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Value of Rye as a Cover Crop.
Messrs. Editors: When I was
much younger than I am now, my
father had a fine farm on which I
worked for several springs and sum
mers and we always made big crops
of corn and wheat. I remember that
he, every year, sowed i ve in the fall
and plowed it under in the spring or
late winter, and these places which
were thinner and less productive,
made ns good corn as the richer plots
in the same field which needed no
soiling crops.
I have seen a statement that a
man from the Northwest went to
Georgia, bought a very poor place
and after the first crop he sowed
rye on It In the fall, plowed It under
In the spring, for two or three years,
with the result of an increase of two
or three barrels of corn each success
sive year.
JAMES D. TILLMAN.
Harms, Tenn.
Editorial Continent.—This is fresh
testimony, If more were needed, to
the value of winter cover crops.
While on most lands n winter-grow
ing legume would be preferable to
the rye, still rye will help greatly,
and do not leave any land bare this
winter.
Soy Beans for Hay.
Messrs. Editors: I see in a recent
Issue that Prof. Massey says he would
like to hear from some who have
sown soja beans broadcast.
I have sown them broadcast, alone,
with sorghum and kaffir corn, and
with cowpeas.
I first tried them with black peas
planted about June 8th or 10th. Al
though this made an enormous crop.
It was not quite satisfactory. In the
first place, since I grew It especially
for hay, I had to wait for the peas
to develop till the beans hnd rather
passed their best stage for hay, hav
ing hard, woody stems, and pods so
hard as to hurt the mouths of stock
when thoroughly dry.
Next, they were so tangled that I
found It very difficult to mow and
stack, ami very mean to bale.
But with the Iron pea. which
grows In much shorter time (and for
many reasons the best of all cow
Peasl, planted about July 1st, the
result has never failed to please.
I prefer to plant each separately
rather than soja beans and sorghum.
For hay 1 prefer them mixed with
Iron peas at the rate of one-half
bushel of each to the acre. For green
feed they are hard to beat, and are
most profitably sown alone In rows
and cultivated.
ZENO MOORE.
Edgecombe Co., N. C.
Why Corn Fire*.
Messrs. Editors: I notice an ar
ticle in The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette as to why corn tires. It looks
like any man with ordinary intelli
gence could see the reason, by giv
ing the subject a little thought. One
reason Is that the land has been
In cultivation for years and nothing
put back to restore the fertility, and
the consequence is it gets poorer
year after year. If the land was
planted in some legume with the ad
dition of phosphoric acid, he could
keep up the fertility without the use
of commercial fertilizers. 1 doubt,
taking the country at large, that the
use of commercial fertilizers has in
creased the crops enough to pay for
the fertilizers.
Another reason why corn tires is
for the want of proper cultivation.
' Some people plow out their corn
----1
with turning plows and leave it to
take care of itself; a hard rain comes
and the land bakes, and firing sets
in. If they would cultivate differ
ently and keep the land stirred late
as possible there would not be so
much firing. It does not matter
how thick corn is provided your land
has been properly prepared and cul
tivated and rich enough to sustain
thick corn. The greatest reason, I
suppose, is the lack of proper culti
vation. R. s. JONES.
Terry, Miss.
Another Cheap Waterworks System.
I want to give you our system of
home waterworks as requested in
your most valuable Progressive
Farmer and Gazette.
My tower. 25 feet high cost $20;
cistern, capacity 5x8 feet, cost $3 0;
gasoline engine, 6-horse-power (sec
ond-hnnd), cost $125. This engine
runs a grist mill and crusher, and
furnishes water to five different lots,
for all house purposes, including
bathroom and kitchen. I am about
to put a water fan in dining room.
All pipes and connections are sec
ond hand, costing six years ago $60.
The whole plant was put up by my
two boys, except foundation of en
gine which cost $14.
I hope this system of water works
will induce many others to do the
same, and will help to keep many
boys at home.
L. C. GAUTHIER.
St. Martinsville, La.
The Sort of Papers Not to Read.
Messrs. Editors: I am very much
disgusted to see a great number of
people take cheap Northern farm
papers which are filled with patent
medicine, stock food, and other
humbug advertisements.
You take a very advanced stand
on these things in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette, but a very cor
rect one. You are ahead of the re
ligious papers, for nil of them I have
seen advertise patent medicines. Rut
not many carry the stock food hum
bug ads. C. S. ARCHER.
Raldwyn, Miss.
Believe* in The Progressive Farmer
and Gazette and Baises Hire.
Messrs. Editors: Your good horse
sense, coupled with your clean open
and above board policies, ought to
particularly appeal to every farmer.
Tell the 18-year-old young man if
we would look to our interest and
support The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette as we should, it would be as
good a college as he needed, provid
ed he would buy an Avery 3-mule
disk and a 2-horse Avery cultivator
and some of same make of steel
beam 7-inch-cut turn plows and a
14-disk harrow. Keep these tools
going and make cotton a side show.
The man working for $100 per
month won’t be in it. Of course,
the young farmer must get down
into the dirt as you always advise
and make a well pulverized seed bed
and fill his ground with humus. If
we will adopt these plans we will
soon change the name of “hayseed”
and elevate our profession to one of
power and influence we never dream
ed of.
Tell us hayseeds anything and we
believe it. Tell it over and over in
strong and vigorous terms and a
majority of our sort will take for
granted what our friends, the specu
lator, professional politician and
patent medicine fakir, tell us with
out any further proof.
Keep up your sledge-hammer
blows and if possible increase the
weight of your sledge.
Mr. A. L. French’s article on
broomsedge is just what I have been
doing. I go a little farther,—T litter
my lot and cowpens, and I flat-bed
and sow 1 bushels of rice per acre
broadcast on the poorest land I have
and cover about 4 inches deep with
the straw. The rice will work its
way through the straw and make 50
bushels of as plump grain per acre
as you ever saw. Then stack your
rice straw and get all the broom
sedge and fine straw you can for the
next crop. Don’t plant in a pen
or where water will stand, as a
heavy rain will lift the straw and
\Vhen the water falls your mulch will
smother your rice.
HAYSEED.
Grangeville, La.
About Chloroform for Chiggers.
Messrs Editors: The remedy given
by Mr. Worden for chiggers has one
serious drawback, and that is, if you
put people to rubbing chigger bites,
and chiggers with chloroform, you
will have some folks who do not
know its local effect, blistered all
over, and as I read the prescription,
and thought of the possible conse
quence, I was more or less amused,
as 1 thought of the fact that the rem
edy would be worse than the disease
miles properly and carefully applied.
If chloroform is to be used, or if
chloroforming Mr. Chigger is a good
means of stopping his depredations,
rather than apply it as most people
would do, not knowing its local irri
tating effect, I would rather put a
twist on the chigger’s nose, then
chloroform him and hang him on a
pole, like the farmers do hawks, or
bury him like all thoughtful farmers
do dead hogs, etc., from cholera, or
leave him out in the sun and let him
warp out of service, like some of
them do their machinery and farm
Implements.
Dropping chloroform on in drop
doses would be all right, but rubbing
it on, as many would do—excuse me
please. I would rather scratch.
W. B. CRAWFORD, M. D.
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