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FOB THE MONTH
Inquiries Answered by the Ag¬
ricultural Department.
MUCH INFORMATION FOR FARMERS
Oals a, n Itnok rood — How to Prot.et
Cattlo Ar-aln,t Vila.—Oamar-d Vaa Vino
Hay l’oiigornn, to Kor.aa and
i Fall Ii-iali I'nttloaa—Winter I,e|ttin»M
and tli#! Unit Wav of llalnlnff Them.
Question'. — I am n great believer in
cow peas ns a renovator of our worn
lands. 1 know from experience how
valuablo this crop is to the southern
farmer, but as these cannot l)« grown
in the winter, I would like to know
something of the winter legumes and
the best manner of raising them.
Answer. —Of the winter legnmes
clover, in its many variotins, is perhaps
the most important, but at the outset it
must bo uuderssood that clover will not
succeed on poor land, nor even on good
land, without careful preparation.
On heavy soils the red and white
aud alsiko clover succeed best. The
latter is a cross between the other
two. There is also the Japan clo¬
ver or lespedezA, which is not so ex¬
acting in its demands on the land and
which is called “the poor mail’s clover,"
because it, soems to flourish with treat¬
ment and under conditions which the
other varieties will not tolerate. These
varieties, when once planted, if properly
treated, will furnish pasturage aud hay
for sovoral years, and cover the land
summer us well as winter. A closer
analysis of your question, however,
leads nia to suppose that you wish to
know of sink legumes as grow in the
winter and die down in summer, thin
leaving the laud tree for other cropi.
Of these, crimson and burr clover, also
votoh and hairy vetch have been found
most successful. The land should be
broken deeply during this month and
then harrowed aud reharrowed until
flue aud smooth. If an incipient crop
of weeds appears before time for plant¬
ing in September, harrow again. Apply
from 800 to »00 pounds per acre
of cottonseed meat acid phosphate
and kaiuit and sow the seed at
the rate 15 pounds to the acre, har¬
row or brush the seed in lightly and
roll the laud smooth—this last is most
important. These latter crops will cover
the land during the winker and furnish
green food tlirongh the early s iring. If
the grazing or cutting is Rtopped in the
spring before the seeds mature these
will perfect in sufficient quanties to re¬
seed the land, and after the crop dies
down the land can then be planted iu
late corn or peas. When these nre taken
off the dormant clover seed will again
spring into life. The crimson clover is
highly satisfactory in many sections.
It is best suited to light lands. The
vetch also has many enthusiastic advo¬
cates among those who have tried in¬
state Agricultural Department
l r *ll Irish rotator*.
Question.—H ave the results of ex
pernnents with the fall crop of Irish
potatoes beau fully confirmed? Is it a
certain crop and is thore ready sale for
it?
Answer—L ike all other crops the
fall Irish potato crop is liable to dis¬
aster, but if the directions for mauag
ing it. which have been so often pub¬
lished, are carefully followed, - we may
calculate with moderate certaiuty on a
go,id yield. As in all other marketable
crops, the skill which eonunauds success
is as much iu knowing how to sell the
crop as in knowing how to make it.
These fall grown seed for spring plant¬
ing at the south are so far superior to
flic northern grown s«ed that there it a
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Five weeks until cotton will begin to be
ready for market and many hearts will be
idadened.
As usual we will be in the market and pay
the highest price for the staple, Bring us
your c Mon and get our bid.
The market in Conyers promises to be as
strong or stronger than last year and wo are
expecting cotton from great distances.
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(food demand iimonj our trackers lor
this fall crop. The sprinv cron grown
from these seed is usually superior to
that grown from northern 6eed. The
keeping qualities of the fall potatoes
also make them very desirable. They
do not iprout in winter. We have kept
them all winter in hills precisely as
sweet potatoes are kept and with greater
certainty. Also when planted at the
tame time they mature earlier than the
northern grown seel. Another point
in their favor is that the superior vitality
of the southern grown seed enables the
plants to survive reverses iu the spring.
A frost, which will ruin a crop
from northou seed, will only partially
injure the others. The steins are stouter
and stronger. It is important if the
fall crop is iutended for seed that they
should be green when the frost kills the
tops. If allowed to mature before frost,
they will sprout too early, as the north¬
ern grown potatoes do, and thus lose
much of their vitality.—State Agricult¬
ural Department.
