The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-10-22

Age eight; fat, and good appetite.
2. How, when and what kind of fertilizer
must be 6sed on common light piney-wood
soil to make the best corn? Also, sugar.
cane, potatoes and garden truck?
I. 1t is not probable that you can restore
the sight if all Inflammation has subsidized.
The Inflammation has done its work, and
the case is hopeless.
:. For corn, the following would be a
good formula: one hundred pounds of acid
phosphate, $50 pounds of cottonseed meal
, ana j. pounds Of muriate of potash or in
stead of the muriste, 80 pounds OF kainit
The same would also do for suga rcane
potatoes or garden truck. by adding 30
pounds more of cottonseed meal and p
pounds more kainit.
II. ID. r., Miles. Ala.-Nearlv all of tha
molasses that one of my neighbors made
TWO years ago from his ribbon cane turned
to to susar-a nice brown sugar. Making the
SUGAR was purely accidental with him. He
expected II 10 remain syrup. WIN YOU
pIease give us the process for making sugar
rom the juice OF the ribbon cane?
The process for making sugar-raw SUI
gar-is precisely the same as for making
syrup except that the boiling is continued
a little longer. 1t is impossible to describe,
in words. The Indications which guide the
expert sugar boiler in determining Just
when TO draw the ire and stop the boil
ing process. It can only be learned by ac-
tual observation or experience: But we
may say that five to fifteen minutes longer
boiling than the point at which good thick
syrup would result would give more or less
sugar After this point is reached the syrup
is ladled out into a large trough, or vat, or
tub, aud permitted 10 cool slowly. The
sugar will gradually, sometimes quickly
form. The syrup may then be drawn or
dipped off and the sugar must be put i'm
crocus seeks and hung up to drip, in a warm
place.
G..Fs
Mr.. Editor: Noticing in The Weekly Con-
stitutOn that you would like to hear from
any one that has produced cotton this year
not costing over cents per pound, Will say
that my crop hasn't cost me over 81 cents
per pound. / have 1870 acres in cotton and
will make 10 bales OF cotton with five
mules. but it costs the average farmer
cents per pound to mike cotton.
BENJAMIN 7. CAMP.
Granville, Ga.
eve are glad to hear from one Georgia
farmer who has made cotton at Il cost of no
more than 81 cents per pound But Mr..
Camp does not give any details Of the meth
cd the fertilizers. variety of cotton, etc,
as requested. lie has MADE ITO bales on $50
acres. That's good, and corresponds, in re-
suits. with our advice given last spring,
viz: not 10 plant an acre in cotton that
would not produce at least one-half bale
per acre Ii Mr.. Camps land is reasonably
uniform in quality it is not probable that he
had many acres, if any, that did not yield
over half a bale. Let us hear from some
more OF the same sort of farmers, but
please give more details.-Editor)
y povartv I'M 8. C.-Please tell me
what vou know about upland rice, whether
light or stin land Is best for i; the prcparar
ton Of land time to plant, quantity OF
,. Please give remedy for expelling worms
from colts.
/. Rice may be cultivated with success
on even upland. but it is better TO select 4
moist. sandy loan land, such would pro-
duce a line yield of corn. The land should
be thoruughly plOwed and then thrown in
fiat beds three feet wide, the seed, about
one peck per acre, sown continuously IN
n shallow drill and covered about as cotton
seeds are covered. Cultivate as you would
cotton
>. Give the following: Half drachm or
copperas, I, drachm Of tartar emetic 1
drachrn of cottonseed meal. Mix and give
as one dose night and morning Tor one
week. Then give q purSative OF; nan an
ounce OF spirits OF turpentine, X pint raw
linsced Oil-as one dose. After three weeks,
repeat the entire treatment. 10 catch young
worms Matched after the FIRST treatment.
G. W. c., Darlington, Lo.-There is on
my place an old abandoned creek bed. the
creek having formed a new channel. Ear
Their east in the Old creek bed is great
quantity Of muck, consisting OF deeom posed
leaves and other vegetable and 10 toubt.
some animal matter, with the WaShlnR-
from the adjacent higher landS-the accu-
mutation Of ages. Now, what l wish 70
know IS, would the deposit, or muck, make
a good fertilizer Tor corn and cotton. If
SO, what would be the best manner Of APP
plying il. and the quantity per acre?
The fertiiiziDg value Of such deposits,
or accumulations of vegetable matter as
YOU describe is very variable. At the best,
they are not Of any great value, and would
not bear much handling on account of the
pisrEt pf no 81 1g far
etc. 1t would be well 10 dig it up during
the fan ana throw IT into conical heaps
so that the superiiuouS water may drain
away. 1t would then make an excellent
material for bedding your stalls and harm
yard. Or, you might stratify the mass
(aftcr draining) with lime, say " hushel of
alr-Slaked lime TO each cord of the muck.
Then let il stand several weeks and haul
IT 10 the nearest convenient land and either
scatter broadcast or In burrows, and bed on
II. II IS not strictly a fertilizer, not being
nearly so strong as ordinary lot manure.
]. w. N, Slice. ". CT. How r,ucb and
what kind Of commercial fertilizer would il
take to make l,200 pounds Of seed cotton on
land mat only makes 100 pounds without
any manure?
2. How much fertilizers would IL take 10
make that increase with the aid OF one ton
of stable manure?
,. How mucn fertilizers would il take 10
make twenty bushels OF corn on land that
would only make zen bushels without ma
3. How much fertilizer will il take to
make that increase by the aid Of one ton CT
stable manure2
,. What kind Of fertu DER is best for sor-
Shum cane, and how much would il take 10
double the yield on land that only makes
100 gallons Of mOlasSes without anure?
G. What is the best fertilizer for sweet
potatoes?
I. II would be rather risky TO apply
enough commercial fertilizers to bring up to
a production Of 1000 pounds of cotton land
that viii, unaided. produce but 400 pounds
Nor would il be wise to fertiliZe few acres
SO highly, aud lightly fertliize a larger area
which We suspect may be your purpose
The following formula, for one acre would.
under favorable conditions. increase the
yield by from 600 10 500 pounds per acre:
Acid phosphate, 800 pounds; cotton seed
meal. 10 pounds; muriate of potash. %
pounds.
>. one ton Of stable manure would be
very Hight manuring for one acre-about
equal 10 100 TO l55 pounds OF the above mkt
ure.
3. About as much as the amount pre-
scribel above for cotton.
1. one ton of stable manure applied in
| the hill, would probably 20 As far in maxi
! inS corn as 20 pounds of the above mixture
3. The formula prescribed for cotton, with
/ the addition of fifty pounds of cotton seed