The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24
kainit and eco pounds cotton-seed meal.
Ihird-Hes it is fit for nothing but soap
grease.


grease.
W. ". T.. Jackson, Ca: have seventy acres of
lalu tlat has been cleared five years--pnc orchard
When cleared Il has been in cotton every year.
"isn 10 use fifteen bushels cotton seed per acre
nov much acid, phosphate and ka'nit should use
WIN the seed Ter acre? Forty acres OF it is red land
% , thif'y acres gray land. Could I leave of the
A"!ill' ana nave as good fertilizer as would by
using iE Which would be the best fertilizer for
oaS-sowed now-cotton seed meal or cotton seed?
should use acid with either, and how much per
acre?
Two hundred pounds of acid phosphate and
loo pounds OF kainit to Is bushels cot on seed.
halnlt has quite generally proved valuable
ADDITION to manureS. and you would do well
TO retain 1t in your mixture. OF course we
speak generally. There may be soils which do
not need the kanit, You could decide whether
yours did or not by leaving it out on an aver
age acre and noting result
Cotton seed meal is better than whole seed
OH spring oats, because it acts more promptly.
ACID phosphate is desirable in connection with
IT. one hundred pounds of each to the acre
may be riskcd quite safely on ordinary land.
l." c. B. Madison Springs Ga; have four acres
Oh lend IN stubble that ought. with ordinary
sons ana cultivation, make one thousand pounds of
lhSi forest, cultivated two years then sowed
down. consequently we'll supplied with humus,
dark gravelly loan, with red subsoil / want to
make 1900 pounds seed cotton OF more per acre.
Please give me plan of cultivation and manuring
to obtain best results
BREAK deep, at least six inches, measured
from original surface. Harrow and cross break
unul the soil is thoroughly pulverzed. Lay
OH rows four feet apart, put in 800 pounds of
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mix with soil; bed up as usual and Just before
planting harrow off top of bed, SO as to reduce
Its heigth, and plant. Cultivate with heel
scrape fIom beginning to end using very
short scooter with scrape. and putting scrape
behind, not in front of pillow foot. Shallow
cultivation hastens maturity and fruiung, and
especially important in your locality where
the late bolls are apt TO be cut off by frost.
j. w D., Seldom, St. Clair county Ala: Please
tell me of what value pine ashes as fertilizer?
4hey have cen burnt from the slabs of pine timber
at saw mill Can get them by the car load viii
1t pay to put them on garden lands?
Pine ashes are very light, and q bushel would
not be anything like as valuable as a bushe of
hardwood ashes. But weight for weight tho
difference is decidedly less Pine ashes contain
less potash that that of oak and hickory, but
contain some, and that from slabs is better
than that from the heart wood. Whether it
would pay to use them will depend on the cost.
If that does not exceed five cents a bushelt
delivered on your farm, it will pay to use
them on garden or field
Subscriber, Farmervile, Ala: 1st. Proportion,
Of cotton seed meal acid phosphate an d kainit
makes the best fertilizer for old sandy land with
stiff rcd and yellow clay sub-soil that have been
planted in cotton for several years in succession?
I'd. What proportion for the ne character of
lands that was sowed i'll oats or lay out the past
year.
Sd Whatamount to use per acre on lands of the
above description that will produce from 500 to 500
pounds cotton seed per acre without fertilizng?
4th. Does it pay hest 10 compost green cotton seed
with stable manure, or 10 use them separately as
follows?
5th. In what proportion would You mix in com
posting them, and is it too late TO compost now for
the next cotton crop? All above with reference to
manurine cotton.
9Th Does kainit act as preventive of rust in cot
ton on lands that are predis osed to rust, supply
sandy lands) Imean
Lone hundred and fifty pounds each OF meal
and acid phosphate and 70 pounds of kainit
this for one acre
2. One hundred pounds of meal, 100 pounds
OF acid phosphate and 70 pounds of kainit
3. One hundred pounds of meal, 200 of acid
phosphate and 100 of l1anit
4. AS rule it is best to mix different ma
nures together
5. 1t is not too late to mix composts Fur
mans formula is a good one.-i00 pounds of
acid phosphate, 200 OF kainit, 50 bushels eac h
OF cotton seed and stable manure.
6. IL does, but sometimes fails
+. ". r, Greensboro. Ga: have about ten acres
of fine new ground Qrst year) wish to put in cot
ton. Would acid phosphate be better than amonia-
ted guano? About what quantity per acre?
On such land one has to steer between two
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