Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW III. SOULE

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When used alone, the arsenate o.
lead tends to have a caustic action
To prevent injury to the foliage
three pounds Of unslaked lime
should be slaked and added to each
| so gallons.
Soap Solution-One pound Of any
good, hard soap dissolved in from
six to eight gallons Of water con
stitutes soap solution. This is
contact insecticide for soft-bodled IN
sects, such as lice.
"Black Leaf 40'-This is a pre-
pared, commercial spray. 1t comes
in cans, with full directions for di
luton. It's main use is against lice
and soft-bodied insects. The dilu
ton recommended for lice is L &c
500 to 1000 parts Of water. ;
Standard Varieties of Soy Beans for
Georgia
H. F. D., Eatonton, Ga,
writes: I am thinking of plant
ing a row Of corn and a row OF
SOY beans as COW feed to use
the soy beans ground up in the
place of cottonseed meal. What
varieties would you recommend?
What is the feed value of pea
nuts and vines ground as COW
feed? How many pounds of vel
vet beans in the pod does it
take to shell a bushel? What is
the feed value of velvet bean
hulls?
Quite a number Of varieties Of soy
beans are we'll adapted Tor CROWN
in Georgia. Among the strains
which have made good yields in
tests here at the college are Vlr-
ginia. Black, Mammoth Yellow, Will
son, Pekin, Haberlandt, Brown, Tar
Heel and Ito San Yellow. The
amount of grain yielded by these
varieties has varied from 21.8 bush
els in the case Of the Virginia to 78
bushels in the case Of the Ito San
Yellow. The yield Of hay has varied
from one to two tons per acre. The
largest yields of hay were obtained
from the Black, the Brown and the
Virginia.
Since these tests were made a new
variety Of soy bean has come on the
market known as O-Too-Tan-. This
Is especially valuable for cultivation
for hay and forage. It does not
seem to be as desirable a variety
to grow for grain as the Mammoth
Yellow and some of the other sorts
named.
Personally we would not attempt
to, grow soy beans in association
with corn, but would seek a sepa-
rate area of land for this purpose.
Grow the beans in rows, say 2.5 to 3
feet apart, spacing the beans in the
rows about ten to twelve inches. 1t
will take about a peck OF seed to
plant an acre on this basis.
! When these beans are mature
harvest them with grain binder,
cure out in shocks, and then threSh
and grind the seed The velvet bean
meal may be mixed in equal parts
with corn and cob meal and furnish
an excellent ration Of further adj
vantage. The stalks and leaves can
be fed to the cow as dry roughage
with advantage.
If you wish to grow an abundance
Of feed to maintain dairy cattle we
suggest that you plant Red Head or
Sumac sorghum and white kaffir
corn in alternate rows. This will
give you a larger yield of forage
than you will obtain from corn, and
these crops will withstand dry
weather better. This is a combina-
ton we use to fill our silos. If you
expect to continue in the dairy bust
ness it will be both desirable and
economical for you to have a silo.
You might still plant a considerable
area of your ground to corn and use
the grain as the basis OF a ration
for your cows and horses to advan-
tage. The roughage can also be fed,
If run through shredding ma
chine, to the various classes of stock
maintained on your farm.
Peanuts and the vines if ground
together would not make a particu-
larly satisfactory feed for cows. We
would prefer to have the oil extract
ed from the peanuts and use the
resulting meal. The vines by them
selves would make an excellent hay.
They are well adapted as a supple
mental food for cows, but should
not, Of course, be expected to con-
stitute the sole dry roughage ration
fed.
Velvet beans in the pod weigh 100
pounds to the bushel., They shell
out eighty pounds to the bushel.
Velvet bean hulls have very little
feeding value and are not very rich
in fertilizing constituents either.
How to Use Calcium Arsenate
Against the WeeviI
A. c., HARRISON, Ga, writes:
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