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PACKERS LAUNCH
PLAN TO FINANCE
CATTLE RAISERS
CHICAGO. Representatives of
the Chicago packers recently sent a
circular letter to western stock rais
ers. railroad officials and bankers,
awing them to attend a conference
here on September 10, to discuss
plans for financing increased produc
tion of live stock.
The letter urged those interested
to mee -with representatives of
the Federal Reserve Bank “to find out
whether there is not a better plan
by which the live stock industry
can be protected and financed, to the
end that confidence and normal food
production be restored and abnormal
shipments of young and breeding
live stock be stopped.”
Signing the letter were J. Ogden
Armour, Thomas E. Wilson and L.
F. Swift, of the packers; Hale Hol
den, president of the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quines railroad; M. A.
Traylor, president of the First
Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago; J.
S. Howard, president of the Ameri
can Farm Bureau Federation; O. G.
Smith, president of the National
Farm Congress, Kearny, Neb., and
several heads of live stock raisers’
associations.
"The summer of 1920 has produced
one of the greatest crops of hay,
corn, pasture and other feeds known
in the history of the country,” he
letter said.
The drought last year, it added,
had resulted “almost in extinction”
of live stock production in parts of
the west, so that prices for hides
and wool are demoralized w<th prac
tically no market'.
“It is of the utmost importance
that this matter be disposed of
promptly, as the season for purchas
ing live stock for feed lots and pas
tures is quickly passing,” the letter
concluded.
A school for southern cattle rais
ers was opened at the stockyards
recently with 230 Georgians as pu
pils. The Georgia delegation came
to study the scientific side of cattle
rais Ing and marketing.
Mississippi Ranks High
In Great Development
Os Southern Dairying
Great strides are being made in
the development of the dairy indus
try in the southern states. From
January 1, 1915, to January 1, 1920,
the livestock including milk cows,
beef cattle, mules, horses and sheep
increased in number in the United
States 8.5 per cent, while the total
increase for the south was 13.5 per
cent. Dairv cows of the'south in
creased 15.2 per cent, while to
tal increase in number for the Unit
ed States was only 11.6 per cent.
Not only has there been an in
crease in the number of southern
dairy cows but also the quality has
been Increased during the past five
vears—the individual cow increas
ing in value 71.6 per cent, while
the average Increase for Individual
dairv cows for the United States
was only 53.8 per cent. For the
same period the total valuation of
dairy cattle in the south was in
creased 93.5 per cent, while the to
tal for the United States -was only
71 per cent.
Mississippi looms up as one of
the foremost dairy states in the
south. On January 1. of this year,
theer was a total of 571,000 milk
cows for the valuation of $5,402,000
in Mississippi. Following are parts
of an article that recently appeared
in “Commercial Appeal.” one of the
leading dailies in Mississippi, which
indicates rapid progress is being
made along dairying lines in Mis
sissippi:
"The dairv products from Missis
sippi in 1919 brought $2,400,000 to
hat state. For the 12 months in
’912 the sale of these products
mounted to but $4,400. Numbers
new creameries have been estab
'ished during the past year and
many more working by the last of
this year, said Mr. Wade.
“Dairying has done more to de
velop the rural industries in Mis
sissippi than any class of farming,
farmers are going into the pure
hiood stock business. Very few
will harbor a cow unless she is the
Pest. They have realized the value
of pureblood stock and in those sec
tions where dairying has been more
developed than other parts of the
state farmers are snowing more
prosperity.
“Mr. Wade, agricultural agent for
the Illinois Central, told the writer
of towns where creameries had been
established within the past few
monthsfl One of thees he said was
at Brookhaven. There most of the
farmers for 10 miles around the
city have gone heavily into dairy
ing. The creamery is prosperous
and Is making the farmers rich.
