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tfcveiupm nt of the South- Foster, EGYPTiAR 'S&TTONi L » : : i-i i -i Al JIi Ur K. 1-5! |JZg4 ; S|| advantage »hv'_ enco.nagiyg emn.i graitou, bulta-. r- must oe s"iue ii;eil* s od in it : {avia 4bt» community a-» Uiu. ... EfetabUU c muiuiiiuus a «• gel people >%i ii common lit 8 "to poltl« together. IV trier taiiri i§u»t ih«\hiei courideraiioq. by any m; ans. ' The Gerinsns. the SwiB3, the Swwlee and the Pirioitiuteec' iui ra ou-ft Siuall scab-, and wrest froia^ihe- poorest soil u substance which would absolutely astonish our people. Ao»l another thing ol ihrt greatest importance' is that we assure these peop’e, whether from Europe or the Northwest, that they wifi have the utmost protection ot our laws. They look tor the co operate >ii ol the citizens ol the com munities in which they locate. Col onization will r.oi -be a success eo long as our peop-'e take no Jurher iuterest in the settlers than to sell them. land. Probably the be9t field to draw ernmi- granta iron) is the Northwest, where the climate is so severe that it would satisfy the Esquimaux iu winter The people who have settled there are turning in other diiections.' So are farmers of the thickly settled middle west. California, by expending §30, 000 in adverting, attracted the tide, A stream ot new settlers arc pouriDg into Missouri, 1 exas and the south west from Illinois, Indiana and Oni<». Georgia has excellent la; ds, good railroad facilities and an inviting cli mate or raiher ah sorts of climate. This 8late should draw immediate and large benefits from auy develop ment enterprise. The Cotton Danger It seems an utterly hopeless task u . impress upon the farmers of the sou 1 the wisdom ot curtailing the piannn of cotton, on which they arc now ei tcring, ai d in ihc face of the inerca- cd acreage r*. pored trom several states, forth r j.r t.» s wiil very likcl> prove useU>s Nevertheless, we venture to ca l th> attention t;f oui co lon planters to the fact that Mr Ei 'un, the emm English authorny on cotton statistics has revised his estimates of the prob able suopiv tor ihc balance of the crop year to the basis of a yield country ot 6 500,000 bales. Th s, from the prc.M nt outlook for co sumption, would icavc a surplus the close of Si ptember of 950,o< bales. It we are to have a surplus of net ly 1,000,000 bal-s at the close of year of comparatively small produc tion, it is certainly inviting low prices to extend the area planting at this time. The farmers see the d-nger. Jf they fail to heed the .varoing, they need not be surprised if the price of cotton goes to lo-v-water mark this fall.—Atlanta Journal And This in Kansas Salina. Ivan., April 21.—Ray Stent, the Uuion Pa« itio agent here, was seriously and perhaps fatally cut by a negro named Pan Adams, yes terday. Adams was arrested aud found guilty of attempted manslaughter, and sentenced to seven years in the peni tentiary. Stent’s friends, not satisfied with the sentence, took the negro from the officers and lynched him. W Georgia department - AsricaUure—Selection. Published In the *e.t. ▼•*•. *" «• “• ***. In Monthly Reports. ! S * nth ‘ I The census office lws Ksue.1 a lmUrtiu 0 Th» Esytura gitton seed purchuod by entitled "Statistics of Farms, Homes Secretary Busk, through th. Uuit^t and Mortgages.-’ In it is a chapter on States consul genial at Cairo, Egypt, ownership and debt. The leading, re-, J»E 1 f. en re “" ed st the department of suits in Georgia are given as follow,: . agricu ture_ The purpose of this Im- - •loconeinsionisthit CS 1 portatlon of seed is as set forth m Busk » report as secretary of agriculture, state hire tlieir lands, and 42 ner cent own the farms they cultivate. Toother words, among 100 families, 58 hire their farms with an incumbrance, and 43 own without an incumbrance. On the farms occupied by the tillers who are owners, there are liens amount ing to §1,691.500. with an annual iator-; est charge of §57 to each family; - _ , Each incumbered farm is presumed to be worth §1,627, and is subject to. o debt of §881. There are seven cities in the state having*a population . of 8,000 and less than 100,000,and in these-80 per cent of the families hire their homes and the rest rent - ’ It is gratifying to know that 04 per cent of the city population who do own homes titles free of incumbrance. - Fig ures in this remarkable paper show that the yearly interest charge on each in cumbered city home in- the state is about §07. There arc 832,059. families in the state. Ther»are 175,688 frbro families. There is an apparent-increase- in farm tenancy irom 45 per cent in 1880 to 55 per cent in 1890. A curious feature of