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

| The new lines viii offer better facilities
than heretofore have existed for export
ers Of cotton and other merchandise from
southern states to Italy and adjoining
countries.
AS to the length of time the peas should
| remain in the cock, that of course de-
ponds much on the weather. Personally
we would prefer to leave them to cure
! in this condition until handful of them
taken up and twisted shows no evidence
| of moisture at the breaking point. This
/ is a simple method of testing hay of
various crops for surplus moisture, and
when the pea vines are in this condition
| they can be stored with safety. We be-
| lieve they can be baled under these con-
ditions, especially if the bales are not
/ piled too high, but are arranged so as
/ to provide for a good circulation of air.
You are right in presuming that the
/ cocks should be built in bee hive shape,
as high as possible. In other words, the
/ base should not be spread too much. The
canvas cover suggested is merely for the
purpose of shedding water off the top
/ and is not intended to protect the sides.
There is no reason, however, with good
ventilation from the bottom and protec-
tion on top why you should not be able
to cure pea vines. 1 have not had direct
experience m your section, but think that
= the farmers along the Virginia coast have
much the same conditions to meet, and
! 1 know they are successful in curing pea
vines. 1t is probably true that the bot
tom of the cock will get wet, but UNI
less the season is extraordinarily bad, it
should dry out and cure satisfactorily.
} CONSTITUENTS OF A TON OF COT
TON SEED.
]. P. S.. Jesup, Ga. writes: How many
pounds of meal, hulls, linters an doll
are there in a ton of cotton seed, and
what is the current price Of each per
pound? At your estimate of the amount
of meal in one ton of seed, what would
this meal analyZe in protein, nitrogen,
! phosphoric acid and potash? Does any
/ of the ammonia in cotton seed meal
! escape during the process of manufac-
4 turing.
Cotton seed varies considerably in COM
I position, season, soil and variety exerting
an influence which is hard to estimate
without more definite knowledge of the
subject than we enjoy at the present
time. Ordinarily, a ton of cotton seed
meal should produce 40 to AZ gallons OF
/ oil. weighing rs pounds to the gallon;
| about s13 pounds of meal, 45 pounds OF
lint, and US pounds of bulls. The balance
| represented DN llt pOuHuS Represents NliO
( loss in manufacture, due to the pres
| ence of sand trash and other extrane-
! Gus materials in the seed. The current
/ price of these materials at the present
| time is about as follows: Meal $2S, hulls
| Sill oil 10 cents a pound, and linters
| cents a pound. ton of high grade cot
] ton seed meal should ordinarily contain
4 about 135 pounds of nitrogen, 81 pounds
! of phosphoric acid and II pounds Of
I CT0 r7ey Of
/ tain proportionate part these amounts.
| High grade cotton seed meal contains
| about 372 per cent of digestible protein
] per hundred pounds. From this you can
| easily calculate the amount of protein
| in S13 pounds. 1 could not say posi-
| lively whether there is any loss OF am
monia in the manufacture of cotton seed
meal, but presume there is none since
| the nitrogen contained in cotton seed
| meal is in an organic form, and must
| be transformed into ammonia by fer
mentation in the soil before 1t can be
utilized by plants.
! INQUIRIES OF A YOUNG FARMER,
c. NJ. E, Oconee, Ga, writes: 1 have
| a poor sandy land farm. have about
| a six horse farm in cultivation and
will make about q bales of cotton with
/ inst enough feed for all the stock. AL
/ wavs raise plenty of meat for family.
! I have about 20 acres Of my best land
| for cotton ruined with black root. In
| these black root patches is where the
/ best cotton was made few years ago.
| I have one of these patches-6 acres, in
! cotton this year that will not make
hale. Some say acid causes black root,
others say cotton seed, compost or stable
manure 1t seems that cowpeas make
black root worse. I want to begin to
! prepare my land for another crop. On
account Of heavy rains we have In some
pIaces lots Of grass to turn under. L am
| inclined to think that deep blowing In
| sandy land is not the thing, yet where
| the subsoil is pipe clay II might De a
good idea to run a furrow every three
| feet with middle buster. I want to buy
some improved implements. such as two
horse plows, cutaway harrows, etc. What
! would Won advise me to buy? Some OF
| this land rusts cotton. What kind Of
! fertilizer do you think best to use!
II is a pleasure to be Of service to any
and all who are interested in farming,
ard II &c also pleasant to be able to re-
mort that there are ways in which you
1 can improve your practice and increase
| the productiveness Of your land at de-
cided profit to yourself.
From what you state no doubt much of
your land is infected with the wilt dis
ease of cotton. more commonly known as
black root This trouble is not due to the
use of farmyard manure, heavy fertili-
cation or to any economic differences be-
tween one kind of soil and another, nor
| is II the result of the exhaustion of some
one element of plant food. 1t is caused
by a fungus which develops from spores
| in the soil Under favorable conditions
| the fungus enters the small roots from
the soil and grows into the water-carry-
ing channels of the plant filling them up
and choking ii to death, as 1t were. The
fungus is produced by one of four kinds
| of spores and is no doubt spread by
stock tramping over the land, possibly
| through the washing of soils from higher
20 lower levels, and by means of plows
| and cu'tivators which have been used on
/ the infected land and taken to other sec
| tions of the farm. This disease only at
/ tacks cotton and okra, but does not af-
/ feet corn and other crops; hence well
PLANNED rotation tends to diminish the
/ amount Of the disease. though complete
rest even for a period Of seven years has