The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26

will make a fine hay crop and rather
higher feeding value than the peas,
but probably more waste from haru
stems. The Tall Yellow SOY is the
best for the South. and a mixture Of
half beans and half peas VIII make
the finest Of hay crops.
Is the Cahoon Seeder. advertised
in The Progressive Farmer, suitable
for Grain sowing The Calloon
secder is an old standard implement
for sowing clover and grass seed. !
have used it for this purpose over
80 wears ago. But whether 1T Will be
good for sowing grain or not J can
not SAY. In fact. il does not pay to
SOW grain broadcast, as
with putting it in q good drill. The
wheat drill is the only machine suited
to sowing small grain. and the disk
drill is the best Of these.
do YOU know anything about the
Calabash gourds?" There is an
agency here to sell the seed" The
Calabash gourds were brought from
south Africa by the Department Of
Agriculture. They naturally grow in
the shape Of a tobacco pip and they
are being made into pipes that sell
for from so cents to 81 each. Lined
with plaster of Paris they make q
very nice pipe. What the man
may be for the gourds commercially
] cannot say. but they make an in
teresting thing to grow, n one can
make the pipes easily.
How do YOU grow cantaloupes?"
We pillow the land we'll and run out
burrows six feet apart and fill them
half full of manure. Then before
planting scatter 500 pounds of a high
grade fertilizer an acre and bed.
Fiatten the beds some and drill the
seed in a continuous row. When
there is a good stand thin out to 20
inches apart. and as they start to
ran scatter a tablespoonful Of nitrate
Of soda around each hill. Work rap
idly and clean, and when the fruit
begins to set. SOW crimson clover
seed all over the land for a winter
cover after the crop is off.
How would it do to start a CO.
operative creamery Is miles from
Charlotte. n. CO" IF YOU can get as
many as 500 ows pledged to the
creamery and then build and equip
it in an economical manner and keeT
rid Of the agents who travel around
the country trying to get farmers into
y creamery enterprise that costs three
times as muc as it should you may
do we'll. But NV own opinion iS that
in that section each farmer will dc
better ny feeding some good grade
Toled Angus beeyes by keeping {
good full-blooded Angus bull.
What sugar corn makes the larg
est ear? Is sugar corn not best fol
making I've hominy? What is th'
factory process in maving I've HON
my so nice and white" The Varie-
ties Of sweet corn of strong growth
and large ears are the Mammoth
White and the Egyptian. Sweet corr
will not make hominy. You need
flint corn for that. No factory eve
makes I've hoIniny. The hominy OF
the market is cracked and hulled b.
machinery from fin corn. Goo,
hominv can be made at home in
mortar. and far better than the ~
hominy which is d poor substitut
for good hominy.
Il notice a bulletin that says spra
just after the leaf buds open and be
fore the flower buds opcn.' ! do nc
know what bulletin YOU refer to, bu
the spraying with Bordeaux mixtur
on apple trees should be first mad
before the buds swell. Then, Just :
the flowers fall. spray with Bordeau
to which "a h~alf-pound of Paris gree
has been added to so gallon of tn
mixture. in order to kill the larVa
of the coddling moth. The little al
pies will then be sticking upright an
YOU can get the poison into The calv
where the eggs are laid.
when crimson clover is to be tur,
ed un0er Tor corn. n of our be,
corn W say that he has the he
success by turning as soon as Ii
blossoms begin to show. Anotht
SAYS that he has had a fine success
waiting till the clover is dead. Tina
Of course. makes later corn. but yC
get all hat the crop can do for 10
and if the burrows are we'll edged !
and not turned over fiat there W
be no interference with the rise
the capillary moisture. The man vi
~ry ,r1n,. 30 - no