Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-15

pig. Increase and lessen the dose ac-
cording to size of hog.
sMoTHERING OUT OBJECTIONABLE
GROWTHS.
K. d. H, Hopkins, s. c.. writes: Please
tell me how to get rid of wire grass. l
have a piece of land that is taken with
it.
The best way to destroy wire grass
would be to pillow it shallow in the fall
and leave it exposed 20 the winter
freezes. The sod might ten be cut up
thoroughly with a disk cultivator and
raked up in piles with a weeder and car
riet off the ground and composted. An
other method is to pillow the land very
deeply, turning the grass down complete
ly to a depth of several inches. The
work must be done carefully and thor
oughly of course. After the land has
been plowed, prepare a good seed bed.
plant cowpeas, or better still, velvet
beans. These make tremendous
growth and effectually choke out all
grass and weeds. Sometimes 1T may be
necessary to grow the cowpeas or vel
vet beans two years in succession. Aft
er the beans have served their useful
ness, they should be plowed down in the
fall and the land broken and left on edge
so that the freezes may act on 1t as
completely as possible, Summer fallow-
ing may be used to some advantage, but
the best results have been secured from
the use of smother crops.
DESTROYING LICE ON CABBAGE.
A subscriber, Gainesville, Ga, writes;
have some cabbage which I put out
about February 10, and the lice is about
tall
stroy the lice: -.- ~.
The best treatment for destroying lice
on cabbage Is to use kerosene emulsion.
This may be prepared as follows: rake
a half pound of hard soap, shave IL up
finely and put in a gallon of boring soft
water. Stir thoroughly until well dis
! solved. Then add two gallons OF kero-
| sene The whole mixture should De
| churned or pumped thoroughly until the
Ingredients emulsify. 1t will take 10
or 90 minutes vigorous work to accom-
plish this result. The solution should
then be diluted with at least ten gallons
OF water before using. 1t should pe ap-
piled as a thin spray over the cabbage.
w. Plainville, Ca, writes: 1 have some
very nice sandy loan in the river bot
toms that want to plant In cotton ou'
| II is subject to rust. Would 5O POUNDS
of kainit mixed with 200 pounds of lO-2-4
prevent rust? II not, what would you
recommend2
Cotton rust is thought to be due to one
of three things, namely, the poverty CT
the soil in vegetable. matter, lack Of
drainage, and a deficiency in available
potash. The rusting on your bottom lands
might easily be due to the fact that the
water table stands too near the SURFACE
of the soil. This defect could easily be
remedied by draining. AS a matter OF
fact, where cotton Is affected with rus'
1t nearly always is greatly benefited by
! applications of potash. We would sug'
gest the use, therefore, Of a liberal
amount of this material In the mixed fer
tilizer which you expect to use. A 2-lo-+
would hardly contain enough potash II
our Judgment for a section of land which
rusts badly. we would advise the use OF
at least so pounds OF muriate or 20C
pounds of kainit in addition. Fifty
pounds of muriate will supply at least
rs pounds of available potash. 1t will
take 200 pounds of kainit to supply the
same amount. Convenience in handling
and applying, therefore, suggests the use
of kainit. In some sections of south
Georgia where they have been troubled
much with rust as much potash as Is
here suggested has been used with most
excellent results. You will, therefore,
not be making an experiment or using
an overdose in applying the amounts sug-
gested.
APPLYING NITROGEN TO WHEAT
IN THE SPRING.
| D. f. NJ, Acworth, Ga, writes: l have
three acres of wheat on ordinary red
land. I used 1000 pounds of 1914 acid or
the three acres at the time of sowing last
| fall. Would like to know if it will pay
me to use nitrate of soda as top dress
ing. and how much and when to apply
1t?
The application of fertilizer made or
your red land last fall was quite liberal
for wheat, a 1914 mixture supplying the
phosphoric acid and potash needed in
quite liberal amounts on this land. Red
land varies so much in quality that it is
rather difficult to advise whether the use
of nitrate of soda will pay or not. Ap-
plications of this fertilizer are likely tc
! give the best results on crops that are
| backward and need to be stimulated tc
produce a sufficient growth of weed and
head to insure a good yield. Our expert
ence makes us feel that applications OF
nitrate of soda on most fall-sown cereals
| and especially where no nitrogen has
| been used at the time of seeding, viii
| prove to be a profitable investment. For