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hart county is taking a greater interest IN COVER CROPS
' , Hany Interesting Subject* Discussed
T By County Agent Bingham n
ill His Special Article This Week
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I u Grain Weevil*.
lt > j Corn with poor shucks is likely to
Slave weevils in it. Old corn carried
4>ver often is damaged badly with
A Gveevils. Peas, wheat and rye are .
ee juite often damaged.
*y If your crib is tight, put one :
1S bound’of carbon bisulfide in an open
ra San on top of the corn, for each 100 [
Jo 500 bubic feet in the crib, de- ;
103 pending on just how tight the crib i
,<j \s. This kills all weevils. Wheat, i
e peas, rye, etc., may be put in tight ,
1 poxes, barrels, etc., and the carbon i
' ei bisulfide poured in, and then old |
J newspapers put on top to prevent;
•vaporation. Allow to remain un
it disturbed 36 hours. Do not get fire
a M ibout, or smoke. It is dangerpus. I
Opening up the crib or barrels will <
1 fause complete disappearance of the
a - ‘'as in two days, when there is no
ai : £iore danger. The material can he
ai bought at any drug store. It is high-
u y effective, and used by many farm-
• *irs in Hart county.
DI -« Terracing Land*.
ar Many farmers are planning to ter
a' ace lands this fall before winter
ft x ains set in. We never saw as much
. B nterest in this idea. If we can be
W assistance, call us. Some farmers
5a ll iave already bought terracing ma
lt Khines for this purpose. Ask for
0 Julletin on terracing farm lands. It
B J •‘s dandy. Poor land is caused large
« r v by the top of the soil washing away
11 layers, as well as gullies and
A itches.
:t Culling Poultry.
18 If you are interested in culling
t iv our farm flock, and you ought to
£ tt»e, we may be able to give you some
« Assistance.’ Call us. All hens with
s f'ellow legs this time of the year
■ r ' ’lught to be sold. If they have been ;
C'aying well, their legs would not have I
(keen yellow. If the eye lids and
as ®,eak are yellow, but the legs are
’I bleached white, it is a sign that the
j| Biens have been laying but have been
Knit for a few weeks. If such a
h ien has good body form, etc., she
Mnay be alright. Everyone ought to
P °>e able to tell those hens which are
'f {■’till laying. There is lots of good
information on culling which every
farmer ought to know.
O ,» Seed Corn.
B Do not pull fodder from your corn
n *Which you mean to use for seed.
it lowers the vitality of it, and is
Aot desirable. If you pull fodder,
it ®hen skip those stalks which you see
r ire desirable for seed. The fodder
d a eft on them will make them easy to
e Identify when gathering. Pick ■<
■talks which are small and stocky, I
liars which hang down well on a
C shank, stalks with two or more
p ®rood ears, etc. Ask for bulletin on
I Leed corn.
1 Current Expenses.
i n' For the past two weeks our work
|*ias been such that it was easy to
U ind out whether a man had any mon-
V 5 ;*?y i n the bank or not. Fellows, it
? j.s surprising to find the number of
>eople who are depending absolutely
’< [>n cotton alone. There is no money
fi i n the home until the cotton crop
j :omes in. What Hart county needs
j i s gardens, chickens, eggs, and other
' Tops which will enable the families
K ' o have a little money coming in
i ill the time. Such money goes much
3 1 ’urther than cotton money, because
’ when cotton money comes in you are
F■ >o flushed with wealth that it is
Y *asy to let it get away from you.
B IVhy not make plans to sell $5.00
worth of vegetables, poultry and eggs
* ivery week next year?
I Peach Borer*.
A few farmers hilled up the dirt
t» iround their trees to take care of
s :he peach borer. Several others are
joing to use the new gas method?
5 which is paradichlorobenzine put
C. iround the trees. Do not neglect
I this. These borers go to work on J
your trees this fall, feed all winter ,
. in many cases, and by spring when'
I you begin to notice them, they have 1
I already about ruined your trees. |
This gas method will do the work al- ■
right. Place your order with us. !
