Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-18

The slower will remove about 50 pounds
Of nitrogen. 145 pounds of phosphorus
and 70 pounds of potash. Corn cohs con-
tain about SO pounds Of nitrogen, .Oe
per cent of PHOSPHORUS and 6 pounds of
potash per 1000 pounds of weight. The
average corn crop If weighed in the ear
probably consists of Is to 20 per cent
of cobs. Corn husks contain only about
4 pounds of nitrogen per ton. You will
thus see that the cobs and husks do not
plant food from an acre of land even
remove any considerable quantity Of
where the yield of corn is as much as
100 -ushels.
Fifteen hundred pounds Of seed cotton,
or virtually a bale of cotton with the
seed. will remove from the land approx
imately 20 to 30 pounds of nitrogen, to
II pounds of phosphoric acid and 10 to ID
pounds of potash Virtually all of the
fertilfzing constituents are in the seed,
the sale of a bale of cotton taking away
from the soil practically none of the fer
tilizing constituents. The stalks of cot
ton will remove from the soil consid-
cradle quantity of plant food in proper
ton to the vigor of growth. 1t is very
difficult to estimate just what they would
remove for the reason that so few ex-
periments have been made to determine
the weight of air.dried stlaks on an acre
of land which has produced bale to two
bales of cotton per acre. 1t is prob
able, however, that the seed and lint do
not remove from the soil more than a
third of the total amount of plant food
which must be elaborated in the develop
Ynent of the crop If the stalks are turn
ed under a good part of this is saved but
there must be a considerable amount OF
loss in cotton fields, since the leaves
contain a considerable quantity of plant
food and they are mostly allowed to dry
up and blow away before the stalks are
turned under. Cotton, however. is not an
exhausting crop to the land, provided the
stalks are saved and turned under, and
if all the roughages produced on the farm
were utilized as ii should be, it would
tend very materially towards building up
our soils. la
Probably not over five pounds of nitro
gen are brought to the soil in the way
of rainfall during .12-month period, and
there is absolutely no way Of the earth's
absorbing phosphoric acid and potash
from the atmosphere. All plants secure
their carbon directly from the air The
application of phosphoric acid and potash
is necessary in order that the nitrogen
which is either contained in the soil or
applied artificially may be able to serve
its proper function in the plant. In other
words, by the use of nitrogen alone a
large plant may be developed, but it will
not fruit unless there is a proper rela-
ton between the supply of nitrogen,
phosphorus and potash.
PARALYSIS IN HOGS.
T. H. c., Mullet Miss, writes: / have
a fine brood sow that is down; she can
not walk "a step. but drags around. She
has no use of her hind limbs. Please tell
me what to do for her.
The information you furnish is rather
indefnite however, the symptoms you
name indicate form of paralysis to
which brood animals are sometimes sub
ject. Medicinal treatment seldom does
any good in this condition. I would sug-
gest, however, that you have the follow
ing prepared by your druggist and use
as directed: Pulverized nux vomica, 2
ounces; pulverized iron sulphate, 2
ounces; arsenous acid, 30 grains. Mix and
make into so powders. Give on feed
three times daily.