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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO. Ghuku*«.
FARM DEPARTMENT
Conducted by P, H. Ward, Farm Demonstration Agent
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OUR OAT SPECIAL
we *Uko feel sure that each aero of
Hint 1 a ml is lifter t Inin it was boforo
tlu! oats were planted.
C. A. VANDUZEE.
Plant Oats.
1 Plant Oats Early.
Plant Oats on good land.
Plant oats on land that is well pre
pared.
Plant oats on cotton stall: land.
Swat the weevil. '
Plant onts with a drill if possible,
other methods will give good results
but this is best.
Plant oats on land that has been
all plowed and well harrowed, an
extra good harrowing will be well
paid for in the yield of oats.
Plant oats and increase the supply
of home grown feed to where we will
not have to depend on the west as
our corn crib.
Plant home grown oat seed always.
You may make a crop of oats with
seed that you do not know where
they wore grown but the chunces aro
crtninly against you.
Form a club nil'your neighborhood
and buy a binder to harvest your
oats if you do not grow enough to
have a binder of your own. It is out
of date now to cut oats tyith a orudlo,
You can’t afford it,
Plant More Oats
Our first purpose in devoting the
Farm Apartment this month to onts
is to arouse an increased interest in
Qrady County to this important crop.
Without any regard to the boll weevil
the oat crop deserves very much more
attention than the most of our farm
ers have been giving it, and now that
the weevil is present with liis efforts
that can no longer he ignored, the
oat crop should become a large fac
tor in the re-adjustment of things to
meet the changed conditions.
It needs no argument to prove the
value of oats on the farm. They ore
good for all animals, including man,
to eat. The farm that is abundantly
supplied with nil or.t crop, does not
have to worry over trie high eost of
western feeds.
Oats ean .be grown more cheaply
and with less labor than almost any
crop that w know of, and with the
added fact .that they will grow and
mature almost between other crops,
it ought to be a very evident fact that
they are a necessary factor in the
ecomieal plunning of a farm adminis
tration. ■
On land that is thoroughly prepnr-’
ed and seeded enrly in the season to
seed known to be reliable there is no
crop that we enn grow with so little
chance of failure as the oat crop.
And if followed, as they should al
ways be, by a lgmne crop that will
so quickly improve our soils.
Possibly one reason that oats have
not been more largely grown by our
small fnrmers is because of thp ex-
pensivenoss of the proper machiney
for planting and harvesting. It ought
not to be hard in most communities
to arrange among several farmers
to own drills and binders together. 1
Threshing mnehinos can always lie
secured to come and thresh the.oats
for a toll.
The suuccessful growing of oats re
quires land free of stumps, but ns
that is a prerequisite of good farm
ing any way, that should not lie mi
•argument against, oat planting.
In order lo mke this issue of real
worth to our farmers we sent re
quests to a number of men who have
been successful oat growers in this
and other sections asking them for n
contribution for publication this
week. Several- of these hnv been un
able for various reasons to respond,
but we are glad to give the splendid
articles that follow. They are full
of splendid suggestions, and if you
will read them all carefully we feel
that your interest in this great crop
will be intensified, and that oatfi year
in Qrady County will mark a great
increase in the acres of green that
cover our fields in winter find in the
biishols of grain that bulge our cribs
in summer. ■
Rend nil the articles) that we are
printing in this issue, then resolve
to get some of your best land well
propared for seeding to outs in Octo
ber and November, ... 1
A Message from Judge H.
C. Hammond of Augusta
Mr. D, L. Williams,
Cairo, Qi,.
•My dear Mr. Williams’
i In reply to your esteemed favor of
the 12th., let me explain that 1 have
been out of tin; city since Sunday,
I take a great deal of pleasure in
making this dolnyod reply, though 1.
hope it will he in time to help you in
your splendid work for your section.
I remember with much pleasure meet
ing you in Atlanta. You are at lib
erty to use pnst ns you please the
enclosed. Cut it up or cut it down,
just ns you like. My interest in
your section of the country is very
grout and 1 hope to visit it some day
ere long. 1 will lake your suggs,tion
njbf<ut mentioning' the plnnting of
pens in connection with my oat crop.
How I wish, my good friend, you
could see for yourself the picture
tlmt is exhibited in my eighty acre
oat field today. The shocks of pen
vines, put with a push rnke, look like
some army encampment, I write hur
riedly but gratefully, and you will
find mg always anxious to co-operate
with you in any move for the better
ment of Georgia.
Very, truly yours,
HENRY C. HAMMOND.
would find in them u joy and profit
of which he had never dreamed.
