THE CABOLINA UNION FARMER
[Thursday, March 27, 1913.
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First National Bank
GASTONIA, N. C.
Capital, . . . $100,000.00
Surplus and Profits« 75,000.00
We Pay 5 per cent, on Time
Certificates of Deposit
Your Business Solicited.
WE PAY
4 Per Cent on Savings Accounts and
Certificates o! Deposit. Accounts
Subject to Check Invited
Merchants and Far
mers National Bank
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
United Stales, Stale, County and City Depositary
Capital - - $200,000.00
Surplus - $200,000.00
GE». E. WILSON.
President.
W. C. WILKINSON.
Cashier.
The
First National Bank
STATESVILLE, N. C.
Capital $100,000.00
Surplus & Profits - 33,000.00
Resources 750,000.00
Farmers are specially invited to open
an account with us.
JOS. C. IRVIN, Pres. E. S. PEGRAM, Cashier.
THE
CITIZENS NATIONAL
BANK
GASTONIA, N. C.
Capital & Surplus - $ 92,249.26
Deposits 392,300.45
Resources 603,927.71
Fertilization and Cultivation
of Corn and Cotton
By C. B, Williams
The
Union National Bank
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Capital - - - - $100,000
T. W. WADE F. B. McDOWELL
President Vice-President
H. M. VICTOR
Cashier
We cordially invite business and offer
every courtesy and accommodation con
sistent with safe banking. We particularly
invite the accounts of fanners.
H. M. VICTOR, Cashier
Every Idle Dollar
of your money should be put to hard
work.
When your money is invested it
'works for you day and night-interest
accumulates with astonishing rap
idity.
Also the knowledge that your
money is safe from thieves or fire
helps you sleep nights.
Why not start a Savings Ac
count here and let your money earn
future money ?
WE PAY 4 PER CENT ON CERTIHCATES OF
DEPOSITS AND ALL SAVING FUNDS.
Southern Loau and Savings Bank
CHARLOXTE, IM. C,
JNO. M. SCOTT, W. S. ALEXANDER, W. L. JENKINS
President. Vice. President. Cashier.
For Corn on Land in Fair Condition in Pied
mont Section.
(Continued from last week.)
Pounds.
Acid phosphate, IG per cent phosphoric
acid 750
Cottonseed meal, 6.17 per cent nitro
gen, 2.8 per cent phosphoric acid and
1.8 per cent potash 1,250
Total 2,000
This mixture will contain, available phos
phoric acid, 7.8 per cent; potash, 1.1 per
cent; nitrogen, 3.9 per cent (equal to am
monia, 4.7 per cent).
Pounds.
Acid phosphate, IG per cent phosphoric
acid 930
Cottonseed meal, 6.17 per cent nitrogen,
2.8 per cent phosphoric acid and 1.8
per cent potash 630
Nitrate of soda, 15 per cent nitrogen... 280
Kainlt, 12 per cent potash HO
Total 2,000
In this formula one-half of the nitrogen Is
supplied by nitrate of soda and the other
one-half by cottonseed meal. This mixture
will contain: available phosphoric acid, 8.4
per cent; potash, 1.3 per cent; nitrogen, 4.2
per cent (equal to ammonia, 5.1 per cent).
Pounds.
Acid phosphate, 16 per cent phosphoric
acid 335
Cottonseed meal, 6.17 per cent nitrogen,
2.8 per cent phosphoric acid and 1.8
per cent potash 980
Nitrate of soda, 15 per cent nitrogen.. 135
Kainlt, 12 per cent potash 60
Total 2,000
In this formula one-fourth of the nitrogen
is supplied by nitrate of soda and the oth
er three-fourths by cottonseed meal. This
mixture will contain: available phosphoric
acid, 8.1 per cent; potash, 1.2 per cent; ni
trogen,4.0 per cent (equal to ammonia, 4.9
per cent).
Pounds.
Acid phosphate, 16 per cent, phosphoric
acid
Fish scrap, 8.25 per cent nitrogen and
6.0 per cent phosphoric acid 1,075
Kainlt, 12 per cent potash 225
Total 2,000
This mixture will contain: available phos
phoric acid, 8.9 per cent; potash, 1.3 per
cent; nitrogen, 4.4 per cent (equal to am
monia, 5.3 per cent).
Pounds.
Acid phosphate, 16 per cent phosphoric
acid
Fish scrap, 8.25 per cent nitrogen and
6.0 per cent phosphoric acid 1,170
Muriate of potash, 60 per cent potash.. 60
Total 2,000
This mixture, too, is more concentrated
than the preceding ones on account of the
use of a high-grade potasslc material, mu
riate of potash, and will contain: available
phosphoric acid, 9.7 per cent; potash, l.o
per cent; nitrogen, 4.8 per cent (equal to
ammonia, 5.8 per cent).
Pounds.
Acid phosphate, 16 per cent phosphoric
acid
200
Dried blooil, 13 per cent nitrogen...... 740
Muriate of potash, 50 per cent potash.. 60
Total.
