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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1913.
To Get Biggest
Corn Yields
Prepare the ground thoroughly, and use seed of best
variety carefully selected. It is absolutely necessary to
keep the crop well nourished when the demand is
heaviest—when th,e ear is maturing. Before planting
and during growth apply
Yirginia-Carolina
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Fertilizers
With proper cultivation you will greatly increase the
yield and work wonders in producing large, full ears with
plump, sound grains of corn—that bring good prices
and big profits. Our FARMERS’ YEAR BOOK or
almanac for 1913 tells how to make the most profit out
of corn-growing. One will be mailed you free on request.
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For the information of our boy read
ers who are constantly making inquiry
with reference to the corn club work
for 1913, the rules and regulations gov
erning the contests for the present year
are printed below:
1. Boys joining clubs and entering
contests must be no less than ten ’ nor
more than eighteen years of age on Jan
uary 1 of the year he joins.
2. No boy ‘ shall congest for a prize
unless he becomes a member of a club.
3. No limit is placed on the number
of boys belonging to a club. They may
be few or many, but each boy must cul
tivate one acre In corn. A fraction of
an acre will not be accepted.
4. The members of the clubs must
agree to read the instructions sent out
from the State College of Agriculture
and the United States department of
agriculture. Teachers should set aside
certain times for periodical meetings of
the club during the school session when
instructions on corn may be given.
5. Each boy must plan his own crop
and do most of the work. A boy not
strong enough to handle a large imple
ment may employ help in preparing his
land and harvesting his crop. Boys at
tending school may secure help until
school ends.
6. Exhibits and reports must be de
livered to the county superintendent of
education as soon as the corn is har
vested.
7. The land and the corn must be
carefully measured in the presence of
at least two disinterested witnesses,
who shall attest the certificate to the
contestant. This committee must be ac
ceptable to the county school* superin
tendent of education.
8. The entire crop of corn must be
weighed when it is in a dry condition.
Two 110-pound lots must he weighed
from different parts of the total. Husk,
shell and weigh the corn from these two
lots in order to find the average per
centage of shelled corn. Multiply the
weight of the entire crop in the shuck
by this percentage and divide by 56 in
order to get the total number of bush
els.
9. All boys making over 100 bushels
of corn to the acre must on the day of
harvest, seal in air-tight fruit jars or
cans one quart of shelled corn and ex
press it, prepaid, to the State College
of Agriculture for moisture test. Yield
will be reckoned to amount of dry mat
ter in shelled corn.
10. The rpembers of the boys’ corn
clubs should insist that their corn be
measured accurately, so that no ques
tion can be raised as to the honesty of
measurement. By following the above
suggestions little opportunity is left for
complaint as to freak yields.
Any boy desiring to become a mem
ber of a corn club should proceed as
follows: Ask your tea'cher to take the
matter‘up with the county superin
tendent, as the work is organized
through his co-operation. Joint repre
sentatives of the State College of Agri
culture and the Uunited States depart
ment of Agriculture are sent into the
various counties to aid in organizing the
county meetings and to discuss the
rules and regulations with those desir
ing to enter the clubs. When you have
become enrolled in a local club your
name should be sent to the county su
perintendent, who in turn will forward
it the state agent at the college. Your
name will then be placed on the mailing
list and information in printed form
will be sent you from time to time. The
local or district organizer will visit you
as many times as practicable throughout
the year, and will advise you with ref
erence to soil preparation and fertiliza
tion, the kind of seed corn to select, the
proper method of cultivation, and the
harvesting and selection of the ears to
be sent to the county and later to the
district and state exhibits.
A bulletin giving much useful data
with reference to the corn club work
has recently been prepared by Prof. J.
