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STATE OF GEORGIA, County of Hall.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of H. Hedley Bush, of London,
England, William I*. Epperson, of Gainesville,
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INFORMATION
FOR FARMERS
Inquiries Answered by the State
Agricultural Department.
REPLIES TO ALL SORTS OF QUERIES
Some Faots and Figaro* Regarding Egyp
tian Cotton—Where t > Get a Full De
scription of the Appearance and Habit*
•f the Colorado Potato Beetle—Remedy
For Kuit on Roses—Wealth of Dixit.
Question. —Please give me in detail
some of the principal sources of wealth
of the south as at present utilized, and
why is it, if there is so much wealth as
we are led to believe, that the country
is not more prosperous ?
Answer.—The greatest income of the
south is derived from cotton and its
products, grain and its products, rice,
sugar, tobacco, fruit, vegetables and
the products of the pine tree. The
south has also its stock farms, its man
facturing, mining, merchandising,
building, transportation and other in
terests—bringing into the country about
$1,300,000,0000 annually. One principal
reason that the south receives so little
benefit from the vast wealth is that she
spends it with almost absolute unre
straint on other sections of our own
country, and to fill the coffers of for
eign nations. With perhaps a few un
important exceptions, the south is abso
lutely dependent on the outside world
for all of the following articles, in which
she invests each year with lavish prodi
gality: Paints, oils, drugs, buggies,
harness clocks, watches, china, glass,
cutlery, carpets, curtains, stoves, woolen
and cotton goods, buttons, needles,
thread, soap*, perfumes and other toilet
articles, gloves, dress goods, all kinds of
agricultural implements, chains, nails,
clothing, furniture for our houses, build
ing materials for our railroads and
transportation lines, for our water
works, for our engines, boilers, electric
appliances, for the equipment of our
schools and colleges, and for even the
very commonest sheds that are on
our farms. We pay millions of
dollars to outsiders for the books
which we read and for those which our
children study. Life and fire insurance
companies take millions of dollars out
of the south each year. Saddest of all,
the farmers pay out many additional
millions for supplies, which they could
just as well raise at home. Thus the
south, which is the most highly favored
section of the Union in natural re
sources and in opportunities for acquir
ing wealth, pays tribute to the north
and west and to every foreign country.
Her cotton crop has built up colossal
fortunes at the north. Her lumber
trade has established foreign companies
on a nrm basis; the earnings from her
immense deposits of iron and her mar
ble and minerals have gone to swell the
profits of aliens. Os all these immense
interests, which act as a continual drain
on our hard earned income, scarcely 1
per cent is located within our own bor
ders. Nearly all are outside and are
flourishing and fattening on the life
blood, which is drawn from our arter
ies of trade and commerce. The an
swer to the latter clause of your ques
tion stated succinctly is this: As long as
the south pays out each year for needed
articles more than she receives for her
products, she will be prostrate under
the feet of money lenders and sharpers.
She must learn to handle her own crops,
run her own banks and manufacture
everything needed within her borders.
She must work at home and “board”
there. This is a very simple lesson in
domestic economy, but it has taken us
over a century to master even its rudi
ments. These have now been learned
and the south is being gradually eman
cipated. The day of her full deliver
ance is not very far off. She has every
requisite for independence; climate and
soil for beautiful crops; raw materials
for manufactures of every description.
Each year the facilities for transporta
tion have increased and are increasing.
Manufactures and plants for various in
dustries are constantly being added to
the list. When the south understands
the value of the immense traffic, which
her shortsightedness has allowed to fall
into other hands, she will assert her
right to control it, and no power on
earth can wrest it from her.—State Ag
ricultural Department.
Rast on Roses.
Question. —My hybrid perpetual roses
have been attacked by some enemy,
causing yellow spots upon the leaves,
which have gradually extended until
the whole plant seems affected. The
young branches are drawn up and the
general appearance of the bushes is
sickly and deformed. The tea roses do
not seem to have contracted the disease,
whatever it is, but my hollyhocks are
infected with what appears to be the
same disease. The plants seem to have
dried up, and what was once a promise
of lovely flowers is now only a disap
pointment. What shall Ido for them?
