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INFLUENCE OF FERTILIZERS
AND LIME ON COTTON
Fertiliser test plats have now been
maintained in several parts of the state
for the past three years. The object of
the tests conducted on these several soil
areas has been to determine the in
fluence of fertilizers and lime on cot
ton production. The areas of soil on
which the work has been conducted have
been selected with care and the plats
laid off accurately and a careful record
of the work maintained. In order that
the test might be as representative as
possible, the test areas have been dis
tributed as widely over the state as
possible, some twenty-seven of them
now being established. The same
amount and kind of fertilizer has been
Used in all instances and each acre of
land has been divided into ten plats of
uniform size and character as to soil
drainage and general conditions in so
far as the eye can judge. Careful analy
ses were made of these soil areas and
the gross amount of plant food they con
tain determined. Later on other analy
ses will be made, thereby affording an
opportunity to see whether the store of
plant food in the soil has been decreased
or increased through the agency of the
methods of management followed. The
reader should understand in this connec
tion that these test plats all covered
three acres, and that when one acre is
growing cotton, the next acre is devoted
to corn, and the third acre to winter
oats followed by cowpeas. In other
words, a systematic three-year rotation
is maintained on these areas with the
idea of building them up through the
us of fertilizers, lime and green crops.
One rotation period has just been com
pleted and the results obtained with cot
ton on five areas of land in south Geor
gia during the years 1912, 1913 and 1914
are presented for the information of the
reader.
The first of the test plats on each
area is used as a check plat. To the
second plat 100 pounds of muriate
of potash was applied; to the third plat,
400 pounds of acid phosphate; to the
fourth plat, 140 pounds of dried blood;
to the fifth plat, 40 pounds of acid phos
phate and 100 pounds of muriate of pot
ash; to the sixth plate, 140 pounds of
dried blood and 100 pounds of muriate
of potash; to the seventh plat. 140
pounds of dried blood. 400 pounds of
acid phosphate; to the eighth plat, 140
pounds of dried blood, 400 pounds of
acid phosphate and 100 pounds of mu
riate of potash; to the ninth plat, 3.000
pounds of finely ground rock phosphate
and 400 pounds of acid phosphate; to
the ninth plat. 3,000 pounds of finely
ground rock phosphate, 40 pounds of
acid phosphate and 100 pounds of mu
riate of potash.
The average of three years trials
shows that the check plat produced 617
pounds of seed coton. The yield of
seed cotton was increased by 30 pounds
where 100 pounds of muriate of potash
were applied. When 400 pounds of acid
phosphate were applied the yield of seed
cotton was increased by 64 pounds.
When 140 pounds of dried blood were
used the yield of seed cotton over the
check plate was raised to 98 pounds. The
use of acid phosphate and potash to
gether raised the yield over the check
plat by 159 pounds. When nitrogen and
phosphoric acid were used together the
yield of seed cotton over the check plat
wax raised to 203 pounds. When a
complete fertilizer, consisting of the
three elements in the quantities shown
above was applied, the yield of seed
cotton over the check plat was raised
to 303 pounds. In the case of rock
phosphate combined with acid phos
phate. the increase over the check plat
was 95 pounds: and with rock phos
phate, acid phosphate and potash com
bined, the increase over the check plat
amounted to 155 pounds.
When lime was added to the soil at
the rate of 1,500 pounds of caustic lime
and 3.000 pounds of raw ground rock,
the check plat show an increase over
the area where no lime was used of 32
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pounds The largest increase from the
use of lime seemed to be in association
with potash, and amounted to 170 pounds
of seed cotton per acre. Where nitrogen
and potash were used together, the in
crease due to lime was apparently 144
pounds. When lime was used with rock
phosphate there was a decrease of 11
pounds; and where lime was used with
rock phosphate, phosphoric acid and pot
ash, there was an increase of only 33
pounds. It appears from these results,
therefore, that lime was not used with
profit on cotton.
In this connection, the increase due to
fertilizers on the limed area was 243
pounds where 140 pounds of dried blood
and 100 pounds of potash were applied;
206 pounds where 140 pounds of dried
blood and 400 pounds of acid phosphate
were used; and 308 pounds where a
complete fertilizer, consisting of 140
pounds of dried blood, 400 pounds of
acid phosphate and 100 pounds of pot
ash, was used.
