The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-13

started TO growing When frost checks
the growth turn hogs upon them. Usually
there Will be plenty of seed left in the
soil to stock it for the next year. The
chief advantage of the artiohol1e is that it
viii produce a large yield compare
| lively thin soil, and is very easy to culti-
| vate and does not require to be dug and
| housed.
90 The Desmodium MOLE, or Florida
| beggar weed, is highly esteemed in south
| Georgia and Florida, both as n soilng
and forage crop and soil remover. We
| have grown it to a limited extent as far
north as Griffin, Ga, where it easily grows
to q height of six or seven feet. We adj
wise you to try il.
s. y. s.. Healing Springs. Ala.--Is prairie
lime shell rock a good fertilizer IL so
where can | get a rock crusher, and what
would it cost?
Unburned limestone. finely pulverized, has
been recommended for use in some Soils
but We are not prepared TO advise you 10
go to any considerable expense. An or
diEary rock crusher'' would not pulVer-
lie 1t sufficiently. You would set better
and more results by burning the shehs
and then air shaking the resulting quick
lime, which would reduce it to powder
j. A. d., Gainesville, Ark.-(D have
piece of Nat, post oak land th2t " ~
Ia put in red top grass. Can / sow the
last of February in oats and put my grass
seed in then with good reSultSE t-lt can
get dry, unlcached ashes for 10 cents per
barrel in two and half miles OF me: Inc
ashes are from hard wood. " IA II
pay me to buy at that price 10 mix with
barnyard and stable manure TOT cotton.
% In the more sOuthcrly portions or the
south it is not considered advisable 70
SOW grass seeds with small grain, although
it is common practice north. So far as
our own experience goes a good patch
and permanent stand of grass is obtained
by sowing the seeds alone.
~ Ordinary, unleached, dry hardwood
ashes VIII average about per cent OF
potash and / to per cent of phosphoric
acid both together being worth about 40c
per hundred pounds of ashes. We think
YOU could well afford to pay 10 cents per
barrel, and haul them the distance indi-
Gated. But you should not mix ashes with
rotten stable manure, or with acid phos-
phate Better apply them alone TO any
light sandy soil, cover and then apply
other mauures.
Mr.. A. p. Pope. who inquired about the
sugar pear and the white June apple, is
informed that w. y. Rains. Princeton. n
c., has both
Subscriber. Franklin. 6. CO As the
time for composing and making prepara-
tions for fertilizers is nearly. here, ! write
10 ask you to please send me hu!leth
No. %, PUBLISHED by the Georgia experiment
station. so that I can get information
about compromising them.
(2 / have about 5000 bushels Of cotton
seed. Would it be better 70 haul ten miles
and exchange for cotton seed meal TWO
for one, or compost with aeld phospna-e
ana kainit2 ( want to use 1t for cotton
and corn.
% You should apply directly to the Geor-
gia experiment station, Experiment, Ca,
for any bulletin published by It.
% For fertilizinE purposes 500 pounds
al e, Ton uF
You would get 1000 pounds of meal. or
200 pounds Of meal in excess Of the ma
nuriaI value OF the ton of cotton seed,
or about sI.75. II is for You to determine
whether you can afford 10 haul one ton of
seed ten miles, and one hundred pounds
OF meal back for $l.75. We would not do
it.
". J. Maddox, Maddox Ga--Please in
form me what Will remove the WolFeo
be on the cow, and obige me very much-
Squeeze the Erubs out by the pressure
Of the thumb; or. if necessary, open the
oriaee a little with a sharp knife and then
squeeze.
Subscriber. sidney. n. CT have light.
sandy ioanv land that VIII bring from
onc-half to twO-thirds or q bale ol cotton
per acre. with an drphcau' "a on ~ ,'o'-'0
OF common grade Euano. 80 per ION.
wish to sow 10 I'M oats IN February OF as
early rs possible, and as soon as the oats
are cut sow in peas for peuNlne anu crap
,,rlss hay l. would nitrate Of soda bo
tie best commercial manure for top dress
ing. and about what time should nc ne lul
on for the hest rcSultst :. How muCn per
acre should / use?
l. Yes Apply fifty pounds per acre about
the middle 20 last of March, or when the
oats commence to leave the ground
The application above recommended
might be repeated in about three weeks
But why not fertilize the oats literally
when you sow and apply the t0pdrcssing
also? We would advise you to wait until
February 10Th before sowing oats.
". ]. f.. Wilmot Ark have about
sixty acres or black lovlaud that overfows
Slightly from tine Mississippi river and
an,.ioug to try aIfayFa on it for a meadow.
VIII alfalfa stand an overofiw of that
kind?
We cannot say with confidence whether
an overflow Of two weeks duration would
injure alfalfa. but we think it would. AL
falfa Oucerne) viii not flourish on a badly
drained soil. even a soil that would produce
corn or cotton well There must be no
stasnaut water or impervious stratum Of
soil within three or four feet Of the sur
face. X would he an easy matter 10 try a
small patch OF the portion most exposed,
and also some less exposed. 70 overflow.
subscriber" Eufauia. Ala. does not
sign his name. Please observe The rule We
Will not publish the real name il not de-
sired. but "e Insist on having l..
n H.. Weaver, Ca. have i've acres
Er.Nciy mulatto land. sl4E SuAsJl. be n in
cultivation fifteen oc twenty years. 7 make
from 100 to t.,g0 pounds seed cotton per
acre with ejEht to twelve bushels cotton
seed and from 100 to go pounds Of acid per
acre. want TO- ..Nfl'5r one i,,, .tie D. aYle
matter on said land. hence = snort dry