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Promoting Our Animal Industries By Andrew M. Soule, Pres. Ga. State College of Agriculture One of Georgia’s greatest assets consists of the very considerable number of farm animals she pos sesses. Of course, we need many more. That attention is being directed to this matter, however, is evidenced by the fact that tho number of our hogs has increased at the rate 100,000 a year for eight years. Their quality has also been greatly improved. We are bringing in a considerable number of pure bred sires of several important breeds and thereby increas ing the individual value of our beef and dairy cattle. Draft animals of the Percheron type are also finding more favor than hith erto. Mow has this result been brought about? Primarily through the activities of the College of Agriculture r T — ~- and its extension w'ork.ers who have aided fanners in selecting breeding stock. The manufacture and distribution of hog cholera serum at cost has also enabled farmers to fight this disease with remarkable success, as the in case of our swine fully demonstrates. We are now face to face with the problem of changing our methods of farming, diversifying, for instance, and increasing cur holdings of livestock in order that we may utilize our lands to advantage and vary the crops we grow thereon under that type of practice which the boll weevil will make it nec essary for us to employ. Even though the boll weevil should reduce the re turns from our cotton fields by $5,000,- 000.00 or $20,000,000.00, 'there is no reason why we should not make up this loss and add an increment of $25,- 000,000.00 besides, thus emphasizing our livestock industries. To do this we must educate our boys, for live stock production is a highly specialized business, as the notable success of Eng lish and Scotch breeders has shown. We must also provide our state with a sufficient number of expert, trained veterinarians to care for the health of our animals in a satisfactory manner. We are today losing $5,000,000.00 from diseases and exposure alone. This is a heavy drain on the resources of the Georgia farmer which is largely pre ventable. Nothing worth while is accomplished Without leadership. Therefore, the Col- Better Farming in the South PEANUTS AS A CASH CROP ,'&■ , ’ commodity over its cost of pro • ~ : ■ duciion. A crop that has not a D. B. OSBORNR “Cash Surrender Value” (in an interrupted market demand) cannot be considered as a crop grown for Real Profit, although an indirect profit may result in reduc ing the cost of a Money Crop. Money Crop Gives Real Profit It is the Money Crop that gives real profit to the farm and a Money Crop can only be a crop of a known market value immediately convertible into money in any town at any time. The problem of supplying the South ern farmer with a cash market for other crops that would yield as much or more profit than he derives from the cotton crop, has engaged the at tention of the farmer and his friends, and w r ith the assistance of the 801 l Weevil, they have found a solution of the problem in Peanuts. The Peanut The Peanut crop offers wonderful opportunities, it can be grown over the entire South with profit. It reaches its perfection in growth and yield on well drained, gray, sandy 'oam soils such as exist in the Coastal Plains along the Atlantic Seaboard, which territory is now either occupied or ia being rapidly encroached upon jy the 801 l Weevil. There is a constant demand at a Cash Surrender Value” from a mar ket that would be difficult to glut with the peanut, for the reason that there are five avenues of profit. Five Avenues of Profit First: Progressive oil mills through out the South are eager buyers of the Peanut and offer a spot cash mar ket at very remunerative prices. The oil is in great demand. Second: The nut and vines are a splendid feed for cattle, producing a quick growth of firm and tender meat. A profit in the sales of cattle thus fed and fattened is a certainty. Third: The best quality of peanuts find a ready sale at top prices to the manufacturers of candy, of peanut but ter and other confections. Fourth: Peanut cake (from the oil mills), fed to hogs, makes a vigor ous growth and gain in weight and when properly "finished off” with corn, gives a firm meat with the fat containing a proper proportion of siearine for making good firm lard. Feeding the whole nut to the hog is a mistake for two reasons: First, the value or profit from the oil is lost, and second, the oil of the nut jives an excess of oij over stearin? BRING US YOUR JOB WORK. lege of Agriculture, through its Ani mal Husbandry Division, is endeavor ing to provide it in an acceptable form. It cannot do this unless it has the proper equipment. At present stock judging, for instance, which acquaints students with the nature and charac ter of the different breeds of animals, is conducted on a few benches out in the open and the work has to be abandoned altogether in inclement weather. Eor this