Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-11-14

of september. Thirty days latsr if the
season is at all favorable use 1000
pounds of fertilizer per acre, consisting
of not less than 10. per cent phosphor-
Gus. 3 per cent of nitrogen, and per
cent of potash. Use 20 pounds of re-
cleaned alfalfa seed, American seed be,
ing preferable. A year of soil prep
aration is advised in an attempt to
clean the land of weeds and trash. Crab
grass is one or the greatest enemies
with which alfalfa has to contend in
this state and unless you can clean the
land so as to control it, 1t will sooner
or later, choke out the alfalfa. 1t is
hardly advisable to attempt to grow
alfalfa in q pecan orchard. If you ex-
pect the early fruitage of the trees and
rapid development, it will be better to
conserve the energy OF the soil and let
all the plant food available enter into
the growth and development of the tree.
BACK TO THE soft FOR THIS MAN.
A II. S., Union Springs, Ala, writes:
Having bought a 20-acre farm at the
edge Of town 1 will embark in a calling
that I have been most anxious for for
the past ten years. Will raise fruits
and vegetables and have small canning
outfit. Hope to add five or six Jerseys
and run a small dairy, and also have
some hogs. What books would you ad-
wise me to get and read?
1t must no doubt be gratifying to you
to have arrived at that stage in life
when you lean turn your attention to
trucking and farming on a small scale.
There are few lines of work which Of
fer man more pleasure or better prof
its than that of dairying and trucking
in the vicinity of. some good town where
the demand for fruit and vegetables and
milk and butter is keen at all seasons
of the year.
A good book for you to purchase
would be The Soil, by Fletcher. This
is a general text ON the subject, and
makes very interesting as we'll as in
structive reading. Excellent books to
purchase relative to your fruit and truck
business would be Principles of Fruit
Growing, The Nursery Book and the
Pruning Book, all by Bailey Probably
the best available text on fertilizers at
the present time is Fertilizers, by, voor-
hees. These books will cost you from 81
to SIPS apiece.
THE BEST METHOD OF SEEDING
WINTER OATS.
A correspondent, Mineola, Ca, writes:
Should oats be sowei or planted in
drills. and what distance apart should
the rows be?a What is the best fertilizer
for oats? We have not been able to
raise paying crop Of oats and are very
anxious to know how.
Personally. we would always prefer to
plant oats in drills. Some think it un-
necessary to plant IN what is known as
the open furrow method, that is, in
drills about IL to 16 inches apart. We
have found, however, in a series of
years, that this is a very satisfactory
method to pursue. Where oats are put
In with an ordinary grain drill, the disk
type of machine should be used, and as
much angle should be given the disks
as possible so as to leave the widest,
deepest furrow. The philosophy of plant
ing oats in the open furrow is easy to
appreciate.
Certain freezes come in the winter
and very often at times when the ground
is full of moisture. AS a result, the oat
roots are heaved up out of the soil. If
three or four freezes follow the roots
are so exposed as to be destroyed. When
planted in the open furrow the earth is
worked down and RECEIVERS the oats by
y