The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-27

away. If your soil is not acid, /
mink that you can get Il stand OF
! clover without artificial incubation
/ IL may BIO we'll to use tho culture on
an acre or Two. as trial, and to ge,
| soil better inoculated that YOU can
use on other land. l would hardly
advise going to the expense OF the cui.
| turc for the whole land you intend to
SOW. ! have never disturbed sweet
potato vines and have made good
crops too. In fact, the less the vines
| ard foliage are damaged the better
the crop. An abundance of foliage. as
| nave heretofore explained, is essen
| ual TO the making of the potatoes
! People often say their potatoes ran
away to vines and made no potatoes
out 1t was not because OF the vines.
but tho lack of the plant food in the
soil essential TO tho making of tho
roots, phosphoric acid and potash
There are plenty OF cabbages that will
| come in after the early ones are out
OF the way Tho variety known as
succession. and the Winningstadt and
tottlcr's Improved Brunswick will all
or them come in about the time named.
and the Brunswick will be little
latter than the others and will run
through August Our growers All
rush so hard for the early crop to
ship North that there is often scar
city q; home, and one working for tho
local market can make 1t profitable
with many vegetables to come in after
the early rush.
southampton County: I'VE have
lot that laid out last year and is now
III Virginia peanuts. There are some
weak spots in the lot. We wish to
plant corn in this land next spring.
VIII 1t injure the peanuts if we sNread
manure broadcast on the land now?
Would like to have your opinion be-
fore doing this. What is the least
quantity of plaster to apply to pea
really necessary when we have a good
sensonable YEAR, The spreading NJ
manure on the land will do no harm
to the peanuts, but may not now help
them any. Peanuts, being legumcs.
like clover. can get nitrogen from the
air. and. If we'll supplied with phos-
phate and potash, do not need applI-
cations of nitrogen. The only good
that plaster does Is to release insom-
Die potash that may he in the soil.
If the soil is naturally deficient In
potash. as most of your soil is the
plaster is Of little value Plaster is
merely sulphate of lime. but. unlike
the lime carbonate. it does not swcetep
an acid soil, and lime is of more i'm
portaAce than plaster on the general
average OF The soils of southampton
for the legumes need a sweet soil for
tne nitrogen-hNing bacteria to thrive
The best fertilizer application to make
on peanuts is the Thomas phosphate.
basic Stag. This carries forty pounds
OF lime III each 100 pounds and to |
that extent will tend to sweetcn the |
SOIL IT is the deficiency OF potash in |
the SOIL that causes pops or empty |
hulls. Therefore, Il good application |
OF potash is important An applica-
tloh OF 800 pounds of Thomas phos-
phat- and forty pounds of the muriate
OF potash an acre will make good pea
NUTS. y dressinS of manure now
while it may not increase tho peanut |
crop viii certainly lie good prepa-
iatioh Tor the corn. and Will do no !
harn TO the peanuts. Then, after the |
peanuts are lifted and shocked So,
DuShel and peck of rye OH the |
iand as Il winter cover, and turn this
under when knee high in the spring
Tor the corn. and it will certaiS..y help |
make good crop. In our climate we |
should never let land lie bare in win
Yer ana lose nitrogen in the winter
rams green crop on the land Will |
take up what would be washed away
from bare soil. and when plowed un- |
DER III the spring will give IL IN 10 |
the corn crop.
General Farming the Eastern shore |
of Virginia.
Another thing that one wonders ut |
IN passing through Accomac and |
southampton is the almost universal
practice Of blowing the land with :, |
httle plow and single horse OF |
course, the general lightness of III, |
'and has led TO this to great extent |
ana the shallow blowing answers very
well for the sweet potato crops. Bur |
"hch one looks at the lands devoted |
10 corn and general farm crops. he Is |
Stuck by the fact that the corn croDs
IN these counties, except where il fol-
lows heavily fertilized early trucl.
crop, Is OF the poorest character. and
me cultivation is done in the most
laborious manner
Some Years ago had occasion 70
rae straight down the Peninsula in
June from Wilmington TO Cane f,b,rla.
III me beautiful and wcll-cultivated |
farms OF lower Newcastle and Kopt
Nouhtlc3 IN Delaware | saw men riding
win two-horsc cultivators through the
corniiclds and rapidly doing tho wort
OF cultiVation in the best manner. and
the corn showed the effect not only ~
wei enriched land, but land we'll cnI-
'lVated. by the time reached Acco-
mac saw that the corn over 90 ,nilos
South OF the Newcastle fields was MOI
r'i' as large as there, and | saw. in
i!cid after field. mon going throueh
with onc-horse plows barring orr ~
corh-that is throwing Il furrow FROM
the corn TO be later thrown back and
tFaihping many times through the row.
, , man was necessary if they had
usc" improved implements. ana cut
tng the corn roots with a nIov 80
mus cutting short the crop. And tbc
nv" IN inc upper sections were making
'hfee times the crop that the Virpirio
r ,l make. simply because they 1
nave kept up the fertility Of their soil /
with clover and have used tho hcst
ihple 10 cultivate the crop I'm the
most economical way And We, tho
SOILS of Acconiac. and Northampton a.
RUE are capable of as high develop
mint as any on the Peninsula esnn
ci"iiE III Northampton 1t seems thai
,he entire devotion TO the potato crons
nag tended 10 keep back the general
i farm Improvement in these counties |
meie Is 10" iiitle attention given to
OF I'VE stock. and il seemed to me thar !
hc prosperity Of the Eastern shore