Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-10-28
SPOTS HEAVY BUYERS.

actual money from cotton than from
wheat good fertilizer to use under
wheat would be PISA used at the rate
of 800 pounds per acre. If the wheat
does not make a vigorous growth in
the spring top dressing with nitrate of
soda will prove an advantage This
may be applied at the rate of 100 pounds
per acre. If the manure is well rotted
and put under the drill rows of cotton,
we believe it will insure it's withstanding
a period of drought without shedding
Manure can be better conserved by
being left in the stable, especially where
animals are kept in box stalls or in an
open shed It should be kept well COM
pacted and moist enough to prevent it's
fire-fanging or burning up. If put in
compost heap some sort of shelter
should be erected over it, and the bot
tom of the receptacle in which 1t is
placed sh ould be followed out so as to
prevent teaching. Leaves may be used
as absorbents in stalls as we'll as in the
compost heap.
There is no one best kind of cotton,
but our selected strain of Cooks with
which we are working has given us ex-
cellent results, and we regard II as a
very fine sort of cotton to grow. We
prefer the big boiled to the small boil
ed varieties, and we seek In any strain
prolificacy and freedom from disease.
USING COVER CROPS IN THE Or
CTIARD.
W. G. l., Camilla, Ga, writes: / would
be glad to know if planting oats, rye or
anything of the kind will harm peach
trees any way by being sown in the
orchard. My trees are nearly two years
old.
There is no objection to using rye, oats
or any other cover crop In an orchard of
the age mentioned. provided you pillow
1t under early in the spring to supply ad-
ditional vegetable matter to the soil.
Hairy vetch will make even a better
cover crop than any of those you nave
suggested. It is a legume and grows
quite vigorously An attempt is MADE
to keep a cover crop on the college or
chard all the time to prevent leaching
which would otherwise take place save
ON very level lands. The attempt TO
grow crops in am orchard, however, is to
impair the vigor of the trees. Most OF
our land is not rich enough to support
trees and field crops ait the same time.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CERTAIN
TENNESSEE SOILS.
I. p. N, College Park, Ca, writes: I
am thinking of purchasing some of the
red land near Dickson and McEwen,
Tenn. Do you think it would produce
pota toes, corn oats, etc, fairly we'll? 1t
looks like red clay. Please write me your
opinion of 1T.
The lands around the points to which
YOU refer are naturally fairly fertile; that
| Is. they are red and yellow clay loans,
coupara lively easy to work and very well
adapted to the production of cotton, to-
bacco. cereals and fruits. There are areas
however,, not far distant from Dickson
which consist of sandy and sandy loan
soils everything clay silt subsoils which
are rather retentive of moisture. They
constitute what are known as the bar
rens' and similar areas and have an
uncertain agricultural value. You should
! be careful to distinguish between these
! two types of land in purchasing. The
| first type referred to is likely to be deft-
cient In humus and in phosphoric acid.
! These lands have, as a rule, been ploWed
shallow. allowed to wash and erode badly
and are regarded on that account by
MANY as of indifferent value for agri-
| cultural purposes. They all respond ad-
mirably. however, to good treatment.
and where a systematic rotation of crops
| is inaugurated can be rapidly built up.
Where farmyard manure can not be had,
green leguminous crops may be used In
; place of ii. The Intelligent use OF COM
merciaI fertilizers is necessary to sue
cessful farming on these areas. There is
no reason why the crops to which you
refer should not be produced to excellent
advantage on the first type of soil men
toned