Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-09

city baniE of New York.
well cultivated. In caring for your corn
and cotton il is important to renem-
Der that shallow and persistent cult
walton are essential to good yields. You
cerainly grew an excellent crop of cot
ton on your selected acre of land last
year, and by following the method sug-
gested in this letter and increasing the
amount of fertilizer TO 1000 pounds per
acre you should increase the yield in
1912. TO increase the yields of both
corn and cotton and to secure the best
results frond neavy applications of fer
tilizers, you should bear In mind that
crop rotation should be established, since
vegetable matter supplied through yard
manure or green crops is essential In Sc
curing the best results from fertilizers.
ny.
INFORMATION ABOUT COTTON Gull
TIvATION.
NJ. t. L, Fayetteville. Ga, writes: ]
have some land that made about 1,20O
pounds of, seed cotton per acre this year,
and 1 want to plant it in corn next
year, and / want some information in
regard to cultivation and fertilization.
When is the best. time to use nitrate
of soda? What variety of corn will
yield the most per acre? VIII It pay to
use nitrate of soda on cotton that makes
plenty of weed? Will a spring tooth
eultivator do to plow cotton after ii
gets up knee high.
Situated as you are it would be best
to break the land intended for corn
as soon as possible. Do not be afraid
of turning the soil up to a depth of 10
inches. In view of the very heavy and
persistent rains were have had 1t is
probably inadvisable to subsoil, though
this would have been, good practice ear
lier in the fall when athe lower areas
of ground were comparatively dry. A
good fertilizer to use for corn on red
land of the type which you probably
have i'm your section would be a 1881,
applied at the rate of 500 pounds per acre
under the drill row, and 200 to 300 pounds
as a side application about six weeks af-
ter planting. If the season is favorable
and the corn makes a vigorous growth,
it might not be advisable to use nitrate
of soda, but otherwise it will be well to
use nitrate about two weeks before the
corn punches to tassel at the rate of
100 pounds, applied as top dressing
There is no one best variety of corn, but
for upland soils the prolific sorts are
among the best. We have had excel
demonstration field with Marlboro, What
ley and Hastings Prolific We do not
think you would make mistake ir
using a good selected strain of any
of these varieties.
The land which you intend to plant tC
cotton should be broken as soon as pos
sible. If you can secure enough yard
manure to Apply at the rate of 3 to
tons per acre under the drill row be
fore bedding it will be great advan-
tage. In the absence of yarl manure
compost will be helpful. Then use
500 pounds of a 9-3-4 fertilizer at this
side application. 1t may or may not be
necessary to use nitrate of soda, de-
pending on the season and the char.
acter. of growth obtained. If you apply
it to cotton use it about the 18th OF
June to the LIST of July, applying in the
same manner as for corn. Some kinds
of spring tooth cuitivators might bt
used to pillow corn when 1t is as high as
you Indicate, but there are so many
types OF these machines on the market
that it is difficult to give a definite
opinion without knowing what its con-
struction may be. Cotton can often be
plowed to advantage with a two-horse
cultivator, especially If the rows are
relatively straight and the land compar-
atively level.
LIME AND ITS APPLICATION.
A correspondent, walden, Ca, writes
can buy ground limestone for $4.6C
per ton delivered in Macon. Is this
price all right? Is the agricultural lime
better than lime ground? have a price
OF $685. per ton delivered on phosphate
rock. have 40 acres of stubble that
broke deep in December. I want tc
apply both lime and rock to it. How
much should use?
Ground limestone rock is relatively
high priced at A.60 per ton, since you
must of necessity apply at least two
| tons of IL to have the same effect on
sweetening the soil as one ton of caus-
tic lime. On land which contains con-
siderable vegetable matter it would be
better to use the finely ground rock
but buy it on a guarantee that it is
relatively high in carbonates and low
in magnesia. On land which is in very
bad physical condition and on which
you expect ia SOW a crop 50 days after
| it's application. IL is best to use the
caustic lime. 1t is generally conceded
that phosphate rock win give good re-
suits on land we'll supplied with vege-
table matter, but il is not good practice
to use IL on soils that have not beer
well enriched with humus. AS your lands
are not likely to contain much vegetable
matter unless you have been rotating
them with care for some years, you will
probably find it advisable TO use acid
phosphate so as to secure a larger per-
centage of this desirable and essential
element of plant food in a quickly avail
able form for the nourishment of youI
crops. The price made you on floats
delivered is a fairly close one. If yot
do decide to use floats. apply it at the
rate of 500 to 1000 pounds per acre
and you may apply It some time in ad
vance of planting, as there is not much
danger of its being leached from tho
soil. While floats, may contain as much