Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-17

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and you will not make a mistake in Sc
Letting a good individual of either
breed. Probably one will cost about
as much as another. 1t is important,
of course. that you buy only from re-
liable parties.
WHEN AND HOW TO APPLY
GROUND LIMESTONE.
G. d. r., Coyington, Ca, writes: would
like for you to advise me regarding the APP
plicatiOn of limestone for agricultural pur-
poses.
We have been testing the virtues of
ground limestone for several years past,
not only on the college farm here at
Athens, but on some twenty-seven test
areas located in various parts of the
state of Georgia. We have applied
ground limestone in various quantities
and under various crops. A summary
of our experience would indicate hat
this material can be applied to advan-
tage on soils where legumes are grown.
In other words, it seems best to use
ground limestone under legumes rather
than cereal crops. In a few instances
we have had a profitable increase where
lime was applied to land where cereals
were grown, but taking our experience
as a whole the best results have fol-
lowed it's application to soils seeded to
legumes. For such crops as cowpeas,
soy beans and peanuts a ton per acre
would be considered a liberal applica-
ton. 1t would probably not be neces-
sary to use lime on land devoted to
these crops oftener than once in three
years. In the case of some extremely
acid soils ii might be advisable to APP
ply lime oftener and even in larger
quantities. Under alfalfa we think at
OF ha
tons being applied before cowpeas are
sown as a preparatory crop to put the
land in shape and two tons after the
cowpeas have been turned under. We
think at least two tons should be broad
casted over alfalfa at least every second
or third year and narrowed in.
The ground rock, as you probably
know, has only one-half the sweetening
power of the caustic or builders lime.
Therefore, we advocate the use of one
ton of ground rock where 1000 pounds
Of caustic lime has been considered a
satisfactory application.
We think it is important to use
ground lime rock in association with
peanuts, a crop, the area of which is
now being rapidly extended in Georgia
and which promises to be of value in
this section of the state infested by
he boil weevil, first as a source from
which to obtain oil and meal and second
as a grazing crop for hogs.
A DESCRIPTION OF COLLEGE NO. l
COTTON.
G. NJ, Nichols, Ca, writes: Please give
any information you may have concern
ing college No. l cotton. | would like to
lint, and how 1t compares with Kings
extra early as TO earlnrss.
sixty bolls of College No. 1 cotton
will make a pound of seed cotton. In
some instances it only requires fifty
eight bolls You will see therefore
that it Is a large boiled variety. We
have made no selections from plants
which showed less than 35 per cent of
lint. The per cent in so far as this va
riety has been tested out yet runs from
So up to 81 or 3s. and in few instances
1t may have gone higher. AS to earli-
ness, 1t Is better in this respect than
any variety with which we are acquaint-
ed. 1t has been selected and developed
with this end in view. We would re-
gard it as a more satisfactory variety
than Kings extra early, because this
strain sets on a number of bolls earlier
in the season and then stops growing.
On the other hand College No. 1 con-
tinues to fruit for several months.
Hence, there are new hollis developed
upon which the weevils feed as they
develop later in the season, thus leav-
ing the early set bolls to mature
crop of cotton. There is only very
limited amount of College No. 1 avail
able. We have only been developing
this variety for two years and at best
you could not hope to secure more than
a small amount of seed.
We believe that in your section of
the state, Covington's Toole and some
we'll selected strains of Cleveland Tri-
umph and Simpkins and other early
maturing varieties would be found the
most satisfactory.