The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-23
w. F. Massey,

n man of general
education. nominated by the politicians.
The friends of the first named urged his
selection because of his education and
experience in agricultural matters
The Governor said: What do we want
with farmer at the head of the col
5lege? / can hire farmer for $50 a
month" The others retorted. then, that
there was no need for an agricultural
college II the boys We're to be taught
that they would only be worth $40 a
month But after long years of lam
gushing, the Maryland College has at
last gotten farmer at its head If
you want a man of capacity in any
line OF human endeavor, YOU can only
get him by paying what such man
can always command. and YOU need
not think that YOU can run a 10OO-acre
place successfully as a business enter
prise with $40 n month man You
will get what YOU pay for, and no
more.
Some complain that the seed of tho
cowpeas are so high priced that they
cannot AFFORD to use them Now if Tho
peas arc worth $3.50 a bushel and
You SOW bushel an acre. and get
into every acre of your land as much
organic nitrogen as YOU could buy in
ton OF good average fertilizer and
large amount of vegetable n,atter
y
big profit on the investment? Both an
immediate profit and beneft to the
land that cannot be estimated in dol
lars and cents. You cannot afford not
10 grow the peas. after small grain
and among your corn CROP for as
have before shown. the peas among
the corn VIII increase the corn crop.
and certainly wheat or oats stubbin
where no clover has been sown, will be
greatly helped by having peas follow
the grain crop.
Then IT is often rather hard to plow
stubble after harvest when the soil
has gotten dry. Try going over 1t first
with cutaway disk, harrow both
ways, and in little while, even if
there has been no rain YOU will And
that the soil has absorbed moisture
from air and dew and can be plowed.
/ have known n crop OF two tons of
pea hay made after good crop OF
oats had been taken from the land
But do not simply plow a stubblc and
SOW the peas broadcast, but put the
land into good order and pue the peas
in with wheat drill set to SOW two
bushels of wheat an acre. You will
find that the growth will be more uni
form and the crop heavier than whore
the peas are simply narrowed in and
some covered too deep while others ar.
not covered at all. II YOU are compell-
cd to SOW broadcast. still put the land
In good shape, and cover the peas with
IN Acme harrow, which will do it more
nearly like the drill than any imple-
ment ] know.
What variety of peas shall sow?'
In the lower Underwater section al
most any variety will do well. In the
Piedmont and upper country the earlier
varieties Will he better, such as New
Era, the earliest Whippoorwin next
early. and the black and clay later. but
heavier lawmakers. In the counties
bordering on Hampton Roads and York
River the Wonderful or Unknown, MS
some call it. will make a wonderful
crop of hay, but is rather late for the
upper country.
Cultivate Level and Shallow.
If you have been in the habit of
using q turning pillow in the cornfield
and laying the crop by with a big
furrow thrown TO II. and cutting the
corn roots In doing this. try this year
at least part of your corn cultivated,
level and shallow. with a small tooth
cultivator, and note the difference.
am sure You will abolish the turning
ploy from the cornield hereafter. And
some who have gotten TO cultivatinE
corn level and shallow, still adhere
10 big killing In the tobacco. Try
little level and shallow cultivation
there too.
Crimson Cover Seed.
Please tell me how to save and
clean Crimson clover seed?"
Let the clover .atand...t till ripe and
cut and cure it''dr% in cocks or under
cover, and you can fiji out the seed
and SOW IT In the bulls. II will grow
just as we'll as though cleaned. If
YOU use four times as much seed as
OF clean seed clover huller is
costly machine, and cannot usually he
prohtably used on one farm. In Della
ware and Maryland. where large quan-
lities o! the seed are grown, the hullor
is owned and travelled like the wheat
threshers. and cleans for all on a toll
or for cash.
have n pasture lot that has run
mo sorrel and the grass is almost
ohoked out. How shall overcome tho
sorrel?" ''e
sorrel grows and thrives when tho
son gets 100 acid for better plants. Not
that the acid in the sorrel comes from
Inc soil Tor II comes from the air
through the action of tho green mat
ter In the leaves, and while sorrcl viii
grow In perfectly sweet soil IT is
there easily crowded out by clover and
grasses | would pillow that grass sod
deeply now. and would sow il TO COW
peas. the only leeume that viii ,briva
IN acld soil, would let the peas
mature and then disk them down and
pillow them under we'll and then hsr
row In Twenty-Five or thirty bushels an
acre OF freshly slaked lime. Then seed
down in October with a mixture az
orchard grass, red top and Kentucky
blue grass. using plenty Of seed and
you can get the pasture renewed II,
good shape. Then II YOU want to keen
the lot permanentir in grass give II a
top dressing OF bone meal every spring.
and keep the weeds down with n
mower and scatter thu droppings, and
about once in six years brush i'm with
4 smoothing harrow n dressing OF
lime. and YOU can maintain a flne blue
grass pasture. The above grass mix
ture for the Piedmont section For
lower Underwater there is nothing bet
ter than Bermuda grass, wire grass.
as il is called in some sections
Cottorsecd Meal and Brnn.
Which is the best feed for dairy
COWS, cottonseed meal or wheat BRAN
at the prices both are selling FOR now
the cottonseed meal will make the
cheaper feed. II is a far more concen-
trated protein food than bran. But II
must be fed with judgment and not ir