Answer.—The disease which has at
tacked your roses is easily recognized as
rose rust, to which the hardy hybrid
perpetuals are peculiarly subject, and
unless checked will develop winter
spores, which will live through the win
ter, and start again on their work of de
struction when the pleasant weather of
spring begins. The best plan is to
watch the rose bushes, and as soon as
the lemon colored spots are discovered
that portion of the plant should be re
moved and burned. Also, in the au
tumn, all fallen leaves underneath the
affected bashes should be removed and
burned. During the fall and winter
spray the bushes and the ground about
them with a solution of copper sulphate
or other fungicide, and in the spring,
after the leaves are open, spray with
ammoniacal copper carbeuate.
The diseased condition of your holly
hocks is owing to the attacks of a fun
gus called hollyhock rust, not the same
which attacks the roses, but the treat
ment is very much the same. Pull up
all infected plants and burn them, also
any fallen leaves; then try a thorough
spraying with ammoniacal copper car
bonate solution. —State Agricultural De
partment.
The Rica Weevil.
Question. —In answer to a question a
month or two since, you said that wee
vils were wingless. Now, I send you
some specimens that you will find are
lively flyers, and they seem to be the in
sects that damage my corn and other
grains. Please tell me why you said
they were wingless.
Answer.—The weevil that was men
tioned in a previous answer was called
the “granary weevil,” as you will ob
serve by reading the article again.
They are wingless, but at the same time
they are very injurious to stored grain.
The winged insects that you sent are
called the rice weevil (calaudra oryza).
They resemble the granary weevil very
much in appearance, and are very de
structive to all stored grain, and in this
state do an immense amount of dam
age.
Another pest, the “Angoumois grain
moth,” commonly called “fly weevil,"
does great damage, particularly to corn,
before it is housed, frequently ruining
whole ears, and rendering it unfit for
food for man or beast. But for these
weevil pests, our corn could be kept
from year to year, as is now the case in
more northern latitudes. The use of
bisulfide of carbon will destroy all these
insects, as I have frequently mentioned,
in answers to questions, and every
farmer who raises corn, particularly in
the southern portion of the state, should
use it. It is a moderate estimate to
claim that its use would add 15 percent
to the value of the corn in every crib
south of Griffiu, and save many farmers
from buying, who are now driven to that
necessity on account of the losses caused
by weevils and rats.—State Agricult
ural Department.
Egyptian Cotton.
Question. —Is there any need for un
easiness as to Egyptian cotton? Is not
all this agitation about its interfering
with our long staple cotton gotten up
for political effect?
Answer. —The cotton trade of Egypt
is increasing very rapidly. The number
of pounds has nearly doubled since
1879—the first year in which we had
official reports. In 1879 Egypt exported
270,060,813 pounds. The official report
for 1895 is the latest, and gives the
amount as 521,427,463 pounds. The
price has fallen steadily from 14.95 cents
in 1879 to 8.97 cents in 1895. Our first
direct importation of Egyptian cotton
was in 1884, and its use here has in
creased very rapidly. In 1896 we im
ported directly from Egypt 43,574,760
pounds. This amount, added to that
which was received through English
channels, increased the total to about
50,000,000 pounds, or about 100,000 bales
American cotton. In view of these
facts our growers of Sea Island cotton
have felt much uneasiness. The presi
dent of the New York Cotton Ex
change, Hon. Gustavus O. Hopkins,
that Egyptian" cotton certainly
does compete with our Sea Island or
long staple cotton. »Georgia raises two
thirds of this latter crop, and we are of
course directly interested in any move
ment which tends either to increase or
depress the price.—State Agricultural
Department.
Corn >mut.
Question. —Is there any remedy to
prevent the corn smut, which, it seems
to me, is increasing in the last few
years ?
