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Newspaper Page TextEducation iXf. - Successful u ■ $ A Nt)REV/ M c>OULE ant* deparment will cheerfully en deavur to furnish any Information. Let ters should be adressed to Dr. Andrew M Soule, president State Agricul tural college. Athens. Oa. CULTIVATION OF SWEET POTATOES The sweet potato constitutes an in cleasngly impirtant crop in Georgia where large areas of land are already de voted to its cultivation. The increase of popularity and the market demand, however, are such as to Indicate the advisability and profit as well of giving special attention to the cultivation of this important crop. The origin of this useful crop is somewhat doubtful, but it is thought to be a native of America, and is very closely related to the famil iar family of plants of which the morn ing glory is probably the best known. The cultivation of this crop is confined chiefly to the southern states, though It is grown quite extensively in central New Jersey. It may be called a strict ly summer crop; in fact, it could often be made to follow an extra early crop of Irish potatoes, and the land in this instance would be in ideal condition for its growth, and it would be an advantage to have the crops follow each other and thus occupy the soil completely through the growing season. In the south the sweet potato should be regarded strictly as a Held crop be cause of its extensive cultivation and its wide adaptability for growth under our seasonal and soil conditions. The sea son calculated to secure the best yield of sweet potatoes is one in which the mins are rather frequent during tne greater part of the summer with dry weather prevailing in September and Oe tobe. The sweet potato is a perennial, though treated as an annual in cultiva- ] tion. It has pristrate stems which often take root at the nodes the later part of ; the growing season. It is termed botan- , ically an enlarged root in which 1 food i 3 : sliced ti hasten the grtwth of the young shoots the following season frn. which in practice the plant is propa gated. The principal use of the sweet potato is as a vegetable for human consump tion. though it is sometimes fed quite extensively to hogx The growing de mand Tor it in the northern markets, however, and the fact that many other crops may be utilised for pork produc tion is tending to lessen its use for this purpose The sweet potato is especially rleh in starch and sugar, and it should, therefore, bo eaten in association with foods rich in protein. This is also true where it may happen to be grazed by hogs since it will be seen to be a one sided food a id certainly not well caicu Jated to supply the needs of growing an imals in the absence of an abundance of gupplemental food which contains plenty of protein. Since sweet potatoes contain from IS to 20 pet cent of starch. It is protable that they will be used exten sively for the manufacture of this arti cle at an early date, and as a bushel yields about a gallon of so-called indus trial alcohol, and a heavy yield per acre may be secured under favorable conditions, the probabilities are that the crop will find muck favor by those en gaged tn the manufacture of denatured alcohoL It has not been exploited ex tensively for the two purposes mention ed, but the more rapidly this is accom plished. the better it will be for the southern farmer who virtually has a mo nopoly on the production of this impor tant crop in a country which will have a consuming population in the next 35 years of 20®,00®.0®0 poeple. The composition of the sweet potato according to several analyses is about 26 per rent of nitrogen, 11 per cent or phosphorus and 53 per cent of potash. The fresh vines, on the other hand, con tain about 3S per cent of nitrogen. 6 per cent of phosphorus acid. 60 per cent of potash. It appears. therefore. that sweet potatoes remove twice as much potash as nitrogen, and about five times as much potash as phosphoric acid from the soil. The fresh vines have been found in a number of Instances to weigh more than half as much as the edible roots, and as indicated above, are richer in nitrogen. It appears on a conserva tive estimates therefore, that 200 bush els of the eh ible roots of sweet potatoes would remove from an acre of land ap proximately 31 pounds of nitrogen. 13 pounds of phosphoric acid and 64 pounds of potash. To supplr this plant food would require 50® pound of 6.18 per cent cotton seed meal and 10® pounds if mu riate of potash. It should not be for gotten. however. that a much larger amount than that actually required oy the crop should be applied to the son since it will probably only assimilate from one-half to two-thirds of that which is applied In a commercial form. It will thus be seen that this crop re quires libera! fertilization with high, grade materials. The characteristics to be sought in a sweet potato ar« texture, flavor, pro ductiveness and fine keeping qualities. Karly varieties are also in demand to supply the market in the latter part of the summer Good varieties for this pur pose are Nancy Hall and Strasburg, while among the' most productive kinds are Southern Queen, Hyman. Providence and Shanghai Soils for this crop should be mellow so they will not readily bake and permit of the