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FARM CORRESPONDENCE.
I. OPEN I'l’liltOW SOWING OF OATS.
2. BEST VARIETY OF COWPEAS.
3 VELVET BEANS.
•I. M. T., Spring ('ity. Tenn.—l. I wish
b> know if th" '‘open furrow system of
> owing; oats -vill incr.yise tile ability Os
the crop to withstand dry weather in the J
spring If so, can you give nu- an idea, of ■
how niueli more of it they will stand and
] rodne.. a. good crop. Spring droughts I
ii. the home of eats, both spring- and I
winter, in this section.
2 What variety of cowpeas do yon eon- |
sid.-r best for hay. and how will they 1
compare in yield with the whipporwill? I '
3 Have you any reports onthe velvet ■
I- ins offered through these columns by
, dine &Vorne. of Fort Meade, I
li.st spring and recommended by him Io 1
mature seed as far north as tile state of ' (
Ohio? What was the results? 1 ,
A::swe> I. My experience lias led me
to 1). lb \. that oats sown according to the | '
•’op- n furrow" plan will withstand ' '
drought in the spring better, but how I '
much 1 cannot say, as I do not know j 1
how to definitely expr. ss degrees of I 1
drought. The explanation Is this: The 1 ,
land being Hrst well and d< epty broken i •
with a turnplow and the oats s’own- in |
open furrows-, the plants will form their '
crown two or thret? inches lower down t 1
than Alien covered in the olu way and | :
the root sys-tem will not develop so near t '
the surface. But spring sown oats will ' ■
soon give avv.-iy entirely to fall sown, j ]
wlien th. open furrow system shall cotne I ‘
to be well understood. 1
2 I consider the ‘ I’nknown" (sold by
» dent r tie nun.. 'Wonder- '
fttl 'i and the whipporwill. the be. t I
twe ■ ar: :i's far haj. planting the latt r
lor the first '.op and tin- former for the 1 .
later. i ■
0 m Mr.
V - ■ diio-a i-own v' lvet Ih uus i ilid not '
plant any myself. I :
PATENT FORM I I.AS.
Mi gi>od friend. (’. II <'olmer, Ilatties
-1 ai.a. Miss., gently chides me for the
• pit iot expressed in regard to "Lipps (
1 Tmi: : in my reply to an inquiry from
W. M. ('. In The Wi' kly for October 23,
ultimo. .Mi. Uolmer s.nys In bought a
i.mu right'' to use said t 'trntil.a and
that 1- applied L2OO pounds to Irish . ,
pota.toes on an acre of "old. gray sandj’ ' .
loam land that had been in cultivation | J
14 or 15 year : tti.it the yield was ent I ;
off by severe drought in April (not a. i
ii'-op of rain during the month), ai.d > ‘ t j
he made 31 barreis of merchantable pota- ,
lo' s (about 70 or 75 bush -Is) on the i j
acre. Mr. .seems to think that this i ,
result proves that the formula was- all : I
right a:-'l ’ i Godsend m the farmers who . :
have poor land." II.• asks that 1 shall i '
"no: indemn a thing" before | try It. I ’
In epiy. I an only say that (lure are ‘
a good ni.-iuv things that ar.- offered to | ;
th. public that I do not need to try, and , .
this is .in.' of (hem. Possibly i lose some (
'good things," but I far more than make :
it up by not trying a great many things. 1 .
Witli all dm respi ct to my friend's j
skill and .judgment as a tracker, j do i I
vt consider his test as .-it al] satisfac- ;
tor? , and by no means-''oneiitsivo. In the ■ i
hist it does not appear that lie !
made any eonipetiv.- lest by using some ' .
standard potato 1 rtiliz'-r, or by leaving i i
.-m-- of imfei tilized t ows. In the s.conrt I \
place, it o -curs to me that a yie
70 or 75 bu; h< Is of potatoes is ?i v< t y | <
poor yi-dd on any land lit lo cultivate ;
in iris! potato's. The materials requic- :
cd t<> make a tori of manure, according to ;
t1.,. forma: : in aitstion would cost about i
53.5 C or $4 tn-'wi. Twelv. hundred : ;
potiruL of tin top would cost from $2.10 I \
to $2.40 J will venture to sax that $2.40 ! 1
wot tii of a mixtin e of equal parts of i
blgii-gtade acid jiliosphate, kaintt and j '
cotton ■a-'-d meal, and a half t"n oi more ; ;
of st >!'!'• manure would have given better ;
results. | 1
(if course every man lias a right to ills j
ovt; opinions and to draw his own con- .-
i im-iotis from file results of an experi
ment; lint I reaffirm, with increased em- j
I’hasis. . vorything 1 wide in reply to '
V\ .it '. ‘ October 26. and in replv to '
M L. I-... 'in Weekly of Xpril 14. 1902.
GINSENG fTLTURE.
T. M. ' ’handler. Ox erland. Va. Indo i
find letter, . t-e.. from a ginseng farm.
