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AGRKTI/iTIUI,
IiRI’AIiTMENT
Workings of This Branch of the
State Government.
HOW IT HAS GBOWtf SINGE
Chang** mac liar* »ta<ta hr t ***’
rreieiit Commissioner—Nearly a Million
Italian turned Into the Trenenry for
tlie lit" n«/i S of the Sell mil Fund—Some
Interest log Faot* mill Figure#.
thousands o'rotherf-' VcYTuterested 'in
the work pf the Department of Agri
culture. Iu your monthly answers to
questions give me some information on
pense U or eC a sonroeVrrevenue' to
state? This is not strictly an
nral question, but it is strictly business,
ami the farmers want information on it.
Answer 1.—Answering your specific
question first, tlie State Agricultural
Department, so far from being an ex
peuse to the state, lias paid into the
treasury, for the benefit of the
fuud, something like $i50,000. At first
the inspection fee was 50 cents a ton.
The fertilizer business had not reached
its present magnitude, and it wa?
thought that 50 cents n ton would about
pay tlie expenses of running fhe depart
incut. The idea of a revenue from tins
iiource was not then thought of. But
tho sale of fertilizers increased very
rapidly, and the inspection fee was con¬
sequently reduced to io cents, an
amount so small that the sellor cannot
claim , . any and. ..... Iona . pnee for ,. the , fertd- . ,
izcrs aun yet it protects tue consumer
and in the a^iegate (iio itepartmeut
put* into the treasury a clear annual
profit. That is after every expense,
Inspector’s salaries, Inspector’s oxpen
ses, tags, bottles, express charges, pub
licatious, salaries of commissioner, his
o'.evks, state chtmdst and two assistants,
have all been paid, the stale is a gainer
bv between $:.'0.000 and fjio.OOD each
▼car. This result has been ac mm
'plUliod by the exorcise of the utmost
care and ecmlomy iu the nmiuigfimeti‘
of the affairs of the department. The
business of tiie cilice lias increased Ire
mcndousU since ]?!«), wiieti the present
commissioner took charge.
1. The w.ork of the chemical depai i
meut lifts more than doubled. In 18Bv
I'O there were C8K analyses; in Jki'ti-i'l
l,u.',.s analyses, and the number of brand s
increased from 440 to 1,1 id. Doe of tlie
iirst changes made by the pres’lit com¬
missioner wu*to bring the chemical de
partmeut to Atlanta. The laboratory id
now ill tho capitol and all the analyse*
are conducted there.
8. Inspecting is no longer done in bulk
at the factories. Tho system ' inspecting
inaugurated by the present •oiumissicmer
is the best of any state in the Union,
although tho inspection fee of 10 cent*
is the smallest of any state. Inspectors
are forbidden fro take samples until after
the fertilizers leave the factories. They
get their samples from farmers’ wagons,
on the cars, in the merchants’ ware¬
houses, etc., but always after the good*
have loft the hand* of tlie manufactur¬
ers and are on sale. By this method
tlie entire state is carefully covered, and
it is an extremely difficult matter to sell
spurious goods , la . Georgia. , But for this
careful and thorough inspection the
Mate would be flooded with worthiest
fertilizers and the farmers suffer iu con
'
i Auother , reform , inaugurated by the
present commissioner was the reduction
of the annual pay of fertilize- inspec
tors from S...VJ0 to $ 1 .000 each, aud in
«t«ad of ke^eninjj ^ larj>e f»>rce on duty
all tho time, only four are appointed foi
the full time, the others arc employed
during the t-usy leasou, aud when the
pressure is remove i they are discharged,
Thus, though ti e sale of fertilizers and
the consequent work of the inspector?
have both increased tremendously, the
<-"t is about the same, and until the
We have a car load of* fhe celebrated Mitchell
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Lewis wagons. These are the best and cheapest
wagons on the market and we bought to sell
close. These wagons need no recommendation !
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! where they have been tested and we invite you to
see them before you buy.
D. M. ALMAND & SONS
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unprecedented of feruiiiw'i tu*
past season, the cost of inspecting was
actually less char, fornjaiiy.
6. Under the present administration
of the department, the pay of the oil in¬
spectors lias been so reduced fir '
whereas formerly the state did not re¬
ceive one cent from this source tu* pres¬
ent commissioner has been able to put
f %'»,O'JO into the treasury after ail ex¬
penses hare been paid.
