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SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1980.
FARM AND GARDEN NEWS- . caed @ it
‘World Farm Census
- Undertaken By All
. Except 3 Countries
By FRANK I. WELLER
. {Assocaited Press Farm Editor)
i 1 WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Per
" gia, Bolivia and Afghanistan alone
| mre absent in the roll call of coun
sries taking a world census of
"Bericulture in 1930.
! None of the three has any gov
“@rnment agency for the accumu’a
‘%on of agricultural statistics, and
"4n the second place Leon M. Es
" #abrook who visited 197 of the 200
" eountries listed by the Intérna
‘Rional Institute of Agriculture
t« it Rome didn’t call on them,
{I-le had three good reasons for
pot going to Afghanistan —the
“mountain pass was full of snow,
U#-ro was a military uprising at
‘the time, and he couldn’t have
g* one any good there anyway.
| Estabrook is back in Washing
ton now while 70 countries go for- |
ward with the census he spent
five years arranging. Switzer’and |
land Dahomey, a west African col
‘ony of France, have completed
‘their task, The United States will
“start in April.
© When all the nations report,
i robably by 1932, every farmer in
the world will have figures by
“which to gauge his production.
~He will know how much wheat
‘4B grown in Canada or Indu
"China and how many beef steers
‘are produced in Argentina and
from a study of figures for a’l
‘crops know the type and quality
“of products to grow for & profit.
It will be possib'e for the first
time to ascertain the total acreage
and production of priucipql}ficrops
' and the total number of different
¥ kinds' of livestock. Domestic ani
“mals wil include such items as
felephants, came's, buffalo, rein-
deer, bees and silk cocoons.
© It will be possible, also, to esti
‘mate food and fibre productions
‘and forest production throughout
‘'the world, the potential production
‘of these basic materia’s, and to
“imake comparisons between agri
“culture and livestock industries of
{ different countries.
Hog Raising Gauged
~ + By Farm Corn Yield
.~ RALEIGH, N. C.—(AP)—Un’ess
a man's farm will produce 30
;uabels of corn per acre he should
npot attempt to raise hogs.
. Thus reasons W. W. Shay,
gwitie speciaist of North Carolina
state col ege, who says production
of hogs should be determined by
‘production of corn on the individ
ual; fram. He suggests a ratio of
one brood sow for each 1560 bush
©.B of corn,
~ Shay sees greater possibilities
for profit in hogs than in either
‘cotton or tobacco for the Tar Heel
farmers, provided they enter into
gfne raising in a scientific man
ner.
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Coordination Of Rural And
Urban Program Is Urged
Dr. Andrew M. Soule
Urges Establishment of
Curb Markets as Outlet
For Farm Produce.
By DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
President, Georgia State College
of Agriculture and the Mechanic
Arts, Athens, Georgia
How can we make ourselyes
more prosperous? How can we
conserve and expand our local re
sources? How can we make our
dollars perform more service and
still retain them in the local
bank? How can we foster and
promote urban and rural good
will with greater efficiency and
success in the future? How can
we best solve ore of Georgia’s
most difficult food and dietary !
problems ? Surely, these are
far-reaching and significant ques-
Itions to which we need to find
‘an affirmative answer, Fortu
’r.ately, this can be done without
loss of time and at very little
‘expense since there are no appar
‘ent legal technicalities to be sol
ved or overcome. It will of
course necessitate the coordina
tion of the efforts of our farm
ers and busiress men upon an ac
ceptable basis. Since, however,
the plan calls for no particular
sacrifice upon the part of anyone,
there should be no difficulty in its |
accomplishment. In a word, one of I
our crying needs at present is for
the establishment at many im
portant centers throughout the
state of a well-organized and di
rected local curb market where
small as well as larger farm-own
‘ers and operators may sell their
produce upon a fair and equitable
basis.
At the present time, many of
our farmers with small quantities
of varied products at their dispos
al do not seem to have facil'ties
for merchandising the same with
in their reach. A curb market,
properly orgarized and run should
lenable large numbers of them to
sell their products directly or tc
\aggregate them on a commun'ty
basis, send them to market by
truck with economy and d'spatch, |
‘and sell them to advantage. I
I Undoubtedly, a movemert of
(this kind if properly fostered by
our business men would stimulate
| and encourage meny of our small
farmers and enable them to add
a considerable volume of re
cash to their arnuval income. The
materials they have to sell be"ml
locally grown would tend to kenp‘
a considerable wvolume of the
money now sent outs‘de of the
state for products of the charac
ter under discussion here at home.
