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8 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913. 400,000 SWEET POTATO PLANTS I Wlf tbf* Improved Nancy Hall at $2 per thousand. Nancy Hall, Porto Rico Yam and Norton Yam at $1.50 per thousand. 80,000 Tomato Plants—Red Field Beauty and Duke of York at $1.10 per thousand, f.o.b. here. Shipment commences March 25th. M. F. MOORE, Brownsville, Fla. LEDBETTER "ONE SEED” PLANTER Plants peanuts, large or small, shelled or unshelled, also corn, cotton, peas. etc., with certainty and regu larity. Less seed, larger crops. Write for booklet. 8S2 , «N| SOUTHERN FLOW COMPANY. Dallas. ITasaa BRANCH’S GENUINE NATTLESNAit WATERMELON SEED WIT miSIMM Carefully selected. Kept pure III QMITCT STATES forty years. No other variety — grown on plantation of 1500 acres. Pure seed impossible where different kinds are grown. 1 oz. loc—2 oz. 25c—4 oz. 40c—i lb. 60c, 1 lb. $1.00-5 lbs. $4.50—10 lbs. $8.60 delivered. Remit registered letter or money order. Send for Seed Annual. Manual on melon culture with all orders. M. L HUNCH, Btmiii, Ctlimbli County, fioorgia. SWEET POTATO PLANTS Now Ready. NANCY HALL, Improved Red Providence and Porto Rico Yam. Plants. $1.75 per 1,000. Prompt shipment, safe delivery and plants true . to name. Guaranteed. W. W. Morris, Fort Green, Fla. Education -awd Successful Farming ’ $ Andrew .M. &ovLt { This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew U. Soule, president Stats Agricultural College, Athens, Oa. SORGHUM AS A MONEY CROP J. H. D., Blairsville, Ga.. writes: Cot ton does not grow in this part of the state and we have sorghum syrup for a money crop. What fertilizer is best for this crop on red clay land? What va riety is best for making table tyrup? FOR SALE Nancy Hall and Dooly Tam Sweet Potato Slips, ?1 .,50 per thousand. Missionary and Excelsior Strawberry plants, *2.00 per thousand. Southern Plant Company TV. J. Hawkins. Mgr. Plant City, Fla. Summerour’s Half and Half Cotton Seed Pure and carefully selected. It is the high est linting cotton known, besides producing more seed cotton than other varieties. It is drouth resisting, matures early, and picks easy. Trice $1.50 per bu. JAS. W. SUMMEROUR. Route 4. Loganville, Ga. E GGS From Best Strain of Buff, White and Black Oipingtons, Rhode Island Reds, White Wyan- ■dottes. Barred Rocks, White, Brown and Buff Leghorns, Black Minorcgs, Buff Cochins, Ban- . taros, Indian Runner Ducks, Bronze Turkeys. One to three dollars per sitting, six to twelve dollars per hundred. My three dollars per sitting and twelve dollars per hundred eggs are from show birds with prize-winning records. .Also stock of all above breeds. English Berkshire pigs, six weeks old, $3.00 to $5.00 each, April delivery. College View Farm Route One College Park, 6a. FARM FENCE 41 INCHES HIGH 100 other styles of 1 Farm, Poultry and I Lawn Fencing direct 1 from ftetery at swe-the- 1 dealer’s-prelt-pricei. Our 4 large catalog Is free. i*£lTS£LIIAN BEOS. Box 45 Moicie, lid 21 CENTS A ROD Fish Bite Like Hungry Wolves, Fill your Nets Traps or Trot Llnfes if you bait with MAGIC-FISH-LURE. Best bait ever used for attracting all kinds of fish. Write for price list to-day and get a box to help introduce it. Agents wanted. J. F. GREGORY, Dept. 2, St. JLonis, Mo. Marvel Fish Hooks Auto matic land every fish, that tries to take the bait. Write for free hooks to help introduce. MARVEL HOOX CO., Dept. 61, CLINTON. IOWA ES-wutLLgpccy^ Farmer or Farmers I with rig in every County to intro- *SonJ duee and sell Family and Veten- , nary Remedies, Extracts and Spice*. Fine pay. One man made $90 one week. We mean busi- nea and want a man id your County. Write us* Skeras-MuellerCe. ,D ept. 86, Coder Rapids,leva JHSHSHHIS^HETSi Made to special order at 28 PER CENT DISCOUNT All Kinds •f Fishing Ytekk Write fer r Prices ACatsleg Just think ef it—a Hianew Seine 4 ft. deep, rigged complete with sinkers and floats, Vs in. woven mi, sent bj parcel post at these prices. ~~ "file -- 4 ft. long 38o 8 ft. long 73c Send Post office Veney On BOURNE fc BOND, 313 Market Street, Lonlsville, Ky. 8 ft. long. 10 ft. long... Iraer. 55o 85c Lockstitch Awlsews shoes, harness, rugs, canvas, etc., with kfckstitch like sewing machine. 60c each, 2for$1.00; Waxed Thread free*. Stamps taken. Snap for aments, W. ▲. MacKenzie, 152 Lloyd Building, St. Louis, Mo. Sorghum is a relatively exhausting cr p to the soil, and in order to secure a large yield liberal fertilization is necessary. Like most sugar-producing crops the vegetable matter should be supplied* through turning under legumes the previous year rather than through the use of yard manure, but we think compost in the form of litter or rich earth from the woods would not be ob jectionable. This should be used under the drill row at the rate of several tons per acre. We believe you will find it desirable to use under sorghum a form ula containing about 9 to 10 per cent of phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 5 per cent of potash. You may pur chase such a formula or you may pre pare it by mixing at home