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’ Peanuts and Potatoes ’ In Allendale County CLEMSON COLLEGE. March—Al- < lendale county, according to reports from County Agent . D. Robertson, I will plant peanuts and swee* pota toes largely as substitutes for cot j Son. boll weevil does not like •either of these foods in his diet, and the Allendale farmers prefer to help fed themselves and others with < these two crops than to plant'cotton to help feed the bolt weevil. To help make the growing of pea nuts and patches successful several important xteps are being taken in thQ coun_ts'. 1. At least six sweet potato cur ing and storage houses of 5,000-ca v J j'f and Probably two or three of •* t capacity are assured. - Tba local cotton oil mills are { ■supplying the necessary seed pea nuts-for that crop to relieve the in dividual farmers of the trouble of hunting the country over for seed. 3. A peanut crushing plant is be ing put in at Allenhale by the South ern Cotton Oil company and will thus provide a ready market for not only Allendale but the adjoining counties. 4. Definite and specific instruc tional literature on the growing of these two crops is being printed and distributed by the county agent for the benefit of those farmers who have had little or no experience !r> growing these crops commercially, and the county agent will deyote a large part of his time to personal work along these lines. wSffBWrIrJI il aIH Send No Money MMWS'SS’ OX® proral. These trfe otaidarJ.. niakt used XXSZ tires, excellent condition, ,elected by out CQC W experts—rebuilt by expert wcriunanship, fi/U* B RbsreruedforSOOOmiles. 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T ll pay price fo i r ahoe u on « rrival with the understanding that if I back tU thl modern,j ? e °fund b “ k &nd y ° U Wi “ way to buy—the way thousands are . sho _ ,—, n „„„ 01... buying their shoes today direct from us— B Im o a 18027 S 4 29 I I rn getting satisfaction—saving money. Fill out “ A18027 ?4 ’ 29 UJ No ‘ A15105 UG9 the coupon and eend it now. | Leonard-Morton & Co. « N 2. Dept. 2870 Chicago “ v ’ I ■■■Silin— ■lll nm a i Til mi lii.i.liluliwun Iliillllllis— PH—J Address THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKT.Y JOURNAL. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE HA'NDI.ISrG THE TOBACCO CBOP. Tobacco is a very particular crop. It must be transplanted with skill and care. It is very essential that this work be done at the right time. No crop responds better to prompt cultivation, which must be thor ough and efficient. The individual who is not prepared to give the most careful attention to these matters should not undertake tobacco cul tivation, as he is doomed to failure from the start. Tobacco also re quires careful protection from cer tain insect enemies which will dam age it amazinglj’- in a short time. The best methods of procedure with ref erence to the transplanting, cultiva tion and protection of tobacco against insect enemies are set forth in this article, which is based on data collected by the division of agronomy, Georgia State College of Agriculture. April I*2o is the best time to transplant %tobacco in south Geor gia. Usually plenty of rain falls during this time, and the early planted tobacco is not troubled so much with the hornworm as later plantings. The first crop of worms is usually small and, if the to bacco is planted early, it matures before the worms are present in the greatest numbers. Early planted to bacco usually has more body than late tobacco and brings a higher price on the market. Before transplanting the land should be freshened by running a harrow or weeder over it to kill any weeds or grass. There are horse transplanting machines on the mar ket that do good work, and when one of these Is used tobacco may be set without having to wait for a rain. The machine carries and dis tributes water for setting the plants. Most of the tobacco in the Carolinas and Georgia is transplanted by hand, usually after a rain sufficient to cause the plants to live easily. Some times it is necessary to water plants ;t the time of transplanting. This s more expensive, but when proper y done is better than to allow the plants to become overgrown in the seed bed. It is usually best to trans plant in the afternoon or on a cloudy day. The usual practice is to pull the plants from the seed bed dur ing the morning hours if they are to be used in the afternoon. The bed should be moist so that the plants will not be broken in pulling them out of the ground. Only strong and vigorous plants should be pulled,, using care not to injure the remain ing plants. . The plants after being pulled from the bed rhould be placed as straight as possible in baskets with all, of the roots towards the bottom of the basket. A good plan is to dip the bottom of the basket in water and set it in the shade until ready for use. Any method of planting tjiat will gently press the earth to the roofs, leaving the buds of the plants just above the'surface of the ground, is all right. If the transplanting Is done by hand, a blunt peg, like the one shown in the illustration, which makes a hole just deep enough