The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-05-24
or mules should never be allowed to
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used instead of the tallow. When the
mixture is cool it should be pulled to
give toughness.
LOST CUD,
have a COW that has "lost her cud, :"
what must do for her. II. o. N,
Bluffton.
1t is a mistaken idea to suppose that a
COW loses her cud, and one must be
substituted. And we take it that you
use this expression to indicate that the
animal is sick and does not remasticate
her food. Where remastication popularity
known as chewing the cud, is suspended
the following treatment has been highly
recommended and found very beneficial:
Give as laxative 1-2 pound each of
common salt and epson salts in quart
of water and three times daily table
spoonful of carbonate of iron, pulverized
gentian, pulverized fenigreck each 4
ounces. Also mix with the food table
spoonfuls of powdered charcoal.
NITROGEN.
What amount of plant food or am
monia is contained in the following
fertilizer material: Blood dried, nitrate
of soda and cotton seed meal? How
much does cotton seed contain?
H. B., Hampton, Ga.
The percentages vary. Blood runs
usually from ID to IS per cent, nitrate of
soda, from Is to 20 per cent; cotton seed
meal, from s to 9 per cent; and cotton
seed, from 2 to 4.
SWEET POTATO CULTURE.
Please give me what you consider the
best method of planting and cultivating
sweet potatoes! A. M. H.,
Social Circle.
We are pleased to note your interest
in the cultivation of the sweet potato.
The late Gustave Speth of the state ex-
pertinent station introduced an article
on it's culture with these words:
"There are few crops at home in our
southern states that have been more neg
lected and whose value and usefulness
have been less appreciated than the
oWOCs pOCdCO
That it merits more attention cannot
be questioned, and is strongly evidenced
by its value to the market gardener in
dollars and cents and for home con-
sumption on every farm.
PREPARATION.
For the sweet potato the land should
be thoroughly prepared, we'll pulverized
and subsoiled. The plant requires con-
siderable moisture and thus can be best
conserved by deep blowing and subsoil-
ing. The ordinary custom of setting tho
plants on bed and in the process of
cultivation killing up the beds we be-
Heve will be found best on wet land or
or rainy season, but consider
the method of many of the expert.
ments at the state station of fiat culture
as advantageous on dry land, and when
the season is dry one, the slips should
be set 2. feet apart in rows leg or feet
apart, two to the hill, and care should
be taken to have a good stand by re-
planting wherever slip fails to grow,
and this replanting should be done at
the earliest possible time. The cultiva-
ton of the crop should be rapid and
thorough until the vines become so large
as to become injured. AS fertilizer.
like the Irish potato, the sweet potato
requires one in whichpotash is the DOM
inant.
In cultivating corn which do you pre-
fer, shallow or deep culture?
0. L. c., Barlow.
We believe in thorough preparation
and shallow cultivation. Experiments
have sufficiently demonstrated that in
nearly every instance shallow culture
will give an increased yield. The in
crease is not very marked, but when
considered in connection with the in
creased cost attending deep cultivation,
forms potent reason why this system
should be adopted.
MATURING THE ORCHARD.
w ould 1t Go well to give my orchard
a dressing with stable manure at this
season Of the year? M. T.. o.,
White Plains.
Stable manure should have been ap.
piled in the autumn if used, but in our
opinion it is not the best dressing, espe-
cially for young orchards, for when ap-
piled too literally it is likely to force an
undesirable growth, and experiments
indicate that it does not contain phos-
phoric acid in sufficient proportions to
balance the amount of nitrogen it con-
tains. A dressing of ground bone or of
acid phosphate is therefore beneficial in
conjunction. At this time of the year
it is best to apply quick acting high
grade commercial fertilizer.
DISTANCE TO PLANT.
What do you consider the best dis.
lance to plant corn, and what cottons
L. M. T., Mt. Vernon.
The distance to plant either corn or
cotton depends on the character of the
soil, and the farmer must be governed
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