The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-21

ord. Through liberal application to a sue
eess'on OF crops, the debris of which add hui
mus to the SOIL and the manure of stock
led upon its products, returned TO it,
rather than lose, one very large application
w. NJ B.-Faceville, Ca. l. How would it 90 to
oreaK thln or poor level land broad cast and then
cross three feet each way drop cotton seed in the
cross ana cover with two small plows and drop
| compost on each side and cover it with two more
burrows and then knock off with loard Or would
you crop compost in same furrow with seed on each
side.
2 On poor land would You put compost in furrow
| with corn or in the siding ftlrrow
want to plant my corn and my compost is not
ready to use.
l. The only objection to planting cotton on
a level, instead of on bed, is the trouble in
working when the plants first come up; they
are not so apt to be covered by the pillow when
on slightly raised bed. 1t is also important
to get manure for cotton well under ground.
This you could hardly do in the small burrows
made in covering the cotton. But for this,
| there would be no objection to putting compost
on each side of the cotton as you suggest. The
same objection holds to putting in the same
furrow as the seed, because cotton seed should
not be planted deep. If covered deep and then
knocked off, the seed would be all right but
the manure would be too near the surface.
2. No objection to putting manure for corn
in.siding furrow.
c. L. c., White county, Ga-Please give your
views of the Lest cotton seed to plant in north
| Georgia near the mountains and time of planting
the same, apd what you think of the Peterkin cot
ton for this section whether it is too late in opening
or mot; II is how would it do to mix it with the
Custer cotton is there any other that is earlier?
Cotton planted for number of years in re-
| glons where the season is short acquires grad
ually the habit of maturing earlier. 1t would
be well, therefore, for you to get seed oc-
caslonally from some point north of you. We
are not sufficiently acquainted with the habits
OF the Peterkin to pass Judgment on it. AS n
rule, we think the short jointed varieties
mature earliest.
7. B. H., Prospect, Va: want to try the alsike
or Swedish clover, and would like to have your
Judgment about it. VIII it make good crop of hay
on moderate land? The soil is sandy and light.
| live about forty miles cast of Lynchburg, Va, in
| Prince Edward county.
Do not think Alsike clovee would grow we'll
on land described. Try on small scale and
test it for yourself.
| ]. A. B., Graham, Ala: Please give formula for
| compost for cotton where no horse manure is used
| Have plenty of Gotten seed and COW manure. How
much cotton seed? How much COW manure? How
| much acid phosphate? How much kainit, if any?
| How much per acre on land that made 900 pounds
seed cotton per acre last year, with 1875 pounds gu
ano per acre? Want to make bale per acre, if pos
| sble, this year.
For one acre
Cow manure, thirty bushels.
| Cotton-seed, ten bushels.
| Acid phosphate, 600 pounds.
| Kainit, 100 pounds.
| The above is good safe manuring for one
| acre of medium land. On land well supplied
with humas, deeply broken and we'll pulver-
izrd, double above quantity might be used
Whether, under such applications, your land
| will mako bale to the acre or not depends
| largely on the seasons.
| A reader, Conchatta, Newton county. Miss. :
!. If one has not sufficient amount of stable and
COW manurcs, can a substitute of rotted leaves
| Pine straw, with top soil mixed, be used for CON-
| posting? If So what amount of acid phosphate
| should be used (Furman's formulaG Which has the
most strength and would be best to use, rotted
| leaves or pine straw?
| 2 Is it necessary to use kainit In making pom
| post? Some argue that it is unnecessary. Please
explain the use of each acid phosphate and kainit
8. / have mare that is hard to breed, Can any,
| thing be given her or done to make her breed
readily?
| /. Yes, substitution can be made but the
| amount of cotton seed should be increased.
| Thus, rotted leaves 80 bushels, cotton seed 40
bushels, acid phosphate 400 pounds, kainit
| 200 pounds. Leaves of oak and other hard
wood, are better than pine straw, but the diff
ference is not very great.
2. Kainit generally improves a compost,
though very good one can be made without
it. Kainit supplies potash substance fire.
quently wanting in soils Especially the lighter
kinds) and helps to fix ammonia in a compost
heap. Phosphate supplies phosphoric acid, an
indispensable thing to plants.
8. If very fat, reduce in flesh if stabbed and
fed on grain for a long time, change to pas
ture; if on pasture and thin. feed literally on
| grain. Such changes sometimes deyelope
fertility.
c. A., Colona, Ark: wish to fertilze some land
| for cotton, with gossypium; land is sandy loan
How had better apply? thought wonld use
five six hundred pounds per acre. The land pro-
duces from eight to twelve hundred pounds of seed
| cotton, when we have good seasons. Do you think
| above amount sufficient?
| Open drill, put in $50 pounds of fertilizer
and list on it. Then put 100 pounds in each
listing furrow and 100 pounds in each of the
next burrows. This will distribute $50 pounds
in five adjacent burrows. 1t would hardly be
safe to put that large amount in one furrow,
| directly under the cotton.
| W. II. E., Shiloh, Ga: l have not sufficient
amount of cotton seed compost to manure my entire
crop of corn, ard am unwilling to plant without
using some kind of manure What commercial
preparation would you recommend as the best and
cheapest and best for corn? Would it do to use cot
ton seed meal? How would you apply it, and in
what quantity? Would cotton seed meal be chcapcr
than soluble bone at six dollars more per ton
Whath farmer now wants is not what fertilizer il
the best and cheapest for cotton, but what fertilizer
is the best and cheapest for corn
On very poor land, cotton seed meal used
alone would give good results, but better if
combined with soluble bone or acid phosphate
and kainit. The following mixture is sug-
gestcd: Cotton seed meal, 100 pounds; SOL
uble bone (acid phosphate), 1OOpounds; kainit,
100 pounds. The above quantity to be applied
TO one acre for ordinary cropping.
r. J. B., Union Point Ga, You stated in recent
issue that gossypium could be very nearly dup]i.
ca:el by mixing 1000 bounds acid phosphate, SOC
pounds cotton se ID meal ana 500 pounds Of kainit
Which ie rrpti IN puro ccttoD so.cI