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THK ATLANTA T2U-UEEKLY JOURNAL.
Amazing Era of Progress
In Georgia Agriculture
Described by Observers
BY JOHN B. M’MAHOJiT
(In “The Country Gentleman’’)
With the largest area of any
state east of the Mississippi, hard
ly more than one-third of Georgia’s
34,000,000 tillable acres are being
cultivated. A European nation could
be installed on the vacant land. Talk
about room for exijansiofi! Most of
the surplus acreage is cut-over land
that is adaptable both for pasture
for crops. It sells for? 10 or
515 an acre, while the developed
land is worth ten times as much, or
better. There is no other southern
state that has such range of cli
mate and soil. There is the sandy
coastal plain in the. sub-tropical
belt south and east, and there is
the hilly, clayey land of the Pied
mont plateau that rises into the
temperate zone up north. The latter
soil is naturally richer than any oth*
er southern variety except the al
luvial.
You can take your pick of climate,
soil and also the color of your neigh
bors. There are dark-and light coun
ties, the latter chiefly toward the
north. The inhabitants of the white
belt have become noted for doing
their own work. The colored broth
ers have learned to put in licks of
industry and to start bank accounts.
Despite an increase in the number
of cases of summary injustice the
past year, the race problem has not
been so acutely troublous here as 4
in other states, south and north.
The Cattle Tick’s Impending' Doom
In cotton Georgia is distanced
only by Texas. In peaches the an
nual output of her northeastern
counties is round 6,000 carloads a
year. Apples are following the lead
of the Elberta land.ztThere are near
ly 12,000,000 bushels of sweet pota
toes produced yearly now compared
with half the amount a dozen years
ago. Where theweevil spread deso
lation in the southern section a
short while back and tobacco was
unknown, there were 31,000 acres
last year in bright-leaf tobacco. Fig
ure out the value of this new crop
at S2OO an acre and up.
Georgia is just beginning to hit
her stride in live stock with a beef
cattle population of more than 750,-
OQO and with a milk herd numbering
The all-year climate ar-
that this is just the beginning
and so does the approach of the
day when the last cattle tick will
be denied and chased into the
friendly neutrality of other states.
An important part of live stock de
velopment is the rapid increase in
peanut and velvet bean acreage. The
state produced more than 300,000
tons of velvet bean hay last year
and more than 10,00-0,000 bushels of
peanuts in 191 S, and is expected to
go ahead of these figures the pres
ent season.
Figures are all right in away,
but they do not tell enough. For
example, it is important to know
that Atlanta, Ga., admits that she
is capita'D'and queen city of the
south. It is also worth while to
know that Savannah is a beautiful
burg and a leading seaport. These
things mean markets, railroads, fa
cilities, civilization and what not.
Roy Neal, editor of the Savannah
Morning News, gave me a good
snapshot of Georgia when he said:
“Our greatest change in the last
five years is psychological. The
farmer in that time has been con
verted from a strong individualist
to a co-operator. He used to stand
4>at, while now he is progressive
and willing to take up new ideas. He
once considered tick dipping an in
vasion of his personal rights. He
fought compulsory dipping and
was pleased when parties unkpown
dynamited concrete dipping tanks.
His conversion from this state ot
mind was not due to the preaching
of reformers. An economic jolt via
Mr. 801 l Weevil did the trick. The
pest knocked the props of livelihood
and of habit from under the farm
er and left him at first dazed and
then mighty teachable. The decline
of cotton made cattle important;
cattle would bring no profit if tick
laden, so the .epitaph of the tick
was soo'h written in most counties
of the state. The refugees who
swarmed out of the weevil-desolated
region in south Georgia were a
chastened and teachable lot. They
took advide, went back and found
new prosperity in hogs, peanuts and
tobacco.
“Os course, the war also, with its
semi-compulsory loans and things,
was educative in team work, general
enlightenment and progress. The
people are now looking ahead, not
back. 'You can go out now and sell
them anything,’ said a traveling man.
It is not merely that they nave
money to buy, but a new spirit to
try out new things—the receptive
American idea which has developed
here a little late.” >
Mills B. Lane, president of the
biggest bank' in Savannah, told me
that white farmers were making
good headway in paying out of the
credit system and in lifting mort
'ages. One farmer was so anxious
to be clear of a mortgage, said Mr.
