The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-13

ssssaA ASNs Crop. or course
~ u. Mh>s'!. IL has 20 be
Gu. before the wheat is in the best
stage .or hay. for tlr clover must tc
cut ae soon "a In bloom. But the wheat
aids greatly In tho curing, and the
fecc Is good. and better cured than the
clover niono can be cured. But nc
far as the value of the feed IL con
oerneJ ! had rather use winter oats
with the clover. Goats alone make Far
better hay than wheat alone. but both
nrc bettSred By sowing crimson clover
with them. But oats. sown alone, and
allowed to get into the dough stage
Will mako excellent hay. Wheat. grown
to the came stage VIII make a heavier
crop, but Of smaller feeding value per
ton.
Lntr Sowing Wheat.
Eastern North Carolina: Cannot We
s,ill SOW wheat here, after cotton?'
nave known good crop of wheat made
in Eastern North Carolina sown tho
middle OF December after cotton bur
this can rarely be done. and do not
think that the farmer who sowed this
crop has ever repeated the experiment
II the weather we have had during
November and early December could
be expected to continue through the
winter. the wheat might do well. But
as rule. Il lie usually far too late for
wheat after cotton.
Cannot bees be made profitable or
our Virginia farmsT Doubtless. In
SECTIONS where there ia usually aii
abundance of the Wild bloom that bees
feed on, or where tho farmer has plenty
Of white clover and sows buck"he2t
FOR feed Ycers ago, when ] was IN
terested in bees, | sowed buck"heo' al
intervals from spring TO lato summer
simply 10 have succession OF noon
Buckwhcat does not make i,s white
honey as white clover, Tut IL makes
Very good honey. In the mountains OF
North Carolina. where the sour WOO"
nbounds the bees rnado q very me
white honey from the bloom ana down
in the swamp country OF Eastern North
Carolina / have seen the hncst oil
honey made from the Towers or the
magnolia giauca. the so-calied sweet
bay Where honcy-making wild plants
do not abound one must PROVIDE bloom
FOR the bees. and The buckwheat is q
very good plant. Success in bee keep
ing. like success in poultry keeping
demands constant care and study -
the habits OF bees. Keeping bees IN
The old log hives is not profitable
rho bee keeper must hnvo the best
modern appliances aud the movable
comb hives and must watch FOR the
moths that destroy the work of the
bccs, and the foul brood must he
=
need to be fed artihcinlly when blowers
fail The price for honey has advanced
80 greatly OF recent gears that there
should be pront H. bee keeping proper
IL pursued as a side line on the farm
and IL is "A work that the women OF
the farm can we'll undertake. Bee
keepoTs 10 not walt now for the bees
10 gather wax but they supply them
with stamped material which the bees
can easily draw out into comb. These
wax foundations are very important
thing In making honey profitable, and
the one engaging in bee keeping should
get the best publications. on the sub
1ect and be a student 81 bees and their
hao!ta.
PaSturing Wheat.
Owing to the mild fall weather. my
Hhea: has made strong growth
will II in1ure the crop to pasture II
now would not pasture wheat
with cattle. for the heavy tread OF
stock VIII damage IT, But II often
pays very well 70 pasture IL with
sheep. whose light tread does little
or no harm. and whose evenly scat
tered droppings VIII do more good
than the pasturing will harm. pastur-
ing wheat and winter oats with sheen
IS often profitable to the sheep and
the crop
The Lettuce Drop or wilt.
u correspondent recently asked about
tho drop OF wilt disease In his lettuce
have just seen n statement from the
F1oridef station IN regard 10 this. which
they say may be caused by three diff
ierent fungus plants. They advise
taking out the affected plants and
drenching the place from which the
plant came with Bordeaux mixture
made by the $3.50 formula, that &.
i've pounds Of lime. five pounds al
copper sulphatc. and fifty gallons OF
water. In my own experience, 7 have
found II better 10 soak the whole bed
with solution of . pew cent form
aldehyde week before setting the
plants.
The Fundamentals of Soil Improving
Some years ago. az q meeting ir
Raleigh y. c.. OF the commissioners
OF agriculture OF the cotton States
they put me on the program for g
paper on grasses for the South
opened my address by saying that ir
my opinion the South did not need
grasses so much as she needed tho
legume crops to help bring up the old
worn soils to condition in which tn.
best grasses would thrive. At the
Very foundation Of all rational soil
Improvement is the getting back into
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