The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-17

lice p" IL is hard TO get rio OF tnem
when they are in multitude on plants.
Spraying with a strong tobacco decoc-
ton will help, but if you use tobacco
stems heavily as a fertilizer in plant
ing the cabbages you will not have
the lice.
am asked: Why is it that cow
peas do not make seed sometimes
| do not know, but l do know that
on very rich land or on low, black,
swamp and they make great vines
and few peas. They make more SEED
on Lam of moderate fertility and dry
nature, and will usually seed better
if well supplied with acid phosphate
and potash.
A farmer writes: Il want to tell
YOU that | made a complete success
with the acre of crimson clover sown
according to your directions. | also
had vetch with vines four feet long.
Now j want to know how TO nght
the tobacco worms? Spray the to-
bacco with the lead a~rSenate, thirty
gallons of water and one pound Of
arsenate, and spray under the leaves
as well as on top.
II have three acres in alfalfa"
writes a farmer. Il cut it five times
last summer, and after the last cut
ting the crabgrass grew strongly. and
1 turned the stock in on it until April,
and now there is little alfalfa left.
| want to pasture. it and prepare 1t
again and SOW in the fall" You cut
the alfalfa too often and then killed
it by pasturing. Better not cut more
han three, or at best four, times, and
do not pasture it, but cav a good
growth on the and in the fall, and
1t will keep ahead Of the crabgrass.
Another reader asks: "Can l store
cor in a silo, without cutting, SO that
II will make good ensilage?" l have
never tried uncut corn in a silO, but
nave seen it tried by others, and i
did not like it. There will always
be more damaged ensilage a where
properly cut, and the labor of get
ting it out is worse. than pulling corn
stalks out Of a pile. 1t may
be gotten out with a hay knife or
a sharp spade, but l think that the
damaged silage and the extra labor
will soon make the price Of a cutter
and power.
please tell me at once what to dc
to destroy the potato bugs that are
killing my p~otatoes?" Thus writes a
lady who signs herself Mrs. T. s.. and
Mrs. T.. s. would have had a reply
at once by mail a she signed her
name, while it is not possible for her
to get the information in the paper
before the bugs have finished the po-
tatoes Spray them with one pound
Of e a arsenate in thirty gallons OF
water. That is what l have lone te
my potatoes and I know nothing bet.
ter. Anyone can see that l use NJ
ones name in the paper, but Away.
sign your name and give your post
Office address.
A farmer writes: II have a piec'
Of land that has not been cultivated
for fifteen years, and l expect to plan
1t in fruit trees next spring, and will
SOW 1t in peas now to improve tn
land. Should they be sown broad
cast or in rows?" l would prepar
the land we'll and put the peas II
with a wheat drill set to sow tw
bushels Of wheat an acre. This wi
put them in at a uniform depth an
they will all terminate together an
make q far better crop than broad
casted and narrowed in. Then as t
the fruit trees. Always plant fru
trees in the fall in the South. Th
trees ave got to make new feedin
fbers. and our soil does not freez
deeply in winter, and they will b
making new roo hairs ready for tn
swelling buds in the spring. viii
trees set in the spring may swell the
ou06 before there are any rOOt-hail
formed, and the trees may be exhaus
ed and die before the roots are rea6
to supply new material for growt
Then always plant One-year-old tree
and you can head them low dow
where they should be headed to NAL
low trees for spraying. The one-ye;
trees cost less and cost less freigl
and live better than older ones.
/ am asked: Can Irish potato
be grown from %'prunes.' as is do
with tomatoes Under proper co
ditions, both Irish potatoes and t
matoes can be grown from cuttins
and while at times the cuttings
tomatoes can be rooted in the CD
ground, ! doubt that Irish potato
can be. Many years ago the Ear
Rose potato was sent out for SO
pound. l bought a pound and o
them in the propagating bed in
greenhouse, and made cuttings as f;
as hey grew. j did this early