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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913.
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A SOUTH-CAROLINA FORMULA
A subscriber, Bennettsville, S. jC.,
writes: I have been accustomed to
mining ray own fertilizer by using 200
pounds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds
of kainit, 200 pounds of acid and 200
pounds of an S-4-4 with 200 pounds of
carnalite used as a top dressing in
June or July. My land is light and
sandy. Please let me know if this
is a good formula for cotton and if
I can improve on it. I have been se
curing from one to two bales per acre.
The formula you are using contains
about 20 pounds of nitrogen, 53 pounds
of phosphoric acid and 37 pounds of
potash 'exclusive of the carnalite. You
are applying, of course, 1,000 pounds
of plant food per acre and this is a
liberal formula. The carnalite supplies
additional potash and it may be well
to use it on land which is light and
sandy, especially if there is any ten
dency for the cotton to rust. We think
you are making a mistake, however,
in withholding the application as late
as July. We think you will find it
better to put it under the drill row at
the time bf planting corn or cottou.
There'is no reason why you should not
use another type of formula and con
centrate your plant food supply and thus
lessen the amount of material you have
to handle and distribute in tbe form of
fertilizer. We are inclined to think a
formula which will run about 9 per cent
of phosphoric acid, 3 to 3.5 per cent of
nitrogen and 6 per cent of potash will
be found about right. This may be ob
tained by mixing together 1,150 pounds
of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of dried
blood and 250 pounds of muriate of
potash. If you desire to use other ni
trogen carrying materials than dried,
blood you can easily do so. Thife formu
la applied at the rate of 600 pounds
per acre should answer well for cotton,
400 pounds to be used under the drill
row and 200 pounds as a side applica
tion.
• * *
TONIC TREATMENT FOR A COW.
J. J. D., Butler Springs, Ala., writes:
I have a cow that has a freaking out
in little small lumps something like
measles. The hair comes off and she
licks herself all the time. I'would like
to know what is the trouble and what
to do for her?
21
CENTS
A ROD
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It is important that you examine
the surroundings of your cow and see
that everything is sanitary. If you are
feeding anything but pure and whole
some feed stop it at once. Clean out
the mangers and stablea and burn all
litter and trash. Disinfect thoroughly
by whitewashing and spraying with
a solution of one part of carbolic acid
to thirty parts of water. The cow should
be given a dose of Epsom salts as a
drench, using a pound to a pound and a
half. Be careful in administering the
drench t<? avoid strangulation. Then
you would probably find it desirable to
use the following tonic powder for a few
days:
Sulphate of iron, 2 ounces.
Nitrate of potash (saltpeter), 2 ounces.
Gentian root (pulverized), 2 ounces.
Nux vomica seed (pulverized), 1
ounce.
Ginger root (pulverized), 1 ounce.
Mix together thoroughly and give a
heaping teaspoonful in the food three
times a day. The whole coat should
be thoroughly washed out with a solu
tion of one part of any of the coal tar
dips to fifty parts of water. This
process should be'repeated several times.
This will lessen the tendency to itch
ing and will cleanse the hide and give
the eruption a chance to heal up. The
use of the salts and the tonic will no
doubt effect a cure. If you have any
green feed you can pasture the cow on,
it will be an advantage.
EDIBLE COWPEAS.
A. E. C., Enterprise, Ala., writes: I
would like to know a good late bearing
pea for table use, also artichokes for
pickles, and where I can secure the
seed?
secure seed from any seed man. You will
find some advertised in this paper.
* * *
SHEDDING OF COTTON ON SANDY
LAND.
W. A. D., Tennille, Ga., writes: I have
some sandy land on which cotton suf
fers and sheds in July and August, and
some of it dies. We intend to plant this
sandy soil in corn and velvet beans. I
also have some land which is stiffer
and redder. If the season is dry the
cotton sheds on this land also. All the
land has been planted too frequently in
cotton. Would like to know what fer
tilizer to use to unlock the fertility of
this land.