Sifieerely hoping that your issue
of the ,26th, will stir the fnrmers
of Qrady County on this vital ques
tion of Winter grown grain and for
age, I am, sir, with respect and es
teem,
Very truly yours,
HENRY C. IIAMMON.
Editor The Grady County Progress.
My dbar sir:
The progress and the wonderful
promise of your now County and the
section.of the State in w;hioh it is
located, is today one of the most in
teresting fntures in Georgin develop
ment. No prophet should dare sot a
limit to the agricultural possibili
ties of the soil and climate which is
yours. The queston of sucess is not
one of soil, climate nr location, hut
of the capacity and determination of
your people tq mnko the most of
their resources. I am specialy de
lighted, and I warmly congratulate
you and ftran on your effort to create
interest in diversified forming. Wfie-
thor your people willingly would take
thus step, the boll weevil is a neces
sity which demands it. The great
meat pnekers of the country have
stated that the most promising sec
tion of the entire country for beef
and bacon in South Georgia. Your
wonderful Summer .pastures and
crops—lending the latter, corn, peas,
peanuts and beans—menns a source
of animal food supply which is un
surpassed in any section. But I
want to urge upon you the utiliza
tion of that long season between the
harvesting of these crops and their
planting again in the Spring. My
advice to you is grow "oats, grow
onts. Plant it in the Fall time, and
in your section ‘ from October 10th,
to November 20th. Oats planted on
good land; oats planted with a reas
onable amount of fertilizer; oats
grpwn from a good native seed that
you know about. Oats, are the White
Man’s crop. Oats, more, than corn
and wheat, have put the great North
west ahead of us as an agricultural
country. Oats are the cheapest
means of getting your grain and
forage for work stock, cattle and
dairy cows. Oats are far and away
the surest crop you can plant. Oats
require no hoeing or plowing. You
sow and you reap. I have been grow
ing Seed Oats exclusively on , my
farm of one hundred acres for'the
past fifteen years. I have never lost
a crop. I have peifeeted a Southern
Seed Onl, .prueliealiy free from
beuids:. cold resistant, drought re
sistant. n wondai-IT.l yieller, and two
weeks earlier than Texas or Appier
tuts. I re-nlean and grade all my
seed and these nre treated Vor smut.
No farmer in your section should
pluut a seed of Western or Northern
onts about which he knows nothing
ami which is not suited to his sec
tion. You enn absolutely secure
a seed of oats that is rust proof,
stnnt proof, a heavy yielder and free
from all grass and weed seed. I am
profoundly interested in stirring up
pur Georgia fnrmers on the oat prop
osition. It mentis so niuch to them.
It conflicts with no other crop. If i s
in line with and helpful to all other
crops. If only the South'Georgia
farmer would give, I shall suy, one-
teuth of the thought and labor to oats
that he does to corn and cotton, he
A Card From Mr. Sasser
The Progress which is doing so
much for progress in our county,
has requested that I say a few words
in regard to the valno and essen
tials of success with ont crop. Lund
that yields 25 bushels of corn per
acre will ordinarily, yield from 30 to
40 bushels of onts and the cost of
production is a great deal loss. We
ago fast becoming a stock raising
county. If we attain the success we
should in this line of business, onts
are absolutely essential here. All
young:stock need muscle making ma
terial and onts is our only hope for
supplying this element. The rules
of success mny be summed up under
five heads:
1. Always plant in the fall, Octo
ber and November nre best here.
Moro people fail with onts on this ac
count than any other. My experience
is that the yield is almost doubled by
plnnting in the fall. Plant with driil
if possible but broad east is alright:
2. Plant a homy grown rust-proof
variety, such ns the Appier or Ban
croft. If the crop is large, plant two
varieties, Fulghum for the second.
It does not make ns much grain as
the later maturing varieties, but it
enables one to distribute his work
over u little longer ppriod of time.
3. Trent ont seed to prvent smut.
Next to spring planting and rust,
smut is our most serious enpmy, The
treatment :is simple and very inex-
pejisive. Any druggist will give you
Hie /-particulars-. - • •
4. Plant in fair to good soil. In
normal times, 200 pounds of neid
phosphate . might lie advisable at
planting time and a top dressing of
100 to, 150 pounds of nitrate of soda
about March first, but'not at. pres
ent prices.
5. Grow a legume crop after the
onts. This is by far the most im
portant of all the rules. Cow pen*,
are my preference but lespedezn is a
very promising crop for that pur
pose.
J. M. SASSER.
Card from Dr. C.A. VanDuzee
It is pretty generally understood
today, in Grady county, that we
can’t hope to make as much cotton
as we did before the boll weevil
came here, and»we have gat-to make
some changes.
