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Commissioner Nesbitt’s Inquiry
Box For the Mouth.
NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Jlovr ta Harvest Cniuiidpeaft — Johnson
(irivsii For Hay- — I*ilift t,<* 8t«n the lUf*
age* of Hug* on hiimlie* and Cucum¬
bers 1‘uliliig IJ;» Compost JIojijm For
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Question.— Please give me a quick
and effective method of harvesting
giouudpor.M so as to save the vinos as
well as tlm nuts. The gathering of this
orop comes at such a busy season that I
am always more or less perplexed as to
how I shall manage to get, everything
properly attended to. By the usual
method of digging and drying by hand
the liny is not saved in good condition,
nnd much of it is often lost. This plan
is also slow and wearisome when so
much other work is pressing.
ANSwr.it. —The Spanish grouqdpens
form their nuts very close to tho crown
of tho plant, and therefore if they uro
barred off with an ordinary plow they
maybe milled up by baud, and all, or
uoarly all, of tho nuts will cling to the
vines. These must then bo piled in
windrows, roots up, nuts on top. Allow
them to stand until next day, and then
stack around a pole, taking rare to have
a layer of rails on tho ground to protect
the lower part of the stack from damp¬
ness, and also to leave air spaco around
tho pole sufficient for ventilation. In
making tho stack tho order of placing
should he reversed, nuts within, vinos
without. When the stack is finished
cap carefully to prevent injury from
rain. In about throe weeks the nuts
will be ready for picking off by hand,
nmi die hay cured sufficiently to he
stored. C.ioundpeas bolong to the film
ily of legumes, and like all of their kind,
tin' • ••ns are good tor forage,
.1 or other varieties than the Spanish
it will be iuvt\-<:iry to use a plow made
espeeia: to run under the vines and
cut the top root, when it will ba found
comparative'v easy to pull the vines up
without loo.ening (lie nuts. But if the
soil is vei> he w, oven this will not
answer. In .such a case run a turning
plow near the vines first, and iu this
lurrow run a sweep, which has had one
wing turned up to act. as a bar or land
slide, and the other tl itrotted and made
sharp to run under th. v ms. Tliegath
cring. curing and stacking can then bo
managed as above.—State Agricultural
Department.
1 trstetss* t'«iii|iiat llviipq.
Qri:snnN. In the intervals of leisure
from more pressing work, I am anxious
to put up some ttrstclass compost heaps
for u- when my spring crops are
planted. 1 have tried mixing kainit
ami superphosphate with the manure
with success, what I want to know is,
, will caustic lime be equally effective iu
helping to preserve the iuaunre from
wasting until such time as 1 may wish
to it ? ‘
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Answer—O ne objection to using
caustic lime iu a manure or compost
heap i , that after fermentation begins
the lime has a tendency to cause the es
cape of ammonia. This might be. in a
measure, prevented by covering the
heap closely with earth ami packing
down. L:mo also tends to convert the
available nitrogen of manure iuto less
de-drab > forms, and although, after
the lime is i to the soil, this loss
is iu a i i. a- mule up for by the
power e. • ..me to p: -.note nutritica
V- — wo not think it
tv- ' . r.n - ites tor the first loss.
L:mc m >u:d never lie us ad in connect
t iv. .i - rphes-ohat-e, because it
'-phori• acid into iu
s -ub.-* Therefoiv We would ad
vise t.:e t utiuued use Of tue superohos-
ONLY
Three weeks unijl cotton will begin to be
ready for market and many hearts will be
eladened.
As usual we will be in the market and pay !
the highest price for the staple Bring us
your c •tton and get our bid.
The market iu Conyers promises to be as
strong or strong* v than last year and we are j
expecting cotton from great distances. J
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piiatB anil kuinit- rattier than tlm liino.
liie kainit will arrest tiio formation of
ammonia ami the superphosphate will
prevent its escape. They also supply
potash and phosphoric acid, in which
the manure is somewnat deficient. It
is much more important, however, that
the manure heap be properly construe
ted, than that we invest in expensive
materials to prevent tlio escape of its
valuablc plant food elements. In build
ing the manure heap, if wo ate careful
to exclude the mr as far as possible
aud to keep the moisture uniform, that
time and too dry at another, we will
conserve the valuable -fertilizing con
stitueuts of the mass and enable the
manure to go through a uniform fer
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mentation, which will not only increase
its own value, but prevent it from act
ing injuriously to the soil. The cues
tion of properly managing farm Vard
manure is one that has received the
most careful study, and it is found that
the most effective methods are the aim
pleat, those which involve the smallest
intelligent expenditure of time, money
and labor. Any unnecessary handling
>s expensive and we should phm so as
to secure tv maximum return at a mini
mum cost in all the it ins.—State Agri
cultual Department.
.Ti.ii.is.iu Grata.
