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6 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913. AGRICULTURAL U- - Education _ Successful, f Andrew ft. SouLE ZViis department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural College, Athens, Ga. THE SUMMER DIETARY N OW that summer weather is upon us in earnest, there is a tendency for the appetite to lag. Cooking: also becomes a considerable burden to the housewife There is a craving: for something: dainty and appetizing: The effqrt of the good housewife is concen trated on an attempt to supply this need and desire of the family. Natu rally, she realizes that overeating in hot weather is extremely undesirable and fraught with various ills and much need less suffering to humanity To what and where shall she turn to secure something that will enable her to utilize the vegetables of Jthe garden which are always cooling and healthful? If she studies modern dietetics as now understood and appreciated by our best pnysicians and domestic science teach ers, she will quickly learn that one of the most wholesome additions to the dietary will be found through the utilization of some kind of vegetable oil as the basis of her cookery and for the preparation of salads. We may learn much from history which is to our material advantage, and the observation of the practices of peo ples living in a climate similar to ours is also worthy of consideration. In Italy and southern Europe, for instance, oil has been used as a staple article of the dietary for many years. The Anglo-Saxon living farther north has not used it so extensively for the reason probably that he has not been acquaint ed with its virtues until recently, and also on account of the fact that his climate did not favor the production of a vegetable oil suitable for human con sumption. As the south was largely settled by people who came originajly from the British Isles, they naturally brought their ^traditions and ideas of cookery with them, and hence it is only lately that attention is being directed to the use of vegetable oils as substi tutes for animal fats in frying, short ening and the preparation of salads. It is not surprising that this condition should have been observed in the past, for it is only in comparatively recent times that satisfactory methods of pre paring a suitable table oil from a home-grown product has been perfected, and those acquainted with educational processes realize that it takes a long time to break down long-established custom and to overcome what frequent ly is nothing but ^foolish prejudice. Rapid progress in the utilization of cotto'n seed oil in southern households may now be anticipated, however, be cause of the large number of domestic science courses established in our in stitutions of learning and because of the more general knowledge afforded the public through the writing of the savants and the efforts of the press with reference to what constitutes a j desirable system of dietetics for our j people. In this connection it is well to i emphasize the fact that cotton seed oil | is not only useful in cookery, but may be consumed directly by the human being as a substitute for other oils in building tissue and restoring the body to vigor when attacked by some of the most pernicious diseases to which humanity is heir. It has the advantage of being equally wholesome, according to the testimony of eminent physicians, and is also cheaper. Besides that, it is a home-grown product, and its con sumption in the south means to add to the annual output of the raw material from which it is derived and to stimu late our industries in a variety of ways. Cotton seed oil has been much abused by those whose interests were opposed to its extensive utilization in the home. It’s great rival has naturally been olive oil. Of course, this is a very whole some product, but it is not produced in anything like sufficient quantity to meet the world’s demand, and moreover it is a much more expensive oil, and experi ment has now definitely established the fact that it is not better in any respect for cooking purposes, t,he preparation of salad dressings, etc., than a high-grade properly refined cotton seed oil. In fact, it may'be stated on the best of authori ty that great quantities of cotton seed oil manufactured in the south are shipped abroad, refined and sent back to the United States as olive oil. Possi bly it has been blended with a small quantity of olive oil. It is hardly worth while' under existing conditions, there- force, for the southern housewife to pay a dollar a quart for what she can get for 35. cents, and surely she will not continue to do this. It is doubtful if many epicures could tell any difference between a well refined cotton seed oil and olive oil if various dishes prepared from each were set before them. It is a fine thing to be patriotic even at a personal sacrifice. How much more desirable is it to be patriotic when it is economy to do so, as is shown to be the case in this instance. Cotton seed oil also has this material advan tage, that it is put up in cans of con venient size and easy to handle. It also will keep for any reasonable length of time where properly handled. It may be used directly as a substitute for lard or other animal fats in the frying of meats, and as a constituent in the mak ing of rolls, waffles and pancakes it is unexcelled. In the preparation of all kinds of salads it is one of the most convenient and wholesome materials CA5H;BALANCE » 5.00 PER MONTH Latest, up-to-date style, twin auto seat, top removable to convert into a runabout, genuine leather upholstery, finely trimmed and finished, best of material and construction—retails for $100.00. Guaranteed 3 Years— l 2m ! 