7. Although the office Work »t the
department lias doubled and trebled
the present commissioner to. k
charge, the office expenses are several
humlred dollars less each year now than
then. The increased work is done by
the same number of clf,rks ' a,1(i
their combined 1 salaries have been re
rluomi from 9-1. oGO to $.1, <20, an annual
faction of $780 iu clerk hire. Until
liwt y 0ar ‘l"* Si,vi,,s iu clerk hire was
over $1,000 each year, but owing to in
creased work and responsibility the sal
av j eg 0 f two of the clerks were raised,
ti, e "Monthly Talks and
Answers to Questions,” which are pub
lislied by the weekly press through
out t j l0 s t ate , (j I0 commissioner lias
proparoci and issued thousands of
pamphlets and hooks, giving informs
tion as to tlie resources of Georgia,
q; llege hooks and pamphlets have been
g@I1 (. throughout the north mid west,
bur so great lias been tlie demand for
them liiat it lias baeu impossible to
meot
7. In tlie matter of buying tags the
commissioner lias been hampered I is
the fact that the state printer claimed
this as one of hi* perquisite*, ami In
this he was sustained by the tliis printing
commUtM> N( , twiths t a „u.nK fact.
commiss , 1191 . demauded a rednc .
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(luol »g it , from $8.00 to $1.60 per 1,000.
Fi,mll V lm “PP« i » led *° ,he attorney
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au<l *** advised that he could
,,,ake the purchase wherever he pleased,
^ roceedmg on tliis uuthonty he entered
mto neKOtUt.ons.for obtaining the tags
‘‘heaper, and then advertised for sealed
biJs ’ The first firm which received the
f,ontr » ,!t failed to comply with the terms,
so also the second, and after a third ad
vertising for bids the contract was
finally awarded to the Denison Manu¬
facturing company, at 45 cents per 1,000.
—State Agricultural Department.
siiixoi.ii.ir i.*.id.
Question, Will you please answer
the following questions i
1. Have you ever tested subsoiiiug
land ? W ha r was the result-.
cuhi you advise subsoiliug land
deep? runs together ami gets hard in a
dry time. Wifcld Subsoil is solid red clay.
a. you advise subsoil ng dark
gray and red clay lauds (solid red clay
subsoils) 12 to lo inches deep?
4 When is the best time to subsoil,
and how often f
o. Are you sure that it pays to use
amd phosphate and kainit on light sandy
lands for corn, cotton, oats ana peas ?
«. Do you advise the use of acid pirns
phate and kainit with cottonseed on
such land for oats to be sowed iu Octo¬
ber : There is a fair crop of pea vines
on tlie land
7. When acid phosphate aud kainit
are applied broadcast at the tints peas
are planted and all covered at once, is
the fertilizer immediately available?
8. Where peas follow oats would a
liberal upplicitioii of piiosphate and
g aillit , t0 the oat crop pay a. veil as to
divide Application between oats and
P*as?
S. Where cotton is planted after peas
would a liberal application of phosphate
aud kainit to peas furnish phosphoric
acid and potasii enough for cotton?
Answkr.—1. I have tested subsoiling
land iu southwest Georgia for corn and
doubled the .yield. I have a friend in
«l« k flVr5on county who, this past winter,
turned his laud with a large 4- horse
plow aud fo owed iu the same furrow
with a snWiler pu led by five horses,
breaking th stiff subsoil to a depth of
IB to 20 ino„os. He writes that lie is
well pleased with the result, the cotton
planted on mu land being ahead of
everything in that section.
X. !. MS.
8. Yes.
4. Kow is a good time to subsoil (Oak,
1), and any tme will do through the
fail and win,or when the ground is not
wet When thoroughly done the effects
will be risible for three or four years,
and frequently longer, according to the
character of tlie subsoil.
5. I am euro that it pays to fertilize
all crops, if lone judiciously, and nitro¬
gen is usual.y needed as well as phos¬
phoric acid mid potash.
6. While the pea vines will furnish
some nitrogen for the oat crop, I would
advise the nse or a complete fertilizer
for them, particularly as you are desir
ous of built,..ig up your laud while you
are making crops.
7. Most of tlie fertilizer is uiimedi
ately available, and the rest becomes so
gradually. The potash'iu the kainit is
ell available (of course in the presence
of moisture) at once, and so of what id
termed tlie "available phosphoric acid"
in a fertilizer. There is usually some
phosphoric acid termed unavailable,
which gradually become? available by
the aotion of certain properties iu the
sail.
