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WHAT DOES IT COST
TO RAISE HOG MEAT'!
i
|Cost Returns From 218 Farms
, Give The Answer.
An examination of 218 farms located
tin Lowndes, Brooks, Grady, Decatur
and Colquitt counties show that in
13916 it cost farmers in this section
j$5.88 per hundred pounds to raise
ttheir hog meat. This is the total net
fcost and takes in every item as in
terest on stock hogs, rent on build
ings and equipment, dips and medi
cines, etc.
The low cost per pound was gained,
*o the figures show, by the farmer*
having a succession of grazing crops
and feeding only a small amount of
corn. On the average farm there was
42.2 acres in grazing crops, including
•rye, oats, sweet potatoes, cattail mil
let, early amber sorghum and peanuts.
Rye, oats and rape were planted in
the fall for early spring feeding. This
•was then followed by the millet and
aorghum. Millet is generally planted
■from March 15 to April 1, and sor
ghum during April. When the two
are planted in alternate rows better
results are obtained.
Early Dent corn and Spanish pea
nuts during March and April were de
pended upon by the farmers as a fat
tening crop and cowpeas were also
used. Chufas were sometimes planted
in April and May for fall and winter
grazing.
Velvet beans were used in some in
stances and gave good returns. Sweet
potatoes for grazing were planted dur
ing May and June and one acre sup
ported 12.7 hogs on the average for
2.3 months. The velvet beans gave
good winter grazing carrying 3 ma
ture hogs per acre for practically 3
months.
On the basis of the examination of
these farms the following grazing sys
tem has been suggested for ten sows,
one boar and one hundred pigs: 7%
aeres permanent pasture of Bermuda
or carpet grass; 7% acres of rye, oats
and rape followed by 5 acres of sweet
potatoes and 2% acres of peanuts; 7%
acres of cattail millet and early amber
sorghum; 15 acres of early Dent corn
and Spanish peanuts; and 50 acres
of North Carolina peanuts in corn.
The data gathered from these 218
farms conclusively show that with the
aid of grazing crops and permanent
pasture hogs hay be raised cheaper in
Georgia than in any other way. The
figures given above are taken from
"Grazing Crops for Hogs,” a bulletin
of the College of Agriculture, which
may be secured free upon request by
writing to Editor of State College of
Agriculture, Athens, Ga.
TO PUSH BUILDING OF
RED CROSS HOUSES
Home Service Work For Army Campe
Stretied In Conference At Divi
sion Headquarters
A very important conference touch
ing the work of the American Red
Cross In the army camps of the South
ern Division was held in Atlanta a few
days ago. There were present not
only Col. W. L. Peel, Division Manag
er; C. B. Bidwell, Associate Manager,
and Z. Bennett Phelps, Division Direc
tor of the Bureau of Military Relief, to
gether with a number of the Red Cross
Field Directors and Assistant Field
Directors from the camps, but
also, W. Frank Persons, Director Gen
eral of Civilian Relief; Henry S.
Thompson, National Director of the
Bureau of Camp Service, and Charles
E. Fox, Assistant Director of Camp
Service in charge of construction.
A number of important matters
were discussed, among them being the
personnel in the training camps, the
building and manning of the Red Cross
houses for convalescents in the camps,
j and the appointment of directors for
i these houses, instructions regarding
hospital information service, and the
relation of the Home Service depart-
m»U to the department of Military
Relief and the importance of Home
Service to the men in the training
camps and in the trenches, which
latter was talken up with the field di
rectors by Mr. Persons.
The volume of Home Service work
to be done necessitates the appoint
ment of an associate field director in
charge of home service who will work
with the regular field director in the
camp. There will also be a Home Ser
vice director on every transport that
carries American troops to France, so
that every soldier who leavee family
or business worries behind may have
someone to whom to turn for help and
advice. The problem ef keeping up
the morale of the army by making
them understand that their families
are well looked after while they are
away as well as that of helping to
maintain a normal standard of living
in the families where the men are
away belongs to the Home Service or
Civilian Relief Department.