if you desire to do so. High grade acid phosphate, cotton seed meal, sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda or blood may be used as sources of phosphorus and nitrogen, and sulphate of potash as the source of potash. We would apply about 500 pounds per acre, using 300 to 400 pounds under the drill rotv at the time of planting and 100 to 200 pounds as a side application. There is no one best variety for syrup making purposes, but think the Amber or Orange would be the best varieties to use for this pur pose. Of course, you understand that sorghum .may be improved so far as its saccharine qualities are concerned, through careful selection for a Tew years. The Amber sorghum matures somewhat earlier than the Orange, and on this account it is given preference by sotne who desire to grow it for syrup making. So far as yield or qual ity of syrup is concerned we think there is little to choose between these two varieties. * ' * * PREPARING A BASIC FERTILIZER. W. E. B., Meigs. Ga., writes: I want to make an 8-3-2 formula for corn out of cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and kainit, and I want to make a 9-3-3 for cotton out of meal, acid and potash. I have a dark soil with a clay subsoil. If these are not good formulas, please give .me a better one. . ^ If you will mix together 900 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, * 900 pounds cotton seed meal containing 6.18 per cent of nitrogen, 2.5 per cent of phosphoric acid and 2 per cent of pot ash, and 200 pounds of kainit carrying 12.5 per cent of available potash, you will secure a formula which analyzes approximately 8-3-2. If you will mix together 1,000 pounds of acid phosphate, 900 pounds of cotton seed meal and 100 pounds of muriate or sulphate of potash, you will secure a formula which will give you approximately a 9-3-3. It is a comparatively, simple matter to weigh out and proportion the formula in the amounts indicated. In preparing these fertilizers y.ou should be very certain to mix them thoroughly and completely. These formulas should answer very well for corn and cotton on dark soil with clay subsoil. * • * TREATMENT OF A CAKED UDDER. D. S., River Junction, Fla., writes: I have a good Jersey cow with her third calf which is five days old. The cow’s udder has lumped and almost entirely stopped the flow of milk, and she is fall ing off in flesh. I feed her on crushed corn and cotton seed meal with all the forage she desires. Please tell me what to do for her. * ment. Nitrate of soda contains 15 to 16 per cent of available nitrogen They are both inorganic carriers of nitrogen. The nitrate of soda contains its ni trogen in the form in which plants util ize it to the best advantage, and, there r fore, it becomes very quickly available to growing crops since it dissolves al most immediately on being scattered over the surface of the ground. The nitrogen in sulphate of, ammonia be comes very quickly available also, though it must be transformed into ni trate before plants can use it to the best advantage. Sulphate of ammonia will give its best results on soils where there is a considerable supply of lime or where lime has been added rather recently in the form of raw ground rock or as burnt lime. With this ex ception there is little to choose between the two sources of nitrogen, and one should be governed in purchasing al most entirely by the price. You can easily determine thic by the quotations furnished you. I would not hesitate to use* some sulphate of ammonia this year even though I thought my land deficient in lime, but if I expected to use it systematically would arrange to lime my soil so as to get the best re sults from the use of the sulphate. * * * PLANTING SWEET POTATOES. H. M., Chipley, Ga., writes: I am thinking of planting a few acres in sweet potatoes, and would like to know the best market variety and the best potato fertilizer. I expect to plant on-light sandy land, rather poor which was in ,oats and peas last season. We judge your cow to be suffering from what is known as caked udder. The best treatment for this is to bathe with hot water. Foment the udder for twen ty minutes at a time three times a day. Wipe it thproughly dry an,d rub in an ointment consisting of one part of gum camphor dissolved in eight parts of melted lard. Give saltpetre internally in one ounce doses twice daily for three days. The gentle kneading and rubbing of the udder is of the utmost impor tance, but violent compression should not be resorted to. If there is any ev idence of constipation give a dose of oil. Otherwise this would hardly be necessary. It is important that the ud der be kneaded so that it may be thor oughly stripped out and cleansed. The sucking of the calf will often affect a cure in the coarse of a few days. * * * SELECTING A TOP DRESSER. C. B. E., Knoxville, Ga., writes: Would it be possible for me to use sulphate of ammonia to better ad vantage on corn than nitrate of soda at present prices for both articles? My land is sandy i. id has been badly handled in the past. There is much confusion with re gard to