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Botabllsbtd 1832,
VOL. 91, NO. 265
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ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1922
Gathered By T. Larry Gantt
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TEN HIGH SCHOOL BOYS PRODUCE
AT WINTERVILLE
By F. C. CHANDLER
sold at about coat ot production.
But they no* have overflowing
gamers end smoke-houses and
more cash to sbend than perhaps
ever before in their lives. Of
course, old debts made for high
priced land or to feed negroes to
try and grow cotton under boll
weevil conditions, are fastened
jpon their backs like the Old Men
>f the Sea to Slnbad the Sailor.
But in time and by economy they
can settle these old obligations.
And another advantage they have:
;The farmer ha? learned how to
average yield of hay waa approsl- aueceeefully fight the boll weevil
WINTERVILLE. Oa—Ten Hlth nul i' ,y . 1 ^? n P* r “ere but since ths end both Agricultural College end
IukjI bays at Wintervllle produced ?® d !!l * ,lr ' ly wer0 ln grea *: County Agent Firor aay that by
i. year on S7 acres *4,000 worth ?* m *, nd ,h8y " the croI> rlpen ,0 ° the intelligent uee of poison we
farm produce" Cotton leading Ur ,or h,y ,n order ‘° **' “ n now P" ™ P" of an
h i value of $3 moo Laredo * crop of flr,t c,aM Beed - Tl »«»aveimfiT® crop under the most ad*
- - average yield of theae seed wai bJverse boll weevil conditions. And
bushels per acre which they are^**- 141 - * ** *—
finding ready rale for at $10.00
pr bushel.
The acreage in corn for feed waa
too small for any very definite
conclusions but their conclusions
are that corn la a good crop
with , . ^ .
Soy beans $810.00 and corn $169.
In addition to this these boys com
pleted a full yeaf*s work In the
High school nhd helped their fath
ers produce the best cotton crop
that they have made since the boll
weevil made hla appearance ln this
A community.
The production of theae crops has
cnrrle^ on under the direct
grow for home supplies aa It cast U An T A UavII 1 !/
apprxlmately 90 cents per bushel Alillls A • lACIla Jr
to produce this crop, but cotn is
•cling readily ut $1.25 per bushel
with very little offered at that
price.- However the experience of
some of the adult pupils In the
Poultry Production course shows
that hens properly fed and cared
for will pay $1.75 to $2.00 per
Rupervislon of the Agricultural
Teacher of trip 'High School and Is
part of the training given by that
dopartment. For In addition to
studying the science and theory of
crop production in the class room
they are required to put the know-
ledge gained Into actual practice buehel for corn,
on their home farms before they
are ulven credit for the course.
Accurate record* are required of
them which teachea them a system! ]
of firm bookkeeping and also gives | The conclusions from their year's
them n clear Idea of the factors • work in agriculture are that for a
of production. I cash crop we must depend on* cot-
Cottoa heu$ the chief mon*f: ton j, u t we can grow only a limit-
rrop of the community naturally J ed acreage of thl* crop. That In
received their first nttsntlon and | order to grow this crop profitably
the major part of their studies. | we must select land well adapted
I to the production of cotton, ln
PLANTED ! . high state of fertility and rotate
3 ACRES I (he cotton fields. That calcium
I arsenate Is the cheapest insurance
Bach boy planted three acres to 1 the farmer can buy nnd- should be
Pedigreed College No. 1 cotton bought with the fertiliser at th*
farmers will plant cotton unless
they can gt poison. Beginning
with next year we. believe, that a
great dawn of prosperity will
break upon our section.
funds to many of his patrons. The
result is fine. The farmer is not
only paying the bank this year's
account but it paying a great deal
on past due botes.
The same spirit of liberality
characterized our Athens banks.
They contributed largely to the
movement to 1 employ experts to
travel over the country tributary
to Athens and teach farmers how
to intelligently use calcium arse
nate and also the importance of
applying this poison if they fi
pec ted to make a crop of cotton.
The result is our farmers are
now entrenched behind the ram
parts of plenty of home-made
supplies to run them another year
and will go to work with confi
dence and enthuiaam. They are
also showing their appreciation of
the service done them by. the
banks by paying their notes and
depositing their cash in said
bdnks instead of carrying it home.
