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l THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1913. Old Fashioned Spring Tonic Is the Best (iFrom National Health Journal.) Statistics* show that not one person Jn fifty emerges from the strains of winter in good health. Due to various causes the system becomes clogged with impurities and the liver, kidneys and bowels fail to perform their func tions properly. As a result we have faded, sallow complexions, liver spots, "spring fever,” lost appetite, no energy —in fact, feel sick without knowing the cause. For correcting these disorders there is nothing so far discovered to equal the old-fashioned kardene tonic which can be made at home at small cost. Get an ounce of kardene from any druggist and dissolve in one-half pint alcohol, then add one-half cupful sugar and hot water to make a quart. A tablespoonful before each meal scon rids the system of impurities, clears the skin and restores the whole body to its normal, healthy condition. (Advt.) AGRICULTURAL Qsl Education Successful Farming- ' Andrew ft. g>ouLt This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any Information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew if. Soule, president Stats iAgricultural College. Athens, Oa. SUPPLEMENTING BARN YARD MANURE Hitch a jaylor Saw Mill onto a Tay lor Engine and your outfit will saw more logs, keep going better and MAKE MORE MONEY FOR YOU than any saw mill on earth. You ought to know about our wire cable drive, ad justable idler and time - saving carriage backing device; all sizes and prices. Write now for catalog. IVLallary Machinery Company Dept. I, MACON, GA. Sa iv Mills, Engines, Shingle Machines, Gasoline Engines BKhNOH’S tiENUINN MAIIU.V..H* WATERMELON SEED ONLY PURE STRAIN Carefully selected. Kept pure N IH T€0 $ T * T ES forty years. No other variety 11 grown on plantation of 1500 acres. Pure seed impossible where different kinds are grown, loz. 15c—2 oz. 25c—4 oz. 40c—£ lb. 60c, 1 lb. $1.00—5 lb3. 54.50—10 lbs. $8.50 delivered. Remit registered letter or money order. Send for Seed Annual. Manual nn melon culture with all orders. M. I. BRANCH. IrniHa. Cnlrath County, Georjii- LEDBETTER “ONE SEED” PLANTER Plants peanuts, large or small, shelled or unshelied, also com. cotton, peas, etc., with certainty and regu larity. Le.'S seed, larger crops. Write tor booklet. 832 SOUTHERN PLOW COMPANY. Dallas. Taxas 400,000 SWEET POTATO PLANTS I sell the improved Nancy Hall at $2 per thousand. Nancy Hall, Porto Rico Yaip a*nd Norton Yam at $1.50 per thousand. .'50,000 Tomato Plants—Red Field Beauty and Duke of York at SI. 16 per thousand, f.o.b. here. Shipment commences March 25tb. M. F. MOORE, Brownsville, Fla. FISHSEINES/NETSi Write far Prices ftCataltc |* Just think of it—* Mlatow Seine 4 ft. deep, ringed complete with linkers, end Hosts, Vs in. woven mesh, sent bp parcel posh at these prices. 4 ft. long 38<t 6ft.long... 55c 8 ft. long 73c 10 ft. long 85c Send Pont office Honev Order. BOURNE ft BOND 313 Market Street, Louisville. Ky. Fish Will Bite like hungry wolves, lill your net ^trap or trot line if you bait with Magic-Fish-Lure. Best fish bait ever discovered. Over 60.000 boxes told to fishermen last season. .Write for price list to-day and get a box to help introduce it. Agents wanted. .1. F. GrAcorv. x-IOft, Rt T.o-ij*. Ttfo RANGER” BICYCLES ive imported roller chains, sprocket* and S !dal*ilteu> Departure Coaster-Brake* and uhs; Puncture Proof Tires; highest grad« equipment and many advanced feature# possessed by no other wheels. Guaranteed tor 5 years. FACTORY PRICES 25Y2S«2 (others ask Tor cheap wheels. Other reli able models from 112 up. A few good second-hand machines $3 to $1. _ 10 DAYS’ FREE TRIAL?? 1 proval, freight prepaid, anywhere In U. 9. without a cent in advance. DO NOT BL'Y a bicycle ora pair of tires from anyone at any price until you get our big new catalog and special prices and a mar• velousnet* offer. A postal brlngseveryth 1 ng.HViteitnou>. TIDCC Coaster-Brake Rear Wheels, lamps, parts 1 and sundries half usual prices. Rider Agents everywhere are coining money selling our bicycles, tires and sundries. Wrlte today. MBAD CYCLE CO. DEPT. D180, CHICAGO W. W. X., Doerun. Ga.. writes: I have three acres of land on which I put 15 loads of lot manure, and I wish to put 50u or 600 pounds of guano. Please tell me the best tor corn, also tell me how to manure my land for cotton. I have been using from 200 to 300 pounds per acre and making about a half bale, but