for the plants, helps to secure a good stand. If a long is usej the holes are usually made too deep, and when the plants are set the soil is pressed around them at the sur face of the ground and the roots will be left swinging. If the roots are left swinging most of the plants will die. The soil should be-firmed, around the roots of the plant as we'l as at, the surface of the ground. This can be done after the plant is placed in the liole made for it, by sticking the peg in the soil about six inches from the plant and pull ing the top of the peg toward the plant. This operation Will firm the soil around the plant from the bot tom of the roots to the surface of the ground. The width of the rows should be four feet in order to allow the sled to pass between the rows without breaking leaver when harvesting. The distance between the plants .n the row should be governed by the amount of fertilizer used, the fer tility oflthe soil and the type of the tobacco to be produced. Plants are set 20 to 30 inches apart. For aver age conditions 24 inches is about the right distance. If the soil is rich the plants should be set closer together to kdcp the tobacco from growing large and coarse. As soon as practical, within a week or ten days after transplanting, the field should be gone over and transplanted with good strong plants. Cut worms and wireworms sometimes cause a great deal of trouble in get ting a stand. When there is doubt about a plant living, a new one should be set about three inches from the old plant. Later the in ferior of the two plants should be removed. Every possible effort should be made to secure a perfect stand with the first planting. When the stand is regular the tobacco rip ens nicely and evenly. If the stand is poor t.he tobacco will be irregular in ripening. Some plants will have too much space and will be over grown, coarse, and will not ripen or cure properly. A hand transplanter is VQry convenient in replanting as well as for planting the first time. Early; rapid and thorough culti vations are necessary to produce a good crop of tobacco. In order to start the tobacco growing quickly a good cultivation and careful hand hoeing should be given as soon as the plants become established, gen erally in about a week or ten days after transplanting. A little fresh soil should be- drawn about each plant, but care should be used not to loosen the new roots. Usually only one more hand hoeing is neces sary. The tobacco should be culti vated every ten days until it is time for it to be topped. Cultiva tion should be discontinued after topping, as the tobacco will ripen better if pot cultivated too late. Four to six cultivations may be given to good advantage. The first two cultivations should be fairly deep to loosen the soil and make it mellow. Later, as the roots begin to spread through the row, only shallow cultivation should be prac ticed. Short singletree should ;e used after the plants are half grown to prevent tearing and break ing the leaves. Every precautun should be used to avoid injury ‘o the plants. Any bruising of the leaves will injure both the yield and quality of tobacco. In cultivation the field should not be left in a con dition that would allow water ti stand, around the tobacco* plants «ape of heavy rains. i A great many growers make a practice of sowing peas in the to bacco the last cultivation. Others wait until the tobaccp is harvested to Sow the peas. When peps are sown in tobacco fields, the Iron or Brabham should be used. These varieties are not attacked by the nematodp or eelworms. Nematodes cause root , knot, which may do a great deal of damage to tobacco. Grasshoppers sometimes appear on the young plants as soon as they are set in the field, although they seldom do much damage. The guinea does more damage in catch ing them than the insect itself. Poi soned bait that is used for cut worms is very satisfactory in con trolling grasshoppers. With good weather and rapid cultivation grass hoppers usually abandon the tobacco in a short time. Cutworms sometimes make it hard to get a stand, especially where a great deal of vegetable ’ matter has been turned under. One remedy is to poison them with Paris green. Use one pound of Paris green to twenty five pounds of wheat bran mixed in a soft batter with molasses. Lay .this around the field so that when the worms crawd on it they will eat it. A few chopped lemons or oranges added to the poisoned bait will some times help to attract the worms. An other of the best ways to control cutworms is to hunt\for them and kill each marauder founds It is easy to detect signs of. the cutworm and with g little experience they can be located and destroyed very rapidly. Tobacco horn worms are some times a serious pest. When labor was cheap and plentiful, hand-worming was, a fairly satisfactory means of control, but with the scarcity, cost and inefficiency of hand labor this method is unreliable and the grower will get much beter results by using insecticides. Until recently Paris greerj has been the principal poison used, although there has always been objection to its use, as it frequently seriously burns the tobacco. Arsenate