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80 THE SOUTHEEN" PLANTER [January,
SALT MARSH MUD.
Will you kindly tell me through
your columns if the mud taken from
a salt marsh, and from the bed of a
creek (such as I could get when the
tide is out) would be of any material
value. If so, how would it need to be
treated for best results, and what elements
of plant food would it be apt
to contain. J. H. JORDAN.
Mathews Co., Va.
We doubt much whether this mud
would be of value sufficient to pay
for the cost of securing it. If it had
much decayed vegetable matter in it,
it might be worth securing, even then,
before it could be beneficially used,
it would require to be weathered for
a year by spreading it out to expose
it to the action ot the air and sun,
and would need to have lime mixed
with it to correct acidity. All water
soaked deposits are usually strongly
acid and therefore deleterious to plant
growth.—Ed.
OATS AND VETCH FOR HAY.
Would like to ask—since it is too
late to seed oats and vetch winter
varieties, can they be successfully
seeded in the spring to be cut for hay
and the same land be planted to corn?
If so, what time should they be seeded
and when cut? A. H. JAMES.
Lancaster Co., Va.
You can sow oats and hairy vetch
"m. February or March and get a crop
to cut for hay in May or June and follow
this with corn. Sow one bushel
of oats and twenty-five pounds of
Thairy vetch seed per acre. The hairy
vetch is best seeded in the fall, but
one of our subscribers tried the crop
sown in February or March and made
a. complete success.—Ed.
FERTILIZER FOR CORN.
Y have about eight acres in crimson
clover that I wish to turn down for
corn next spring. The land is strong
enough to grow good, round Irish
potatoes. Should I use fertilizer on
the clover? If so, what kind and how
much per acre should I use, and what
time should I use it—this fall or next
spring?
A. T. TIGNAL.
It would very probably help you to
secure a heavier crop of corn if you
applied 200 pounds of acid phosphate
per acre after turning down the
clover Read the article in this issue
by Dr Stubbs, in which he explains
how he is getting up his land in
Gloucester county, Virginia, and securing
good crops. He found his land
very deficient in available phosphoric
acid and we expect yours Is very
much in the same condition.—Ed.
SOY BEANS—ALFALFA—PUMP-
KINS.
1 What will soja beans, including
the vine (green weight) grow to the
acre on good land cultivated in rows
thirty inches a part? What propor-
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