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WINTER BARLEY.
The South needs more grain
'and teed crops. The tact that we
confine our farming too largely to
cotton and corn is not its only de
fect. We might still grow these
crops and maintain or even in
crease our soil fertility, butany
system of farming which does not
produce an abundance of suitable
feed crops is not well balanced.
At present we produce little
concentrated feed, except corn
and cottonseed meal. Oats, our
largest feed grain crop, next to
corn, are not as profitable as they
should he, and consequently arc
not largely grown, in fact, oats
can only be made a profitable
crop in the South when sowed
early in the fall and are then fol
lowed the next summer with a le
gume crop like cow peas, soy
beans, lespedeza or peanuts.
In view of theme conditions, we
believe 1 lie South should give fall
or winter barley a more extensive
trial. It is possible that it will not
yield as many bushels as oats on
our thin soils, but we have some
doubt about that. In fact, our ob
servations encourage us in the be
lief that on almost any of the fair
ly good day loam or sandy loam
soils: that is, almost anywhere
north of the Coastal Plain sec
tions, it will yield about as many
bushels and almost certainly more
pounds of grain than oats. Tt
should be remembered that a lm
vhel of barley weighs 48 pounds,
while a bushel of oats weighs only
32 pounds, or that a bushel of
barley is equal in weight to a bu
shel and a half of oats.
Our olrservations of winter bar
ley in the South are limited, bo
liere, hut we see or hear of an oe
cause little of il has been grown
easional trial each year as far
South as the middle of the cotton
growing area, and the results
seem to justify a more extensive
trial of this crop as an addition
to our fall-sowed feed-grain crops
It is quite probable that barley
will not prove profitable on poor
soil. In fact, it is certain it will
not, for nothing is profitable on
poor soils. Indeed, it may not be
equal to oats on our poor soils,
but this is not important, for even
oats arc not profitable on the poor
soils on which they are usually
grown. There is no use in looking
for a good poor-land crop, for it
is easier to improve the land. In
fact, we do not know of a good
poor land crop, nor do we believe
one will ever he found. But win
ter barley sowed early, Septem
ber 15. on good land promises to
be a better crop in at least the
northern half of the eotton grow
ing area than oats. The reasons
are that it is a more rapid grower
in the fall and makes more pas
ture which livestock like better
than either oats or rye. Another
reason is that it will probably
make more pounds of grain on
average to good land. It matures
early in the season and may also
he followed by a summer legume,
just as is necessary in the case of
oats to make the crop profitable.
We would like to see more win
ter barley grown in the South,
not because we think less oats
should he grown, but as an addi
tion to the oat crop, to supply
more grain feed for hogs and cat
tle and to give a greater diversity
to our cropping system.
U we put our oats in early in
the fall by the open-furrow meth
od, which is the only method by
which fall oats should be sowed in
the South, even though we in
creased the acreage greatly, we
would still need more feed grains
and winter barley seems the most
promising of such crops.
There are not many varieties of
winter barely, but five varieties
have been tested for six years at
the Ontario (Canada) Experi
ment Station, and Tennessee win
ter barley has given the highest
average yield per acre, 56.2 bu
shels. Even in this cold climate
there has been no complete failure
of the crop from winter-killing in
the last 1!) years; therefore it
would seem that winter barley
sowed early enough in the fall
should prove a safer crop than
oats, in so far as winter-killing
affects it, for all that section pi
the northern part of the cotton
growing area, and north of it
where oats are sowed in tbefall.
Why not select some fairly
good land and try a small acreage
of Tennessee winter barley? Pre
pare the land well, use about a
bushel and a half of seed and put
it in between September 15 and
October 15, according to the loca
tion. Progressive Farmer.
“HOW WE GROW 30 BUSHELS
OF WHEAT PER ACRE. ’
($3 Prize Letter.)
Our acreage of small grain is
usually about 90 acres, TO of
wheat, 10 of barley and 10 of rye.
We break land going to wheat,
barley and rye just as early in the
season as possible, plowing to a
good deptli and smoothing down
each day’s plowing with a drag,
unless tin* soil disintegrates nicely
and is perfectly free of clods. Soil
breaking up rough and cloddy is
not difficult to put in order if gi
ven prompt attention while the
clods yet contain moisture. If al
lowed to dry out a few days they
become very troublesome, and will
frequently not yield to any meth
od of crushing. We have still an
other purpose in dragging down
soil that breaks up rough. If
smoothed down with drag imme
diately after plowing, the soil is
not so porous and will retain a
sufficient amount of moisture to
germinate the grain at seeding
time in ease there is a fall drouth,
which is frequently the case.
We are great believers in a
good seed bed. We have never yet
gotten a good yield of grain from
a poorly prepared seed bed. Our
method is to harrow and drag,
first one way and then the other,
till we get it right, regardless of
the number of times we have to
go over the land. We prefer a
three-horse spring-tooth harrow
and heavy drag to any other im
plements for “ordering up” land,
following up one implement with
1 lie other.
