The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-01-21


| fertilized. but a little heavier; follow with
oats and peas again; and the sixth year
cotton. with same fertilizer as before, but
use 800 to 1000 pounds.
,. Write to Adair Bros. & McCarty, At
| lanta, Ga.
g. Farm and Home. (of course you
should use stable or lot manure whenever
it is available. especially on corn and cot
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To Mrs. s. \. r., Highland, Fla.-Nirs.
| W. Y. Dunn, Charlotte, n. C., says; ITO
| one teaspoonful of calomel ada one table
spoonful Of lard and grease the heads of
your chickens. and it will cure them"
To c. l.. NJ, Mitchelrs, Ala We cannot
| tell what was the matter with your hogs
| from the very meager description you give
| OF the symptoms Probably the man of
whom you bought them might tell you'll
he would.
]. r. Estes, Reed Greek Gal. VIII hops
| pay better than cotton? il so, please give
me all the information you can about
them?
| > What kind OF manure is best for apple
| trees. and how applied?
/. You have not read this department
! closely, or you would have seen the folloY-
! ing ina the issue of January 18th, which we
! ropublish, once for ALL 1t Is i'm reply to a
| similar inquiry from j. W. H., Pollard
Ala:
! Personally We know nothing by expert
| ence about hop growing and can only give
| information from sources near at hand.
| There are two classes of hops one including
| several tal-growing varieties, the other
| embracing very long poles, the other en-
] bracing what are known as grape" varie-
! ties because their flowers grow in clus-
| ters) are smaller requiring poles from ten
| TO fourteen feet high. We don't know who
can supply plants. but presume Ellvanger
/ x Barry. Rochester, Y. Y, can supply you.
/ Three or four female plants are required for
each hill ana the hills eight feet apart each
| way About ten male plants to each one.
! equally distribute (, will be necessary in or
/ der TO fcrtilize others. Set out very early
! ia the spring. We cannot describe the
/ k}ns, OF which there are several patented
! kinds Something like Snow modern to-
/ bacco barn would probably answer. We
/ do not know Of person in Georgia or Ala
/ bama who has had any experience in hop
/ growing. We do not advise farmers 10 80
! into this new culture as a refuge from )
/ cent cotton-al at once. If you propose to
/ go into it advise you 10 Ego slow" at
/ first until YOU gain experience. 1t Will re-
! quire two years cultivation before you can
! secure re uuuerative crop of hops. Hops
reuure good, strong land such as would
make thirty or forty bushels Of corn per
acre. y highly ammoniated fertilizer is re-
/ quirei.
.. Acid phosphate and kainit, half and
/ half. two or three pounds to each tree.
worked in around each tree with fork.
Z. 4. T.. China G~ove Aid. win YOU
! please answer the following: | am in a
! dispute as 10 whether stock such as horses
| mules ETC., should Ice sailed regularly or
| nut.If they should be, how often and how
| much shall l give?
.. Is sorghum millct profitable food to
raise IT, feed hos? r. 50 when should il
b. planted ana how cultivated?
Z. Our practice is to keep salt in n box
or a lump 81 rock salt in each manger. so
I ha .tpfsr ..an toll off l.
| pleases. close observers say that an ami
| mai will consume less salt il he can get ac-
cess To il "A, viii than if given much as
| ne viii car twice week. We do
| not know Just how much should be given,
/ or how often, whom sailed at regular in
terval-: hut it would be comparatively an
easy matter 80 find ont. by placing q meas
I ured quantity of salt where the animal
I can get il az Will ana observe how muci
they VIII consume in a week, or two week
Then you could divide the amount =
| sumed accurately. sat
.. We think il is a. very piontah' but
/ crop. Plant in April ANA every twe'2, all
1 weeks, until July, or even until that ne
Plant in rows four feet ag2c~ arre Z. L
( rs sou would for corn, cuI3Nt ]lcr@y '.at =
low. leaving about one stalk 70 g upon
| inches, OF - -
y. u. McE:, Dccora, Ca have goo
htrsc alb ur eight years old which is bles /
/ INK al the nos" ANA has been ever sin,
some time in Scptember. / think It wa3
caused bv s,ickiaa. "a cornstalll i'm on cf bss
/ ncStrllS. Occasionally il bleeds on both
suites. Please give me 81 remedy.
! Better have "a competent veterinary sur
eeoh (" examine your horse as bleeding
ifcH The nose is frequently concentrate
/ symptom of CHAMBERS. If not CHAMBERS the
surgeon VIII he able to ten what is the
matter and relieve 20.
Z. T.. T.. Woolberry. krI..-I have = fy.
: ~ d Ion. .t1T - .
/ "a bermuda grass; the remainder is rather
l"% bi'h.h bottom. Sood average hand,
/ "9uli make twenty five bushels al corn
/ Ief "cr-. 4 Wish 20 pat in the best grass
/ i"t pasture. Z tau -et hyrl grass seed.
Would herd 2r"-5 pay better Than her
/ iaLta here iu south a KANSAS Calhoun
1 county IT So. please tell me how and
! when - Ia. best time 90 plant seed The
| iah1 is BLACK and called here gum bottom.
Bermuda ana hr8 grass are hardly
| comparable with each other, as the first
is strictly "a summer grass, while the latter
! Is both winter and summer grass. For a
! summer pasture tine bermuda would be bet
| ter. n mixture of herd grass seed. one
! and half bushels, orchard one ana a half
| bushels, white clover three pounds and
| blue grass six pounds. would give you "a
/ good fal winter and spring pasture Sow
in FEBRUARY or preferably in October.
NJ. r. G.. Il,y. Aa.-lIy land win make
/ aH7 To- 900 pounds ~ seed cotton per acre.
! J want TO make 200 pounds: / want 10
| max my own fertilizer. ! have baruyard
/ or stable manure amt cotton seed as a ba-
/ SIS. I'D what proportions should I mix
/ nitrate ol soda and potash per tOuI Would
/ a<us@, lime SALT. S;ltprtcr any or all OF
! "a pa De poodt IN other words / want ii
| plan for tine proportional parts per ton
/ Tor corn ANA cotton.
The following are good formulas for corn
No. corn.
| Acid phosphate B.. 900. Gee. e. e. =. 500 lbs
AurI3te OF potash. e. e. e. e. e. 81 lbs