this paper ir a statement that city, homes are hired and incumbered in a greater degree than is-found outside of cities. In the seven cities of Georgia having a population of 8,000 and less than 100,- 000, there are 41,282 families, of which 33,131 hire and only 8,151 own their own roofs. ’ Don’t Feed Cotton JSeed to Ilogs. One of the most important subjects to swine raisers has been tested and de cided at the Texas station, and iii Bnllo- tin 11 it is definitely proved that cotton seed is poisonous to swine. This article, though valuable for feeding purposes to many animals, is positively, deadly in its actions when fed to swine. As many farmers have been giving more or less of it to their swine in the past it quite important that the matter.should be decided for them. _ In the southern states of the union especially is cottonseed meal given to hogs, and from §10 to §20 per ton are often paid for it. Several epidemic dis eases among swine have been traced back to cottonseed meal, and the truo theory now is to leave it out in t’ swine ration. It is a poison to them, matter how fixed or mixed with other articles. At the station shoate and pigs fed on the meal died within a few months, while others, though they lived longer, showed evident signs of poison ing quite early. to undertake, with the co-operation ol the experiment stations in the cotton states, experiments with a view to pro ducing a cotton of home growth which may servo as an efficient substitution for the Egytian, of which dnring the last fiscal year more than §3,000,00(1 worth was imported into this country, an increase of 15 per cent over the pre vious year, and of considerably more than 100 percent over the year ending The cotton seed received at. the de partment consist of two of the best known Egyptian varieties, “Afifi” and “Bamiah?* The distribution will be made to the experiment stations in tho cotton ^tates and also through the sen ators for those states to planters whom they may recommend aepersons qual ified and willing to give the Egyptian seed a Careful trial and report the con ditions of Gotland climate and methods of cultivation. Right tie and colts need close attention. If not given some dry food and salted regular ly, they will get down before you know it. Feed them well until the grass is tough enough to sustain them, and they will be all right. The younj grass and buds are too laxative am weakening to be relied upon yet. Now is the time to give your stock a fine start for the season. In ‘ The Medical Magazine’’ Blackman says that the effect ol music is transmitted by ihe reflex action oi the nerves which govern the blood supply; that it directly affects the cir culation of the blood, the blood pres* sure sometimes rising ar.d sometimes falling; and that the action ot music on animats and man expresses itself for the most part by increased fre quency of the beats ol the heart. H-uce, that music is needed for the invalid, ana becomes an important, factor in restoring the nervous invalid to health. How about the fellow who is practicing on an accordeon,.or ''the girl who is taking lessons on piauo ? Nashville, i enn\, April 20.— At 3:30 o’clock this morning the can nou at the capitol was deed as a signal for the troops to proceed at once to Tray City. The occasion of the gun firing was the receipt of a telegram from Tracy City announcing that a battle was in progress. Battery A of the Washington Light Artillery had gathered at the capitol over night and bad been awaiting orders. They left there a little past 4 o’clock for the scene of the trouble. Gen. Fite and about 100 of the state guard, with two pieces of artillery, also left at 5 o’clock. President Cleveland has written as a sentiment for the New York Press Club souvnir book, to be publish ed at the World’s fair : “The people must be educated, for the people must rule,” This is an aphoristic truth self-evident-enough to appeal to the most snpeficial reader or the deepest - . thinker. But the precept conveyed ia one far more disregarded than it should be, and especially with regard . ? to; educationjn the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.