Phil Campbell, and can be had free of
cost on application to the State Col
lege of Agriculture, Athens, Ga. This
bulletin discusses not only soil prepara
tion and fertilization, but gives sug
gestions with reference to all the fac
tors entering into the production of a
large crop of corn. It also gives a list
of the boys who produced .100 bushels
or more of corn per acre last year. Ten
thousand boys were enrolled in the
clubs in 1912. In some counties there
were as many as 300. Arrangements
have been made to promote the work
on a more comprehensive and efficient
scale during 1913 then ever before. The
co-operation of various commercial or
ganizations and of the state and federal
forces is assured. *
By all means enter the contest this
year. The sooner you have your name
recorded and get in line with the au
thorities having this work in charge, the
better chance you will have to make a
fine record and win one of the scholar
ships or prizes offered in the various
contests which will be held throughout,
the state in the fall of the present
year. The Boys’ Corn club work in
Georgia has achieved a result of which
the state may well be proud. The yield
of corn, as our readers no doubt know,
has increased materially in the last
three years. The boys are to be cred
ited with a good part of this result for
they blazed the way and led the fathers
to see that the application of certain
scientific principles to the cultivation of
the corn crop would enable this* state to
.produce all that it needs of this im
portant and essential cereal. The fact
that 100 bushels and more of corn per
acre were made by boys scattered
throughout all parts of Georgia is the
best evidence that there is more in the
boy than in the environmental condi
tions by which he is surrounded.
The Semi-Weekly Journal and the
editor of the'Se columns desire to pro
mote and serve the corn club organiza
tion in the most efficient manner pos
sible in 1913. Write us about your
problems. Let us get together and
make this a red letter year for the corn
club movement in Georgia.
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SUITABLE PASTURES FOR HORSES.
A. W. M., Monroe, Ga., writes: I have
a nice mare which will have' a colt in
August and I want to prepare a grazing
patch for the mare and colt for winter.
Please tell me what kind of seed to sow
that will stand the winter and when to
sow it. I have two and a naif acres in
wheat that has been manured well for
the last three years. I used two tons
of stable manure when I sowed the
wheat and 200 pounds of 10-2-2 guano.
I now wish to know how much nitrate
of soda *to^ use and how many applica
tions.
herbage. On the Bermuda sod you may
sow’ in early September hairy vetch and
work it into the ground with a harrow.
Burr clover seeded on the sod will also
prove valuable for winter grazing. The
Burr clover should be seeded in lAte
August or early September if seasonal
conditions are at all favorable. In fact,
the vetch and clover may be sown to
gether. The chances are that the burr
clover will not make much growth the
first year, and of course, the vetch is
only valuable in th.e spring. In order to
give both of these crops a chance to
develop it would probably be better to
sow some rye or other cereal early in
September and use these for fall and
winter grazing. In addition, you should
provide an abundance of good, clean
roughage in the form of peavine or
sorghum hay, shredded corn stover or
hay from mixed grasses. Of course, you
understand that vetch may be sown
with oats and burr clover may be sown
by itself on a specially prepared piece
of land. If you can secure a stand of
either one or both of these crops with a
Bermuda sod you have provided the
most desirable and satisfactory long
season succession of grazing crop;
adapted to the climate of North Georgia.
With regard to your wheat land, it
will not be desirable to use additional
mixed fertilizers at this season of the
year, judging frofcn our experience. But
you can apply nitrate of soda very
shortly now at the rate of 50 to 100
pounds per acre. Two applications are
sometimes made, but in our own expe
rience we prefer to make one application
of 100 pounds^ We would be disposed
to wait until about the first of March
and select a time when the ground is
fairly dry. It is desirable to get the
nitrate on several days before a rain. It
should be put on when the leaves of the
wheat plant are dry so the soda will not
injure the foliage. Scatter uniformly
over the surface of the ground but do
not incorporate it with the soil. If you
desire to harrow the wheat do this be
fore the nitrate of soda is applied to
the land.
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FERTILIZING A VINEYARD.
R. J. O., Marietta, Ga., writes: I
bought a farm last year which has a
vineyard on it that has been neglected
for several years. Would lime or ashes
do the vines any- good, or what fertil
izer would be best to use? I have a
lot of old pine straw that I have
thought of putting in the cotton fur
rows and listing on it and letting-
stand until spring. I broadcasted the.
straw and turned under last spring.
Would like your advice as to the best
way to use the straw.
A satisfactory fertilizer for a vine
yard might be prepared by mixing to
gether 400 pounds of cotton seed meal,
400 pounds of bqne meal, 100 pounds of
acid phosphate, 150 pounds of muriate
of potash and 950 pounds of kainit. Use
at the rate of three to five pounds
around each vine, scattering it in a cir
cle some distance away from the vine
and working into the surface soil early
in the season.
