The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-15
Notes and QuerIes.

Three varieties of Poultry.-What
three varieties of fowls do you regard as
being the most popular at this time?
The Black Langshan, She Plymouth
Rock and the Brown Leghorn are to-day
probably the most popular and most gen
orally grown of the three score or more
varieties catalogued 1t is quite likely
there will be a demurrer to this state
meut from some who are interested in
other kinds. of course, there are many
other good kinds.
Compost With Cotton Seed.-Say. use
thirty bushels of cotton seed as a manure
for ordinary farm and garden crops.
What other substances should I mix with
the seed to make complete fertilizer?
R. H.. C.
The two other substances necessary to
make a complete fertilizer are potash and
phosphOric acid. For supplying the phos-
phoric acid our common acid phosphate
is more generally used than anything
else. To supply potash you can use hull
ashes if you can procure them. If not,
you will have to resort to kainit, or muri-
ate of potash. Oak and hickory ashes
could be used, but we presume that such
can be had only in small quantity.
For ordinary use the following mixture
will be about right for one acre:
~ pounds - bus.)...........-.-..c cotton seed
200 pounds ....................acid phosphate
100 pounds ..........c cotton seed hull ashes
If kainit is used instead of hull ashes
crops this could not be considered as very
heavy fertilizing, but to grow scent cot
ton, 1t is a question whether one could
afford such an application.
Artichokes for Hogs.-From what have
seen, l conclude that articholes are a
good thing to grow to feed to hogs in the
winter time when green or Succulent food
is scarce or entirely lacking. Planted as
late as April 10 or 20, could 1 reasonably
expect a satisfactory crop from good
land-land that will make u bushels Of
corn? NJ j.
Artichokes are certainly a good thing
to grow where one has hogs to feed, and
keep healthy in the winter and spring
II you could get seed tubers that were
them the middle of April with a chance
for making good crop. We doubt if
you can procure suitable seed so late
as this, however Here in the south, such
artichokes as even left in the soil have
already sprouted by this time-in fact,
should be making rapid growth.
II any of our readers have found that
aruchokes are a good crop to grow we
would be glad to have a statement from
them We hope a number are growing
them, and that some will advertise the
seed for sale next season, for we have
had several inquiries this spring for the
tubers.
The extent of our own crop is merely a
row Of $50 yards, grown only for pickles,
OF which they make a very excellent kind
They are cultivated just like Irish pota-
toes and on good loaIny soil yield any
where from 100 to 500 bushels per acre.
African, or Egyptian "Wheat."-A cor
respondent asks for information. in re-
gard to the variety of sorghum known
under the various names of African,
Egyptian Brazilian" what. 1t is
known to a good many also as ivory
wheat, under which name ii was quite
extensively distributed to Georgia farm
ers some twelve or fourteen years ago by
derson.
1t is a non-saccharine sorghum like
broom corn, has a beautiful ivory-ilke
grain, the size of that of amber sorghum
OF grain ii is immensely productive and
of kind that makes about as good bread
as ordinary wheat. Good, loamy soil
that would make a bale of cotton per
acre, could be made to produce 20 TO so
perhaps more) bushels of grain with
good preparation of the soil and with
good cultivation afterwards. Besides the
grain there will be considerable matter
that can be converted into forage, and
the immense quantity of stalks left can be
converted into humus If they are dis
posed of in the same manner that cane
nTaSgaso is-spread into deep burrows and
listed on in the early winter.
The proper time to plant the ivory or
African wheat, is from the middle of
april to the middle of May, the earlier
the better, where a second crop of heads
is desired. When only one crop of heads
Is desired it can be plantd in June, with
the likelihood of making 60 or more bush
els per acre, on such land as above de-
scribed
1t is by all odds the most prolific grain
plant we have ever tried, and we have
certainly tried great many. For the
OF course the sugar yielding sorghums
are more desirable As with other small
grains, this wheat should not be fed to
horses and cattle unless ground. As