jot lead has been found to be the inost satisfactory poison for the horn worm.. It can he used effectively and safely during rainy weather and does not burn the to bacco A° r wash off as easily as Paris green. Arsenate of lead should be put on in the form of powder or dust at the rate of four to five pounds per acre. Mix the arsenate of lead with equal bulk of finely sifted wood ashes or air-slaked lime This ,will insure an even distribu tion df the poison. The mixture should be applied with a powerful dust gun and a thorough and even application made. Dust applications should be made early in the morning or late In the afternoon when the air is still. An uneven application made in a strong breeze will leave enough live worms to damage the tobacco seriously. If no dust gun is available, the poison may be dusted through a thin muslin bag, but this is usually unsatisfactory. Arsenate of lead may also be used as a spray. If applied as a spray, use three to four pounds of pow dered arsenate of lead in 100 gallons of water. If the paste form Os arsen ate of lead is used, mix seven pounds of the paste in 100 gallons of Water. The first, application should be made when the worms become too numerous to be kept off easily by the hand-picking which is usually done while hoeing, suckering or top ping. The time for repeating tne ap plication can b'e determined by the number of eggs and young worms appearing upon the tobacco. Worms should be killed during the first week after hatching, for during the second and third weeks they are much harder to kill, and they will eat many times as,much tobacco as during the first week. Only arsenate of lead that is guaranteed to contain at least 30 per cent of arsenate oxide should be used. / If arsenate of lead cannot be ob tained it is more satisfactory to use Paris green than to depend on hand picking. One to ,two pounds per,- acre is used. Mix the Paris green .with twice its weight of air-slaked lime and apply with a dust gun. If Paris green is used in the form of g liquid spray, use one pound of Paris' green to 160 gallons of water. Paris green is likely to injure to bacco by causing dead burned,Spots on tlje leaves where the powder is collected by the dews or washed down by the rains. The leaf fg also apt to be weakened/at the'stalk if Paris green is applied immediately after the suckers have been broken out. * ' ■ Y ( H. A Bunch Variety of Velvet Beans W. W. C., Cantonment, Fla., writes: I have been told that there is a hew varietty of velvet bean, that it grgwg like a bush instead of running all oyer thg place which makes it more suita ble for planting in orchards. I do riot know the name of it, but thought -prob ably you were acquainted with the va riety and would know where I cohid get the seed. There is a variety of velvet bean known as the “bunch” variety, on account of its habits of growth. It is presumably a sport from some of the older sorts of velvet beans. It takes about 120 to 130 days to ma ture. ' Our experience with the newer and earlier varieltes of velvet beattb has not led us to believ® or feel that this variety is as valuable for cul tivation in this state as the' one which generally goes by the name of the Georgia velvet beari.l. Some of its advocates claim that it will mature in ninety days; but our ex perience is that it takes nearer 120. It is probably the best variety adapted for growth in this state. 'lt is especially valuable for cultivation in north Georgia because of com paratively short time it takes to mature. It runs to some extent, but hag not developed this habit to the same degree which, characterized the old velvet beans originally intro dubed into our state and later into the. Southern part of Georgia and Alabama. This variety is certainly worth experimenting with. Seed is not very plentiful. It would be dif ficult to say just what you might have to pay for them as their rela tive scarcity has helped to keep the price high. Basic Slag vs. Acid Phosphate C. M., ilaeon, Ga., writes: I would like your opinion as to the 'comparative value as a fertilizer of basic phosphate and aeid phosphate. I aui undecided; which to purchase. , , ,i 7 In our experience basic slag has shown an availability equal to about 8 per cent of phosphoric acid. On the other hand, aeid phosphate car ries about 16 per cent of available phosphoric acid. We have published a number of special bulletins on this particular subject and both our field tests and observations lead us t 6 be lieve that when quick results hre desired that preference should still be given to acid phosphate. In, on the hand, you were establish ing a pasture, probably basic slag or finely ground phosphate rock could be used to advantage. This ma terial, in that event, should be ap plied at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre and well harrowed into the soil. The phosphoric acid it contains becomes available rather slowly. Its availability to growing crops is in creased if combined with yard ma nure or green crops plowed under. It can be used to better advantage on rich soils than on thin soils. This year we are particularly concerned .about hastening The maturity