The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-02-21

Large southern White. .....:............2 IS 81
Donaldson's Long White ................. 20 SO
Tennessee yellow. Observation-Disclosures. II a.
Careers Improved Red Cob. ......... % rs
Shannon's Yellow Observation-Disclosures % ~
Ivory Dent White. Observation-Disclosures. iG II
MaStOdOn. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l6 80
gThe Station has none of these seeds
for sale or distribution and refers in
quirers to the sources whence seed in
the test were procured, as follows:
Shaws Improved .............
Mark w. Johnson & Co., Atlanta, Ca
Large Southern White .
Mark w. johnson & Co.. Atlanta Ga
Donaldson Long White. Observation-Disclosures.
Il. j. Mccormick, Stilesboro, Ga.
Il. J. Mccormick, stilesboro. Ca
Pride Of the Wabash. observation-disclosures.
H. J. Mccormick, Stilesboro, Ga
l. n shannon, GNoodettGiviliea, Tenn,
Ledbetter'S White. .......: -: ...............
O. F. Ledbetter, Lavonia -sa
The above are all good Sarieties an
any one of them would give better re
suits than ordinary. unsolicited seed.
Mexican June produces very large
and tall stalk, but is worthless as pro
Queer of grain.
The Importance of selecting the best
varieties of corn is not likelvto be over
estimated. After once securing a sat
isfactory variety, it is comparatively an
easy matter to keepsit up to the origi-
nal standard and even to improve it
still farther, by careful selection. Seed
corn should be selected in the field, stalk
by stalk, aad ear by ear, rigidly reject
ing every stalk and every ear that be
trays single inherent defect or weak
ness, such as rotten graies imperfectly
filled, deficient shuck (huskl, irregular
IN ND e
medium-sized stalk, of medium
height, yielding not less than two we'll
developed ears, grains firm, white
plump, and smooth, are the main
points.
Cotton Meal VS.. Cotton Seed as a FertiIizei
on Corn.
Many farmers still insist that the re
moval of the oil from cotton seed de-
tracts from or reduces the fertilizing
value OF the seed. They are not Wilt
ing to exchange cotton seed for meal
even ON the basis of 1000 pounds of
meal for 2,000 pounds of seed. The
purpose of this experiment was to find
out the truth or falsity of this idea
1.-Two acres (nearly) of cotton land were
Selected and laid off into 28 plots of
three rows each, 209 feet hong. The
odd-numbered plots were fortified with
312 pounds Of acid phosphate, IS pounds
of muriate of potash, 289 pounds of cot
ton meal, and 1854 pounds Of hulls per
acre. The even-numbered plots receiv-
ed the same quantity Of acid phosphate
and muriate Of potash but, instead of
the meal and hulls, these received 764
pounds of crushed, green seed. The
1854 pounds Of green seed, after the oil.
is expressed, would leave Just $50
pounds Of meal and 1854 pounds Of bulls.
The difference, then, between the fer
tilizers applied to the odd and even
numbered plots was simply that the oil
had been removed fr ON the seed in the
odd-numbered plots.
RESULTS.
These are unmistakable The Weld
of the odd-num bered plots. on which
the cotton meal and bulls were used.
was 3072 bushels of shelled corn per
acre, against 1855 bushels produced by
the plots receiving the crushed seed
difference of 0. SO Bushels in favor 0.
the cotton meal and hu4lS. Henao, the
following
CONCLUSIONS:
/. That cotton meal and its CORE,
ponding quantity Of hulis are at lea.
equal in fertilizing quality to an equiy
alent quantity of crushed seed.
2 1t necessarily follows that the OF
cotton seed is of no appreciate value
as fertilizing material.
3. From the fact of the slightly larger
yield from the use of cotton meal and
hulls, 1t is inferred that the cotton meal
and hulls are superior, as fertilizer, to
the original seed. This small increase
was probably due to the better me
chanical condition of the meal and
hulls, compared with the crushed seed
NoTE.-it Is not probable that the
hulls in either case exerted any mate
rial effect. But, making due allowance
for the small quantity of plant food in
the hulls, and basing the estimate on
the analysis of the different parts Of
the seed, the following may be relied
on as of equal fertilizing value:
700 pounds of meal-2, 900 pounds OF
whole or crushed cotton seed. This is
calculated on the basis of nitrogen, +
cents; phosphoric, 5 cents; potash, :
cents per pound.