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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1906)
m .. .r/ n... ;-’ . > iV> -,:v. •• • a.. '.. ft-*r. '■ ... •- ; ;.V> ■ ' - ,'v ■ fcffisc* *->.va-<.-**. 'X%&. ■■■-■'-I .••••: 'v/-| TO DOUBLE AMPUK A’S * '*£?***«'' iSfciOfcJ COTTON CROP. Rtarllir.g Results -( I'aticnt Experiments l.y 4* Government Agriculturists. V> vSgfV . CUV ELLIOTT MITCHELL Cot«n Illa»tr»t|on»t.y Oourtety l«-p rt n-nt'if A/rU . t ir. With the cotton crop of tlx- United States reaching an annual value of Btarlj $000,000,000 it that the man who ran mahr it worth four or five cents n pound uiorr to the grower will put a few dollars of H|iendlng money Into the pockets of the southern planters. Thin Improvrmrnt of the crop has been realized, and there is no reason why in ten years from now the whole of the cotton bolt should not lie trrow ing a longer staple cotton worth on the average of 4 Vj cents a pound more than tile present crop, Os course this tnillenlal condition of things will not l»e altogether realized. 'l'liat there will lie a derided and general advance hi tlk* value of the crop as the result of work already done by the Agrlcul ps*w rose »."i.i ■ -.-—-I ar naaBBBU n f* PhHHL ***■ * OUUINAUY COTTON STAPLE. SELECTED AND IMPROVED COTTON. tural 1 lepartineut Is certain. But there are always the factors of Ignorance, Indifference and prejudice to lie reckoned with, and that will hold down the annul total of Hie advance. ’l’hls Is human nature. Otherwise every one would be raising thorough bred stock, cats and chickens, which cost no more to feed and rear than scrubs, tint everyone does not breed thoroughbreds, whether they be dogs or cotvs, and so It Is a certainty that when the average of the cotton crop Is vastly Improved by the use of better seed there will be a large num- ber of planters who are sticking to the old methods and complaining because they llnd It hard to make a living. SEVEHAE NEW STRAINS. It Is a fact, however, that the De partment of Agriculture lias, by several years of persistent work, bred from the old varieties of cotton raised in the s* ait It several new strains of cotton that, while having all the desirable qualities of the old types, product* a staple that Is almost a half longer. It is Just one branch of the general industry of plant breeding, and the result, as shown by the cotton Itself combed out In fleecy whiteness tin a black card, is a striking object lesson In tin* possibilities of plant breeding. Tin* Department lias been at the work for some years, and In tin* course of Its experiments has handled thou sands of samples and hundreds of thousands of Individual plants in mak ing the selections that are now con sidered good enough to be sent out as new lived types. The story of this Improvement Is a long one. Inter spersed with many disappointments But the result now Is success beyond contradiction. Northerners. people who live outside the cotton belt, do not realize just what a long staple cotton grown on the uplands means. Cotton Is our principal export crop. It Is the second most valuable crop grown Si tin Culled States, corn coming tirst. It Is the principal crop of ten states, and In large areas of those states it s almost the only crop grown. The Cillted States furnishes five sixths of the cotton crop of the whole world, and while there are great areas, espe cially in Africa, that are adaptable to cotton, there is no prospect that t fit* United States will be overtaken as a producer for many years to come. The world’s consumption of cotton and the consequent demand an* Increasing steadily, so that there Is liitje prosp«*ot of over-production. All these things are In our favor. Then comes the question of Improving this great crop. Outsiders do not realize that an eighth of an Inch on the 1 *ngth of the LOADING COTTON AT SAVANNAH. fiber in a cotton boll mean* a cent a |Hniud additional on the value of the crop. Now t>y careful brtvding and selection the Department of Agricul ture has produced cotton that runs from three-quarters of an inch to an Inch and a quarter loti iter than the parent plants from which it was pro- j dueed. This is not a freak growth, either. It Is an improvement that has developed Into a tlxed type, and is no ,n me presence o. a woman ...e iloui''^ more like the old upland cotton than it Is like Egyptian or Sea Island. SEEDS Ol*' NEW TYPES. The parent types from which it has boon evolved are listed and carried in the department's eolleotion, and each year as tin* fresh crops come in from tlx* Improved fields their output is carded for eomparison. These new types have now reached a point where tlx* department feels justified in send ing out tlx* new seed to the farmers. And if the farmers will take a little trouble and spend pr: -th-ally no money at all. they will be ab .* to keep up the improved strains so that in a few years tlx* American cotton crop will have been doubled in value with out necessarily expanding by a single acre. It has been tedious work, and lias been carried on systematically. “Score card ' such as are used in judging at stock shows are kept. The records of tlx* individual plants are known, the shape and opening quali ties oi the boll, the date of maturing, the length and firmness of tlx* cotton i fiber and the degree to which the ! parent plant may be depended upon to ! transmit its desirable qualities to its’ progeny. The work has been done in tlx* open Held and not in the care fully tended plots of the experiment | stilt ions. Thousands of plants have been destroyed each year, and only tlx* best types kept. These have again been weeded out the following year, and only the best of the breed have been kept. The farmers who have been co-operating with the de partment in the work have been as a rule careful, enthusiastic and pains taking under the direction of the ex perts sent into tlx* Held by till* depart ment, and