“At the time of the Napoleonic
campaigns.” said Mr. Persons, “it was
estimated that the morale of the army
was more important than ammunition
in the ratio of 3 to 1. In the present
war, one of the greatest English gen
erals has estimated the ratio as 9 to
1. Home Service is more important
to the United States troops than to
those of England and France, because
the French and English Boldiers have
two weeks' leave every 90 days, can
return to their homes and look after
their most pressing business affairs
for themselves. But the American
soldier who goes to France will prob
ably stay in France until the end of
the war, and it is only through the
Home Service Department of the Red
Cross that bis mind can be relieved
from all worry concerning affairs at
home so that his entire attention can
be concentrated on BOldiering.”
Many illustrations of the value of
Home Service in the training camps
of this country were given by the
Field Directors, and the duties of the
men in charge of this branch of the
work outlined.
Henry S. Thompson, national direc
tor of the Bureau of Camp Service,
spoke on the duties of the military
field directors in the camps and their
relation to the Home Service Directors
in the same camps.
The building of the Red Cross
houses in 40 army camps in this coun
try was then taken up by Charles EL
Fox, assistant director of Camp Ser
vice in charge of construction, and the
purpose of these houses was explain
ed to the Field Directors and assist
ants who were present. Quarters and
a place of amusement will be provided
in these houses for convalescent sol
diers who are well enough to leave the
hospitals and yet not well enough to
return to active duty, as well as ac
commodations for the families of men
who are ill enough to make it neces
sary to send for their relatives. It is
being planned that a large part of the
furniture for these houses shall be
made by the older boys in the
Junior Red Cross auxiliaries.
The construction in the camps
of the Southern Division will be su
pervised by John R. Dillon of Atlanta,
of the firm of Morgan & Dillon, archi
tects, who has volunteered his ser
vices to the Southern division for any
sort of architectural work.
Men trained in work similar to that
of the Home Service department are
wanted at once for work in the campe
and on the transports. All applications
in this division should be made to
Joseph C. Logan, Director of Civilian
Relief.
Field Directors and Assistant Field
Directors present at the conference
were T. T. Flagler, S. A. Darrach, Dr.
Josiah Morse, Lanning Harvey, W. R_
Carr, William C. Denny, H. M. Voor-
hees, J. Loaring Clark, H. A. Field,
William S. Moore. J. C. Williams, and
Mrs. Charles A. Sheldon, Sr.
JUNIOR RED CROSS TAKES
OVER ARMY OF RELIEF
Harvey D. Gibson, General Manager
of the American Red Cross, announced
this week that the Junior Red Cross
organization has endorsed and taken
over the Children of America Army of
Relief, and that henceforward the
work of this latter organization will
he carried on by the Junior Red Cross.
The transfer of funds took place on
March 2nd, $40,000 being given over
to the Junior Red Cross to be devoted
to child welfare work abroad, and the
Army of Relief will cease to solicit
funds. All Army of Relief members
are now eligible for membership in
Junior Red Cross auxiliaries, and
Chapter School committees are author
ized to incorporate the.m in schools
that are not already enrolled as Junior
units or to incorporate all Army of Re
lief members in their territory as a
single Junior Auxiliary.
PEDIGREE ALONE WILL
NOT MAKEGOOD HOG
Expert Tells How To Develop
Prize Winner.
Just the pedigree alone will not
make a good hog. All animals must
have feed and care. If you select
a well-bred, well-developed hog and
give .it clean quaiters, clean water,
plenty of feed at regular feeding pe
riods, you should be rewarded by hav
ing it develop into a fine animal. How
ever, you can take the same animal,
and, by keeping it in small, dirty
quarters, giving it dirty dish-water to
drink, corn alone or feed of any kind
at irregular intervals, you will have
a scrub. In other words, just the
pedigree alone will not keep a hog
from being a scrub, but plenty of feed,
clean quarters and regular attention
is what counts fully as much as the
pedigree.
