Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-22
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW M. SOULE

! Georgia raise Burley tobacco?
What kind Of soils are best suit
ed to tobacco? How should to-
bacco be fertilized? What will
a barn cost large enough to
house the tobacco from ten
acres?
Burley tobacco is not grown in
Georgia. Our people are especially
interested in what are known as the
bright Leaf tobacco and the
shade" tobacco. Shade tobacco is
not grown on a very extensive scale,
its cultivation being practiced chief
ly in two of our counties which lie
along the Florida border. Bright to-
bacco, however, is grown with sue
| cess through the lower half of the
coastal plains area. / does well on
SANDY phases Of the Triton and Nor
folk series. These soils are gray on
top. Most of them have a yellow
subsoil which tends to become heav-
Ter and may be tinged with red
color at a considerable depth. The
Triton sandy loan contains some
pebble, and, on that account, occa-
sionally goes by the name of "peb-
BILE" land. These soils occur over
relatively large areas and are not diff
ficult Of identified ton.
In 1917 Georgia grew only $50, 900
pounds of bright tobacco, which was
| sold at % cents a pound The crop
that year was worth $4,000. In
1924 Georgia produced 30.O24, SOP
pounds, the average price of which
was 21.S2 cents. The value of the
crop was $6,551 $50 The eight-year
average indicates a sale price of
22.l2 cents per pound, with a gross
outturn for the crop in that period
OF l5,324,722 pounds. The yield per
acre varies, but the average for 1924
was not far from $50 pounds. There
were 10000 acres devoted to the cul-
ltiVation of this crop in Georgia the
past season
The cost and size of barns needed
to cure bright tobacco vary mate
rally with location and the type of
structure desired. Blue prints and
specifications for such barns can be
obtained free of cost from the Geor.
Sia State College Of Agriculture.
In the cultivation of bright tobac.
co, one must be careful about usine
TOO much vegetable matter
While it is true that decaved
or organic materials are helpful to
this crop, the best results follow
applications of this kind to the land
the year previous to that in which
1t IS to be devoted to tobacco, II
requires skill and Ncare to produce
high-Srade tobacco, Nut when a cror
Is produced, it will as a rule sell for
very fair price. Commercial fertiI
2efS are used rather extensively
with this crop. A good formula tc
use Is one containing per cent anC
upward of nitrogen derived from twC
or more sources, s to 10 per cent OF
fphosphoric acid, and 4 to 10 per cent
OF potash. Sulphate of potash is IRE
Iefable as a carrier of this element
me high-grade formulas are annIiad
20 our thinner and sander lands anc
the low grade formulas to those that
are of better grades.
Plant Food Value of Corn Cohs
). }. B.. Buford Ga, writes.
How much fertilizing value do
corn cobs contain, and how
should they be treated to GET the
best results?
A ton of corn cobs contains very
little nutriment ANALYSTS show,
them TO contain only about &
pounds Of nitrogen, IA pounds ot
phoSphoric acid, and 1872 pounds Of
potash per ton. You will thus see
that they run low in plant food
value. 1t would take them some
tlme TO dlsintegrate in the soil So
40 not think they would furnish
any appreciable amount of fertilizer
10 CROWNS crop; certainly not the
ilrSt year they were applied to the
land 1t would hardly pay to grind
thls material for the purpose Won
nave IN mind. and. if YOU burn the
cobs YOU will certainly DESTROY ali
the nitrogen they contain and there
by lessen whatever plant food value
they have to that extent. If, one
had lot of this material on hand
the best procedure would be to scat
ter 1t over the surface of the land
which should then he broken to a
|, Sood depth If the breaking can be
done with tractor. or a large disc
, ploW. this material could be buried
quite effectively. Covered into the
soil IN the manner indicated. the
cobS tend to decompose rather rap
idly and. in that event. will exert
some very slight benefit on the crops
to he grown on the land next sum
mer \ ton of corn cobS possess SO
little fertilizing value that it would
J hardly pay one TO haul them very
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