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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913
agricultural
Ms. Education
— Successful, farming „
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This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State
Agricultural College, Athens, Oa.
THE BEEF CATTLE INDUSTRY
- There are several reasons for the
growing interest in beef production in
Georgia. First of a.11, through the con
sistent effort of the federal and state
departments of agriculture progress is
being made in the eradication of the
cattle tick so that each year from this j
date fQrward an ever-increasing area of
Georgia land will be rid of the constant
menace of the tick. The approach of
the boll weevil to the western border
of the state is another force in direct
ing public attention to the importance
of preparing for a proper diversification
of crops as soon as practicable. The
present high price of beef and the pros
pect of its continuance is possibly one
uof the most powerful of all the incen
tives at work in favor of developing
.the. beef cattle industry of the state.
In recent years the attention of the
'farmer 'has been frequently directed to
the arrival of that period when the
cheap and extensive grazing areas in the
-west would become so restricted as to
place the cost of promoting beef in the
east and west on a parity. That time
[has certainly arrived. Witness the ex
odus the past summer of cattle from
:this state, not for immediate slaughter
‘but in many instances to be used to re
stock western ranges. Certainly the
people of the west have not come to
Georgia for this purpose unless the
supply there is very scarce and they
can buy them here to better advantage
# than elsewhere. This being true, the
farmers of Georgia are making a seri
ous mistake in selling any of their
breeding stock. If they must part with
anything they should sell only the
steers. Why they should under any
circumstances permit even this class of
animals to go out of the state without
finishing them for slaughter is one or
the problems difficult to understand
at the present time.
Few states are blessed with a greater
area of land ideal in many prospects
for the production of beef cattle than
Georgia. This land at present is non
productive. Those who doubt its exist
ence have only to get on the train and
ride in almost any direction. They will
quickly see that probably not over 60
tc 60 per cent of the land in most sec
tions is under the plow, and where live
stock husbandry is neglected the rest
lies idle and non-productive. More
over,. in some respects it is a danger
because it provides a hiding place for
the breeding of a great variety of in
sects which prey upon the landowner’s
crops. Some of this land could no doubt
be used.to advantage for the growth of
timber, but unless it is cared for with
greater skill than one often observes,
the timber is so injured from fires from
year to year and so constantly cut into
for stove wood that little progress to
wards a permanent reforestr&tion is
made. Most of the land in question will
naturally cover up with Bermuda grass
in a comparatively short time, say from
three to five years. A good sod can be
established on nearly all of it in a rew
years by scattering the sets of this
wonderful grass about over it. Of
course, a much better sod will be ob
tained if the sets are placed in furrows
and thus given an opportunity to estab
lish themselves more quickly. Bermuda
grass has a wonderful carrying capaci
ty for beef cattle. The fact that ani
mals grazed either on it or native
grasses have been found satisfactory
for exportation to the western country
fully establishes the contention set forth
with regard to its virtues. Why not
set all the idle land in Georgia to
work for the maintenance of beef cattle
and supply our own markets with the
choicest of edible meat products grown
at home? There is every condition now
to favor enterprises of this character,
and certainly where waste lands are
used to advantage for the production
of beef the prices now prevailing should
make the business remunerative.
Of course, the problem of carrying
the cattle through the winter presents
some difficulties, but these can be easily
overcome through the utilization of
silage. A large number of Georgia
farmers have built silos the past sum-
mer under the direction of the officers
of the extension department of the state
college of agriculture, and it is safe to
say that a much larger number will be
built next year. In many sections of
t.he state the farmer need not even be
dependent on silage for the maintenance
of his cattle during the winter season.
The cereals furnish ideal grazing, and a
Bermuda sod, if permanently set in bur
clover, vetch or other of the tame
grasses and clovers, will afford grazing
for the greater part of the year. At
most only temporary shelters are needed
for the preservation of the manure and
the housing of the- cattle in extremely
wet or cold weather. Spells of this
character, as all our people know, are
of very short duration; hence the struc
tures erected, while they should be sub
stantial to give protection when neces
sary, need not be costly.
It is needless to point out that §very
Georgia- farmer should hold on to his
breeding stock, and not let the lure of
‘high prices deprive him of the ability to
carry on his beef raising operations suc
cessfully. It is quite certain that if a
western buyer is willing to pay a good
price fqr a cow taken off a Georgia
range he expects her to give him a
profit above the purchase price. The
farmer who sells her is depriving him
self of a permanent asset, even though
he secure a good monetary return and
feels that he has driven a keen bargain.