Will you kindly answer through The I
Constitution, oi otherwise, if if is what it I ,
claims to be. i.-r is it a. humbug, and do I
you think it would pay to cultivate it in I
tins state (near North Carolina line, I
Mecklenburg county, Virginia 1?
Ai.sw.-r-- 1 have told what I know and ,
given ni - opinion about ginseng culture I
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for close, Lard shO'. 'iug. extension rib. S&l/'X
in fait tbs best and cheapest ?omplete gun ever offered.
or 16 gauge, 3U or 3x inch barrels. Sent, on receipt of prieu, j
5? . 80, ~r send ?' ami we »:.) apnl by expre«e C. O. D. for i
’ aiauce, with prir!) <e to «<ia.-nii;e ar your expreM ofllcs aud ;
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’ th * J dheil loaning set. complete wita cleaning rod aud a!! I
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fir Gnu Catalog tie.
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MALLORY’S ALL STEEL ADJUSTABLE COMBINATION PLOW,
o^H’s a Perfect Ci.iy ants a Great Labor Saver.
j With this spt of Plows, by Mallory*lan<! ean .-**.<£[ 7.s7’7*>»
!>■> prepared loti 12 inches drop and havo th* rows In id
U“'.' oft'in less time than it would take to turn it broad cast JT \ z'CtVe 0
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1903.
|in this department several times There
I is "money in it" to the right man. of
I .course, else nobody would follow the
j business. But. as 1 have often syld. I
! think that much, If not all, that you
i read about it In the papers is written
by men who have planted roots and
seeds of ginseng to sell, and that the ac
counts of possible profits are rather high
colored.
The following Is a paragraph copied
from Bulletin No. 16. revised edition,
from the division of botany, department
of agriculture, Washington, D. c.;
"The ginseng industry seems to be a.
promising- one, but it must bo borne in
mind that it may Ina easily overdone.
'The consumption of glpselig, though
large, is al best limited, and the mar
ket may ;be easily glutted, as, indeed,
it sometimes has been already. On the
other hand, the cultivated beds ate not
being extended fast enough to supply
the deficiency in the wild root. The crop
is one which can be grown incidentally
to general fainting, without any great
outlay of capital, and further, If there
should be a .temporary decline in prb-e.
the grower can I-.nve his roots In the
ground, knowing that they are improv
ing in quality. It is to be <-onsldet;ed.
too, that the novel and still somewhat
experimental character of ginseng cul
ture will tend to prevent any general
rush Into it. while many who under
take It without sufficient care and pa
tien'-e will fall."
Write to Hon. James Wilson, secretary
of agriculture, Washington, T>, C., for a
free copy of the above bulletin.
"SURE CURE” FOR. SWEENY.
N J. If , Blythewood, S. <*.- Take four
oi- five toad frogs, kill and open, fry in
a little lard or butter, rub the shoulder
v."ll with the ointment. You need not
stop working your horse, i have never
seen it fail to make a. cure. I hav.- tried
it repeatedly. Jl is a. certain and sure
cure.
(I). GRASS FOR LOW BOTTOM. <2>.
JOHNSON GRASS. (3). HAY PRESS.
J. W. V., Gra ngc ville I.a I. 1 have
a. piece of river bottom, light, loamy,
1.1. ek. sandy land, v.-rv loose, subject to
ox erflow at <1 wat.-r remains o.ver it from
one to throe days. .1 want to sow it in
th., best grass or mixture of grass for
hay, and write for advice. 1 have
thought of sowing in Johnson grass. The
field contains about 40 nares. (’oi-kle
burrs and other weeds grow on it tail
enough to hide a man or a. large horse.
2. If sowed in Johnson grass and kept
mowed nt. proper time is there any dan
ger of the grass spreading to other fields
one-fourth of a mile distant? At
what stage of growth, and h"W
often can It. be mowed during the season,
and tile probable yield per a,•) •? Th'-
land I intend to sow to grass will
produce In favorable season 25 to 30
bit.-di- Is of corn i"T non without fertili
zers. Give me all necessary informa
tion.
3 '?el! we the qiti'kest and best
hay press io buy Don't give •• long list.
I want tii' best and the price of same.
Answer-- 1. Y a do not state ,-it what
seasons the land is usually ovorflowed.
if covered with watq- from one to three
days no very s'-Hcus iniury would re
sulf to the grass, excif.t when approach
ing llie limo for mowing. I mean that,
lie- vitality of the grass roofs would
not be seriously impaired. But the hay
crop might be ruined by b“lng press d
down and covered with sand or mud. It
would certainty be an ideal place for a
Johnson glass meadow; but xou must
make up . ir mind to give it a; to that
gras...- (in such a location; if you desidc
to plant it. But. ;• irgbnm would make a
great <-iop of hay on such a rich, moist
soli, sowing- 3 or 4 -bushels of seal per
2. The danger of the Johns.cn grass
spreadin;; from a field kept mown before
seeding would be reduced to a minimum.
