Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-13

in my field and only have a short distance
20 haul IL. My land is red clay and l want
To Wwheat. How much can | afford 10
pay for the lime, and how much should ]
useg I have some spring head bottoms and
with ditching and tiling, I have made good
oats and corn and fair cotton. But pOta-
toes and tomatoes both die Of the wilt OF
this land DO you think an application
of lime would correct this?
According to our experience it seems
advisable to use lime on land intended
for wheat once in about three years to
five years. Our observations lead us to
believe that the use of one to two tons
per acre is about the right amount to
apply. The price of labor and freight
having gone up il is n little difficult
TO say what one should pay for the
crushed rock Much depends on the
fineness to which il is ground. We inn
agine you should be able to get it at
your siding for about $3.50 per ton and
that in such case you could afford to
apply at least one ton per acre. The
crushed rock should be scattered over
the surface of the ground and narrowed
into the soil a few days before the
wheat is planted. You should not con-
clude from this that lime will take the
place of other fertilizers under wheat.
1t helps this crop, however, sufficiently
to justify our recommending it's appli-
cation in the amount indicated We do
not wish you to conclude that you
could not afford TO pay more than $3.50
per ton for this material. At the same
time we think this would be a fair
price.
Thing and draining the land to which
you refer will no doubt help it some,
but the wilt disease of tomatoes is due
to the presence of a specific fungus in
the soil which it does not seem possible
to destroy and which odes not readily
die out. About the only way of fight
ing this trouble successfully is to use
strain of tomatoes which has been
proven to be resistant to the wilt dis
ease. 1t is the best practice under any
circumstances to keep tomatoes off this
land for several years.
We imagine that your potatoes died
from blight rather than the wilt dis
ease. If you had sprayed them as soon
as the blight struck them you could
probably have saved this crop. Should
you wish to plant potatoes again on
any of your land you should write to
us and get information as to how to
spray them so that in case the tops
become diseased you can use preventive
treatment at once. We should not plant
Irish potatoes on land where they de-
cay badly for two or three years. 4
rotation of crops in fighting all kinds
of diseases and insect pests is desira BILE.
VAULE OF ESSEX RAPE FOR GRAZ
ING HOGS.
L. r. H., Cavespring, ia, writes | have
been told that dwarf Essex rape will pro-
duce Is To 20 tons of forage per acre. Is
this true When should ii he sown? What
is the best to with oats for hay? |
want something for winter grazing for stock
and poultry.
Rape is a good forage crop for use
under certain conditions 1t is posi-
BILE that a yield such as you indicate
may be obtained but / have never seen
as large a quantity of this harvested
from an acre of land. Rape. of course.
contains very high percentage of wa
ter and hence a large tonnage might
easily be secured from an acre We
think possibly half of these yields would
be nearer the average you might antic-
pate. Dwarf Essex rape should in our
Judgment, be planted either in late Au-
gust or early September for a fall crop.
! In the spring it should be planted in
southern Georgia i'm February and in
the northern part of the state in late
February or early March. We prefer
to plant in rows about "a to Sc inches
apart and cultivate lightly. 1t takes
about to pounds of seed to plant an
acre. 1t should not be grazed until the
leaves spread across the rows to some
extent. Then turn hogs in on it, They
are very fond of it and will Craze it to
advantage if it can be made ready for
this purpose sufficiently early in the
season.
Rape can be broadcasted with oats
! though we have always grown it more
satisfactorily to seed it by itself. 1t
: would not be desirable IN DIanf "a no
with oats, as you could not cut it salts
factorily i'm the form of hay. The best
winter grazing crops available to plant
at this season of the year would be rye.
crimson clover and hairy vetch. All
of these should be sown Immediately,
and much better results would have at
tended your efforts if you had planted
them 80 days ago.