2o BUGGIES $29.50 TJP. We eat oat the middlemen*s profits o* all S entury Vehicles and save yon $25.00 $45.00 on a buggy; $35.00 to $60.00 on a wagon: $45.00 to $f 00.00 on a surrey. Sold for cash or on easy monthly payments—we trust honest people the world over, shipped on approval— Guaranteed to Dleaae or your money back. Write today for Free Catalog. Also Ask for our catalog of Fine harness at wholesale prices. Get our Freight Paid Pnces. Reference—Southern Illinois Nat’l. Bank. CENTURY MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 3ept. goo • • East St. Louis, Ill. or nept. 360 200 Fifth Ave., New York City. which can be used. It affords a satis factory basis for a French dressing which may be prepared at the table in a few minutes. In the preparation of mayonaise dressing it is indispensable, and as all know, this is one of the most attractive and wholesome salad dress ings which can be used. Why not utilize a home-grown product more extensively in the preparation of the human dietary in the future? Cer tainly to do so will be beneficial to both the consumer and producer. The farmer is benefited by the increased value his seed command; the manufacturer finds a ready market for_ his products at home; the housewife uses ‘these mate rials with economy and for the benefit of her family. Thus the circle of co-ordi nated interests is completed. * * * BLOODY MILK. N. W., St. Charles, Ark., writes: We have a cow that gives bloody milk out of two of her teats but they do not seem to be core. I would be glad to know what Is the matter and what to do for her. The bloody milk about which you write is probably due to an escape of blood with the milk because of some in jury to the udder. This may be due to a blow or to congestion or inflammation. Richer and more abundant food some times causes bloody milk. Disease may be the cause of this trouble, and some times the eating of acrid or irritating plants, such as ranunculaceae, may pro duce it. In case of congested glands, the best treatment is to give one pound of Epsom salts, and daily, thereafter one-half ounce of saltpetre with a dram of chlorate of potash. Bathe the bag with hot or cold water and rub with camphorated lard. Where a ration high in protein is being fed, it should be reduced. If there are acrid plants in the pasture, they must be removed. We believe that attention to these mat ters and the following out of the treat ment suggested will relieve the trouble, unless it is due to some more or less chronic form of disease which may or may not now be making itself evident. * » * DAIRYING IN HANCOCK COUNTY. P. J. C., White Plains, Ga., writes: I have a tract of rolling land well watered and much of it in good Bermuda pasture. With feed at present prise's do you thing average grade cows would pay if 20 to 25 per cent cream can be sold at 70c to 80c a gallon? What ration of cotton-seed hulls, cotton-seed meal, bran, shorts and ground al falfa should be used to get maximum profit from cream? Would it pay to get a regis tered Jersey male What would be the best way to start for a good type of beef cattle? What breed is best for our section? Do you think there will be a demand for thor oughbred stock hero in the south. What would be the price for a registered male and heifers? Selected grade cows of known capac ity as milk producers can be made to pay a profit for the production of cream at the prices mentioned in your letter. The average grade cow probably does not produce over 1,500 to 2,500 pounds of milk in a year. She cannot be kept at a profit for cream production. On the other hand, there are grade cows which produce’* from 5,000 to 6,000 pounds of milk a year at about the same cost for feed as the indifferent ones. We know this to be a fact, for we started a dairy herd at Athens with grade cows picked up in the vicinity of the college, and we found great varia tion in their value and economy as milk and butter producers. We feel sure you can find some cows in .your community which will be valuable for foundation stock, and from these you should select a herd in the course of a few years which will prove highly profitable for dairy production. If you have firstclass pastures, it is not necessary to feed much else in the way of roughness to dairy cows at this season of tjie year. We use cotton seed meal and bran here at the college. Of course, if one has an abundance of oats, they may be fed. Where cows are on pasture, about two pounds of cotton-seed meal per head per day will answer very well. When they are kept up, \flve to six pounds should be fed. You