reason the Trustees of the College of Agriculture ami the members of the various farmers’ or ganizations have decided to ask the approaching session of the Legislature for an animal husbandry building which will worthily represent the needs of this industry and provide the proper facilities for the students’ instruction. The accompanying picture gives an idea of its exterior appearance. The outside finish of the building will be light buff brick with a stand stone belt course and window sills. The lintels and capitals of the pilaster columns will be cf the same material. The roof will be of red tile, the building thereby conforming in appearance and finish to these already erected on the campus. This building will be very plain, but substantially constructed. It will haye a seating capacity of 1,800, and if the arena is filled with seats it will be 3,500. it will thus afford a proper place of sufficient size for the farmers of Georgia to hold all sorts cf meetings and to observe the practical judging, handling and management of all classes of livestock. It will pro vide a place in which to hold livestock sales, that a better class of breeding animals may be widely disseminated in Georgia. The judging ring will be $5 feet by 110 feet in the clear. The building will be 75 feet wide and 150 feet long. There will be suitable offices, box stalls f r livestock, class rooms and such other equipment as an up-to-date build ing. of this character should possess. It will be heated by steam and lighted by electricity. Special pains have been taken to provide for good ventilation through the use of monitor windows. In honoring this great industry and providing for proper instruction there in the state is simply taking out the best boll weevil insurance possible. and produces in the hog a soft, flabby meat, the fat of which will not pro duce lard of a proper consistency. Fifth: The Peanut, being a legume, is a soil builder and adds nitrogen to the soil and works in splendidly in a rotation with cotton or corn, both of which are voracious feeders on nitro gen and requiring clean culture, rap idly deplete the soil of nitrates. Proper Fertilization IJecau.se it is a legume, many peo ple believe that it requires no fertili zers and in this they are badly mis taken. Nitrogen gathering nodules do not begin to form on the roots of the plant until the nut is two-thirds matured and if through lack of prop er nourishmerft, the plant is allowed to languish until this stage is reach ed, the crop will be greatly curtailed and profits lost. The plant requires a sufficient amount of nitrogen from a quick acting source to carry it to the nodule .form ing period while the presence in suffi cient quantities of phosphoric acid and potash is essential during the growth and maturity of the plant. An application of a fertilizer con taining 12 per cent available phos phoric acid, 1 1-2 to 2 per cent am monia and 2 per cerft potash, applied at the rate of from 400 to 600 pounds per acre, will make a crop of both nuts and hay sufficient to return the cost of the fertilizer and leave a hand ..••ime profit while an unfertilized crop will barely return cost of production. The Profit Value The profit value of an acre of well cultivated and fertilized peanuts is equal to the profit value of an acre of cotton producing tw r o-thirds of a bale to the acre. The following tabulated cost and value estimated by Dr. J. N. Harper, clearly proves this point: Comparative Cost Per Acre of Cotton and Peanuts Cotton Peanut* lost Per Acre Lost $ 1.50 Breaking Land $ L5O Harrowing Land -2j .50 Hautlng Fertilizer* .25 Laying off Land *2a .25 Applying Fertilizer -2a .50 Bedding on Fertilizer .25 Harrowing before Planting .25 .75 Seed 2.00 8.00 Fertilizer* B.'TO .25 Planting -2S 5.50 Cultivation 2.50 5.00 Harvesting *14.00 2.00 Preparing for Market 2.50 1.75 Marketing 2.00 8.00 Kent 8.00 $34.50 *42.75 Comparison of Returns from Cotton and Peanuts. 333 11>*. Lint cotton at 15c lb $40.91 66 7 lbs. Cotton Seed at $5O ton 16.66 Croc* profit s6*s 61 Cost of cotton 34.50 Net profit cotton $32.11 75 Bushels peanuts at 80c hu s6o.® 1 Ton peanut hay at $l5 ton 15.00 Cross profit $75.00 Cost of peanuts 42.75 Net profit peanuts ~.....$32.25 •If harvested by machine the cost viU bo Icm PROFESSIONAL CARDS r. i ■ ■ JARRET P. FOWLER Attomey-at-Law CUM MING, GEORGIA Will Practise in All Courts Over F & M Bank DR. J. C. GILSTRAP Calls Attended Day or Night Office at W. B. Bagwell Place. Cumming, Ga., Route 3. DR. J. L. HARRISON Dentist 301-302 Jackson Building Gainesville, Ga. ■J W. W. PIRKLE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Cumming, - Georgia. Office at Residence. Phone 88. DR. M. F. KELLEY, Dentist, Cumming, Ga. Office in Dougherty Hotel All Work Guaranteed O. W. SETTLE Funeral Director & Embalmer Norcross, Ga. Day and Night ’Phone. DR. J. ROBERT SIMPSON Specialist in Diseases of The Eye, Ears, Nose and Throat 302-303-304 Jackson Building, Gainesville, Ga. Vict r o 1 a ~ii! 