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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1908)
Modern Farm Methods v .' As Applied in the South. limits of interest to I*ia&&ler 9 * Grower ami Stockman Improving a Mountain Farm. J. J. D., Stackhouse, X. C., writes: *'l have purchased a small farm in the mountains of Western North Car olina, which has been neglected and needs improvement. The soil is sandy. 1 will appreciate any sugges tions.” Answer: One of the chief needs of a sandy soil that has been abused is undoubtedly vegetable matter. The soil is also likely to be deficient in available supplies of phosphoric acid and potash. You can add the needed vegetable matter to the soil cheaply and to advantage through the use of leguminous crops. Among the crops that are grown to advantage in your locality will be any of the clovers, the cowpea, the vetch, soy bean and vel vet bean. Tlie velvet bean will hard ly mature seed, hut it grows well on thin land and makes an immense mass of green material which can first be pastured off. thus making the land produce something of value and the refuse plowed under to add veget able matter to the soil. Animals pas ture on the velvet bean to advantage when they become accustomed to it, though, of course, one should look out for bloat, which is liable to hap pen when animals are pasturing on any green crop that is wet with dew or soaked by heavy rains. (. Under your conditions it Is impor tant that you adopt a rotation as nearly as possible. One of the best you could use would be to sow the land in cowpeas this spring, using 200 pounds of sixteen per cent, acid phosphate and seventy-five pounds of muriate of potash per acre. If the land has not grown peas for several years get two or three wagon loads of earth from an old pea field and scatter thinly over the surface and work in with a harrow before seed ing. Use either the Whipporwill, New Era or Black pea. Cut the first crop for hay and let the second crop grow as long as possible before turn ing it under. Turn under and seed to wheat, using a complete fertilizer at the rate of 100 pounds of cotton seed meal, 100 pounds of sixteen per cent, acid phosphate and twenty-five pounds of muriate of potash. Apply the fertilizer well away from the seed, as cottonseed meal sometimes has an injurious effect on germina tion. In the spring seed the wheat down to clover and timothy, or if you prefer, a pasture seeded to clover and orchard grass. Allow to stand two years in grass, cutting for hay one year and grazing the second year. Then turn in the spring and put in corn, seeding to crimson clover in the Tall to plow under, and then back to cowpeas and wheat and grass. You will need to use plentiful sup plies of phosphates and potash and if your land is acid, give a good coat ing of lime, using one ton per acre. This may be purchased in the un slacked form and distributed in heaps and scattered over the soil when properly slacked, or it may be slacked in quantity, and distributed with a machine especially made for the ap plication of lime. Keep all the stock you can on the farm, feed as much of the roughness produced as possi ble, and utilize carefully all avail able supplies of farm yard manure, and. you should certainly be able to improve your land considerably in a very short time. —Knoxville Tribune. Destroying Fipld Mice and Moles. J. P. T., Jonesboro, Tenn., writes: I would like to know how to poison <jr otherwise kill field mice and moles. They are very destructive in my corn fields and potato patches. Answer: Moles and mice ma> sometimes he killed to advantage by the use of carbon bisulphide. Take small wads of lint cotton and thor oughly saturate with the carbon bi sulphide and put in the holes and runways if underground. The fresh runways of the mole are easily dis covered and if the bisulphide is put In the ground and the place where it is inserted covered with earth and pressed down slightly the fumes will penetrate the channels and often cause the destruction of moles and mice. There is a difficulty in this remedy, however, for the runwa>s are often so near the surface of the ground that part of the carbon bi sulphide escapes and becomes mixed with the air and is not effective. Another good way to rid yourseli of these pests is to prepare a mash of bran in which you