The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-10

MUM Gimson weedD seed per day. Give the
timothy seed every day, but the stramoni-
UNI should be given daily for four days.
then stop four days. and SO on.
J. B. H., Girard, Gal. Is not acid phos-
phate the best fertilizer for first-year new
ground, planted in cotton? a,-..
2. Will 200 pounds per acre pc sulncleht,
and will this amount put with the seeu
when planted, destroy them? The aclo mas
no potash in it. 49,. aoa
will supply sufficient ammonia lor one "oie
of cotton? ,,,+.,,
4. Are the cinders from blacksmith
forge of any value when applied 10 peach
and apple trees? If SO, how ana Wheh 10
apply? | have heard that the cinders were
good, but have never tried theni. ,,o,.i
s. Has your potato house at the expert
ment station proven to be better than the
old plan of banking!
l. If very moderate fertilizing and only
one element is to be applied acid phosphate
is undoubtedly to be preferred because
most soils are more deficient in phosphorlc
acid than in either of the other valuable
elements of plant food.
. We would not apply exceeding zoo
pounds per acre, unless other mSreoieh.s
be used Acid phosphate does not appear 10
have any deleteriouS effect on the plant
seed, unless in very large quantity.
2 IT depends entirely on the land. 1t
would be less difficult to say how many
bushels of seed would supply the ammonia
necessary to produce one bale OIL cotton,
and that would not be any easy question;
but we should say thirty bushels, at least,
would be required to produce one pale Oh
cotton over and above the unalded product
of the soil.
A. We have often heard that the scales
from the blacksmiths' anvil were good to
applv to fruit trees, but not the clnuefS,
which are good for nothing.
s. The death of the station horticulturist
about one year ago interrupted the expert
ment with the potato house and the new
horticulturst discontinued it, and IS operat-
ing on a different line but without valuable
results so far.
c. r. c., Detroit, Ala l noticed last
spring in an editorial in southern Farm in
which the writer said that "a horizontal
clevis could be arranged SO that your horse
may walk ON side of row ana your cultiVa-
tor. or double foot straddle the row. l
tried all sorts of devices, but failed of any
thing satisfactory and wrote to the editor
of Southern Farm for information as to
the arrangement of such Il cleVlS as he
proposed. but he only published my re-
quest without a reply. If you can tell me
if there can be such an arrangement ana
how to make and adjust such thing you
will obige me in more ways than one, be-
sides saving me many hard licks, You will
enable me to get back Il part of the time
lost in trying to rig up such "A machine.
z. You spoke last year of trying a new
plan to keep sweet potatoes. Did you try
it. and how did you succeed? | am think
ing of trying two new plans this fall for
experiment. First plan: PloW up every
alternate row and rake the dirt from
plowed row onto row left. l can house or
dinarily and use dug potatoes before the
winter comes on and can get from rows IN
sDring. Second plan: Dig a ditch cup and
down a hillside twelve inches wide and
fourteen inches deep, put a tWo-inch scant-
ling in bottom on each side and up and
down the ditch and put plank twelve inches
wide down on top, leaving room under
bot t1,. limo for
drainage; fill ditch with potatoes and cover
with boards, fiat down across the ditch and
dirt on boards, covering this with boards
each side set up rafter fashion Stop
mouth of ditch with hay Have you or
any Of the readers of The Constitution tried
either Of these plans? If so would like to
know your opinion of them.
/. We presume the edsor of Southern
Farm meant the ordinary horizontal clevis
that has a number of holes so that the
singletrce may be moved from right to left
several inches. Such an adjustment might
do for plow that has long point and a
landslide, wh4Ch would cause the ploW to
run in the direction Of the landslide and
point but we are very confident that it
would not control a cultivatOr or other
plows that runs very shallow, and without
a Landslide. The Landslide acts as a rudder
does to a boat.
.. Circumstances prevented us from try
ing the plan. We have never seen the
plan of keeping potatoes proposed tried.
r D. S, Woodvine, Ky.-Win some ore
suggest a way to kill silver puplrS that
rave gained Il TO 20 years growth.
Eternal vigilance and a good, sharp grub
bing hoe is the only prescription We can
give. Never let sprout open leaf.
A. b. s., Hollands Store S. CT have
pig three months old that l think is
choked. About five weeks ago it drank
some slop with some small, sharp bones
that had been broken. and l suppose from
the way he is affected he swallowed piece
which lodged in its throat. have tried in
vain to see down his throat. Sometimes |
thing | am mistaken in regard to its being
cholled. Perhaps it is some disease. It's
weaker and thinner every day. 1t will
drink buttermilk, slop,. etc, eat corn but
Immediately Vomits it up, Slobbers and
runs at the nose. Please answer and oblise.
Take a piece of stiff, new balf-inch rope,
eighteen inches or two feet long Wrap
strip of thin cloth around it lightly so as
to make it smooth. Grease it we'll and push
one end of the rope (protang) down the
throat and dislodge the obstruction. 1t may
not, as you suggest. be a case Of choking,
after all, but a coId or 'rising of the
lights" Give a teaspoonful Of tar twice
day placing it well back on the tongue. or
it may be a case of quinny or Inflammation
oft he tonsils.
f. G. T. San Diego, TeXas.-Is hard wood
ashes mesquit tree ashes good fertilizer
for cotton. My cotton is about inches
high now, and / wish to know how much
ashes to use per acre broadcast to make a
heavy crop. Land is sandy and black,
mixed.
Hard wood ashes are good for almost any
crop. 1t is much better to apply them IN
the drill and bed on them. The next best
way, the cotton being already planted,
would be to side the cotton, streW the aShes
in the siding furrow at the rate OF -O0 to
400 pounds per acre. But ashes alone Is not
a sufficient fertilizer, as they contain very
little phosphorus and no nitrogen at at all.
The tendency would be to produce Il large
growth of weed and not much 1rult 1t
would have been well to bed on the ashes
and then add some acid phosphate.
]. O. b, Bloxom Val have mare
four years old this spring which jumps out
and in stall; also pulls back when hitched
with halter. You will please give me rem
elly that will stop her from the habits, III
your valuable paper.
Such vicious habits are generally hard to
correct. The most effective plan would be
to fix her so that she cannot pull back or
so that she viii punish herself when she
makes the effort. Run Il small ploWllhe
from the ring or hitchinS place through the
halter and under the tail, like cruppef
H.