Answer.—The remedies for corn
smut must necessarily be of a preventa
tive nature, because from the fact that
the disease enters the plant when
young, spraying with Bordeaux mix
ture and other fungicides will do little
good. Experiments on this line have
been made and the results have con
firmed this opinion. On investigation
it will be found that when the diseased
corn is left in the field or on the ground
it will infect succeeding crops, and also
that while smutted corn fed to horses
may not be very injurious to the ani
mals, the spores will be distributed in
the manure and will work a great
amount of damage. To arrest the dis
ease it will pay to practice rotation of
crops, and also to destroy as much of
the smut as possible before it comes to
maturity. Cut off the smut balls and
bury or burn them before they burst
and scatter the eposes broadcast. Bis
sey says: “Where domestic animals
are allowed to eat smut in the field,
they become the carriers of the spores
and their droppings, filled with the still
living spores, become the centers of in
fection. No animal should be permit
ted to eat smutted corn, even though
the owner be convinced of its harmless
ness to the animal itself. The harm
lies in the distribution of the spores,
which are little if at all injured by
passing through the alimentary canals
of animals."—State Agricultural De
partment.
Rast In Wheat.
Question.—ls there any way to pre
vent rust in wheat? There seems to be
two kinds of rust; one attacks the
blades, the other the stalks, and the
latter does much the most damage.
Answer.—You are mistaken as to
their being two kinds of rust that at
tack wheat. The same rust attacks the
blades and stalks indiscriminately. As
a rule the blades are first attacked,
either from their greater susceptibility
or because the stalks have not made
their appearance, when the spores, or
seeds as the fungus that produces rust,
first settle upon the plant. Hot, wet
weather is most conducive to the devel
opment of this fungus, and some varie
ties of wheat are more easily affected
than others. Weak plants are more
liable to attack than those of vigorous
growth, hence the importance of plant
ing the best seed. There has been no
remedy discovered for this disease,
when once it makes its appearance on
the wheat. We can, however, use pre
ventive means by a careful selection
of seed, and so treating it before
planting as in some measure to
guard against this disease. The sim
plest treatment, and one that gives as
good results as any, is to soak the seed
wheat for two or three hours in a solu
tion made of four ounces of sulphate of
copper (bluestone) to a gallon of water.
Stir the wheat occasionally and skim
off. all the light and defective seed; that
rise to the top. It is claimed by some
that a free use of salt as a fertilizer
.OO Per Annum in Advance.
wm prevent rust, but this has not been
demonstrated. The rust of course does
most damage when it attacks the stalks,
for then the grain is directly injured.
If you will select your seed from wheat
that fully matured and ripened in the
field, entirely free from rust, and will
then treat it as described, you will stand
a fair chance of escaping rust, though
it frequently appears after every pains
has been taken to prevent it. —State
Agricultural Department.
Diseased Ouincei.
Question. —Why is it that we so
rarely see a perfect quince these davs?
I remember that in my youth this was
considered one of our most certain
fruits and the rows of quince trees in
my mother’s garden laden with the
heavy yellow fruit is still a pleasant
memory.
Answer.—Quinces, like many other
of our frqit trees, have been sadly neg
lected, and the insidious advances of
diseases have been scarcely noticed, un
til they hare obtained such a firm foot
hold as to be very difficult of eradica
cation. There are four diseases to which
the quince is liable: The Leaf Blight
and Fruit Spot, the Quince Rust, the
Black Rot and the Twig Blight. The
first attacks the fruit as well as foliage
and young quince trees in the nursery
are peculiarly liable to it. The remedy
is spraying with Bordeaux mixture.
The rust attacks the fruit, and unless
the disease is checked, the ypung
quinces will be distorted and misshapen
long before they mature. The fungus
of this disease is communicated from
the “cedar apples” and “cedar balls”
so often seen on cedar trees, and if these
trees grow near a quince orchard they
should be destroyed. Spraying with
fungicides may also be used with ad
vantage.
The Black Rust is more safely pre
vented by clean culture than by fungi
cides, because the disease usually ap
pears when the fruit is reaching ma
turity, and the application of fungi
cides might be attended with danger-
All rotting or mummified fruit should
be destroyed, and after tne crop is gath
ered late sprayings of ammoniacal solu
tion of copper carbonate will be bene
ficial.
The Twig Blight very much resem
bles the Pear Blight. The branches turn
black, and should be cut off and burned
at once.—State Agricultural Depart
ment.
Soluble Phosphoric Aid.