might mix a lit tle cheese, corn meal or any other food that is likely to prove attractive to mice, and saturate the mixtuie thoroughly with paris green or some other deadly poison. Put small spoon fuls here and there about the places the mice frequent. In this way you might be abls to kill a greav many of them. The principal objection to us ing paris green in the mash as indi cated is the danger that something else may eat it. If the field is some what remote from the house and the poultry not allowed to run on it, there is not much danger except in the case of dogs. No other means of ridding fields of mice and moles are known to the writer, though they may exist, but I trust you will find these remedies satisfactory.—Prof. Soule. Raising Calves Without Milk. E. T., Quicksburg, Va., writes: I would like to know if I can raise a calf only two weeks old without milk. If so, what is the best food, also for older calves? Answer: Calves have been raised with fair success with the use of very little skim milk. It would he a diffi cult undertaking to attempt to raise a calf only two weeks old without the use of milk. At the end of thirty days a fair substitute may be made for milk from hay tea. This is best pre pared by taking hay that has been cut quite young, covering it well with water, and covering it so as to ex tract the soluble food elements. The tea should be boiled until it Is in quite a concentrated form, and then some flaxseed and wheat middlings should be added to the tea to increase the fattening and muscle forming ele ments in which hay tea is deficient. Flaxseed jelly may be used to advan tage for this purpose. It is made by adding boiling water to oil meal. For a calf thirty days old not more than one-quarter pound should be fed per day with an equal amount of wheat middlings thoroughly stirred into the tea. This hay tea is often used by dairymen who sell milk. It is quite a simple matter to raise a calf on skim milk when taken away from the dam two or three days after it is dropped by adding a small amount of flaxseed jelly to the skim milk. Not more than one tablespoon ful should be used at first, and the amount increased daily as the needs of the calf seem to require. A calf when first taken away from the dam should not receive more than ten pounds of skim milk to be increased gradually up to fifteen pounds, but under no circumstances should it go over eighteen pounds before the calf is five or six weeks old. After that time as much as twenty-four pounds may be fed. Should you attempt to raise a calf on skim milk or hay tea remember that a small amount fed three times a day is likely to give you much better results than a large amount fed twice a day. Where skim milk is used it is important that it be fed at blood temperature and in a sweet condition. —A. M. Soule. Set Out Asparagus in October. Asparagus may be grown from seed, or set from roots, which may be had at from ?5 to $6 per 1000, and will require about 6000 plants to the acre. The soil should be moist, rich, sandy loam. The lighter the soil the better the result. Sets should be put out in October, In deep furrows, eigh teen inches apart and covered with an inch or two of soil. Well-rotted stable manure in the furrow is the best fertilizer. The ground must be kept soft and free from weeds and grass. In the early spring mulch with a coat of fine straw or pine needles. It will produce from 200 to 300 pounds of shoots to the acre per season and will sell from five to twen ty-five cents per pound, although the first shoots may bring as high as fifty cents per pound. But aside from the sale of the vegetable, every farm er should have a bed of it for his own use. What is more delicious than the dainty dish of asparagus in the edrly springtime?—Sincere, in Pro gressive Farmer. Shrub tlie Pastures. Briars, bushes and trees are the greatest drawbacks .to pastures in this section. These are very anxious to grow and they hold back the grass from growing. No farmer can grow them and do much growing grass at the same time. There is enough bottom land for pastures on almost every farm if the briars, trees and bushes were out of the way of the grass. It helps very much to remove the briars and bushes if the trees are allowed to re main. Pastures should be shrubbed at least every two years, and once a year is bette: . Now is the best time to do this vvotk. Bush axes, grass knives and briar knives are the tools mainly used. \ Remel, ber that it takes a little work in the pasture as well as in the field. Without pastures you can not ' do much with livestock, and without livestock t is impossible to get the ; biggest cr ps from the fields.