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Agricultural Extension
Work Tremendous
Factor In Georgia
Forty Thousand People Are
Co-Operating
J. PHIL CAMPBELL, Director JExtan
• ion Service, Ga. St. Col. Of Agr.
According to statistics, Georgia
leads all elate* in the Union in many
Important phases of agricultural ex
tension work. Georgia has the largest
Tehrollment in Boys* Corn Clubs, the
largest number of farmers, farmers’
wives, farm boys and girls organized
Jnto agricultural work and the best pig
club results of any state.
The extension work of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture was in
augurated in 1908, and has grown until
there are now 15 field specialists, 84
district and county farm agents and
49 agents in home economics. These
and other agricultural workers at the
College of Agriculture comprise a
force of 200 people working as a unit
to carry out a definite program of agri
cultural Improvement in Georgia.
The annual report of the Director
of Extension Service of the College of
Agriculture has just been completed,
which reveals many interesting figures
as to the work done by this force dur
ing the year ending June 30, 1916.
The extension workers are the hear
ers of usable information taken from
the storehouse of agricultural knowl
edge represented by the College of Ag
riculture. No more popular move
ment has been fostered by legislation
in recent years than this of carrying
out information to the farmers. A
schedule of appropriations proposed by
the Smith-Lever bill makes possible
sums of money with which the colos
sal enterprise may be undertaken.
That Georgia is getting its money’s
worth in service rendered and wealth
and happiness created, can be judged
from the results which the reports
show.
40,000 People Co-Operating
The annual report of extension work
shows that 41,000 rural people of Geor
gia were enrolled and had done defi
nite work in advanced lines of agri
culture during the year. Of this num
ber farmers and farmers’ wives who are
enlisted as demonstrators in home eco
nomic work constitute 21,000, the re
mainder being members of boys’ and
girls’ clubs. '
County Agents In Farm Demonstration
Work
The county agents in farm demon
stration work have shown that farm
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ers who have lofiowed methods which
they have recommended have more
than doubled the yield of corn over
the average of the state. The same
is true of oats, while large increases
are revealed with cotton, wheat, etc.
These agents have started alfalfa
fields all over the state. They have
Introduced clovers, vetch, cowpeas,
velvet beans, soy beans and other soil
building crops where they had never
been grown before. Purebred live
stock has been brought in, more than
60,000 hogs have been inoculated for
cholera by these agents during the
year, 222 .silos have been constructed
by them, waterworks, light plants have
been installed and a vast amount of
other helpful service rendered which
is more fully shown in the summaries
given further on.
Home Economic Agent* Work
Georgia now has two supervising
and 46 county agents in home econom
ics. The Home Economic Agents
have charge of Girls’ Canning Clubs,
home demonstration work in home
economics and poultry club work. Ac
cording to their reports these agents
were instrumental in enrolling 3,838
girls in canning clubs, of which num
ber 1,400 completed their reports,
which show that they canned 1,268,-
468 pounds of tomatoes which they
gtew on their one tenth-acre tracts,
a product worth $29,588.49. The club
members also put up 6,850 jars of
blackberry jam, 7,300 jars of fig pre
serves, 16,989 bottles of catsup and
fruit juice. The work done in poul
try clubs is revealed in reports of the
clubs.
In home demonstration work these
women agents had built and introduc
ed many labor saving devices and con
veniences. Special effort was made
during the year to introduce one or
two conveniences and these were fire
less cookers and iceless refrigerators.
About 800 fireless cookers were made
and about 175 iceless refrigerators.
Over 500 home-made fly traps were
made, 75 home-made water works
were installed. In all 828 women en
rolled as demonstrators in home eco
nomics. The county agents visited
8,419 homes, held 3,082 meetings that
were attended by 85,077 people. They
distributed 14,938 bulletins and 13,164
letters were sent out.
20,000 Boys In Clubs
Nearly 20,000 Georgiy boys belong
to agricultural clubs in Georgia, in
cluding the Boys’ Corn Clubs, the
Boys’ Pig Clubs, the Boys’ Four Crop
Clubs and similar organizations.
Georgia's average yield of corn per
acre has increased nearly five bush
els to the acre since the Boys’ Corn
Clubs were organized in Georgia and
to these clubs the increase is largely
attributed. The greatest yield ever
made in Georgia was that of Ben
Leatii in Walker county, 1911. His
Many Farmers
Would like to keep an account of their receipts
and expenditures if someone would keep it for
them.