This would add not orly tv the
wealth of the individuals concern
ed but the communities in which
they live as well and would
stimulate local trade in my judg
ment to a very acceptable and de
sirable degree,
There is ore place in this state
where an' activity of the kind in
dicated has been established. The
volume of local sales and the
turnover resulting therefrom is
said to aggregate more than ¢
million dollars a year. This money
has been kept permanently in the
home-towr concerned and so be
come an actual asset as well as a
permanent type of resource.
The people of the towns and
communities served would also
he berefitted, and a part of the
deficiency in green-leafed vege
!lablea and other types of garder
products now so evidently need
ed in the average dietary sup
plied on a more acceptable basis.
The research work carried or
here at the College by our dietary
specialists shows that the aver
age Georgia food ration is defici
lent in iron, Jime, and prosphorus
(It is also lacking in the conten:
of certain essertial vitamines and
more particularly those no w
known to be primarily concerned
with the health and well-being of
[| both children and adults.
We are particularly anxious,
therefore, to see the general cul
tivation of vegetables in this
state not only increased, but a
satisfactory local market for the
surplus of perishables thus mad:
available and so sorely needed in
our urban ctenters developed at
the same time. The plan out
|lined above should enable us to
consummate the ends in view i
an acccptable manrer to the ma
terial interest of all concerned.
Curb markets of the nature un
der discussion have been estab
wshed in the towrs and cities ol
most of the northern states for
many years. There is a crying
need for them in the South.
(heir organization along wise
ard efficient lines offers the lo
cal business man a most desira
ole opportunity to contact -with
and benefit all those living out
in the surrounding courtryside.
|lt will insure the retention at
home of much of the great sums
of money sent to distant points
for perishable products. It will
stimulate local trade as already
pointed out. It will promote
good-will between the merchant
and the farmer. Let us capitalize
upon this great opportunity to
the fullest extent possible.
The small farmer who is rela
tively isolated cannot diversity
his crops and therefore keep step
with the tide of progress unless
he can vary his production and
then find an acceptable market
for the surplus of perishables in
particular which he raises, The
plan outlined above will help ma
terially toward solving what has
pitherto been a very difficult
New Harvester
For Sugar Cane
Reduces Labor
CLEWISTON, Fla.— (UP) —
What the harvester did for wheat
growing in the Northwest, a new
machire for harvesting sugar
cane promises to do for sugar
cane growers in the South, o
Ripping its way through tall
tields of cane in both Louisiana
and the new sugar plantations in
the Florida Everglades, the sugar
cane harvester cuts the cang and
strips it clean of leaves at the
ate of 20 tons per hour, equal
ling the work of 150 skilled field
hands. So successful were the
operations of two of these ma
chires this year that four more
are now under construction and
will be ready for next year’s har
vesting. i
Because of its tremendous sig
nificance to cane growers the
world over, the development of
the sugar ecane harvester was
carried on with the utmost secre
ey wuntii it reached the point
where success was completely
assured.
The sugar cane harvester is the
invention of Carl G. Muench, of
New Orleans.
Because it will work twenty
four tcurs a day, while the feild
hand cannot work more than ten
houwrs, the mnew harvesters act
vally more than replace the work
of 300 men per day.
The perfection of the cane
harvester means the complete
failure on the part of sugar men
to build a ma‘hin: that will cut
the tough cane stalk, strip off
the foliage and leave the stalk
ready for the sugar grirdng
mill. Combined with a cane
planting machine recently per
fected by N. C. Storey, mechani
cal engineer and former ergineer
in charge of mechanical mainten.
ance at the Panama Canal, the
hrvester mears the complete
ut'lization of machinery for sug
ar cane planting, culivation and
rarvesting.,
The harvesters supply their
own motive power and also power
for the cuttirg and stripning op
crations with an eighty-five
norse-power motor. The machin.
ery is mounted on a caterpillar
tractor chassis. The wide endless
treads keep the heavy machine:
from sinking into the soft soil
of the average nlartation.
NEW FARM LAND BUILT
BY SILT-LADEN WATEFK
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—
(AT')—New farm land is being
built on the shores of the Salton
sea by utilizing silt ‘aden waste
water from the Colorado river.