A great mistake is often made In
not starting the real feeding of hogs
early in their lives. It is not necessary
to wait until the pigs are large enough
to run all over the place before feed
ing them. As a matter of fact, the
critical period of a pig’s life is just
after it has been weaned and before
it has become accustomed to eating
heavy feed. For that reason, it should
be brought to the heavy feeds gradu
ally. It is good practice to have a
clean, tight trough just outside the
pen. Make a place so the pigs can
get out to it, and two or three times
a day pour in something they like.
Skimmed milk is the best feed to start
with, and, as they begin to take to
it, add just a little shorts. When they
are eight or nine weeks old, they
should be eating fairly well. A little
peanut meal could be added. Feed
only.enough to have them lick it all
clean in a few moments. Don’t over
feed.
After the pigs are ten to twelve
weeks old, eating well and thrifty, give
them a pouring slop of one-fourth
bran, one-fourth shorts and one-half
peanut meal. Velvetbean meal could
be used in place of bran if soaked, say,
ten hours. Sprinkle a little salt in
three times a week and mix to a pour
ing slop with milk if you have it. Any
kind of milk will do. Feed twice a
day what they will clean up, while
running on pasture. See that they
have plenty of clean water—not dish
water. Half of a pig is water.—James
E. Downing, State College of Agri
culture.
VALUE OF POTASH IS
PERHAPS EXAGGERATED
In Some Sections Of State That
Are Well Supplied.
The elements of plant food that
are of special interest in the selec
tion of fertilizers are nitrogen, phos
phorus and potassium. The cost and
proportion of these elements in the
mixture are of prime consideration.
Since we have relied on Germany al
most wholly for our potash supply, it
has become very scarce and consider
ably higher in price. However, the
value of potash on soils in the north
ern half of the state has probably
been exaggerated, as experiments
seem to indicate that the increase in
yields of general farm crops due to
the use of potash salts in many cases
does not pay for the potash used. This
is perhaps due to the fact that these
soils as a whole are well supplied with
potash and, when well worked and sup
plied with organic matter, there is
sufficient potash made available for
the growing plants. Nitrogen and
phosphorus are more deficient and, if
fertilizers containing these constitu
ents in liberal quantities are used and
the soil properly handled, the use of
potash will not be advisable. Under
these conditions a fertilizer contain
ing about 10 per cent of available
phosphoric acid and 2% to 3 per cent
of nitrogen is advisable for general
farm crops. In case of leguminous
crops, the per cent of nitrogen may he
lowered or omitted entirely.
In such a fertilzer it would be bet
ter to have the nitrogen from more
than one source, a part from a readily
available source, as nitrate of soda or
sulphate of ammonia, and a part from
tankage or cottonseed meal.
In the southern half of the state the
soils in general contain less potash and
the use of fertilizers containing 2 or
3 per cent of potash may pay on such
crops as cotton, peanuts and tobacco.
It is doubtful if it pays on other
crops at the present price.
Under certain conditions, such as
on soils where cotton rusts the liberal
use of potash may he used to advan
tage, even at present prices.
Conditions at the present time, due
to the war, are such that an increase
in crop production is necessary. The
fact that labor is high and scarce, due
largely to the same cause, makes it
imperative that this increase be pro
duced on a smaller acreage. This not
only demands better preparation and
cultivation, but a rational use of com
mercial fertilizers.
Certain crops respond to certain ele
ments of plant food more readily than
others, and the type of soil may effect
this response materially. Experiments
seem to indicate that the type of soil
must be the basis on which recom
mendations of the kind of fertilizers
are made. So that any recommenda
tion for any section as a whole must
be general rather than specific.—Prof.
W. A. Worsham, State College of Agri
culture.
TEACHERS NEEDED FOR
VOCATIONALEDUCATION
Offers Possibilities For Real
Leadership And Service.
