Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-05

through a cutting box or shredder and
this part of the food used for roughage.
If the roughage is thrown down i'm
small pile and sprinkled with water
containing some brine at night and left
to soften until morning. its palatability
will he greatly increased, and then an
adequate amount OF the grain ration i'm
dictated above should be added to this
mixture. This combination will answer
well for horses and mules and cattle.
The amount to feed will vary with the
size and age of the animals. Horses
and mules need the equivalent of IA to
l6 pounds of rough feed and about an
equal amount of concentrates when
doing hard work. On account of the
hulls and cobs being mixed in with the
concentrates. we would say that about
% pounds would be necessary for horses
and mules weighing 1000 pounds Dairy
cows might need about the same ration
though they will eat more roughage
than horses and mules and the same
would be true of beef cattle.
We would certainly cut the corn crop
close TO the ground, using corn har
vester therefor The beans clinging to|
the corn stalks will thus be harvested.
The corn should be bound into sheaves
and then the sheaves should be set upl
field and tied securely with binder Irvine.
II they are properly tied the rain will
be excluded and the crop will field cure,
enabling the land to be sown TO fall
sown cereals, such as oats and wheat.
Along in the late fail, say in November
or early December, the crop may bel
hauled to the barn, the ears and beans
pulled off and the shredding and grind
ing undertaken. BY this means all the
feeding value of the crop is obtained.
and it will be found that horses andl
cattle will eat the stalks up quite clean
ly and thrive on the concentrated ration.
Any refuse that is left is made into the
most acceptable form of manure.
A DIFFICULT DISEASE TO COMBAT.
J. r. Il. Columbus, Ca writes.
would like information in regard TO
my tomatoes and colllrds. For the last
three seasons my tomato plants will start
10 die when they have full-grown fruit on
them. They seem TO start at the bottom
until the whole plant would die and drop
off MY cOnards do the same thing. ANY
assistance yen can give me will be appre-
cisted.
You are probably more or less fa-l
miliar with what is known as cotton
wilt and the causes of the same. To-
matoes are subject TO a similar dis
ease. This may also attack collards
and other plants as well. This disease
is particularly destructive to tomatoes,
though II has been known to injure egg
plants, peppers and Irish potatoes The
bacteria that cause the trouble are usu-
ally found in the soil and they find
their way into the roots of the plant and
work up through the water carrying
ducts. and finally choke ii to death
There is no satisfactory remedy for this
trouble. The best thing you can do is
to pull up all the diseased plants and
burn them. Their complete destruc-
ton is of the utmost Importance orI
else the disease will spread rapidly UNI
I'll the entire garden is affected.
You should not grow your tomatoes
on the same ground year after year,
but should establish a rotation which
will prevent the crop from being plant
ed on the same ground more than once
i'm three or four years. If you pull upI
and burn the affected plants and save
the seed from those which have sur
vived on the area of land where all
other plants have died, you will proba-
blv get a more resistant strain of to-
matoes and collards. Selection. there
fore becomes a very important factor
in hghting this disease. This trouble is
also supposed to be spread by insects
so you should fight them as vigorous
ly as possible.
TOP DRESSING CORN WITH
SULPHATE OF AMMONIA.
J. l.. D. Elrorendo Ga, writes: want
10 top dress my and can get suplhate
Of ammonia or cysnmid, and would Ike 10 !
know which you would advise my using.
II situated as you are we are disposed
10 think we would use the sulphate OF
ammonia as top dressing. The nj
trogen in sulphate Of ammonia is quick
" available. This material, however.
when used as a side application, should
be scattered down the drill row and COW
cred into the soil. II differs in this re-
spect from nitrate of soda. which as you
know, Is very quickly available and
when used as a top dressing, should as
a rule he scattered over the surface of
the ground and not covered into IT, We
think II good practice to use from so to
100 pounds of this material a top
dressing for corn. In our opinion II
should he put on relatively early in the
growing season for our study of the
manner in which corn feeds indicates
that II takes up more plant food essen
tlal for the development of the crop ear
Tier In the growing season than is or
dinarily thought to be the case. While
we think cyansmide 10 a good source OF