Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-10-11


present rate this year will be notable
for the development in this phase of the
| industry.
$50 pounds per acre, and later Just before
shooting into head apply a similar
amount. We have secured excellent re-
suits from top dressing with nitrate of
soda on cereal crops. Choose a variety
of wheat which is grown most extensive
ly in your locality and get good clean
seed, treating it for smut with formalde-
hyde or blue stone. One pound OF form
prove effective in destroying smut.
LEADING BREEDS OF SWINE.
A. c. c.. Chapman, Ala, writes:
want information as to where can buy
| thoroughbred Guinea boar from six
weeks to six months old?
We can not say just where you might
hope to find a Guinea boar. but we do
not believe you want one of these ami
mails. 1t will be infinitely better, in our
judgment, for you to purchase a boar of
one of the standard breeds. There are
several breeds that do we'll in the south.
The Berkshire is probably more widely
dis tributed than any other and they are
excellent rustlers, good grazers and quite
prolific. The Poland-China is bred to
some extent. but it is hog which in
clines to put on more fat than the
Berkshire and not to blend the fat and
lean so well, and owing to it's tendency
to lay on flesh, it is probably a little
better adapted to the corn belt than to
this section, of the south The Duroc-
Jersey is good hardy breed and pro-
life, and hass given good satisfaction
where we'll managed and handled. The
Tamworth, in our, OPT aion, however, is
the best of all the red breeds for graz
ing purposes. These animals have very
deep, long sides, produce superior quail
ity off bacon, the hams are well formed
and the blending of the fat and lean is
superior to that of some of the other
breeds. These animals are active rus
tiers, hardy and prolific, we'll adapted to
the SOUTH and particularly valuable
where it is desired to mature the hogs
as nearly as possible on the succession
of grazing crops.
A SEF,cCS DISEASE OF CORN.
S. G. Y, Paramount, Ca, writes: I
have a piece of bottom land with good
soil and well drained. Corn grows well
on it until about the middle of June, then
begins to fire up and the fodder rots
Would like to know the cause and how
TO turn the land, the kind of fertilizer to
use and how much.
The trouble which you have experience
ed with your corn is not unusual, many
instances having been called to our at
tention during the past year. The trou-
BILE is what is known as maize blight"
This is fungous disease and very diff
ficuh to combat. Its life history has not
been as completely worked out as is de-
sirable, but 1t is more commonly met
with on bottom lands that are moist and
rather low than elsewhere. 1t is par
ticularly troublesome where the attempt
is made to grow corn on the same land
year after year. About the only sugges-
ton we can offer which is likely to be of
service to you at this time is to advise
the rotation of crops. Keep corn off this
land for at least period of three years.
The fungous disease cannot be overcome
when once 1t becomes established in the
SOIL save by the process of starving out
or lessening the multiplication of the
spores through crop rotation. Heavy
fertilization and improved cultivation of
the land will not avail against the
spores II they occur in abundance In a
given soil. OF course, draining the land.
the supplying of an abundance of plant
food and thorough cultivation all aid the
plant in throwing off the attack of the
disease. In other words the course of
management suggested will tend to miti-
gate the injury done by the spores.
There are many crops you can grow on
this land with advantage and profit as
well as corn. so you will have no diff
Guilty in utilizing 1t successfully. Bot
tom land, as a rule, is better supplied
with nitrogen than other soils, but 1t
may be quite as deficient in phosphor-
Gus as uplands, sometimes also in pot
ash. You might grow hay. on this land
advantageously. seeding it this fall to
oats and vetch and in the spring follow
ing with cowpeas. In that event we
would use fertilizer containing about
10 per cent of phosphoric acid and per
cent of potash at the rate of not less
than 300 pounds pere acre.
EVIDENCES OF HOG CHOLERA.
c. D. A. Oglethorpe. Ga, writes: viii
you please tell me what is the matter
with my hogs and give me a remedy for
them as quick as you can? They have a
cough and quit eating. They seem to
swell around their eyes, mouth and I'M
der their throat. They look NANCY all
over and act as If they cannot use their
under jaw to pick up anything and eat
It. They will be that way two or three
months before they die. =.
Your hogs probably have cholera in it's
chronic form. Isolate the sick hoGN and
clean and disinfect the premises Try
the following powder mixed with their
feed Give a tablespoonful once a day
for each 200 pounds weight:
Wood charcoal. l pound.
Sulphur, l pound.
Sodium chloride, 2 pounds.
Sodium bicarbonate. 2 pounds.
Sodium hyposuphite. 2 pounds.
Sodium sulphate, l pound.
Black anthony, I pound.
Mix and pulverize thoroughly. The
best known treatment is the "hog cholera
minimizing serum" This is now being
manufactured by some of the states for
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