Of course, there are large numbers of
scrub cows throughout the state, and if
they can be disposed of advantageously
and those of better breeding substituted
therefor the quality of the offspring
will naturally improve, the quality of
the resultant beef enhanced, and the
price received by the grower increased.
The grading up of'' the herd should
therefore be systematically carried on
through the introduction and use of
pure-bred sires, but the farmer should
not part with his breeding stock, even
if it be of only mediocre quality, until
he can replace it with something better,
for he will find it a costly and unsatis
factory undertaking to go out and buy
animals to replace those he has sold.
Not only is the source from which he
can draw his breeding stock limited, but
the quality will in most instances not
be greatly superior to that which he
already has, and it will cost much more
to build up his herd through purchase
than through grading up by the use
of improved sires, and the retention of
the choicest heifers in the herd from
year to year. Provided the sire is
changed often enough, the danger from
inbreeding does not amount to anything,
and the quality and vigor of the herd
can be maintained for an indefinite pe
riod by this method of practice.
This article has been written because
of the considerable number of inquiries
recently received from correspondents
asking for information concerning
places where they could market their
stock to the best advantage. One gen
tleman wrote he had 200 head of stock,
many of which were cows, and he was
hunting for a market for them from
Georgia to Chicago. He believed he
could secure a good price and sell to
advantage. No doubt he can, but to do
so would be suicidal, for the reason
which have been recited. This corres
pondent’s point of view is not essential
ly different to that of m^ny others.
Surely, it will not do to “kill the goose
which lays the golden egg.” Our farm
ers should realize at .once that they can
only afford to sell the culls from their
herds and the steers. The state is
very much understocked so far as beef
cattle are concerned A million produc
ing cows could be added to our pres
ent holdings, and they would find
abundant sustenance on the idle lands
of the state, while dropping annually
calves which at from two to three
years of age under proper manage
ment can be made to produce beef of
the choicest quality at as low a cost,
relatively speaking, as anywhere else
in the United States. Most people qot
familiar with animals fail to appreciate
the rapidity with ^rhich herds and flocks
Save Half the Cost,
Double the Yield
Bay Fruit Trees, Strawberry Plants, etc..
Direct From Nature’s Own Nursery Region
The varied soils of the North Carolina Hills—un
equalled as to fertility and variety—enable us to grow
each tree or plant in its native soil. The result is vig
orous, mature stock and an early abundant yield that
will open your eyes.
Catatogue tilling how to plant
and cultivate SENT FREE.
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til R. R.Street, Kittrell. N. C.
Largest Shippers of Strawberry Plants iji the World.
Winning Fame As Breeder
Of Fine Hogs at Same Time
He Works ,4s Conductor
Roy Elliott, Pullman conductor, is an
embodiment of the new spirit of “back
to the farm.”
He’s still “conducting,” but mean
while he is becoming one of the best
known breeders in the south of pedi
greed and registered hogs.
Some day, perhaps, he will be rich
enough to ride in Pullmans as a passen
ger, and even to tip the porter besides.
Ho was born in Rockdale county, was
Roy Elliott. He was reared on his
father’s farm. But when he attained
young manhood the city called him, and
he became a city man. Eventually he
became a Pullman conductor, and began
to travel all over the United States. He
was a sort of special conductor, holding
a regular run, but going off on long
junkets with big parties of travelers.
He progressed about as far away from
the farm as it was possible to go.
- Then the Georgia agricultural college
planned to run its second educational
train, with lecturers and exhibits, around
through Georgia. A Pullman was needed
for the party that was to travel with
the train. And Elliott was assigned by
his company to go with the Pullman.
“BACK TO THE FARM.”
That was the beginning of Roy El
liott’s return to the farm. He had time
enough, at the various stops, to get off
and walk around while the lecturers
talked and displayed their fine cattle
and chickens and hogs. One day he got
an accidental earful of talk from one of
the lecturers and moved up closer In
the edge of the crowd to hear more.
Thereafter he listened whenever he got
a chance. And when the agricultural
train ended its six weeks of work the
seed of a “back to the farm” idea had
been planted in Roy Elliott’s mind.
He had decided that he would try his
hand at hog breeding.
Getting into correspondence with the
agricultural college workers whom he
had met and lived with on the train, he
asked for pamphlets and books and
first hand information. Then he bought
three registered hogs of the Tamworth
breed. There had been a fine big Tam
worth hog among the exhibits on the
agricultural train, and Elliott liked it
best of all. He had to send away off
to get those pedigreed animals, and he
had to pay a fancy price for them. But
he got them and installed them on a
three-acre plat that he fenced in, back
of his father’s home in Conyers.
