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Letters should be addressed to Vr. Andrew A!. Soule. president Stats
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WATERMELON SEED
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IH BUTCT STATES forty years. No other variety
grown on plantation of 1500 acres.
Pure seed impossible where different kinds are
f rown. 1 oa, l5o—2 02. 25e—4 oa. 40o—t lb. 60c.
lb. *1.00-6 lbs. $4.60—10 lbs. $8.60 delivered.
Remit registered letter or money order. Send for
Peed Annual. Msr.ua 1 on melon culture with all
orders, hi I. MMCfl. Irn*lb. fo'ffiiUi foeitv. Eiartia.
S. R. C. Mount Berry. Ga.. writes:
What variety of corn would you sug
gest for this section? Do you think
the yield of corn or cotton is reduced
the first year by carrying the seed 160
niiles to a new location? Which has
proven best, close single rows or wide
double rows, and putting the manure
in drill or broadcasting it? Should
the fertilizer be applied before planting
or during cultivation?
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Plants peanut*, large or small, shelled or unshelled,
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Now Ready.
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Porto Rico Yam. Plants, $1.75. per 1.000.
Prompt shipment, safe delivery and plants true
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FOR SALE
Nancy Tlall and Dooly Yam Sweet Potato
Slips, $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and
Excelsior Strawberry plants, $2.00 per thousand.
Southern F*lant Company
V.. J. flawkins. Mgr. Plant City, Fla.
Summerour’s Half and
Half Cotton Seed
Pure and carefully selected. It is the high
est linting cotton kn«*wn, besides producing
more seed cotton than other varieties. It is
drouth resisting, matures early, and picks easy.
Price $1.50 per bu.
JAS. W. SUMMExtOUR.
Route 4, Loganville. Ga.
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from show birds with prize-winning records.
Also stock of all above breeds.
EngPsh Berkshire pigs, six weeks old. $3.00
to $5.00 each, April delivery.
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The choice of a variety of corn or
cotton is a very important matter, and
as you no doubt know, there is no one
best variety. We think, however, you
will find a prolific variety best adapt
ed for growth oq upland soils such
as you have at Mount Berry. We would
suggest that you make your selection
of seed from Marlboro, Hastings,
Cocke's, Whatleys or Batts. W'e have
tested * these varieties on the college
farm and they have made very good
yields for several years past. It Is
best to secure seed from as near the
locality where you expect to grow the
corn as possible. Among the varieties
of cotton which have given good re
sults in our demonstration field are
Culpepper, Uncle Sam, Layton, Cleve
land, Russell, Middleton, Mortgage Lif
ter, and some strains of Cook which
have been selected with the idea of
resistance to anthracnose. We thins,
you would want a fairly early variety
for your locality.
In seeding prolific corn we’have found
it desirable to plant in four-foot rows
and put the plants rather close to
gether. 1 think the same suggestion
holds fairly well with cotton. The
largest yields with cotton Have come
from leaving two stalks per hill in
stead of one. It is true the plants
will not grow so large as where only
one is left, but tfye two stalks will
outyield a single one. By all means
put the manure under the drill row at
th$ time of planting unfess you have
a very large amount of it. If you can
use as much as- ten tons per acre, you
may broadcast it. Mix the manure and
fertilizer well together by means of a
bull tongue before planting the corn
and cotton if you can possibly do so.
Some fertilizer may be used as a side
application, but ordinarily not •over 300
pounds will prove profitable. Accord
ing to our experience nitrate of soda,
may often be used as a top dressing
at the rate of 100 pounds per acre to
advantage.
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GROUND ROCK VERSUS RAW
PHOSPHATE.
R. O. H., Barnesville, Ga., writes: I
would like your ideas on phosphate and
what you think of using it In place of‘
acid. What would 1,200 pounds of
phosphate, 600 pounds of cotton seed
meal and 200 pounds of potash analyze?