of our cotton crop on account of the presence of the boll weevil in our state. On this account and because of the important part played by phosphoric acid in hastening the ma turity of crops, we are disposed to recommend the use of acid phosphate in preference to other materials. SOY BEANS FCR G-KAZING DOWN BY HOGS E. L. V., Homerville, Ga., writes: I am thinking of planting some soy beans / 110 ® feed . b 1 PWee of velvet beans. What varieties would you recommend, and what is your opinion of them as a hog feed? 1 The soy bean grows with a con-: siderable degree of success in va rious parts of Georgia. It is par ticularly well adapted for cultiva tion to the northern part of the state. We have raised large and profitable crops of beans here on the college farm. It should be planted about the same time as cowpeas. We pre fer to seed them in rows, fifteen inches to three feet apart. It takes about a gallon of seed to plant an acre. In hogging them down, we prefer to let them reach the dough stage before the animals are turned into the field where they are grow ing. We regard them with greater favor as a food crop for hogs than velvet beans. Various varieties may be grown in this section of Georgia. The Japanese, the Ito San Yellow, the Black and the Mammoth Yellow are among the best strains to select for planting. These mature so as to furnish a desirable succession of soy beans for grazing for two or three months of the year. DESTROYING WOZVES IN CATTLE W. Y., Buckhe:i<!t, Ga., writes: I have a cow with a calf a month old. She has several knots in her back about the size • of peach kernels. She dobs not seem to be sick and they do not affect her ap petite. What Causes these knots and is there anything I can do to scatter them ? The swellings on the back pf your cow are caused by wolves, or war bles. They develop rapidly at this season of the year. If you examine the back of your cow carefully you will find. little openings appearing. Silo, Advice on How to Construct Same, for Benefit to the Farmer > Probably no one farm structure has had so much written about It as the silo, and probably no other farm structure is simpler. The principle is simply that of cutting the corn or sorghum into fine pieces so that it can be packed air tight, the voids between the larger pieces being filled with finely cut vegeta ble matter and juice. Oftentimes when the corn or sorghum is dry, water is added so that the maps will settle tighter. Since a round silo can be packed tighter and since this has no corners to hold the air it has become the only one in com mon use. The Essentials of a Good Silo The essentials of a good silo are not many, yet many a silo is erected with a seeming disregard of these fundamentals. In the first place a silo should have a good foundation. This should extend a couple of feet below the surface of the ground. The ground should be well drained so that no settling will occur with the heavy structure, for the weight of the silo and silage is very great. The walls should be strong, smooth, straight, and solid. The lateral pres sure on silo walls is something enormous and the walls must be sufficiently sized to resist this pres sure. There should be no pockets in the walls of the silo to or which will prevent the even settling of the silage. Although some own ers claim that a roof is not neces sary, this claim is not substantia ted. Some owners claim that oats and rye on the top of the silage protects it. The Size of the Silo Os course the size is determined by the number of cattle to be fed and by the length of the feeding season. The rate of feeding is usual ly from thirty to forty pounds per day and the diameter of the silo must be such that two inches are removed from the top every day, to prevent the silage from spoiling. The following table gives the ca pacity of silos required to feed herds of different size, fed JBO to 240 days. If a larger number of cattle are to be fed it is preferable to have more than one silo. No. Feed Feed Diameter Cows. 180 days 240 days of silo 8 20 tons 40 tons 8 ft. 10 36 “ 48 “ 10 “ 15 54 “ 72 “ 10 “ 20 72 “ 96 “ 12 “ Too Many Brood Sows Being Sold, t They Should Be Kept on the Farm We hear over the state much talk of hogs being cheap. On first thought liogs probably seem qheap, but when we compare prices of this year with prices of corresponding dates of lq,st year we find certain figures that are surprising to a great many of us. Why? Because we have not fol lowed the run of prices. The last week in January a certain county in the’ state had- three cooperative hog sales. On comparing returns from these sales with > those of a year past on corresponding dates, it was found that only 40 per cent as inany hogs were sold, and that the price received was 2 cents per pound more than for the same week fn January, 1919. We hear people talking of there being not money in raising hogs, and of their getting out of the busl hes, etc. I have returns from six cooperative hog sales in southeast Alabama for the month of January, 1920. These six counties sold co operatively over ? 