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GETTING HIGHEST EFFICIENCY FROM
AGRICULTURAL AGENCIES OF A STATE
By Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture.
Many people of Georgia do not -un
d< rataiid how various agricultural
agencies of the state are related to
the riiate College of Agriculture and,
therefore, fail to appn-clato the effect
iveness of the organization which has
been perfected.
Georgia State College of Agriculture
has been able, as In no other state, to
corelate and co-operate with the activi
ties of the United States Bureau of
Agriculture. Instead of friction
that exists In some other states be
tween the state and federal work, there
is the coropletest harmony here. The
headquarters of practically all of the
agricultural forces of the federal gov
ernment for the state of Georgia are
at. the State College of Asri
culture. An agreement has Ix-en en
tered into between the State College
of Agriculture and the various de
partments at Washington, by which
the closest co-operation is maintained,
RAISING BREEDING SWINE FOR PROFIT
Milton P. Jarnagin, Professor Animal Husbandry, State College of Agr
The College of Agriculture has a
Tamworth sow that holds a record
of farrowing 25 in two litters in one
yoar, 23 of which lived. Twenty-one
of these pigs sold Just after weaning
at $lO apiece. Two were Inferior, and
were sold for pork production while
still pigs at $5 apiece.
This plain hut motherly Tamworth
sow, whose picture Is given herewith,
has created a revenue of $220 in one
year. Some breeders ask not less than
sls for pigs, and if the College hurl held
out for such prices It could probably
have obtained them, but to encourage
the breeding of pure bred swine the
lower price was asked.
No one can expect to average as
many as 25 pigs In two litters right
A Plain, Motherly Tamworth That Produced a Revenue of $220 In Pig* In
One Year at the College.
GEORGIA AFFORDS GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
FOR TRUCKING EARLY CROPS
By Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture.
Earliness in bringing trucking crops
into condition to be marketed
is of prime importance. To
this end sandy loam soils are
essential. Among the types of
soil suited to the purpose are Nor
folk or Portsmouth sand and sandy
loams, but they must be handled with
great care to produce profits. Natu
rally they arc not rich in the more
important elements regarded as neces
sary to obtaining profitable yields.
Of course these soils will be benefit
ed by the addition of humus. This can
be supplied by growing someone of
tile legumes and turning under during
the fall. Many of tiie crops which the
farmer will want to grow will be taken
off in the spring, leaving the ground
available for a legume crop.
Among the more Important truck
crops which can be grown in Georgia
are cabbages, tomatoes, onions, canta
loupes .watermelons. Irish potatoes and
sweet potatoes.
Cabbage will give best results on
land which has had a rich application
of well decomposed manure or com
post. In addition there should be fer
tilizer applied containing about i
M WATERMELON Will
J. W. Firor, Adjunct Professor of Hor
ticulture, Georgia State College
of Agriculture.
Watermelon wilt has been destroy
ing about 5 per cent, of the watermelon
crop in South Georgia. It is a fungus
disease against the spread of which too
much caution cannot be taken if great
loss is to be prevented.
The first appearance of the disease
is indicated by dicing of single vines
and sometimes of w hole plant* ab< in
the time the watermelons begin co
ripen in a Held where watermelons
have not previously been grown, but
where the field has previously grown
watermelons the wilt begins its tie
Joint work ts undertaken and directed
along agreed lines with an efficiency
and saving impossible under any other
arrangement, with the same amount of
money and men.
The Georgia State College of Agri
culture has, therefore, become the
state headquarters of all federal as
well as state agricultural work. The
headquarters at the farm demonstra
tion work of the hoys’ com club work,
the girls’ canning club work, the pig
club work, the crop rotation clubs are
all located at the College.
It Is easy to understand why it makes
for efficiency to have the farm dem
onstrators assist in organizing corn
clubs, canning clubs, pig clubs, etc.,
and continually encourage and render
aid. Of course, were all these agen
cies not directed from a central head
quarters at the College tills mutual
co-operation of clubs would be Impos
sible.
along, but with proper care, two lit
ters can alwuys be obtained and an
average of 15 pigs will be more nearly
what can be hoped lor
While other breeds of hogs are rais
! ed at the College, the Tamworth Is giv
en prominence, for the reason that the
South is a large consumer of bacon
and lard substitutes produced In the
South make it less Important to spe
cialize on lard types. Other bacon
types will do well in the South also.