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Judging from the statement made In
your letter, you refer to floats when
you speak of pjiosphate. The ground
raw rock, as you no doubt know, con
tains the equivalent of 25 to 30 per
cent of phosphoric acid, but it is In
a, much less quickly available form
than where the rock has been treated
with acid. The best results from us
ing phosphate rock have occurred on
soils 'which contain an abundance of
vegetable matter. If' -your land is
sandy or has been cultivated without
due regard to crop rotation for a good
many years, we doubt the advisability
of using floats. By enriching your
land through the turning under of green
crops or applications of yard manure
you may bring it into condition where
this material will answer fairly well
as a source of phosphoric acid, but it
will take you several years to accom
plish this. Where the ground rock is
used it should be applied in amounts
ranging from 500 to 1,000 pounds per
acre and upwards. A mixture of 1,200
pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds
of cotton seed meal, and 200 pounds of
muriate of potash will contain approx
imately 207 pounds of avilable phos
phoric acid, 30 pounds of available ni
trogen and 112 pounds of available pot
ash. Its percentage composition woulci
be 10.3 per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.9
per cent of nitrogen and 5.G per cent
of potash. This formula, would an
swer very well on sandy land, but is
higher in phosphorus ana potash than
would be required on ciay soils, and
somewhat lower in nitrogen.
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GROWING SUGAR CANE ON DRAKE
LANDS.
L. S. R., Brunswick, Ga., writes: I
would like to have a good fertilizer
formulp. for sugar cane on dark sandy
loam soil with fair drainage and clay
subsoil. It has been cultivated for about
twenty years.
A variety of formulas may be used
under sugar cane, but in our judgment
one of the best consists of a mixture
of 600 pounds of high-grade acid phos
phate. 300 pounds of nitrate of soda,
100 pounds of cotton seed meal and 100
pounus of -sulphate or muriate of pot
ash. This makes an application of 1,100
pounds per acre. Such a fertilizer would
carry about 86 pounds of available
phosphoric acid. 50 pounds of nitrogen
and 59 pounds of potash. It would an
alyze approximately 8 per cent of avail
able phosphoric acid, 4.5 per cent of
available nitrogen and 4.5 per cent of
available potash. Land which has been
cultivated for a considerable number of
years is not likely to contain a large
amount of nitrogen, yet nitrogen is very
Important in the production of a large
crop of cane, and therefore a high per
cent of nitrogen has been advised. Sandy
loamy soil is not likely to be rich and
so a fairly heavy application has been
suggested. This formula has been used
to considerabe advantage under climatic
and soil conditions similar to those pre
vailing in your section of the state.
COMPARISON OF NITROGEN CAR-
I RIKRS.
J. E. W.. Dawson, Ga.. writes: I
would like to know the relative differ
ence between sulphate of ammonia and
high-grade blood as a source of nitrogen
for fertilizing purposes. Which is the
most desirable to use?
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Sulphate of ammonia, you no doubt
know, is a by-product of gas works, and
contains about 20 to 21 per cent of
nitrogen. It is easily soluble in water
and does not readily leach out of the
soil, hut it is quickly absorbed by or
ganic matter and retained in the soil
until converted into nitrogen. It un
dergoes nitrification very quickly, and
since some plants have the power of
absorbing small quantities of ammonia
salts, it is regarded as a very desirable
form. "of. nitrogen. Tt is used to ad
vantage on soils which contain a fair
amount of* lime. As our Georgia soils
are deficient in this element, it will
likely give its best results when ap
plied on lands to which applications of
pulverized rock have been made within
the past few months. Blood is bne of
the most desirable forms of organic
nitrogen. It is a by-product of slaugh
ter bouses, and when freed of impurities
contains about 14 per cent of nitrogen.
It undergoes fermentation veify readily
in the soil and is one of the most valu
able sources of organic nitrogen. A
very high per cent of this material is
available to the first crop. The choice
of these materials will be based to some
extent on their relative cost in propor
tion to the available plant ^oOd they
contain. Where soils are deficient in
lime or where this element can not be
supplied liberally, we are disposed to
recommend the blood provided its cost
was not greatly in excess of the sul
phate of ammonia.