It appears, therefore, that nitrogen
is a limiting factor in cotton produc
tion in south Georgia, and that this
should be increased in the soil very ma
terially through the use of green crops
plowed under, yard manures, compost
and supplemental commercial fertilizers.
Naturally, the farmer can not expect to
buy nearly all the nitrogen which will
be required to produce profitable crops
of cotton. Therefore, he must depend
on using means of supplying this ele
ment which are at once economical and
practical. Since there is an abundance
of nitrogen in the air, he must so ad
just his business as to make legumes
gather a considerable quantity of this
element and store it in his soil. By em
phasizing live stock production and ro
tating his crops he can also increase
the quantity of manure and thus add to
the store of nitrogen.
Phosphoric acid and potash when com
bined gave a considerable increase, but it
appears from the results that the single
elements when used alone did not in
crease the yield to anything like tne
extent pertaining where a complete fer
tilizer was applied. For instance, an
increased yield of 308 pounds of seed
cotton would be equivalent to at least
108 pounds of lint, which at 10 cents
a pound would amount to SIO.BO, or at
12 cents a pound to $12.96. The ferti
lizer used should not cost under normal
conditions over $5.00, leaving a very
good profit, therefore, from its use.
The foregoing facts should be careful
ly considered and digested by every
farmer who is attempting to grow cot
ton under soil and climatic conditions
similar to those prevailing in south
Georgia.
In north Georgia where the same ex
periments were conducted on five area of
land during the three years in question,
results of similar import were obtained.
Where no lime was applied, the largest
increase in seed cotton o'er the check
plat was 311 pounds obtained with a
complete fertilizer. The next largest in
crease was 270 pounds obtained from a
combination of phosphoric acid and pot
ash. The next largest increase was 239
pounds obtained from the combination
of nitrogen and phosphoric acid. As in
other instances, the rock phosphate in
combination with phosphoric acid and
potash did not show large increases; at
least not large enough to make its use
practically or profitable under the condi
tions pertaining in the tests in question.
Where lime was used in combination
with the fertilizer formulas set forth at
the beginning of this article, the largest
increase over the check plat was 179
pounds of seed cotton obtained with an
application of phosphoric acid and pot
ash. Nitrogen and potash gave an in
creased yield over the check plat of Li
pounds of seed cotton, and a complete
fertilizer, 112 pounds. As In the case
where no lime was used, the plats fer
tilized with rock phosphate and acid
phosphate and rock phosphate and potash
did not give a sufficient large increase
over the check plat to justify the use of
these materials.
The increase due to fertilizers on
north Georgia soils when these materials
were used on limed areas were as fol
lows; The largest yield over the cheek
plat of 350 pounds of seed cotton was
obtained with a complete fertilizer; the
next largest yield of 276 pounds was ob
tained with a combination of acid phos
phate and potash: the third largest yield
of 233 pounds was obtained with a com
bination of blood and potash: and the
fourth largest yield of 215 pounds was
obtained with a combination of blood
and acid phosphate.
These results show a substantial profit
from the use of a complete fertilizer,
though there was not enough increase on
the lined areas as compared with the
uniimed to justify the use of lime in as
sociation with the productio”n of cotton
on north Georgia soils. These results,
ot course, are subject to modification and
change in the future. The tests will be
continued through a series of years, each
year adding to their value and enabling
more definite and valuable deductions to
be made for the information and guid
ance of Georgia farmers.
• • •
RESULTS OF APPLYING FLOATS
’ J. 8. K., Cave Spring. Ga., writes: 1
would like to know the results of your ex
periments with r«w phosphate, or floats.
How should the price compare with acid
phoephat?? Which is the be»t fertilizer
one made from acid phosphate and cotton
seed meal or acid phosphate, tankage and
blood ?
