Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-10

period of the war. If the war Shouid
be prolonged for several years, as some
seem to think probable we will still
be fortified with an educated and train
ed body of young men and women upon
whom we must of necessity soon depend
/ TO manage. superintend and direct the
affairs of the nation at home and
abroad.
| Some of our allies made the serious
mistake of allowing their institutions
of higher learning to run down. They
are paying a horrible price for their
/ folly i'm this direction and eXertlng
| themselves to the utmost to re-estaollsh
| the work of these institutions on
broader and more comprehensive scale
/ than have heretofore been undertaken
Every effort is being centered in an en-
deavor to get into these institutions
proper proportion of young men ana
women in order that they may be, train
ed with the utmost expedition TO take
the places of those who have been per-
/ manently lost to the interests of the
country Apparently, the Germans nave
not made the same mistake as some OF
| the allies. They are evidently as Wen
and capably led as in the beginning or
the war. Their prowess has not come
/ to them because they are supermen, but
on account of having taken their raw
materials of men as we'll as other nat
uraI resources and capitalized them oy
| skilIfuI education and training 10 the
highest degree. Fighting powerfully
organized and embattled enemy Is not
child's play and victory will not come
TO a poorly equipped, poorly LED ana
poorIy trained nation. Russia mas an
the latent resources at her command
out of which, to construct the most pow
erfuI democracy the world has ever
known But she has failed and will con-
tinue 10 do so until ~ proper proportion
| of her population is trained ana or
eanized to do the necessary reconstruc-
| ton work
| We intend to whip Germany and make
, thorough and complete job OF IL De-
fore we quit. To do this we must ever
remember that the capitalization or ths
Intellectual powers of our people VIII
enable us to bring about this tmeiy'
desirable and gratifying emu ms
ouickly and completely. The submarine
menace will not be overcome by acct
dent. but through the patient ana "a
hor,ous experiments and efforts OF the
best savants this nation can train ana
| 5a,,a1on Let us provide the opportunity
| for the youth of the United states 10
| ,,,h,ob thew are entitled Let us encour-
a.a rbsm to go forward and so train
and nrepare themselves to meet the
avaptualities imposed upon US Oy ne ,I
war situation. If We do thls' we
| stand as the one dominating ana ser
Contained nation at the conclusion OF the
- We will be fully capable OF at
| 80. ~OorzapizinR our Industries. sa1e-
o,,o~asrg our liberties and those Oh
sro.IIar and less fortunate nations 40
u,all We will naturally secure az"
-oir.ai,, that commercial supremacy Al
nn,,a and abroad to which we are just
: ly entitled
| METHOD OF APPLYING NITRATE or
SODA.
a. II " Augusta. Ga, writes l no,
| :, answering an inquiry that you say M
/ t-.ts Of ada should be scattered oetwseI
| the rows after the crop has been cui' ,,iloI
| and select a time when there Is NO, nA ~
| g he hin for several days. nave a..
| Ssvs neen under the impression that u
| time TO apply soda is Just after Fai". ~
am going 20 apply some 10 my crVps III ~
| Tn n future and would like to know the
| hest time 20 apply 1t.
/ There is no objection to applying nj
- Of soda after a rain in the manner
INDICATED in your letter. AT the time
| tbo ipouiry to which you refer was re-
| caivAd we were undergoing period OF
L long drought in this section OF the state
/ "a nrobablv one would have had to
/ wait several weeks to apply nitrate OF
i soda by the plan indicated In your let
ter. In an extremely dry ana prolohs-
| ed drought IT may be occasionally prop
| err TO nut nitrate of soda ahead or the
| harrow or cuTtivator and so cover 1t
L LIGHTLY into the surface of the soil. As
| a rule. however. unless the drought is
| very extreme nitrate of soda is best put
| on after the land is cultivated and lert
| alone for IL does not take a large
amount of moisture to cause 1t to be
| dissolved and absorbed by the soil. The
principal thing, i'm using nitrate OF soda
is to get Il on after. rather than before
a rain so as to prevent its being wash
ed away or leached out of the soil be-
/ fore the plants have a chance to take
II up. As a rule people wait to late
in the season to put on nitrate of soda.
/ %s*sS
| HOW AND WHEN TO FERTILIZE
/ CLOVER.
r. E. H. Msrshville n. c., writes:
/ have a clover patch aud couldn't get any
/ fertilizer wlen l planted IL, and as II was
i getting late I planted IL without fertilizer.
! what kind of fertilizer shall use on it
and when should it be put on?
1 Presumably you will soon cut your
clover. if you have not already done so.
AS soon as IT is cut you might fertil-
ize il with 300 to 500 pounds of acid
phosphate. If you have obtained a good
4 stand and the clover is in a vigorous.
/ healthy condition, il would not seem
necessary to use any nitrogen. If ii is
sickly and yellow in appearance, or if
on examining the roots you find them
to be devoid of nodules, then the addi-
4 ton of a sack or two of cottonseed meal
or some other carrier of nitrogen to the
acid phosphate will probably pay. You
4 know of course. that the bacteria living
\ in the nodules forming on the roots
\ give the clover its power of assimilating
Il nitrogen. When there are no. nodules
present the use of nitrogen on legumes
will seldom prove profitable.
/ All clovers. of course, like calcium,
an element contained in finely ground
lime rock If your soil is deficient
fin lime II might pay you to put ton
| or so on broadcast and harrow In. IT
YOU use the lime allow a few days TO
eIapse between it's application and that
of acid phosphate.
FEEDING VALUE OF PEANUT MEAL
II X C., Jacksonville, Fla. writes.
Have YOU made any tests of peanut meal
| as food FOR hogs and rattle: II So would
be GLAD TO know how it compares with cot
| ton seed neal.
We have made test Of the relative
merits of cotonsead meal. peanut meal
and velvet bean meal when fed in as