“Another large creamery is locat
ed at Aberdeen. This creamery was
established in 1915. The first year
there were 32.500 pounds of butter
fat handled by it and $10,562.50
paid to dairy farmers. In 1916 this
creamery handled 293,404 pounds of
butter fat and distributed $98,533.65
among the farmers.
“In 1917 the creamery handled
310,418 pounds of butter fat, dis
tributing $127,128.68 among farmers.
In 1918 there were 316,774 pounds
of butter fat handled and $157,-
298.89. distributed among the farm
ers. In 1919 the creamery handled
407,495 pounds of butter fat and
distributed among the farmers
$233,019,82.**
Quarantine Still on
In Southern Counties
The federal quarantine for'cattle
fever tick has been replaced on the
parishes of Beauregard, Caldwell,
Grant, Jackson, Red River, Union,
Franklin, Pointe Coupee and Wash
ington in Louisiana, and Quachita
county, Arkansas, by order of the
United States department of agricul
ture, effective September 14, 1920. The
effect of the quarantine is that cattle
cannot be shipped interstate from
these regions except under the regu
lations promulgated by the secretary
of garlculture.
The five parishes named were re
leased from quarantine on December
1, 1918, and the remaining four par
ishes named and Ouachita county
were released December 1, 1917, but
the cattlemen and local authorities in
these regions have failed to co-oper
ate in the “mopping-up” work, and
ticks have multiplied until they now
'constitute a menace to nearby par
ishes and counties that are tick free
oy that are eradicating ticks.
All other released regions in Louis
iana and Arkansas are doing satis
factory “mopping-up” work, and it is
believed that no other replacement
of quarantine will be found neces
sary
Velvet Beans Fine
For Winter Growing
The principal values of the velvet
•ean is for winter grazing, and for
hat purpose it is one of the best
•rops which can be grown on the
ight soils and in the long season of
ne immediate gulf coasv. —— spe
cialists of the ’ nlted States depart
ment of agrlc.ilture. It is usual to
allow the crop to grow until killed
ny frost, after which it is grazed
through the winter, as the vines and
leaves decay so slowly that they re
tain their palatability a long time.
The matured beans are quite hard
when dry, but are eaten well in the
fall, or whenever they become slight
ly softened either by rains or by
lying on damp soil. The yield of
seed from a fair growth of vines is
usually from 20 to 30 bushels per
acre, and much heavier yields are
often secured. One hundred pounds
of the pods will shell about sixty
pounds, or one bushel of seed. They
do not need to be shelled for feeding
cattle, and make an excellent grain
feed for winter use. Experiments
made at the agricultural experiment
station of Florida indicate that for
feeding three pounds of the beans
in the pods are worth more than one
pound of cottonseed meal.
Half a Million Dollars
Realized By the Farmers
Who Tried Co-Operation
More than half a million dollars
of new wealth created in one year
by a single community—that is the
record of Grove City, Pa., a whole
community largely given over to
dairying. There are many cities and
towns throughout the country en
gaged in the production of some one
principal commodity. Miners in
crease the value of coal by taking it
from the ground. Manufacturers
add to the value of raw materials by
shaping them into marketable prod
ucts. These increase wealth. But
Grove City actually creates new
wealth. It takes the air, sunshine,
and water elements free to all—
and converts them into gold—dairy
products.
What the Grove City community
is doing can be done by any com
munity that is satisfactorily situat
ed and that has a well-equipped,
well managed creamery. The fact
that the management is supervised
bv the United States department of
agriculture probably gives it no ap
preciable financial advantage, be
cause of the relationship is investi
gational and has not reduced the
cost of manufacture below that
possible in many other creameries.
The products are always sold on
their merits, and the name of the
department is not used to advertise
them.
