The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-09-17

teams before owing 1nen wait III
a light white frost has been reported
before sowing the wheat, and thus
avoid danger from the fall fly.
will red oak make satisfactory
! slaves for a siiO? | am advised thar
hoops made of three ~thicknesses OF
RX6-inch plank are much better
than iron hoops. What ls your opln-
iion?" | do not think that red OAK VIII
make good slaves for the $40 Tor IL
better than iron Shrdl etOa Staol etae
shrinks SO badly that 1t Will De naru
to keep the silo tight. Wooden hoops
are far better than iron ones, for
wood does not shrink endwise while
iron is changing all the time. WoOd-
en- silos made Of tongued-an-grOoVed
flooring and wooden hoops, can De
covered outside with thick cement
wash, and oiled inside and will last a
lone time. There should be a cement
foundation, and the slaves should
come around perfectly flush with the
inside, and should tten be we'll ce-
mented on the wall of the outside.
At the Farmers Convention in
Raleigh, North Carolina | stated that
I had found that cOWpeas planted in
among corn Increases the corn crop,
and that the same results had been
IIldOc III hdIlSdS, SOIICll liz NEW
Jersey Stations. DR.. Hopkins, Of the
Illinois Station said hat in Illinois
they had found the reverse and that
the peas decreased the corn crop.
1t seems to me hat this is simply a
matter of soil fertility on the rich
black soil OF the Illinois prairies the
peas find an abundance of nitrogen In
the soil and they use it and do not
gain nitrogen from the air, and hence
they rob the corn instead Of helping
it, while in less fertile soils the peas
will gain nitrogen from the air, and in
the getting Of it the corn roots will
be helped. too.
A North Carolina correspondent
as a life work. | want to know all
that | can learn. Wouldyou advise
me to buy a scholarship in the cor
~respondence school or not?" From
good advisers in a correspondence
course you might get some valuable
information, but from such an insti-
tuition in the North you would not get
half as much as you can get for a
dollar in The Progressive Farmer, SO
far as your work in the South is con-
cerned. O. will do a great deal bet
ter to get some good books on agricul-
ture and stock feeding, and if you can
possibly do so come every winter for
a few years TO the short winter
course in agriculture at the North
Carolina College of Agriculture and
echan Arts, annd read The Pro-
gressive Farmer and do a great deal
of thinking n studyipo On your own
land and it will beat anv correspond
ence school that you Woul pay twice
AS much for.
From a southeast Virginia CORE
tn NAh &c 80
ground limestone as compared with
burnt lime from rock or oyster
shells?" Burnt lime can be used in
smaller amount and is more
quickly active in ~sweetening the soil.
Pulverized limestone or pulverized
shells, when they can be had at a
reasonable price will answer we'll if
used twice or thrice as heavily as the
burnt lime. 1t depends, therefore, to
a great extent on the cost of the two
manufacturer could make a fair profit
IN any locality. In our section a
manufacture could make a fair profit
in pulVeriZing oyster shells for 81 a
use them instead of burnt lime.
Some time ago a party living right
where the shells accumulate in vast
amount wrote to me that he was go
) ms to offer ground shells at "a a ton.
| wrote him that that was about four
ST. ~ ~ Ao1 hAISN IloA IL Tx
would not cost him SO cents a ton.
Out in limo they are furnishing the
farmers pulverized lime rock for 60
cents a ton. and at hat price I would
advise the use of the article. But
with burnt lime at IS a ton n shells
at 81 a ton the burnt lime is far
cheaper. Another farmer writes that
he has some black soil apparently
rich, which grows broomsedge but will
not make good crops. He says tina,
he can get shell mari handily. Now
if his land is we'll drained, the mar
is just what he needs and is just as
good as the ground shells would be
The brOomSedge thriveS in an acid
soil where better crops will not, anG
the thing to do is to SWeeten the sol
with lime either as burnt lime, ground
rock or shells or the she'll mari. ano
; thus restore it to a condition in which
the legume crops will throye..