Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04
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/ weevils. Poisoning merely controls
| them sufficiently to permit a full
crop of cotton and you can always
find weevils in the successfully pois-
oned fields.
Keep your cotton acreage low and
do everything possible to increase
| your yield per acre, as 1t costs just
as much to poison one-quarter bale
| per acre cotton as bale per acre cot
| ton.
Always leave an occasional portion
of a cut Imprisoned for comparison
with the adjoining poisoned tract.
This will show how much you have
, increased your yield by poisoning.
If you are considering poisoning,
write the Delta laboratory at TaA,;-
lah, La, for more detailed informa-
ton: also ask the advice of your
county agent.
Handling Fal1 sown Alfalfa Patch
r. H. K, Dawson, Gas writes:
1 have a half acre of alfalfa that
was sown last November and it
is full of weeds. but the stand Is
very good. 1 suppose I will have
to re-seed this fall. The alfalfa
is not yet in bloom. Will it kill
1t to let my COW Craze it as we'll
as the weeds? l have a COW that
has one teat affected. At inter-
walls the milk will come in Jumps
and the liquid part will be about
like water The calf is about
three months old. What should
I do to remedy this condition?
I would not pillow ~ or destroy the
alfalfa at this season of the year If
a good stand has been obtained. You
VIII probably find that as you have
an opportunity to cut this crop sew
eral times during the season the
weeds may tend to disappear, or GER
t9lnly not be as much in evidence as
they appear to be just at this time
AIfaIfa should not be cut according
70 the time, of blooming. but when
fresh sprouts start out from the
crown of the plants If you look
under the stalks carefully you will
see when this condition arises. and
then IS a safe and desirable time to
cut alfalfa.
This crop can be grazed by cattle
ana hogs. We have not advocated
us pelng used for grazing purposes
much IN this country because it is
narder to establish stand here than
IN other sections, and it Is such a
valuable hay crop that it has not
seemed good practice to us to sub
Ject 1t to heavy grazing, thereby en-
dangering the stand and probably
creating the necessity of re-seeding
more frequently than would other
wise be necessary
we nave been cble to keep good
stands Of alfalfa for ten years and
upward. We have always made it a
business, of course, to prepare the
land carefully by thoroughly fallow-
ing 1t and using we'll rotted yard ma
nure, or preferably green crops turn
ed under. An application of 800 to
500 pounds of acid phosphate after
you have cut the alfalfa will prob
ably be helpful. You may harrow
this lightly into the soil. Use a har-
row with the teeth set I'D straight
or pointing slightly Backward This
VIII not tear out the alfalfa p1ants
A COW which has not been used to
green foods should be accustomed to
alfalfa very gradually. Let her stay
on IL say only five minutes at first
ana put her on when the alfalfa is
dry. You may then lengthen tho M
ROD from day to day.
You should treat the affected teo+
OF the other COW in the manner adj
vlsed. Strip the teat very thorough
~ at least twice a day to cleanse If
OF any material that NAV have ac-
cumulated therein. Then make a So
luton of carbolic acid in the strength
OF one part to fifty parts of water
me water should be very thoroughly
Dolied and then allowed to cool. In
JecL TINS INTO the udder through the
i ~ Iuct. A good apparatus to use
is a piece of hose with a glass tin
attached to one end and the other
end fastened to a large funnel. Aft
er thls solution has stood in the teat
Tor few minutes strip it out. Yon
should be able to effect a cure in
thls way. 1t is the very best sug-
gesslon we can offer you under the
circumstances. We know this treat
ment Tor the same trouble has prov