With the rapid development of vo
cational education comes a new and
striking demand for teachers. Our
colleges of agriculture all over the
country have been overworked for the
past ten years in attempting to meet
the demand for trained farmers, re
search workers, college and extension
teachers. Little or no attention has
been given to the preparation of teach
ers in the field of secondary agricul
ture. The demands, therefore, in this
important field of educational work can
not now be met. Trained teachers are
not to be had. The men who drafted
the “Smith-Hughes Bill” realized this
fact and made provisions for the train
ing of this type of teacher.
The teacher training work in voca
tional agriculture is being provided for
I at the Georgia State Agricultural Col
lege. A division of Agricultural Edu
cation has been established, and is now
offering regular courses to those pre
paring to enter this field of work.
These courses are open to Agricultural
College students or graduates. It is
evident that, on account of the mili
tary call, some special means of meet
ing the demands in this work will have
to be resorted to. Special courses will
be offered during the summer session
this year to both regular agricultural
college students and to those who are
now in this work or who are trying
to qualify for it.
This should prove an attractive field
in which to work for those who know
and are in sympathy with country life.
There are no limits to the possibilities
for real leadership and service. The
opportunities for advancement are as
broad as the movement itself. Write
for catalog to Prof. John T. Wheeler,
State College of Agriculture.
WILL GEORGIA RJUSE
NEEDED MULE COLTS?
Many Are Needed For War
Service.
A great question has come up of
late among Georgia farmers, whether
they should buy mules or horses be
cause of the high price of mules.
The British, French, Italian and our
own government are buying both
horses and mules very freely. The
probable reason mules are higher in
price than horses is that there are
only about 4,844,000 mules as opposed
to 21,563,000 horses in the United
States.
Should the war continue for another
year or two Georgia farmers will he
asked to help furnish mules for war
purposes and use more horses. Expe
rience has shown that under certain
conditions the mule is a better trans
port animal than the horse, and they
will be used more and more by our
government.
Georgia is a great livestock state,
and for the better class of white farm
ers the raising of mule colts should
be a very profitable enterprise. The
heavier the mules the better the price
received for them. Now to raise large
mule colts will require at least 1,300-
pound good grade draft mares. At
present these mares can be bought in j
Iowa and Illinois for from $200 to
$250 f. o. b. Georgia.
The idea that large horses cannot
do as much work as a mule is erro
neous. A mare can stand as much as
a mule in the way of work, and, when
she has her colt, she only needs two
or three weeks off and she is ready
for hard work again.—C. A. Martini,
Field Agent, State College of Agri
culture.
forceIotton TO
GET EARLY MATURITY
Boll Weevil Fight Will Be
Harder Than Ever.
Early, maturity of cotton is essential
to success in growing the crop under
boll weevil conditions. Aside from se
lecting a variety with earliness as a
characteristic, it is important that the
plant be helped by every possible stim
ulant to set and mature its fruit at
the earliest possible date. Hence it
becomes important to fertilize with
this end in view.
Contributing to the early maturity
of a plant, phosphorous is of chief
importance. Therefore, to promote
early fruition of the cotton, an applica
tion of phosphoric acid should be
made, generally speaking, about 400
pounds to the acre.
If other forms are used the appli
cation should be made in time and
condition should be such as to render
the phosphorous available at the
proper time.
After good fertilizing clean and con
stant cultivation should be practiced,
giving the plant the best chance pos
sible to grow off and begin fruiting.
The fruit must be set soon to escape
damage.
The fight against the boll weevil
will be harder this year than ever be
fore. Some have imagined that the
severe cold of the winter has killed
out the weevil, but this has proven
to be an Illusion. The weevil has al
ready made its appearance in several
sections of the state.—Prof. John R.
Fain, State College ol Agriculture.
$2,400,000 GOES TO
VOCATIONALEDUCATION
In The Next Ten Years For Pay
ing And Training
Teachers.
