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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1913.
AGRICULTURAL
EDUCATION
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This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State
Agricultural College, Athens, Ga.
CO-OPERATION AMONG FARMERS
F ARMERS must organize for their
mutual protection and advance
ment. Even’ other form of busi
ness has found it advisable to do so,
and whereas before organization the
profits may have been meager and un
certain, with consolidation has come, in
most instances, a substantial increase
in their earnings and remunerative div
idends. Any business which has not
been properly organized is at the mercy
of such industries as have, through co
operation, provided against contingen
cies and are thus enabled to withstand
the .sudden fluctuations which may ofc-
cur from time to time in the markets
of the country.
In a nation of more than 90,000,000
people the individual depending on his
own limited resources cannot hope to
sell effectively or to protect himself
from unjust discrimination. An illus
tration will clarify the situation and fm-
phasize the needs of organization among
farmers. A car of melons sold by a
southern farmer* brought $52.60, or 5
cents apece for 1,050 melons. The buy
er sold these melons for $250. The
railroad received $75 in freight. Commis-
sons and other expenses amounted to
$262.50. The consumer paid $630 for
this car of melons, of which the farmer
received 8.33 per cent, the buyer 38.09
per cent, the railroad 11.91 per cent and
the commision men and sales agents
41.67 per cent. The consumer was
called on to pay an unreasonable price
for his 'melons. The farmer received a
small price.
Here we have a fine example of the
extremes witnessed in all parts of the
United States between what the pro
ducer receives and the consumer pays.
Surely there is something radically
wrong, or conditions 4 such as this could
not exist. Surely if a car of melons is
to cost the consumer $630, the producer
should receive more than $52.50 of that
amount.
The cry throughout the United States
against the high cost of living is well-
nigh universal. In spite of this fact
agriculture is not prospering as it
should. Prices for farm products are
in many instances far from remunera
tive. There is a tendency on this ac
count for farmers to crowd into the
towns and cities that they may enjoy
some of the luxuries which living in
aD urban community is supposed to af
ford. Lands of fine character, ideally
located as to climate, soil and other
essential conditions, remain idle. The
upward tendency of prices threatens to
seriously interfere with the progress of
our industrial interests. Yet the coun
try affords the most splendid oppor
tunities for thousands of poorly paid
wage earners, and agriculture should be
the most remunerative, as it naturally
is the most desirable of all pursuits.
The extremes now observed on every
hand can and must be righted. How
to accomplish this constitutes one cf
the most important questions ^requiring
public consideration at the present time.
It is certainly unreasonable that the
comparatively few men who handle, for
Instance, the melon crop of the United
States should become immensely
wealthy, while the producer and con
sumer are both fleeced.
The important and essential end in
view can only be obtained through the
organization of co-operative rural en
terprises which will enable the grower
and ultimate consumer to deal directly
with each other and cut out; the uesless
extravagance of the' middle man. When
this is done melon growing and truck
ing industries in general will become
profitable to the farmers and there will
be a movement back to the country
equal in volume and intensity to that
recently witnessed into the cities and
towns. The reason for this is easily
and instantly understood. People nat
urally gravitate to those centers where
opoprtunity and conditions are most fa
vorable.
The example cited is not an isolated
instance as shown by the statistics
gathered through the agency of the pres
ident of one of our great railroad sys
tems. He figures that the farm crops
in the United States in 1911 brought the
farmers $6,000,000,000. The legiti
mate cost of selling was $1,200,000,000.
The railroad received as freight
and express $495,000,000. The
dealers and retailers’ profits amounted
to $3,745,000,000. Waste in selling
amounted to $1,560,000,000. The con*
sumer paid a total of•$13,000,000,000.
Here again the farmer received 46.1 per
'cent of the total cost paid by the con
sumer, sales agencies 9.2 per cent, the
railroads 3.8 per cent, dealers and re
tailers 28.9 per cent, while 12 per cent
is chargeable to waste. Could more
significant figures than these be ob
tained and do they not indicate that the
selling of the agricultural products of
the United States is mismanaged from
-start to finish?
While our whole economic situation is
radically at fault at present it is capa
ble of a readjustment, which will reduce
the cost to the consumer by one-third
and add materially to the profits of the
producer. Co-operation is the only
agency which promises to afford us any
relief from the burdens under which the
population of the United States is living
at the present time. It is the only
agency which can insure the farmer re
ceiving a just return for his labor and
thus encourage and place on a perma
nent basis* the agricultural industries of
the nation. .
