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sirable use per cent nitrogen. BY
all means break with a two-horse pillow
and use a bull tongue to loosen up the
subsoil. Subsoiling at this season of the
year is all right II the ground remains
dry. but If we should have heavy con-
tinued rain you should desist from sub
soiling until another season.
ADDING TO THE SUPPLY OF HUI
MUS.
f. N r., Muscadine, Ala, writes: III
wish information as to the best kind of
fertilizer to use. l have grown cow
peas on some of the land, and plowed un-
der the stubble. 1 am burying all the
stalks and subsoiling in this furrow. Ii
have an acre and half that was in corn
and cowpeas year before last, and In cot
ton last year. used 400 pounds of guano
and made about bale per acre. have
some land which has not been turned
yet, and 1 am thinking of hiring man
with two horses to turn II, as | only
have one horse. can get man and
pillow and two mules for 81 day. Do you
think it viii pay? have been using a
1922 guano, but have been thinking of
using higher grade. / will be glad for
any advice you can give me-
1t will no doubt pay you to hire man
and team for few days so that you may
have your land broken with two-horse
plow. The deep preparation of the land
means the storage of a greater amount OF
water, the setting free of larger quanti-
ties of plant food which may already ex-
list I'm the soil and giving the plants bet
ter chance to assimilate that which you
apply artiheially, and an increase In the
ability of the land to resist drouth. From
what you say of your land, 1922 form
ula Is not well adapted to II. You should
increase the nitrogen at least by ! per
cent, and the potash to to per cent
depending somewhat on the crop. An
application Of 500 pounds of 3-l0-4 should
answer well for corn and cotton on your
land. II you find the growth is unsatis-
factory, top dressings with nitrate will
increase the nitrogen supply and insure
more rapid and vigorous growth. You are
acting wisely in growing cowpeas, and In
endeavoring to bring your land under a
rotation. This plan will balance up the
food supply of the soil to better ad-
vantage, and will enable you to get part
of the needed nitrogen out of the air. IL
will also improve the physical condition
of the land which is a very important
matter. You can benefit your crop this
summer materially by using any vegeta-
BILE matter you can secure under the drill
row and by selecting your seed with
care. Then give the very best prepare
ton to the soil possible, and cultivate as
late into the season as you can
WANTS A RECORD FIELD OF CORN.
c. w. w, Cave Spring. Ga, writes:
I would like to know how to cultivate
one acre of ground in corn and cowpeas,
so as to make the greatest yield, and
what kind and how much fertilizer to
use. I want to make peas in the corn
not vines. What varieties of peas are
best? Must 1 plant peas in corn row,
or one row Of corn and one of peas?
If one intends to grow cowpeas in
corn with the hope of securing a fair
yield of peas 1t is best to make the corn
rows five feet apart. The land should
be well broken for these crops, as they
are both gross feeders, and the roots
will strike deeply into the son If they
are given an opportunity to do so. The
seed bed should be prepared with care
disking and narrowing being important
points to bear in mind. Lay off the
rows for corn, say five feet apart. and
fertilize we'll with a complete fertilizer
containing to per cent of nitrogen,
10 per cent of phosphoric acid and per
cent of potash. The fertilizer had best
be put under the drill and may be mixed
with the soil by means of bull tongue
When the corn is punching to tassel,
plant the peas between the rows. The
Whippoorwill and Iron varieties are
good sorts to use. The peas should be
planted with the drill and fortified with
not less than 800 pounds of a 1914 fer
tilizer. The objection to planting the
peas this way lies in the fact that 1t is
difficult to cultivate them, and IL the
corn has made a good growth it will
shade the ground so much that the peas
will not make a satisfactory develop
ment Our experience in endeavoring to
soy the two crops together has led US
to conclude that it is better to devote
one piece of land to corn and another to
peas. Occasionally an exceptionally
fine growth of peas is obtained when
conditions are favorable, and this has
4 led many persons to conclude that they
can grow two crops on the land the
same year-one for grain like corn, and
one for soil improvement and seed like
cowpeas.
Any of the prolific corns should give
good satisfaction in your section of the
state. Some people prefer to plant the
peas alongside Of the corn or even with
lt, and let them climb up on the stalks
This plan is all right in exceptional
7 seasons, but our observation is that the
corn generally shades the peas so COM
pletely that ordinarily little growth of
vines made.