Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-12

material can be shoveled into wagons
and applied to the soil as manure.
Analysis of barnyard manure
freshl; Nitrogen, As per cent; pot
.21 per cent; lime, 81 per cent.
Moderately well rotted barnyard
manure: Nitrogen, 5 per cent; pot
ash, so per cent; phosphoric acid,
.26 per cent; lime, Z per cent.
Bar1yard manure, thoroughly rot
ted: Nitrogen, SIS per cent; potash,
IS per cent; phosphoric acid, g per
cent; lime, .88 per cent.
Hen manure: Nitrogen, 1853 per
cent; potash, .S5 per cent; phosphor-
ic acid, t.54 per cent. lime, "a per
cent.
Unleached wood ashes: Potassium
oxide, 8.72 per ceit; phosphoric acid,
.32 per cent; calcium oxide. 1851 per
cent.
Leached wood ashes: Potassium OK
ide, 1872 per cent; phosphoric acid,
1.79 per cent; calcium oxide, 48.07
per cent.
Oak leaves: Nitrogen. so per cent;
potassium oxide, $40 per cent; phos-
phoric acid, .058 per cent; calcium
oxide, .548 per cent.
Ground bone: Nitrogen, per cent;
total phosphoric acid, 1919 per cent,
insoluble phosphoric acid, 1853 per
Dried blood: Nitrogen, S.24 per
cent.
sulphate of ammonia: Nitrogen, 20
per cent.
Nitrate of soda: Nitrogen, Is per
cent.
Cottonseed meal: Nitrogen, 81 to
rs per cent; potash, II to per
cent; phosphoric acid. 2.8 per cent.
Acid phosphate: Available phos-
phoric acid, 10 per cent.
Kainit: Potassium oxide, 14.O4 per
sulphate of potash: Potash, 51,2s
Muriate Of potash: Potash, so per
AS a rule, the home garden is
planted by hand. A row is opene
and the seed dropped as desired. A
on a small scale for opening up
If seeds are very small, such as
celery seeds and tur1lp SEEDS
good method is to mix the SEED Win
the soil. In this way the gardener
has a larger amount of material to
distribute and can consequently plant
his seeds more evenly.
ONLY a few suggestions can be
made as to when to plant seed. When
sowing early, before danger from
frost is past, plant deep so that the
young plant may be protected from
cold. It is we'll also to plant fairly
deep in the late part of the season
so that the seeds can be down Where
they will receive sufficient moisture
for termination.
The only general rule that can pc
given for the planting of seeds is to
SOW them twice as deep as the long
est diameter; that is. ii one is plant
ing butter beans that are as much as
one inch long, the proper depth for
sowing them would be two inches.
After the seeds are planted the
If a seed drill is used this implement
firms the ground itself, but when
planting by hand, tread the rows af-
ter the seeds are sown. Should q
heavy packing rain come immediate
ly after planting, or before the seeds
are up, it becomes necessary to
break the crust so that the tiny
seeds may get through. 1t is advts-
able to SOW nurse crop with some
seed, that is a crop that terminates
quickly and breaks through the soil.
Such crop is radish, and where
celeriac, or such plants, it is well
to plant in the same row crop OF
radish or turnips as nurse crop.
This crop can be removed as soon
as the other plants have become well
established.
Too much importance cannot be
laid upon the use of good seeds
Money saved at the time of purchase
of the seeds will generally lead to a
loss in the crop. Purchase from a
good reputable seed house and do not
buy packages of seeds that may
possibly have been laying around
stores for several years. 1t is a
good plan after having mapped the
garden to estimate the amount OF
seed desired for the whole season
End then to make the purchase direct
from some large seed concern. Good