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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-08-20
"Black Rust"

QUESTION. is disease that is
killing my cotton, and already the
stand is seriously injured. 1 send you
some stalks and hope that you can give
me the name of the disease and some
remedy.
ANswER.-After a careful study of
the plants you sent, am satisfied that
they are suffering from what is called
"Black Rust" In some points the leaves
bear resemblance to what is called
"Frenching,' and they also have a
likeness to "leaf blight" A microscopic
examination is frequently necessary tc
distinguish these diseases one from the
other. BLACK Rust is due to the com
bined effects of several microscopic
plants called fungi, which, growing
within the leaves of the cotton plant.
destroy the living tissues. Many thee.
ries have been advanced relative to the
"Black Rust" in cotton. Some say that it
is due to the physical condition of the
soil, or to want Of some fertilizing in.
gredient. The subject has not yet been
sufficiently investigated, but it is certain
that the disease has been destructive on
good land we'll fertilized. Another com.
mon theory is that BLACK Rust" is due tc
atmospheric conditions. This is an er.
ror, though it is true that certain condi-
tions of the atmosphere conduce to the
growth of the fungi. Wet weather con-
tinued for long time is unfavorable to
the cotton plant, but is favorable to the
growth Of the parasites, which cause
BLACK Rust" There is no remedy fol-
this diseas. when it makes its appear.
ance and some years it is very destruct
i've. By rotation of crops, which would
bring the land in cotton only once in
three years. it is thought by many that
cotton would be less liable, not only &c
this disease, but to others which now
attack it yearly. The constant cultiva
ton of the same land il cotton year
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after year, enormously increases the
parasites and fungi. which feeding upon
the cotton plant cause it to sicken and
die. BY judicious rotation of crops.
DeileVe that such diseases as French
ing' Blight, " "Mildew," Root Gall"
and "Rust' might almost be obliter-
ated; while on the contrary, our present
style OF planting encourages their
growth as well as their virulence.
Agricultural Department..
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QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
commissioner Nesbitt's In
quiry Box For the Month.
MUCH INFORMATION FURNISHED

now to destroy willows Growing ON Creek
H@"ks-The Best Time to Prepare a Hot
bed-Kemedy For Ticks on Cow.-How
| and When to XIII Bermuda Grass-The
Jersey as a Dairy Cow.
QUEsTIoN.-Please give me the best
plan TO kill Bermuda grass. Shall be-
| GIN now. or would it be best to wait nm.
til later?
ANswER.--The late fall or winter is
'ne pest time to begin operations to de.
stroy a Bermuda sod. Have a sharn
turning pillow and set it to run about
three or four inches deep. The object
Is 10 go Just deep enough to get under
the mat of roots and turn them over.
exposing them to the drying influences
Vi sun and air. AS soon as they are
somewhat dry, run the harrow over the
held This will drag many roots to the
surface where they will dry more thor
oughly. The horse rake can now gather
them into winrows. and when dried
sufhclently to fire, they should be
burned. Repeat this through the win
ter, as opportunity occurs-first the
plowlng, then the narrowing, lastly rak-
ing into winrows and burning. When
the spring opens plant the land in some
cleanly cultivated crop, and when this
is taken off, put in quickly growing.
smothering crop, as COW peas, or later,
rye, oats, wheat, if the ground is in fine
tllth. crimson clover, or vetch. While
Bermuda is dreaded by many farmers,
on account of the difficulty of eradicat-
ing 1t, we would, if we had we'll set
pasture OF Bermuda, hesitate long
time before we would decide to destroy
1t. 1t is peculiarly adapted to our eli
mate and both as green food and for
hay ranks among the first. Like every
other green thing, it improves under
culture, and with plenty of food, but
will also make brave fight for exist
ence even under the most adverse cir
cumstances. With COW peas and Der.
muda and the assistance of such fertil-
izers as we can save or buy, we ought
to in time be able to fill up the washed
places and cover our worn red hills.
Howard, an authority on the grasses of
the south, says: ITO destroy Bermuda
grass run coulter or narrow hull
tongue through it, then set turning
pillow to run very shallow, and turn the
surface ocer but not under. This expo
ses the roots to the cold and frost which
will as certainly kill it as it will suga,
cane. State Agricultural DEPARTMENT
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How to Prepare a Hotbsd.