OVERSTIMULATION OF TOMATOES.
N. C., Carnesville, Ga., wites: ' would
like to know what to do for my *omatof«.
They are nice vines and full or tomatoes.
At first they begin to look wilty and con
tinue this way for several days and then
die. The stem i8 green on the outside, but
decayed on the inside.
We judge from the description given
in your letter that your tomatoes are
suffering from what is known as wilt.
This is a trouble aggravated often by
planting tomatoes on the same land
from year to year, and If you have done
this you should refrain from the prac
tice in the future. Put your tomatoes
on fresh land and as far from affected,
land next year as possible. As fast as
any of the plants show evidence of
disease pull them up and burn them.
Do not throw them on a trash heap or
leave them to further infect the land.
Probably only a part of j^our crop will
be destroyed by this disease. If you
will select seed from those plants which
seem to be resistant, you will be tak
ing the first step to successfully fight
this trouble. As you know, there are
certain plants and animals which live
in the presence of certain forms of dis
ease and resist it. It is by this method
the so-called immune strains have been
developed. The trouble about which you
write is quite common in Georgia and
has been aggravated by a failure to
rotate crops and to select plants with
the idea of securing resistance. Your
attention to the suggestion^ made will
give you the only practical measure of
relief which can be suggested at this
time.
BLIGHT ON SORGHUM.
J. K., Blltch, Ga., writes: I wish to
now what is the matter with my sorghum
cane. I am sending you a specimen.
Will it injure stock when fed ot them?
We judge the head of sorghum sent
in to" be affected by what is known as
kernel smut. This is a disease which
is caused by a specific fungus which
destroys the individual grains. This
trouble may be prevented quite easily
by the utilization of any of the follow
ing methods. Soaking the seed for an
hoyr before planting in a solution of
one ounce of formalin and two gallons
of water kept at a temperature of be
tween 134 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
Either one of these treatments will kill
the germs of the disease without injur
ing the seed. You can do nothing for
the crop as it now stands, but you
should follow the treatments suggested
in future plantings The amount of
smut shown in the head sent in will not
injure live stock. Very badly smutted
heads should be cut off and burned.
Simply cutting the head off and. throw
ing pn the ground only tends to spread
the disease.
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APPLE RUST.
P. S., Aonia, Ga., writes: What do you
think is the matter with my apple trees?
I am sending you some leaves. Nearly every
tree in my orchard is affected and most
of the apples shrivel and fall off. Is there
anything I can do for the trees to keep
them from dying ?
The leaves sent in are affected with
what is known as apple rust. This
is one of the most widespread troubles
of the apple in the southeastern states.
This trouble produces what is known as
cedar apples on the Juniperas virgin-
iana. This trouble occurs practically
throughout the range of the red cedar.
One stage of development occurs on the
apple, and while much injury is done
to the leaf when the infection is severe,
the fruit is often seriously damaged.
This trouble is most common in the re
gions where there is considerable
humidity. Varieties of apples differ as
to their susceptibility. About the only
thing you can do in a practical way
to prevent this injury is to cut down
any cedar tree in the vicinity‘of your
orchard. ,
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CHANGING FROM COTTON TO LIVE
STOCK.
W. B. B., Macon, Ga., writes: I am'farm-
ing on an old wornout cotton plantation.
Have some red land and some sandy and
want to raise cattle and bogs. Have
plenty of good water and Bermuda grass
pasture. Would be glad for any sugges
tions as to the best plan to pursue. Is It
to late to plant imported Spanish peanuts,
and is sandy or red land best adapted for
them?
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Bermuda grass pasture will have as
much carrying capacity per acre as any
of the tame grasses, and if you are so
situated as to develop good sods of this
grass you can graze cattle in the sum
mer to good advantage and carry them
in the winter on silage and other forms
of roughness, such as peavine and sor
ghum hay, corn stover, straw from the
cereals, etc. Of course, you will have
to use supplemental concentrated feeds.
The more legumes you can grow the
better. If you can raise some alfalfa
it will furnish you a hay which makes
a fair substitute for wheat bran, oats
and other concentrated foodstuffs. Of
course, no roughness can be substituted
entirely for concentrates, but great
economy in the use of concentrates can
be effected by using leguminous rough
ness as completely as possible. In the
summer time comparatively little if any
grain need be fed on a good Bermuda
sod. Some cotton seed meal can be fed
to b6th beef and dairy cattle to ad
vantage. We find about two pounds per
head per day to be the right amount to
use when the pastures are good. The
concentrates should be increased as the
pasture becomes short.
