Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-28
AGRICULTURAL
.h!:3EDUCATIoN
R5sED ANDREW N. SoULE
Effect of Cotton Seed Meal on Cattle
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tity from as low as three or four
pounds per head per day. depending
on the size Of the animal. up to the
most extreme ratiOns imaginable. The
test has thus been unusually severe
and carried on under such a great va
riety Of conditions that 1t would APP
pear to fully answer in a negative
manner the idea Of any who may still
hold the opinion that cotton seed meal
fed in reasonable quantities and under
judicious management will injure the
foetus either before or after birth. OF
course, IT is possible through feeding
cotton seed meal, as with many other
feeds. to produce undesirable results in
any breeding herd. When this condi-
ton pertains il must pe charged up
to carelessness. ignorance or indiffer-
ence in feeding and management and
not to some specie properly which the
feed used may contain.
FIRST AND SECOND FERTILIZER
APPLICATIONS.
w. ID. A, Macon, Ca, writes: I am
planning to make first application un-
der my cotton OF 10-I-s, and a second
application of s-4-4. and I have been
advised by a fertilizer expert to use as
top dressing a mixture Of so pounds
OF nitrate of soda and so pounds OF
Of this? Should the second application
be drilled in close to the plants or put
in the middle of the rows?
II IS all right to use a 10-1-3 under
your cotton, provided your land is very
sandy and the nitrogen used is not in
an organic form. If you use a formula
in which the nitrogen is obtained from
tankage or cotton seed meal, there is
no danger, in our opinion, of your ap-
plying as much as per cent of nitro
gen at the first application. In fact
we would rather put more of the nitro
gen under the drill row to commence
with IL in an organic form than to put
too much on at a second or third ap-
plication. In our judgment, a second
application Of an S-4-4 would be all
right. providing you put ii on six weeks
after planting the crop. Phosphates
and potash do not become as quickly
available in the soil. nor are they as
simulated probably with the same de-
gree Of rapidity as the nitrogen. There
fore. IL is better to give the crop a rel
atively long period in which to assimi-
applications too late in the season IS
therefore inadvisable. On very sandy
lands. however. where there is great
danger of loss from teaching, side ap-
plications may be put on relatively
later than on heavier lands such as
loans and clays constitute In our
Judgment. the use Of muriate of potash
with nitrate of soda would hardly be
necessary. Nitrate of soda is used, of
course, TO stimulate the crop and to
provide nitrogen which will help growth
and development at the season Of the
year just when fruiting is commencing.
Nitrate of soda should ordinarily be
put on not later than the 18th of June
In very late seasons and in sections
where frost does not fall until late in
the autumn, ii may be applied proba-
bly, as latel as the Ist of July. good
application is 100 pounds put along
side the drill row or scattered in the
middle Of the row. but not covered into
the soil. In using a side application
Of an S-4-4 fertilizer. we would be dis
posed to put this formula rather close
to the plants on sandy land. but on
clay land to distribute IT more uni
formly through the soil; that is, scat
tering IL broadcast ahead of the Guilt
vator and mixing IL with the soil by
this operation.
EXTENSIVE CULTIVATION OF HAY
CROP.
]. E. H, WinterviIle, Ca, writes: 1
have something like 100 acres of land on
which wish to raise forage, and would
appreciate your advice as to what and
when to sow.
Spring-sown cereals have not made a
large enough yield in our experience to
justify ones attempting to use them for
forage crops on an extensive basis. Once
in while spring oats and other crops
may be planted under favorable condi-
tions and make a fine yield, but this is
the exception and not the rule. There
is nothing better for the early grazing
of hogs with which we are acquainted
than rape This should be sown imme-
diately. OF course, millet may be seed
ed as soon as the ground warns up and
will make a relatively early crop to be
used for forage purposes, or better still,
for hay. Sorghum and corn may also
be broadcasted and when sown in drills
will make a green forage relatively early
in the season. These crops may be plant
ed as soon as the ground is warm enough
to favor rapid termination. For general
cropping, however, and the production
OF a superior grade of forage. there Is
nothing which surpasses the cowpea or
soy bean. These crops may both be
broadcasted, but in our experience, drill
ing them in with the grain drill or plant
ing n rows p inches apart IS much the
more preferable method Of planting. A
crop can be kept free OF weeds and trash
when planted after the manner suggest
ed. and the yield will also be larger. OF
course. some sorghum or millet may be
seeded with the peas. but only relative
Is small amount Of either one Of these
crops should be used If one desires to
produce the best quality OF hay. By
planting such varieties OF peas as the
New Era, Warren's Extra Early and
Whipporwiu. just as soon as danger of
frost is past. two crops a year may
often re secured from the land. The first
cutting OF hay can be made about the