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What we desire is to procure ihe largest
•mount of lateral root* which help*
hold the upper surface of the land to
gether and thus protect the grain from
the ■ pew*.—State Agricultural Depart*
Meal '
Onrlag PmtId* Hay.
Qomtion — Pleaae give me you
method of oaring peavlne hay.
Akswbr—The Tinea should bo out u
soon as the pods begin to ripen and al
lowed to.romatn orer from two to aid
hove on n bright ennahlny day. Than
take year hay fork and pat your Tines
Into oooka about throe foot high; the
Tinea should be allowed to re main, if
poaalMt. through the Seoond day. Then
U*e your hay fork and plaoe the Tinoe
on stacks 19 or 14 feet high, or jut high
enough for the fork to reach the top of
the pole. The pole should be sharpened
and the hay should be staoked about 10
foot high. A bettor plan would bo to
hara holes bored into the stack polos
and drlTe pins in, so the air would hare
free aooess. However, the hay would
OWe eery nicely in dry weather with-
out this precaution. After the hay
hga cured about fire or six days, ac
cording to the state of the weather,
you hay will be ready for the barn.
The Unknown pea, thf Olay pea and
the Black pea are probably the hast
varieties. Ton can obtain any of these
varieties from a reliable wholesale jnor-
chant, either in Atlanta, Macon or .Au
gusta. Mark. W. Johnson of Atlanta
1 am satisfied could furnish yon.
Thom three pecks to one bushel and a
half of the peas should be sown to the
acre, according to the fertility of the
soil. The plan of broadoastlng them in
your corn, when yen lay by, is used by
many good farmers. If you do not get
muoh bay and peas, your land will be
greatly improved, whioh ie one of the
chief ad Tentages to be derived by sow
ing your land in peas. If yon wish to
enrich your soil, the Whippoorwill va
riety is probably the bust for this use.
Three peeks to the acre will be suffi
cient to plant in your corn when you
by by- Now, as to whether your
corn would be injured by the peas or
got, Ido not believe the injury v ould
ha sufficient to overcome the great ben-
efft the pea Or op would be to the land.
—State Agricultural Department
Forage Plant*
Quxstjox—Pleaae tell me what in
four (minion, would be n good forage
plant for epring pasturing and hhy.
’Axswxb—For n good forage plant
and for; spring pasturing and hay, I>
wpntd recommend the Hairy Vetdh
tFieio ViUoia )
: This plant Is n native of Europe, bat
hgs been grown ns a forage orop in the
tTpited States for a long time, and has
ppved very satisfactory. It is eepe-
dollar adapted to the sen them olimate,
and liable to withstand the drouth and
extremely hot weather. It should bo
sawed either broad oast or in drills front
S*P»- l to Sept. IS; and it you have
a* “favorable season for a brut six
week*,, it wilt take a good start and
grow through the winter, furnishing
winter and early spring pasture, ft
should be out for fodder when the pods
are aboat half matured. If properly
owed, it makes good hay, and can be
handled like oow pane. The seed to
quite expensive, ooetlng about $4 00 per
bushel. It to also similar to the oow
penes a soil renovator.—State Agrloult-
nral Department.
Cora stalk JB overt.
—.lit—Our corn orop to being
I by n worm, aamplaa of whioh I
sen! yon. What to it and what to tha
remedy!
| Anew an—Upon examining the elnlke
I found several worm* boring in them.
Which proved to be the larger cornstalk
bonf (Dtatrma taceharaltlt). This in-
■set to quite well distributed over tha
southern states and sometimes beoamee
gabs troublesome. It also attaoka
(agar cane, sorghum and game grass.
Them are two generations, and tha last
tompaeeea the winter in the oil coca-
stalk* No remedy can ba applied to
the growiag orop to stop their ravages,
hut they eaa be prevented from daamg-
tag the crops in suooeedlag yean. Af-
tor the orop to gathered in the fall, all
MtoaU oeeaatalka should be dragged off,
aolleated and boned to destroy the
,9m. wintering brand. Also a eystem
of rotation of orape should be adopted.
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