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TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER.
Cultlvattne Cotton Flat.
In 1901 the shortage of the cotton
crop, as well as of the corn crop, was
due to drouth. This occurred early in
the season, at a time when the corn
needed the moisture most to fill out
the ears, and when the cotton was
making its first bolls. It continued
long enough to ruin the com and short¬
en the cotton crop at least thirty per
cent. This year again in many parts
of the country both these crops have
suffered severely. It is evident that
drouth is one of the main factors in
shortening our corn and cotton crops
if not the principal one. It is therefore
au important question to solve whether
there is any way to avert the great
losses likely to be caused every year
by drouth.
The experience of farmers in raising
Dther crops in all parts of tire country
shows very conclusively that to a large
extent tile evil effect of drouth may
be averted. It is principally a matter
of cultivation; the method of cultiva¬
tion and frequency of it. All through
the “corn belt” where the built of our
national corn crop is raised, the ridge
row system of raising corn has been
abandoned years ago. They never put
a turn plow into the ground after the
land has been first broken up. The
cultivation is always level; it is done
with a two-horse cultivator, which
works both sides of a row, on every
trip through the field, and the soil is
not only made fine, but is kept level.
In case of drouth it is the custom of
up to date farmers to run through the
corn again, after the final working
with a cultivator, that pulverizes the
surfaces, but runs very shallow. If
the drouth continues, they go through
again, and as often as it seems to be
necessary. Doing this keeps a mulch
of dust on the surface which keeps
the moisture from' escaping and en¬
sures a fair crop, even in case of long
continued drouth.
If tile laud were ridged up in narrow
ridges, it would dry out much sooner
than if kept- level, and it would be im¬
possible to keep such a complete dust
mulch. That this plan accomplishes its
purpose has been shown in thousands
of cases. In many instances where
fields adjoining were in corn, that cul¬
tivated by the new system has made
a fairly good crop, when one next to
it, cultivated on the old plan, made only
a few nubbins. We have not the slight¬
est doubt that the same rule will ap¬
ply to cotton. Then why not adopt
the flat system and frequent shallow
cultivation for cotton, too?
The claims made for the ridge system
are that it stands wet seasons better;
that it kills the grass and weeds in
the row by wrapping them up with
dirt, and that it holds up the stalks
and prevents them from being blown
down, to some extent. We do not deny
the truth of these claims, but we do
not believe that they begin to compare
in importance with conserving the
moisture during seasons of drouth. And
when to this is added that the flat sys¬
tem prevents, on rolling land, much of
the washing that is so ruinous, the tes¬
timony in its favor is immensely
stronger than that for ridge rows. This
matter, the preventing of damage by
drouth, is one of infinite importance.
Every possible means of abating it
ought to be thoroughly tested. The old
system lias been tried till it lias ruined
thousands of plantations and thou¬
sands of planters. It is surely time to
get on to a new system.
XVIiat Can lSe Udecl For Silage ?
Corn and cow peas planted together,
sorghum and cow peas, sorghum and
velvet beans, Kaffir corn and cow- peas,
clovers and soja beans can all be used
to advantage for making silage, or
corn, sorghum, soja beans and cow
pens can be used alone and make good
silage, but as a rule, a mixture is pre¬
ferred. We have obtained excellent
results from feeding silage made from
corn and cow peas and from sorghum
and cow peas. Some persons seem to
think that silage taints the milk and
butter when fed to dairy cows, but'this
is not generally true, unless there is
something wrong with the silage. If
sorghum is put in the silo when too
young or before the grain is in tlie
dough, it will undergo a peculiar fer¬
mentation which will taste the milk,
and the butter made from this milk
will soon develop a rancid taste and
odor. This same silage, however, will
not produce these results if the silage
Is fed after instead of before milking.