I want to man age it so as to make a bale per acre. The application of fifteen tons of lot manure to three acres of land should put it in good physical condition for the production of a crop of corn. You do not state whether you have broad casted the manure or not. There is no I objection to this practice though we ! are inclined to think that where one has not over five loads to use per acre that it is best to scatter it along the drill row. Corn, as you know, is a gross feeding plant and requires more liberal fertilization ' than cotton. We would suggest that you use a formula con taining 10 per cent of phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen, and 4 to 5 per cent of potash. The sandier the land | the more potash which should be ap- ! plied. We would put 400 pounds under ! the drill row at the time of planting | and use 200 pounds as a side applica- ! tion. The side application should be put on thirty days or so after the corn , is planted. The too late use of a side application will not prove efficient in increasing the yield. If you have no vegetable matter available to use on | your cotton land, you will need to use a fairly high-grade fertilizer. We would suggest a 9-3-4 for sandy soils. Put 300 pounds under the drill row and use 200 pounds as a side application. Remember that, constant surface culti vation of the corn and the selection of disease free seed are very important matters. * * * CROPPING AS EFFECTED BY TYPE OF SOIL. H. C. B., Augusta, Ga., writes: I am sending you some samples of soil taken from my 110-acre farm, and would like j to know what vegetation this soil is ; best adapted to, and what . fertilizer the land needs. I expect to plant corn and cotton on most of the land. The darkest soil sent in would, ac cording to our judgment, contain the highest per cent of vegetable matter, and therefore is more likely to be bet ter adapted for corn than cotton. Corn, as you no doubt know, requires a rich er soil and does better oti soils con taining a higher per cent of vegetable matter than cotton. Of course, corn land should be well drained to produce this crop satisfactorily, and the same is true of cotton. ' If the dark soil sent ir. is from an area of low-lying land resulting from overflow its producing quality will no doubt be increased by an application of pulverized lime rock at the rate of one ton per acre.. The lime may be put on now if you desire. It is best scattered over the ground a few days before planting the corn, and should not be mixed with the fertilizer. If you have grown corn on this la*d before and find a tendency to produce a large stalk and possibly not as much grain as you desire, we would advise the emphasis of phosphorus and, potash in the fertilizer applied. If the land just produces a normal stalk, then we would use a heavier percentage of ni trogen. We believe we could recommend on these dark soils an application of a formula containing 9 per cent of phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 5 per cent of potash for corn. On the light soils which you expect to devote to cotton, we think about an 8-3-4 should answer very well. If you have noticed a tendency for the cotton to rust, we would increase the potash. We think the minimum application for corn should be 600 pounds and for cotton 500 pounds. These amounts may be somewhat high if your land is poorly supplied with vegetable matter. Of course, you understand that the profit derived from fertilizer depends largely on the condition of me soil to which it is applied. Naturally, it must be in good physical condition, and experi ments have proven beyond question of doubt that where liberal supplies of vegetable matter can be used or where the soil naturally contains this material the best returns from fertilizer are se cured. ■ • • • LEADING VARIETIES OF CORX T . J. B. 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The banker or post master in your town knows we are the largest newspaper publishers west of New York, so we can afford to give away motorcycles to adver tise our papers. VALUABLE . 1A a v ■ prizes 1. A 1813 Indian motorcycle. 2. $50.00 in gold. 3. 15-jewel Elgin gold watch. 4. T-Jewel Elgin gold watch. 5. 26-plece silver act (Rogers). 6. 26-plece stiver set (Rogers). 7. 3-ptece carving set. 8. 1 3-plece carving set. 9. Eastman kodak. 