The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16

I would make 1t more phosphoric acid.
You will find that as a general cotton
fertilizer, the following is good: 1,000
pounds OF is per cent phosphate, 500
pounds of cotton-seed meal, 200
pounds Of muriate of potash to make |
a ton. One thousand pounds of this |
will be better than the 1,100 pounds
Q propose.
Some Flower Troubles.
What is the matter with my white
chrysanthemums?" 1t vas a beautiful, /
pure white, and now it is about one
third brown. Have put stable ma
nure, ashes and salt around it. Also
my tulips do not bloom, and they
are three years old"
If you are growing these things in
a city yard it may be the ack of sun
shine. 1t nay be that our c~hrysan-
themum has been attacked by the rust
and has lost its leaves, and this will, |
Of course affect the flower. There are
a number Of fungus diseases that at
tack the NUNS and spraying with
Bordeaux mixture is about the best
remedy, or rather preventive. for it
should be used before any appear
ance Of disease so that the foliage
may be kept good. Why your tulips
do not loom 1 cannot say.
Perhaps you use too much
on them. Bulbs as a rule do not like
animal manure l take up my tulips,
every spring as soon as the tops are
ripe, and replant in the fall. In hi
way l get all the small offsets that
by planting will make large towering
bulbs. l have never known any diff
ficulty in blooming the tulips where
they have a light soil and abundant
sunshine. Better get now some fresh
bulbs and plant them, as they are
very cheap, and can be planted any
time before Christmas. II fact, I
have planted them in Christmas week
and had fine blooms. l seldom buy
any bulbs, for they have increased
with me until 1 have several thousand
n mine seem to do as well as the
imported ones But my soil is sandy
n not shaded.
Land Plaster.
DO you think land plaster is as
good for land as lime? I am using
it on a very black soil swamp land"
No. Plaster, the Sulphate Of lime, will
not take the place of lime carbonate
by any means. 1t will not sWeeten
an acid soil as lime will. and, in fact,
on such land as you describe I would
think that plaster will hardly have
any good effect. On the high land Of
the red-clay formation, In which there
is a great deal Of insoluble potash,
plaster will have some effect in re-
leasing the potash. But you black
soil is especially deficient in potash,
and l hardly think that plaster will
give you any good results.
Smut in Oats.
Il had a great deal Of black heads
in my oats that made no oats at all.
l have heard hat soaking the seed in
bluestone will prevent this. Is this
so?" Yes, you can oak the oats in a
solution Of bluestone or you can soak
them q while in water heated to 1876
degrees, OF you can soak them in a
solution Of formaldehyde, one pound
to twenty gallons Of water. I suppose
that you will SOW in spring, as it is
now too late here to SOW winter oats
with any good prospect for success.
Changing a Rotation.
Il have been following a ~three-yeal
rotation Of corn, oats and cotton. Now
| find that l have more cotton thar
| "a get picked, and l propose to
put only half the land in cotton and
, half in tobacco hereafter. l want tC
! keep up the same rotation, only di-
viding the cotton field with obaccO
Can it be done well?" You will have
! a good opportunity to test the genera
q opinion in regard to legumes and to.
bacco. for you are in the bright to.
$ bacco section, and as I happen tt
X know you follow your oats will
: peas and crimson clover for the cot.
r ton. Now it is the general opinion
n in all the bright tobacco section tina
you cannot grow good bright tobacco
$ after clover or "a You will hay'
a good opportunity to test this, and i
4 you cannot grow tobacco of a goot
quality after clover, it will be q goot
n thing to prove it.
= But n thing is to be remembered
Is and this is that sowing peas afte
it oats. and clover after peas, you will
d get a good Zeal OF nitrogen in tn
= land, and if you use the usual Tobacco
1t fertilizer, you may get too much nitro
d gen and nave a late and heavy crot
u But l believe that good tobacco ca
if be grown after clover. But you Nigh
NOV all the peas and then SOW Glove
only on the part that is to go in cot
re ton and then ~ only the dead pc
Stubble for the tobacco. R1t in eac