127,000,00 worth of-, hogs. Ca.n it be possible that this amount of money left absolutely in the hands of the farmers was earn ed at a loss? Did you ever dream of this amount of money being turn ed loose in six counties in south east Alabama at this period of the year, under the one-crop system? I leave it to the reader to answer these questions for himself. Judging from the large number of brood sows Coming to the sales day, it seems that the number of hogs in Alabama, —especially southeast Alabama will be considerably smaller another season than they are for this season. The percentage of sows on the market has been greater than ever before since the sales were begun and when the farmers are asked why they are selling good roomy brood sows, they answer you with the complaints given above. Many times on making inquiry as to the sale of sows, the answer follows: “Peanuts are too high to feed and hogs are so low that I am going to get out of the hog busi ness.” None of us are prophets, but peanuts, will probably not always be as high as at present. To make sure of a safe and sound system of farming every man should keep at least one or two good produc tive sows on his farm. If he keeps books on them they will be found — Grain Violations Punished The presence of teeth in the grain standards act which governs inter state traffic in grains for which offi cial standards have been fixed was proved recently in Kansas City when the first conviction for violation of the statute were recorded. The crim inal informations were filed under section 4 of the act, which provides that grain which is sold by grade shall not be shipped from one state to another, except between non-in spection points, unless it has been inspected by a licensed inspector in accordance with the law to determine the grade of the grain. The defend ant pleaded guilty. The bureau of markets, United States department of agriculture, which administers the grain stand ards act, has been conducting educa tional work to acquaint all producers and handlers of grain with the fed eral requirements, and hopes that what has been accomplished in this field will have the result of keeping violations at a minimum. You should put a few drops of tur pentine into each one, and thus de stroy the grub inside. If you do this, you will prevent the develop ment of warble flies next summer and prevent the occurrence of the trouble you are now experiencing. Warble flies' do not make animals sick nor do they injure the milk. There is no reason why the appe tite of the cow affected with them should not be first class. There is no reason why the milk should not be used with impunity. This trouble is caused by the eggs lajd in the heels of cattle In the summertime by a fly looking something like a honey bee. Cows swallow these eggs, qnd they hatch in the animal and work their way through the tissues of the body to the back. There they de velop, work out into the ground, where the fly develops. Destroying warbles is, therefore, a most im portant matter in the interest of protecting the animals from useless irritation and making the hides more valuable' for leather productions Warbled hftdes of course, are nat urally docked because the skin is full of Httle holes. 25 90 “ 120 " 14 “ 30 108 “ 144 “ 16 “ 35 126 “ 168 “ 16 “ 40 144 “ 192 *4 18 “ 45 162 “ 216 “ 18 “ 50 180 “ 240 “ 20 “ The height of a sjlo should be as great as can be obtained with the most economical construction; how ever, a silo 8 or 10 feet in diameter should not be more than 40 feet, a 12 to 15-foot silo not more than 45 feet, and a larger silo not more than 60 feet high, because of diffi culty in filling and feeding from them. Types of Silos All materials of construction have been built into satisfactory silos. General usage seems to tend to wards wood, hollow tile and con crete. The most popular wooden silos are of two kinds, the stave silo and the wooden hoop silo. The home-made wooden hoop silo has been quite popular and has the ad vantage of not causing trouble as one is obliged to tighten or loosen the hoop of the stave silo. The stave silo is, however, easier to con struct and can be purchased already to assemble. very high grade of timber is necessary for a good silo, and hence these commercial silos are rather high in price at pres ent. The cement silo can be made either in the solid wall (monolithic) form or laid -up in concrete blocks. The home-made block has not been very satisfactory because few farm ers will take the trouble to cure the blocks sufficiently. One advantage of the tile, cement block or mono lithic silo is that they are both fire and tornado proof. This is really a point of considerable consequence as when one of these structures has once been erected a permanent improvement has been added to the farm which will last for generations and at the same time insure a sup ply of very valuable feed against fire. In some dairy sections farmers are clubbing together and buying forms for making monolithic silos. These can be purchased for 'a few hundred dollars and many valuable buildings constructed with the same form. The farmer who builds in this fashion erects a monument of pro duction to himself which will yield returns to him, and to his children