The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-05

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""sSey' pounds of cotton
seed meal, and 400 pounds OF suIphate
Oh potash VIII make n ton Of good
sweet potato fertilizer If used at rate
OF oco pounds AN acre In the burrows
under the beds
fihnfinE Fruit In Underwater Section.
read with great interest what YOU
wrote some months ago in regard TO
inc upper Pamunkey country. we
nave as fine u country as any part of
the state But labor conditions are
very bad. indeed. I have some land on
mo south side Of the lower pamunLey
cut-oVer land. and ii seems TO me that
'his land could be made profitable for
growing peaches and other fruits and
"ouiu hke to have your opinion in
regard TO such planting?' There is
no doubt but that the section south of
inc mouth Of the Pamunkey can be
made to grow fruits probably But
tho same labor troubles would beset
you In such AN enterprise TO make
nh orchard profitable the stumps 1hould
be gotten out. either by pulling them
or blowing them out with dynamite
ana peach orchard especially needs
regular cultivation every year 10 July
al least ana with the stumps out Of
'he way, you can grow potatoes and
other low growing vegetable crops on
The land. But II you think that pIant-
ing fruits will overcome the labor
problem. fear that you will be dis
appointed. for there is nothing that
demands better ana more regular at
tehtion than peach orchard, both In
me cultivation. the spraying and the
attention TO getting out the borers
spring and fall. and II demands n bet
ter class OF labor than ordinary farm
ing The labor naturally drifts 10
Richmond from that section and the
pest way to make tho lanG profitable.
II seems to me. would be to get Il into
grass and maintain the sod by annual
top dressing and pasture cattle that
you can pick UP thin In Richmond and
sell IN the fall One man can attend
TO quite large number OF grazing
ktock And b. keeping the grass good
by annual top dressing OF bone meal
you can Craze more and more cattle
every year, and. as the Liant, is fresh
and new, II ought TO be easy to get II
In grass ana wait for the stunlps To
decay.
Angora goats would be useful on such
land to keep down the sprouts Such
course would overcome the labor
difficulty better than planting fruit
trees, which would demand good labor
and plenty OF IL.
Improving North Carolina Farm.
New York City: II have place in
the upper section of Piedmont. N G..
u! about 5000 acres. Land IL gently
rolling, well watcrcd, and mainly red
ana chocolate soil. Will you kindly
suggest what you consider the best
fertilizer for corn / am prepared To
buy the ingredients and mix them on
the farm Please state whether the
fertilizer should be applied IN the fur
row or broadcast. ] am not yet plant
ing much corn, because the land is
Thin. and have not had time to get It
into condition where large paintings
VIII pay My crop will be about nfty
TO sixty acres in corn. Also suggest
the best fertilizer for peas shall
Cow about 100 acres OF these, and near
Is all OF them VIII be turned under for
The benefit OF the land aud the sue
ceedng crop. have been using n
brand that cost me SIG ton delivered
at my place Kindly suggest the prob
able cost OF the corn fertilizer II YOU
have read what have been writing In
these columns. YOU Will find that have
uniformly given the opinion that IL
does not Dny to depend on comm crcial
fertilizers In which there is due per-
centage of ammonia for growing corn
In the first start In the Improvement
of thin land IL may be wise to use some
fertilizer on the corn. and TO use il half
In the burrows and half broadcast, for
corn roots run far and wide across the
rows. IN the section named l believe
that you can proiitably make cotton
one of your crops. and should adopt
rotation OF crops. growing peas not
only In q field by themselves, but SOW
ing them always among the corn at
last working, for IL has been found that
peas in the corn not only do not do any
harm, but that they Increase the corn
crop, and make n fine preparation for
tho crop OF oats or wheat that should
follow the corn. AS complete fer
tlliZer for corn, where there is no clover
TO turn under for ii, a mixture of 1000
pounds Of acid phosphate, 600 pounds
of cottonseed meal and 200 pounds OF
inuriate Of potash Will make a fairly
good fertilizer In fact, on your red
land am not sure that the potash will
he needed except in the start, for il
YOU farm that land right and get or
ganic decay into it,, and LINE il about
once in six years. YOU get the
abundant store of insoluble potash that
the soil contains. But in it's present
state II Will pay TO use the potash
Then by all means adopt n regular ro-
tatton Of crops that Will give YOU a
winter cover every winter OF crimson
clover for you must rely on cowpeas
and crimson clover mainly for tho
rapid increase of the humus or organic
decay in the soil
Practcing n good rotation OF crops
you viii finally need to buy only acid
phosphate. for, by growing and feed
ing the peas and turning under the
clover. and saving and returning to
the land all the manure made, and as
fast as 1t is made, you can get all the
when you lime and get organic decay
into the soil you can release the mex
haustble store OF potash that that
land contains. For peas use 800 pounds
an acre Of acid phosphate and twenty
five pounds of muriate of potash and
after few rounds OF a good rotation
only the acid phosphate. Now. the fer
tiiizcr have mentioned for corn, If
used at rate OF 400 pounds or more an
acre, VIII doubtless increase the corn
crop very considerably, but to make
corn cheaply you should always have
~ sod OF crimson clover on the land in
winter. and during the winter get out
on this all the manure made and then
You can afford to apply acid phosphate
Literally, on corn. But you should have
mrotation something like tho following:
corn with peas among 1t. corn cut and
shocked and the peas disked down and
followed by wheat or winter oats, and
Great Western Cholera Remedy