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BLEEDING OF A SCUPPER NON G
VINE
C. B. P.,' Moultrie, Ga., writes: In
January I cut off several large limbs
from my scuppernong grape vine and it
has been bleeding ever since. I put clay
around the cut parts, but it has not
helped it any. Is there danger of the
vine bleeding to death and what would
you suggest doing? What is the best
thing to use for spraying peach and
plum trees and when should the work
be done?
The most effective way to stop t^e
bleeding of the freshly cut ends of a
scuppernong grape vine is through fir
ing. This is best accomplished by the
use of a red hot iron which may be
heated in a charcoal brasier. The seer-
ing should be thoroughly done. Then
the ends of the limbs should be wrapped
with specially prepared cloth which is
saturated with beeswax. Some times a
plaster cast is made and used over the
end of the limb to good advantage.
Scuppernong vines bleed very freely and
sometimes will exhaust themselves, es
pecially where they are large and have
a very vigorous root system. The meth
od described has been used with success
by us in treating these vines.
For the plum and peach one should
spray for the curculio as the calyx or
shucks are shedding and again three
weeks later. Arsenate of lead may be
used. This may be added to Bordeaux
for the second and third applications.
For the San Jose scale the concentrated
or boiled lime—sulphur solution should
be used. Ordinarily where there is a
bad infestation two applications should
be made, one in November and the other
in February. For the bark beetle cut
out and burn all infested limbs during
the winter For the borer 'wrap the
trees at the surface of the ground with
brown paper during the first week in
August and pack the earth up around the
trees. Worm the trees miring the last
of Ocober.
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A BALANCED RATION FOR MULES.
W. M. S.. Buford, Ga., writes: I
would like the proportion of corn, oats
and cotton seed meal to make a bal
anced ration for mules, also the neces
sary amount per day for an 800-pound
mule. Should the corn and oats be
ground?
iGEORGIA’S LOSING GAME;
FACTS FOR WIDE-AWAKE
farmer and family
BY H. CL HASTINGS.
Georgia and, in fact, all the distinc
tively cotton-growing states east of
the Mississippi river, are playing a
losing game in cotton-growing opera
tions.
An analysis of the situation shows
that Georgia, instead of being proud of
her record as an agricultural state,
should hang her head in shame.
Recently published statistics, based
largely on figures from the state de
partment of agriculture, show that the
state of Georgia purchased during 1912
corn, oats, hay, meat, dairy and poultry
products to the amount of $172,496,000.
As against this we have our one cash
crop of cotton, which on a liberal basis
of estimate, brought in for lint and seed
combined, $135,000,000, leaving a debtor
balance against the state for the year
1912 of $37,496,000.
The largest single item of these enor
mous purchases was for corn. $58,930,000
going to western and northern states
for corn that could have been grown
at home for one-half or less the amount
paid the merchant.
No man can afford to buy dollar corn
to grow even 15-cent cotton with and
there are mighty few* years when cot
ton ever reaches 15 cents or corn bought
on credit from merchant or grain dealer
is less than a dollar a bushel.
The Iowa-Kansas-Nebraska farmer is
a comparatively wealthy man, rides
around in his automobile and can af
ford to, while in considerable degree the
Georgia cotton-grower pays the gaso
line bill.
What makes the difference in finan
cial status between the Iowa-Kansas
farmer and the Georgia. Alabama yr
South Carolina cotton-grower? Simply
this: The Iowa-Kansas farmer pays
no man a profit, nor any railroad a
transportation charge on the supplies
for his family and the food for his live
stock. The Georgia cotton-grower pays
a half dozen profits and brokerage fees
and a railroad or transportation charge
on practically everything that his fami
ly and live stock consume.
How many readers of The Journal re
alize how much a bushel of corn is
“loaded” with profits and legitimate
charges when it reaches a Georgia farm?
