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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1913.
•.To Get Biggest
Corn. Yields
Prepare tho 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 the 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.
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When he perfected
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S OIL fertility—its relation not merely to healthy plant life
in general, hut to each specific crop'and condition—has
been Mr. Royster’s life study. The answer to your Cot
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special brand of— .
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Royster Fertilizers
And the use of this particular brand is the surest means to
the end.you seek—larger crop? and larger profits. Mr. Roys
ter’s success in making the best fertilizers is proven by the
SHecess of thousands of farmers whp use none but Royster
Brands, and the fact that it takes eight large plants in six
states to supply the demand.
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Letters should be addressed to .Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president Stats
Agricultural College, Athens, Ga.
SOIL ANALYSES FOP GEORGIA FARMERS
W. H. B., Milledgeville, Ga., writes: I
am very anxious to gret my soil analyzed,
but do not know the name of the man
the state has designated for that pur
pose, and would be glad for you to tell
me where to send it. I have been using
large amounts of cow lot manure and am
not pleased with the yield. I am ex
pecting to seed some of it to alfalfa as
soon as possible, so^X would like to have
it analyzed.
FRANK BAACKES,
Vice-Pres. and Gen. Sales Agent
American Steel & Wire
/ Company
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The state has provided no laboratory
for the analysis of soils. A small appro
priation was made to the State College
of Agriculture two years ago for the
purpose of investigating the most pro
nounced soil types and areas in the
state. In order that the largest amount
of information might be secured for the
benefit of Georgia farmers test plats
have been established in quite a num
ber of areas. Soil surveys are being car
ried* forward in several parts of the
state at the present time. As fast as
information ( along these lines is secured,
it is correlated here at Athens and the
data thus rendered available used in-
our correspondence and through the
press of the state and in any other way
which is likely to put the information
in the hands of the farmer in the most
acceptable form. If you will indicate to
us the type of soil you have, we can
&ive you some suggestions relative to
the amount of fertilizer to use thereon.
Of course, the investigation work in
soils is of such a preliminary char
acter yet that we are only able to of
fer suggestions up to the present time.
We hope the farmers of the state who
are clahioring for some definite knowl
edge concerning their soils to which they
are- clearly entitled will impress upon
the members of the legislature the im
portance of making an adequate appro
priation for the promotion of work of
this character. The college is ready to
expapd its laboratories and send its
workers into the field to study the soils
of Georgia just as rapidly as the state
will provide thfe necessary funds. It is
an absurdity that at least $25,000 a year
is not available to secure data of such
fundamental importance to the welfare
of Georgia agriculture, and particular
ly is it essential that this be done in
view of the encroachment of the boll
weevil upon Georgia territory which is
certain to take place this eyar.
If you have been using yard manure
on your land it is not surprising that
the best results have not been obtained
forvyard manure is not a well balanced
fertilizer formula in itself. It is rela
tively low in phosphorus; therefore to
secure the best results you should use
fairly large supplies of this element.
In our experience fifty tons of yard
manure used under the drill row has
given excellent results when combined
with about an 8-3-4 formula on red
lands for cotton, and about a 9-3-4 for
corn. On sandy land we would use a
higher grade formula. This formula
helps to balance up ahy delect Jtn the
yard manure, and the combination of the
manure and fertilizer together under the
drill row have insured a better yield
and given the crop greater drought re*
sisting ability.
Where you intend to sow alfalfa, we
would devote the land to s vervet beans
this summer, plowing the crop under in
late August or early Septermber. Apply
two tons of pulverized raw lime rock
and prepare the best seed bed possible.
Sow twenty' to twenty-five tons of re
cleaned western seed, using in addition
an application of 800 pounds of about
9-3-4 formula at the time of seeding
the alfalfa. Top dress with yard ma
nure late in the rail or early in the
sping.
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ALABAMA BOYS’ CORN CLUB.
An labama boy writes: Please tell
me. where I can secure information in
regard to the Boys’ Corn clubs in Ala
bama. <
tag. The cow is Jersey and Holstein,
and we are pleased with her if she will
milk until the right time.
The wolves in the back of cattle are
due to eggs laid by a bot fly. You
have no duubt seen these flying around
cattle in the summer. The eggs are
laid on the legs and at the back of the
foot and cause the cows considerable,
discomfort. They lick them off and
as the eggs are taken, into the mouth
they are hatched and pass down into
the stomach and later find their way
out through the tissues of the body
and later develop the grubs or »wolves
to which you reffer. As these soften
in the spring the openings in the hide
become larger and you can easily
squeeze them out. Destroying the bot
or gad fly as it is sometimes called,
is about the only remedy which can be
suggested. The milk of cows is not
affected in any way by the presence
of wolves, though the hides of cattle
are greatly reduced in value.
