The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-13

= Cow peas. Cultivated rs long as it is an
| orchard.
! c. P. D.. Walton, Newherry county, s. c.: have
| lot of well rotted pine straw and stable manure
/ which want to put UNDERGO My land has an
open, gray sandy soil, and want to plant between
the old beds. Which will pay best, TO scatter the
manure down between the old beds without run
ming center furrow and ridge on it, or run Il deep
certeriu TOW and scatter manure in ii and bed
In very sandy soil, with no clay near the
suriace-as near the coast-best results are
had by not running furrow in middle when the
beds are high, but strewing manure and ridg.
ing on it. Would hardly expect, however,
your soil to be as loose as those near the coast
nor beds as high as prevail there. The
| whole turns upon whether the soil is so loose
that blowing makes it too open or not.
| j. B.. A. Graham, Ala. /. have compost OF
| equal quantities ofcotton seed and cow manure,
how much acid phosphate should be put with it for
cotton? How much er acre can be put SO as 10
pay
>. Have a compost of cotton seed and stable
manure for corn; have some acid phosphate with it,
but not enough. How much phosphate ought there
TO be with it? How much per acre?
3. Are the above good manures for cotton and
corn?
4. Where can get bermuda grass seed?
Ny land is good grade of upland.
| l. 100 pounds of phosphate to Is bushels Of
the mixture, and that quantity up to double
its amount per lacre, according to quail
| ity and condition, the smaller, quantity to
poor, thin land.
.. 100 pounds of phosphate to 10 bushels of
mixture, and apply to an acre as much as will
contain $50 pounds of phosphate.
3. Very good.
| 4. j. NJ. Shorbun & Co., of New York, are
advertising bermuda grass seed but whether
fhlc Il Al,o4s
will come up or not we do not know.
c. 6, g., Etowah county, Ala: Where is the Gwin-
nett Herald published, also McDuffie Journal?
| The former is published at Lawrenceville,
| Ga, the latter at Thomson, Ga.
J. G. t., Beulah, Bienville parish, L.. want to
know If Brazilian -four is the same as Clarks
-four corn if not, would like to know where could
get some information as to planting and cultivation
| Do not know what is meant by Clarke flour
corn," but can say that the Brazilian" is a
true maize, differing from ordinary varieties,
having grain composed almost entirely of
starch, and in having a great disposition to
sucker" and the suckers producing ears
Hence it produces well, and makes a great
deal of forage. The ears are not large. It is
planted and cultivated like other varieties
one stalk left in each hill, and no suckers re-
| moved.
N, Collinsyille, Alag What use is made of peas
| at New Orleans? Why will they not buy any other
except clay peas?
They are sown on their sugar cane lands to
increase their fertility, and the "clay'' is re-
garded as the best variety for this purpose.
J.. NJ, Ccdardale, N. c.: Please give experience
from some farmer in Georgia or the Carolinas in
gard to The success of the culture of the Brazilian
-four If it has the merit claimed for it, it Ger
tainly will fill long desired need TO the people
near the sea coast, as we can not raise good quail
ty of wheat in fact it will supercede to very great
extent over Indian corn.
1t is more difficult to get a stand of this corn
than of ordinary varieties. After a stand is
secured it grows off very WELLS little late
in maturing-not altogether as hardy, we
should say, as our common varieties. It can be
! ground and sifted so as to make very fine,
white flour, but is not in any proper sense a
substitute for wheat. 1t would probably also
be much infested by wevilsin your locality, be-
ing very soft-grained corn.
Su! sGriber, Gum Creek Ga: have ten acres in
wheat and cats; l think OF planting the field in
cotton after the grain is taken off, and wonld use
1900 pounds guano on the field when plant cotton
think my wheat is too ihick for the strength of
the land; do you think it would ray to manure the
wheat if so, what kind OF fertilizer will be best and
how much per acre?
Top dressing grain is an uncertain venture
If rains do not fall soon after application, they
may not act upon the crop in due time, 1t is
important, therefore, to use very soluble and
quickly acting substances. OF these nitrate of
soda and high grade acid phosphate are the
most certain-say 70 pounds of the nitrate and
100 pounds of the phosphate per acre. If the
wheat crop is pretty certain enc in your To-
cality, and your wheat is not promising you
might top dress it to advantage if The applica-
ton is made at once.
c. W, Mt. Megs, Ala: Enclosed send you some
seed found in sack Of Texas rlst proof oats What
are they? Fearful that they pest.
Do not recognize the seed. 1t would be well
to plant some of them and find out kind of
plant they produce.
w. NJ. NJ; My land is red, spongy and very
sticky Would lime do any good on old land that
has been in cultivation fifty years?
2 Does the old land need potash and how much
thought il needed % pounds to acre, and to get
that from kaint would have to use 400 pounds
Would the chlorine in that amount injure a crop of
cotton or corn?
3How would fertilizer analyzing ammonia. q per
cent; phosphoric acid, 10 per cent, and potash. ?
per cent, do fo7 cotton, applying 400 pounds per
acre?
4. Is phosphofic acid from bones any better than
from phosphate rock?
;. II We II acres forest rich land, planted in corn
las. year, very lcoe. How much acid phosphate
should be put to the to make cotton open weI3
&. viii it do 10 apply tcompost Of cotton seed
stable manure and acic phosphate on rich old land
that will make stalks feet high and 900 pounds
cotton to acre?
7. What is the analysis Of coltGn seer
S. What is analysis Of cotton seed meal?
l. Probably not, unless filed with vegetable
matter.
2. 1t is more apt to be deficient in nitrogen
and phosphoric acid than in potash, but may
be wanting in all three. so pounds potash Der
acre would be pretty heavy application
hardly any crop you could grow would take
that much from the land in one year. If 400
pounds Of KANT was put on one acre, there
would be some danger OF injury soon after the
application; the chlorides would gradually
leach out.
g. More potash in it than is needed, unless
the land brings excessively small stalks other
wise very good.
4. If made soluble 10y acid, one is as good AS