The returns obtained from the use of
raw ground phosphate rock or floats on
our test plats in various parts of Geor
gia have been disappinting up to the
present time. These soils as you undei
stand are not well supplied with veg
etable matter. In order to secure good
results from floats it is essential that
large amounts of vegetable matter be
supplied to the soil in the form of yard
manures of green leguminous crops turn
ed under. In north Georgia where 3.000
pounds of floats was applied per acre
the increased yield of corn and oats was
practically nothing. With cotton the in
crease amounted to 19.5 pounds of seed
cotton per acre. You will thus see that
it did not pay to use floats. Possibly a
smaller amount of this material might
have given practically the same results
and thus lessened' the cost of the appli
cation.
Floats cost us about $8 per ton. Pre
sumably you can buy it for somewhat
near the same price. The freight will of
course influence the amount asked for
it to some extent.
We do not think you will And a better
formula to use under existing conditions
than a combination of cotton seed ineal,
tankage or blood and acid phosphate.
Cotton seed meal, as you know, contains
about 2 per cent of this element. Acid
phosphate is probably the most satis- i
factory carrier of phosphoric acid which
we can utilize at the present time. The]
nitrogen in blood and tankage becomes;
readily available and it is a very good i
source from which to obtain this mate-'
rial.
STIMULATING SEED AND LINT PRO
DUCTION.
G. A. L., Powersville, Ga., writes: I am
preparing to plant fresb ground in cotton
the coining season, and 1 believe fresh
ground lias a tendency to produce stalk with
little fruit. Could I overcome this tendency
by planting any particular kind of seed:
What varieties would you suggest for fresh
sandy loam ground? What formula would
you recommend under the circumstances?
Where land tends to produce an abund
ance of stalk, it would ordinarily not ap
pear to be benefited by heavy applica
tions of nitrogen. Under conditions such
as you describe we would be inclined,
however, to emphasize the use of acid
phosphate as this is the element con
cerned in the production of seed and the
hastening of maturity. We believe that
you can afford to use as much as 300
pounds of this material per acre and
that you would find it of advantage to
do so as the soils in Georgia as a rule
are not well supplied with this element.
You would probably also find it good
practice under ordinary circumstances
to use some potash, but under existing
conditions this would not be practicable
for reasons with which you are familiar.
The seed is influenced by its natural in
herent qualities, and also by the char
acter of soil on which it is planted.
Land which tends to produce a large
stalk of cotton will produce relatively
large stalks from seed that on average
soil will only produce a medium sized
plant. The earlier maturing varieties of
cotton as a rule do not produce as large
stalks as the later maturing sorts. We
believe vou will find Covington's Toole,
Trice and Cleveland’s Big 801 l very good
sorts to plant in your section of the
slate.
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MERITS OF SLACKED LIME
C. 8.. Babcock. Ga.. writes: I am ad
vised to use slaked lime as a fertilizer.
Please advise me whether It would pay aud
in what way should it be used to get the |
best results?
Lime is valuable in Georgia soils fori
correcting acidity, for improving the me
chanical condition, for destroying objec
tionable insects and fungi and for pro
moting the welfare of the bacteria which
is essential to the proper production of
legumes. On soils well supplied with
vegetable matter ground raw rock can
be used at the rate of 1,000 pounds and
upward per acre. We think it best to
use a ton broadcasted over the surface
of the ground after the land has been
plowed. Harrow over the top of the
soil but do not mix with
Well slaked lime can be used but we
think the raw ground rock will be found
quite satisfactory and it is somewhat
easier to handle. This material should
of course be ground rather finely. Lime
rock will be of greatest benefit if used
before legumes are planted. At least this
has been our experience. It may be at
times an advantage to use it on corn
and cotton, probably being more benefi
cial under cotton than corn upon the
whole. Lime of course is a corrective
of certain conditions in the soil but will
not take the place of commercial fer
tilizers. We have found it to increase
the yield of legumes grown for hay by
one-half to three-fourths of a ton per
acre.
• • •
SAWDUST AS A SOURCE OF FERTIL
IZER
J. L. H.. Gastonia. N. C., writes: We
have a lot of oak and hickory sawdust that
has been sawed about two years and is well
rotted. Is it worth anything as a fertilizer.
If so, how would be the best way to use
it on red land?