10. Eastman kodak. SEND IN YOUR NAME TODAY. On receipt qf your name and ad dress the Contest Editor will mail you full information at once. If you will look Into this contest and see how liberal it is, we are sure that it will appeal to you more than any contest you ever heard of. Send to- i day for information—it’s free. HOW VOTES ARE CREDITED. Every, person entering the contest by April 2nd. 1913, will be given 10,000 free votes'to start with. Then you can add to this b^ securing sub scriptions to The Omaha Rural Weekly as follows: 1 year, $ .25 500 votes 3 years, $ .50 1,500 votes O years, $1.00 3,000 votes Subscriptions will not be taken for longer than six years. Each subscription you secure, whether for one year or more, will be given a set of ten gold and silver greeting and birthday post cards, which we mail to the subscribers promptly on receipt of your order. VOTES PUBLISHED. The names and standing of the candidates entered will be published for the first time in The Omaha Rural Weekly of April 2nd, and changed each issue thereafter, ac cording to their gains. INFORMATION COUPON. THE OMAHA RURAL WEEKLY MOTORCYCLE EDITOR, Omaha. Neb. Please enter my name and credit me with 10.000 votes that you give free to start with and send full particulars and suggestions for winning the Indian motorcycle. Name Postoffice . It is understood that this does not obligate me in any way, even if I never get a vote. 10,000 FREE VOTES IF YOU ENTER BY APRIL SECOND. B ing on a dynamited area? The soil is chocolate' loam and has been plowed with a three-horse disc plow. Also please tell me the best plan of preparation, cul tivation and fertilization for corn. As you no doubt know, there is no one best variety of corn, but for soils in your section of the state we think opr experience justifies us in recommending for general cultivation some of the pro lific types. Whatley corn is produced not far from your locality, and we be lieve you will find it a useful sort to test. The Cocke’s Prolific, Hastings, Batts and Marlboro are all good stand ard upland sorts of the prolific type. Farmers generally find it best to secure their seed from as near the locality in which they expect to plant it as possi ble. Therefore, we would advise you to look Into the local seed supply very care fully before purchasing elsewhere. In planting corn it is first essential to pre pare the land with care and to a good depth. This you seem to have done. We would next advise you to lay your land off in rows four feet apart. If yard manure can be incorporated un der the drill row it will be a great ad vantage. If you cannot do this secure leaf hiold or litter from the woods. Sev eral loads to the acre will prove help ful. After opening the furrow and put ting in the manure or leaf mold scat ter thereon about 400 pounds of a for mula containing about 10 per cent of phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 4 per cent of potash. Mix the manure and fertilizer well with the subsoil, draw the furrows together and plant your corn on the level or in a very light water furrow. Give shallow surface cultivation as long ’nto the season as possible. You may use one or two-horse cultivators, as you find most conven ient and no plowing of the ground with a turning plow after the corn is plant ed should be permitted. A weeder will be found helpful in breakinng the crust and helping the corn to get out of the soil and in destroying small weeds in the early part of the season. You should use a single-horse cultivator, muzzle the mule and cultivate the corn until after the silking and tasseling period is over. By so doing you conserve moisture and help to mature the crop more perfctly. * * * FERTILIZING CORN AND COTTON. B. F. C., Danburg, Ga., writs: I would like to know the best formula to use on sandy loam slightly buckshot land for cotton and corn. Also state the best preparation and cultivation for corn on black loamy upland that was broad casted with stable manure and worked in cotton last year. On sandy, loamy soil it will be best to use a formula for cotton containing about 8 to 9 per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.6 to 3 per pent of nitrogen, and 3 to 4 per cent of potash. The potash should be increased even more if there is a tendency to rust on the part of the cotton. For corn we would recom mend a formula containing 9 to 10 per cent of phosphoric acid, 3 to 3.5 per cent of nitrogen and 4 to 5 per cent of potash. We would be disposed to use at least 100 pounds more of fertilizer per acre under com than under cot ton. In other words, if you use 400 pounds under cotton, use 500 pounds un der corn. On land which is low in vege table