Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-08

while this is a dairy and live stock
convention a most cordial invitation is
extended to anyone woh feels an interest
In the dairy and live stock industry. 1
am satisfied that the time has come
when the Georgia farmers will have to
raising, and there is no better way to
get Information than to attend this
meeting. Very respectfully.
JAMES d. PRICE,
president Dairymen's Live Stock Asso-
citation of Georgia."
acre, / think 1t should make more with
the right kind of fertilizer. / have been
using about 400 pounds of a 3-10-3 per
acre.
No doubt the red land described in
your letter is as good a type of upland
as exists in abe state. The fact that
it is so very heavy and stiff also indi-
Gates that it would be greatly bene-
flied by an application of lime. 1t is
probably too late for you to use lime
to advantage this year, but you should
arrange to lime a part of this land each
year until you have treated all of 1t.
A ton of caustic line per acre would be
about the right amount to use. Caustio
lime, however, will burn up the vege-
table matter and set free a considerable
part of the nitrogen. On that account
lit is better to use the finely ground
limestone rock, but as the ground rock
has only half the sweetening power of
caustic lime, you would need to apply
two tons per acre 1t is very impor-
tant that the rock be ground very fine.
Lime is best applied in the fall, and
should be used on top of the ground.
The finely ground rock can be distribut-
ed with greater ease than the caustic
Lime and is much more pleasant TO
handle. You should be able to secure
ii at a reasonable cost in your section
of the state.
The next thing TO do is to purchase
Spalding deep filling plow. These
plows will go into as hard ground as
have ever seen, and will break the
soil efficiently to a depth of IA to Ia
inches. If your land has only been
broken s inches, y9u ran hardly expect
to double the depth of turning at the
first attempt. The Spalding deep filling
pillow is a costly implement, and on that
account one might hesitate to invest In
it. 1t will require four or five good
mules to pull IL, but ii will rip up your
soil more effectively than any other
implement have ever seen in which
horses or mules are used as the mo-
tive power. Some will object to the
use of IL on account Of the number OF
mules required to pull it. but the fact
remains nevertheless. If you get your
land broken properly and improvep It's
physical condition and increase its
yielding power that 1t paying
proposition.
The fact that your cotton does not
make as much fruit as you desire and
= m weed
| Iv due to the unavailable condition of
the potash, and possibly of the phos-
uhorus as we'll. Your, SOIL judging
from the description, should be Wen
supplied with potash, and an applica-
zion of lime will tend to set free some
of IT. The fertilizer formula you sug-
gest is a good one, though you mignt
try increasing the phosphoric acid 70
10 per cent and the potash to per
cent on a few acres this year. ana see
if it does not help the yield
A METHOD FOR CALCULATING FER
TILIZER FORMULAS.
G. B. p, Nunsz, Ca, writes; Please
tell me how to go about making fertil-
izer formulas of all kinds.
To prepare a fertilizer of given for
mula. it is first necessary to find the
amount of available plant food each ma
terial you expect to use contains You
next determine what character OF for
mula you expect to make so as to as
certain how many pounds of each ele-
ment there will be in a ton. Suppose
you desire to make an s-2-2 formula u.s.
ing acid phosphate containing 16 per
cent of available phosphoric acid, nj
trate of soda containing 1871 per cent
/ of available nitrogen. and muriate OF
potash containing so per cent Of availa-
/ BILE potash The method of procedure
would be as follows:
1S:IOO::15O: required pounds of acid
phosphate or 160x100 over 16, equals
! l 900 pounds, a. p.
15.7:1OO::4O: required pounds of NJ
/ trate of soda. or 40x100 over 1871, equals
| 255 pounds. n. S.
5O:1OO::4O: required pounds muriate OF
potash, OF 4ox10O over so, equals so
pounds m. j.
A little study will show you how
simple it is when you understand how
/ to prepare one formula. 1t viii be a
simple matter to ascertain the amounts
of material you must use to secure any
/ other formula. You will notice in TINS
instance that the total amounts of the
mixture is about 1.355 pounds. To bring
4 this up to the basis OF one ton, you
would have to add 665 pounds of earth
\ If you were to use cotton seed meal in
place of the nitrate of soda and kainit
in place of the muriate, very little earth
would be required.
AMENDING THE GRAIN RATION Oh
MULES.
r. W. b.. Selma, Ala, writes: We
are giving our mules while not being
worked hard II pounds of ground shucK
corn and two pounds of cotton seed
meal, and about Is pounds of hay. We
find that they are more or less consti-
pated. Can you tell us what is the
cause of this? We put the meal in the
bucket first and then put in the grain
and when it is emptied into the trough