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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
FOOD INSPECTION SERVICE
AN AID TO SQUARE DEALING
The time was—and not so long
, ago—when many a farmer who
shipped his fruit or vegetables to
! market in his own name or through
! a shipper, felt that he was taking
i a leap in the dark. Returns seemed
, very uncertain. Having heard of in
i stances in which friends or neigh
bors were treated unfairly by buy
ers or transportation companes he
was often fearful lest he would be
the victim of dishonesty. No doubt
the number of dishonest dealers han
dling produce was far less than
imagined, but in any event, buyers
| in general suffered from the frav.d
--| ulent practices of the few.
| These days of uncertainty for the
shipper and grower, so far as inter
state commerce is concerned, are
gone. The Food Products Inspection
service maintained by the bureau of
markets of the United States depart
ment of agriculture practically elim
inates the possibility of unfair rat
ing of produce. Its inspection offices
are located in 30 of the larger cities
and from these centers inspections
are made in approximately 140 ad
ditional cities.
Benefits Seller and Buyer
This service is open to shippers,
receivers, railroads, and any’ efther
persons interested financially or
otherwise. It is recognized to be of
as great benefit to buyers of produce
as to shippers. In case of dispute
over a shipment any’ party concerned
can call on the inspector at the
market in which the car is located
to make a thorough examination and
issue a certificate stating all the
facts regarding the quality and con
dition of the goods. This certificate
will be received as prima facie evi
dence in all United States courts.
The service has been in operation
since November, 1917. It is in no
sense a regulatory or police organi
zation. The Inspector examines a
shipment and makes a report on It
only when requested to do so by
some one having a financial interest
in the transaction. He has no author-
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ity to do anything more than to
issue a certificate showing - the exact
condition of the shipment at the
time of inspection. He has no author
ity to act as a mediator in making
adjustments.
Request Inspections by Wire or
Letter
Those in charge of the work aim
to give immediate, effective service.
Anyone interested can secure from
the bureau of markets, United States
department of agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C., a list of the twenty-six
cities in which inspection offices are
maintained and from which neighbor
ing cites are served. Requests for
inspection may be made to any of
these twenty-six points by wire or
letter and should be addressed to
"Food Products Inspector,” stating
the kind of product, the Car number,
the receiver, and the delivering car
rier, as well as any particulr fea
ture regarding which special in
formation is desired. At present but
ter inspections ore made in only five
markets.
A fee of $2.50 for any quantity’
from half a carload up to a full car
load, and $1.50 for less than half
an ordinary carload, is charged for
each inspection. For inspections
made in smaller markets the appli
cant also pays the expenses of the
inspector in making the trip. Only
shipments that have moved in in
terstate commerce are eligible for
inspection.
Since the food products inspection
service was established more than
30,000 inspections have been made.
Large as this number is, it does
not measure the full effectiveness of
the service. The very fact that some
forty-five federal inspectors are
available at any time has had a
wholesome effect upon the entire
business of marketing fruit, vegeta
bles and butter. The dishonest few
now know that they are taking big
chances if they make fraudulent
claims regarding shipments. The
honest differences which inevitably
arise between buyers and sellers at
times are settled more speedily and
with less friction and misunder
standing.
Special Advice, for Farmers
The service employs five plant
pathologists who specialize in dis
eases that affect fruits and vege
tables in transit. From their reports
more than one farmer has learned
of some disease that has been in
juring his crops, and has been able
to remedy the condition.
The inspectors are particularly in
demand when the market condition
is bad. When buyers are reluctant
to accept shipments that are doubt
ful, they are only too glad of a
government certificate which shows
conclusively the exact condition in
which the goods were received. Like
wise, the service enables shippers
to procure conclusive evidence of
the soundness of products which
otherwise might be subject to un
derrating because of an unfavorable
market.
Food Inspection Offices
The food products inspection serv
ice has offices in the following cities
from which neighboring cities are
also served. Requests for inspection
of shipments of fruit or vegetables
may be made to any of these 26
points by wire or letter. Address
"Food Products Inspection,” stating
kind of product, car number, re
ceiver, delivering carrier, and any
particular feature on which special
information is desired.
Boston, Appraisers Store Building.
New York, 204 Franklin street.
Atlanta, 405 Connally building.
Philadelphia, 308 Bourse building.
Baltimore, 411 Customhouse.
Washington, D. C., U. S. Bureau
of Markets.
