The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-13

OG11N VI
ton-seed meal, 400 pounds OF S-5-o
and 500 pounds OF lime to make a fer
tiliZer. What has become Of the am
monia that cost him SO much? lie
has little of it left l should assume.
1t seems hard to make some farmers
understand that lime should not pc
mixed with a fertilizer containing
ammonia or with manure The men
who are selling the so-called par
lime as a fertilizer are largely reSpOn-
sibie for the farmers imagining that
lime is a fertilizer. / gave some time
ago the analysis of one Of these which
seems to be . mixture of lime, plaster
and kainit, and is sold as a fertilizer.
If your land is acid n needs lime,
use the lime alone. and when you NIX
a fertilizer never use any lime IN Il.
My colIard leaves are turning yell
low and dropping off and the stems
are rotten. | am told it is called vel
loW-sides, and is caused by a very
small white insect, and there is no
cure for it," 1t is true that there is
no cure known for this disease, but IT
is not caused by an insect, though
there may be seen little white mag
COTS in the rotten stems. 1t is caused
by a minute form of fungus, known
as Fusarium, and h soil gets infect
ed. The only thing that al be done
10 ~ ~ ooA >1S
l.rds, turnips or kale have recently
grown, as all this family Of plants
carry the infection. Then grow good
late cabbages, and do not waste lane
with collards. You can set good
strong plants Of the late Flat Dutch
in late August and can head them in
November or early December, and
they can then be kept in winter.
You say that you know farmers
" no make cotton at a cost of four and
a half cents a pound. Now | hold
that it is absolutely Impossible to
make cotton for anything nea SO low
a figure" Certainly you cannot, if
You take four or five acres to make
q bale. If you simply plant cotton
and do not farm in a good rotation,
but depend on the fertilizer man and
stalk land, year after yea you GER
tain!y cannot grow cotton for four
and q half cents a pound. Tears ago,
the late 6. r.. McIver, of Darlington,
S. c.. told me tkat he made cotton at
a cost Of four and a half cents a
pouEd, and that his bacon cost him
the same price. and at that time cot
ton was six cents and he was getting
fourteen cents for bacon. The man
who grows no forage crops, feeds no
stock, makes no manure, and runs his
land in cotton, year after year will
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nine or ten cents a pound. The cost
of any crop will depend on the farm
ing the farmer does. and if our cor
respondent finds it impossible to make
cotton at a cost Of four and a half
cents a pound, he should go to work
and improve his methods and get
more cotton per acre. Now l do not
propose to enter into a controversy,
and ] would be glad if our farmers
who keep accounts with their crops
Will tell us how much their cotton
costs, and the methods they use in
farming, and whether they are farm
l ing or merely planting cotton.
Can asparagus. lettuce, horseradish
satisfy. leeks, parsnips, carrots and
I heetS be proftably grown in the Vir-
4 GINA counties On the Eastern Shore?'
= The two counties Of AccOmac anC
. Northampton are mainly devoted te
the growing of early Irish potatoes
and sweet potatoes, though early cab
l bage and onions are grown to some
extent. But there is no reason why
v asparagus and the other crops yol
n name could not be profitably grown
there for the northern markets, witt
: the exception Of celery. OF course
< celery for winter use can be gToWI
there, but doubt the success Of grow
ing it commercially, for the region j:
q between the commercial celery grow,
n in summer and early fall in the North
r and the lat winter n spring celer,
of Florida and California, and in thi!
latitude commercial celery CROWN:
e has never developed and condition.
are against it. With the use Of sashe
!, On colo frames, as is done largely nea,
Norfolk, there are a great man.
things, like lettuce and beets that cal
6 be very proftably forwarded there.
8 was among the Norfolk gardeners il
early April and saw a field OF beets il
e long beds six feet wide then nearf
r ready to ship. These had been start
l. ed under glass. and later h frame
t. removed to another location to plan
hills OF cucumbers under the sashes
IL the cucumbers having been started il
70 hot beds in veneer boxes SO that the;
n could be trRnsplanted readily. Littl
intensive gardening has as yet bee
done in these two counties, where so
~ and mild climate combine to give tn