First in the procession comes the Iowa
or Kansas corn-growing farmer. He
sells his surplus corn to a grain buyer
in his nearest railroad town. He gets
the cost of growing his corn plus a
profit. The local grain buyer stores
it in a grain elevator and there is a
charge against that corn for handling
and storage. This local grain buyer
in turn sells the corn to a wholesale
grain dealer in Kansas City or some
other western city at a profit. Usually
the corn is shipped to Kansas City,
again handled and stored. This means
a freight charge and another handling
and storage charge against this corn.
The Kansas City dealer has a broker
in Atlanta who sells corn for him. Mr.
Atlanta broker gets busy, goes and Sees
the Atlanta wholesale grain dealer and
if they can agree on a price, the trade
is closed. The Kansas City dealer gets
a profit, the Atlanta broker his broker
age fee and when the corn gets in the
Atlanta dealer's warehouse the freight
charges for the long haul from Kansas
City to Atlanta are charged up against
it. • j
The Atlanta dealer in turn sells that j
corn to your merchant plus a profit
for the Atlanta house. When it reaches
your merchant, freight charges from
Atlanta are again charged up against
that corn.
You go to your merchant to buy.some
corn, some corn that should have been
planted 0Y1 some of those acres you
planted in sorry cotton seed last spring,
the kind that never makes over 200
pound? of lint per acre in the best of
season^. He has this western corn in
stock, loaded with all this accumula
tion of original cost, profits, storage and
freight charges. Your merchant adds
his profit on top of all these others, pos
sibly 10 per cent if you are paying
cash, anywhere from 20 to 30 per cent
if you get it on credit.
That 40 or 45 cents a bushel corn .on
the Iowa or Kansas farm becomes $1 to I
$1.25 corn when it reaches your farm. I
It’s no use to say “thieves and rob- j
bers,” for all these charges are legiti- j
mate and the freight rates on this class
of products are very low.
These purchases runing up into the j
hundreds of millions are hut the aggre- j
gate of hundreds of thousands of indl- ,
vidual purchases. John Smith buys aj
hundred dollars’ worth. Tom Sanders
is responsible for $200 or more, and so j
on through the list of practically every 1
farming communty in Georgia. Is it |
any wonder that the cotton-grower is
so seldom able to “pay out?”
The wrtier has been intensely inter
ested in the encouragement of the Boys’
Corn clubs of Georgia. Why? Because
j the working out of this corn-growing
problem means the saving to the future
FERTILIZER FACTS No.- 4
SOIL CONSERVATION
Conserving the soli means, In the first place,
the saving of the soil from being washed away, and
from being worn out by constant cultivation and
cropping; from checking out it3 richness without
making any return. If you have $10,000 in a baqk
and keep on drawing checks on it without making
any deposits the time will soon come when your
checks will be dishonored, “turned down,” with the
Cashier’s notice on the back—“Not sufficient funds.”
What then? Why you are just broke and ready to
go into bankruptcy.
But conservation means something more than sav
ing what the soil already has. it means also to add
to its share of plant food, just as you would make
deposits in the bank, always making heavier deposits
in It than the amount of the checks you draw on it,
thus causing your credit balance to increase con
stantly instead of constantly decreasing. That is the
logic of farming, just as it is in any other business—
Always put in more than you take out.
WHAT IS A RICH SOIL
The richness of a soil, other things being favor
able, depends on the depth and quantity of the sub
stance that scientists call Humus but which I will
call decayed, or rotted, leaves, roots, nuts, etc., which
have accumulated on the land. It is what gives the
top soil its dark color, compared with the subsoil.
Formerly it was all alike—subsoil and top soil. That
is Nature’s way to make a top soil. The farmer
should adopt Nature’s own methods, improve upon
them and supplement them.
Not every farmer realizes the ways and means by
which he may add vegetable matter, that contains so
much plant food, to the soil. He does not consider
the almost and sometimes altogether, wasted mate
rials for soil building and soil enriching, that abound
more or less on every farm.
