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The Average CheinSea! Compo
sition of the Principal Soil
Typos of Georgia
L. M. Carter, Junior Professor Soil
Chemistry, Ga. Col. Of Agriculture
In the progress of the soil survey
work tor the past five years, the De
partment of Chemistry has made many
analyses of the principal types of soil
characteristic cf the various sections
of the stale. The average of these
analyses represent the chemical com
position, that is, the plant food con
tent, of the predominant soil types'
found in the state. The analyses show
a wide difference in the plant fool
content of the soils of the different
sections of the state as well as strik
ing differences between the various
types in the same seclions.
The following table gives the total
pounds of plant food found in the
principal types of the various regions
as analyzed in the chemical laboratory
of the State College of Agriculture,
based on a depth of approximately 21
inches.
; Limestone
| | | required
Soil Regions. [ Phosphoric J jto correct
| Nitrogen j Acid | Potash |' acidity
Limestone Valleys, \
Northwest Georgia. . . 3107 2776 58548 57£
Appalachian Mountains,
Northeast Georgia . . . 1652 2917 65164 1553
Piedmont Plateau,
Middle Georgia .... 2500 3133 60557 1352
I
Coastal Plain,
South Georgia 2049 2176 19415 2022
Average for soils of
State of Georgia. . . . 2327 2750 51754 2678
Speaking in mo. t general terms, a
rich soil should contain about 5,000
pounds of nit 0 ) o, li : of
phosphoric acid and 50,000 cr more
pounds of potash per acre. Of course
the productivity of any soil will also
Corn For Early Forage
By John R. Fain, Prof, cf Agronomy,
Gecrgia State College of Agr.
With a large per cent of the on 1 crop
Sailed by the freezes, the problem of
an early fora ■ i < n p I ecoi
ant. Corn is as promi. ing as at yv*
have both for grain and forage. Sons
of the early varieties like Ada:: s Early
mature in 90 to 100 day or Hickory-
King in 115 I 120. The yields of then
will net boas large as th; yields of our
Hiealtk
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Many thousands iA
women suffering from
womanly trouble, have
been benefited by the use
of Cardui, the woman’s
tonic, according to letters
we receive, similar to this
one from Mrs. Z. V.Speil,
of Hayne, N. C. “I could
not stand on my feet, and
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she says. “As my suf
■ feriiig was so great, and
he had tried other reme
dies, Dr. had us
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improving, and it cured
me. 1 know, and my
doctor knows, what Car
dui did for me, for my
nerves and health were
about gone.”
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She writes further: *‘ I
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can do my work. 1 feel I
owe it to Cardui, for I was
in dreadful condition.”
If you are nervous, run
down and weak, or suffer
from headache, backache,
etc., every month, try
Cardui. Thousands of
women praise this medi
cine for the good it has
done them, and many
physicians who have Used
Cardui successfully with
their women palienfs, for
years, endorse this medi
cine, Think what it means
to be in splendid health,
like Mrs. Sped. Give
Cardui a trial.
AH Druggists
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Cynical Man Wrote Tills.
It Is a mistake to 'imagine that all
women are fcr.d of retailing gossip.
fMost of them would rather wholesale
it—Exchange.
depend very largely on other fictorr
than ihe plant food content. Drainage,
physical and mechanical condition, or
ganic matter and th roughness and
depth of tillage will all have much
to do with the soil’s ability to give
up ite plant food to crops. Undoubt
edly, too, die mineral fonns in which
the plant food elements occur will
greatly influence their availability. Ks
pecially is this true of the potash and
phosphoric acid. Experiments seem
to indicate that the soils of the Lime
stone Valleys and those of the Coastal
Plain give up their potash more readily
than do the soils of the Piedmont P!a
step.u and the Appalachian Mountains.
It will be readily seen that nitrogen
is deficient in all soils of the state
excepting some cf the bottom lands.
Increasing the nitrogen content is of
first importance in any system of soil
building. Phosphoric acid is also gen
erally deficient. With a few excel 1
tiens, the soils of north and middle
Georgia .are well supplied with potash
though the poor physical and mechan 1
ical CMiditi(.n>sf the soil retards the
processes that bring it into availabil
ity. In the marine soils of the Coastal
r 1
plain, potash is uniformly low, and
-hould be a constituent of al! fertiliz
ers when it can be had at a reason
able price., The need of potash will
be more keenly felt the longer the
present potash famine continues.
standard prolific corns but a small
area'might well be devoted to them
for early grain.
Corn sown "broadcast at the rate of
a bushel per acre will produce forage
more quickly than almost any other
cwp. It grows off much faster than
Sorghum and will be ready for use
earlier. After it is cut the land can
go into cowpeas for hay provided ar.
early variety of corn has been used
and early planting practiced. In thi
way the shortage of feedstuff's in th.
