FARMER- AND
PLANTER
HOW TO BUILD UP A FARM*
pr0f. Massey Gives Counsel Every
Farmer Should Put Into Practice.
A correspondent in Central Tennes
writes that he moved there from
Ohio and wants me. a southern man,
t0 give him some help in the methods
for improving the land in that section,
jjg Says that the native farmers tell
him that it is useless to sow clover
seed there, as clover no longer suc
ceeds, and that he need not expect to
raise as good crops of grain or any
thing else as he grew in Ohio.
Our correspondent, however, is of
the opinion that the land t:»ere that
has run down can be brought up to
a productivo condition, and in this I
fully agree with him. The southern
uplands have been reduced to an un
productive state by bad farming more
than anything else. The rolling lands
have been washed into gullieSj be
cause the plowing has been done with
a little plow and a single mule, and
only a few inches turned.
Efforts have been made all over the
south to check this washing by run
ning ridges, called terraces, around
the hills, with the idea of making the
water move slowly. But the ten aces
often make the damage the greater
by gathering a head of water to break
over and make a worse gully than
ever. What is needed, as I have often
said, is not terraces nor ridges made
by plows around the hills, but deep
plowing and sub-soiling, to form a
deep loose bed of soil to retain the
water that will soon be needed to
carry the crops over a drought.
I have for many years been trying
to hammer into the heads of southern
farmers the fact that they have for
generation's been scratching a poor
farm that lies right on top of a more
productive one, waiting for a man
with nerve to ues a plow that would
turn up some of the fertile land and
a subsoil plow behind it to still deeper
loosen the clay below". I have tried
to teach that after this deep prepara
tion, the cultivation should be shallow
and level to retain the moisture and
to prevent the formation of ridges
around the hills to gather a head of
water to make gullies.
Added to these Is the important mat
ter of a farm rotation, and the grow
ing of the legume crops that not only
feed the stock, but leave nitrogen in
the soil for the following crops. Not
that a rotation alone will do the work,
for a rotation is only another means
of getting more and more out of the
land; and the more we get from the
land, the more attention we must give
to the keeping up of the store of plant
food in the soil. We must have the
legumes to get us nitrogen and to
make manure in the feeding of them
that will help in the restoration of the
humus or vegetable decay that is the
life of the soil. Now to do all this
we must feed the soil in the things
that it lacks.
Say we are working the land with
cotton as the money crop. Starting
with a crop of cowpeas sown for hay,
we should encourage the growth of
the pease and thus get them to do
more nitrogen fixing by feeding them
well with phosporic acid and potash.
Not less than 300 pounds of acid phos
phate and 50 pounds of the muriate of
potash should be applied to the pea
crop. This will give a heavy crop of
the best hay in the world and on the
stubble we can sow with no prepara
tion at all 15 pounds of crimson clover
seed per acre. In the spring as this
blooms we will turn it under for the
cotton, and with 300 pounds of the
same mixture in the furrows we will
tnako a fairly good cotton crop. Sow
crimson clover seed again among the
cotton at the last working, and dur
ing the winter spread all the manure
made on the farm from the forage fed
*nd turn all under in spring for corn.
The peas and crimson clover will give
y°u nitrogen, but they are greedy
feeders on phosphoric acid and pot
£sh, and these must be supplied since
they can not be had from the air.
i Ibis is an important fact to be kept
In mind. Some farmers, hearing of
the value of the legume crops like
peas and clover, get the notion tha
* 1 they need to do is to sow these
^ar after year ami get their land rich.
if these legume crops are re-,
mined from the land and no care
a'“n co restore the manure, they will
ai for the impoverishment of the
and instead of its improvement. ,
The point of the greatest impor
aaee is the maintaining of the full
®npph of the mineral elements, phos
P.iorus and 1'otassium, in the form of
Phosphate and potash salt*. If these
nr* liberally supplied to the crops,
6 egmnes will do the rest and will
Vl: t*le Purchase of the costly nitro
en, since they can get it in abun
nce from the air.—W. F. Massey, in
Progressive Farmer.
u,.Tt'ere 18 ho treat which the shut
that' “8 Wl1* aPPreciate more than
in n which tb»y will get frQpu a bath
of n °X *n which two or three peoks
ask, T * n>a<* dust> a Peck of wood
h 8rtnrt a Pound or two of sulphur
dVH been placed.
JVr poultry nped a variel
def.|ec°homical reasons it i
tion nt e t0 feed t0 great a p,
because buckwheat and hi
able „ *eSe grains entain con
hot ahil°tdj flher, which poultry
• o digest and assimilate.
HCW TO HAVE WINTER PASTURE.
Plant Vetch During Months of August
and September.