might feed two pounds of oats, two pounds of bran and two pounds of cot- ton-seed meal. It will be difficult to make a profit out of the dairy business, however, unless you can graze your cat tle on good pastures, supply them with soiling crops when grass is shown, afid feed them on silage in the winter. You can afford to pay $45 to $60 for good grade Jersey cows that will give you 4,000 pounds and upwards of milk. It will certainly pay you to get a registered sire. We have found in our experience here that the result of crossing a pure-bred sire on native cows increased the flow of milk in the first generation very considerably. The price of a pure-bred sire will vary from $30 to $100 or more, depending on the breeding and age of the animals ^ cured. One can count on selling regis tered stock of good grade in the south, as shown by the very considerable num ber of breeders of this class of animals found in all the sbuthern states. One would have to pay a high price for pure-bred heifers with which to start a herd, as most men who are breeding pure-bred animals desire to keep up their own herds, and therefore select the choicest heifers for themselves, and are only willing to part with them at fancy prices. In starting a beef herd it would be a good idea to buy some grade cows with a dash of beef blood in them, say Shorthorn, Hereford or Angus being preferable, and then put a pure-bred :ure at the head of the herd. While all the breeds mentioned will do well in Georgia, the Hereford seems to be mak ing considerable headway and Is looked ! upon with favor wherever it has been introduced. We t£ink a pure-bred sire is necessary for the grading up of a beef herd and the carrying, on of this business in the most profitable manner. * ♦ * A COMMENDABLE EXAMPLE. A correspondent writes: The club women of Cusseta have five acres of very sandy land at the school and desire to use It as an experiment or demonstration farm and school garden, and would appreciate any suggestions in regard to formulating plants for next year’s work. The club women of Cusseta are cer tainly to be congratulated on their at tempt to benefit the school in the man ner suggested. With five acres of land at their disposal they should be able to make some very interesting demon strations. It seems to me that one acre might properly be devoted to a model vegetable garden for the home. Enough beans, tomatoes and other vegetables could be grown so that canning demon strations might be held and an indus trial feature added to the work of the school. Another part of the garden area could be devoted to flowers. There should be a bulb bed showing the suc cession of these plants which could be j had with little effort in Georgia. Then, j of course, som^ of the annuals should RAISING HOGS IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA; CHOLERA EXPERIENCE R. M. McDaniel in Home and Farm: I live in the wir^grass country in southeastern Georgia. All of this, Jenk ins, county south and west of the Oguchee river is “fenceless” or “free- range” country. I will say, for the benefit of those that may not be fa miliar with these terms, that they mean that all cultivated spots, however small or w large they may be, must be fenced; thus leaving al the woodland swamp lands open for “range.” Now, as fence and no fence has been discussed time and again, I will leave this phase of the matter off; especially as I was raised in the “stock,” or “no fence” country, and, of course, am In favor of providing good pasturage so that we will be able to take care of good stock, the only really profitable kind. But you can’t hammer this into a na tive south Georgian’s head. He can’t or won't see how it is possible to pro duce pork, bacon or beef by growing and feeding good feed to good stock, than can be made by letting the stock gather the natural grasses, though, the stock are the scrub kind. As a general thing, though, I can and do at times, have some “moss-fed” pork and bacon—I use corn-fed meat as I pre fer it; and sell mostly corn-fed pork as there is a better deipand for this kind, and it brings i cent a pound more. While 1 cent on the pound doesn't look like enough to make it profitable to feed corn when the hogs can be fattened on the acorns, etc.; it should be borne in mind that even the hogs on “range” must be given some corn, especially those in the river swamp, as they will go wild and be a total logs, or nearly so. In my opinion, though, the greatest drawback to “free-range” is one’s in ability to keep his stock from “running out” by breeding to anything that is passing. In this manner, what may at first be a large, prolific breed, is soon brought down to the scrub level, thereby cutting down meat production. Now, as to feed, I gifow such crops as corn, cowpea^y peanuts and sweet po tatoes to feed and fatten my hogs on; corn being the main one in fattening, especially in finishing them off. as it gives firmness to both greerf and cured meat. as the yare called, being between a pig feeding for each year, I will give one instance of my hog-feeding experience of last year, 1912. This was a shoat, as they arec ailed, being between a pig