The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-18

"a S is natural food Is
aaHa2aAAk@ssr grass. and II liz
w. r. Mns'rS' usually worse whore
a sod is turned under. Tho best pre-
yentive ia fall blowing and q liberal
application of kainit In tho spring.
Lettuce In Frames.
what must do TO keep tho grcen
aphis of my lettuce In the frames? /
am troubled with them every winter.
just as tho heads are ready for mar
ket, and naturally cannot spray with
anything that would make tho lettuce
unit for market" The green aphis is
very apt to be troublesome. where the
frames have been kept n little too close.
have sprayed with aphine. which did
not seem to damage the market quality
or the lettuce. But the best thing Is
TO keep them from getting there. for
either with Insects or fungus disease,
prevention In far better than cure. The
best thing s TO use tobacco dust lib
orally In the soil before setting the let
tucc. You can use this as heavily as
you please. and the more the better.
for II ts a good fertilizer. and con do no
harm TO tho roots OF the plants. and
With the soil well mixed with tobacco
dust. there will be no aph!dos Matched
out.
Fungus on Tobacco.
'In 1911 turned under a wheat
stubble and planted to tobacco. and
and good In 1913 turned under an
oats stubble and the tobacco Is all spot
ted as In the sample sent. Soil sandy,
with clay subsoil. Can you tell what is
the matter and what is the remedy"
Tho leaf sent Ia cured OF beautiful
yellow color. and Is of fine texture, but
IL ts covered all over with round brown
depreseions, which are evidently spc-
cies Of fungus of the circospora class.
but having no microscope at hanu, 4
tn
am not able 10 Identity the species
Spraying with Bordeaux mixture before
The disease appears should prevent H..
and you can at same time night tho
worms by adding II pound or lead arse
nate to nifty gallons OF tho bordeaux.
Now. have never used bordeaux on
tobacco and cannot say what erect IL
might have on the leaf. but ! hardly
think that It can do any damage. Your
leaf has fine cure. and with the run
gus prevented. 1t would have been an
extra fne sample of bright toohcco'
For making smoking tobacco. hardly
,hipL ,ha leaf is seriously damaged.
but tho buvers will take advantage OF
its condition.
Coal In Tobacco Darn Furnaces
owing 10 the increasing scarcity
of wood many arc thinking of trying
coil for curing tobacco Can you ten
what CHANCES VIII be neenea IN 'n'
ordinary tobacco barn furnaces TO tit
them for burning coalT' The furnace
will have TO be made deeper, in order
to make n coed. deen ash pit ana
between this and the furnace p'ojec-
tions OF the bricks TO carry the CRATE
bars Then there should he cast iron
front with door to furnace. and ash
pit to control the draft There Will DO
an ADVANTAGE IN the use Of coal In the
fact that the fire can be bcdded and
the draft regulated for the night. AMI
/; will maintain the heat all nj hi
without attention. Hard. anthracite
coal is best but the Pocahontas can be
used very well. but l would not use
the smoky Tennessee coal that Will
choke the fues rapidly. With coal.
believe that II would be an advantage
to mnke the nues of terra Gotta pipe
unRlaZcd, and about eight Inches In
diameter. as these Will hold steady
heat with very moderate fire. and
cool OF slowly II the fire falls. These
coal furnaces and tiues We're formerly
used for heating greenhouses, and
greenhouse heaters may still have the
castings Write TO Hitchings Com
pany, ITO Broadway. New York City.
just M Good:
Another correspondent gets a little
from a dealer to whom he had APP l:ei
for limo. and Is told that mari is just
as good. The mari may he good or
may not, as there is no Information as
10 It's quality. But with the best OF
mari. you will have to freight and haul
and spread at least twice as much as
you would of slaked lime. and you
can get lump lime and Stake It, and
It will double In bulk. so that one
fourth of the bulk frelghted Will have
a better effect than four times as much
of the best mari Where there Is
long haul II is always cheaper to buy
lump limo In bulk and slako 1t for
yourself
Early Irish Potatoes.
II have two-acre lot on red
granite soil. l used your formula last
year for potatoes at rate of 1000
bushels an acre Sowed peas after the
potatoes were dug. Crop was very
heavy, and all were left on the ground
In December ] doubled disked them,
and plowed the whole under ten inches
Now 1 am sure there will be nitrogen
enough for crop of potatoes. and |
intend to use only acid phosphate and
sulphate of potash and would like to
know the proportions to mix, Q order
to get II per cent OF potash. | want
to apply 1900 pounds. and see If can
not get 200 bushels this year. There
is tight red clay subsol at n depth
OF twenty inches. Please let me know
how to mix the phosphate and pot
ash?'
With the amount of organic decnv
YOU have put into the soil, / hardly
think that you will net so largo per-
centago Of potash. for know that your
SOIL has great store OF potash In 1t,
and the organic acids will be setting
some Of this free. But you can ge, the
il per cent OF potash by mixing lao
pounds of acid phosphate and $50
pounds of the sulphate of potash to
mako a ton But think that you
would do better to make tho ton of
1000 pounds of acid phosphate and 400
pounds OF sulphate OF potash. This
will give you about 1910 and this used