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This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information.
Getters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, pesldent State Agri
cultural College, Athns. Ga.
Good Formulas to Use This Season
What will constitute an acceptable
fertilizer formula for the present year?
is a question being asked by thousands
of farmers. Os course, everyone real
izes that abnormal conditions prevail in
the fertilizer industry, and this being
the case, it is first necessary to consider
what can be secured, and then proceed
to compound and use these materials in
a manner which is likely to prove the
most beneficial to the crops ordinarily
grown. In this connection it is certain
that, while prices may be higher than
tn previous years, there are very con
siderable quantities of cotton seed meal
and acid phosphate available. No pot
ash can be had. Crushed lime rock
may be' secured in large quantities, but
its use should be primarily restricted
to liberal applications made to the land
preferably be t ore the planting of legum
inous crops. Floats are also on the mar
ket, but. according to tests we have
made up to teh present time, and in
view of the small amount of organic
matter in Georgia soils, it does not ap
pear that this materia! can be depended
on as a satisfactory source of available
phosphoric acid the present season. Ni
trate of soda is scarce and high priced.
Sulphate of ammonia is limited in sup
ply and also high in price. Blood and
bone and fish scrap will probably be
available in normal amounts.
It appears from a hasty review of the
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Capital 8380.0U0.
hollcita Appliratlons for
FARM LOANS
IN ’EORGIt AND ALABAMA
IN AMOUNTS OF 51.009 TO
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Fresiaeot. Vice-Prnaideat. Secretary.
list that acid phosphate is likely to
prove the most acceptable carrier of
phosphoric acid available to the farm
er. and that he must decide on what he
win use to supply nitrogen to combine
with acid phosphate in the hope of se
curing the best fertilizer available for
use under existing conditions. Natu
rally, if he has exchanged his seed for
meal, or if he still has seed to sell, he
will desire to use cotton seed meal, and,
of course, a combination of 1,000
pounds of standard meal and 1,000
pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate
will give him a very good formula, con
i taining 266.8 pounds of available plant
food per ton. This is about the only
combination he can hope to make which
will supply his soil with any potash.
This formula will run 9.2 per cent of
phosphoric acid. 3.9 per cent of nitrogen
and about 1 per cent of potash. A
formula of this character is well sup
plied with nitrogen for most farm
crops and contains a very good amount
of phosphoric acid, and, of course, the
potash is a distinct advantage for use,
particularly under truck crops or on
sandy lands.
It is not necessary that this exact
combination be used, however, as the
amount of meal may be reduced to 600
pounds and the acid phosphate left at
1.000 pounds. If 400 pounds of fish
scrap be added to this mixture, a formu
la containing a little better than 3 per
cent of nitrogen and 10 per cent of phos
phoric acid will have been obtained,
though the potash will have been some
what reduced. Along the coast such a
formula might prove quite desirable; in
other sections, tankage might be used In
the place of fish scrap. By this ar
i rangement the nitrogen could be main
tained on a 3 per cent ‘ basis and the
phosphoric acid raised to 11 per cent.
In these calculations it Is considered
that the fish scrap contains 8 per cent
I of nitrogen and 8 per cent of phoshoric
i acid, and the tankage 8 per cent of nitro
gen and 11 per cent of phosphoric acid.
As materials of this character vary
considerably in composition, these facts
must be kept in mind in making calcu
lations as to the amount of available
plant food a given formula may con
tain.
If one were desirous of seuring a for
mula running very high in nitrogen de
rived from different sources, then 1,000
pounds of acid phosphate with 600
pounds of cotton seed meal. 200 pounds
of dried blood and 200 pounds of nitrate
of soda might be used. In case it is
desirable to use sulphate of ammonia,
the same amount of cotton seed meal
could be used with 200 pounds of the
I sulphate, and the acid phosphate in
creased to 1,200 pounds. Farmers who
are operating on a soil which is in
fairly good condition and do not think
it necessary to use formulas carrying
over 2.5 per cent of nitrogen, but a
; fairly good per cent of phosphoric acid,
j may find it advantageous to mix 800
i pounds of cotton seed meal with 1,200
, pounds of acid phosphate. By this ar
| rangement they will secure a formula
virtually 2.5 per cent of
available nitrogen. 9.6 per cent of avail
able phosphoric acid and . 8 per cent
of potash.