Question. -With all the lights before
you. would you advise u farmer to plant
JoniiHon /.rniss for nayr
Answer.— There is probably uo hay
orop more certain than Johnson grass,
and some farmers, who have tried it,
pronounce it unsurpassed for abundance
of yield and quality. But thero are
many tilings to be taken into eonsider
at ion, and other farmers are equally
pronounced in their opposition to it. Iu
view of such conflicting opinions, It is
only fair to state both sides of the ques
tion and leave each individual to choose
whether it suits his special needs or
whether it is better to leave its cultiva¬
vatiou to some one else.
In the first, place then its advantages
m-e as follows: It is perennial, that is,
it will last for a number of years. It
is unlike many other grasses in its de
peudence Oil moisfura at a certain pa
liod of its growth. All through the
early spring, the summer and late fall
it responds to rains If these are abund
ant three or four cuttings are possible,
and even under adverse circumstances,
one cutting is always certain. Once
set, therefore, it may be depended on
for an almost certain yield for many
successive years.
On the other hand, among the disad¬
vantages of having a -permanent field
of Johnson grass, are: its certainty to
spread, both by underground stems and
bv its millions of seeds, which, if al¬
^wed to mature, are scattered in every
a,rectl0 .. iho . last . , 1,0 entirely ,
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prevented by mowing clean as often as
the plants show a disposition to perfect
seed, throe or four times during its sea
,on ... growth. .. It the licid in which ,
this grass is grown is in a measure iso
*&tod from the rest of the farm, and if
no plow is put iuto it, whereby a care
Jess farm baud may transport the roots
from one part of the farm to another,
there is little danger of propagating it
* u •J*' s way. Another disadvantage is
that, whiie Johnson grass, if cat at the
proper stage, that is, just after it lias
bloomed and is ready to form heads,
make splendid hay, if the cutting
is delayed beyond this period the liny
becomes tough and woody and stock
will not eat it Srill another objection
is that „ , very ddU-uit to eradwate it.
Duce it has tuion possession uf a field,
must bo given over to it without
question. While under some conditions
this might constitute a very serious ob
Jeeiion. fltutor others it might be re
garded :ts a positive adyautago. Tbs
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nay, wncrf cut at the proper time anil
properly cured, is fine, the yield is cer
tain awl generally abundant. In view
of these facts, if one has a field suited
for its cultivation, why not let it take
possession and thus secure at little cost
and trouble a nutritious hay, the da
maU(i {or w i lio h is never fully supplied,
W e know some iutedigent farmers who
a re enthusiastic supoorters of .Tohnsoa
grags wljeil plante(1 uufiel . ,i 10 above ro
B t-rictious.—State Agricultural Depart
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Cr , ra ,™ d cover,
cloverWprove the la7n JmtwhVs’the
Bed or White clover? Is the gathering
of nitrogen the only benefit which the
clovers render the laud? Mease tell me
something about Japan clover. 1 have
heard that it wiil improve the land,
furnish good pasturage an I that it does
not require as much manure or the same
care us the other varieties.
ANWR "- Tl!e 0rhn: °" clover sends
its roots down deep in the earth, but be
in * !m a,mnal “ prob ;b - “ >os ,lot im¬
prove the laud as much as tlte biennial
Hod clover. White clover, though a ie
game, does not benefit the land as much
ns either the Scarlet or the Bed clover,
the roots not panetraring the earth to
the same depth as the others. Where a
green crop is needed for turning under
in the early spring, the Scarlet clover is
the best of tho three, as it makes a very
heavy growth in the late winter
earlr r1 The clovers and other lo
games not only gather nitrogen for fu*
tnre crops, but their strong, long roots
penetrate the subsoil and loosen it up,
thus rendering the succeeding crop less
liable to suffer either from excessive
rains or from drouth. In addition, their
decaying routs fny. h humus to the
soil. Japan ciov/r (Lespeueza striata)
belongs to the family of legumes and is
an annual. On po >r land its growth is
low and spreading, bur ou good laud it
will grow from la to 2;) inches tall aud
yield a line crop of excellent hay. * It
seems to prefer dry clay soils and will
grow on lands of this character that are
too poor for the other clovers. It is a
good renovator, sending its roots deep
into the ground and holding its own
against all other plants. As far rs
tested it does not succeed well on sandy
lands. I advise its planting ou thin
hillsides, where it can be pastured dur¬
ing the summer, all .stock being fond of
it. Sow in the spring, broadcasting
from 15 to H> pounds of seed to tho
acre.—State Agricultural Department.
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The Cotton season is nearly at
hand and I call the attention of all
to the fact that I am prepared to do
ginning at a moment notice and
give genuine satisfaction to all
comers.
We guarantee to make sample
that please.
We are in the market and will
buy your cotton seed a*t the gin or
on the streets and pay the highest
market price. Be sure to see me
and get my prices.
Respectfully,
A. N. PLUNEET.
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