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Farmers Worked Up
Over Spanish “Lions”
A wag's remark to farm tenants
near Dover, N. 0., during tlx* SpanlHh-
Amerlcan war caused much apprehen
sion for several days to the simple
folk of the countryside. He told them
the American naval and military
forces were superior hut Spain had
"more lions." He even went so far as
to soy 800 of the beasts had been
landed at Beaufort, not fur away, the
night before.
Taking up the Joke, villagers rigged
up a "horse fiddle,” or reslned box
across which could be drawn a piece
of wood ns a how, emitting sounds
similar to the roaring of lions. This
was secreted In the neighborhood and
"played” throughout the night. The
tenants were terrified and among some
of them the belief In the lions re
mained alive for a long time. Wil
liam Wnrters, resident of Dover, re
calling the tale, said that for several
days barred doors and loaded guns
were the rule in the district. —Detroit
* News.
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Only One Requirement
Insisted On for Book
The affable salesman In New York
book stores are seldom surprised at
any request—the public demand be
ing what It Is. But one of them re
ports that the other day he had a re
quest from a dignified little old Indy
that—to use his own words —"knocked
him for a row of bookshelves."
“I want a book —any kind of a book
—with a Jacket that Is green, with
; red In It," the little old lady said. She
Insisted It could ho a cook hook 01
one about the home life of the bee or
I South pole explorations —anything a*
1 long as its Jacket was the colot
scheme she described.
“Site wanted it," the salesman ex
I plained, “to match the decoration ot
i her new rending lamp. Cun you beat
it?”
Safe Delivery
A Melbourne man recently tele
graphed from Sydney that he was
about to leave by train for home. The
message put up a stiff contest, and
had the passenger walked from Spen
cer street would undoubtedly have
won the race.
He took n taxi (in my opinion, an
unfair advantage) and beat the wire
home by a clear ten minutes. He wns
explaining to his wife that the tele
gram should have reached her the
previous evening when his small
daughter spoke up; “Daddy should
have brought Ids telegram with him
. . . those silly people might have
lost It.” —Sydney Bulletin.
Chineie Superstition
There are towers in Shanghai where
men watch for tires. When one ts
discovered the fire-bell Is rung. When
the old custom house was built a
large clock was placed in its tower.
For some weeks after this clock be
gan to strike the hours there were
very few if nny tires.
The Chinese said it wns because
the tire-god thought that every time
the clock struck there was a tire an
nounced, so he could rest without
helping. Ail these things seem ridic
ulous to us but are very reut to the
Chinese.
New York’* Early Day*
An article published in the Clirls
tinn Advocate says: “At the begin
ning of the Nineteenth century the
•commercial metropolis of the United
States’ occupied only the lower end
of Manhattan island, what Is now ‘up
town’ being still made up of spacious
farms and country estates. Including
the little village of Harlem. The ac
tual measurements of the city proper
are given as three miles In length
(from the Battery to Fourteenth
street), one nnd n half miles In width
uud eight miles in circumference.”
Man and Fish
A fish’s fear of uinu is born, a Car
negie institute’s bulletin suggests, by
tlie fact that he approaches from
above, a direction from which the fish
has learned to expect attack by birds
or other enemies. When a man walks
on the ocean floor In diver’s dress, fish
large and small display the greatest
curiosity. Even the tierce barracuda,
after nosing the diver in friendly and
inquisitive fashion, must be pushed
out of the way and goes without show
ing undue resentment. —San Francisco
Chronicle.
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London’s Wall Street
Lombard street, the principal bank
quarter of London, takes its name
from the Lombards, Italian goldsmiths
and money lenders wtio settled there
in the Twelfth century. At that time
they were commonly called “long
beards” and the thoroughfare was
called Longbord and Longebred. A
century later It was called I.ange
bourne —meaning “long brook”—and
this title Is still maintained for the
place where it was situated.
Breathless
The teacher was telling n story to
the kindergarten and interest was in
tense.
“So that night the wicked red fox
came and stole a chicken. The next
night lie came and stole another
chicken. And the next night he came
and stole nnother chicken. And” —
dramatic pause—“what do you sup- j
pose happened the next nlghtl"
“Oh, teacher 1” panted Peter. “Did
he git another chicken?”
Top-Dressing Cotton With Potash
BY (Jl.oßGi: A. ToWN'SLND
This cotton on the farm of Mr. I’anl Iturson at Monroe produced 1.720
lbs. of seed cotton per acre. A top-dressing of HP lbs. of muriate returned
Dr. Frank McDaniel, of Conyers, 331 lbs. of seed cotton.
In the southeastern cotton belt the
comparatively new Idea of giving cot
ton supplementary applications of pot
ash as top-dressings is apparently
coining Into feul favor. The practice
seems to gain impetus in proportion
to the number of farmers who try it.
$3.50 for $1
For the three years, where potash
top-dressing was applied in addition
to the farmers’ regular cotton ferti
lizer, it increased yields on 95.5 per
cent of the farms. An average of about
$5.50 in extra seed cotton was obtain
ed for each $1 invested in extra pot
ash. The farmers found that they
could profitable apply an average of
3 1-2 times as much potash to cotton
as they had applied in the past.
In spite of the handicaps of exces
sive rain, boll weevil, and tornado
damage, the top-dressed plots averag
ed more than 1,000 pounds of seed
cotton per acre.
