The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-02-25

MAKO z compost Oh ~: Ac0'
pay 70 get It out now n put it in
layers . foot thick and cover each
layer with an inch Of baked lime
thu o have made . broad. tat
pile. Then In spring chop this down
and mix il well, and It viii make q
good application to the land. Put on
the land ~ dug from the swamp. It
conposted III winter with N II
will make . very fine thing for crops.
Two years ago I got out q pile OF
this sort and die as / suggest. This
pile was used In growing cantaloupes
with a little fertilizer containing phos-
phoric acid and potash, and It made
= wonderfully good crop OF melons.
Some Waysidc Science.
Jamie BOydix and william Luna
man met on the road in their bug
gies.
Hello Bill. L see you've been to the
postoffice. Got The Progressive Farm
er, too. / took that paper for q time,
but they were always harping away
about big ploys and deep pl"wing with
two horses to q pillow. l don't believe
in turning all the good soil down and
the poor soil up. I break my land
with a good buu-tongue that -loosens
it n does not put the good soil down.
What do think OF what Professor
Massey writes there every week,
Bill?"
"WeI. I rather enjoy what he
writes. IN fact, he is generally right
except when he talks about the moon
not having anything TO do with mat
tiers on the farm. ] know ne is wrong
there. for 1 have heard ALI my life
that the moon eXcrts a great influence
on many things. You kin a hog be-
tween the full OF the moon and the
new moon, and it will swell up and
make very little grease. and one killed
on the increaS. OF the moon will make
plenty Of grease"
why" said Jamie, Il have always
heard that it was just the other way.
and that the one killed before the full
moon would make little grease. In
fact. last year l was short Of meat
and l killed a hog on the increase of
the moon. 1t was just off the pea
nut field, and. to tell the truth, it
made little rease but I thought that
it was because it was not fed corn,
for the hogs hat 1 killed a month
later. after feeding corn. made plenty
OF grease"
"Then," said William. you must
have killed them on the right stage Of
the moon. 1t does not matter how
much corn you feed, you Will neve
get good fat pork II you kill on the
wrong stage Of the noon"
Maybe you're right said Jamie.
u never noticed how the moon was.
But what do you think Of Planting
potatoes and corn?"
why, you can prove this easily.
Take q piece Of land all alike and
plant half Of it to corn any time ne
tween the new mean I'D the full.
Then plant the rest with the same
corr n treat both alike except that
the last half is planted between the
full % and the mex new moon.
The piece planted before the full of
{ the moon will make great glib and tall
stalks and little cars, While the corn
: planted after the full of the moon
; will make smaller stalks and great
big ears
We'll" said Jamie, II never thought
$ of that: but last year part of my field
[ was much poorer corn thar the other
e and l begun planting just before the
t full moon and finished afterwards
e But l thought that it was because
S that part of the field vas poorer thar
t the other. / never thought that the
o moon had SO much power"
s After you have lived rs long as
0 have. Jamie. you will find that 20,
o had better watch the moon closely, TO
my father told me all these thing
n and I have been very careful to fol
o low his advice"
h"'i cbihSCu ~ Sou. b1t1y, 1 III
tend 10 watch the moon hereafter
Blu; here comes that neishbor Of ours
itenry KnoNit. ! am going to asl
him u he thinks of the NOON
" Henry drove up with a load of corr
~ sacks. going towards the town
Hello Henry" said Jamie. Me an
II Billy have Just been taikin'
II about what the moon has to do wit
our farming. Do you pay attention
n 10 the moon when you Kill hogs Q
plant corn or potatOes?"
"a Well friends said Henry. '"ther
lie was a time when / was taught a.
<, these notions about the moon, an
n when I got to farming tried all O
a the methods on the increase and de
te crease OF the moon. and I found tn
lie when I had b-oken my land deepl
IN and had prepared it we'll and
&c we'll and cultivated properly I neve
m could see anv difference in the tim
OF planting either before Or after tn
full Of the noon. You both kno,
that I make as good crops as an
or vpor IN %h;, eAot;nn owl