The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-13

 of hot water in wooden vessel. Do not allow the mixture to come in contact with metal Later add enough cold water to bring the amount up to the fifty gallons. Proceed as with the formaiin mixture except that great care must be exercised to prevent pofs- oning live stock or children.
 Our experiments have shown that either treatment will reduce the amount of smut in the wheat to very small quantity or, if the sedson be right. will prevent smut altogether.
 Director Michigan Experiment Station. Open Furrow Method of Sowing Grain. To the Farmers Club of oglethorpe County:
 We, the committee appointed by your body on first Tuesday in September last, to prepare an article on how to SOW oats in the open furrow, how to I prepare the land. how to fertifize and so forth, beg leave to make the follow | ing report.r 4-s aa
 First--The land should be we'll broken, and if at all rough 1t should be | turned under deep enough so that the stalks, grass or other obstruction will not interfere with a combined oat | planter and guano distributor, and If ! necessary run a drag harrow over land | after being broken. The oats should I be sown as early in october as pos- sible, though we have sown in the open l furrow as late as November Is, retain l ing three-fourths of a stand.
 Second--There are a number of | planters for putting in oats which I should invariably be done with an oat planter and guano distributor com | bihed, with wheel attached such as the Carmicai, the Can't and the Cole, and
 possibly others. all one-horse. The | r.A N1. Sn | furrows should be narrow, keen | shovel blow, eight to ten inches wide | at top and long enough to get good | deep furrow.
 The furrows should be run as close | as one can do SO without filling the fur | rows previously made IA to 16 inches | apart from center of furrows.
 l The effect of last winters cold | weather on oats sown in open furrow | demonstrated the fact conclusively, l that wherever the furrows were filled entirely. the oats were almost or quite 1 altogether killed, but where they were
 not. filled 90 per cent. of the oats on an | average went through the winter. l Any good, careful plow-hand can op- | crate the oat planter, one who can lay | off the rows evenly with the terraces | and who will watch his machine, keep
 ing oats and guano in the hoppers. and
 the wheel rolling ali the while. which
 will cause the guano to be distributed | in the bottom of furrow immediately 1 back of the opening shovel and the
 oats pouring right down on the guano. | The wheel revolving will put on suf- | ficient dirt of itself to cover oats.
 The wheel of the planter. geared to an arrangement of spikes in each com | partnent (for oats and for guano), Is | what does the work in the sowing of | the oats and distributing the guano at | one and the same time.
 l It is safe to calculate on 90 to 95 per cent. of all the oats properly sown | by this method standing hard winters one year with another. As to amopnt 1 of oats and guano to be sown per acre | would say that my experience and l observation has been that one should | never sow less than 3-4 to bushels of any good oat (Appler, Rust-proof or | Blncix) on thin lands and never over 21-2 to 2S-4 bushels on the best lands
 by this method. and also that the oat | crop Is one that should be well ma nured especially after having ascer- tained an almost infaliible method of
 retaining a stand through the winter
 months.
 Colonel Bedding advised the use of a
 formula like this to fertilize the oat
 crop: 200 pounds acid phosphate, 25O
 pounds cottonseed meal and 30 pounds
 muriate potash per acre. which might
 hA considered excessive fertilizing by
 some and indeed might be reduced if
 one preferred but should never be re-
 duced to less than 300 pounds per acre,
 and to nlY opinion 400 pounds per acre
 is very much better though 500 pounds
 is best The above formula advised by
 Colonel Bedding would get up 0 fer
 tilizer that would analyze $40 per cent.
 phosphorous acid, per cent. ammonia
 and per cent. potash. being low in
 phosphorous acid. high in nitrogen and
 very high in potash.
 | He regards liberal quantities of the
 two latter clements as absolutely es-
 sential to the best results in an oat
 crop.
 Too much praise can not be bestowed
 on Colonel Reddkpg of the Experiment
 Station, for the discovery of and put
 ting into practice the open furrow
 method of planting and fertilizing the
 oat crop. I want to say at this junc-
 ture, that as important as this ser l vice may have been, or indeed may be in the future, to the farmers of Georgia
 and of the South, his suggestion to the | members Of our club at Lexington | (which I believe entirely possible) to
 take thin piece of land this fall which l was planted in corn this year and sown | broadcast in peas at laying by working
 and sowing it in fall oats duriuG the l mouth or october fertilizing fas he l recommends above, which would most | likely make fine crop of oats the fol-
 lowing year. and after cutting oats off,
 SOW land broadcast with peas and the l following fall SOW a good variety of l wheat on same land, fertiIixine well. | to be followed after wheat crop is cut | of, with peas sown broadcast again (making three consecutive sowings of
 this crop) would double the yield of
 cotton per acre after this treatment
 and will be as great benefit as the open furrow discovery. The beauty of
 inc crops could be made to bear the ex-
 nenses and make clear money besides