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THE BOU WEEVIL
AND CREDIT
J. Phil Campbell, Director Extension
Division College of Agriculture.
Much of the cotton that is grown
in Georgia requires an advance of
credit from the banker, or the mer
chant. When the boll weevil has made
itself felt there will be a hesitancy
about advancing credit on the crop.
In fact there may be an absolute with
drawal of credit which would spell
disaster.
It wiil be a mistake to cease growing
cotton, even in the presence of the boll
weevil. Therefore, it will be a mis
take to cease extending credit on cot
ton crops. Bankers and merchants
have it within their power to meet the
boll weevil situation safely and sanely,
prevent panic and gradually direct
farming into a more profitable line
than ever could have been under the
one crop system.
The depredations of the weevil will
increase gradually. Except under most
unusual circumstances will it do it
greatest damage within the first year
or two after its appearance. Each
year it will take greater toll unless prop
er methods are used to combat it. It
therefore, seem a wise policy
.for the banker and the merchant to
gradually reduce the amount of credit
on cotton. If they are to encourage
the largest development of the agri
cultural possibilities of the region they
serve, as well as develop their own
business, they will at the same time
encourage the diversification of crops
and the gradual introduction of live
stock to consume the products. There
fore, credit must be extended to these
crops, as it is being gradually reduced
on cotton.
It has been estimated that the cut
in the yield of cotton the first year of
the invasion of the weevil is from 10
to 20 per cent; the second year from
25 to 45 per cent and the third from
40 to 60 per cent, depending upon what
measures have been taken to hold the
weevil in check. Under some such
schedule, a credit basis may be estab
lished on cotton.
Start In the Colt
Business This Spring
Milton P. Jarnagin, Professor Animal
Husbandry, Ga. College Of Agri.
Near 600,000 horses have been ex
ported from this country to warring
Europe. In the cotton belt this means
higher priced mules and horses, not
only for this year, but for years to
come. When the war is over Europe
will still be looking to this country
for restocking their farms, and for
ten years or more it will have its ef
fect on prices in this country.
This spring every mare in Georgia
should be bred to a good sire. If this
w ere done there is a possibility of be
tween 35,000 and 40,000 colts being
born. The last census showed that
there were only 1,488 colts born in
Georgia during the year the figures
were taken.
The colt crop for next year will
be determined in the next 60 days. It
is, therefore, time for farmers to be
looking about for suitable, sound stal
lions. If there are none or none good
enough, the College will send an ex
pert where there is sufficient interest,
and see if a co-operative arrangement
cannot be made for buying a good stal
lion. Two stud fees per mare for 40
to 60 mares would meet all the ex
penses necessary to purchase a stal
lion of fine quality, and the expert
would see that such an animal is pur
chased and delivered.
FREE FLOWER SEEDS
Hastings Catalogue Tells You All
About Them
No matter whether you farm or only
plant vegetables or flowers in a small lot
you need Hastings 1916 Catalogue.
It is filled (100 pages) from cover to
cover with useful farm and garden infor
mation.
It tells of seeds of kind and quality that
you can’t buy from your merchant or
druggist, seeds that cost no more but
give you real satisfaction and a real gar
den.
It tells how every customer can get ab
solutely free five packets of easily grown,
yet showy and beautiful flowers.
Hastings is both the best and largest
seed firm in the South, the only firm that
you should buy seeds from.
When you plant Hastings Seeds, you
meet “Good Garden Luck” more than
half way. Write today for their big 1916
Catalogue. It is free. A postal card re
quest will bring it. H. G. HASTINGS CO.,
Atlanta. Ga. —(Advt.)
WHAT AN ACRE OF
PIEDMONT SOILCAN DO
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia
State College Of Agriculture.
An acre of Cecil clay soil typical of
the Piedmont region of Georgia, which
was quite poor a few years ago, but
is in process of being built up, illus
trates fairly what can be accomplish
ed by any farmer on an equal quality
of soil. This acre is located on the
College farm. Fertilizer running 10 —
3 —3 has been used on the land at
the rate of about 300 pounds an acre
per crop. It ik a soil of only fair fer
tility and is taken on that account.
This acre was planted to cabbage
and Irish potatoes. About 5,000 cab
bage plants were set out, but, of
course, some of them failed to head.
A smaller area was used for the pota
toes. The cabbage crop was sold re
tail and wholesale, and brought in
gross receipts of S4O. The Irish pota
toes were sold at $1 per bushel and
brought in $15.00.
After the cabbage and the potatoes
had been removed the acre was plant
ed to corn. During the roasting-ear
period, $20.00 of ears were sold from
the area and the remainder of the
ears were left to mature, yielding 40
bushels of corn. In addition, a ton
and a half of corn stover were gather
ed from the acre, which is being fed
to the stock. After the corn crop was
harvested oats were sown.
Thus it will be seen that $75 in
actual cash was received from sales
from the acre, and that enough corn
and stover was obtained, in addition
to more than cover all the expense,
so that the $75 may be considered a
net profit. Many truckers have done
and can do better than this with
an acre of land. But this represents
more nearly what is possible for the
average farmer who wants to diversify
his activities and especially w ho wants
to give intensive cultivation to some
small area for the production of home
supplies along with a salable money
crop of the same sort. Let us con
centrate our energy on smaller areas
of land, fertilize, cultivate and handle
to better advantage and so build them
up as to enable the production of fair
average crops of a variety of things
which the market demands and the
land owner needs for the proper sus
tenance of his own family.
