The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
FARM QUESTION BOX.
Conducted BY DR.. w. L. Jones, Formally of
the Southern Cultivation

Conducted BY DR.. w. L. Jones, Formally of
the Southern Cultivator.
A. F. R., Belvidere, n. c.: Please give the most
approved formula for dressing orchard grass and
red clover Mine sown medium sandy soil,
not naturally very fertile but has been highly fer
tilted for several years Would acid phosphate fill
the bill?
Infer that the grass and clover are mixed.
This makes it difficult to do what is best for
each-grass needs heterogeneous and potassic
fertilizerS-cloyer needs potassic, but not nj
trogenous manures. In fact the latter seem
injurious to clover. You will therefore have
to compromise between the two. Give pretty
good dose Of potassic las that will help both),
and moderate amount of heterogeneous manure.
Some phosphate will help both. but as grass is
not allowed to mature seed, and the weight of
seed is small when they are formed, grass does
not need as large doses of phosphate as other
crops which produce large yields of seed. The
following is suggested: Nitrate of potash so
pounds, or KANT 2C0 pounds, acid phosphate
100 pounds, and nitrate of soda 70 pounds.
These quantities for one acre. You might
substitute $50 pounds of cotton seed meal for
rs pounds of nitrate of soda, but not sure it
would do as well.
j. D.. Brownsville. Miss: Where can obtain
acid phosphate; what will it cost delivered here;
will it do well used with green cotton seed if SO
when ought it be put the land? I'd. Will it do
well used with stable manure and lot scrapngs if
so when ought it to be cOmposted?
l. You can get it in Memphis or New Orleans,
ought not to cost you, laid down, more than
$4,000 q ton. 1t gives excellent results with
cotton seed. Put cotton seed in drill, scatter
phosphate on it and bed 1t is better to do
this early in February so that the seed may
die and not come up. If put in late cover with
one furroW and let 1t stand till seed sprout and
come up, then smother with a good bed-or
else kill the seed before putting in drill. The
latter the better plan.
2. May be used.to advantage with ma
nure. Not necessary to compost--put manure
in drill and phosphate on it-or mix thoroughly
before distributing.
WE s., Kendrow: How much cotton seed meal
and acid phosphate mixed together is equal to one
ton standard guano for manurial purpose to be bed
ded on in drill for corn and cotton? What proper
tion of meal and acid to be mixed?
One thousand three hundred and forty
pounds of acid phosphate and ESQ pounds of
cotton seed meal will make ton, and such a
mixture is about equivalent to a ton of STAN
dard ammoniated germs, that is, will contain
about per cent. of available phosphoric and
d per cent of ammonia. The above is a good
ratio for mixture intended for ordinary land
on rich land the meal should be decreased and
and three-fourths phosphate. 500 pounds of
meal to 800 pounds of phosphate.
Subscriber, Centre, Shelby County Texas When
is the proper time to SOW buckwheat for bees, and
how should it be managed?
May be sown from May to August. When
sown early it blooms through the whole season,
and that we suppose is desirable to the bee
raiser. Sown late its blooms develop all to-
gether pretty much, and the seeds mature
about the same time, and this renders the
harvesting of the seed an easy thing. Where
seed is the object, therefore, it is sown late
The usual method is to break the land, SOW
from a half-bushel to bushel per acre and
plow them in.
D. E., Gross Plains, Ala; l. Is the Spanish gcober
the goober US we know as the cred goobcr!' if
not would like to know where could get few
for seed.
What is the cause of the enormous price of cof-
feel
1. 1t is not. The Spanish bears quite a
small pod, but well filled. Would shell out
more to the bushel.
2. Short crops and monopoly probably.
]. V. W., summervlle, Ca: l. AT what stage is
It best to salt pork, when animal heat is IN or after
1t is thoroughly cold? p Why is tile drainage
preferable to open ditch in draining wet land? II ap
pears op N often would carry oil water all along
the line where it would in tile have to flow in at
the beginning mouth Is there not really but one
satisfactory way in retaining soil on hlsidcs and
that by sodding in grass alternating with wheat and
oats7
/. In warm climates, it is best to cut up and
salt immediately, spreading out so each piece
may cool freely. The next morning when
thoroughly cold, give final sailing and put
down In cold climates there is no necessity
for the preliminary sailing
2. Because thorough drainage calls for
bitches every thirty or forty feet and open
bitches would interfere too much with the
cultivation of the land. Again, open bitches
require clearing out every year--ther edges
become foul and call for yearly cleaning off,
and a space to 10 feet wide is virtually lost at
each ditch. Water sinks down through the
soil and enters tho tile drains along their
whole length. The beginning or mouth" is
never left open--everything is covered up ex-
cept the lower end where it discharges into
branch or open ditch
3. That is one very satisfactory way-but the
soil may be preserved quite satisfactorily by
teTacing
Iatros, Jacksonville, Alabama; have bloodcd
mare about eleven year, old She brcathcs hard
during exertion She never swelts that is unless
nnder influence of dopporctlc, when the hard
breathing Is gone. &C IS very valuable (c1mbi
nation animal % one Of my profession, aid would
De giad II you could suggest a method Of relief. !
cannot state the length ofthIs affection, as / have
only recently purchased the mare but think Il Is
OF several years standing.
Hard breathing may arise from so many diff
ferent consolidating OF the mucus MEM
brane Of the brouchia, enlargement Of the