I think there nre ninny of my
neighbors who will admit that two
years ago the land on .-ur farm was
pretty well run doeii, i.nd I know
that all of you would rather hear
one short story of what we have
done, than a lot of things about what
wo hope to do.
Last year we put a little stable
manure and a light application of
'commercial fertilizer under three and
a half acres of early corn, and drill
ed cow pens in the middles when wo
laid it by. We, out the corn off and
fed ?! to our hogs.
Last fall we piowod the whole of
the pen vines under, nfter picking the
peas and sowed it to Fulghum oats.
.3 his spring we threshed one hun
dred and seventy-five and one-fourth
bushels of number one odts, from
the three and a half acres, and after
giving the thresher ten per cent for
threshing, we sold the rest of the onts
in Cairo for fifty-three cents a bush
el.
Now that same piece of ground
is ready to, begin picking pens again,
and the vines will be piowod under
again this fall. The next step will
be to plant Fulghum oats. That is
the whole story, but if anyone thinks,
he can do the same trick by wait
ing until Christmas to plant liis oats,
or that he can be careless about
leaking his land or harrowing it, or
doing any part of his work, he will
surely hnvo missed the point.
Wo figure that after paying for
everyitem of eost, in cash, for labor,
seed and threshing that we have over
Card from W,C. Jones
Mr. Editor:
I mu very glad Hint you are to
give to the people an oat edition at
this distinctively important time. The
boll-weevil is hero and he is liere to
<tny. Our great grandsons will ho
battling with this giant pest. There
nre (joins few that don’t believe there
is such a thing ns u hull weevil, hut
it will he but n short time till th
will he easy to be convinced. A
friend from Glenwood, Ain., writes;
“The boll weevil 1ms ruined the cot
ton crop here and nil over Alabama.
It will take from 10 to ,30 acres to
make a hale. Gloomy pjospeets
the farmers.” If Mexico hud invad
ed our nation, with an army of
every available man, from 10 to (10,
they oonld never hnvo done us the
damage that this army of pests
doing. Now the thing is to crush him
not with folded hoods and cries of
pity, but with an energy that will
defeat the strongest foe. We must
diversify crops. We enn’t drop cot
ton entirely, that would bring a dis
astrous panic, hut raise it under boll
weevil conditions, and crop divers!
fiontion. This line of thought would
lend us out into pages, hut we must
be more specific, “Plant more onts,”
should bu.ono of our strongest slog
ans. It is one of our most profitable
crops. I am sorry to say there nre
very few oat fnrmers in our coun
ty. The majority of our fnrmers
make no preparation to plant onts.
They sow a few acres in January or
February nfter syrup ranking is over
in some discarded spots that they
don’t want to cultivate. One acre
of oats, well fertilized in good land,
plnnted in October before syrup-mak
ing, is worth-10 acres planted the
last of January, without care or fer
tilizer.
Let me make a suggestion to the
small farmer, like myself. Put a
good sprinkling of stable, or eow
farm manure on an acre, or two of
your best land, with 200 to 300 lbs.
of neid phosphate to the neve and
drill in at least 2 bushels of good
seed onts to the acre the last of Oc
tober nt least, anil yop will have
no erop that will pay you better.
You enn put a second erop, if yon
desire. Put -some of your onts at
least on' good land.
Do you know’ the champion ont
crop of Georgin, was 2 acres of
onts, grown in Grady county by the
writer, 22fl 1-2 bushels of apple
oats on 2 acres. They wore harvest
ed in 1915, (reported in your homo
paper and in Southern Cultivator)
followed with sw’oet , potatoes as
second erop, from which was hous
ed 665 bushels besides the gleanings
for hogs.
Plant more oats. Plant some of
your best land. Plant every nook
and corner. Plant for winter-cover
crops and for grazing and you will
be delighted.
W. C. JONES.
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For Represenative
To the white voters of Grady Co:
The many friends of Capt. J. F.
Stone hereby wish to announce
his candidacy for representative
from Grady County in the next
General Assembly, subject to the
State Primary, called for Septem
ber 12th, next.
If the people sec fit to honor
Capt. Stone with this responsible
trust, he is pledged to represent
faithfully the interest of all the
people and use his every effort'in
furthering their best interests.
He is not the candidate of any
interest or faction but Relieves in
Grady county, her people and his
state, and will do what he can by
hiB influence and vote to favor
such measures as will mean the
greatest good to the greatest num
ber of Georgia’s citizenship.
We urge the people to give Capt
Stone their support as we krjow
him to be well qualified to render
acceptable service to us.
Very Respectfully,
. Friends of J. F. STONE.
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