IN FIELD IMPORTANT
President Andrew M. Soule, State College of Agriculture.
community should have a
Every farmers should
study day. The
cor n through the dif¬
et together and go
_
ferent fields examining and judging
themselves of the relative merits
{or strains produced, the
lerence . the different and soil be¬
in fertilization
ing taken into consideration.
would be well for the teachers
It girls to meet in such
^conference, mi the boys and
or possibly the school
“ made the center of such an
ieht be the farmers
enterprise as this and
nvi ted to participate. It makes no
■
difference who is responsible for the
undertaking; the thing is to have the
rk done, and a corn study day will
. vo of the most im¬
shortly become one
portant outings for pleasure and prof¬
it in every community which partici¬
pates in this movement.
4 fter having decided on the best va
r etles for growth in a given commu¬
nity the work of selection should then
proceed systematically. On most of our
soils it will be well to select seed from
plants which have two well-developed
ears. The medium sized ear sorts will
be found more satisfactory for growth
our average Georgia soil than the
g-eared varieites. The growth of
g-eared varieties had best be con
led largely to bottom lands. The
,rs chosen should be from plants
SOIL SURVEY WORK.
W. A. Worsham, Professor of Agricul¬
tural Chemistry.
The College of Agriculture in co-op¬
eration with the Bureau of Soils of the
United States, has undertaken the soil
survey of Terrell, Clay, Colquitt, Tur¬
ner and Tattnall counties, the counties
to be taken in the order mentioned.
The physical survey work will be in
the hands of David D. Long for the
College of Agriculture, who will co-op¬
erate with such persons as are assign¬
ed to the territory by the Bureau of
Soils.
A physical survey of Habersham
county has been completed recently.
Government bulletins have been is¬
sued lately on Ben Hill, Daugherty
and Chattooga counties. These re¬
port the physical survey. The Depart¬
ment of Agricultural Chemistry of the
College, which is making chemical an¬
alyses of the various types of soil
found, to determine plant food con¬
tent, has issued report on Ben Hill
county and has data complete on two
other counties which will be issued in
bulletin form later.
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which are free from disease in so far
as a careful examination reveals. They
should be plants which seems to have
made a vigorous, consistent growth
from germination to maturity. A fair
amount of foliage is important for
several reasons. First of all, the
leaves are valuable for feed, and sec¬
ond, they constitute the lungs of the
plant and enable it to manufacture
food more rapidly and completely. The
cars should be selected from a stalk
which has stood up well throughout
the season and is not so tall or slim
that it is likely to be broken over by
the wind. The ears should point down¬
ward rather than upward and should
be attached to the stalk by stout rela¬
tively short shanks. The ear chosen
for seed should be carefully examined.
It is important that the rows of grain
run straight, that the tip and butt be
well covered, that the grain be fairly
hard and flinty and free from weevil
damage. The rows should be tightly
packed together on the cob and the
grain of uniform size from tip to butt.
All these things have an important
bearing on the future crop for if the
grain is misshapen it will not seed
uniformly through the planter, and be¬
sides that, it is not as likely that the
germs or young plants will be as vig¬
orously developed as is well shaped
seeds.
FOUR-CROP CONTEST.
J. Phil Campbell, State Agent Boys’
and Girls’ Club Work.
Supplementing the Corn Club
work and developing it along
natural lines, the State College
of Agriculture and the Department
of Farm Demonstration Work of the
United States in co-operation, have be¬
gun a four-crop contest. Into this con¬
test five boys from each county and
five farmers can enter. The crops to
be used are oats followed by cowpeas,
after the peas com and after the corn
cotton. Three acres are required and
three years in which to complete the
program of crop rotation.
Boys who enter the four-crop con¬
test must be between 10 and 21 years
of age. The only difference between
the boys’ contest and the farmers’ con¬
test is that the farmer is required to
put in a winter cover crop f preferably
a clover.
These contests will be directed and
supervised by the farm demonstration
agents wherever these demonstration
are to be found in a
The COVINGTON NEW8 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913.
SAVED HIS REPUTATION.
He Did It by Proving That He Could
Tell Salt From Sugar.
"My. but this coflee tastes good!”
said .Mr. Lackey as lie ate a late supper
after a long day at the county seat.
