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Thursday, April 14, 1932
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PAGE NUMBER SEVEN
New Fungus Disease
Tobacco Plantbeds
CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 2.—
A tobacco plantbed disease, new to
South Carolina, which has been
causing much trouble in the plant-
beds in Florence county, has been
identified as downy mildew, or
bluemold, by Dr. George M. Arm
strong, plant pathologist of the
South Carolina Experiment Station,
2-2-50 Borreadux mixture was al
so partly effective. Applications
were made at intervals varying
flowers continuously until frost.
The spectabilis flowers later and
during a definite period. Both
from two to six days depending up- varieties put their seed at the top of
on the rate of growth. A spray the main stalk,
machine is needed that will develop Crotalaria may be
pressure enough to form a fine
mist, the nozzle to be set at a 45-
degree angle and the spray so di
rected to wet the under sides of
the leaves if possible. If hydrated
lime is used instead of rock lime,
sown from
early corn or cotton planting time
until about June 15. Early seed-
ings being usually more satisfac
tory because of less competition
with weeds. Rates of seedling vary
from five to 25 pounds per acre.
ing the well graded California
grass.”
The consuming housewife is the
ultimate buyer, Mr. Prince explains,
of 90 per cent of our asparagus, and
if it is not of the quality she de
sires, she will buy a product which
contains better quality.
Mr. Prince commends South
Carolina growers for the excellent
progress they have made in the
past five years, but warns them
that their California competitors
have also been improving. Stand-
1 1-2 times as much is needed as The seed should be scarified before
called for in the formula. More planting, and may be broadcast or
and Alfred Lutken, extension en- effective spraying and quicker con- drilled in rows about 30 inches ard grading, he says, does not mean
tomosogist and pathologist. The! trol will be obtained if all dead apart. Thorough preparation of elimination of everything but the
disease, these specialists say, has I plants and leaves are removed and the land and shallow covering of
already been reported as causing
serious injury in part of Georgia,
Florida, and North Carolina.
Downy mildew is a fungus dis
ease, usually found on the lower
burned. the seed are recommended. Heavy
Plants from diseased beds were seedlings produce larger yields of
used in other states last year with soil-improving material to turn un-
variable results. When the weather der. Lighter seedlings give a
was warm and dry after setting, higher yield of seed per acre,
surface of ~ the leaf, producing I ver y little disease was noted in the Crotalaria seed should be har-
patches of bluish gray or brownish ! field. Under cool moist conditions vested when mature. If allowed to
downy material. Later the leaf! after setting, some appreciable stand they will shatter like soy-
Ussue may turn brown, and badly
affected seedbeds may have scalded
appearance. The disease is appar
ently worse on poorly drained and
poorly ventilated beds. Usually it
will be noticed first on a few plants,
but sometimes a large part of the
bed may be destroyed before the
disease is detected.
In controlling the disease, says
Mr. Lutken, the first need is free
field damage was reported,
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Two Kinds Crotalaria
Seem Best For State
CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 2.—
Two varieties of crotalaria that
beans. Yields as high as 125 pounds
per acre have been secured. The
seed may be threshed by hand or |
with a pea huller.
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Rigidly Graded Grass
Is Urged By Prince
seem to be adapted to conditions in *
South Carolina are crotalara COLUMBIA, April 4.—“South
circulation of air among the plants! striata and crotalaria spectabilis, Carolina asparagus, the shipping
and drying out the surface of the 1 and these will produce probably a season of which is now getting un
soil. This can be accomplished i larger tonnage of plants on our der way, will reach northern mar-
partly by removing the canvas on
warm sunny days, and by better
water drainage if the bed remains
wet too long. If detected when on
ly a few small areas are affected,
be says remove and burn the dis-
poorest sandy soils than any of the kets to find them loaded heavily
other legumes, says S. L. Jeffords, with California grass,” says George
extension agronomist. E. Prince, chief of the division of
These two varieties grow four to markets, who urges every South
six feet high, the principal differ- Carolina grower to strive for more
ences in the two being in the habit careful grading and packing of his
cased plants and then drench the 0 f flowering and the size of the ;;rass.
