The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-08

neral Of this is that every man hSuiu
attend 10 his home business hrSt.
Since that / have never wasted any
.Silage in summer.
From Horny County. South Caro-
lima: when is the best time 10 SOW
timothy grass for hay?' In your sec
tion | would not use timothy. You
might. on rich and moist n get q
crop from a fall sowing, but that
would probably be the last Of it, as 1t
would hardly go through your sum-
mer. There are other grasses. Ike
the tall meadow oats grass ana or
chard grass, that Will do much pet
ter with you. These, too, should be
sown in October. on good land you
can make q fine hay crop by sowing
seed Of the Italian rye grass IN the
fall and cutting it in the spring. rms,
too. makes no sod OF any amount and
should be treated as an annual. GU
can SOW it with crimson Glove and
make a nice crop of hay and il Will
help the clover in curing.
From a recent letter: This is a
wheat and tobaccos Ountry Your
articles on cotton are all right, but
do not interest US up here. Let US
have something about wheat. What
is the best fertilizer TO use on wheat
on pea and clover land?'' l suppose
that YOU mean to SOW wheat after
cowpeas now growing. The best in
that case will be to make hay of the
peas and then merely disk the pea
stubble as fire as possible, but not
deep, and work in this preparation
400 pounds of 16 "er cent acid phos-
phate an acre. our land hardly
needs potash, and the peas will have
left nitrogen enough for the wheat.
But never urn under h whole
growth of peas for wheat, as that
will prevent getting the soil compact
ed LIS the wheat demands. I do not
think that you will iced any other
the acid phosphate. But you cannot
make the surface soil too fine, and
the more you harrow it the better.
Then wait till there has been q light
white frost before drilling the wheat.
and you will escap danger from the
fly.
A reader wishes to know: Can Ian
be made too rich to grow peas, Oh
does not the abnormal growth OF
vines result more from ill-balanced
:. soil conditions, and could it not be
J lremedied by a liberal use Of phos.
: phoric acid and potash, and lining
:, I will try this on my fall crop Thu
= year and on the spring crop mex
q year. My Harrow peas made OF
s ocean Of vines and few pods; grew
!. Lsix to eight feet tall and covered six
: foot alleys. Three years g this lar
e wOuld not grow peas. This legumu
e Iland-bunding is a science which pre-
< sents ever new problems for solution
q One Of u most successful farmer.
n who a made fifty crops, planted
field in velvet beans two years Il
succession. and made a wilderness Q
It stalks and abou 16 per cent Of HI
a usual crop" All OF this and muc
d more was crowded on a postal care
n and if my old eyes lave gotten
Nv0h$ IN ~ 90 ~ ~ %~-~ls-
- section of South Carolina, and is wri
IS ing about English peas for marke
ar Doubtless h leaving out Of nitroge
he and the liberal use of acid phospha,
r, OF Thomas phosphate and potas
IN would result in better podding in IL
nd peas. 1t is the potash and the pho
* phoric acid that make the seed
40 plants. If you neighbor who plan
ed cotton after the velvet beans, h.
not used the usual fertilizer. but hs
il simply given the crop q heavy do
he Of phosphate and potash, he wou
~ stalk. He had nitrogen enough q
il ready. You are perfectly right
your intention to rely on the pho
phoric acid n potash and leave o
90 the nitrogen. This is the great a
&c vantage Of legume fertilization, tn
1T will save the buying of the cos,
nitrogen.
A subscriber sends me an adve
re- tiSement of DaSheens from a F1ori
address and wants to know If the n,
.ne vegetable is what they claim for
pc The Department of Agriculture
Washington mas issued a bulletin
II the Dasheen and gives methods
cooking the bulbs. 1t is said to
I'VE very productive, and that at Charl
ton. S. c., they made 40 bushels
,Ht Ito of an acre. I have some
10y them now growing, and SO far as
'H tops look one can see no differer
between them and the ordinary Ca
ne dunn or elephants ears, so common
INC planted for ornament. In fact,
ioE Dasheen belongs to the same fam
nan and the Caladium roots are q
good to eat when cooked. But eitl
Of them had better not be tasted r:
the for they are very irritant to the me
eeo brane OF the mouth and tongue.
eep the department trial grounds
me Florida, they have made 400 busk
MI - - 49, a