Of coupe there are exceptions,
but wo refer to honest farmers,
who pay their debts when able to
Makes Profit on
Truck Farming
-jiud.
hn» put cotton production live
l»ark to pre-bdli weevil yields, and
fertilised, cultivated, poisoned, and
h.irmted according to methods
learned In ths’clas* room. A study
of these records la very interesting
and for the benefit of the readers
of this paper they ar# summarised:
Th average yield of cotton
37o pounds of lint and 019 pounds
of seed per acre with a total value
of $142. The range In yields
from 192 pounds of lint cotton per
nrre to 692 pounds. The range In
value per acre Is from $70.00 to
$235 per acre. Ths average cost
per acre for producing this cotton
t% 132.85 with a range of fsc.oo to
$35.90 per acre.- The greatest cost
of production Is In the labor with
■ Average of $9.60 per acre, fer
tiliser $9.00, poison $6.00, rent $6,
and all other costs $115. It la
rather striking how close ell the
™nt* per pound and the eeed are
which is greater on the heavier
voiding acres dU# primarily to
water costs df picking and gin
ning. ill.'*
AVERAGE
COST0 -‘
The average costs of production
« pound of lint cotton averaged
* * cente per* pound with e range
from 6 cen£ to 16.6 cente per
!")'ind this 'cast Increasing In di«
rwt proportion ‘as the yield de-
r rinses. The cost* of the . various
factors of production are labor
-* cents, fertilizer 2.6 cents, pol*
*° n If. rent 1.6’cent and miscel
laneous 6 cents!
The average price received for
,hl * cotton has been around it
per pb'unrd and the eeed ere
^ing sold for Ranting purposes
•“ $2.00 to » $1.76 per hundred
pound*. The returns from these
" f 'd will practically pay for all
**i*n»e* of production and mar*
** u nc the entire crop thus tearingt
*he Unt as clear Profit. *
*>me of 1 the conclusions that
been drawn from this ex-
rate, ot-not-less than 30 pounds
per acre. That .it must be .at
at regular Intervals as long
boll weevil damnge Is apparant and
as late as there Is possibility of
damage to the grown bolls of cot
ton: excellent results were secured
this year with applications as late
ns Sept. 15 and in one case Sept.
20. That not less than 400 pound/
of a well balanced high grade,
quickly available fertilizer and
heavier applications where the
humus content of the Soil Is high
enough to hold large amounts of
moisture. That calcium aresnate
applied according to methods
worked out by the State College
of Agriculture and thV U. 8. De
partment ot Agriculture Is the
most effective and economics)
That improved seed are a neces
sity and the best investment that
can be made is gettln gthose seed
from growers who are keeping the
atandard of the varieties up by
proper selection nnd ginning to
prevent mixing. That other farm
enterprises may be carried on at
the same time* with profit if prop-
erly selected and care for. Poultry
30 pounds good- stands, and also stopped tho In pens when they are turned out
b#.«,plldr growth ot vegetation. Turalne tofeed on ir rowed tor then., Mr.
tong n. were almost i failure. But hi, Dunlap taw his rye patches eep-
A. Henry, who operates
email truck farm of three acres on
tho Jefferson road besides his
other crop,, says that ho can easi
ly make a profit of shout ,300 an
acre from such crops is sweet po
tatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, turnips
and like stuff that pqulre little
work. When the Athens curb mar
ket was established Henry set
ailirt three acres oa whtph to
make a test of truck farming. In
tending to Increase the same If re
turns were satisfactory. He tells
us that this bat been the most un
favorable fall for such crops he
hat ever known but n spite of all
he l« well with'hi, ex-
periment. The dry weather wo had
ln the fall prevented his getting
heaviest loss wee In a failure to
get hi, cabbage plants up. He
planted ,29 worth of seed, but the
dry weather kept them from
sprouting end the tew that did get
abovo the ground died down. He
sayt cabbage, tomato and other
plants can be succeasfutly grown
In this (action, hut he' never new
such a complete failure as this
year. But, he will cleer this
son as stated about ,300 per acre
on Me truck crops, and which Is
not so bed.
Before froet he gathered every
green tomato on the vinos and
wrapping each In paper pieced
them In a dry romm. With few eg'
captions they ripened as well as
if left on the vines, ded he flnde
for them ready eale gt ten cents
per pound. He wlU have fresh
home-raised tomatoes for sale un
til after Christmas.
Mr. Henry Is so well pleased
with hie trucking experiment that,
beginning next year, he will ex
tend hi, operations end grow all
W. A. Dunlap, who lives
Wintervlllf, but owns a beautiful!
farm of 200 acres at Dunlap stn-1
Uon on the Georgia 'railway, is
one of our moet encceeafnl'chick-
cn raisers. He has at this time, as
g start, abont 200 bends, divided
between the White Leghorn and|
Rhode Island Reds, that are kei '
In separate Iota. Until they'lay 1
the morning tbefowls are kept up I
and cotton being th. Lading ca»h k | ndl > ot Te getaMes. He wll also
enterprise. If plenty of corn, wheal, ma x, , specialty of ratling all
oat. and forage crops are grewn m„ d , ot plants that we once bed
on th. farm to feed the work to order from the coast sections
stock, and poultry. That a del- ot Florida. If arrangements can
nlte system of soli building must be made to market all the produce
b. worked out for each farm and grown around Athens, msny farm-
the Lading crops that may ba erf wl „ , mb , rt extensively In tho
grown for Ibis purpose ore row-
peas, soybeans, clovers. vetches
and rye to b. turned under.