All of this time Elliott has been tak
ing his run to New Orleans and return
as his shift fell due, and has been
learning more and more about hogs from
books and from Prof. M. P. Jarnagin, at
the state agricultural college, and Dr.
E. M. Nighbert, the government expert,
and Dr v P. F. Bahnsen and Entomologist
Bee Worsham, at the state capitol. All
this time he has been culling his hogs,
discarding the undesirable ones not per
fect in points and disposing of them in
the local markets, while he distributed
the more perfect animals among pur
chasers everywhere in this section. Last
year he went to Canada and bought
seven more of the finest Tamworths.
Now he has gone again to Canada, to
be gone about ten days, expecting to
come back with eight or ten more fine
registered Tamworths.
“There are great possibilities in hog
raising in this state if a man will go
after it right and start in a smalll way, 1
said Elliott yesterday before he left.
“I've got a lot to learn about it yet.
but I know that much already.”
—wherever you find men, you will find “Bull”.
may be built up under wise manage
ment.
Georgia has an opportunity to over
come the shortage of beef in so far as
she is concerned to the material ad
vantage of her land owners and her
people generally. Of course, a com*
paratively new enterprise of this char
acter calls for the exercise of judg-
metn and skill in feed, housing, care
and management. The information need
ed along this line can all be secured
free of cost through the agency of the
State College of Agriculture which has
developed a herd of beef cattle through
the utilization of waste land and along
the lines suggested in this article. One
of the greatest opportunities for the
permanent advancement of Georgia’s
agriculture is within the grasp of her
farmers. Let Us not overlook nor neg
lect the material advantage which the
wise development of beef industries
commensurate with our needs affords
us.
* * *
GRASSES FOR BOTTOM LAND.
J. F. 0. f Shellman, G*., writes: I have
some low bottom land. It grows native
grass fine in the summer,, but is not much
good for winter pasture. The water is only
about five or six inches from the top of the
groun<J. Can you tell me what to plant
on it for winter pasture. The land cannot
be plowed.
There are a number of grasses which
you can use on land of the character
mentioned in your letter. We believe
you will find red-top more satisfactory
than anything else, and would suggest
that you mix it with alsike clover.
Suppose you try eight to ten pounds of
recleaned red-top seed, and the same
amount of alsike clever. The seed should
be sown at once if the conditions are at
all favorable. y It is best to incorporate
the seeds with the ground. Thorough
disking oi” the land and harrowing of
the soil after the seed has been dis
tributed should result in covering them
satisfactorily. It 4s important to cover
the seed lightly whenever practicable
to do so, as a more uniform stand may
be anticipated, and the new growth will
be materially hastened by this method
of management. You could also use
carpet grass, meadow fowl grass and
Paspalum dilitat,um or large water
grass. Some of these, as you know,
particularly the paspalums, are now
growing in low, wet places in Georgia,
quite extensively, as a matter of fact,
in south Georgia. It is difficult to se
cure seed of some of these varieties,
and for # a location such as you describe
we are inclined to think that none of
them offer material advantages over the
mixture first mentioned.
heifers from^one of the following par
ties: J. T. Anderson, Marietta. Ga.;
Evans Lunsford, Covington, Ga., or
S. D. Cross, Chester, S. C. The num
ber of animals of this class for sale in
Georgia is very limited at the present
time. As I understand it, the animals
on the plantations of the gentlemen
named are free of ticks, and, therefore,
in bringing them into tick infested ter
ritory you must 1 , exercise the greatest
care or you are likely to los e all of
them from an attack of tick fever.
Since ticks may be eradicated with
comparative ease from a farm, it will
pay every one interested in the pro
duction of beef cattle to study this
question and clean his grazing lq,nd up
as quickly as possible. The college
will be glad to give advice along this
line to all who apply.
RYE PASTURES FOR HOGS.
B. K. H., Warren ton, Ga., writes: I am
going to sow a lot of rye for my hogs to
graze on through the winter. What kind of
grass should I mix with it to mak* good
grazing ?
* SELECTING SEED CORN.
'H, 53*. F., Hoschton, Ga., writes: I plant
ed Whatley’s Prolific corn this year and
am well pleased with it, and I want to
know how to select my seed to keep it im
proved and make It better.