Among the best varieties of cowpeas
to grow for table use are the large
Blackeye and the Lady. The former va
riety is standard as a snap or shelled,
and is considered one of the best table
pea. The Lady variety is small seeded,
but is a stronger grower and prolific
and is prized highly for table use.« The
peas are creamy white and of the finest
quality. The Green Globe artichoke is
a favorite French variety grown for its
undeveloped flower heads. These are
cooked like asparagus and make a most
excellent vegetable. It can be eaten with
butter sauce or French dressing. This
sort is hardy i nordinary winters as
far north as Athens, Ga., and correspond
ing points in other states. The seed of
this variety should be sown in hot
beds immediately and transplanted in
May. It may be sown outside in April
Muorie, fnd
In building up the soils about which
you inquire, the first and most essential
process is that of establishing a ro
tation of crops and turning back into
the land eabh year some vegetable mat
ter obtained by growing and turning
under a legume. In spite of all the
suggestions we may make with refer
ence to the use of fertilizers and the
management of this land, the best re
sults can never be secured until this
is done. You should make a very de
termined effort, therefore, to grow a
legume either by itself or in associa
tion with your corn crop, and turn all
the refuse under save the stalks and
ears. The stalks should be shredded and
fed to live stock, and thus you will start
to accumulate yard manure as a by
product, and there is nothing which you
can use on your land in association with
fertilizer which will insure so large
and uniform a yield even when seasonal
conditions are adverse.
The fact that your corn and cotton
suffer on some of your soil areas, es
pecially when there are short periods
of drought, is due to one of several
things* First of all, you may not have
been breaking this land to a sufficient
deapth. Deep plowing is very impor
tant, especially on red clay lands. Of
course, subsoiling is also desirable, but
it would be bad practice to subsoil land
at this season of the year, in view of
the heavy rainfall of the winter. Sub
soiling is best done in the autumn so
as to $.void danger of puddling. Deep
plowing can be accomplished even until
the first of March with good adavntage.
By deepening the soil you help it to
store and hold water, and thus tide
over drought periods. The shedding of
cotton may be due to a lack of plant
food sufficient to carry the number of
bolls which the plant has set on. Of
course, you understand that nearly all
plants attempt to carry more fruit than
they can mature. When shedding is very
bad. however, it is an evidence of the
need of moisture in the soil or a defl
ciency in plant food. The plowing under
of green crops will do more to enable
the land to absorb arid hold moisture and
successfully pass through a drought pe
riod than anything else.
The key to your situation, * therefore,
is to get ready as rapidly as possible
to supply a part of; ^our land with
yard manure, to grow some leguminous
crop 'to plow under, to practice deep
and more thorough cultivation, and to
adjust your fertilizer formulas to the
needs of your crops. 1 am quite sure
that this land will be benefited by lim
ing, and you should make plans to lime
small areas of it from year to year.
We believe a ton of the pulvarized raw
rock per acre scattered broadcast after
the land is plowed will be an advantage.
We have secured an increase of ten
bushels of corn per acre from the use
of lime here on the college farm, and
it has given excellent results on le
gumes and other crops on the various
test plats we have established through
out the state.
For the sandy land on which you in
tend to plant corn and velvet beans,
we would suggest that you use 400
pounds of a 10-3-5 formula. This fer
tilizer should be put under the drill
row and thoroughly mixed with the
subsoil. Then use 200 pounds as a side
application from the first to the mid
dle of May, and 100 pounds of nitrate
of soda as a top dressing about two
weeks before the corn bunches to tas
sel. This is the very best suggestion
we can offer, and while it may seem
like rather a heavy application of fer
tilizer, it is more likely to give you
good results than any other formula
with which we are acquainted. The ad
visability of using nitrate of soda as a
top dressing will bepend very much
on seasonal conditions. When there is
a well distributed rainfall and the corn
is in a Sappy and vigorous condition,
we would not be inclined to use the ni
trate.