be cultivated. Shrubs and trees should be planted on an area of the land near to the school and an effort should be made to landscape the grounds so that the aesthetic effect of beautiful sur roundings may be impressed on the minds of the children. This will prob ably leave three or four acres which could very well be devoted to certain demonstrations. First, one acre might properly be planted to corn; another acre in cotton. If several varieties of cotton were se cured and planted side by side some very interesting and striking results would be obtained, especially if the seed of one variety has been very carefully selected, and the others represent the type of seed ordinarily planted by the farmer without selection. A test of this character with corn might not prove very effective owing to the mixing which might occur. Another area might be devoted to al falfa demonstrations or some of the more important legumes and grasses. In your section of the state the boll weevil is likely to cause mere serious damage at an early date than elsewhere, and therefore, a study of turf-forming grasses and leguminous crops which may be utilized for hay and pasture with greatest success becomes a matter of considerable importance. I believe that this area of ground could be oper ated through the agency of the teach ers and the co-operative effort of the children and made a source of consid erable revenue to the school, while il lustrating the more important funda mental principles involved in following a systematized form of practice and using scientific methods as compared with the haphazard ones so frequently employed. ^ * MANAGEMENT OF ALFALFA. J. A. W., Thomson, Ga., writes: Last fall I planted * small patch of alfalfa, put ting it in drills. I fertilized well with stable manure and commercial fertilizer. I got a good stand of alfalfa, and also a good stand of oats as the stock were fed on sheaf oats. I let the oat*s grow ana mowed them off when in the dough and thou plowed out the alfalfa and cleaned it well of weeds. It is now twelve to eighteen inches high and blooming. Should it -be mowed now anc* if so, how often thereafter? I get conflicting opinions on this point. Your alfalfa should be cut at once. This crop should be cut when just com ing into bloom. Another way to deter mine when it is ready to cut is to ex amine the base of the stems and see if there is a fresh growth starting out from the crown. If you will examine a few plants you will be able to determine this point. We are satisfied from the description given in your letter that your alfalfa should be cut at once. There are only two ways of handling alfalfa the first year from autumn seeding, either you must cut it regularly for hay or else keep it clipped throughout the entire season. Grazing it would be a mistake. We would prefer to let it grow for hay. Our alfalfa on the col lege farm Is ready to cut for the third time. Some of the plats have yielded already from two cuttings nearly three tons of cured hay. If the season is wet and c.onditoins favorable alfalfa may be cut four or five times in a year. The crop should be fertilized at least twice during the year on average land. Use 400 to 500 pounds of an equal proportion of acid phosphate and kainit. We would advise liming the land for alfalfa before planting, at the rate of one to two tons per acre of the raw ground rock. If you have not limed your land it would pay you to put some lime on it this fall. It will ruin your alfalfa to let it stand and seed. We have given you the best suggestions we can offer under the circumstances. * # SHEDDING OF TOMATO BLOOMS. M. II. M., Millcdgeville, Ga., writes: I would like to know why the blooms on my tomato vines shed so badly and set very little fruit. They have never wanted for proper cultivation and the ground has a good deal of humas in it and is comparatively rich and is mulched with leavers. The vines look green and healthy. I have several va rieties and they all do the same way. The trouble with your tomatoes is probably due to the fact that you have made your ground too rich. They ap parently are growing rapidly and de veloping limb, leaf and bloom at the ex pense of fruit. The tomato requires a well-balanced food supply in the soil. Should dry weather set In we think you will find they will fruit much more freely than they are doing at the pres ent t* me - We would suggest that you put a handful of kainit and acid phos phate in equal proportions about the plants. Do not put the fertilizer against the stem, but at a distance of six inches to a foot from the plants. Stir into the surface soil when working the to matoes, No doubt you have tied them up and have trimmed and cut them back so as to let in a sufficient amount of air and sunshine. Pinching off the ends of the branches will help to retard growth and induce the setting on of fruit. i and a grown hog, which I penned in March, and fed until early in April, ^vhen, on account of an outbreak of cholera in the neighborhood, it was butchered and sold to the meat market, bringing 8 1-2 cents a pound or 1 1-2 cents less than it would have brought a little later. Here is the plan