The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-28

Please tell me how TO extermlnate
rabbits as they are dong me nucli
damage taking the peas row by row.
You can never extermInate rappllS.
The Only way is To surround Your
garden with a wire netting fence that
they cannot get through.
"Wil sawdust increase the crop OF
Irish potatoeS?" No, nor OF any other
crop, 50 far as ] have been able 70
observe. Plants can get no fOOd
from saWdust unless it is perfectly
black and rotten or burned for the
ashes, and even the rotten saWdust
would be sour stuff and of little value.
Would it be advisable to subsoil a
sandy loan soil, where | nave GRIM.
son clover to turn under for corn"
If the land is hiIly and inclined to
wash, and there is hard clay in reach
il might pay to subsOil, but a deep
level sandy loan with no clay IN
reach Of the pillow, would not be help
ed materially by subsoiling.
When rye is grown as a winter
cover CrOp to turn under IN the
spring it is best to turn it when not
over knee high. 1t is then all green
and tender and Will decay rapidly IN
the soil, but if it is allowed to get tall
and head out it will be StraWy and
decay slowly and make trouble in dry
weather. An application Of lime will
generally do good when green matter
is turned under.
For a peach orchard use a fertilizer
strong in nitrogen and potash and
spread it where the limbs drip. That
is where the feeding roots are and not
to any extent right around the trunk
Of the trees. Then cultivate q peach
orchard clean till July and then SOW
peas and as the pea leaves drop SOW
crimson clover all among them as a
winter cover to turn under IN the
spring for the benefit of the trees.
A Florida friend wants to plant
cowpeas and asks which are most
prolific and best sellers as he wants
to plant some for seed sales. The
W~hippoorwill is as much used as most
varieties and is fairly productive. But,
as a rule, it has been found that cow
peas do not seed SO prolitically in the
far South as they do in the middle
and upper South, and it is not likely
that a heavy crop Of any ear be made
in central Florida.
Please give me your best recipe for
making crawhshy land productive"
The only thing usually needed to
make such land productive is a COM
plete under-drainage. Get rid Of the
water and you get rid Of the crawish.
CraWfish cannot live unless there is
plenty of water in the soil and crops
anne live where the conditions are
all right for the crawfish. So it is
simply a matter of making it IN
healthy for the crawfish and better
for plants.
AS soon as ] found the moles
making runs in my garden I punched
holes here and there into the runs
with my finger and poured a little
carbon bisulphide into each hole and
covered it. Then [ heard friends
talking about a certain mole trap that
they had found caught them surely
| got -four of these traps and set then
wherever ! fOund a run, n ] have
never yet caught a mole and hav
seen no new runs. So / V con.
cluded that the carbon bisulphide ha:
pretty we'll cleaned them up In my
garden.
Il nave a farm that has been rentet
and abused for years and want t.
bring it up. ! intend to SOW peas, bu
some of your subscribers contend tina
1T al be improved faster with cane
Stick to The peas. Cane grown ant
turned under will give some organi,
decay to the soil, but it gets it's foot
from the soil except the carbon tina
all plants get from the air, while tn,
peas will get you the nitrogen tina
costs so much in q fertilizer. Tn
legumes like peas, soy beans an,
crimson clover are the best soil i'm
V
Having a field I want to improve
let it lie fallow last summer and i
made a good growth of weeds which
were turned under and rye sown
Want to follow the rye with peas
When should it be turned under?
Rye should be turned under befor
heading, as it decays more rapidly
then and If let get into head it get
strawy and decays more slowly an
may make trouble in dry weathe,
Then you lose what might have bee
gained by letting the field lie an
grow up in weeds. 1t would hay
been far better to have had peas O
1t last summer and these followed b
crimson owe instead Of rye an
then you would have had a crop t
turn under that would make a goo
corn CROP this summer and peas coul