On the cotton land we would be dis
posed to recommend about a 9-3-4, put
ting 300 pounds under the drill row at
the time of planting, and using 200
pounds as a side application. Use
some nitrate as a top dressing when
ever a dry spell sets in as it will help
to stimulate the crop and enable it to
hold its fruits until rain falls again.
Ou r experience in this respect has been
quite satisfactory and we think you
should arrange to fertilize part of your
land at least with nitrate if seasonal
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EXAMINE ONE AT YOUR DEALER'S
HATE CASTOR OIL.
Delicious “Syrup of Figs” best
to cleanse their little
clogged bowels.
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the physic that mother in
sisted on—castor oil, calomel, cathar
tics. IIow you hated them, how you
fought against taking them.
With our children it’s different. The
day of‘harsh physic is over. We don’t
force the liver and 30 feet of bowels
now; w e coax them. We have no
dreaded after effects. Mothers who
cling to the old form of physic simply
don’t realize what they do. The chil
dren’s- revolt is well-founded. Their
little stomachs and tender bowels are
injured by them.
If your child is fretful, peevish, half
sick, stomach sour, breath feverish and
its little system full of cold; has diar
rhoea, sore throat, stomach-ache;
doesn’t eat or rest well—remember—
look at the tongue, if coated, give a
teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs, then
don’t worry, because you surely will
have a well, smiling child in a few
hours.
Syrup of Figs being composed en
tirely of luscious figs, senna and aro
matics simply cannot be harmful* It
sweetens the stomach, makes the liver
active and thoroughly cleanses the lit
tle one’s waste-clogged bowels. In a
few hours all sour bile, undigested fer
menting food and constipated waste
matter gently moves on and out of the
system without griping or nausea.
Directions for children of all ages,
also for grown-ups, plainly printed on
the package.
By all means get the genuine. Ask
your druggist for the full name “Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna” prepared
by the California Fig Syrup Co. Ac
cept nothing else.—(Advt.)
ground ten days before the seed, it will
be a distinct advantage to do so, as
this will ‘give them some time in which
to break down. A very good formula
to use where the seed is applied is 20
oushels of seed, 380 pounus of acid
phosphate and 50 pounds of muriate of
potash. If you desire to use kainit you
would need to substitute 200 pounds
of it for the 50 pounds of muriate of
potash. The seed, acid phosphate and
kainit used together under the drill
row should constitute a very good fer
tilizer for cotton. We think it much
better to use the seed and fertilizer
as suggested rather than to broadcast
the kainit and seed and work in with a
harrow.
* * *
TROUBLE WITH IRON COWPEAS.
W. P. S., Thomasvi^le, Ga., writes: I
planted iron cowpeas in August, 1911
and 1912, and the crop of vines was
good in both years, but in 1912 the
plants contained no peas. I used a
9-2-3 fertilizer about 400 pounds per
acre, and broadcasted the peas both
seasons. There was no nodules to be
found on the roots either year, as I
carefully examined 50 to 100 plants in
different parts of the field. What was
the cause of this and what will be
necessary to produce nodules.
fore these elements should be used in
liberal amounts.
•' * *
AMOUNT OF PLANT FOOD NEEDED
PER ACRE.
I. M. R., Culletin, G. C., writes: I
want to know how much special dresser
to use per acre on corn and cotton. My
land is high and sandy with gray soil
and is three or four- feet to the clay.
Tile amount of any special fertilizer
formula to use depends largely on its
composition and the character of soil to
which it is to be applied. On sandy land
a formula well suited for corn would be
about a 10-3-5; for cotton about a 9-3-4.
Use at the rate of 500 pounds per acre
J putting at least 300 to 400 pounds under
I the drill row at the time of planting
I and putting 200 pounds as a
j side application eadly in the season.