A cow which milks from ten to
eleven months is doing very well. The
chances are that no kind of food will
increase the quantity of milk she is
giving until after another lactation
period. You are using some very good
foods as alfalfa hay, corn and shucks
constitute a satisfactory roughness.
You should feed five pounds of alfalfa
hay ana f an equal proportion of shucks
and corn. Then use the cotton seed
meal and wheat bran in equal propor
tions. We think yoy will find the bran
much to be preferred to the character
of food described on the tag you have
sent in. This, you will see, is made up
of a mixture of various by-products,
and though it may contain the guaran
teed analysis quoted on the tag, the
chances are that this food may not be
as easily digested nor as well calcu
lated to stimulate milk production as a
combination of bran and cotton seeu
meal. We do not think you should
feed over 8 to 10 pounds of the com
bination of foodstuffs mentioned above,
and' you should take great care to
weigh the feed and know that this
ai-ount is fed and not a whole lot more
or a good deal less. Of course, ten
pounds of the above mixture is enough
to feed a 1,000-pound cow in a day.
In other words, the meal should be
divided into two equal proportions, and
fed night and morning. Let your cow
have all the grass and green feed she
can possibility get. You will find this
will do' much to stimulate the flow of
milk. You have a good type of covv
and possibly could not secure a better,
and, therefore, you should feed and
care for her with the greatest degree
of skill possible.
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SELECTING A TYPE OF CORN.
J. M. B., Pembroke, Ga., writes: What
variety of cotton do you think is best
for a large yield? How much fertilizer
would you advise me to use? I am try
ing to make two bales to the acre. ‘The
soil is sandy and sandy loam. I have
only five acres and can cultivate as
often as necessary.
Hastings’ Prolific Corn
Boys desiring to join the corn-clubs
in Georgia should hand their names to
their teachers and they in turn to the
county superintendent of public in
struction. They may also send their
names directly to me at the State Col
lege of Agriculture, Athens, Georgia.
They will then be enrolled and placed
on our list so that all literature con
nected with the clubs’ work will be
promptly forwarded to them. They will
be visited by the district or county rep
resentative where one exists and every
effort will be made to advise and en
courage them with reference to the fer
tilization and management of their crop
throughout the growing season.
Boys desiring to join the Corn clubs
in Alabama should communicate di
rectly with Prof. Duncan, at Auburn,
Ala. The writer is not certain as to
the exact method of procedure in Ala
bama, but presumes it is somewhat
similar to the plan use4 in Georgia.
Anyway, if you drop a card to Prof.
Duncan he will give you the informa
tion desired.
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VALUE OP GOAT MANURE.
G. Y. L., Washington, Ga., writes: I
have two tons of goat manure that I
wish to compost and wish to know the
proper manner in which to do it and
the proportion of chemicals to use.
Compost may be prepared in a va
riety of ways, but we are disposed to
think that if you will mix together the
materials you have ^n the following pro
portions that you will secure excellent
results: Goat manure, 1,700 pounds, 16
per cent acid phosphate 200 pounds, and
kainit 100 pounds. A ton of this ma
terial will contain approximately 10 to
12 pounds of nitrogen. 38 to 40 pounds
of phosphoric acid and 26 to 30 pounds
of potash. The percentage composition
per ton will thus be .51 per cent of
nitrogen, 1.9 per cent of phosphoric acid
and 1.3 per cent of potash. You -would
have reason to expect the same benefit
from this formula as you would secure
froip an application of 600 t'o 800
pounds of an 8-2-2. Of course, the
manure will exert influences in the soil
which can not be secured through the
application of commercial plant food.
You should bear in mind the fact that
the manure you have will vary greatly
in composition, pending on the treat
ment to which it has been subjected.
If jgou have kept it protected from
washing and leaching rains your mix
ture will probably show a somewhat
higher percentage of plant food than
has been indicated.
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DESTROYING “WOLVES” IN CAT
TLE.
J. L. H., Ellijay, Ga., writes: Will
you tell me how to get rid of the lumps
on the back of cattle, sometimes called
wolves? Does it affect tne milk? Can
you tell the cause? We a, have a cow
that calved last June and will be fresh
again in April, and is failing in milk
now. Can I do anything to keep her
milking until nearer the time? We feed
her cotton seed meal, hulls, alfalfa hay
an* ahunlca. and tho food fihau’n an
In attempting to raise two bales of
cotton per acre it is necessary to rec
ognize at the outset that the land must
be well supplied with vegetable matter.
