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

the action of the freezes and the plants
come through without serious Injury.
There is no satisfactory four or eight.
hoe drill on the market for planting oats
l. in the open furrow with which we are
acquainted. We are testing one at the
college farm this year which promises to
be a success, but 1t will not be availa-
BILE for general use this year. You can,
h viewer, plant the crop successfully
with a good corn or cotton planter. Oats
can often be planted in cotton, two or
three rows between the cotton rows with
advantage we would suggest that you
use the Appler or Texas Rust Proof
oats. Prepare your ground very thor
oughlg, and fertilizer at the rate of 500
pounds per acre with an S-S-4 fertilizer.
Next spring top dress with 400 to $50
pounds of nitrate of soda in one or two
applications. If your land is very san
dy, fact which you do not state IN
your letter, use 10 percent of phospho-
rus and per cent of potash.
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p. b., McRae, Ca, writes; / intendee
to- make a fertilizer from cotton seed
meal, untreated phosphate rock and
kainit, combined in equal quantities, but
have been advised instead of using I'M
f, treated phosphate rocl10ito use Thomas
Stag. As expect to- SOW a few oats and
wish to use little fertilizer on them,
will be glad for any suggestions you
can give me in regard to this matter.
ISL r-Aev 4H se 60 tAt t&
The best results from the use of the
untreated phosphate rock VIII occur on
those soils which are well supplied with
vegetable matter on soils that consist
chiefly of sand or clay and which have
been farmed for long periods Of time
without the use of liberal amounts of
yard manure or the frequent turning I'M
der of leguminous crops, the phosphate
rock is not likely to. give as good results
as acid phosphate Thomas Stag is by
product of iron furnaces and is valuable
1 for the phosphorus it contains, and for
% per cent of total phosphorus of which
probably as much eventually available as
/ in acid phosphate. Its availability, how
/ ever, is relatively slow, and is FASTENED
| just like that of phosphate rock by
being used on soils which contain an
abundance of vegetable matter. so as to
provide organic acids in their decay and
thus aid the transformation of the un-
available phosphorus into an available
form. The lime contained in the Stag
makes it helpful to the soil. Where Stag
or phosphate rock are Used it will be
best in ordinary practice to use 1000
pounds per acre. and apply this material
separate from other forms of fertilizer
| Put either one of these materials on as
soon as possible this fall. Apply them
to the surface of the ground and work N
with a harrow or disc and let them re-
main in the ground all winter so as to
give the natural physical agencies a
chance to reduce them and bring the
plant food into an available form. There
is no collection to mixing cotton seed
meal, floats or Thomas Stag and kainit.
except that you can make a high
grade fertilizer, and If you expect to de-
pend on the materials mentioned for the
phosphorus, you will need to use much
larger relative supply than you could pos
sibly work into a complete mixed fertil-
izer of sufficiently high grade to be of
benefit to most crops you desire to raise
in your section of the state.
BISULPHIDE OF CARBON AS A WEE
VII DESTROYER.
L. d. c.. wetumpka, Ala. writes: I
have just finished gathering my corn and
find a great many black weevils in it. I
have decided to treat it with bisulphide of
1 carbon. / sprayed the corn with strong
salt water as 1 put it up. Will that and
the bisulphide work together? Is there
any danger of the bisulphide being igni-
ted by lightning? Will one treatment be
sufficient?
The weevil which attacks corn is best
destroyed through the use of carbon BIZ
sulphide Applications of salt water to the
corn when it is put up will have no
effect on the control of the weevil A
pound to a pound and half of the car
bon bisulphide should be used to each
ton of grain to he treated. If the bin is
not tight if you can cover it with old
sacks or any other material which will
help to confine the fumes for longer pc
treatment should last for about "a
hours. The bisulphide should be placed
in dishes set on top of the corn. and as
it is heavier than air it will sink imme-
treatment should be repeated at the end
of about six weeks, and probably you
will have to make two or three treat
ments throughout the year in order to
protect your grain from this pest. You
should not bring lights or anything of
an inflammable nature in or about the
bisulphide OF course, lightning striking
the building might cause 1t to ignite,
but this is not very likely to happen. If
you do not expose the grain to the fumes
of the bisulphide for more than 36 hours
at a time its quality will not be af-
fected.