But you would have to lie very particular
to i.r. vent even a stray la-ad ripening
••• I for >l)e biros to transport tn other
fields. Johnson gruss should be cut just
as it e.imo, into idoom. or when 24 to 30
i-iehos. high. If left to grow larger the
grass b'-.-imes woody and not ,-o good for
hay. S"w 40 pounds- of good seed per
aert in Sepr.-mber or Oct .tier, If i good
-’n ill li"- gr niiui at the time of
.- 'Wing; or ;n early ting. It may be
cut In:- liay as often as four or five
tim-s during the si-:i<"n after the first
3- 1 can not a K a rule express r.n opin
ion in regard to the compar.-itiv* merits
ot agricultural ma.chiner.\ in these col.
limns. it w mid be giving free advertis
ing. so Io speak, at least, so far as my
"Pinion might be valued. Moreov'-r, you
d.i .not say whether you wish a steam
power, hoi.--.- po-.v.-r hand pr
(1) COTTON FORMULA (2) RYE AND
CRIMSON CLOVER- 13) TER
RACING.
Subscriber, Yorkville, S. c. |. j used
your formula for cotton—l,ooo acid 14
I -"F cent, 700 nie.-G and 300 kainit
and was pleased with the result and
would like to know if 1 should make any
e-i.-mges in it for another year on light,
sandy land; been in cultivation for years
and lias xer.v little vegetable matter on
it and rot badly?
2. How would it do to sow rye or crim
son clow r and plow under in spring on
this land?
3. Should hilly land be terraced or
dil-.-bed: if terraced, should the; be high
or low and wide?
W oitld be glad to ha ve all the Infor
mation you will give on terracing.
Answer—l. You might get better re
sults on the "light, sandy land” by In
creasing th-’ quantity of kainit to 400
or 500 pounds. Try different proportions
of kainit on test plants and note results
carefully,
2. 1 do not think It would produce
much of a crop of crimson clover at
best, and certainly not bo good sown so
lite as this. Crimson clover ought to
be well up and growing by this time (No
vember sj.
3 I prefer terracing to ditching. I
prefer no bank at all, after the first
year. The correct, idea is not to at
tempt to hold the waiter by means of a
iliteh the hank (like a line of rifle pits!,
but by deep plowing, level rows and a
fine terrace slope,
1 published a full and detailed account
ot terracing fn the VVeeklj- of January
13, 1902. Did you not see and read it?
if a number of farmers desire It I will
reprint it soon.
ROOT ROT OP COTTON-CORN "FAR
ING."
A. H. Olds. Zeigler. Ala. —I. 1 live on
a 40-acre farm down near a creek, it is
of a deep, sandy nature, foundation yel
low sand, makes good corn, cane, ground
pens and fieldpeas, but won’t make cot
ton successfully. 1 have 16 acres in
cotton this year. I used sixteen sacks
guano and I will get four bales of cot
ton. Now last year 1 got six bales off the
same land, but it was the dryest year
1 evil saw, and that Just suits my land.
I have several places in my cotton field
that a person couldn't tell that a cotton
planter ever went along there and a bet
ter stand of cotton I never saw when it
| came up, but it died out with what is
[ known her" as black root; oven the stalks
| will exhaust. Now 1 come to what; I
i want you to toll mo. What kind of chem
! irals could bo supplied to prevent black
' root, or whatever you term the trouble.
| f have been thinking o f using a high
grade phosphate and cotton seed or
I meal ami kainit and potash and apply
i about 400 pounds to the acre for my cot
| ton. If you think that will do. how
would you proportion it? 1 want to use
' all the potash nr.v land will bejtr, or any
thing you will sugg.pn f ()r black root and
rust.
2. Also give .tne a p ] an to manure my
' ''fit with coinmereiai fertilizers and not
tire Ute corn, I plant every third row
lln my corn tielil in groundpeas. Now I
I want to know if 1 manure them (ground
peas) with say 100 or 150 pounds of
guano to tii". :i.er, will the -corn derive
much benefit from said guano. If so,
bow would it do to pul all the guano
that I usually put to my corn and
groundpeas all nnde r my groundpeas? It
don't seem that the coni would me as
'bad. I will (hank von very much for
any suggestion you make on the sub
ject.
Answer—So far as yet discovered there
is no fertilizer or '-Imrnical or particular
treatment that, win prevent root rot or
black rot in cotton. The only remedy,
and It is In the nature of a preventive
is not to plant that land in cottnn for at
least two years. It is a disease or fun
gous affection, that soon fills the soil
with Its spores (or germs), and these
germs will survive a year or two, waiting
for another crop of cotton. H >9 one of
the blessed advantages of rotation of
crops that we max thereby get rid of fun
gous diseases and also insects that may
attack one crop and not attack a dif
ferent kind of crop Evidently the land
in question is not adapted to cotton. Pos
sibly it is too wet down deep in the soil
and should be timlcrdrained. It. is the
place for corn, cane, cowpeas and flold
peas. In all probability it would pro
duce oats finely. I "ant these crops and
put your cotton on your higher, thin
ner, dryer soil. (jite bale to 4 acres,
with 200 pounds of guano to the acre,
indicates either very poor land or a soil
radically unsuited to cotton. Isn't It a
mucky, black soil, with a good deal ot
[ white sand it it?
