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ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES Cpmmissioner Nesbitt’s Ques | tion Box For the Month. VALUABLE INFORMATION GIVEN A Simple Plan of Ascertaining the Net Weight of Hogs—Hints to Barn Build ers— How to Bring Up Worn, Sandy Land to a Better State of Fertility. Worms In Freestone Peaches. Question.—l. I have a piece of worn, saijdv land, that I wish to bring up to to i better state of fertility. I have just sowed it in peas, after manuring it with ashes and acid phosphate and breaking it deeply. How shall I proceed further? 2. I have a ten acre piece of ground with a branch on one side of it. I think with a ram I could irrigate this laud at a cost of S2OO or S3OO. I want to raise truck. Do you think I could do so suc cessfully? 3. This land will make 1,000 pounds of seed cotton to the acre. Is it good enough, to at once commence putting it k in gjfrden truck? W 4? Will it do to sow scarlet or crimson clover behind the cotton pickers in the fall? 5. What place in Georgia ships the most garden truck? Answer.—On your worn, sandy land just sowed in peas (June 1), the plan wJI be to cut the pea vines for hay atfcut Oct. 1, or sooner if ready. Then thoroughly break the land, applying per acre about 200 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds s os cottonseed meal (there will be enough potash in the soil if you applied a liberal dressing of ashes recently), and sow the Crimson Clover, harrowing it in. Next spring, you should harvest a good crop of clover hay, and at the same time your laud will be much better than at present, both the peas and the clover having col lected and added nitrogen to the soil. Repeat the rotation of peas and clover again next year, and your laud should then be in condition to produce fair crops. You will notice that by this plan, while building up the land, you will at the same time be getting remu nerative crops of pea vine and clover hay. I would not advise the sowing of rye with the clover, as it would be of no benefit. 2. Ido not think it would pay yon to attempt to irrigate ten acres by the use of a ram aud tank. I know that you could not do it at an expense of S2OO or S3OO, aud I doubt whether you could do it at all by that system, as it would take an immense amount of water to irri gate ten acres in truck. I think if you could arrange to put the ten acres in strawberries, aud also to water them if necssary. it would pay you better than anything else. We frequently have a dry May (like the last), when strawber ries fail for want of water, aud in such an event, if you con'd water yours, they would certainly prove profitable. 3. If your land is full of humus you might at once engage in raising truck, with the liberal use of fertilizers. If the land is devoid of humus you had better put scarlet clover on it this fall, to be followed by peas next spring. 4. I don’t think it a good plan to sow scarlet clover behind the cotton pickers, on land that must be tramped and packed. The ground, on the contrary, should be thoroughy prepared and fer tilized, aud the clover seed harrowed in about the last of September. 5. Savannah ships more garden truck than any other place in the state, and some of the truck growers there have made a good deal of money in the busi ness. They have however, the advant age of low freights by rail or steamship; aud can put their products in the north ern markets, much cheaper than you can. Before • engaging in the truck business, I would advise you to visit Chattanooga, where they raise a vast quantity of strawberries, as well as gar den truck of various kinds. Examine well the methods, and the crops culti vated by the successful men in the busi ness, and then decide upon vour course. —State Agricultural Department. Hav Caps—How They Are Made. Question. —I save a good deal of hay each year, but some years it is badly damaged by rain, would it pay me to get hay caps, aud how are they madg? Answer.—There is no question as to the service rendered by the hay caps in stormy weather, and they are used by "*'many good hay makers at the north. To make them, bly common brown sheeting 60 inches wide. Cut this into squares and sew the edges all around over a stout cord, leaving a loop of the cord at each corner about 6 inches long, by which it can be fastened to the ground. Make your hay cocks some 5 or 6 feet high, aud about 4 feet wide at the base. Throw the caps over the hay cocks and pin them at each corner with a wooden pin driven into the ground. If a»good coating of boiled linseed oil is applied to the caps they will last longer and turn water better. If care is taken of them they will last for 10 or 15 years. Hay caps are also made now of paper, and many prefer them to those made of cloth. Either kind will answer the pur pose they are made for, aud to a hay maker are well worth their cost. —State Agricultural Department. Droppings From the Poultry House, Question. —I have always been in the habit of keeping the droppings from the poultry house during the summer months in boxes or barrels and applying them the following fall or spring to any place which I wish to make especially rich. But I find that they become hard, and after having applied, it is sometime before they are thoroughly incorporated with the soil. Will you, for the benefit of myself and other poultry raisers, tell mo of some plan by which I may keep them in good condition, aud at the same time render them at once available for any crop I may plant? Answer.