roots to easily penetrate to a consid erable depth. They should be naturally well drained and warm so as to provide a long period of actual development. A sandy soil which may be enriched by heavy applications of vegetable matter, therefore, provides almost ideat condi tions for this crop, though it may be grown on clay soils, especially if they are rich in lime. On these lands, however, the crop as a rule is somevHiat inferior tn quality and appearance as well. Hu mus is essential to the production of this crop in its highest degree of perfection. This is often supplied by the use of pine straw or other litter from the woods. This material may be used advantageous ly as bedding in the stables or barn lots. Humus may also be supplied by growing crimson clever and turning it under. Since sweet potatoes do. best on sand) soils, and as already indicated, make a heavy draft on the potash, the fertilizer used should be rich in this element, and while no one formula may be suggested. Ijq pounds of nitrate of soda or 320 Quick Growth of Hair win »«nd you | ■! [-■_ i r~~i | | rzri . BROCHURE liW'lkW-ll «bK 'ft&l |® 1 FREEriKffiffilb ATTAINED AT LAST —THE TRUE METHOD! Let to prowe to yew that the Kaotott Method of Hair Growfnf ia the yen nine and noientißo one. 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Lm “ -'-'"’.r Z ’ » ‘ * ■ *'■ i. .<■. « pounds of cotton seed meal or tankage. 250 pounds of acid phosphate and 150 pounds of high grade muriate or sulphate of potash will provided a good standard formula to use for this crop. If yard manure is applied, ten tons per acre will not be found too much to use, supple mented by 500 to 1.000 pounds of a com mercial fertilizer similar to the one in dicated above. t Sweet potatoes mdy follow cotton with advantage since the crop must be kept free of grass and weeds, and it will be observed that the cotton is somewhat ex hausting to the soil unless a careful ro tation is practiced and a green, legumin ous crop, such as crimson clover, sown on the land after the crop has been harvest ed. The propagation and bedding of sweet potatoes is so familiar tha.t it hard ly seems necessary to touch it at this time. Where the planting is done on a small scale, hand setting may be follow ed with advantage, but if commercial growing is undertaken, transplanting ma chines should be employed. Various ma chines are now on the market to aid In digging and handling sweet potatoes, and they should be employed on plantations where large areas are devoted to the crop. An average yield is acre, though from 200 to 500 bushels are secured where special attention is paid to the crop. In storing potatoes It is neces sary to remove all bruised, cut or diseas ed roots, and allow the potatoes to heat, as it were, before covering them. A com mon method of protecting them for honv use is to bank them, but where they are grown commercially, a special house should be constructed. The essential fea tures of this house should be double walls with sawdust and a layer of sand or sawdust above the ceiling, transoms over the doors, and bins flatted on sides and bottoms so the air may have free access. This crop has comparatively few enemies but suffers from black rot. the presence-of this fungus being indicated by spots on the surface The remedy consists in bedding no diseased tubers, destroying slips on the white stems of which are found any dark spots, and by crop rotation. • • • AN APPRECIATIVE READER G. L. T, Hazlehurst, Ga., writes: I have been a reader of The Journal 18 months, and like the agricultural col umns fine. They are very interesting to me. I would like to have your advice about some corn I have planted. The land is in very good condition. The rows are six feet apart and the corn 14 to 18 Inches in the drill. Will It make good corn with 400 pounds of high-grade fer tilizer. or would it be best to thin it out. The land is light sandy, with clay subsoil to the depth of 14 to 18 inches. You do not sThte the character of fer tilizer you have used with your corn. The writer finds from experience that the farmers in some parts of the state regard a 10-2-2 as a high-grade, whereas his idea of a high-grade would not be less than a 10-3-5 or a 10-4-6. Four hun dred pounds of a fertilizer such as has been suggested would be a rather light application on corn on the character ot land you describe, and it would be ad visable unless you think the com some what. to put at least 200 pounds of a side application on about the first of June. Then, when, the corn is bunching to silk and tassel, apply say 100 pounds of nitrate of soda as a top dressing. The side application of fertilizer may be broadcasted on the land and covered in with the cultivator. The nitrate of soda, however, should be scattered along the surface of the ground and not incorpor ated into the soil unless the season hap pens to be exceptionally dry. By follow ing these suggestions it occurs to us that you should be able to make a good crop of com and still leave the stalks as close as 18 inches in the drill row in view of the fact than your rows are six feet apart. It is gratifying to know that you find the agricultural columns of The Journal so helpful. WHEN TO APPLY NITRATE TO CORN J S. P.