Sawdust contains comparatively little
plant food. A fair average analysis
shows a ton of it to contain about two
pounds of nitrogen, four pounds of phos
phoric acid and eight pounds of potash.
We do not think it can be used to much
advantage for fertilizing purposes; cer
tainly not if you had to haul it any
considerable distance. It is true that it
contains some potash, and that is an
item to be reckoned with. We would
not use sawdust under the drill row
or concentrate it in the field, but if ap
plied at all. would broadcast it. Some
times it can be used with fair results
as afi absorbent in stables. We judge,
however, that the sawdust about which
you write would not be very satisfactory
for this purpose, especially as it has
been exposed to the weather for two
years. We think that dried leaves, for
est litter and woods earth would be
found more satisfactory for the enrich
ment of the soil, for absorbents in sta
bles and or compost purposes than saw
dust.
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TICK EMDIHTION WORK
GOES FORWARD RIPIDLY
Dairymen and Farmers Are
Closely Following Work
of Experts
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SANDERSVILLE, Ga., .lan. 31. —The
tick eradication work being carried on
in Washington county under the super
vision of a government expert is being
closely followed by dairymen and farm
ers, generally. Concrete dipping vats
have been built In every section of the
county and during the month of April
and May every head of cattle in the
county will be required to be dipped.
Already the cattle raising industry has
taken on more interest by our farmers
and planters and It is safe to predict
the coming year will find these people
shipping annually a hundred or more
cars of fine beef cattle.
Monday morning quite a number of
people closely scrutinized a glass jar
at the office of the Sandersville Geor
gian that contained a weevil closely re
sembling the Mexican boll weevil, but,
•strange to say, none could tell positively
if it was this dreaded pest of the farm
ers, though every one was almost sure
it was the real thing. Some suggested
the bug be sent to the state entomolo
gist, but it was decided to await the
return of the county farm demonstrator
Tuesday and abide by his decision. The
bug was caught by a negro hand on a
farm a few miles south of this city.
About thirty carloads of cotton seed
meal was shipped from the local oil mill
last week to various points in the state.
Meal is now selling for $35 a ton and
each car was valued from SI,OOO to
$1,200. The total sale aggregated ap
proximately $30,000 and was a record for
the local mill.
warn TarmerTagaTnst
“LYE POTASH” FAKIRS
Department of Agriculture
Sends Out Important Cir
cular Exposing Swindle
ATHENS, Jan. 31. —Information has
come to the College of Agriculture that
parties are selling in certain sections of
the state so-called “potash balls” or
other caustic lye preparations to be used
In mixed fertilizers in place of the pot
ash salts which cannot now be obtained
from German mines. The “potash balls”
and other forms of caustic lye prepara
tions contain no potash whatver, accord
ing to a circular just issued by the de
partment of agricultural chemistry of
the College of Agriculture, but are sim
ply sodium hydroxide, or soda lye. These
lyes are put on the market for soap mak
ing, the soda being quite as good as the
potash and, of course, far cheaper.
The circular states that soda cannot
take the place of potash as a plant food,
and that while the farmer may be fooled
the plant will not be. All that the soda
lye will do in the soil will be burn up
the humus, the one thing in which
southern soils are most deficient, "The
offer of these substances cannot be too
strongly condemned and the farmers of
Georgia are warned against their use,”
concludes the circular.
Man Kills Baby
By Forcing Acid
Down Its Throat
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Four-weeks
old Julius Clemens died today from the
effects of a quantity of acid forced down
his throat by an unidentified man while
the child was sitting in a go-cart out
side of a candy shop in the Bronx yes
terday.
Mrs. Charles Clemens, the baby's
mother, had stepped into the shop, leav
ing her four-year-old daughter, Ixonia,
to watch Julius. When the mother
rushed to the street in response to the
girl's screams she found that the baby's
mouth, chin and neck had been burned
by a strong acid, and the child was
crying.
”A man did it.” said Leonia. "He
gave baby something.”