—Your plan of keeping the droppings in boxes or barrels is, of course, preferable to leaving them in the poultry houses, where they not only affect the health of the fowls, but fur nish a breeding place for several forms of insect life more or less injurious. Before the droppings are placed in the barrels, mix them with an equal amount of dry earth, to which has been added kaiuit iu the proportions of a peck to each bushel of earth. Then place in the barrels and keep damp, not wet, until needed. The soapsuds from the family washing are excellent for this purpose. When the time comes for ap plying to fall crops the mixture will be found in fine condition to be immedi ately taken up by the crops. During the winter and early spring the best plan is to broadcast the droppings as fast as gathered up ami chop or harrow them into the soil. This will prevent them from becoming hard, and the neces sary chemical aud mechanical changes will at once begin.—State Agricultural Department. How to Build u Gootl Hani. Question. —I intend putting up a nice barn. Am a young farmer just start ing out and would be glad if you would give me a few importaut points to be looked after in order to secure a comfort able and convenient barn. Answer.—The location of your barn is of the first importance. It is easy to make additions and add conveniences, but if the situation is’bad the defect can never be remedied. Build on a hill side and you can so arrange as to have second story on a level with the wagon way, which is a great convenience in driving in aud out, aud in unloading and storing the crops. May also be ar ranged to have a level drive way, which adds greatly to the expedition and ease with which the feeding, the handling of the manure and other operations may be carried on. The situation should also be selected with a view to conven ience; that is, within easy access from the fields and also the dwelling, without being too near the latter. While good drainage, to prevent dampness or stand ing water, is importaut, it is equally importaut to prevent washing. Two often we see the rich, dark streams from our barnyards borne off to the nearest watercourse, to be swept beyond our reach, when a little care and fore thought would enable us to preserve and add these wasted but precious ele ments to our hard run fields. If possi ble the barn should be protected from the cold north winds, although, at the south, this is not a matter of so much moment as in the colder regions of higher latitudes. Having determined on these main points, examine different plans aud settle ou that which suits you best, allowing for amp's room, aud also having an eye to an at ractive and in viting appearance, to which a little whitewash adds a wonderful per cent.— State Agricultural Department. Worm-4 Io i'eache*. Question. —I have four clear-stone peach trees; they were well fruited. The fruit should ripen from J uly 1 to 10. The peaches have all fallen off before ripening, and every peach has from one to four worms in it. What are they, aud how can I prevent them? Answer.—The insect that has ruined your peaches is the “Curculio,” which is a small, brownish beetle, and attacks indiscriminately all the stone fruits. This beetle lays its eggs just under the skin of the peach, and in four to eight days the egg hatches out a soft, footless grub with a horny head, which com mences to eat its way at once to the center of the peach. It will remain from three to five weeks in the peach, when the injured fruit usually falls to the ground, and the grub then burrows from 4 to 6 inches iu the earth, where, after remaining about three weeks, it becomes a beetle, and issues forth to again begin its destructive round. As a rule, the fruit containing this grub falls to the ground before maturity, though this is uot always the case. It requires constant care to get rid of this pest. They have a habit, when alarmed, of folding their legs close to the body and dropping to the ground, there re maining motionless as though dead. By taking advantage of this habit many can be destroyed by giving the tree a suddeu blow and catching the beetles in a sheet spread for the purpose, then burning or mashing them to death. Re peat this frequently. Where possible it is also well to let hogs and poultry have the run of the orchard, as they de stroy most of the grubs before they bury themselves in the ground. Spraying is also recommended, with a very weak solution of Paris green, say 1 pound to 400 gallons of water, to which add sev eral gallons of lime water. The foliage of the peach is very easily injured, and I would suggest the other remedies as the surest and least dangerous.