Those who may he interested in
the subject of raising pure bred hogs
for breeding purposes can obtain In
formation about types, housing, fee-d
--ing and grazing in a bulletin just Is
sued from this department. It cun ho
obtained free of cost by wrlttng the
College.
per cent, nitrogou, 7 per cent phos
phoric acid and 8 per cent, potash.
Tomatoes will do best In soil well
supplied with vegetable matter also. A
good fertilizer formula is 11.5 per cent.,
nitrogen 7.5 per cent, phosphoric acid
aud 8 per cent, potash.
Onions require heavy fertilization.
Manure applied the previous fall and
a commercial fertilizer of 5 per cent,
nitrogen, 7 per cent phosphoric acid
and S per cent, potash can be used
and from SOO to 1,000 pounds of fertiliz
er may be applied to the acre at plant
ing.
Sandy soils are best suited to the
growth of early cautaloupes and wa
termelons. Watermelons require a
soil richer in vegetable matter than
cantaloupes. Fertilizers, 3 to 4 per
cent nitrogen, 8 to 9 per cent, phos
phoric acid, 6 to 7 per cent, potash,
should be applied in the hill. From 800
to 1,000 pounds should be applied to
the acre.
For sweet and Irish potatoes it will
be found advisable to turn under a
crop of legumes in the fall or to apply
about ten tons of yard manure per
acre. Both should be heavily fertiliz
ed. using a mixture of from 4 to 4.5
per cent, nitrogen. S per cent., phos
phoric acid aud about S per cent, pot
ash.
structive work soon after the melons
; start to grow.
Soils once infected will continue to
be infected for five and sometimes ten
| years, though other crops are grown
i during that time. No other means of
| escape from wilt is known than to
; plant in ground where melons have not
I previously grown, and take care to
j prevent the infection of the new
■ ground.
The common method of infection
] which can be prevented Is that of put
| ting on the ground manure from anl
| tnals that have eaten watermelons or
j vines. Frequently watermelons are
: followed by cow peas and when the
! hay is cut some of the watermelon
% ines go into the hay and thus infect
the manure with the wilt which, when
I placed on land, will give rise to the
j disease for as long as ten years should
watermelons be grown where it has
| been placed.
RANKS CCUNTY fOOHNAL, HOMES,(*A., MARCH 12. 19)4
CORN CLHS PHIZES
OFFERED FOR 1914
H. G. Hastings Tells of Enthusiastic
Plans Already Under Way
in Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga.— (Special.) —Enthusias-
tic plans are already undor way in
Georgia for the 1914 Com Club con
tests and for another big annual show
like the one which took place at the
state capitol in December and brought
hundreds of sturdy farmer boys to
Atlanta from all sections of the state.
H. G. Hastings, chairman of the ag
ricultural committee of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce and manager
of the Georgia State Corn Show, will
have general charge of the exhibition
again this year. It was through the
Influence of Mr. Hastings that the
Chamber of Commerce took up the
Com Show work, and his interest has
been a leading factor In its success.
It Is Impossible to estimate the
value of the Com Club movement to
Georgia agriculture. The production
of com In Georgia has been increased
between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000
during the past six years. The ratnera
of the Corn Club boys, who first look
ed on the movement as a fad, have at
last come to realize its great practical
value, and are now as much interested
as the boys In Increasing the pro
ductiveness of their land.
The corn club movement has spread
all over the South, and extensive plans
for this year are being made in prac
tically all the Southern states. Mr.
Hastings has renewed for 1914 his of
fer of $1,200 in corn club prizes to
be distributed among the ten princi
pal Southern corn-growing states The
H. G. Hastings prizes in Georgia in
clude a $250 scholarship at the State
College of Agriculture and cash prizes
of s:’.o and S2O.
The Hastings scholarship was won
last year by Carl Campbell of l’auld
lng county, who made 108 bushels to
an acre at a profit of $147.85. The
state record was made by Edward
Wellborn of Morgan county, with ISI
bushels. He chose as his prize the
I’ercheron mare offered by the Cen
tral of Georgia Hallway.
