The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
About spraying

uiScuSSeu, put nearly all Sucn ulScuS- sion%is surrounded. by or qualified by so many exceptions or cautions as to render the whole unqualified for the majority user. There. is nobody to blame. When necessary to employ poisons for any insect or disease control. caution must be the watch word not because there is much dan ger, but you cannot account for the ignorance of the public and one who knows. feels the responsibility placed upon teacher. There is no one subject on which there is such a great need for general information and just how to educate the general public about spraying and the great economic importance of some is serious problem and usually side steRped by all agricultural writers. The, Age Herald. through this de- partment, is willing to meet the issue face to face and will undertake at all times to discuss spraying from every angle and will.give or suggest formulas for all troubles that any reader may encounter. You may com pare our recommendations and submit them to the government. They will confirm what we say
 Too Late n Poor Excuse
 People are always looking for ex- cuses to get out of doing something that they know they ought to do. If money was as easily found as ex- cuses it would have no purchasing value because everybody would be we'll supplied. Many who make up their mind to plant something will put it off from time to time, using the weather for an exca&e. until sud denly they are able to persuade themselves that it is too late. Such conclusion is easily reached by the lazy and indifferent. Some people like to be told that it is too early or too late to plant this or that be- cause they are looking for excuses Today is Sunday and I wonder how many people persuaded themselves that it was too late to go to Sun day school or the weather too threat ening to go to church. l once knew B man that enjoyed coming to the seed store and would discuss for hours about what he was going to plant but I noticed he never bought any seed. He was always just going to do wonders as soon as it stopped frainng. Finally when the weather would become favorable he would wall about it being too late. Its ne. CT too late to plant something and ttii holdA good every month in the year,
 .se About Fertilizers
 There is great need for better un- derstanding of fertilizers on the part of the general public. Of course, everyone knows what stable or any animal manure will do to soil and the influence it exerts on soil pro- duetion. but when it comes to com mercial fertilizers. on which the ma jority of planters must depend, there is almost universal ignorance. Nor. is this ignorance confined to the average planter, but even many deal CTS and actually some makers or mix CTS have the vaguest ideas of the functions of the chief plant foods, phosphoric acid. nitrogen or am monia and potash. There is great economy in the rational use of com mercfal plant foods and any planter or farmer who takes the trouble to post themselves can easily cash in on the knowledge gained.
 As an illustration of the gross ig- norance prevalent about commercial fertilizers, there afe agents going through the country selling to farm CTS and city folks. too, certain for mulas for $f and up for the making Of fertilizers. These printed for mulas tell the planter that for $2 worth of material he can make ton of high grade commercial fertilizer worth s3e or $40. The ingredients of the formula are given as copperas, blue stone, sal soda, salt, caustic I've and salt petre. Twenty five pounds of these materials are to be mixed with ton of soil or stable manure. These fakers should be jailed. Tell The Age-Herald your fertilizer prob lems We can and will help you.
 Questiens anA Answers
 0. How much shade will Japan clover Qespedesal stand? I would like to use it in a mixture in seeding large lawn. Could l expect re- suits the first year: M. J., Hunts vile, Ala. cs
 A. Where soil is reasonably fer tile Japan clover will thrive under considerable shade. You often see 1t naturalized in woods where there is no undergrowth. If sown now in mixture or even month or so later it will make splendid show 4ng by late summer and persist All dafiag the fall when many other grasses and cIovers give way.
 Q. I have some fine varieties Of white table peas that were almost . failure last season, dus>to miidew, ana only saved few seed. Dotyou think the seed will transmit this sar.e trouble to>this years crop and bow could it be prevented. s. A., Albert vile, Ala.
 A. don't think the seed will transmit the miidsw, but . prscau- kfnanrw aAw ~aulA hA to treat