Soting can be largely averted.
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The Gumming Garage has a
heavy stock of the best makes
of automobile tires. Save mon
ey by buying your tires now be
fore anther advance in prices,
which we believe is due in a
few days.
—Free Air.
....We have just installed a free
air station for the convenience
and accomodation of the auto
mobile public. All auto owners
whether customers of ours or
not are invited to make use of
it—save your back and your
pump by usim: free air at the
Cumming Garage.
The Division.
Three Germans had b'-en doing
odd Job of repairing and agreed ti
split the pay evenly. They receiver
S4, and, after several unsuccessful ef.
forts of two of them to hit upon thf
correct division of the tynount tht
third settled the hisinesn transact iot
thus: “Here iss it, two for you two
and here iss it, two for me, too. Aln’i
U 7” —Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Suggestive Planting
Table For Gardeners
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia
State College of Agriculture.
The following table Indicates in' a
general way the time to plant some
of the most important crops adapted
to Georgia. It is anticipated
that many of these crops will be
lantcd in two weeks interval: so a
to afford a succession of vey-l abler
until killing frost occurs in Xovcm
er:
Sweet Potatoes -Planted until July 1.
Harvest at frost and
store. Recommend
central storage
plants.
I 'fish Potatoes— Planted from June
15 to August 1. Pall
crop, store. Irish
Cobbler, Green and
lookout Moun'ain.
; Onions— Sets may be planted
until May 15. Pall
crop, siore. Sow
1 seed in October for
next summer.
leans — Planted from April
to July 15, for dried
beans, and until Au
gust 15 for green
beans.
Peas — >• Planted until June
15. Grown for dried
product only. Use
edible varieties.
Turnips and Plant rutabagas in
Rutabagas— July and turnips in
August 'and Septem
ber.
Cabbage— In the mountains
seed planted in April
will head in late
summer. For stor
age plant seed in
June and set into
field in July and Au
gust.
Collards— Plant from June to
September.
Pumpkins— Plant the seed in
April or veiy early
in May. •
Winter Squash—Plant the seed in
April or early May.
Tomatoes — Sow seeds to June
-15 and set plants to
J if: y 15.
\
Okra— Plant in April and
His Homo Cardan
T. H. McHattan, Prof, of Horticulture,
- State College of Agriculture.
Never before in the histoiy of this
country has the home garden been
of more vital importance to the wel
fare of the nation than at rhis per
.icular tmte. This is not the time
io plow up the home garden and plant
it in cotton. The farmers With the
large home garden should be able to
produce sufficient supplies for the
family for the whole year.
Where the garden is large, enough
Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes
should be made for the winter use.
The ever-present Georgia collat'd
should be on hand in great abundance
.this year; cabbages should be a prom
inent fall crop; turnips also should
he in the fall garden, if one has riot
planted carrots in the spring, carlo's
should be planted in the late summer
or early fall for winter use. I:i most
sections of Georgia salsify or oyster
plant planted now or later in the sum
mer will remain in ground and
can be used all along. The abund
ance of tomatoes and string beans,
and other vegetables that demand
warm weather , for their maturity
should be put into cans. There is not
a woman in Georgia who should not
try to put up and can all of the vegeta
bles of various kinds that she expects
to use on her table during the fall,
winter and early spring months. Any
woman who overlooks ttiis at this
tinYe cannot be considered a patriot.
Canned goods of all kinds are going to
be extremely high this year, even if
the war is over. It Is a man’s place
about the home (o see that enough
stuff is raised so that the good woman
will ha ve it to can. The home garden
; going to be the most valuable small
piece of ground on the farm, and any
one who neglects it this season is cap
able of “selling his birthright for a
mass of pottage.”
- Fall Irish Potatoes
T. H. McHatton, Professor of Horti
culture, State Coilege of Agri.
The farmers of northern Georgia
should lay their plans to put in a
large crop of fall Irish potatoes. If
transportation is tied up this fall and
winter, it will not be possible for us
to call on Maine and the other pota
to producing states for our supplies.
They will have to he produced nt
home, ine North Georgia farmer can
make a good fall Irish potato crop;
and if the farmers of 'his section will
give this matter due consideration,
we should be able to produce In our
mountain sections enough potatoes
to carry Georgia through until the
spring crop comes in from the south
ern portion of the state. This is
the time to show to the rest of the
country what the mountain soils of
North Georgia can do.
VM Parrot's Reason.
Why do parrots stay in the tropical
forests Instead 'of migrating north
ward like the robins? Undoubtedly
because they realize that they are not
good in pics —as some b rtmrtans
rve robins.—St. Iy.uii Globe Demo
tiilk.
The Storing Of Sweet Potatoes
T. y. McHatttcn, Professor Of Horti
cu'ture, State College of Agri.