Rye intended for grazing purposes
should be sown at once. Where you are
anxious to have it develop as rapidly as
possible, we would suggest that you sow
it in open furrows somewhat after the
fashion of oats. It is not necessary to
sow it this way as the rye is very IJardy
and will respond to more indifferent
treatment than any of the other cereals.
One of the best things you can sow with
rye at this season of the year would be
crimson clover or hairy vetch. Some of
both might be used. In this event we
! would not advise sowing the rye in open
furrows because the seeds ‘ot the clover
are small and they would be covered too
deeply where this practice is followed.
The clover may be sown from an ordi
nary grain drill seeding box and the rye
and vetch put in just as other cereals
are sown. We would advise the use of
about 20 pounds of rye and about 10
pounds of crimson clover seed. We have
used this combination to good advantage
for grazing purposes, not only for hogs
but for calves and mature cows as well.
Rape makes a very good grazing crop
for hogs in Georgia, but it is best sown
in, the early spring, say in late Febru
ary or early March. It may he sown
either alone or in combination with other
crops. Our best success has come from
planting it in drills about 24 inches apart
and using four to six pounds of seed per
acre and cultivating to keep weeds in
check and to break the crust until it
gets sufficiently large to shade the
ground. All of these should be fertilized
with about 2 per cent of nitrogen, 8 per
cent of phosphoric acid and 3 per cent of
potash. Use 200 pounds and upwards er
acre.
The Improved Red Ripper
Hay Press
The RED RIPPER is used and recommended by State and County Farms all
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If you have not gathered your corn
vet, it will be well for you to go
through the field and pick off well devel
oped and matured ears from compara
tively short, strong stalks that had a
fair proportion of leaves and a mini
mum number of suckers. The ears
chosen should be well formed and prop
erly developed; that is, the grain should
be perfectly matured at the butt and
and as nearly as possible at the tip.
The grain should run straight on the
cob and should be well packed on the
ear and as free from weevil injury as
possible. Having picked the ears out
in this way, we would advise that they
be harvested immediately and placed in
an air-tight bin or box and treated with
carbon bisulphide. Use one pound to
one ton of grain. Place the carbon
bisulphide in dishes on top of the grain
and cover all with a heavy cloth. Do
not bring fire in the vicinity of the
bisulphide, but otherwise it will not be
dangerous to handle. You should treat
it again a few days later to thoroughly
destroy the weevil. Then hang in some
place where it will be kept as free as
possible from d,amx*ness and sudden
changes in temperature. In the early
spring take four or five grains from
each ear and place in 1 a tray of moist
sand and see which germinate the best.
Discard those ears which do not show
a perfect germination. By following
this' method from year to year, you
shq^ld make some progress in maintain
ing and improving your seed corn.
♦ * * *
SPECIAL FEED MIXTURES FOR
WORK STOCK.
c. M. C., Shellman, Ga.. writes: I am
trading my cotton seed for 1,800 pounds of
[ruumg my cotton seed Tor 1,800 pounds of
cotton seed meal. I have machinery for
grinding up my corn, cobs and shucks.
Please give the proportion in which to mix
these materials, and how much to feed to
each mule or horse. Where will I be able
to purchase some Hereford heifers?
W e would suggest that if you have
ground your corn, cob, shuck and all
that you mix it with cotton seed meal
in the following proportions: 700
pounds of corn and cob w meal and 100
pounds of cotton seed* meal. This
mixture should be fed to 1,000-pound
horses and mules at the rate of about
twelye to fourteen pounds per day, de
fending on the character of the work
they are performing. In addition there
should be fed about fourteen pounds
of Bermuda hay or twelve pounds of
peavine hay. Where horses and mules
are not doing heavy work the ration
of grain suggested above may be cut
down considerably. Eight pounds
should be a maintenance ration. You
may use other combinations if you pre
fer. For instance, you can add some
oats to this mixture, say 200 pounds.
You can probably secure Hereford
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■111
THE ADVANTAGE OF SELECTING
COTTON SEED IN THE FIELD
PURCHASING GROUND LIMESTONE.
J. W. C., Moreland, Ga., writes: I am
sending you a small sample of pulverized
lime which is being offered for sale In this
community, and I would appreciate your
opinion of it.
