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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1913. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION __ — Successful Tailmin^- g>0UlX-l§ 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. • • • 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. , • * * 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. 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Bept. nan - - East St. Louis, Ill. or iicpt. 360 200 Fifth Ave., New York City. 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. FARMERS - MERCHANTS - AGENTS ATTENTION! AUTOMOBILE BIG PERMANENT PAYING BUSINESS BESIDES We want a man in each community to help us out a little on a wonderful new plan. We want to introduce Wilbur’s Stock Tonic and entire line of guaranteed Farm Remedies to a million more farmers and stock raisers. 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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. 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