The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
WHAT FARMERS WANT TO
KNOW.
Planting Strawberries.

The best time to plant straw,
berries is in November or in the
farther South, In December. The
soil is then usually permanently
moist and thye live better than
planted earlerg and will give a
partial crop the next season. Fer
tilize moderately well at the start,
and after the first fruiting season
apply a heavy dressing and clean
out the rows well and do not let
the crabgrass take the plantation
This fertilization will give you
strong crowns for the next
springs fruiting, and after that
turn the whole under, for it is
better to make a new plantation
every fall than to try to keep an
old patch clean. Planting every
fall you will have one plot in
partial crop and one in full crop
that can be gotten off early
enough in most sections to plant
cotton Or corn.
Laying-By Corn
ut is difficult to convince our
farmers that any other way of
1aying-by corn except with a
turning pillow is a good one. A
few lines from you you would aid
me-" If you will get one of those
farmers who think that it is nee
essary to throw a big furrow to
the corn at last working to try
part of a field worked level and
shallow to the last, I think that
you can convince him that the
shallow and level cultivation
makes the most corn. They can
not go through the corn with a
turning pillow without tearing the
roots, and as the only part of the
root that is getting food from the
soil is the fine branching tips COW
cred with root-hairs, it must be
evident to any one who uses his
brains that cutting off the sup
ply from the soil must decrease
the crop. = -
Stumps.
"Wi1 green gum stumps die
If | bore a hole In them and fill
with gasoline No; / rather
think the gasoline will evaporate
at once, without any damage to
the stumps. Better use a stump
puller or blow them out with dy-
Mantle.
Cultivating Watermelons.
After a good stand is assured,
the plants are thinned to three
feet apart, and nitrate of soda is
scattered around each hill. Gull
tivation is rapid and clean till
the vines run In the rows, and as
the melons begin to get of some
size, crimson clover seed are sown
over the whole land so that a win
ter cover is had after the melons
are gathered.
Fertilizing Strawberries.
The best time to give the heari-
est fertilization to strawberries is
just after the fruiting season.
Clean out and cultivate well, and
ahead of the cultivation apply
200 pounds to each acre Of a mix.
ture of 900 pounds acid phosp-
hate, LOO pounds nitrate OF soda,
800 pounds Of cottonseed meal and
400 pounds of sulphate of potash.
This will make a strong growth
Of crowns for next seasons fruit
ing and a lighter fertilization
will do in the spring.
Beetles on Melons.
The striped Diabrotiea vitt::ta
Z eats the young is to keep them
covered with dust of soma sort.
have used fine bone -four success
fully and airslaked lime in which
a drop or two Of carbohc acid is
added to scent it. Dust the hills as
soon as you see plants breaking
through. When they attack
plants In vigorous growth, spray
with arsenate Of lead, l pounds to.
30 gallons of water.
Sassafras Sprouts:
You can never get rid of these
by grubbing and then letting
them grow for another season,
for this only increases them. Cut
them off at the ground and then
keep the young shoots mown off.
The moving machine is the best
prout-killer. No plant can long
.crvive if not allowed to, make
green leaves above ground. Last
summer my garden was full of
n~ut-grass. | chopped it off daily,
and now there is orly a shoot
here and there, and these will be
fpna+nd In +hn cono xuor Tbo