Lane, that he paid a local shylock
two or three years’ advance interest,
along with the principal, so as to get
out of debt. A Valdosta bank, which
is in the region lately devastated by
the weevil, doubled its deposits last
year, and had to send about 560,000
to Savannah for investment because
the local farmers did not need the
money.
The country districts are now
calling for general securities to in
vest in, whereas they used to be shy
of most everything financial. As for
the colored man, he is much the same
as ever, in the opinion of this
banker. The colored tenant keeps
moving round and he declines to live
in a model tenant house with run
ning water, f-ee rent and fuel, in
order to live A his own mean shack
and walk thz je miles to work; which
sounds to me like a good tribute
to the character of the ebony-tinted
citizen. Mr. Coleman, who is per
haps the largest, plantation owner in
the state, says 100 negro tenants left
him last fall, but he expects to have
no trouble in getting as many new
ones.
Against the theory that the negro
is naturally shiftless stands the
well-attested fact that once he has
made payment toward owning a
farm, he will hang on to the land
like grim death. He will go with
out shoes, corn bread and bacon
rather than lose his home place.
When prosperity began to kiss* ‘he
south four years ago. the negro’s
share made him sort of light-headed.
Now he is sobering down and mak
ing better use of his money. Sav
ings banks in Savannah operated by
colored people have e more than
doubled in the number’or depositors
and amount deposited in the last
three years. Colored labor on the
farm now gets $2 to 53 a day com
pared with 75 cents or 51 before the
late war. And day laborers are
scarce, since share cropping pays bet
ter—and satisfies the instinct for. in
dependence. /
Thanks to labor shortage and the
new spirit of progress, the tractor is
making considerable headway in this
state. The chief obstacles to the
tractor are the stumps on cut-over
land. These can be removed by
dynamite or stump pullers. It does
pain a traveler to see s® many fields
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leather Weil and yet we do it. and you don’t send one cent to prove w,de - coro * ■*. » U*’?': I J JSJS
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cluttered up with stumps that could
be removed by the farmer in a few
days’ time. One thing that is corij
pelling a clean-up is the fact that
on stump land only one-horse ma
chinery can be used and the farmer
knows it does not pay to work on a
one-horse scale.
Workers for Better Farming
Last fall a stump Clearing train
was run through south Georgia. It
had an outfit of stump pullers and
also a dynamite crew who showed
the farmers how to do it. When
the tractor salesmen heard of this
they applied for space on the train,
but were told they would not be al
lowed to .mar the dignity of the pro
ceedings. However, the tractor men
chased after that . ‘train, one day
later. At a single town one agent
sold eight tractors. Generally speak
ing, a light tractor serves the pur
pose in Georgia, as the soil is mostly
light. It is easier to clean up cut
over land in the south -generally than
in the northwest.
There are millions in it for some
one who will invent a portable pine
stump distillery. As it is, land is
sometimes cleared for nothing by
stump distillers or enough is paid
for stumps to defray the clearing
cost with a little profit thrown in.
The greatest event for Georgia in
recent years is the winning of the
grand championship at tx« Chicago
international last fall by the Here
ford bull. Bonny J., owned by E. E.
Macks, of Thomasville. Not because
of the honor, but because'it shows
the world and Xleorgia where she is
at. It means achievement and points
to a new prosperity in a higher agri
culture. Such is the view of J. F.
Jackson, who is an institution in tne
southeastern states and incidentally
champion agricultural agent for the
Central of Georgia railway. A Piece
of blue ribbon ought to go to him
and to some other men of the same
sort who are doing similar work,
whether in the employ of the state
or federal government or of semi
private interests. It does not mat
ter who employs .them, thdy are all
working for better agricultuie. Ana
not' merely with words, but wiLi
deeds, like bringing into the state
thousands of purebred animals, tons
of new or better seed, trainloads of
machinery and what not.
“Our farmers are learning how to
combat fiog cholera, which is our only
real', hardship in hog raising, said
Mr. Jackson. “The increase in the
number of pure-bred hogs raised in
the last few years has been amazing.
