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Value Of The Short
Course To The Farmer
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of
Agriculture, -
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New problems are constantly aris..
ing in Georgia agriculture. In quite a!
large part of the state the boll weeyil
has at last appeared and Proemises to
enforce agricultural changes within a
year or two, if the farmer i pot wise
enough to make the changes at onege,
What shall be the farm program of
those dwelling in boll weevil terri
tory?
What shall pe the farm program
outside of the boll weevil territory, in
facing the cotton prospects? These
are important questions. They should
be answered only after the fullest in
formation DPossible ig obtained. A
' thousand other perplexing questions
arise in the mindg of progressive farm
ers who are trying to adjust them
selves intelligently to changing agri
cultural conditions,
Nowhere can the farmer receive so
much assistance in so short a time
to meet hig Particular requirements
as in attending a Short Course of a
College of Agriculture. The funda
mental principles on which the farm
er can base hisg reasoning in meeting
his problems, ig provided at such
courses. Inquiry brings from experts
the accumulated experience of the
world about the very problems on
which the farmer may want informa
tion and prove the very thing to put
him on the highway of success. He can
learn how to curtail his expenditures
for fertilizers and yet get the greatest
possible crops. He can learn how to
determine the best reproducing seeds
according to the latest and best infor
mation. He can learn how to utilize
Critical Period
In Cattle Feeding
M. P. Jarnagin, Professor Of Animal
Husbandry, Georgia State Col
lege Of Agriculture
There is such a thing as a cow
losing more money living than die
ing. Such a situation is likely to be
confronted when the pasture is cut
short by drouth or early winter, and
the animals are not given a chance
to" hold their gains.
Supplemental feeding should begin
as soon as the animal stops making
satisfactory gains on the pasture. At
the College farm feeding in the pas
ture begins about November 1, at
which time shocked corn stalks, with
Farmers’ Conferences
At Agricultural College
President Andrew M. Soule, Georgia State College of
- Agriculture
During the first three weeks of each
new year the farmers of Georgia have
right of way at the College of Agri
culture. From the 4th to the 15th
of January there will be the annual
session of the Short Course for farm
ers, following which come the annual
meetings of the Georgia Breeders’ As
sociation, the Georgia Dairy and Live
stock Association and the Georgia
State Horticultural Society.
On account of the great growth of
the number of students for the junior
courses at the Short Course, it has
been deemed essential that the boys
and girls should be taught at another
time, hence arrangements are being
made to teach them in midsummer.
The Short Courses at the first of
the year, will, therefore, be restricted
to mature men and women. Among
those who will be present will be
the demonstration agents from all
parts of the state. They, too, will at
tend a short course for their special
benefit.
The work of the Short Course will
be happily consummated by the at
tendance of the farmers upon the meet
ings of the various associations men
tioned. Inspiring and instructive ad-
J. Phil Campbell, Director Extension
Division, Georgia State Col
lege Of Agriculture
High price cotton is a seductive si
ren beckoning southern farmers back
into the breakers of the single crop
system. Be wise and do not be mis
led again. Engage in “Safe Farm
ing.” Raise cotton, but fortify it with
corn, oats, wheat, legumes livestock,
vegetables, so that no one will be
able to take your cotton from you
for a song. No matter how much cot
ton will be bringing next year, it will
be worth more to you if you do not
have to pay out your cotton money
for home supplies. In other words,
save your cotton money by living on
home-raised products.
Let us see how it can be done: ;
First. Produce a home garden for
every family on the farm giving spe
cial attention to raising sufficient
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and sir
up.
Second. Produce corn necessary to
support all the people and the live
stock on the farm.
Third. Produce enough oats to feed
the animals along with corn. Pay at
tention to.winter grazing.,
Fourth. Produce hay and forage
crop, sufficient to supply all the live-
various legumes for the upbuilding of
soil fertility, At ‘the Short Course
he can learn how to distinguish vari
ous types of seils in the state and
know something of their value for ag
ricultural purposes. Each year the
problem of farm laber becomes greater
and farm machinery more necessary.