This may be secured through applica
tions of yard manure. We would sug
gest that you apply as a minimum five
tons per acre and ten tons would be
better. The manure may be put under
the drill row and well mixed with the
subsoil. We would suggest an applica
tion where such large yields are sought
of. at least 1,000 pounds per acre of a
formula containing 10 per cent of phos
phorus, 3.5 per cent of nitrogen and
5 per cent of potash. The greater part
if not all of the fertilizer had best be
put under the drill row at the time of
planting the crop. It is very impor
tant to plow this land thoroughly from
one border of the field to the other and
mix the manure and fertilizer and sub
soil well together before planting;
Plant on a low bed. Select seed from
a variety which has 'proven to be resis
tant to disease and has given the best
yields for a series of years in your
section of t.eh state. You may treat it
with formaldehyde if you are afraid it
is infested with spores of antliracnose.
This, of course, is not a preventive of
the trouble, but it will destroy some
of the spores and will generally hold
the disease in check and anything which
can be done to accomplish this purpose
is a great advantage.
There is no one best variety of cot
ton and it is difficult to give advice
with reference to this matter as sea
sonal and soil conditions effect the re
turns obtained from a given variety
quite materially. W^e would suggest,
however, that you give consideration to
the selection of your seed from such
well-known and established varieties as
Cleveland’s Big Boll, Layton, Mort
gage Lifter, Culpepper, Sunbeam, Rus
sell and Cook’s, provided you can secure
a strain that is strongly resistant to
anthracnose.
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KAINIT AS FERTILIZER FOR
SUGARCANE.
S. T. C., Quincy, Fla., writes: We
would like your opinion regarding the
use of German kainit to fertilize sugar
cane, and Its effect upon yield and quali
ty of syrup when used at the rate of
400 pounds per acre with other bal
anced fertilizers. We would like for you
to give us k good fertilizer formula
for cane.
The writer is not familiar at the
‘present time with experiments which
show that positive injury results to
the high quality of syrup from appli
cations of kainit to sugarcane. Current
opinion seems to indicate that it is in
advisable to use kainit, but the point
needs further inevstigation before any
definite conclusion would be justified.
It seems quite well established, how
ever, that sulphate or muriate of potash
are preferable to kainit and could be
used ordinarily with any ffcftilizer
formula intended for sugarcane. Not
much potash is required in the fertiliza
tion of this crop on the alluvial bottoms
of Louisiana, but in the piney woods
territory where the lands are much
sandier fairly liberal applications of
potash are desirable.
Various formulas for use under this
crop may be suggested, but one which
has given good results, especially after
legumes plowed under, is 1,100 pounds
of high grade acid phosphate, 100
pounds of nitrate of soda, and 100
pounds of muriate of potash, making in
all 1,300 pounds per acre with an analy
sis of about 11.5 per cent of phosphoric
acid, 1.1 per cent of nitrogen and 4 per
cent of potash. On land where green
leguminous crops have not been plowed
under, this formula would be entirely
too low in nitrogen, and there should be
added ( say as much as 700 pounds of
cotton seed meal, thus increasing the
niLrnoon nontfint verv considerably. Pos-
mmensely 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 flfty-eight million
dollars worth of corn. Georgia buys every year over fifty million
dollars worth of corn. Almost every- reader of the Semi-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 i? 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 .arned money that must be
kept at home if we are to be a permanently prosperous agricultural
section.
No section or country can gver be permanently prosperous that does
not 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 haa
no control. *
214 Bushels from One Acre
These Corn Club Boys have been shewing all of us a few things in the
last tvyo years. Ben Leath, an 18 year old Walker coymty, 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 pasr year in the Boys’ crops was something like 40 cents
per bushel. These boys were 18 years or less of age.
No^r, have you any less brain and mtiscle 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. s 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? j \ '
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 Florida 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 last two 'years have planted Hastings*
Prolific Corn. ,
What’s better than all these prize winnings in contests, fiowev^r, 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 Hasting^’ Prolific and give it a fair
chance, you will have corn enough to se\ 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 dpn’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.
n,,!- m Select 1 North Georgia grown seed. Packet 10 cents, 1-2
Sr ■ ICvS ■ pint 20 cents, pint 30 cents, quart 50 cents, pqstpaid.
