Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-12-26

milk flow fell off over half.
Sweet potatoes are not in our judgment
well adapted for feeding to dairy cows.
They are rather low in nutritive qualities
and would probably have about the same
food value as silage. A limited quantity.
say three or four pounds per day, might
be fed with advantage to cows to give a
little variety and palatability to the ra-
ton, but where one attempts to feed them
in considerable quantity and for a long
period of time they will probably not find
them very satisfactory. AS matter of
fact, 1t is surprising that you can afford
to feed them at all to cows for in this
part of the state they are commanding
a good price, and will sell for much more
money than one could hope to get out of
them through the manufacture of milk
and butter made from cows to which
they were fed. Probably sweet potatoes
can be user for hogs or some other
classes of live stock where they can gath
er the food supply themselves, but even
then good results will hardly be secured
unless a considerable amount of grain is
fed.
The land should be broken at once as
deeply as you can possibly break 1t, sub
soiling it also. using strong heavy
bull tongue There is little danger of
bringing too much of the bottom soil
to the top at this season of the year.
and I think you could well afford to
break this land ten inches deep, and
subsoiI IL SIX inches deeper. If you could
use a Spalding deep filling pillow on this
land it would be the best implement with
which YOU could break It, Dynamiting
will stir up the subsoil and enable the
land to hold a good deal of water, ut
just what the permanent effect of IT
may be on crop production l can not
say. Last var our dynamited land did
not yield as well as we anticipated, but
it should be borne in mind that no rain
fell after the dynamite was used so the
experiment was not fair one. We will
continue the work again next year, arr
should be in position to say more about
it another season The cost of dyna-
hitting an acre of land thoroughly will
be rather heavy, approximating $50.
This is of course where the work Is very
well done. Personally / would be dis
posed to break this land with a disk or
turning pillow and subsoil 1t Immediately,
and then rebreak 1t after Christmas. Do
not subsoil at that time, however.
If you expect to use floats they should
be applied now. In preference to floats
would be disposed 10 Apply causClc Hme
as soon as possible, putting it on the
surface of the ground after it is broken
and giving it a chance to become thor
oughly disintegrated II you use floats
they may be put on week or so later
than the application of lime 1t is best
to put the floats on this fall IL possible.
as the PHOSPHORUS In the floats become
slowly available and requires considerable
weathering on that account.
In my judgment you will find mixed
fertilizer using cotton seed meal as the
basis more desirable for your corn than
the composted cotton seed. Cotton seed
contain only about s11 worth of plant
food per ton, but l think you can buy
meal of a grade that will furnish you
more plant food at the same relative cost
as the seed. Composts are very good.
In other words. the lot manure should be
well rotted. and we prefer to put it UNI
der the drills where only moderate