Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-06

Of your holdings to advantage for
this purpose.
Starting Apple Trees From the
Seed
B. D., Valley Head, Ala,
writes: What time should apple
seed be planted for budding or
grating stock? How is the best
way to tan hide?
Apple seed should ordinarily be
planted in October. You can put
some of them out now, but they are
not likely to terminate satisfactorily
nor to come up uniformly. Rather
than wait a season, however, we
would advise you to follow this prac-
tice. The chances are that the
plants will come up in a straggly
manner, but some of them may at
tain sufficient size to enable you to
bud them about next August.
Hides may be tanned as follows:
The first process is that known as
soaking and f1eshing. This is done
to soften them and remove the salt
blood and dirt. After the hides have
been thoroughly softened and cleaned
they must then be f1eshed. This con-
sists in removing all fleshy and fatty
matter from the flesh side of the
hide. This can be done entirely by
hand with sharp knife if one exer-
cises sufficient patience. On a COM
mercial scale this work is now done
by machinery.
The next process is to put the hide
in vat containing milk of lime to
loosen the hair and epidermis. Hides
are then placed in what is known as
sweat pits or dark, close rooms
where the air Is stagnant. This fin
ally causes the hair to loosen so it
can be readily removed. Before
hides can be tanned they must be
put in a defining bath of Tactic or
other weak acids. Hides are then
picked by padding them for about
an hour in a weak solution of sui
phuric acid and salt.
Tanning is accomplished by the
use Of vegetable tannins and min
eral salts such as alum and salts
Of chromium. Vegetable tanning
was formerly used almost exclusive
ly. Oak bark provides much of the
vegetable tannage used. It is OBJ.
tanned largely from the Blue Ridge
regions of the Allegheny mountains
and from California.
After the process indicated has
been accomplished hides are hung
on sticks in oak liquor for about a
week and then taken out and laid
fiat in large pits. Bark Igor is then
run over them until the whole is
covered. The hides. are left in the
pit for sufficient length of time
to cure them satisfactorily.
The Merits of DalIis Grass
c. F. c., Eastman, Ga, writes:
l would like information in re-
gard to Dallis grass. When is
the best time to plant it? And
how much seed should be used
per acre?
Dallis grass (paspalum dilatatum)
grows naturally in all parts of Geor.
gia. 1t occurs most largely in low,
moist places. 1t prefers road bitches
and bottom lands. 1t also prefers
spots of fertile upland as offered
in old yards and vacant lots. 1t
is more common in north Georgia
than in south Georgia. but is being
seeded in the southern part Of the
state on an extensive scale. This
grass normally grows in punches,
having very large number of
basal leaves. and a few seed stems
which grow from one to five feet
in height. II closely grazed, the seed
stems become shorter. and the leaves
spread out and eventually make a
complete sod on fertile land This
grass develops in early spring, and
is generally ready for grazing three
weeks ahead of Bermuda grass. II
kept grazed, it will continue to grow
Though the spring and fall. If I'M
grazed, it natures a heavy crop Of
seed and disappears early in the sea-
son. 1t endures a good deal of
drought and heat. 1t does best on
fertile lands.
Dallis grass seed are attacked by
a fungus, which may cause disease
among cattle if eaten in quantity.
Close grazing obviates this diff
Guilty: The seed of this grass ger
inmate very slowly. The best plan
Is to seed in burrows three to seven
feet apart. Use a small plow, as 9
short two-inch ripper. Scatter the
seed in the burrows and leave uncov-
cred. Spring seeding Is favored by
the majority.
Georgia's Rank in Hog Production
NJ. c., Macon, Ca, writes: We
would like to know Georgia's
standing as a hog state com.
pared with the other states since
1918.
Please find inclosed information
and data of the character you were
seeking relative to Georgia's stand
ing in the production Of hogs for the
years 1918, 1919. 1920 and 1921.
THESE official figures are presented
by the bureau Of crop estimates, and
constitute the most reliable informa.
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