If you use 500 pounds of a 10-3-5 for
mula you would apply fifteen pounds of
available nitrogen, fifty pounds of avail
able phosphoric acid and twenty-five
pounds of available potash. This we
believe to be about the minimum
amount of plant food considered to be
quite readily soluble in water and thus
conditions prove unfavorable in order
that you may acquaint yourself with
the benefits of this practice and see if
it does not aid you in preventing the
shedding of the bolls.
These seem to be. about the best
suggestions we can offer you under
the circumstances and we trust they
will be of benefit tv you. We appreci
ate your offers of assistance and co-
o'peration.
♦ * *
PLANTING CORN AFTER COTTON.
R. J. P., Bartow, Ga., writes: I have
four acres of light loamy land with
clay subsoil about four inches deep. I
put this land in cotton last year and
made a bale to the acre. I want to
plant it in corn this year and want to
make fifty bushels per acre. Please tell
me how to mix acid phosphate, muriate
of potash, kainit and cotton seed meal
to make a good fertilizer. I broke the
land about ten inches deep so tell me
how; wide to have my rows and how
thick in the drill and what time should
I plant?
Breaking the land to a depth of ten
inches for corn is to be commended.
Now, if you can secure any yard manure
or compost to use under the drill rows
you will find it of material advantage.
Lay off your land in rows four feet
apart and plant the corn so as to have
a stalk every 12 to 15 inches in the
drill. We would suggest that you use a
prolific corn. In our experience cover
ing nearly twenty 'years polifle corns
have proven more profitable on upland
soils than any other types we have
tested. Of course,4 on rich river bot
tom lands or on alluvial prairie soils
the big-eared sorts will giVe a good ac
count of themselves, but for general
farm practice the prolific types should
be given preference. Fertilize the land
at the rate of about 700 pounds per
acre. Put 300 pounds under the drill
row at the time of planting if you have
no vegetable matter, and 500 pounds if
you can secure enough manure to use
three tons or more per acre. Without
manure put on two side applications;
with manure, one side application. The
side application ‘should consist of 200
pounds per acre of a* complete formula
and should be scatteVed ahead of the
cultivator and wrked into the soil. Shal
low surface cultivation is desirable. On
land which does not suffer from dought
plant the corn on the level; on droughty
land plant in a slight water furrow so
you can throw a little earth to the corn
as it develops. It may be advisable to
use nitrate of soda on this land as a top
dressing at the rate of 100 pounds per
acre. You can tell as the season and
the crop advances whether it will be
desirable or not. You do not give the
composition of the materials you expect
to use, but presume they are of high-
grade. We wourd suggest that you mix
together 1,000 pounds of acid phosphate,
900 pounds of cotton seed meal and 100
pounds of muriate of potash. This for- ;
mula will contain per ton 182.5 pounds
of phosphoric acid, 50 pounds of nitro- |
gen and 6S pounds of potash. Its per
centage composition will be about 9
per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.8 per cent
of nitrogen and 3.4 per cent of potash. '
* * *
ALTERED MILK AND ITS CAUSE. i
L. T. C., Decatur, Ga., writes: We
are having trouble with our milk. About |
three weeks ago it got so we could not ;
get any butter. I notice some thick, i
cloddy material left in the strainer. I i
milk clean and in the open air and feed ;
cotton seed meal and hulls. She will j
bo fresh in July. I would like to know j
wflat to do to remedy the trouble.
The trouble with the fruiting of your
cowpeas may be due to one of several
things. The chances are you will find
this land to be acid. If so, it will be
necessary to afcply lime to correct acid
ity before you will secure the best
results with legumes. The application
of a half ton of caustic lime on cer
tain sandy soils in south Georgia re
sulted in an increase of 1.360 pounds of
peavine hay per acre. The outlay for
the lime was a very modest sum and
the’ increased yield secured highly prof
itable on that account. You under
stand, of course, that the bacteria
which enables leguminous crops to
gather nitrogen from the air and pro
duce the nodules on the roots do not
thrive advantageously in an acid soil,
and this probably accounts in large
measure for your failure to find any
nodules when you examined the roots
of your crop. We would suggest that
you inoculate your peas this year, se
curing soil from some field where they
•have grown successfully, or using arti
ficial cultures. If you seeure soil
there is some danger that you may
bring diseases resident in the land on
to your farm. The artificial cultures
have proven fairly satisfactory, and
under the circumstances you would
probably find it advantageous to give
them a trial.