QUESTION.-Can you give me some
dots as to how to prepare a hotbed:
Also tell me when is the proper time to
prepare one and sow seeds to secure
early spring plants.
ANSWER Throw out the soil to a
depth of II or Is inches i'll q space as
large as desired. Around this and on
top of the ground set 12-inch planks
supported in place by stakes and firmly
joined at the corners. You now have
a pit about two feet deep. On the bot
tom of this spread fresh undecomposed
horse manure and leaves to the depth of
IL inches. Tramp this solid and over it
spread three or four inches of fine. rich
woods earth. This will bring the bed
up to about eight inches of the top of
the boards. Make the cover of oiled
canvas or glass and have it fit closely to
exclude the cold air. In short time
the decomposing horse manure will
cause the temperature of the bed to rise
rapidly, so high, indeed, as to kill the
germs of any seeds, which may be
planted in it. No seed should be sown
until the heat subsidies, which may be
tested by inserting sticks at three or
four different points and leaving them
for "a hours. When withdrawn their
heat is sure index of the temperature
of the bed and we should be guided ac-
cordingly. The time for preparing the
hotbed varies with locality. In the far
south January and February or even
December will not be found too early;
further north. February or March,
State Agricultural Department.
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DR..
KINGS
ROYAL
CERMETUER

This pleasant and perfect remedy. So
delightful to take, so refreshing and
exhilarating, stands in highest favor
with all who know it best, as the great.
est Of all medical remedies for both
sexes, OF all ages and in all conditions.
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To Prevent the Escape of Ammonia.

QUESTION. shall I prevent the
escape Of ammonia from nv manure
pile and also from my stables? That it
does escape, am convinced, as more
than one sense bears testimony to the
fact.
ANswER.-The most popular absorb
ent of ammonia is fine ground land
plaster or gypsum. Any low grade pot
ash salts will also prevent the escape of
the ammonia. If either is sprinkled in
the stable daily it will prevent any dis
agreeable odor arising from the decom-
posing manures. AS to which should
be used depends very much on the land
on which the manure is to be applied.
If the land needs potash, then use kainit.
which contains about IL pounds of pot.
ash to the 100 pounds, or some other
potash salts Where the land needs
lime. use plaster. Woods earth is also
q good rbent.-State Agricultural
Department.
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The Cotton Moth.

SUESTIoN,-I send two moths which I
think lay the eggs that produce the cot
ton worm. Am 1 correct, and if so. how
shall 1 best fight the worms.
ANswER.-The moths you sent are. as
you supposed, the cotton moth, the fore.
runner of the dreaded caterpillar.
While as yet there have been no com.
plants OF caterpillars, the wet weather
OF the past month is very favorable to
their development, and daily expect to
hear of their appearance in the cotton
1elds. Upon their first appearance act.
i've warfare should be waged against
them. This can be done successfully
and cheaply with either Paris green or
London purple. One pound of either
OF the above arsenites mixed with 20
pounds of flour and ten pounds of cot
tonseed meal, will suffice to dust over
an acre of cotton. This can be applied
by enclosing half peck at a time of the
above mixture in q burlap sack, and
shaking over the cotton plants, while
walking rapidly between the rows.
This should be done soon in the morn.
ing while the dew is on the leaves, and
must be repeated after rain, if the
worms are still present. The poison
should be very thoroughly mixed with
the diluents. Wood ashes would do as
well, perhaps better than the cottonseed
meal, to mix with the flour. The selves
very commonly used in some parts of
the country, are too wasteful of the ma.
terial, using from so to rs pounds to the
acre. 1t is not so much the quantity,
but the even distribution of the poison
that is desired. In some parts of the
west, the plants are poisoned by attach
ing bag containing Paris green to each
end of pole 6 to feet long, balanced
from the pommel of the saddle. The
rider passing down the cotton rows the
poison is busted over the plants at each
step of the animal he rides. This is
probably the most rapid way of distrib-
| uting the poison. At the end of the
days labor the animal should be well
washed, to get rid of any particles of
poison that may adhere to him. So
cheaply and SO thoroughly can the cot.
ton caterpillar be destroyed. that nc
farmer can have any excuse for letting
them eat up his cotton crop.
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NJ A RI EFT A
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DR. E. J. SEIZE.
PHYSICIAN 4

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Selecting Seed Corn.