—J. M Beaty, in Smithfield Herald. •';~ r . EXPLAINED. “Maud Muller, on a summer’s day Baked the meadow sweet with hay.” Her raking stunt was just a stall. She had a date out there, that's all. t —The Bohemian. ( A FRESH START. Dyer—“ Well. I see Failing is on his feet again.” Ryor—“Yes; he was obliged to sell his auto." —Puck. THE PROPOSITION. The Heiress—“Oh, papa! The earl has proposed!” Papa Bigwadd—“H’m! What’s his proposition?”—Puck. RATHER EFFEMINATE. The Saucepan—“l wonder what makes the kettle so happy? It hasn't stopped singing all day.” The Coffeepot—“ Why, didn't you notice its new lid?”—Puck. KILLING. TWO BIRDS. She—" Frankly, now, if you had to choose between me and r. million, what xvould you do?” He—“l’d take the million. Then you would be easy.”—Life. RURAL REGULATION. Mrs. Hayrick—" The President says to sleep with the window open.” Mrs. Corncrib —“Well, I wish he would tell Hiram to sleep with his mouth shut.”—New York Sun. IT IS. “My hoy, be polite and honest.” “But, dad.” “Say on.” “Sometimes it’s pretty hard to be both at the same time.”—Kansas City Journal. TRYING IT ON THE FRIEND. Mrs. Parker (to husband’s friend) —“You can come right in to see Mr. Parker. He's ill in bed.” Friend —“Is it anything catching?” "That's just what we’re trying to find out?” —Smart Set. PATERNAL ASSISTANCE. Father (who has helped his son with his home work) —"What did the teacher say when you showed him the sums? ” ‘ Johnny—“He said I was getting more stupid every day.”—Tit-Bits. HIS REASON FORj REFUSAL. “So you won’t join us for an out ing in the country? ” “No,” answered Mr. Sirius Barker. “Then you don’t love nature?” “I'm quite fond of nature; but I don’t care for sardines and crackers.” —Washington Star. r AT THE KNOT HOLE. “How’s de game, Chimmie?” “De home team's got two men down.” "Say, dat’s tough.” “G’wan. One of ’em is de guy dat made de home run off us, an’ de utter one is de umpire.”—Puck. REPUBLIC MENACED. “The idle rich, I tell you, consti tute the menace to our country.” “That’s sor. Say, what would you do if you got hold of a lot of money?” “Me? I’d invest it securely, throw up my job and have the time of my life.”—Philadelphia Ledger. RURAL RUDENESS. De Style—" You say Farmer Plant zen chased you?” Mrs. De Style—“ Yes; when I told him that I had a little plot of ground in our yard nicely plowed and raked, and asked him what I should plant in it, he said, ‘Beet it.’ ” —Puck. A STEADY WIFE. “Rufus, you old loafer! Do you think it’s right for you to leave your wife at the washtub while you pass your time fishing?” “Yassah, jedge; ’s all right. Mah wife don’ need no watchin'. She’ll sholy wuk jes’ ez hahd ez ef Ah wuz dar.”—Judge. THE BRIDEGROOM DESCRIBED. “You have such a model husband,” said the lady who was congratulat ing the bride. The next day the bride bethought her to look up the word “model” in the dictionary, and this is what she found: Model: A small imitation of the real thing.—Harper’s Weekly. • ...... , - HOW HE SAVED. Cassidy—“Share, how kin ve say ye save money? Iv'ry cint ye iver make ye spend. Ye lay none of it by. ” Casey—“ That’s how I save. If T laid anny of it by some wan would come along an’ borrow it, and that’d be ih’ ind cf it.” —Puilfcdeiphia Press. TAX COLLEGTOR’S NOTICE. I will be at tlio different precints on the days mentioned for the purpose of collecting the State and County, and la. cal School Taxes for the year 1S( K OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER. Hampton i and 29 18 10 Fixth 2 and 30 19 Flippen 5 2 & 20 Stock bridge 7 4**23 14 Shakerag 8 5 & 24 Brushy Knob 9 6 & 25 Loves 12 9 & 26 McMullens 13 10 & 27 Beersheba 14 11 & 30 Sandy Ridge 15 12 3 Tussahaw 16 13 4 Locust Grove 22 16 7 & 16 Lowes 23 17 8 Snapping Shoals 10 oclock, A. M. 2 Island Shoals 1 oclock, P. M. 2 VVoodstown 2 oclock, P. M. 2 McDonough: Court Week, First Tuesdays and Saturdays until Books are closed, DECEMBER 20TH. SEAB HARKNESS, T. C HENRY COUNTY QA. 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