Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11

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| posed to the sun like a milking pail
| Usually if the same kind of cans are
used by the farmer he can exchange a
| clean empty for a filled can and save
time collecting waste at the camp kitch-
ems
GROWING COTTON IN SPITE OF THE
wEEvIL.
T. c. T., Columbus, Ca, writes: 1 wish
to plant few acres of cotton this year
of an early variety Year before last the
boil weevil ate up crop and this year
planted nothing. I thought 1 would
! plant an early variety next year and prac-
tice intense cultivation and fertilization
and see If / could head off the boil weevil.
What variety would you recommend?
If your farm is infested with the boil
weevil it will be practicable for you to
prepare your land intended for cotton,
| this fall Deep and thorough breaking
of the soil at this season is desirable be-
! 'auSe il abieS the land to absorb and
/ hold a greater amount of water and to
yield ii up as the growing crop needs it
| during the dry season. Moreover, ground
which is fall plowed can be prepared
much earlier than that which is pre-
pared in the spring. Then you have the
advantage of securing a much earlier
! seed bed. Thus your chances are better
! for obtaining a much better stand.
Under boil weevil conditions you
should certainly select an early matu--
| ing variety and fertilize literally with a
| formula containing d high per cent of
acid phosphate. You should cultivate
shallow and should fight the weevil by
/ picking frequently in the early part of
| the season and later on by picking up
the fallen and damaged squares. Con-
tnuation of this fight through July in
your section of the state should enable
you to raise a fairly good crop of bot
tom crop cotton
Among the earliest maturing varieties
of cotton of which we have knowledge
are the following. College No. l, Trice
Cooks, Hooper's, Cleveland Big Boil,
Texas Bur, Sunbeam, Culpepper. Cald-.
well, Meadows Browns NO 3, Williams
and Covington Toole. This latter varie-
ty is favorable because of it's ability to
resist black root and on lands where this
fungus is established it should be used
Of the varieties mentioned Cleveland's
Big Boil is the most extensively grown.
1t is more of a favorite in north Geor-
gla, however, than in south Georgia.
Covington Toole is more extensively
grown in your section of the state than
any other single variety. Poulnot and
Sunbeam are both quite extensively
grown and find about equal favor in
north and south Georgia. Cookies varie-
and a strain as resistant to this trouble
as possible should be selected if this
variety is to be grown. 1 suggest that
you try the varieties in the order named.
| We believe this is about the best advice
we can offer you under existing condi-
tions.
VELVET BEAN VS.. COTTONSEED
MEAL
u l. ruNb "a
consider velvet bean meal as good cot
| tOnseed meal?
Foods are chiefly valuable for the di-
] gestible constituents they contain. A
ton of velvet. beans without the seed
contains approximately 1871 per cent d.
gestible protein, sos per cent digesti-
BILE carbohydrates and SO per cent di-
gestible fat. If the hulls are included
the per cent of d:gestible protein drops
TO 14.9 per cent, the carbohydrates are
increased to SIS per cent and the fat
IS decreaced to 3.S per cent. When we
compare this with choice cottonseed
meal we find that the standard grade
contains 81 per cent of digestible pro-
tein, 21.S per cent digestible carbohy
drates and Sc per cent digestible fat.
! OF course prime meal is not so rich
in any of the above constituents and
good cottonseed meal is still lower III
grade. The cold pressed cake is still
lower. A standard grade of cottonseed
meal. containing 18 per cent nitrogen,
certainly contains considerably more
protein and less carbohydrates than
ton of velvet bean meal. When one is
\ purchasing a concentrate it is we'll to
remember that there are certain con-
stituents needed to balance up a ra-
ton Every farmer, as a rule, produces
enough carbohydrates on his farm, a.
this is the most common and abundant
nutrient Protein and fat, however are
scarce and harder to produce and more
costly on that account. One should re-
member the experience of the Germans
n this war which has shown that car
bohydrates cannot be substituted for
fat and that protein cannot be substI-
| uted for fat. Hence, in purchasing these
wo ingredients for use in balancing up
atoms we would be disposed to feel
hat one could afford to pay considerably
more for cottonseed meal than velvet
bean meal.
THE, VALUES OF VELVET BEANS.
C. L. s.. Loyeland, Ohio writes: l
would like information velvet beans,
their value and useQas feed. l understand
that they are valuable for feed as corn
meal. is this true:
Velvet beans constitute one of the
new and coming feed crops in the Unit
ed States. They can be grown with
success and profits on nearly all the
land devoted to corn in the south. This
is particularly true of all that vast re-
gion of country at the foot of the noun
tains and extending therefrom to the
sea. Nearly every acre of corn in the
south should be planted to velevt beans
and from twelve to fifteen bushels per
acre would be the average crop. These
beans. as you know, are fairly rich in
nitrogen, much more so than corn. U.s.
ually they can be combined with corn
to advantage for the feeding of all
classes of live stock. Velvet beans in