The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-20


w. +. Massey. to be devoted to
pasturing. But If YOU want tho oats
for grain. leave the vetch out. About
twenty-five pounds OF vctch seed an
acre will do with oats. The mixture
makes Il very fine hay crop.
Furnace for Tobacco Barn.
Upper North Carolina: "Will 1t do
to make a furnace for a tobacco barn
OF cement where it Will be heated red
hot?'
I hardly think that the cement would
mako lasting furnace You would
have to make n concrete, and the heat
would burst the rocks used in the con-
crete and soon cause the destruction
OF the furnace. Better build of brick
and, still better. line with re-brick.
Rntproof Corn Crib.
How can 1 build n ratproof corn
crib?' Put the crib on concrete pill
lars three feet high, and put flash
ing of roofing tin all around. project
ing ten inches outside tho crib at the
floor. Sheathe under the floor joists
md ELL In between the joists with small
water-washed gravel about the size
OF beans. and floor above that. Rats
cannot gnaw through such a floor, rs
the gravel will always fall in their
way, and the PROJECTING tin flashing
will prevent climbing outside. The
the top, and have a pulley to hoiss
Their up out OF the way when not in
use have found that n filling of
small gravel IS the best thing to keep
rats from cutting through wall.
Glover I'm Cotfon-C otton Trouble.
Nansemond County: Il intended TO
SOW crimson clover in my cotton, TO
turn Under for corr in the spring. But
the severe wind and rainstorm has
laid the cotton fiat. and it is impos
sble to go through 1t with horse
and cultivator. Would YOU advise
sowing the seed broadcast over the
cotton and take the chances Of its
termination and growth without cover?
Some sort of worm or weevil has made
its appearance in the cotton in this
county and is playing havoc with it.
II bores into the side of the young boil
and completely destroys ii. 1t is about
one eighth OF an inch thick and three
quarters to an inch long, light brown
color on its back and lighter length
wise stripes on its sides. We do not
know whether 1T is the boil weevil
or some other form of worm. Would
like to have your suggestions as TO
the future of cotton culture here in
view of this trouble" Sow the clover
all over the cotton, for il will gen
orally grow all right on unprepared
ground, where shaded. 1t seems to me
that the trouble with your cotton is
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been with us, or that you have the
anthracnose disease, and the worm has
nothing 10 do with IL, but is attracted
by the decayed bolls. But II it is the
worm that is doing the work the best
plan is TO plant rows of sugar corn
AT intervals in the cotton field. The
moth Will prefer 10 lay her eggs on
the corn, and the worm will feed on
the com and let the cotton alone. IF
il IS disease, the anthracnose, the
CITY thing is 10 get seed next year
run g clean held.
Wheat After Corn.
= have !ls' bought farm. and the
1elc -ov j. corn ! wish 10 SOW TO
H-aes- Please Tell --e how 10 make
n. pest yield - me most economical
VIZ soii = Ign; gray, and will make
fpput @:t+eu bushels OF corn an acre"
BUYING = uui-n 2-oyed farm. with
J,pu' f@lc q cor- Of =, and or light
sui does not promise much in the
Wy .: Ea-ti-E wheat Cut the corr.
OF Enu EnnrE = IN al proba bility
Inc lanL wes merely scratch plowed
70: M COZ a-d his hso 40 clover
ol II r,-t Marty, ..,EAere. the corn
cores o. 1acc ..St. :.a+' bsen well
lp-uec Gcder :u- ne CON would
prepare tns lE16 ~ oiEkinE Tie sur
lace - si-,t rossioie and letting ,he
early JJlcw--E remain settled. BUY 81
lrAt ciSe : wuLlc rEpJow tLE Land well.
s.-lc tasn --r u yak anc settle il
"-.Ia tea-r ~ .zr,o.'. and wovld use
o. :: q. seeing Z cptn pleie fertilizer
irE- would u; De ue.ce6 had Ihe land
n4sa p-uJHrly EARNED before Nix 200
POUNDS = zcic JhoEpnzte, 800 pounds
az cotto-ssed meal and 700 pounds Of
rlur.ats y potash - make Z ton. and
II t1is Use 800 pcuL6s ~ acre, and II
The preparation y good you may make
a tsir crop q wheat tof Inc land. which.
from your description, * not the hest
character Of SOL .o- whez, Dfiu 81
six pecks ot seed Al ARE. Lass would
do on stronger soil. bL, or TIA, land
the wheat vii! aot Jiller as strongly
IS on better soil Then star, good
rotation OF crops OF the farm and build
up the rundown fertility OF the sol!
Till you VIII wonder that = man ever
planted = field in corn that would make
only fifteen bushels an acre
Cutting and shreddinG Corn Slower.
Have determined TO GUY and snock
our corn and shred IL, and so have
bought engine and shredder, and want
all the information you can give In re
gard TO this method o: saving the corn
crop" after cutting and shocking the
corn, YOU VIII need some tarred t,yine
TO tie the shocks. The best way 10 ii.
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