—Pitts burg Dispatch. The Pensylvauia Steel Co., with a paid: jap : capital of five million, has idled, JThe company employed five thousand hands. "■ ' " m The Monroe Advertiser, in a strong editoria 1 , calls tor more people. It says: “We have for some years contend ed that one of Georgius greatest needs is more population The surest and quickest way to develop our state’s resources, as they can and ought to be, ia to multiply her popu lation, and thereby fill up the watte placee. The history of the past establishes the tact that iu all deusely populated agricultural sectious lands are brought to a high state of cultivation, and indeed, to the highest state ot produc tiveness. This is what Georgia ; agricultural country needs to-day. Her present farming population are scattering their labor over too much territory, and 'cultivating too many acres ot land that yield no profit to them.” Chicago, April 22 —It is said on good authority that on :next Monday, when President Cleveland stanch iu front of the administration building and places the middle finger of fiis good right hand on au electric batton and gives it a push, there will follow such a buzzing and whirling of wheels and flashing of lights as was never seen before. The tittle button which the president will touch will be con nected with a wire extending from the platform on the grand plaza to the machinery hall.' There the wire connects with an electric *valve. This valve is very delicate and has to be protected with the greatest care. It will fly open ou the slightest provoca tion and let the steam escape which will set things going. A very slight toneb of Grover’s finger will suffice. The current Will start when the valve will open, the steam will escape and the great Allis engine will begin to move. At the satne time 100,000 in candescent lights will flash all in the twinkling of au eye and in the pres ence probably of upward of ha f a million people. The big engine cov ers au area of thir<y-seveu by sixty two feet and weigh* four hundred tons Tue large We-tinghouse switch toward oi the electric plant, ia said to be tbe moat guanuc tbi> g ot the kind ever attempted “YVheu the President is interested and is realty giving a caller or callers his earnest atteniiou.” says au observ am. Virginian in the Charleston News aud Courier, “will test each one of hts bands carelessly above the hip, Will smile, answer questions, and ask ad about the subject matter. If tbe visitors hang on too long the Presi dent will begin to elide bis bauds down, and swing his arms to tbe rear just a little bit. That means he is gening tired, it he puts his hands entirely behiud his big body so you can’t see them, then it is time for tue congressman and office-seekers to cut the conversation short. It they do not the President then squarely locks his bauds bebiud him closes his bps and frowns gently, which to the observant caller means that the lime has arrived for disappearing.” Tho Value of Pine. j ‘*Ge< rgia pine has cure to he a v«*iy ■ t:;hlt:oiiM>iV wood l..r interior dcora^i • i-m in Ihe buildings of to-day, aiuM* emis'ftTitiy. growing in popularity S8 building material. It h;»t, always i he main building staple in the South. I*ut not until recent ye&ra has the .beauty of the .natural wood when oiled and po!i>di<d come so prominently imo public favor. But now itietms tf-aUhejvueis to have new commercial valua frotn the finding ot chi tain comhdpsiohs aod the report from official siurcrs 6nnceming Vs adaptability not Oaly building material, but for use in tbe construction ot many implements tor wh*ch oak, ash .and hickory have beretof..re been conri Jered indi-peuS'» ab!$.” ' V ‘ The above, ffbm ibe Augusta Chronicle, contains information.valu able to owners of pine lands. A few years from now primitive pine forests will be at a premium, and a big pre miom at that Sonth Geoagia has a mine ol wealth in her pine forests. PRACTICAL TESTS CAREFULLY EXPLAINED. Selection and Comments on Bulletin No. 20 by tho Georgia Agri cultural -Department. Bulletin No. 2) of the Georgia experi ment station. which has just been is- O’ne day a Lie broke out of its closure and started to travel. And the man who owned the premises it after it had started, aud was sorry he had not made the inclosure Lie- tight. So he called to his swiftest Truth and said: “A Lie has got loose aud will do much mischief if it is not stopped. I want you to go after it and bring it back or kill it.’ But tbe lie had one hour the start. A the end of the first day the Lie was going lickety split.' The Truth was a long way behind it and it was getting tired. It has not yet caught up. And never will. —Exchance. New York World: It is time for the intelligent people of every commu nity in which.lynch law in any form survives' To recognize the truth that so far from checking crime it makes criminals of the whole community and cultivates savage instincts most dangerously. Its complete suppress ion is an essential condition to peace and progress. To tolerate it even in tbe most exasperating cases, and even-wbeu it is certain that the law must fail to work justice, is to invite lawlessness as a system and to encour age savagery as a sentiment. President Cleveland, who' has been under bard and constant official pres sure for the last six weeks, excepts to take a week off from routine exec utive duties lor the purpose of attend ing the Naval Review in New York harbor and the openingof the Colum bian Exposition in Chicago. Both functions eminently deserve his pres ence, and fortunately, there is nothing in the condition of public affairs to make it essential that he should “stick close to his desk.” He will be in much better shape after his outing for the performance of the duties of his office, although it can scarcely be called a holiday after all.