Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-27

giles. He sees her errors of Judgment,
and He sees your lack of sympathy, or
your helpfulness. Don't be a Stacker.
In helping her you are praising God
more than you are by going to church or
letting your name be found in the pub
poor stand therefore. often resolves IT.
self into the question of the preparation
Of a good seed bed and planting under
conditions which will insure rapid ana
uniform termination.
IRRIGATING THE HOME GARDEN.
W. l.. r.. Lswrencevile, ia. writes:
My cantaloupes. beans, squash, cabbage, TO-
matoes. heets. Okra and popcorn are all 50
located that they can he watered with the
hose. MY neghbors tell me that to apply
water with hose TO my garden VIII ruin
H.. | would like your opinion In the matter
| have been watering my garden sue
cessfully for some weeks past. | use
a garden hose and city water for this
purpose My plans have been to open
a furrow between the drill rows OF the
various crops to be watered and flood the
ground very thoroughly. | do the water
ing along in the late afternoon and ear
ly evening. In the morning when the
ground has dried off to a considerable
extentn | take the garden rake and fill
up the furrow and scuffle the ground so
need morning watering. / have found
this an entirely satisfactory and desir-
able method of irrigating crops such as
YOU mention. 1t obviates any danger OF
firing them. When plants are sprayed
with hose during a very dry spell it is
important that the watering be
done i'm the evening, that the water be
distributed in a very fine spray and the
spray kept going long enough to thor
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then be scufied as soon as possible. I
recommend to your consideration the
method I have pursued with such sue
cess myself.
DESTROYING NUT GRASS.
J. T. j.. Tarboru. y. C.. writes: | have
piece of land that is infested with nut
grass aud il continues TO spread from year
10 year. ] would like TO know how 10 get
rid Of n.
Nut grass is an exceedingly difficult
and troublesome thing to eradicate. We
have seen a great many efforts made to
destroy it, Most of them have proven
futile Some things which could be used
to kill it out would effectively prevent
the use of the land for several years
Our best success in dealing with this
pest as come from using smother
crops. Situated as you are We would
pillow the land Immediately and plant to
cowpeas AS soon as the cowpeas are
harvested break the land and sow oats,
vetch or any other cereal which will eff
fectively cover the ground. After this
crop is harves ted rebreak the land and
plant to peas or any other legume which
will smother the nut grass. Effective.
ly shading the ground, in other words,
has proven the most effective means of
destroying this pest Of any we have yet
discovered.
HANDLING CORN so AS TO SAVE
THE FODDER.
]. p. X. Columbus, Ca. writes: ] have
400 scres OF river bottom In corn which will
yield from 60 20 50 bushels per acre.
feel that the wastage Of the stalk and fOd-
der Is useless, and I am anxious to get oil
the light possible the slower proposition.
when is the proper time TO cut the corn.
how long viii IL have to stand. and what
l. the f,edin" val e slower compared
with cotton seed huls and other r"ughage.
IF situated you are we would pur-
chase one or more corn harvesters and
when the corn is thoroughly ripened
cut stalks leaves. ears and all. bind into
sheaves. set up in large shocks and allow
to field cure for several months. 1t
has been our practice on the college
farm for the last ten years to save all
the corn stoVer. 1t has constituted a
considerable part of the roughage which
we have fed to our work stock and to
our beef and dairy cattle. The best
time to cut the corn so as to save the
largest percentage of II is when the
lower leaves are firing and the corn is
thoroughly glazed and rapidly harden
ing. 1t is a mistake, of course, to cut
IT too green as it may heat or mould
in the shock. but il is important to cut
il as soon as practicable so as to pre-
vent the wasting of the leaves.
In shocking the fodder we set a large
number of bundles upright and secure
them about eighteen inches from the
top with several cords of binder Irvine.
The shock is tied eighteen inches lower
and then about eighteen inches lower
again. In other words. it is tied three
times. We use a rope with ring fas-
tened in one end to draw the shock
up tight and hold II closely until the
lighter Irvine is put on. BY setting
these shocks in rows we leave the land
clean so that we can seed a winter COW
er crop Of any character early i'm the
fall.
You should obtain from is to %
tons of cured fodder per acre in addition
TO the corn. If the crop is handled in
the manner indicated you can husk and
shred the corn by machinery. If the
stalks are in good condition the fodder
may be baled at once. We would soon
er have shredded corn fodder than cot
ton seed hulls, straw or many other
! forms of roCghage which are largely
| fed on Georgia farms. In experimental
| tests which We have made good quail
/ ity Of shredded corn fodder has made
"A favorable showing as compared with
/ the high priced and expensive timothy
/ hay so frequently imported into the
south and fed TO work stock.
/ We believe that II you will follow the
suggestions indicated you will be de-
nit
large amount of excellent fodder obtain
ed but with its value for feeding pur-
poses or for sale as medium grade hay