The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-30

better than ~cultivating In cotton yea
after wear, for the soil did accumulate
something in the way OF organic ue-
cav. But we have found that there
are crops that can be used mat ale
far better for the land and far oette,
for the farmer than the na.uia
growth Of weeds n grass. mature
will! not let land rest. 1t will De 9usA
as busy growing weeds and grass as
it would be in growing peas n Go
| yer. and the peas and clover VIII
; hiring no seeds in to bother the next |
year ;; ..r..l,, bat on the contrary VIII
add re- only the humus-inak'h@ pa
t,.lal b,i, Will get the costly r''r''ss'A
froc, tn. air and save the H;s: +f TINS
III "a f:tIiiZer.
The id.., is still prevalent a1ho !
tn, r.. wers of tobacco, especially
an,oi.:; IN Sc engaged in the growing
Of the briE ht yellow leaf, tina = 70
tat .or II kSumes that will ',l'rtase
the fertility Of their soil is detrimental
t. the Lr.a1,.6t:on OF the best t.'''atco.
That this t;icn IS erroneous ! KNOW
fr d., actual experiment, and is III a
pa with the idea of a peanu: Erower
in easi..cr North Carolina. VIII said
thu IL. hated cowpeas SO much hat
H.. Wcu:t not let man ride over ms
farm with eas in his pocket Ana ar
! | the same time he was making :b"nt
twenty-five bushels of PEANUTS an
acre, while men not far from nm.
who had Learned the value It The
cowpea were making 100 bushels ~
acre.
5 And ! have met many b grow
5 els NhO tell me that the p:.ts ana
J, q rvcr are all right for other people.
but they cannot make so III tobacco
after peas or clover. One Of Tho chief
reasons for this is hat they I'D not
realize that the peas and clover have
put more nitrogen in the soil thin t;lcy
would get in a ton Of the 2-a- : fer
/ tilizer and they go to work and apply
+ the usual amount of a complete fer
: ~t;lizer, and generally a 3-3--3, in
which the potash is almost invariably
from kainit. which does more harm
4 to a than the clover, and they
s have an excess of nitrogen and a rank,
4 coarse leaf, simply because their fer
tilizer is not we'll balanced, and the
J. potash is in a form that makes inferior
tobacco.
One Of the chief reasons for the to-
n bacco grower to mix his own fertilizer
IS is that he will then know just what
l. he is using and can always get the
% important potash in the right mate
C rial, a high-grade sulphate. For
bright tobacco. after a crop Of peas
and clover there will be no need for
IT additional nitrogen in the fertilizer.
On you a SO arrange the rotation
q that a different crop will Immediately
n follow the clover so that the excess OF
nitrogen may be gotten out of the
n way before planting the tobacco. But
II the kind of tobacco one grows will
Il always depend, to a great degree, or
l. the soil he uses. Some soils are adapt.
l. ed to one kind of tobacco and some
I'd to another. and. the kind Of to.
it baccO one should grow will. there.
fore, depend on what his sol
III is adapted to. The nmeston,
I'd soils grow Burley and the soils O
or North and South Carolina grow brigh
tobacco and mahogany eat in som
er sections, while the red lands of tn
nd Virginia mountains grow black tobac
IS co, and the Underwater of Virginia an
Maryland grows shipping leaf, An
10 IT Is useless to endeaVor to change tn
of sort of tobacco thatsthe soil is suite
to, but the effort should be to make
better crcp Of the kind your soil suit
We Doth in weight and quality, and tn
"a enricEing OF the soil through a goo
ell legumc rotation is not going to chang
rst its character for the production {
LIST the leaf it is suited to. The Virginj
I'D growers of black know fu
a we'll the value Of red clover for the
crop, and they depend upon it. TT
a srowers of the brown shipping tobact
c nAo" tAC Ndluc III kHc RIlnu
GU crimson clover in the production
cd their crop. and they are getting to u
led IT more and more. On the wonde
TO fully fertile and highly-improyt
lands OF Lancaster County, Pennsylv
or MIA, they grow fine cigar leaf that
used in all the cheap cigars that a
cid sold all over the South. And the m,
zen who grow this tobacco are not afra
eep tc get their land rich. But when \
'WS come among the growers of the brig
Is leaf in the South we find that tn
cread the enriching OF their s,
not through the use Of the legume Gro,
Vcr l have often said that If l found tn
you -, could not improve NV Land ~. ~ ~
rice rotation in which tho 1oo,S 3" 81
Aste are Of Importance, and at the ga,
Tune make good tobacco, I would dr.
the tobacco for some other mon
crop that would let me farm well.
lent In the black tobacco sections of ,
IN Virginia mountains thew fo,lon, - -.
COT tatiOn Of tobacco wheat ana 49,