Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-19

tor an experimental area free OF cost
from the bureau of plant industry, Unit
ed states department of agriculture
Washington, ID. c. Follow the directions
sent with reference to the use OF the
cultures.
Il Won have favorable seasonal con-
ditions YOU should secure good stand
arc if YOU obtain a good stand OF al.
falfa and manage il properly, IL Will
stay with you for from three TO hNc
Years We have areas on the coIlese
farm which produced nearly twenty tons
of hay Der acre in the past four years
and are still in good condition II pay''
II take Jue tIre ana trouble ana 10 go
10 the expense indicated to secure
good stand of alfalfa
STOCKING A 5OO-ACRE FARM.
J. r. L.. Fargo, Ca. writes: nave
SOC acres ~ cut over land on which am
startru, stock farm Part of the land
IS stumped and planted. aud am stumpius
and breaking the balance; mC9 VIZ srrtHS
10 know the best fall, winter ana Spite
yrszirg crouS for hogs and beef catue:
Which 90 you consider the best breeds u
hogs and cattle for this section:
Situated as YOU are it is certainly
good practice to get rid of the stumps
as soon as you possibly can. You can
Of course use a great variety OF crops
for fall and winter grazing with po'h
hogs and beef cattle. We suggest thaI
YOU plant as much of your lana as 10
now available to cowpeas. We Suggest
cowpeas rather than velvet beans De-
cause the cowpeas will mature IN d
shorter season and the ground VIII mus
be available early in the fall for planting
TO cereals.
We think you will not make mis-
take in planting Abruzzi rye any time
after the LIST to 18th of September. we
tie we would build a leanto shelter, racing
ter oats and we think some crimson
clover and about twenty POUNDS OF
hairy vetch could be mixed with Doth
rye and oats to good advantage. we
have had excellent success with THESE
crops on the college farm the past year
and are now cutting a considerable area
of these mixed crops for hay Ihey
wara prazed to some extent during the
winter.
we believe 1t will pay to inoculate
Crimson clover. We have not thought
incubation so important with the Vetch
and cowpeas. For hogs you should plant
peanuts which you can Craze during the
fall An early maturing variety OF
cowpeas and soy beans could also De
used, We think an area could be plant
ed to chufas and also to artichokes 10
be used for winter grazing. Rape could
probably be seeded in late February OF
early March. You should arrange to
plant an area to alfalfa this fall to be
used for grazing by hogs and as hay for
your beef cattle. You can grow alfalfa
successfully ii you prepare the land
properly, lime, fertilize and inoculate ii.
We would advise you to build slIo
and prepare to raise plenty of sllage
either this summer or next spring. A
siIo will afford you large storage ca
pacity at a small outlay. You can build
a stave silo at a very reasonable cost.
For pigs we would build cots. For cat
tie we would build leanto shlter. facing
to the south. These structures need not
be costly.
There are several breeds we'll adapted
to Georgia. We think the Duroc-Jersey
would take high rank in this respect
with Tamworths and Berkshires follow
ing I'm the order named Beef breeds Of
cattle that are we'll adapted to the state
are the Shorthorns and Herefords. We
believe you would not make a mistake
in selecting either of these breeds.
DIsPosING OF BONES TO ADvAN-
TAGE.
C. C. V. Brevard. n. C., writes: run
meat market and naturally have lot of
bones which go to waste. ] read where they
acid and have 400 pounds treated in this
manner With this I mixed 400 pounds of
dirt, have 500 pounds of the mixture:
but do not know what Ii is worth or what
IN will analyze. Should anything be added
TO this mixture TO make balanced fer
tilizer? The quantity ] have cost me $500.
and I could make a lot OF it If it is worth
the price. If this is net good method,
please tell the most effective way to
get gOcu out OF the bones that go TO waste
The dissolved bone of commerce is
made by treating raw bone with sui
phuric acid. When this process is prop
erly carried out the organic heterogeneous
material is changed into a soluble nitro
genous material. In other words, bone
contains 2 to per cent nitrogen and Is
to II per cent available phosphoric acid
This is an excellent fertilizer, as it con-
tains both nitrogen and phosphoric acid
in readily available forms.
BY the process indicated in your let
ter you have no doubt rendered some of
the phosphoric acid in your bone and a
part of the nitrogen available. Just
what per cent no one could possibly say
offhand, since it would take a chemical
analysis to determine this point No
doubt the material you have obtained by
the process described in your letter is of
considerable value for fertilizing pur-
poses. The available phosphoric acid it
contains would be worth as much as we
secured in any other source and the
nitrogen would probably be worth about
30 cents per pound.
There is nothing which you need to
use with this material, in our Judgment.
The 500 pounds i'm question used on an
acre OF land should answer fairly well
for ordinary farm crops under existing
conditions. You could not conclude, how
ever. that you are making a heavy APP
plication, as this would not be true
If situated as you are we would pre-
fer to grind the bones reasonably fine.
We think you can secure a machine for
this purpose. Good bone meal when
finely ground contains 3 to 5 per cent
nitrogen and from IS to 20 per cent of
phosphoric acid. This is a very good
fertilizing material, but it is slow in
acting. Its availability depends much
upon the fineness to which it is ground
Remember that II will take some time
for il to show results. You need not
look for large returns from this ma
terial under two to three years
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