Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-21


Leading Varieties Of Early Corn
S. A, Norwood, Ga, writes: ]
want to plant an early variety
of corn that will make good
yield and good table meal. What
varieties would you recommend?
also hope to grow velvet beans
in it and grow fifty head Of hogs.
You will not make q mistake in
planting one of the prolific types OF
corn for the purpose you have IN
view. These varieties can be plant
ed early. In fact, L know of some
these strains already. Among the
varieties we can recommend without
hesitation are Hastings Prolific
Whatley's Prolific, Marlboro Prolific
and Cookies Prolific. There is little
to choose between these varieties
Cookies Prolific produces a larger
stalk and is probably a little slower
as to maturity than some of the
other strains. Whatley's Prolific has
a red cob but a white grain: Cooke $
Prolific probably produces the fiinti-
est grain of any Of these varieties
All of them will yield we'll on upl d
soils. They mature relatively early
and produce satisfactory grade OF
meal. They are as hardy and free
from disease as any strain you can
plant and long experience has shown
that they are we'll adapted for gen.
eral cultivation throughout the state.
On bottom lands one might plant some
larger red sorts. though the prolific
strains do we'll in such locations also.
ing good seed of the varieties men,
toned, as they are standard sorts
and widely cultivated.
Velvet beans should be grown, in
the cornfields. The average yield
per acre will vary from to Is BUSH
els. Velvet bean meal is not good
for young pigs, but mature hogs will
gather the beans in the field through
out the fail and winter and thrive
on them to good advantage. Hogs
fed on velvet beans should be finished
off on corn, as the tendency of the
beans is to make the fat rather dark
and so not as attractive in appear
ance as that obtained from corn-fed
animals.
The velvet bean is certainly a val
liable supplemental crop for our
farmers to grow in association with
their corn. as it about doubles the
nutritlve units you can gather from
an acre of land. In other words, we
regard the growth of velvet beans
with corn so producing a crop equiv
alent in feeding value to about 10 to
Is bushels of corn per acre. If you
obtain an average yield of corn per
association with this crop you are
therefore harvesting the equivalent
from the two crops of something like
rs to 80 bushels Of corn per acre.
Using Cotton Seed Under Corn
r. A. j., Bethlehem, Ga,
writes: have ten acres of gray
land with red subsoil that I wish
to plant in prolific corn. I have
had cotton seed hulled and
ground into meal, and will mix it
with an equal part of acid. What
per cent of potash will L have?
A ton of cotton seed with hulls
contains about 80 to Sc pounds of
do not greatly affect the content of
potash. A ton of a good grade. of
cottonseed meal, in other words, con-
tains about as much poash as a ton
of seed. If you were to mix together
equal parts of acid and the materN
you describe in your letter you would
obtain formula which should con-
tain a little less than LIZ per cent of
potash. You could not increase the
amount of this element in the COM
blnation you propose to make unless
you added some potash salts, such as
kainit or muriate of potash. The
mixture you propose to make would
contain approximately 1870 to 100
pounds of phosphoric acid and, there
fore, 8 to 9:5 per cent of this ma
terial. 1t will probably contain
nitrogen to approximate per cent
of this element.
This material could, of course, be
used under the drill row for corn.
We Aould prefer to put most of it
betweHa the rows after the corn Is
up 10 co IL inches high. If any is
used under the drill row you should
be careful to see that it does not
come in direct contact with the
seed, as 1t may affect the germinat-
ing qualities unfavorably.
Leaving the oil in the seed, which
we take to be the practice you fol-
low, is really a disadvantage rather
than an advantage. There is no rea-
son why this should not have been
extracted and used for any purpose
to which it is adapted. The oil in
cottonseed consists of carbon, hydro
gen and oxygen, elements which the
plants obtain from the air. These
materials are not plant food in the
sense of our ever having to add them
to the soil. This is one Of the ways
in which nature has provided for our
being able to have an abundance of
certain kinds of food essential to
man and animals without depicting
the supply of mineral salts in the
land