STABLE MANURE
The first thing one thinks of in this connection is
Stable Manure, the fundamental resource on every
farm that works horses and mules, raises cattle and
hogs and poultry. Part of the richness of the soil is
checked out by the crops. Some of the richness is
sold off in the form of cotton lint, cotton oil, butter,
beef, pork, etc., but by far the greater part goes into
the manure, and this manure is what the farmer
should save to the uttermost; and not only save, but
increase its amount by every means in his power.
One of the most obvious ways to increase it is to
raise more livestock, more grain and forage to feed
them.
The livestock, such as cattle, hogs, chickens, etc.,
should be fed to fatness and sold off tije farm. The
manure from well-fed cattle fed on cotton seed meal
and hulls, should be worth to the farmer well nigh all
that the meal consumed could have sold for in the
market, and the receipts from the animals sold off
would be very largely clear profit. It is a fact that
the manure from fattening cattle on cotton seed meal
and hulls—mind you, solid and liquid, carefully saved
and properly handled, is worth all that the meal cost,
and the farmer gets as profit the flesh put on the beef
cattle and the butter from the milch cows. But don't
feed cotton seed—feed the cotton seed meal and
hulls. 1
MATERIALS GOING TO WASTE
Look at the leaves and twigs from the trees in and
around the farmer’s yard. They are rich In plant
food and humus-making material (humus, you re
member, is rotted vegetable and animal matter). A
ton of dry oak leaves is about equal in plartt food
value to a ton of average stable manure. So when
you add a ton of such leaves to a ton or more of sta
ble manurq (in the stable or lot) you aro not reducing
the strength of the manure so much as you are add
ing to the quantity of the whole. I have never seen
too much litter of this sort used for littering a stable
lot. Look at the forests near by, the surface covered
with leaves that have fallen and have been falling
for ages, making the soil of the forest richer and
richer. Gather these leaves—the trees will take care
of themselves—and haul to your stable and' stock
yards, to be walked over, trodden down, rooted up by
hogs, and after a few months haul out and scatter In
your furrows. Look about you, Mr. Farmer! Rich
ness is lying around loose, littering the road, the
lawn, the hedges and fence corners, the nearby road
way. Get these into your barnyard, or pile them into
broad pens, sprinkle with a little slaked lime, and
keep moist, but not leaching.
ASHES AND HEN ROOSTS
What about ashes? The good wife, who generally
bosses the garden and the fowl yard, knows that
there is a very close relation between ashes and
chicken manure and the garden and flower yard, and
she will doubtless see that all are utilized. Chicken
manure may be gathered up three times a week and
put in barrels. Don’t put lime with animal manure
of any sort. A word of caution: Do not let your
stable manure—that from the stalls—lie out in loose
piles, exposed to sun and winds and bleaching rains.
If not ready to haul out to the fields, pile in compact
heaps or pens and put a rough board or other cover
ing over the top. It should be kept moist, but not
leaching. Don’t let it get hot enough to epok an egg.
THE CONCLUSION OF THIS WHOLE MATTER.
I have often said, and I steadfastly believe, that an
acre of soil may be literajly scraped off by means of
a road scraper down to the rrd clay itself, and then
made more productive than it ever was, by sowing
in cowpeas with 250 lbs. to 300 lbs. of commercial fer
tilizers t6 start it the first year, and returning to It
the manure produced by a fattening animal fed on the
cowpeas, hay and other crops grown on that acre.
That is a bold statement, but I believe it firmly, not
stating the time, but in less than ten years. That is
the way old Dame Nature, makes rich soil; but hav
ing plenty of time she has not worked in a hurry.
That isn’t her way.
Griffin, Ga, R. J. REDDING.
Write for Bulletin, sent free on request.
SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
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L. W. ROGERS CO.,
36 Pure Food Stores, Atlanta, Ga.
A good ration for mules may be pre
pared by mixing together 100 pounds of
cotton seed meal. 150 pounds of oats
and 500 pounds of corn and cob meal.