slowly but surely the length of the staple and other desirable quali ties In the new cotton have* increased, till tlx* department now feels it has a new and llxed type that can be de pended on to perpetuate its desirable qualities. < Hie thing that has been carefully observed is to keep growing tile new types on tlx* ground where they will Im* cultivated commercially. There are several new strains adapted to slightly different conditions of soil and climate. It has been found Iti the ease of wheat, for example, that a strain may be Improved In one lo cality, and that by moving it to new surroundings It shows liule, If any. Improvement over tlx* local type. This error lias been avoided with the mjw A COTIOg HAM' i ■ iL BT SHI-Et'l ION. cotton, and the department not only i knows tin' seed that will give best results, but the condition of soil and climate that arc best suited to the re quirements of each strain. IK KAItMIiHS WILL HULP. The farmers at large can help great ly in keeping up tile work tlmt has been given a practical start by the tie- partmeut. There are simple methods j of seed selection that will insure a j steady Improvement in each successive crop, and that will prevent the crops from deteriorating. The selection of seed takes a little care and Intelli gence. but it is not deeply abstruse i work, and the department has reduced It to simple directions that are easy | for any planter to foil nv. The "cotton belt,” so called, In the 1 United States is clearly defined. Cot- ton is planted over the whole of it so that there is no large addition of range to the plant likely. It i* true that the acreage within the belt could possibly ' tv doubled, but that is not the thing the department is after. Good cotton land now yields 400 to SOO pounds to the acre. What the department would like is to see this yield doubled in value and in quantity. The founda tion for this increase isuow firmly laid, and if the planters will co-operate with the department to even a reasonable degree the value of the whole cotton crop In the United States can be vastly enhanced without planting a single additional acre, and there will still be enough land available In the cotton belt to assure the United States of its supremacy in the cotton world for many years to cotne. Creutn Sc/jurutur on the farm. It has been only a few years since the manufacturers of separators brought out band machines with the definite purposes of making them pop ular and selling them in large num bers, says the Farmer’s Wife In a well considered editorial. From that time to this they have gained friends, and now it is rare to hear anyone say anything against them, and when this does happen one may be sure it comes from some person who lias been in jured by their use, arid this is never the man who provides. The hand separator has so many advantages over the creamery sepa rator that the whole creamery busi ness is being revolutionized and re- i-1-i7 i• i.«.\*. itahnli: t ied t ion engine. modeled because of these handy little machines. It is hard to find a place to begin to enumerate their advantages. In the Item of traveling to the creamery there Is a great saving. Where the dairy owrner has one of these ma chines, he need not go to the cream ery more than three times a week in the warm weather and twice in a week during the colder months. When cream only Instead of the whole milk Is delivered to the cream ery, the item of hauling is reduced to its lowest limits. Say ten cans of milk a day is the product of a given dairy. Where a hand separator is used, haul- tug is reduced from taking the ten cans to the creamery every day to taking two cans of cream every other day. or three cans twice a week. The hand separator allows the dairyman to feed the skint milk to calves or pigs within q few minutes of the time it is drawn from the udder and before the natural animal heat leaves It. This saves warming the milk and allows its use wheu it is per fectly sweet and fresh. The hand separator saves hauling skim milk from the creamery to the farm, and it also saves the dairyman i from the risk of getting milk from dis eased cows to feed to his young stock. This Is not a great risk, to he sure, but it is worth considering. Tuber culous cows are frequently found In tills country, and probably there is hardly a creamery among the patrons of which no cows suffering from this disease could be found. If the dairyman is sure of his own cows, the hand separator saves him from the risk of getting tuberculous milk from the mixture in the milk vat at the creamery, from which he gets his skim milk when he delivers the whole u-lk. f The saving In work l* a large Item. - Instead of ten cans to care for ana keei' clean and free from germs, there | are only two. This saves labor and ! the investment of money In utensils. At the low price at which hand sepa rators an' sold, one will pay for itself | time and again before it wears out I on the various items of economy men j tioned above. Then' Is another Item. The hand separator !«► rapldlv bringing about the centralization of the creamery In dustry. (Team gathered from hand separators is now transported as fni ns 200 miles to the central creamery, and here It Is made into butter at much less cost than would be possible In the local creamery with a limited field in which to operate. This allows the creamery to pay a better price for butter fat and gives the dairyman more money from his cows. The man who keeps as few as five cows will find It to his advantage to buv a hand separator, especially if he makes butter on the farm, for In such a case the saving In work Is much greater than where • creamery takes the cream. so i brethren upon esrtW ™ 90 Slut tht-m. iV W UNITED STATES RECLAMATION. Plowing by Co-Operative Traction engines. By C. J. Blanchard. A million acres will be added to the cultiv stable area of the country during the next three years, under