The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-01

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 very poor. What cover crop wolld you recommend for such land? c. g. Columbiana
 A. Rye is about the best you could use for fall sowing. Hairy vetch might prove a valuable ad- dition. All such lands can he built up better with soy beans than any thing else but these can only he planted in spring.
 Q. Would it benefit corn to ploy It after it begins to tassel out? J. C., Guin.
 A. If the corn is shooting or silk ing and there is prospect of a yield shallow cultivation would likely pay, but vi the corn is small and ls tasseling without healthy shoots or silks, work would not do much good and it is questionable If the expense would pay.
 Q. see a perennial Towering plant called St. Johns wart highIy advertised. Have you seen this and is it desirable? Mrs. T.
 A. St. Johns wart is an old time medicinal perennial herb that often become pest through spreading. There are some species that produce large sprays of yellow flowers that are really beautiful but there are so many superior plants that I would not grow this one. l Q. What is meant by bicolor in varieties of narcissus? Mrs. S. A. They are trumpet shaped ! flowers whose trumpet is yellow, hut the bottom or surrounding petals are different color, such as white or sulphur yellow.
 
 narcissus called butter and egg and | eggs and bacon? Miss &
 A. Yes. there is difference. In- comparable is known as butter and l eggs, the color of which is light | yellow and orange. Orange phenix 1 is the eggs and bacon and the col ors white and orange
 Q. Are all freesias white? I have never seen any other color? Miss E. &
 l A. No, there are several varieties in colors, one or two of which are | good. new variety known as General Pershing, lavendar, pink, ] tinged with yellow and bronze, is very good
 Q. There is beautiful palm that 1 has long, slim. variegated and 1 striped leaves. What is this and is it good plant for the house ? I Mrs. w. C1anton.
 A This beautiful plant is called pandanus veitchii, very attractive and fine house plant 0. Do you think one could ma ture pole snap beans before frost , W, R. F. D. 1. A. There is time to do so but weather conditions would have to be right and that is not likely to be. l could advise the planting of bunch l beans.
 | Q. What is the most valuable, tankage or cotton seed meal. as a fertilizer?- D. w. sCamphiu.s 4. Both are good but their value would depend on the ammonia and phosphate contents. Tankage varies as much as 50 to 100 per cent in
 value. all depending on analysis
 Generally speaking, pound for pound tankage is more valuable than cotton seed meal.
 Q. I notice that some fertilizer factories claim that their brands oi 16 per cent acid pohsphate are bet ter than others because more water soluble. Is there anything to thisi | B. C.. Odenviile.
 | A. A 16 per cent acid means that l it contains that much of total phos- phoric acid, part water soluble. the | balance soluble in a one per cen, | solution of citric acid. and all is l available in time for plant food. An 1 acid phosphate high in water solu- | blity would be preferable for quick
 aetion in quick maturing plants but for slow growing it might not be
 so profitable.