In addition to using the largest ration
of cotton seed meal possible as a source
of potash in a mixed fertilizer to in
crease the potash supply, about all the
farmer can do would be to save and re
turn to the soil in the form of compost
as much roughage in the form of straw,
yard manure and litter as possible. If
this is in a well-rotted condition so
much the better, as under these cir
cumstances the plant food it contains
will become more quickly available and
the material can also be incorporated
with the soil to better advantage. Ot
. course, wherever wood is burned the
farmer should save the ashes as these
contain some potash and help to in
crease the supply of this now very
scarce, and«yet often desirable element,
particularly for truck crops and for
use on sandy soils. Where wood ashes
are available, however, they should net
be mixed with fertailizer under any cir
cumstances but should be applied sepa
rately. They could be scattered in the
row with the compost and mixed with
the subsoil and then a light furrow of
earth should be turned -in and the seed
bed for corn made thereon, one of the
fertilizer formulas suggested above be
. ing drilled in at the time the corn is
planted. The cotton should, of course,
be planted on a bed.
The above mentioned formulas can be
used in varying amounts, according to
the soil type with which the farmer is
working. Three hundred pounds is
| probably a minimum amount to apply
where the land has been handled with
any degree of skill and success. In
many instances, five hundred pounds can
'be applied to advantage. All of the
material may be. put under the drill row
or part used as a side application, some
what depending on whether all the
nitrogen is derived from organic sources
or partly from carriers containing this
element in a quickly available form.
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GROWING ONIONS FROM SEED.
K. F. M.. dye. Ga.. writes: Can onlona
be zrown from the seed tbe first year? What
time sbonM I plant the seed to have seta
forth.» next year? I notice that you <lo not
ad'iso mixing woo<l a«hea with commercial
fertiliser. 1 would like to use about -"OO
pounds of ashes per acre for cotton and
thoucht 1 would mix that with 6'M) pounds
of 10-2 fertilizer. Can't get anything but
ashes for potash this year. Advise the best
method of applying ashes and guanc.
Situated as you are we would plant
onion seed early. The writer has had
his in the ground for some and the
young onions should be coming up in a
few days. These onions were planted in
drills fifteen inches apart. A fairly lib
eral amount of seed was used to insure
a good stand. The ground was fairly
well supplied with yard manure. Or
dinarily some phosphoric acid tv>d pot
ash should be used under this crop, but
owing to the difficulty in securing potash
at the present time only phosphoric acid
was used at the rate of 300 pounds per
acre. If you have some wood ashes you
could secure some potash In this way.
1 think it advisable that the ashes be
broadcasted over the land and hgrrowed
in.
Thin out the onions for use in the
early spring and summer. If you do
! not thin them out too much leaving
them, eay only a couple of inches apart in
, the drill, they will form excellent sets,
and if they are left thick they will
not grow much larger than a lead pen
cil. For several years I have used these
sets to replant my bed in the fall. By
this method I have been able to secure
an unusually good spring crop of onions
of very fine quality.
Onions require liberal fertilization,
1 and there would be no objection to your
' using the 10-2 formula, at the rate of
i 600 pounds per acre if your land is thin.
THE ATLANTA SOH-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1916.
LIEUTENANT SIR ERNEST H.
SHACKELTON, the British explor
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BERRY HILL, A FARMER,
STABBED BY HAMMOCK
MOULTRIE, Ga., April 8 —Berry HUI,
a farmer, now lies near death at a local
sanitarium as the result of knife
wounds he received this afternoon at 1
o’clock in a difficulty with J. T. Ham
mock.
The men met on a prominent corner
in the downtown section of the city,
and, after passing a few words over a
business matter, they rushed together.
Before they were separated a minute
later. Hill had been gashed deeply in
six places and physicians have little
hope of saving his life.
Hammock is widely known. He was
arrested immediately.
It would be especially desirable to use
this formula in the amount suggested
if you have no yard manure available.
We suggest that you Increase the
amount of nitrogen to 3.5 or 4 per cent.
It is sometimes well to use nitrate of
soda as a top dressing after the onions
are out of the ground. The ashes and
guano should of course not be mixed to
gether.
• • •
FERTILIZING WITHOUT POTASH.
A. K. H., Smithville, Ga., writes: I
would like some information about ferti
lizers without potaeh. Please advise if
guiino is of any value to land that really
needs a high per cent of potash. Jiy land
is a loam sandy with a yellow clay subsoil.