\ Calhoun. Ga.. writes: When Is the beat time to use nitrate of soda on cotton to get the best results; also on com, .wheat and oats. • The best time to use nitrate of soda on cotton will depend much on the season. As the development of the crop is some what backward this year, owing to the cold weather. K would probably be bet ter to not apply the first application of nitrate untn the Ist to 15th of June, and the second application about the first of July. As a rule, this is about as lAte as nitrate could be used in north Georgia with satisfaction, as the chances are it would stimulate a growth which might continue too late in the fall to the crop to mature its fruit before fros, /alls. Nitrate of soda is an excellent ma terial to use as a top dressing cn the Cotton crop. It should be used on, top of the ground and not incorporated with tbe soil. It may be scattered uniformly between the drill rows or along side the same. An application of 100 to 150 pounds per acre is about the right amount to use. This may be put on in two applica tions. as has been suggested, of fifty to seventy-five pounds each. AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM ALABAMA. G. W. K.. Prattville, Ala., writes: I will appreciate an answer to the following questions: I like to read the farm page: it is one kind of food for me. If other people will ask the right kind of questions I will not trouble you soon again. I have been ready to write several times, but in the next issue would get so near what L wanted that I woqld not do so. if you have answered questions like the fol lowing I have failed to see them. How much below the top of the ground should acid phosphate and cotton seed meal be put to get the best results? Which is economy, 16 per cent acid, 48 per cent pot ash and 7.5 per cent cotton seed meal, or 10-4 acid phosphate, anil 7.5 per cent meal? This mixture I used. 900 pounds acid. 900 pounds cotton seed meal, and 1.000 pounds 10-4 acid and 1.000 pounds THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. MAY 19, 1911. rOldSpedacledJee ylXictt “ "—-si. RkanWhat I say And I positively don’t want you to send me a single solitary penny when you answer this announcement. Why! 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If you want to do me this favor write me your name and address at once and I will immediately mail Sou my Free Home Eye Tester and itest pnu*wui Spectacle offer. Ad dress:— <»R. HAUX, GT. LOUIS. MG ( meal. Which is the best for light red land with fairly good red clay subsoil? I have three acres that were in oats fol lowed by peas that yielded fine last sea son. I put on 25 two-horse loads of sta ble manure and used 400 pounds 10-4. 1 want to side drass. The cotton is up but dying. 1 have si* acres all sown in spring oats that I was to hog off, and put in peas and peanuts. Can 30 hogs eat off these oats at a profit? I have one shoat that has been eating corn and slop and running on oat pateji. It turns like a merry-go-round, and eyes seem to be crossed. Please advise what to do for it. It is the intention and purpose to make the agricultural columns of this paper serve the thousands of farmers who take it, and there is no trouble or effort too great to try and provide the correspon dents with the information they desire. While it is necessary to publish over and over again facts which have already been presented, this is cheerfully done for many new subscribers are continually be ing added to the list of readers and much which has already been explained may not be understood by them, and then as a matter of fact, the problem of each cor respondent is generally a little bit differ ent from that of any other, and it is not surprising that he should desire special information, and no one need feel they are imposing for their inquiries are gladly welcomed, and will be answered as com pletely as possible. A complete fertilizer may be put at con siderable depth in the ground Jt the time of planting the corn and cotton. For in stance, the fertilizer may be put in the soil to a depth of eight or ten Inches on clay lands-without danger of loss by leaching, but possibly on sandy lands it is better to keep the fertilizer relatively close to the surface of the ground, as there is muc greater tendency for the plant food to iach away from these lands than those ot a heavier texture. The depth of putting down the fertilizer will also be determined to some extent by the nature and character of the crop to be grown on the land and the amount of yard manure or other vegetable matter which may be incorporated with the soil. Any side dressings with a complete fer tilizer of the character indicated should not be put In the soil too deeply. In fact, scattering ahead of the cultivator and covering in to a depth of about three inches is about right according to our judgment. This is the method we follow when we use side applications, and ap parently it is giving us very good results. ANAEMIA IN HORSES AND MULES. Ar J. G., Cumming, Ga.. writes: I have a colt that was a year old the 2d day of April. It has long hair, does not shed off and does not eat heartily. It stands like it had no energy and is ap parently in a very bad condition. When turned out to graze it will in a short while swell 'up at the end of the nose. The swelling