In attempting to raise beef or dairy
cattle it is important that you get rid
of the ticks. You must grade up your
herds. To do this pure bred sires must
be brought in from other parts of the
state where ticks may not now be
found. If there are ticks on -the land
end you bring in a pure bred sire, he
1 will shortly succumb to tick fever, and
J thus your efforts to improve your herd
i will go for naught. The native stock
i make good foundation, but they must
I be graded up, as our experiments here
i show. On rough land, which cannot be
j cultivated profitably, we are maintain-
I ing a herd of beef cattle with consid-
I m able success. The cows cost us about
i $17 and we have been able to make
| from $2 to $3 per acre rent off this
land, which would otherwise have re
mained idle. The increased cost of beef
j cattle in the United States means that
, the waste lands of Georgia can be util-
; ized to good advantage for the produc
tion of beef and dairy by-products.
It is not too late to plant peanuts if
you get them in the ground at once,
but it is better to get them in earlier
ii the season than this whenever prac
ticable. While this crop will do very
well on red land, provided it is not ex
tremely heavy and pasty in character,
peanuts do better on a sandy, loarriy
soil, as the pods can develop more
BY PROP. W. C. LASSETTER.
The season of the year is rapidly ap
proaching when short periods of drouth
do a great deal of harm to growing
crops. The larger percentage of the
supply of moisture by rains has already
been received and is now being held In
the soil for use of crops, provided it is
not allowed to be lost through evapora-.
tion. Nothing further can be done to
increase the total supply of moisture be
cause the question of rains is beyond
our control. The only recourse that we
have to protect our crops is the adop
tion of methods for saving that mois
ture which is already in the soil.
The moisture contained in the soil
at the preesnt time is lost through two
sources. First, through use by the crops
themselves, and second, through evapor
ation from the surface of the soil. That
part which we wish to control is that
lost through^ evaporation from the sur
face. In our fields there is a continu
ous stream of moisture from the sub
soil to the surface. This can be liken
ed to the familiar case of the lampwick
in which we have a continuous stream
of oil from the bowl of the lamp up
through the small spaces in the wick at
the top of which it is consumed by the
flame. The same condition exists in
the soil. The moisture rises from be
low through the spaces between the soil
particles until it reaches the surface,
where it is evaporated by sunlight and
air. This continuous rise of moisture
in the soil is due to the fact that the
spaces between the soil particles are
small.
Out in the back yard where the soil
has been tramped do^rt very close you
will notice that this is dry and* hard, due
to the fact that the moisture can not
rise through it because it is so tightly
packed. However, this idea is not true,
the real reason for such tightly packed
soil being so dry is because the particles
there lie 1 very close together, leaving
very small spaces between them and
thus afford a most easy means for the
rise of moisture to the surface. Where
this surface is exposed to sunlight and
air the moisture is evaporated as fast
as it rises, and for this # reason we
sometimes think the moisture is unable
to get through.
The same condition exists in our
fields when a crust is allowed to form
on the surface. This crust offers most
excellent means for the escape of water
from our soils below. If in the hard
ground in oud back yard, which seems
so dry, we pull up an old board which
has lain there for some time, we will
find the soil moist underneath it. This
is due to the fact that the moisture has
risen underneath the board as far as it
could, but evaporation has been pre
vented by the presence of the board.
The only way to prevent the loss of
moisture from our fields is to provide
some covering through which moisture
can not rise. The most convenient cover
ing we have for such conditions is a cov
ering of loose earth produced by the
cultivation. When t)ae surface of the soil
is kept well stirred, the soil particles
are broken so far apart and the spaces
between them become so large that
moisture can no longer rise to the sur
face. This loose layer of soil acts like
a blanket, protecting the moisture un
derneath from the air and from the
sun’s rays. When we keep our fields
cultivated we find that the moisture
from below will rise up to that depth
to which we have cultivated, but there
encountering our blanket of loose soil,
it is not able to come further. Thus
we have a most natural means to pro
tect our supply of water which we have
in our soils at the present time, and
which we may be abel to catch from
the occasional showers during the re
mainder of the summer.
It is found that by cultivating from
two to three inches deep every week,
or not later than every 10 days, fully
25 per cent of the total amount of evap
oration can be prevented.