For tbe past few years I have used a ferti
lizer of 4 per cent potaah, and made very
good crops. Do you not think I would do
as well not to use any fertilizer at all as
to use that which contained no potash? My
land mostly needs potash, but with present
prices for fertilizers, I did not know that
It was advisable to apply fertilizers with
out potash to my land.
The elements needed in Georgia soil
are primarily three or four. The one to
whom crops respond most readily of all
is nitrogen; next would come phos
phoric acid, and last, potash. Many soils
that are acid need to be limed, the
calcium contained in this material be
ing especially beneficial apparently to
legumes. You will thus see that while
potash is an essential element of plant
.food, it is not the most essential, and
while your crops might be benefited by
the use of potash, we do not think you
would be following a wise and consistent
policy to abandon the use of fertilizers
altogether because you cannot obtain
those which contain potash. In other
words, we think you will find it profit
able this year to use a formula for corn
and cotton on land such as you de
scribe containing 2.5 to 3 per cent of
nitrogen and 8 to 10 per cent of phos
phoric acid. We would use this formula
at the rate of 200 pounds and upwards
;e- acre. Three hundred pounds would
jv a fair application for cotton and 400
to 500 pounds can be used under corn
to advantage. In the event you use
that much under corn put 300 pounds
under the drill row a*nd use 300 pounds
as a side application. We believe this
is the best advice we can give you.
AN ALABAMA FARMER’S PROB
LEMS. ’
F. A. S., Doraville, Ga., writes: I am
running a iix-horse farm with negro ten
ants on shares. They want to buy guano at
S3B, me to bear half tbe expense. I do
not see that it would pay to do this with
out potash. I have suggested that they get
woods earth, pine straw, etc., and I would
get a carload of ground limestone. They In
sist, however, on the guano. I am com
pelled to make a crop. I’lease advise me
in regard to this problem. I expect to turn
land with a two-horse Syracuse, though it
lias not been done so far.
We think you can make a very good
crop in your section of the state through
the use of a formula containing only
nitrogen and phosphoric acid. This can
ce prepared by mixing together cotton
seed meal or any other carrier- of nitro
sen which will supply this element and
acid phosphate. A good mixture would
be 800 pounds of meal and 1,200 pounds
of acid. Cotton seed meal, as you know,
carries considerable nitrogen and some
potash as well We believe it will pay
jou to use a formula of this character
at the rate, say of 300 pounds per acre,
and 200 pounds to be applied under the
drill row and 100 pounds to be used as
a side application in the early part of the
growing season.
Potash would be less essential in your
soils than those in many parts of Geor
gia, for your land naturally contains a
considerable quantity of this element,
lour land should, of course, be thor
oughly prepared and carefully worked. If
you decide to use lime at all it should
be applied previous to the seeding of
legumes. We think you might use to
considerable advantage a ton of the raw
ground rock per acre. Plow the land
and then broadcast over the land and
l»arrow under. -At the time of planting
a legume we would use a couple of
hundred pounds of acid phosphate.
We believe this Is the best advice we
can give you under the circumstances.
We advise that you use all the litter
you can secure In the form of yard
manure, decayed leaves or other vegeta
ble matter.
COTTON EXCHANGE IS
FORMED IN ROTTERDAM
(By Associated Press.)
ROTTERDAM. April 7. — (Via London,
April 8.) —The first step was taken today
to make Holland Independent of the
Liverpool and German cotton exchanges
by the organization of a cotton exchange
in Rotterdam.
The meeting, under the auspices of
the chamber of comerce. was attended
by cotton traders, brokers, shippers .and
bankers, including representatives of
some prominent American cotton export
ers. and resulted in forty-two joining the
exchange. A guarantee fund of $20,000
was raised and it was decided to apply
immediately for a royal charter and to
start business at once.
Atlanta Must Not Adopt
Europe's Sabbath
BY BISHOP WARBEIf A. CANDLER
The matter of the Sabbath is of su
preme importance. Civilization has pro
duced much labor-saving machinery, and
Iroin this fact men might infer that
human beings in these times have more
test than the men of former generations
had. But such is not the case. With the
increase of labor-saving machinery there
has been also an enormous increase in
the things which men require for liv
ing, a#d things which were counted lux
uries twenty years ago are regarded as
indispensable necessaries now. Out ot
this has grown a vast deal of unresting
labor. Men toil as never before, notwith
standing all the labor-saving devices of
cur day. And, hence, never in the history
of mankind was the Sabbath more need
ed.
