The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-04-13
WHAT FARMERS WANT TO KNOW
PROT. Massey in Progressive Farmer.

Prof. Massey i'm Progressive Farmer.
To make whitewash, slake half a
Bushel of fresh lime with boiling wa
ter, covering the barrel while shaking.
strain and add 1 peck of salt dissolved
SIn warm water " pound OF whiting
ana 1 pound of glue dissolved in warm
water. Let. stand for several days and
apply warm, if possible. Another re-
cine is to merely Stake the lime and
1hsn add 1 pint of boiled linseed oil to
.aach gallon of wash. or: if no oil is at
hand. use melted talfow. This for
rought outside work only.
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Corn Faling-A reader in the Pied
mont section of North Carolina turned
nnder q heavy CROP of crimson clover
End made SO bushels of corn an acre;
but many stalks broke of and FELL.
wishes to know how to prevent this.
14e had probably ar excess of nitro
gsuOus matter. that made a very heavy
greWth of stalks. and should have used
some lime on the land after blowing
and narrowed it in and applied some
acid phosphate to balance the nitro
. gen. This red land has probably
. enough potash that lime will set free.
y know of one farmer here who made
, nearly 100 bushels of corn an acre on
crimson clover turned under and
filmed.
Fig Tree Drops Its Fruit.-You can
not do anything with a fig tree that
sheds its fruit. 1t is probably a seed
- l-s~l g. @E thu n0UTn
tyne, and these need the B~lastophaga
insect to set the fruit. They have this
insect in California now, and are sue
ceeding with the Smyrna fig. Get the
Celestial fig which is the hardest. 1t
Is4a little brown fig that you can eat
skin and adj as soon as ripe. / once
mad SIS varieties of figs, but dropped all
rbut Brown Turkey, Brunswick, and
celestial.
What to do With Ashes.-"Can I mix
ashes with acid phosphate and kainit
without damage?" The lime in the
= ashes may tend to revert the phos-
phoric acid and make it less readily
available. Better spread the ashes
and pillow them in before applying the
phosphate and potash. In fact, on
your red lands of the Piedmont coun-
try of North Carolina, 1 doubt that you
will need to buy potash if you get
plenty of humus-making material into
your soil and lime occasionally.
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The Best Way to Raise COrn.-"What
is the most progressive method of
raising corn?" The best method is to
Earm the whole farm in a good rotation
so that you will always have a crimson
clover sod to turn for the corn on
which you have spread all the manure
made from feeding peavine hay, corn
: stoVer, and some corn to cattle. In
short, the most progressive method is
TO farm in a good rotation and build up
the fertility of the soil by getting
humuS-making materials in it,
Planting CantalOupeS-"If growers
in your. section, as you say, do not
check-rOw for the hills of cantaloupeS.
how do they get them at equal dis
tances in the rows?P They do not try
to do so. They run out deep burrows
- feet apart and put a liberal dressing
tofstable manure all along the burrows.
This is done during the winter and the
anu left to partly rot by planting
time. Then a good dressing of high
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and the beds fattened for planting.
The seed are drilled all along the rows
and when a good stand is certain, and
Ehe plants have developed strong,
rough leaves, they are thinned out, it
does not matter for them to be oppo-
4site. Thin to 2 inches, and then apply
nitrate of soda around the hills. Gu
cumbers are planted in the same way,
and also watermelons, but these are in
10-fOot rows n thinned wider apart.
No one makes hills for any of these
now.
SaWduSt on ROadS.-"How would
you use sawdust to fill holes in a
road" | would never use it at all.
One of the worst roads l can remem-
bel was where they covered it with
Sawdust. 1t was very springy and nice
for a time, but it absorbed water, and
as it rOtted there was the worst miry
road / have ever seen. Keep all de-
-caying materials off the road and mend
them with rock.
Growing Observation-Disclosures
needs a very rich and moist soil. 1t is
grown from cutting OF. the roots which
a be had from the seedsmen, The
Merliner Krus is the best, and the cut
2ings can be had for about $3.50 per
lee. Gardeners commonly plant them
with a crowbar between rows of early
cabbages, and they occupy the land af-
ter the cabbages are off. The roots are
dug and trimmed in the fall, and are
sold by the ton" in the city markets.
The side. shoots are made into cuttings
4 to 5 inches long and buried till
spring in the. soil, as they are perfect
ny hardy,
There is one use of the spraying ma
chine that few seem to appreciate.
This is for the application of white
wash to rough boards, fences and
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