Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-10

Such ploWs than two can with these
turn plows. The clay is very wet and
has been for weeks. That should not be
brought to the top to dry and harden.
IL would be just as sensible to broadcast
brickbats over the land. If you ever
hnd that the clay is sticky and easily
shaped into balls, let the clay alone.
When you are unable to prepare land
3 to IL inches deep, let it alone and
give ii shallow preparations.
After your cotton land is broken and
narrowed it is ready for applying fertil-
izer bedding and planting If you wish
to make 1900 to 800 pounds of seed
cotton apply about 400 to 500 pounds of
S-4-4 fertilizer. Run a pillow in the row
after this is distributed so as to mix
thoroughly with the soil. In many cases
strongly ammoniated fertilizers coming
in contact with the grain destroy the
terminating piwer. In planting cotton
seed it is better to study your soil and
fertilizer and plant with a seed dropper.
Set the gauge to suit your land. Wheth-
er l6, 20 or "a inches is the proper dis
lance plant them that way. A better
stand is secured and the crop is easily
cultivated.
Cotton should be cultivated as soon as
it is up to a stand. With the improved
harrows, weeders and cultivators, it is
easily done. Grass and weeds should
never be allowed to grow in the cotton
lots. If, on account of weather, crab
grass gets a start and covers the ground
in one week it will steal about half the
fertilizer.
After the cotton is planted the later
corn should receive immediate attention
and be planted by the middle of May.
According to the Williamson plan the
May planted corn will not need cultiva-
ton until the small grain is harvested.
Then the fertilizer should be applied and
the cultivation be shallow and frequent.
Since many farmers have concluded
to increase their corn product, they will
not need as large a cotton acreage as
they planted when they raised little corn
and no small grain.
Some of the farmers who plant 80 TO
40 acres Of cotton to the horse will no
doubt laugh at this suggestion. Thirty
acres is enough for a one-horse farm.
Put ten in small grain followed by peas,
eight in corn, prepared for 800 bushels,
and ten in cotton, on which an effort
should be made to produce ten OF twelve
bales That is decidedly more profitable
than planting 30 acres in cotton and
making fifteen to twenty bales. If you
have two horses double the acreage and
use the two extra acres for truck
patches.
Rains and Weather Forecasts.
Men living on farms ought to be able
to forecast coming rains as well as do
nestle animals. The cattle. hogs and
fowls often indicate rain day or two
before it falls often the ObservaRt
farmer may forecast the coming days
weather about as accurately as the
weather bureau. Recently the three
terrible cyclonic storms with the tor
nado accompaniments slipped up on the
country without any warning notice
1t is safe. however, if one is in com
munication with weather stations, lie
may be able TO learn of general rains
which sweep over the country, but local
showers can not be located.
Weather predictions in aImanacs are
worth nothing. The man who puts them
in knows well enough that they are
fraudulent If they hit one time each
month and miss all the other forecasts,
the believer in their forecasts thinks
they can be depended on. These men
who make forecasts a year ahead, based
on the relative position of the stars and
planets, are no more correct than the
old man who fOretells weather from his
corns or rheumatism. 1t Is very easy 10
look ahead and predict that there viii
be seismic or earthquake disturbances
August $3.50, because there is never
day passes without one. and some days
more occur in several places the same
day.
barometer. He has to depend in the
main on such signs as are afforded by
sound. the sun, the clouds. the sky and
the wind. That is one portion Of the
education of children which is greatly
neglected BY a perversity of mind we
neglect to get lessons from the great
book of nature spread out before US.
When a small boy we heard farmer
announce approaching rain in this way.
u hear the sound Of the hammer at the
rolling mill very distinctly" Now, the
rolling mill was about fourteen miles
distant Another sign about sunrise
was when he saw the fog rising Of a
clear morning in certain bend OF the
creek on the farm, he would announce
that there would be a shower in q
hours.
the morning and finds the fodder damp
it is a sign that the moisture is increas-
ing and that rain is approaching. The
red sunsets and the clouds, or dust, or
moisture in the air often indicate
change of weather. All people have had
weather signs and many weather prov
cribs. The solar and lunar cOronas al
yyays indicate a considerable amount Of
moisture These are always small cir
rIes two 10 four degrees in diameter
The halos are much larger and vary
somewhat in diameter on account Of the
str15osnheric conditions. When a dis
go bo1o ergirafes the sam four or five