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Corn Diseases Which Cause
Farmers Great Loss
May Be Easily Controlled
The common diseases of corn as
smut, rust, root rots and ear rots are
not difficult to control and the cost
of prevention amounts to only a
small fraction of a per cent of tlie
value of the crop produced, says Prof.
James B. Berry, Plant Pathologist of
the Georgia State College of Agri
culture. The financial loss to Georgia
farmers runs into many millions of
dollars and conservative estimates
sjiow that approximately 4,000 pounds
of beef and 250 pounds of pork could
be produced if the corn lost through
disease in every 50-acre field were fed
to cattle and hogs.
Crop rotation is the chief measure
of prevention and ag a factor in crop
production it has been advocated for
years by agricultural experts. Prof.
Berry says that control measures
must include:
Crop rotation. Most diseases are
•‘carried over” from one crop to
another in the soil or on diseased
stalks of the old crop. If a resistant
crop is planted the disease organisms
die out.
Seed selection. The selection of
seed from strong, productive disease
free plants will tend to produce indi
viduals which are resistant, to dis
eas*. If the practice of careful seed
selection Is carried out over a period
of years the result will be a strain
markedly resistant to disease.
Avoid the application of manure
resulting from diseased fodder or
grain to fields to be planted to corn.
The organisms producing smut and
Chatooga Farm is Sold for $50,000
Lyerly.—One of the largest real es
tate transactions consummated in this
county for some time occurred a few
days ago, the big farm of C. D. Har
per, of Chelsea, known as the Oak
Grove farm, being sold to Joe Ham
mond, of Cuba, Ala. The Oak Grove
farm consists of 1,000 acres of the
Ibest improved land in Chatooga coun
ty, and lies in a body and Is consid
ered one of the most valuable farms
In this section. It is understood the
consideration was $50,000.
How Diphtheria is Contracted.
One often hears the expression,
“My child caught a severe cold
which developed into diphtheria.”
when the truth was that the cold
had simply left the little one par
ticularly susceptible to the wan
dering diphtheria germ. If your
child has a cold when diphtheria is
prevalent you should take him out
of school and keep him off the
street until fully recovered, as
there is a hundred times more
danger of his taking diphtheria
when he has a cold. When Cham
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quickly cures the cold and lessens
the danger of diphtheria or any
other .germ disease beingcontract
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Words That Mean Much.
The sonorous opening of Lincoln’s
Gettysburg speech, “Four score and
coven YPnrc nirn ” ic tint pmiiynlent to
eighty-seven years ago! Prose hath
her harmonies, no less than poetry. It
is such subtleties that make up the
full effect of literary expression.
“Victuals” is not equivalent to “food,”
“deathlessness” is not the same as
“immortality”— ns Lowell showed
when he suggested that we try con
verting Wordsworth’s title, “Intima
tions of Immortality” into “Hints of
Deathlessness.” —North American Re
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ear rot are often spread through the
use of diseased manure. Heavy ap
plications of nitrogenous fertilizers
tend to increase the damage from
physoderma and smut.
Frequent inspections of the fields
should be made for evidence of dis
ease. Smut masses should be gather
ed and burned before the membrane
breaks, even though it involves the
destruction of an occasional plant.
Badly diseased plants produce nothing
of value in the way of grain or fod
der and simply spread the disease.
Insects must be controlled, since
they serve as carriers for disease
spores or make wounds through
which the disease spores gain en
trance. An ear worm often destroys
but a small part of the grain on the
cob while the accompanying rot may
complete the destruction of the ear.
The same is undoubtedly true of
insect damage to the roots and the
action of the root rot organisms. The
destruction of the ‘‘winter quarters”
and the adoption of crop rotation will
greatly reduce the amount of insect
damage. The ear worm winters over
in the soil near the damaged
plant and emerges in the spring ready
for the new crop. Late fall plowing
will expose the worm to inclement
weather conditions and rotation will
introduce a crop unsavory to his
palate.
Control measures involve neither
expensive operations nor the adoption
of costly machinery—simply the
adoption of “common sense” methods
of crop production.
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