The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-08
Thursday,
W. II. sinsney.

~ .sx1a-snn-a hair an acre OF
W. IT, Mnsney. lump lime slaked
In piles in the field. Lana sown 70
wheat, and made a thirty bGshel crop.
The last crop OF corn on. this field
was eighty bushels. weighed crop.
Last year clover on this land was
Sinzed off by hogs. Last summer II
cut two ana halr tons of fine timothy
nay an acre. viii II pay to abandon
the corn crpo and substitute potatoes
VIII IL help the potato crop 10 rcplow
inns land In the spring? Would 7-T-7
icruliZcr be good commercial food
Tor the crop? Would 1000 pounds an
acre OF such fertilizer. applied hair
with drill and half In tho row, be
huiiicient TO Insure q profitable crop?
Field has had three coverings of ma
nure In the past eleven years and
Is chocolate loan and we'll drained
am intending 20 make a threc-year ro-
iation with two other fields besides
mis- orc, OF potatoes wheat and clover
ana my iirat venture with potatoes will
largely determine the permanency Of
such Il rotation. VIII uso every effort
- make success or 1t, and will plant
the Irish Cobbler variety"
No, do not think l would abandon
Inc corn crop NJ once. Better start
with half the land in corn ana half
in potatoes. and at each round OF the
rotation put the corn whore the po-
fatoes were last. and vice versa Then
II you ind tho potatoes are uniformly
more profitable, you might make tho
rotation you mention. think that it
VIII be better for corn and potatoes
TO repiow tho land In the spring. and
bring the decayed sod where tx will
he OF tho most use 10 the crops on
land In the high condition OF this field
j would not use 7-7-7 az there VIII
he an excess OF ammonia for this land,
and too little phosphoric acid and
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OF 2-S-l0. and MI In the burrows az
potatoes root closely. Now. as TO the
amount 10 insure crop, that is a
matter that cannot be insured, as
YOU must take the chances OF the
season. and the market sale OF the
The pront in the early potato crop
VARIES great deal. Seasons come at
times when no one makes any profit
in carly potatoes Your potatoes Will
come in good deal later than the great
crop Of the Norfolk section and the
Eastern shore, and often there is n
demand after an overstockcd market
from these sections and yours may
pay very we'll Tho thrcc-ycar rota-
tion IL all right. but would not jump
into IL all at once and abandon corn.
a season or two with half potatoes
ana half corn on a neid viii show
YOU what can be done by depending
on the potatoes and dropping corn.
Then In planting the cobbler. make
cure that you get the cobbicr pure
for there are a great many cobblerE
on the market that are badly mixed
1 was one OF the Judges at the great
show in Baltimore IN November, and
found a number OF samples OF cobblcr
potatoes exhibited. and several OF then,
were badly mixed and not pure cob
bier.
Crops for Hogs to Consume.
II am trying TO work out n system
OF profitable pork production for the
general markets. as ! am new in thc
ranks Of the pedigreed breeders, and dc
not get orders enough for breeding
stock 10 make il pay. having been Il
newcomer TO Virginia. I want TO dc
this with Is system OF annual crops
supplemented by permanent pasture
have heard that peanuts make a good
crop for tho hogs. but know nothing
about them. nor whether they will sui,
on my heavy red CLAW soil?" Ny cor
icsrondent goes into very length!
description OF the fields and crops he
has. for which / have not room to
quote at length, and will simply
suggest n rotation OF food crops that
hogs can gather In succession and
leave the area 10 the determination OF