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FAYETTEVILLE NEWS VOL. XXXI. FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 4, 1920. NO. 45 A Real County Fair. Should we have a real county fair? Every business man may say yes. Every fanner may say yes. We are frequestnly asked to “boost” it. We are more than willing to do this. The county agent will do his part. Three other things are necessary. First is an organization of business men and far mers, who are willing to work and make it a success and manage it like an individual business. Second, it is the duty of the business men of this town to get behind it and talk and work it. There is not a county site that has had the county agent work and club work as long as ours, but that the people have contributed more to club premiums than the people of Fayetteville. If you doubt it, you name the county and town and we will get the data. Boys of the county have won more state premiums than the people of the entire county ever contributed. The girls’ club has won more money from state fairs than in dividuals of the county ever contrib uted. You can’t make these things go and work club members for what you can make out of them and not en courage the mto make and grow some thing. Too many parents are working their children for dollars and cents today instead of growing useful men and women. Then, too, the farmer himself must have ambition and public spirit enough to try to grow the best and show his neighbor he can grow it. Remedy these conditions, and we will have a real county fair, of which we will be proud. The people of the town and county will get in their car with their families and go to Griffin and pay their admission fees to help make it and others worth while. It will help your neighbor to begin at home. I do not mean to not attend the others, but do support home enterprises. We will need six departments: 1. Live stock. 2. Farm products. 3. Orchard and garden products. 4. Woman’s work. 5. Historical relics. 'Q. School and club exhibits. We are offered five cars of Mid way shows. They propose to give the association 15 per cent of all gross j receipts from show and 25 per cent of all concessions. Ours is a rural county and the in terests of the business men are one and dependent on each. The best stimulus for improving ag ricultural conditions is the friendly rivalry between farmers. Bring the best dairy cattle, the best hogs, the best apples and garden truck, the best poultry, the best sewiqg, the best home conveniences, the beet, school work, the best club work, to one place, and let the people see. If you are public- sprited, we w r ant you. Let's work this for its educational value. Will you help? ing cotton wide to let the sunshine kill the weevil may sound all right, but If the reader doubts my statement, let in actual field practice it won’t, do. him try close spacing this year. Three- foot rows and a hoe’s width in the drill is now my rule.—B. L. Moss, in The * Progressive Farmer. Cotton Should eB Thick on the Ground. "OrnTof the best pieces of work done by the expriment stations in recent years has been in working out the question of the best distance to give cotton in order to get best yields. A. remarkable thing about all this tes timony is its unanimity, partically all the stations agreeing as to what spac ing gives best returns. Col. R. J. Redding of the Georgia Station did pioneer work in this field, and his results, obtained 15 and 20 years ago. have been quite in line with the later results of the other stations. With the coming of the boll weevil, it was at first thought that a change in cotton spacing practices would be necessary, but it has now been pretty definitely established that the spacing that gave best results be fore the coming of the weevil will also give the best yields under weevil conditions. Briefly, the experiences of our ex periment stations and best cotton growers has shown that close .spacing gardless of soil types or varieties is best. Thisis true, practicaly re grown. As an illustration, cotton at the Mississippi Delta Station, on rich alluvial lands, has consistently yield ed best when planted in narrow rows and closely spaced in the drill. I have tried out wide and close spacing on a sandy loam soil for a number of years, and have concluded that wide spacing means decidedly smallers yields. My aim now on land that will make a bale per acre under average conditions is to plant in thi’ee- foot rows and leave the cotton a hoe’s width in the drill. This talk of spac Com Cultivation. / A hundred-bushel corn crop will re quire from 1,950 to 2,600 tons of wa ter to mature it. This amount would cover an acre of ground to a depth of. 16 to 22 inches' The greatest need for water by the corn crop is in May, June and July, and as the average rain fall for these montips is only 12 to 15 inches, it is readily seen that every care should be used to culti vate the corn well and save as much of the soil moisture as possible. Cul tivation forms a “blanket,” or mulch, on the surface that prevents rapid evaporation of moisture from the soil. This mulch should be stirred every week or ten days through the growing period. Cultivation should begin soon after planting even before the corn is up. The objects of cultivation ■ are: first, to conserve moisture; second, to kill weeds; and third, to keep the soil fri able. Moisture, plant food and a good mechanical condition of the soil are important factors in making the crop. Weeds consume food and mois ture that should be saved ,for the corn and it is important that culti vation should begin early. The ad justable harrow is a’ good implement for the first cultivation, especially on the heavy types of soil. It breaks the crust and kills the young weeds and saves moisture by forming a shallow mulch. It can be followed by the weed- er as the corn begins to come up without fear of hurting the young plants. These implements, when used in this way, save much hand la bor with the hoe and conserve the soil moisture in the early part of the growing season. As stated above, the corn should be cultivated from the time it is plant ed until the growing stage is well passed, or until the ear is well made. An extremely heavy yield of corn re quires large amounts of food and moisture, and every effort should be made to keep the soil in such condi- (Continued on Last Page.) 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