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FARM DEPARTMENT
by P. H. Ward, Farm Demonstration Agent
Conducted
Plnn.
Plant. • •
Plant little cotton.
Plant lots of corn.
Plant, some peanuts. ,
Plant a crop of pigs.
Plant, velvet beans.
Plant somo peanuts foe,your hogs.
Plant every thing that something
will cat.
Plnn to get ahead of the boll
weevil.
Plan to make your lands rich
and productive.
Plan to help in tho work or pre
venting damage to -this county
next fall by the failure of a big
cotton crop due to the work of the
boll weevil.
Now is the time to decide wheth
cr or not you are going to grow a
few irish potatoes for tho early
market, prices arc sure to be high
this season for good potatoes,
have locked up in them stores
plant food that need to be turned
loose before they can benefit grow
ing crops, and one thing that bett
er farming must do is to learn how
to unlock this store house of plant
food. It- must lenrn to plow deep
when the soil is not too wet, and
theft It must learn to disentegrato
the deeply plowed soil by frequent
southern country an industry that
is going to menn far. more to the
permanent prosperity of the section
than would the discovery of gold.
We mean the preparation of ground
feeds from products grown on the
farms of this and other neighbor
ing states.
When we stop to calculate' the
amount of corn and velvet beans
harrowing. Then too it must the amount of peanuts and peanut
Speed the plows and harrows.
We believe that one or two good
harrowings aro sorntimes worth
about as much as a liberal appli
cation of fertilizer.
Good farming will certainly not
qndorscjthe practice of plowing up
and burning cotton stalks .that. We
see followed by some. All vegeta
ble matter not taken off the land
for sale should by nil means he
plowed into the land again to help
in the increase of tho supply of
humus in the soil.
Dwarf Essex Rape sown now on
good land in drills will give you
several weeks of good grazing. A
little later early varieties of cow
pens and cat tail millet will make
gooil grazing.
S» iTgkc care of . the pigs. Tho old
idea of lotting them tough if out
through the summer is becoming
•less 'fashionable. Hogs will pay
well for the attention that, you give
them.
Dip that Tick. This should he
tno slogan in Grady county for
1017: There is no good reason wKy
the county shall not he free of ticks
by the close of this year.
With tho county free of ticks
and with the farmers growing more
and more feed stuff's for cattle there
is no reason why Grady shall not
come to'the front as a cattle coun
ty-
Plan to make some one thing
about your farm home more attrac
tive this year. If you • cannot do
all you wish to do you can at least
get into your mind an ideal toward
which to workf Our farm homes
. ’ arc not as attractive as they should
be. Make ft start this year toward
better surroundings. It pays.
BETTER FARMING
The average farmer if you were
to speak to him about better farm
ing would likely have n vision of a
few more tons of commercial fort Ti
ers hauled out from town and with
a lot of laborious work 'distributed
unde r his crops. Maybe he. might
go so far as to decide that he tnust
work his crops a little more often
.than is now his custom.. Or it
may lie that the notion of better
forming takes the form of a desire
to leave the poor land that he is
now tilling and go to some place
where the soil is fertile,-and where
nil one has to do to harvest bump
er crops is to place the seed in the
soil.
But better farming as it must
prevail, in Grady county before our
, S oils begin to give yields commen
surate with their possibilities means
a whole lot more than either of
these things.
Better farming means first' of all
lenrn that however well the tneeh
anical part of the work is done
that there is still something more
necessary before this unlocking of
the plant food is complete. There
must he going on in the soil the
work of various little creatures
that' we call bacteria. These al
ways thrive best where there is
pretent plenty of decaying veget
able* mutter usually referred tons
humus, so better farming must
lenrn that besides deep plowing and
plenty of harrowing that it must
also incorporate with the soil just
as much decaying vegetation as
possible.
Some forms of humus are better
supplied with the useful bacteria-
than others so .better farming will
study to find just what form of
humus are most economically
supplied.- While stable manure is
one of the very best forms of hu-
mus'it will he tho part of good
farming to find wether it is the
most economical fur any particu
lar existing, condition.
