The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-27

Tho crop OF fruit on them has gradually
diminished. until this season there are
hut q few quarts on the two vines.
when naturally they should have many
bushels Can you tell mo what is the
matter. and how to remedy tt?" Down
II, your section the Wild Muscadine
vines usually grow abundantIy along
fence rows. and probably they wers
formerly plenty near your Scupper-
nongs. and have been cleared out
The Scuppernong does not make pol
len enough to set Its fruit, and the
Wild vines nearby will insure the crop
But clean away the wild vines and
there is not pollen enough The
remedy is to go out and find barren
male vine of tho wild Muscadine and
plant 1t near your Scuppernongs and
you will nrd that It will set the fruit
This Is all that IS needed, and, while
the wild male plant will make no fruit
itself it Will insure the crop on the
Scuppernongs.
Bniing Grcen-Pea Vines.
I'VE have worry heavy growth OF
peas and SOY beans sown together, and
have been TOLD that tho vines can be
baled right after tho mower, and with
out any curing and Will cure and keep
we'll. They say that the heat in the
bales will cure II perfectly. What do
YOU think of this?" / have never been
silly enough to try It. I once met
farmer In North Carolina who told me
that he had been told tho Same thing,
and was induced to try It. Tho result
was that ne had n pile of rotten bales
Of pea vines that went into tho barn
yard for manure. II you bale the hay
cure II we'll first In the barn.
But why bale It? 1t is easier to
feed without baling, and once balcd
there is the temptation to sell 1t, and
the man who sells pea vine hay is
robbinG his soil fast. Better let the
hay stay in the barn and feed ii 10
stock and let the land get the manure.
Sell any crop YOU grow rather than
sell hay. No matter what n farmers
money crop is, this fact is true, that
some form of live stock feeding lies
ut the very foundation of all rational
soil Improvement. and the farmer who
sells hay instead OF feeding II must |
buy great deal more of plant food |
for his soil than the man who feeds |
and uses the manure in an intelligent |
through the country where there is /
some stock feeding done by the crops I
that are grown on the land. The man /
who has q silo and puts his corn into
i and sells only the wheat as grain !
will generally have a finer and more
productive farm than the man who !
sells everything he can sell and feeds |
10 stock
seed Corn From the South. (
southampton County; Il purchased .
.r1-u NJ Clzr encon Davis. Of Ala bama.
~ great Southern corn grower, some
se-i eorn last spring The seed was
- Gaeiy formed grain Is ! ever saw.
L xs-rn.r-z;e6 we'll and VIII make
gocd crop But hsye never seen such
growth q stalk think The field
yv.ll zT=-zge twelve :=eI high. and tic
ez-s atog, c.Elt ;ee- from the ground .
1tz-y 81: ne stalks have three or four
l.-s= shoots startire from the ground
TX - eight feet hign These ! am
cutting and shocking - they have no
corn OF hem Seventy Ave fpe. cen: o:
~. stalks hzy- two good ears. and !
t1iall il will Yield sixty 70 seventy
busaels an acre I used no fertilizer.
tu: plov-ed under heavy crop OF
clover This is sandy land that you'd
not NIKE seed Three FEARS ago am
not kicking on .:ie yield. but would
prefer lower stalE DO you think
that j. is the lack or excess OF any
special element that causes "such /
Growth You have Just what you
should have expected In getting seed
corn from so far South of YOU. The
further South corn grows. the taller II
naturally grows
on one occasion al an institute in
he southern part Of North Carolina
the first OF November, q man brought
corn plant standing up In his open /
buggy He said that the seed came .
from the hot coast country OF Mexico, (
and as it was evident that II would (
make no corn he brought IL out 30 I
show the growth. The plant was six
teen feet high, and had not started 10 /
iasseL How tail corn grows in that |
tropical region ! would like to know /
Your corn is evidently one of the
Southern Prolific varieties that often Z
make good corn on the suckers that 4
start from the roots ! have seen
stalks with two suckers each carry
ing two ears While the corn may
make a fairly good crop with YOU this
year, 1t needs TO he acclimatcd and
bred TO q more dwarf stature. You
can do this by breeding seed corn from
the lower ear on the plant. and In this
way gradually get the ears In more
convenient place Several farmers here
have been growing and selecting the
southern Prolific corn for several
wears. and IL is not uncommon 10 find
plants with five or more ears ana il is
gradually adapting itself To 4 more
northern climate. 60 into Central New
York and New England ana you viii
ind corn well cared. and not taller
than Il mans head The height Is the
result of climatic conditions. But even
ia the South il is perfectly possible 10
breed the corn to q better stature. Mr.
Davis, from whom YOU bought the seed,
is large stock grower, and he does
not care how tall the corn grows, as
he thus gets more stoVcr. You have
nov = good chance for breeding and
acclimatins the corn Mir Davis. whose
splendid farm ] have been on. and who
kindly says that ] taught him all he
knows about farming claims that he
grows corn at a cost OF j cents
lushel, and lie makes thirty-nv bush
: els Of wheat on a farm that made five
bushels the year he bought It. He
says that he can raise three year
mule for $50. and he recently sold nCtY
in Atlanta. and the meanest one in the
lot gold for slG5. And here in Virginia
with many or more advantages the
farmers are buying Western mules
Clarendon Davis has made ii wonderful
success on an old rundown cotton
plantation. and 1--we stock lcgumes and
grass are al the bottom or IT.
Draining Crawiinh Land.
"lIave some land that IL crawhshy
nnu sandy In part. Have tried the old
fashioned trunk bitches. but they soon
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