The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-20

WITH THE FARMERS
By Prof. w. F. MASSEY

handle the potatoes very carefully.
leaving them exposed To the sun dur
ins the day along the rows and bring
ing in in baskets or crates. with
4 plenty OF Slated crates you can store
| them in the crates without any shclv-
! ing in the house. After all arc in.
I start fire at once and run up the
temperature. with the vcntiiator open.
10 50 or 90 degrees. and keep up TIM
4 heat till the potatoes have dried OF
from tho sweat they always pass
/ through after storing. After this. no
/ fire heat will usually be needed un-
! less there is extremely severe weather.
/ y temperature of Is degrees is warm
/ enough. and this can usually be main
! tanned in such house without any
artificial heat, and higher heat is
not needed or desirable. l gave SINH
lar directions TO 4 grower several
years ago in South Carolina Meeting
him the next summer, III August. he
told me that the house had been such
success that At that time he was
feeding tho old potatoes to pigs to get
them out OF tho way OF the new crop
coming on.
Permanent Pasture.
"A correspondent in Pittsylvania
County. who fails to sign his name
says: II have six acres OF land which
| wish 10 put in n permanent pasture.
( Please tel me how TO prepare IT. and
whether II is best to SOW in spring or
fall. and what mixture OF grasses 10
uscT" The making or a permanent
pasture and the grasses 10 use viii
vary somewhat with the soil and eli
mate. In all the Underwater region
south OF the Rappahannock. / would
use Bermuda grass as a pasture mixed
with Canada blue grass tpoa com
prcsso). which is really as native to
Virginia as to Canada. In fact. in the
upper Piedmont this kind of blue
grass is apt to take possession and al
most choke out wheat where one fol-
lows a wheat stubble for wheat again.
In tho upper Southside | would make
n difernt grass mixture, but still use
the Canada blue grass. In Pittsyl-
vania n mixture of ten pounds OF or.
chard grass, five pounds of red top
and FIVE pounds of Canada blue grass
an acre will make a good pasture. 1t
Will be we'll 70 SOW the land now in
peas, and turn them under in October
or in september. If mature. giving the
peas 500 pounds OF acid phosphate an
acre. Then prepare the land we'll and
SOW the seed in October or early No
vember and brush them III with a
smoothing barrow. Then SOW 1--WE
pounds ii Alaike clover seed and
brush these in, as YOU cannot keep
Thorn we'll mixed with the light grass
seed. After getting a stand OF grass
be sure to keep II good. by annual
top dressing Of bone meal, and keep
ing all weeds and briers mown Oft
In this way YOU can keep the grass
sod improving year after year y
pasture will no more take care OF it
self than any other part OF the farm
viii. Tor all young stock grazing on
il are making their bony system from
Tho soil and if tho phosphates are
not kept up the soil VIII get down
and the grass run out A coat OF
ground limestone every sixth year viii
helD greatly. . nd tend 10 keep out the
/ oroomsedce. \ really good permanent
pasture is a Very valuable thing on a
farm, wnile the usual Virginia pasture
is disgrace 10 the country. know
+ hill pastures that have been treated
a. suggest that have better grass
on them to-day than they had sixty
/ in all that time
Value of Fertilizer.
! what should / pay Tor 1855 fer
ttliEer The price or any fertilizer
VII depend not only o., the materials
i contains, but the freight 70 various
. points By rain. for this would make
+ he "ary. \ fertilizer containing 10
+ per cent Of available phosphorus acid
! per cent Of ammonia. and S per cent
81 70 10
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Feeding Down Oats md Glover.
nave q iot on which nave oeen
SOY 9a's ana clover Tor 'hfs' Fea's
""u i'ea!nG theni down hN moss The
oI o'acN roam WIN q req clay
a""Sp'i' ana VIII make hftE bushels
81 com an acre As soon a me crop
-" ~ 'hc iahn rs eaten Gown ! want
pay =. IN 'amlHo'h yellow SOY
.'5"as "a rows nat fertilizer should
~ 'n' Means ana can ICED
uVMm ana So" tioNor again On
III '"hd oepends largely on
YOU se' we peah" ptani'1. Tor
r. Mammoth ye.toW soy = mHcn Later
eh3 oSn''S hHe ne 10 san or Medium
- '"o =. fchIu'o Dc ~ the ground
go" ~ PT"et'caoir' HNt ~ plant
"A't1 az 'NNo NvN tdI! SOW the Grim