Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-06

writes: Is the yleld OF spanish
-. peanuts planted after Fulghum
= oats cut for hay reduced to any
J. great eXent? I will appreciate
any suggestions you may be
able to give me in regard to the
planting, fertiliz:ng and gather
An ing of peanuts. Can a farmer
-. delint his own cotton seed
-, economically on the farm? How
is the best way to use calcium
arsenate?
In planting peanuts there are two
things to keep in mind. First, when
you wish to produce a strain that
eean be sold to the oil mills with adj
vantage for crushing purposes, or
when you wish to grow varieties
adapted particularly for candy max
ing, we believe you will find the
cultivation of the White Spanish for
the purpose first indicated the most
desirable. The yield is not only
high, but the strain is relatively
free from pops. 1t is we'll adapted
for growth throughout Georgia, and
as as easy to harvest and handle as
any variety you can select.
Peanuts should be fortified with
from two to three hundred pounds of
acid phosphate and one hundred
pounds at least of kainit. You may
use from twenty-five to fifty pounds
per acre of muriate of potash or
sulphate of ammonia, if you prefer.
1t is best to lime the land for this
crop. Apply not less than one
thousand pounds Of finely ground
pplverized limestone. Put the lime
stone on sometime before the ferti-
lizer is admized with the soil. Work
il, we'll into the surface area with a
cultivator.
There is nc reason why in your
section of Georgia Spanish peanuts
should not be matured properly even
after a crop of fulcaster oats has
been harvested for grain. OF course,
the yield obtained will depend some
what on seasonal conditions
- There are relatively small gins
! manufactured now on which cotton
. ran be delinted. Both saw and roll
|sF types are manufactured. Unless
Nou are growing cotton on a large
scale, or for the sale of seed, it is
doubtful whether it would pay you
to have your own gin outfit. OF
Course, here at the Georgia State
College of Agriculture we own our
own plant on account of the fact
Nthat we are working all the time to-
ward the development of improved
strains of cotton, and we therefore
must naturally keep our seed pure.
This cannot be done through the
agency of a public gin.
-r Calcium arsenate should be used
.as a fine, dust spray. Apply it
While the dew is on the cotton. Use
1t as soon as the cotton begins to
square. Make about three applica.
tons with an intervening period of
three to four days between each APP.
sp1ication. Kill out a generation Of
the weevils, if you can. Then your
cotton is likely to have, a chance to
develop for a few days or weeks. A
second or third concentrated appli-
:cation may be needed. Protect the
crop toward the end of the growing
season.
Merits of Duplex Basic Phosphate
S. s. B., Albany, Ga, writes:
I wish some information in re-
gard to duplex basic phosphate.
Is it practical to use this phos-
plate in this section?
Basic Stag phosphate is by
Product obtained from the manufac-
ture of iron and steel from pig iron
Naturally it contains phosphorus
The amount varies, but approXimates
the equivalent of Is to 20 per cent
phoSphoric acid 1t is in a form
Slightly different from the ordinary
phosphate which we now use so gen.
orally.
in basic Stag there are four parts
of lime combined with one part of
hhosphoric acid. Phosphate bearing
rock or bone contains on the other
band three parts of lime combined
With one part of phosphoric acid
The basic Stag and phosphoric acid
are 1nsoluble III pure water, but
soluble TO a considerable extent in
water which contains carbonic acid
gas.
The value of this material for fer
tlizing purposes depends very large
" on the fineness of its composition.
Fine grinding is an important mat
ter to bear in mind, therefore, when
one is purchasing this material.
Basic Stag is used much more ex-
tensively in Europe than it has been
in this country. The phosphoric acid
it contains is considered to be about
one-haf available as compared with
that of q soluble phosphate. 1t gives
hetter results on some types of soil
than on others. Where organic mat
ter is an abundant adjunct, and the
soils are low in lime, it's application
will prove most beneficial. Acid soils
help to render the phosphoric acid it
contains available, and as it also
cQnta1nS large percentage of free
lime, 1t helps to Sweeten the soil and
put It IN more satisfactory condi-
ton for the production of most of
our field crops.
The Merits of Certain Varieties of
Cotton
e. W. 6. E., Valdosta, Ca,
writes; [ have had the Cuban
and the Okra varieties of cotton
recommended to me, but would
like your opinion of them before
.a~buying the seed. Am also inter-
:s&ested in putting in five acres in
aASnap beans. What variety would
e-syou advise as best TO rshipping?
Two type of cotton may be grown
satisfactorily in your section of
Georgia. These are certain strains
of the standard upland varieties. the
lint of which varies in length from
Ito 1 1-6 inches, and certain of the
hong staple strains, the lint of which
measures from IA to IL inches.
In our opinion, the best short staple
variety to plant in your section
would be Toole cotton. We suggest
this strain because it is resistant to
the wilt disease. This disease is
rather prevalent in south Georgia.
especially on the sandy lands. The
fungus is already resident in many
sails and honpe 1InIaSc c+roy1 W