The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1902-09-08


a mixed soil and not so strong as my
wheat land. and was sowed In peas ana
sorghum and will be cut for hay. Thank-
| ing you i'm advance.
| Answer-After preparing your land as
you describe and literally fertiizing the
same you should plant not less than one
| bushel of good, sound wheat per acre.
| would advise you to sow the purple
! straw wheat
! You ought to be able to turn your land
over Just as early you please. II you
have put your shocks of corn In
| straight line as we have done. We are
now prepared to turn over our corn
stubble and get it ready for small grain
without Interfering with the rows of
| shocks. / think If | were YOU | would
sow more than 300 pounds of guano per
acre 1t would pay you better to prepare
the land thoroughly well and fertilize it
! literally.
You will see stated at the bottom of
! Page II, bulletin No. "a, that ! use one
! and One-haf to two bushels OF oats per
! acre when carefully drilled; when broad
/ casted, twice as much. This Is with the
! expectation of getting not less than forty
! to seventy bushels of oats to the acre.
! BE to fertiize your oats, using the
! formula prescribed in bulletin No. ~.
I ana by all means put them in open fur
| rows directed in the same bulletin.
! by SO doing you will not only practically
| guarantee the crop against winter kill
! ing but YOU will save enough seed in
planting ten acres to pay for two of
| Gantts fertilizer and grain drills
\ QUICK CROP.
/ w. D.. Admission Ala have a quar-
! ter of an acre of gray land which is very
/ rich. now in cotton VIII be clear of cot
/ ton by 10th Of September. What can |
/ plant on it to prove best results by the
/ LIST of January 1893: how to prepare soil;
! what fertilizer is best To use?
Answer-Probably il would pay you bet
/ ter to SOW it in rye or barley, or borh
mixed, using plenty Of seed and liberal
| quantity of good fertilizer. If rye alone
\ be sown use bushels per acre. If barley
! alone SOW bushels per acre. II a mixture
of the two SOW - bushels of rye and
| bushels of barley. Pow the land deep
and close, but YOU need not turn 1t over
; II there is nothing but cotton stalks on 1t.
/ Then SOW the grain and mt the same time
800 or 100 pounds per acre of high grade
ammoniated fertilizer on it and harrow
! all i'm together. Then run smoother of
some kind. If nothing more than a heavy
| brush. so as to level off the surface for
The mower OF grass blade. Fifty 10 -
! pounds of nitrate of soda applied as top
dressing Immediately after sowing the
grain would give 1t good start. Com
| mence cutting and feeding il as soon as
ii gets large enough 70 cut with a grass
| scythe.
RANK VINES But NO POTATOES.
f. w. C.. Olar ;. CT have a crop II
/ sweet potatoes planted of the Georgia
| Buck variety. as they are called here, and
the vines are very luXuriant but on cX-
| amiation find long strings of roots, but
/ no potatoes Last year my crop was the
| same way. The land is rich, no manure
I except commercial fertilizers. Would il
f..atI .atIf IF ~ vi
Answer-Thc luxuriant growth Of vines
and the unsatisfactory yield of the roots
are probably due to the fact that the soil
( contains too much nitrogen or too litti"
I phosphoric acid and potash. Has il been
( cowpenncd or highly manured with Gotten
| seed or stable manure? Carefully con
! Quoted experiments At the experiment sta
ton have shown that cutting off the vines
does not result I'm any beneiit-does not
cure the defect Better plant that land IN
| corn or oats OF wheat and select DIFF
fcrent spot FOR your potato patch next
year.
GRASS FOR HILL LAND.
y. II. Lewis. Columbia, MsS.--I have
] IS acres OF hill pine land: viii make about
1 half bale of cotton 10 the acre. l want
To know the kind 81 grass seed 20 SOW
on ID to make n winter pasture for cat
tie and how much 10 tue acre and where
/ can | get them. and how many cattle
ought II TO winter and when To sow seed.
/ WHAT do you think Of tuft oats?
Answer-lf YOU want the pasture for
use the coming winter, l would suggest
HAT YOU sow Rescue grass tBromus unto
I ,cidcSl. or YOU mi ht succeed with rye.
or turf oats mixed with hairy vetch.
Land that will make only half a bale Of
cotton To the acre IS not rich enough 10
( produce a fine winter pasture. On sdch
! land vol probably could do no b,tttr
than SOW il in rye. Turf oats. according
10 my experience. are more hardy To r.
sist cold than other varieties, aud are
therefore better adapted for pasturins
| You can get seed Of Rescue grass OF
/ Alexander Seed Go. or y l.. WIllct Drug
Z Co Augusta Ga. Twenty-Five 10 thirty
pounds per acre is the proper quantity
t. be narrowed IN On well-broken land at
once / cannot say how many cattle the
Is acres ought t. winter-it would de
pend on SO many circumstances.
CASSIA CHAAIACRISTA. OR PART
RIDGE PEA"
l. NJ C. Anstea Creek. Ala.--InCloScd
find plant which YOU will please name.
1t is a fine for a. plant, equal, think.
To clover. Mules cat Il with aNlditN. II
grows spontaneously and yields / should
think from > To tons per acre. Please
answer through The Constitution.
Answer-The plant is Cas:ia Chama-
crista. or partridge pea" of which there
are two vari,tics this being called rO-
rusta. meaning large. | have often heard
of the partridge pca" being used as fer
age plant. bit 10 not know from per
sonaI experithce IFS value.
DISEASED EYES or HORSE.
T. j. r.. Iaralson, Cal have mare
! that has "A red lump of red flesh in lower
/ corner OF hG eyes. Some people can IL
| hooks Ple,ee let me know through youc
paper what it Is and the remedy. and
1 oblige a subscriber.
Answrr-lour description is not sutii
GENTLY cle.r. Probably il is a kind OF
tumor caHh fungus haematodes II
/ may sometimes be removed by injecting
into its substance in several places with
a hypoderrnc syringe some pure alcohol
or il maybe cut out with knife ana
the roots touched with lunar caustic
every Sec,ld day for a week.
"STIFLTD." NOT STRINGHALTED
j. G. Il. Baltic. Ala write YOU for
informatir. ! have fine young mule.
years %. afflicted with something like
stringhalt When worked and confined
in stall lr left tied for two or three
hours. OF, hind leg will be she can't
move IL forward sometimes <one leg.
sometims the other. When made To
stopped leg extends behind until she can
touch ~ ground. and then by moving
backwah She can get II under her again.
When ! this condition she stands on
affcctedleg Mule has been i'm this con-
! 3;,i., ton months don't know how