the names of varieties of po tatoes. So many have local rather than specific names. The variation in this crop is due somewhat to the ease with which they become mechanically mixed and partly to the great varia tion due to climatic conditions. As a rule, southern markets demand a soft and syrupy potato. Among the. vari eties popular in the north are Nanse- mond and Big Stem Jersey. In the outh there is nothing superior to the so-called Yellow Yam, Georgia Yam and Sugar Yam. This variety is not nearly so productive as some others, and not grown so extensively on that account, its place being taken by the Dooly or Pumpkin Yam. Light sandy land which is in a rath er poor state of cultivation should be liberally fertilized for the sweet potato crop. The land should be mellow so the ground will not bake. It should be warm so as to promote a long pe riod of active growth and it should be well drained. The sweet potato loves a soil which contains a fair amount of hu mus. Pine leaves and litteb gathered from the woods is very beneficial to use under this crop. Th e material should be strewn along th© drill row before the fertilizer is addded. Then add the fertilizer and mix the whole mass well with the soil. Then bed and plant thereon. The sweet potato crop requires a complete fertilizer and a high grade formula as well. We would advise the use of 500 pounds per acre as a mini mum, though 1,000 pounds may often be used to advantage. A good formula to use may be prepared by mixing togeth er 1,000 pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of dried blood and 400 pounds of liJirhgrade sulphate of potash. This mixture will analyze approximately 8 per cent of phosphoric acid, 3.9 per cent of nitrogeh and 10' per cent of potash. * * * PREPARING A GIVEN FORMULA. J. C. N., Ft. Gaines, Ga., writes I would like to have a formula for mixing acid phosphate, dried blood and muri ate of potash. I want to make a 10-4-0 or higher grade if I can. I pre fer not to use nitrate of' soda for my nitrogen. THE GOHREGT WAY TO CULTIVATE THE L! FERTILIZER FACTS No. 4 A Few Essential Facts About Plowing-Use Plenty of Power SOIL CONSERVATION. If you will mix together 1,200 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 560 pounds of dried blood carrying 14 per cent of available nitrogen and 240 pounds of high-grade muriate or sul phate of potash, you will secure a for mula which very closely approximates a 10-4-6. This is about th© highest grad© formula you could hope to make out of the materials you have in hand. It would be an unusually high-grade reitilizer and should answer well for truck crops. There is no reason why you should not use the blood if of the percentage composition mentioned in place of the nitrate of soda. It is not quite so quickly available as the ni- but sti11 ** wil1 become service able in the soil with sufficient rapidity to meet th© needs of practically any truck crop, provided, of stimulate and push the season with trate of soda. course, you it along later in top dressing of ni- Why do we plow?—to furnish a seed bed and a medium of growth for the coming crop; to kill weeds and turn under trash or vegetation for future humus: to break up heavy, hard packed soil so that water may percolate through to the lower, strata; to aerate the soil; to reduce soil to a condition for proper planting and cultivating crops. Probably, by the majority of farmers plowing is considered as a simple oper ation, and many farmers seem to think that anybody who can drive a straight furrow is a good plowman. Yet this seemingly easy spring job may be very badly or very wisely done. No hard and fast rules can be laid down for plowing any more than for the thou sand and .one other farm operations. Associated with intelligent plowing is the important function of capillarity. Capillarity is the peculiar action by which moisture in contact with a solid is elevated or depressed. Its action does not depend upon gravity, and in deed operates in defiance of gravitation. A piece of earth, being porus and con=~ sisting of small particles of organic matter, will soak up moisture. Moisture travels in all directions when it comes in contact with soil, sur rounding each by tiny particles as it goes until the whole mass is uniform. If sufficient moisture is supplied, a condition of saturation occurs which means that the soil is holding all it can, the overflow running off or leach ing downwards or standing as free water in or on the surface. As water is one of the essential fac tors in crop production, and its scarcity or excess is a matter of profit and loss, it is important for the plowman to know how the degree of moisture in the soil may be regulated, conserved or drained away. In the humid sections where rainfall is excessive* it is neces sary to get rid of the surplus moisture in order that plants, may make satis factory growth. This is done by sur face or under drainage. In the semi- arid regions where all the rainfall is needed, especially in the dry farming sections, plowing and subsequent cul tivations must be done with a view to conserve