After liming the land and * inoculat
ing the soil, it would be well to use
a high-grade fertilizer formula in
larger amounts than you have been ap
plying.. Your soil no doubt runs very
low in phosphorus. In fact, the analy
sis we have made of the type of soils
in your section of the state indicates
this to be true. We think, therefore,
that you should apply not less than 400
pounds of a 16 per cent acid 'phosphate
with at least 200 pounds of kainit and
100 pounds of cotton seed meal. This
makes an application of 700 pounds per
acre, and the formula, you will notice,
is low in nitrogen. If you succeed in
inoculating your peas propertly, they
will only need nitrogen to insure their
making a good start, as * they should
then be able to gather and elaborate
what is needed from the air.* They
can not supply themselves with phos
phorus and potash, however, and there-
easily available to plant which should!
be used on land of the type you de*’
scribe for a corn crop. Now if you de*j
sire to use ainy specialized formula it
will be all right to do so provided you
apply enough of it to furnish the amount
of available plant food up to the figures
suggested. Nitrogen useful to farm
props is chiefly derived from two sourc
es, organic and inorganic. Sulphate of
ammonia and nitrate of soda are the
two principal carriers of inorganic ni
trogen. Dried blood, tankage, cotton
seed meal and fish scrap are the chief
materials supplying nitrogen in an or
ganic form. It is not necessary that you
should use nitrate of soda as a top
dressing except on very thin poor lands.
On lands which contain a fair amount
of vegetable matter the nitrogen may
be supplied practically altogether in an
organic form if you find it cheaper and
more desirable to follow this method.
In using specialized formulas from com
pounds represented to be of special val
ue for any purpose, all you need to do
to protect yourself is to buy on a guar
antee with information as to the source
from which the materials composing it
are derived.
Big Yields of
Fruit
Call for extensive cultivation, thorough spraying and
heavy fertilization. To increase the quantity and qual
ity of your yield per acre, apply
Virginia-Carolina
High-Grade
Fertilizers
at the rate of ten or fifteen pounds per tree, spread well
around the tree and worked thoroughly into the soil
over the roots.
Our 1913 FARMERS’ YEAR BOOK or almanac tells
how you may increase your profits per acre $50 or more
with Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers, and proper, careful,
thorough cultivation. Copy free on request.
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The trouble to which you refer is no
doubt due to some infection of the ud
der due to the entrance of undesirable
bacteria. You should disinfect the ud
der carefully by washing with a solution
of 1 ..part of any of the coal tar dips to
50 to 100 parts of water and then rub it
dry to keep it from chapping and in
flaming. Next secure a rubber tube
and insert a medicine dropper in one
end and a funnel in the other end. Make
a solution of 1 part of carbolic acid to
50 parts of boiled water, and after
cooling insert into the udder through
the tube. After the solution has acted
for a few minutes it should be milked
out. If the udder seems to be caked or
hard in any portion, bathe with hot
water for twenty minutes at a time, and
apply an ointment made by dissolving
two tablespoonfuls of gun camphor in
a teacupful of fresh melted lard. All
the utensils used in milking should be
thoroughly disinfected, including the
churn. Scalding water will be of bene
fit, and placing the utensils in the sun
and keeping them the^e will help the
good work along. We are satisfied if
you get rid of the bacteria which have
evidently invaded the udder your trou
ble will disappear. We do not think
the feed you are using has any rela
tion to the condition described in your
letter.
* * * •
DAMAGED COTTON SEED AS FERTI
LIZER. .