2. 1 know' of no plan to manure your
corn and not fire- I; ( suspect that It is
not the manure that fires it, but the wet
ness and excess of sour vegetable mat
ter. I nderdralning and heavy lining
would cure it of these defects.
In regard to the peanuts you should
nol manure them with a complete guano,
but simply acid phosphate and potash. 1
would not be afraid to apply 200 to 300
pounds of formula N ■. 1 in the bedding
furrow, mixing it well in that furrow’,
then bedding on it, throwing out a good,
vid" water furroxx- -I planting the corn
on the beds. If you plant peanuts In
vour corn xviiv not plant between all the
corn rows? The corn fas yon propose to
manure the peanut- only) would get. wmc
portion of the mpmire; but. that is not
the way to manur- nn. Put the manure
where Lie corn plants can get. It as soon
as they come up. Formula No. I is:
one thousand pounds of 14 jasr cent a id
phosphate, 30 pounds of muriate ot pot
:,sli (or 125 pound:-of kainit). and 1.250
pounds of cotton me-.i). Apply not oxet
300 pounds per :c:-. Do you g"t tne
bulletins of your cite experiment sta
tion at Auburn .Ala.?
SEEDING PEACHES.
George I' Jack.on. ('alera, Aia. I wish
you would d'-<-id. a question for mu,
knowing that your many years' experi
ence and vour knowledge, of o:ners ex
pel i.-nee, will be OI gr.-at benefit to me,
a. -,-oung farmer, and to other:-, who, like
myself, have alw.cs believed that a.
jn-.'. -li s--ed from : tiling tree will re
produce itself, or to lie p.ainer, a seed
from a seedling tt"- will bring torth the
sun" fruit as Hint of the seedling tree,
whether pea-eh, plum, or other stone
fruit ' . .
1 date no ref' to budded trees
that we get fn lie urst men, as
we all know how new varieties are propa
gated.
Now 1 w.-:t:t t" •• tltn- some yea t s ago.
In tin town of Birmingliani. .Ala., 1
bought from a I ' . - ■' lew of the finest
P'-p.-ii. S- I eve) sav Tlu Dago said they
wre ('a lifornia T'ney wee mag-
nificent peaches - :ze. color and some
thing nnusiml in California peach,
th- finest 11: vor an< peach I ever
tasted. I p’anti-'i ’:i few of the sc- .Is
U-om these 'peach, -a and only succeeded
in getting one tr. That one has made
splendid growth, and now eight years
old. has born Ir I th" ms-f three years,
and each x oar the fruit is the same in
. :;'o, '-ol's- and f! I am told by my
neighbors and ot :• a .-' who pretend to be
thoroughly posted, that seeds front the
fruit from this tr • .a: ot bo r-'ll.a] upon
to bring forth tl’. -un- variety of fruit.
I do not see wli.v. as we all know that
like prod it. < s 111;- . and ,i does s"cnt to me
thni these seed.- from n seedling tn-M
certainly siioulrl pr ahi ■ (lie same fruit
as that of the parent tree. Yon may
sav that the parent t- e was a budded
tr.-e, and that t! ■ soc.is from ft cannot
be r lied on. Be: '.l: - • .'ds from this
tree are from a reed "IO be original
tree. It may be a complicated matter,
hut ■ coms - ■ ■ has had ex-
perience on ibis . üb.j'-c and that I ought
■to lie able to get a deimite answer, as I
want to plant . ox < al : .wir' d seeds from
tris tree xxito tl Id' that 1 will get
tie «.im» kind of a. : s as that of the
seedling tree.
Answ. r L'-t us f t understand clearly
what a "seedling” t. is. A seedling
; r <ie is a tree that res s from a planted
se.'d. A tree mown < .ect from a seel
picked from .a brnbled tree will’therefore
'no .a seedling tree .-:1s . as it falls within
lie definition. But the seedling tree
from a. sed grown on budded tree may
or may not. produce 1 Ko its parent tree,
and in most cas. s it will not. The term
".seedling” is often j pularly applied to
a good variety of pr-aeh that has come
from seeds planted : -cessfullx- through
many generation, ar - which uniformly
prodimes the same ebwacter and quality
of fruit, but the eo-'.-ct application of
the term Is to am tree that has been
produced from th ■ ■ 1 There are quit"
a number of "o!d-f; aioned x’ariety oi
poach that have lx - n propagated by
planting the seed' antnemorially, and
they ar.'- highly esteeined by many, large
ly because they jir -luce like," almost
invaiial.lv. They l.u ong mainly to the
old Indian type and tho English (Heath)
type. Some of th'-s*- ■ '-n vary as to time
of ripening, but In th- main they come.