—Ex. Georgia is great and growing great- . The News says: Georgia ranks first in the prod ac tion of naval stores, first in that of watermelons, second in that: of rice, and third in that of cotton. Before many years she will be at the front in the production of peaches, pears and grapes. These are facts to be remembered. The gold reserve fund in the treas ury is exhausted. Bonds may be issued.. Mrs. Varina Davis, wife of Jeffei son Davis, write* an interesting ar ticle for last Sunday’s Constitution the condition of things during aud after the war at the south. Here is a brief and pathetic picture of how southern women bore and suffered: “One heart-broken woman wrote to her husband: “Twenty graios of quinine would have saved our two children; they were too nauseated to drink the bitter willow tea and they are now at rest and I have no one to work forTmt yon. Do you think of coming. I am well acd strong and am not dismayed. I think day and night of your sorrow. I have their little graves bear me.” A notable wedding took place in New York on Wednesday. Miss Cornelia Bradley Martin, an American heinss, was wedded . to ihe Earl of Craveo, an English nobleman. Re- fering to the scenes at the church the dispatches thus touches up the actons of the crowd, after the ceremony wa: performed: “No sooner was the ceremony con cluded than pandemonium reigned in «he church. Women jostled each other in a strtlggle to reach the chan cel aod pluck the roses. The few at- endants left in charge by the ushers could do little with the women. Those who reached the chaccei had hard time getung away with their prizes. Women along the aisle waited for them and when the opportunity offer ed snatched thetr flowers. Then scrambling over tbe pews became very -opuiar. It looked like a gigantic hurdle race, where the jumpers wore impede and not to hide their r isioos of pink and blue and gray ankles were frequent as rays su** ignt in an April thunder storm. Tfe crowd going out met the crowd imng in at the door. In the shoving uiatcn nat fo4owe« the masses out side won. Tuey pushed their oppon back into thechur"hand crowded mem forward toward the altar, co. gregauoo massed itself and shoved ton a and hard. Slowly the crowd ot ruders was forced back out of the c urch aud sought the open air. As the congregation went *out ot the mam doors the outsiders tnrough the side entrances. In the street the contusion was as great al most as in the churcn. It took the guests two houis to get it Silk hats that were smooth and smuey at i o’clock came out ’c*>ck crushed and rumpltd. s *ere torn, coats rent and clothing generally, was roughly treated. a crush the like of which New York’s -.well society has never before seen.” That’s a picture of New York's lour hundred for you. Tbe Enquirei>-Sun says: “North Card! in a has passed a law against the baggage smashers. It provides for the careful handling of all baggag6 to which a check may be attached. North Carolina deserves to become a popular summer resort.” r Yea, the law against the baggage smasher is all right; but what about the “masher” about the summer resorts? fhey’ll be on bond. Poet—“I have a poem written on a grand old elm tree in my father's front yaid.” Busy Edits.r-r-'T am glad to hear it I was afraid yon had it with you,”—Detroit Free. Press. ^‘Parker never can be induced to study up his genealogy because ot the scandal in his family.” “Was there one?” “Oh, yes, indeed ; Adam and Eve never really married, yon know.” —Brooklyn-Life. The region between the first and second cataracts of the Nile Is the hottest on the globe. It never rains there, and the natives do not believe foreigners who- tell them that water can descend from the sky. ~ _ Douglas?, the shoe man, is spoken of as the ‘democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Pat n's down for Douglass. He believes in printer’s ink. “You say he left no money?” “No, yon see, he lost his health getting wealthy, and then lost his wealth fay ing to get healthy.”