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Fight San Jose Scale
With Lime-Sulphur
T. H. McHatton, Prof. Horticulture,
Ga. State College Of Agriculture.
Perhaps the most important spray
in the orchard should be applied dur
ing the fall, especially is this true
where trees are badly infested with
scale.
The spray should be put on the
trees after the heavy frosts have de
foliated them. The material to use
is the concentrated lime-sulphur wash.
It is made as follows: Make 80 pounds
of flowers of sulphur, or ground up
sulphur, into a paste with water ;
put 40 pounds of the best quick lime
into a boiler and slake; add the sul
phur paste and fifty gallons of wa
ter and boil for sixty minutes, re
place the water boiled away and there
will be fifty gallons of concentrated
lime-sulphur in hand.
If one has a hydrometer, test the
concentrate and dilute until the hy
drometer shows a specific gravity of
1.03 to 1.04 or a reading of from 4
to 5 degrees Beaume. If one has
no hydrometer dilute the home made
lime-sulphur by using one gallon of
the concentrate to 6 or 7 gallons of
water.
Apply to the trees after all the
leaves have fallen, during late No
vember or early December. Where
the scale is serious this is a most
important spraying.
Kill the Weevils
In Stored Grain
John R. Fain, Prof. Agronomy, Ga.
State College Of Agriculture.
In the southern part of Georgia es
pecially, the grain weevil will do great
damage to stored grain. Seed grain
especially requires protection. The
grain should be treated with carbon
bisulphide. One pound of the liquid
put in a cup cn top of the grain will
treat one ton of grain. The fumes
from the carbon-bisulphide being heav
ier than air sink down through the
pile of grain and destroy the weevils.
The grain should be in a tight bin,
barrels or other receptacles that can
be clos ed tightly. L.. .. ;..o ;.;:atment
is complete, no one should approach
the treated grain with a light, burn
ing pipe or fire in any form. The gas
produced is highly explosive.
Two insects cause the weevil dam
age, the granery weevil and the an
goumois moth. To be on the safe side
it would be w'ell to treat grain imme
diately after storing and again in the
latter part of winter. Corn taken from
stalks that have been stripped of their
fodder is infested with weevils worse
than corn not stripped because the
fodder-stripped corn has a tendency
to open its husks and let the insects in.
If a community desires to buy car
• bon-bisulphide cheaply the College of
Agriculture can provide information as
to how to save money.
Ssms Farm Saving Hints
L. C. HART, Prof. Agr. Engineering,
Ga. State College Of Agri.
Georgia farmers waste needlessly a
great deal of their investment in farm
machinery by failure to properly store
and take care of it when through with
it in the field Collect the farm ma
chinery in the tool shed. If there is
no tool shed the Department of Agri
cultural Engineering of the College of
Agriculture will furnish plans and a
bill of materials for one free.
Clean the machinery thoroughly and
cover all bright parts with a heavy
oil. Clean out oil holes and plug
them with wood or waste.
Put on Paint. Nothing adds to the
appearance of a farmstead as much
as paint and whitewash. The selling
price is added to very greatly. The
structures are preserved and their an
nual depreciation decreased. A full
set of formulas and advice as to the
application of paints and white washes
will be sent to all farmers of the
state upon application to the Depart
ment ojj Agricultural Engineering of
the College. -* -
Convenient Farm Buildings. An
enormous loss of time results from
poorly designed arrangements for feed
ing livestock on the farm. The build
ings have not been designed with lit
tle thought of labor saving. The Agri
cultural Engineering Department of
the College of Agriculture can pro
vide sets of plans for farm buildings
which will mean much saving of time
over old barn methods.
Agricultural Short Course
And the 801 l Weevil
This year, as never before, the Geor
gia farmer should consider taking a
short course in agriculture at the
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
In no other way can a farmer get so
much of what he needs in changing his
farm practices. The College is a
storehouse of information and the Col
lege farm a convincing example of
what the information really is. The
short courses at the College this year
will begin January 3, 1917, and last
ten days. Complete announcement
will be made in a bulletin, .which can
be obtained by writing to the College
cf Agriculture at Athens.
Farm Changes
For 801 l Weevil
Readjustment Requires Careful Plan
ning To Be Safe
ANDREW M. SOULE, President Ga.