’ The cost is from 2c to 4c per tree.
1 Ask Mr. T. M. Madden, at Reed
1 Creek, what he thinks about this '
: gas method. It is quick, cheap, and
i easy. Mr. Madden treated a good |
number of trees last year, and is |
going to treat more this year.
« Lime.
We are trying to work up a car-
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load of lime for Hart county. We
will have prices in a few days. Ev-
I ery farmer ought to sow a
1 piece of alfalfa. Mr. S. L. Thorn-
I ton, Nuberg, is going to sow 5 acres
i this fall. It will pay you to pur
chase a few tons of lime and get
i different clovers started on your
farm. See me at once about what
| you will want. Get it now while
: you have cotton money. Next spring
will be too late.
Seed For Sale.
If you have oats, wheat or rye
I for sale, let us know about it. Farm
! ers ask asking us each day where
i they can get these. And if you
I have the money, buy what you want
I now. Many folks are selling their
■ seed grain out of the county, and in
: two months there will be Hart coun
ty farmers wanting to buy it. Mr.
i Farmer, do not wait until planting
| time to buy your seeds. Jobbers
and dealers buy way early. Why
not you do the same?
Feeding Chickens.
Do not overlook meat scrap, if,
your hens do not lay on as they ;
should. Ask for information on I
feeding hens to get eggs in the fall.
You can buy meat scrap in Hart
well. Ask us where. Sow an early
patch of oats, wheat or rye for graz
ing. Many hens quit laying because I
they do not get tender green feed. |
Vetch and Clover.
Who ever heard of such demand
for vetch, and Crimson clover?
Folks are saying, “I want to sow
some of that stuff they grow up here
at Cross Roads,” or down at Nuberg.
Cross Roads is the vetch center of
Hart county, and Nuberg and Cokes
bury are the Crimson clover cen
ters. Hart county ought to be the
center of Georgia for them, as well
as the center of the world. The
County Agent has contracted for a
small amount of vetch and clover i
which can be sold for 12 l-2c per
pound for vetch, and 9 l-2c for
Crimson clover, delivered to Hart
well. This will be here by the time
this paper comes out, so get yours
while it lasts. You cannot get this
price again. Hart county ought to
sow enormous amounts of it.
Rye.
Rye is probably the most satisfac
tory cover crop for poor land. It
is good on fertile land also, but on
fertile lands some of legumes, or
winter clovers are better suited. Rye
will make a big and early growth '
where it is impossible to get some |
clovers to grow. It covers the |
ground quickly before winter rains |
set in, prevents surface or sheet |
washing, makes a large growth ear
yin the spring for turning under. ;
In fact rye will make a bigger early
growth than any other cover crop,
thus maging it highly adapted to ear
ly planting of cotton and corn. How
ever, if seasons are late in the
spring, rye may head out before land
can be prepared, and the tough straw
does not rot quickly, and sometimes
is a little mean at the first cultiva
tion of the summer crop. This
soon disappears, and the ground I
works better than ever during the
rest of the year. The large growth
of rye adds large amounts of humus, I
which makes soils hold water better, I
standing droughts, etc., with cotton
and corn.
Three pecks of rye is considered j
a good seeding for cover crop pur- '
poses. Where more growth is
wanted to turn under, more seed may
be sown. Acid phosphate at plant- j
ing time causes better rooting in I
fall, and more stalks from seeds. I
Rye may be sown any time begin- ■
ning latter part of August until i
Christmas, depending on the sea- ;
sons. However, all cover crops |
should be up to protect the ground
from the first winter rains. Hence
rye is usually sown in cotton and
; corn middles, being broadcasted, and
i covered with harrow or serf »es.
i Most all varieties are good for cover
I crops.
It is advisable for every farmer to
have his a seed patch of rye to pro-
I vide enough seed to sow what cot
! ton and corn lands he has, unless
I he plans using other cover crops,
j Land planted to cover crops, and
I turned under each year for five years
will DOUBLE THE COTTON
YIELD ON THE AVERAGE LAND
|IN HART COUNTY. We do not
I think this to be a wild statement.