Buffalo. 232 Postoffice building.
New Orleans, 315 Pan American
building.
Pittsburg, 303 Kellerman building.
Cleveland, 503 Erie building.
Columbus, 303 Martlin building.
Cincinnati, 209 Johnston building.
Memphis, 404 Exchange building.
Houston, 925 Southern Pacific bldg.
Indianapolis, 1102 City Trust.
Detroit, 445 Howard street.
Minneapolis, 302 State
bank.
Fort Worth, Tex., 505 Moore bldg.
St. Louis, 413 Old Customhouse.
Chicago, 139 North Clark street.
Denver, 308 Customhouse.
Kansas City, 212 Railway Ex
change building.
Milwaukee, 314 Federal building.
Omaha, 436 Keeline building.
Portland, Ore., 410 Oregon build
ing.
San Francisco, 510 Battery street.
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THIRTY ACRES OF COTTON RAISED
AT CORNELIA, GA, BRINGS SII,OOO
On thirty acres of red clay at Cor
nelia in North Georgia, W. B. Hunter
grew ninteen bales of extra staple
cotton last year, which he sold in
Atlanta two weeks ago for $11,300,
including the seed.
The cotton brought 82 cents a
pound and the seed, $5 a bushel.
The land Is a part of the red hills
in that section. Two hundred acres,
an entire landlot, could have been
secured twenty years ago in ex
change for a cow, the sort of scrub
cow that was to be found then in
Georgia.
While the land was being cleared,
a young fellow who was helping
with the work, stopped swinging his
ax and said to Mr. Hunter.
“Whatcha goin’ to do with this
land? My daddy owned it once. Sold
it for 25 cents an acre.”
Last year it brought a return of
$360 an acre. This is because it was
planted in long staple cotton, though
until now it had been thought that
long staple cotton would not grow
in north Georgia.
In addition to thriving on reddest
of red clay in Habersham county and
producing a staple that sold at 82
cents a pound, this cotton bloomed
earlier than Early King, opened
earlier, and the last picking was
completed sooner.
This protects it against the boll
weevil, because it matures before the
weevil has a chance to attack it;
and in Mr. Hunter’s opinion makes it
a variety of cotton that north Geor
gia farmers can grow successfully in
spite of the boll weevil invasion
which is expected to reach the north
ern half of the state this year.
The cotton originated in Mis.ls
sippi, where it was "ecommended by
the government and by the state as
a boll weevil cotton. Seed was se
cured for Mr. Hunter four years ago
by the state board of entomology,
and since then has been bred and de
veloped by him under the dir' ction
of state experts.
Until he came to Georgia fourteen
years ago, Mr. Hunter had never
seen a stalk of cotton. For twelve
years he had worked for
newspapers, then he went New
York as advertising manager of the
Lackawanna railroad; from that he
branched out into ether advertising,
and while not the originator, he is
the man who made ‘‘Sunny Jim” an
advertising asset. Largely through
him ‘‘Sunny Jim” became known to
every man, woman and child in the
nation.
On a hunting trip Mr. Hunter dis
covered northeast Georgia, investi
gated the peach industry and became
convinced of its possibilities; then
being tired of the slavery of city
life and work at a desk, he came to
Georgia to make his home. He clear
ed several hundred acres of virgin
land, planted it in peach trees, and
proved his conclusion that peach
growing in Georgia is a money-mak
ing business.
He was so busy over his orchards
that he lived at Cornelia three years
without coming to Atlanta. His
first visit here was to attend a meet
ing at which the Georgia Fruit Ex
change was organized. Three years
after the organization of the ex
change he was elected president, and
has been re-elected each year since
then.
But peach growing has been only
one of his efforts. He became inter
ested In cotton, and the SII,OOO crop
produced last year on thirty acres of
North Georgia land is one of the re
sults.
In an interview for The Journal
he gives the history of his success
ful attempt to grow long staple cot
ton in north Georgia.
‘‘l got interested in cotton four
or five years ago,” he said. ‘‘Perhaps
you remember the year after the boll
weevil struck Georgia and cleaned up
the. southeastern corner of the state.
Meetings were being held at county
seats to discuss ways by which the
situation could be met. Between
trains at Thomasville I went to one
of these meetings. I heard the farm
ers told that they must not grow
more than eight or ten acres of cot
ton to the plow, and that they must
grow other crops on the remaining
fifteen or twenty acres. Right after
that I went on a tour of meetings
held in nearly every county in the
cotton belt.
