Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-14

time will therefore vary with the loca-
ton. Sweet potatoes for late crop
may be put out in some sections OF
Georgia as late as the first of July
The writer has had wonderful success
in growing sweet potatoes after Irish
potatoes, thereby making two crops on
the same land with one application of
commercial fertilizers. The potatoes
should as a rule be planted in four-foot
rows with the plants eighteen inches
apart in the row. This crop should be
literally fortified with commercial
plant food. Potash is recommended I'M
der normal conditions, but it cannot be
secured at present. A good mixtures
would be a formula consisting of 2 to 8
per cent nitrogen, 6 to per cent phoS-
phoric acid and to s per cent potash.
Three hundred to a thousand pounds per
acre should be applied. depending on the
natural fertility of the land Sweet po-
tatoes should not be harvested until
matured. This is easily determined by
breaking a potato and exposing it to the
light for a few minutes. If the exposed
part turns dry quickly it is mature. This
is crop which should not be left in the
soil after maturity. Harvesting should
be done at the right time to secure the
best results.
TRANSATLANTIC TREES.
W. f. b.. Glenwood Ca, writes: In
transplanting fruit and pecan trees, is it
advisable TO set them the longitude
they originally were in the nursery? How
does the PabSt pecan rank In commercial
value compared with some Of the other lead
ing varietiesI
We do not think that you need worry
in tranSplanting fruit and pecan trees
to try and set them with the slant or
direction they possessed when originally
growing in the nursery. We do. not
pay any attention to matters of this
kind here at the college and we have had
good success in establishing and plant
ing out various kinds of shade and or
namenta1 trees.
The Pabst pecan, according TO our ex-
perience and observation, would not be
placed in the first class. In our opinion,
and we have made very careful observa-
lions throughout the state, the Man
tura, Rome. Money-Maker, Carman, Cur
tbs, Van Deman, Teche and Frotscher
are among the best varieties of pecans
adapted to the mountainous sections Of
North Georgia, The Stuart, MoneyMalS-
er, Carman, Pabst and Van Deman are
best suited to Middle Georgia; and the
Stuart Curtis, Bradley, President,
Pabst, ALEX, Success, Teche and Frots-
cher are best suited to south and south
west Georgia.
THE ANALYSES OF VELVET BEANS
q J. w. D., Pinehurst Ca. writes: 7
would like to know the analysis OF speckled
velvet beans. | want to feed them to my
hogs. cows and mules.
Velvet beans without the hulls con-
tanning about 21.S per cent of protein
Sc per cent fat, "a per cent fibre, Sill
per cent carbohydrates, l per cent pics
phoric acid and 10 per cent of potash.
The protein mentioned above is equiv
alent to 3.49 per cent of nitrogen and
II, will be seen that a ton of beans with
out the bulls contains about 20 pounds
of phosphoric acid and "a pounds of
potash. They contain about as much
protein as cowpeas and beans and a lit
tie less of this element probably than
peanuts ground with the hulls. Where
velvet beans and hulls are ground to-
gether the protein content falls to 1875
per cent the fat to ASS per cent, the
fibre increases to 1892 per cent and the
carbohydrate to $40 per cent. The total
phosphoric acid is reduced to s per
cent and the potash becomes 1.72 per
cent. The nitrogen equivalent of the
protein content is 2.64 per cent. A ton
of beans ground with the hulls con-
tains 56.S per cent nitrogen. Is per cent
phosphoric acid and 34.4 per cent pot
ash. Velvet beans, either ground with
or without the hulls, should of course be
fed along with corn and other food
stuffs produced on the farm. IF YOU
have a limited amount of velvet bean1
you may reduce the amount fed to one
third Of the total grain ration, in creas.
ing the grain, say to two-thirds.