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Value of the Annual Farm
Conferences In the Year of
The Agricultural Crisis
Pres, Andrew M. Soule, Georgia State College of Agriculture
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Breeders’ Association will be held
January 16, the annual meeting of the
Osorgia Dairy and Live Stock Asso
ciation on January 18-19, the annual
meeting of the Georgia Horticultural
Society on January 10-20 and the an
nual meeting of the Georgia Apple
Growers’ Association on January 21.
All are to be held at the College of
Agrlcutlure at Athens. These meet
ings follow Immediately after the
Chort courses, thus affording short
course students an opportunity of at
tending these splendid meetings with
out the usual cost.
Special railroad rates have been ob
tained for these meetings as well as
for the short course. Those who at.
tend should be sure to ask for the spe
ctal rates.
The program for these meetings will
be rich with valuable Information.
Practical men wlio have dealt with
and met their various problems in
Georgia will appeur on the program.
Authorities of nation-wide reputation
will come with their special messages.
Special efforts are being made to pre
TIMELY SPRAYING OF
APPLES AND PEACHES
4. W. Flror, Georgia State Col. of Agr.
Time and labor can be saved by so
timing the spraying of peaches and
apples as to control or destroy several
■fungus trouble and an insect at one
operation. Nearly all orchards are in
fested with the San Jose scale. This
necessitates at least one spraying dur.
lug the dormant season when the or
chard is slightly infested and two
sprayings when badly infested. Even
when no scale has been observed in
the orchard during the past season, it
is advisable to make a spring spray
ing to prevent infestation. It will
serve also to clean up the trees and
prevent such Injurious fungus trou
ble* as the curl of the peach and scab
of the apple.
The worst infection of the apple
scab takes place during the week or
ten days previous to the opening of the
buds. A thorough spraying with lime
sulphur solution at that time Is recom
mended The strength of the solution
depends upon the development of the
bud Up to the first showing of pink
by Ihe buds, use winter strength or 5
fime To Start Dairying
Professors Pike and Howell, Depart
ment of Dairying, Georgia State
College of Agriculture
A review of the history of farming
in every country shows that the early
settlers followed the lines of least
resistance. They robbed the land by
oontimuvl oropping and soon found
that their soil was depleted of fer
tility. The result was that a change
in their system of farming became
neoessary and they turned to the dairy
industry as being the most logical
change. The same condition applies
to Georgia. She is doubtless chang
ing her system of fanning and dairy
ing is being welcomed. Why?
1. Because the soil fertility is con
served and increased. Selling cotton
or grain is selling fertility and burn
ing out humus. A ton of cotton seed
meal is worth, at present prices of
nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash,
about S3O, which is above the average
selling price. A ton of butter at 30c
a pound is worth SOOO. and contains
64c worth of fertility. Why not feed
the ineal and sell the butter? Each
cow kept saves S3O on the year’s fer-
tilizer bill.
2. Dairying is adapted to high price
Ituid, Land on the Isle of Jersey, the
aunual rental of which Is about 550
an acre, is used for keeping Jersey
cows. Land in Holland worth 51,200
to 52.000 an acre, is used almost ex
clusively for dairying. If Germany
and Holland with their high priced
land can buy our ootton seed cake,
ship It across the Atlantic, feed it to
cows and send the butter back to us
at a protit; why can’t we make money
with home grown feed and a local mar
ket? We can, and we are going to
do it
3. The returns are constant and cer
tain. The dairyman’s check comes of
ten. He doesn’t have to mortgage
bis crop before it is made. The dai
ry man can systematise his operations.
He can tell what each cow Is doing.
There need not be any guess wogk.
Look about you today. The greater
profits to be derived from this type of
farming is seen in the general pros
perity of the dairyman in comparison
with hts neighbors who still persist
one c rffs system.
sent at the meetings at the first of the
year, programs of unusual merit, ow
ing to the crisis in agriculture which
the state Is facing.
Make up your mind that you will
attend the ten days’ short course and
stay for the farmers’ conferences !
With such Information and inspira
tion obtained at the beginning of the
year, as will be available at these
meetings, the work of the twelve
months will be more profitable and
pleasant What better place can one
go in Georgia to get the desired In
formation for varying the farm pro
gram from cotton to a profitable di
versification, than to the short courses
and the farm conferences at the State
College?
The wives of the farmers will find
the meetings interesting and profita
ble. The meetings of the horticultu
ral society have always been well at
tended by women. Should the women
come while the girls’ course is being
conducted, they will be greatly inter
ested in the canning, domestic science
and poultry work in which they are in
structed.
gallons of the commercial lime-sul
phur to 50 gallons of water. Reduce
the strength to 2 or 3 gallons to the
60 of water after the buds show pink.
