The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

81 so per ton for simply mixing a
little muriate of potash with a
simple acid phosphate so as to pro-
duce a potash acid phosphate that
would carry available IL and pot
ash 3.
EXPENSIVE MACHINERY.
1t may be said in explanation that
the guano manufacturer must have
very expensive machinery in order
so make a perfect, uniform mixture.
Grant the claim, and the reply is
that the farmer does not need TO
have any such expensive machinery
TO do his own mixing. All he needs
is a shovel and q hoe and a barn
floor, or a hard, smooth place on the
ground. The manufacturers goods
must be uniform, 80 as TO stand in
spection. Every bag of it must be
approximately the same in chemical
composition as every other bag. Not
so with the farmer. His mixtures
are not subject to inspection, TO in
speotion fees and the expense of
soaking. 1t matters little whether
every portion of a ton is exactly like
every other portion. Is Is a small
matter if there be an occasional un-
mixed lump (although this need not
be the CASEY
FORMULA o COTTON AND CORN.
A farmer can mix 1000 pounds of
acid phosphate IA per cent?, rs
pounds of muriate of potash and 700
pounds of cotton meal in a few hours
at a cost of % cents for labor. The
materials would cost, probably,
$15.75, total $16 for the !, 775 pounds,
or 80 cents per hundred pounds, or
$18 per ton. The mixture would
analyze about as follows: Available
phosphorio acid, 8 81 potash (K2O) },
2 20 nitrogen, 2.7O, equal TO IA 81
units of plant food, a fairly high
grade guano.
1t would be just the formula for
cotton on the average worn uplands
of middle and north Georgia and
similar soils in the adjoining States.
It GOULD be easily modified for fresh
soils, or highly improved soils of the
same original character, OF for dark
oolored lowlands by reducing the
amounts OF muriate and cotton seed
meal by % to so per cent, or more,
if only light manuring is intended.
For sandy soils, especially in the
piney woods regions, the muriate
could be increased by from % to so
per cent and in some cases the cot
ton meal might be increased.
To state the formula in tabular
form it would appear as follows:
No. 2-Formula for cotton on old
worn uplands:
Acid phosphate "a per o't.) 1000 lbs.
Muriate of potash. ........ rs lbs.
Cor kainit, 800 pounds).
Cotton meal. 700 lbs.
Total. 1,775 lbs.
For corn as follows:
No. Formula for o T on old
worn uplsnds:
Acid phosphate IA per o't) 1000 lbs.
Muriate of potash......... 80 lbs.
Cor kainit, 100 pounds).
Cotton meal. 1880 lbs.
Total 2,2SO IDS.
This formula would analyze about
as follows:
Available. so per cent
Potash (K2 O).........1 AZ per cent.
Nitrogen. 3 SO per cent.
This would be in the same relative
proportion as available, 10; potash,
2; nitrogen, 5.
In a future article the above form
ulas will be repeated and others
added with some other details that
would make this article too long if
included now.
DAIRyING PAYS.
The editor of the Richmond, Va,
Religious Herald reports a converse
ton with d noted manufacturer, Mr..
Austen, from which we take the fol-
lowing:
"Now that you speak of cattle,
tell me why we cans make the dairy
business pay in old Virginia? We feed