By freight or express not prepaid, peck $1.00, bushel $3.50.
Hastings 1 1913 CataBogue
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 5
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 wil 1 come by return mail. f
H.G.HASTINGS & C0., ATLANTA,GA.
HASTINGS’ PROLIFIC CORN
sibly in this instance an application of
nitrate of soda as a toi> dressing would
be desirable. The application should
not be made too late in the season. In
many experiments it has been found de
sirable to use the fertilizer in two ap
plications, say putting two-thirds under
the drill row at the time of planting
and one-third as a side application scat
tered broadcast and covered into the
soil with a cultivator about the end of
May. Nitrate, of course, should be put
on relatively early in the season so as
not to stimulate growth at the expense
of quality and quantity of juice.
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RECLAIMING A PLANTATION.
R. K. R., Talbotton, Ga., writes: I
m going to work a place that has been
rented to negroes for thirty years, and
the major portion has been planted in
cotton for that length of time. It is
ray rocky land and crops rust badly.
I want to plant it in corn and will use
10-3-5 fertilizer. Would it be prac
tical to have the supply of pptash sup
plied by kainit instead of muriate? Is
is all right to plant Burr oats in Feb
ruary?
ton seed meal, blood and nitrate of
soda as carriers of nitrogen. It will be
an advantage to use this combination
of nitrogenous materials because they
supply quickly available nitrogen and
rather slowly available nitrogen. We
would advise that you emphasize the
use of potash on this land if your cot
ton rusts badly, as this trouble 'is
thought to be due to lack of potash,
though drainage of the land and the
bad physical condition of the soil may
be equally responsible for this trouble.
It is all right to sow Burt oats in the
spring. In fact, they are the best va
riety with which I am acquainted for
this purpose. They should be put in as
early as practicable.
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PREPARATION OF GIVEN FORMU
LAS. ^
F. W. H., Halcyondale, Ga., writes:
Please give me a formula for mixing
a 9-2-3 and a 10-3-4 guano with meal,
blood, phosphoric acid, nitrate of soda
and n*jj£iate of potash or kainit
A 9-2-3 formula may be prepared by 1
mixing together 1,100 pounds of 16 per
cent acid phosphate, 600 pounds of cot
ton seed meal containing not less than
6.18 per cent of nitrogen, 2.5 per cent of
nitrogen and 2 per cent of potash, and
100 pounds of muriate of potash. This
mixturq would total 1,800 pounds and
you would have to add 200 pounds of
dry earth to bring it up to 2,000 pounds.
By dividing the 1,800 pounds by four
and using 450 pounds per acre, you will
be supplying the land with the samsi
proportionate amount of plant food that
you would secure by the other method, i
In this instance all the nitrogen would
be derived from cotton seed meal. An- t
other formula which you might use is
1,100 pounds of acid phosphate, 400
pounds of cotton seed meal, 100 pounds
(Continued on Page Sight, Col. 1.)
You have a hard proposition on your
hands in attempting to grow corn on
land which has been rented to negroes
for thirty years and where no rotation
of crops or any endeavor to conserve
fertility or build up the soil through
the use of green manures has been
practiced. This land will not give the
best results from fertilizers until a
systematized rotation is instituted, and
either yard manure or legumes used
as a source of supplying the deficiency
in nitrogen which now exists. A 10-3-5
formula would no doubt be well suited
to this land, though heavy applications
of a high-grade formula will not give
as good results on soil in bad physical
condition as on one which has been im
proved through wise farm practice. It
would be very difficult W make as high
a gVade formula as a 10-3-5 using kainit
as the basis of the potash supply. We
think you would find It more desirable
to use muriate; as this is a much high
er grade of material it will be a com
paratively simple matter to prepare a
10-3-5 formula using high-grade acid
phosphate, muriate of potash'and cotr
Consider Now
what it will cost and how much
money you will save on your 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
FREE OF COST •
Dr. WILLIAM S. MYERS
Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda
17 Madison Ave., New York
No Branch Office»
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IHC Wagons Are Tough
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 tbp tire. I H C wagons
Weber Mew 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 add 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
iff * -ILK 49 Wmlj.
f! <U< riyluiR
out. Machine work, being more uniform and a
great deal faster, takes the place of hand work wher
ever possible. Consequently, IHC wagons are prac
tically all of the same high standard of quality
throughout.
You cannot do better than to equip your farm with
IHC 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)
CHICAGO USA
Mbmamkmenmrr.
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