We have done no little experi
menting with fertilizers in various
quantities and of various analyses
in past years. Today we use only
acid phosphate at the rate of 250
pounds per acre, finding it the
most profitable fertilizer we can
apply to small grains.
We usually seed about the 20th
of September, sowing fertilizer
with grain. We sow only bearded
varieties of wheat, finding them
best one year with another. Of the
bearded varieties, we sow Red
Wonder and a wheat known in
this section as “Half Bushel.” We
usually sow one and a half bushels
of the former per acre and one bu
shel of the latter. Our yield in
wheat of recent years has not been
less than 30 bushels per acre.
"While this season’s crop is yet in
the straw, we have every reason
to believe it will not fall short of
this mark. Our yield in barley is
usually in excess of 50 bushels per
acre. Our rye, save an acre or such
a matter for seed, is used for win
ter hog grazing and is plowed
down in spring.
('. C. CONGER, Jr.
Penn Laird, Ya.—Progressive
Farmer.
Climbed Greater Ararat.
James Bryce, former British nm
bassndor to the United States, climbed
Greater Ararat In September, IS7C,
making the ascent alone. The Rus
sian governor had supplied him with
uu escort, but they were still h.tHK) l'eet
abort of the summit when, overcome
with superstitious feur, they refused
to go on. Mr. Bryce described the sum
mit us a little plain of snow, silent
and desolate, with a bright green sky
above, and the view us stern aud mo
ao ton o us-
New Calendar Arrangement.
In anew calendar the dates nre car
ried on n reel so that 13 weeks nr* vis
ible nt a time and the background
causes the figures for any week de
sired to appear more prominently 'liun
the others.
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA.
SNAP SHOTS.
By W. 11. Faust.
About all the virtue lliat some
folks presses in their freedom
from vice negative goodness is
all they possess.
The greatest danger any man
ever faces is fooling with his pet
sin.
Hunt your own weak spot and
work it until you grow strong
there, that at least is one of the
steps to brilliant success.
Doctrine is line but no religion
can live long that doesn’t do
something that is really worth.
People are better than they seem
to be, sickness death and misfor
tune have to come to get some of
us to realize how much our friends
really think of us.
A sound mind in a sound body
dedicated to the service of G*od
goes a long ways towards making
success.
Pertain tilings are classed un-
The Big Music Houses of
Flanigan & Flanigan
The firm of Flanigan & Flanigan is known all over the state,
and particularly in Northeast Georgia,
They are the big music dealers of this section, selling more
Pianos and Organs than any firm in this country.
The two houses; one in Vv inder and one in Athens, work a
large number of salesmen.
Winder is the home of Flanigan & Flanigan and their large
twostory building on Candler street is one of the big and strong
business houses of the city.
This firm sells standard Pianos and Organs all over Georgia, and
you can hardly go into any section of the state without finding a
musical instrument bought from Flanigan Flanigan.
If you intend buying a Piano or Organ, it will pay you before
buying, to see
Flanigan & Flanigan
2 Stores:
Winder
And
Athens
der prohibition, others under tem
perary alcohol, nicotine, opiates
under the first. Meats, fruits and
the passives under the second.
When a naan begins to suck
cigarettes and can’t stop it is a
sure sign that he is wastered by
instead of wastering hurtful ha
bits.
When a man had rather stay at
home and sleep and read his Sun
day paper than to go to Church
and Sunday School, it is a pretty
sure sign that if he were to die
suddenly the devil would quickly
foreclose his mortgage on said
man.
It is not enough to cease to do
evil, we must take the second step
and learn to do good.
our Encyelopediaes will show
that all of our really great Amer
ican men possessed great and no
ble mothers, this is true from your
reader on down to Woodrow Wil
son.
It was the little boxes that des-
troyed the grapes, and it is the
waste of minutes that go to make
a wasted life.
Barrow County is greatly bless
ed in having a Judge and Solici
tor of the Superior Court who
teach Sunday School classes and
are outstanding Christians. It
would be hard to find two finer
Christian men than Judge An
drew ,J. Cobb and Solicitor W. O.
Dean.
Capital is not what a man has
but what lie is, character is worth
a vast deal more than reputation.
The person living out of church
relationship is as sure to back
slide as a Ford Car is sure to
start hard on a cold morning.
The man who has smooth sail
ing and lives without trials has
lived only a half life. It is crosses
and burdens that develop streng
th.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
DEMONSTRATIONS AT
NORTH GEORGIA
FAIR.
In addition to the attractive ex
hibits to he made by the members
of the Demonstration Clubs, a*
number of excellent demonstra
tions have been arranged at the
Fair Demonstration Kitchen for
each day of the Fair beginning
Wednesday at 3:00 p. m.
Would you like to know just
how to prepare an appetizing and
nourishing tray for an invalid?
Would you like to know how to
make and change an invalid’s
lied? You will be shown all about
caring for an invalid on Wednes
day afternoon.
You can’t afford to miss any of
these demonstrations. Come and
bring someone with you each day
Rose Dillard.