SIRES AND SONS.
——. *
Premier Yamamoto of .Inpiiu is a to
tal abstainer.
It A W. ItlisseU. a member of the
faculty of Harvard, is heir presump
th e to mi KuglHh i nrUloui.
l.e itargy. the actor, who is said to
he the best clothed man in Paris, de
clare- that lie cannot dress oil less
than 25.000 fr,tncs a year.
Paderewski, it is said, can play over
s<io compositions from memory, lie
petals to read or play a composition
new to him only twice in order lo
memorize it.
It. L Wilkinson of Philadelphia lias
served forty-six years as a guard in
the Pennsylvania Eastern State pent
tenliary. in which time he has kept
web li over more than :’.0,000 criminals.
Chapman Grant, son of Jesse It.
Grant ulid a grandson of General P.
S. Giant. Ini- succeeded George I’. Ell
glcimrdt as assistant curator of the
eln dron's museum of the Brooklyn in
Stitlltc of Arts and Sciences.
The oldest French citizen. M. Schu
mid I toy of Versailles, entered Ids one
hundred and seventh year Aug. 2<i. He
Is lln son of a grenadier of Napoleon's
guard and remembers having seen tlie
en peror one (lay ut Versailles.
Town Topics.
Boston is gelling a drydoek, while
Philadelphia is talking about one
Philadelphia i.edger.
It is reported that there are 1.000.
000 had eggs ifi Kansas t'tty. How the
population of thal town ims been io
creasingl- Cbieng" lteeord Herald.
Strange P> say. the' I ■ 'eve in the ms
! her set ond thought in Milwaukee. Peo-
I pie there can't marry until the mar
riage li'discs are five days old Glove
land Plain Healer.
Cleveland win p id a compliment so
delicate as to I"’ liinic St imperceptible
when the mayor of orrvillc, 0.. came
here to learn how not to build a mu
uicipnl light plant. Cleveland I.eader
Simple Snive.
Three parts of white petroleum jolly
and o.uo of bismuth make an old. well
known ointment for skin diseases.
For tired feet use a mixture of equal
parts of alcohol and lemon juice. Mix
very thoroughly and rub on the feet
and ankles.
The first application to a burn should
lie sweet oil. or if that be not at hand
use cream of tartar and then send for
a doctor if it is severe.
A cupful of hot water with a little
lemon juice added to make it palatable
taken the first thing in the morning
will often prevent a bilious attack.
As Usual.
"tin so glad to see that you hava
recovered from your illness.” “Yes;
but I had a narrow escape. The doc
tor said if had waited a day longer
it would have been hopeless, and they
all said it was the only case of its
kind on record. The doctor is going
to write it up for a medical paper. The
only thing that carried me through
was my wonderful vitality.”—Ex
change.
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To The People:—
rthen you buy Dry Goods or anything to wear you
are interested in several things. First, VALUE—It's not
the price -you pay but what you Get for the price you pay
that counts. Then, THE HOUSE BEHIND THE GOODS—YOU want
to buy where you know Positively that satisfaction is
really guaranteed
If the above meets your ideas, we are sure you
will be satisfied if you trade at this store —a store that
has built their success on satisfied customers—a store
that never fails to make good on any complaint, no matter
how large or how small.
Our business shows a continued increase month
after month, and year after year. We want your business,
and your friends business. We try to satisfy each custo
mer so perfectly that he will be glad to recommend this
store to his friends. That'3 why our business grows so
fast.
We sell only those makes of goods which have won
a reputation solely on their merits. Each line of goods
we handle is here solely because we know it is the best of
its class in the country. Careful comparason will prove
the superiority of our values.
May we Greet you Here soon?
BLACKWELL BROS
MAYSVILLE. GEORGIA.
FERTILIZER
To The Farmers: —
I beg to announce that I have
purchased the fertilizer business
of King & Cos. and formerly run
by J. T. King of Cornelia, Ga.
I have been associated with
one of the largest factories in
the country for eleven years
and know the fertilizer business
thoroughly.
I have most any Hind of Fertilizer
you want.
, 1 will buy your cotton in the fall.
Come and see me before you buy.
I will appreciate it
W. R. FINCH,
V
Cornelia, Ga.