Pulverized rock for use on our Geor
gia lands should, in our judgment, be
ground so that the greater part of it
will pass through a sieve of 100 meshes
to the inch. The sample forwarded to
us is very coarse. There would be no
objection probably to some panicles be
ing found in a sample of the ground
rocks as large as any of those con
tained in the package sent us, but when
the greater majority of them are large
the lime will become very slowly avail
able for the purpose it is expected to
serve in the matter of soil improve
ment. You can probably secure a
sieve of 100 meshes to the inch with
out great difficulty and test samples
of rock offered you very cheaply and
effectively by this method. We
should say that 86 to 90 per cent of a
given sample would be expected to pass
through a sieve of this character. We
cannot judge accurately of the sample
sent but are disposed to think th»at
not over 60 per cent and possibly even
less would pass through a sieve of the
character mentioned.
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As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism,
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The Lawrence-Willlams Co., Cleveland, 0.
The early date at which cotton has
opened this fall necessitates giving at
tention at an earlier date than,usual to
the matter of selecting cotton seed for
planting. Progressive farmers every
where have come to appreciate the great
advantage from selecting corn in the
field, rather than in the crib, since this
permits them to judge the plant as a
whole, rather than simply to select the
largest ears in the crib, which may
have come from plants otherwise not
desirable. It is, equally important that
the selection of cotton seed be likewise
made in the field, although the process
is somewhat more tedious than ip the
case in the field selection of seed
corn.
The simplest method of selecting cot
ton seed in the field is for the the own
er, or some intelligent laborer taught
by him, to precede the other pickers
and pick in one sack cotton from only
the best plants in the field. Not only
must this picking be restricted to the
best plants, but there should be gather
ed for seed purpose only the perfect
bolls in the best plants. We need not
at this point dwell on the question
whether the old, and geenrally accept
ed view, be strictly true that the plant
is the unit of selection, determining the
character of the offspring from all of
its bolls, or whether as suggested by
some recent experiments, each boll has
an individuality of its own.
In strictly scientific breeding, by
elaborate methods, we are doubtless
Justified in considering each boll as a
unit, but in such field selection as can
be done by the farmer, having much
other work to keep under way, it is
only necessary to select the best plants
and then from these pick such bolls as
are entirely free from disease, and not
notably deficient in size, or date of ma
turing. Of course, if there were time
to do this work in a more elaborate
manner, there is the possibility that the
picking of only five-lock bolls, for ex
ample, might be advantageous; but re
membering that almost every plant has
both four-lock and five-lock bolls, and
of planting the seed of each plant In a
seperate row next spring, and thereby
starting a plant-to-row breeding patch.
This is work for the professional plant
breeder, but it is the method by which
the most rapid improvement can 'be
made.
In following this latter method, which
is the one used in the Alabama experi
ment station farm, it is necessary to
attach a label, bearing a definite num
ber, to each of the best plants. An
equal number of paper or clpth bags
are labeled with corresponding num
bers so that the seed cotton from two
pickings, if desired, may be placed in
the same bag, all of jit, of course, from
the same plant. The part of this pro
cess, which makes it most generally
impracticable for farmers to employ, is
the necessity for the separate ginning
of the small amount of seed cotton
from each individual plant. *
Farmers are advised to make gen
eral use of the first method of seed
selection, which may be called gross
selection. They are urged in making
such selection to pay chief attention
to the freedom from disease of the in
dividual locks picked for planting.
Among the qualities* for which cotton
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productiveness, size of bolls^ form of
plant and freedom from disease.
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SEE IF THE CHILD'S
TONGUE IS COATED
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that both classes of bolls will be found
in the offspring from either class of
parent bolls; we can see that in ordinary
gross selection the farmer need not re
ject sound four-lock bolls of sufficient
size, etc.
The main reason for emphasizing?
the picking of only sound bolls is that
this is the best means of minimizing,
or even completely eliminating, boll
rot (anthracnose). This disease is
transmitted through the seed as well as
through the old stalks that may re
main on the ground; hence, we desire
to obtain only those seed that do not
contain germs of boll rot. These germs
may be expected to be present in the
seed from those locks which were at
tacked by boll rot. The plain symptoms
of boll rot may have practically disap
peared at the time of picking, h*it the
presence of this disease may. be ex
pected in a lock that does not open
completely, or into a fluffy condition.
It is even unsafe to pick the fluffy locks
from a boll containing one hard and
diseased lock.
Few cotton growers will care to take
the -great pains needed to practice a
more scientific and much more pains
taking method of keeping the seed cot
ton from each of the twenty to one
hundred plants separate, with the view
Look at the tongue, mother! If coat
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gentle, thorough cleansing at once.
When peevish, cross, listless, pale,
doesn’t sleep, doesn’t eat or act natural
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ask to see that it is made by “Cali
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