There is no objection to using pine
straw under your cotton. Do not put
too much under the furrow and mix it
well with the subsoil by running back
and forth once or twice through the
row with k bull tongue. Mix the fer
tilizer with it and bed thereon so as to
insure the rapid decay of the pine nee
dles. They will add some humus to the
soil and help it to absorb and hold mois
ture, but of course pine needles are low
in plant food, and they will in no sense
exert the same benefit in the soil as
green crops plowed under or an applica
tion of yard manure. It is important in
using pine needles to see that they are
buried deeply in the soil and decom
posed as quickly as possible.
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GROWING COTTON ON LIGHT LAND.
S. E. S., Washington, Ga., writes:
I want to know a good formula for
cotton on light sandy loamy soil. About
August 1 it bqgins to rust and by Sep
tember 1 all the leaves have fallen off
and the cotton is hard to pick.
Bermuda sod is the best thing you
can have for summer grazing for a mare
and colt. This grass will stand the
vicissitudes of our climate better than
anything else and makes a better sod.
It is also nutritious and if grazed very
close produces a fine, soft and palatable
When cotton rusts it is generally due
to one of three things, either a defi
ciency of vegetable matter in the soil,
a lack of proper drainage or an insuffi
cient supply of potash. You should
make every effort, therefore, to in
crease the supply of vegtable matter
in the soil and fto so cultivate
the land as to afford it the best
drainage possible. Then use a formula
which runs relatively high in potash.
For a sandy land which has been long
devoted to the cultivation of cotton use
a 9-3-4 formula. The minimum appli
cation should be 500 pounds per acre;
at least 300 pounds to be put under the
drill row and 200 pounds as a side appli
cation. In addition when putting the
original application under the drill row
add at least 50 pounds of muriate of
potash to the portion used on each acre.
Of course, a 9-3-8 formula will answer
just as well as the method suggested,
but you will find it a little easier to
add the muriate of potash in the man
ner suggested in our judgment. When
ever your cotton shows any sign of
shedding suppose you try a light appli
cation of nitrate of soda, say 50 to 100
pounds per adre. The nitrate in your
locality should not be put on later than
July 1. Thorough preparation of the i
soil and the Incorporation^ of vegetable j
matter so as to make it retentive of
moisture will be found very beneficial
in preventing the shedding of cotton.
• * *
PLANTING CORN IN THE WATER
FURROW.
D. F. P., Atlanta, Ga., writes: I have
some upland which has a red clay sub
soil which I wish to bed and plant in
corn in the water furrow. What fer
tilizer would be best to use? Also what
Is a good fertilizer for sweet and Irish
potatoes? I am troubled with my pota
toes rotting about December every year.
What can I do to prevent this? I have
an orchard which I aim to plant in peas
about the first day of May. What fer
tilizer should I use under them? The
blight has been very bad in my apple
trees. What is the remedy for this?
Hastings’ Prolific Corn
Immensely Prolific, Finest Quality—A
Wonderful Producer of Grain and
Forage—The Real Prize Win
ning Corn of the South
Georgia bought during the year 1912 over fifty-eight million
dollars worth of corn. Georgia buys every year over fifty million
dollars worth of corn. Almost every reader of the Sethi-Weekly
Journal has a hand In these enormous corn purchases every year.
What’s worse is the absolute indisputable fact that every bushel of
this should have been and could have been produced on Georgia
farms at less than one half the cost per bushel that is paid the mer
chant or dealer for it. What is true of Georgia is equally true of
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and other cotton growing states.
Georgia is every year spending her cotton crop and more for
Corn, Oats, Hay, Meat, Poultry and Dairy Products. Every time
you buy a bushel of grain, a bale of hay or a pound of meat you
are helping drain the South of hard earned money that must be
kept at home if we are to be a permanently prosperous agricultural
section.
No section or country can ever be permanently prosperous that does
hot produce its own feed and supplies. You never see a farmer prosper
ous who buys all or nearly all of'his grain, meat and supplies.
You never saw a farmer who makes his own supplies who is ever
“hard up” except through some accident or misfortune over which he had
no control.
214 Bushels from One Acre
These Corn Club Boys have been showing all of us a few things in the
last two year* Ben Leath, an 18 year old Walker county, Georgia boy
made 214 bushels and 40 pounds of Hastings’ Prolific Corn on one acre.
Under the rules of the Department of Agriculture they have to
keep books on their crops. They know exactly what it costs them to
make corn, and if we remember correctly, the average cost per bushel in
Georgia this past year in the Boys’ crops was something like 40 cents
per bushel. These boys were 18 years or less of age.