I Our soils are so depleted in humus,
I that they are right now growing
i poor at an enormous rate, they are
I hard to prepare in the spring, get
; hard quickly, crust badly after each
rain, and their moisture holding
capacity is dreadfully low. The
soils in’ Hart county that have much
humus in them are not sufferi.»r
i nearly so bad in this dry spell. P.
i P. Gurley at Cross Roads, has some
land that is making fine crops of
i corn even in this dry weather. Cover
: crops did it.
Wheat.
’ Wheat is a good cover crop. Quite
I often it is the cheapest to seed.
Rupert Warren at Nuberg used it
extensively last year. It does not
kill easily in cold weather, and does
not make too rank a growth in a wet
I spring. It does not make quite as
much growth, on the other hand, to
turn under.
Oat*.
Oats are fine for cover crop pur-
I poses. They are usually cheap to
i seed. One and one-half bushels
I make a good seeding, but two bush
' els are best on this land. They have
j the disadvantage of being bad to
■ winter kill. 'Ljiis trouble is reduc-
I ed more than naif by sowing early.
; Oats usually kill because they are
not rooted well. Early sowing eli
minates this. They can be put in
cotton middles, broadcast, or put in
drills.
Burr Clover.
Hart county is leading in north
Georgia in Burr clover. This crop
I reseeds itself. There are two ways
jto work it in corn and cotton
grounds. One is to allow a crop to
fully seed, turn it under deeply, and
enough seed will work to the top of
the ground each year thereafter for
three to five years, to give a good
| stand. This stand may be turned
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., AUGUST 29, 1924
under as early as desirable without
allowing to go to seed. When the
stands begin to get thin, then allow
another crop to reseed.
The other reseeding method is to
j lay off corn and cotton rows leaving
j a small ridge of burr clover in the
I middles each year. When this goes
to seed, the ridge ma ybe plowed
out, covering the seed, and this each
year will give good stands of burr
clover. The clover comes up in the
fall with rains, and seeds in May.
The fall and winter growth is us
ually slight, but with a good stand,
the protection to the ground is suf
ficient. The spring growth is rapid
when once started.
It takes several bushels of burrs
to seed an acre. The most common
plan is to start a seed patch, and
from this seed the rest of the farm.
One man said yesterday that he
planted one bushel of seed last fall,
and now had 39 bushels of seed
from the patch. A good acre of
burr clover will make 100 to 200
bushels of seed a year. Fifteen
bushels per acre make a dandy seed
ing.
Burr clover seed must be put in
the ground early. They should be
in now. They will not come up
quickly on first sewing. I would
not advise a man to put out his burr |
clover without stable or lot manure,
unless he has lots of seed. Even
one load of stable manure per acre
will give results. Mix the seed and
manure together, and scatter on top
of ground. Y’ou can get burr clover
to grow on very thin lands with
manure. Unless you have manure, |
sow seed patches on very rich
lands around lots, yards, etc., and
use dirt inoculation in this case.
Where manure is used no inoculation
will need to be provided.
If you have burr clover seed for
sale, let us know. Many are want- '
ing it.
Crimson Clover.
About 1500 pounds of Crimson!
clover seed were sown in Hart coun- >
ty last fall. Whenever inoculation ‘
and stable manure were used, the
results were very gratifying. T. B. !
Thornton at Cokesbury, and Keifer
McGee at Airline are old growers of
this crop, and are big boosters for it.
Crimson clover has to be seeded
each fall. Occasionally it will re
seed, but the hot weather usually
kills it. Seed should be sown only
with good seasons. They are easy to
sprout with a shower, ansi then be
killed by the hot weather following.
The first good season after the 10th
of October is a good guide to sow.
Simply scratch the ground with a
harrow or scrape, and sow the seed
down on top of the ground. In this
case inoculation will have to be ad
ded just ahead of a rain, so that it
will be washed into the soil. The
clean seed may be inoculated with
artificial cultures, and sown on the
ground ahead of the harrow. Select
a time just before an expected rain,
if possible.