the moisture in the soil, that is, saving it for the use of the plants instead of allowing it to be lost by evaporation. Moisture through capillary attraction moves more rapidly where the particles lie close together, but not so close as to destroy porosity. There must be a porous condition, or air spaces betwen the particles of soil, but these air spaces must also not be too large or moisture will not readily conect or pass from one particle to another, hence the \ importance of good plowing. Soil which is rolled or tramped will bring the moisture rapid ly to the surface, where the heat of the sun evaporates it and more moisture comes up from below to take its place. Everyone has noticed the continued dampness of footprints in plowed land when the surrounding surface will appear dry. This means just the re verse of its appearance; that is to say, where ground has been tramped it ap pears wet, but in reality the soil be neath contains less moisture than where the surface is made fine and loose, for in the latter the dust-mulch prevents the escape of soil moisture. This is be cause by harrowing the surface the particles are loosened and lie too far apart to permit rapid capillary. Even, however, with the very best spring plowing that the farmer is able to perform it is often necessary to pack the seed bed after sowing or plant ing in order to bring in contact with the seeds enough moisture laden soil to germinate them. I will remember once a field of cow peas on my farm, which showed a luxuriant growth along the lines of each land where the team turn ed, but owing to the loose condition of the soil and being very dry at plfvnt'ng time, showed but a sparse growth else where. You will always hear the best farm ers say: “Use plenty of power;*’ that is. do not try to run a plow or any other farm implement with barely enough'horse flesh to pull it. The best of plowing cannot be done thus. Often it will be found a saving to put three horse on a plow where two are ordinarily considered sufficient. Three will stand the strain better and longer and with much less fatigue, hence the plowing will not have to be slighted to save the team. Results, better plow ing.' However, I am led to believe, as- a general thing, deep plowing is best, but it is not well to plo-tfr deeply the first time where the custom has bfeen to plow shallow for a number of ye^.rs. It is much better to increase the depth a little each year, until the desired depth is attained. There is a great field of study in plowing, and my experience is that there is still plenty to learn. So let us see if we can’t do a little better plowing this spring, and see what the result is when the time of harvest shall come. Conserving the soil 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 its richness without making any return. If you have $10,000 in a bank 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 aav- 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 wilt 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 soli 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 the 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. 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 plant 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 manure (in the stable or lot) you are 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 toll 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 soatter In your furrows. Look about you, Mr. Farmerl 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 ashe6? 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 f iles, exposed to sun and winds and bleaching rains, f 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 cook qn egg. THE CONCLUSION OF THIS WHOLE MATTER. I have often said, and I steadfastly believe, that an acre of soil may be literally scraped off by means of a road scraper down to the red 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 to 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 here. That is a bold statement, but I believe It firmly, not stating the time, but In less than ten years. That la the way old Dame Nature makes rich soli; 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 Southern Fertilizer Association, Atlanta, Ga. Sulphate of ammonia is an excellent carrier of nitrogen, and contains, as you know, 20 to 21 per cent of this ele- GROCERY PRICES THAT SAVE YOU M0NEY--BY MAIL Don't pay fabulous prices for groceries: Get better goods than ypur dealer sells for J /a to 1-3 less money. We buy in carloads and sell direct to you for less than your dealer pays at wholesale. Our tremendous business makes this possible. We guarantee full weights and highest quality on everything in the grocery line. All our goods examined- and passed by state food expert before shipment. Cut out the middleman’s profit—buy all your groceries direct from us. Money back If dissatisfied. Specials This Week At Wholesale Prices 25 lbs. 