This la the results that have been
gotten by boys who have this
year lad the state In the averagt
per sere yield of cotton tn a etntf
wlds'contest thst had over ISO,
boys competing.
GOOD TIMES BRING
BETTER FEELING
p-tl-nre with'producing cotton by
boys are. cotton may bo pro-
■''"■"t In a limited way very pro-
blaltly under boll weevil eondl.
that :> heavy Initial applies-
"f quickly .available fertiliser by
'" very profitable' under 'rotten: in
,h " the cists of polnsonlng Is
Insignificant when compared
JJJh ether costs In production and
'hr cheapest Insurance that tho
fumor Can' buy: that the greatest
"r In holding down costs of
Im-tlon Is In a high yield per
' as it cost ns much to picking
" on an acre that produces 19,
trends of lint as on one that will
' r “l„ce 595 pounds of lint. That
'"'weed seed at ,2.75 per bushel
' '"St Investment that a cotton
,»r con'make provided that hr
' n variety that Is adapted to
'oil and lieality.
wan pointed out at the be-
'Wng the Any* Mid not confine
ih-ir efforts to the production of
cotien but grew soy brans for soil _ .
"irn-mremsM »nd forage. The av- much more
' r:, se costs of this crop was ,*.00
ter nrre the greatest en" 1 * being
r «t which Is ,4.00 per cere. Tht
We do not think we are
much of anoptimist when we as
sert that the farmers in th coun
ties tributary to Athens, but for
old debts, we would be In the best
condition since the wsr ba
the states; and that they
are hopeful and encourage one can
talking with or even looking
their faces. The high price
they receive for their cotton has
pulled them out of tho slough of
ondency, and they see better
happier times nhesd. With
very few exceptions,'every farm
er with whom we have talked
says he has grown plenty of sup
plies to operate his -'see next
year, including pork. Many will
have provisions to sell. And what
ia of even greeter importance, the
this year were the
cheapest ever made, for many
farmers will have a very short
division to make with negroes, for
they made this crop without going
into debt.
Now, even with a chert cotton
crop, at 25 cents per pound and
seed at $50 per ton, they will have
much more cash than when with
negro labor they .raised bomper
crops, with supplies bought si
bgih tiue prices, and which they
trucking business, ft will furnish
them an unbroken chain of cash
every day and month during tie
year. ^ .
Greene County
Jls Coming Back
me 18 months ego the writer
visited the White Plains section of
Greene county end told about, the
beautiful farms lying Idle and
also of the fine farming section,
redicting that you could not long!
cep such people end country'
down. And onr prediction Is real
ised. The following crops ere
mentioned In a report made of
that section by the demonstration
work put on by the Southern Cot
ton Oil Company and the Virginia-
Carolinn Chemical Company: H. I.
Moore planted 12 acres In cotton
and made 12 bales; Floyd Thomp-
son planted 11 acres and ginned 9
500-pound balee; S. P. Williamson
planted 6 acne in cotton and made
6 bales. These farmers used dry
arsenate and fertilised with 10-2-9
quality, 400 pounds per acre. Who
says that cotton cannot he raised
In Greene county under boll wee
vil conditloits ? It is estimated that
200 tons of peanuts were raised in
the White Plains section. White
Plains has ginned 393 bales of
cotton against 84 in 1922. A gnat
deal of the praise is due to W. C.
Davidson, of the Bank of White
Plains. He admoeish«d the farm
ers to quit whining and go t<
work. He wee willing to help the
farmer who had confidence in
himself and would go to work.
Mr. Davidson financed many farm-
anted, so that when
eaten down the fowls are turned
on another so as to give the rye
an Opportunity to sprout again. Ha I
says green feed for .chickens Is
essential It you ekpbct them to lay.
He says that you can have hens to
ley all the yeer ,If you have good
strains end keep them well fed. He
feeds his chickens on a mixture ot
whole wheat and meal and beef
scraps. He groprs the grain on hie
farm, and buys the beef scraps
reedy ground for mixing ln Atlan
ta. This is a balanced feed and
with green tote for the fowls to
peck over, any one cast keep his
poultry healthy and they wlU re
pay their owner by laying egga
all the year except short intervale
when they are trying to set or
shedding.
