The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-20
WITH THE FARMERS
BY Prof. w. F. MASSEY
haves


the materials and mix 1000 pounds
OF acid phosphate, 100 pounds Of ni-S
trate OF soda. 700 pounds of dried blood,
and zoo pounds of muriatc OF potash
20 make ton. OF this use $500 pounds
an acre. Your lot, l50xl5O feet, will
be little short of half an acre, and
900 pounds VIII answer This should
be well narrowed In broadcast before
setting tho plants. Plant ten inches
apart IN rows foot apart for Bib
Boston lettuce, and leave out every
siNtn row as q path to tho beds.
Picking Onions.
Hcnrico County. Il can get "a a
Lushei Tor picking onions from re-
liable party. What Information can
you give me as TO raising them. es-
pecially as to getting them UP?
have raised onions from seed on
small scale, but have always had diff
Guilty In getting them up evening"? It
| is simply matter OF getting good
seed. If you buy cheap seed you may
expect poor termination. never
nave any difficulty in getting onion
seed to gcrminate They need n light
ana fertile SOIL, and early sowing, for
there viii be difficulty In getting them
/ up II you walt till hot weather. Sow
seed for picking onions of the Bar
ietta- Mark out the rows sixteen inches
apart, and put the fertilizer on tho
rows then. with tho garden plow
throw up slight ridges over the fer
tilizer, and rake them fat and then
| drll the seed In with q garden seed
drill. These little onions will need
little thinning. 1 have grown good
white picking onions from seed of
larger onion than the Bnrletta, by
sowing the seed very thickly for sets,
and then picking out those that arc
too large for sets. For this purpose
L SOW seed at rate OF sixty pounds an
acre. and they will all be saleable either
as sets or pickles
Grass Mixture for the AIoup.,tn s.o+,,n
Bath County: AT your earliest CON
yenience kindly comment In The Times
Dispatch on the following mixture for
a permanent, all-seasons pasture:
Kentucky blue grass. 1850. 6 lbs.
orchard grass. ...........s lbs.
Red or Mammoth clover. a lbs.
| White clover. ...........4 lbs.
Timothy lbs
! ltcd top. ..............4 lbs
! For n permanent meadow, same as
above. except substituting Alsike clover
IN place Of white clover. Both above
mixtures to be sown this spring. with
q light seeding of oats" While your
mixture may make a fairly good cod
Tor pasture, I would certainly not use
such mixture for n meadow, espe-
ciaily in your section, where timothy
|
for hay. But for the pasture / would
use more grass seed. while letting the
| clovcrs stay. and would leave out tho
timothy. Red top comes quickly, but
| Is not lasting pasture grass on upland
! Hence / would Increase tho Orchard
grass. tho best of all pasture grasses
FOR Virginia, and would prefer to mako
the mixture for pasture
| 10 lbs Orchard grass
lbs Kentucky blue grass.
| lbs. Red top
| lbs. of Aisike clover
lbs. of white clover.
For the meadow 1 would leave out
the word permanent" or you can get
more hay by growing 1t In the general
rotation. and not moving more than
TWO or three years. and for hay there
is no better mixture than
| 10 lbs OF timothy.
] 10 lbs of red top.
lbs OF red clover
! You can also make q. good meadow
| mixturc with
| 10 lbs. OF Tall Meadow Fescue Gran
dali GRASSY.
/ 10 lbs OF Tall Meadow oats grass.
| lbs, OF red clover.
These WIFI make earlier hay than tho
timothy and red top, and on most soils
heavy crop. In a good fve-year ro-
tation, with corn. wheat and oats, you
can get more and better hay than by
| attempting to keep land permanently
in moving. Timothy, which is an en-
cellent hay grass. can hardly be classed
rs permanent, because of It's shallow
roofing nature. Orchard grass, while.
as | have said, is the finest pasture
grass In Virginia. is not a desirable
meadow grass. because II demands cut
ting as soon as the heads are out, no
matter what the weather, and IL Iet
stand like timothy Is often let stand.
1t la about good as wheat straw.
certainly no hetter