—Montreal Gazette. - : ; We repeat it.: Back should be bounced. ... „ fertilizing-corn; tho. effect of fodder-pulling; deep vs. shallow cul tured corn; variety test corn; compost ing in the heap vs. mixingin the furrovr corn; variety test of cotton; distance experiment on cotton; ’ effect of increas ing amount of fertilizer-cotton; general fertilizer experiment on cotton. - As presented in the bulletin, elaborate tabular statements,of the experiments are given, furnishing a very complete and comprehensive view of the work. In this report we do not consider it necessary to reproduce these tables, aa those who desire to* closely inquire into the work of the station can do so by an- dyingto the director, Mr. B. J. Reci ting, Experiment, Ga. We would ad- ’ise our farmers to avail themselves of the benefits to be derived from a 'study of the experimental work concluded at tbe station and to have their names placed on the mailing list. ' FULTON EXPERIMENT ON* CORN. Inthhrasin the other experiments, we give the general with the results and conclusions reached by the station, with such experiments as is necessary in the absence of the tabulated statements. The experiment was located on a piece of fairly good clay soil following a good cron of cotton in 1891. The land was divided into 28 plots, each containing three fonr-foot rows 105 feet long. On 24 plots, eight combinations of/super phosphate,muriate of potash and nitrate ofsodawere qsed. each combination being applied to three plots. On two plots cotton seed meal was substituted m the place of nitrate of soda in such proportion as to furnish corresponding ■rcentages, and two plots were nnfer- lized. For ascertaining the results, the average of plots similarly fertilized was taken. The different combinations Were formed on 813 pounds superphos- ihate, 89 pounds muriate of potash and 5 pounds nitrate of soda as a normal auon. The changes being made by doubling the ration of one or more or all the ingredients. It will he seen that the. normal ration gave a fertilizer which showed now about 8.10 phospho ric acid, 4.68 potash and 2.79 ammonia. The amount of potash contained in the normal ration being from two to three times the amount contained in the aver age commercial fertilizer should be borne in mind in considering the poor results obtained by doubling this mate rial. It should also be remembered that muriate of potash, running about 50-per cent, actual potash, doubling this ra tion rapidly increases the percentage of potash in the mixture.' The highest increase in yield was given qti those plots on which tho acid pliospjfate only was doubled. A strik ing feature of the experiment was that this soil iu none of the experiments did the increased yield pay for the fer tilizers used, the highest increase being 8.02 bushels with a cost for fetilizers oi §7.16. The average yield on unfertilized plots was 18.90 bushels per. that of fertilized 24.88 bushels, and tho average cost of fertilizers was §7.30 per acre. The following are the results and elusions as given by the station: „ ; RESULTS. 1. The Effoct of Muriate of Potash- 1 - This form of potash seems to affect the yield injuriously when the normal quantity is doubled, especially those plots on which the other elements were applied in only normal quantities. This effect is not apparent in every plot where muriate of potash was applied in double rations, but it is so iu 10 out of 14 plots. 2. The Effect of Nitrate of Soda—In seven plots out of 12 on which the ni trate doubled, the other elements re maining the same, the yield was in creased. 8. The Effoct of Superphosphate:—In eight plots out of 14 on which the super phosphate was doubled, the others re maining unchanged, the yield was in- TtEStJLTS. A careful study of the tab' iow any significant difc'eren tho jrields of plots on which were all applied at one time planting and those which received same formula in two or more succes sive doses. The average yield of plots on which the formula containing ni trate of soda as an ninmoniate was ap plied at one time—-before planting—was less than five pecks per acre greater than the average yield of the plots on which, the formula was divided into two and three doses. But this difference, small as it is, is not sustained by the results of the interculturally fertilized plots compared with each other. The yields' of the plots on which cottonseed meal wbs substituted for nitrate of soda is unexpectedly low as compared with tho nitrate of soda plots. • Plot 12, on which the whole was applied at one time, shows an exceptionally high yield, but there is reason to fear that some error was committed; or there was undiscov ered cause for this excess. The' aver age yield of all the cottonseed meal plots, however, was nearly two bushels less than the average yield of the nitrate •f soda plots. CONCLUSIONS. „ _ The results correspond substantially with those of similar experiments made I in 1890’and 1891, hence we conclude: 1. There is no material advantage to the current growing crop of corn iq dividing the fertilizer into two or more doses to bejappljed successively during Lthe growing period. 