The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-13
FARM QUESTION BOX.
Conducted by DR.. w. J.. Jones, Formally of
the Southern Cultivator

w P. W, Hubbard City. Hill County Tex: Please
give me some advice in regard to Johnson grass.
haze black land farm with several acres
covered with Johnson grass. You will do me
a great favor if you viii tell how to
get rid of il.
Have had little personal experience in Grad
icating Johnson grass-the efforts we have
made were unsuccessful 1t was in a garden
we owned once, and we undertook to dig it up,
but some pieces of it always escaped us. It is
claimed that close pasturing all through the
season Will destroy it, but it must be very close.
This, we think, is probably true The next best
method is to pillow up and, bring to the surface
during the droughts Of summer. This would
be effectual, if all the underground parts could
be brought to the surface, but this is quite
difficult to do. 1t often penetrates the soil to
considerable depths. Try the pasturing-es-
pecially with sheep.
Subscriber Elgin, Ga: ], I have three acres of
new ground which want to plant in corn. want
to put one hundred pounds of Jackson high grade
guano per acre. Which would be the best to break
it up or plant it without breaking, and when TO
plant it?
O. have some land bedded up for corn for which
have compost Of stable manure and cotton seed;
which is best to put it in and bed it in the water
furrow, put it in when planting?
/. Scratch over lightly-deep breaking would
be injurious, making the soil too open. Plant
as soon as danger of frost is over
2. Put in when planting or in siding furrow
at first working; we prefer the latter.
Inquirer: have about "A, 900 pounds ofC s. meal
and acid phosphate mixture to use two-horsc
farm OF cotton. My land is fairly good, part OF it
having heavy coat of crab grass turned under
from 10th TO 18th February my labor is rather short
Now, do you think that it would pay me better to
put my fertilizer on 10 20 aCres My idea
was that it would pay me to put it on the 40 acres
am young farmer and will be glad to have your
opinion.
If you will break deep, prepare your land
well and cultivate thoroughly you will make
more money by planting forty acres. You will
then have $50 pounds OF fertilizer to the acre
put 80 pounds in drills and 200 pounds in list
ing burrows on each side.
p. Is. j.. Cuba, Ma: have six acres old field re-
claimed in lSe5 and soWed in oats, followed with
peas in 1851 and 1876. In 1857 it was cultivated in
corn making sixty bushels per acre, with the addi-
ton of six hundred pounds guano, aud in last No
vember was sowed in barley. When would you adj
wise turning under the barley help the fertility of
The soil? wish to plant it in cotton the pr, sent
gear, and use compost, after Furman's formula
broadcast. How mueh would you advise per acre?
went to PITT ali That can SAFELY lie used without
danger Of burning, and would you advise scattering
broadcast before after blowing under the barley?
Fifty bushels green cotton seed per was plowed
under when barley was sown, also twenty-five
wagon loads pine straw. The land has good clay
subsoil.
,. How much guano would you advise per acre on
old fields, with clay subsoi planted in corn in or
der 10 reap best results.
On such rich land it is presumable that
there is good growth OF barley. This, il
turned under late, will make tie soil, for some
time, too omen. 1t would be we'll, therefore
10 turn under pretty early-say middle of
March, that il may rot to some extent before
cotton fairly begins growing You could not
delay it much longer, anyway, if the land is
TO BE- planted in cotton this year. You might
safely broadcast iour thousand pounds Of com
post per acre--one half before turning un}er
the barley, the other half at the next blowing
OF the land
2. About 80 pounds per acre, if applied in
drill or liu.
WN. G., Tl'cu county, Ga, have seen s1lae-
where youf rcuely rr horses suffering IT this sea-
son OF The year WITH general dclu.y invoking 'o-s
ot aIro.e. lick OF 81 or. &C., p.elering IL r. C. @
"pc" 1c.s o. commerce, Tut fail 70 Iecallu Please
fvor he Wila IL.
We have recommended mixture Of equal
parts Of sulphur, copperes and saltpe;er-a
feast oouial three times Weeh. Another
very good, is Powdered gentian. ounce;
powdered ginger, drachIns; eoppefas, i
crachms Once day, three times week.
&C F. P. Lano.r. y. G.: ]. Enclosed please find
specimens % a grass which we know as cane or
Joint grass but was told some time ago by a MISS.
EppiSn tia, !. WAS bermuda grass please state your
opinion.
= Please stale bow can get rid oft pis on my