infected area, but not the good seed, Mr. Jeffords continues. The “The market situation,” Mr.
plants, with a solution of one part £e ed of the striata are brown to Prince continues, “brings us face to
of formaldehyde in sveenty-five alive green in color, about one- face with three factors: (1) Our
parts of water. fourth the size of Otootan soybean main competitor, California, has a
Preliminary tests in other states seed and the same shape. The good start on us in reaching con-
this season with a 3-3-50 Bordeaux seed of the spectabilis are black and sumer. This means (2) keen com
mixture as a prevention and rem- | about twice the size of the striata petition with grass that is graded
edy have been partly effective. A: seed. The striata flowers in about and packed excellently well, for
comparative test indicated that a j 60 days after germination and (3) the consumers are already us-
A Reliable Old Plow Team
By Albert T. Reid
best, but it does mean separating
the product according to quality,
size, and color. Transportation
and marketing costs are just as
high on a crate of cull grass as on
an extra fancy crate, and cull grass
only adds to the heavy supply
which tends to lower the prices of
quality grass.
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April 10 was the sixtieth anni
versary of the first observance of
Arbor Day, which originated in
Nebraska in 1872 and is now ob
served more or less formally in
every State in the Union and
many foreign countries. April 22
is also the one hundredth annivers
ary of the birth of J. Sterling Mor
ton, who proposed the first ob
servance and who served as Secre
tary of Agriculture from 1893 to
1897. Because of difference in the
favorable date for tree planting, the
dates for Arbor Day vary widely.
In 1899, before there was a For
est Service in the Department of
Agriculture, Gifford Pinchot, the
Forester, commented that “the in
stitution of Arbor Day may fairly
be said to exercise immense influ
ence in exciting affection and res
pect for trees in the coming genera
tions, and so to prepare a body of
sentiment which will assist power
fully hereafter to bring about the
general practice of conservative
forestry.”
This prediction now seems con
servative. The Forest Service is
now more than 25 years old. For
the last seven years the Clarke-Mc-
Nary law has been in effect and
has proved a material stimulus to
tree planting, providing, as it does,
for Federal co-operation with the
States in the distribution of forest
planting stock to farmers. In the
last fiscal year the Federal contri
bution for this purpose was approx
imately $90,000, which was matched
by nearly $250,000 by the States and
by additional sums from private
individuals.
These two anniversaries, it is an
ticipated, will increase interest in
Arbor Day this year. Nurseries,
private and public, have also ob
served an increase in interest in
tree planting this year as a part of
the Washington bicentennial pro
gram. Alsn the Postal Service will
issue a special 2-cent stamp to
commemorate the sixtieth anni
versary of the establishment of Ar
bor Day, which will be first placed
on sale April 22 at Nebraska City,
Nebr., the former home of the fa
ther of Arbor Day.
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Potato Yields
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Fertilizre tests recently completed
in North Carolina by State and
Federal soils specialists may bring
about a decided change in the com
mon method of applying fertilizers
to sweetpotatoes, reports the Unit
ed States Department of Agricul
ture.
Plots where fertilizer was broad
cast over the rows after the plants
were set and well rooted gave a bet
ter stand and larger yields than
plots where the fertilizer was ap
plied in the row before the plants
were set, the method commonly
used. Broadcasting the fertilizer
also permits use of the less expen
sive fertilizers—those with nitro
gen from inorganic and synthetic
sources—without harm to the
plants.
The tests also revealed that pot
ash from high-grade salts is bet- (
ter than that from low-grade salts
for sweetpotatoes. Growers who i
tried broadcasting fertilizer for [
| sweetpotatoes have increased their
yields by an average of 25 bushels
an acre.
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