*
Ono of Ihe greatest problems that
will confront the nation this year will
be the storage of crops after they are
produced. It Is. an easy ma ter for
the Georgia farmer to grow sweet
potatoes. It is'a very common crop
and one that is grown extensively
throughout Hie stale. The prolixin of
holding this crop over for winter uso
is a vital question at this tune.
Storing in hills and pits is not very
practicable. We cannot off and lo
this year the potatoes ti: n final
ly rot under such conditii
The most approved method of sweet
potato storing is to halve;- the crop
as soon as it is mature, to thoroughly
grade the potatoes, throwing out all
the bruised, injured or rotting one.-.
These may be immediately used either
on the table or fed to hogs, if they are
not fit for table use. The good pota
toes should then be carried to a stor
age house. This storage house should
be made with dead air space in Hie
walls and with a double roof. The
potatoes are carried into this house
and put on trays or bins in the sides
of the house. A stove is in the cen
ter of the sweet potato room and the
temperature is brought to front 9a to
160 degrees, where it is held for a
week or 10 days until the potatoes
have gone through sw a... After
tliis the fire is a'lowed to-go oat and
the temperature is kept between 50
and CO degrees. This may necessi
tate a fire being built tv the stove
from time to time during fit-' winter.
I,t may be rather early for this in
formation to he given out, ijut now is
the time for the Georgia farmer to
think about the conservation of nis
food supplies' throughi the winter.
The sweet potato house should be built
before the crop is harvested.
How fa Save Onions
T. H. McHatton, ProfSsscr Of Horti
culture, State College of Agri.
The great trouble that the G or
gia farmer has with onions is hold'
ing them through the winter. The fol
lowing methods of handling a.e rec
ommended in order to save the onion
crop. The usual practice is not to
harvest onions until the tops arc
thoroughly dead. This, under our
coudi dons, is a mistake. As soon as
the first few inches of the t p bo, hi;
to yellow and die (lie pnions should
be either plowed out vith ,i :•>. ail
onc-borso plow, or on; should go
through the field with Gpolaco h ok
or tine hoe and pull ea ;h onion < v r
on its side. In this wa r tlie top'dies
down and dries out w theut making
a point of entry for \\ aier into the
onions- where - tlie t< and bend; and
splits just above the i* b. .--.Her the
top has di§|| a id d,-h • < ■ iou
has pretty well dried Svfii should be
removed from (ho field and spread in
a well ventilated, airy place. Here
the curing is complete! . After this
the tops may be removed and the
onions put in racks of crates in a
storage room where they may be pro
tected from freezing.
If the Georgia farmer can sit*e tbo
onion crop this year, even the small
crop of home burden, it will menu a
great deal of food for use this winter.
Increasing The Oil Content
Of Cotton Seed By Selection
*
L. E. Ra'st, Jr. Prof, of Agronomy,
Ga. State College of Agriculture.
Asa result of four years’ work In
the Cotton Industry Laboratory of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture,
it was found that the oil content of
cotton seed is an inherent character
istic of the variety and that the per
centage o? oil in Hi" eed of any va
riety can be increased by a lection
with no corre ponding loss of olhor
desirable quali ies. There arc sight
variations from year to year depend
ing upon the season, but these environ
mental factors influence ail 'arieiies
alike, and the seed of varieties that
were high in oil content the first year
have remained so during subsequent
seasons, in a general way, ihe varie
ties with the highest proportion of
moats to hulls produce the moat oil;
but there is no positive correlation be
tween percentage of meats and oil
contem sincp the percentage of oil
in the meat varie with the variely.
The difference between the seed of
the highest and lowest oil yielding va
rieties for the il:: i yeai s was 10.4 gal-
lons per ton. This moans that by
growing the superior sorts and elim
inating the inferior ones the aver
age value of cott'm seed could be in
creased $.1.00 to $lO.OO per ton.
Our experiments have clearly
shown that there is no decrease in
yield of lint, cotton as the cil con
tent in Ihe seed is increased; but on
the, other hand, the strains showing
the greatest oil content in the seed
are the highest, yieldors of lint tot
ton per acre. Thus in addition to high
oil content, it apems the seed can be
made more valuable by reason of ihe
high yield of l ot. With an annual
crush of ) ton . of sc and in G< or
gia. attention to this line of work v ill
result in the addition of at least ?8,-
000,000 a rear to the agricultural in
come of our slate.
Practical.
"Oh, father," said the young wom-.il
enthusiastically, “we suffragettes no
eager to sweep th< count!
“Humph!" replied her parent, look
ing at her ever lis M > '.e-les, "t a
suppose you r!art year share of it in
our parlor and timing rou.i.!”
THE BUSINESS
MAN’S “BIT”
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia
State College of Agriculture.