The keeping of livestock is a
necessajy part of better farming
and the one striving for better
farming will have to determine just
what kinds of live stock and how
much.will be kept, and how much
of feed given them wijl be pro
duced and how muen may he safe
ly bought in the form of concen
trates. -
This is just touching in the high
places a few of the ‘ things that
better fanning will have to con
sider. But a few ’ of the things
will never he done . under better
farming, that we now see done
cvrey day in Grady county are
that nil the vegetation possible
such ns weeds and grass, cotton
stalks..corn stalks and like things
will not he burned off until the
land is skinned clean r than the
pate of a hall headed man, it will
no the sown in January and Feb
ruary on unprepared land, scratch
ed in with turn shovels with never
the thought of a harrow. Corn
will not be planted on land that
has never been plowed more than
three or four inches deep and which
has never so much as made the
acquaintance of a harrow. Crops
will not he worked under the three
weeks rule and without thought
to the servation of the soil
moisture. Huge snips will not be
spent for commercial fertilizers
While no effort is, made to grow
any of the legumes that gather the
highest priced fertilizer from the
air and store it up in the soil for
the use of the next crop,
Grady county has a lot of farm
ers who are already doing better
farming, and tjianks to the boll
weevil wo believe their number is
fast growang, but there yet remains
much to be hoped for in the meth
ods of many of the farmers of
Giady county. We trust they will
wake up to the real need for better
methods of farming and that ere
long we may have in reality a
county that is in. all essentials
actually doing Better Farming,
hay, the amouna of oats followed
by cow pea hay that we can pro-
dued on an acre of our soil and
then figure the feeding value of the
feed produced from this if propci ly
ground and mixed, we can begin to
get some glimpse of the possibili
ties that lay in this direction.
The matter is as yet in a chao
tic condition, only here and there
has a little been done in tile direc
tion of taking advantage,of the full
value of the products of our'soil in
those rich legumes, but the leaven
is at work and it does not take so
mncli of a profit to realize that
this country of ours down here
where the winters are mild, and the
summers are not too hot is • going
to before very long become one of
the leading live stock sections of
the country. Of course the things
we hnvc mentioned above are not
nil that we will plant and grow but
we merely mention these as indica
ting some of the things that are
striking in their possibilities of de
velopment.
We do 1 not want to see this
county upset next fall by the injury
of the boll weevil. We want to see
our farmers for once be willing to
he told without having to he shown.
But even if worst comes to worst,
the saying that we have been,hcar-
ing that the weevil is a blessing in
disguise is going to prove to he
true of this county, for as surely as
our farmers realize that'they can
not continue to grow big acreages
in cotton they are going to turn to
these other crops that are going to
give them more direct profits and
at the same time are going to build
up the fertility of their land. It js
no idle saying that tho section
without live stock is not a perma
nently prosperous farming country.
As we said at the beginning of this
article the legume corps of this
southern country with all that they
are going to bring along with them
in the way of better farming is go
ing to mean very much more for
permanent well doing than
BETTER THAN A GOLD
MINE.
ggoqls, Raw gyou|(| pfio»pliato
(lops pot become quickly available
qnd is of little or no value on clean
cultivated lands. It is perhaps of
more value when spread in horse
stables once a week a3 the acid in
the manure releases Hie phosphor
ic converting it into soluble plant
food. Acid phosphate is made by
acidulating raw phosphate rock
with sulphuric acid. The loltcr by
Prof, Worsham explains why raw
ground rock is of practically in
value. Any farmer can obtain eir
culm-no. 20 by writing Prof. Jm_
R. Fain, Stutp College of'AgVieul-
turo, Athens, Ga. This circular
treats on the use of- this material.
I hope no farmer in my county will
he decievcd by some traveling agent
who is hunting money.
Yours Sineerly
P. H. Ward
J u n Ik
would the discovery of gold.
Sugar Cane Seed
Here in Georgia where our sugar
cane only grows one year we are
apt to overlook the fact that in its
tropical home it blooms and hears
seed just as all other grasses do.
The seed stalk of the Cane looks
very much like the’ tassel of the or
dinary cat tail found in our ponds
here. Col. S. P. Gain on his return
from his recent trip to Cuba
brought with him a part of a stalk
of l he cane grown over there and
also one of the seed stalks. He
has given these to the Progress and
they can.be seen by any one who
would like to sec just what onreane
fields would look like if tho frost
did not come to stop their growth.
