Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-02
FERTILIzERs ON LIGHT LoAMY
LAND.

FERTILIZERs ON LIGHT LoAMY
LAND.
NJ W.. Eastman, Ca, writes: When
and how much nitrate of soda should
apply to growing corn ana cotton on
light. loamy, sandy land where 4OV
pounds of fertilizer has been USED on
cotton and 800 pounds under corn? DO
Won think It would pay best to use an
application of soda or more of the COM
plete fertilizer?
second application of fertilizer
might often be made to both corn dnd
cotton on light, Ioamy, sandy land at
this season of the year. 1t should pc
put on as soon as possible You might
use zoo pounds under the cotton and 900
mounds under the ocrn. AS rule this
fertillzer had best be broadcasted and
covered in the soil to a depth of three
inches If the soil is dry and the sea-
sonal conditions unfavorabIe, it is some
times best to put the side application
alongside the drill row or deeper into
the ground than has been suggested.
About the 18th Of June apply nitrate Q
soda on the cotton at the rate of loo
pounds per acre, and on corn when IT is
shooting into tassel, using the same
amount On both crops the nitrate
should be used strictly as top dressing
and not worked into the soil. In our
Judgment it makes little difference
whether the nitrate is broadcasted or
put alongside the drill row provided
the crops are at all well developed when
the application is made as the roots
should have spread through the soil
completely so as to absorb 1t quite read
lily wherever it happens to fall II the
plants are small and there has been
much wet weather, It is better to put the
- 49, he
ond application of fertilizer used on
your cotton should contain about 10 per
cent of phosphorus, 8 per cent of nitro
gen and per cent of potash; for corn,
a 1861 will probably be found better.
SUITABLE FORMS OF NITROGEN
FOR TOP DRESSING.
]. p. X, Columbus, Ca, writes:
wish to make a top dressing of nitrate of
soda and some other ingredient that
would be beneficial to corn and cotton.
and 100 pounds of some other material,
or do you think ii would be better 10
add two other ingredients to me nitrate.
putting down 200 or 500 pounds per acre
Nitrate OF soda contains nitrogen IN
one of the most quickly available forms
of any of the commercial materials now
on the Market Calcium ullEdtc ID
claimed TO be as quickly available,
though probably you cannot buy 1t as
yet at the same relative cost per ton OF
available plant food as nitrate of soda.
Sulphate of ammonia is but little less
quickly available than nitrate of soda
and on this account might not combine
quite so well as some other material
which is more slowly available.
An excellent material TO use would
be high grade dried blood, and one
could use some cotton seed meal If he
saw proper Where cotton seed meal
and blood are used. however, it occurs
to us that the material should be scat
tered ahead 70 the cultivator and light
ly covered into the soil, and If the sea-
son were at all dry. there might NOT
be any objection to using some nitrate
in the same way. In making an applic9-
tion Of 200 pounds of heterogeneous mate
rial calculated to stimulate rapid growth
we believe it would be better to use 100
pounds Of nitrate of soda on corn when