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BY STAFF OF GA. STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Andrew M. Soule, President.
A worn-out farm of rolling ana
washed land, in 1008, yielded, an in
come of $2,757.24. By following tho
plans outlined by the College of Ag
riculture tho income was increased
to $8,581.40 in 1912. Good judges of
the increased value of the farm for
agricultural purposes claim that the
enhancement in this respect has been
at 4 least $'5,000, Starting with practi
cally nothing in the way of live stock,
a herd of cattle has been developed
that is worth about. $10,2G5.
Tho record of this farm has been
kept in a thoroughly business-like
way, as will be revealed by the fol
lowing Items of receipts and expendi
tures for the year 1912:
Receipts.
Dairy products $5,099.44, farm prod
ucts $3,401.97; total $S,581.41.
Expenditures.
Labor $3,588.85; fertilizers $979.80;
foodstuffs (chiefly cotton seed meal)
$1,300.50; dairy equipment $447.84 ;
miscellaneous for repairs, etc.,
$704.62; total $0,855,889.
Permanent improvements, including
building and repairs, tools and imple
ments, live stock totaled $4,081. All
told the expenditures for both main
tenance and permanent Improvements
for tho year ahiounted to $10,874,47,
while the receipts and the valuo of
the permanent improvements amount
to $13,321.83, leaving net^eavnings for
the year’s operations $2,240.30/
The Whole farm consists of 830
acres. The area devoted to crops in
1911-12 was 333 acres not including
pastures. Of the 333 acres 80 were
devotep to cow peas and sorghum for
hay, 35 acres to peas and soy beans
for soil improvement, 65 acres to oats
grain, 40 acres to vetch and crimson
clover for soil improvement, 15 acres
to cotton, 40 acres to corn for grain
and 48 acres to corn and sorghum for
silage. Each year an added area of
the farm will bo‘improved and placed
under permanent cultivation. Mean
while the fertility of cutlivated acre
age will he built up. The farm is,
therefore, in fair way to increase the
returns each year.
This is the way the College of Agri
culture is practicing what it preaches.
The farm referred to is the College
farm. What has been accomplished
Is an example of what can be done
on thousands of worn-out farms of
Georgia, by use of modern, scientific
methods df agriculture.
BY STAFF OF GA. STATE COLS,EGE OF AGB1CDLT0KE
In Powers' ElSiitlS.
GRAZING CROP FOR HOGS.
M. P. Jarnagin, Professor of Animal
Husbandry.
Inquiry—What are good grazing
crops for hogs?
For spring and summer planting,
Canadian peas sown February 1 and
Burt oats sown'March 1, each costing
about $4 per acre, will afford from 20
to 40 days of grazing at the rate of
15 hogs to the acre. Rape (Dwarf-Es-
sex) sowed at the rate of from 4 to
6 pounds to the acre February or
April 1, at a cost of from 40 to 60
cents per acre will produce pasture
from 40 to 60 days at the rate of 10
hogs to the acre, Chufas, three-
fourths of a bushel to an acre, sow
ed March 15 or June 1 at a cost of
$4 per acre, will graze four hogs to
the acre from 90 to 120' days. Cow
peas (early and late varieties), one-
half bushel to the acre sown April
20 and June 30 at a cost of $1.50 per
acre will afford pasture 30 days, for
12 hogs to the acre. Soy beans (early
and late varieties) sown April, 20
and June 30 at $1.50 per acre will pas
ture 15 hqgsjJ per ' acre ; for 30 to 40
days. Spanish peanuts planted in
hills 1 1-2 bushel to. the acre at $3
per acre will pasture 30 hogs per
CITATION
GEORGIA—Grady County:
To whom it may concern John W. Mills
having made application, to me in due
form to be appointed permanent admin
istrator upon the estate of Mrs. Jane,
Mills late of suid county, notipe is here
by given that said application will ‘be
heard at the regular term of the court of
Ordinary for said county to be.held on
the first Monday in April 1.913'
Witness my hand and offecialsignature
This 3rd. day of March 1913.
P. II. Herring
Ordinary.
acre from 30 to 40 days. One-half a
bushel of sorghum seed and one bush
el of peas sown together May 1 or
June 30 at $3 per acre will pasture 20
hogs per acre for 35 or 50 days. Crim
son .clover, 15 pounds, and sorghum,
one-half bushel, sown July 1 or Au
gust 1, at $3 per acre, will afTord graz
ing for 150 to ISO days for five hogs
per acre.
