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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1913.
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AGRICULTURAL
Education
__5—~ Successful Faflmin%- ,
SSSfe $ Andrew |>oui£
Is practically nothing-. All that la need
ed is consistent effort. Let us foster
and promote a corn study day through
out the length and breadth of Georgia.
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l>. A. S., Amsterdam, Ga., writes: We
nave a lot of rough feed here, consisting
of hay, oats, sorghum, etc., which we have
been thinking of using for making up a
mixed feed, together with corn. We also
have on hand a lot of off-grade syrup that
coul<j be used to good advantage in such a
mixture. Would like to have your ideas
as to the best proportion for mixing this
feed. The hay Is mostly peavine and sor
ghum.
This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State
Agricultural College, Athens, Oa.
NEXT YEAR'S CORN CROP
G EORGIA is credited with having
produced the greatest corn crop
in her history. Statistics are as
yet not available to further substanti
ate this claim, but the observations of
all classes of citizens tend to confirm
this statement. Just how this was
brought about is a* proper subject for
inquiry at th e present time so that the
planter may fortify himself well in
advance for the exigencies which the
next season will bfing in the hope
that even a greater corn crop may be
grown. Of course, season is an impor
tant factor in crop production, but
with the exception of the periodic ex
tremes of excessive heat or rain which
come once in a while, climate is not a
more important factor in the produc
tion of a successful crop than other
agencies winch are largely under the
control of the land owner.
Corn *was this year planted on land
which was well prepared. Fertilizers
were used probably not so lavishly as
in some years, but with greater skill
and with the idea of adapting them
more specifically to the needs of the
crop and the soil in question. That
this was a beneficial practice goes
without saying. Undoubtedly, more
attention was paid to the selection and
testing of seed than ever before in
the history of the state. The result
has been a better $tan<l and hence a
larger yield. Few land owners seem
to realize how many tfrones there are
in their field. Now is the time to find
out the number of these drones and
start the wheels in motion which will
tend to more and more completely
eliminate them.
The renewed interest in the cultiva
tion df corn in Georgia, and especially
in the selection of the seed and test
ing it carefully before planting is
traceable largely to the remarkable
work accomplished by the Boys’ Corn
clubs. This organization, as all know,
has been promoted co-operatively
through the agency of the Georgia
State college of Agriculture and the
bureau of plant industry of the United
States department of agriculture. Every
community will be adding to its mate
rial prosperity by encouraging the club
work in the future for It afforded the
first successful method of disseminat
ing throughout the length and breadth
of the state principles essential to the
growing of corn with the greatest econ
omy and the largest measure of suc
cess. In the wont of the Boys' Corn
clubs great emphasis has been laid on
the selection and testing of seed, and
the plan they have followed with such
success must now be adopted by the
adult farmer.
Getting ready for the crop season of
1914 means, therefore, to begin now by
selecting the choicest seed possible and
carnig for it in a manner which will
maintain it viability. Where the corn
has been left standng, and must of it
has, the leaves have either been pulled
for fodder or have been whipped off
by the wind and rain, and the corn
fields now resent a most interesting
study for both young and old. An
hour or two spent in the field will
teach lessons of the utmost importance.
It will be observed, for instance, that
there are some barren stalks; more in
some fields than in others. In one
instance the corn has stood up well; in
another it has broken over. In some
fields there is a much larger percent
age of smut than in others. The dam
age done by the weevil, by the bud
worm and in other ways varies mate
rially. The yield per stalk also shows
marked variations. The adaptability
of a variety to a given community also
seems to have affected the yield quite
materially.
Every community should therefore
have a corn study day. The farmers
ehould get together and go through
the different fields examining and
judging for'themselves of the relative
meHts of the different strains pro
duced, the difference in fertilization
and soil being taken into consideration.
This will not call for much trouble and
no outlay of money, yet the observa
tions made will be found invaluable*"
r in the matter of enabling the commu
nity to select seed of the best type
adapted to its particular needs. It
| would be well for the teachers and the
I boys and girls to meet in such a eon-
I ference, or • possibly the school might
| be made the center of such an enter-
! prise as this and the farmers invited
1 to participate. It makes no difference
| who is resopnsible for the undertaking;
i the thing is to have the work done,
and a corn study day will shortly be
come one of the most important out
ings for pleasure and profit in every
community which participates in this
movement.
