Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-01

phosphoric acid and per cent of pot
ash. AS much as 1000 pounds per acre
might be used advantageously. Put 600
pounds under the dri4- row at the time
of planting, and then you may use
side application of 800 to 400 pounds in
the early part Of the growing sea-
son. If you find that the corn is not
making enough stalk to suit you, an APP
plication of nitrate of soda as top
dressing at the rate OF $50 pounds per
acre will be beneficial. The nitrogen
which you use in the complete fertili-
ger and put in the soil should be deriv-
ed from sulphate of ammonia, blood
tankage or cotton seed meal; in other
words, from some material which be-
comes relatively speaking more slowly
available than nitrate Of soda. A great
many varieties of corn can be grown
to advantage on land such as you de-
scribe. We have had good success with
Cookies Prolific. Boone County White
which has grown in Georgia should give
you good satisfaction. This is a big
cared variety of corn and not suitable
for cultivation on uplands.
CULTIVATING COTTON IN
CHECKS"
c. G. S., Enterprise, Miss, writes:
Will you please give me what informa-
ton you can on the culture Of cotton
in the check? How is the best way to
prepare a check? Could not a marker
be used successfully? How is the best
way to construct a marker?
A homemade marker for laying off
ground for corn and cotton may be pre-
pared somewhat as follows: Take three
pieces of oak plank two inch es thick
and Il inches wide. Eacn piece should
be about six fet long and rounded off
on one end somewhat in the shape of q
sled runner. Two pieces of SKA scant-
ling IL feet long should then be secured.
A 2X4 opening should be made about Is
inches from the front of the rounded
end of your plank and about the same
distance from the other end. These
openings should be at least three inches
from the top of the plank. The 3X4s
are then run through these openings,
making, as it were, three sled runners.
The scantlings are held in place by bor-
ing holes down through the top of the
runners and securing with oak pegs. BY
boring holes in the axis you may adjust
the sleds to make rows either four or
three and a half feet apart, as you pre-
fer. Shafts may then be attached to the
front part of your sled-like arrange
ment, and the implement can easily be
pulled by one horse. Go across your field
laying off the rows say three feet apart,
and then adjust the runners so as to
bring them three feet apart. The cot
ton may be dropped at the intersection
of the cross marks. The advantage of
using the marker is that you put your
cotton at uniform distance and can
cultivate the field in both directions sue
cessfully.
EFFICIENCY OF FRESH AND
SLAKED LIME.
r. II. B., Cornelia, Ga, writes: Can
you give me the comparative values of
air-slaked lime and fresh burned lump
lime per ton for correcting acidity in
soils? local dealer wants 1925 per
ton for air-slaked. and about so for lump
lime. Are these figures too high?
If pure calcium carbonate were burned
Sc pounds of calcium oxide would be Sc
cured. This would represent what is
known as castle lime. If water is added
to caustic lime its weight is increased
so that Sc pounds become 20 pounds of
hydrate of lime. and IL ii is then allow
ed to stand exposed to the air. it even
tually through taking up carbonic acid
gas reaches the weight of 100 pounds.
Slaked lime, therefore, contains much
more water and carbonic acid gas than
caUstic lime and IL is more economical
to buy the latter on that account Pound
for pound Of lime contained. however, it
is probable that lump lime or caustic lime
and slaked lime have the same relative
efficiency I'm correcting soil acidity. We
presume however. that the slaked lime.
because of it's being less active, would
not correct acidity so rapidly as the
caustic or biting lime. Agricultural lime
has recently been quoted to us as low as
& 80 per ton in carload lots which is
considerably less than the figures quoted
i'm your letter.
BELIEVES IN BUILDING UP THE
SOIL
w W. L.. Gordon. Ga, writes: | am
an experimental cotton farmer. l took
~ve acres OF as poor land as you svar