Question.—ln the analysis of fertil
izers, phosphoric acid is spoken of as
soluble, reverted, and insoluble. Please
give me a short explanation of these
terms.
Answer. —The soluble phosphoric
acid in a fertilizer is that part that is
perfectly soluble in water and at oqce
ready for plant food. The reverted
phosphoric acid is that portion that
becomes soluble by the action of
water and the soil combined, and
it is therefore estimated as “avail
able” to the growing crop. The
insoluble is so difficult of solution that
it is regarded as of no benefit to a quick
growing crop, and is therefore consid
ered as having no value in a fertilizer.
In an analysis of a fertilizer the “solu
ble” and the “reverted” are added to
gether and called * ‘available phosphoric
acid,” simply because the crops can
speedily appropriate them.—State Agri
cultural Department.
Cutting; Wheat and Oats.
Question. —Should oats and wheat
be cut before full maturity or not?
Answer.—Unless intended for seed
both wheat and oats should be cut before
becoming fully ripe. By this plan you
save more of the grain, as there is no
loss from shattering. The straw is more
nutritious and therefore more valuable
.'or feeding; and it is even claimed that
the grain so saved contains more nutri
tive qualities than when exposed longer
in the sun. When, however, the wheat
or oats is to be used for seed let it get
fully ripe before harvesting, even at
the expense of losing some of the grain
by shattering and all of the straw for
feeding purposes.—State Agricultural
Department.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Fleecy Staple Looking Well Wheat Har
vested—Spring Oats Disappointing.
COTTON.
The very dry May permitted the farm
ers to clean their fields thoroughly of
grass and weeds, and through J unp,
where rains have fallen, the plants have
made a good growth and are now look
ing well. As a rule the stand is fair,
and there have been but few complaints
of lice and other insect enemies. The
rainfall has been deficient in some por
tions of the state, but in most localities
there has been enough for cotton, which
requires but little rain until fruiting
commences. Taking into consideration
all the questions affecting this crop, and
the verdict must be that at this date it
is in good condition and growing off
well, but from ten days to two weeks
later than an average crop.
CORN.
In many counties the rainfall has not
been sufficient for the best development
of this crop, though in but few places
has this deficiency been sufficient to
cause serious injury. The crop, how
ever, is just now at its critical stage,
particularly in the lower half of the
state, and frequent and abundant rains
during July will be needed to insure
an abundant yield. If our farmers
would take more pains in preparing
their corn land, by deeper plowing, eta,
a good crop would be raised with much
less rain than is now required. Snal
low breaking up of land forces the corn
roots to feed near the surface, and then
a very moderate drouth produces seri
ous results.
wheat.
This crop has been harvested and
much of it threshed, with very satis
factory results, many fields in North
Georgia turning out from 20 to 30 bush
els per acre. The rust, which appeared
in nearly every field during May, was
confined as a rule to the blades and did
no harm to the grain.
OATS, ETC.
Fall planted oats turned out well in
every portion of the state, while spring
oats were very disappointing. The acre
age of fall oats was not large, and the
spring oats failing, the crop in total is a
short one.
The minor crops are doing fairly well
and there has been a large acreage of
sweet potatoes planted. The stand of
sugar cane is poor, but condition good.
NUMBER 28.
FRUITS.
Watermelons are being shipped now
in large quantities, but the crop is in
ferior both in quantity and in size of
melons. I made the acreage 25 per cent
short of an average crop in my last re
port, but I am satisfied it is even greater,
and now estimate it to be at least 40 per
cent less than usual T'»e diminished
acreage should cause good melons to
bring high prices. The peach crop is
short throughout the state, particularly
at the large centers of this industry.
The fortunate growers who have made
partial crops should get high prices.
The grape crop is large and hastening
to maturity, with no reports as yet of
injury from any disease. Apples prom
ise a fair crop, while blackberries are
abundant on every farm in the state.
STOCK.
Many reports of cholera among hogs
in every section of the state. With this
exception stock of all kinds are reported
as healthy and in good condition. I
have noticed that hog cholera is always
more common in those years when a
good deal of western corn is sold in the
state, and I infer from this fact that
much of the so-called cholera is simply
the result of neglect and starvation.
