Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-08

spoonsful Of seed per one hundred
square yards is about the right
amount to use. Mix this quantity of
seed with about. one peck of fer
tilizer, road dust or wood ashes. In
order to insure an even showing the
seed should be divided into two equal
parts and the bed gone over both
ways. One of the best methods OF
covering the seed is by tramping with
the feet. This firms the soil and
should be left as smooth as possible.
If the smoothness of the bed will
admit a hand roller may be used for
covering the seed.
| After the seed are sown the bed is
enclosed by laying poles to 10
inches in diameter around it. The
poles are staked down to keep them
in place. Soil should then be thrown
up to the outside of the poles to
make the bed tight against winds,
insects and excess water. If more
convenient boards may be used in
stead of poles. A good plan is to
| dig ditch around the bed with an
outlet to take away the water, as
shown in the illustration. This in
sures good drainage and prevents the
possibility of damage from surface
water. Hogs and cattle must be
fenced away from the bed. =
After the poles are in place the
bed is covered with cheese cloth.
The cloth will retain the warmth.
and make the plants earlier, and il
| tight all around and free from holes
will keep, out the insects.
| Sew as many widths of this cloth
together as is necessary to cover the
bed. The cloth is kept from sagging
to the ground by placing wire, poles
Or Stats across the bed. Also, wick
cts may be made from green switches
! and placed here and there over the
/ bed.
| Tobacco seed may be sown from
January l to March 1. The first to
me middle of January is probably
TOBACCO seed are very small and
| hard. They are slow, but seldom
fail to terminate. Seed twelve to
seventy-tive years old have given good
kill some of the seed while they are
terminating and the seed left is not
sufi1cient for a good stand, more seed
may be sown without disturbing the
PED. The seed may be sown over the
will carry the seed through the cloth
| into the soil.
Tobacco plants, grow rapidly when
conditions are right. 1t may be nee
| " Wdl6r the pea the
weather is dry. A liberal watering
every three or four days is better
| than a little wetting each day. If
the bed gets weedy the weeds should
be pulled out by hand, preferably
when the bed is wet. If a mole gets
into the bed he must be caught or he
| will destroy the entire bed
A few days before transplanting
the cloth may be removed to harden
the plants, or if the plants are be-
I'M fIn I'll oil h.
removed earlier. 1t is advisable to
allow the plants to stay on the bed
| unit! they are five to six inches high.
Small plants do not live we'll nor
be ready to transplant in the field
| by the first to fifteenth Of April.
Always remember it is better to
have too many than not enough good
plants. Without plants the whole
may supply as many as $4,000 plants
| from 100 square yards in two or three
drawings but it is not safe to count
on more than $4,000.
Growing ana Curing Sweet Po-
tatoes
L. D. W.. Jackson, Ga, writes:
| l wish some information in re-
gard to the cultivating and cur
ing of sweet potatoes for COM
mercial use. Will sorghum cane
make silage of any value? Or
| could 1 mix pummies and corn
half and half and get a palatable
roughage for cows?
Sweet potatoes can be cultivated
| ons a commercial basis with advan-
| tage and profit in many sections of
Georgia. This crop does best, as you
know, on land of only fair fertility
and which is somewhat sandy in
| character. Of course the land needs
to be carefully and thoroughly pre-
this crop is desirable. We suggest
the use of a minimum of 500 pounds
of a 1913. A little more potash
would not be out of place, and if
| the land is very thin 4 per cent of
nitrogen can often be used to adj
vantage. We put the fertilizer under
the drill row before the sets are
planted. You can of course bed out
a sufficient number of potatoes with
to produce literally thousands of sets.
We find it more satisfactory to grow
our own sets than to purchase them.
| / am not arguing against the use of
commercial sets, but simply pointing
| out an economic method of pro-
! cedure.
Potatoes can only be saved salts
factorily through the medium of what
is termed a curing house. These are
to put UP. You can build them of
any size. If potatoes are properly
handled they can be kept all through
the winter, late spring and even early
summer. The percentage of loss will
| be very small where good judgment
is exercised. Of course there is gen