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FIRST NATIONAL RANK
How Hookworm Disease Keeps
Students From Doing Good Work
ONE of the m:my evil effects of
hookworm disease is that it re
duces mental ns well ns physical
i vigor. In schools the students
[who have the disease are always hack
| ward ns compared with the healthy
(students This has heeu proved in
imony Instances and may he seen in
limy school where there are infected
pupils.
In a college In Mississippi G‘Jf» stn
dents were examined microscopically,
and the results showed # that in every
Instance the ones Infected with hook
worms were behind their schoolmates
both in their studies and in athletics.
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EFFECTS OF THE DISEASE.
The three boys pictured above are of about the same age. The tallest one
In the center is seventeen years old and weighs 160 pounds. Although living
in a community where many suffered, he had no hookworm infection. The boy
in the dark suit is eighteen years old and weighs 120 pounds. He is infected
*with the disease. The other boy is also eighteen, but he weighs only a hundred
pounds and has the appearance of a thirteen-year-old youngster. He is heavily
(infected with hookworms.
J. J. TAYLOR, President J. 9. PEACOCK, V.-President
J. A. WALKEfc, Cashier
Cochran Company
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Infected men mill boys was 80, and of
the fifty-live nouinfected men and boys
it was 84.
The same thins holds in the
case of girls. In one girls' college
where all the students were examined
many infected persons were found.
There were two sisters hi the school,
one of whom was infected and the
other not. The Infected sister hail a
grade of 78, while her sister hail a
grade of 87. The infected sister is
forced to devote two years to each
year's course, while her sister goes on.
Fifty-six Infected girls in this school
had un average grade of 77.73. while
THE COCHRAN JOURNAL, COCHRAN, GEORGIA.
HOLDEN PUNS TO PUT
ALFALFA ON EVER’/ FARM
Plan to Unite All Interests in Nation-Wide Campaign
for the General Growing of Alfalfa.
Extension Department to Aid Any Community Interested in Con
ducting Campaign to Encourage the Growing of Alfalfa-
No More Difficult to Grow Than Clover and
Gives Double the Yield.
Alfalfa Automobile Trains Important Feature of the V/ork—Schedules to Be
Arranged and Meetings to Be Held at Farm Homes —Prominent Speakers
to Accompany Each Alfalfa Train —Alfalfa Organizations Will Be Formed
in Each Community to Promote the Work —Field Men Experienced in
Alfalfa Growing Will Follow Up Preliminary Work Wherever Possible
and Give Aid in Getting a Start —Prof. P. G. Holden, Director Extension
Department, International Harvester Company, Chicago, Will Direct the
Work.
The campaign will be conducted in co-operation with farmers’ institutes,
/bankers, business men. farmers, commercial clubs, granges, live stock and
dairy associations and other organizations in any community where the peo
ple are anxious to improve their agricultural conditions and are willing to
give time and money to carry on the work.
County and city superintendents of schools, colleges, institute workers,
Chautauqua lecturers, and others interested in the work will be assisted in
obtaining alfalfa charts and lantern slides. Alfalfa literature and booklets
will bo given wide distribution throughout the country. Special alfalfa arti
cles will be sent to farm journals and magazines, and plate and matrix page;
to newspapers. Alfalfa editions of newspapers will he published where cam
paigns are conducted. Dates will be arranged for “Alfalfa Day” in the
schools.
To Begin Campaign Work in East, West and South.
Work fo be started immediately In the cotton belt states and in the
east and west. Thirty to forty meetings will be held in each county, the num
ber depending on local conditions.
To accomplish the most in agricultural development, we must, begin
with the man behind the crop. Upon him depends the final working out of
the principles of agriculture -the simple and practical tilings—which our
schools, colleges and experiment stations are endeavoring to bring into gen
eral use.
Professor Holden proposes to carry these principles further even than
the very effective work done on the agricultural trains, by using that most
modern vehicle —the automobile —going directly to the people on their own
farms where the meetings are to be held.
Alfalfa Greatest Soil-Enriching Crop.
Agricultural development needs in addition to the work of our public
Institutions, the individual efforts of every merchant, banker, corporation, ot
laboring man, and this plan calls for their heartiest co-operation.
This plan for increasing the yields of our crops by the more extensive
growing of that wonderful soil improver, ALFALFA, is meeting the approval
of all men who have any knowledge of the beneficial results of its introduc
tion as a general crop.