and to his children's * children. on the right side of the ledger and always bringing in a few dollars just at the time they are most needed. Peanuts Make Good Food For Fattening the Hog It will soon be time to plant watermelon in the southern part of the state. This crop always shows a goodly per cent of culls which the hogs relish, and it is quite the custom to “tote” them out to the herd. Some have found this useless labor, however, and have contrived to lighten their burden by a judi cious planting of other crops in the melon field, so that the hogs can be turned in on not only a varied tyfit a fattening ration, as soon as the last car of melons is shipped, -which will be about July Ist. One farmer whom I have visited lately has a 15-acre field, in which ho plants 10 acres of melons spaced 10 by 10 feet. In the centers he plants a row of Virginia bunch pea nuts. The remaining 5 acres he di vides into two parts, planting 4 acres to Tennessee red cob corn, or any variety, and the remain ing acre to sorghum. In spite of the fact that sorghum is not gen erally recommended as' a hog feed it is quite likely that in a small acreage it is warranted and that the hogs relish it as a change whethei* it is fattening dr not. Fur ther it would appear that the ra tion could be improved by planting soybeans along with the corn. This would not injure the stand, of corn, in fact would helpi it, as it is gen erally conceded that a leguminous crop growing along with a non-leg urrie furnishes its excess nitrogen to i the growing non-legume cron and in so doing not only strength ens the tissues of the corn Itself but actually renders it higher in protein than corn of the same va riety grown alone. But I have digressed from my story, for I was talking of this man’t crops as planted as a summer feed for hogs, and the year that I made my visit he was particularly pleased to tell me that he had run 47 hogs on the j. 5 acres so planted from early July to September, at which time they were ready for market, having made very satisfac tory gains, and thus going Into the market early during a period when prices are always high. A little study will ligh’ten labor on the farm, as well as spell suc cess. 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Apples: The spray following the dormant for apples is applied to con trol scab, leaf eating insects and aphis. It is called the “cluster bud Ispray.” It should be applied when the blossom buds show pink—not be fore this time nor after the blossoms open. . The materials for this spray are 1% gallons commercial lime-sulphur, 32 degrees Beaume, to fifty gallons of water and 1 1-2 pounds of pow dered arsenat/a of lead. If aphis is present, add three-eights pint nico tine sulphate (Black Leaf 40). 3. Peaches: The spray following the dormant for peaches is given to control Curculio, the Insect causing wormy peaches, peach scab and brown rot. It should be applied as soon as the blossoms fall. The ma- 1 terials for this spray are self-boiled, or hydrated, lime-sulphur and 1 1-2 pounds powdered arsenate of lead. It paste arsenate is used, three pounds. These materials can be made by any farmer by the following direc tions: Self-Boiled Eime-Sulphur Stone X*rulta Eight pounds sulphur, eight pounds rock lime and fifty gallons water. Slake lime with hot water; when slaking begins add sulphur and stir vigorously adding water as needed to prevent burning till slaking ceases, or for five to ten minutes; then add cold water to stop cooking and when ready to use, strain and dilute to make fifty gallons. Hydrated Lime-Sulphur Eight pounds hydrated lime, eight pounds sulphur, eight gallons boiling water. « • ■ . This is a mixture for use under identically the same conditions as self-boiled lime-sulphur. The only differences are (1) that hydrated lime is used in place of rock lime; (2) the substitution of the heat of boil ing water for the heat of slaking lime. It is a simpler method of ob taining the same results, and has the advantages of being freer from ob jectionable sediment and more con stant in its composition. 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After the lime and sulphur are mixed and sift ed, add eight gallons of boiling water and stir the mixture slowly for five minutes. Then add eight gallons of cold water to stop the cooking; after which strain the mixture into the spray barrel, or tank, and dilutt make fifty gallons. If it is desired to make 100 gallons of spray solu tion, use twice the amount of lime and sulphur and ten gallons of boil ing waters or cooking it. If 200 gal lons of solution are needed, use tnir ty-two pounds each of lime and Os sulphur and twelve gallons of boiling water. This material is not quite as easily agitated during spraying as self-boiled lime-sulphur so the agi tator must be working constantly. The arsenate of lead should be dissolved in water and added to the other solutions just before starting to spray. 4. Grow your own grape vines for next year. Those farmer.” who want more grapes, or muscadines, like the ones they or their neighbors have, do not have to buy them. 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