The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-29
| WITH THE FARMERS
\ By Prof. w. F. MASSEY


which 1 prepared for plant grower.
and you can refund the postage.
Windsor Beans.
Il would like to know moro about
the English bears known as the Broad
Windsor. 1 understand that they can
be planted here in North Carolina In
the fall and will mature early In
spring 1 am running n largo dairy,
and thought that they might DO use
ful to help out tho ensilage in the
early spring. u nclghbor Of mine
planted some in March. and they grew
an large ns Soy beans or about two
ana half feet tall, and were covered
with beans. but the hot weather struck
them and they did not mature"
The Broad beans are quite hardy In
n moderate climate. l have planted
them at Raleigh. y. c.. in November
ana they came in green along with the
green peas, and were very good enting
at that stage or growth. l have had
them frozen when In bloom, and II
ala not seem to hurt them. But for
growing on Il large scale 1 fear that
tho seed will be rather too costly
fou can do better with crimson clover
and Hairy vetch. The Broad beans
must be maturcd early in spring, for
they VIII not stand the heat of our
summers at all. i have never used the
dry beans as table vegetable. since
we can grow Lima beans that are far
better, but the green Windsor beans
are very good in early spring. They
can be grown from fall planting any
where In lower Southeast Virginia and
North Carolina. The Italians at Ra-
leigh generally plant them in Deem
Dor
Cover Crops.
Mathews County: viii you let me
know through tho paper which will
improve the soil most, wheat or rye
turned under. L can grow wheat bet
ter than rye?" Wheat will probabl
make more vegetable matter than rye.
But II you are sowing purely for the
Improvement of the soil. why use
wheat or rye? The soil will gain only
the organic decay, simply the car
bonaceous material that all plants get
from the air, and All The plant food
that plants get from the soil will in
these crops be taken from the soil,
while If YOU SOW crimson clover the
SOIL VIII gain in nitrogen. which the
clover can get from the air. but which
wheat or rye cannot get. You can
SOW wheat and crimson clover both.
sowing three pecks of wheat and then
sowing fifteen pounds Of crimson
clover seed which you can probably
buy In Richmond for about $3.50 a
bushel. This will do a great deal more
FOR the land than wheat or rye alone.
Special Methods for Incrcnsine Plants
'Chn Irish potatoes be bcdded and
the sprouts planted like those OF the
sweet potnto?' Perhaps. but 1t would
hardly pay to do II unless with a new
and high priced article. | have cx-
perimented In years gone b. with the
rapid increase of several kinds of
riants that were high priced and paid
for expensive methods. About thirty
years ago Mr.. Bliss. a New York seed
man. introduced the Early Rose potato.
later putting them At 81 pound /
got pound for 81. cut them to
single eyes and planted them In my
garden and made thirty-fve pounds rs
the crop Tint winter / put these no
intoes In the propagating bed In Il
greenhouse. and rs fast rs they grew
made cuttings and rooted them ms
we do gernniums ny spring l had n
greenhouse full OF potato plants in
four-inch pots, enough OF them to
plant an acre. while the seed were
still very high. But this sort OF pro-
pagation cannot pay Tor ordinary
planting, and was only used to increa So
very high priced product. Later Col.
onei Waring sent out The Trophy to.
mato. the first really large and solid
tomato we had
! paid him So for twenty seed and
sowed them In tho greenhouse early
in January. Seventeen OF them came
up and potted them, and as fast as
they made growth ! made cuttings
ana rooted them. and by spring | had
$50 plants, and sold eighteen OF them
Tor 80 cents each. so that the invest
ment paid very well. as I raised from
the remainder seed enough for large
plantation of tomatoes and sold some
too.
When Mr. Parry. OF New Jersey. sent
out the llerstine raspberry. | got two
heid grown plants. large and well root
ca, Tor So Now II had plan these.
II would have taken a years growth
TO get them into fruitinC condition
and then ] would have had but the two
plants ] did better. The plants had
an abundance Of long roots These 7
cut in pieces not over an inch long.
knowing that the roots of the red
raspberry have plenty of dormant buds
| There were hundreds of these little
pieces and I planted them in shallow
boxes OF light soil In the greenhouse
in January. and placed them where
they had some bottom heat They
! sprouted fast. and as soon as each had
made an inch or two of top carefully
iifted them and potted them in two
inch pots. In the spring | had over 25O
plants with tops n foot high and
planted these and they all grew finely,
and the following season had n nice
crop or fruit just as soon as would
nave had II on two plants IL had
not used this intensive method OF pro
pagation- These methods pay when
the product is high priced. but are ton
costly when the plants from the open
ground can be had chcaply by the
thousand.
Cover Crop i'm Orchard.
Il have CLEANED so much valuable in.