Community Spirit Built Up
The success of the Grove City
creamery is due largely to the ad
mirable community spirit that has
been built up there and in the sur
rounding district. That this spirit
exists today is due largely to the
efforts put forth by the /business
men of Grove City, especially the
members of the Commercial club, an
organization that is open to the
farmers of the neighborhood who
are interested in the advancement of
dairying. From the very outset of
the undertaking, in 1914, the busi
ness men took an active interest in
the creamery and in the movement
toward general agricultural develop
ment through dairying, and by their
enthusiasm they aroused the inter
est of the farmers.
The business men of Grove City
took the first step, the farmers met
them halfway, and all are now work
ing for a common cause, which is
the building up of a successful dairy
community. Though the business
men began the work for the public
good and with little thought of per
sonal gain, they have found that it
is paying them well, because better
farming has brought them better
business.
The records of the creamery show
a remarkable increase in income de
rived from the sale of its products.
For the first year, from July 1, 1915,
to June 30, 1916, the gross income
was $82,432; the second year it in
creased to $212,904; the third year,
Sweet Potato Storage
Will Increase Profits
If Properly Arranged
CLEMSON COLLEGE. —With the
harvest period for the sweet potato
drawing near, it is of vital impor
tance that ample storage space be
provided. In the use of the stand
ard storage house, whiph is the
only sure way of keeping potatoes, a
thorough cleansing, disinfecting, air
ing and artificial drying should be
given the house before the potatoes
are stored. Especially is thi s true
of previously used houses in which
rots have given trouble. Houses
that have been used or constructed
by the remodeling of old and unused
buildings, should be carefully cleans
ed, disinfected, and aired several
days before they are to be used,
while in case of the new an un
used house that has been constructed
of new material, it will only be nec
essary to dry this out thoroughly
by the artifical heat.
The cleansing, disinfecting, and
natural airing should be done a
wek or ten days before the house
is to be used, and a thorough drying,
by use of the artificial heat, over a
period of 12 to 24 hours, before the
potatoes are to be stored. After
this the heat should be discontinued,
weather conditions permitting, un
til all of the crop i s harvested. Oth-
Sudan Grass Rivals Alfalfa
As a Prolific Producer
Sudan grass has won a place for
itself In American agriculture and
has become the farmers’ second line
of defense, according to a recent
bulletin of the United States depart
ment of agriculture. Ten years after
Its introduction to the United States
from Khartum, Africa, Sudan grass
was being successfully grown In
nearly all parts of the United States.
It does not serve well as a "money
crop’’ or a soil Improver, hence It
may never find a permanent place
in regular crop rotations. It has,
nevertheless, a very Important place
in the farmer’s second line of de
fense as a catch crop which can be
planted to give satisfactory returns
when conditions have brought failure
to other hay crops. This is the ver
dict pronounced by the department
in the Farmers’ Bulletin 1126, recent
ly Issued:
“Sudan grass is replacing millet
as the premier catch crop in many
localities because of its ability to
produce a fair yield and a high qual
ity of hay under conditions of low
railfall, its rather short growing sea
son and Its ability to thrive on a
wide range of soil types. Large
yields of Sudan grass are obtained
only on good soils, but the grass
fails completely only on cold, poor
ly drained land.
“Sudan grass produces heavily. In
California under irrigation it has
made yields of 9.8 tons of field-cured
hay an acre, when alfalfa produced
but 8.3 tons under like conditions; it
ordinarily yields about the same as
alfalfa under irrigation in the south
west, but Sudan grass gives its full
crop In three cuttings, against the
four or five required for alfalfa. It
is the only grass yet found which in
this part of the United States ranks
as the equal of alfalfa in point of
yield and quality of the hay. Its
record in this respect has led to its
use in ‘patching’ old alfalfa fields
when the stand of alfalfa has been
destroyed. In the Southe n Lreat
Plains, where there is a low rainfall,
Sudan grass grown without Irrigation
will yield from one to three tons of
hay to the acre. .
"There are certain parts or tne
United States where the department
of agriculture considers it unwise to
depend on Sudan grass for h a y
This ! s true of the strip of territory
200 miles wide along the northern
boundary; the regions of high alti
tudes in the western states, and
also most of Florida and a narrow
strip of land along the gulf coast.