.2,000
This mixture is a concentrated one on ac
count of high-grade nitrogenous and potas-
sic materials being used, and will contain,
available phosphoric acid, 9.6 per cent; pot
ash, 1.5 per cent; nitrogen; nitrogen, 4.8 per
cent (equal to ammonia, 5.8 per cent).
Pounds.
Acid phosphate, 16 per cent phosphoric
acid : ■ ■
Cottonseed, 3.1 per cent nitrogen, 1.3
per cent phosphoric acid and 1.2 per
cent potash
Total.
.2,000
This mixture will contain: available Phos
phoric acid, 4.8 epr cent; potash, 0 9 ^r
cent; nitrogen, 2.4 per cent (equal to am
monia, 2.9 per cent).
Cotton Seed.—Cotton seed may
replace the meal in preceding for
mulas containing meal by allowing
two pounds of seed for one of meal.
should be remembered, however,
that if an exchange of seed for meal
can be made at anything near pound
for pound it will generally be ad
visable to make such an exchange.
the cost of making the exchange
such as transportation, hauling, etc.,
not too high as the plantfood con
stituents a.re. in more available form
the meal than in the seed- The
in
oil which the cotton-oil mill re
moves has practically no fertilizing
value, as the constituents it contains
are made up of those which the
cotton plant took from the atmos
phere.
Nitrate of Soda.—This material
is quick-acting because of its easy
solubility in water. For this reason,
when used in a considerable quan
tity in fertilizers at time of planting,
especially on light sandy land, there
is considerable danger of its being
leached beyond the reach of the
roots of the plants before they can
use it. On clay lands and loams
having good subsoils, to them this
danger does not exist, certainly not
to the extent that it does on light
soils. A small amount of nitrate of
soda in the mixture will give the
crop a quick start and make its
cultivation easier and more eco
nomical. Formula No. 3, has been
arranged with this idea in view, and
in No. 2 one-half the nitrogen comes
from nitrate of soda. On light lands
it would likely be better to omit
the nitrate from the mixture and
apply it as a top-dressing between
the tenth and last of June on early
corn. Nitrate of soda may take the
place of a portion of the other nitro
gen-furnishing materials in any of
the formulas, one pound of nitrate
being equal in its content of nitro
gen to 2-4 pounds of cotton-seed
meal, 1.8 pounds of fish scrap, 1.2
pounds of dried blood. Nitrate of
soda is frequently used as a top
dressing for corn and is a very val
uable material for use in this way.
A good application is fifty to seventy-
five pounds per acre, distributed
along the side of the row or dropped
beside the plants and three or four
inches from them, or else where
there is a ridge in the center it may
be distributed on this, and when it
is thrown out the nitrate will be
thrown to the two sides of the row.
Application of Fertilizers to Corn.
On clay lands and loams having
good subsoil the fertilizer should be
applied in the drill, at or just be
fore planting, at the rate of 200 to
400 pounds per acre- On light sandy
lands, it is best to use fifty to 100
pounds in the drill at time of plant
ing. to give the crop a good start,
and the balance of the fertilizer as
a side-dressing when the corn has
begun to grow well.
Fertilizers for Corn Following Peas
and Other Leagues.
The best and most profitable
yields of corn in our experimental
work were where the corn followed
soy beans, bur claver, cowpeas, crim
son clover and other leguminous
crops. These ycrops, with acid phos
phate and kainlt, or some other pot
ash salt, are the best previous treat
ment and fertilization for corn.
Where light crops of peas have
been grown in corn, or cut from the
land and the stubble left, it would
be safest to add some nitrogenous
material in the fertilizer mixture. In
cases of this kind it is suggested that
the nitrogen-furnishing material in
duced one-half. Where corn is to
any of the preceding formulas be re
follow good crops of cow peas, soy
beans, bur and crimson clovers, es
pecially where the entire crop have
been left on the soil, no further ap
plication of nitrogen need he made,
but it is advised that 200 to 300
pounds per acre of the following mix
ture, in the drill, he used just be-
for planting.
Seasonable SEEDS.
1,0(K) bus Mammoth Yellow Soy Beans, per bus.
$1.75. 2,000 bus. Clay Peas, per bus., $1.85.
2,000 bus. Mixed Peas, (f. o. b. Mississippi)
per bus., $1.75. 1,000 bus. Amber and Orange
Cane Seed, per bus., SI.Oj 5,000 bus. So.
Queen Sweet Potatoes (seed) per crate (3)
bus., $3.25. 1 000 bus. Nancy Hall Seed Sweet
Potatoes, per bus , $1.00. 1,000 bus. Lewis
Long Staple Cotton Seed, per bus., $1.00
500 bus. Piedmont Prolific Seed Corn, per
bus., $1.50. 1.000 bus. N. C. Seed Running
Peanuts, per lb., 5c. 100 bus. Chufas, per
bus $3.00. 1,000 bus. Velvet Beans, per bus.,
$2.40.
All prices subject to market fluctuations.
Write for special price list on other seeds.
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