2. This experiment indicates that for corn nitrate of soda is a somewhat bet< ] ter form of nitrogen than cottonseed meal. I ■deep vs. shallow culture—corn. ■The object of this experiment was ■ find if there is any advantage or loss in cultivating corn deeply. A number of experiments of a similar nature have! been conclued at the station and they all confirm the condusion that after | thorough preparation no. advantage is to be obtained by deep culture, the shallow cuLore plots yielding more fodder 1n mort experiments. In the last I experiment. there was an increase of 0.29 of a bushel in deep culture plots! which did not pay for the.extra plowing. ■ VARIETY LIST—CORN. Jin this experiment tho following va-l rieties were used, resulting in the yields Igiven: Bushels Per / . _ IplQ more productive and of better staple than any of the class tested on the station. ' : The yield of lint per 100 pounds of seed cotton was found by carefully gin ning the entiro product of each' variety. January 20. after thorough air drying. It may be said by way of caution that there is no' necessary ^.relation between the yield of lint per 100 pounds of seed cotton and the actual yield of lint per acre. A variety may yield a high per centage of lint, calculated on a given weight.of seed cotton, and yet yield loss lint per acre than another variety, It ia probably more a question of seed than of lint. As the seed contain nearly all of the valuable elements taken from tbo soil, it is but reasonable to expect that a large yield of seed per acre will be at tended by a corresponding largo* yield of lint.. Wo hnvo-but little doubt that some varieties that are popular with the'mass of farmers because of their large percentage of line compared to seed simply produce less seed per acre instead of more lint per acre’, It re mains truo, however.' that a small seeded variety—small in size aud small in percentage ot tjie whole—is better for poor land and low culture tlrnu a varie ty having naturally large seed and a smaller percentage of liuh For farther remarks on this line, and in regard to large boiled varieties the reader is referred to Experiment N' N. B.—Two elaborate experiments that appear in the bulletin of tho sta tion. Effect of increasing nuvmht of fertilizers on cotton, and general fertil izer experiment on cotton will appeal in the uext report of tho den f.-rmont space not permitting in this issue. The Morning Now8 has this item about a young man from the wire- grass who has made his mark in Sa vannah : • Colonel John R. Young, of Sa vannah, is expected to arrive in Macon in a few days when the reor ganization of the Macon and. Atlantic road may take place. Colonel Young came to Macon this week to reor ganize the road,.it is said, but owing to the absence of certain . .parties the reorganization was deferred. It will be^'remembered that Colohel Young bought the Macon and Atlantic a short time ago at public sale for §410,- 000. The property is easily worth over $1,000,000. The project is to build the road from Macon to Savarn- nab. Already much grading bus been done and consideiable track has been laid. The general idea is that the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad, and the Macon and Atlantic will unite and build one common fine to S^vannah^ And so they have promoted John to a colonelcy. Well, he is entitled to be a Georgia colune'. Nashville, Tenki., April 20.—Tht brauch prison at Tracy City was at tacked at U o’clock last night by an armed,body of miners, who numbered probably one hundred, their, object being to release the 500 convicts there. The attack had been expected and the guards were prepared. Firing was quickly commenced, but the miners were repulsed with one ol their number, Bob Irwin killed, Matt Parsons wounded, and another is thought to be wounded. Suits and suits, and counter-suits are obscuring tbo fnture of the old Central. It is a badly tangled web. The end is not in right. It is a har vest for the lawyers. A Pittsburg woman fasted 31 days for a purse of $1,100.^ That’s nothing. The average country editor fasts 365 days for on & half the money.