Fertilizer Talk on Home Mixing and Compost Use
A Rural New Yorker piece weighs the pros and cons of farmers mixing fertilizers at home to cut costs. It cites a New Jersey farmer using a thrashing-machine mixer to produce ten tons daily and warns composts are nitrogen heavy, needing balanced additives like potash and phosphate rock for most crops. It warns against lime with compost, advises rot compost, and endorses nitrate of soda for early tomatoes with careful application to avoid root contact.
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New Yorker
New Jersey
Growing Tomatoes Prepping Soil For A Rich Harvest
A writer in The Orange Judd Farmer urges thorough soil preparation for tomato crops. He advises plowing, pulverizing, harrowing, rolling lump-free soil, and using a weeder to smooth the bed before setting plants. The hand rake serves a similar purpose in gardens.
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Orange Judd
Late Cotton Planting And Labor Savings In Bed Prep
The article discusses economizing labor in cotton production through late planting on rich lands, use of low beds for drainage, and quick bed formation by long heel scrapes. It cites Southern Cultivator examples from Mississippi bottoms and Milledgeville Georgia, emphasizing fresh seed beds and weed control while reducing hoeing and grading work.
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Mississippi
Furman
Milledgeville
Fertilizer Ideas From Florida Tobacco Convention
A Florida Farmers report on rival fertilizer theories for tobacco notes some growers favor Peruvian guano cottonseed meal and barnyard compost but argues these do not provide a perfectly balanced plant nutrient mix. The paper suggests reevaluating longstanding practices toward balanced nutrition.
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Florida
Mineral Fertilizers and Tobacco Planting Time
The author discusses soil fertility for tobacco, arguing a perfect mix should have 10 to 12 percent potash, 4 percent nitrogen, and phosphoric acid. He claims mineral fertilizers can ruin aroma and texture if applied too late, urging application six to eight weeks before planting for best quality.
Cowpeas and oats cannot be sown together for forage
W F Massey explains in Country Gentleman that Canada field peas and oats can be sown together but cowpeas and oats must not. Cowpeas thrive only in hot ground and will smother oats or rot if planted with them. Proper curing of cowpea hay is discussed, including windrow drying and storing green material to preserve leaves.
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Canada
W. F. Massey
Country Gentleman
Smoot In Date on Oat Smut Prevention Method
The article notes annual oat crop losses from smut at 5 to 10 percent in the United States and promotes the Jensen hot water treatment to sterilize seed oats. Immersing seed at 133 degrees for ten minutes yields clean seed and a clean crop, with criticism of sowing infected seed as unwise.
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United States
Jensen
Bees Influence Peach Fruit Drop in Florida Experiment
The Florida experiment station isolated two peach trees during flowering, exposing one to a bee colony and keeping the other bee-free. Both set fruit, but the bee-excluded tree dropped its fruit as the stone formed while the bee-exposed tree kept and matured its crop. The note concludes with a playful line praising bees.
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Florida
American Bee Journal
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