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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1905
Page
2
Six room cottage on Jet 48 by 100 feet on Crumley Street near Washington. Modern improvements recent remodeling and in perfect repair. Price two thousand two hundred fifty dollars with reasonable terms.
In a rural cadenced exchange, Uncle Jake visits Colonel Swift to compare farm methods and hay practices. They debate alfalfa and cowpea hay, cattle and mule stock, fertilizer use, and tenant farming. Colonel Swift cautions about overplanting while Uncle Jake urges reduced acreage and fertilizer to restore balance.
A farm inquiry from West Green Alabama seeks guidance on alfalfa viability land prep seed rate timing and hay curing. The response cites past Horticultural notes detailing soil needs sowing windows fall or spring, deep plowing and manure, fertilizer mixes, bed preparation, and multiple cuttings per season with lucerne as a long lived forage.
Correspondent in Alabama asks about phosphorus needs for red versus gray land and whether nitrogen can be reduced. An Auburn chemist endorses formula 8-2-2 over 10-2-2, with adjustments favoring phosphorus for red land and less nitrogen for gray sand. Practical mixing ratios are given: 1,600 lb 14% phosphate, 75 lb muriate of potash, 700 lb meal. 8.87 pH, 8.70 ni.2.70 po, aligned with 10.3-3. Guidance compares land types and notes red land is more phosphorus deficient while gray land needs nitrogen and potash reductions.
The renowned Methodist minister Rev Walker Lewis reports his family using Mozleys Lemon Elixir with beneficial results. He calls it an admirable medicine and effective as a tonic and liver regulator.
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