Another ration which you will find very
satisfactory may be prepared by mixing
together 100 pounds of cotton seed meal,
400 pounds of oats and 250 pounds of
shelled corn. The corn and oats may be
ground together to good advantage and
the meal mixed with them. This formu
la should be fed at the rate of 1 5 pounds
per day to a 1,000-pound mule doing fair
ly hard work. If the teams are con
stantly plowing or at work of equal
stress, the ration may be increased to
17 or even 18 pounds per day. When
doing light work or standing in the
stable 8 to 10 pounds will be enough
to feed. Of course, you should give in
addition to the above 12 to 15 pounds
of clean bright hay.
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FERTILIZING AN APPLE ORCHARD.
M. D. R., Cedartown, Ga., writes: I
have about fifteen acres in apple trees
and want to use some fertilizer. The
trees are old and on low land. What
kind and amount of fertilizer should I
use
to 140 pounds of calcium oxide. The
amount of fertilizer applied will vary
with the nature of the soil. On thin
soils 600 to 1,000 pounds per acre should
be used; on soils of natural fertility
where the land has been well kept up
through the use of cover crops, 300 to
400 pounds will be sufficient. If you
have not fertilized your orchard for
several years, we are disposed to think
it will pay you to use. the larger
amount suggested. Various formulas
may be used for this purpose. We think
an excellent one may be prepared by
mixing together 125 pounds of sodium
nitrate. 100 pounds, of sulphate of am
monia, 725 pounds of acid phosphate.
180 pounds of potassium chloride and
870 pounds of kainit. Or you may use
600 pounds of cotton seed meal. 700
pounds of acid phosphate, 300 pounds of
potassium chloride, and 400 pounds of
laiinit. If the growth of the trees is
not as vigorous as you desire, more
nitrogen should be used. This may be
added in the form of nitrate of soda.
Cut down the kainit and increase the
potassium chloride. Use this formula i
at the rate of 10 to 15 pounds per tree,
depending on their size and vigor.
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GROWING CORN ON SANDY LAND. I
C. T. P., Augusta, Ga.. writes: We
are preparing about twenty acres of
ground for corn and can not manure
farmers of Georgia hundreds of millions
of dollars in clean, cold cash.
According to Prof. J. Phil Campbell,
state superintendent of Boys’ Corn
clubs, the boys have, increased the corn
yield of Georgia by *$30,000,000 in the
last five years, an average of $6,000,000
a year. These boys have to kee-p books
on their crops and know exactly what
it costs per bushel to grow corn. The
aveVage cost per bushel of the boys’
crops is about 40 cents; better corn
than their fathers pay $1 for at the
merchant’s.
The real reason for the purchase of |
these hundreds of millions of dollars’!
worth of supplies is the failure of the j
grown men farmers of Georgia to do
their common sense duty in the produc- \
tion of corn and other home supplies.
Are the / grown up” farmers of Geor- j
gia willing to acknowledge that they
have less brains, backbone and muscle
than these Georgia boys eighteen years
of age or less?
Now, just two questions as a foun- !
dation for some thinking:
Did you ever see a coton-growing
farmer who buys all or most all of
his grain and supplies that was not reg
ularly “hard up?”
Did you ever see a real farmer, one
who grows all or practically all of his
grain, hay and supplies, a farmer that
“lives at home and boards at the same
place,” that is ever “hard up.” unless
through some accident or ^misfortune
over which he had no control?
A careful thinking over these two
questions and an honest answer to them
will show us all the way out. We are
fully aware that this radical change
can’t come about all in one year, but
if each reader of The Journal will make
100 bushels or more extra corn this
year, save an extra ton or so of hay
or forage, fatten a hog or two, it will
make a vast difference in farm finances
at the end of the year.
with the use of a formula containing’
1,000 pounds of acid and 500 each of
meal and kainit. We used 4 00 pounds
to the acre. We’ make a fine stalk. Do
you think it befft to use more acid and
less potash?
