Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-05-19

to use. The ,advisability of making one
or more applications will depend much
on the season and the growth made by
the crop.
The 80 hogs mentioned in your letter if
they are of any considerable size SSould
be able to Craze done the spring oats
to good advantage, and they should also
Craze down with ease, the peas, pea
nuts or other crops you may put on this
land after the oats have been harvested
by the hogs. In order to have the best
succession possible it would be advis-
able for you to put one acre in an early
maturing variety of cowpeas, one in
an early maturing variety of soy beans,
and the third in peanuts. BY grazing
off the oats in rotation, you can get the
peas in the ground some time in adj
vance of when the last acre via be ready
for planting. We have hogs grazing on
oats now though possibly they have
been turned on them quite early enough,
as in our experience a little more pork is
obtained per acre and better results Sc
cured when the crop is allowed to pass
out of the dough stage when the hogs
are turned on. A scarcity of food,
however, will sometimes justify the
grazing of oats and other crops little
earlier than the time suggested.
In regard to your shoat, the symptoms
you describe suggest a disturbance of the
nervous SYSTEM chorea or st. Vitus
dance. Medicinal treatment is unsatis-
factory. In some cases young animals
outgrow the trouble. Swill or slop
should not be kept from one feeding time
to another as in many cases sourness or
rancidity occurs. BY this means pois-
onous substances (ptomaines) may be
pronounced, and these ptomaines often
cause severe digestive trouble, nervous
diseases, and in some cases death.
PERCENTAGE ANALYSIS OF A GER
TAIN MIXTURE.
C. L. NJ Jackson Ga, writes: / am
going to mix my guano by hand, using
1900 pounds Is per cent acid, $40 pounds
6.1S per cent cotton seed meal and 12O
pounds of so per cent muriate of potash.
What win this analyze? My land is
dark gravel with red clay foundation.
Had corn and wheat on the two plats
last year The corn land had cowpeas
turned on it with a two-horse pillow af-
ter gathering off the corn Wheat was
followed by. peas and cut for hay and
turned likewise.
A mixture of 1900 pounds of acid $40
pounds of high-grade cotton seed meal
and 120 pounds of muriate of potash
would total 216e pounds and contain
approximately 81 per cent of phosphoric
acid, 2.3 per cent Of nitrogen and 3.S per
cent of potash The fact that you mad
peas on your wheat land last year and
between the rows of your corn would
add somewhat to the nitrogen supply
of the soil, and would therefore put yiur
land in better condition to react to the
use of commercial fertilizers. 1t is prob
able that you would not need to use
quite so much nitrogen as If you had
not grown the peas, but there would not
be enough specific difference between
the two pieces of soil to justify you in
using an entirely separate and distinct
kind of fertilizer on each. The formula
suggested contains a. plentiful supply of
phosphorus, but is POSSIBLY low in pot
ash. 1t contains enough nitrogen where
you propose to use this formula under
meath the drill row for corn and cotton
at the rate of 500 pounds for the former
and 500 to 700 pounds of the latter If
the crop shows need of nitrogen as
indicated by failure to grow uniform
lly or by a yellow appearance of the
stalk and leaf, you can increase the sup
ply of this element by top dressing
with sulphate of ammonia or nitrate of
soda. An application of 100 pounds on
cotton and $50 pounds on corn will often
prove helpful. OF course, you should ar
range to rotate your land and put in
the soil a sufficient supply of vegetable
matter so as to supply most of the
needs of the crop so far as nitrogen
is concerned