Now, have you any less brain and muscle than these thousands of
Georgia boys, or the thousands of boys in other states that are working
so splendidly in corn production.
Have you seen any 40 or 50* cent corn at your merchant’s store in
the last few years? Has it not been $1.00 to $1.25 corn when you had
it to buy?
Don’t you think it’s time to stop the drain on your pocket by making
corn for your own use in'1913?
If so, Hastings* Prolific is the right variety. It holds the Georgia
record of 214 bushels on one acre; the Mississippi record with 225 bush
els; the Arkansas record of 172 2-3 bushels; the Texas record of 130 1-2.
bushels; the IJlorida record of 129 1-4 ' bushels. Every one of these
records (except Texas) is from the government reports on the Boys’ con
tests. Five-sixths of the prize winners in the “various state, district and
county contests in Georgia in the ldst two years have planted Hastings’
Prolific Corn. ,
What’s better than all these prize winnings in contests, however, is
the fact that Hastings’ Prolific is
The Corn that Fills the Southern Crib
That’s where your Interest is, the filling of your corn crib. If you
will plant a reasonable acreage in Hastings' Prolific and give it a fair
chance, you will have corn enough to see you through and to spare. It’s
a prize winner at the crib of every Southern farmer who plants it. The
man who plants Hastings’ Prolific don't have to go to the merchant for
corn. You know what a burden the bill for corn is and with Hastings’
Prolific you can cut down cost of feed corn one-half or more.
PriCCS " ® elect North Georgia grown seed. Packet 10 cents, 1-2
By freight or
pint 20 cents, pint 30 cents, quart B0 cents, postpaid,
express not prepaid, peek $1.00, bushel $3.50.
HASTINGS’ PROLIFIC CORN
Hastings’ 1913 Catalogue
Tells all about paying varieties of corn and cotton; tells about the
“money-saving” as well as the “money-making”-crops; tells about hun
dreds of varieties of garden vegetables; tells how your wife can get B
packets of superb but easily grown flower seed free; tells about Hastings’
Cotton Book, Hastings’ Corn Book, Southern Forage and Hay Crops and
how you can get them free.
If you have not had one of these 1913 Catalogues we shall be pleased to send you one. Don’t delay. Just send us
a postal card request and a copy will come by return mail.
H. G. HASTINGS & CO., ATLANTA,GA.
sulphate and the addition of 100 pounds
of acid phosphate. You can, of course,
use cotton seed meal in the place of the
blood, or you may combine cotton seed
meal and nitrate of soda so as to secure
a formula containing about 3.5 per cent
of nitrogen if you prefer to use the
carriers last mentioned.
Potatoes are subject to a number of
diseases. Yours may be affected by the
black rot. Do not bed any diseased tu
bers. Destroy any slips on the white
stems of which are found black spots,
and rotate your crops. Be careful not
to store any bruised or injured pota
toes and destroy all diseased roots as
soon as seen.
There is no objection to planting your
orchard in peas. Use about a 10-4 for
mula at ihe rate of \300 to 400 pounds
per ' acre at the time of planting the
crop. If your land is very thin and
poor a 10-1-4 will be a still better for
mula to use. Your apples are no doubt
affected by what is known as the fire
blight. You 'should cut out and burn
all blighted twigs during the autumn.
Be very careful to remove every evi
dence of disease, and keep the tools used
well disinfected. Apple trees should be
pruned to a reasonable degree and every
effort made to keep the top and the
roots in the same relative proportion as
to development.
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VARIETIES OF COWPEAS FOR
NORTH GEORGIA.
J. V. K-, Canton, Ga., writes: What
pea will make good forage for this
climate? There has been a bean written
up that may be what we need but we
have no personal knowledge or expe
rience about it. Please give me all the
information you can concerning this
bean.
We think you will find the New Era,
Warren’s Extra Early or the Whippoor
will cowpeas varieties adapted for
growth In your section of the state.