It is a,..great pleasure to us if we
are fortunate enough to be of service
to you in the matter of improving your
farm practice. A formula such as you
contemplate using would contain about
193.5 pounds of phosphoric acid, 4 3
pounds of nitrogen and 114 pounds of
potash. Its percentage composition
would he 9.16 per cent of phosphoric
acid, 2.16 per cent of nitrogen and 5.7
per cent of potash. If you now make
an abundance of stalk, we are inclined
to think this formula would answer very
well for your land. In most instances
more nitrogen would be desirable for a
corn crop. This might be applied to
good advantage in the form of nitrate
of soda used as a top dressing at the
rate of 100 pounds per acre. We would
suggest that you aply the- nitrate at
least two weeks before the corn bunches
to tassel as a later application may
tend to produce stalk at the expense
of the grain. Suppose you try on
a#eas of your land this year top dress
ing with nitrate, and then on another
section mix your fertilizer formula at
the rate of 1,000 pounds of acid phos
phate, 900 pounds of cotton seed meal
and 100 pounds of muriate of potash.
This will giye you a formula carrying
about 9 per cent, of phosphorus, 2.8 per
cen of nitrogen and 3.4 per cent of pot
ash. This will give you a formula'car
rying about 9 per cent of phosphofus.
2.8 per cent of nitrogen and 3.4 per cent
of potash. This will give you a very
good comparison between a relatively
high and low potash formulas and the
use of a higher per cent of nitrogen de
rived from organic as compared with
inorganic nitrogen. It will cost you
very little to make the experiment sug
gested on areas of several acres each,
and we think you will gather some in
formation therefrom that will be of
benefit to you. Frankly we are inclined
to think that the formula you propose
using with nitrate of soda will prove
more effective than the latter one sug
gested. If you do not care to under
take the comparison, we would advise
that you stick o he first formula.
it as much as we would like. Would
like to know what kind and quantity of
fertilizer to use. The land is sandy
with clay subsoil. Had peas on it last
year and cows pastured on it. We
have a lot. of ground phosphate which
we will use as a filler to mix with
what ingredients you, might suggest.
The land has been two-horse plowed
followed with subsoiler.
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Apple trees require rather liberal
fertilization, as they make a heavy
draft on the‘plant food constituents of
the soil. Trees in their full vigor of
growth require per Rare for the devel
opment of the fruit, foliage and new
wood from 30 to 75 pounds of nitro
gen, 7 to 18 pounds of phosphoric acid
and 33 to 72 pounds of potash, and 38
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We would suggest that you mix 1,000
pounds of your floats or finely ground
phosphate • rock with 500 pounds of the
best grade of cotton seed meal you can
obtain and 500 pounds of kainit. Use
this formula at the rate of 1.000 puonds
per acre. This will give you about 15
pounds of available nitrogen, and about
30 pounds of available potash per acre.
The amount of floats suggested is the
minimum application you can afford to
use. /In fact, it would be better if you
applied it at the rate of 1,500 pounds
per acre. Scatter it broadcast over the
ground and work in with a disk, and
then use the cotton seed meal and pot
ash directly under the drill row. Floats
has given us fair results in some con
tests conducted on the college farm, but
ir. those instances where it has proven
satisfactory considerable quantities of
green manure have been applied to the
soil. We hardly think it will prove as
satisfactory as acid phosphate, save on
those lands which have been made rich
by heavy applications of yard manure
or the turning under of leguminous
crops. Of course, i\ becomes available
after so long a time where organic mat
ter is present to promote fermentation.
If you desire to use floats as the basis
of your formula the suggestion made
we believe will prove as satisfactory as
any combination of materials you could
use.
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CRITICISM OF A GIVEN FORMULA.
R. E. Milledgeville. Ga.. writes: We !
are contemplating using this year for
cotton 1,1.00 pounds of acid phosnhnte. ;
700 pounds of ’cotton seed meal end ;
200 pounds of muriate of notash. What
will this analyze? The land is red with
black and gray top soil and we made
ten bales on twenty acres last year
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Old Fashioned farming produced only about
220 pounds of cotton. The new
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with good cultivation, frequently \
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