goes to three or four inches of the eyes. When kept up at night the swelling will disappear. I would be pleased if you will give me a remedy for this colt. Your colt is evidently suffering from inanition and anaemia due to faulty nu trition. neglected to / state how and whay you are feeding The blood is evidently deficient jn quality, 1. e, does not contain sufficient corpuscles and other solids. The swollen condition of lower part of the head which appears when the colt is in pasture and disap pears when kept in the stable denotes this. The failure to shed properly de notes a poor condition of the skin. I would recommend that you feed the colt a mixture of middlings, oats and shelled corn, equal parts. on e quart twice daily in addition to pasturage. Give very lit tle rough feed of any kind. Let it have access to salt and clean, fresh water at all times. Stable in bad weather only. Have your druggist prepart the follow ing: Arsenous Acid 20 grains.. Powdered Iron Sulphate ..2 ounces Powdered nux vomica .. .. 2 ounces Potassium acetate 4 ounces Mix thorougly and make into thirty powders. Give one on the feed twice a day. If tbe bowels become constipated give an occassional mash of bran and linseed meal. It is not just clear how you mixed your fertilizer, but on soils such as you describe there was little to choose be tween mixing 1,000 pounds of 10-4 and 1,000 pounds of cotton-seed meal, and making a complete fertilizer of the ma terials mentioned. Os course, you could probably secure a little higher grade fertilizer by mixing the materials for yourself, and this would be important on light red land where it is desirable to use a rather high per cent of all the elements entering into the composition of a complete fertilizer. The mixing of 1.000 pounds of 10-4 and 1,000 pounds of cotton-seed meal would result in your securing a formula rather low in potash since it would hardly approximate over 2.5 to 3 per cent of this element. It 4’ould, however, be well supplied with prosphorus and nitrogen. A good side application to use on the area you refer to would be a complete fertilizer contain ing about 9 per cent of phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 4 per aent of potash. The high per cent of nitrogen is suggested, because apparently none was used under the drill row, and while the peas left 'some of this in the soil, a liberal application in your side dressing will in our judgment prove profitable. Probably 200 pounds as a side dressing is about the right amount TO NOME MAJ. GENERALS FOR NEW ARMV DIVISIONS War Department Reorganiz ing Army System--Atlanta Keeps Gulf Headquarters ’ (By Aeeooiated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 16.—1 n execution of the project for the re-establishment of the great army divisions, the war de partment is considering the selection of the commanding officers, who are to be major generals where.ver possible. The divisional officers will give atten tion to the purely military business, leav ing the department commanders to deal with administrative details. The object is to develop officers capable of handling great army units. There is at present but one division, that of the Philippines. Maj. Gen. J. Franklin -Bell presumably will retain that command. The three new divisions will be entirely within the United State®. At New York a major general will make his headquarters on. Governor’s Island, commanding the eastern division; while the department of the east will be in command of a brigadier at Fort Totten, in New York harbor.’ The command of the department of the gulf will remain at Atlanta. The head quarters of the central division will be Chicago, with brigadier generals or col onels in command of departs of the lake, the Missouri and Texas, at St. Paul, St. Louis and San Antonio respectively. The existing departments of Colorado and Dakota will be merged into these de partments. The headquarters of the western di vision will be San Francisco, the depart ment of California making headquarters at the Presidio and the department of Co lumbia at Vancouver barracks, Washing ton. The change will go into effect July 1. • to use. The advisability of making one or more applications will depen* much on the season and the growth made by the crop. The 30 hogs mentioned In your letter if they are of any considerable size rHoutd be able to graze done the spring oats to good advantage, and they should also graze down with ease, the peas, pea nuts or other crops you may put on this land after the oats have been harvested by the hogs. In order to have the best succession possible, it would be advis able for you to put one acre in an early maturing variety of cowpeas, pne in an early maturing variety of soy beans, and the third in peanujs. By grazing off the oats in rotation, you can get the peas in the ground some time in ad vance of when the last acre ready for planting. We have hogs grazing on oats now, though possibly they have been turned on them quite early enough, as in our experience a little more pork is obtained per acre and better results se cured when the crop is allowed to pass out of the dough stage when the hogs are turned on. A scarcity of food, however, will sometimes justify the grazing of oats and other crops a little earlier