Low temperatures prevent success
with the grass in the first two re
gions named, and disease is the lim
iting factor along the gulf coast.
In a majority of the central and
southern states, however, climatic
and soil conditions are favorable to
Sudan grass.
“Alti’"”gh Sudan grass is best
adapted by nature to use as a hay
crop, it is also used with great suc
cess as a soiling and pasture cron
fo.r summer pastures. Its se as a
silsrge material is limited by the fact
that it is easily made into hay and
fed as such with very little waste,
and also because corn and sorghum
both outyield it and are generally
available throughout the region
where Sudan grass is grown
"In the semi-arid dlstiicts t9ie
highest yields are obtained when the
grass is sown in rows so as to allow
to $375,596; and last year the gross
income totaled $505,810. As only a
small part of the money was used
to pay the cost of operation, nearly
all of it was distributed among the
farmers around Grove City. Since
much of the income was due to in
creased and improved farm business,
a large part of it may fairly be con
sidered as newly created wealth.
Improved Dairy Cows
The most direct cause of the great
ly Increased prosperity of the Grove
City community is ' the more profit
able dairy cow. Dairying in the
Grove City district has been much
improved by the purebred cattle that
have been shipped in, but it has been
improved more by the scrub cattle
that have been shipped out. The
cow-testing association, which has
taken the guesswork out of dairying
in .that district, is an organization
of the dairy farmers who employ a
tester to test their cows for produc
tion and to keep feed and production
records.
Tuberculin tests from April, 1918,
to May, 1920, were made on 387
herds, consisting of 4,988 animals,
under the accredited-herd plan. Os
these, 148 herds are already accred
ited. According to latest figures, 250
farmers in the vicinity of Grove City
own one or more purebred dairy ani
mals. The importation of purebreds
is going forward steadily.
The creamery has gained a reputa
tion for high quality of products.
This has brought a ready market at
satisfactory prices, which have en
couraged larger production. In
creased production and satisfactory
prices have made the farmers more
prosperous. Increased financial pros
perity, however, is only a small part
of the gain that has come to the
community. Better schools, better
churches, better homes, and better
social conditions are coming as a re
sult of this, because the people have
learned to work together without
friction. xv. * *
To achieve such success as that at
Grove City, it is not necessary for a
community to engage in the manu
facture of dairy products. The Grove
City plan can be adapted as well to
any other type of agriculture. To
make the work a success, however,
the community must cast aside all
selfishness, pull together, and organ
ize ,and should select for its field
agent a man of personality, educa
tion, ability, and diplomacy. He
should be thoroughly trained in
scientific and practical agriculture
and must have had wide experience.
With such a man in charge and with
a modern creamery there is every
reason to believe that any commun
ity, with the spirit of co-operation
and even fair agricultural resources,
can do what the Grove City com
munity has done.
erwise, uniform curing will not be
given, which may cause poor keep
ing, as a result of both over and
undercuring.
There are several effective meth
ods of disinfecting that are recom
mended. Two of these are as fol
lows:
1. Whitewashing. This may be
applied by use of a brush, a good
coat of standard whitewash, or a
mixture of whitewash and winter
strength lime sulphur solution. On
ly one application per season is nec
essary.
2. Sprays. These are thought to
be equally as effective, and should
be applied by use of the standard
barrel or bucket spray pump.
a—Copper sulphate (blue stone).
Dissolve, by suspending 1 to 1 1-2
pounds of blue stone in 25 gallons
of water. „
b—Formalin. Mixt 1 pint of for
malin (40 per cent strength) and 30
gallons of water.
c—Lime-sulphur. Mix 1 gallon of
liquid lime sulphur (same as used in
winer orchard spraying) with 10
gallons of water.
