The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-15

kE&&k82 S&6AxA- such thing. for he
w. #. Mn.sey. knows that the
characteristics OF the dairy and the beef
animal are entirely distinct from each
other, and cannot BIO combined profit
ably In ono animal or course you can
get cows that will give you some milk
and will make good veal calves, but
II you have any interest in the sale
OF milk or butter, you cannot afford to
lose $40 worth o. milk 10 get $40
calf If your interest lies In beef
stock, then get the best bred beef ami
NAL. the Peeled Angus. Shorthorn or
Hereford, and take what milk you can
get. But IT your interest is In the
dairy, get tho best breed for Jhat pur
pose Jerseys or Gucrnsoys for butter
or HolsteinH for milk selling, and do
not monkey with any half-and- half
animal
Seed Corn.
Please give the address OF some
farmer from whom 1 can get the two
cared corn you mentioned favorably
TO Il correspondence You cun prob
ably get II good quality OF the Cookies
Prolific corn By Writing To DR.. c. L.
williams. Director OF the North Care
lint Experiment Static =. But you are
right UP under the Blue RiGge, and
corn brought there from the South
would not do very well until accli-
mated. Then you havo In your i'm
mediate ncighborhood corn that has
made n great reputation for cnsilage
out In Ohio, and II would be better In
your case TO stick to that and not
s"t mixture, but breed this corn to
better shape by careful selection [
DO not know any corn better suited
I" your valley Than the White corn that
50 now 80 largely shipped West for
seed. Better keep il pure
Cannot Do II.
VIII you kindly give me the ad-
dress OF the party alluded to in the
Enclosed clipping from Tho Times Dis
patch :? ! never use the names OF my
correspondents in the paper and do not
file their letters after writing the re-
ply. and IL kept these letters il would
not he proper for me To give their adj
diess TO every one asking H. since they
mag not wish 10 be bothered with cor
respondence. Therefore it Is useless
TO ask mo for these addresses
Some Mountain Products.
= friend III Allegheny County sends
very pretty photograph OF his OK
hihit OF corn, alfalfa. cabbages. pota-
toes and peppers. H. says that the
corn made twenty tons OF ensilaEe an
acre and the Held corn made seventy
i've bushels an acre, and the alfalfa
was sown at last working OF his corn
IN 1912, and from the height of the man
standing beside 1t in the picture the
tall and the alfalfa four feet q won
derful growth from sowing year ago
among corn He adds: Now I want
you 10 know that YOU had n great
deal TO do with the products shown in
tho pEptograp phi. for | have been follow =
ing your advice for several years. and
am sure that il has helped inc a great
deal. have never used fertilizer on
my corn. but have always tried TO have
some good crop 10 turn under for IL.
with some acid phosphate to supple
ment IL. Ny farm is on the mountain
and all steep, but by your advice for
deep plowing. nave gotten IL ali into
a high state of cultivation. anu l write
this TO thank you for ali YOU have done
Tor me Please keep urging the dog
law, and perhaps we may get II after
= while" Perhaps Il s rather cheeky
TO print this, but AN. always glad to
know that what | have written las
helped some one to better use OF his
soil, for that is what these columns
are written for and II VIC did not sue
coed In waking some one UP TO better
practices, the work had ns well stop.
Sundry Questions.
al moved to the farm last January.
after being In other business for thlr-
teen years, and find many changes in
farm mana cement since I was a farmer
before. On the 9th OF last May
planted q patch OF about an acre in
peas. in rows three feet apart, and four
TO six inches in the row, and cultivated
them during growth Had nice vines
and no peas. The whole acre did not
make q gallon OF peaa. The peas !
sowed were a mixture Of about SIX
varieties and the peas 1 made were all
Of one variety. Tell me why I made
no peas This fail piowcd and pre-
pared some land Tor wheat turned
II with a two horse plow. sowed the