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Cotton Prices Will Be Determined
By Number of Green Fields of
Cereals In South This Winter
Pro*. Andrew M. Soule, Georgia State College of Agriculture
The best evidence that the cotton
•oreage will be cut next year will be
number of fields sown to cereals
Khfe fall. If the number Is large the
iprloe of cotton will strengthen. If
{little land Is sown to cereals, the In
tentions of the Southern farmer to cut
his cotton acreage will be discredit
ed in the commercial world, cotton
maintain a low level and can ral
ly only when It Is actually shown that
tbo Southern planters have reduced
(heir acreage next spring.
Sowing largely of oats, wheat and
Other cereals this fall, means imme
diate betterment of cotton products.
Who evidence will all be in and so
ObDCluslvie that the verdict of the
commercial world will be that cotton
t* worth more than its present quota
tions.
Will there be a good market for ce
reals next year? Most assuredly. Eu
rope shows no signs of converting its
Instruments of war Into plow shares
and pruning hooks this fall in time
to put in cereal crops. There is
bound to be a world shortage and a
ready market at good prices. But not
Pruning Grapes
And Scuppernongs
T. H, McHatton, Professor of Horti
culture, Georgia State College of Ag
riculture.
Most plants can be pruned at any
season of ffie year. Grapes and
scuppernongs, however, will succumb
If pruned during the growing season.
The grape vine is so porous that
when pruned during the growing sea
j*on the sap is pumped out of the
vine and, as we commonly say, “The
plant bleeds to death.”
The grapes and scuppernongs bear
/suit on last year’s shoots, so If al
lowed to grow and bear as they will,
the fruit wood gets farther and far
ther away from the main plant each
year and has a tendency to overbear.
The fruit does not seem to be as well
nourished as when closer to the
source of food supply. For this rea
son the general principle In pruning
grapes should be to cut back the
canes that grow tills year, leaving
only from 2 to 6 buds. These buds
will produce a like number of shoots
that will bear fruit next season. A
grape vine that has as many as 20
hearing shoots should produce a
heavy crop of fruit.
Growing Wheat In Georgia
Prof. John R. Fain, Department of Ag
ronomy, Georgia State College of
Agriculture.
Wheat is beet adapted to the heav
ier or tight soils, such as the clays of
Georgia, while oats do best on loam.
Phosphorous Is the principal ele
ment to emphasize in fertilizing. It
is not advisable to use much nitro
gen at seeding time, but if the soils
do not produce enough straw, apply
nitrate of soda, broadcast in February
or March.
In preparing the seed bed, plow
early. Where cowpeas are turned un
der tire land should be rolled. Where
no early preparation has been made
good results will be obtained by disc
ing the ground from which corn has
been cut apd shocked. Wheat can
also be sown between rows of cotton
either in the open furrough or with
a one horse drill. Cotton land to be
seeded with the drill should be cul
tivated before seeding with a planet
Junior cultivator of similar tool.
Bearded varieties should be used
for low grounds and either Binooth
or bearded varieties for uplands.
Among the varieties tested at the col
lege Blue Stem, for six years has
averaged 25.66 bushels; Georgia Red
TEN DAYS’ COURSE IN
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
Beginning with the first day in the
new year, the Georgia State College
of Agriculture will offer a ten days’
course to farmers, the main purpose
of which is to introduce diversified
terming and new methods to Georgia
termers. It is free except for the pay
ment of a fee of |I.OO. The course is
open to all who want information with
out an examination or educational test
being made of the applicant
Special courses are arranged to suit
the demands of the students. One can
specialize in animal husbandry, in ce
real production, horticulture, cotton in
dustry, or poultry husbandry. While
specialising in someone of these sub
jects, schedules can be so arranged as
to take lectures in others.
The short course has been growing
in popularity. Those who have taken
the course, have been benefited and
so with cotton. Spindles have been
idle, but there hag been and can be
no cessation in the consumption of
food.
The evidence ought to be clear
enough to every cotton farmer in the
South with this year's experience, that
selling cotton for a song and buying
food at war prices Is enough to for
ever drive him away from his one
crop fallacy. It should at once origi
nate the wheat field, the oat field, the
poultry yard, the vegetable crops,
some beef cattle, pork production and
other such farm accessories that will
thrive and produce profit here as In
the most favored section of the world.
There is no reason under the sun why
the Southern farmer cannot snap his
fingers at foreign wars, and feel their
effects In better prices he will receive
for the food crops he can produce.
Sow cereals, get Into Independent
farming with food supplies growing
under your own hands, grow only as
much cotton as you can afford to hold
for a good market. This done thq
South can defy the world to find a
farming class that Is more prosper
ous.
It has been generally
that souppernong vines will not bear
pruning, but this is not so. They
should be treated similarly to ordi
nary grape vtnea, only they should
be allowed to retain more bearing
shoots.