For fall planting, mix one bushel
rye, 15 pounds vetch, io pounds crim
son clover, sow August 15 or Novem
ber 1 at a cost of $3.50 per acre and
150 days of grazing for five hogs per
acre will be obtained. Rape sown at
rate of from 4 to 6 pounds per acre
September 1 or November 1 at a cost
of from 40 to GO cents per acre will
furnish grazing for 10 hogs per acre
for 30 days. Twelve pounds of Bur
clovers sowed September 1 or October
1 at a cost of $2.40 per acre will fur
nish pasturage for 150 days for five
hogs to the acre, white clover sowed
four pounds to the acre October 1 at
$1 per acre will pasture seven hogs
for 150 days. Oats, two bushels, and
vetch, 10 pounds, sown together Sep
tember 12,01' October 15 dt $2.50 per
acre will pasture five hogs to the acre
for 150 days. Oats, two bushels, and
rape, 6 pounds, sown October 15 at
$2.25 will pasture six hogs..per acre
for 150 days.
OLD PAPERS
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call at this office. We nave
millions of them. 25c the
hundred.
Adrianople and Aegean Islands to Be
Signed Away" to’ the Allitfe—Bulga
rians Have Also Made Mistakes, Ac
cording to Vienna , Correspondent.
Home Rule Movement Afoot In Syria.
Loudon.—There is confirmation from
many important sources of the report
that in regard to the peace negotia
tions Turkey is putting herself in. the
bunds of the powers. So far as is
known, tiie porte has not yet embodied
a request of this kind in tbo form of
•an oilicinl note, but through the am
bassadors at the capital the powers
have been asked unreservedly for me
diation.
A correspondent at Vienna In con
firming this statement says the Turks
are now decidedly worse off than when
Klamil Pasha, the former grund rlzier,
accepted the proposals of the powers
in regard to the surrender of Adriano
ple and the submission of the question
of the Aegean islands to the European
governments.
This writer snys: “The Young Turks,
however, ncused Klamil Pnsbn of trea
son and foully assassinated their owu
friend, Nazim Pasha. They declared
A new enemy to the' cotton pro
ducers of Georgia is at. hand and we
must prepare to meet him. Those who
believe he will not come are mistaken
since he has marched steadily across
the country from Texas to "within six
ty miles of the western border of the
state. The fight against thp boll wee
vil which Georgia fanners must wage
will of necessity be made with meth
ods found most efficient in those
states where the enemy is being
fought.
It behooves our farmers to be think
ing along these lines. It is essential
that they know the truth. To be mis
led by false reports or misrepresenta
tions would be suicidal. In fighting
tile boll weevil, the farmer must insti
tute modern practices. First, he must
plow ancL cultivate his soil and pre
pare his seed bed with greater care
and skill than he has ever done be
fore. Second, he must understand as
completely as possible the needs of
his soil in the way of supplemental
plant food, so as to stimulate a rapid
and uniform growth of the crop and
Its maturity at the earliest possible
date. Third, he must select and grow
early maturing varieties of cotton
which are as strongly resistant to dis
ease as possible. Fourth, he must ro
tate his crops—this is absolutely as-
sential. Fifth, he should destroy by
And rev/ M. Soule, President,
deep plowing the old cotton stalks
early in tlje. fall and he must clean up
tho fence; rows and other places
where tho weevil may hibernate.
This is of. utmost importance, Sixth,
the first spares which fall should be
picked and burned.
The successful fight against the
boll weevil depends absolutely on the
adoption of the, most up-to-date meth
ods of farming. The farmers of
Southwest Georgia should immediate
ly emphasize the production of live
stock, the growth of winter cereals
and legumes such as the cow peh, vel
vet bean and the peanut. Sorpe of
them are doing this and their exam
ple should be emulated by others.
1 Those who are following the meth
ods outlined above, and who will im
mediately put into practice the sug
gestions made, will be as well pre
pared as possible, to meet the advent
of the weevil, These are the only
methods which have been found prac
tical In boll weevil territory. It is
useless for farmers to look to other
than educational Institutions and to
the service which the extension dem
onstration work of the State College
of Agriculture and the U. S. Departs
ment of Agriculture, so well organ
ized In this state, can bring to their
aid in successfully overcoming the
ravages of the weevil.
