Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-20
Planting Soy Beans in a Peach
Orchard


IT, w: I am thinking of plant
8, ing soy beans in a young peach
orchard. Please advise me what
variety of beans to plant, and
: all the information regarding
the cultivation of the same.
Soy. beans may be planted in a
young peach orchard. You, pre-
stfmably, intend to grow this crop
and harvest it for grain or hay.
If Jthe land is rich. this practice will
be all right. If it is not, then the
cDStivation of this crop and its re-
lnoval from the land may tend to
iTlpoverish the soil too much. rms
will initiate against the growth ana
development of the trees. Soy beans,
ash you doubtless know, gather a
gaod part of the nitrogen they need
from the air. They are a legu-
niinous crop. They make a heavy
drift on the phosphoric acid and pot
ash supplies of the soil. We would
recommend, therefore, that you use
about three hundred pounds of acid
phosphate and one to two hundred
p Pounds of kainit under this crop.
This plant food may be scattered
over the soil and worked in before
athe beans are planted.
:, nahere are quite a number Of va
srieties which will grow we'll in your
section of the state. The O-too-tan
is one of the best strains to plant
for hay production in your section
= The Mammoth Yellow will probably
= make a better yield of grain. The
9, Biloxi will make rank growth
:. and yield a good crop of grain. The
pods do not shatter easily at har-
vesting. Soy beans can be hogged
down to considerable advantage.
The Laredo is a strain which has
made a good record for the last few
'SEaars on our test plats, and we can
recommend it for use, particularly
Rhder those conditions where a large
r yield of grain is desired.
Sprays Adapted to the Pecan
-, Orchard
J. E. NJ, McRae, Ga, writes
Please give me receipt showing
how to- proportion lime, sulphur
and lead for spraying peach
trees for scale.
Spvay materials should not be ap-
~pled to peach trees at pressure
To accomplish this, you will OF
necessity need to purchase a barrel
spray outfit. In a large orchard,
a power sprayer should be used
This will cost you 5000 and upward,
depending on the type you purchase.
One power outfit will be needed to
about rs acres of orchard.
~ in making concentrated lime-sul-
phur solution, proceed as follows:
sGSulphur, flowers or flour, 80
pounds.
t.rLime, fresh and unslaked, 40
pounds.
a~Water, so gallons.
a. i. Stake the lime, and then mix the
sulphur therein. Add water as re-
.uuired, and boil for so to 80 minutes.
AS some of the water will evaporate
during the boiling process, replace
it so as to keep the amount at so
gallons. This is what is called con-
centrated lime-sulphur solution.
When properly diluted before appli-
cation to the trees enough mate
rial should be available to spray 200
hNs-year- old peach trees for San Jose
scale. In making this mate
rial at home, there will be some va
ration in the solution, and, in order
to dilute it to the proper strength,
q thydrometer should be purchased
and used. The hydrometer best
suited is one is scaled from 0 to So
degrees. Baume, or from 1000 to
1880 specific gravity.
This material, of course, is to be
used only when the orchard is Sc
riously affected with the scale. Two
applications in the case of bad in
feStation may be needed. One