The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-11

rows four feet apart and two feet in
the row You cannot keep the early
Irish potatoes with any success. and
should grow a late crop that will be
dug in cool weather, and these put in
cool and dark place will keep. But
the early potatoes should be used or
sold at once
SnpiinE Glover.
From Orangc County: Last spring
! sowed sapiing clover on oats. Since
cutting the oats the clover has made
such a growth that some is blooming.
Woula 1t be better to cut this and
leave 1t on the land as a mulch. or
will it smother the young clover? /
do not need il for feed After cutting
my red clover for hay the second
growth has been very vigorous. How
should this be treated? | have been
told that If the second crop is allowed
To mature a crop of seed II Will not
come again next year" II will de-
pend on the rdnkneSS of the growth
OF the saplinG clover. ! would prefer
TO cure and take II off the land As
To the second crop Of red clover, there
Is no doubt that the ripening Of y
crop of seed is Il weakening process
TO tho plants. and if the weather fol-
lowing the seed crop is very dry and
unfa ?orablc. the clover may fail. Bui
usually II will come through all
right
BorcrS in Peaches.
From Richmond: Il have a lovely or
chard of $50 trees. and have lost one
third Of them from the worm that
sets into the roots. 1t worries me to
see them die. as they are all young
trees and make such pretty fruit"
You are like many other city men VINO
have places In the country. You stand
b. and let the trees die, though you
hate to see them die. There is no way
TO keep trees in good order and
healthy except by constant attention
The worms in the roots are the larvae
Of moth that lays the eggs at the
base OF the tree. They Will certainly
gidle and kill the trees if YOU stand
sun and let them. The only thing
YOU can do is to set the borors out
Go over tho trees in spring and fall!
and whenever YOU see gum nj the
ground YOU may be sure that the
borcrs are at work that tree.
Then get down To 1t ana take your
knife and scrap eaway the gum and
the dccayed bark, and follow the
borcr till YOU find him and kill him
Then YOU can paint a foot of the
lower part Of the tree with white lead
and this Will to some extent prevent
the moth from laying eggs there. Hut
all the same YOU must look after the
trees. Then in fall, after the leaves
are off, and again in the spring, before
the buds swell, spray the trees with
the lime sulphur wash to kill San Jose
scale insects that may he helping the
horcrs kill the trees. If the bark has
scruffy gray look. YOU may be sure
Gays no one can grow fruit unless
they spray the trees You can buy
the concentrated lime sulphur from
the seed stores and make the solution.
and then with Il spraying machine you
can use il on the trees.
The Pnmnnkcy Section.
was interested in what Mr. Wood
son had TO say in the sunday
July 20 issue in regard to the farm
ing in the Pamunkey section in Han
over My first acquaintance with that
section was last summer. j. r. Ennis
went down there from Maryland and
bought an S00-acre farm over in King
William County, which is almost sur
rounded by a great curve OF the Pa
munkcy River, and near the head OF
naviration on that stream Mr. Enuis
employed me to go there and inspect
the place and advise him in regard to
It's cultivation We drove over twelve
miles from TUnstall station. and was
struck with the way that country
seems TO have been largely abandoned
nnd only here and there a farm in "a
good state of cultivation. AT one place
| saw field of fine alfalfa stretching
from the road 10 the river. This on a
farm bought by man from Balti-
more. !iut all around there were fine
lands being allowed to grow up in
bushes. While in all proba ability the
owners had driftcd to Richmond while
lN..Vs. fs.,n
development running TO n wilderness.
Bleaching the King William line and
crossing the river on Il high old fash
loncd bridge, set up TO avoid the floods.
found farm that surprised me-a
great level alluvial tract where corn
grows as big and lusty as anywhere.
IN the So called corn bolt OF the Cen
tral West, and yet high enough for
good drainage and above the river
ireshcts. At the house flowing ar
tcslan we'll sent the Clcarcst and purcst
water all over the place and to the
barns below, and at the foot Of the
lawn a beautiful natural lake of bright
spring water overfloWS into the muddy
river, a vast spring of thirty-ive acres
IN iact with no stream running into
H. but strong one running out, and
this stocked with fish. y regular prin-
r!palltN risht here In twenty miles OF
Richmond.
This part of the Tidewatcr section
seems almost a terra incoEuita right
.!ose TO The capital, and only waiting.
ior men of energy and industry TO
make II the garden spot OF Eastern
Virginia And passing down the next
afternoon along the Gloucester shores
pN the baltimore steamer. ii seemed
Y" me that mere is :; section almost as
Hnr as our Eastern shore country. only
waiting for the coming Of men OF
means ana energy 10 make it an earth
~ paradise It is hard to understand
why this section is so much PASSED
over while men toll in the rough hills
westward. The Pamunkcy. Mattaponi
ana the York River sections should he
made me most prosperous farming sec
non OF Virginia. The soil is there
Win great natural fertility. and with
increasing railroad facilities ii should
hur"ct good population. Here along
/ lhc Iamunkey IL looked 10 me as the
hatuFa! market garden for Richmond
u the trolley lines from Fair oaks
/ were extended 10 the river and mi.
! country should he able to prevent SC
much OF tho truck crops In the fal
I coming 10 Richmond from the North
tor ! am told that in the fall all sucl