The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., November 05, 1910, Page 752, Image 4

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—“WHAT I AM DOING FOR BETTER CROPS NEXT YEAR.”—
WINTER COVER CROPS PAY.
Messrs. Editors: I harvested a
good crop of wheat and oats off ten
acres. I broke this 10 acres, plant
ed 3 acres In Mexican June corn, 1
acre in Orange cane, 1 % acres in
New Era peas, drilled, and 4 % acres
in corn and peas, % bushel each,
broadcast, to the acre. This made a
fine lot of hay. It was so rainy in
June and July I did not get the corn,
cane, and peas planted until July 14,
the corn has been in roasting-ear
since September 25, and is very fine,
the cane is good, the peas are good
and ready to pick.
I sowed this corn, cane and peas in
winter oats, as I laid it by September
8, and they are now looking fine, I
have the 4 % acres pea and corn stub
ble broken with my 2-horse plow,
and logged as I broke it; I will let it
lie and settle about two weeks and
sow in wheat, double shovel it in,
and log with my split-log drag and
harrow, and top dress all the manure
I have on all the poorest spots.
I keep my stables well bedded and
as the manure accumulates I haul out
on thinnest spots. I have a small
farm of 27% acres, fenced in five
fields so I can pasture them at
different times and get more
good out of them. I have 400 win
ter apple trees that bore some this
year, 100 other different fruit trees
beginning to bear. I sow all my
early corn in peas as I lay by, and
they are fine, and you ought to see
my Duroc-Jerseys in these pea fields
now. I planted, as an experiment, %
acre of Texas seeded ribbon cane,
which is very large and 10 to 12
feet high now ready to make. I will
sow rye on all my land which is not
in wheat and oats, for a cover crop,
and in May will turn under and plant
corn and other crops. I am the only
man I know of who planted oats or
wheat stubble in anything, and
everybody is surprised to see my late
crop where I had wheat and oats.
LEE McMURTRY.
Mountain View, Ark.
Editorial Comment: If Mr. McMur
try can arrange to sow his wheat
with a grain drill, instead of putting
It in with a double-shovel, we feel
sure it will pay him to do so.
AIMING AT BETTER LAND.
Messrs. Editors: I note your re*
quest to tell you what I am doing to
prepare for better crops next year.
Last fall I harvested my corn;,
and don’t think I made over 10
bushels per acre, although I did not
measure it. I cut the corn off and
shocked it, then double disked It well
l and Bowed it in crimson clover, inoc
K ulating the land with dirt from a
neighbor’s field. Last spring when
the clover died I broke the land deep
with two-horse turning plow, turning
under the entire crop of clover. Then
I prepared the land well and sowed
It In cowpeas, Whippoorwill, putting
one bushel of peas and two hundred
pounds 16 per cent acid phosphate
per acre, on the poorer spots I put
what manure I could rake up, also
some rock phosphate and disked all
In well. I have Just harvested a
good crop of pea bay and double
disked well and sowed to crimson
clover again and harrowed in. The
clover came up in three days. To
day I littered my stable and gave the
manure a good dressing of Tennessee
floats or rock phosphate hb often
before.
I have my pea hay under shelter
and will get the value of it in nice
milk and butter this winter and a
fine lot of good manure next spring to
go on my crimson clover sod for corn.
Also the skim-milk and buttermilk
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will make my three-fourths Essex
pigs saucy in January and February
when the snow is on the ground and
1 expect the corn which 1 grow on
thin clover land with this manure to
make the pigs "which will arrive in
January," saucy next fall.
1 have another held In peas and
soy beans which I will drain this win
ter and sow in peas in spring for hay
and next fall 1 will disk thoroughly
and seed to crimson clover for my
1912 corn crop. 1 will butcher a
large hog October 12, and sell him
and buy a trio of registered Duroc
Jersey pigs. 1 would bow held No.
2 this fall, but 1 want to ditch it and
remove the slumps.
Now, last, but by no means least,
I am still reading The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette and can recom
mend it to all.
E. F. SOUTHERLAND.
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DEEP PLOWING AND WINTER
GRAINS.
