Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-03-23
THE ATLANTA sEMEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA

Ior M. enlargement, Of our plant. #
We had had this money we could have
doubled the size OF our hog houses ana
pens and. therefore. increased our out
put fserum very materially. We aid
our best to secure this appropriation
from the legislature, but met with OPP
position from certain parties who SEEM
ed TO have some personal interests TO
serve other than those oil the landown-
er and the hog raiser. Probably our
trustees will ask for an appropriation
for the enlargement of our plant next
summer and 1 hope you will see your
representatives and try to push this
matter with the utmost vigor.
As you probably know, the callege
serum mas been put TO every conceiv-
able test and has passed through the
SS-s.dS I'll parties VINO were not at all
friendly to our work, therefore II must
have had merit or II would nave been
possible to nnd some fault with it.
AS you probably know, it is through
the agency OF the college that the price
OF serum has been kept at a reasonable
figure in Georgia. This institution ana
its trustees stand ready to manufacture
all the serum the farmers of Georgia
can possibly use if the state can give
"A
equipment with which TO do the work.
/ assure you it is no fault of the insri-
tuition that you are not able to get
serum from the college.
[ do not know, OF course, from whom
you obtained the serum referred 10 IN
your letter, but il the time limit had
expired thereon 1 should think you
could have recourse against the party
who furnished il TO you.
MANAGING A CROP OF VELVET
BEANS.
J. S., Commerce, ia, writes: would
Ike information in regard TO the growing
OF velvet beans. Do you think they wta
do we'll here? How much seed should be
used per acreg
Velvet beans are better adapted for
growth in the southern half of Georgia
than in the northern half, due to the
fact that they take longer to mature
than is ordinarily thought TO be the
case. 1t is true that a great deal OF vel
vet bean seed has been advertised as
maturing in 80 or 100 days. We nave
grown a number of strains here at
Athens, however. and in this climate IL
took the earliest of them 100 days 10
mature. A strain which IL has been
suggested should be called the Georgia
but produced only a small vine that died
before frost. A strain which it has
been suggested should be called Ala
bama bean matured in 165 days, but
produced considerably more vine and
lived until frost. a number of other
strains of velvet beans are on the mar
ket, such as the Oklahoma, the Chinese
and the Lyon. They are all large, gray
seeded varieties and have gray hulls
The Oklahoma is an early bean, the
Chinese a rather late bean, and the
Lyon still later in maturing. The Osce'
ola is a flat, speckled seeded, black
huIled variety and somewhat earlier than
the Alabama strain.
A peck of beans should be sufficient
TO plant from one to two acres, depend
ing on the thickness of the seeding and
the method of planting followed. Until
the quality of early maturing velvet
beans is more definitely fixed their
value for cultivation in north Georgia
is still a debatable question, and at pres
emit thay will probably not be found as
satisfactory for many purposes as cow
peas or soy beans.
PREPARING 4 STANDARD FERTII'
IZER.
n. g. $. Piedmont :. C.. writes can
buy standard grade Gotten seed meal at
S42 ton. and IS per cent acid at SIS per ton
or I can buy q 1922 guano at So per ton.
Which would be the best for me TO buy:
IL YOU make a mixture of 900 pounds
of cotton seed meal containing els pei
cent of nitrogen, 2.5 phosphoric acid
LIS per cent potash, and 1000 pounds
of 16 per cent acid phosphate. you VII
obtain a formula containing about Sl.S
pounds of available nitrogen, 1876 pounds
of available phosphoric acid, and Ia
pounds available potash per ton. Its
percentage composition would be approx
imately 80 per cent of nitrogen, 81 pei
cent phosphoric acid. 81 per cent Of
potash. You will see that this formula
would run considerably higher in nitro
gen than the 1922 formula in ques-
tion. IT would contain almost as much
available phosphoric acid, though con
siderably less potash. You could dis
pense with the use of the potash better
than any of the other elements. The
use of the formula indicated above
would be an advantage to one situated as
you are, in our judgment.
The cotton seed meal in the foregoing
mixture would cost you $21 and the
phosphoric acid 50, or A total of $50
We feel that we would rather have the
mixture in question at a cost of $50
than the formula suggested in your lei
ter at s32.
USING PIGEON MANURE on LAWNS
AND GARDENS.