The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-17

ticiss with great interest. and wa,,t
aoNlce about a crop rotation
- me Virginia fever struck mo
~ Years ago, and We sold out in
-. ana moved 10 a nine-y-
elsnt-acre farm here near p;chmara
IN last November.
we nave seventy acres under nlau
which have been used e. pio"'
ana corn, with much commarci.I 80
tiiizer ana a little crimson clover W.
want 10 develop a dairy farm wiz
- iluch alfalfa and silo stuff as nos
slpIe' ana WANT rotation to grow n
,Lui. L was raised on a farm brt
~ ions oeNoted my entire time to
'Ho piaclice OF medicine. and win
again as soon as my son o.ts ao,ah
iisheu on the farm. Hope to bnild q
sIio inns summer in time for the corr |
we are mere forSwork, and believe in
DONG this Well. But We need tn laarn
what not to do more, for we are new |
anu IN a new field. Any suggestion
a. - d rotation and the best money
crop to meet interest will he oreatly
appreciated The diagrams sent choH
a great complication of fields. etc II
you design the farm for dairy my
poses, tne rotation should be one that
VII give you the most forage for the
COWS, and there is no art of the
country IN which as great a variety
= 81" 1OioS 3 td1 bo grown as in
the South. But or SO small a farm
pasturing cows will moi be profitable
thouSh d grass lot for exercise will no
AL rlgnt. 1t Will be better to feed
green stuff in the stables winter and
summer with silage, of course. in
winter. Then adopt a short and sim
pie rotation designed for the creates
production Of feed. Say corn, with
peas soWn among it at last working.
Corn cut for silo and peas mown for
hay. Pea stubble disked fine and
soWn 10 winter surf oats in SeDtem-
Der. Oats cut for hay in dough
stage, n land prepared and sown to
"~hlppoorWlll PEGS. Both oats and
peas having 800 pounds an acre of
acid phosphate and twenty pounds Of
niur1ate of potash. Peas cut for hay
WheIi pods turn yellow, and land sown
ID winter oats again with fifteen
pounds Of crimson clover. Glover
turned under for corn with all the
farm manure applied, and the rota-
ton repeated. The peas and clover
can, OF course, be used either as hay
or cut green for feeding in stable
This will be a three-year citation foI
the larger part of the farm. Ther
as money crops, at once plant d series
Of truck crops heavily fortified o.
such things as sell best-early an(
late Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes ant
= - IL Eoo ~ OO CtiIlS " III
l Farmer Co, Elizabeth and Marke
? Streets, Philadelphia, Pa, and get
copy of my book, Crop Growing an,
Crop Feeding" it will give you NOR
help than I could write in o dozel
letters, both in the field and the trucl
e patch. | nave no interest in the sal
of his book, as j sold it outright t
the Farmer &c.
Advice On Catalogues.
+ please tell me what was the ma
ter with my cantaloupes. After tn
vines began to run ] lost about one
u fourth of them by suddenly within:
s I would not think it, the melon Will
II because the patch was in a piece
e ground which has never had melof
q on it before. l keep the striped bus
from doing much harm by sprayin
2 with Bordeaux mixture and lead a
p senate. But l have been told by
p gardener that they lay eggs and tt
larvae eat the roots of the plants al
cause them to wilt. Is this true:
,r You have doubtless named the eau
a The striped cucumber leetleS. Di;
r. brotica not only feed on the your
l. leaves as the plants come up in ii
20 spring, but they lay their g & abo7
III the root of the plants and these hate
out small white worms that are Il
ne larval form Of the beetles, and the
an eat the roots and cause the sudd'
willing of the plants. The best thil
is lot to spray the hills, but 20 u
some dust-like material that will di
u courage their lay eggs. Tobacco du
fine bone -four or even air-slak
~ lime, scented with a drop or two
carbolic acid and busted over the hi
p just as the young plants emerge fro
VI the soil, will keep the beetles off, a
eT can easily be repeated if washed @
}" The thing is to keep the beetles aW
ng rather than Doison them. for if a
u. escape the poison they go at once
laying eggs
nd
ow
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