Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-10

they sold the seed in question rather
than retained and used Il as fertil
fzer.
The utilization of cotton seed and It's
by-products has had a wonderful in
fiuence on the agricultural development
Of the south. the meal having furnished
the basis for a considerable part OF
the fertilizer industry, as well
as being one of the chief sources from
which the concentrates are derived foT
the nOurishment of beef and dairy cat
tie. The bulls have furnished a useful
form of roughness, while the oil now
that IL has been refined so. perfectly
furnishes a most desirable and eco
nomic substitute for olive oil, and Is
being more and more abundantly used
as a desirable amendment to the hui
man dietary.
The magnitude of the industry built
up from the crushing of the cotton
seed may be better grasped when IT is
stated that 1t would require about
40. 900 5000 gallon tank cars to handle
the oil produced in 1911; 10000 20
ton cars to handle the meal, $4,000 20
ton cars 10 handle the hulls. and 225,-
600 22-ton cars to handle the seed. At
least 10000 cars would be required TO
carry the various fertilizing products
made with cotton seed meal as a base .
From these figures IL would appear
that about 554,500 cars would be need
ed TO transplant the seed and the prod
ucts derived therefrom in 1911. II
each Of these cars were forty feet
long. there would be an uninterrupted
string of them nearly 1900 miles long,
or equivalent TO four solid lines of cars
reaching FROM Atlanta to New York.
II an engine handled thirty cars, 15,4s3
of them would be needed 10 handle the
business derived directly or indirectly
from cotton seed. .
While these figures constitute only
an estimate. they are sufficiently &C
curate to- give some impression of the
tremendous MAGNITUDE which the cot
ton seed business has attained at the
present time. If all the seed now pro-
duced were utilized to the best advan-
tage the farmer might anticipate a re-
turn of nearly $500 per acre from this
source alone. 1t has been shown IN
previous articles that more than
500. ZOO. 900 which should. be derived
from the cotton seed business is slip
ping through our hands at the present
time 1t is impossible that this in
dustry be studied as carefully as pos
sibIe from every point OF view and the
loss OF this tremendous sum Of money
TO southern agricultural industries ef-
fectually prevented.
TOP DRESSING WINTER OATS.
J.. NJ. b, AIpharetta, Ca, writes;
Would il be all right to put stable ma
nure broadcast on my fall oats that
were sown by the open furrow method?
1 intended putting the manure on be-
fore sowing oats but did not get time.
VIII 1T be OF any benefit to broadcast
now or i'm the spring. 1 put about zoo
pounds OF high grsdea guano to the
acre when I planted the oats.
There is no objection to your broad
casting the manure on your fall sown
oats at this season of the year. 1t
will not injure them in the least, but
will be OF benefit to them from the fact
that IL will supply plant FOOD and help
to project them from the cold weather
OF winter. If you have used 2ob
pounds of high grade fertilizer per
acre and your oats are up and grow
in; vigorously il planted by the open
furrow, It will not be necessary to use
the manure, especially as you are
likely TO top dress the oats with nj
trate of soda in the spring. Ordinarily
we would prefer in a climate where
there is as much rainfall as we gener-
ally have in Georgia in the winter time