The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-25
ono good crop Of hay of mixed cloves
and red top and timothy.
Sowing Onion seed.

Sowing Onion Seed.
Can l SOW onion seed now an
have them stand the winter and max
good onions?' Hardly, in our climate
You could have sown seed Of TIL
Prizetaker early I'm September an,
could late this month have had stront
plants to transplant, and these would
! probably have wintercd well and mad,
large onions. Last year about tn,
samo time two growers sent me spccl
mems Of their Prizetaker onions One
was in the Pecos Valley. in New Next
I co. nnd grew crops by irrigation Tht
{ other ono was in the far northwest,
| crn State OF Washington. Both OF
/ these growers raised tho crop from
seed sown III September and trans
| planted Later, and each sent Six speti-
mems tha; averaged over a pound each.
! With n cold frame and glass sashos
you can SOW seed Of the Prizetaker,
the Denia and the Giant Gibraltar. all
large Spanish onions. In January, and
when they are as stout as lead pen
| ell tho weather Will usually be mild
enough to allow for transplanting
.hem to open ground. Great crops Of
heavy onions have been grown in this
way. But 1t Is rather hard to under-
asking about certain crops till 1t is too
late TO do anything with them.
Peas and Millet.
] notice time and again writers in
the farm papers advising the sowing
hay easier to cure. Now the fact Is,
as have often stated, that when cut
at the proper stage there is no hay
crop easier to cure than cowpeas, If
you simply let them cure. and do not
fool with all sorts OF contrivances to
spoil them. We want the cowpea
hay for its great portein value. and
we can get plenty OF carbonaceous
feeds like millet. and the presence OF
niilet simply lowers the protein value
OF the peavine hay. Then. too, if the
millet stands till the peas are ready
to cut IT will have rlpcned its seeds
and these will make the hay danger
Gus rs feed for horses or any animal
that does not chew the cud, for they
viii cause competitions in the mites
tines. My advice is that when YOU
are sowing peas next spring. SOW peas.
and nothing With them. Usually there
will be plenty of crab grass with
them. and even that is better than
miilet y friend in Westmoreland says
that he cannot afford TO use n pea
harvester because he can find no
market for the peas he has picked by
hand Now in the demand there Is
every spring for peas mt good prices
ii seems to me that the writer is sim
ply hiding his light and not getting
market for peas because he does not
advertise the fact that he has them
for salc. When farmers discover the
value of n little printers ink in news
paper they Will have less reason to
complain OF a lack OF market for any.
thing they produce.
Feeding EnsinEc TO Horses md Mules
Can ensilage be probably and
safely fed 10 horses and mules?" There
is no doubt that ensilage that is per-
fectly sound can be fed in moderate
amount to horses and mules. I once
made brief experiment in this line
| had II s!X-mule team that made two
trips a day of five miles each, hauling
coal on Roou macadamized road. | cut
their night ration of hay in half and
made II up with silage, but fed no
silaGe in the morning. They ate il
clean, about seven pounds daily and
improved on II while the experiment
lasted. But as ! had a large stock of
beef cattle and dairy cows. / concluded
that could not spare the silage
through the whole winter TO the mules
But ii satisfied me that the silage
could be fed safely. But no dalnagcd
or spoiled silaGe should be fed TO mules
or horses, as any decaycd vegetable
matter il very dangerous to such stock
and may result in sudden death by
sort OF meningitis
Anthracnosc In Cotton.
y number of farmers In North Caro-
lima and several in lower Virginia have
sent nae samples OF rotten cotton bous
asking what the cause is. Nearly every
one OF these have bought seed OF what
is known as the maitland half cot
ton from South Carolina. The cotton
IN every case shows that the trouble
Is from anthracnoSe, Il disease that is
carried by the seed. Nothing can be
done for the present crop, but no seed
should be saved or used from a field
where this disease has appeared. and
care must be taken TO get seed next
spring from perfectly clean fields The
disease is very widespread In South
Carolina, and caution must be used in
getting seed from anywhere, and the
nail -and-half variety seems to be in
iected and had better be let alone
Volunteer Winter Crop.
planted some late corn after win
Ter oats that came off early, and now
inc corn field has 4 good stand among
me corn of oats. VIII it be best to
plo" these down this fall or let them
stand Till spring. as want the land
then for other crops?" Having II
CROWN OF oats covering the land well
! would let them stand as winter
cover ana turn them under in the
spllng They will save you from loss
oil tertl!ity in the soil this winter, and
VIII ada GONE Misunderstanding material
TO the soil when pIowed under In the
spring Never let land lie bare of
green growth In winter, for bare soil
~ our climate loses a great deal Of
ieftilty IN the winter rains. and nav
ing green growth coming naturally
on tue land I would certainly let it
remain
Growing Irish Potatoes
VIII irish potatoes grow on land
mat VIII Weld peanuts in abun
dance Irish potatoes can be grown
WIN success OF any high and we'll
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