Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-20

Ocuation! ] have a farm and wish to build
il up.
We have grown soy beans with sue
cess here at Athens for some years past.
We cultivate them in rows about three
feet apart, planting about one-half BUSH
Ell and upward per acre. We think that
the Mammoth Yellow, the Medium Green
and the Black are good sorts for cult
walton in your section of the state. The
yield has varied from 15 to 20 bushels
per acre. This crop should be planted
when seasonal conditions are suitable for
seeding cowpeas. Light shallow Guilt
walton should be given to keep weeds in
check. The beans may be harvested in
the fall by cutting with a binder or
they may be grazed down when passing
out of the dough stage by hogs.
Velvet beans are best planted in corn
in your section of the state We would
use about, enc peck Of bears. They are
best planted when the corn is about
II to 15 inches high. Dropped down
by the side of each stalk or every
other stalk, Sthey should develop with
sufficient rapidity to climb the stalks
as soon as the corn crop is mature.
From II to Is bushels of beans may be
raised per acre by this method. The
corn stalks and beans may be harvested
IORelneT anu Will llldhc a SOCN. LSSN'
or the corn may be snapped and the
beans ground. hulls and all.
Equal parts of corn, cog and shuck
meal and velvet bean feal should make
an excellent food for most classes of
live stock We have not thought 1t
necessary in our experience to inoculate
either one of these crops. We advise that
you plant the Extra Early or what is
known as Ninety-Day sort. According
to our experience this will take at least
120 days to mature.
FERTILIZING VALUE OF COTTON
SEED MEAL.
n. G. b., Jefferson, Ga, writes:
have some cotton seed meal that states on
the tag that it contains 3G per cent of
protein, 80 per cent of fat, IA per cent Of
fiber and - per cent of carbohydrates.
Would this meal be good for fertilizer!
Several of my neghbOrs think it would not,
but yet want to use meal.
A ton of cotton seed meal of the
grade about which you write, would
contain approximately 120 pounds of nj
trogen, s. pounds of phosphoric acid and
SO pounds of potash per ton. You will
thus, see that this material would be
quite valuable for fertilizing purposes.
For instance, if we allow Il cents for
available nitrogen you will observe that
InlS material "Ouiu NOhldlh P-"'-N W. -
of plant food. At cents for phosphor-
ic acid a ton of this meal would con-
tain S27O worth of this important ele-
ment OF course there is no telling
what potash is worth at present but
| even at 10 cents per pound which would
be a ridiculously low price at the pres
! ent time. this clement in ton of the
meal would be worth $3.50. This meal
would therefore give a fertiliing value OF
| $315O. If we allowed 20 cents for the
| potash which would be more reasonable
in view of the present price. ton of
! this material would become worth about
| s35 for fertiliing purposes.
PLANTING VELVET BEANS IN
NORTH GEORGIA.
A. n. c.. Rome, Ga, writes We have
| been planting peas for hay. but haven't any
this year, thought We would try vel
! vet beans. What variety would you
| nmmend. aud II sown after oats have been
cut, say about the 18th Of June viii they
! make hay? Will they mature II planted In
! corn about the LIST of May:
The cowpea is certainly we'll adapted
for the production of hay in your sec
ton of the state and It is doubtful If
you should abandon its cultivation all
at once. We appreciate the merits Of
| velvet beans and think they should be
| cultivated as extensively as possible
but we do not believe they could be
handled or cured for hay as satisfac-
torily in north Georgia as the cowpea
or even the soybean. The velvet bean
l is a difficult crop to get to mature suf-
ficiently to make into hay in your sec
ton of the state. We believe. however,
velvet beans could be used to advan-
tage in your cornfeld and. that you
should either plant them in the middle
! of the rows at the rate Of peck and
upward per acre. or alongside the drills
so that they will have an opportunity
to readily climb up the stalks of corn
IT lis better not to plant the velvet beans
until the corn is say twelve TO fifteen
inches high. There are two varieties
which we think may do well in your
section of the state. the Hokahoma and
the Extra Early. These beans will ma
ture i'm from four to four and one-half
months and can be grown with success
in any part OF the cotton belt. They
, should produce a considerable amount