When we remember that our soils in
the next hundred days will lose at
least seven inches of water from each
acre we can understand what this sav
ing of 25 per cent would mean to our
crops. It only requires from two to
two and one-half inches of rainfall
to mature a crop of 60 bushels of corn,
yet in the next hundred days, provid
ed that moisture is at present in your
soils, we will lose at least seven inch
es, unless we practice the best meth
ods of cultivation. By cultivating to
a depth of two to three inches every
week or ten days you can see that you
will savfe for the crop at least one and
one-half inches of watfer. This amount
should be sufficient to carry our crops
from their present condition through
to maturity and enable them to make
60 to 70 bushels of corn, provided our
soils are strong enough to support
that large a crop.
We find that each shower of rain
packs the particles of soil, that has
been loosened up by cultivation, .so
closely that the moisture is again al
lowed to rise to the surface. Thus is
it evident that cultivation must be giv-
freely and perfectly in this type of soil.
You should lime land intended for pea
nuts at the rate of 500 to 1,000 pounds
of t the finely ground lime rock. The
l:me should be scattered over the sur
face of the ground, this crop should
be liberally fertilized, say with 500
pounds of about a 9-1-6, putting it un
der the drill row before or at the time
the peanuts are planted.
G. G. W., Jefferson, Ga., writes: 1
have ten brood sows and like to know what
to raise for them to graze on throughout
the year. Are the Red Poll or the so-
called dual-purpose cows considered dairy
cows?
en after each rain in order to renew our
blanket of loose earth. In the case of
dry weather it is found that these par
ticles of soil soon settle back close to
gether, so that after a week or ten
days the moisture is again allowed to
pass through. Therefore, it becomes
necessary to cultivate every week, or at
least every ten days. The particles
must not be allowed to settle close
enough together to restore the rise of
the moisture. Thus it becomes more
important to cultivate during dry
weather than at any other time.
Many of us are in the habit of laying
our corn by when it gets shoulder high,
or begins to tawsel. Most of us thing
that our corn is too large to cultivate
afur that and that we are likely to
damage it; but that is not true; tne
danger of damaging corn after this by
cultivation is very slight, and cultiva
tion should be continued until the ker
nels are well dented, or, in other words,
until the ears are too hard to use for
roasting ears. This is the time when
oorn needs moisture most, and is the
time at which drouth is most injuri
ous. We know well the effect of
drouth at this time. We say that on
account of the drouth our corn is chaf
fy and light, and that the crop has been
damaged quite severely. We fail to
realize that we can prevent this dam
age by merely continuing with the cul
tivation.
In its cultivation test last year the
Mtna substation of the University cf
Arkansas quit cultivating one plat of
corn when it was just beginning to
trssel. The plat right side by side,
which otherwise had been treated just
exactly the same, was cultivated twice
moit and received its last cultivation
just before the shucks began to turn
brown. The one that was layel by
eaily yielded thirty-eight; bushels of
corn per acre, while the one that was
layed by later made forty-three bush-
oN per acre, due to having received
two more cultivations between the time
< 1 tasseling and the time of maturity.
Thus actual experience bears us out in
si ying that in case of dry weather corn
murv not be layed by before the ker
nels begin to dent well.
There are a number of implements
which <jan be used for cultivation after
t’.u» cern is too lav re to use a. two-
horse cultivator. Probably the best of
these are the common spring to>th cul
tivator, sometimes known as Gee Whiz
cultivator—a one-horse, five or severe
st < vel, to which small sweeps can be
attached, or the old style Georgia stock
with very wide sweeps.
FOR WATERMELON CROPS
Brooks County Breaks All
Records for Fancy Prices in
Fruit Line
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
QUITMAN, July 12.—The present
watermelon season in jjjrooks county
has not only broken all records in the
matter of prices received, but the rec
ord for yield per acre nas been smashed
for the entire watermelon belt. D.
T. Clyatt, of Hickory Head has won
this enviable distinction with a yield
of twenty carloads from fourteen acres
of land.
Monday and Tuesday he gathered
seven carloads from his fourteen acres,
making seventeen up to date. Since
then he had been shipping steadily and
says the total yield w*«i do twenty car
loads. The average good yield is one-
half carload to the acre. B. R. Strick
land reported a yield of fifteen car
loads off thirty acre.
Realizing that the farmers would be
from Misouri when a yield of over a
carload to the acre was reported, Mr.
Clyatt invited a number of leading
farmers to see his field. They vouched
for the crop and said it would be pos
sible to walk across the entire field on
melons. Mr. Clyatt will make over
$2,000 not profit on his melons. Farm
ers here are threatening to quit cot
ton.
