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INQUIRY ANSWERED. 
Wellsboro Pa., Nov., 15, 1885. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir;—Yes 
terday I received a note from Samuel C. 
DeCou, of Moorestown, New Jersey. Small 
fruit and plant grower, and a perfect stran¬ 
ger to me, who says in regard to my iuquir- 
ies about fertilizers, and the answer thereto, 
published in last Seed-Time and Harvest, 
that he thinks you are mistaken in regard 
to hair. He has used it and found it very 
good: in fact he thinks so highly of it that 
he would pay $1.00 per ton for it. 
“When doctors disagree, who is to 
decide?” Respectfully, L. J. Deane. 
[Let him who has had experience put it 
ahead of theory every time. We have 
never used hair and might think better of 
it after trial. Ed.] 
Grand Bay, Ala., Sept., 5, 1885. 
Editor Seed-Time and Harvest: 
It has been raining about a month, thus interfering 
with cutting hay and keeping sweet potatoes from 
making as they should. Let me tell your Northern 
readers how we manage down here. We get our land 
ready in January. In February and March plant our 
corn. When the corn is ripe, about this time of year, 
it is gathered. The stalks are cut, and grass, which 
has made but a feeble growth, now “makes a forward 
movement,” and by the end of the month it is ready 
to cut. On such lands as have been planted to garden 
truck, grass gets a good start ere we get through 
marketing, and is ready to cut about the middle of 
June or later, as the crops come off. Now we never 
sow any grass seed, but it comes up ‘just so” a good 
many times before we want it to do so. It is nearly 
all “crab grass” (as it is called here,) and Mexican 
clover. As a general thing they both grow together, 
but on heavy land crab grass and on light land Mexi¬ 
can clover predominates. Both make good hay of 
which all kinds of stock are fond. We also plant 
Upland Rice. Mine is now heading. It was planted 
in June. Planted any time after frost is over, it 
yields about 20 bushels per acre, although I have 
seen more made. I should think it would do well 
North. The early kinds will mature anywhere corn 
will. We plant sweet potatoes from March until the 
last of July. The latter plantings are from vines. 
At this time we plant cabbage and turnips. Some 
earlier plantings are made but bugs mostly get the 
best of them. Sugar corn grows well, as does sor 
ghum and many other crops. 
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