V ,
KIAMIt, PASHA.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Services the Second and Fourth
Sabbath, 11 a. m. and 8 n. m.
Sabbaths school, every Sabbath,
10 a. m.
B, R. Anderson, Pastor
that they would cede neither Adrlnno-
ple nor the islands. Today, however,
they are suing abjectly for the inter
cession of the powers nud are offering
in return not only Adrianople and 'the
islands, but also independent of tiie
will of tbe Ottoman state they are un
dertaking in ndvapee-to accept unhesi
tatingly any terms which Christian Eu
rope thinks lit to make for them.
. "No such self abasing decision lias
ever been taken by a normal nation
since tbe first chapter of European his
tory was written. No wonder the re
form party and the Military league
are moving heaven and earth to put
a speedy and definite eud to n regime
which has brought tho Ottoman em
pire and the Turkish race to such a
hopeless plight.’’
The writer says ho Is Informed from
USES OF LIME IN GEORGIA.
Jno R. Fain Professor of Agronomy.
Inquiry—What results have been
obtained in your experiments with
lime In Georgia?
Lime has been used on the demon
stration field at the College at the
rate of 2,000 pounds of burned llpe
per acre for corn. The soil ranges
from a Cecil ySandy loam to a Cecil
clay.
No Lime Lime
1910— 28.9 61.5
1912— 45.3 54.S
Av. 37.1 53.2
Increase from the use of lime 16.1
bushels.
It will be noted here that the re
sults Of 1910 are very much more
marked than they are in 1913. The
application of lime was also tested at
five different points In north Georgia
and six different points in south Geor
gia the past year with the average
results of an increase of 8.2 bushels
corn per acre in north Georgia and
2.4 bushels in south Georgia. In th}s
case the lime was used at tho rate of
1,500 pounds of burned lime /In north
Georgia and 1.000 nounds burned lime
in south Georgia. In south Georgia
1,000. pounds of burned lime were also
used on cowpehs, giving an increase
of from 240 to 1320 pounds of cowpea
hay per acre with an average > amount
of 770 pounds. As a rule rather bet
ter results were obtained with the
fertilizers where lime was used than
where it was not used with the corn.
IMPORTANT BULLETINS FREE.
•The Georgle State College of Agri
culture has Issued during the past
few months several very important
bulletins, which will be sent to any
farmer on application. These bulle
tins treat of matters of greatest in
terest and importance to the Georgia
farmer. The “Utilization of Cotton
Seed Meal as Feed,” "Hog Cholera
and Preventive Serum,” “Boys’ Com
Club Work, 1912,” “Cotton Experi
ments for 1912,” “Lime and Us Uses,
in Georgia,” “Outlines of Extension
School Lectures,” ‘‘Girls’ .Club Work,”
In Georgia, 1912,” are their titles. The
bulletin on "Outlines of Extension
School -Lectures’ Is a veritable hand
book .of useful information poncerning
modern farming and should be In the
hands -.r every farmer In the state.
authorized Tm-aisn .sources that the
civil administration and the army are
honeycombed with conspiracies. l The
cabinet, which when peace Is conclud
ed and Adrianople signed away, if not
before, will be swept from tho political
scene and those responsible for the nag
tlonal disasters will receive condign
punish inept. Other and more formlda-
nble dangers will he created In Syria,
where a home rule movement is being
started. .
This writer Is equally severe In his
criticisms of tho allies, especially Bul
garin. for in a foolhardy wn.v rejecting
tho advice of the powers, and the Bul
garians, lie says, wjll now have to
forego their hopes of dictating terms
to the Turks and will Imve to place
themselves in the hands of the powers.
CITATION
GEORGIA Graly County:
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has apptie:l to the Ordinary of
said county for leave to sell land belong
ing to the estat' ( f Calb Dekle for the
payipent of debus and distribution, Said
affication will' bq. .heard at. the reglilar.
term of court of Ordinary for.said-'Coun
ty to bo held on the first Monday in April
1913; ■ " ■
I; Mrs. J. A. Deltlc adminestranx upon '
the estate of Caleb Dekle. ■
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