The farmers of the south and mid
dig west can have a winter pasture by
planting wlntei vetch in August and
September. By sowing 30 pounds to
the acre in the way cowpeas are sown
it will afford a fine pasture all fall,
winter and spring for all kinds of
stock, and in the spring the stock can
be taken off, and in plenty of time to
plant ordinary crops. From one to
three tons cured vetch hay can be
mowed per acre, containing both grain
and forage, ahead of alfalfa; in fact,
equal pound for pound with wheat
bran by actual analysis.
There is no better soil improver
than vetch, and it will grow on any
soil and in any climate that will pro
duce cow peas. It is an annual, but
when mowed enough of the bottom
seed will be cured and will pop out to
reseed the land, and they will lie dor
mant all summer and again germinate
the following fall, and so on continu
ously.
The coldest weather does not in
jure vetch, and where wheat has been
cut and intended for corn next sason
is a fine place to plant it. As a soil
improver, winter pasture, and for hay
it cannot be beaten, and it grows when
other crops are out of the way, and
gets out of the way in time to plant
other crops on the same soil. The cul
ture is most highly recommended by
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington and by the leading experiment
station and thousands of farmers who
have tried it. The seeds are not ex
pensive, but seedsmen put on you old
seed which do not germinate very
well.
Hasten the Moult.
It is the common belief that the
poultry keeper can hasten the period
of moulting of the early-hatched birds.
This is true, in a measure, but In a
measure only. It is natural that late
hatched birds will moult late, and
early-hatched birds will molt early,
and when moulting is influenced at all
it cannot be for more than two or
three weeko.
"When the bird is about five or six
months of age, the ormer date being
preferable, feed on a light ration for
a week or two. If the bird is in the
habit of getting all it can eat in the
yards it should be confined for a part
of the day in the houses or lots where
there is no feed. Fasting in this way
will start the molt. As soon as the
molting is over and the new feathers
begin to start, the bird should be
given a ratilon which includes an
abundance of nitrogeneous feed. Sun
flower seed, wheat bran and prepared
chick foods which are known to be
rich in nitrogen should be used. Sun
flower seed is the best of those named,
and if the farmer has a supply of it
he need invest in no other similar
feed.. Feed containing a goodly sup
ply of nitrogen rapidly assists in the
production of feathers, so the bird is
in full feather before winter sets in.
It sometimes happens that birds
which are hatched very early in the
spring do not molt as early as they
should, and for such birds the above
suggestions will be found especially
beneficial.—Inland Farmer.
Agricultural Briefs.
For family use there is no necessity
of having six or seven varieties of a
►;ineJs kind of fruit. Early, medium and
late varieties may he used. but it is
better to have a variety of a kind
that is prolific and satisfactory than
to have the land occupied with several
varieties that seldom produce crops.
An insufficient supply of bees will
hinder the setting of fruit. While other
insects may take a part in the carrying
of pollen, the fruit raiser must rely
chiefly upon honey bees. Experience
shows that, though bees may fly two
or three miles, hives should be with
in half a mile of the orchard or small
fruit patch.
Farmers are freqeuntly offered dis
ease-proof plants and trees, so-called,
but it may be safely claimed that no
variety of pear, peach gooseberry,
cherry or other fruit is exempt from
disease peculiar to its species. Some
varieties may not be so susceptible
to disease as others, but if in range
of disease they will surely be attacked.
Kentucky Leads In Tobacco.
The agricultural department at
Washington has just published statis
tical information regarding agricul
tural matters in Kentucky and other
states, which shows that Kentucky
leads in tobacco, having twice the
acreage in that crop and several times
as large a crop as North Carolina,
her nearest competitor. The Ken
tucky acreage in tobacco in 1906 was
200.000, and the average yield of to
bacco per acre was 870 pounds. The
total production was 252,300,000
pounds. The total production was
252.300,000 pounds, which brought an
average farm price on Dec. 1 last oi
7.7 cents, and an aggregate farm value
on the same date of $19,427,100. This
was more than twice as much as the
value of Ohio tobacco, which wag $8,
500.000.
The farmer who allows his hens to
forage for a living, and often go hun
gry, to compel them to roost in tree*
and on fences in winter, and to suffer
with thirst in the heat of summer, or
when water is frozen in winter, mean*
that he will often be for weeks with
out eggs and have plenty of them only
when the price is lowest.
The commotion produced by chasing
down a fowl and killing it, or putting
it into a coop produces a shock among
the -other poultry from which th«j
[ will not recover in a short time.
We Reiterate.
That for more than fifteen years
Hunt's Cure has been working on the
afflicted. Its mission is to cure skin
troubles, particularly those of all itch
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account of advertising, but because it
surely does the work. One box is
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Plague of Frogs Annoy.
The Rye and an adjoining spur of
the Chiltern hills, near High Wy
combe, Eng., are nightly overrun with
a countless host of frogs. Local resi
dents have had to seek fresh prome
nades, and a crusade against the frogs
is being planned.
A well at New Burlington, O., yields
both salt and fresh water.
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