After having decided on the best va
rieties foi; growth in a given commu
nity, the work of selection should *hen
proceed systematically. On most of our
soils it will be well to select seed from
plants which have two well developed
ears. The medium sized ear sorts will
be found more satisfactory for growth
on our average Georgia soil than the
big-eared varieties. The growth of
big-eared varieties had best be con
fined largely to bottom lands. The
ears chosen should be from plants
which are free from disease in so far
as a careful examination reveals. They
should be Diants which seems to have
made a vigorous, consistent growth
from germination to maturity. A fair
amount of foliage is important for
several reasons. First of all, the
leaves are vkluable for feed, and sec
ond, they constitute the lungs of the
plant and enable it to manufacture
food more rapidly and completely. The
ears should be selected from a stalk
which has stood up well throughout the
season and is not sq tall or slim that
it is likely to be broken over by the
wind. The ears should point down
ward rather than upward and should be
attached to the stalk by stout relatively
short shanks. The ear chosen for seed
should be carefully examined. It is
important that th e rows of grain run
straight, that the tip and butt be well
covered, hat the grain be fairly hard
and flinty and free from weevil dam
age. The rows should be tightly
packed together on the cob and the
grain of uniform size from tip to butt.
All these things have an important
bearing on the future crop for if the
grain is misshapen it will not seed
uniformly through the planter, and be
sides that, it is not as likely that the
germs or young plants will be a& vig
orously developed as Is well shaped
seeds.
UTILIZATION OF ROUGHAGE.
After selecting the ears, slip shuck
them and carry them to the house
where they should be placed in a tight
bin or box and treated with carbon bi
sulphide to destroy the weevil. Another
treatment should be given a little later
on. Use the bisulphide at the rate of
one pound per ton of grain, and re
member not to bring lights in its vicin
ity. When the ears are packed in the
box place the bisulphide in a dish on
top and cover with a blanket to keep
in the fumes. The carbon bisulphide is
heavier than air and will penetrate
every part of the box and if the treat
ment is persistently followed will ef
fectually destroy the weevil. After
treatment hang the ears up In a place
where they will be kept uniformly dry.
In the spring of the year take each
ear separately and pick off as many
as ten grains. Take a box about four
inches‘deep and fill with moist clean
river sand. Insert the grains from each
ear in rows. Keep *the sand moist and
watch the process of germination. Some
ears will send up ten vigorous young
plants. In other instances part of the
grain will fail to germinate; in still
others, the growth will be of a sickly
and uncertain character. In other in
stances the root- development of thfe
young plants will be very satisfactory.
All these plants should be examined and
th4 uncertain ears discarded. Where
this method of practice is followed the
varieties grown in a community may be
materially improved, the stand of corn
rendered more uniform and certain, and
the resultant yield 'increased. The cost
A ration suitable for a 1,000-pound
horse or mule doing relatively hard work
may be prepared from the materials you
have on hand by mixing the several
ingredients together in the following
proportions: Corn and cob meal, 8
pounds; molasses, 6 pounds; cottonseed
meal, 2 pounds, and pea vine or other
mixed hay, 12 to 15 pounds. If you
desire to use shelled corn, which we
do not think at all essential, use 7
pounds. You will notice that some cot
ton seed meal has been incorporated in
this ration. This hhs only been done
because some of the materials you write
about are relatively low -in protein and
hardly provide enough of this element
for horses and mules at hard work.
Where the animals are simply standing
in the stall the cotton seed could be
left out. Such a ration as this should
be fed in equal parts night and morn
ing. Molasses may be handled in one
of two ways. It may be diluted some
what and scattered over the feed or
after dilution with a mass of cut feed
to which the grain has been added. Stir
all thoroughly with Si fork. The molasses
is sticky and objectionable to handle on
that account, but it is used quite ex
tensively by the sugar planters in
Louisiana and some other southern
states. As much as ten pounds a day
is sometimes fed, though this is proba
bly more than can be used to the best
advantage. It is claimed by those who
use it extensively that it is a corrective
of colic and increases the capacity for
work and improves the conditions of the
animals. It also effects a considerable
saving in cost. We see no reason why
an off grade of syrup should not be
used as a substitute for molasses. Where
you desire to mix by machinery and on
a large scale the mixture should be
based on the proportions we have given
you. Assuming that you use 2,000 of
cowpea hay, you would need to mix
with it, for instance, 1,333 pounds of
corn and cob meal and the other in
gredients in proportion. If you use corn
and sorghum in place of peavine hay,
15 pounds of roughness should be used
in place of the 12 considered essential
with a legume.
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AMOUNT OF ALFALFA TO SOW.
H. T. T.. Gainesville, Ga., write*: I
write to ask you to tell me how many
pounds of alfalfa seed will be necessary to
sow a half-acre of ground.
the people and serve their purpose to
better advantage.
