who are Jews.
/ simply took up a cudgel to defend
the Southern farmer from v~illification.
Like Editor Poe. | have nothing to re-
tract except the animation that peO-
pie with Hebrew names might be
Jews. The basic fact" is that they
libe1ed the southern farmers. in my
opinion, and | told them so. What we
have said about the advertising in
many religious papers is certainly
true. I am sorry that it is true, and
We are doing all in our power to get
the church papers to clean their col
umns from the nostrums and fakes
that disgrace many Of them. / am
glad to notice that a lot of fake ads
I cut out of a church paper and sent
to the Bishop are no longer appear
ing in that ape
there is no man in this country who
has more OF sympathy for the poor
man and the tenant han I have. I
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