than the time suggested. In regard to your shoat, the symptoms you describe'suggest a disturbance of the nervous system, chorea or St. Vitus dance. Medicinal treatment is unsatis factory. In some cases young animals outgrow the trouble. Swill or slop should not be kept from one feeding time to another as in many cases sourness or rancidity occurs. By this means pois onous substances (ptomaines) may be pronounced, and these ptomaines often cause severe digestive trouble, nervous diseases, and in some cases jieath. PERCENTAGE ANALYSIS OF A CER TAIN MIXTURE. C. L. M., Jackson* Ga-, writes: I am going to mix my guano by hand, using 1200 pounds 16 per cent acid, 840 pounds 6.13 per cent cotton seed meal and 120 pounds of 50 per cent muriate of potash. What • will this analyze? My land is dark gravel with red clay foundation., Had corn and wheat on the two plats last year. The corn land had cowpeas turned on it with a two-horpe plow af ter gathering off the corn. Wheat was followed by peas and cut for hay and turned likewise. A mixture of 1200 pounds of acid, 840 pounds of high-grade cotton seed meal and 120 pounds of muriate of potash would total 2160 pounds and contain approximately 9.7 per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.3 per cent of nitrogen and 3.3 per cent of potash. The fact that you nad peas on your wheat land last year and between the rows of your corn would add somewhat to the nitrogen supply of the soil, and would therefore put yiur land in better condition to react to the urfe of commercial fertilizers. It is prob able that) you would not need to use quite so much nitrogen as if you had not grown the peas, but there would not be enough specific difference between the two pieces ot soil to justify you in using an entirely separate and distinct kind of fertilizer on each. The formula suggested contains a. plentiful supply of phosphorus, but is possibly low in pot ash. It contains enough nitrogen where you propose to use this formula under neath the drill row for corn and cotton at the rate of 500 pounds for the former and 600 to 700 pounds of the latter. If the crop shows a need of nitrogen as indicated by a failure to grow uniform ly or by a yellow appearance of the stalk and leaf, you can increase the sup ply of this element by top dressing with sulphate of ammonia or nitrate of soda. An application of 100 pounds on cotton and 150 pounds on corn will often prove helpful. 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Such a bill might provide a tariff of about five or six cents a pound on raw wool, with provision of a cent reduction each year until the raw prod uct eventually would go op the free list, and a cut of 40 to 50 per cent in manu factured woolen goods. The house was "not in session today. The senate finance committee resumed the hearing on the Canadian reciprocity bill, and later when the senate met it was to continue the deadlocked effort to elect a successor to Senator Frye as pres ident pro tern. CHARLOTTE GALA WEEK NOW UNDER FULL BLAST CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 16.—Char lotte "Gala Week,” marking the anni versary of the signing of the Mecklen burg declaration of independence, on May 20, 1775, commenced here today with the state firemen’s tournament. The big day of tfie week is Saturday when Governors Kitchin and Blease will be the principal orators. For years Charlotte has been cele brating the anniversary of the declara tion, which preceded the Philadelphia declaration by one year, but this bit of history was not officially recognized until President Roosevelt, during his reign, ordered troops here and came him self. Hundreds of firemen from all parts of the state are here today and the tournament will continue until Sat urday. The program of the week’s fes tivities include drills, band concerts, speech-making, etc. The city is crowded with visitors. BARNESVILLE GETS READY FOR BOOSTERS’ MEETING Ga., May 16.—Judge C. J. Lester and R. A. Stafford have returned from the round the state tour, leaving Secretary William Wakefield at Savannah, having accompanied him from Sparta, by Augusta, to Savannah. May or T. W. Cochran joined the tour at Savannah and will make the balance of the trip. All the gentlemen who have been with the party are really enthusiastic over the cordial reception accorded them at every point visited and they feel sure of the success of the movement to or ganize a state chamber of commerce at the convention here on July 19 and 20. About 75 cities and towns of the state have promised to have represen tatives here at that time to participate in the convention. The people of Barnesville have al ready begun to make preparations for entertaining the convention. YOUNG~ WAN SAYS HE IS NOT DEAD CORDOVA, Alaska, May 16.—The mys tery surrounding the sudden disappear ance from Portland of George Dryer, son of the millionaire banker and real es tate man of New York, was cleared yes terday when Dryer made known his iden tity to the officers of the ste.'mer Edith, on which he is working his way on a tour of Alaska. Shortly after Dryer left Portland a man resembling him committed suicide in Lake Washington. For a time it was thought, the man was the New Yorker. 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