Your idea of sowing plats of crim
son clover, burr clover and alfalfa is a
ver-y good one. We think, however, it
would be better for you to substitute
vetch, red top or tall oat gras* for
the timothy. The land for these crops
should be carefully prepared. Plow
it to a fair depth and harrow and roll
so as to compact and secure a rather
firm seed oed. It would be better for
you to defer seeding until a good rain
falls to fill the soil with moisture and
finely ground raw rock containing a
compact it sufficiently. Harrow the
ground well before seeding. Apply
department of agriculture, free of cost.
You can secure the cultures from the
bureau of plant industry, United States
high per cent of carbonate of lime at
the rate of one ton or more per acre.
The lime should be put on shortly aft
er the ground is plowed and from ten
days to two weeks before fertilizer or
seed are sown. A thorough top dress
ing with well rotted farmyard manure
which is harrowed into the soil will be
of great benefit. Ten tons per acre
will not be too much to use. In the
absence of manure use a compost. Be
fore planting apply a fertilizer con
taining from 3 to 4 per cent of nitro
gen, 10 to 12 per cent of phosphorus,
and 4 to 5 per cent of potash. Five
hundred pounds per acre will be a min
imum application. Sow inoculated seed.
They will send you full directions as
to how to apply the inoculating mate
rial to the seed. Of crimson clover you
should sow about 15 pounds per acre.
There are two varieties, the red and
white blooming. Burr clover may not
need inoculating if you sow seed from
which the burrs have not been re
moved. The alfalfa should be inocu-
Jated. The seed should be scattered
broadcast or distributed with any one
of the standard seeding machines now
on the market and covered with a brush
or a light smoothing harrow. It is
important not to cover such small
seeds too deeply. Planting by the
15th of October in your section will be
all right. Early planting is rather to
be favored so that the crops may make
a fairly good root growth before cold
weather sets in.
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DESTROYING WEEVILS IN GRAIN.
H. L., Blakely, Ga., writes: I want to
know the best way to get rid of tbe striped
•worm that is eating the collards. Is there
any danger of my cabbage plants, which
are growing, running up next spring instead
of heading? I want to put in a half-acre
in onions and also want to try some alfalfa.
I have a Bermuda pasture that is not doing
very well. Can I put something on it
that will make a winter pasture? Will
it pay me to exchange my cotton seed for
meal at ton for ton at my station, or use
my seed under my cotton?
W© would alvlse that you sow not
less than ten pounds of alfalfa seed
per one-half acre. Secure the best
grade of seed possible and if it has been
grown In the western states we think
you are lfkely to find it more satisfac
tory than the imported seed. We would
advise you to inoculate this seed with
an artificial culture which you cam se
cure free of cost from the bureau of
plant industry, United States depart
ment of agriculture, Washington, D. C
Lime the land at the rate jot 1,000
pounds of pulverized rock per one-half
acre. After you have applied the lime
and rolled it so as to secure a good
seed bed and a fine tilth scatter yard
manure over the surface at the rate
of three to four tons per half acre.
Work into the surface soil and fertil
ize with 600 pounds of 16 per cent acid
phosphate and 200 pounds of kainit
Sow the seed two or three days after
the fertilizer has been applied and work
into the soil with a brush harrow or
weeder. The seed should not be covered
over half inch deep.
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SEEDING WINTER OATS.
A. K. S., Waycrosi, Ga., writes: I hare
an 18-acre field that I have Just had the
stumps taken out of and want to plant it
in oats, and wish to know how to prepare
the laud and fertilize the crop. I can buy
ground limestone for $4.30 per ton and
caustic lime at $7.50. Which would it pay
me to use and in what quantities?
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On land such as you describe com
mercial fertilizers should be used with
a fair degree of liberality on the oat
crop as this is one of the cereals which
seems to respond fairly well to fer
tilization. A good formula to use on
sandy land would be one containing 3
per cent of nitrogen, 9 per cent of phos
phoric acid and 4 per cent of potash. We
would advise a minimum application of
300 pounds per acre, Many oat grow
ers use as much as 400 to 500 pounds
and obtain very good results. On oats
we would advise the use of organic
nitrogen, as a rule. This becomes
more slowly available in the soil and is
likely to be utilized by the crop more
completely than forms which might be
come available too quickly to be as
similated. You may use tankage, blood
or cotton seed meal, whichever you
find the cheapest, as the basis of your
fertilizer. Acid phosphate and muriate
of potash or kainit will furnish the oth
er ingredients in a desirable form. We
would put the fertilizer in at the time
of seeding the oats, though we think
it well to take some pains to see that
the fertilizer and the seed do not come
directly In contact. Many drills on the
market avoid this difficulty, as you
know. We would plant In open fur
rows on relatively thin land, though
there Is little danger of oats being de
stroyed in your section of the state by
winter freezes, but we believe this meth
od of planting will secure the best
results on land low In vegetable matter.