true. But nearly if not ..11, of the Im
proved. modern varl- lx will fall to "pro
duce like" when the trees are planted
for another gent :-icon of trees. As a
rule the progeny of nch seedlings pro
duce utter!) wort Id varieties; but oc
casionally one will apl'ear that will regu
larly produce fruit ’■ a quality superior
to the fruit from xvhieh tile seed was
taken, and in this way new- varieties are
d. V' li'ped. The ] ante-1 seeds from such
m-w variety maj or may not "produce
like." rareiy doing so; but if it shall
"produce like" then It is probable that
II will continue ;o do so through sue- :
cessive propagation from seeds. This
disposition to "snoit." as it is called, is -
one of tin- result, of domesticating fruits. |
and it may lie wll to say that very few I
. ultivated fruits will uniformly produce -
like from plant-d seed. Apples, pears, '
peaches, plums i- xcept the original ('hick- ,
asaw), cherries, gra: etc., are all under
the rule. It is generally (not always) a
variety that has ?-een long cultivat'd
from seeds and usually not very far re
moved from the original will type that
will “produce Ik'" when seeds are
planted. There is always evident a ten
dency to "go h i k" to the original typo,
or io deteriorate fn all improved, cul
tivated plants end also animals. Ti-.v
planting your <'alifoi iila seedling. It may
prove to be an established seedling \-a
riety. Possibl.x tie "Dago" sold you a
peach from wh. ■ m popularly known ns
established sc.-dlim-- and tint a Cali
fornia peach.
PEANUTS FOR HOGS. OR FOR
MA R KET.
AV. AV I’..' Louvale, G.i.—Which, in
your Judgm. at. would be most profitable,
to raise ground p< as on an extensive
scale for mark t or far bogs? Could they
bo readily sold? If so, at about what
prices'.’ By answering these questions
yon will very much oblige.
Answer- If it were not a paying busi
ness to grow ground peas for sale, and
for bog feeding, ir would not be dope
by any one. Therefore, the best proof
that it will pay is the fact that num
bers of farmers have long practiced that
policy. AVhether it will pay you Is a
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different question, and one which I can
not answer. It pays some men to raise
cotton, and it does not pay a great many
says: "There is more in the man than
there b- io land” In large sections
men. II depends as much upon the man
as It does mi the land, and Sydney iztriiei
of North Carolina, and to a h-ss extent in
south Georgia, peanut crop is a good
paying mark* t crop, and in
the'- a-- grown quite extensively for tat
tening hogs. There is no difficult) what
ever in marketing well prepared peanuts;
but I cannot t'-ll you what prices you
will get foi them a year hence, as the
market varies according ’m “iPI'Iy ati'l
demand. Nm can 1 so;, xvlimher it will
prove more prolitable to raise peanuts ti i
th- market or for Imm Ti at will brmg
up the whole question ot hog raising,
ami rhe profit of growing peanuts t.T
bogs would (imiend largely upon the g.-n
--,-ral management of the hog crop.
On th" wbol". | think it would depend
upon the conditions prevaihrA- nt th
time the crop becomes nvamibb'. I h'
mn-ket fm p.-:ts is iov . and the market
for pork products is hi "h. tl" 11 . vo " "'imd
find it. better to f. .1 to hogs and xiee
BEACH LANDS AT $7 TO $lO AN
ACRE.
"Subs, rilier,” Scott-i. -ro. AT t\ "'ml It
Pax- 1., buy land at $7 to $lO p. • an- '-x
--m. -"lx- -.o set out In poach tiT'-s? l/tnil is
high ami gr.i’.-ely with, y lb>w
S'.q V ill pro.l ice 250 to "00 frn * Is s' ■ ‘
cotton o r “r- Wmil-l E’ber'.as be most
profitable on such land in t lutila-ie—
nmth Alabama 0 How m.ieh wo-ibl the
value Os land be raised ay i tint.’
bearing of trees where th'’)' had been well
cared for? .
V.'onlil ft be well to have a late varietx
of nrnc’i.'s also, where one “ gr.lng to
set out 20 or 30 acres, say one-third m
late variety?
Answ r—Yes. Indeed. Beach land in toe
best peach growing section.' of Gemcia
fet'-h S2O to S3O per a. re Elberlns may
be x-rmr main crop .and yon may plant one
or two oth -r varieties, but don’t, make the
mistake of planting so imi.all an ar-’a "f
aux- on.- variety that you i-annot fill a car
with om variety at a time A variety
that will follow closely on Elberta warn Id
be best. Much later varieties would come
in competition with Elbertas grown far
iher north. .
I should say that the land with pp-’i di
tnin good condition and full bearing
would fct<‘h from S3O to S4O p r *r acre.
APPLE CULTURE. A CERTAIN I'OT
TON.
j M., Armueli e. Ga. —How wide
apart should apple trees be sei on oral
nary land'? What would bp a. good fer
tiliznr fur them, a.nd how much to ot h
tree and how applied? I hav.- a p'Mash
plmsphate 8 and 4 per Imxv mu- :>
meal would h.'ix'e to b added to make i.
right?
Answer-I. Twenty-five to 30 feet apart
would be wide enough. For the first tour
or five years and until they commence
b- -:ring nothing is better for apple ti-os
than a liberal quantity of well rotted
stable manure. Say first year two shovel
fuls; second year, three shovel fulls, ami
so on. Tile first year mix the manure and
Th.- soil from the 1ml". Subsequently
spread on tl» surface around the tree in
a circle 3 or more feet in diameter If no
stable manure, cotton seed meal alone
will answer very well for say three years.