‘‘Naturally I learned something
about cotton. You can’t listen to ex
perts talk twice a day without ab
sorbing something. One thing I be
came convinced of was that cheap
cotton was a thing of the past, and
about that time I heard about a va
riety in Mississippi and another in
Virginia. I sent for both of them
and planted ten acres of each. One
proved worthless, but the Mississippi
variety grew the finest looking field
you ever saw. Aly wife could walk
out of sight in it. Most of the plants
had around 100 bolls, and you
couldn’t cover any one of them with
the biggest cotton hamper you ever
saw. Furthermore, it was white with
blossims in the middle of September.
One of the state experts and I figur
ed it out on paper, and we found I
had raised two bales to the acre.
About a bale of it had been pick
ed when a frost that wasn’t due for
at least forty days settled down one
night, and that was the end of the
cotton crop. It wasn’t much com
fort that the weather man said it
was the earliest frost on record.
“I tried it again the next year, and
this time I left the cotton a little
closer in the row. In a separate plot
I planted, side by side, seed from
100 special selections made the year
before. When picking time came
these hundred rows were as differ
ent as 100 men. Some were early,
some were late, some were tall, some
were short, some had big bolls and
some had little ones. I selected
twenty of the best to try the next
year.
"But while I had been raising cot
ton, the kaiser had been raising—
well, something else. Before I was
ready to sell my cotton that year Un
cle Sam took over all the cotton mills
and said: ‘Spin for me and spin
short cotton.’
‘‘So, I didn’t make a fortune that
year.
‘‘But I tried it again the next
year, and the crop matured' early
enough for every lock of it to be
in the barn, before frost. The ten
test rows that I grew were almost
alike, but there was sufficient dif
ference to narrow the selection down
to two.
“I believed the cotton coul,d be
made still earlier, and the next year
I planted closer, rows 3 feet apart
and plants 18 inches apart in the
row. You may not have thought it,
but plants do not fruit until their
year’s -work is about at an end. For
this reason I wanted a cotton plant
that would begin to die early, and
I crowded them to bring this about.
Again I made a good crop, and it
was all gathered before the first
frost. The two specially selected
plants, survivors of the first 100,
were so nearly alike that I could not
decide which was the better.
‘‘Mills were still busy spinning
cotton for the government and didn’t
want anything but short cotton. So
I didn’t make a fortune that year,
cither.
“But I believed the war was go
ig to end some time, and that the
vorld again would want ‘long’ cot
on. Once more I tried with two
good-sized patches from seed of the
two survivors of tjift first 100 va-
' rieties. The size and type of the
! previous year’s crop was about what
■ I wanted, so I kept the same plant
j ing distances, both ways. That was
■ a good crop, and it, too, was all
housed before frost.
“Abaut a year ago we ginned this
crop, and some really important facts
were proved. The cotton I had se
cured from Mississippi, as the basis
for my cotton breeding experiments
had showed only 29 per cent lint. The
second crop showed some improve
' ment, but not much. The third made
! greater progress. And last year—
i that is the 1919 crop—offered over 33
I per cent lint. That meant some
* thing; it is a real triumph to increase
! from 29 to 33 per cent lint.
“The samples were brought to At
!lanta and seven expert graders were
‘ called in. Two of them were from
Liverpool, and one was said to be
the best cotton grader in the world.
They agreed on two things. First,
that the cotton was the most regular
crop they had ever inspected; second
that the fiber was a full one and
three-sixteenth inches.
“One of the chief objections to ex
tra-staple cotton is the irregularity
in length of fiber. The fact that my
cotton was not Irregular was of much
i importance.
“Next the cotton had been graded
' practically one-eighth of an inch long
ier than I had anticipated. No one had
■ ever claimed more than one and one-
I eighth inches for the cotton sent me
i from Mississippi, and here these
graders were giving me full one and
I three-sixteenths. ‘Full’ in the trade
j means almost another sixteenth.
Maybe you do not know that every
sixteenth sends the price up by leaps
and bounds. In my case the length
of fiber got me 82 cents a pound for
my cotton.
“This was the gratifying result of
four years of hard work. The length
of the fiber had been standardized,
had been increased one-sixteenth of
an inch, the percentage of lint had
been increased from 29 to 33 per cent
and the cotton had been a fact be
fore, although when I got it from
Mississippi it was already the earli
est cotton grown commercially.