It is well to prune grapes before
Christmas, though the ordinary grape
vines could be pruned as late as Jan
uary, Scuppernongs must be pruned
before Christmas, otherwise they will
bleed seriously. Should it happen
that a souppernong vine becomes
broken or Injured and begins to bleed
badly, It can be stopped hy burning
the end of the bleeding vine with a
hot Iron, or by putting grafting wax
over the wound. Scuppernong vines
pruned previous to Christmas do not
bleed.
PLOWING VERSUS DISCING LAND
FOR OATS
John B. Fain, Professor of Agronomy,
Qeorgia State College of Agriculture.
For the past two years comparisons
have been made in yields obtained
from land disced and similar land
plowed In growing oats. The crops
for both years showed larger yields
where land was disced.
Discing is both the most economi
cal and rapid method of getting in fall
crop after Btalks of corn have been
cut and shocked.
the same; Fulcaster, 25.67. Other
varieties which have been tested only
one year and have given good results
are the Deitz, Mediterranean, Red
May, Fultz and Australian.
START A PATCH OF ALFALFA.
John R. Fain, Professor of Agronomy,
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
6eed alfalfa in the fall in time to
get it established before the cold
weather. The essentials in getting a
good stand are good drainage, thor
ough preparation of the seed bed, lib
eral Use of lime and Inoculation.
Alfalfa seeded under these condi
tions at the College produced 6 1-2
tons per acre in five cuttings the
first year. At the time of this writ
ing 4 1-2 cuttings have been obtained
the second year with one more cut
ting about due. The first cutting of
the second season was larger than
the first cutting of the first season,
but adverse weather held back yields
of succeeding cuttings.
It was found necessary to cultivate
the alfalfa patch after the second
cutting this season to keep down
crab grass. This can be done with
either a disc or Bpike-toothed harrow
or with a tool made especially for
the purpose. ,
I profited, and all have received inspi
ration and encouragement At the con
clusion of the lectures each person is
presented a synopsis of the lectures
for reference and permanent use.
What the short course offers is just
what thousands of Georgia cottqn
farmers are now in need of to meet
the calamity which has befallen cot
ton. Without proper guidance into
nCw agricultural pursuits the first few
years of their attempt may result in
failure.
While the College is ready to render
all possible assistance with its exten
sion service, it is far better for the
fanner to come to the College and take
the short course. It is the place to
submit and work out the Individual
farm problem.
Plans should be made at once to at
tend the short course so that every
effort should be made to realize the
purpose.
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How a Soil Analysis Helps a Farmer
Pres. Andrew M. Soule, Georgia State College of Agriculture
Soil analyses are advisable that the
farmer may take account of the store
of plant food in land. Some plants ex
haust the plant food more than others.
Some require certain kinds of food
more than others. What should be
grown on a given piece of land de
pends upon the sorts of plant food con
tained therein.
Knowing what elements of plant
food are contained in a given piece of
land and ascertaining about how fast
that store of plant food is exhausted
by various crops each year, a basis
is afforded for a permanent and profit
able system of agriculture.
With such knowledge to start with
it is for the farmer to work out with
right methods of cultivation and fer
tilization the full benefits of the land,
and to practice at the same time meth
ods that will build up rather than
deplete the fertility of the soil, so that
from year to year he may increase
the real capital he owns and controls
in his land.
Knowing in what his lands are most
deficient, his fertilizer formulas can
be intelligently determined and ap
plied. Should a fanner’s land con
tain apparently an abundance of pot
ash, how could a farmer know It with
out an analysis of the soil? What
will prevent him from lasting his
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ment of fertilizer, if he does not know
that it is not needed. In peat and re
claimed lands there is a super-abund
ance of nitrogen, as a rule, yet if fer
tilizer is applied without a knowledge
of this fact, the probabilities are that
the usual amount of nitrogen would be
applied and nitrogen is quite expen
sive.
A soil analysis is needful also in
helping the farmer to determine not
only how much plant food is present
in the soil, but about how much more
is neecssary to stimulate and make
available to a maximum degree that
which exists in the soil. Where there
are marked deficiencies in any one of
the elements, it is essential to know
in what proportion fertilizing elements
should be applied to develop a given
crop to the fullest extent.
Knowing the deficiencies of a soil,
a system of rotations can be applied
calculated to conserve and build up
the fertility. A series of tests are be
ing made with various crops on vari
ous types of soil in the state, under
the direction of the College, to deter
mine the limiting factors in developing
the full plant food value of these soils.
Naturally it will take time, but once de
termined there should be valuable in
formation at the command of the
farmer.
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Office in Crum Building,
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Office in Carter-Warthen Building,
JACKSON, GA.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Jackson - - Georgia.
Residence phone 9—Office phone 91.
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