Firs; xear about 2 pounds j- r tree in a.
circle *(if 3 or 4 feet. Second ' ear 3
pounds; third year 4 pound". Continue at.
the last rat- until the trees are about
to comment-' bearing. Then mix tip for
• ■mb tree 3 pounds of II G. acid phos
phate I pound e.-icii of muriaie ot pot
ash and cotton seed men! You do not
need to use your potash phosphate for
,-wo or three years.
2. 1 tri'-d to get s-ed of the variety in
question for the purpose of testing it on
the experiment station, but failed I" get
any. I put no faith in the claims made in
the. advertisements of that variet;..
FATTENING- 8 MONTHS PIGS.
i; x. Cochran, Fairburn, Ga. I xxas
reading an article wrltt'-n by Mi \> . 1.1“
F Brow’n. of Ohio, for Home and barm,
giving bis plan of fattening pigs at 8
months old. so f thought it might be in
teresting to some one to know t lie ie
sults "f a Georgia pig 8 months and 14
davs old which I have just dr. ss,-d. On
the 7tii 01’ la-d MaiAh I weighed ibis
pig ami put it up. At that lime its weight
was li pounds; on the last day of March
It weighed 23 pounds; on the last of April
it weighed 59 pounds; on the last day of
May it weigh- d 129 pounds; today, the
6th November, it weigh. <l. gross, 455
pounds, net 410 : t/muls. I would liax e
. ontinued to weigh it al the close m . .. -
month but I did no* have a- suitable plac
Tile pig eoM $17.40 for feed during this
time besides the scraps from the table
of a small family, it was fed on a mix
ture of white short-' ami wh'.-it bran
eight or ten times each day. 1 som-:times
had to use brown shorts for ’cant of th,
other. You will notice that it n;ade a
gain of 70 pounds for the month of May.
1 think it did as well forth" next four
months, but 1 do not think it gained ov.-r
40 pounds for October. The most of the
feed was made up long enough to begin
to ferment. If Mr. Brown has done bet
ter 1 would like to know it.
Comment- 1 ftiblish tile above vary
gk-idlv, especially following my article of
last week, in which 1 advocated, as 1
had often done for thirty years, the fat
tening of pork hogs at 3 to 10 months old.
COTTON DOES NOT OPEN WELL.
)>. fl. 0.. Rash. Al'.—l have> about 30
acres of good se'-ond bottom land; favora
ble tear make 40 bushels of corn pin
acre' without fertilizing. It has been
sown three years and is now stubbie. 1
want to plant it in cotton, bat I am as
surt d by those who know the land tbat
it will not open. Cotton in adjoining field
has bolls enough to make a bale per acre,
but only about, one-fourth of them are
open mid t'ie rest s- cm rotten and no
probability of opening. The land is near
a mountain in a “cave.’ Please give
me direetiorv for (D preparing; (2) ferti
lizing; (31 kind of seed, and <4.1 mode of
cultivating; (5) width of rows; (6> dis
tance in the drill.
if I can raise cotton successfully on
this land it wiiT"be worth a great, deal to
a large area, as there Is much of the same
kind of land in this section. Cotton
grows rank till frost. It Is often injured
by "bla-k rust” In the spring.
Answer -I am afraid that the laud in
question is not naturally adapted to cot
ton. the local conditions being unfavor
able. But I think ti<<* cotton might bo
induced to open b" the following plan; ‘
Being now in stubble I would turn it
over to fl moderate <!epih. sc. 5 or 6
inches, in March or early in April opeir
furrows 3 I 2 feet Hfiart and bed on 300
or 400 pounds of a highly phosphor! and
potassic fertilizer, say a 10:4 potash
phosphate. J would not apply an." nitro
gen. Throw up pretty high beds and I
board off lightly before planting. (lei. j
the earliest variety of cotton you can ]
(King's improv'd or Greer’s improved. |
1,. I-’. Greer. Choccolocco. Ala.) Apply ‘
about 30 pounds of nitrate of so''.-i in ti • 1
furrow with the planting ser-d or aloug !
on top of the seed row. Pv; to ,-i stand 1
when it attains the fourth and fifth 1" f. i
I say one plant ev-ry 12 or 15 in 'm's. Cul
tivate lapidly with shallow running i-rltl
v.'.itors. !’■'• careful not to cultivate deep
ly and stop plowing by J-uly I. rtepoi't
results next fall. Tie- nil.ate of :■ ->d.-i :s
advisc-d -imply to get the clanty to grow
off qui -kly and vigorously.
ANALYSTS Ob' PERT’AMAN* GUANO
] J. R. H., Hopkins. S. C. I. Give th--
’ analysis of Peruvian guano.
: 2. When is the best time to put It down.
| and how much per acre?
| 3. I - P- r txinn guano better aril civ’.ip-
l e; in i'..-- on.l than your cotton mixture
I of mid phosphate, ca'to.i seed meal and
| kainit?