When losses have resulted from
rots, two applications of the sprays
are recommended.
of cultivation. The advantage in
yield of the row over the drilled
seedings is so small, however, that
most farmers prefer to avoid the
necessity of cultivation by drilling
or broadcasting the seed. A com
mon grain drill handles well clean
ed Sudan grass seed without trouble
and the nay from drilled seedings is
finer stemmed and matures more
evenly than row plantings.
“The feeding value of Sudan grass
is equal to timothy hay. In locali
ties where soy beans or cowpeas do
well these legumes may be grown in
mixtures with the Sudan grass.
Such a mixture produces a hay of
higher feeding value than grass alone
because of the high protein content
of the legunies.
Tractor Ousts Horses
And Increases Acreage
On Corn-Belt Farms
Farmers’ Bulletin 1093 gives the
results of tractor investigations on
191 corn-belt farms, made in 1918.
A summary of results Include the
following observations:
The number of horses disposed
of on 141 farms averaging 346 1-2
acres, on which tractors had been
used for a year or over, was 2 1-2
per farm.
The average number of tillable
acres per horse increased from 26 1-2
to 38 1-2 after the purchase of the
tractor.
The number of horses displaced by
the tractors on these farms was gov
erned by the number it was neces
sary to retain for corn cultivation
and other work current at the same
time, which the tractor could not do.
The horses remaining on these
farms are doing about 75 per cent
of the tractive work and tractors the
remainder.
The tractor was used for an aver
age of twenty-nine ten-hour days
per year on the home farm. No rec
ord of the amount of custom work
done was obtained.
A three-plow tractor on these farms
does the work of 8 1-2 horses in
plowing, disking, harrowing and har
vesting.
After purchasing the tractor, the
average size of the farms was in
creased by twenty-two acres, or 6 1-3
per cent.
The principal advantage of a trac
tor is its ability to do heavy work
In a shorter time than it can be done
with horses.
Cow-Testing Pays
In West Alabama
AUBURN. Ala. —Interesting in
formation is disclosed in the July re
port of the Canebrake Cow Test as
sociation as made by J. W. Bolander,
official tester at Demopolis, to the
dairy division of the Alabama ex
tension service at Auburn.
There are seventeen herds of dairy
cows in this association, numbering
551 in all. Most of these are of Jer
sey breed, although there are some
Holsteins and Guernseys. They pro
duced in July 225,248 pounds of milk
or 9.510 pounds of butterfat valued
at $2,020.44. The average production
THIS COW’S PASTURE
IS DECK OF BATTLESHIP,
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ing their milk fresh. This picture was taken aboard the Alphonso
XIII, the first Spanish warship to visit the United States since the
Spanish-American war. Thousands of New Yorkers visited the Al
phonso XIII while she lay at anchor in the Hudson.
Butter Is More Important
Than Most People Think
Thousands of years ago when the
world was very new and people liv
ed mostly out of doors and telept in
trees, caves and rudely constructed
shelters, butter, milk and cheese
were their principal food's.
The lives that these people led
were hard and rough and in every
thing that they did, they were guid
ed almost entirely by instinct. So,
even had they been told of the won
derful nourishment contained in
these simply dairy products, they
would not nave understood what it
was all about. But ’"stinct told
them when and what to eat, and
they knew they ate butter, milk and
Cheese that their hunger was soon
satisfied and that their tired bodies
were quickly refreshed. So in this
manner, they became healthy and
vigorous men and women and lived
to be very old.
For centuries, butter, milk, and
cheese have been closely allied with
the mental and physical development
of the human race, and at the pres
ent time, in all countries, where they
are used generously in feeding the
young, we find the finest, strongest,
most intelligent and useful people.
Eat Plenty of Butter
There is nothing healthier and
better as a food forth egrowing
child than plenty of good bread and
butter.
When, after hours of study and
on the playground, you run home
to mother for something to eat, ask
her for a silce of bread with rich,
golden butter spread thick all over
it. Then, very soon you will feel
as good as new, and that is because
butter replaces the energy that has
been consumed in work and play.