To get a look at all the leading kinds
and to have information from experts
at the Short Course is very important.
No matter how long cotton is grown
there is Something new to be learned
about it. Pure seed and how to get
them, what varieties produce best,
what metheds of cultivation have
proven best, what diseases and in
sects are to be combatted and how
and what a farmer should know about
cotton grading are all touched upon
in the' Cotton School of the Short
Course.
No farm can be operated economi
cally without growing a required
amount of livestock. What that
amount should be depends upon the
size and kind of farming undertaken.
Feeds and breeds, how to judge stock,
how to succeed with swine, dairying
and kindred subjects discussed at the
Short Course should interest every
farmer in the state.
A course in horticulture is offered
touching trucking, orchard manage
ment, diseases of fruit, insects of
fruit, spraying and pruning.
The Short Course at the Georgia
State College of Agriculture will be
held January 4-15‘ 1915, for which spe
cial railroad rates have been author
ized.
ears removed, are scattered about on
the thin places of the pasture, By the
middle of November cottonseed meal
at the rate of about a pound per
calf is put in troughs in the fleld. By
December 1 they go into the barn. A
daily allowance of 214 to 3% pounds
of cottonseed meal, a little wheat bran,
15 to 20 pounds of silage and 4 to 6
pounds of hay, is then fed to the
calves.
The breeding herd is carried on 2
pounds of cottonseed meal, 25 to 30
pounds of silage and 6 to 8 pounds
of oat straw. On this ration they go
through the winter in vigorous condi
tion for calving a month or 6 weeks
before being turned out to grazing.
To let the cheap summer gains be
lost by poor fall and winter feeding is
the best way to lose money on beef
cattle.
dresses will be heard. Always these
are men of special fitness and na
tional prominence to speak at these
meetings on various phases of agri
culture. It will be the case again at
the coming conferences.
At these meetings are brought to
gether the experts who have been
finding out trut‘hs about agriculture
by scientific procedure, and also prac
tical, wide-awake farmers. The inter
change of facts, the answered ques
tions, the new discoveries all conspire
to make the meetings of the very
greatest importance to the farmer.
Ideas obtained from these conferences
have been converted into farm suc
cesses. The conferences pay.
These meetings afford the greatest
opportunities for the expression of
policies having to do with the wel
fare of the farmers of Georgia. They
provide the forum and the opportun
ity to plead for Georgia’s agriculture—
the largest single interest within the
state. |
Why not join other broad-gauge,
progressive farmers and be one of the
attendants at the farmers’ conferences}
at the College of Agriculture in Jan
uary? 1
stock on the farm, preferably legumes
such as clover, cowpeas, velvet beans,
soy beans and alfalfa,
Fifth. Produce meat to supply the
people. Start with poultry and hogs
and increase the number of cattle and
other livestock,
Sixth. After these things have been
provided for, grow cotton for the mar
ket.
T. H. McHatton, Professor Of Horti.
culture, Georgia State College
Of Agriculture
Manure the garden in the fall by
applying at least 15 two-horse loads
per acre. Leave it on the surface till
the spring plowing. In the spring be
fore the manure is turned under, ap
ply from 500 to 1,000 pounds of phos
phoric acid. This will make a com
pleter fertilizer, or provide more near
ly for all the plant food requirements,
The farmer may choose from the fol
lowing list of crops immune-or resist
ant to root-knot those best suited to
his needs: barley, beggarweed, Brab
ham cowpea, broom-corn millet, corn,
crab grass, Iron cowpea, peanut, pearl
millet, rye, sorghum, velvet bean,
wheat and winter oats.
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EFarms For Sale
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We have 280 acres of ex
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farm is three miles from
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Davis Block,
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Bankrupt Sale,
Will be sold before the Court
House door of Ben Hill County
between the legal hours of sale
on the 11th day of December,
1915, lot number 102 in the 4th.
land district of lrwin County,
Georgia.
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