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Every time you buy groceries without this price list you throw away money. You can pay the freignt and save your dealer’s profit. Tell your neighbors about our low prices. Get together and order In quantity lots and get &txll l°wer prices. Special discounts on large orders. Goods shipped immediately on receipt of order. We guarantee to save you money on everything in the grocery line, whether your order be large or small. Write today for our great Grocery Price List on everything needed for your table. Address Mail Order Department J L. W. ROGERS CO., 36 Pure Food Stores, Atlanta, Ga. FERTILIZATION OF WHEAT OM Farmer, Laurens, S. C.. write* • I have a piece of laud that was in co-n aid pear last year that was sown in wheat last fall. I wish to know what kind of fertilizer to use on it. The land is a gravelly loam with clay sub soil. The wheat is in opeh furrows. Also please tell me what kind of fer tilizer to use on sweet and Irish pota- toes on same land. It would not be advisable in our judg- ment to make an application of a com- plete fertilizer to your wheat land at this season of the year. We would prefer to use a top dressing and one derived from material which becomes quickly available. We have used sul phate. of ammonia to good advantage as a top dressing, and it is an excellent material for this purpose, carrying a high per cent, of nitrogen which be comes rapidly available to the plant The best results are obtained with sul phate of ammonia, however, on Soils to which lime has been added. You probably have not done this and the next best thing for you to use is nitrate of soda. Apply 100 pounds per acre and scatter uniformly over the soil. It is not neces sary to work it into the soil. If the crop is sown in the open furrow and one wishes to expedite the growth, run ning a harrow over the ground will not injure the crop, provided the harrow is run in the same direction as the rows. A good fertilizer to use on sweet and Irish potatoes may be prepared by mix ing together 1,000 pounds of acid phos phate, 600 pounds of dried blood, and 300 pounds of high grade sulphate of potash. This formula will analyze 8 per cent of phosphoric acid, 3.9 per cent of nitrogen and 7.5 per cent of pot ash. It should be used at the rate of 500 pounds per acre and upwards. Land for Irish potatoes should contain a consid erable amount of vegetable matter. This is best supplied in the form of well rotted yard manure. Open up the fur rows in which you expect to plant the potatoes and mix the manure and fer tilizer well with the subsoil. Then throw in a light covering of earth to separate the potatoes from the manure, and drop the pieces in the furrow 15 to 18 inches apart and cover well with soil. The soil should be harrowed down Just before the potatoes break through. Sweet po tatoes will be benefited by filling the furrows over which the . beds are to be made with little and leaf mold from the woods and mixing the fertilizer therewith. FERTILIZERS ADAPTED TO COTTON H. J. C., Hoschton, Ga., writes: I have thirty acres -to plant in cotton this year. About half the land is djtrk gray with red clay subsoil, and the rest is red land with red clay subsoil. All makes a very good weed. Would like to know what fertilizer to use on this land for best results. We think it hardly necessary for you WONDERFUL DISCOVERY FOR ALL INJURIES AND DISEASES OF STOCK Tlie Old Reliable Dr. Porter’* Antiseptic Healing: Oil discovered by an old B. B. Surgeon. Stops Bleeding, Heals at the same time, and causes hair to grow. Thousands of Farmers' and Stockmen know it already, and a trial will convince you that I)R. PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL is the most wonderful Remedy ever discovered for Barbed Wire Cuts, Wounds. Sores, Galls, Thursh, Scratches, Cracked Heel. Shoe Bolls, Nalls in Feet, Warts, Mange on Dogs. etc. It will heal a gall while the horse is being work ed. Removes Warts that other remedies won’t remove. Continually people are finding new uses for this famous old Remedy. Sold by nearly all Druggists. If your Druggist hasn't it, send us 50c in stamps for medium size, or $1.00 for large size, and it will be sent by Parcel Post. Money refunded if not satisfac tory. We mean it. PARIS MEDICINE CO., 2624 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo., Makers of Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic, recognized for 30 years as the standard General Strengthening Tonic, also Laxative Bromo Quinine used the world over toCur©a Cold in One Day.—(Advt.) to prepare two formulas for the types of land described in your letter, for if we judge aright the principal dif ference between these soils is due to the fact that one has been subject to leaching much more than the other, and therefore a part of the iron has been washed out which accounts for the dif ference in color. If these soils are actually different, due to the percen tage of lim© or other elements they contain, then of course, a difference in the formulas might be desirable. We would suggest for cotton on this land at least a 9-3-3 used at .the rate of 600 pounds per acre. If you have had any trouble with the cotton shedding we would increase the potash by at least one per cent. A formula of this kind may be easily prepared by mixing together 1,000 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 900 pounds of cotton seed meal containing not less than 0.18 per cent of nitrogen. 