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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. 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