: I’li--.. give al! the information about 1
Peruvian guano you "in. I want tn use
[ it, but have hud no '■xperienco with
Aii."wer—P.-yuvian guano is suii.iect to i
inspe tion and analysis just as are other ;
' fertilizers and you should ask the dealer j
I for the analysis when you ask fm- the
I price, n varies considerably between tne
■ hig'-est and lo.v:st gra les. say as follows:
! (II Peruvian guano H. G.. arid pims
j l>h.nte. 12 per ec-nt; potash, 2 per cent;
nitrogen, 15 per cent.
(2) Peruvian guano L. G.. acid pi.os i
ph.-ite 15 per cent: potash. 1.50 per eent; !
nitrog, n. 7 per cnt
The high grade (11. G.) is what we used ■
| to get twenty-liv.- to t’ui ty-ti.e y.nrs ago. I
I ami more. The low grad" (L. G i is font i
I which is now sold. I would not advise j
t th’ I( f either the high grades or low '
ifl‘-s for coiton and corp alone it
would mill m-id phosphate and poia-'-
enough to bring the malyHs into pr-'-." '■
proportion tor the crop to xx c.i h it is to j
be applied.
PROBABLY RO-I F
Mrs f.rturri Bell. ?»L Raven, M \Vi:i j
: you pl.-us" tell mo what is th-- matter j
Ia nd give mo i cure for my chlr-kens. I •
have one which has something the mat
ter with its month. It is .swollen very
inu-ch and has gotten sore in its i-m -th
and on its tongue nnd ean hardly ge: its
breath. Please tell me what to do r or
it and oblige.
Answer It is ptobabb lb it your • bi'-k
--ens have t’.e distressing ami i-s-iial fatal j
disease known as roup, which is caifu-.i I
by one of several species of h-s-toria ami i
is most likely to oci -ir as an epidemic I
when the onditions ai " mm.-imt y. :
all th. surroundings arc elf 'n and i
whole *ome the fowls well housc-d in eoi'l. j
wet woathor. an outbreak or even a sin
gle ease is not likely to occur. The treat- j
merit recommended is to touch the dis- j
cased tiss.i" with lunar cansti -. or with
. 60 o:- 75 per cent solution of muriatic
acid. Wash the exes and nose with 1-2
per cent soluuon of corrosive sublimate
(I scruple of corrosive subiimate in 8
ounces of water). A 2 per cent solution
of boracic add jn a decoction of chamo
mile flowers is a. good antiseptic wash.
Another method, especially in the earlier
stages of an outbreak of roup is the
use of a I to 2 per cent, solution of per- !
manganate of potash. Mash or squeeze
the beak between the nostrils ami ev.-s, :
so as to OTosen the pus: then plunge th-.- j
fowl's head into rhe solution of pertnan- :
gannte fur 20 or 30 seconds, or a.- : long as
the fowl can stand it. Repent twice a.
day. But »m-b IndTvidtml treatment is
very troublesome in a large outbreak.
Si-parate tl:f well from the sick nt once,
t’lean im and disinfect the promises. If
a fowl gets bad off destroy it and burn
or but y deeply.
‘•WOOD TICKS" ON HEI l-'l'.i:.
Subscriber. St. Elmo. Ala.- - Will you
please answer tiio following questions;
I have i voung- heifer. 3 years old
m-xt February. Had a calf Juno 28. last.
She seems to fall off lat ly; don't seem to
be sick; feed her two quarts bran a.nd |
mi' -balf pint cotton meal night and morn- |
ing. ami she grazes during the day.
Every morning she is alive wilii weed
ticks. Is there anything that will keep
them off?
I have rubbed her with coal oil, mixed
with linseed oil. but don't seem to do any
good.
One other question: I had six Wyan
dotte chickens; when about two months
old one began to droop and mope around.
I examined it; could find nothing the
matter: only a hard lump in the craw.
I gave ir a little Mustang Liniment;
- also, rubbed it; seemed to get better:
I used to put ii in a. box and cover it
. ■ ■■■■ I ■■■ .' ~ . »!H3i
'W. W. J. TUCKER, TREATS
B DISEASES OF THE DIVER AND DIGESTIVE ORGANS,
producing such symp toms as sallow skin, colit, pains and sore
ness through the bowels, rush of blood to the head, with symp
toms of apoplexy, constipation. diarrhoea, .‘■•canty and hig'-
colored urine with gravelly deposits, often leading to chronic
diarrhoea, dropsy and Flight's disease.
DISEASES OF WOMEN".
such as prolapsus, ).r regularities, leucorrho a, depression of
spirits, etc.
DISEASES OF THE RECTUM,
such as piles, fistula, etc., cured without the knife.
DISEASES OF THE GENITO-URtNARY ORGANS.
all successfully treated. Have been right here in Atlanta 25 years.
Free pamphlet and question list. Patients treated bv correspondence.