Campaigns are now being conducted in mary of tin* central western
states, and Professor Holden is daily answering requests for his assistance in
organizing other localities, and invites cordial cooperation with every com
munity interested.
Where campaigns are contemplated it is required, first, that a request he
made to the Agricultural Extension Department for assistance in carrying on
the campaign.
' What the local people will provide:
(1) Expenses (meals and lodging) for the alfalfa speakers and staff
upon their arrival and during the campaign.
(2) From ten to twenty automobiles for each day of the campaign to
carry the alfalfa crew and invited guests; one auto truck to carry literature,
baggage, charts, and other equipment.
(.'!) Arrange for meeting places and publish schedule of same.
(4) Local advertising.
(3) Photographer, if possible.
The Agricultural Extension Department will provide:
(1) Advance men to assist in organization work.
(2) Lecturers.
(3) Literature.
(4) Special educational articles for newspapers and farm journals perti
nent to alfalfa culture, object of campaign, etc.
(5) Field men to follow up the preliminary work and aid the people in
any community where sufficient interest is shown to warrant it.
ALFALFA FOR HOGS.
Kansas Experiment Proves the Great
Value of Alfalfa and Corn as a
Balanced Ration —Hog Grow
ers Note the Result of
This Interesting Feed
ing Experiment.
This experiment was conducted at
the Kansas Agricultural college:
The pigs shown In the accompanying
chart were litter mates. The larger
pig was fed on a ration of corn and
alfalfa hay: the smaller on corn alone.
Several litters of weanling pigs were
•equally divided into two lots. The
pigs were carefully chosen as to
weight and thriftiness, so that each lot
represented a fair average of the total
number of pigs used in the experi
ment.
The experiment was carried on for
a period of eight months. At the end
of this time the pigs fed on corn and
alfalfa hay were in excellent condi
ALFALFA BALANCES
THE CORN RATION
S\Mt: I.ITTTR
corn J* 4n T
ALONE 3 ( j| ALFALFA
FROM KANS. EXP STA.
tion for market and averaged 250
pounds, dressed, while the pigs fed
on corn alone were thin and scrawny
and averaged hut 60 pounds each. In
the latter case, one pi* died of what
the veterinarian declared to be starva
tion, notwithstanding the fact that
this lot of pigs had all the corn they
could eat.
Must Have Protein.
The scrawny 60-pound pigs lacked
protein, that element required in
growing animals, to develop bone
and muscle, blood, nerve and tis
sue —that which builds the frame —the
very thing that the pigs did hoc jet
when fed upon corn alone.
Corn is deficient in protein and lias
an abundance of starch and sugar.
Neither alfalfa nor corn when fed
alor.e will give the best results, but a
combination of the two make a per
fectly balanced ration.
A balanced ration is a combination
of feeds containing elements necessary
for the proper physical development of
the animal. Protein, the most essen
tial element in animal feed, builds the
frame of the body while corn is essen
tially valuable for the production of
fat.
Tho bones of the “corn-alfalfa” lot of
pigs were double the size of the lot
fed on corn alone and stood a breaking
strain of 1,;!70 pounds as against 520
pounds for the lot led on a single ra
tion of corn.
HAY CAPS FOR ALFALFA.
Alfalfa should be raked and either
put in the barn or if it is not sufficient
ly dry. put into hay cocks. It is a mat
ter of economy to have two or three
hundred hay caps (made of six-cent
cloth one yard square) to use in case
of bad weather. You may think this
is considerable bother, but poor al
falfa is poor stuff, and when we re
member that good alfalfa brings us in
actual results nearly as great returns
as wheat bran, we can better realize
the importance of taking care of it
If any of us had 500 “hay cocks of
bran” in the field, we would take care
of them, but with alfalfa we think of
it as “just hay.”
These cloths may have wooden pegs
or some sort of weights attached to
each corner to hold them in place; the
pegs can be pushed into the hay to
hold the corners fast. Hay caps will
soon pay for themselves in finer
quality of hay guaranteed by their
use.
1 he man cr woman who says
“I can t save
generally means they don t try to.
It’s the hustling American, bom cr
adopted, who gets there by starting a
Savings Account.
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4 per cent interest are for you.
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