Open a bank account with the FIRST NATION
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itself, with no expense.
Your checks are always evidence of date and
amount of all disbursements and your deposit
book shows dates and amounts of your receipts.
Many of your friends and neighbors have ac
counts with us. WHY NOT YOU? Don’t wait
for a big giart—any amount offered, either large
or small, is cheerfully accepted. It’s a handy con
venience to the Farmer as well as the business
man.
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record is 214 bushels to the acre.
The corn club boys who made re
ports during the year ending June 30,
1916, made an average of 45 bushels
to the acre at a cost of 42 cents per
bus tad as against the general average
yipld v* the state of 15 bushels.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. SO cents.
Georgia Can Raise
Sheep With Profit
Spring Lambs Bring Fancy Prices And
Quick Returns
MILTON P. JARNAGIN, Prof. Animal
Husbandry, Ga. State Col. Of Agri.
With lambs selling at 11 and 12
cents per pound live weight, no live
stock undertaking is likely to prove
more profitable nor turn profits more
quickly than sheep raising. For the
past 30 years there has been a steady
decrease in the number of sheep in
this country. This is likewise true
of the whole world. Raising and sell
ing spring lambs bring the best re
turns and no great amount of capital
need be involved in the undertaking.
Native ewes may be purchased and a
purebred sire of one of the standard
mutton breeds mated with them not
later than the middle of September,
Which >ill bring the lambs to drop
befpre t}ie jpiddle of February.
During the fall and winter the ewep
should have abundance of grazing on
such crops as rye, vetch and crimson
clover, bur clover, rye alone, and if
pats and wheat have attained a rank
growth it will do no harm to graze
them on these crops. 1/ ewes are in
thin flesh it pays to feed them a lit
tle grain during the fall and winter.
After lambs have begun to take ad
of their mother’s milk, ewes should
be put on luxuriant pastures. A creep
or pen into which the lambs can go
and the ewes can not, should be pro
vided, and in the creep put flat troughs
in which feed equal parts of corn, oats
and bran. By this method it should
be no trouble to make the youngsters
average 70 pounds each by May. The
ewes should average 1% lambs.each.
On the basis of present market one
could expect to sell them at 10 cents
per pound as early lambs.
There is room for a small flock of
breeding ewes on every farm in Geor
gia.
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In order that I may Rive my
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Cos. at McDonough, Ga. Modern
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Terms can be arranged to suit
purchaser. If interested see or
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LINIMENT
Mistakes About
AHments Of Animate
DR. W. M. BURSON, Prof. Vet. Sc.,
Ga. State College Of Agr.
WOLF TEETH—BLIND TEETH!
Occasionally horses and mules are
found to have small supernumerary
teeth just ip fFpnt of the first molars
—jaw teetti. There is a popular sp
perstitipn that these extra teeth arp
a cause of eye diseases and blindness.
There is no foundation in fact for this
belief. There is nothing to it. It is
ridiculous. The blood pupply of the
teeth is entirely distinct and sepa
rate from that of the eyes. There is
no direct connection betw'een the
eyes and teeth as far as the nerves
are concerned. Asa matter of fact,
epme horses and mules }iave seven
molar teeth instead of the normal
number of six. The small ‘Volf
tooth” is simply the evidence thpf
there was a tendency toward the de
velopment jn that particular animpl
of an extra number of teeth. Such
extra feeth have absolutely no con
nection with the occurrence of eye
diseases.
Hooks! The horse needs three eye
lids in each eye and has them. All
animals not provided with fingers have
this extra structure in connection with
the eye. It is nature’s method of
providing something for the removal
of foreign particles from the surface
of the eye. In nervous diseases the
"haw,” or third eyelid, is seen to pro
trude over the surface of the eye
to a varying extent. In eye troubles
it is also seen to cover a considerable
portion of the eye. If your horse Is
unusually nervous and exciteable,
somewhat stiff in the limbs and has
the “hooks,” you had better call your
veterinarian as the disease is likely
“lockjaw.” Lockjaw, of course, is a
very dangerous disease and unless
treatment is prompt is apt to be fa
tal.
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