The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-19
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Kill COddllng- Moth to Save Winter
Apples.

Apples.
Farmers should spray their orchards
Immediately for the second brood of
the coddling-moth which produces the
worms found in the apples in the fall
and winter. The College of Agriculture
recommends this spray to be ~
pounds of powdered arsenate of lead
to 80 gallons spray Of either bordeaux
mixture or lime-sulphur. Bordeaux is
preferable Do not neglect this spray
! as ii means apples free from worms in
the winter.
Sow Rape in Corn Field Now For
September Feed.
From the middle to the last of July
is good time to SOW rape in corn that
will be hogged down in September.
This rape can be sown broadcast at the
rate vi eight pounds to the acre and
covered with 4 small fourteen tooth
cult.vator. This crop is especially to
be recommended at this time since
tankage is so high in price, being
worth approximately $500 a ton, and
when hogs are turned in green corn
if they have some rape it will very
largely Offset the use of tankage. 1t
will be found best to SOW this crop
after the middle of July as it will in
crease its probability of escaping raw
ages of plant lice which so often de-
stroy early sown rape.
Can Farmers Afford to Use High
Priced Fertilizers on Wheat!
Prof. George Roberts, head of the
Agronomy Department College of Ag-
ritculture, gives the following infor-
nation concerning fertilizers on wheat
as taken from experimental records
covering period of four to six years
These records were made on practical
ly all fthe various soils outside of
the Bluegrass region and show that
when 10 per cent. acid phosphate was
used a the rate of 200 pounds per acre
it gives anu increase of Az bushels of
wheat per acre on ground that had not
been lined and 8 bushels on land that
had been lined. These experiments
were conducted on soils that were of
no more than avearge fertility since
the unfertilized ground yielded an av-
erage of s bushels of wheat per acre
He believes that $50 pounds of 16 per
cent. acid phosphate or its equivalent
in steam bone meal or basic Stag will
be sufficient for wheat and that 1t will
greatly aid in giving astand of grass
and clover in the wheat. He has also
found that in nose cases raw ground
rock phosphate has given as good or
better results on the average on I'M
lined soil that an equal investment In
acid phosphate. He says that when
the price of acid phosphate becomes
more than twice as much per ton as
rock phosphate then the farmers may
well consider seriousl ythe use of the
latter. However, this material cannot
be used successfully in small quanti-
ties drilled at wheat sowing time. It
should be applied at the rate of 1000
to 1000 pounds per acre broadcast and
well mixed with the soil. preferably
being plowed under. This application
will be sufficient for three to six wears.
In using acid phosphate, limestone
will greatly increase its effectiveness
and in most sections other than the
bluegrass, the effect on the clover fol-
lowing the wheat will pay for an ap-
plication of lime. This application
should be about two tons per acre. but
even as little as 1000 pounds will be
profitable
Summing up these results would in
dictate that wheat growers in other
than the bluegrass section of the state