The “National Vocational Act,”
known as the “Smith-Hughes Bill,”
provides for federal aid to vocational
schools. This bill was passed by con
gress in February, 1917, and became
effective July 1, 1917. By the provi
sions of this act, $42,000 of federal
money comes to Georgia this year for
the promotion of vocational education.
This amount is increased each year
until the sum of $192,000 is reached
for 1926 and a like amount annually
for every year thereafter. The total
amount of federal money thus received
by our state for the ten years ending
1927 will be nearly one and a quarter
millions of dollars.
Another provision of this act re
quires that the state must spend, at
least, an equal amount in promoting
this same type of education. This
means, then, that a total of $84,000 is
available in the state of Georgia this
year for vocational education; and
that by 1926, and each year thereafter,
there will he at least $384,000 avail
able for the promotion of such educa
tion. This makes the minimum total
to be expended for vocational educa
tion in our state, during the next ten
years, more than $2,400,000.
This vast sum of money will be spent
only for two distinct lines of work. It
will be spent in paying the salaries of
vocational teachers (teachers of agri
culture, home economics and industrial
subjects) and in preparing or training
the teachers of these vocational sub
jects.
Special work will be given this
summer at Athens to teachers who
are preparing to enter the work and
those who are already in the field and
wish further training for special lines
of work. The demand for teachers is
great and will increase from year to
year as more schools enter the work.
It should be noted also, in this con
nection, that each state must provide
the kind of vocational education it
most needs. In an industrial stale
like Massachusetts the larger portion
of this fund will go to industrial edu
cation, but in an agricultural state like
Georgia, the major portion of this
fund will be available for promoting
agricultural teaching.
That the state is awake to the situa
tion is indicated by the number of com
munities asking for this federal aid.
Besides the eleven District Agricul
tural Schools, some seventeen or eigh
teen new schools have been establish
ed in as many counties.—Prof. John
T. Wheeler, State College of Agricul
ture.
CARLE FEEDERS ARE
planting™ silage
It Is An Absolute Necessity For
Winter Feeding.
Cattle feeders are planting silage
crops now to prepare for winter feed
ing. Many silos will be filled.
The experience of cattle feeders in
the state and the feeding tests of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture
show that silage is an absolute neces
sity in carrying cattle economically
through the winter months. Many
stockmen have contended that the
feeders of Georgia do not need the
silo, but experience has shown silage
to be the universal winter feed.
Now is the time to sow silage crops.
Land that has been making a bale of
cotton to the acre should make from
ten to twelve tons of silage to the
acre. Of course the yields will vary
from season to season depending on
weather conditions and the crop used
for silage.
A mixture of any of the rank sor
ghums as Red Head or Sugar Drip
with kafir corn is good for planting.
The mixture should be made of 3 parts
of sorghum to 1 part of kafir corn and
about 8 to 10 pounds of this mixture
should be sown on an acre. This mix
ture has been advocated since it has
given the largest yields under all con
ditions and also has given a good
quality of silage.
Forty pounds of silage per day is
full feed for an animal weighing 1,000
pounds. If fed for 120 days at this
rate each animal will require a little
less than two and a half tons for the
feeding period. Counting twelve tons
to the acre five animals may be car
ried through the winter from the silage
of this area.
Along with the silage must be fed
a small amount of cottonseed meal,
peanut meal, velvetbean meal or a
mixture of these feeds. Some dry
roughage in the form of shredded corn
stalks or oat straw should be fed.
The silage crop should be planted
as near the silo as possible in order
to keep down the expense of handling.
It makes it more convenient also for
the handling of fertilizers and manure
that are put under these crops.
The time that it will take a silage
crop to mature is from 110 to 130 days,
depending, of course, upon the kind of
crop and the seasonal conditions.
Preparations should be made as soon
as possible for the building of the
silo.