—Quit- man Free Prefs. On May 2nd an important suit involving the Central will come up. It will decide the fate of Mr .Comer -- receiver. Home rule for Ireland is, at last, almost in right. The bill has passed its second reading in parliament. seed meal was substituted for ration of nitrate of soda. In one (plot 9) the yield was increased, and in the other (plot 10) the yield was decreased by the substitution. conclusions, t 1. The use of muriate of potash was of doubtful benefit on this land. Even if beneficial in small doses, a limit is soon reached beyond which an increase in the amount is certainly injurious. 2. Tho effect of superphosphate was certainly beneficial. 3. The effect of nitrate of soda was also of decided benefit. 4. Cotton seed meal did not seem so decided in its effects. 5. In genernlrthe results of this ex periment do not favor the use of con centrated chemical fertilizers on corn. o caso did th? increased yield of the fertilized plots over the unfertilized pay for the cost of the fertilizer. [See “Results” and “Conclusions” un der Experiment No. 7, Table VI.] SUBSOILING FOR CORN. In considering the results of the ex periment, the effect of thqjjharacter of the season should be borne in mind, as in a dry season great benefit might be derived, while in a wet season its effect might hardly be perceptible. The effect of nitrating is also given in this eperiment. -Tho nitrate was ap plied on Aprjl 27, at the time of tne first plowing, and on June 13. The quantity was 130 pounds per acre. . RESULTS. The effect of subsoiling amoudted practically to nothing, the increased yield being only 23-100 of a bushel, or less than one peck of corn per acre. This increase would not pay the cost of the extra laboT employed in subsoiling. Effect of Nitrating—The most re markable feature in the results on this acre was the effect of the two additional applications of nitrate of soda. The in creased yield of com was only 2.98 bushels—not enough to justify such ap plications—but the effect on the af ter- tional doses of nitrate were applied, was very marked, giving a yield of 866 pound? of crab grass per acre. " c6nclusions. 1. Subsoiling on this land does not pay for the extra labor required. 2. It is a good practice to apply ni trate of soda to corn dnring the early Stages of growth, in view of the extra growth of grass that it induces. This is in confirmation of an experiment per- fartned'-on an adjourning section in 1890. In that case the plots manured with stable, manure (8,000 per acre) and chemicals produced no aftergrowth of grass; while adjacent plots on .which nitrate oi soda and cotton seed meal were used as ammoniates, iustead of stable manure, gave a very luxuriant aftergrowth, equivalent, probably to one ton of hay per acre. «. intercultural fertilizing—corn. This* experiment is a repition of simi- E^sby the station in 1890-91, with but a slight change in the details. The object of- the experiment was to ascertain the benefits to be de- nved by applying fertilizers-during^the growth of the plants 1 The readily available character of, nitrate of soda irenders it superior to cottonseed meal as an interculturJd fertilizer. While as a general ammoniate cottonseed meal is superior as it remains ldng in the soil and not lending out what is not taken up by the plants one ydar remains for subsequent crop?. 1 Southern Wlilto.... JIi.60. .Good—uniform. 2 Shaw's Improved.. .W.4». .Fine ears. 3 Shoe Peer . :5.t8. .Irregular. 4 Himjins r Improved..-T.71. .Good. 5 Patterson’s Select.. .25.11. .Irregular. 6 Banks’ Improved... .28.16. ,Mix d colors. 7 Henderson’sProlific.23.lW. .Very goed. 8 Shannon’s Yellow...2 .Very lino. 9 Shannon’s White....27.24..Very good. 10 Golden Beauty 3‘».68..Inrr—not sound. 11 Bloont’s Prolific 23.89. .Sound and good. As has been remarked in commenting on variety tests of corn in previous years, such tests are by no means con clusive to which of several varieties is the best. Such tests can only compare the rela tive productiveness of such varieties as are very similar, if not identical, in their habits of growth and ^periods of fruiting. As between two kinds ot corn, one of which silks and tassels sev eral weeks in advance of the other, it is manifest that the seasons may be very unfavorable for the earlier variety at the most critical period (silking time), while the later variety may “strike the seasons” exactly right, and vice versa. So of two varieties that differ very much in size of stalk and ears, the “dis tance” given to both being the same, one may have just the right number of plants on the land, while the other may be too thick or too thin. Practical farmers understand this. It is but fair to say that the nine first named seemed to be much alike in size of stalk and iar, but not