‘This means much to the farmers
j of Georgia, for upon earliness depends
< largely the future of the cotton in
: clustry in these days when the boll
; weevil is sitting upon nearly every
stalk waiting for the next bloom.”
During the last four years Mr.
Hunter has practically lived in the
cotton field, and in his effort to breed
a variety of cotton best suited to
north Georgia has had the co-opera
tion of his wife.
He has always been more or less a
pioneer at any job he undertakes. The
first advertisement he wrote after go
ing with the Lackawanna railroad
showed Mark Twain and a telegram
that Twain had sent to a friend in
New York after his arrival at his
home in Elmira. This telegram read:
“Left New York in a white duck
suit —and it’s white yet.”
It was a new note in railroad ad
vertising. •
Mr. Hunter was asked how a man
who had lived In Chicago and New
York and had been in the heart of
business could adapt himself to a
farmer’s life in north Georgia.
“Man,” he exclaimed, ‘‘l live in the
best part of the best state in the
union. Take a look at the mountains
up there, and at the forests, and
you’ll agree that they’re just God
given. You’ll see a cat sunning it
self on the porch. One always is,
there are eight in all. My wife and
myself couldn’t live without eight
cats, and how could we keep that
many in a city apartment? She asked
me that question once, and I told her
I wouldn’t trade the walkk from my
barn to the house for the whole of
Broadway.
‘‘Furthermore, Georgia is just be
ginning to live. It will become the
greatest state in the union. It has
everything to make it that. Its peo
ple r have waked up. Its farmers have
thrown off the shackles of all-cotton.
Its mines, its fields, its water power,
its mills are just beginning to devel
op. That Georgia will become the
greatest commonwealth in America is
not prophecy; it’s certainty.”
20-Year Experiment
Shows Much Progress
The 20-year breeding experiment
which the Bureau of Animal Indus
try, United States Department of
Agriculture, is conducting in co
operation with the Kansas agricul
tural experiment station at Man
hattan, has been in progress since
September 1, 1915. The principal
objects are to determine whether
the milking tendency in beef cat
tle is transmitted mainly by the
dams through the male line of de
scent, and to what extent this milk
giving function of the dam influ
ences the beef character of the
progeny. Several steers and bull
calves have shown unusual merit
and have become prize winners of
importance.
Experiments of the kind mention
e dare particularly adapted to co
operative federal and state work.
The great length of time necessary
for satisfactory results in cattle
breeding and the need for records
of official character make it diffi
cult for individual breeders to con
duct the work in a manner likely
to be of general value to the indus
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Seed tests sufficiently accurate to
answer all practical purposes can be
made by a beginner with very little
practice, say specialists of the United
States department of agriculture.
The younger members of the home
circle should find such work not
only comparatively easy but very in
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seed is aided by the possession of
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Only such apparatus is needed in
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Some shots may be cut into halves,
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Such other apparatus as is desir
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can be made of two thin strips of
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bent into U-shape and having the
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is needed, but' the common reading
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that can be bought at a cost of $1 or
$2 serves the purpose well. Seed
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paper tray is desirable.
There are many simple devices for
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ami CLe ether plate inverted over the
whole. There are several equally
simple methods of testing seed corn.
Make the Sirup at Home
In sections where sugar-maple
trees grow, or where sugar Cane or
sorghum are grown, the farmer may
produce all the sirup the family con
sumes, says the United States de
partment of agriculture. Many farm
ers of the North Atlantic states pro
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In the southern states the home pro
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is even more common. Sorghum is
also grown to a considerable extent
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syrup for home consumption, making
a very important contribution to the
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Make the Cotton Crop Pay
Use Calcium Arsenate to poison the 801 l
Weevil. The Government has devised it, tested it
and now it.
But be sure that you get the right kind of Calcium Arsenate
and be sure to get a machine that will dust it successfully.
Follow instructions of the United States Department of Agri
culture strictly else it may not pay.
Remember that other things are necessary in fighting the
801 l Weevil. They are :
(1) Grow only Bto 10 acres to the plow.
(2) Plant seed of early fruiting varieties.
(3) Use good, well drained soil.
(4) Fertilize heavily to force the plant to set and mature
early a large number of bolls.
(5) Cultivate frequently.
For further information write for Free Bulletin No. 31 “Cotton
Production” and for Circular No. 25 on “Calcium Arsenate.”
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