Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-04

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| general use of these strains.
More attention is now being direct
| ed to the selection of seed corn than
| in previous years. A larger and
| ever-increasing area of the crop is
planted in a water furrow, made, as
a rule, by using a middle buster fol
| lowed by what is known locally as
a bull tongue. Some of the fertilizer
is generally put in the bottom Of the
drill row. AS the corn develops the
soil is worked to it.. The balance
of the fertilizer is scattered between
| the drill rows and covered into the
soil by cultivators. Much of the
| fertilizer applied to crops in the
southeastern states is not put on
now until the corn is knee high. You
will see that working the soil to the
roots of the corn keeps them well
covered and retains the moisture to
better advantage. In many fields
where corn practically failed in
previous years, yields from 20 to 40
bushels are made by following out
the practice indicated.
The amount of fertilizer to use
varies from $500 to $500 pounds per
acre. The formulas in favor con-
tain from 2 to 3 per cent nitrogen,
to 10 per cent phosphoric acid, and
to per cent potash. Corn in the
Piedmont section is usually planted
in 4 to 4.5-foot rows. In the coastal
plain area it is planted in wider rows.
often feet apart. AS a rule. pea
nuts are planted in the middles, or
sometimes sweet potatoes or velvet
beans are planted in alternating mid
dies. Velvet beans are now largely
! planted in all the corn areas. Ii
would appear that velvet beans will
produce about as much nutrients per
acre as the corn crop itself yields.
The food returns per acre have thus
been practically doubled on many
farms in recent years.
Undoubtedly corn will be cult
| waited on a more extensive scale in
tn southeastern states in the future
than it has been in the past, and
apparently the yields can be in
creased quite substantially per acre
through the use of prope- selected
varieties and the institution Of the
methods of planting, fertilization
and cultivation indicated.
Suggestions Relative to Boil
Weevil Control
A correspondent, New York,
writes: I would like for you to
give me in as much detail as
possible plans for the control of
| the boil weevil and your ideas
for the reorganization of south
ern agriculture. If you feel that
the boil weeVil makes necessary
greater diversifcation Of
crops, what ones do you recon-
mend? In your opinion can
dairying, beef and pork produc-
ton be made profitable in the
south? 1 would also like your
ideas on the question Of mar
keting farm products, includ-
ing cotton.
The control of the boil weevil tc
| a reasonable degree can best be eff
! fected by the following procedure
First the cotton stalk should be
plowed under in the fall as soon as
all of the cotton is out. AS there
is no top.crop produced under boil
weevil conditions this can be done
relatively early in the season. Bury
| ing the stalks completely and thor
oughly before frostS occur means to
destroy literally thousands of wee
wills per acre which are in various
stages of development from the lar
vac to the adult beetle. The wee
wills destroyed in this manner rep
resent the seed crop for another
year. 1t is strange how difficult it
has been to convince our people of
the fundamental necessity of plow-
ing under the stalks promptly and
for the purpose indicated. A pair
of weevils which live through the
winter and come out in the spring
may represent a progeny of several
millions by the following autumn.
Therefore the destruction of the
weevils by blowing them under can
not be emphasized too strongly.
Next the preparation of the land
in the fall is desirable because I'M
der weevil conditions we must ro'
tate crops and cut down the cotton