exactly, while numbers 10 and 11 were smaller in stalk and ear, an a little earlier. Hence the test is not strictly fair to these two, especially Blount's Prolific, as they should have been planted closer. Nos. 1, 7,8 and 9 seemed most desirable on the score of yield, uniformity in size of and colorgrain and soundness. COMPOSTING “IN THE HEAP” VS. MIXING IN TIIE FURROW—CORN. • The object of this experiment was to find the comparative results of compost ing stable manure, cottcn seed and acid phosphate in the heap, permitting the mass to ferment for some weeks, and mixing the same quantities of the same ingredients in the opening furrows just beefore planting. The propositions adopted correspond with a formula that is popular with farmers in some sections, viz.: Superphosphate 200 lbs. Green cotton seed 1,000 lbs. Stable manure J,000 lbs. 2,200 Two lots, each containing the above respective amounts of tho three ingre dients were carefully weighed. March 8 one of these lots was thoroughly mixed, wetted with water, aud thrown into a loose mass into one of the cow stalls, under shelter. The other lot was kept dry until April 1. On that day the two lots were distributed in the opening furrows and covered with turnplows, and this small bed was opened with a shovel plow, the corn planted and cov ered with a hand hoe, the next day, April 2. Subsequent treatment was ex actly the same on both series of plots. The land was naturally thin, sandy soil, underlaid by yellow clay - very similar to much of the branch hillside, gray soils of middle Georgia. It had been in cotton fertilizer experiments the two years previously, the plots and rows running at right angles to those of the present experiment, But the land was poor. On all the plots the corn grew off well and throughout the season v the best on the form; bnt there was perceptible difference betwe?SA tho dif ferent plots. It was very uniform ; ** every respect over tho entire section. The yield, carefully gathered and weighed, Sept. 23, shows no difference; Unfortunately no unfertilized plots were left,.ana therefore , the increased yield of cotton due to the composts does not appear;, but Mr.. Kimbrough, ■ agri- Or Debilitated Woman, should ujs BRADFIELB’S FEMALE REGULATOR. Every ingredient possesses superb Tonir properties and excis a wonderful influ ence in toning up &u*l strengthening her ’stem, by driving through the pr lannels all impurities. Health strength guaranteed toresult from its u^e. My wifo.jvho on month lo liegj J. M. Jon; Sold by Lrugsists at 51.00 itha, alt’ - . egulotor getting well: cultunst, believes tho u i iided soil would not have made exc.-eding 12 bushels c x per CON . - JSIONS. 1. ' That there L-iio material advant age, if any, in composting and ferment ing a mixture of cotton seed, stable ma nure and acid phosphate several weeks beforehand, compared with applying the same qantities of the same materials, unfermented, one day before planting. 2. Incidentally, it appears that on thin, sandy land, deficient in bnmus a mixture of cotton seed (crushed), stable manure and acid phosphate gives better results on such land than a mixture of cottonseed meal, muriate of potash and acid phosphate. This may d4 in part due to tbe excess of acid phosphate—in creasing tho cost—and the presence of muriate of potash in experiment No>6. This point will be more clearly elabor ated next season.: • VARIETY TEST OF COTTON. In this experiment 25 varieties of cot ton were planted, and for a full concep tion of the results the tabulated state ment of the station must bo seen. We give here the comments of the director of the station on special varitics. Varieties.—-Bates’ Big Boll is a new variety (to this .station) and verv p; ising, giving the largest yield of th both in seed cotton and percentage of lint. It has large bolls, a symmetrical stalk and fair staple. Okra Leaf—Q;ut) early and suited to the nch lowlands and prairies of high latitudes. It ia deficient in foliage. Hunnicutt's CUoice-An excellent prolific vari/ty. Southern^Hone—Good, productive. Tennessee's Goll Dust and King's— Very early and moderately productive. These two aro remarkably similar , in because of their extrei yielding more than three-fourths of their total crop before the 1st of October, al though planted April 18. Pittman’s—This was the most prolific" variety in 1801, but did not maintain its ‘ 41 It is a short Hmbod duster J® && BLOOD, BALM/ 1 Cures ULCCR5, SALT RHEUM, EC ZEMA, every form of malignant SKIN ERUPTION, besides being efficacious in tonir.g up- the system and restoring the con stitution, when impaired from any cause. 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