Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-30
Potash AS a FERTILIZER FOE
PEAGETS

Potash As a FERTILIZER FOE
P1ACEES
c. w. NJ, Woodland, Cat, writes: !
expect to buy car Of potash for use as
! fertilizer for peaches. l am informed
/ that some brands of potash have proper
ties that detrimental to peaches.
viii lou kindly inform me the most
desirable sources of potash to use?
There has been considerable COM
plant made by fruit growers rela-
| tive to damage to their trees pre-
stunned to be brought about by the
use of what is termed American
potash in distinction to that i'm
ported primarily from Europe. The
American potash is to a consider
able extent derived from lakes in
| Nevada and other western states.
| The lakes are strongly alkaline and
| appear to contain a considerable
amount of soda. Some of this pre-
sumably finds it's way into the pot
ash. / am Credibly Informed that
| the government has prohibited the
sale of potash containing over one
| half or probably seven-eighths of a
per cent of soda for the purposes
! you have indicated. Personally we
have reached the conclusion here at
| the college that we would not use
material containing any more soda
than the amount l have suggested.
! Probably it would be better if it
were possible to avoid it's use alto
getheT. No very definite informa-
ton is available along this line as
yet, but We are giving the best adj
vice and information we have, and
We think that a warning and eau
ton relative to the use of this ma
terial is well worth at this time.
1t is our opinion that considerable
supplies of potash will be available
from European sources before loag.
This material will no doubt come
for some time from Alsace-Lorraine
1t will be of the same general type
and character as the German potash
with which our fruit growers and
planters were quite familiar in the
past. We do not think there will
be any objection to using material
from these sources.
W. NJ. Rowland Meriwether. s. c.,
writes: Although I own a plantation in
South Carolina, l a resident of
Georgia. I wish you to give HE what
ever information you can on the proper
feeding of cows to produce the greatest
quantity of milk
milk most economically and keep
up the flow as well will find it to his
interest to build a siIo, as this
structure will enable him to pro-
vide in the winter season the best
known substitute for grass. If you
do not happen to have a silo you
should arrange to build one and fill
it next year, as it will prove the
most desirable and best investment
to make if you expect to specialize
in dairy husbandry.
| If you are without sflage at the
present time the next best plan of
procedure will be as follows: If
you have corn slower, peavine hay
or any other form of roughage, run
it through a cutting box, chopping
the pieces up into relatively small
lengths. Take as much of this as
will be necessary to supply the
needs of your COWS for a single
meal. Scatter it down in a corner
on either a tight board floor or a
cement floor. Then get a watering
can and put handful of salt in the
water it contains and spray over
this mass of material. Pile it up
and let it stand for a few hours to
soften. This makes the next best
| substitute you can have for silage
and also provides as cheap a rough
| age as you could have for feeding
COWS. Let the cows have all of this
they will eat up clean at least twice
a day, and in the middle of the day
feed them some dry roughage in
! feed rack placed under a shed.
| In addition to the above, it will
be necessary to feed some concen-
trates. These should be used at the
rate of one to one and half pounds
a day for 100 pounds live weight,
for cow giving a flow of two gal
Ions and upwards. 1t will be neces-
sary for her to have eight to ten
pounds of a mixed ration. This
should consist of one-third cotton
seed meal, one-third peanut meal
and one-third velvet bean meal. You
may substitute corn meal for the
peanut meal, or you may put bran
in the place of either the cotton
seed meal or the peanut meal. OF
Ecourse, if you cannot buy cottonseed
meal relatively cheaper than the
peanut meal, use it in conjunction
with either velvet bean meal, bran
or corn meal on the basis of equal
parts. Peanut meal may be fed by
itself to COWS, and the same is true
of velvet bean meal. Our expe-
rience has indicated that mixture
of concentrates generally proves
somewhat more economical and sat
isfactory than the use of a single
ration. We have fed all of these
feeds separately and in mixtures
for some years past, and have found
that we could produce milk econom-
ically and could maintain a high
flow for long periods of time with
satisfaction.
Fertilizing Cotton in North Geors
gia.
f. w. r., Bishop, Ga, writes: l
lave bought farm with about sixty
five acres in cultivation. 1t has been