Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-14

two women. The hold-up pair managed
to keep out Of reach.
was in the Corn Club last year and
have Joined again this year, but I want
to make more corn this year than last.
L had a prolific variety of corn las
year and it grew off fine and each stalk
had from to 10 shoots, but only
about one-half of them matured. 1 used
guano and stable manure and some nj
trate of soda. The soil is dark with
red clay subsoil. 1 broke the land deer
last fall and subsoiled it and Intend
TO plant corn there again. Will you
please tell me how to make the corr.
I'LL out and mature this year?
Your membership in the Corn Club
is to be commended, and it is pleasure
to note that you have Joined again this
year and that you expect to try anC
make decided Improvement over the
record of last year This is the RICH,
spirit and shows that you are accuated
by the best Of motives, and if you fol-
low out the instructions sent you will
care, you should be able to crafty your
desire. I hope you Will make a large
enough yield to put you in the O.
front of your associates in the n
Club.
rant your corn on the character or
land described in your letter in rows
about four feet apart and leave the
stalks about Is inches apart in the drill
row. The chances are that your corn
was not planted thick enough last year
or il would not have stooled so freely
as Indicated in your letter. In general
farm practice it is probably not profit
able to pull off the suckers can hiffif
able to pull of the suckers, but where
one is growing test plant the greater
part of the suckers can be removed with
advantage. OF course, 1t is the nature
of prolific corn to stool, but closer
planting will lessen this tendency quite
materially and 1t is for this reason that
we make the above suggestions. Grow
ing corn on the same land here after
year is eXhausting to the soil, and we
think you will find it well to gdow
stable manure again this year at the
rate of five tons per acre under the
drill row, and a 1925 formula at the
rate of not less than 500 to 500 pounds
per acre under the drill row with one
side application of 200 pounds. If your
corn grows vigorously and has a good
green color throughout the season, IT
is hardly necessary to use nitrate or
soda as a top dressing. From what you
say in your letter you are probably over
feeding your crop with nitrogen in pro-
portion to the supply of phosphorus and
potash used on the land.
CULTIvATING MANGEL wURZELS.
S. f. NJ, Gray, Ga, writes: / would
like to know when to plant mangel muir
zels. Are they good for dairy cows?
Would you advise me to use raw rock
phosphate with manure? Would it be
necessary to use phosphoric acid after
a thorough application Of raw pnos-
plate and manure?
Mangel wurzels should be sown az
early in the season as practicable. Put
them in the ground as soon as it is in
proper physical condition to receive the
seed. If this can be done during the
latter part of the present month so
much the better. OF course, they can
be sown much later in the season. but
the best results are invariably secured
in our experience from early planting.
Sow at the rate of six pounds per acre
in two and a half to three foot rows,
and cultivate as for corn. Fertilize
literally with a complete fertilizer.
Mangel wurzels are excellent for dairy
COWS. They should be gathered in the
fall and may be chopped up with a
spade or run through a root slicer or
pulper and fed with or without grain.
AS much as 25 to 80 pounds may be
fed per head per day to cows with ad-
vantage. In this climate it is rather
difficult to keep mangel wurZels, hence
they should be fed as soon as they ma
ture in the fall. They can be preserved
in pits in the field if theySare lightly
covered with straw and a little earth,
the covering to be increased as the
weather becomes colder. Storing man
gels in a cellar under our climate con-
"a Hfd7CnIf nnlaGS fb4a
finest ventilation is provided, as the
heat would otherwise cause them to
decay.
Raw phosphate rock can certainly be
mixed with manure to advantage as
the manure is low in this element, and
the use of raw rock in connection with
II balances up the manure. and there
is no material with which raw rock can
be used which seems to have a more
beneficial ef ect on rendering the rather
slowly available phosphate useful to
plants. Mix it with the manure at
the rate of 100 pounds to the ton Floats
has another marked advantages; it may
be used under the feet of animals with
out injuring them. The advisability or
using floats or raw rock in the place
of acid phosphate is problematical at
the present time. We are investigating
/ this question and hope for more defin-
/ lite data at an early date. At the pres
ent it would seem that phosphoric acid
would give the best results on soils
that are deficient in vegetable matter,
and where one needs to supply a rather
large amount of quickly available plant
food. On soils we'll supplied with veg
etable matter or where large quantities
of yard manure may be used. floats
may be applied at the rate of 1000 10
| 500 pounds per acre with considerable
advantage.
| At least this seems to be true of is
\ olated instances which have come TO
I our attention and is borne out by the
3 tests made on our demonstration farm.
I We think floats should be applied with