This land will respond to the use of
commercial fertilizer, but to make It
rich you must grow legumes and turn
them under. We hardly think it advis
able to put lime on oats. We would
prefer to put the lime on the land when
planting cowpeas. We have had ex
cellent cesults from the use of lime on
legumes in south Georgia. At the prices
quoted there is little to choose between
the two kinds of lime, though the pref
erence would probably be in favor of
the caustic lime because of Its greater
power to sweeten the soil. In other
words, it is thought by many that one
ton of caustic lime exercises about
twice as much sweetening power as a
ton of the pulverized rock. This being
true one should purchase and apply two
tons of the pulverized rock for the same
cost as one ton of the burning or caustic
lime.
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A FINE EXAMPLE TO EMULATE.
■A Correspondent writes: We have estab
lished a demonstration farm In connection
with our school and the people have become
very much enthused over, tile work. This
fall I want to put In a plat of crimson
clover, burr clover, alfalfa and timothy. I
would like all the advice you can give me
regarding the preparation of the land, fer
tilization, inoculation, etc. We are going
to do what we can to show the people in
this section what their lands will produce.
'Permit me to congratulate you on
establishing a demonstration area Id
conjunction with your school. Your
success is the best evidence of the
popular interest in work of this char
acter. The people throughout the
state are intensely Interested In all
that affects agricultural production,
and particularly are they gratified to
have demonstrations made in their
midst which exemplify new principles
and bring new truth to bear on the
problems of agricultural development.
It is certain that your initiative in this
matter will bring its own reward,
it may not come as quickly as you an
ticipate. Just as soon as we can put
the rural schools on a basis such as
you have in mind they will become
more closely related to the lives of
You may destroy the weevil In corn
by placing the grain at the time of
harvest in a comparatively tight crib or
box. If the sides are open it is well to
cover them with a tarpaulin. Before do
ing so place the carbon bisulphide in
dishes on top of the corn. Then cover up
the bin or crib as completely as possi
ble. The carbon bisulphide is heavier
than air and will penetrate to every
part of the crib and will effectually de
stroy the weevils. This treatment should
be repeated from time to time. One
pound of carbon bisulphide should be
used to each ton of grain, or a pound
and a half where the bin is compara
tively open.
If you only have a small patch of
collards, the best way to fight the
worms is to pick them off by hand. We
have found this treatment more satis
factory than any other. Kerosene emul
sion can sometimes be used to advan
tage in protecting cabbage, collards and
other plants from certain insect pests.
The most effective treatment is arsenate
of lead. Mix two pounds of arsenate
of lead with two pounds of unslaked
lime and fifty gallons of water. The
arsenate should first be dissolved in a
small quantity of Water. The plants
should be sprayed as often as neces
sary to protect them, but no applica
tion should be made within three weeks
of the time of harvesting. It is very
important where cabbage or collards
are sprayed with arsenate of lead to
see that i the plants are thoroughly
washed before used, as food.
We see no reason why the cabbage
plants you are now setting out’ shigild
run up. The fact of the matter is they
should head before there is danger of
this. We have grown fall planted cab
bage successfully in this latitude and
see no reason why you should not suc
ceed as well.
We would suggest in planting onions
that you use sets if you are anxious to
force the crop and. place them on the
market as early in the season as pos
sible. Use any of the standard sorts
and plant in rows 15 to 30 inches apart
depending on thp richness of your land.
On rich soil we prefer to plan in 15
inch rows. Of course, the soil must be
well manured in order to grow the on
ions rapidly and thus make them sweet,
tender and ready for market early in
the season.
We would suggest that you try an
acre in alfalfa to begin with. Select
some of the deepest, loamiest soil you
have which has grown peas previously
and Is In fairly good physical condition,
and contains, relatively speaking, a con
siderable amount of vegetable matter.
The land should he broken, rolled, har
rowed and a fine seed bed prepared.
The seed bed should be firm. Top dress
well with yard manure, using five or
more tons per acre. Inoculate with cul
tures which you can secure from the
bureau of plant industry, United States
department of agriculture, Washington,
D. C. They will send you Instructions
how to apply the same. Use 20 pounds
of American-grown seed and cross seed.
Apply at least one ton of pulverized
lime rock to the acre after rolling and
harrowing the land. At the time of
planting put on 200 pounds of cotton
seed meal, 400 pounds of acid phosphate
and 200 pounds of kainit. Mix these In
gredients well together and distribute
through the soil with a harrow. Cover
the seed with a weeder or brush har
row.
