The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-10-18
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
ATLANTA, Oct. !, 1894.

IMPAIRMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
ATLANTA, Oct. /, 1894.
desire to manure my orchard with
farIhyafd manure. What is the proper
time? VA r Macon
Farmyard manure is apt to create too
vigorous growth at the expense of
your fruit. If used it should be dis
trlbuted in the fall, so that the growth
that takes place viii be in the spring
and not in the summer months.
BOIL WORM
We have been very much annoyed
and great damage has been done in this
section OF the state by the boil worm
Is there any remedy? J. A. H,
Monticello.
AS the depredations of the boil worm
are within the boil, it is very difficult to
reach them. and nearly all remedies
have proven of but little effect. !. The
usual methods of contending with the
common cotton worm, or caterpillar,
have been found to some extent palia-
tive. Such as the use of arsenical pois-
ons and the moth trap lamp.
AS preventive where land freezes to
a considerable depth during the winter,
fall blowing viii be found very bene-
fetal. A rotation of crops where the
small grains can be used is also bene-
fetal. It must be remembered that the
corn worm and boil worm are the
same.
What sort of crop for pasturage does
barley make? BIB. j., Monticello.
1t has been said that one acre of bar
ley will furnish more grazing than one
acre each of wheat, oats and rye COM
bined. 1t makes an excellent pasturage
and can be grazed in fall and winter
and then give good yield Of grain. In
California 1t is the great animal food
crop, and all stock thrive upon it. 1t
should be planted in very rich soil and
it will be found useless to SOW in any
other. It should also be sown in soil
well prepared.
AS to cultivation, it is sown broad
cast, and hence requires no hoeing, and
can be harvested with mower.
SPREADING MANURE.
Would you advise spreading manure
on land in fall and wiuteS as hauled
from the stable, or covering the heap
and spreading in the spring?
L. G. A, Flutonia.
Like great many questions of agri-
culture, this question shows the neces-
sfty Of close study on the part of the
farmer. The method best adapted to
some soils and purposes is not best for
other soils and other purposes. 1t is an
admitted fact that barnyard manure in
an open lot will, in few months, lose
much of its valuable salts, leaving little
of value except the straw and undecom-
posed organic matter. This loss takes
place principally by teaching, though a
portion of the volitile matter is evap-
GRATED by the wind and sun. It is evil
dent, therefore, that the sooner the ma
nure is placed on the land the better, in
many cases, as nothing is lost by leach
ing; all there is of value being carried
into the soil. Here it is, however, that
the farmer can exercise his Judgment as
to the retentive powers and character of
his soil. 1t being much better to apply
early on the retentive soils we have
mentioned, as they will hold the matter
of value much better than the compost
heap. These soils are clay soils which
are so tenacious of ammonia and other
salts, that fresh manure spread
on them would lose little except car
bonic acid gas and water. On the other
hand, early applications would not be
proper on silicious soils, as the very So
luble salts would be leached by the rains
through the soils to depth to which
the rootlets of the crop would not reach.
In such cases carefully managed COM
post heap, with a. late application, would
afford more plant food than when ap-
piled on being hauled from the stable.
We take this occasion to call atten-
ton to the necessity of saving stable
manure and studying its proper applica-
ton if we desire to succeed: In Eng.
land the land is continually enriched
by feeding animals on oil cake, rich in
heterogeneous matter, thus utilizing the
fat properties of the cake as animal
food, and ut the same time losing little
by careful saving of its fertilizing prop
critics.
The farmer should also bear in mind
that the urine of the animals contains
more of the elements of plant food than
the droppings, and in the stable an alb.
sorbent should be provided, that it may
be properly saved
FERTILIZER.
What do you consider the proper
depth to apply commercial fertilizers
That is complete fertilizer?
A large number of experiments have
been conducted on this subject, and Il
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