I followed in prepar ing this hog for the market. Instead of throwing the ears of corn iiito the pen, although the pen was plowed, I made a large, light trough, and shelling my corn, beginning with about 1-2 gal lon and working up to a gallon a day; I put the shelled corn into the trough with plenty of fresh water. In this way and by the use of some slops and small amount of other feeds such as sweet potatoes, etc., given now and then, J kept # this hog from chewing up and spit ting out the corn, as all young hogs, and to some extent old ones, too, will do. In all, I believe this hog ate about forty gallons or five bushels of corn, which at $1 per bushel, would make the feeding cost $5. And when sold it brought $9 at 8 1-2 cents a pounds, its weight being 112 pounds, dressed. This gives $4.52 over cost of feed; whereas, if I hadn’t been forced to sell by the coming of the cholera, this hog, with out counting any further gain, allow ing this to offset the additional feed, it would have brought $11.20 or $6.20 over the cost of the feed. Now, as anyone in a position to know, will admit that this is better than buy ing meat—the meat raised being cheap er than that you buy. Although I -am willing to admit "'that, by a judicious system of growing’ and feeding one’s hogs, either pork or bacon could be produced at a lower cost than in the case cited. In fact, it is entirely possible by the substituting of a large breed, such as an improved strain of the Berkshires; or, taking a sire of such, and building up one s own herd, and growing a suffi cient quantity and variety of feeds, which, with proper management, can be done at small cost, letting the hogs do the harvesting, produce pork at 2 1-2 to 4 cents a pound. And even at 4 and 5 cents, with pork bringing 8, 9 and 10 cents, delivered to the meat man dress ed, and in amounts ranging from 100 to 1,000 pounds, this means a profit oX. Irom 4 to 5 cents a pound. From what I can gather from reading the reports sent in to various farm papers from all over the country, we have a mighty market for nearly all farm produce, although it is town with only about 2,000 inhabitants. For, with the exception of cotton, the price of which is governed, not by local con ditions or the local demand, as we know; the prices for such as pork, beef, syrup, country-cured hams, and poultry products and vegetables, etc., are, everything considered, good the year round. For instance, the three years prior to this, 1913, eggs, even during the sum mer, didn’t go below 20 cents per doz en; and, as stated, fresh pork has held firm at 8, 9 and 10 cents, the latter figure being the ruling one. While beef has held firm around 6 to 6 1-2 cents, counting five quarters at these figures, and the butchef taking them in the lot or woods. As stated, I raise my own supply of meat, besides selling some pork, and if the cholera hadn’t played havoc with my hogs last year, getting more than two-thirds of my bunch, or over twenty head, not counting several head of pigs, I could have sold about $120 for pork last fall and winter. As a detailed account of my expe rience with the cholera among my hogs last year would make this article much too long, I will leave these out, giving what I believe to be the most impor tant items. . The year was an extremely wet one in ''this section. So much so, in fact, that hardly a half of a crop was made Whether this was the cause of the out break or not, or if not, what it had to do with the disease in the way of ag gravating or complicating it, I am un- j able to state for sure, but \ believe if it did not harm, it certainly did no good. This disease first made its appearance in this county on the “Burke side” of the river—north. And it was next re ported to be about two miles from my place, among - Mr. John L. Kent’s hogs. This gentleman, so I am told, lost all but four or five, or nearly a hundred head. A short while after this, I had five, all of one litter, to show signs of hav ing the disease; the proper name of which, at this time, was not known to 1 any degree of certainty. The symptoms that were most no ticeable were a sleepy or drowsy ap pearance, a disinclination to eat, either among the other hogs or by themselves, making it impossible to treat them ex cept by confining them in a pen or small lot. Other symptoms were a dry, hacking cough, a morbid thirst, and after the disease had been present for some time, a discharge from the kidneys of a pale red liquid, bloody urine. And I will state before going fur ther, that the stains made by this, bloody discharge could be seen about ia the dirt for four or five months after death 1 from the disease had entirely ceased. Of course, these were fresh ones, as the rains would soon cause one to disappear after It was made. Not all of the hogs that were at tacked by the disease, had this bloody discharge from the kidneys; nor did all that had the discolored urine die, for the writer had one especially good brood sow that strained and passed this bloody water for a good while, the straining and all occurring every few minutes. It may be guessed that the hogs were weak, especially in the loins. Some even