Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-03-30
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under the drill row at the time of plant
ing, a sack of cotton seed meal and
200 or 500 pounds of acid phosphate
This is a crop you neeG to push for
ward as rapidly as possible. 1t should
not be grazed until the leaves begin to
spread across the row. 1t left until
this stage is reached il will afford
good deal of food for twenty or thirty
days, depending on the number, size and
age of the hogs turned on it. Anywhere
from ten to twenty animals can be
grazed on ii for the time indicated.
OF course you may broadcast rape. In
that event, you would have to use about
eight pounds of seed per acre. The land
should. of course, be in good condition
and just as we'll prepared as if you were
going to SOW a garden crop. In this
season of the year we would prefer
to SOW rape on land which has been
plowed in the fall and which has been
made ready by narrowing thoroughly.
Probably the next earliest crop you
can use for grazing hogs will be Burt
oats, sown as soon as possible. They
will come on little after the rape and
if you do not commence grazing until
after the dough stage, they will afford
considerable grazing. We have made
as much as zoo to 400 pounds of pork
per acre from oats sown in the spring.
Occasionally in a good season. oats make
a satisfactory growth if sown in the
fall.
II would be good practice to SOW Jap
an clover on your bermuda sod. Scat
ter about eight pounds of seed per
acre over the surface of the ground
about the first of May, or little be-
fore. and harrow it in lightly! On the
low, moist, bottom land, probably Red
dr NIoV, ~
err tame grasses. You might use little
sweet clover in this pasture. about five
to eight pounds per acre. Alsike clover
will also do we'll in wet lands. D.,
IMPORTANCE OF FREQUENT Gull
TIVATION.
Z. ]. T., Oak Hill. Ca, writes: Ny
ground ia upland clay, and during dry
weather IL bakes very hard. l have
bhrnyard manure, but use fertilizer Inc
soil has very little humus in it In rails
ing Irish potatoes shall ! cultivate them
every time the ground begins to bake, or
stop working them soon as the new. po-
tAtoes begin TO set? As guano Is SO hlgn
can I use 10 per cent phosphate on corn:
Land such as you describe should be
cultivated frequently 40 as 10 prevent
the surface soils from cracking. When
this occurs there is an undue loss OF
moisture and plants are likely to suffer
this character should. therefore. be
stirred frequently. 1t is very desirable
that they be cultivated as soon as
practica BILE after every rain, and this in
cludes light showers. Even when II does
not rain soils of this nature should bel
surface worked so as to prevent their
drying out by the formation and reten-
ton on the surface of dust mulch.
On the character of land you mentionI
we would not hesitate to use acid phos-I
plate and cottonseed meal or any 9TH
err carrier OF nitrogen which will sup
ply the available plant food in as cheap
A form. You will not make a mistake
by mixing these two materials together
in equal amounts and applying at thel
rate of 800 pounds and upward per-
acre.
Red clay lands are less responsive to-
potash as rule, than lighter, sander
soils.
MANAGING COTTON UNDER
BOIL WEEVTL CONDITIONS.
c. c.. Cochran, Ca, writes: would
like TO know what fertilizer TO use this
year under boil weevil conditions. 7 in
tend to have about six or seven acres OF
cotton per pillow and intend using 400 pounds
Of 1912 Guano per acre. Would you adj
wise using 100 pounds Of nitrate OF soda as
later application? Is Cleveland big boil
good weevil cotton? VIII brood mares
live in this section and stand farm work as
good az mules ] would like information
as to prices. best breed, etc.
We think the formula you PROPOSE
to use under cotton should answer very
we'll though we would advise that YOU
increase the nitrogen to about 80 per
cent In other words. we would put
the 100 pounds Of nitrate of soda under
the drill row at this time. In produc-
ing cotton under boil weevil conditions
you should aim to force the crop to ma
turity as rapidly as possible. 1t has
been shown that cotton takes up the
essential constituents Of plant food
earlier in the season than is generally
thought TO be the case. Hence, II isl
desirable that you put the fertilizer
under the drill row and give the crop
the longest possible time in which to-
assimilate it. Side applications of nj
trate of soda made late in the season
will not enable you to produce cotton