The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-04-23

Tor corn should / iine hrS'
Never pillow under lime, bat apply II
after Moving and harrow il in. II
Will 70 down fast enough ana You
want il to 40 through all the SOL.
what is the best grass for q
lawn" a mixture Of three paris
Kentucky bluegrass and Two paris
redtop grass. Sow at rate OF %
bounds an acre to make g GOOD lawn,
and rake the seed in nicely. 1nen rs
soon as tail enough start the lawn
mower and run il once a week IN
w weather, leaving the cut
yraSS living where cut To thicken the
sod. Ise 4 good amount OF a hlsh-
grade fertilizer in preparing the SOL.
A Virginia lady writes that her
roses in spring get full of green ice,
and then the rose bugs come in
Swarms and some Of the buShe mil
dew. The green lice can be DESTROY
ed by spraying the bushes with q
strong tea made Of tobacco To, de-
StrOy the rose bugs use ~arsenate OF
lead. one pound to 80 gallons Of WA
ter with two gallons of cor~nlon corn
syrup mixed in it and spray with
this when the bugs arrive. For mil
dew, spray with bordeaux mixture.
~ 'ti"b 49,
little wOoly-headed or 'tabbit-Foot
lover grows naturally, as il usually
does on sandy soils, the soil Will be
found well inoculated for crimson
clover. But where no clover of any
sort grows it is best to get some
soil from where crimson clover has
succeeded and scatter a barrel an
acre. But il has also been found that
where the first sowing is but a MARTIAL
1t,.1c tln n 1nT1 will poal-n .,
good crop the following year, as the
first sowing seems to bring in the
bacteria.
What is the best method for SOW
ing Johnson grass seed on land that
WAS in cotton last YEAR," If John
son grass is all over Your n~eighbor-
hood it mas be Well to make the
best Of it.. But if it is not common
il Nour section | would hardly ad-
wise YOU 10 sow it. for it Will i~nevita-
hly take the whole neighborhood and
your ~neighDorS may not want it.
There is no difficulty about sowing ii
1ISt rs YOU woul oats. The difficulty
comes when YOU want to grow some
lhin% else on the land.
Is the Nancy Hall as good a sweet
potato as the Norton Yam and as
early and rroductive?" The Nancy
Han is rather earlier than Norton
am and grows somewhat larger as
d rule, and Very productive. 1t is
ilshter IN color than Norton Yam,
and IN my opinion. better. one cor
respondent in Georgia writes that
some there say that it is the same
as the Pumpkin Yam, but the two are
Very different, and if they have a
potato under that name that is the
same AS bl1pDEjn Nln thA,. I,,a 800
the true Nancy Hall.
Tell me how to prepare the lane
ana plant watermelons and canta
louDes!' Get the land in GOOD ordeI
and for the catalogues run out dee,
burrows six feet apart. Fill thes
haif full of stable M and OF
THIS scatter 500 pounds an acre Of
hlgh-grade fertilizer. Bed on this
flatten the beds sligntly and SOW tn
seed in a continuous row and wheI
a stand is secured. thin to 20 inche
apart, two plants in a place. AS the
start to run. scatter a t~ableSpOonfu
Of nitrate of soda around each hi
and cultivate rapidly and clean. Fo
watermelons the same. except thu
the rows are 10 feet apart and thin
ned to five feet.
Il do not use fertilizer on M gal
den. but manure it heavily. Whs
makes the ~cabbages rot of at tn
stem? What makes the tomato
rot? Cannot | plant sweet potatoe
an rows like corn" You have
fungus disease, the cabbage rot {
the Fussarium rot. The only thin
Is to change the place where va
grow cabba ges to a spot where nor
have been grown. Tomatoes rot fro
a specific disease that can be Or,
vented by spraying with Bordea,
mixture. They also have a tin r
that seems to be caused bv lack
moisture in the soil. Sweet potato
are always planted IN rows nowada,
That is on ridges made with the plo'
Then your garden will be improv,
by giving it a heavy dose of &C
phosphate and potash, as you are &c
ting an excess Of nitrogen from t
manure. and this tends to encoura