The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-21


cream From what YOU gay. think
nat the trouble has been from too low
temperature and the cream keeping
sweet II VIII be far better 20 take il
from clabber, and II tho COW Is strip
per aud makes worry rich milk :hin IL
slightly with sour milk or clabbor. II
Jhe cream foams In tho churn. add &.
little warm water Ny home is at
north OF YOU
Garden and Orchard Troubles
FiuNanna County: can you advise
mo what IL the trouble with NV butter
heahs! rho garden il very rich. and
put stable manure In the hills with tho
beans. never saw inner vines. :nd
they were literally hanging with young.
pods. and continued so till rros, killed
the vines. But tho pods never filed.
dropping off when half grown I have
had similar experience With blacl: eve
peas, only they made very few pods
OF all The land - red subsol. With
hro"n Ioam and some sand and Is very
rich. How would Basic alag do for tho
garien? win YOU also advise me in re-
gard to an orchard of young trees,
mostly peaches set out year ago Iaac
november y severe hailstorm the
last OF May cut The leaves and bark
badly. | put tar over the cut places
as soon "a possible the only thing
had At hnnh i lind that great
many OF tho limbs nrc badly cut. and
tho trunks OF tho trees, and glue Ia
ehuOiHE from these places. VIII X be
we'll 10 trim OFF the damaged limbs ana
to what extent. Nearly all are dam.
aged some. We find your columns very
valuable"
The whole troupie with your GARDEN
Ia that II lie one-stdely rich You hayo
bosn using stable manure alone and
have gotten an excess OF nitrogen.
Nitrogen promotes tho vital activity OF
the plants. rs shown by tho fine vines
your beans made. and tho making OF
hn IL tn
wero deficient, and hence the seed wero
not made. 90 not think that your
soil can 10 acid az the manure tends
to keep soil sweet, but Il needs phos-
phorus. You have In your soil an
abundance OF potash. Then this spring
use no stable manure, but give the gar
den all over dressing OF acid phoss
phatn OF the Is per cent grade at ratio
OF not less than 1000 pounds an acre,
and I think that you will Gnd great
difference In the crops. My soil Ia quite
sandy, and have TO use stable manure.
but ] then add a mixture per cent
phosphorlc acid and 10 per cent pota sh
at rate OF 1000 pounds an acre as
my sandy seaside soil needs the pot
ash. | have just now covered the gar
den thckly with black, rotten horse
droppings swept from the paved streets,
ana will now put on the phosphate ana
potash before digging. for my garden
has so many winter crops on the land
that | cannot use n horse and olow, but
The manure and phosphate go all over
and between the growing crops. to DO
worked in as spring opens Now, al
TO the peach trees, l would cut out
the damaged limbs. trying to preserve
n good shape to the head. Then cut
out clean with sharp knife the dam
aged bark on the trunks and paint tho
spots with White lead.
Onions in the Mountains.
II have bought some fertile bottom
land covered with rank growth OF
all sorts of weeds had IL drained
, and plowed well and sowed last sprint.
10 peas and soy beans with some acid
phosphate and potash. Now | read
your articles carefully. but do not find
much for this mountain country Can
| get \ crop OF onions this season
from seed sown In tho open ground. or
would you advise sets? How soon can
l plant them? There should be no
difficulty In getting crop of ripc
onions from the seed. The main
thing is TO SOW early and tertiliao
heavily, no matter how rich the soil
naturally seems. You nre about $500
feet above the sen level and, OF course,
cannot SOW az early az We can down
here near the ocean But / would sow
in your section as early In March as
you can catch the land IN good order
for working. The preparation OF the
soil should be very thorough. and for.
fertilizer mix 900 pounds of acid
phosphate. 100 pounds OF nitrate OF
soda, eco pounds OF cottonseed meal
or of tankaSe and 400 pounds of nuri.
ato of potash 10 make a ton. Use 900
pounds an acre. Harrow II In well,
with any considerable area Il will paw
10 use II garden seed drill and SOW
the seed in rows nftcen inches apart.
Thin them out TO three inches in the
rows. and give the cleancst cultivation,
Sow seed OF tho Southport White OF.
yellow Globe. The cultivation, OF
course, must no with the handwheel
cultivators. for Il does not pay, with
this heavy application or tertilizep
to plant wide enough for horse Guilt.
walton, and at best there is a great
deal OF hand work TO he done In grow.
ing onions. | use sets only for plant.
ing In the fall for early green onions,
with tho cool nights of your rnoune
tain country your climate viii compare
more with the best onion growing SEQ.
tons North, and you should be able
10 make very fine onions