The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-27

the Brlmmer tomato, Tut will this year
II Is highly spoken OF by those who
grew Il last year.
TObnccO ind Peanuts.
Nottoway COUNT: "On a lot that
made twenty or moro bushels OF wheat
last year. ! want TO plant tobacco
Chocolate land and dark tobacco
What fertilizer and how much an acre?
y lot that was In cats wish to plant
In peanuts. Gray land and rather thin.
What fertilizer for this? Answer in
The Times Dispatch" have given the
best fertilizer mixture ] know of for
tobacco OF amy sort. 500 pounds acid
phosphate. 100 pounds OF nitrate OF
soda. 600 pounds Of dried blood, and
400 pounds OF sulphatc OF potash TO
make ton. Use 700 pounds an acre.
For peanuts mix 800 pounds OF Thomas
phosphate nifty pounds. sulphate of
potash, and fifty pounds Of nitrate OF
soda to give an early start. as peanutA
can get nj rogen from the air like
other legumes Put one-haif under tho
crop and one-half down the m!ddles at
planting, and you Will need no secui.G
application.
Henry County: Can I not make at
home a Bordeaux dust for vines by
combining biucstoHe and lime; or.
would Bordeaux mixture be better? If
so. tell me how to make II. Should
the mulch bc taken from the straw
berry beds ana the vines worked be-
fore blooming?'
/ You might make q dust Of limo and
finely powdered copper sulphatc, but
/ 1t Will not be rs effective as the reg
ular Bordeaux mixture. To make this,
slake Eve pounds OF fresh lump lime
| In u cask ana after 1t IS slaked add
water enough 10 mako II twenty I've
gallons. In another cask dissolve five
pounds of copper sulphate In hot water.
and make that Twenty-Five gallons.
Then pour the two together into a third
| caslS. stirring all the time. Then
strain into the sprayor and il IL all
ready for use, and should be used
while freshly made. In your colder
section IL may be- well 10 use a winter
mulch on strawberries. but down here
we never mulch them till spring, and
then spread the straw or pine leaves
between the rows 10 keep the fruit
clean and TO have tho material handy
for pulling over the plants when in
bloom II frost threatens. The Guilt
walton ana fertilization should be done
after the fruit Is off, so az to make
strong crowns for the next season. We
take but two crops from n bed, plant
ing a new one every fall and turning
under the Oldest one after fruiting for
some late crop like cabbaees.
Potatoes After Tomatoes.
Accomac County: Il have low.
dark piece Of land. which was planted
In tomatoes last year. and l want to
plant It in Irish Cobbler potatoes this
spring. ] am advised that potatoes
viii not do well after tomatoes Could
/ plant this land IN black cowpeas and
cut them for hay ana then plant late
Irish potatoes? Which do you advise, and
what fertilizer for peas ana potatoe 20
/ From what / know of the land In
} your Immediate section, ] would as
sumo that II Is not the tomatoes, but
the soil Itself. being too cold and
heavy for early Irish potatoes You
can do far better on that land by grow
ing the peas and following with late
/ potatoes In July. ] would give the
peas an application OF 900 pounds Of
acid phosphate and twenty-five pounds
/ OF muriatc OF potash an acre. l would
SOW the Whippoorwlll peas rather
than the black, as they are earlier.
] Sow the peas with wheat drill Sc.
/ 10 sow two bushels OF wheat an acre
/ and they will be put In AZ a uniform
/ depth. and VIII grow far better than
+ narrowed In. Then in planting tho
/ late potatoes, make deep burrows and
/ use fertilizer that VIII run about
! 2-S-lO in the burrows about 500 pounds
an acre. we'll mixed In the soil. and
cover very lightly till they start. nnt
then work the soil to them as they
grow, and cultivate level and shallow
10 conserve moisture. and DO not hill
: mp az with early potatoes.