Mother knows just how much
good those slices of bread and sweet,
rich butter mean to her little boys
and girls and gives them gladly all
that they want, because, above every
thing else, she wishes them to have
healthy minds and bodies, so that
Mississippi Boy
Makes Five Cents
Grow to Dollars
Van Palmtree is a thirteen-year
old boy who lives in Panola coun
ty, Miss. Van belongs to one of
the many boys’ argricultural clubs
in that state. Many of the Missis
sippi club boys have had unusual
success with their club projects, but
Van’s success is noteworthy be
cause of its small beginning.
In April, 1916, 5 cents was given
him by his teacher as a reward for
unusually good lessons and good be
havior one day at school. With this
money, he bought a chicken. It was
crippled, hence its low price, but
much coddling on his part saved its
life, and it grew to maturity. The
next summer she raised a brood of
chickens which were sold for $1.50.
With this money Van bought a pig.
It was a runt pig, but care and good
feeding for a few months made it
well worth the $9.36 for which its
owner sold it.
Immediately the young financier
bought a heifer calf with the price
paid him for the hog. Last year
and again this she presented her
owner with a heifer calf, so he now
has a little herd of three, all the
outgrowth of that one nickel which
he invested four years ago.
The club boy’s cattle are scrubs,
but he is hoping to have something
better some of these days, and with
a boy of his kind, to plan is to do.
So it would not be surprising if the
nickel continued to grow and be
come a pure-bred herd before Van
is sixteen.
per cow was 408 pounds of nr! Ik and
17 1-4 pounds of butterfat valued at
$12.65. Their average return over
the cost of feed was $10.32 —which
shows that dairying is a profitable
business in that section. Three hun
dred and twenty-one of the cows
were not fed any grain whatever,
simply pasture, and some roughage.
They returned a profit to their own
ers of $11.65 per cow.
A grade Holstein cow belonging to
Dr. S. E. Sparling took the honors in
butterfat production with a record of
44:4 pounds—while a grade Jersey
owned by W. D. Dobbins produced the
most milk, 1,032 pounds, or an aver
age of nearly four gallons per day
for the entire month. Surely Alabama
: s destined to be a great dairy state.
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Butter Furnishes Energ’y
To eat plenty of good butter is
the surest means of keeping your
supply of energy at its best, and
energy is of utmost importance to
both body and mind.
Additional energy also is gained
from the soups, meats, vegetables,
bread, pies, cakes and puddings that
you eat when butter is used in pre
paring them. Butter makes them
more palatable, too, and more di
gestible.
Nearly everything contained in but
ter is good for your body; 80 per
cent of it produces warmth and en
ergy, 1 per cent is protein that re
news the wasted tissues, and 3 per
cent is mineral matter that repairs
and strengthens the bones. Butter
also is good for you because it con
tains a vital substance known as
vitamines, that is necessary to the
development of your body, and which
other vegetables and animal fats do
not possess Butter is valuable as
a food because it is teasy to digest
and is quickly at work, helping to
make you bigger and stroner.
Your body needs a great deal of
good foods like butter and milk be
cause, if healthy, the body of the
child develops rapidly an<i is very
active, so that every day there is a
large amount of new tissue and en
ergy, to be supplied.
Every time that you recite your
lessons, romp around the play
grounds, or help with the work at
home, a certain amount of muscle
and energy is. used up and must be
restored. Even every heart beat or
breath taken destroys some part of
our bodies so that they are in need
of constant repair.
When a man builds a chimney, he
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that it may be strong and durable
and safe—he would not think of mak
ing it with boards. And it is the
same with you. Your own body
needs certain materials to make it
grow and to maintain the proper
amounts of energy and strength.
Butter is one of the most perfect
foods that can be used for this pur
pose and in bringing out the very
best there is in you in mental and
bodily strength.—Board’s Dairyman.
