The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-03

contract failed to comply with the terms
so also the second, and after a third ad.
vertising for bids the contract was
finally awarded to the Denison Manu-
featuring company, at 40 cents per l,OOO
State Agricultural Department.
Subsoiling Land.
QUESTION viii you please answer
the following questions?
l. Have you ever tested subsoiling
land? What was the result?
. Would you advise subsoiling land
with fine sandy soil about 10 inches
deep9 runs together and gets hard in
dry time. Subsoil is solid red clay.
3. Would you advise subsoiljng dark
gray and red clay lands (solid red clay
subsoifs) IL to 16 inches deep?
L. When is the best time 60 subsOil,
and how often?
b. Are you sure that it pays to use
acid phosphate and kanit on light sandy
lands for corn, cotton, oats and peas?
=. Do you advise the use of acid phos-
phate and kainit with cottonseed on
such land for oats to be sowed in Octo-
Der There is fair crop of pea vines
on the land
2. When acid phosphate and kainit
are applied broadcast at the time peas
are planted and all covered at once, is
the fertilizer Immediately available?
8. Where peas follow oats would a
liberal application of phosphate and
kainit to the oat crop pay as we'll as to
divide application between oats and
peas?
8. Where cotton is planted after peas
would lii raj application of phosphate
and kainit to peas furnish phOsphoric
acid and potash enough for cotton?
ANSWER. i. have tested subsoiling
land in southwest Georgia for corn and
doubled the yield. I have a friend in
Jefferson county who, this past winter.
turned his land with a large 4.horse
pillow and followed in the same furrow
with subsoiler pulled by five horses.
breaking the stiff subsoil to depth of
Is to 20 inches He writes that he is
well pleased with the result, the cotton
planted on that land being ahead of
everything i'll that section.
2. Yes
8. Yes.
4. Now is good time to subsoil (Oct
~, and any time will do through the
fall and winter when the ground is not
wet. When thoroughly done the effects
will be visible for three or four years,
and frequently longer, according to the
character of the subsoil
g.. I am sure that it pays to fertilize
all crops, if done judiciously, and nitro.
&c l is usually needed as we'll as phos.
phoric acid and potash.
g. While the pea vines will furnish
some nitrogen for the oat crop, l would
advise the use of complete fertilizer
for them, particularly as you are desir.
Gus of building up your land while you
are making crops.
2. Most of the fertilizer is immedi.
ately available, and the rest becomes Sc
gradually. The potash in the kainit is
all available (of course in the presence
of moisture) at once, and so of what is
termed the available phosphorio acid"
in fertilizer. There is usually some
phosphoric acid termed unavailable,
which gradually becomes available by
the action of certain properties in the
soil
s. Ii you wish to bring up your land
rapidly you should fertiize each crop
we'll
8, OF course portion of the pho3pho.
rio acid and kainit would remain in the
soil to be taken up by the cotton crop.
but as have said before, if you wish to
bring your land to high state of fer
tility each crop that you plant should
be we'll fertilized. State Agricultural
Department.