While the Sabbath is more needed
than ever before, it is threatened in our
country with greater perils than ever
before. In the north and west it has
been nearly subverted. It has been bet
ter observed in the south, but there are
many evidences that multitudes even in
the south profane it now without scru
ple or hesitation. If encroachments
upon the sacred day continue during the
next twenty years as they have advanc
ed during the last twenty years, we shall
have nothing left of what we have
proudly called the “American Sabbath,”
except a fading memory. This is greatly
to be deplored. It Is a far more seri
ous matter than many suppose.
It is to be feared that even many of
the ministers of the Gospel do not fully
appreciate how serious this matter is.
They are very much concerned for the
cause of prohibition, and that is a great
cause; but it is of infinitely less im
portance than the Sabbath issue. The
very life of religion is involved in the
observance of the Sabbath Day, and we
shall not be able to advance the cause
of temperance, or promote any other
good cause, when the Sabbath has been
overthrown.
The morality and spirituality of any
community depend absolutely and in
variably on the observance of the Sab
bath. tl is a simple fact that there is
not a deeply religious community In
America, or anywhere else on the planet
earth, that does not observe one day in
seven as a day specially devoted to re
ligion. It is very well to talk about an
“every-day religion,’’ but. there is cer
tainly precious little of such Christiani
ty where Sunday is not observed. The
prevalence and permanence of piety in
our country depend mainly on what can
be done for them on Sunday. If the
enemies of Christianity could overthrow
the sacred day they would do more to
destroy the power of religion which they
contemn than all the sceptics have
ever done, or ever can do.
GREAT BRITAIN’S FLEET
MORE POWERFUL NOW
THAN EVER IN.HISTORY
LONDON, March 10.—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)—The recent
sharp debate in parliament between the
first lord of the admiralty, Mr. Balfour,
and his predecessor in that position,
Winston Churchill, as to whether capital
•ships were being hastened to comple
tion with sufficient rapidity to meet the
menace of the German building pro
gram, was obscured by the necessary
reserve in referring to the actual de
tails of capital ships, so that few out
side of the naval experts understood the
bearings of the remarks made by the
admiralty chiefs.
There is much information available,
however, which explain® the status of
these big ships. This information is of
ficial and semi-official, open to the pub
lic, and therefore not within that cau
tionary reserve, as it was permitted to
appehr in Jayne’s summary of the stat
us of the navies of the world appearing
last fall. This shows that the new cap
itaJ ships, upon which the debate hinged,
stood about like this:
The Queen Elizabeth headed a class
of six dreadnoughts provided in the
estimates of 1912, namely: Queen Eliz
abeth, Waspite, Valiant, Barham. Ma
laya, and another unnamed. They were
of 27,500 tons displacement, making them
among the largest dreadnoughts afloat;
with,eight 15-inch guns, as against the
guns previously used; 12* to 16 6-inch
gyns, 12 anti-aerial guns, and four sub
merged 21-inch torpedo tube®. The Queen
Elizabeth, standing at the head of these
six monster ships, became the represent
ative type, and the “Queen Elizabeth
class" is now a familiar reference to
ships of this new and formidable char
acter.
The Queen Elizabeth and her sister
ships were duly completed, the first two,
Queen Elizabeth and Warspite, being
finished in October, 1914, and the Val
iant, Barham and Malay in 1915. The
Queen Elizabeth has been heard from
during the Dardanelles operations. Be
yond this, however, little is known, and
there is rarely a reference to these for
midable ships, although it is officially
definite they were completed at the times
stated, and must now be somewhere
afloat with their formidable 15-inch bat
teries. These ®hips were not primarily
the ones under discussion in the recent
debate, as they completed, but the
Queen Elizabeth was referred to as the
type of later ships around which the de
bate really centered.
FOUR MORE BIG SHIPS.
Two more capital ships of the Queen
Elizabeth class were provided in the
1914 estimates, namely, the Agincourt
and the Renown; and two more of the
Rcyal Sovereign class, with slightly
less tonnage, namely, the Repulse and
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In addition to the moral and spiritual
value of the Sabbath day, the sacred
institution is necessary to the physi
cal health of the people and indispen
sable for the preservation of social
order. It is therefore an imperative
measure of industrial economy. When
the Sacred Day is no longer observed
we may look for a vast deal of strife
and contention in our land. Employers
and employes, observing no Sabbath
day, and having nothing to take the
feverishness out of their clamoroAis
covetousness, will engage in the most
bitter and disturbing contentions. Ours
is an industrial and commercial na
tion, and as such it must preserve
the Sabbath day, or perish. Hence,
if we had no Sabbath, it would be
the duty of the state to ordain one;
and as we have it, it is equally the
duty of the state to protect it, and to
preserve to the people the material
and vital benefits which it is so well
calculated to secure.
