Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19

ovr living and utilize land which Is
mat for cultivation. There Is no doubt
but that there is enough land aVaiaole
In Georgia which is not now aovantas
eously utilized to maintain enough oeeh
cattle TO produce all the best meat need
ed for home consumption. When you
realize that we are spending ABOUT 49,
coo 600 for the purchase of meats each
wear and that the beef breeding industry
has been neglected or ignored In the past
the Importance Of stimulating II becomes
apparent. We hope, however, TO see
the time speedily come when all the
cotton seed meal produced In the STATE
will be fed at home. and when we VIII
be rid of the greatest menace to the EVe
stock industry-the cattle tick we nave
no ticks on the college farm and yet
this was an infested area two years ago.
II shows how completely and relatively
easily we may get rid Of this miser-
able parasite.
would suggest under the circum-
stances that you purchase one or TWO
pure-bred Hereford bulls and keep them
in the vicinity of your mills ana let the
farmers have the beenft of the service
at a moderate cost. think you can pur-
chase the animals desired from Mr.. d.
s. Cross, Chester, 8. c., who Is one OF
the few men breeding Herefords In the
south. You must be certain to secure I'M
mune animals or see that ticks are kept
of of them or have them immunized. II
would be we'll in importing animals to
bring them in in the early fall.
GOAT MANURE AS A FERTILIZER.
A subscriber writes: Is goat ma
nure of any value as a fertilizer
The writer has not been able to To-
cate an analysis of goat manure, but we
suppose II would be quite similar to
that produced by sheep. Analysis OF
sheen manure indicates that Ii contains
about 80 per cent OF nitrogen, .73 per
cent Of phosphoric acid and ,6e per cent
OF potash. 1t is higher In phosphoric
acid than that derived from cattle. In
other respects this analysis shows IT to
be not dissimilar in composition to or
binary yard manure. At prices prevail
ing for commercial fertilizers. say Is
cents for nitrogen, as cents for phos-
phoric acid and s cents for potash, 1t
would be worth about 1856 a ton. OF
course. it's value would depend on the
care and skill with which II had been
handled. 1t should be protected from
teaching by covering and from fermen-
tation by keeping moist.
While the goat has made a good deal
of progress in America In the past few
years, II has not been as carefully
studied as our other classes Of live
stock, and probably on this account 1t
has been difficult to locate an analysis
which would give the data desired.
There is a good deal OF variation in the
composition of manure, depending on
the age and class of animal and the
food on which they are fed. feel
quite certain that the factors given pro-
vide near enough for all practical pur-
poses the information sought
DAMAGE TO CORN FROM WORMS
IN EAR.
A. A. s., Donaldsonville, Ga, writes:
We are troubled with worms in our
green corn. In every shuck / find from
one to three, and in some ears they
have destroyed from one-third to three
fourths of the grains. There is usual
ly a hole bored through the shuck. II
you can tell me how to get rid of them
I will appreciate 1t. 1 have a fine
patch of corn am raising for seed and
want to prevent the worms from dam
aging IL. 1t has not punched to tassel
yet
You are troubled with what Is known
as the corn or boil worm, because Ii is
sometimes often associated with cotton.
Some persons call IL the corn bud worm.
The same worm is also found on toma-
toes and other crops. II is about an
inch and a half long when full grown
and varies in color from pale green to
dark brown. After they are fully de-
veloped they leave the ears and drop to
the ground where they change their
form and reappear as yellow moths
with a greenish tinge. There are as
many as three to four broods of this
insect in Georgia. The eggs are proba-
bly, first laid on the leaves of the corn,
and you have probably observed the
holes gnawed in the leaves as a result
of the feeding of the larvae. The
moths of the first brood lay their eggs
probably on the silks OF the corn and
when they hatch out they feed on the
silks and young kernels, producing the
condition witnessed In your case. Un-
fortunately there is no remedy known
for the destruction of this pest except