Mr. Clyatt’s prize watermelon field
is a piece of land which several ’years
ago did not yield enough to pay for
cultivating it, having been exhausted.
For the crop Mr. Clyatt used only 400
pounds of commercial fertilizer to the
acre when 800 to 900 pounds is the
usual quantity.
S. R. Swilley comes forward with
another record in the way of water
melon culture. In his field two per
fectly formed melons grew on one
stem. They were in the nature of
vegetable Siamese twins, being joined
by a thin growth of rind almost the
entire length. They weighed thirty
pounds and both were up to the stand
ard in the matter of flavor.
B. R. Strickland raised the biggest
melon ,a sixty-five pounder.
The recent rains have prolonged the
shipping season considerably and the
prices have ranged frofn $50 to $1.75
per car, the best the county has ever
had.
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CRITICISM OF AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE GRADUATES UNJUST
Where one desires to raise hogs on
grazing crops it is well to take an
area of land, say five acres, and fence
it off into permanent paddocks of one
acre each. There should be a lane way
along one side of this area so that con
venient access to all the lots may be
had without passing through any of
the others. There should be an abundant
water supply. It is better if this can
be furnished through a well as a stream
through the place is liable to become
infected from diseased hogs which may
die above and therefore bring infection
to your herd. Especially is cholera like
ly to get carried in this way. There
should be a pasture attached to the
five acres in question. This may be
partly wooded and it is best covered
with Bermuda, Lepedeza or burr clover
so that some grazing will be had sum
mer and winter.
On the first area prepare the land
thoroughly by liming, plowing and en
riching with manure and fertilizer and
sow alfalfa in September or early Oc
tober. On the next area put oats and
vetch or oats and crimson clover. This
area should be seeded as soon as prac
tical. On the third area you should
plant rape. Sow in late February or
early March. This should be followed
by cowpeas in the summer and put in
winter cereals in the fall. The fourth
area should be sown to spring sown
cereals, such as oats and Canada peas,
and fifth area should be put in an early
maturing variety of cowpeas.
As soon as the vetch and oats have
been grazed down, sow to soy beans,
and another area put In as early as
practicable artichokes. Peanuts can also
enter into this rotation to good ad
vantage. With a little effort you will
be able to work but a rotation on this
five acres which wil supply an abun
dance of grazing for ten brood sows and
their pigs in addition to th© range
which it is suggested you provide.
The Red Poll cattle ore looked upon
A peculiar phase 'of the discussions of
agricultural education has always been
the tendency to discredit the graduates
of the agricultural colleges because of
a lack of what is termed “practical
knowledge.” In a large measure this is
unfair and undreasonable. Up to the
present time agricultural education has
not been on a basis similar to that of
law, medicine-and many other lines of
vocational education. The students of
medicine and law enter upon the study
of these subjects after having complet
ed their general or literary studies and
after reaching maturity; the students
of agricultural colleges enter upon their
study of agriculture not after having
completed a general educationl course
in mathematics, languages and the
basic sciences, but in connection with
and during the same time as their stud
ies of these general or non-vocational
subjects. In other words, the cities
expect the student of agriculture to
complete his education in much less
times than the students of medicine and
law, and then aparently expect much
more of him.
Not until we place agricultural edu
cation on a basis similar to that on
which law and medicine have been
placed, have we any right to expect the
agricultural colleges to turn out fin
ished practitioners. Indeed, we eevn
recognize and pass without comment
the fact that the recent graduates in
medicine and law are not as familiar
with practice as the doctor or lawyer of
several years experience, but although
we have required the agricultural grad
uate to get his agricultural training
while devoting half his time to non-
agricultural subjects, still the average
writer on this subject, and especially
the farmer, seems to think it ground for
severe criticism of the college and the
agricultural graduate that he is not,
when leaving college, a thoroughly prac
tical farmer. The exercise of a little
reason, it seems ot the writer, would
show these critics of our agricultural
colleges the unreasonableness of their
criticism and that they are asking im
possibilities. We do not set the recent
engineering graduate to doing great en
gineering feats, nor do we expect tne
recent graduates in law and medicine
to be finished practitioners; but many
people seem to think that the graduate
of an agricultural college should be a
successful farmer, and capable of man
aging or directing large agricultural en
terprises immediately on leaving col
lege.