getting entirely helpless. Fur thermore, I am safe in saying that nearly everything that might or might not effect a cure, was tried hereabouts. But I am not able to call to mind all the remedies that were reported tried by one or another. We began with prepared stock food, using Watkin’s Stock Dip both as a dip—one part dip to twenty-five parts water, and as an internal remedy, given in the slops— one part dip to 100 parts water. And in ‘the windup, or just before, using fresh pine gum from the boxes for plas ters, applying these just over the kid neys, having them large enough, though, to cover the hips, reach about to the shoulders, and come well down on each side. In addition, calomel and spirits of turpentine were given separately, during the latter days of this spell. Furthermore, all solid foods were cut off entirely towards the lash Now, whether this latter really had anything to do with the cessation of deaths or not, I, of course, am unable to say for certain. But, anyway, after cutting off all solids, the hogs quit dying. Another item that may ^>e worth while to men tion was, that all hogs that were al lowed to have access to all the water they wanted, which was an unbelievable amount—the victim, when allowed, liv ing around the -ponds and visiting them at short intervals—were lost in all cases. In other words, we were forced to confine the sick ones, in order to be able to treat them, and to keep them from killing themselves by almost con tinuous drinking. One of the strangest things about this outbreak, was that hardly any two (of my own) were affected exactly alike; and the great difference in the length of time that the different ones would \• Trade and Crop .Re ports from the South -From Bradstreet’s. CHARLESTON, S. C.—Trade in all lines is quiet. Collections are slow. Cotton continues to show improvement, due to continued hot weather, and pros pects are encouraging for a good crop. CHATTANOOGA—Trade as a whole is irregular. Groceries and confectionery are in good demand, but dry goods and shoes are dull. Drugs are normal, and, a slight improvement is noted in shelf hardware. There is little activity in iron and coal, but woolen and cotton manufacturers report trade good. Re-; tail trade is about normal. Collections' in all lines are slow and more complaint is heard about payments than the vol ume of business. The weather is very' warm, but this appears to be favorable to cotton. MEMPHIS—Wholesale trade in all lines is good, and retail is fair. Weather conditions are very favorable and crops are progressing nicely. Collections show some improvement. ATLANTA—Prospects just now are good for a normal cotton crop, but it is too early to predict as to yield. The acreage does not appear to have been materially increased, and if a drought should come during the latter part of this month or the first of August, it would materially damage the plant. The crop is also about two weeks late, and in case of an early frost the top crop might be. cut off. Clearance sales of summer wearing apparel have improved retail cash sales. Wholesale trade shows a slight tendency to increase. SAVANNAH—Trade continues quiet in all lines, with collections slow. Money stringency is making for decided con servatism. Wholesale dealers are con fining business to well known custom ers. The crop outlook is good, the sea son so far having been the best in sev eral years. BIRMINGHAM—Lumber is fairly ac tive. Recent rains were beneficial to crops, and the outlook is more encour aging. Collections are slow. MONTGOMERY—Trade is fair, but collections are poor. Light rains have fallen in some sections, but more is bad ly needde. In other sections it has been two months since it has rained, and as a result corn is practically ruined and cotton is shedding badly. NEW ORLEANS—Crop conditions in Louisiana continue to improve under good weather. Complaints continue to come in from some localities in regard to the boll weevil, but in most instances the planters are successful in prevent ing serious damage. Yields of rice and corn will be in excess of last year’s. Farmers are raising larger veg etable crops than heretofore. General trade conditions are quiet. Collections rule fair. MOBILE—Conditions are favorable for a good yield of cotton. Jobbers re port trade oenditions improving, and or ders are being placed more readily, which would indicate more confidence in conditions. Retail trade is quiet. Collections are slow. DALLAS—Wholesale trade in dry I goods is very satisfactory, and future, orders are considerably in excess of last year. Wholesale trade in groceries and hardware show's increased activity, and jobbers report a good volume of business. Jobbers of hats and caps and boots and shoes are doing a largely in creased business. Retail trade is quiet, as is usual at this season. Collections are fairly good. Very warm weather has prevailed throughout this section during the week, but no damage is re ported to the corn crop, and it has been ideal cotton weather. THE CROPS. Crop conditions render general char acterization difficult this week. The fa vorable features are the better than earlier expected yields of