The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-25
Prof. Massey's Views
FROM THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER

hrs- Hathaway writes q query OF
interest TO no one else. She Sends
q efamped envelope, but but not say
where she lives. When / get TINS
information I will reply.
will nitrate c. soda left over from
last season have lost anything! foI-
tons Of 1t will have ABSORBED mos
ture and dissolved, but what has no.
dona SO is still good. / find that lt
Is a good plan to mix nitrate OF sooa
with plax er to absorb moisture aho
10 make 1t more easily spread.
do YOU know anything about
rrijole Mexican beans, VIII 'ney
thrive in Mississippi" l CANNOT say
&C Ia their thriving. / have just got
,an .ome from Arizona and intend
to try them this season ana WIZ
no able TO saw more about them later.
Mine are a pale fiesh-colored bean
grown by the Indians In Arizona anu
claimed to be wonderfully droutn-
resistant. These are called Tepary
beans, and 7 understand are the same
as the Frijole. At any rate. they
look different from anything l have
had.
Can the White Navy Beans be
brown in South Carolina?" Certain
ly, they can be grown, but not sue
c~essfully as q commercial matter. as
the humidity Of the Southern climate
will usually cause a far larger per
centage Of damaged beans than In the
North. For family use, n can al
ford TO pick them over by hand, VI
as a rule l think that one had about
as well buy what his family needs.
We can grow Black-Eye peas better
than the Northern growers and to
my taste Black Eye peas are better
eating han Navy beans. Each section
should grow things suited to its cli-
matte conditions.
MY daughter Is q member Of a
Tomato Club" writes a subscriber.
Would it be better to let the vines
tumble on the ground or train them
in some way?" The largest crop may
possibly be made by letting them tum-
bic on the ground. But there will
be more rot and damaged fruit. ]
set stakes along the rows and fasten
chicken wire nett ng. on which l tie
the vines as they grow. l set them
two feet apart in the row and traiT
UP a single stem n keep all tht
suckers pinched out. l get earliel
and better fruit in this way. A goot
application Of rotten manure is wei
for tomatoes, and a side-dressing 0
nitrate of soda alongside will max
them thrive.
Il have always been killing my cot
tonseed by penning them in the stabl
manure" writes a friend. HOY
would you advise me to use them ?
II there is an oil mill convenient
would exchange the seed for mea
for that will be more Immediately e1
fective than the seed, and the o
Is of no use as a fertilizer for it cam
from the air and not from the sol
If you cannot exchange the seed, the
put them in n. furrow down the mic
dies Of the cotton rows, the cultivs
ton will destroy them and they wi
be decayed enough by fruiting tin
to help the plants, for the roots wi
he all over the middles. So far
your is concerned. 1 wou
not pen any,. but get it out as fast
practicable after it is made and spres
II on the land that Is to go In cor
Manure for the corr and plenty
good fertilizer for the cotton.
I'm what respect does Thomas pho
phate excel acid phosphate for pc
nuts?" Thomas phosphate is not
readily available to plants Is &C
phosphate. But it carries forty poun
of lime in ZACH 100 pounds and
LIN ~ SVSOtO lhc >
and to release inso1uble potash til
may be In the soil. Most of t
peanut section is already rather
ficient in potash, and it is a defcien
in potash that causes pops. Al
phosphate carries about thirty pour
OF plaster, or sulphate of lime,
each 100 pounds, and while this, t
VIII to some extent release pota
that may be In the soil, it has I
further effect OF releasing sulphu
acid which combines with any lii
that may be in the soil, forming pl
ter and that Ices not sweeten
soil. but tends to make it acid. p,
nuts are legumes and thrive best
q soil that has been rendered Sigh
alkaline by lime. Hence, for pean
would prefer the Thomas phosphs
say 500 poun&S an acre with Fl
pounds OF the Auriate Of pota
While peanuts can get nitrogen fr
the air. 1t Is a good plan to e
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