Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-11

iSfactory types apparently for Gull
tiVation under boil Weevil condi-
tions. Sunbeam has also made a
fine record. Cleveland Big Boil is
a fine sort and relatively early.
There are a, number of strains of this
variety on the market and one should
be sure to get standard sort. Pied
mont IS an early cotton, as we'll as
Express and Texas Bur. Browns
No. l has done quite we'll with us.
You should be able to secure seed
of any of these varieties in sufficient
amount to answer your purpose.
Fertilizers Suited to Winter Cereals
G. E. B., Millcdgeville. Ga, writes:
Kindly adves me the est fertilizer to
use for wheat when planting; also for
prec.ate this information as 1 am pre-
pairing to start sowing grain.
On land of the character you de-
scribe we would prefer to use
minimum Of 800 pounds of a formula
containing per cent of nitrogen,
per cent phosphoric acid and : to
3 per cent potash, however we think
so pounds would be better. Some
people prefer to leave the nitrogen
out in the fall and confine the APP
plication principally to phosphoric
acid and potash. We have never
thought this good practice, and it
has not been demonstrated to our
experiments that it is good policy to
leave nitrogen out of the formula al
together in the fall.
The same formula VIII answer very
| well for oats, as the food require
ments for these crops do not vary
| materially In the spring we would
| top dress either oats or wheat, ac-
cording to the season, the natural
richness of the soil and the prog
| ress of the crop, with nitrate of
soda or sulphate of ammonia. We
would use so to 100 pounds and put
| it on not later than March Broad,
cast it over the ground on a day
| when the plants are dry. Harrow in
with a weeder in the case Of sulphate
| of ammonia. This action will not be
necessary if you use nitrate of
| soda We have always put our fer
| tilizer under the oat or wheat crop
at the time of planting and have
found this to be the most satisfac-
tory practice.
S. B. H.. Bradley Ca, writes: The
weeyiI has struck this section and we
are looking around for something to
take the p4uc eOf cotton. What do you
think OF the manufa cture Of syrup ON d
large scale? If it would justify it we
couId get up a good size stock company
of farmers to build Il plant and raise
the cain. Is there II ready sale for
syrup? Your advice in the matter will
he appreciated.
Presumably syrup could be pro-
duced satisfactorily in Jones coun-
| ty and on a fairly profitable basis to
eral ways of handling a proposition
| of this kind. One would be for the
individual farmer who grows not
more than five acres of cane to in
| stall his own plant and send his
| product to large refiner, as is
! done already by a large number of
| producers in south Georgia.
AS you doubtless know, Georgia
is the largest producer of cane syrup
in the United States and the prod.
uct made in this state has a ma
| tional reputation. The center Of
the syrup producing industry in
| Georgia is around Carroll and Grady
| counties. The soils there are of the
| Tifton sandy loan type and of the
| Norfolk series as we'll, the latter
| naturally predominating.
| A group of farmers could go to-
| gether, of course, and purchase a
| power mill. Whether it would be
| better for them to do this and for
| each to operate his own evaporation
I is a question of how well their eff
| forts could be coordinated, and the
| character and management which il
| would be possible to obtain from the
| operation Of a plant on an extern
sive scale. A farmer would need
| to cultivate at least so acres OF cane
| to Justify the operation of an eX-
tensive syrup-making plant. OF
course, there should be no difficulty
in finding a sufficient number CT
| farmers in a given community grow
| ing cane to justify the installation
| of a big plan:.
Sugar cane is practically a sure
crop wherever the soils and seasons
| are suited. AS you doubtless know.
| it requires a long season in which
to develop. Sandy. loamy lands of
| the character described are best
| suited to it's cultivation, and liberal
fertilization is necessary.
The lighter colored grades of sy-
rup are generally obtained from
lighter lands. The heavier the ap-
| pIication of manure. especially that
containing large quantities of hui
mus, the darker the syrup likely
to be produced. AS to the varieties
of cane the red or purple, red
ribbon, and the green are probably
standard varieties in the order
named. Japanese cane produces an
| excellent quality of syrup. but the
| yield per ton is not so great as that
| of some of the other varieties men
toned.
Liberal fertilization of sugar cane
is essential and careful preparation
| of the land is also an important fac
tor. The use of so to 1000 pounds
of formula containing to per
cent of nitrogen, 4 per cent of phos-
phoric acid, and to per cent of
potash is desirable. The heavy syrup
mills used in factories will extract
about 80 pounds of syrup from 100
pounds of cane. The one-horse mill
used on farms will extract only
SO to go pounds. Where one grows
only four or five acres of cane a
small mill will answer Where 20
acres are grown a mill capable of
handling 10 to Is tons should be
used. These mills cost $250.00 and
upward. 1t would require at least
a six horsepower engine to operate
tho satisfactorily. The mill should
be located on a hillside. as a rule,
for convenience in handling the ma
teria1.
Most of the syrup made in Geor-
gia is cooked in a syrup evaporator
or a syrup kettle. The kettle is
usually sold with a small power mill.
The evaporation you are no doubt