The police have been unable to obtain
a clue to the identity of the poisoner
and are also at a loss as to his mo
tive.
s3o,oooHotel Bill
Run Up by Peace
Pilgrims on Ford
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 29.. —A hotel bill
of $30,000. that's what Henry Ford had
to pay for putting up his peace party
at the Grand hotel here.
On the bills are frequent charges for
champagne and expensive Havana
cigars.
plansarFbeTng 'made
FOR DODGE COUNTY FAIR
EASTMAN, Ga.. Jan. 28. —At a meet
ing of the directors of the Dodge County
Fair association, held in the offices of
the chamber of commerce, a deal was
closed for a permanent location.
Grounds consisting of twenty-seven
seres in the southwestern part of the
city were purchased from AV. H. Clem
ents for SIOO per acre. The property
is an ideal site for fair purposes be
cause of its proximity to the center of
the city and the topography of the
land.
The Dodge county tair will be held
October 17 to 21. Work on the build
ings will begin as soon as contracts
can. be let and the material assembled.
z \n excellent half-mile race track will
be one of the features of the fair.
Ample funds have been subscribed
with which to finance the project and
the fair will no doubt be one of the
largest and most successful to be held
in the state. The ease with which the
subscriptions ha\e been obtained and
the great enthusiasm manifested in the
movement is but another evidence ot
the general prosperity now being ex
perienced in this section.
HEAD OF UNIVERSITY - OF
ALABAMA IS ASSAILED
(By Associated Press.)
MOBILE!. Ala.. Jan. 30.—University of
Uabama trustees were notified today of
i special meeting of the board to be held
Monday to consider charges brought
against President Denny, of the univer
sity, by Professor Frederick D. Lasey,
a member of the faculty.
Losey’s charges followed the presi
dents action in refusing to recommend
him for reappointment as a member
■f the faculty.
Bomb Stops Lecture
HALIFAX, Jan. 29. —A bomb exploded
while a lecture was in progress at the
military school here today injuring eight
persons, two seriously.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY BANK
FAILS TO OPEN ITS DOORS
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Jan. 28.—The
Jefferson County bank, capital $500,000,
failed to open up this morning and a no
tice on the doors announces the banking
department has taken over the institu
tion for liquidation. The bank a few
months ago took over the Jefferson
County Savings bank which had closed
its doors and after reorganizing absorb
ed the Merchants and Mechanics bank.
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FERTILIZER * / .
FACTS No. 25
To have prosperity without Potash is the vital problem we
propose to solve and solve successfully.
There is little Potash on the market, but much in the soil.
There is a considerable supply of Acid Phosphate (Phos
phorous) and an ample-supply of Ammonia (Nitrogen) to be
had. With the Potash in the soil a heavy application of acid
and ammonia will round out a plant food for cotton, corn,
truck, etc., that will make the 1916 crop a success.
Here are some vital suggestions that, if followed, will guar'
antee the next crop, despite the lack of Potash.
With two bales of cotton per acre you get 40,000 pounds of stalk to
plow under and help enrich the soil. \>7ith a third of a bale per acre you
get only about 4,000 pounds—or one-tenth the amount of vegetable matter.
This estimate is based on actual weight. How to get two bales per
acre. Use barnyard manure in drill rows. Use a thousand pounds of
good fertilizer to the acre. A heavy application of fertilizer pays better
than a light application if the soil is well tilled. Intensive farming alway*
pays, and is accumulative in its effect.
Intensive farming requires good farming implements and plenty of plant
food.
For more complete information, write the under
signed for FREE copy of Dr. DeLoach's Bulle
tin “FARMING WITHOUT POT AS Hr
Soil Improvement Committee
SOUTHERN FERTILIZER ASSOCIATION
Atlanta. Ga., U. S. A.
Ask for this
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LESTER TAYLOR IS DEAD
FROM GUNSHOT WOUND
*. ■
WAYCROSS. Ga.. Jan. 28. —From a
gunshot wound inflicted four weeks ago
by D. O. Dowling, former marshal at
McClenny. Fla.. Lester Taylor, aged
twenty-six, died today at the home of
l his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Taylor,
west of Waycross. Dowling was killed
by Taylor in the fight at McClenny,
Taylor at the time being marshal. He
is survived by his wife and one child.
