Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-11


ton began. 1t is going to be a long,
hard fight. There are going to be
many disappointments and heart
burnings, but the principal thing for
our people to keep in mind is the
will to win. If we do this think
we will be able to raise next year
and in the succeeding years any
where from 40 to so per cent Of
normal cotton crop. If we can not
grow cotton successfully in the face
Of boil weevil infestation, then | be-
lieve there is little chance elsewhere
in the south, and I am not ready to
admit that cotton is thing of the
past in a section of the world where
Providence provided soil and eli
matte conditions so much to it's
liking.
Top Dressing the Wheat Crop
j. w. W., Warrenton, Ga..
writes: we have $50 acres plant
ed in wheat on which we used .
200 pounds of $50 fertilizer per
acre. Would you advise using
nitrate of soda as a top dress
ing and when and how much
should be used? I<also have 125
acres planted i'm oats. I have
been told that 1914 fguano or 16
per cent acid put on early in
March will do as much or more
good than nitrate of soda. Is
this true? What kind of sacks
should put my wheat in for
marketing? n
Our only criticism Of the fertilizer
formula used under your wheat this
fall is the fact that the amount is
small. We believe 1t would have
been better to put 800 or 400 pounds
per acre OF, the aforesaid mixture
under the wheat, There was no par
ticular reason why you should use
nitrogenl this fall, though a small
amount might not have been a dis
advantage. as it would have helped
the quick development of the wheat
at this season of the year. In our
experience top dressing wheat with
nitrate. Of soda has proved desir-
able practice in this section of the
south. Our land, as you know, is not
rich in nitrogen and wheat is crop
that requires q considerable amount
of it. We would advise the use of
nitrate of soda at the, rate of so
to 100 pounds per acre. The nitrate
may be put on February 18th to
March 18th. In our experience the
early application iof nitrogen has
has proved the mos desirable prac-
tice. This particular form of nitro
gen should be top dressed over the
wheat on a day whenzthe blades are
dry so as to avoid the soda's burn
ing the leaves. 1t is not necessary
to work this material into the soil
as the moisture coming to the sur
face will Immediately dissolve the
nitrogen and make Ut available to
the growing plants. It is, of course,
desirable to put it on after rather
than before heavy rains. Put it on
sin sufficient time, however, in order
to give the wheat plenty of oppor-
tunity to use it, and we think you
will find it a profitable investment.
Top dressing oats with nitrate of
soda has been profitable in Our ex-
perience. We do not think that acid
phosphate used Fin March would
prove, anything like as satisfactory
as nitrogen. Acid phosphate is a
slow acting. material as compared
with nitrogen, and as a rule this
element should be covered into the
soil to a fairly good depth
Wheat is ordinarily put up in
tightly woven cotton bags which
hold, as a rule, one and a half to
two bushels. There should be no
difficulty in purchasing suitable bags
from any concern which manufac-
ture farmers supplies on a large
scale. No doubt you are already in
touch with parties, or can get in
touch with them, who can give you
quotations on the character of bags
indicated.
Curing Onions in Sweet Potato
Houses
w. G. ID, McDonough, Ca, :
writes. Could I dry out onions in
a sweet potato house? If SO,
how should they be handled?
II is our opinion that onions could
be dried out sufficiently in a sweet
potato storage house to, enable one
Co keep them for a good lorg time.
The onion, when it is first gathered.
containsRa very large amount of
water. The onions produced in this
state are especially sappy and it is
hard to keep them on that account.
If they were put out in shallow trays
in thin Mayors, however, so there
would be some space around the
onions and then some of the surplus
moisture could be dried out, as
would be easily feasible in the sweet
potatoe storage house. We think the
onion could be kept for any reason
able length of time and distributed
on the market as the demai.0 night
require. In this way we believe you
could make very good return from
the land devoted to this crop.
Onions, as you doubtless know, do
exceptionally well in Georgia if
planted at the right time and prop
erly feftilized and cultivated.
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