It takes very little labor to grow
thle feed on a faim. At this time
only about Ido of Mr Dunlap's
hens are laying, the rest brint
young birds. Ret from these uno
hundred ileus lo ttdd us that thn
day befom onr Interview he had I
collected el eggs and this la Uielr
average. He kept hooks on his
fowls and cost In eettmate count
ed the produce raised by himself
at the market price. FVom these
100 hens he Is nor selling on an
average of $S0 worth ot eggs per
month, end including aU costs ot
their feed end care the outlay will
not exceed ,26. Here le a -net In
come of ,65 per month from this
•mall flock of hens, and aa their
number of layers Increase so will
his profit YOTtat more profitable
business can a farmer engage In
than to buy a flock of pure-bred
fowls and sell the eggs? It does
not Interfere with hie qtber work.
Farmers Delay
Grain Sowing
Partial *rhb.: have traveled over
the counties contigious to Athens
say not half the acreage in small
grain his been planted as at this
date last year. We asked several
farmers about thle neglect and
they say conditions wefe against
them to save hay crops and
also cotton, but' the ground was
entirely too bard to plow and they
could not get their grain in.
When the rains get in, with the
exception of a few days, ft has
been too wet and so they lost
could not get much grain planted.
Farmers deny the report that they
are saving this land for cotton, as
thsy cannot secure labor to work
the cotton - if planted. They aU
say they will not much, if any, in
crease th*ir cotton menage next
year, and hope to yet be able to
get In a fair crop of small grain.
But an exception to this rule is
our entcrpri$ingwfriend, Nr.lJ. IL
Beusse, on Tiis farm at Old Salem*
in Oconee. Mr. Beusse says ha
has finished planting .his fall and
Oruishing seed peanuts and winter crops of grain, that it has
been £qt in well and properly, and'set to work and planted his win-
he has fine elands. He this fall Iter crop. Bear in mind that one
planted 100 acres in oat$, amf; bushel of oats planted in the fall
they are extra, fine, 10 acres in is worth two bushels sowed after
wheat and 5 in bexr^'u* barley. (Christmas, and the earlier you
After the first rain in the fall'cun get in your small grain tht
he set to work every plow on his letter, for it has time to take
place as also a tractor breaking root and is not killed out by
land and before the ground became fieezes. But it is better to sow
too hard to plow he got in 50 small grain late than not plant at
acres of oats. After thst, when- all, for you can make something
ever the weather and land permit- 'ur.d have the land for planting in
ted he set every plow going, andjeow peas and sorghum when the
thus got in his entire grain crop, grain erdp is harvested. Keep
While molt farmers were waiting your plows speeding when the
on better conditions, Mr. Bsuss*' ground and weather permits.
Comments on Home
Raised Pork Meat
Never within the history of our
section has so many home-raised
porkers been killed as will be
slaughtered this winter. From re
ports given us from all tho coun
ties around Athens it doe- not now
look as if we will have to import
much western raised meat next
year. Practically every farmer
will kill enough meat to run his
place next year and many will
have hams and bacon to sell we
town folks. When we consider
that Georgia has been importing
$100,000,000 worth of meat every
year, almost the value of our cot
ton crop, one can realize the big
leak thst will be stopped, at least
in our own section. And the hogs
being killed are not shoats but
mammoth animals.
In ye olden time it took two
years to make a hog weigh around
200 pounds, but with improved
stock and proper feed, at from
ten - to twelve months of age a
porker can be made to weigh from
300 to 400 pounds, and some hogs
weighing GOO pounds have been
killed at twelve months old. Far
mers can now, with the
amount of feed, produce from two
to three pounds of meat that it
once required to make one pound in
old razor-back days. To show what
our farmers are doing, one day,
the past week L. W. Downs, a
successful farmer of Oconee coun
ty, slaughtered twelve hogs hd.
had raised and they weighed from!
360 to 400 pounds each. Think of
this record by one farmer; and a
number of others will kill as much
meat. Oconeo ha s always been
noted for its fine hogs, and tho
Marshalls of that county were tho
first to import tho Poland China.
Mr. Downs raises the Duroc Jer
seys. Hon. J. D. Price is another .
champion hog raiser of Oconee.
The same reports reach us from
Madison, Jackson and other coun
ties. If a farmer will plant alfal- .
fa and other feed for hogs ho can
raise meat at a small cost. And
this is just what they are now
doing all over this section. We
can raise the hogs as cheaply hero
with good pasture and food they
can gather themselves as can tho
west or any other country.
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