—State Agricultural Department. Muck For Cotton. Question, —Would it be a good plan to open a deep furrow, put muck and leaves in and cover it with another fur row, and then in the spring bed on it and plant cotton? What kind of ferti lizer shall I use for poor, sandy land where cotton fires badly? Answer. —It would not be advisable to use the muck as you suggest. Fer mentation of the muck is necessary to make its ingredients available as plant ' food. To get the best results you must ' compost it with stable manure, which ; would result in a fermentation which ' would bring inert materials into avail -1 able forms and improve the mechanical condition of both the muck and the stable manure. One load of manure to three loads of muck, of good quality, will make a compost which some au thorities contend is as good, load for load, as manure. Now you can either use this compost as you would lot man ure, or if you wish a stronger fertilizer, add 500 pounds of acid phosphate and 50 pounds of muriate of potash to each 1,450 pounds of the compost. Your cotton fires no doubt for want of humus in the soil, aud the humus must be restored before you can hope to pre vent the firing of the cotton by the use of fertilizers. According to the best au thorities “humus supplies nitrogen to the plant,” “it imbibes and absorbs and holds water, and the vapor of water." "it improves the texture of many soils." "And it absorbs and holds ammonia and the salts of ammonia, as well as various other substances.” “Moreover, by its slow decay humus supplies carbonic acid for the dissolving of plant food.” To replace the humus in your soil you must plant rye this fall, to be turned under in tho spring; follow that with a crop of peas, fertilizing at the same time with 100 pounds of acid phosphate and 50 pounds of kainit to the acre. Gather the peas aud let the vines remain upon the land. The following spring put in cotton if you wish, and using the above fertilizer, I am sure you would make a good cotton crop. After that rotate your crops in such a manner that you will not have cotton on the same laud oftener than once in three years. Plant more small grain, more field peas, etc., and in this way you can keep up the fer tility of your soil, and make crops that will be a pleasure and a profit. Cure For “Lampiis." Question. —My horse has a swelling of the bars on the roof of the mouth, called, I believe “lampas.” Can I cure it without burning with a hot iron, which seems to me a needlessly cruel operation. Answer.—Never permit the cruel and brutal practice of burning the roof of mouth for "lainpos.” This method is still pursued in some sections, but it is an evidence of ignorance and cruelty. This condition is frequently due to teething in young horses, sometimes in old horses to indigestion, and it fre quently occurs when a young horse is taken from gross and fed on grain. Generally this swelling will get well without any treatment, but should the inflamation be great enough to interfere with mastication, then lance where the most swelling appears. Afterwards, wash the mouth two or three times a day with a solution of alum and water. Keep this up for three or four days, feeding on grass or ground corn or oats, and your animal will get well.—State Agricultural Department. Grafting and Hadding. Question. —Please tell me, in grafting or budding, does the new growth take the nature of the stock on which it is grafted, or of the tree from which the scions were taken ? Answer.—A grafted tree is an in stance of blended growth. As the emi nent authority Storer says: "The leaves and stems of the graft are nourished by food taken in from the soil through the roots of the stock, while the roots and other tissues of the stock are supported in their turn by food taken in from the air through the leaves of the graft.” The graft, however, retains the nature of the tree from which it was taken, tho stock being only the medium for furn ishing it with nourishment from the earth.—State Agricultural Department. Irish Potatoes. Question. —Living in the latitude of, Macon could I nlant Irish potatoes in the spring, follow with peas, cut the vines off, and then sow turnips in time to mature? Will pomegran. .os grow from the seed, or how are they best propagated? Answer. —lt would not be impossible for you to make a crop of potatoes, peas and turnips the same season, with a very early spring and a very late fall to help you out. Under ordinary conditions you could not do it, and would have to content yourself with potatoes or peas, followed by turnips. The pomegranate is easily propagated by cuttings, layers, suckers or seeds. The seed should be planted soon after the fruit is ripe, or but few of them will vegetate.—State Agricultural Department. Diversified Farming. Question.-T-Are there any statistics to prove that diversified farming is the safest and most profitable? Answer. —The United States census for 1890 shows that 98 per cent of the farms sold under mortgage were de voted to only one or perhaps two crops, while of farms upon which several crops were grown only 2 per cent were thus disposed of. This fact should be a strong argument in favor of diversified farming, — State Agricultural Depart ment. To Ascertain Net Weight of Hogs. Question.—Please give me a simple plan to ascertain the net weight of hogs. Answer. — Under usual conditions, I that is, when the hogs are in moder- I ately good order, four-fifths of the gross I weight is about equal to the net weight; that is subtract one-fifth from the whole weight of the hog.—Bt ate Agricultural Department Poison ivy, insect bites, bruises, burns, sealds, are quickly cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, rhe great pile cure, J. N. Harris & Son. Grasshoppers are injuring grain in Union county, Oregon. “Boys will be boys,” but'you can't afford to lose any’ of them. 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