The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-20


with. Where poultry are allowed to
run they will destroy a great many
ana they can BIO destroyed by satur
nting the soil with kerosene emulsion
rather costly method. too. PROBABLY
The best thing you can do will be to
throw UP the soil on all vacant spots
Efter the weather gets cold, and next
spring use no manure on the garden.
but give 1t heavy dressing all over
with mixture OF acid phosphate and
potash. Mix sixteen parts acid phos-
phato and four parts muriate Of pot
ash, and apply IT at rate OF 1000
pounds an acre This Will help your
vegetables too, as the long use Of
manure alone has probably gotten an
excess OF nitrogen in the soil. and the
plants VIII be more fruitful with tho
fertilizer application Then next fall
after the june bug season you can
cover the garden with manure. I use
the manure and the phosphate and
potash mixture every year to keep up
balanced ration In the soil. With
nothing but manure used many things
will run to tops and make smaller
crops
Rundown Meadow.
Buckingham County: II have eight
acres Of land that have been in timothy
and clover for five years. Have been
cutting one to ono and a half tons OF
hay per acre each year. The grass
is playing out now, though 1 have cut
| very good crop this year, and 1t now
has good growth of vegetation on
II. Suppose l could cut three to four
tons of hay, mostly broomsedge. Would
you advise me to cut 1t or turn 1t
under green or wait till dry? Some
farmers tell mo II does no good to
turn 1t under dry. I have rented the
lot to n party to grow tobacco next
year. Think he will get the tobacco
Off In August, and then I want to SOW
IT to alfalfa or the mixture that T. o.
Sandy uses. Do not know what kind
or how much fertilizer the tenant will
use on the tobacco. but am thinking
or cutting and selling the hay and
| buying ton OF bone meal or cotton
seed meal and give II to the tenan.
with what he chooses TO use. I can
! make me more from the hay than the
F.; bone meal Will cost. Which do YOU
think will benefit the land mort. the
/ bone meal or the grass turned under?'
| The land must have been pretty good
] al tho start. but you have been robbing
Z IL Tor Tve years and returning nothing
TO II, and now. Of course. the grass
! IS running out and the broomsedge
natures remedy for mans errors. Is
coming In II you had used some bone
meal on the land, and had given 1t
tho grass would very probably be bet
ter than ever now. But the soil has
gotten acid and poorer. and the bet
ter grass will not thrive. Hence the
broomsedge. So far as your tenant
and his tobacco are concerned. he had
better have the growth now on the
land turned under at once and tho land
sown in rye TO turn under when about
knee high for the tobacco, and your
land VIII be better for the alfalfa by
gettir7N some humus making material
In IT. The land ia now very much
poorer than when you sowed II to
grass and will need liberal fertiliza-
tion to make tobacco. If you grow
bright tobacco II Will probably come
| or In time TO SOW alfalfa. But you
J VIII have to lime the land heavily and
I fertiltze. too, to get stand OF alfalfa,
FOR the broomEedge is evidence that
tho land Is ncid: and you cannot get
alfalfa on acid soil. Land needing hu-
, mus ae much az that evidently does
should not be further robbed by talk
Ing broomscdge hay off II, even II the
hay Will cell for more than n ton OF
grass for five years could have been
made far more productive If the bone
meal had been used on 1t every spring
and one application of lime made. Had
you done this you would have now such
fine grass that you would hardly want
and keep It, too; and the grass has
run out because you have been rob-
bling the soil,
Inocuinting for Glover.
Il have been advised that the surest
way to get the land inoculated for
clover is to prepare small plots here
and there and cover with stable man.
ure. and on these spots to apply the
inoculated seed VIII the inoculating
cultures, sent out by the Department
OF Agriculture. he all right to depend
upon? I have some of IT." do not
think that the application of stable
manure will help the incubation. If
the culture you have Is the one intend
ed for crimson clover 1t will be all
right to use II. But 10 amount of
| incubation will avail much II the land
is acid. First, ascertain the condition
of your soil by the blue litmus paper
| test that ] have often described. If
] had rather depend on the sweeten-
ing of the soil with lime than on the
artificial incubation.
Here where l live, the crimson GLOW
err thrives everywhere and no one has
inoculated for 1t. But there is the wild
growth OF the gray headed rabbit foot
clover everywhere. and the soil seems
to be inoculated and where lime is used
there is seldom any failure of clover
even on poor sandy soil. that has q good
application of phosphate and potash
Your tidewater land is generally acid.
and lime is Of far more Importance
than artificial incubation. Years ago
clover throve everywhere and we had
never heard of incubation. Now the
long cultivation of the soil has gotten
much Of our land acid, and clover will
not thrive on acid land no matter how
much you inoculate
Potato Onions.
II want to plant some red potato
onions. When is the best time to plant,
how to plant. how far apart to make
the rows and how far apart in the
ROW." I do not know OF any red
potato onions. There are white
and yellow potato onions. The yellow
is tho largest and best. You can got
the sets from any of the leading seeds
men. and the sooner they are in the
ground the better they will winter.
Mine were planted tho last week in
September. The soil must be we'll fer
filtered and the rows made sIxteen