The State College of Agriculture in
Athens will supply any farmer free of
charge plans and specifications for the
building of a silo. In some instances
actual supervision of the building of
the silo may be given. Write for “Ev
ery Man’s Silo.”—M. P. Jarnagin,
State College of Agriculture. |
Lemon Juice Is
Freckle Remover
Girls! Make this Cheap Beauty Lotion
to Clear and Whiten Your Skin.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces of or
chard white, shake well, and you have
a quarter pint of the best freckle and
tan lotion, and complexion beautifier,
at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of orchard white for a few
cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant
lotion into the face, neck, arms and
hands each day and see how freckles
and blemishes disappear and how clear,
soft and white the skin becomes. Yes!
It is harmless.
Legal Advertisements.
SHERIFF’S SALE
For May 1918.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
May 1918, during the legal hours
of sale, before the court house door in
Taylor county, Georgia, to the highest
bidder, for cash, all the following de
scribed property;
Lots of land numbers 40 and 57, each
containing 202 1-2 acres, also west half
of lot of land number 72, containing
101 1-4 acres, more or less, all in the
12th district of Taylor county, Ga,, and
aggregating in one body 506 1-4 acres
of land more or less.
Levied upon and to be sold as the
property of Walton Watson to satisfy
a fi fa issued from the superior court
of Taylor county in favor of theVirginia-
Carolina Chemical Company against the
said Walton Watson. Written notice as
required by law given to defendant and
tenants in possession. This 4th day of
April 191S
J. R. BEELAND, Sheriff.
SHERIFF’S SALE
For May 1918
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
May, 1918, during the legal hours
of sale, before the court house door in
Taylor county, Georgia, to the highest
bidder, for cash, all the following de
scribed property:
One black mare mule named Ada,
levied upon and to be sold as the
property of Z. T. Blood worth to satisfy
a fi fa issued from the Superior court
of Taylor county in favor of S. Garrett
against the said Z. T. Bloodworth, and
found in the possession of Z. T. Blood-
worth. This 4th day of April 1918.
J. R. BEELAND, Sheriff.
FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA
TION.
GEORGIA—Taylor County.
P. C. WATSON
having made application to me in due
form to be appointed permanent ad
ministrator upon the estate of
CLAUD I). WATSON
late of said county, notice is hereby
given that said application will be
heard at the regular term of the
Court of Ordinary for said county to
be held on the first Monday in
May. This April 1st 1918
A. H. RILEY, Ordinary.
An Art Aphorism.
Here is an art aphorism from Jean
Francois Millet: “I have been re
proached for not observing detail; I
see it, but I prefer to construct the
synthesis which as an artistic effort Is
higher and more robust. You reproach
me with insensibility to charm; why, I
open your eyes to that which yon do
not perceive, hut which is none the less
real—the dramatic.”
Nature Sets a Guard.
Since sugar is purely an energy food.
It is necessary that a proper balance
of muscle-making food go with It;
and, since an excess of sugar may
cause serious disturbance, a guard
has been set—the appetite, which nor
mally refuses more sugar than the
system can well care for.
The Heart Know*.
The understanding heart is what is
needed above all else. The affections
are cognitive p- wers no less than the
intellect. The heart knows truth by
Its affinities, as the mind verifies it by
reasoning. What we feel, we know
by a consciousness more trustworthy
than logic.—A. P. Peabody.
Flower Hint*.
Always pull the leaves off the stalks
of flowers before putting them in wa
ter—those leaves which would be la
the water, not those above it. And with
flowers from any hard-stalked sort of
shrub the bark should be peeled off
as well as the leaves.
French Reao in South America.
Throughout South America French
is almost universally read; editions of
the classics are in most homes, and
book stores are Ailed with modem
French writers of prose or verse, both
in translation and in the original.
What One Most Need*.
If we find but one to whom we can
speak out our heart freely, with whom
we can walk in love and simplicity
without dissimulation, we have no
ground to quarrel with the world or
God.—R. L. Stevenson.
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