Seed in the chaff are not affected
by small showers as are clean seed.
Hence when thew come up there is
usually a very good season in the
ground, and the young plants are
not killed afterwards by dry weather.
The cotton and corn middles are
usually scratched with a harrow or
scrape, and the chaff sown on top
of the ground. In this case inocu
lation must be lidded in the form
of dirt scattered on the ground just
ahead of a shower. In fact it will
pay you to take a good wetting in a
rain scattering this dirt in order
to assure good inoculation. The re
sults are worth it. However, the
chaff may be inoculated with artifi
cial cultures, and covered with a
harrow. If the ground is not too
hot and dry the inoculation will be
satisfactory on good land. On thin
land this may not always work, and
dirt inoculation is advised.
We do not advise sowing Crimson
clover on thin lands. It is a fine
land builder, but it is hard to get
to grow in medium or thin lands
UNLESS YOU USE LARGE
AMOUNTS OF STABLE MA
NURE, in which case you will get
good growth there. Under any con
ditions of seeding on ground that
has never grown Crimson clover WE
ADVISE THE USE OF STABLE
MANURE BROADCASTED ON THE
CLOVER AS SOON AFTER PLANT
ING AS POSSIBLE. Wherever this
is done, with inoculation, results can
be expected unless the season for
■ weeks after planting is very dry.
Crimson clover should be sown as
early as possible, and seedings late
do not root well, and often are kill
ed by freezes. October seedings
j rarely wilder kill, where manure is
used. Crimson clover makes a good
hay crop if cut in early bloom stage.
It is often sown with oats or wheat,
and a double tonnage of feed may be
secured in this way.
Seedings should be 15 to 20
pounds of clean seed, and 20 to 30
of chaff.
Inoculation can be secured for 30c
per acre, from the State.
Vetch.
Hairy vetch is easy to grow on
most lands, where inoculated. It
must be sown with small grain to
support the growth. Seeding is 15
to 25 pounds per acre, the thinner
the land the more vetch needed, with
one-half bushel of rye, or wheat,
and one to two bushels of oats. The
thinner the land the more grain
should be put.
Vetch will not winter kill. It may
be heaved out of the ground in late
seedings, but early seedings will
stick. Vetch makes a later growth
than rye. and does not make the
biggest growth for early planting of
cotton. But many farmers turn it
under and grow big crops of cotton
after it. Most people in Hart coun
ty are liking it better than other
cover crops.
Vetch with grain makes one of
the finest hay crops known. b arm
ers not making much corn this year
should sow some vetch.
Worms on vetch can be controlled.
Early cutting for hay on first appear
ance" of worms, or turning under
, ground, or poison with calcium ar-
senate on the crops which the worms
may injure when leaving the vetch
after cutting or turning will give
absolute control. Many people allow
themselves to miss one of the finest !
crops in the world by being afraid
of the worms. Some of Hart coun
ty’s best farmers have been grow
ing it for years, and do not mind the
worms, if there are any. The loss
from not using vetch is greater than
the worms always, if precautions are ;
used.
Vetch is the finest land builder I
I ever used.
E. H. Norman, Sardis community.
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I like Crimson clover on medium
or good land. E. H. Norman.
I know one thing, IT SURE
MAKES LAND PLOW BETTER,
and it makes a sight of feed .
B. D. Johnson,
Union Hill community.
Last vear was my first crop of
vetch, and I JUST LIKE IT FINE.
IT IS THE FINEST THING OUT,
I think.
L. D. Gurley, Cross Roads.
I sowed 21 pounds of vetch with
3 bushels oats, and made seven 2-
horse loads of hay, and ON POOR
LAND, as anyone knows who has
seen it.
W. T. Phillips, Cross Roads.
I think vetch is the most wonder
ful feed I ever had. I cut 1-2 acre
and made «even 2-horse loads of
; hay. I have been sowing it for sev
j eral years, but had my best success
i when I got to using 25 pounds per
acre.
J. R. Phillips, Union Hill.
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