The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
SOME ADVICE ON SUBJECT
Except For Tobacco Only a
Carrier For Phosphorus
Needed In The HiIIs-Pea-
nuts Should Have a Little
Nitrogen as a Starter--Sug-
qestions as To Oats
r. Massey in the Richmond
Times-DispatCh.)

.,u, "a. T.. Massey in the Richmond
Times-DispatCh.)
The majority of the letters l get at
This season of the year are requests
for the proper fertilizer and amount
Cor This. that and the other crop. Our
southern rnler have gotten to sup
pose that for every crop planted they
must have u special fertilizer, not con-
sidcring that it is impossible for me
to know the exact needs of their soils.
and without doubt most of them are
wasting honey in buying fertilizers
that they do not need, or would not
need, if they farmed right. With the
possible exception of the tobacco o
no farmer in the red hills will ever
need TO buy any fertilizer except q
carrier of phosphorus, if he farms in
q good, systematic rotation and grows
and feeds plenty Of pea hay and GRIM
son clover. But in the meantime, one
is obliged to meet the conditions as
they exist, and to advise fertilizing in
a general way, hoping that farmers
will learn tosfarm economically and
profitably after a while. Now comes
q letter asking for d fertilizer for
tobacco, which have repeatedly
given. and another for peanuts, which
will repeat here. Peanuts belong to
The le9ume family, and can get nitro
gen from the air like peas and clover.
Ant il is well to give them q little
nitrogen as a start, and hence j have
advised five pounds of Thomas phos-
phate, fifty pounds Of nitrate of soda
and fifty pounds Of muriate of potash
an acre. The potash is used TO pre-
vent pops, and the phosphate carrier
300 ~ more pounds of lime.
~ have some good, SANDY, loan
land which ] wish TO SOW to oats and
grass. What kind of oats and how
much an acre, and what mixture o.
grasses and clover, and what fertilizer
10 use? What fertilizer to top dress
some what that had none last fall p
flow The Winter Turf oats, as they dc
better in the South than spring oats
Sow with a wheat drill two bushel.
an acre, and for pasture SOW twenty
pounds Of richard grass and fin
pounds III Canada blue grass poo
"ompreSsa. Then after sowing thu
2ras5 seed, sow eight pounds of Al
sikc clover and seed an acre ani
bush all in with a smoothing harrow
Give the oats 500 pounds of acit
phosphate and twenty pounds Of 1nu
rat" 81 potash an acre. On the hea
apply tho ant with fifty pounds O
mira" OF soda added.
Watcrmclons.
= raise watermelonS for the joca
market. J use 1000 pounds of tn
B1Gl-gr1dc tobacco fertilizer S-3-3 an
200 pounds of c~ottonseed meal pc
acre, and find hat this is not nuic
enough for an early crop. What mus
"dd To this-to get the desired results
| li%o a liberal mount of stable me
nirc, too, in the hills" j would nc
'aU 1913 Il high-grade fertilizer as
IS fully onc-fourth filler. Better mi
sour fertilizer at home. Mix 100
ponnts OF acid phosphate, 200 pounf
81 nitrate soda, 500 pounds of cottor
SEED meal, and 300 pounds Of Sulpha'
- potash Ia make 2 ton. Use this
~" hills after putting in the MANU-
ana cover before planting. Then, {
ne vines start 20 run, scatteF-a n
handful Of nitrate Of soda around 81
MI. J thinks that this Will make
cba a.,".
knight C%antaloupc.
notice h q o nave mentions
f|ln% the Knight cantaloupo. a
~ the trucking business, and won
me I" know your opinion of I'll
melon as compared with Rocky Fo
III %'ar|ine-s and quality As q mel
Tor hulnc use, the knight is eHcelle
ara somewhat earlier tina t
i'"c"l iford. But as q market cant
'"ip", | would prefer the Rocky Fo
- inc selection mo Improvement
""'Ey Ford that is generally gro.
n'r". This is known as Burrei
f"icn Gem. il is the best shippi
'"h!ulpure J know, and is 81 II
'WahiJ. The flesh is green, with
"tPnon tin&e reXt the seed. ! sh
&c y Tor by home planting this Sc
ION. last summer the Knight b'
|ell, but ripened up yellow -fas1
man IL could be- gathered, and l hal
mink that il will sell as we'll as I
Eu'h lem. our gToyyerI get {
9''d from Colorado every YEAR.
Peach Tree Dying.
am sending twis4s from so
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