You will find it desirable to secure the
seed from as near the locality in which
you expect to grow it as possible. For
Instance, pea seed brought from south
ern Georgia will require considerably
longer to mature in your climate than
that from southern Tennessee. You un
derstand all crops are affected very
materially by their environmental con
ditions, and where we desire to secure
seed which will mature In a relatively
short season, we must bring it from a
higher elevation or north of where w«
expect to grow it. If you desire a long
season crop secure the seed south of
your present location. Cowpeas give
excellent results in all parts oD Geor
gia, and as we have grown them suc
cessfully at an elavation of 2,500 feet
above sea level, we are at a loss to un
derstand why you should find difficulty
in cultivating them profitably In the vi
cinity of Canton. Of course, you under
stand that the pea does not give its
best results in an acid soil, and that ar
tificial Inoculation is sometimes neces
sary, especially if nodules ao not natu
rally form on the roots of the peas.
We think a suitable fertilizer for thjs
crop would be about a 9-1-4 In your
section of the state.
Tlie reference in your letter is prob
ably to the soy bean. This grows well
in nearly all parts of Georgia. We think
you will find either the Black or the
Medium Yellow satisfactory varieties.
Soy beans should be grown in rows 24
to 30 inches apart and given cultivation
much the same as cotton. *In our expe
rience it produces a larger amount of
grain than the cowpea, and the grairi
is very rich and when ground makes
satisfactory meal for combining with
corn for feeding to horses and mules
and cattle as well. They also make ex
cellent hay and may be cut and bound
with an ordinary self-binder.
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INFORMATION ABOUT* COTTON VA
RIETIES.
Mr. A. E, M„ of Dales vi He, Ala.,
writes: Will you please tell me whether
Middleton No. 3 is an early variety of
cotton or not, or will it if planted April
1 mature by the middle of August?
The varieties of cotton about which
you v inquire made the following recorc
in our demonstration field last year
First picking, 1,44*6 pounds; second pick
ing, 680 pounds; third picking, '21
(Continued on Page 8, Col. 1.)
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Consider Now
what it will cost and how much
money you will save on ycur next
season’s fertilizer bill if you should buy your
Nitrate of Soda
and other Farm Chemicals and mix them yourself.
Your own brand MIXED AT HOME will be better than any
patent brand and is sure to have in it just what you want.
Book of formulas and full instructions for Home Mixing
will be sent v
FREE OF COST
Or. WILLIAM S. MYERS
Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda
17 Madison Ava, New York
No Branch Officer
For corn on your red land use 9-3-5.
A minimum application should be 500
pounds, say 300 pounds under the drill
row and 200 pounds as a side applica
tion. Some nitrate of soda may be ad
visable if the land is very thin and poor.
If it is of the better type of upland
clays the nitrate may not be needed.
A good fertilizer for Irish and sweet
potatoes may be prepared by mixing
together 1,000 pounds of acid phosphate,
600 pounds of dried blood and 400
pounds of high-grade sulphate of pot
ash. This mixture will contain about 8
per cent of available phosphoric acid,
3.9 per cent of nitrogen and 10 per cent
of potash. The per cent of potash may
be reduced on heavy clay soils by the
omission of 100 pounds of high-grade
IHC Wagons Are Tdugh
D ID you ever notice, when
one of the wheels of your
loaded wagon dropped into
a rut or bumped over a stone, how the
seat springs gave and rebounded, almost
throwing you off? That is an indication
of the shock and strain that the rigid
spokes and axles have to stand when
ever the wagon is traveling over a rough
road or through a field. Even on a
smooth road there is always the crush
ing strain of the load, affecting every
part from the top box to the lowest
point of the tire. I H C wagons
Weber New Bettendorf
Columbus Steel King
take these stresses and strains as a matter of course.
They are made to stand just that sort of work. From
neckyoke to tail board they are built of selected, air-
dried lumber, strong and tough, bending to strains but
coming back as straight and true as ever when
the load is removed. Besides being tough,
I H C wagons are light running. The wheels
have just the right pitch and gather, and run
true. All skeins and skein boxes are paired.
The running gear is assembled by skilled work
men whose wages depend as much on the quali
ty as on the quantity of the work they turn
iaf
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out. Machine work, being more uniform and’ a
great deal faster, takes the place of hand work wher
ever possible. Consequently, I H C wagons are prac
tically all of the same high standard of quality
throughout.
You cannot do better than to equip your farm with
I H C wagons. Weber and Columbus wagons have
wood gears; New Bettendorf and Steel King have steel
gears. The I H C local dealer sells the wagon best
suited to your work and your conditions. See the
wagon at his place of business and get catalogues and
literature from him, or, address your request to
International Harvester Company of America
(Incorporated)
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