The spores of the leaf curl fungus
live over the winter on the branches
and twigs of the peach tree and be
come active during the two or three
weeks before the buds open. During
this time, by making the winter spray
ing with lime-sulphur solution (com
mercial lime-sulphur 5 gallons to 50 of
water), the scale will be combatted
and the leaf curl prevented. This
spraying must be timed accurately
and made thoroughly to get the best
results. Misible oils will not take the
place of the lime-sulphur solution, al
though they will destroy the scale.
Bordeaux mixture used at the time
above mentioned is very effective
against the scab, but is not effective
against scale.
During the spring of 1914 serious
damage was done to the blossoms and
young twigs of peach trees by the
brown rot fungus. This disease does
greatest injury to the fruit, but also
takes its toll from the health of twigs.
The infection takes place at blos
soming time and if the second spray
ing is delayed until the buds swell
lime-sulphur will kill the spores.
How Foot and Mouth Disease
May Effect Georgia
Dr. W. M. Burson, Professor of Veter
inary Science, Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture
By reason of the existence of the
foot and mouth disease in a great sec
tion of the United States and the con
sequent quarantine on cattle, feed and
other shipments, Georgia will suffer
In two ways in particular. Those who
would buy pure bred live stock, cattle
or horses for starting into live stock
business in lieu of continuing the
growibg of unprofitable cotton, are
barred by the quarantine from get
ting into the best markets. Also,
those who have to buy feed stuff will
find that the embargo placed upon
hay from foot and mouth territory
will have affected the price. If the
Georgia farmer has hay to sell, of
course, the hay quarantine in the
north and west will serve him well.
It is important that the Georgia
farmer should keep a look out for
symptoms of the disease among live
stock. It is the most highly conta
gious of all diseases and apparently
is caused by an organism too small
for the highest power microscope to
detect. It attacks split-hoof animals
and is transmissible to human be-
ings.
The disease is characterized by
blisters in mouth, nostrils, between
the claws, around dew claws and on
udder and teats of cows. The blis
ters burst and leave raw sores pre
venting cattle from eating rough feed.
They keep their mouths closed and oc
casionally smack the Ups and drivel
saliva. Farmers should not confuse
foot and mouth disease with cow pox
which also produces blisters, nor foul
moth which affects the legs with
lameness, nor with Mycotic Stomatitis,
a disease caused by fungus in pas
tures affecting cattle more like foot
and mouth disease than any other
trouble.
If In doubt, oall a veterinarian and
let him make the diagnosis.
More than 510.400 income was re
ceived from the 343 acres and live
stock of the College farm during the
past year. Tbe dairy was the best
revenue producer. Of course the farm
Is meeting all of its expense and is
paying handsomely. Six years ago
It was a p<?or. gullied, worn-out farm.
Winter Tourist Fares
Via Southern Railway
PREMIER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH
Reduced Round Trip Fares to all Principal
Points in the
SOUTH, SOUTHEAST, SOUTHWEST
For information call on nearest agent or address
J. C. Beam, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga.
J. S. Bloodworth, T. P. A., Macon, Ga.
TIME TO GET BUSY
There has been a noticeable gain in the cotton situation in
the last few days. Exports are resuming their accustomed activity,
and promise to soon reach the old level.
Business is picking up. Factories are again running; mills
that have beenf closed down are starting up, while others are re
verting to full time. The unemployed are finding employment.
There is a rift in the clouds and the sun is breaking through.
This is the time for opportunity for the individual and the
community. If you have been hoarding a dollar turn it loose. Put
it in the channeljof circulation. Let it go its way of paying debts
and soon there will be rejoicing. One dollar put in circucation will
cancel many obligations.
The failure of people who are able to pay what they owe has
caused a lot of the trouble in this country. If X owes Y and wlil
pay him then Y can pay Z. And so it goes. There never was a
better time to pay what you owe than right now.
This is likewise a good time to buy what you need, from a
gimlet to a threshing machine. Don’t buy anything you have no
use for. A general buying movement will remove much of the
stagnation from which the country is suffering.
If you crawled in a hole when trouble started come out and
take a peep at the sunlight. Don’t be a cave dweller.
All that is needed to get business going is CONFIDENCE.
In this work you have a part. Play your part like a man.
Things are not nearly so bad as they SEEM. It is a time
when every man should put his shoulder to the wheel and put the
community to moving forward and give bvsiness a boost.
Now is the time to start something.
Now is the time to get busy!-