Files on mills
Question. recfpe —Can you give me a relia¬
ble for protecting my cows against
flies? They are on my cattle in such
numbers as to amount to a plague, and
among the milk cows to such a degree
as to materially decrease the flow of
milk. •
Answer —Take of coal tar two parts,
coal oil one part, and any kind of grease,
one part, mix them with a small amount
of carbolic acid. One thorough applica¬
tion of this, using a cloth to moisten
the hair, horns, feet aud legs of the
animal, will last, if the weather be dry,
tor ten days or more, and will entirely
protect the animal from flies. If the
mixture becomes too thick use a little
more cool oil; if too thin to adhere well,
use a little more coal tar. Carbolic acid
may be bought in crystals for 50 or #0
cents a pound, and is a most useful dta
infeoting ngant. Caro should be ex¬
ercised in handliug it, as its • ac¬
tion is very powerfnl— proporly di¬
luted it is harmless. A little mixed
with the whitewash for stables, pig
pens, chicken coops, etc., will materially
aid ill preventing disease and in check¬
ing the propagation of iusect and fun¬
gus pests. It is also a remedial agent
in treating sores and injuries on farm
animals, but great cave should be exer¬
cised, lest the wash be made too strong.
—State Agricultural Department.
C»»« of Too Mach Colton.
Question. —I live iu on* of th« best
comities of Middle Georgia—a county
that ha* been noted tor producing cot¬
ton. Now the yield of oottou per acre
is falling off, much of the land seems
dead and lifeless, the ground when
plowed has a teudency to clod, aud a
very moderate drouth produces serious
resulta Wnat is the matter?
Answer. —The trouble arises from the
all cottou planting, in which too many
of our farmers still persist. This re¬
sults iu the entire exhanstiou of the
“humus,” or vegetable matter In the
soil, ail element that is absolutely es¬
sential in keepiug up the fertility of
our lands, and one that cannot be re¬
placed by any amount of commercial
fertilizers. Most soils have the mineral
elements of plant food in more or less
abundance, but in the absence of "hu¬
mus” these elements cannot be made
available for plant food. The vegeta¬
ble matter, decomposing, generates car¬
bonic acid, which then dissolves the
mineral elements of plant food, render¬
ing them available for plant growth.
Humus also loosens up stiff clay soils,
Vrndering them more friable and iu
creasing their capacity to absorb moist
ure. and thereby enabling them the
better to withstand drouth. Loose*
sandy soils are rendered more compact
by humus, and are thus rendered more
capable of retaining moisture, as well
ii available plant food. Humus serves
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Dealers in General Mer¬
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CONYERS, GEORGIA.
several other good purposes In nature s
laboratory. It has beou proved to be a
Bonroe of nitrogen. It is known to be
in a measure destructive to insect life,
because of the sarbonic acid gas which
is generated by its presence, and by
darkening the soil it adds to its heat
absorbing power. Now that you un¬
derstand the value of humus, you read¬
ily see why such serious results follow
its disappearance from the soil. A rem¬
edy can only be had in a proper rota
turn of the crops sowing peas, etc.
Whenever our people will abandon the
all cotton style of farming (aud the,
are fast doing ® it), then will you cease
to , hear . about , exhausted ^ . .and ,
worn out
, land. , On the contrary, „ our , lands will
then be gradually brought up to a state
of fertility, surpassing ’ that that thev
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possessed , when , first . cleared , , by fore- .
* f our
fathers.—State . .... Agricultural ... ^ Depart
ment.
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Question. — I notice cotton field‘without stalki
wilting and dying in my
any apparent cause. On examination
I find the roots rotten, aud some with a
white mould on them. What causes
this, and is there any remedy?