"Didn’t you have good coffee at the
restaurant today?" asked Mrs. Lackey,
cutting another slice of bread.
‘‘It didn’t taste very sweet to me,"
replied Mr. Lackey with a chuckle.
‘‘Wasn’t there any sugar ou the ta¬
ble?”
“Oh, yes; there was plenty of sugar
on the table," replied Mr. Lackey, “but.
you see, 1 made a mistake and put in
a spoonful of salt."
“Mercy me!” exclaimed Mrs. Lackey.
“You surely didn’t drink it. Hiram?”
“I had to,” answered her husband.
“You see there was a young fellow sit¬
ting right by me, and 1 saw right away
that 1 had done something wrong be¬
cause he sort of grinned and winked at
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“I HOPE YOD HAD ANOTHER GOOD CDP.’
another young man at the table. I
didn’t know what the trouble was.
though. The coffee tasted kind of
queer, but 1 didn't realize what the
trouble was till I had about finished it.
Then I got a taste of pure salt that
hadn’t dissolved at all.”
“Well. 1 hope you bad another good
cup after that one." said Mrs. Lackey.
“Yes. I had another,” replied her hus¬
band. “1 gave my cup to the waitress,
and then when it came back 1 said to
the young man. ‘Will you please pass
me the salt?’ ”
“Hiram Lackey!" exclaimed Mrs.
Lackey in horrified tones. “You sure¬
ly didn't put salt in your coffee again?"
"I just bad to,” replied her husband.
“You don't suppose I wanted those
young fellows to think l was such an
old farmer 1 didn't know salt from
sugar, do you?”—Youth's Companion.
Decision of Character.
Decision of character is one bright
golden apple which every young per¬
son should strive in the beginning to
pluck from the tree of life.
Nice For the Teacher.
Tommy had broken one of the school
rules, aud the teacher told him to tell
his mother about it and also about the
punishment he had received. She
thought his mother might thrash him
again. The next morning she asked.
“Well. Tommy, did you tell your moth¬
er about your bad behavior yesterday
and how I punished you."
“Yes. ma'am." said Tommy quickly.
“Well, what did your mother say?"
“Said she’d like to wring your neck,”
replied Tommy calmly.
A Lost Cigar.
Mr. J. Tierpont Morgan smoked large
black and costly cigar They were
made of a particularly dark aud fra¬
grant leaf grown on his own estates
in the Santa Clara province of Cuba.
These cigars were very valuable and
were highly prized by any of Mr.
Morgan's friends who were lucky
enough to get a few.
Here is a story as he told it himself:
“One day I was going abroad my
yacht in New York when I found 1
had nothiug to light my cigar with.
I stopped one of the men on the pier
and asked him for a match, which he
gave me readily. In return for hi3
courtesy I handed him one of my
cigars, which I think a good deal of.
“He accepted it promptly. ‘Thanks,’
he said; 'I was just out of tobacco.’
Then he broke it into little bits and
began to stuff it into his pipe!”
Gave the Price.
A wealthy New York syndicate de¬
termined that it would be much to the
furtherance of some large plans in
hand if it could purchase the New
York Herald.
So a cable was sent to James Gor¬
don Bennett:
‘Tlease wire best price for which
you will sell New York Herald.”
That evening the answer came:
“Daily, 3 cents; Sunday, 5 cents.
"JAMES GORDON BENNETT.”
Where the Blame Lies.
Governor Francis McGovern of Wis¬
consin tells this one:
“A representative of Illinois, who
never lost an opportunity to expatiate
upon the glories and material pros¬
pects of Chicago, was one day holding
forth in ids usual strain when be
touched u|M)u the part played by the
railroads iu that prosperity.
“ 'Statistics show,’ declared the mem¬
ber from Illinois, ‘that 1.150 trains ar¬
rive daily in Chicago. These trains,
run by some twenty odd companies,
carry over 165.000 passeng£.*s. The rail¬
roads have undeniably been a strong
factor in making Chicago what it is
today.’
"Whereupon a senator from New
York smilingly interjected:
“ ‘That’s an awful charge to prefer
against the railways!’”—Lippincott'a.
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