Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-07-01

barge was brought about, answering her
helm QUICKLY; and she made her way
might scatter 1t over the ground and
mix with the soil with some surface
| working cultivator which does not run
over two to three inches deep. 1t is nor
good practice to mix nitrate in any con-
| siderable quantity with any other form
of fertilizer. This is a point you should
bear in mind in the future. It is impor-
tant that slow-acting fertilizers, such az
phosphate and potash, should be put in
as soon as possible. so as to give them
| the best chance to be made available in
the soil and utilized by the present
crop. The yield of cotton you will OBJ
tain per acre is purely problematical. II
depends much on the season which is
still to follow. You should persist in
shallow cultivation as long as you can.
II you have a good strain of Cook s
cotton seed and 1t is free from anthrax
nose, you should easily make a bale per
acre with such fertilization and cultiva-
ton as you purpose to give.
DAMPING OFF IN COTTON.
e. c. H, oliver, Ga. writes: / send
you some cotton plants that are diseased.
me what IL is and how to get rid of ii ?
1 have a field containing about IA acres
and the soil is very stiff and ordinarily
low land and very rich. 1t has made as
high as two bales of cotton to the acre.
Last year 1t made 50 bushels of corn to
the acre. / cut the corn stalks and left
them on the land, also some dead pea
vines which makes a great deal of litter
then fertilized it heavily with cotton
seed, stable manure and guano. This year
have had a great deal of trouble to
get a stand. 1 have had to plant some
Of it over and il is still dying.
There is no indication of the presence
OF anthracnose or black root, but every
symptom Of damping of is present, and
we are quite sure that the following sug-
gestions will make the matter clear to
you: In the study of the damping off
or sore shin. or Seeding rot, we find that
the diseased portion OF the plant is just
ct or beneath the surface of the soil at
first and is characterized by a shrunken
area of a dull reddish brown color. The
size Of this shrunken area and the depth
Of the injury are in proportion to the
serious condition of the ulcer. II the in
jury remains on the bark the plant will
eventually overcome II, but II the inner
| sure TO die.
This disease is caused by a fungus or,
in fact sometimes by many fungi, that
live in the soil under certain favorable
conditions through the winter, and in the
early spring are ready to attack the
young tender cotton plants and feed upon
them. After peas. and large applications
of barnyard manures they are more easi-
ly kept alive during the winter, and the
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development on the cotton in spring.
Sometimes lining the soil tends to re-
duce the effects of the disease. especially
n the soil is acid and lining has been
highly recommended. In case lime is ap-
piled about 80 bushels should be put to
the acre II the land Is very rich and de-
cidedly acid. Small grain and corn are
good crops to rotate with cotton or peas
on land that IL inoculated with damping
on fungus because these crops are not
attacked by the fungus, Even in case OF
rotation small applications OF lime
should be made, and we recommend
same. Two or three barrels to the acre
is considered a small application.
The above answer is by Professor
DR.. Leach.
REMOVING WARTS FROM THE
@. r., Reynolds, Ga, writes / have a
milk COW which is now with her first
calf. 1 just bought her few days ago
and all of her four teats are covered
with small warts. Will you please tell
me how to take them of?
tits a very dificult thing to remove a
large number Of small warts from the
teats of a milk cow The only methods
N.k. ais ~
satisfactory being difficult of successful
use under such conditions. The cause
of warts is not understood, but their de-
velopment is evidently due to some alb
normal condition of the skin. In the
early stages they can be destroyed by a.
few drops of acetic acid put on drop by
drop until the wart is saturated and soft
when 1t will come off in the course of
week or ten days. Where warts are large
they are removed by cutting with a knife,
end II the wound bleeds profusely 1t
should be cauterized with hot iron. In
some instances a string may be tied
around the base of the wart and II II is
frightened from time to time, they will
eventually slough OFF. These treatments,
however. are not likely TO prove salts
factorily with an animal In milk. The
treatment should have been given before
caIving or when the cow dries up. IN
less she is a very valuable animal, how
ever, II would probably be better to dis
pose of her and purchase one that is
not so affected.
CHRONIC sCoURs OR INDIGESTION.
c. b. l., Milledgeville, Ca, writes; 1
have a COW that has had a severe bowel
trouble for about four months; 1t Is
what 1 call the scours. / have tried all
the remedies that my neighbors have told
me, but none seems TO do any good.
I drenched her with EPSON salts this
morning thinking maybe that would do
some good. She does not eat scarcely
anything but green food. She gives
about q gallon OF milk day besides