The business man is, and has al
ways been, an important and construc
tive factor in tlie life of the commun
ity. Never before in tlie hi-lory of
the South is he destined to play so
essentially a loa.lin., part,'provided lie
rises to the opportunity and discharges
the duties, responsibilities’ and obli
gations resting upon him as a citizen
and patriot.
First, he should take a prominent
part in the solution of the situation
now confronting us; to insure tin*
farmer a market. He must also un
dertake tiie financing of diversified
production, since the change to diver
sification of crops means the purch; sc
of new and varied implements, in
creased applications of fertilizers, and
credit for life purchase of seeds and
machinery. Hitherto credit, lias been
ha ;ed upon cotton production to the
exclusion of diversified crops. There
must be a modification of rent notes
and rent contracts; not that the cul
tivation of cotton should he eliminated
or unduly restricted, but that addition
al channels of cn di Valid he pt.ivfil
ed and varied cron production pro
moted and stimulated.
Second, it is the part of the business
man to provide the necessary ma
chinery, such as f ed mills,' corn grind
ers and store-houses for the preserv
ing of potatoes an I oilier perishable
crops. At present there i ; every fa
eility for warehousing cotton, hut n >
means for holding and marketing foo l
crops. Whenever business men will
provide the proper facilities, diversi
fication of crops will proceed by leaps
and bounds.
Third, tlie business man must per
form the duty of food assembler. The
problem of food distribution cannot lie
left to the individual fanner, since his
production of a certain crop is often so
small as lo preclude the possibility of
marketing at a profit. On the other
hand, business men are ah! • to a
sembic the crops in small-amounts
and provide for general distribution,
since liioy have the economy of large
shipments. This work is patriotic and
should also lie profitable.
Mon Grading Site!
The Department cf Agriculture lmt
established grades for the yd ow
tinged ami stain* <1 cottons, as well :
■for the white and blue type ;. Corn*
p'ct--> sets of those standard are cn
display at tlie College of Agriculture,
and will be used iff connection with
the Cotton Grading School, July 2 to
August 4. Announcement upon re
quest.
Vocational Training
In Agriculture
With hie passage of the SMITH
HUGHES hill providing for federal aid
in the establishment of vocational
schools in llie various states, the
“trades school” movement in the Unit
ed States will receive a great impe
tus. in Georgia alone hundreds of
teachers in agriculture will be requir
ed, for the near future will see voca
tional training offered in tin sch<#l
of every county. Now is tlie lime
for teachers to prepare for the work.
The summer term at the College of
Agriculture open July 2. Announce
ment upon application.
Ser Short
Courses In Agriculture
As an outgrow' h of the boys’ and
girls" club wortT in Georgia, there has
been developed at the College of Agri
culture special short courses for club
winners and for any others who care
to attend. Expanses are very low n et
a splendid opportunity Is given the
boys and girls to gain specialized ;piri
eultural knowledge. For the boys
there is instruction in soils and f rtil
izers, seed selection, rotation of crops,
growing live stock, dairying, farm ma
chinery, poultry, orchard management
and gardening; for the girls, instruc
tion in home economics, cooking, sew
ing, canning, home gardening, home
sanitation and home nursing. The en
rollment for 1918 was 287; thir. year it
should exceed 400. A circular descrip
tive of the work may be had free upon
application to the College of Agricul
turo.
Sava t!3 Pullet
W. 8- Dilts, Prof, of Poultry Husb.,
6a. State College of Agri.
So many people, who grow chickens
in Georgia, sell or eat the pullets
(young females) as friers that Georgia
never makes large increases in the
number of chickens kept on the farm.
It is of utmost importance that only th
cockerels he used this spring for fry
ing chickens and all the pullets be
kept for laying n“xt winter. The
South will have n* ed for all the c -l;
that she can produce. Killing a pu’lc<
now means that you are cutting your
fond supply next year from 50 to 150
eggs for each pull'd killed. Kill the
young cockerels, but save tin early
hatched pullets.
Why Ha Needed a Week.
Clerk—“l’d like to get a week off,
air, *to attend the wedding of a
friend." Employer—" Avery dear
friend, I should say, to make you
want that'much time.” Clerk —“Well,
sir, after the ceremony she will b*
my wife.” —Boston Transcript,
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For Many Years the Stan dare
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It’s quick in fiction, just n few doses
help. If stops the htvul-spliftiiv: s , rack
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- When Telephoning
Concentration and courteous
attention given to a telephone-eon- *
versation is a mark of respect that
will be appreciated.
Frequent interruptions and re
quests to repeat mar the pleasure of
the talk. Concentrate on what is be
%
ing said and talk with a smile. ,
Courtesy is like oil to machinery—
the lack of it will cause friction and
friction in telephone talking is a thing
to he avoided.
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