the various government irrigation projects. Most o£ this acreage is raw land upon which the plow has never turned a furrow. Thousands of new settlers will be lo cated there and for several years the principal work will be clearing, level ing, and plowing, to prepare the land to receive the water. Over vast stretches the sage brush is the only vegetation. In other places the bunch grass makes a tough sod, unyielding and hard to break. The subjugation to agriculture of this new empire has attracted the attention of the manufacturers of implements and machinery. They see in this work a virgin field for the products of their factories. As most of the settlers go ing upon this land are not in af fluent circumstances, and as feed for stock will be scarce and costly, any proposition which will eliminate the necessity for the purchase of horses, plows and forage will naturally prove interesting. It has occurred to the writer that In every one of these projects there is an excellent opportunity for the use of | powerful traction engines, accom panied by gang plows and harrows. These engines could be purchased and managed by a number of settlers or they could be operated by one man who would contract to do the work. Up in the Northwest- Territories a Michigan man is preparing to intro duce this method of custom plowing and cultivating. He is building a plow which will turn nine furrows, each fourteen inches wide, and with a trac tion engine which he has designed will plow 33 acres per day. He has already contracted for 2,700 acres at ?3 per acre for plowing, and expects to close arrangements for a much larger area. now TO noil) A POSITION. Courtesy* Promptness, Loyalty and Hard Work Are Keys to Success in Business. By H. J. HAPGOOD, President of Ilapgoods. TTow to hold a position? Do just as little work as you possibly can; take | no interest in the business; curse the i injustice of your employers when you see younger men advanced over your : head. By following these rules you may hold a position ten years, hnt the salary paid you and the responsibility ' placed upon you will be little if any 1 greater than when you started. But by holding a position we mean j something broader and better than this. We mean constantly Increasing your employer's satisfaction, steadily developing higher ability and surely advancing to larger and greater re sponsibility. My subject is then really “success in business." and this, like success of any kind. Is “untaught and uuteach able.” There are. however, certain valuable hints to be gained by study ing the careers of men who have suc ceeded. Although the paths by which these men have won success are wide ly different, there are certain features which stand out prominently In all of them. These I believe to be the es sentials for business success—prompt ness, courtesy, loyalty, hard work. Promptness is the key note in this age of hustle. Opportunity waits for | nobody, and the man who is always a : little behind time is playing a losing game. “Always there with the goods" is one of the highest tributes that can ; be paid a modern business man. “Having the goods" is the first con sideration. but this will avail little if you are not always there with them when wanted. In this connection a good story is told of Philip LX Armour and a young man who had just begun work for him. When on the first morning the | young man reached the office at 0 j o'clock, ho found his employer al ready there at work. The next morn ing at 8:30 and the following morning ! at S o'clock it was the same. At last, determined for once to l*e there first, the new clerk was there at 7 o’clock. When he walked into the office Mr. Armour looked up from his desk and grimly inquired: “Young man. where do you spend your forenoons?” Business hours are not usually as long as Mr. Armour made them, but whatever they are they are rigidly ob served. Five or ten minutes in the morning, trivial as it may be itself, is a pretty sure indication of the degree of promptness you will show in more important matters. “1 know of no investment more cer tain to pay large dividends than courtesy." said a successful business man the other day. and he spoke the truth. In the nerve-racking, endless rush of affairs, there is nothing which leaves a stronger impression than a pleasant word or a kind act. especially if it be something most men over look. Business courtesy is largely a matter of habit and is one of the I habits we can afford to cultivate. In the army and navy loyalty is an I essential for success and it is no less j so in the business world. Enthusiasm : and loyalty go band in band: a man j cannot be really interested in his work ! unless he has an employer to whom : he is loyal "There are many brighter i i ruwtu. Mi .ro» t men than he iu the service, but he stuck to them through thick and thin and they appreciate it." The fre quency with which men state this as a reason for success is significant. It shows that the man of the hour is the faithful man, the man who makes his employers’ interests his own and whose loyalty never wavers. Associated more or less with all these requisites and overshadowing them all is hard work. “For this," said I’resident James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad Company, "there is no substitute.” l'ou may be lacking in ability, in personality or some other way and still succeed; but if you have not the capacity for hard work you are doomed to failure. Study the lives of great men and you will see in ninety-nine eases out of a hundred, their achievements are due to the possession of this capacity. William E. Corey, the president of the United States Steel Corporation, attributes his first suecess to “not be ing afraid to do $2 worth of work for sl.” When a laborer he wheeled so much more iron than the other work men that he was soon made foreman over them. 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