matter put about 300 pounds un der the drill row at the time of plant ing, and use the balance as a side ap plication. On black, loamy land intend ed for corn tho use of a fairly high-grade formula is recommended. A 9-3-4 should answer well for this purpose. Black land generally contains rrfore vegetable matter than other types of soil, and if there is a tendency to produce stalk at the expense of grain on this soil cut down the nitrogen and increase the phos phorus and potash. As you no doubt know, corn requires more liberal fer tilization than cotton because it makes a heavier draft on the food supply of the soil. A good strain of King Cotton which has been selected with care and which is free from disease is one of the earliest varieties to mature which you can grow. It may not yield as abundantly as some other types, but where you are seek ing early maturity we can recommend it. The Dongola cotton has given good results in some sections. It has not commended itself to us as much as some other strains, however. As you no doubt know, varieties of cotton are better adapted to some localities than others, and there is no reason why a farmer should make a change . In his variety unless the cotton shows an undue amount of disease or is failing to yield satis factorily. * * * MANAGEMENT OF BLACK, WAXEY SOILS. J. A., Boston, Ga., writes: I am now turning a bottom of black, waxey land. Will a commercial fertilizer be of any benefit, and what grade shbuld be used? I have turned a plat of same kind of soil that is completely soded with John son grass. What shall I plant on this for best hay mixture? Is the yellow prolific corn weevil-proof? The black, waxey soil to which you refer is quite likely to be acid, and we believe you will find it desirable to use the pulverized lime rock on it at the rate of one tone per acre. We think you will find the raw rock very sat isfactory, but you should be sure in purchasing the same to obtain a guar antee with it that it runs high in car bonate of lime and relatively low in magnesia. After plowing the land scat ter the lime over the surface and work in with a harrow. Two weeks later plant.either cowpeas or soy beans since you desire to make hay therefrom. We would fertilize the peas or beans at the time of planting with a 9-4 for mula, using 300 pounds per acre. Bot tom lands, while they may be rich in vegetable matter, are often poorly sup plied in the mineral elements mention ed. We would advise you to use a legume on the land which is overrun with John son grass, for we know of nothing that will tend to hold it in check and smother it out to better advantage than a legu minous crop. Besides that, the combi nation of this grass with a legume makes a hay of extraordinary fine quality. Yellow prolific corn is not wteevil-proof. There is, in fact, weevil-proof corn. Cocke’s prolific is one of the best for this purpose on account of its hard, flinty character. If you have not tried it we would suggest that you experi ment with it. If you will put your corn in a galvanized iron crib and treat with carbon bisulphide the weevil can be destroyed, and this is the only sat isfactory way of dealing with this trou ble. • * • WHICH FERTILIZER IS BEST? G. I. S., Omega, Ga., writes: I have a piece of ground that I want to plant in cotton. It is hard, pebbly and with clay subsoil. W r hat would be a good fertilizer to use? Would a 9-3-5 be all rikht? What would 2,2250 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, the same amount of kainit and 1,500 pounds jf cotton seed meal analyze? A 9-3-4 should answer very well for cotton on land such as you describe, un less it is in very bad physical condi tion and has been run down h^ a fail ure to rotate crops. We hardily think it necessary to use 6 per cent of potash in Vour formula unless cotton tends to rust badly. Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 2,250 pounds of kainit and 1,500 pounds of cotton seed meal mixed together would contain approximately (if high-grade meal is used) 397.5 pounds of phosphoric acid, 311 pounds of potash and 96.7 pounds of nitrogen. Its percentage composition would be about 6.6 per cent of available phos phoric acid, 1.54 per cent of available nitrogen and 5.2 per cent of available potash. This formula is low in phos phoric acid and in nitrogen, and rela tively high in potash. Cut out some of the kainit and increase the cotton seed meal or use a little sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda or blood the mixture to increase the per cent of nitrogen. You should also increase the quantity of acid phosphate. You can. of course, let the nitrogen stand much as it is now and put on additional ni trogen in the form of top dressing in the early part of the growing season. We do not think this would be as good practice, however, as to make the ad justment suggested. * * * ^ GROWING COTTON ON NEW LAND. R. C. S., Waleska, Ga., writes: would like directions for growing cot ton on new land with three or four inches of soil which is the product of old field pines with red clay subsoil five or six feet deep. How deep should I plow and what guano and how much per acre must I apply? UPSET? "EMETS” Bilious, throbbing headache means Bowels are clogged and liver stagnant You're bilious; you have a throbbing sensation in your head, a bad taste in your mouth, your eyes burn, your skin is yellow, with dark rings under your eyes; your lips are parched. No wonder you feel ugly, mean and ill-tempered. Your system is full of bile not properly passed off, r.nd what ybu need is cleaning up inside. Don’t continue being a bilious nuisance to yourself and those ; who love you, and don't resort to harsh I physics that irritate and injure. Re j member that most disorders of the stomach, liver and intestines can be quickly cured by morning with gentle, thorough Cascarets—they work while you sleep. A ten-cent box from your druggist will keep your liver and bowels clean, stomach sweet and your head clear for months. Children love to take Cascarets, because they taste go'od and never grip© or sicken. ^ It is very desirable that you plow the land intended for cotton to a fairly good depth. We would say to begin with about eight inches. Do not at tempt to subsoil it, however, at this season of the year. Prepare a fine seed bed. We think it better to break the land with a turning plow rather than to lay It off in furrows as is the common practice. After preparing the seed, bed secure all the litter you can from the woods or from the stable lot and piit in the drill rows which had probably best be made about four feet apart. We would leave two stalks of cotton in each place about eighteen inches apart. Two stalks will not grow as large as one. but the two will yield a larger quantity of lint. At least this has been our experience. After you have put all the litter in the furrow you can possibly scatter the fertilizer over it at the rate of 500 pounds per acre. We think an 8-3-: will be about right for your location and on the type of soil you describe. Give shallow surface cultivation, and keep it up as late in the season as practicable. A top dressing may be needed later on but this will depend somewhat on the season; It is impor tant that you select a good variety of seed, choosing a strain which is free from disease and which has given the best results in your section. If you can not secure any vegetable matter to use in the drill row. we would be dis posed to put only 300 pounds in the ground at the time of planting and use 200 pounds as a side application. The above suggestions ar e made for the production of a fair crop. If you desire to raise an extraordinary crop, heavier applications should be made. RO A COMMENDABLE EFFORT AT TAT ION. H. A. C., Adrian, Ga., writes: I have some light sandy loam land which was broken eight inches deep in January The land was planted last year in corn and cowpeas, and some in corn and vel vet beans. I -want to plant it this sea son in cotton. What kind of fertilizer would you advise and how should it be applied? HAMS AND BACON ARE PLENTIFUL AT QUITMAN QUITMAN, Ga., March 27.—It was feared last year when hog cholera visited Brooks, in common with other Georgia counties, that the supply of bacon would be materially cut down when the market ing season began this spring'. But pres ent indications are that about the same amount of cured meat will be marketed here as in past seasons. Up to date Powers & Co., of Quitman, have bought from* the farmers, 190,000 pounds of cured bacon, at an average price of .11 cents a pound. They estimate that they will Handle fully lou.uuu pounds during the season. This is about the amount of bacon shipped from this point last sea son. The Brooks county farmer who raises enough bacon lor his own use. and some for market does not think of the perform ance as anything remarkable, yet it is affirmed that Brooks county raises more bacon for market than all the rest of the state combined. In addition to tne cured meat sold there are