Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-07-29

IS per 100 pounds, depending on
the quantity bought. OF course, If you
purchase at retail and in small GUAM
Titles it will be much more expensive
than when purchased at wholesale by
the ton or in carload lots. Nitrate of
soda should be applied to corn just when
it is punching to tassel. 1t may, of
course, be used on corn and cotton in
the earliest stages OF growth, but a sec
ond application on corn should be made
about the time mentioned, and on cot
ton when the blooms begin to appear.
Late applications of nitrate are liable to
develop too much wood at the expense
Of fruit 1t is plant stimulant, and
therefore should be used at the season
when 1t will best hasten growth and de-
veIop a sufficient frame work to insure
an abundant setting on OF fruit. This
use OF nitrate where a deficiency of phos-
phoric acid and potash has been applied
is not likely to prove good practice.
Plants require a balanced ration and the
elements they need must be used in
suitable proportions to insure the best
results. Many farmers seem to have
used a comparatively small amount of a
rather low grade fertilizer, however and
as cotton is backward in many sections,
an application of 100 pounds of nitrate
as top dressing is likely to prove bene-
fetal. Forty-eight dollars per ton is
not an unreasonable price for nitrate in
small lots.
AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS IN
NORTH GEORGIA.
J. P. B., Cornelia, Ga, writes: Our
people are blowing up over half of the
cotton on account of a bad stand. We
but the balance is missing. 1t is almost
impossible to secure peas. 1 have secured
a half bushel and the same amount of
Spanish peanuts. What do You think of
planting peas and peanuts and navy
beans in cotton where missing that has
two sacks of 80 to the acre. l want to
apply ashes and muriate of potash, but
do not know just how much to use. I
suppose a handful of ashes would not be
too much and one to two teaspoonsfui
Of potash to the hill. A neighbor near
me bedded up some four or Ave acres of
land the 18th of May, opened small
furrow with drill plow and put In 200
pounds to the acre of 2-1o-2 along with the
seed which was covered with the drill
wheel. This cotton today is far ahead
of that where three or four sacks were
a.
him to use to help out good yield? /
would be glad TO have you publish the
most important appropriations you need
in your college work. as l aim to try to
have some of our legislators work for
what is needed and which should be
cheerfully given.
Unless the stand of cotton is exceed
ingly bad, 1 would not be disposed to
plant cowpeas or peanuts therein. You
could not put them satisfactorily between
the rows and 1t would be an expensive
and laborious undertaking to plant them
in the missing places. Moreover, these
crops will in a measure deteriorate from
the yield of cotton very materially. How
ever IL you insist on making the expert
ment, l would fertilize as you have sug-
gested, putting a handful of ashes under
every hill and not over teaspoonful OF
muriate of potash. 1t is well that the
fertilizer should not come directly In con-
tact with the seed. A 1914 acid-potash
mixture is a good formula to use, say
at the rate of 300 pounds per acre, for
all legumlnous crops. OF course, cow
meas SOW beans, velvet beans and vari-
GUS other legumes will tend to improve
the soil and they can be grown to ad-
vantage on every farm, and their cultiva-
ton is certainly to be encouraged in
every possible way. Our own experience,
however, leads us to think that replant-
ing crops is seldom profitable. We had
some difficulty in getting stand OF corn
on d section of the college farm this
year, and made the mistake of trying
to replant one part. The section that
was plowed up and planted over has
made a uniform growth that is beautiful
to see, whereas, the other section is I'M
even and ragged and will be throughout
the season. This leads us to the con-
clusion that IL the stand is not perfect 1t
is much better to Immediately pillow 1t up