The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-31

My cotton grows TOO large q Stalk
and does not fruit well. How would
il do to spread four tons Of good sta
hle manure to the acre with acid
phosphate and po~tash?" This would
simply increase the trouble. II your
cotton grows q large stalk, 1t SHOWS
that YOU nave nitrogen u ana
the fruiting will be better if YOU use
only acid phosphate and potash no
orally.
lis Thomas phosphate good for
corn. cotton, peanuts and potatoes!
Thomas phosphate is especially good
for peanuts when combined with a
due percentage Of potash, as it carries
40 per cent of lime. | would not use
il on potatoes, as the lime may rnake
conditions favorable to scab. 1t IS
not 50 quickly available as acid phOs-
phate when applied to cotton. For
corn, grow a sod of rimson clover
and put al your manure on it.
How many pats should | SOW this
month";" asks a reader in southeast
trn North Carolina. some say : Il
bushels, but l think that too much
would not SOW any his month. IL
they had been sowed at the time they
should have been-in October-tWO
bushels would be sufficient. But II |
did not SOW in October, / would defer
sowing till February, and then 81
bushels will be none too many, for
they will not tiller as much AS II
soved in The fan. Sowing i'll Febru-
AIRY. would SOW the winter oats.
"uow shall l destroy Bermuda
grass on a sandy loan soil? p asks a
reader. ploW it now, shalloWly, 50
us to Just get under the running stems.
Rake out all you can and haul TO a
gully or other waste place. Then the
winter will damage what is left to
some extent, and in the spring SOW
the land thickly in cOWpeaS to q
out any that starts, for it will not
thrive in the shade. Make hay Of the
peas and disk the stubble and SOW
seed of crimson clover, fifteen pounds
AN acre in September. Turn this in
spring for corr or cotton, and Guilt
Nate clean, and YOU Will find little. II
amy, left.
u have heard old people say that
there is a certain time of the moon
for hauling out manure II killing
hogs Is there anything in it?' The
proper time of the moon for hauling
out manure is when you have d load.
Haul out your as fast as made
and put it on the ground YOU intend
to plant in corn in the spring. and the
noon will not care a fig about it, h
best time Of the moon to kill hogs is
when the hogs are fat, the weather
cool, and your knife is sharp, n
the Don will never know YOU have
done ii. Take care of your soil, farm
"eli and let the moon shine when she
is regulated TO shine. You are not
farming the noon, but the earth.
An Alabama reader says: Surely
Professor Massey is maging a big mis-
take when he tells a correspondent that
tho oil vpi1)C orA n,nli,r a ,nnl nrI
fair exchange in returning the meal
and hullS from d ton Of seed for the
seed. Down here in Alabama the mills
give Il ton of meal for "a ton Of seed"
am GLAD to know that the Alabama
mills are SO liberal, for hat would be
getting about $50 a ton for the seed.
What l aimed to say to my cores
pendent was that the meal resulting
from a ton Of seed was worth, as q
fertilizer. more than the ton of seed,
and / think that there are few oil
mills in North Carolina that will dc
like to heal from them.
"A OOdlo can be used as a pas
ture,' says Mr.. Latham. Yes, but i
will in that case lose it's value as I
woodlot for the farm, for the under.
growth will be destroyed, and tina
must be preserved, if We are goin,
- ooNioN I
self with new growth to take tn
place of what is cut out A woodlo
needs careful looking after in order
TO encourage the growth Of desirabl
trees, and to discourage the growth o
the inferior sorts. The forest can b,
made continually TO reproduce itsel
If properly used and cared for. Blu
have the pasture elsewhere. for a
best, the WOOdlot makes a poor pas
ture. and you want the best Of grasse
for pasture purposes.
When the farmer has. through
good rotation Of crops and the feedin,
of legumes and the making Of manur
that will supply the soil with humus
making MATERIAL, he can profitabl
use the cheaper form Of phosphate il
the pulverized rock. or can mix
regularly with his stable manure i
liberal amount. Used in this way.
has been shown by experiment tina
the productive capacity Of the manur
is vastly increased, and that~while tn
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