G. H. N., Augusta, Ga., writes: I
have a large amount of damaged cot
ton seed which I expect to use to fer
tilize my cotton, supplementing it with
commercial fertilizer. I would like to
know the best method of applying the
cotton seed, whether broadcasting it on
the land at present or putting it in the
drill row when planting? I would also
like in
cotton.
We think you will find it desirable
to use your cotton seed under the drill
ow about the time of planting the
cotton. If you can put them in the
FERTILIZER FACTS No. 3
BACK TO THE SOIL
The press and the public have had much to say
about the return to the farm. And well they may.
In the language of the old song: "The farmer is the
man who feeds us all.” The soil is the source of all
wealth. Without agriculture there can be no true
and lasting riches. Any increase in the world’s
wealth must have its origin on the farm, in the land.
To get the largest yield at the least cost is the ef*
fort of today. This is shown by the great interest
and wonderful results of the Boys’ Corn Clubs the
country over.'
Anything that will Increase the yield per acre Is a
benefaction. The man or set of men who bring this
about are benefactors.
According to the Manufacturers’ Record: “It is
doubtful if any other country in the world ever
made as much money in agricultural operations as
the South made from the early part of the nineteenth
century to 1860, of course,' in the proportion to the
population." It was during this period the farm lands
of the South were virgin and rich in those elements
so necessary to plant life.
The next great increase shown in the agricultural
wealth and general prosperity was during the pe
riod between 1899 and 1909, when the value of twen
ty leading crops of the South increased from $901,-
017;000 to $1,710,541,000, a gain of 87.9%. During
these ten years the use of fertilizers, to return to the
soil those elements so necessary to plant life, and
which had been exhausted, was increased from
1,368,000 tons in 1899 to 3,144,000 tons in 1909.
No means is at the farmer's hand which would
equal that of proper fertilization, for increasing the
output of his land and his own profit.
Liebig, the German chemist, sixty years ago,
showed that every growing crop removed from the
soil, in varying quantities, the three essential chem
ical substances, so necessary to plant life—Nitrogen
(ammoniates), Phosphoric Acid, and Potash—and,
unless restored to the soil in equal quantity, the land
would be impoverished.
This fact Is now recognized In Germany a.nd
France as a basis of rental values. Before the lease
is signed, the toll of the farm about to be rented la
analyzed and the tenant agrees to pay for all plant
food withdrawn from the soil, during hia lease, and
not replaced, as shown by a subsequent analysis at
the time that he gives up the farm. And, in return,
the landlord agrees to repay the tenant for any plant
food in the soil in excess of what waa there whan
the tenant leased the farm.
To furnish these elements of Nitrogen, Phosphorlo
Acid, and PotaBh, best found in commercial fertili
zers, the manufacturers search the ends of the earth.
The Potash salts are brought from Germany; Nitrate
of Soda from the rainless plains of Chili; bird exore-
tions from the Islands of the sea; aulphate of ammo-
nia from England and Germany; dried blood from
Argentine; and bones from India, by the thousands
of tons..
So great has been the demand and wonderful the
success through the use of commercial fertilizers
that sources of supply, of these all-essential ele
ments, near home, are being developed. Millions of
tons of phosphate rock are annually mined in Flor
ida and Tennessee. The cotton oil mills of the South
and slaughter houses of the West contribute a largo
quota of the ammoniates now used and even Niagara,
the wonderful, has been harnessed to catch nitrogen
from the air.
The manufacturers are spending millions to maka
commercial fertilizers available and at a low coat
for the benefit of the consumer of today, who real
izes, moro than ever, that fertilizer costs less than
labor. ,
It is through the intelligent selection and generous
application of fertilizer that the maximum yield per
acre is secured at a minimum cost per unit of meas
urement.
the fertilizer manufacturers are at the head of the
movement which has as ita alogan the subject
of this talk: “Back to the Soil,” for they are causing
to be put back into the soil, that which causes the
farmer to get maximum yield from his soil, at the
minimum expense.
Write for Bulletin, sent free on request.
SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
Southern Fertilizer Association, Atlanta, Ga.
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