'i'> jj| — || • ia shown here Entertainment Inspiration Education A3 for entertainment, the Victrola alwayo provides just what you choose. As for inspiration, there is none greater than music in the home, and the Victrola brings all the music of all the world. As for education, a familiarity with the great artists of music is of great value, and the Victrola is the instrument of the greatest artists. * Victrolaa sls to S4OO. Easy terms. P ILGRIM-ESTES fURNI iURE COMPANY (X ■> GAINESVILLE, GA. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local • applications, os they cannot reach the diseased portion of tho ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi tion of the mucous lining of the Eusta chian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling: sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the In flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an Inflamed condi tion of the mucous surfaces. W* /ill give One Hundred Dollars foranv case of Dr .ness (caused by catarrh > t hat cannot bo cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. • F. J. CHENEY, A CO, Toledo, OhlC. Bold by Druggists. 76c. t Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. Edmondosn & Pirkle have just received a lot of good feath ers. Call early and get enough to make thy daughter or son a good easy bed. Adv. Pig* For Sale. 20 Poland China and Berk shire pigs for sale, ready for delivery April 24th. Howard Jackson, Cumming, Ga., Rt. 5 Notice. I have an up-to-date mill and am ready to grind your corn. Will grind every Friday. I will also pay you the cash for your butter, eggs, chickens produce of all kinds, and will pay you the top of the market for your cows. W. L. Chadwick, Cumming, Ga., R 1. Lookout Mountain Irish Po tatoes $3.50 per bushel for a short time only: One heifer and cow' for sale; also have a jersey male subject to register SI.OO for service cash, $1.50 on time. John M. Rice. Influence Of County Agents’ Work By J. Phil Campbell, Director Of Exten sion, State College Of Agriculture Much has been written about the county agents’ activities in agricultural development. Great progress has been made in the state of Georgia in in creasing the output per acre, and con sequently the total out put of our vari ous farm crops and live stock. What per cent of this increase is due to county agents’ efforts can not always be determined. Neither does the coun ty agent wish to claim everything in the way of agricultural improvement that has been accomplished. Prof. J. Phil Campbell, Dear Sir: — List January in Athens I spoke to you about Mr. Ross M. Gridiey doing some hog demonstration work in m.v gounty this. year. You told me to take it up with you by letter when 1 came home. I have been so unusually busy this spring that I have forgotten it on office days, but I am very anxious about t, matter. If Wayne county ever shipped out a car load of hogs until last year I have not been able to learn anything about it. During the past season one buyer has shipped two carloads of hogs besides the other stock. The cold storage plant which I was instrumental in having built has long ago destroyed their advertising matter because they did not have room for additional meat. They will double the capacity of the plant this year. They had as much as sixty tons of meat on hand at one time. This gives you an idea of the interest that is being aroused along that line. One of our wealthiest citizens told me recently (hat my activities along that line had been worth far more to the county than my services had ever cost the county, but I need help. How about it? Very truly yours, J. P. SHEDD, County Agent. The above private letter asking for help gives one little instance of what a county has done under the agent's direction. Similar instances can be found in every county in the state. County agents have been employed in more than one hundred counties of the state and district agents and spe cialists have been at work in every county. Some line of extension activ ity is earned on in every part of Geor gia. The persistent call from various sources for the production of more food crops and live stock is being met. It takes time make any change worth while. In the end, we shall find Georgia producing cotton as a surplus crop. Orchard Notes For April T. H. McHatton, Prof. Of Horticulture, Ga. State College Of Agri. The fertilizer as recommended last month should be applied by this time. The orchard should also have received its plowing, a-nd cultivation should be continued throughout April. The or chard should be gone over completely at least twice with a spring tooth or spike tooth harrow. The trees need a lot of moisture at this time, and everything should be done to conserve 1 it for them. The spraying for Curculio and Cod ling Moth, as well as for some other insects and diseases, should be per formed this month, as recommended in another column. Grapes should be sprayed this month with Bordeaux mixture, which is made as follows: 3 pounds