Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-03

ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY 10
would be hard to say that one breed is
distinctly better than the other, as both
have special uses. The Tamworth, how
ever, is well adapted to the south, and
is especially valuable because of it's in
herent tendency to Craze. Since pork can
be made cheaper in Georgia on grazing
| crops than in any other manner, the
breed promises to be valuable in this
state.
A light sandy soil is best adapted to
| sweet potatoes, and il is useless to plant
them on land that has not been properly
| drained or which is too heavy In texture
as neither the quality nor yield Will be
satisfactory. Potatoes should be well fer
tilted. but an excess of nitrogen should
not be used Ordinarily, from 900 to 800
rounds per acre will be about the right
amount to apply. A fertilizer containing
| about per cent of nitrogen, TO per
cent of phosphoric acid and to per
cent OF potash should answer well for
| this crop The prospect for cotton is not
good at this time, but with favorable
weather the stand may improve as the
season advances. One can never tell how
the years crop will turn out so far in
advance.
| For securing, give a dose OF castor or
| linseed oil, followed by laudanum; not
over teaspoonful of the latter for colt.
Dried blood in teaspoonful doses is also
/ good. You should look for the cause of
the trouble and endeavor to remove IT,
/ 1t is probably due to overheating the
dam, or to the fact that the dams milk
contains too much fat
PREPARING A CERTAIN FERTILIZER
FORMULA.
]. B. c., Soperton, Ga, writes: 1 want
to buy chemicals to make my own fel-
tiIizer. What kind would 1 need to make
1922 grade and what would the same
cost. My land is black top soil with red
clay sub-soil.
The best method for you to follow is
to write to the various fertilizer firms
and ask them for the lowest cash price
they can make you on a 1922 fertilizer
and on the materials of which it is COM
posed. - Then you can easily determine
which will be the best method of pro-
cedure for you TO follow-that u.s. pGr-
chase ready mixed or home mix. l can
rot say offhand just what a complete
fertilizer Of the character suggested
should cost you. but if we allow IS cents
pound for nitrogen, cents for phos-
phoric acid and cents for potash. you
should be able to buy 1t for $40 to $22
a ton, exclusive of freight. A good formu-
la to use In mixing such a fertilizer is
as follows: 1850 pounds of 16 per cent
acid phosphate, so pounds of muriate of
potash, go pounds of cotton seed meal,
containing 6.1S per cent of nitrogen, rs
per cent of phosphoric acid and 1.5 per
cent Of potash. This combination will
give you about the percentages of avail
able plant food you desire. We think
this fertilizer is low in potash for most
soils, and in nitrogen as we'll for a crop
like corn, especially on land which does
not contain a large amount of vegetable
matter. We should increase the potash by
cutting the phosphoric acid down to 12O6
pounds and adding so pounds more of
muriate of potash. The additional nitro
gen may be secured by using nitrate Of
soda as a top dressing after the crop
is up.
GREEN FEED FOR HOGS.
j. w. p, East Tallassee, Ala, writes:
have seven acres OF upland corn on
which l used 1000 pounds of 1922 guano
and 1914 phosphate mixed. This land was
IN oats last year and | failed to plant
In peas afterward. How much nitrate of
soda should l apply and when? What win
take lice from hogs? VIII IL pay to plant
sorghum to feed green to hogs? What is
the best breed of hogs for the farmers
of this country? What is the best way to
rid Irish potatoes of bugs?
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Nitrate of soda may be used with adj
vantage as a top dressing on corn, and
especially on land which is not we'll sup
piled with vegetable or on which has
been used a fertilizer not containing ali
excess of nitrogen. The ideal method of
using nitrate of soda on corn is as fol-
lows: Make two applications of 100 pounds
each, putting the first on, say two or
three weeks after the corn is up, and the
second week to ten days before it is
shooting into tassel. Two hundred pounds
of nitrate is about all that can be applied
with profit to cereal crops. 1t is, OF
course, not always necessary to make two
applications. This you can determine for
yourself by judging of the vigor of the
growth of your corn. Seasonal conditions
will also exert an influence on the
amount of fertilizer which you need to
use. Situated as you are, the one appli-
cation had best be put on relatively ear
ly in the season. 1t should be scattered
over the surface of the ground but should
not be covered, and is best applied af-
ter a rain rather than just before one
1t is very difficult to free animals from
lice while occupying infested quarters.
10 no. IneTeIOTes Is 10
thoroughly disinfect the buildings by
whitewashing. This should be done care
fully so as to insure the filling of all
cracks. Then cleanse the animals thor
oughly by hopping them with a solution
of some of the cold tar products, such
as creolin, zenoleum and chloro-naphtho-
leum. One part to 80 parts of water, and
in very bad cases, one to 80 parts
of water. second application
should be made in five to eight
days to be sure thai young which may
have Matched from eggs are destroyed.
1t is good plan to keep where the an
imals can get at it at all time a mixture
of one part of sulphur to five parts of
common salt.
While sorghum may be used as a green
feed for hogs with some satisfaction, cow
peas or soy beans will produce much
more grain and furnish a better pasture
on that account. To raise hogs cheaply
one must utilize some grazing crops