Until more time is given to the study
of agriculture by the graduates of ag
ricultural colleges and more time is
given for practical experience, we have
no right to expect more of their grad
uates than we do of young and inex
perienced men i nother lines. A little
thought should each any one that four
years are not enough to give a general
education, teach all the necessary facts
Oldest Floyd Citizen
Is Dead ot Age of ioo
ROME, Ga., July 12.—Floyd county’s
oldest resident died this week at the age
of 100 years. He was A. J. Reed, who
lived in the western part of the city
and who was born in May of 1813. He
entered the Confederate army when
forty-eight years of age, and served
through the war in the Eighth* Geor
gia regiment.
He had been a citizen of Floyd coun
ty since he was twenty-one years of
age, and was here when the laat In
dians left the county. He had been in
failing health for a long time, but pre
served his mental vigor and t&ld many
interesting stories of early days in Floyd
county.
as a dual-purpose breed, that is, fair
for mi*lk and fair for butter. Some
strains of this breed have been bred
more for dairy than for beef and vice
versa. You can secure very fair dairy
animals of the Red Poll breed. They
should do very well in this country as
they are moderate size and fairly active
They will make better beef than the
average of the breeds bred for dairy
purposes alone, and they will give you
more milk and butter than you are
likely to secure from extreme types of
the beef breeds. Personally, we have
always believed that it was better, how
ever, for th© farmer to devote his ener
gies either to the production of milk
or beef and centralize on one line of
effort in animal production. This sug
gestion is made because of the difficul
ty of maintaining an equilibrium, that
is, a fair degree of ability for beef, and
milk production in the same race of
animals.
about agriculture, and give the expe
rience which makes perfect. So long
as we send boys to the agricultural
colleges to learn mathematics, history,
language, etc. (and in southern schools
spend more time on militarism than on
agronomy), and graduate them without
farm or business experience, it is ab
surd to expect them to be practical
farmers when they graduate. In fact,
we expect it will never come to pass
that graduates of agricultural colleges
will have had as much experience as
is necessary to make finished and suc
cessful farmers. The colleges will con
tinue to find it impossible to give the
experience needed to make successful
farmers of all their graduates, but will
perform their true function of teaching
agricultural facts in the most approved
way and leaving the practical details
to be learned by farm experience be
fore or after graduation. By this we
do not mean that the agricultural col
leges will not combine practice with
their teaching, as far as that is possi
ble, but the point we wish to make is£
that it will never be possible nor ad
visable to take the time at college to
give the practical experience neces
sary. j
The agricultural colleges will never
give its graduates what is known as
“common sense,” bqt it will teach facts
which men of common sense can apply
when an opportunity comes to them to
obtain experience in farming. A banker
will expect a recent graduate of an
agricultural college, not more than
twenty-one years old, to manage a
large farm, and thinks the agricultural
schools are a failure if he is unable to
do so, but he would never think of ask
ing a recent graduate of a business col
lege of the same age and with the same
lack of experience to manage his bank.
The secret of this wnole mass of
senseless criticism of the agricultural
colleges along these lines is that those
who do the criticising do not know
enough about agriculture to realize
how ridiculous their demands on the
colleges really are.
Awarded $10,000 for
Death of Hog, Owner
Asks Another $10,000
The sad case of Premier Longfellow’s
Rival, the story of the death of a
$10,000 hog, is before the courts again.
Friday attorneys for the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific Railroad com
pany made a motion before Judge
George L. Bell, of the superior court,
for a new trial of J. B. D. DeBow’s
suit for damages for the death of Pre-
rier Longfellow’s Rival.
In June, 1911, a jury in the superior
court awarded Mr. DeBow $10,000 dam
ages because of the death of the pig.
Although Mr. DeBow sued for $20,000,
alleging that the hog in question was
almost priceless, having won hundreds
of blue ribbons at fairs all over the
country, and got only half of that
the jury’s valuation of the hog and a
new trial is asked.
Premier Longfellow’s rival met his
death on November 8, 1909. He was
being transported from Montgomery to
Shreveport, La., where a bi gfair at
which he expected to add a few more .
ribbons to his long list of winnings
was in progress, when death stopped
his glorious company.
He got as far as Meridian, Miss.,
on the lines of the defendant company,
when, it is charged, a careless engineer,
while switching Premier Longfellow’s
private palace car, bumped it too hard.
The result was that Premier Longfel
low, who weighed 1,000 pounds, got I
such a jar that he sickened and died a
month later, despite the fact that he j
was tended by famed veterinary sur- j
geons from all over the country. ^
Judge Bell, after hearing the argu-|
ments of counsel, has reserved his de- i
cision about a new trial until Octo-1
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