The best thing you can sow on Ber
muda to insure winter grazing would be
either bur clover or hairy vetch. The
seed should be sown immediately. We
would prefer to open light furrows
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It la universally recognized that it is
only through three factors that the
corn yield of the United States can be
increased from its present paltry aver-
erage of about four barrels to the acre
to the average of ten barrels per acre
which it should be, and now is, on the
more successful farms. These three
factors, named in the order of their rel
ative importance, are: better quality
of seed corn, increased fertility of the
land, through use of manures and ro
tation of crops and, third, a better sys
tem of cultivation.
Any two of these factors are pow
erless without the third; the absence
of any one will negative the advan
tage. It is now too late to practice any
improvement in cultivation until anoth
er season, but now Is the time to guar
antee yourself an increased yield in
the corn field next harvest time by the
selection of good, full-of-life ears of
corn from the field, to be used for your
seed next spring.
The common practice in vogue
throughout the great corn-growing
states is to either pick out the seed
corn from the remainder in the crib
after the winter feeding, or to-send to
some neighbor, if all the corn is fed
up (and it quite frequently is) and take
the scraps of his crib. Some few
farmers boast of buying their seed corn
from seedsmen every spring, probably
being unaware that - in doing so they
are, for the most part, merely planting
the left-overs from some one else’s field
and most likely getting seed that is not
fitted by acclimation for their section.
It is a grave mistake to plant seed
corn that is grown further than 100
miles from your farm. It takes at
least three years for such seed' to be
come acclimated. And after becoming
acclimated it will not yield more than
the native varieties would have yielded
If proper selection and cultivation had
been practiced.
Scattered about, one or two in a
place, are farmers, successful farmers,
whose corn yields arouse the envy
and wonder of their neighbors, and
these men almost without exception
raise their own seed, right on their
own farms. It is characteristic of
the major portion of the American
farmers to depend upon some one
else for the improvement in methods
of cultivation and increase of yield of
their crops and they are very slow in
recognizing the principal that “God
helps those who.hplp themselves.” It
il only by the application of this
maxim in the everyday life of the farm
that success can be reached. And
across the field, say about three feet
apart, and, put the seed in. fertilize It
well, and cover by harrowing across
the rows. It Is important that these
crops be planted immediately. In fact,
it is rather late now to sow bur clover
to the best advantage.
Where you can get as much as a
ton of meal for a ton of seed it seems
to us it is to your advantage to make
t.he exchange. The seed are now worth
at this writing about $22 a ton, and
they contain only about $10.50 to $12
worth of plant food, whereas, a ton of
meal which contains 6.18 per cent of
nitrogen and other fertilizing constitu
ents in proportion contains from* $22 to
the advantage in purchasing meal In
?25 worth of plat food. You also have
itilizing it for the maintenance of your
live stock and applying the resultant
manure to the land.
| the first move made in this direction
should be the selection of seed corn
from your own field before gathering
time this autumn.
There are many methods of gather
ing this seed corn. I have seen farm
ers who, when harvesting the entire
field, carried a barrel in the rear of
the wagon, and into this barrel was
put every ear of unusual perfection
of size or shape. This is perhaps the
easiest method and it certainly is an
improvement over taking the remnants
of the crib at planting time. How
ever, in the rush and bustle of corn
gathering everyone is going at high
pressure and frequently the best
ears are overlooked and mediocre ones
find their way into the barrel.
The way which I have found best in
selecting seed corn from the field (the
best way is to grow the seed corn
in a plat to itself, as one is enabled
to give it better cultivation than in a
large field) is to take a knapsack and
go through the field about two weeks
before gathering time, picking out those
ears which are unusually well shaped
and large sized, and selecting corn from
the hills which show good development
of stalk. I try to keep my corn as
prolific as posible by the selection of
ears from stalks which bear two ears.
It is a mistake to plant corn from
stalks bearing more than two ears as
such corn is apt to be lacking in germ-
inative qualities.
I pay more attention to the size of
the ear than I do to its shape as large,
rough ears will sell just as well as
small, regular ones and the yield is apt
tc be much greater. It Is immaterial
to the general farmer whether the rows
SEE IE THE CHILD’S
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The seed corn may be gone over
at leisure after corn gathering la over,
and that whloh is finally selected as
the basis of next year's crop should
then be hung up In a dry spot, sheltered
alike from extremes of heat and cold.
A good way Is to take a long string
and loop around the ears allowing about
two Inches between each ear. This
string may be suspended from the cell
ing, rendering the corn safe from the
ravages of vermin. And be sure to test
your seed for vitality before planting
time.
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