The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-02-17

will generally give better results, es-
| pecially when the soil is old and worn,
and when liberal fertilizing is desired.
When very slight application is in
tended potash may be left out and
oven phosphoric acid, applying only
heterogeneous fertilizer, or one contain
ing a minimum of phosphoric acid and
potash. Such a fertilizer is stable
manure and also cotton seed, the prin-
cipal element being nitrogen. But on
worn or thin uplands a more complete
and better balanced fertilizer Is reqnir.
cd. Moreover, many who wish to grow
wheat have neither stable manure
nor cotton seed.
For general use on the soils Of mid
die and north Georgia the following
formula will give good results:
Acid Phosphate IA per cent. 200 lbs.
Muriate of potash. -. ....... so lbA
Cotton meal.... 49,. 100 lbs.
$50 lbs.
"The above would analyze about as
follows:
Available phosphoric acid. $40 per CT
Potash (K2O).... .... ..3.33 per ct.
Nitrogen. =. -. 49,. 49,. .4.66 per ct.
THE formula may be varied accord.
ing to convenience or circumstances.
For instance. If a. farmer wishes for
any reason 70 use, cotton seed instead
Of meal, he may substitute for the lat
ter two and cne-half times as much cot
ton seed whole or crushed); or if
he has cotton seed huller and wishes
to use the kernels, or meats, instead
of meal on seed, he may substitute
one and one-quarter times as much OF
the kernels.
80. also, four times as much KANT
may be used instead of muriate of
potash.
such changes or substituti0ns
would not materially alter the rela-
tive proportions Of the three princi-
pal plant food elements, and would fire.
quently prove more convenient. In
each case the gross amount required
to produce the same effect would be
considerable changed; but the amount
of acid phosphate remaining constant
there would be no difficulty in deter
mining how much of one modified for
mula would be equivalent TO a given
amount Of another
In practice it would be better not
to apply ell of the heterogeneous ingra-
dient at the time of sowing. If cotton
OCOQ AlCGI NC u0Cu, OAC-LuiIN may well
be left out and an equivalent of nitrate
of soda applied during the last week
in March in the form of top dressing,
for it has been found exceedingly eff
fective. So then an ideal fertilizer for
wheat would be as follows:
Muriate Of Potash Cat sowing
time).... =. -. ...... :. so lbs.
Acid Phosphate Sowing time) 200 lbs.
Cotton Mool (of cnWi1o o. he
Nitrate of soda Tin the spring. rs lbs.
THE above is subject to any of the
notifications already suggested.
THE top dressing of nitrate OF soda
should be applied after the plants get
into the boot, or week or ten days
before the first heads will appear, and
when the soil is in good condition, as
shortly after a rainfall, but when the
plants are not wet with dew or rain.
Simply scatter the nitrate evenly and
broadcast over the surface. 1t will
soon dissolve and sink into the soil, and
its effects in the darker color and in
creased luxuriance of growth will us
ually be manifest within week.
HOW TO PREVENT SMUT.
Every old wheat grower knows
about smut, and how to prevent it by
the time honored process Of soaking
seed wheat In a solution of bluestone,
which will be presently described. But
not many are aware Of the fact that
the product of wheat from smut-in-
fected seed is not simply damaged in
quality. but the yield of sound wheat
Is thereby lessened by more than the
mere proportion of mere smut grains.
In other words. a bushel of smutty
wheat may produce only ten bushels
Ut gram, smut and all while if the
same bushel of wheat be properly dis
infected it might yield a crop of twelve
Oh fifteen bushels of sound wheat. 1t
Is therefore Of considerable import
ance, from the standpoint of quantity
OF yield as we'll as from the ordinary
consideration of quality, that the seed
wheat should be properly treated.
The old method of treatment con-
sisted in soaking the seed wheat over
night in a solution of one pound of
bluestone dissolved in enough water to
cover about five bushels of wheat, or
about three ounces of bluestone for
each bushel. The same solution, by the
addition of mere water and bluestone.
In the same proportions, may be used
for another lot of wheat. Later. and
strictly scientific experiments, show
that much weaker solution will be
equally effective. One authority says:
This CONSISTS in immersing the seed
wheat twelve hours in a solution made
by dissolving one pound of copper sui
phate (bluestone) in twenty-four gal
Ions of water, and then putting the
seed for five or ten minutes into lime
water, made by Stacking one pound OF
good lime in ten gallons of water
The same authority goes on to say:
The wheat does not grow quite so we'll
as when treated with hot water, but
the difference is inconsiderable.'
The hot water, or Jensen, treat
ment for the prevention of smut con-
sists essentially in sleeping the seed
wheat in water maintained at the tenn
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