Arroyos and gulches have been
fi'lled to a depth* of six feet in
parts of two seasons by diverting
the flow from the lake to land
that is to be reclaimed.
WIVES BEST “POULTRYMEN”
AMES, lowa.—(AP)—The poul
tryman in lowa is the farm wife
ead not the farmer, says W. M.
Vernon, poultry husbandman, lowa
state col.ege. Men have beent s.ow
to realize the possibilities of the
industry.
SHOW WALES' RANCH MODEL
LONDON.—(AP)—A model ot
the Prince of Wales’ ranch near
High River, Alberta, will be ex
hibited aiv the World’s Poultry
Congress to be held in July. It
wi.l occupy 100 square feet of
space.
MISSOURI BERRY CROP LOW
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—(AP)—Missou.
ri will harvest approximate.y 18,-
ilO acres of strawberries this year,
it is estimated. The acreage is
mailer than in previous years.
economic problem to handle ir
respective of the other advant
iges it offers to all concerned.
Under the circumstances, we
jope that our business men can
ee their way clear to support
ind endorse this project, It cer
ainly corstitutes a problem of
undamental importance and con
ern to the welfare interests of
our farmers as well as all thos¢
esident in our rapidly growing
irban centers.
Manifestly, the correction and
mprovement of the dietary needs
d requirements of both our ru
ral and urban people constitutes
1 major objective of such out
standing significance as to make
ts early accomplishment greatl;
Ito be desired. It seems to me
‘:herefore. that no activity con
cerring the progress and devel
pment of our agriculture posses
es more merit than the one un
;der discussion, It certainly has
possibilities of great economic
mportance, It will stimulate
local trading ard buying. It wil
‘end to keep our money at‘home
ind therefore in local circulation.
It will improve the health of the
‘community and promote good
will and friendship. It will help
build-up the towns and the open
countryside concerned. It should
enable us in the aggregate to
make a mirimum of ten million
of waste products a year into
permanent assets. It will do more
to encourage the improvement of
our standards of living and the
live-at-home, trade-at-home pro
position than anything else that
has been brought into being dur.
ing recent years,
' THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Physiologist’s
Death Is Probed
By Soviet Cops
By EUGENE LYONS
United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW,—(UP)-—A mystery
worthy of & first-rate writer of
detective stories ecenters arounc
the death by shooting of Proses
sor I. M. Hichaelovsky, of the
Mid-Asiatic University, in Tash
kent, one of the foremost physio
logists in the world.
The encroachments of science
upon religion and the new ideas
cn family life are elements in
the Aashkert affair.
; Prof. Michaelovsky for years
had experimented in a scientifie
Idomain dear to the hearts of Rus
‘sian physiologists—the resuscita
‘tion of dead animals. His ach
ievements won attention in pub.
lications throughout the wrold.
- After drawing all the blood
from a body of a monkev, so
that the animal remained “dead”
for more than 24 hours, Prof.
Michaelovskv revived it by re-in
jertirg the blood into its veins.
His work, it seems, preatly
nertuirhed conservative relizious
civeler in and around Tashkent.
This meddling with life and death
it was complained, undermined
faith in God and was a menace to
the community. The professor’s
voung wife, from all accounts,
also had strong objections to his
experiments. Just when certain
of his tests were brought to a
head, they failed—due, it was
discovered later, to interference
by his wife.
Why did Mrs. Michaelovsk:
spoil his experimerts? Was it
because she was under the domi
nation of a “counted-revolution.
ary religious clique” interested
in tearing down all science. Such
is the theory of part of the So
viet press, Or was it because she
was irtensely jealous of hig
work, his career, in which he was
undoubtedly more interested than
he was in his wife and domestic
duties?
There is strong -circumstantial
evidence to support the latter
supposition. The family life of
the Michaelovsk-—~ was rot a
happy one. After his death a
note was found in “is hardwrit
ing in which he argues that his
life is devoted to science, that he
is not and cannot be a good con.
ventioral hus»and.
The questions will have to he
answered more defin.tely by the
police and by a court, because the
suspicion of murder hangs ove:
the wife’s head.
Just before his death Prof.
Michaelovsky was engaged on
new experimert which ' was
throw additional I.ght on the
problem of life and death. The
conclusive portion of the exneri.
ment was scheduled. That very
morning a maid found him deay
in his laboratory, with a gun
near him,
Suicide was the first belief .