QUESTION. you advise that
seed corn be selected in the field, or is it
just as well to select the fine ears afte,
the corn is housed? Ny plan has al.
ways been to keep boxes or barrels
handy, and in taking the feed corn out
OF the crib, to reserve the very fine ears
by throwing them into these receptacles.
ANSWER. selecting seed corn we
should reserve not only the finest ears,
but these should be taken from the best
stalks. After the corn is gathered and
thrown into the crib we, of course, can
form no idea of the stalks on which the
best ears were grown, and therefore it
is the safest plan to select the seed from
the field as the crop is gathered. This
may be done by going through the field
first selecting the finest ears on the most
vigorous and best developed stalks. The
ears should not only be large, but well
formed also-that is the same or nearly
the same size from tip to tip-well filled
at the ends as well as in the middle, the
cob small and the grains wedge shaped,
that is much smaller at the bottom than
at the top. If not practicable to gather
the seed corn first, then have box in
the wagon, and as the crop is gathered
throw the selected ears in this. If Won
do not make the selection yourself,
don't trust it to the Judgment of the or
binary farm hand-delegate it to some
one ON whose discrimination you can
depend. In the Eatter Of seed corn,
farmers, as rule, DO not realize the i'm.
portance of careful selection. By actual
test it has been shown that good seed
will make difference of several addi-
tional bushels to the acre. To keep MP
this advantage. the seed should be Sc
lected every year, and not once in three
or four years. In making selections Sc.
lect from stalks with two ears. State
Agricultural Department.
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To Destroy Growth on Creek Banks.

QUEsTIoN.-I have tried vainly to
kill some willows growing on creek
banks, but they invariably spring up
again from the stump, and instead
of one stem send out several luxuriant
shoots. Can You give me any certain
plan of destroying them, without tho
yearly vexation of seeing them multiply
instead of die.
ANSWER. We suppose that you have
committed the error of cutting down
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DIR. I'll. V. REYNOLDS.

PRACTCING PHYSICIAN,
WHEN NOT ENGAGED ELSE
w where may be found during the DAY
at his office, up stairs, in McClatchy Build
ing, Southwest corner of Public Square
and at night at his residence on Powder
Springs street. Two doors above the Metho
dist parsonage, Marietta, Ga. Telephone
No. II.
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p. R. CORTELYOU. M. D.,
GENERAL PRACTITIONER,

GENERAL PRACTITIONER,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA. OFFICE
N North-side Public Square. over Mrs.
J. s. Warren's Millinery store. Consulta
ton Hours, 90 a. IN. to IL and to 5p. m,
unless otherwise engaged. Residence
Church street, nearly opposite Presbyteri-
an Church. All calls promptly attended.
Telephone No. As.
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the willows, during the growing season,
when the effect is, as you describe, to
encourage a fresh and perhaps more
vigorous and also more troublesome
growth. A better pan is to girdle the
trees about three feet from the ground,
and then peel the bark down to the
ground and leave it hanging there. If
no strips of bark are left growing on the
trees, they will be thoroughly killed to
the root.--State Agricultural Depart
ment.
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y QUESTION. should I encourage
my fall cabbage to quick growth? Last
year they were healthy looking plants,
but grew so slowly that they had not
thoroughly headed when cold weather
came.
ANSWER. -Doubtless your land was
not rich enough. Cabbages are gross
feeders, and unless the land is very rich,
or made so, they will not produce good,
hard heads. even where allowed plenty
of time The land should not only be
filled with plenty of vegetable matter
by broadcasting stable manure, or plow-
ing under green crops, but commercial
fertilizer with full per cents of nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash should also
be added, and this should be thoroughly
mixed with the soil in the rows before
the plants are set out. After being set
out, if their growth is not satisfactory,
a top dressing of nitrate of soda, from
100 to 200 pounds to the acre, will be
found wonderful stimulant. Itshould
be applied just before rain. -State Ag
ricultural Department..
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A Remedy For Ticks ON Cows.

QUESTION. - My cows are troubled
with ticks, the first time in my expert.
ence that they have appeared in any
considerable numbers, and I am at q
loss as to how I shall get rid of them.
Please tell me soma remedy not too ex-
pensive. which will be effective.
ANswER-At the Texas Experiment.
Station various tests have been made
and the following was found to be the
most effective: Cottonseed oil, a gal.
lon; place this in suitable vessel over
a slow fire, then add p tumblerful of
dead oil and the same of pine tar Stir
together, and when the tar is melted re-
move from the fire. When cool it is
ready to apply, and one application is
usually found sufficient to destroy the
ticks in "a hours. If not thoroughly
effective apply second time. After a
little practice one can judge accurately
OF the amount necessary to do the work
In one application. The dead oil is
nothing more nor less than crude car
bolic acid, and costs about 80 to so cents
per gallon, according to quantity. The
cost of the other materials is nominal.
If the theory that the ticks transmit
fatal diseases holds good, it is very i'm
portant that they be destroyed. State
Agricultural Department.
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AAo" TO Detsroy Willows Growing on Creek
hs"ks-The Best Time to Prepare a Hot
oed-kcmedy For Ticks on Cow.-How
ana When to XIII bermuda Grass-The
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