of copper sul phate dissolved in 25 gallons of wa ter, 6 pounds quick lime, slaked and made up to 25 gallons with water. The two materials should then be poured together through a fly-screen, making 50 gallons Bordeaux mixture. This material should be applied to grapes every three weeks from the time be fore they bloom until a month or six weeks before the fruit is ripe. By fol lowing this system, grapes can be grown most free from rot. Sweet Potato Growers Should Plan For Storing Crops M. C. Gay, Field Agent in Marketing, Ga. State College Of Agriculture If the producers will Look into the market for sweet potatoes they will be convinced of the necessity of a more rational method of handling the crop than the one followed by the av erage grower. According to the government crop report, Georgia produced 7,520,030 bushels in 1916. The best authority on the subject estimates that 25 to 40 per cent of the sweet potato crop in the South spoils each year, and that the remainder is badly damaged. Ex periments with storage houses built according to the government plan show conclusively that sweet potatoes can be kept any winter and till late in the spring with very little loss, thus enabling the producer to get a much greater return for his crop. In our investigations we have not found a sin gle instance in which the potatoes stored in houses were being sold for less thdn $1 a bushel. In some in stances they have brought $1.25 f. o. b. shipping point. Just now yellow pota toes which have been kiln dried, grad ed and carefully packed are quoted as high as $2.25 on some of the larger markets. Bulletins and other information on this subject may be had by writing the State College of Agriculture, Athens, Georgia. For Service. One Registered Duroc Jersey Male Hog. I will charge $2.50 for his services to insure. J. M. Tollison Georgia, Forayth County. In the Court of Ordinary of said county. In re petition of SH. Allen to probate in solemn form last Will of J. R. Black de ceased. To Jas. Black, Wycliffe Black, Mrs. Dovie Doyle, Mrs. Delfie Cook, Lindsey Black, Leander Black, Mrs Ramie Burgess, Mrs Martha Burgess, and Mrs. Ma ry Helms, children of Marion F. Black deceased, of the state of Alabama, and to all the chil dren of the said Marion F Black deceased residing outside the state of Georgia, and to Marion Black and Bery Black, children of Dave M. Black deceased, of the state of Texas, and to all the children of Dave M Black deceased residing without the the state of Georgia, and to Mitchell Black of the state of Louisiana, and to Martin Math is of the state of Alabama child of Jane Mathis deceased, heirs at law of said J. R. Black of For syth county, Georgia, deceased and to all the heirs at law of said J. R. Black deceased, resid ing without the state of Geor gia, greeting: S. H. Allen having applied as executor for probate in solemn form of the last will of J. R. Black deceased, late of said Cos. you, and each of you, as heirs at law of said J. R. Black dec’d are hereby notified that said ap plication will be heard before the Court of Ordinary of said county of Forsyth on the first Monday in June, 1917, at ten o’clock, a. m., and you and each of y r are hereby required to be and appear at said court and file objections, if any you have to the probate of said will as prayed. This May 9, 1917. W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary. Georgia, Forsyth County To all whom it may concern: W. T. Majors having made ap plication to me for permanent letters of administration upon the estate of Mrs. Martha C. Majors, late of said county de ceased, notice is hereby given that said application will be heard at the regular term of the Could; of Ordinary of said county to be held on the first Monday in June, 1917. Given under my hand and official sig nature, this Bth day of May, 1917. W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary. r Georgia, Forsyth County. To all whom it may concern: S H Allen having made applica tion to me for permanent letters of administration upon the es tate of J T Radcliffe late of said county, deceased, notice is here by given that said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county to be held on the first Monday in June 1917. Given under my hand and of ficial signature, this Bth day of May 1917. W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary. Georgia Forsyth County: To all whom it may concern: Mrs. Roxie A. Roberts having made application to me for 12 months support for herself and 3 minor children out of the es tate of J. H. Roberts and ap praisers duly appointed to set apart the same having filed their return, all persons con cerned are hereby required to show cause before the Court of Ordinary of said county on the first Monday in June 1917, why said application should not be granted. Given under my hand and of ficial signature, this 7th day of May 1917. W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary. 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