Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-19

&c use 4OO pounds OF aciu phosphate dnC
100 pounds OF muriate of potash PEI
acre. The war. of course. has inter
fered with the use of potash rations e
some extent. After the ground hal
been disked il is narrowed with a spike
tooth harrow and firmed with a roller
and the seeding done in open burrows
or by broadcasting. In the spring o.
the year 100 pounds Of sulphate Of
ammonia has been applied per acre
The wheat is harvested by the usua
methods which would naturally be prac
ticed on every farm.
The yield of some of the more inn
portant varieties tested in Athens il
recorded below. II appears that as
result of two years work Deitz Amber
made an average yield of 2S.7 bushel:
per acre: Georgia Red. 2S.3 bushels
FuIcaster ga bushels; Australian Red
271 bushels: RID May. 26.7 bushels
Blue Stem. 26.6 bushels; Mammoth
Red. 26.6 bushels; Fultz, 25.9 bushels
Klondike. 25.7 bushels; Fishhead, 25.4
bushels. and Bearded Purple Straw
243 bushels. These must be regarded
as gaad yields and wherever they can
be Appropriated the cultivation of
wheat as a winter cover crop and the
production of grain for bread can De
practiced 10 advantage.
The yields obtained from some of the
leading varieties at Ashburn are as fol
lows: Blue Stem. 1876 bushels; Georgia
Red. 1876 bushels: Red May, 1873 bushels;
Australian Red, 1873 bushels: Deitz Am
Der. 14.9 bushels: Fultz, 1877 bushels;
Fishhead, 1873 bushels; Klondike. 12.1
bushels: Mammoth Red, III bushels;
Fulcaster, III BUSHES. These yields
are not nearly so good as those obtained
on the cecil clay typical of the Pied
mont area, and yet a number of these
varieties could be grown to advantage
on the Triton sandy loan under sea-
sonal and soil conditions similar to those
obtaining at Ashburn with good ad-
vantage. There is ample opportunity in
that section for the harvesting of the
crop in time to permit of the replanting
of the ground to cowpeas. The weight
of the wheat grown at Ashburn is not
quite so good as that grown at Athens.
This is due possibly to the tenacity with
which red clay soils absorb and hold
water, thereby enabling them to supply
some of this element to the crop dur
ing the latter stages of its development
and insuring its more complete and per-
feet maturity.
The yields obtained at Quitman where
this work has only been carried on one
y
not be fair TO draw any conclusion from
a test covering only one year. Blue Stem
made the highest yield of any variety,
namely 60 bushels. Cultivating wheat
on this basis would, of course, not be
profitable. Possibly when these soils
are improved and a better season expert
enced. the yields will be considerably in
creased Judging from the bare facts
as presented. however. the most profita-
BILE section of the southeastern states
in which to cultivate, wheat would APP
pear TO be the Piedmont area, though
the prospect for the profitable cultiva-
ton Of wheat on the Triton sandy loan,
a soil quite characteristic of many parts
OF the coastal plains region. promises
well. Moreover. it is important to re-
member that through selection and
breeding il will more than likely be
possible to develop strains much bet
ter adapted for cultivation in the south
ern part of the territory under discus
sion than are now available. OF course,
those who have studied the situation
realize that the whole question of plant
breeding has been previously neglect
ed and IL is impossible, therefore, to
even approximate what il may be pos
sible 10 accomplish in the way of Sc
curing improved strains through the
systematic selection and development Of
varieties adapted to the different cli-
matte and soil areas of the cotton
states.