Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-05

once daily in the feed. This is a good
tonic and treatment and should help
to build up and stimulate your sow
This, together with liberal feeding. pro-
vision of proper sanitary quarters and
plenty of bedding should enable you to
build her up again into a healthy and
vigorous condition in a comparatively
short time.
Growing Tobacco ON Corn Land
H. d. b., Delway, n. c., writes: l am
thinking of growing tobacco on land I grew
last year. What do you think Of
this? What grade of fertilizer is best for
tobacco, and what for wheat if l cannot
get nitrate of soda?
Corn is a rather exhausting crop to
the land and does not always leave it
in the best condition for the succeeding
crop on that account. Tobacco is also
a very eXhausting crop, requiring rich
and fertile soil in order to produce ii
satisfactorily. You do not say what
kind of tobacco you wish to grow. If
you grow the light or wrapper tobacco
you depend on commercial fertilizers
for it's production, for when II is grown
on land made rich with manure or vege-
table matter a good proportion of the
leaves will be off color and, therefore.
will sell at a much lower price than
growing this tobacco vegetable matter
in the soil is necessary, but, as a rule,
it should be put on the year previous
to the cultivation of this crop.
In fertilizing land for tobacco we sug
gest that you use the following combi-
nation: Eight hundred pounds acid
phosphate; 500 pounds dried blood
and. 400 pounds cottonseed meal.
This formula would certainly run low
in potash, but is about the best you
could do under existing conditions. You
might, of course, apply ashes to your
land at the rate of a ton per acre They
should not be mixed with the fertilizer.
however. but should be scattered broad
cast over the soil and narrowed in. The
above formula would run somewhat high
in nitrogen, but probably not too high
on land that is not unusually rich.
For wheat next fall we would use a
sack of cottonseed meal along with 200
pounds of acid phosphate.
DIMENSIONS OF A SIXTY TON sILo
w f. NJ. Buchanan, Ga, writes: Please
give me the diameter and height of sixty
ton silo. I want to dig down in the ground
eight feet deep and cement it up TO the top
Of the ground and build with stones at the
ton. How many acres of corn and sorghum
will it take 10 fill it?
A siIo IA feet in diameter and 20 feet
high will hold so tons or slage. II you
prefer to dig down into the ground, say
about 4 feet, and will build a silo "a
feet high and 10 feet in diameter, it will
hold about 81 tons of silage. This
probably would be a better proportional
structure than one 90 feet high and IA
feet in diameter. We are inclined to
build silos rather high, judging from
the experience we have had. Of course
our silos are all much larger, holding
say $50 to 200 tons. We suggest that
when you undertake to build struc-
ture of this kind you make it answer
for the purpose you have in mind, as
most all the individuals who have built
silos at our suggestion have regretted
that they did not make the structures
larger Those who use this feed realize
that il is the finest kind of roughage
they can use, and they can make it