10 cents extra for every
pound of liis cotton
What farm experience has taught
Jim Littlefield about overalls
WHEN Jim Littlefield, of Braden,
Oklahoma, turned in his cotton
crop last year, he got a ten-cent
premium on every pound. Experience
has taught him the grade of cotton that A] \ i”*
pays him best. And this same experience O/ 5 II i
has taught him the sort of* work clothes * \
that wear best on the job. j;.-.-.>\
James Littlefield has tried a lot of over- y f \
alls since he started cotton raising—and \ O
today you’ll find him in Blue Buckle
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No matter how heavy the work is on /--C * »
his farm, he has found that Blue Buckles I J W£ y ,
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factories, have found that Blue Buckles
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Find out for yourself about Blue . WeZ/
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Roller Ginning for the
Meade Cotton Instead of
The Saw Ginning Urged
Reports that several hundred acres
of Meade cotton are being grown in
Arkansas and Texas and more than
2,000 acres in Hayti this year have
eausqd cotton specialists of the
bureau of plant industry, to express
some concern over the effect this
may have upon their efforts to bring
Meade cotton to the front in Georgia
as an upland long-staple variety, ac
cording to the Weekly News Letter
of the United States department of ag
riculture. There is no reason to ex
pect that a variety of the special
character of the Meade cotton can be
grown to advantage in all parts of
the cotton belt.
Replacing Sea Island
Meade cotton, developed by the bu
reau of plant industry, is now replac
ing the sea island cotton in Georgia
and South Carolina. It is earlier
and more productive than the sea
island cotton in the presence of the
boll \steevil and produces fiber of the
length and quality of sea island cot
ton, so that the advantage to the
farmer is great. The attention that
Meade cotton has attracted in Geor
gia has led, however, to efforts being
made to introduce this variety into
many other districts in advance of
any recommendation by the depart
ment.
An essential requirement for the
production of govd long-staple fiber is
that the plants shall not be checked
by drought, which makes the fiber
weak and irregular and renders the
crop difficult to pick, because the
bolls are withered ana split prema
turely and do not open to the full
extent of those that are normally de
veloped.
An important advantage of Meade
cotton in the sea island districts,
b.ut a disadvantage in other parts
of the cotton belt, is that this va
riety is better adapted to roller gin
ning, on account of the seeds being
only slightly fuzzy, like the sea island
cotton. Though good prices have
been secured in some cases for saw
ginned Meade fiber, there have also
been complaints that such fiber is
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badly gin-cut, which is likely to in
jure the commercial standing of the
variety unless the need of roller gin
ning is clearly understood by farm
ers, the buyers and the manufactur
ers.
Aim to Keep Grade High
It has been the aim of the friends
of Meade cotton to keep the product
on as high a grade as possible, and it
has been selling on the mart- a. for
prices equal to those paid »or sea
island of the same grade, ht is al
ready being produced in considerable
quantities and is the nearest approach
to sea island—now practically elim
inated by the boll weevil’s invasion
—in length and fineness of fiber.
Tests of the strength and spinning
qualities of the fiber have given
favorable results, so that the possi
bility of substituting this type of
cotton for corresponding lengths of
sea island is definitely indicated.
Meade produces earlier than sea
island and develops bolls nearly twice
as large. A heavier crop can be set
in a short period of time, and the
fiber matures in advance of sea island
—all tending to avoid damage by
boll weevil. Even when a large pro
portion of the buds of young bolls
are shed, as a result of severe weevil
injury or other unfavorable condi
tions, the Meade rows often yield
two or three times as much as the
sea island. Buyers accept Meade
fiber as practically equivalent to .the
sea island. At present there are
about 5,000 acres planted in Meade
iii Georgia and South Carolina, about
2,000 acres being especially guarded
as the basis of a supply of pure
seed.
Many a sunstroke is due to a
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