Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-14


for milk and butter production. Jersey
cows are essentially dairy breed and,
therefore, especially valuable for that
particular purpose. They will never be
of service for beef production as long
as they are bred and maintained along
lines employed at the present time. 1t
IL impossible according to our expert
ence to secure the greatest satisfaction
from the combination of dairy and beef
cattle. We believe the average farmer
will make more money specializing
either along dairy or beef lines. There
are some so-called general purpose
breeds of live stock. In this class
will be placed the Red Poll and the
Devon. While these are good general
purpose breeds, we would advise the
average Georgia farmer to either stick
to his dairy cows, using one of the bet
ter known breeds as you have done, or
go into the production Of beef animals,
selecting one of the better known beef
bred bulls and crossing them to begin
with on the best of the native
cows We think you will find the Short
horn and the Hereford both well adapted
To Georgia. You can secure both from
south of the quarantine line. We would
not cross a beef bull on pure bred
dairy cows.
MANAGING AN ORCHARD.
S. f. p, Oak Hill, Ca, writes. have
a nice young orchard planted on upland
with red or yellow clay subsOn. They bore
this year and are putting on a heavy crop
want to spray them so as to get the best
results 1 also want to know what fertil-
izers to use. 1 have lot OF barnyard ma
nure that has never been wet that expect
to use. How should 1t be applied. What
kind of commercial fertilizer should | uset
Also how about using unslaked wood ash
es? Would lining the land around the
trees pay?
If your orchard is badly infested with
San Jose scale IL is generally best to
make two applications of the concen-
trated or boiled sulphur lime spray. The
first of these as a rule should be made
in November and the second in Febru-
ary Under the circumstances we would
advise you to spray only once this year.
For the coddling moth you should
spray when the petals fall and again
seven weeks later 1t also controls
curculio and scab. For plant lice spray
with kerosene emulsion as soon as the
insects are discovered. For bitter rot
spray with the self-boiled lime sulphur
or bordeaux mixture before the buds
open and frequently thereafter until the
fruit Is almost ripe. For pear blight or
canker cut out and burn the twigs and
spray with bordeaux mixture. For rust
spray after leaves have come out, using
bordeaux mixture For scab use the
self-boiled lime sulphur, spraying just
before the blossoms open, as the petals
fall and two weeks later.
The self-boiled lime sulphur is made
as follows: Make a paste of "a pounds
of sulphur with a small amount of
water Dilute the paste to about five
gallons and pour the whole over "a
pounds of fresh lime. Permit the mix
ture to boil from the heat generated by
the shaking of the lime. The barrel
should be covered during this process.
When the mixture is well tinged with q
yellow, reddish color which will gener-
, ally occur in fifteen minutes dilute tc
$50 gallons of water and strain.
h Bordeaux mixture is prepared by dis
solving three to six pounds of cope
| sulphate in water Stake three pounds
of lime by adding water and work un'
til a creamy liquid is obtained. Pou,
the copper sulphate solution and the
lime solution at the same time through
a strainer. Add sufficient water t.
make up the fifty gallons.
The fertilizing of your apple tree
with yard manure would only be advls
able in case they are understood and
not developing a sufficient amount
wood. Yard manure as you know, ha
q tendency to promote growth. You car
Judge from this whether it would be
we'll to apply it or not. If so, we sug
gest that you apply at the rate Of SOC
pounds per acre and disc we'll into the
soil We think it will pay you to fer
tilize your trees If you can secure un
leached hardwood ashes use 20 to So
pounds around each tree. Scatter in 2
circle five feet away from the trunk
and harrow in. A mi&ture of 1,2OC
pounds of acid phosphate and SOC
| pounds of cotton seed meal should make
a very good formula to use around
trees, in view of the difficulty of secur-
ing artificial potash. You can, of
course, obtain the nitrogen from any
other source which. will provide it as
cheaply as cotton seed meal. Tankage
! will answer very we'll for the purpose.
we should use from 500 to $500 pounds
around the trees, depending on their
| size, age and the quantity of apples
| produced last year AS the acid phos-
| phate and the ashes both contain some
| lime. we would hardly think It neces-
sary TO use lime the present year. Fer
| tilizers should be put on generally in
the spring and narrowed well into the
soil,