Athens, Ga., Jan. 10, 1017.
Dear Sir;
On account of the scarcity of
certain fertilizer matt rial and the
high'price of raw material used in
the manufacture of others, the fert
ilizer situation is abnormal and
substitutes are being offered with
claims that may lie misleading.
Ground phosphate rock is one of
the substance that, is being much
advertised and some of those adver
tisements claim as much forground
phosphate rock as acid phosphate
and other carriers of ava'lable
phosphoric acid.
Ground phosphate rock has a
place in our agriculture for the
gradual and permanent improve
ment of soil fertility, hut the phos
phoric add which it contains is not
immediately available,’ and there
fore, it cannot, he substituted for.
the available.forms. How it may
be used is fully discussed in Circu-
ar No. 29 issued by Prof. John 11.
Fain, of'the State College of Agri
culture.
The object of this letter is (o
call your attention to facts about
purchasing ground phosphate rock.
The finely ground rock is put on
the market under the name of
floats; phoslirqc. and other trade
names. This is the same material
from which acid phosphate is made.
The only difference being that the
finely'ground rock when treated
with sulphuric acid is called acid
phosphate in which tho phosphoric
acid is valuable.
High grade phosphate rock eon-
taiug twice as much phosphoric
acid ns acid phosphate, and it
would he twice as valuable if the
phosphoric acid was equally avail
able in the two substancesr ’ This
is not the case for acid phosphate
contains only about, 10 per cent
available phosphoric acid, while
the rock phosphate conlnins prac
tically none. )
There are several sources of
phosphate rock, njainly, South
Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.
The,rock from the different sources
differ somewhat in physical pro
perties, hut chemically they are all
the same, being phosphoric acid
combined with lime, iron and
alumina, They vary in composi
tion from 18 to 40 per cent of
phosphoric acid. Those witlvlower
per cents being contaminated with
clay and other useless substances,
Those with much iron and alumina
are loss desirable, for the phos
phoric acid combined ‘with these
substances is far liioro insoluble
than that combined .with lime and
cannot he expected to become
available even in years. The more
finely t|ic rock is ground the more
readily will the phosphoric aciif
become available. .
' Rock Phospate
some understanding of the prin-
If the announcqjnentwere made
in the papers of South Georgia that
gold had been discovered in our
sand clay soils of this section there
would be the greatest excitement
and there would be an inrush of
people from other sections. But
there is just opening up iu this
We publish in this issue a letter
from Mr. W. A. Worsham’ Profess
or of Agricultural Chemistry at the
State College of Agriculture. I
learned at the Meeting of Demon
stration Agents, that certain fcrt ;
ilizer agents had been touring
Georgia selling raw ground phos
phate rock at an exhofbitant prices
and dccieving tne farmers by tell
ing them them it would take the
place of acid phosphate. I there'
fore feel it my duty as County A-
gent. to warn the farmers of Grady
County against these fraudulent
Whatever claims are made for
tho phosphate ' rock from these
different sources the only thing to
consider in purchasing same is t he
per cent, of phosphoric , acid,
(equivilent to bone phosphate of
lime docs not mean anything) tho
fineness to which it is ground and
tho per cent of lime and nlumia.
The lime in phosphate rock is com;
bined with phosphoric acid, and is
not suitable for correcting acidity,
therefore should not he considered.
Finely ground phosphate rook
containing 32 per cent of phosphoric
acid with a low per cent of iron
and alumina has just been quoted
to us - at $4.25 in hulk of carload
lots at the pldnt. Prices much
higher than this is too much.
Yours very truly,
KfmlBSmMi W. A. Worsham Jr.
Be Sure to Bring to Right Place.
Seeing Me.
We are still buying and paying the highest
Price for it.
But the time is getting shorter, so you
better bring it as soon as you can.
Do not Sell Without
Located in Wight Hardware Company’s Warehouse.
Ryar of Hutto’s Blacksmith Shop.
Cairo Junk Co.
Cairo - - Georgia.
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