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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 High-Grade 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. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 VIRGINIA RICHMOND 2 AGRICULTURAL JttSL Education Successful LNdrew Soule-1 This department ici.ll cheerfully endeavor to furnish any imcrmation. l.etters should he addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural College. Athens, Qa. WHAT THE BOYS ARE DOING ORIGINAL AND 1^ GENUINE FENC STEEL POSTS AND CATES A clr Yniif for this better > stron g er > * heavier galvanized fenc ing. He buys in large quantities, secures lowest freight rates and can sell to you cheaper than anyone else. FRANK BAACKES, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Sales Agent American Steel & Wire y Company •y Chicago New York Cleveland Pittsburgh Denver U. S. Steel Products Co.—San Francisco Lo* Angeles, Portland; Seattle F. S. Royster Solved YOUR Fertilizer Problem When he perfected Royster Fertilizers S OIL fertility—its relation not merely to healthy plant life in general, but to'each specific crop and condition—has been Mr. Royster’s life study. The answer to your Cot ton, Com, Tobacco, Grain or Truck question is found in some special brand of— Royster Fertilizers And the use of this particular brand is the Surest means to the end you seek—larger crops and larger profits. Mr’ Roys ter’s success in making the best fertilizers is proven by the success of thousands of farmers who use none but Royster Brands, and the fact that it takes eight large plants in six states to supply the demand. THE F. S. R. TRADE MARK IS YOUR GUIDE TRADE MARK REGISTERED Name of Nearest Dealer on Request. Write Today. F. S. Royster Guano Co. Norfolk, Va. CLOTHING MEN WANTED] to take orders for our men’s | ^ custom-made-to-order suits in every town and county in the United States where we are not represented. No experience necessary—no capital required. Any good bright man can make big money with our line the year around. You regulate your profit to suit yourself. Nearly All of Our Men Make $40 Every Week In the Year Our Plan: We ship only by Prepaid Express big outfit of cloth $6.50 goods cheaper than any Fine Tailored Guaranteed Made-to-Order All Wool Suits Nodifficulty getting orders at the6« prices. Don’t buy a suit or over coat anywhere at any price until you see our amazing offer, and biggest, lowest priced clothing fine in U. S. Write at once for exclusive territory. THE OLD WOOLEN MILLS COMPANY, Adams and Market Streets, Dept. 337. Chicago 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. • * * 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. • * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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.) \ / 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. 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