The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-10
Prof. MaSsey'S Views
f1<OM lHE PROGRESSIVE FARMER

How can l prevent rabbits from
glrdling young fruit treese" Make q
thick wash of Portland cement and
wash the stems as high as a rabbit
can reach.
Il have four tons of acid phosphate
left over from last writes
a friend. How much has it prob
ably lost?" The acid phosphate is
just as good as ever. 1t NAV have
lost some moisture, but has not lost
any plant food value.
which is the best for milk COWS,
bran or sh~ipstuff?" uppOs that
YOU are after the protein part Of the
ration, and for hat the bran is far
better thar the shipstuff. Cottunseed
meal will furnish the protein in a
brain mixture cheaper than the bran.
The mills agree to take my cotton
seed and extract the oil and the lint
and return me the meal and hulls.
How many gallons of oil would be
removed from a ton of Seed?" They
are making you a very good offer if
they return you all the meal and bulls,
for the Oil and lint are Of no value
to you as a fertilizer, and you get
all the plant food in the seed in bet
ter shape than in the whole seed.
A on of e will vary in oil product
from forty to fifty gallons, seldom as
much as fifty. l would certainly make
the exchange.
When should fruit trees be spray
ed, and with what. for San Jose
Scale?' a correspondent inquiries.
How much lime and bluestone to
make Bordeaux mixture? Should
stable be mixed with dirt in
planting trees" The material tc
use in spraying trees for San Jose
scale is the lime-Sulfur wash. Iou
q buy the concentrated article and
make the solution. or you can use
the hOme-bOiled mixture, by shaking
lime n sulfur together in equa
parts Of 20 pounds Of lime and 1C
Of sulfur. depending on the hea1
Of the lime to make the combination
With the 20 pounds Of lime and II
pounds Of sulphur add water enough
to make so gallons. Spray now, ant
again in the spring before the bud:
swell. To make full-strength BOr
deauX, Stake five pounds Of lime all
add water enough to make 25 gal
Ions. Then dissolve five pounds O
bl%uestone in hot water, and then max
this 25 gallons. Pour the two to
gether slowly, stirring all the while
Strain into the spray pump and us
at once. Never put stable manur'
around the roots of trees in planting
but on top the land and then Their
is no need for dirt with it.
| hac thought hat the old Lipp
fertilizer recipe WAS finally playe
out, but it turns up again, and thi
time from a man in Pennsylvani
who wants to know if the recipe j
worth buying. Now there is no LAY
against any n paying SO for a re
cipe thai will waste half his manur
in the making, and there is no la
that will stop suckers from bltln
at a bait. The only wonder is tina
the suckers ever get money to spen
on these things. l published tn
Iipps recipe years g and he the
took u a patent On it to stop furthe
publication. But a patent gives
recipe no value, for any one ca
patent any recipe he pleases- II 70
want fertilizer, then get the best an
highest grade you can find, ana O
not imagine hat you are getting
cheap fertilizer by mixing stable ma
nure, dirt, lime and acids in a wa
that no chemist would ever adVlS
If you are fortunate enough TO nay
stable manure, then u it out on tr
land as soon as possible, and 90 M
waste it in the effort to make some
thing more IN IL tnaH II nos nv
If YOU want to increase the ethclene
of your manure add acid phospha'
or even raw rock. %pulverized, an
you have done all that can be dor
to increase its effect. Cutting U
manure with lime and acids Will on
waste it. The amazing thing is IN;
the suckers will believe n stateme1
of a mar after their So, and fall
have confidence in the experiment. ST.
ton chemists who would give the
correct information n coSt.
Farm Work for December.
Fail blowing will now be importal
on clay soils. OF course, 1t wou
have been better to have ploWed u
land in November and got rye on
but even now, in the lower Sout
rye can be protitably so~n, "nere
vii, have q chance to develop befo
turning under. 1t would not amou
TO much sown now for turning und