The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-17
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W. 4. haS>c?. like TO have an eN
PRECISION OF opinion from them. Drop
n card TO the Managing Editor, giving
your ideas on this matter.
Peas and Alfalfa.
"How do green cowpcas compare with
alfalfa as soliing feed. that is, to cut
green for feeding" Pound for pound
had as leave have the peas for soil
ing as alfalfa. In fact there is very
little If any difference IN the feeding
value OF cowpea hay and alfalfa hay.
Even up in the Northwest they are
realizing the value of cowpca hay.
Henry Wallace, editor Of Wallace $
Farmer. OF Des NIoncs. Iowa. recently
told 4 subscriber who was seeking in
formation in regard To cowpea hay.
that in his opinion il was as good feed
as alfalfa. and further. in regard to its
money value. he said that if timothy
hay was selling for SlS a ton. the buy
or had better pay $40 ton for cowpea
hay They are getting early varieties
now that thrive in Southern Iowa and
in Michigan ana Wisconsin. while years
ago the editor of a little paper in
Southeastern Pennsylvania said that
my talk about cowpeas would do for
the South. bur they would never thrive
that far North. To-day they are ma X :
ing cowpea hay up under the east side
OF the Blue Ridge, a hundred miles
north of where this editor wrote
what viii prevent worms and wee
Vii in wheat after it is In the garner"
Put the wheat in closed bins and to
each 100 bushels place n pan with Il
pint OF carbon bisulphide on top the
wheat and close up. The fumes are
heavier than air and will sink through
the grain and kill all insect life in il,
Keep the chemical away from all fire,
as the fumes will explode.
Keeping Manure.
What shall ! do TO preserve my
stable manure for the next two months?
am getting the manure from more
than eighty head of horses and my land
is ali in crop now IN the fall | haul
direct to the field and spread it,
have been piling it and mixing refuse
salt in IT, but am told that that Will
do more harm than good What shall
mix with il TO prevent loss?' You
do not say what crops are on your Ia nd
but | am sure that so long as corn is
low enough 10 straddle with a wagon
il would he better 10 spread the ma
nure between the corn rows II may
not especially help this crop of corn.
but II Will be where the following crop
OF winter grain viii get it. Some
years ago in South Carolina l saw a
farmer hauling out the stable manure
in August and spreading it between the
cotton rows ana he found later that it
helped the late opening cotton, too.
But If YOU are obliged TO pile the ma
nurc, make the pile broad and fat and
drive over ii 10 pack 1t. To each
wagouload mix loo pounds OF acid
retain the ammonia, but 1t will nearly
treble the efficiency OF the manure over
that without IL. This has been well
proven in long continued experiments
NJ the Ohio Experiment Station. Leave
out the salt. it does no good and may
do harm. for salt is not plant food
Preparing for Peanuts.
In Gloucester County have piece
OF corn which expect TO pillow for the
last time early In July and seed to
cowpeas. and leave all the vines on the
land. What do YOU think of this "a a
preparation for peanuts another sea
son2 ! rud that planting peanuts after
clover makes them rather late" You
speak OF giving the corn the last plow-
ing. l hope that You do not mean to
use pillow in IL. have not put pillow
in a corn field after planting for n
great many years. You should SOW the
peas and cultivate them in with the
cultivator running shallow. and never
plow corn and tear the roots with a
turning pillow. Then if YOU cut tho
corn on and shock il for curing, you
can disk down the peas In Scptem Der
:>ld sow crimson clover seed as winter
cover 1t does c6t matter when or
clover. IL VIII nay Wall TO SOW II. or
course. IL viii do more good turned in
bloom, and hardly think that would
make the peanuts very late But all
the same SOW the clover and turn il
= any stage and IL VIII have paid for
Itself Then use Thomas phosphate on
the peanuts with some rnuriatc Of pot
ash. Or. Stubhs found on his Glouccs-
tel farm that potash did not seem to be
needed there, but would not trust pea
nuts without some potash anywhere.
Where TO nuy Fruit Trees.
VIII fruit trees from the Nortn do
better here than those grown here 90
In buying trait trees my advice has
s!ways boon 10 deal with the nearest
reliable nursery, and what is hest. deal
directly with the nursery, and not with
travelling agent Tho agent max
properly represent a good nursery. hut
his prices vii! invariably be higher
than YOU can go to the nursery and
/. get the trees Tor, since his travelling
expenses must toe paid and his second
trip 10 deliver and collect for tho
trees There are good nurseries in
virginia and II costs far less freieh,
10 get the trees near home.
What Kind OF Trees 10 inv.
In planting an ample orchard. which
will be the best, two or three year.
old trces?"
Neither. never plant any frui,
trees moro than one year old from IN,
bud or graft BuddeG ample trees v.il
be rather larger at one wear old thai
root grated ones. and tho best nur
serymen arc now very generally pro
pagating their apples 10y budding OF
seeding stocks in summer instead q
making root gratis in winter as ha
been The rule.
cne-ycar old trees arc to be pro
ferred because they are mere switche
with live buds from the bottom ,.p
In these days Of spraying we mus
have low headed trees and II you bu,
two or thrce-ycar trees, they hay
started a head IN the nursery and al
ways with stem three or four fee
high and in planting these you ar
fixed as 70 the height OF the stem, 10
you cannot cut back these trees wit
any certainty. and a tree trunk fou
feet high is more than twice as hig
as ] want the trunk TO be
With one-year- old tree, you ca
cut back the stem 10 any point an
have llvs buds TO start the head wher
II should be. ] cut back the stem t
about twenty inches from the grount
and after the tree starts TO grow
select three or 5our Of the best situate
shoots from this point down 10 forr
the head.