Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-15

I JOUKNAL, A ALLAN | A, u
bined with phosphoric acid and potash
better results were obtained than from
its use i'm single applications. 1t should
also be borne in mind that this is a
relatively heavy application to make to
field crops, and it is possible that as
large increases might have been OBJ
tanned with a smaller application. More
over, it should be remembered that
these results were obtained on nine dir
ferent types of soil at widely separated
points throughout the state, and that
they represent the average of five years
in which good seasons and bad seasons
predominated This insult be regarded as
an unusually severe test. A carrier of
nitrogen which has made such a good
record If used with any degree of in
telligence and skill should prove profit
able amendment on our southern farms
In so far as Georgia is concerned, the
chemical investigation of our soils made
up to the present time indicates that
they are quite low in nitrogen; in some
instances, remarkably so, and that we
cannot hope to raise profitable crops on
them without increasing in a consider
able degree this important and es-
sent!al element In other words, it APP
pears in many instances that nitrogen
is the limiting factor, and one above
all others on which we should concen-
trate in an endeavor to increase it to
a degree which will result in bringing
our soils more nearly into equilibrium
in so far as the supply of our plant food
needed to insure profitable crop produc-
ton is concerned. The writer is of the
opinion after years of observation and
study that a minimum application or
thirty pounds of available nitrogen per
acre is desirable if the soil is rightly
handled and managed and the farmer
should be able to obtain a profit from
the use of what he may now regard as
such a large amount of this necessary
element If he fails he should not lay
the blame on others, but look into the
conditions and the cause and so change
and improve his practice as to make
The use of this amount of nitrogen ra-
tional safe and profitable.
A DESCRIPTION OF SUNBEAM COT
TON.
II. G. B., Monroe, Ca, writes: Several
years ago / read of a variety Of cotton
if it is large boiled variety, and what is
the length of the staple, and what per cent
of lint. l looking for an early variety
with large hollis and good per cent of
lint. If there is variety better than the
Sunbeam 1 would like to know it.
The Sunbeam cotton was developed
at the Georgia State College of Agri-
culture several years ago as result of
selections made by Prof. +. ]. IL De-
I hot ina In, .1,ar.
of our cotton industry division The
seed, after selection, were grown on
multiplying plots and distributed quite
extensively throughout the state This
variety was grown by many with sat
isfaction and success and is now quite
extensively cultivated throughout the
state Last year strain number 81
stood third in our tests made here at
the college 1t is a relatively early
variety, good picking being obtained by
September 13 to % even in this part
of Georgia. The yield of seed cotton
from strain number 81 in 1916 was
2,599 pounds. The yield of lint per
acre was go pounds. It takes 81 bolls
to make a pound of seed cotton. The
length of staple was 1916 of an inch
and the per cent Of lint IS. This va
riety also did well when grown at
Quitman in Brooks county. We have
thought we were justified in recon-
mending it as variety which could
be grown i'll many sections of the state,
even under boil weevil conditions. In
a seed survey made of the state last
year we found Sunbeam to be quite eX-
tensively grown.
more recent development Of ours is
College number one, which has made a
very enviable record. However. there
is very little seed for sale as yet. We
regard Sunbeam quite as early as
Cookies and more resistant to anthrax
nose