Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-05

ably more poor silage is made from
putting crops in on the green side rath>
er than on the overripe side.
The nitrogen and humus in pea vines
is of sufficient value to save, and this
can best be accomplished by blowing
the crop under before frost falls on
it. A good method to follow with peas
is to plant them as soon as danger or
frost is past in the spring, using SUCH
varieties as Warren's Extra hiarly ana
New Era Cut them for h y when they
have matured sufficiently which win
ordinarily be about the. middle Of July
to the middle Of August. Let the af-
termath develop. and gather from it
peas for seed sind turn tie balance
under. This will carry into the. soil
anywhere from 20 to 80 pounds OF nit
rogen per acre, will improve 1t me-
chanicaIly, and will save in large
measure the teaching away OF the nit
rogen which would take place were the
crop not plower under. Where peas
are plowed under II is desirable as a
rule to plant cover crop so that the
nitrogen which they contain may be
assimilated and held BY the CROWNS
crop. There would be much less loss
of nitrogen from blowing under the
pea vines and stubble than from letting
the land remain undistlrbed after the
crop has been harvested.
PLANTING oKTs IN THE OPEN FUR
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/ @. L. j., Collins, Ca, writes: Please
give me good plan for planting oats
in rows distance rows should be apart,
and amount of seed to put to the acre,
etc. s'
The apparatus to useSsand the method
OF planting wiz vary with the acreage
to be planted to oats. Whore the farm
is small. there is nothing better to use
than an ordinary corn planter for the
seeding Sometimes IN very hard ground
or where the soil is in bad physical
condition, it is necessary to run a bull
tongue ahead Of the planter. This, how
ever, is not often necessary A good
wide furrow should be left behind the
planter. we believe that at least 800 to
500 pounds OF fertilizer should be used
under the oats in the fall. A good form
ula for ordinary lands would be an 1928
mixture. The rows should be, run about
mixture. The rows should b erun about
Is inches apart as nearly as possible,
and of course, the finer and more friable
the land the better will be the opportu-
nifty of securing a good stand. You
should feed from bqshel and half
Ito two bushels per acre. On larger
farms or where a big acreage is to be
seeded various methods of planting may
be resorted to. Several drills have been
put on the market with four hoes set
about is inches apart, These will do
fairly good work in land in good con-
dition, but are not very satisfactory on
hard land. They are also heavy to
operate, the draft being very consider
able as pressure is used on four hoes
This type of drill is being steadily i'm
proved from year to year, and it is my
opinions that a double disk which has
been invented by a Georgia farmer and
has been used with some success the
past year viii eventually prove pra ctical
and that the two-horse drill for plant
Ing in open burrows will be a matter
of reality before very long On the coll
lege farm where We seed considerable
areas of oats we are, still using the
single stalk drill largely because where
the ordinary grain drill is used we can
not leave a large and wide enough ridge
to protect the oats from severe and con-
tinued freezing in the winter. In a mild
opUn season they will come through just
as well when put in with an ordinary
grain drill as where sown in the open
furTow, but in a Season where several
severe freezes follow each other the crop
is nearly always lost. We prefer, there
fore, to arrange for crop insurance by
seeding in the open furrow.