The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-03-01

(c) Peaches-The leaf is too tender
to risk damage at the hands of an mex
perienced manipulation, so no spraying
is advised. Use busting bellows and
flour of sulphur at intervals through sea-
son.
NoTE.-If desired, more extended
notes on this really important subject
will be cheerfully prepared. Detailed
advice or information is of course i'm
possible in such brief space.
c. w. B., Beaver Dam, Ca, have a
broomsedge field which has been out
for few years that l want to plow
under this winter for corn or cotton.
Which will be best for the land, and
how much fertilizers can | use to profit,
and what kind?
Answer by Director Redding. Burn
off the broomsedge as quickly as posi-
BILE lit would have been well to turn it
under last September or October), and
Immediately turn Under the stubble
very shallow, so that it will decay in
time for the next crop. The same ma
nures that have given best results on
adjoining cultivated land will do well
on this. For cotton apply to each acre
200 pounds of acid phosphate, 100
pounds of cottod meal and Is pounds of
muriate of potash (or 60 pounds kanit).
Or you may safely double these guam
titles, preserving the same proportions.
IT for corn l would use $50 pounds of
cotton meal instead of 100. The fact
that the land has been lying out and
has thereby accumulated considerable
vegetable matter will enable it to bear
heavier manuring than the same quail
lty of land that has been continuously
cultivated. Early in March, if for corn,
or April, if fer cotton, run sharp har-
row over the inverted sedge sod until
cut or torn to pieces. Then open deep
burrows, four feet apart, distribute 800
to 600 pounds of the fertilizer per acre,
mix the same well with the soil by run
ming scooter furrow once or twice,
bed up well, blowing deep. Just be-
fore blowing harrow the beds smooth
and plant in the Test variety you can
get. II in cotton you may reasonably
expect an increased yield of 900 to 500
pounds compared with the unaided
yield OF the soil-using 600 pounds per
acre. L would not use more than 300
pounds if planted in corn.
w. L. M, Atlanta, Ca, writes: /.
How shall | prepare soil for hot bed?
= What is the best hedge to plant fer
fence purposes?
Answer, by H. N. Starnes, Horticul-
turist. /. Hot bed-soil for same
should be prepared as follows: Make
bottom layer of stable manure IL or 19
inches in depth. Before using manure
throw into heap of sufficient size to
generate heat, turning, say, twice, or
more until rank heat is expelled In
ten days time the mass will be in con-
dltlon to put in your frame. After
spreading, tread firmly and cover with
SIX inches of good soil or humus Do
not plant seed until thermometer,
introduced, shows that the heat from
the fermentation of the manure be-
meath is beginning to decline from
1000. Keep moist and ventilate care
fully on sunny days. Great caution is
necessary in this particular as com
blned heat of seed and the interior
fermentation, may, in an hour, run the
temperature so high as to fatally in
jurs the contents of the bed
2. Protective hedges. You will find
the morianna Plum the best and cheap
est fence hedge. 1t is tough, hardy,
thorny-grows readily from cuttings
and responds to the shears, growing
low and branching densely:. Plant in
triple VOWS. Any nursery will be able
to supply the cuttings.
nj. A, Summerville, Ca, l have a
field that was in oats last year, it was
not turned under last fall. | want to
plant it in cotton. How should it be
prepared
Answer by j. M. Kimbrough, Agri-
culturlst-4ou made a great mistake
in not turning under the oat stubble
last fall. l would now break with 2.
horse plow, not oyer inches deep, az
soon as possible, and about the middle
or last of March harrow it well with a
cutaway, or with spading harrow.
Lay off into 81 or feet rows with
scooter followed by 1O-inch shovel
Drill in your fertilizers in the shovel
furrow. Run a scooter through the
fertilizer and bed in the usual way.
Knock off the beds with board OF
harrow, just before planting.
C. NJ. c., Forsyth, Ga, Dealers in
fertilizers are contending that per
cent of ammonia in a fertilizer, it de.
rived from blood, is equal to per cent
of ammonia derived from cotton seed
meal. We would be glad to have your
opinion on this subject-whether based
on experience. or otherwise. If this
claim is correct we want the farmers
to know it.
Answer by Director Redding.-
NAoALA 4o NAbAAOAb oupSOdAbldl lOuuud@
ton in theory or practice. The effect
of dried blood is very similar to that OF
cotton seed meal. At the same price
per unit" of nitrogen (ammonia) l
would prefer the meal, because the
latter contains notable qualities of
phosphoric acid and potash, while the
blood contains little more than a trace.
Neither blood nor meal contains any
ammonia, proper, as the nitrogen is
present in organic form
We have tried blood in direct competi.
ton with cotton meal
j. Z. P, Hatchers Station, Gal
have some old fields that have been in
pine thickets for number of years
very good, stiff red clay soil. (1) How
should it be prepared for cotton? (2l
Best fertilizer and how much Ny idea
is that phosphate is best for such land.
90 What time should the cotton be
planted and what distance apart.
Answer by Director Redding.-Q)
Such land requires no special treat
ment The long rest from cultivation
and the growth of old field pines, ETC.,
has resulted in an increase in the sup
ply of available phosphoric acid, pot
ash md NIT hut hn cn;1 will