Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-17

| for making hay turn il under, and do
not be afraid to bury it to a good depta.
1t is ordinarily a good practice to sub
soil the land at the time you pillow under
| the peas. Generally, at the season or
! the year when they are ready to make
/ into hay, the surplus moisture has dis
appeared from the soil, making subsoil-
/ ing a safe and desirable practice. Sc
| cure at least two tons more lime and
| scatter over the surface of the ground
| and harrow it in. Rolling the land inn
mediately after blowing under the peas
may be desirable. You should compact
! the soil as to bring the moisture inn
mediately to the surface. thereby caus-
| ing the quick decay of the peas.
About the first of october plant the
alfalfa. Use fifteen pounds of re-
cleaned western seed inoculated very
carefully. You can probably secure the
cultures you need free of cost on appi-
cation to the bureau of plainly industry
United States department of agriculture.
! Plant on a dark day, as the inoculating
| bacteria are readily killed by exposure
/ to bring sunshine. A few days before
| planting scatter over the surface of the
ground a mixture containing 500 POUNDS
acid phosphate and 200 pounds of cot
ton seed meal, or some other carrier
! of organic nitrogen. 1t would, of course,
/ be good practice if it were possible TO
use some potash. though we hardly think
| you could afford to pay the prices ASKED
| for this material at present.
| If the season is at all favorable you
| should SECURE a good stand of altalta
which may be cured for hay next spring.
| 1t should not, however, be grazed oN
| hogs while it is so young. In fact we
| believe this crop more valuable Tor the
production of hay than for use as
grazing crop. We believe you can raise
| hogs profitably and that you can grow
! them out partly at least, on grams
| crops provided you put in satisfactory
variety of these.
The breeds of hogs you mention are
all right and will do we'll in Georgia. as
will the Angus cattle, if they are proper
| ly fed and handled
ICOMBINING VELVET BEANS AND
ACID PHOSPHATE.
| S. G. T., Davisboro Ca. writes: Please
let me know the ACCESSIBILITY OF using 10
per cent acid phosphate and velvet beans
| ground with the pods like cotton seed meal
| on sandy loan land. What proportion OF
bean meal would be best to use to make
ton of guano:
A ton of velvet beans ground with the
| mods contains about 56.S pounds of MI
| trogen, 16 pounds of phosphorlc acld
and 344 pounds of potash. If you mix
| 1 900 pounds of this grade OF beans with
! 900 pounds of acid phosphate you will
obtain a formula containing 2S.4 pounds
of nitrogen. 16S pounds of phosphoric
acid and practically 17.2 pounds Of pot
ash. This material would analyze con-
siderably lower in nitrogen than IT you
were to use 900 pounds of cotton seed
meal in place of the beans with the
Ihulls Above formula, as you will read
| ily see, would not be nearly so well bal
anced as it would if you used the cot
ton seed meal. In order to supply your
! land with a satisfactory equivalent or
nitrogen you would have. for instance
to put on 1000 pounds of ii and you
would then add much more phosphoric
| acid than would be necessary for the
average crops. A mixture of equal parts
| of high-grade cotton seed meal and acid
phosphate when used at the rate of 300
pounds per acre would make you one
of the most satisfactory formulas you
could use at the present time.
MERITS OF DIFFERENT GRADES OF
GUANO.
W. S. T.. Troy. s. c., writes: ] or
dered some $50 guano and received an
! S-3-3 Please let me know at what price
| I could it without being the loser.
hardly believe could use it at So per unit.
-
| Not being familiar with your soils or
| the crops you expect to use your fertil-
| izer under it is difficult to answer your
question satisfactorily. Presumably you
desire to use this material under field
| crops at the rate of 800 to 500 pounds
| per acre. You would then be applying
from nine to fifteen pounds of potash, or
roughly speaking from $3.50 to "a per
acre. According to our experience and
| observation it is doubtful if you could
secure large enough increase from the
use of this amount of plant food to JUS
| tify so large an outlay for the same
| Potash is essential in many of our soils
and gives good results under normal
| conditions, but there is natural limit
| in the price one can afford to pay for ID
| in order to secure a profitable return
| from its use.
PLANTING IRISH POTATOES AFTER
WHEAT.
| j. h. W.. Ellijay, Ca, writes: | have
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