The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-10

OF the outer leaves, where some insect
has left them, they can always be got
ten rid OF. rs they are not in the in
terror of tho cabbage head. But they
do no harm to the cabbage or to any
one eating them.
Lntc Irish Potatoes.
What is the best fertilizer for late
Irish potatoes. and how much an acre,
and when TO plant them" l have al
ready given my method of planting
and cultivating tho late crop OF Irish
potatoes Late June or early July is
the time, and 4 mixture of 1000 pounds
of acid phosphate. 500 pounds of cot
tonseed meal and 400 pounds of muri-
ate OF potash will make y ton Of good
fertilizer. Use 500 pounds an acre in
the burrows.
Liquid Fertilizer.
This is from New York State:
please tell me what quantities OF phos-
phate nitrate OF soda and potash to
mix TO make a liquid fertilizer for gar
den plants" etc You can put heaping
tcaspoonful OF nitrate of soda, "A table
spoonful of acid phosphate and tea
spoonful Of mur.ate of potash In q
two gallon watering pot, and use this.
after watering the plants with clear
water. Applied when the soil is very
dry. it might damage the roots. but
VIII nc sale HppHeO Wnen the SOIL Is
moist.
Wire Worms.
"My land is infested with wire
worms. Can YOU give a remedy"
The wire worms are the larva of the
click beetle, the long beetle that IL
YOU lay II on It's back Will click and
turn over. The boys know II we'll.
These, like the bud worms, go into tho
pupa state in the soil in the fall and
loo Gil Il. Il
OF them, and the heavy use Of kainlt
as with the bud worms. Will help.
Keeping the land free OF weeds and
grass In the fall. where they harbor,
and a short rotation OF crops will help
too. They are moro troublesome when
II sod Is turned for corn, as they breed
there.
influence of LeEumcs on Other Crops.
I have stated more than once that
peas sown among corn would help
the corn. This was found true at the
Kansas station, where plots of corn
with peas sown among the corn made
more grain than those without tho
peas. Similar results were had at the
Cornell station, in New York. Last
summer, in conversation with DR. c. g.
Hopkins, OF the Illinois station,
asked what he had found as the re-
suit of sowing peas in corn. He said
to decrease the crop. Here seemed TO
be opposite results, but it seems that
they are easily explained. We knew
that peas and other lcEumes In a
soil where they have an abundance or
readily available nitrogen, will take
this and get less from the air than
they would IN a poorer soil. DR.. Hop
kinS's experience was on the rich,
black SOIL of the Illinois prairies, and
tlAnr. 4 h.N
stsre in the soil, and got little aerial nj
trogen. Hence they robbed the corn
while on poorer soils they get nitro
gen from the air abundantly, and the
corn associated with them gets some
too.
More recently, experiments have
been made ut the New Jersey station,
and tho conclusion was that under
favorable conditions nonlegumes, asso-
ciated with legumcs, may secure large
amounts of nitrogen from the latter.
Tho presence OF the nonlegumc does
not decrease the amount of dry mat
ter and nitrogen in tho lcgumc crop"
When nitrate OF soda was applied to
the mixed crop. the nonicgumcs gain
ed an advantage, and the growth OF
tho legume crop was depressed, and
was found 70 contain less nitrogen.
Everything else being equal, the
=
gen applied TO the crop, the greater
the yield of the nonlcgume and the
smaller that OF the lcGume
Whnt Does This Teach Us.
y farmer writes TO me. as many
have done that he wants to use a
side dressing of nitrate OF soda on
his corn, and Intends to SOW peas
among IL Now doubtless the appi-
cation will increase the growth or
the corn. but he Will not get the
same amour: of help from the peas
that he would have gotten without
the nitrate. That is. the peas will take
up the readily available nitrogen and
neglect to get nitrogen from the air,
and tho farmer Will have paid high
FOR all the benefit he got from the nj
tratc, and will have lost what he could
have gotten without cost from the air,
mad the peas been allowed TO do their
work. as they would have done with
out the nitrate.
alongside corn will. as have said.
greatly increase the growth of the
corn But II is question as to how
much II Will increase the yield In
grain The 100 pounds at present
price will cost over SO an acre, ana
think that II is very doubtful that
there VIII be an increase of So in the
'oI' aNc certainly u loss from the
peas Tins is exactly In line with
what nave been insisting on tor
Yeas: that Il does not pay to buy nj
trpgcn for the corn crop In fact, tho
farmer on grain farm who practices
Il good short rotation and grows and
feeds legume crops. and always has
crimson clover to turn FOR his corn
on which he has spread all his manure
accumulation will never need TO
buy an ounce OF nitrogen in a fer
tilixer
This has hecn proven in the ex-
perience Of hundreds OF the best whca,
farmers In Maryland who have. for
years. been increasing their crops OF
wheat whilc buying no ammNlintcd
fertilizer Whatever
some years ago was at farmers
lnsutnt" iu one OF the best whcat
counties IN Maryland a lecturer
rom Nov York state made a very in
! ierestns talk on fertilizers. and smoke
1 81 thcr composition as complete fer
( filters and their application When
/ lac was through said to him mar
! perhaps h. did no; know tina, in the
/ NOR" than two hundred farmers pres
| en-. 'neFc were hardly a dozen who