State College Of Agriculture.
Any system of safe farming, under
boll weevil conditions should provide
that the cultivated area of the farm
should be so divided as to grow
enough corn to provide for family and
the live stock throughout the year.
The area will vary with the fertility
of the land, but on a two-horse farm
not less than ten, or, better still, twen
ty acres of land should be devoted to
this crop. Enough land should be
devoted to oats and small grains to
meet home requirements.
If the oats are properly handled
they will provide some grazing. A
great variety of hay and forage-pro
ducing crops can be grown successful
ly after oats, but it is important to
remember that the cultivation of le
gumes should be emphasized because
of their ability to gather nitrogen from
the air.
Certainly, the farmer should provide
all the meat needed for his family.
There is no reason why two to six
brood sows should not be maintained
on the average two-horse farm. Graz
ing crops should be depended on to
provide the food needed for the growth
and fattening of young pigs. They
can be hardened off with a little corn
in the fall and a very choice quality
of meat obtained.
A small flock of hens will provide
all the eggs needed and leave a sur
plus for sale. Probably no class of
meat is in greater demand in towns
and cities than chickens.
Every wise farmer will keep at least
two cow's so that his family will be
supplied with an abundance of milk
and butter at all seasons of the year.
Then if he will keep a couple of brood
mares and raise a colt or two each
year, he can maintain his work stock
on an efficient basis. Next the farmer
should provide a garden. A half acre
of land will produce all the vegetables
which a family of six can possibly eat,
and if a proper rotation is established
and the garden well fertilized and han
dled, fresh vegetables may be had at
almost any season of the year. There
is probably no section w'hich will pro
duce a greater variety of vegetables
with greater ease than the southeast
ern states, and yet the garden is neg
lected, because its value is not appre
ciated and its influence on the health
of the family not understood.
After having accomplished the fore
going, the farmer should devote a
reasonable area of his land to the
cultivation of cotton, as his main
money crop. If this plan is follow'ed,
a system of safe farming will have
been established throughout the south.
Treating Sorehead
Or Chicken Pox
WM. S. DILTS, Poultry Instructor, Ga.
State College Of Agriculture.
The disease commonly known as
Sore Head or Chicken Pox is very
prevalent in Georgia. It first appears
as small, white pimples on the face,
wattles or comb of the bird. These
pimples grow in size and later a dark,
hard scab forms. In extreme cases,
the unfeathered portions of the head
are entirely covered and the eyes are
nearly closed. The disease may spread
to other portions of the body.
The whitish pimples should be paint
ed with tincture of iodine and greased
with carbolated vaseline. If the scabs
are dry, they should be removed and
burned.
The following treatment can be used
for building up the system, thus in
creasing resistance to the disease.
For three days feed the chickens a
moist mash each day containing one
third teaspoonful epsom salts for ev
ery fowl in the flock. For the three
days following, feed a moist mash con
taining one-third teaspoonful sulphur
for every fowl in the flock. This treat
ment can then be repeated in this or
der as long as thought desirable.
Advantages of Fall Plowing
John R. Fain, Prof. Of Agronomy, Ga.
State College Of Agriculture.
Stiff lands of Georgia ought to be
plowed in'the fall, the earlier the bet
ter, so that they will get the advan
tage of the freezing and thawing
through the year. It is better to leave
the land rough so as to expose as
much of it as possible to the elements.
For this reason plowing is much bet
ter than disking.
The fall is the best time to plow
deep, for at that time the subsoil Is
dry and does not clod. It is also the
time to subsoil for the same reason.
Bulb Planting Season
The fall of the year is the season
for setting out bulbs. Jonquils, nar
cissi, hyacinths and tulips, and many
of the lilies should be planted before
Christmas.
Bulbs that are to be forced for bloom
ing in the house should be planted In
pots or flats in good soil from the first
to the middle of October. They should
then be placed in a dark room or cel
lar for a month to six weeks. Do net
let them dry out nor do not keep them
too wet. They will bloom from six
weeks to two months after being
brought into the warm room. —T. H.
McHatton, Prof, of Horticulture, Ga.
State College of Agriculture.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, NOV. 18 1916.
