The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-28

tounds Of high-grade sulphate Of
potash to make a ton, and Of this use
400 TO 500 pounds per acre.
What is the difference between
phosphoric acid and acid phosphate?
Viii kainit do in place of nitrate OF
soda on Door iand?' Phosphorlc
acid IS what We seek in acid phos-
phate. Acid phosphate, Is per cent,
simply means that the article con-
tains 16 pounds of phosphoric acid
in each 100 pounds. No, KANT IS
used for the potash 1t contains ana
nitrate of soda for the nitrogen it
contains and neither can take the
place of the other in q fertilizer. 60
TO work and farm your lane in q reg
ular rotation and grow plenty OF peas
and clover and you Will soon not De
talking @ poor land. II your
land is poor and keeps poor, 1t is be
cause you are q poor 1arnef.
"How can | kill out nut-grass on a
small piece of land for a garden
Two years ago / began TO make a
garden on a piece of land infested
with nut-grass (which, by the way, IS
not a grass at all, but a true seuge,
Cyperus rotundifOlius hydra). |
chopped the growth off almost daily
all the first summer, and the second
year there was little left and that
was persistently chopped off as fast
as it showed, and now there is less
nut-grass than any other weed. the
way to destroy any Of h persistent
weeds is simply not to let them grow.
No plant can long survive if it is not
allowed to make green leaves. The
roots will certainly die If the leaves
are kept chopped off. There is no
ton here that a crop Of sweet potatoes
will Kill out nut-grass. | have never
tried this, but those who have claim
hat 1t IS effective.
A young farmer writes that he is
going to try to get out Of the one
horse class, but q young man without
capital or credit and a family to sup
port cannot do as he would wish. Now
it seems to me that any Oun man OF
energy and character must have
credit enough to get a horse in any
good community, and being a poor
man, it is all the more necessary that
he should get all possible out of his
land. AS the editor recently said, the
rich man can afford to farm badly as
the loss does not affect him as it does
a pOO man, who should get more
from his land in order that he shall
get out of the One-hOrse, poor-man
class. Then, little by little the i'm
proved implements can come in and
every item like these will increase the
capacity of the small farmer to make
better crops-and better crops he
must raise or remain poor and keep
his land poor. Improvement in farm
ing is essential to the w~ell-being OF
the pOOr man.
First CLASSY inter cabbage can be
grown in all the Piedmont section anC
the mountain country of the South
In the upper Piedmont country O.
North Carolina / would SOW the SeeG
Of the premium Late Flat Dutch cab
bage in ate June II in the lower
section east a month later. There
are many c%abbages grown in the high
mountain country Of North Caroline
for shipping in the early fall, but 70
winter use and keeping the cabbage!
should not head before November OF
early December. The seed-bed shoule
be rich and convenient to water, fol
it is essential that the plants shall
never suffer for Iack Of moisture. &c
good strong plants and set them three
by three feet in strong and heavil,
MANFRED low land where moistur,
conditions are uniform. Nc matte
how fertile the bottom land may be
it will be necessary to fertilize heavil,
to make big cabbages. Then tn
cultivation must be rapid and clean
The green larvae Of the cabbage but
terfy make the chief trouble in tn
fall. To destroy these spray witt
either half a pound Of Paris green il
SO gallons Of water OF one pound O
a%rsenate of lead in 80 gallons o
water. The poisons will not hurt tn
~cabbages, for the growth Of the hea'
is from the central bud and the poisOl
does not get into it.