The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-04-18

been successful in making good crop
each year
A gentleman near Ridge Springs, s.
c., showed not long since what seemed
to De very small plat of ground, yet
ne grew on it a two years supply of
rice or his family.
Another at Sparta, Ga, grows up
land rice solely as a forage crop. He
plants it quite thickly, cuts it like oats
heads and all-afterward feeding the
sheaves. He makes at least 40 bushels
per acre of seed. His cattle are more
fond of it than oats. He considers the
rice a better food, and he can make
more of it than of oats.
In the March number of the South.
ern Cultivator is a most excellent ar
ticle on the culture of upland rice in
southwest Georgia. Before the war,
and several years after, when we
planted in that section of the state, the
industrious negroes on the various plan
tations had their patches of rice from
which they not only added to their own
family stores, but had surplus for
sale, and the oldfashioned mortar and
pastle by which the hull was separated
from the grain was not at all an I'M
usual sight.
FIVE DOLLAR FERTILIZERS.
QUESTION 6.-The following is re-
ply to letter received at the state ag-
ricultural department asking for infor-
nation as to $500 combination fertili-
Zers.
ANSWER 6.-Dear Sir: Yours of the
thirtieth at hand. You can buy kainit,
muriate of potash, and other chemicals
from Wilcox, Gibbs & Co., Savannah,
Ga.
Kainit contains about IL per cent of
potash. Muriate of potash contains
about so per cent of potash, or about
four times as strong as kainit. If you
wish cheap hauling you should buy the
concentrated fertilizing chemicals.
You can buy muriate Of potash at
about $4,000 ton, probably little
higher in less lots than ton.
AS So combination of fertilizers I
suggest the following:
No, 1-Muriate of
potash containing so
per cent of potash. 81 lbs at $40 a ton) "A
High grade acid
phosphate contain
| ing 18 per cent of
| phosphoric acid. $50 lbs(at $45 tome. lC
Nitrate of soda
| (SometimeS called
Chilli salt petre)con-
tanning nitrogen e.
| quivalent to 10 per
| cent of ammonia. 95 lbs(at $45 TONG l.
| Muck or woods
earth or mari. -. 1858 lbs. On
1000 lbs. $40
If you wish an ammoniate not quite
so quick as nitrate of soda, and les
likely to ''tire" on shallow soils, yor
might use the following:
No. 2-Muriate of potash 81 lbs e.
High grade acid phosphate $50 lbs 21(
Dried blood. ....:. ......... 112 lbs 81;
4 NUM- WOOuS LudE1 1871 IDS ,Ut
1000 lbs $40!
If you desire to use sulphate of am
monia as an ammoniate, the following
formula will answer:
No. 3-Muriate of potash 81 lbs "a
High grade acid phosphate $50 lbs Pc
1 Sulphate of ammonia (at
$50 tom .....: .......... "a lbs 2.1f
Muck, woods earth or mari 1929 lbs G
1929 lbs $500
No. will give you from the chem
icals alone:
| Potash. .:............ .92 1-2 per cent
| Available phospho. acid 2.52 per cent
| Ammonia. ...........,.... 80 IA per cent
No. 2 will give you from the chem.
icals alone:
Potash. .:............... .92 1-2 per cent
Available phospho. acid. 1852 per cent
Ammonia. Observation-Disclosures. SO 1-2 per cent
No. will give you from the chemi.
icals alone:
Potash Observation-Disclosures. .92 AZ per cent
Available phospho. acid. .2.52 per cent
Ammonia. acknowledgements. 81 1-2 per cent
The filler which you use, whether of
muck, woods earth or mari, will add
something to this if well selected.
The sulphate of ammonia is more
| expensive ammonia that either blood
or nitrate of soda. You write that you
will have to pay 8 cents pound for it.
This is very high price. If you find
any of the chemicals higher priced
than figures given above, use about rs
cents worth Of your potash compound,
about $l.10 worth of your acid phos.
| phate and about $2.15 worth of your
ammoniate, and then use your muck,
woods earth or mari to make up the
balance Of the ton, and you will strike
about the proper proportions for your
$500 a ton fertilizer.
MECHANICAL EFFECT OF POTASH.
QUESTION 81 see in your reports
that you lay stress on the mechanical
condition of the soil. Do any of the
ordinary ingredients of fertilizer,
| phosphoric acid, ammonia and potash
have mechanical effect?
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