from fifty to 100 car loads of live hogs sold and shipped here every season, at a price averaging from $l,uuu to $1,200 for each carload. Last season the meat cured and on the hoof that was sold brought $65,000 to the coun ty, not counting in the actual cash value of the meat saved back to supply the farms, or the by-products of lard and sausage. These Brooks county hams are deserv edly famous; they are from hogs fed on peanuts and have a flavor unsurpassed. Every farmer who raises hogs plants between his rows of corn a row of pea nuts and after the corn is gathered the hogs are turned into the fields to fatten on the peanuts. In the fall a little corn fed them. Hogs are never penned here and are clean and healthy from running in the pastures. The bacon that has given the county its reputation is very carefully cured. After killing the meat is salted, the salt well rubbed in, and laid skin side up, on tables in the smoke house to cool over night. Farmers who have not a regular refrigerating plant on their places have devised effective ways of using ice. They get a block or two and lay it on a bed of green pine boughs on the smoke nouse ground. The meat is packed aroupd thU ice closely, the skin side down this time, and the joints all laid next to the ice. The interstices in the carefully built pile allow for ventilation and drainage; the meat is covered over with pine boughs and then with heavy canvas. Two thou sand pounds of meat will keep thus two weeks with the thermometer around 50, and when uncovered it will be sweet and dry. The meat when taken out has the loose salt ribbed off and plenty of pow dered red pepper rubbed in. It is hung and smoked with oak and pine boughs. The result is a ham or side of bacon firm and sweet and of a flavor that will compare favorably with any meat pro duced. When baked according to the recipes of the Brobks county housewives it is one of the most delivious dishes Im aginable arid one never forgotten. FORCED TUBE DOWN THROAT TO MAKE SUFFRAGETTES BREAK HUNGER STRIKE (By AssociatPd Press.) LONDON, March 27—The prison expe riences of Sylvia Pankhurst are described in a statement issued by her this even ing. Miss Pankhurst, who is the daugh ter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the suffragettes, was released March 21, from Halloway prison, where she was serving two months’ imprison ment for window smashing. During her incarceration she went on a hunger strike. After three days she was told she w r ould be subjected to forci ble feeding. She had made preparations, she said, to throw' things at the doctor, but when six women attendants entered she could not bring herself ' to attack them. FORCED HER TOWN. The women seized her and forced her down on the bed. “After this,” says Miss Pankhurst, "the doctors came stealing in. They had not the courage to show themselves until I w T as securely held.” Miss Pankhurst tried to keep her teeth clinched but by the aid of steel instru ments, she says the doctors succeeded In prying her jaws apart after causing her great suffering. A tube was then forced down her throat. "I was seized with severe nausea,” she continued, "ana after they had pulled the tube out they left me on the bed, ex hausted and shaking with sobs. The same thing happened in the evening but I was too tired to fight so long." FORCIBLE FEEDING. After two days of forcible feeding sre says she was ordered to solitary confine ment for refusing food and was deprived of books. The forcible feeding continued daily. After being imprisoned twenty-six days she says she was allowed to exercise with Miss Seelie Emerson, of Jackson, Mich., also serving a tw r o months’ term for window smashing. Miss Emerson, too, was on a hunger strike. I Grow IV2 Bales Cotton Where Only 1 Grew Before One te one-and-a-half and even two bales of cotton, or 60 to .90 bushels of corn per acre, require little more labor than smaller yields. Simply use liberally the right fertilizer or plant food to the acreage you plant, and cultivate the crop more thoroughly and oftener. You cannot be too careful in selecting fertilizers and seeds. Your soil deserves the best plant foods which are Virginia-Carolina High-Grade Fertilizers They arc made to give Available Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia or Nitrogen, and Potash in the right combination for greatest yields. These fertilizers produce big crops of COTTON, CORN, RICE, TOBACCO, FRUITS, PEANUTS and TRUCK. Tertili# irginiaCarolig Xhemfcdl ““ CO. I Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICHMOND - VIRGINIA 1A PLANT ENOUGH CORN FOR YOUR OWN USE This is the time that farmers*were preparing their land to plant corn. I want to earnestly advise them to plant enough corn to take care of their entire needs. Should France and Germany go to war, you would see foodstuff go very high and cotton very low. Of course, we all hope this will not happen, but as a warning to all farmers, they should be prepared for this. Plant enough corn for your entire re quirements. put in sufficiently early to enable you to put your* potatoes on the market when the price is favorable. To this end you should lose no time in planting your potatoes. Many truckers already have their crop in, some of them several weeks ago. While potatoes like a good strong soil, and we would on that ac count favor the red land for this crop, you will find if it is not well drained not so well adapted for this crop as a sandy soil. You should make the sandy soil as rich with yard manure and litter or leaf mold from the woods as possible, and use about a 9-4-6 fer tilizer. The minimum application for this crop we think w'oujd be 500 to 60t) pounds. Some growers use as much as 1,000 pounds to advantage. * * * BALANCING UP RED CLAY SOILS. H. F. B., Midville, Ga., writes: I have a plantation which has both red clay and gray sandy loam. . The prin cipal crops are corn and cotton. I would like to have you advise me what kind of fertilizer you tl)ink best for each? |^|ore than a bale per acre That was the rate of yield from Alabama soil top dressed, at the rate of 100 pounds per acre, with Nitrate of Soda It matures cotton before the boll weevil affects it. In drought it keeps the plant from shedding its bolls. Send a post card for Free Book on the Cultivation of Cotton which I have prepared, bearing especially on fertilization of cotton and con trol of the boll weevil; tells how to grow big crops at little cost. 17 Maditm Atom New Talk Director Chilean Nitrate Propaganda No Branch Office* On soil of the type described in your letter and situated in Emanuel county you will likely find quite a marked deficiency in phosphoric acid and nitro gen. The chances are that this land is also deficient in lime and somewhat acid. While it may show on analysis quite a consiaeraoie percentage or pot ash, the question is whether this is in an available form or not. Of course, its availability may be hastened by a rota tion of crops in which legumes are turn ed under, and you seem to have started this practice, so unless cotton rusts a high per cent of potash need not be used. We would suggest that you use on this land and a. formula running 9 per cent of phosphoric acid, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 3 per cent of potash. We would be disposed to put not less than 300 pounds under the drill row. If you have litter, leaf mold or any other form of vegetable matter to incorporate with the soil then put 500 pounds under the drill row. and use no side applica tion save possibly 100 pounds of nitrate of soda about the 15th of June. In the absence of vegetable matter to use in the drill row we would apply 300 pounds of fertilizer at the time of plant ing and use 200 pounds as a side appli cation. PLANTING EARLY* CROP POTA TOES. J. W. R., Fort Deposit. Ala., wrties: I am thinking of putting about five acres into Irish potatoes this year. I have red sandy soil, but it is rather low. and I have some gray higher land. Please tell me which soil would be the best for Irish potatoes, and what fertilizers to use? For corn on your heaviest red day land use a 9-3-4, and for cotton about an 8-3-3. On your gray sandy land we would suggest that you use a 10-3.5-5 for corn, and for cotton about a 9-3-4. The amount of fertilizer you can afford to use will depend much on the culti vation ybu have given the land and its content of vegetable matter. If it tis very low in organic material, 300 pounds should be the minimum application, but it is doubtful if you will secure an ade- qale return on as much as 500 to 600 pounds. Ordinary soils of this type should respond when propery culti vated to applications of as much as 600 pounds of the formula suggested for corn and' 500 pounds for cotton. We would suggest that 300 pounds be used under the drill row and 200 pounds as a side application. If your land is low in vegetable matter you will find some benefit from using top dress ings of quickly available forms of nitrogen. 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