W. J. TUCKER, M. D., Atlanta. Ga-
Mentlon The Constitution. . i
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it was all rich', again J found it dead
the next morning.
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coal oil. mixed wi'.h li:’. 1 ii. • ’ w. n
I any kind of cheap oil gr -ase, will ' < r-
i tainly kih all the t - tl ;t m b" on
I a cow at a .ime, 1: t l:h' - ise th®
; heifer gets a fre. '. - : pl.- c ’
I day in the pa st ure K cep her out of the
I iufosJed pasture and I horo-.ign; ■ -lean
] th’- lot in w’" -A xi'i lean m- .
I Ticks do not h-it.-h -n th- cat tie. They
hatch from eggs laid on tae ground by
the fully grown :: As. the 1.-pter fa’’-
ing to the gt ■ - "■ ■■ and
full ‘ ’ nqp.s’. You ran g'”' 4 ri I u - ■
entirely in a given r.-a«•: 'jyn • t’c ’nsr”! > m
two way . (I). Inspe-t I
' least, twice a v. ek. and <!• ”-roy .'ll ti'-l s
found on them thr.,ugliest the sunmi'-r
and fall. <2l ■' ■ '
such prist nm later than Senteml" ’
I. All eggs laid before tict I’m- wiu
hatch out before cold weal: < r. .--ml, iin .
Ing- no ■ attle to - on. ' :■■ -■■i tg ticks
will die of .-old a.J st ’cx aiior befor®
.p-: Are ■ ■ ware -attle tick
. c.'use Texas : (or ti li !< v--r>. -
! very deadly rliseac to al! but xo:i: g (0
- tie?
I 2. Can't s.-iy what was the matt;r With
: the chii-l:. Possibly, it. had a t rum:
' the crop. Possibly, '-t was "crop I-."-;-id."
WAGES AND CROPPING. AVHOLE
COT'i'ON SEED V. MEM.. PEA
VINES. ETC.
The following is r. "atl’T !■ : -; answer
to a still longer letter. The reply wi'-I
sufficiently indicate the -b.-• -■■ r■ ‘ :h*
i questions, etc., and tim iaiter is ,-u.npi'f-ss
' ed in the interests of e.
I To Ta (i. 8.. Wa- ni'C,oro. Ga if. at
I the end of 1901, you found :hat yu
; were out S I .000 aS t -s-t!t "
j lions that year on the wages piau (at
! lenr’, for plowir.gi. nnd you sm’-oeded
' mm-h better in 1902. wheji you ran • “:r
: business on the : i-iug p'r.:.. t'ac-n one
: m- two things must bo true, the s .-m-ons
! being equally goc.i for ei; :i year. viz..
: that you bore the loss ymic -If ’-.-m-n you
! rim mi the wage.'- plan in 1901, nnd that
j the laborers or .-coppers '..ore l-.ss
i when run on the cropping pla:-. m 1902.
• So then, it amounts to a qw-rt ■ :: of ii--
tails of th. contract, or amount paid
for wage"; or mi tie other irind, the
proportion allowed to cropj -'.-s. There
are a great many farmers who fail to
make money on the wag's pl";., he-'ause
I they do not manage according to s< ien
j title and business methods, a: J the -<
I farmer" make som" money mi t’; ot mr
| plan, because they r nt their land f-w so
| much, and they get their rent, tilth ntgh
■ th<? c-rcpper himself may i'.ive nothing to
■ "go on" for another xear. In other
' words, the cropper bears the Ims.
In regard to tin poli--. of exchanging
I cotton seed far cottonseed meal, or sell
ing one and buying the other. I can only
say that it is a policy that is indicated
by scientific considerations, as wel; as by
a- t'lai practice in my own experieiu-o.
1 The oil of the cottonseed is actually "uo
good" as a fertilizer—not worth it- weight
in pine straw for that p .rpose: The
only difference then between the cotton
seed and its equivalent in < ottonse'd rner.l
is the -presence of the cottonseed hull-,
and these .-ire wr.rtii v> ry little as a.
fertilizer, sax about $3 p r ton. <“
course, there is no objection to a man
exchanging his cottonseed for- . mu. h
meal and so much hulls; but if h‘- does
he can nol afford to use his hulls m a
fertilize;-, -because they are w. rth twi -e
as much as a food for animals. Tim
question is w 1 settled b th :l.e -reti,-al
ly and practically. in regard to the
iarnier in your countx- who runs fifty
plows am! who always use" his c-'tton
see.l on his cotton crop. I max say th-'t
ft probably paid him to use the -’ ttonsw-1
on it. rather than not use anything; but
I have no doubt whatever that 1. would
have gotten better results if he li.: I ex
changed his cottonseed for cottonseed
ni-i-.'il mi a fair basis. It is a very com
mon tiling fcr a. farmer who has been
successful to attribute his success to
something that lie invariably does. when,
in truth, that "something" had nothing
to do with it. and lie might have suc
ceeded even better if he had not done tbat
"something.”
For instance, some mm are very suc
cessful in growing Irish potatoes, and at
tribute their success to the fact, that
Continued on Pag-e Eleven.