Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-05-13
JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM
NOTES.
LEAF Spot" in Alfalfa.

Leaf Spot" in Alfalfa.
Several farmers have reported
that theiralfalfa is dying in patches
visit thse fields shortly, but feel the
trouble is with "leaf spot" fungus
infection in alfalfa leaves, that often
developes in cool, damp weather. We
have seen fields almost dead to all
appearance.
The remedy is to cut the standing
crop at once, and remove as soon as
dry enough AS the brown specks on
the leaves appear it is the ripening
of the spouts or "seed" the disease
which will scatter to the new shoots
and cause the disease to spread to the
second crop on some cases.
The First IL Year Locusts.
In Mr.. c. L. Cranes orchard we
found our first IL Year Locust to
come out of the ground, last Satur-
day, May 10. He had just broken
his shell and come out a full-fledged
locust. Many are being found near
the surface in blowing. They will
soon be here in numbers. The young
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Some Things Farmers Ask.
From running through the files of
letters of Jefferson county farmers
written to the West Virginia Expert
ment Station, we note herewith the
nature of a few inquiries CLEANED
from this correspondence as follows
Identify soy beans varieties; care of
soup beans after harvest, disease of
apples, (many Inquiries analysis of
soils, (many inquiries) suitable crop
rotation; wheat after rye and vetch
how to inoculate soy beans; testing
cows, newspaper article; farm rec
ords, and accounts; securing alfalfa
stands (many inquiries) cedar rust
alfalfa varities; tomato wilt, cover
crops for orchards, analysis of mari
(many requests, hog cholera; sour
soils; Seventeen year Locusts; nitrate
of soda; fertilizer recommendation
plant disease (many requests;) plant
ing late potatoes; building plans
wheat varities; planting sweet clover;
use of manure; woody aphus on trees
lightning protection; sheep feeding
top dressing for wheat hog feeding
sowing orchard grass; potato sprays
requests for labor (many;) birds
sawdust as fertilizer; analysis OF
feeds; time and method of pruning
seding blue grass; testing seed corn
cost to produce crops; wheat disease
loss of bees; identifying bugs and in
sects many reguests;) bad seed
corn; spraying sows; spraying ma.
chimes, sprays, materials, method
| very many requests.) These are a
few topics of inquiry that have gone
from Jefferson county to our State
Experiment. Station. To all these ar
answer was returned. This will give
you some idea as the problems and
questions that come to county
agent, for the questions a people will
| ask in writing are but very small
fraction of those inquiries that come
from personal work and contact. Al
the same time it is difficult to realize
the bnefit that has come to it from
the State Department of Agriculture
We dare say there isn't silo, spray
a bag of fertilizer, or a ton of lime
or mari used which practice isn't di-
rectly traceable to our research de.
partment of Agriculture who find out
these facts and pass them to the far.
mers. Generally all this passes
many hands before it comes to us
and we do not know the source.
Farmers Meeting.
Summit Point, Friday, May 10th
$3.50 p. m.
Middleway, Thursday May %, $50
p. m.
Rippon, Friday, May oath, $3.50
p. m.