Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW NJ. SOULE

must ever be ready to carry on %
go over the top" and to do our VT"
for education. We had 100000 O. our
soldiers crushed and manned by war
and buried 10000 of the men who
wore the khaki in the hills and for
ests of France for idealism, liberty,
democracy, and for ciViliZa ton. Is
it not worth while. therefore, to
spend 1.-THE of what the war cost
us for sustaining and endOWing ed
ucatiOn on such a scale that through
the creative genius of our race we
may prevent the recurrence of such
debacle. as those of this day and
generation have Witnessed?
Managing an Alfalfa Acreage
j. W. A.. EaSanolee, GA, writes:
| have three fourths of an acre of black
loan bottom land which l seeded to al
falfa in April of this year. 1t was in
cane and peas last year, which l cut
and turned under last fall; this spring
il was turned under and cut with Il har-
row several times. used 400 pounds
of commercial fertilizer and seven
loads Of manure and 1000 pounds of
lime. The alfalfa is six inches
high. is blooming and is real yellow
Please let me know what it needs.
Judging from what you say in your
letter, your alfalfa was not properly
inoculated at the time you seeded it.
If you did not inoCulate ii, YOU could
hardly expect to maintain a success
full stand on the area of land in
question. You cannot inOculate the
alfalfa satisfactorily after it has
been seeded. OF course, one can make
an effort in this direction, and the
most practicable thing for you to
undertake to do at this time would
be to secure earth from some field
successfully in the past. Scatter it
over the surface of the ground and
harrow it in. Two or three hundred
pounds of this earth should be APP
piled per acre. You should secure
the soil from a healthy alfalfa field
so as to avoid the danger of bring
ing undesirable diseases to your
land.
You may. of course. not have cut
this alfalfa at the right time. one
should not be guided by the bloom
ing period, but should watch the
crowns of the plant and when fresh.
young shoots appear the alfalfa
should be cut. The cutting should be
done when the shoots are compare
lively small.
you to do now would be to apply
ton or two of crushed lime rock to
your land. The underground, raw
rock should be used for this purpose.
Scatter it over the surface of the
ground and harrow it in. A little
of mana cement suggested prove
helpful, apply 800 to 500 pounds Of
acid phosphate, say after two or
three cuttings have been harvested.
Harrow this well into the SOIL.
Fertinzing Hillside or Rolling Land
w. A. S.. Owensboro, KY, writes;
About how much fertilizer should be
used on an acre of hillside or rolling
land? When land is not terraced, does,
not a good deal of the fertilizer wash
away?
The amount of fertilizer used on
hilIy or rolling land in Georgia va
ries materially with the crop and
to some extent with the nature OF
the land. AS rule, probably 2OO
pounds of fertilizer are applied per
acre. This mixture will probably
contain 2 per cent nitrogen, per
cent phosphoric acid and in pre-war
times per cent of potash. Some
pounds and upwards per acre OF a
better grade of fertilizer The best
of our farmers probably use 400 and
500 pounds. The fertilizer used in
such cases will probably contain
to 3 IL per cent of nitrogen. and
to 10 per cent phosphoric acid. Not
much potash is used at present. Nor
maIly, however, 2, 3 and even per
cent of this element is used. The
best class of farmers naturally ter
carefully than the poorer farmers,
as there is much less loss of fer
tilizer through erosion on such lands
than on the lands of the small or
careless farmer who does not pillow
and prepare the soil thoroughly and
who makes but little effort to MAIN
tain a satisfactory system of ter
races.
The Effect of Tuberculosis on Cows
subscribers, Doerun, Ga, writes;
When a COW has tuberculosis, does she
give her normal flow of milk, and is
her appetite good? Describe symptoms
as fully as you can.
In the beginning evidences of
tuberculosis in cattle generally pass
unnoticed. If the lungs are inVolv-
ed, there is usually short, dull
cough. This may become more ag-
gravated as the case proceeds. AS
a rule, the cough is most commonly
observed in the morning. Only in
advanced stages of this disease is
the breathing affected. There 8
seldom any discharge from the nose.
AS the disease advances the breath
first the body does not seem to be
affected. In the course of time,
however there is a loss of flesh and
appetite and some danger of ema-
citation is exhibited. AS a rule, there
is gradual decrease in the flow of
milk. Finally the coat becomes star
ing and the skin dry and hard Di-
gestive troublesome frequently met
with; diarrhOea alternating with
constipation. 1t is a comparatively
simple matter to determine whether
Il COW is affected or not. To this
end the tuberculin test should be in
stituted. You should employ a COM
petent veterinarian to make the same
! for you. He can do it in compar-
atively short time and at a cost
which you are fully justified in in
curing, if you are in any way led
to believe that your COW is suffer
ing from this disease.
INFORMATION ABOUT VELVET
EEANS d..
W. s. b., Roanoke, va, writes: /,
am interested in trying to grow velvet
beans, and would like to know flie
time for planting, how the soil is pre-
pared. etc. have I,100:acre grazing
farm and in the summer there is pIen-
~ of blue gut winter feeding is quite
problem. Can they be used as hog
info