Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-11

FINDS THE JOURNAL INVALUABLE.
b. d. W., Milton, Fla, writes: We have
been taking The Journal for years and
can not get along without it. 1 would
like some information in regard to sheep
raising. Which breeds do best this far
south, and which are best to cross with
the scrub ewes? Who in the south have
/ fine stock for sale? The risk is too great
when one has to buy from the north.
| .
ANY of the Down breeds should sue
| coed i'm your section. We would prefer a
medium wooded breed for southern con-
ditions, and believe that you will find the
Southdown, Shropshire or Oxforddown
very desirable breeds of sheep. Rams OF
these brands are utilized extensively
throughout the south for the purpose of
crossing with native ewes and producing
early lambs for shipment to eastern mar
kets You can secure the Southdown
sheep from r. P. Hite. Gallatin, Tenn,
and T. M. Hinkle, Springfield, Tenn.
RAISING HOGS ON GREEN CROPS.
T. w. r., Vienna, Ga, writes: What
kind of seed corn should l use on my
gray soil here for a big yield? I have
three separate places fenced off that
want to SOW in something for hogs to Craze
on. What would you recommend me to
SOW? How about sorghum already have
fine Bermuda pasture. have a grove
Of mulberry trees. Are they good for
hogs? L have a nice young grove of paper
shell pecans. Do you favor little or large
cotton seed cotton?
We believe for your conditions there is
nothing that will give you better results
than one OF the so-called prolific varieties
of corn. There are a number of strains
on the market, such as Marlboro, Cookies
Prolific, Rockdale Prolific and Whatley'S
Prolific We have tested the latter in our
demonstration field, and it has given US
good results This is not a one-eared varie-
ty or big-eared corn, but almost every
stalk will produce two or more ears of
medium size, and our experience covering
about Is years indicates that we secure
larger yields from such varieties than
from a single-eared. big stalked variety
on lands of only moderate fertility.
For your hog pasture we would suggest
that you SOW some rape just as soon as
possible. This can be grazed early in the
season. AS soon as it is past its prime the
land should be plowed up and sown to
cowpeas. We would seed one plat to soy
beans and one to peanuts This will give
you a fair succession of grazing in con-
junction with YOUR Bermuda pasture. Sor-
! ghum If cropped closely makes a fair
grazing crop for hogs, but not so desira-
BILE in our opinion as rape. We would
prefer to sow spring oats to sorghum
for grazing purposes. We think you will
find the Mammoth Yellow the most salts
factory variety of soy bean. Spanish pea
nuts answer well as a grazing crop for
hogs. Mulberries will furnish some food
to your hogs, and you are fortunate In
having a nice grove of paper shell pecans.
We have found such varieties of cotton
as Cooks Improved, Cleevland's Big Boil.
RusselTs Big Boil and number of others
that might be mentioned as among the
most desirable varieties for general Gull
ture.
WHY THE FERTILIZER FAILED.
B. L. c., Carr's Station. Ga, writes: L
bottom land in corn last year which I
| did not manure when 1 planted it, but
put in 200 pounds of guano per acre at
the first working. The corn 1 did not
fertilize made as good a yield that
which 1 did. The formula 1 used was
| LOCO pounds of 16 per cent acid phos-
phate, GOO pounds of cotton-seed meal
and 400 pounds of kainit. Is this
well-balanced guano? am thinking Of
using this year the following mixture:
| One thousand two hundred pounds of 16
per cent acid, $50 pounds of cotton-seed
meal and $50 pounds of muriate of potash.
/ Which mixture do you thing is the best?
The land is good, strong, deep soil bot
J tom and was in cotton last year and is
| i'm good fix now.
The fertilizer which you used on your
corn last year contained approximately
| 81 per cent of available nitrogen, 81 per
cent OF available phosphoric acid and 2.S
per cent of available potash. 1t would
/ be regarded as rather low grade mix
| ture. Since you only used 200 pounds per
acre you only applied four pounds of nj
| trogen per acre. Corn is a very gross
/ feeding plant and will extract from the
| soil large amount of plant food. For
instance, a crop yielding 80 bushels per
acre requires 100 pounds of nitrogen. You
will thus see that unless your soil was
naturally quite rich, the amount of fer
tilizer you used would not have much eff
| feet on the yield. The mixture which you
propose to use this year will contain APP
| proximately 227 per cent of available nj
| trogen, 1914 per cent of available phos-
| phoric acid and AZ per cent of available
potash. This fertilizer is low in nitro
gen for corn. II you will use it at the
rate of 500 pounds per acre, you should
| secure fairly good results, especially if
you will apply some farmyard manure
under the drill row. If you have some
wel-rooted compost, put two to four tons
| per acre under the corn at the time of
planting. Mix the fertilizer in with it
and plant on top. Do not bed, for corn
as level cultivation will give you the best
! results. You have acted wisely in plow-
| ing your land last fall on which you de-
sire to grow an especially large crop.
The freezes of winter will have helped to
pulverize il a good deal On this special
area in addition to using yard manure
and fertilizer. as suggested, you may find
IL profitable to use a top dressing of 100
to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda during
the growing season. Probably 100 pounds
had best be applied two or three weeks
after the corn has come up, and the
other 100 pounds just as it is shooting
into tassel.
SEEDING CRIMSON CLOVER IN THE
SPRING.
j. R. Ollie, Ga, writes: The agricul-
turaI columns i'm The Journal are very
helpful and / would appreciate your adj
vice i'm this instance. / have six acres of
bottom land which makes about 20
- 10 ha ilxv