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General Farm Topics 
Potatoes Like a Flower Garden 
The picture on this page shows about 
the most remarkable potato patch we 
have ever seen. This is sent by Mr. 
Fred Harvey of Chesterfield County, '\'a. 
It was grown last year and yielded ISO 
bushels per acre, which is a good yield 
for that locality. ^Ir. Harvey says the 
vines were five feet long, and the picture 
certainly resembles a flower patch rather 
than a potato field. Our Xorthern people 
will be interested in knowing that this 
field was planted on the 10th of July. 
Mr. Harvey used seed which he grew 
the previous year, and kept over in cold 
storage from the 15th of April to the 
end of .Tune. Some Northern farmers 
plant potatoes late, but let it be remem¬ 
bered that in Virginia these potatoes may 
come as a second crop, as it is quite pos¬ 
sible to get a full crop of some earlier 
plant first, then plow the land and plant 
the potatoes; and what is more, after the 
potatoes come out there will still be a 
chance to seed to rye and clover, thus 
lengthening out the season. Mr. Harvey 
says that when he went to that counti’y 
eight years ago they had very poor suc¬ 
cess with potatoes. Gradually this land 
is getting better, and this improvement is 
The point is to put them four to live 
inches under ground; then the oats are 
seeded broadcast and harrowed in as 
usual. It is better to have the peas in 
deeper than the oats, but they both come 
up together, and the oats help to hold the 
pea vines and keep them off the ground. 
Mlieu used for green fodder the oats and 
peas are cut together and handled out for 
feeding. For hay-making the crop is cut 
when the oats are in the milk stage; 
that is, when the grains are soft, so that 
they can be crushed between the fingers. 
The crop is handled for curing about the 
same as clover hay, and it makes a good 
substitute for the clover. As a pasture 
for hogs, the stock is turned in when 
eight inches to a foot high, and the hogs 
will do the rest. As green manure, the 
crop may be plowed under the latter i)art 
of June, the ground i)acked with a roller 
or thrashed and well fitted, after which 
corn, potatoes, cabbage or millet can be 
grown. 
Seeding Oats with Wheat 
Any farmer who has a poor stand of 
wheat or meadow will get good pay for 
sowing a liberal supply of oats where 
the stand is poor. It is not necessary 
A Potaio Garden Patch in Chesterfield Co., Va. 
due to the intelligent u.se of lime and 
clover, and the application of about half 
a ton of fertilizer per acre. To fit the 
ground for these potatoes Mr. Harvey 
said he sowed oats in March, plowed that 
crop under in June, with an application 
of acid phosphate. Then when the po¬ 
tatoes were about six inches high he put 
on 100 lbs. to the acre of nitrate of soda, 
and we see in the picture what this little 
whiff of nitrogen did to jump the po¬ 
tatoes along. 
Growing Oats and Peas 
There are so many (lue.stions about 
seeding oats and peas that it is nece.ssary 
to tell the story again. Many farmers 
want early green fodder for the cattle; 
others want a substitute for hay; still 
others want a manuiual crop seeded early 
which can be turned under later for cab¬ 
bage, potatoes or late corn. All these 
things i-equire a crop which can start 
early and make a heavy growth. There 
is probably nothing better for the purpose 
than oats and Canada peas. Do not con¬ 
fuse the Canada field pea with the South¬ 
ern cow pea. The Canada pea is a cool 
season crop by nature, while the cow pea 
requires hot weather and should not be 
planted early. 
Oats and peas require a strong soil, 
well drained and open, so as to make as 
early a start as possible. The pea re¬ 
sponds to lime and is particularly in¬ 
fluenced by phosphorus. The oats require 
nitrogen. If seeding a large acreage to 
the crop, a seed drill can be used. In 
that case plow the land, give it a good 
coat of lime and harrow and fit it well, 
then drill in Canada peas and oats mixed 
together. We use one bushel of Canada 
peas and two and a half bushels of oats 
to the acre. On a small field where no 
seed drill is used, the Canada peas are 
•scattered on top of the ground, and either 
plowed under or worked in with a disk. 
to drag it in if sown earl.v, although it 
will be a great improvement on the wheat 
to drag it. The extra straw you get will 
more than j)ay for the oats and labor, be¬ 
sides a good crop of oats in the wheat. 
The oats can be separated from the wheat 
with a good fanning mill, or can be 
ground for feed. This is a method I have 
practiced for years, and have always 
found it to pay me well. The oat crop 
can be increa.sed thousands of bushels 
with but very little labor. It does not 
take any longer to reap a field of oats 
and wheat mixed than to reap the wheat 
alone. Wheat will have to stand a week 
or two longer to get the oats ripe. 
Ohio. s. K. KRAVEK. 
K- N.-Y.—lias anyone else succeedetl 
with this? It might be all right for feed, 
and we let this g(> as a suggestion, but 
has it been tried enough to make it sure? 
A Grassy Asparagus Patch 
On page 44S .T. C., Springdale, (’onn., 
asks what to do with a grassy asparagus 
patch. The thing to do is, as soon as 
the asparagus is up so he can see where 
it is, to put salt on the hills. That will 
kill the grass and weeds so be can cut 
his crop. Salt will not harm the aspara¬ 
gus. The salt will be most effective if it 
is put on when the dew is on the grass, 
and if the grass is not all killed the first 
time, go over it again a week later. The 
salt will do the work better and is 
cheaper than hoeing, and it is almost im¬ 
possible to get all the grass out of as¬ 
paragus by hoeing. One year we were 
away from the farm until late in the 
Spring, and did not hoe or cultivate our 
asparagus at all that year, and the grass 
had complete control of the ground. The 
next Spring we tried the salt cure and 
cleaned the rows, cultivating between the 
rows, and still have the same asparagus 
patch coming up nicely today. March 25. 
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