Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13


planting the beans. The chances are
that you will have to break the land
for a succeeding crop of corn. After
preparing a good seed bed, we would
fertilize it, using say from three to
five hundred pounds of the formula
containing three and One-haf per
cent of nitrogen, nine per cent of
phosphoric acid and from three to
four per cent of potash.
FERTrE1z1NG CoTToN ON LAND
SUBJECT TO RUST
d. f. NJ. Anderson. $. c., writes:
| diskcd my land in November II to
IA inches deep with tractor. MY
land is black and sandy. In 1919 l used
a 9-2-1 fertilizer and was bothered
with rust a great deal. What fer
tilzer would you advise for cotton oil
this land? Would it be best oput
| all under at planting time and stir it
well in the soil
There is need of potash in much
Of our land. One test indicates that
there are circumstances under which
an application of as high as per
cent of available potash might be
| justified. Your formula was too low
in this element, and [ suggest that
you try to remedy this defect the
present year. You may use potash
under cotton derived either from
| American or foreign sources. [
would recommend the use Of for
mula containing enough of this ma
| terial to supply each acre of land
with minimum Of twenty-five
pounds Of available potash. This
would call for an application of 200
pounds of kainit or say from 500
| to 1000 pounds of unleashed wood
ashes derived from the burning Of
hard wood. You may, of course, use
an American source of potash in suf-
doient quantity. to supply the
amount Of plant food indicated.
A god formula to apply would be
one containing not less than to
IL per cent of available nitrogen,
| 8 to per cent Of available phos-
| phoric acid and 4 to 5 per cent of
| potash. A formula of this kind will
no Glcebt be expensive to buy, but
we believe it will prove profitable
used in the amounts suggested. This
| is the only suggestion we can make
that would likely aid yoA tn over
coming the trouble you experienced
| last year.
| Apparently the rusting Of cotton
| is associated to a considerable de-
gree with a deficiency of available
| potash in the soil. All Of the fertt-
lizer, in our judgment, should be
put under the drill row at the time
the cotton is planted.
Establishing a Bermuda Grass
! Pasture
w. E. J., Three Notch Ala, writes
! I want to put out lot of land in
| Bermuda grass for pasture. VIII you
| please advise me the best way to do
| it? Is it better to SOW the seed or
plant the roots? How should the land
be prepared and how wide should the
rows be?
There are two methods of planting
| Bermuda grass which may be follow
ed with considerable success in Geor-
gia. The first of these calls for the
establishment of the grass from
seed. The second, from the use of
sets. In either event, the land should
be carefully and thoroughly prepar
ed by blowing and cultivating. 1t
is true that many stands have been
| secured with much less labor than
have suggested as necessary. On the
other hand, it has taken a longer
time to get a good start and very
often the fields have been patchy for
long time. If you are not willing
to handle your land in this manner,
then a more Indifferent preparation
of the soil than I have suggested
may be followed. In seeding Ber-
muda grass, wait until the land has
warmed up. This is a semi-tropical
grass and should, therefore, not be
planted before May 1 or thereabout.
1t is slow to start and will not make
very much showing the first year,
but should cover the land pretty we'll
the second season. Some of the
seed on the market Is of an unsa tbs
| factory grade, SO I would not pur-
chase it unless given a reasonable
! guarantee as to it's quality.
If you plant sets, put them out in
rows about three feet apart, placing
the sets eighteen inches apart in the
! drill row. Cut the sets up into small
sections and drop by hand, pressing
| each piece into the soil in passing
with the foot. Another method
which may be followed is to cut up
| a large quantity of the sets and
scatter from wagon bed and press
| into the soil with a roller.