Messrs. Editors: In accordance
with your request in the issue of
October 1, I am going to tell your
readers what I (a young man on a
run down farm) am going to do for
next year’s crop.
I have already broken a part of
my land and shall thoroughly and
deeply break the remainder of it and
harrow all of it once or more, as
many times as I can, so as to pul
verize the surface. Then I am going
to seed it to wheat, oats, rye and
winter vetch, except an acre or so,
which I shall sow in rape for hogs.
I shall get excellent winter graz
ing and plenty of hay in addition to
some wheat for sale, and the great
improvement to my land. I said that
my land was broken deep. My wheat
and oat land is plowed but 6 inches
Jeep, but that’s deep to some of our
‘3-inch farmers”
ELBERT J. RESPESS.
Washington, N. C.
CRIMSON CLOVER FOR NEXT
YEAR'S CROPS.
Messrs. Editors: As per your re
quest, I, for one, give you my plan
for raising better crops. I have a
plot of ground from which 1 cut 15
bushels of wheat per acre. I broke
with two-horse plow, harrowed with
cutaway and drag, and sowed in peat
about last of June. About 10th oi
September I sowed crimson clovei
seed and harrowed it in among the
peas with a weeder without damage
to peavines. 1 got a fairly goou
stand—the peas shading the grounu
and protecting clover from hot sun.
I shall mow peavines this week
and leave clover for cover. Dur
ing winter and early spring I shal
spread manure over the clover
Some time the first of next May, o>
as soon as clover has matured, will
break good and deep and will pul
verize with cutaway and drag and
plant corn, using phosphoric acid ami
potash in some form, the clover sup
plying the nitrogen and humus.
I have another plot from which 1
cut wheat—broke it in August, cut
and drug fine, and let rain settle
ground. About the middle of Sep
tember I sowed to crimson clover,
using 200 pounds guano per acre,
harrowed seed in with weeder again
and rolled. I soon had fine stand of
clover, and now the plot is green
with clover. I propose planting this
in cotton, using 400 pounds phos
phoric acid and potash per acre. I
propose preparing and cultivating
both corn and cotton according to
plans of the Demonstration Work.
O. N. SCARDORO.
Star, N. C.
WORKING FOR RICH LAND.
Messrs. Editors: After reading
your admirable editorial on “Build
ing Up Soil Fertility,” it seems we
have been doing very little during
the past 35 years except clearing
land and wearing out, and I guess
the world rightly asks if we expect
to continue this disastrous practice.
The cotton wilt already has, and
the boll weevil soon will, infest our
lields, and unless something is done,
and done right now, many homes will
pass into the hands of others who
will solve these problems The mis
takes 1 have made this year 1 shall
try to correct:
(1) 1 had some land in cultivation
too wet to cultivate with profit. 1
will put this land in pasture and
thereby reduce my acreage 10 per
cent.
(2) I have been making a mis
take by planting oats behind corn
and peas. It was hurry up and gath
er corn, while cotton was thick and
labor high, to get cattle in the corn
field, and hurry to get cattle out of
the field to plant in oats. The land
was dry and grassy and hard and
oats slow coming up and easy to win
ter kill. 1 planted a big field of peas
and soy beans this year and these
are gathered cleaner and earlier, and
here I am planting oats and ought
to make better oats. I am send
ing to the most reliable seedsmen for
their very best re-cleaned seed oats;
also 1 ordered some Hairy vetch,
some crimson clover and some bur
clover to mix with these oats, here
and there, In the best spots where I
think they would be most likely to
succeed. On these already best spots
I will spread stable manure with the
two-horse manure spreader.
(3) Drainage Is a subject too big
to be considered here, and should be
treated to ItBelf. But 1 will say 1
can and will make great Improve
ments along that line; and I believe
that every acre, hilly or level, needs
a tine civil engineer to locate where
ever drain should be, and here Is a
great Held for the future college boys
who have mastered civil engineer
ing.
(4) I used some three-horse disk
plows this year, and results are so
good I will buy more for next year
and break one-third of my land each
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