Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-11

4 immense
rangement of the digestive organs of the
| COW and the great strain put on the AMI
NAL I'm the elaboration of milk IT is not
surprising that the digestive system
should sometimes become deranged. We
think IL you will change the diet OF
| your COW and give her variety OF nu-
! trjtious food that her condition VIII I'M
1 prove II you have some rye or wheat
| available on which TO Craze her Tor
| few DAYS, it will be helpful. only nnou
| crate amounts of food should be given
! II che Is st all constipated. give pur-
oative of one pound of Glauber salts DIS
| soived i'm one quart of cotton seed oil.
| cut out the cotton seed or any other con-
| cAntrates Won may have been feeding
and substitute bran msshes FOR Ie"
DAYS. and we believe she will improve
FARMING UNDER A LIMITED RAIN
| FALL.
T. w. D., Sansaba, Tex, writes: l
csnoa here from north Georgia in 1910.
| since July, 1905, we have only hao
inches of rain. We planted 20 acres ol
' corn and cot none, and planted ~ acres
| in cotton and got ten bales averaging
| a5o Mounds. This land has been run III
| cotton almost every year for 30 years
without any fertilizer. Guano Is not
known here in any form ana manure
| goes to waste as the people say IL puIns
up the vegetation. Last fall we tuiheu
under a heavy crop or stupple I,oii
navy beans and Colorado grass with
| also ulow. We did not have enough
] rain TO cause the stubble to rot, ana II
was dry and cold at planting time' ana
we got a poor stand of cotton. Wahl
IN plant % acres in cotton next year
and intend to use 900 pounds of good
hiph-srade fertilizer to the acre and the
ca rliest grade of cotton seed can GET
dropping the seed by hand and covering
light. Do you think the guano wouio
nav. and IL so, what per cent of the
different elements of plant 1000 "oulu
you recommend?
Having lived in your state for several
YEARS I am more or less familiar with
the conditions which you describe. IL
is difficult to farm where the rainfall
Is 40 uncertain and varied In amount as
indicated in your letter. The plan TO
follow is to conserve moisture as COM
pletely as possible. and it seems to me
that il would be better to plow your lane
early in the summer or fail ana cultl-
vate IL so as to have it absorb and hold
as much of the rainfall as possible. You
know moisture escapes from the ground
whenever crust forms on it, and veg
citation pumps the water out of the land
very rapidly in its growth. Therefore,
after breaking the land in the early fall
we would keep it cultivated with disc
or something to break the crust and
conserve the moisture and keep the lana
in condition to absorb any Rain which
falls. The thorough preparation of the
land is certainly not objectionable. OF
course when there is no rainfall veg
etabIe matter will not decay rapidly.
! 1Irx
your land and the tseason is dray, roll ii
and compact IL so as to bring the mois-
ture to the surface and then disc or har-
row, as already suggested. Sandy land,
such as you describe, is almost GER
tain to be deficient In phosphoric acid
and potash. In fact In many localities
lin Texas where the boil wevil has
| proven a menace to cotton production,
! the use of commercial fertilizers which
| tend to hasten maturity and invigorate
the crop have proved very helpful in
| deed and both phosphoric acid and pot
ash have given excellent results. Phos-
phoric acid has been especially benef-
! cial on all lands and potash valuable on
4 sandy lands. You can tell from the
amount OF weed made by your cotton
| whether IL needs nitrogen or not We
| would withhold nitrogen from the soil
| and use II as a top dressing in the form
| of nitrate of soda when the cotton is
out of the ground a month to six weeks
| OF course, the season will influence the
| time of applying the nitrate of soda.
| This should not be brought in contact
with the plants, but should be scattered
on the surface of the ground alongside
| the drill rows. We believe you will
| find an application of 300 pounds of a
| 1914 or a 1915 fertilizer very helpful to
| your crops, and we would advise you
to use II. If you can secure large GUAM
titles of stable manure and compost il
carefully end use under the drill rows
it win tend to hold the moisture and
, will supply plant food useful to your
| crop. OF course, when rainfall is scarce
and large quantities of vegetable mat
ter are used promiscously there is some
| truth possibly in the contention of your
| friends. We believe that the thorough
| preparation of the soil and its manage
ment so as to conserve moisture and
the use of the fertilizers suggested will
prove very helpful to you under the cir
cumstances. II you have even a mod
crate amount Of rainfall. you may count
or making fairly good crop
We think you will find King Cotton or
| some other extra early maturing variety
| good kind to use. Personally, we pre-
! fer to plant cotton in drills and then
| chop to a stand. You can use enough
seed In this way to effectually break the
crust and do the planting more evenly
| and rapidly as well. We believe it well
| to put the fertilizer under the drill now
| at the time of planting. slight bed is
| advisable where there is lots of rainfall
4 but planting on the level is better i'm a
dry climate.
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