A Substitute For
Cotton Seed Meal
Milton P. Jarnagin, Professor Animal
Husbandry, Ga. College Of Agri.
With cotton seed meal selling
around S4O per ton, it becomes a very
expensive concentrate for fattening
beef animals this year. Corn is being
sold in Georgia from 65 to 75 cents
per bushel. With corn as high as SI.OO
per bushel, it can be profitably fed
within proper limits in the ration.
Therefore, corn can very well take the
place of a part of the cotton seed
meal while present prices hold. Corn
has 66.8 per cent digestible carbohy
drates and 4.3 per cent fat, while cot
ton seed meal contains 21.4 per cent
digestible carbohydrates and 9.6 per
cent of fat. Corn is more effective in
finishing cattle for the market, and
at present prices has quite an advan
tage over cotton seed meal.
Those Georgia farmers who have
started into the feeding of beef cattle
and have been depending upon cotton
seed meal as the chief concentrate
should look about them and see if
they cannot buy Georgia corn at a
price that will make it justifiable to
supplant in part cotton seed meal with
corn.
In this connection, it will be perti
nent to say that 25 per cent of the
feed of the dairy herd at the College
is now corn cob meal, that Is, ear
corn all ground into a meal.
Spring Garden Planting Time
For those who wish to add to their
garden crops and be more able to
“live at home,” the following data
about various crops as to when to
plant and how much to plant may be
of service. Those who want' fuller
information should write the College of
Agriculture at Athens for the bulletin
entitled “Vegetable Gardening in the
South.” It is sent free.
Asparagus, December 1 to March 15.
2 ounces to 100-foot row; Hush Bean,
March 1 to March 15, or when danger
of frost is past, 1 to iy 2 pints lo 100-
foot row; Beet, November 1 to March
1, 1 to IV2 ounces to a 100-foot row;
Cauliflower, May to September, 50
plants to 100-foot row; Cucumber,
March 1 to 15, 25 hills to 100-foot
row; Irish Potatoes, about February
1, 2 to 3 quarts per 100-foot row ;
Radish, Christmas to last of February,
1 ounce to 100-foot row; Squash,
March 1-15, ten bills to 100-foot row;
Watermelons, about March 15, 10 hills
to 100-foot row.
Legal blanks for sale here.
Tha Winder News, Thursday, February 24,1916.
We Gm'PeonT-SHARiHG goebons
Reducethe Living
by Trading with
for for
GATA LOG
S. T. MAUGHON, FANCY GROCERYMAN
CALLTODAYAND INVESTIGATE HOW YOU CAN PROCURE BEAUTirUL r AND' r USEFUL
ARTICLES BY REDEEMING OUR COUPONS AND CERTIFICATES ISSUED WITH
* EVERY CASH PURCHASE. OR ON ACCOUNTS TO BE PAID BY STH.OF MONTH.
LACE
5000 yards of fine LACE, worth 7 1 -2c
to 15c a yard, will go on sale for
4c a Yard
Ladies it will pay you to look over this big
bargain—you can save money by it.
1000 yards of EMBROIDERIES, worth
10c and 15c, will be on sale for
4c and 7 l-2c a Yard
Watch Our Windows
L. LOVE
Winder, Georgia.
Farmers Warned—Soda
Lye Is Not Potash
W. A. Worsham, Jr., Professor Agr.
Chemistry Ga. College Of Agri.
Information has come to the Col
lege of Agriculture indicating that in
several sections of Georgia there has
been an effort to sell caustic soda
as a substitute for potash for mixing
fertilizers. Caustic soda preparations
do not contain any potash whatever.
The only effect of an application to
the soil would be to consume the
humus, the one thing in which the
soils of the south are most deficient.
Caustic soda has been mistakenly call
ed “potash.” It has been used for
soap making just as balls of potash
were formerly used for that purpose,
but soda has come to supplant potash,
because It is far cheaper and makes
a firmer soap.
The similarity of the two may fool
the farmer into thinking that the soda
preparation is potash, but the plant
cannot be fooled. It requires potash
as a part of its food, and will not
take up soda as a substitute. The
practice of selling caustic soda as a
substitute for potash cannot be too
strongly condemned, and farmers
should beware of any substitute for
potash until he has received the ad
vice of disinterested experts.
Legal blanks for sale.
FER TILIZERS
We will handle the brands of Fertilizers manufac
tured by the following old reliable companies:
EMPIRE STATE CHEMICAL CO., Athens Ga.
SWIFT & COMPANY
ROYSTERS GUANO COMPANY
FURMAN FARM IMPROVEMENT CO.
MORRIS FERTILIZER CO.
See us for the best Fertilizers on the Market.
Griffeth. Smith & Autry
“I have a little girl six years old
who has a good deal of trouble with
croup,” writes W. E. Curry, Evans
ville, Ind. “I have U3ed Foley’s Hon
ey and Tar, obtaining instant rel ef
for her. My wife and I also use it
and will I say it is the best sure cure
for a bad cold, coug*, throat trouble
and croup that I ever saw.” Sold ev
erywhere. Advt.
,We carry almost anything you can
call for in the Grocery line; we also
carry the Votan line of coffee and
tea and pepper. So phone ua your
wants and they will be supplied.
BAUGH & JONES.
Sentiment has much to do with a
man's comfort and a woman’s happi
ness.