Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-04-25

the fertilizer was applied in the burrows
with the seeds. While this result was not
contemplated, it was quickly explained
by the fact that the fertilizer that had
been in the ground two weeks had under
gone the chemical changes already alIud-
ed to, and it's plant food was ready for
This result suggests that it may be ex-
pedient, in any case, to apply a small
of soda in the same furrow with the cot
ton or corn seeds, which may be done
with perfect safety with cotton seeds.
and without danger to corn if not placed
in immediate contact with the seed.
APPLYING FERTILIZER AT THE
TIME OF PLANTING.
This may be understood to mean either
applying the fertilizer, bedding on it and
refer to the practice of putting the fer
tilizer in the furrow with the seed. In
the latter case, there is always a mani
fest danger that the coming OWi sea-
son may be unusually dry, in which event
the fertilizer, being SO lightly covered,
may not be dissolved and properly dis
Seminated through the soil. It may also
follow that the fertilizer being so concen-
trated-en maSse, as it were-around The
tender rootlets of the young plants that
a not Observation-Disclosures. The plan
is not advisable except when a very
light application is to be made per acre.
seeds that are planted in very shallow
burrows and but lightly covered, such as
SOICOII, dfIO L l. IS Lily SdISI " 1I1IO1-
pose some soil, or, better, deposit the fer
tllizer in one furrow and plant the seeds
In a furrow Immediately beside; or, vice
versa, plant the seeds first in the furrow,
and then the fertilizer in a furrow close
beside it. But the preferred plan is to
bed on the fertilizer, and then plant the
seeds, after narrowing down the beds.
l have often applied SO to 100 pounds Of
a complete fertilizer per acre in the
furrow with the cotton seeds; but it was
away back" in the late sixties and early
seventies when fertilizers sold at $40 to $50
a ton, and very light applications were
supposed to be In the interest of a wise
economy. We did not know much about
fertilizers in those days, and were afraid
to put too much guano on the cotton"
Ihat time has passed and gone, and the
uup-to-date farmer has found that 500 and
600 pounds of fertilizer for cotton,e q
properly balanced high-grade fertilizer, to
each acre of cotton is not dangerous or
excessive, but simply liberal and judi
c1ous. indeed, it is a question of simple
II 100 pounds per acre is
profitable, and it costs no more labor to
cultivate an acre with 800 pounds of ap-
piled fertilizer, then why not Increase
the amount invested in fertilizers, and,
It thought advisable, reduce the area and
the labor account?
Now, the we1l-informed farmer only
to know If the fertilizer be proper
~ alanced for the crop he wishes to
grow. n is sold at a fair price, and he
invests literally, just as he would do in
buying anything at such a price that ho
sell at a profit Of from so to 100 per
centum and upward. A h~igh-grade, hon
est fertilizer will meet this requirement.
There is another justification for the
practice of applying fertilizers ate the
Llme OF plant1ng-.viz. when the farmer
has failed to put in his order at the prop
proverb-"better late than not at alp
put in the fertilizer with the seed. or AZ
the time Of planting.