Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-23

must be especially We'll cultivated
and managed. The less vegetable
matter the soil contains the more
compact it becomes, the less likely
is the percentage of nitrogen indi-
Gated to become available. If the
soils be scratched and not thorough
ly ploWed and aereated, the chances
are that less than 2 per cent of the
nitrogen content will become avail
able to the crops grown on the land
in a given year. One per cent of
the phosphoric acid content is like
ly to become available and rs of 1
per cent Of the potash. The same
conditions affecting the reduction Of
nitrogen are likely to affect the
phosphoric acid and potash. Observe
that a bale Of cotton including the
plant food required to develop the
stalk, leaf aad stem will remove
from an acre eighty-four pounds Of
potash. If 2 per cent of nitrogen
becomes available in the case say,
of the Triton sandy loan, the cot
ton crop would only be supplied with
little more than fifty pounds out
Of the eighty-four of nitrogen re-
quired to produce a bale of cotton
If ! per cent of the phosphoric acid
only thirteen pounds of this element
would be available. And this is true
in the case of potash, though APP
parently there would be plenty Of
plant food available. To supply. the
deficiency in nitrogen, this land
would need to be supplied with the
equivalent of the plant food carried
by two hundred pounds of nitrate of
soda and at least one hundred pounds
of acid phosphate. AS the crop
would seldom be able to use all the
plant food applied in a commercial
form, heavier applications would fire.
Quently be desirable.
Fertilizer Formulas
Based OH the data presented, it
would appear that formulas needed
for cotton on most of our soil types
should contain at least 8 to 4 per
cent nitrogen, to II per cent phos-
phoric acid and to per cent pot
ash. In addition the soil will be
found in many instances to be slight
ly acid. In any event, we advise
the use of ground raw limestone at
the rate of one ton in north Georgia
and a ton and a half in south GeOr-
gia, applications to be made as a
rule to the legumeS grown in the
three-year rotation. Any means by
which the organic matter of our
soils may be built up will increase
their resistance to drouth, enable
them to utilize plant food to bet
ter advantage and so insure larger
and more profitable crops to the
landowner.
TREATING AN INFLANTED UDDER
The best procedure to follow in
dealing with the trouble about which
you write is as follows: Battle the
affected part very freely with hot
water. Keep up the Concentrations
for at least twenty minutes. Do this
at least three times daily. In the
meantime very gently rub and relax
the udder. Remember that this
work must be done very gently but
persistently! Keep the parts of the
udder which are bathed, oiled or
creased with vaseline, camphorated
oil, or some other similar substance
which will prevent the parts from
chatting.
The above should help to effect a
cure of the trouble unless an ulcer
or sore has formed. In that event,
either opening or removal will ,tbe
desirable. If the ulcer has come Ito
a head and that is found to be fill
ed with pus the latter should be
drained out carefully and carbolic
acid or some other dfsinfecting ma
terial applied to the wound. 1t is
very essential to keep the wound
open and clean. This will require
careful and skillful handling. In
II han0Y7onS
necessary we suggest the advisable
ity of having competent veterinary
surgeon handle the proposition. f.,
ATTENDANCE UPON THE COL
LEGE oE AGRICULTURE
correspondent writes. i would like
to know the enrolment in the college,
of agriculture in. the four-year course
for the years 1910, 1913, 1916 and the
present year.
When the reorganization of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture
was undertaken in September, 1907,
[ believe there were probably three
men who had received the degree of
bachelor of science in agriculture.
During the year 1908, siXty-seven
men took up work in this institu-
ton and were classed as long-course
students. In 1910 this number had
grown to ninety-eight; in 1913, to
1856; in 1916, to 200. Our enrolment
in degree courses at the present time
is 800, in addition to 200 other indi-
viduals who are here on the yearly
basis. In other words, we have more
than 500 people enrolled at present
in our long courses alone.
Candidates for degrees, as you
doubtless know, must have COM
pleted the equivalent of a four-year
high school course before they are
admitted to the college. In other
words, we have fifteen-unit en-
trance requirement from this date
forward. From 1908 to 1920 there
have been enrolled in our long
courses between 2,4OO and 1850 stu
dents, and in our short courses ap-
proXimately 1000. We will thus
have reached and given instruction
to about $500 individuals on the
campus here at Athens.
You understand and fully appre-
ciate, I am sure, the wonderful
transformation which has taken
place as regards the changed atti-
tude of our farmers and the public
cation. Our problem at present
seems to be getting buildings,
equipment and sufficient pay for the
instructors needed to teach the men
and women who are now DESTROYS of
taking courses in this institution.
MISTAKES IN MANAGEMENT OF
ECGs
E.. G. d., Nebo, y. c., writes: I had
my hogs on a floored pen, and it seemed
they were not doing well so 1 turned
them out in the lot, and as soon as they
would get on the ground they would
fall over and could not get up again. I
have given them all kinds of stock now
derS but nothing does any good. The
trouble is all in their hips and back
ANY advice as to what to do for them
will be appreciated.
One might suspect that cholera
was causing some of the trouble
about which you write. The sudden
death of your animals would seem