As a matter of fact, the state of
Georgia has undertaken by law to or
dain and protect the Sabbath day. But
in some of the cities, Atlanta included,
there is a growing disposition to nul
lify these statues. City authorities un
dertake to give permission to violate
state laws, and all sorts of pseudo
charitable schemes are brought forward
as pretexts for profaning the Sabbath.
It is time that the Christian people,
and all good people, rose up against
these encroachments upon our Sab
bath. We cannot afford to exchange
this holy and life-giving institution for
any consideration whatsoever. “The
American Sabbath” has been tried, and
its moral and social effects have been
blessed. We do not want in this coun
try what is commonly called the “Con
tinental Sabbath,” a name derived from
a type of Sabbath observed, or rather
non-observed, which is prevalent in
most of Europe. “The Continental
Babbath’’ has been tried and found
wanting.
More than thirty years ago Dr. J. C.
Holland wrote in Scribner’s Monthly
concerning this matter. He said:
“The most religious and earnest of
the Catholic clergy of Europe lament
the fact that the Sunday of their
church and their several countries is
a day of amusement.
“Go to Italy, France, Spain or Ire
land —to any part of Germany, Catholic
or Infidel, and find if possible any
people so temperate, pure, chaste, truth
ful and benevolent as the Sunday-keep-
Ing communities of America. It cannot
be done. The theater, the horse race,
the ball, the cricket ground, the lager
beer saloon, have nothing in them that
can take the place of the institutions of
religion.’’
the Resistance. The first two were to
be of 27,500 tons, the others of 25,750
tons. All were to have 15-inch main
batteries with 12 to 16 6-inch guns, anti
aerial guns, etc. The Agincourt was to
be built at Portsmouth, the Renown at
Fairfield, the Repulse at the Palmer
yard, and the Resistance at Devenport.
These were part of the ships under dis
cussion in the debate. Except for the
foregoing known information as to their
authorization, size, power, etc., nothing
more is known of them, officially or
otherwise, and quite properly as a mat
ter of necessary reserve. All that is
known is that the Agincourt and- her
big sister ships were provided for, but
no further reference has ever been made
to them.
Five more big new dreadnoughts were
provided in 1914, namely, the Royal
Sovereign, Royal Oak, Resolution, Ram
iiles and Revenge. These have since
become known as the “Royal Sovereign
class.” The capital ships were to be
of 25,750 tons, with eight or ten 15-inch
main guns and twelve 6-inch. The first
two, the Royal Sovereign and the Royal
Oak, were actually completed, the first
at Portsmouth in December, 1915, and
the Royal Oak at Devenport at the
same time. The Resolution, Ramllle
and Revenge were, according to the last
information permitted in Jayne’s sum
mary, building at the Palmer, Beard
more and Vicker yards, and to be com
pleted in 1916. Beyond this nothing is
known of the ships of this aclass, ex
cept that the Royal Sovereign and Royal
Oak were completed and are now afloat
somewhere with their 15-inch guns.
The foregoing are the ships around
which the recent debate centered, and
on details of which ships there Is com
plete silence except on the known facts
before given. The rare references to
the ships of the grand fleet usually
mention ships of an earlier date, such
as the Lion, completed in 1910; the
Royal Princess, in 1911; the Queen Mary,
in 1943, and the Tiger and Iron Duke,
of 1914. Admiral Sir John Jellico, in
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Iron Duke, and this and the Lion and
Tiger are frequently referred to. But
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court, Queen Elizabeth and Royal Sov
ereign class that the veil of complete
silence is drawn except for the fore
going known details.
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ress or completion of the foregoing
ships, Mr. Balfour in his recent speech
declared generally that “the fleets are
much stronger than they were six
months ago. They are still stronger than
they were twelve months ago, and their
excess over what we possessed nineteen
months ago is still greater. ’’
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Bob Burman was born at Imlay City ,
Mich., in 1884, and did his first racing
in Michigan.
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away records up to and including one
mile, and many dirt track marks. In
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