The farmer and mechanic., 1912-03-12


We have lust had smut in corn.
How shall | treat the SEED to prevent
it," Corn smut is not carried by the
seed, as wheat and oat smut Is. 1t is
carried by letting the smutty stalks
get into the manure. Never cut any
srnutty stalks for fodder, but cut and
burn them in the field. The corn smut
gets into the plant as it germlnates
and grows through the plant during
the summer and the smut is the fruit
ing of the plant and the black smut
answers for seed. Now, If none of
these plants get into the fodder fed
there will be less smut where the ma
/ nure is applied. Then. of course. do
not plant the same land in corn.
Give me the best formula for
spraying fruit trees What YOU
should use for spraying will depend
on what YOU want to accomplish. IT
the trees are infested with San Jose
scale the best thing rs the lime sui
! phur wash applied before the buds
swell. You can buy this in con
densed form for q small number of
trees better than you can make 1t, or
YOU can make fairly good mixture
! by slakinG ten pounds Of lime with ten
pounds of sulphur added and let the
heat OF the shaking make the COM
bination, adding sixty gallons Of
water. For general fungicidai remedy
the Bordeaux mixture is best. To
make it Slake five pounds Of lime as
for whitewash and add water enough
TO make % gallons. IN another cask
! dissolve FIVE pounds of copper sui
phate in hot water. Then pour the
two together into third cask and
strain it into the spraying pump after
making the copper sulphate IS gal
Ions. Use this while fresh. To de-
stroy the codling moth on apple trees
add FIVE ounces Of Paris green to the
SO gallons and spray just as the bios
SONS fall. For green lice on plants
or the cabbage lice, | have used with
great. success an article called Aphine
that is sold in the seed stores.
What is the best fertilizer for corr
on new land Of gray nature and vel
low clay subsoil?' \ good crop OF
crimson clover turned under an6
lightly lined before planting will make
cheap corn than can be made with
commercial fertilizer. You can in
crease the crop with fertilizers, and
as rule, Will pay good marke
price for the increase. The way tt
grow corn economically is to have
your land in a good rotation and grow
plenty Of peas and clover and alWay:
have a coat Of crimson clover on The
which YOU have spread all the manur.
YOU can make during the winter The
plant-foCd needs for corn on such lane
are usually mainly for nitrogen ant
potash. In your section of eastern
North Carolina, phOSphOric acid Seems
10 be Of less Importance than nitro
gen and potash for most crops. I
mixture Of 900 pounds Of acid phos
: phate, 100 pounds of nitrate Of soda
900 pounds Of fish scrap and 40
3 pounds Of muriate of potash to max
| a ton will give you very good in
2 crease in the corn crop and the In
crease will cost you twice as much Q
!. more than il you had a crop of Grim
son clover manured for it. The cor
| crop can use the rough manure 0
E the farm better than most other crop
: and the clover and manure Will Civ
2 YOU a chance to make big crop o
q oats after the corn. Now. if thes
G are followed by peas for hay an
crimson clover SOWn on the Stubhlt
YOU will have a chance then for
T good cotton crop.