Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-07


has been secured. The land should be
enriched with yard manure, and also
with fertilizer formula carrying about
to 10 per cent. of phosphoric acid.
to 3 per cent. of nitrogen, and to
per cent of potash. This fertilizer
may be applied under the drill row at
the time of planting the crop.
You do not state what kind of fruit
trees you desire TO spray but the apple
should be sprayed for lice as soon as
the insects are discovered using kero-
sene emulsion. For the codling moth
spray when the petals fall and about
seven weeks later, using arsenste OF
lead. For the San Jose scale spray
with concentrated or boiled lime sui
phur wash making one application pre-
ferably in November, and another in
February. Never apply this spray
while the trees are in leaf. For the
plum spray for the plum curculio as
the calyxes are shed and about three
weeks later with arsenate of lead. For
San Jose scale spray as for the apple.
The treatment 70 rthe plum should be
the same as for the apple and peach.
LATE SEEDING OF SPRING OATS.
G. d. NJ, Meriwether, Ca, writes:
have two and a half acres broken with
a two-horse pillow last fall which / wish
to plant in oats. There has been so
much rain that I have not gotten them
in. VIII May first be too late to sow
them and will they make hay, or would
/ 1t be better to sow to peas and sor-
ghum? The land is red clay.
! Personally, we would not plant oats
as late as May first; but if there are
seeded the Burt variety should be
selected as it will mature in about 80
days. Our experience in planting oats
in the spring has not been very salts
factory unless in those exceptional
years when the crop could be seeded
in January or February. The season
has been so wet this year that early
planting has been out Of the question,
Nand even now II good weather should
prevail, il would probably be week
before the soil would be in proper con-
dition to receive the crop. Some may
not agree with this suggestion, believ-
ing that the S iii is dry because it is
crusted oyer, but the chances are that
more land will be injured in Georgia
by cultivating ii when dry on top and
wet below than has been the case IN
many years. We think you would find
it much more desirable to plant peas
and sorghum for hay after the first of
April. OF course, peas should not be
put IN the ground until II Is warm
enough to plant cotton and permit of its
rapid termination as the pea is sensi-
tive to cold, but when the peas and
sorghum are planted as early as sug-
gested in your letter two crops of hay,
or one crop of hay and a very good
Weld of grain can often be secured.
of course the return on the second crop
is dependent much on seasonal condi-
tions during July, August and Sep
TENDER. \
POINTS ON INCREASING CORN
YIELDS.
o. H P.B., Davisboro. Ga. writes: I
am very much interested in increasing
the production of corn in my commun-
ity. and would like to know which would
be the best variety for this section.
A great many varieties of corn have
been cultivated with more or less sue
cess throughout Georgia, but our expe-
rience now covering a good many years
would indicate that for ordinary upland
soils. and for the sandy lands of the
coastal plains area the prolific varieties
are most satisfactory for cultivation. BY
prolific varieties we refer to those sorts
which produce from one to four or more
ears per stalk. The ears are not large
and the cob is unusually small, and in
some of these varieties the grain is quite
flinty. This is a desirable characteristic
the further south in the state you go on
account of the damage which the grain
weevil inflicts from year to year. Among
the flintier types Of corn which we have