The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-07

the refuse from the canning factories
are sold very low, and are not worth
buying. Always buy from frst-ctass
seedsmen and pay what a nrst-cIas
seed is worth.
II have a piece of land which was
in scrub pines. myrtle and other smaIi
bushes. Have grubbed il completely
and plowed it two weeks ago. Lana
has lain idle for eighteen years. pre-
yiously cultivated in corn. Water mas
been allowed to lie on the land. n
consequently. when | plowed 1t IL was
very wet. 1t is fairly well drained
now. and after 1t several
times l want to plant it in yellow corn
about the middle of April. am
anxious TO get as good a crop as pos
sible. and would ike you 10 tell me
the best fertilizer, where obtalnable
and how to use to produce results!
The soil is sandy loan with clay sub
soil.
Il planted some French Globe arti-
chokes last year and from the seed
got several plants. ! reset them last
fall, and they all seem to have died
to the ground except three plants. l
mt plenty of stable manure around
them. and hilled up, thinking it would
keep them warm. Have not dug down
around the roots to see if they are
alive. Shall | do this to those | know
are living Or is it the nature Of the
plant to die down in this way? Only
one plant seems to be making any
growth. What shall I do for them?"
You can buy fertilizer from a num-
Der Of dealers in Richmond.
The old field probably needs al,
sorts Of plant food. Now as I have
often said, it does not pay to con-
stantly depend on fertilizers to make
winter cover of crimson clover to turn
| for the corn crop. But in the start
with this land 0 will have to use
some complete fertilizer. A brand that
will run 8 per cent pllOSphOric acid.
4 per cent ammonia and 4 per cent
| potash will answer very we'll if used
literally in the hill and broadcast too.
That is. say 200 pounds an acre in the
burrows and 200 pounds broadcast.
for corn roots run all over the ground
Then at last working SOW Cowpeas
among the corn, n after the corn is
cut and shocked disk these down thor
ougbiy and SOW the land to oats with
500 pounds an acre of the same fer
~tilizer, and 0 al follow the oats
with peas for hay. And then you car
get the land into a rotation that viii
bring clover on the land every winter
The mistake o made with the arti
chOkes was in transp1anting them il
the fall. You should have left then
till spring. Plant from see Otter
vary a great deal. and most gardener
prefer to grow them from k o
the best sorts. The plants should b.
set in rows three feet apart and tn
feet in the rows, and it is best to re
new them every secOn year from
suckers, planting these in spring. TIL
plants should show some little gree
all winter if they are alive. VIVA
!, you have can be left to grow and a
, you MANFRED them last fall they wi
, not need more.
, Il am going to build five Tobacco
q barns u of common old field pin
r logs. Will thank you to advise m
: if they will las longer if hewn slight
ly. Also, do you think I can get
stand of grass sOWn with oats in Apr
on bottom land? The land has bee
i too wet to get on it up to this tim
r Would you advise sowing winter {
8 spring oats?" The logs will lie close
/ il hewn straight, and you can max
s a better Job, but I do not think thu
the hewing will make them last an
longer. OF course, the bark Shout
be removed in any event. l have go
a ten very good stands of grass an
il clover from spring sowing on oats.
n sowed the clover after sowing IL
It grass seed, as it cannot be we'll mike
70 with the lighter grass seed, and the
It I brushed I'VE with a smoothing ha
row, and always used the Gray Whit,
Turf oats.