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Continued from last week. Tv*'' 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. Om following aMWtottheaatoa groacd ' dam- H^lf tk fc^towedthe) from this \ into* The Easiest Place to Make a Living on earth.