Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22
FARM EDUCATION
BY DIR. ANDREW M. SOULE

! Weld rich and rank but dark
rolored leaf. The best types of soil
/ in your section for tobacco are those
| embraced in the Norfolk series. The
| Orangeburg sandy loan is also good.
| Next to the Norfolk series, the Tiff
ton pebble soil is probably the most
| desira bic. Remember, the choice of
a soil will have much to do with the
success of your crop and the profit
derived therefrom, because bright to-
! bacco, in order to command a high
price, must possess a desirable col
! or. Soils for tobacco should be care
| fully prepared sometime in advance
! of the planting Of the crop. It
! should naturally be as free from
weeds and trash as possible and we'll
drained.
A good fertiizing formula to use
will be $50, applied at the rate Of
Six to twelve hundred pounds per
sore. Sandy soils will require about
enc thousands pounds, ordinarily.
| Food sources of ammonia are dried
! rnlood, cotton seed and fish scrap.
Nitrate of soda alsne is not recon-
mended as a suitable carrier of nj
! trogen to use under tobacco. Sui
phate of ammonia and acid phoS-
phate will provide the elements need.
! ed. Barnyard manure. if used at all,
should be applied to the crop on the
land the year previous TO its being
devoted 70 tobacco. Lime is not con-
sidered a desirable adjunct in the fer
tilization of this crop. 1t is impor-
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the seed with the utmost care in
properly prepared and fortified seed
bed. Transp planting should be done
in favorable season. Careful cult
walton is essential to successful to-
bacco growing. The crop must be
protected from insect pests. The har-
vesting. suckering and curing of the
crop are all factors of Importance
in producing a grade of tobacco
which will command a high price.
Commercial Cultivation Of Lettuce
r. r. G., Dennis, Ca, writes:
Please give me all the informa-
ton possible concerning the
growing and marketing Of let
tuce; the proper preparation of
amount. Also the best variety
of seed and amount to Use per
acre?
Lettuce as q commercial crop in
Georgia may be planted out in early
January or February, depending on
the section Of the state in which you
are located, We rather doubt the
advisability of planting out this crop
under field conditions before Feb.
ruary Is to March in your section
of Georgia. Plants which can he
set out in the early fall will some
times mature fairly well. We have
some started in our cold frames
here at the college already. We have
never undertaken to cultivate this
crop commercially from fall plant
ings this far north in our state.
Further south, where the winters
are mild, the soils light and the
water supply abundant for irriga.
ton purposes, lettuce can be grown
as a fall and winter crop with
greater success than on the red land
of north Georgia. Lettuce may be
planted in cold frames and trans.
planted into the open. In that event
it should be seeded in rows fifteen
inches apart. Under field condj.
tions the rows should be eighteen
inches to two feet apart and the
plants kept a foot apart in the rows.
Wide spacing usually results in the
forming of bigger heads.
We are inclined to think that let
tuce could be grown with some
profit in north Georgia in cold
frames. These may be made by
erecting boards a foot high around
a convenient space and covering the
same with cheese cloth during eX,
tremely cold weather. When set in
cold fraI.~s the plants should be
spaced about ten inches apart in
each direction.
Endive is better fall crop than
lettuce. The leaves Of this plant
however, must he tied UP and
bIanched. which makes the crop
somewhat more difficult to handle
Lettuce does best on a rich. we'll
drained, loamy soil. 1t requires plen.
ty of moisture. The seed should be
covered into the soil about one-half
an inch. 1t takes about one ounce
of seed to produce three thousand
plants. This will make enough
plants to cover two hundred sqWar~
feet of land.
The best varieties in the order of
their merit are the Big Boston, Ten
mis- Ball and Grand Rapids. 1t takes
lettuce from sixty to ninety days to
mature from seed to heading. This
cr0n REQUIRES liberal fertilization
We would prefer to use formula
containing 4 per cent of nitrogen, 10
per cent 1t phOsphoric acid and
from to per cent of potash. Ap
ply the fertilizer on the basis of one
thousand pounds per acre. Broad
cast a part of the fertilizer over
the land before the lettuce Is set
out. The balance may be distrib
uted between the drill rows at in
terVals of two to three weeks.
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