But the police quickly convinced
themselves that it was murder.
From the wound and other eir
cumstances they judged that he
must have been shot. His wife
denied ary knowledee of the af
fair but was rot able to oive ¢
satisfactory . alibi for herself. On
the other hand, no one saw the
murder committed and thus far
the authorities have only circum
stantial evidence to go on,
K. E. Jones Elected
Captain of Georgia
First Year Fencers
K. E. Jones, Atlanta, was elect
ed . captain of the University of
Georgia fencing team at a recent
meeting. The members of the
team are E. Z. Bazan, Cuba; Frank
Hawkins, Macon; Fred Wessels,
Savannah; George Correllas,
Adolph Rosenburg, Albany, and H.
B, Barker, Fairburh, aliernates.
The members of the vars'ty
foils team are: Noble W. Jones,
Savannah; Norton Sanders, Los
Angeles; Floyd Searcy, Cairo;
lAubrey Durrence, Glenville; Carl
Tibbetts, Athens, Irvin Stiskin,
Athens, alternate. The varsity
team is copmosed of Norton San
ders and Floyd Searcy.
Alumnus to Manage
Local Haberdashery
Bob Gunn, Crawfordville, alum.
nus of the University of Georgia,
who recently moved to Athens to
assume direction of Gunn’s hab
erdashery.
Mr. Gunn was well-known
while he was in the universi’
graduating in 1914, He was 3
member of the Sigma Chi frater.
nity, president of Cotillon Club
a member of Gridiron Club, man
ager of the Track team, and a
nember of the Red and Black
staff. Mr. Gunn was one of the
yuarantors of Sanford Stadium.
B. M. Grier Speaks to
Frosh Y.M.C.A. Club
. B. M. Grir, superirtendent of
'the Athens public schools, was
the speaker at the regular week
lv meeting of the Freshman Y
M. C. A. club of the Universi+ |
of Georgia, held recently. Mr
Grier’'s speech was well receivec
by the freshmen.
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MANY GRID CANDIDATES
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.—-(UP)——]
One hundred candidates reported
for winter football practice nere
recently. PG
Berlin Police
Solve 30 of 32
Murders in ’29
By MAURITZ A. HALLGREN
United Press Staff Correspondent.
BERLIN,— (UP) —This metrop.
olis, with its 4,000,000 population,
‘had 32 murders for the year 1829.
Thirty of the murders were solved
by the end of the year, according
Ito the annual rezort of the Frus
sian Ministry of the Interior. In
16 of these cases the murderer
ki'led himself before he cou'd be
‘apprehended and in the qther 14
he was arrested and brought to
trial, .
There were 14 attempted mur
ders during the year, in 12 of
which the person responsible was
tried. First degree robberies' to
talled 277, but in c'earing up these
the police were not so successful.
being able to apprehend the Tob
ber in only 113 cases. Separate
statistics for Berlin covering mi
nor robberies and thefts were not
available, but officials estimated
that the number of these in 1429
tota'ed approximately 25,000 and
that about 60 percent were solvad.
The United Press was to'd at
police headquarters that although
these statistics reveal a slight in.
crease in crime over 1928, which
in itself was a disappointment to
the authorities who had hoped to
continue the reduction in crime
that had marked the period 1926-
1928, it in no sense was looked
upon as reflecting a crime wave.
It was stated that the murder and
robbery curves in a general way
respond to economic factors sc
that with an improvement in the
business and employment situa.
tions a marked decrease in law
breaking of this type could be
looked for,
Blackmailing in all its varigus
degrees and forms is by no
means unknown to Germany, but
the working ‘of a ‘“racket” isl
something which the police of|
Berin have yet to become ac
quainted. There is no organized I
crime to speak of in the German
capital and “gangsterism” in the
American sense of the word is |
wholly unknown. The police an. |
thorities admitted that there are |
gangs of boys and youths operat- |
ing on the streets of Berlin, but |
these are mostly engaged in petty
thievery and in picking pockets.
Rarely, if ever, do they clash with
the police and only a few are
ever caught carrying deadly wea
pons.
Occasionally sporting club mem
bers or the members of other
organizations stage what might
be termed gang battles, as for
example the clash that took place
in Christmas week, 1928, between
the Zimmerleute, an organization
of itinerant carpenters, and the
“Northerners,” a sporting club;
but these are spontaneous affairs
and have mno suggestion about
them of being the product of or
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