winter wheat, the improvement of spring wheat from the rather low condition reported as of July j, and the excellent progress made by cotton, except in a few sections of the lower Mississippi valley, where boll, weevil has hurt. On the other hand, some deterioration is reported by corn, o.wing to hot, dry weather west of the Missouri river impairing an otherwise quite good report as to this important cereal; the hay crop is proved to have gone back in the northwest and in the east, and oats yields confirm earliei reports of a heavy decline from last year’s enormous yield. Fruits have been hurt by present dry or earlier cold weather in many sections. States re porting especially good conditions in staple crops are Texas, Iowa, Georgia and Nebraska, though the latter state, after early reports of good crops of wheat and alfalfa, sends some com plaints as to corn. Rice and corn look well In the lower Mississippi valley. The Maryland fruit crop has been cut badly by early cold and later dry weath er, but the tomato crop will be up to normal. PLANTING SOME FORAGE CROPS NOT YET TOO LATE FOR FEED The pressure of work required for the cultivation of cotton and of late-planted corn is apt to crowd out at this season any consideration of what are usually called the minor crops. Yet in every system of farming that will be perma nently successful the minor <?rops must be given a more important place than that usually assigned them on our southern farms. The practical question now is what forage crops can be planted in July with | prospect of direct or indirect profit. There is speoial need for the planting this season of areas larger than are usually devoted to summer, forage cops. This is, because on many farms, unfa vorable weather prevented the planting of the usual area of corn and cotton, thus leaving more land than usual avail able for summer crops. For example, in one of the eastern counties of Ala bama, dry weather in May prevented the plowing of many fields of poor red land. A few of these were planted in cotton as late as the fifth to the middle of June, after the showers of the first part of the month made this possible. Such working against nature, such un reasonably late planting of cotton on poor hill land is certainly injudicious. Many of -these acres • would not have produced cotton profitably, even if planted at the usual time. Another class of lands available for use of late-planted farm crops are poor ly drained bottoms, which it was im practicable to utilize earlier in the sea son or on which the stand of cotton or corn is so poor as to make it ad visable to devote these lowlands to some other crop. In choosing a forage crop for the poor uplands, we should almost invariably select a leguminous plant, such as the cowpea, soy bean, peanut, etc. This is not only for the benefit of succeding crops, but also because legumes gen erally make a larger yield of valuable forage on poor land than as any of the other forage plants. In deciding among the legumes suit able for late planting one is often hampered by scarcity of seed, and so must often plant that one of which the seed is most readily available, whether it be cowpeas or soy beans Generally on poor land I would pre fer cowpeas for hay and soy beans for hog feed, provided seed of an early va riety of the latter could be obtained. In deed for planting this late, for the pro duction of seed, it would be best, if not essential in the central part of thf gulf states, to select an early or medium early variety, whether the crop be cow peas or soy beans. .At this late date when seed are scarce, one cannot oe particular about the variety selected. If seed of only a late variety of cowpeas are available, the crop should be plant ed for hay rather than for seed. For rich bottom land a wider rang* of forage crops, is available, including not only the legumes, but also sorghum and German millet. No common forage plant affords a larger yield of green feed or of hay than does sorghum. Moreover, it may be sown later * than either cowpeas or soy beans, though the earlier the date of planting the larger the yield. For hay on very rich land broadcast sowing of at least two bush els per acre is preferable. 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One died soon after an abscess broke through in the left flank near the rim of the bowels. Another had such an ab scess to break just over the right eye; this, the brood sow mentioned, lived and has raised some fine pigs. But I should mention that we lost all the pigs from all the sows that came during, and for one and two litters after, the disease had passed. Some peculiar circumstances followed this disease; for instance, many that were entirely black before the outbreak had more or less gray hair after recov ering. And one that was black with a white list before taking the cholera, had blue hair instead of the black, the white being left the same. No doubt, some will discredit this last statement. But, nevertheless, it is true. I have spoken of this disease as being hog cholera. But I am not at all sure that it was, or, entirely so. 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