8. If you wish to bring up your land
rapidlv vou should fertilize each crop '
well.
W. Of course a portion of the phoipho
ric acid and kainit would remain in the
•oil to be taken un by the cotton crop,
but as I have said before, if you wish to
bring your land to a high state of fer¬
tility each crop that you plant should
be well fertilised.—State Agricultural
Department.
Pi»n For K ei>;«i,.i- »»««t r«i»f.oei.
Question.-P lease publish in your
>H.mfhly ,newer* to questions a good,
cheap, practical plan for keeping sweet
h otatoes f
Answer—T he following plan isoheap I
. !ld praoticu.. and if followed you wiil
iiave no trouble to keep your potatoes
through the winter: Dig your potatoes j
, ho fi rgt bright sunny day after the
Tines haVM beeil touched by frost. Han
dle them carefully, rejecting all that
are cut or bruised. Don’t throw them
in piles while digging, as is customary,
for by thi* plan many are bruiaed, but
*imply place them by the side of the
furrow as they are plowed up. Iu the
evening gatuer them up, placing care
fully in baskets holding from one to two
bushels, and haul to the,; point where
you wish to bank them. Make a bed of
dry pine straw 10 or 12 inches thick,
a ud on this place from 20 to 25 bushels
of potatoes in as steep a pile as possible,
xhen cover the pile 5 or « inches deep
wtl * P uie • t 'V‘ w * a,,, ‘ 110 110 mors t0
them until the weather gets colder,
Build a low shed over the batiks suffic
ient to keep the rains entirely off. Be
fore cold weather cover the entire bank
with 7 or 8 inohes of earth, and your
potatoes will’keep until spring. The:
i mnor | an t points are these: Bank no
brn , Md or cut pota t 0 es; keep the banks
B^fecMy , , , P«* . on enough , earth to
prevent the cold penetrating, but dot
until the potatoes have gone through a
sweat and dried off.—State Agricultural
"
The Henry County Weekly
Sa.\ S tuI8 happened . 111 . Jacksoil. _ ,
”A telephone message was
^GLBlV Ou ilGlG - JtlCKSon T ,
iroill
stating that a tall,
Slender mail, light mustache,
"™ a girl -1 ..r-,,. about- , 1<> <> years „„ „ Old u
ill the buggy, rode up ill front
of the f, Star Store / g rrof ° out Ut ; tnnlr ^
^ , ullule llOlll u hlS hoi'SG,
exchanged it for a good Lew
oneotl a mute winch Was Staud
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,n e IDtCliecl to . another , buggy
3 post, and without a word
tO anybody drove OU Off in the*
Henry County.
mule and buggy belonged
to a lady who was trading in
the store at the time, and Mr
Hainp Daughtry saw the man,
but was totally unaware of
what his strange action meant
until too late. At last accounts
the bold adventurer was badly
wanted •”
Mr. R. L. Guffin, who went
fyom (Wei'S last week Vo Al
bertville. Ala*, came home i
Tuesday Ulgllt, but returned J S
t 0 Albertville yesterday to open
house . that i
li P a music at place, j
He Stated, however, that he,
wou l(i no fc move his family J i
theie, as lie did not like the |
place well enough for that,—
HnnuprslRfi ' 1 Finn nor
.. r Guffiu , „ denies . . Jbe . 8tate—
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tueilfc Of the Banner, and says !
the feasoil lie did not brill" his '
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family * on .. hlS return , here, , Ills
baby child Was sick aild had
been for some time, and his
family physician advised him to
wait until the weather was
cooler before removing the child
He will remove his family to
this place soon, where he
expects to reside permanently.
Mr. Guffin is well pleased with
this section.—Marshal Banner,
Albertville, Ala.
The above indicates that Mr.
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Guffin seriously thinks of UlOV
1 • ,• .. 10 AH)e,U 1,le
Glen’ ,» 7 friends here Will regret ’
to lose them .
Sale Day.
Last Tuesday was sale day and
gome valuable property was sold by
Mr. D. N. Hudson, the crier. The
O. Seamans estate was sold. The
farm above town was purchased by
Mr. Herd Allen for $979 The
home place, on 3 mile below town,
was knocked down to Mr. J - N
Hnle for $801. Another house and
lot ^ bought by Judge Simpkins
for *1940.
The Brodnax home place, on
Mill street was sold to Mr. J. S.
Johnson for $400.00. All of this is
good {Tribes. property and brought fair
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