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izers, being potash gatherers from the soil below and nitrogen gatherers 

 from the air above. 



447. Q. How late can Crimson clover be successfully sown in the lati- Scarlet 

 tude of Savannah ? Clover. 



A. Sown as late as November 1st, it should attain a sufficient vigor of 

 growth to make a big crop in the Spring ; sown later, it will of course 

 flourish, but a big crop of hay to cut or green stuff to plow under cannot 

 be looked for unless the plant had a good start in Autumn. No striking 

 fertilizing results can be expected from a plo wed-under crop of Scarlet 

 clover where the sowing of seed has been late and where the plowing 

 under is early, as its merit consists in the collection of potash from the 

 soil by the roots and of nitrogen by the leaves and roots for storage in 

 the root galls, and all this cannot be done to any great extent between 

 November and April. Sown in August the results are better. 



448. Q. Is there a marked difference in the habit of tomatoes grown Tomatoes, 

 upon light and heavy soils ? 



A. Grown on light soils the vines are puny, the foliage small and sparse, 

 the fruit small but very early, and because of thin foliage liable to sun- 

 burn. On heavy soil the conditions are just the contrary. 



449. Q. What is your experience in the use of Lobos guano? Lobos Guano 

 A. It is that it is not worth quarter the money asked for it. No reliance 



can be placed upon it for the making of a crop. Put your money in some 

 other fertilizer. 



450. Q. My cabbage plants in beds, now ready for setting in the field, cabbage 

 are ruined by black stem, the bark of the stem slufflng off. What is the Fungus, 

 trouble and what the remedy ? 



A. The disease is a parasitic fungous growth. There is no remedy that 

 would justify the assumption of subsequent expenses on your cabbage 

 crop. Better pull up and burn the entire lot of plants and purchase 

 healthy plants from an unaffected bed. 



451. Q. What is leaf blight ? teaf Bligbt. 

 A, It is a decay consequent upon arrested nutrition following insect or 



fungous attack. Leaf blight as an expression does not indicate the nature 

 of disease, for the blight may follow ravage by either insects or fungus. 

 Leaf blight on garden vegetables is generally the outward sign of a para- 

 sitic fungus known also as rust, mold, smut, mildew. It is difficult to de- 

 scribe the almost inconceivable smallness of the most destructive garden 

 fungi. 



452. Q. How is a resin wash made? Resin Wash. 

 A. Take three pounds pulverized resin, one pound pulverized caustic 



soda, one gallon fish oil, and, with sufficient water, boil till dissolved and 

 an hour longer. Add twenty gallons of water, strain and spray. This 

 is a good insecticide for sap suckers, acting by contact. 



453. Q, Name a good preventive against the cutworm in corn. Cutworm, 

 A. Kainit, a potash salt which destroys the worm while at same time 



stimulating the plant to vigorous growth. 