Prepare For High-Priced
Mules and Horses
The 40,000 Mares in Georgia Should
Be Raising Foals.
M. P. JARNAGIN, Prof. Animal Hus
bandry, Ga. State College Of Ag.
More than a million horses and
mules of the United Statese have
been requisitioned for military pur
poses during the past eighteen months
—that is, about one horse to every
tw'enty in the country. For some time
before the European war prices had
sagged till breeders had barely more
than 50 per cent of their mares mated.
The war demand and the few num
ber of animals bred are bound to
bring about high prices for horses
and mules not only during the war,
but for several years after.
There are probably 40,000 mares on
Georgia farms. Statistics show less
than 4,000 are regularly producing
foals, whereas a minimum of 60 per
cent should be regularly bringing in
the foals.
To forestall the shortage and high
prices as much as possible the logi
cal thing to do is first put every mare
to raising colts. The average farmer
is not advised to replace all of his
w T ork mules with mares, but sufficient
should be kept to replace worn-out
animals.
Above all breed to big strong-boned
jacks and registered draft stallions of
pure breeding, sound and of accept
able weight.
Farm Drainage In Georgia
GEORGE A. CRABB, Junior Professor
Of Agronomy.
Land drainage improves the soil
structure, improves ventilation, in
creases the available plant food, pro
motes the action of beneficial bacte
ria, permits greater root development
of crops and increases crop yields.
Where the land is rolling or hilly un
derdrainage decreases surface erosion
by removing the w'ater through the
soil instead of permitting it to be re
moved by surface overflow.
Land drainage should be done to
some extent on the majority of the
farms in this state. It is a form of
permanent soil improvement.
Tw'o main classes of farm lands in
the state that are much in need of
drainage: The overflow lands along
the streams and in tha swamps, and
the lands already in cultivation that
are too wet for maximum crop yields.
Overflow and swamp lands must
often be handled in drainage districts
because of the large areas involved.
Lands already in cultivation may be
drained by individuals through use
of tiles.
The fall and winter are the times
of the year to plan drainage of wet
areas w-hen the farm labor can be used
to good advantage.
Co-operation in drainage investiga
tions has been established betw-een
the Georgia State College of Agricul
ture and the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. The farmers of
Georgia can secure advice and help
in the drainage of their farm lands by
writing to the Agronomy Department
of the State College of Agriculture.
Selecting the Laying Stock
WM. S. DILTS, Poultry Instructor, Ga.
State College Of Agriculture.
When young pullets are large
enough to be put in the laying house
for the winter, the whole flock should
be gone over and the poorest birds
culled out, fattened and marketed.
Select only strong, vigorous birds,
culling out all sick birds, weaklings
or cripples. Only birds of good size,
fully matured and of high constitu
tional vigor should be kept over.
The bird with high constitutional
vigor is always alert and active in her
movements. She seems to be content
ed and happy. Such a bird should
have a broad, deep, well-developed
head; bright, clean, snappy eyes; a
short, well curved beak; well colored
face, comb and wattles. The body
should be broad and deep for the
breed, with a full, well rounded breast.
Her shanks should be stocky, with legs
set well apart. Her toe-nails should
be short and straight, showing that
she is a worker. The best layer gen
erally has the best appetite. She goes
from the roost early in the morning
in search of food and remains at work,
scratching until late, after the loafers
have gone to roost.
EVANGELS OF GREATER
AND BETTER GEORGIA
That the county farm agent is the
hope of Georgia farmers in combatting
the boll weevil and saving agriculture
in the state from decay, is eloquently
voiced by President C. J. Haden of the
State Chamber of Commerce, who de
scribes the county agents as the
"Evangels of a Greater and Better
Georgia.” President Haden is very
anxious to save the tenant class of
farmers from the disasters of the boll
weevil. The county agents, by hold
ing group, or field meetings, of farm
ers in every community, has oppor
tunities that is possible for no one
else to have, for helping the tenant
farmers through the distress that con
fronts them. Such meetings are be
ing held and have been held for sev
eral years, and Georgia’s tenant class
of farmers has been prepared for the
boll weevil as probably the tenant
farmers of no other state, which has
been invaded by the weevil. Those
counties which do not have county
agents, cf course, are not so well pre
pared.
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