According to Henry, there is not much
difference in the feeding value of corn
and sorghum silage, but silage made
from alfalfa, cow peas, clovers or soja
beans is higher in digestible nutrients
than corn and sorghum silage, while
that made from alfalfa leads in pro¬
tein contents. Silage is not only an ex¬
cellent food for dairy cows, but is used
In some parts for feeding beef ani¬
mals, especially in the preliminary
Stage of the feeding period. Thus,
silage Is useful to the farmer, no mat
ter what kind of a cattle lie Is feed
ing.—S. E. Barnes, Dairy Department,
University of Tennessee.
Sweet rotate Bug.
In connection with the propagation ot
sweet potatoes in South Louisiana a
most destructive insect has made its
appearance. It is an introduced spe¬
cies, coming to us from more southern
countries, in seed potatoes. It is here
to stay, and while little can be done to
cheek Its ravages in the sections of the
State It now infests, the greatest care
should be exercised in preventing its
spread. From a study of its habits
it is not a form that flies, and is only
transferred from place to place in the
seed (roots) of this plant. Those inter¬
ested in sweet potato culture in Louis¬
iana and there seems to be a great
future for the grass growing and large
yielding varieties as food for stock,
should use every means to prevent the
introduction of infested seed upon their
places. The seed of all tenants should
be purchased or ordered by responsible
persons and those thoroughly acquaint¬
ed with the danger of insect infec¬
tion.
Improved Land With Sweet CloveT.
As a plant for green manuring Pro¬
fessor S. M. Tracey, formerly of the
Mississippi Experiment Station, says of
it in Farmers’ Bulletin 18 of the United
States Department of Agriculture: “As
a restorative crop for yellow loam and
white lime lands this plant has no su¬
perior, and for black prairie soils it
has no equal. The roots are very long,
penetrating the soil to a depth of three
or four feet; are quite large, and by
their decay at the end of the second
year leave the soil with innumerable
minute holes which act as drains and
loosen the soil, so that the roots of
other crops can go deeper and find
abundant supplies of food and bear
drouth better.”
The appearance of sweet clover Is a
signal that the soil is out of condition.
Its mission seems to be to occupy the
waste places and negated spots of the
earth and to prepare t’hem for the
growth of other plants.
Profitable For I<ate Planting:.
The tendency of all forage plants
sown so late in the season is to run
to seed development more than they
would if planted in the spring. But
milo maize and sorghum and rice are
profitable for iate planting. There is
an art in cutting them at just the right
stage. If cut too green there is no
grain to speak of, it dries to shells. If
cut too ripe there is grain in plenty,
and If it were threshed out and ground
it would more than compensate for the
loss of nutritive matter in the straw.
But this is never done, and the grain
of these cereals is so small and hard as
to escape mastication. Therefore it
does not compensate for the loss which
occurs in the straw. If cut just right,
which is in the “dough” stage, the
grain remains soft enough to be ground
by the stock and the straw is as good
as hay. The perfect balance is oh
served.
Brief Mention*
As a fertilizer for sorghum velvet
bean peas proved superior to cow pea
vines and to velvet bean stubble at the
Alabama Station.
In one place in South Carolina cow
peas thrive where watermelons die of
wilt and cotton does well where cow
peas are all killed.
Hogs in the South are comparatively
free from disease owing in part to
many succulent foods and grasses.
Figs prefer a level, moist, sandy and
not too nitrogenous soil near the ocean
or salt water estuaries.
Vetch is useful for winter pasture in
the South.
If it is desired to plant corn in July
or August for a late crop, select a very
early maturing variety.
Plant sweet potato vines in well pre¬
pared ground.
How Early Hoes tlie Pecan Bear?
Apropos of the statement that a*
orchard of pecans will begin to bear
in six years Farm and Ranch lias
said: This has not been our experi¬
ence. From Infancy to the present day
the writer has been familiar with the
pecan, both wild and cultivated, and
has been led thereby to believe that
pecan trees will begin to bear at about
ten years, and at the age of fifteen
years will not bear in any case to ex¬
ceed one bushel, and to produce ten
bushels the tree must be about twenty
eight inches through, with a spread
of fully forty feet, and be from fifty
to 100 years old. And yet a pecan
orchard is a very profitable possession,
but those who expect a for tun* annu¬
ally from trees ten years old will b*
disappointed.
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