The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-10
WITH THE FARMERS
By Prof w. F. MASSEY


and use them freely on the ground you
put in cabbages. They VIII make n
very good fertilizer and Will ward off
| tho lice. A mixture OF salt, charcoal
iand sulphur, kept under cover where
! the hogs can get at It, VIII be OF benc-
tit to them. For hogs to root for them
J selves, l would plant tho Virginia
White peanuts. Early Irish potatoes
will not keep buried. but will sprout
md grow. The earliest and most pro-
life sweet potatoes arc tho Haynlan
and tho Peabody, but neither OF them
is Of high quality. The best potatoes
for your section will be tho Nancy
Hall. Paris green, used to destroy
beetles on potatoes. will not affect the
potatoes. / mover use IT on tomatoes.
Tho black blister beetles are tho old
| potato pests, but / have not seen them
for long time. You can take cedar
and they will keep on and go else
where. Paris green Will kill them. %
we'll as the Colorado bugs. The earliest
horse feed you can now grow VIII BIO
spring oats. cut when In the dough
state and cured as hay. The earliest
tomato is the Langdon Earliana; the
best liz hard to say. as there arc SO
rlany good ones. For red tomato the
Stone liz generally used. and for pink
one tho Globe Is good. No, YOU can
not make acic phosphat. ms cheaply
nor good AS you can buy ready
made. You do not say what sort of
peas you mean. IL garden peas or
English peas. then for early us. | plant
the Alaska and Nonpareil, and for late
use the Champion OF England. IL you
mean cowpcas or stock peas there IS
another long list. The Whippoorwill
IS earlier than some othcrs. New Era
still earlier. and both arc good yiclders
of peas. The later sorts. such as clay
ard black, do not make es large Il crop
OF seed. but more hay.
Dntes for Sowing Early Vegetables.
please tell me what arc tho first
vegetables can SOW? How early can
| ] plant peas and onions and Irish po-
tatoes? How carly should SOW to-
mato seed In q hotbed? Also pansies?
What nre tho best green feeds for
chickens and turkeysf What Is the
/ best time to set out for main crop of
onions. and what the best variety and
what fertilizer to usc?"
| OF course this letter Is from n wom-
I an. and tho farmers must bear with
INC In replying to what will seem to
! them rather odd questions. / viii tell
you just what do In my garden The
| iirst thing sown outdoors is the extra
early English pea l SOW these in Jan
uary whenever / can catch the soil in
condition for working. For early green
onions ] plant the sets in the fall. For
the main crop for keeping. SOW as car
| L. In February as you can get the
ground In order seed OF the Southport
( White or Yellow Globe onion. in rows
about fifteen inches apart and thin
them out 10 three inches apart in the
rows. TO prevent scab In potatoes
soak them half an hour In a 2 per cent
solution of formaldchyde. Plant po-
{ tatoes In February or early March. ac-
c0ritnp nf
/ but do not work the soil when wet
| The onions viii need high grade fer
tilizer At rate OF l 200 TO 1,500 pounds
an acre. Sow tomato seed in hotbed
the middle of February. and have
frames ready for trunsplanting them
In March. SO that you can get stout
plants for setting out In late April.
You can SOW pansies now In hotbed.
under glass but they VIII be rather
late to make good flowers this spring.
j SOW my pansy seed In late July and
get strong plants to winter over and
bloom finely In the carly spring. The
Il best green feed for chickens and tur-
4 keys will be Dwarf Essex rape. sown
| In February or early March on strong
soil Then you can SOW some of this
| In September and have IL for the fowls
| during the winter. Green curlcd kalc
| is also good.
| Fertiilzine Oats.
My wagon body is three feet four
inches wide, seven feet six inches long,
| and twenty inches deep. Will this hold
4 ton of stable manure as il comes
| from the stalls? / have six and one
half acres of oats on fairly good Nor
| folk sandy loan on which have spread
twenty-five good loads, as above, Of
good stable manure, The land was in
/ peas the past summer, which we cut
| for hay, and only the stubble left. No
phosphate or potash was used. and
! wish 10 know If il will pay to use nj
trate of soda on the oats this spring,
or would potash and phosphate be bet
| tcrr' You have given the oats already
| n good deal OF nitrogen in the stable
manure, though l would hardly say
/ that your loads were tons. The weight
l of manure Will vary with its conditions
as to moisture and the amount of
straw. and wagon such as you de-
/ scribe Will have to be heaped mp con-
siderably 10 hold Il ton. of stall man
ure.
| That which has been exposed to the
| weather in Il bnrnyard will, of course.
/ be heavier. Now I would not apply any
more nitrogen, and at present price 1t
! certainly would not pay TO use nitrate
| of soda on oats, but it VIII pay TO use
| 900 to 900 pounds OF acid phosphate and
/ twenty pounds of muriate of pota sh
an acre. Put this on as early as you
please. and the earlier the better for
! the soil Will hold on to 1t, and Ii will
-, be the means of making moro grain,
| while the nitrate would make more
| growth and cause tho straw 10 be
heavy and liable to lodge.