2.5 per cent of phosphoric acid and 2 per cent of potash, and 100 pounds of muriate of potash. W© would suggest that you use not less than 300 pounds under the drill row and 200 pounds as a side ap plication. A high per cent of phos phorus is suggested in the hope that It will increase the fruiting qualities of the cotton. • • • DIMING LAND FOR PEANUTS. W. J. J., Americus, Ga., writes: I have fifteen acres of old land which has been planted in cotton for a long time, and I wish to plant this in Span ish peanuts. What do you think of ap plying 800 pounds of lime per acre? What about using Thomas phosphate? It is certainly advisable that lime be used in connection with the growing of peanuts, and we would recommend an application of not less than 1,000 pounds of the pulverized limestone or finely ground rock. We think it should be scattered over the surface of the ground and harrowed Into the soil. The ground should be plo/wed before the ap plication of lime is made. Where the burnt lime is used probably 600 pounds will answer as it has twice the sweet ening power in the soil. * Light and fre quent applications of lime are likely to prove more effective than heavy applica tions. It is generally believed that the proportion of pops is reduced where lime Is applied to the soil. Lime also has the advantage of. setting free some of the potash which may not have been available, and it is thought that potash helps to reduce the pops as well. We would be disposed from what we know to recommend the pulverized limestone in preference to floats. post. This method has proven equally effective with us to compost, and more economical. A good side application to use with the above formula on land in tended for cotton would be 200 pounds per ere of bout n 8-3-3. * • « WHICH FORMULA IS BEST? O. C. W., Enuigma, Ga., writes: I have been thinking of two fertilizer mixtures. The first is 400 pounds of cotton s<?ed meal, 800 pounds acid phos phate and 800 pounds of kainit. The other is 1,000 pounds of acid, 600 pounds of nitrate of soda or dried blood. I want to use about 600 pounds per acre, 200 pounds at planting, 200 pounds when, cotton first begins to bloom and 200 pounds at last plowing about the first of July. W'hich formu la would you advise me to use? The land is a sandy loam. From experience we would be dis posed to recommend tne use of the second formula mentioned in your let ters namely, 1,00,0 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 600 pounds of kai nit and 400 pounds of dried blood. We do not think it would be advisable to put 400 pounds of nitrate of soda un-f der the drill row at the time of plant ing. If you desire to use some nitrate* you might use 300 pounes of blood and 100 pounds of nitrate, or you may re serve the nitrate and use it as a top dressing about the first of July. There would not be much danger of loss from leaching where only 100 pbunds of ni trate is put in the soil, and as the ni trogen it contains would oecome more quickly available than that contained in the blood, it would be a good idea to put some in the mixture so as to give the young plants a quick and vigorous start. Six hundred pounds of this for mula would be an excellent application for ordinary Georgia soils. We think it would be better for you to'put 300 to 400 pounds in the soil, and make only one side application. It is not advisable to use side applications of a. complete fertilizer as late as the first of July in our opinion. Nitrate of soda might be used at this time, as already men tioned, but later applications than this would likely result in the production of leaf and stem at the expense of fruit. PREPARING A COMPOST. W. E. N. Butler, Ga., writes: I would like to know the best way to put up compost, consisting of cotton seed, sta ble manure, acid phosphate and kainit. Is it best to put up in pens or will it do as well to mix and put in the! furrow and bed on same? What is best! for side application for cotton? If one has any considerable quantity! of yard manure to apply, it will be best; to scatter it in the open drill rows be-j fore planting the crop, and then mix j together the additional constituents i which you desire to use as a source of fertilization and scatter on top of the manure, and mix both manure and fer tilizer well with the subsoil. A bull tongue may be used for this purpose to good advantage. .We have found the best way to prepare land for cotton, and it may be used with advantage for corn as well. While a ton of yard manure per acre will prove helpful, it Is better if you can apply as much as three tons. A supplemental fertilizer to use may be prepared by mixing together 1,200 pounds of cotton seed, 760 pounds of acid phosphate and 50 pounds of mu riate of potash. Use this formula at the rate of 1,00 pounds per acre. 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