The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-06
Farm Work i'm June.

grains where no red clover IS so"ee
with these, the matter of getting pea
on the land is Of the next lHpotldnoe
The blowing of the stubble Tor pea
should be very thoroughly done. fieie
is where the disk pillow often comes IA
handy. for with team enough IL VII
pillow any soil, no matter how Try.
Then, if you are going to SOW peas
make up your mind to DO IL rlsht: II
not mix peas and ~ or rniliet'
They do not improve the nay nor the
curing Of it. The best thing to mix
with peas is the Tall Yellow soy bean.
It's upright growth tends to hold up
the peas and make them more easily
harvested. Put the land in good order
after blowing for the pea and do not
SOW them broadcast and harrow them
in, but SOW with a wheat drill set 10
SOW two bushels Of wheat an acre, ana
make the mixture OF soy beans ana
peas in equal parts. Put in in his way
the seed will be placed at a uniform
depth and will all germinate together
and make a far better crop than IT
SoWed broadcast.
If you are going to plant peas for
seed, SOW them in rows three feet
apart and give them several cultlVa-
tons. L have found that it pays to
give peas and soy beans a dressing or
800 pounds Of acid phosphate and 20
pounds of muriate of potash an acre.
Especially if grown for seed, this VIII
give you d better seed crop.
When planted for seed it is not wen
to SOW peas too early. From middle
of June to July is early enough for
seed peas. They will make less vine
than if sowed early, but will make
more peas, as a rule.
Saving Labor and Wasting 1t.
l was in a. cotton field last week
where the crop had been planted with
a dropper and was struck with the
fact that here was a great saving OF
seed and labor, for the little punches
Of plants are easily thinned and there
was no chopping out to do. / think
that it will be found hat these drop
ping machines will take the place Of
all others.
Last week, too, l was on the rail-
road between Raleigh and Portsmouth
and On the smooth and level land near
he crossing of the NOttoWay River
in southeast Virginia, l saw five men,
ZACH with a horse or mule and a turn
ing blowing twice in the row barr
ing-off' corn and making a ridge of
earth down the middles. Not a man
of them could tell why they did this
except that they had always done it.
But tw of these five men could have
taken two pairs Of mules and ridden
across the field and could have done
more work and better work thar the
five men We're doing, Ane set, there
is complaint Of the lac, ~. .abor,
while farmers are using .ore two
footed labor than they need if they
had the .er implements.
But i was pleased to see as t he
the train approached Franklin. Vir-
ginia, a fine field OF crimson clover
There is a notion with many that Grim
son clover will not thrive on the coast
al plain, but those who are trying it
are succeeding, and the presence Of
that field near Franklin will be a
great object lesson to that whole Sec
ton, for there is nothing more needed
to make ar agricultural paradise out
of those level lands on the coast than
plenty of pea in summer and crimson
clover in winter.
Sowing Crimson Clover Seed.
Many are asking me how to save
the seed of crimson clover. For this
purpos the crop should stand till all
the heads are ripe. Then, NOW and
cure 1t in little cocks n haul in and
finish drying in the barn Or a she'd.
You can fail out the seed and have it
in the hulls for sowing. A huller is
too costly a machine for a single farm.
Where clover seed are grown by every
farmer, as where l live, the huller is
carried round and cleans seed for
every one. But you can get as good
a stand, and often better, by sowing
the seed in the hulls, as the hulls re-
tain moisture and make the germina-
ton more certain. Of course, more
must be sowed per acre than of clean
seed. or about 40 pounds an acre of
h seed in the rough
Some Good Farming.
l was on a North Carolina farm
last week where there had been a
heavy rain of a purely local character
and the little burrows on the hillsides
had one after another filled with water
and broken over, and several gullies
were starting. The idea of the owner
is TO work that corn level, but the land
had not been SUBSIDIZED and even the
little burrows made by the corn plant
er had gathered the water
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