Bronchitis In Shoats.
Question. —I have several shoats, in
good order, which seem to have some
trouble in their throats. They have
good appetites, but do not seem to di
gest their food and they cough and
sneeze, particularlv when eating. What
must I do for them ?
Answer.—Your shoats are suffering
with bronchitis, an irritation or inflam
mation of the air passages of the luugs.
This is caused by coldt, just as in the
human being, and is not difficult to
cure if treated promptly. Give each
one a teaspoonful of spirits of turpen
tine in their food daily for three days
and rub their throats with any irritat
ing liniment. If this does not effect a
cure, mix equal parts of salt, sulphur
and powder of juniper berries, and
place in a trough or box where they can
have free access to it. At the same
time don’t let them sleep in a dusty
bed.—State Agricultural Department.
Colorado Potato Beetle.
Question. —Where can I get a full
description of the appearance, habits,
etc., of the Colorado potato beetle?
There is an insect on my farm which
very closely resembles it, but it did not
seem to care for the potato vines. Those
I saw were on nettles. Are there two
kinds of this bug?
Answer.—There are two beetles very
closely resembling each other. Only an
experienced eye can detect the differ
ence. The bogus beetles never attack
potatoes, but are quite common on the
horse nettle, while the real beetle at
tacks both, and also other plants,
among them the tomato. If you will
write to the Mississippi Experiment
Station you can obtain their bulletin,
No. 41, which will give you all the par
ticulars you ask for. Address Howard
Evarts Weed, Agricultural College,
Mississippi.—State Agricultural Depart
ment.
When to Sow Onion Seed.
Question. —When should I sow on- ,
ion seed, say in the latitude of Macon,
to make early onions for market the
following spring?
Answer.—Sow, in a well prepared
•eed bed, from the middle to the last of
September. When the plants are
to 3 inches high set them out in rows 18
inches wide and 4 inches apart in the
row. If your laud is well prepared and
highly cultivated your onions should be
ready for market early enough to com
mand a good price. Should the weather
be exceedingly cold in the winter, a
light mulching would be of benefit.—
State Agricultural Department
Good Suggestion.
It would be well for many of the
people who are given to worrying
to pay heed to a story of Cromwell’s
time said to be absolutely true.
The protector was sending a spe
cial envoy to Sweden in the person
of Bushrod Whitelock, a most de
vout man, but one of an extremely
nervous, anxious temperament. As
the embassador was about to em
bark on his journey, he was de
tained at Harwich by a storm. He
was so troubled with the affairs of
the nation that he tossed, turned
and groaned in his bed, unable to get
to sleep.
At last his confidential servant,
who had won Whitelock’s respect
and confidence through his faithful
ness and good sense on many a try
ing occasion, ventured to say, “Pray,
sir, will you give me leave to ask
you a question?”
“Certainly,” was the answer.
“Do you think that God governed
the world very well before you
came into it?”
“Undoubtedly I do,” said White
lock.
§ “And,” continued the servant,
“do you not think he will govern it
quite as well when you are gone
out of it?”
“To be sure he will,” responded
the master promptly.
“Then, sir, excuse me, but may
you not trust him to govern it the
little while you are to live in it?”
Whitelock made no reply to this
pertinent question, but he turned
over and was soon asleep, and on
his return he repeated the story of
this bit of advice with much appre
ciation.—Youth’s Companion.
A Sympathetic Judge.
“I make whisky,” said the moon
shiner, “to make shoes for my little
children!”
The judge seemed touched, for he
had children of his own. “I sym
pathize with you,” he said, “and I
am going to send you to the Ohio
penitentiary where you can follow
the shoe business for two years!”—
Atlanta Constitution.
Plenty of Work.
“Wobbles needed exercise so ur
gently that he bought a bicycle, but ,
he never rides.”
“Never rides?”
“No. He never needs any more
exercise after he has pumped up his
tires.”—Boston Traveler.
"isn’t that a very slow horse of
yours?”
“Well, he isn’t much for speed,
but he’s easily frightened andi runs
away a good deal; so he gets there
just the same.”—Boston Traveler.