Answer.—T he disease is the "root
rot, ” and is caused by a fungus. This
disease has been carefully investigated
by the Texas Experiment Station, it be¬
ing very prevalent iu the central black
prairie lands of that state. Their re¬
port demonstrates that all soils are
more or less subject to it, though it is
of most common occurrence iu lauds
that are relentive of moisture and do
not drain off as they should. The com¬
monly entertained opinion that only
certain soils develop this disease has
been entirely refuted, aud it can and
aoes occur on almost every variety of
soil. The fungus has been found on
plants only a few inches in height, hut
generally does not spread until the mid
die of June, or even later, when the
plants are bh o ning and fruiting. It is
thought by many planters that
weather checks this disease, and close
observation partially confirms this.
fungus is nourished by the living sub
stances of the roots, which after a time
die, and the plants thus deprived of
their means of support, wilt and dia
also. Experiments at the Texas Station
have demonstrated that thfs disease can¬
not be remedied or checked by the appli¬
cation of any known substance to the soil.
The only thing to do is to resort to a ro¬
tation of crops, planting the land that
is infected with the fungus, in sneb
crops as corn, wheat, millet or othei
members of the grass family, and put
ting it iu cotton not ofteuer than once
in three or four years. Some weeds,
such as the rag weed and cocklebnr, are
subject to the attack, of this fungus, but
apparently only after they have been
injured mechanically. Alfalfa or lu¬
cerne is also subject to injury from this
fungus. Among trees the chiua berry
and paper mulberry are most subject to
this disease, though apple trees, elm,
silver maple and others are sometimes
attacked.—State Agricultural Depart
ment.
"Grten Maturing.”
Quhstiox —On a field which is sandy
and deficient iu vegetable matter, 1
have a fine stand of field peas, which
promise to make a luxuriant growth of
vines. Would you advise me to turn
them under green or not?
Answer. —Ou sandy laud in our cli¬
mate the best results arc not attained
by turning uuder a green crop of any
kind. This "green manuring,” it is '
as
called, can be done with advantage in
more northern latitudes, but should be
avoided in onr climate, aud particularly
on sandy lands. By tnrning under a
heavy growth of pea vinos, say in Au¬
gust, yon would no doubt do your land
more harm than go>l Th» active fer-
HIGHEST
Market price paid for all kinds of country
prduce. We handle more produce than ant
other firm in town, probably, and we always
pay just what it is worth iu the iraiki t. E -
int ruber us in iLis Hue win n you come to town
and don't faii to call on us. We v\ ill make it
pay you.
There is money in Ihe produce business—
iu fact it should receive more attention than
it docs from all farmers.
mentation of the green vines wouiq pro¬
duce a sourness of the ground, whioh
would be injurious to the succeeding
j crop; and the upturned soil would cer¬
tainly not be improved by the hot sun¬
! shine of -August and September, to
which it would then be exposed. Leave
your poa vines to shade the land, while
the roots continue to gather nitrogen,
and after frost, when they are all killed,
turn them under amt you will have all
the vegetable matter that the leaves
aud gtalks furnlsh ag well a , tha uitro .
ge „ aocuniulated b the roots . shonld
you wish to sow the fleld itl oatB , say in
Octol)6ri before a killing frost, you need
not „_ f hesitate to do so, as the vines , by
f that i,_ f time will , have reached , , maturity , ..
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choice, “ h however, leave i m n them ’"P*? almie.Uutd A
a later date, , , if .. only , for . the reason that
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the plowing will be easier, after a kill¬
ing frost than before.—State Agricul¬
tural Department. MS
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fill it up as I wanted. I would
not give an advertisement in a
newspaper of five hundred cir¬
culation for five thousands dod
gers or posters. If I wanted to;
sell cheap iewelrv ’ ‘ or run a
gambling scneme I might use
posters; but I would not insult
a decent reading public with
hand bills. The class of people
who read them are too pool' to
look to for support in the mer
canttle ,... allairs. . I T deal , , directly
Wiih the publishers' I say to
him; ”How long will you let
me run a column of matter
through your paper for one hun¬
dred or five hundred dollars,”
as the case may be. I let him
do the figuring aud if I think he
is not trying to take more than
his share, I give him the copy.
I lay aside the profits ou a par¬
ticular line of goods for adver¬
tising purposes. At first I laid !
aside three thousand dollars,'
last year I laid aside and spent
forty thousand dollars. I have
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done better this year and shall
increase that sum as the profits
warrant it • I owe my success
to newspapers, and to them I
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