Every effort was made to carry on
the demonstrations under average
field conditions on average soils. Each
demonstration received the same culti
vation as the cotton on the remain
der of the farm. Two plots of uniform
land were selected on which the prev
ious fertilizer treatment and cropping
system had lieen the same. To both
plots the farmer applied his regular
cototn fertilizer. Just aft r chopping
lit* top-dressed one plot with potash.
Hie amount varying from 50. to lt!8
pounds of muriate of potash peiwacre.
On some farms kainit was used.
In most cases the plots were one
half to one acre in size. However, in
many instances a potash top-dressed
tenant farm of 15 acres of cotton was
confpared with another tenant farm
of equal area and as nearly uniform
conditions as possible but not top
dressed with potash. This was done
to determine whether or not the pot
ash top-dressing idea was applicable
to the average southern farm unit —
Hu- tenant farm.
Demonstrations were placed on all
of the major cotton producing soils
of tin- South. These varied from day
loams and silt loams to sandy clay
loams, and sands. Some demonstra
tions were on alluvial loams and lime
stone soils. Potash top dressing gave
good results on all of these soils, in
fact it appears front the results that
the previous fertilization and cropping
of a particular soil has as much in
fluence upon its response to potash
as does the soil type itself.
The effect on a soil of previous
methods of fertilizing and cropping is
Illustrated by a demonstration on the
Taylor Farm at Summerville. Ga. The
soil, a silt loam lying along a stream,
had produced corn for several years
without, being fertilized. When the
cotton was planted, SOU pounds of
12-1-4 were applied to three plots.
Plot 1 was a cheek. Plot 2 was toj>-
dressed at dumping with 64 pounds
Cotton on Taylor Farm. Summerville, ha. This land contains enough
native potash to malic a hale |kt acre for 1,700 years, yet 128 lbs. of
muriate of potash increased the yield 670 lbs. of seed cotton per acre.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD. CONYERS. GEORGIA
of muriate of potash per acre. At the
same time plot 3 was top-dressed with
128 pounds of muriate of potash per
acre. Plot 1 yielded 1076 pounds of
seed cotton per acre; plot 2 yielded
1242 pounds; and plot 3 yielded 1740
pounds. Although the cotton on plot
1 received 800 pounds of fertilizer
containing 4 per cent potash it began
to show signs of rust early and to
ward the close of the season many
immature bolls were noticeable.
A study of the demonstration results
shows that on heavy clay soils small
additions of potash gave no apparent
returns while large applications gave
outstanding yield increases.
Such results are contrary to the
general belief tha.t ((tile potash- is
needed on clay soils. They give fur
ther support to the statement that
previous methods of fertilizing and
cropping of a soil seem to exert as
much influence upon the response of
a particular crop to potash as does
the soil type itself.
A Better Ratio of Lint
As to the beneficial effects of potash
top-dressing on the cotton plant the
farmers conducting the demonstra
tions found that the top-dressed cot
ton produced healthy, sturdy plants
which put on squares very early.
These plants set more squares for
larger yields, and their shedding was
reduced to a minimum. Their bolls
were bigger and the cotton was easier
to pick. The extra potash absolutely
controlled rust and helped control
wilt.
By ginning the cotton from their
plots separately some farmers discov
ered that the extra potash increased
the ratio of lint to seed. A typical case
is that of J. W. Baxter, manager of
the Kildare Farms at Huntsville, Ala.
On one iilot, fertilized with 600 pounds
of 15-5-5 and 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda per acre, lie produced 1i.500
pounds of seed cotton. The same yield
was produced on another plot receiv
ing Hie same fertilizer treatment plus
a top-dressing of 50 pounds of mur
iate of potash. The 1,500 pounds of
seed cotton, without the extra potash,
ginned out 454.4 pounds of lint while
the 1,500 pounds that got the extra
potash ginned 490 pounds of lint from
1,350 gain of 20.6 pounds.
N. S. Wolfe, of Mt. Olive, N.
ginned 490 pounds of line from 1350
pounds of seed cotton which had been
fertilized at the rate of 600 pounds
of 8-3-3 and 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda per acre. The same amount of
seed cotton fertilized the same way
but top-dressed with 100 pounds of
muriate per acre produced 530 pounds
of lint, or a gain of 40 pounds.
Mr. Wolfe had 20 acres of cotton in
each plot. If both plots had produced
at the rate of 984 pounds per acre
with no gain in yield for extra potash,
the difference in the amount of lint
for the 20 acres would have been 584
pounds. At 18c per pound this is $lO5-
.12. The extra potash for the 20 acres
cost less than SSO.
Wherever extra potash is used in
large amounts it seems to disrupt a
few long accepted theories of fertiliz
ing cotton. And it does this with the
unanswerable argument of extra cash
produced by extra yields and extra
quality.
“APRIL SHOWERS BRING
MAY FLOWERS’*
April Also Brings Days for Spring
House Cleaning
For these days we can meet your Screen Door and
Window needs. We also have a large, dependsMe
supply of Paints—and there is no better disinfectant
For the Farmers and Gardeners
Garden Seed
We have various kinds of Implements-Distributors,
Planters, different kinds of Plows, Rakes, Etc. Gar
dens are never quite so good unless worked with the
best tools that money can buy—the kind we sell.
Figure with us; buy from us and then tell us
how you saved and how easy it was done.
METAL ROOFING
Just received another car of corrugated
Galvanized Roofing at $4.25 per square
as long as it lasts.
~ MACK P. TRIBBLE
Conyers Hardware
p s° ne Company aSS?
Summers Brothers
Conyers, Georgia
Headquarters
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