The day of the pinewoods razorback
has passed You don’t the stories
now about the fellow who tired ouTa
pineywoods rooter and got
pounds of lard and a couple gallons
of turpentine. Nor do you hear of
judging the fitness of a hog for kill
n- bv lifting him by the ears and
deciding whether the hind quartets
Hit up or/down. The soft pork prob
lem due to grazing on peanuts alone,
ffi solve itself as our farmer ß . real
ize that the demand for soft porit nas
been supplied and that grazing on
our many «ther forage crops will
produce porl? acceptable to the north
bit "hasbeen found that peanuts
will make pork at a cost A
r e n £rVd°S 3hlf U tU h i e
last vear’s international. I . ner .
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bought by CM member.
sun. He has put out a
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Georgians agrlcultu i ed S only
Athens, ahhough e bccome a
thirteen . a^ et Vr farming and
vital power * OI other institutions
living. Like most other
of its kind, it ougnt work
more money to ca • j president
W .hS tK ‘o “>»“‘
the state and tts pim.prt ac hlev-
“In spite of all Georg yO u
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ffild Xrive
“S B yt r «»X’ ■l.. „ b ““ mh You
see in this college;
There are 450 young men taking
ao-rirultural courses. The graau
ates are going back, to the farms;
I haven't got the money to hire them
here for teaching or experimental
work Our seniors are not looking
for jobs here or anywhere else. I
could tell you story after story of
men grauduating here without a cent
™nd in a few years owning their own
farms This spring we are going to
Jut™n something new. We are going
to bring the bankers to school Mje
are counting on an attendance of
college exnects soon to estab
lish tractor schools all over the state,
tractor demonstration recently
held on the college farm drew an
audience of more than 5,000 farmers.
More good roads are being bunt
in Georgia. Bonds for proposed
state and county roads amount to
nearly 550.000.000, while one-third
as much of county road bonds have
already been authorized.
There are twf> human pests
through most of the south —hook-
wor~ and malaria mosquito. The
Georgia board of health, working
with the federal public health
service, found that the loss of time
on farms by malaria meant a loss of
sl3 an acre. In one place seventy
eight per cent of the people had mal
aria. The bright side of this picture
is that these evils can be eradicated
at small cost. Among those who
have helped to vanquish these foes
are (he progressive men of the Geor
gia Land Owners’ association with
its live secretary. F. H. Abbott.
lowa Goat Sold for $750
SIOUX CITY, la.—What is believ
ed to be a world’s record high price
for a six months’ old-goat has just
been by Dehaan & Co., of
Sioux City, for a Shaanen buck bought
by D. L. Bonham; of Los Angeles,
I'?r $750.
Education at
akd successful farming
Dr ANDREWM. AtOVLE
Why Buy What We Should Grow?
_jn spite of our vast undeveloped
natural resources and the marvelous
adaptability of oiur soil and climate
to the production of every needful
food crop, we are guilty of importing
enormous amounts of. food into
Georgia each year. The figures pre
sented are thought -to be fairly rep
resentative of the existing conditions
in 1914. They indicate that we were
bringing into each county in Georgia
on the average meat and fats worth
approximately $370,000; stock feeds
such as hay, corn, oats and mill feed
worth $125,000; canned goods to the
value of $59,000; poultry and eggs to
the extent of $15,000; fresh vege
tables worth $125,000; flour worth
$150,000, and butter and cheese worth
SIO,OOO. We also were bringing in
work animals to the value of $152,000
per county each year. These figures
amount in the aggregate to $1,006,000
per county, $157,000,000 for the state,
or between SSO and SBO per capita,
depending on the estimate placed on
the present population of Georgia.
This seems incredible, and yet the
figures are surely conservative, be
cause values have advanced very
materially all along the line since
1914.
We must reduce the' vast volume
of our agricultural wealth accord
ing to these figures to about $600,-
000,00 0a year. In other words, we
000,000 a year. In other sections
of $157,000,000 annually. One might
suppose under the circumstances
that we could not grow these food
stuffs economically and in sufficient
variety and abundance. Such a con
clusion would be entirely “beside
the mark.” Our failure in this di
rection is due to not placing the
fundamental facts more specifically
before our people and giving our
boys and girls a better insight into
the possibilities of Georgia soils.
We must train the rising generation
to understand how to rotate crops
and conduct a diversified and spe
cialized agriculture. This is the only
argument needed to show how dam
aging the fetish of cotton may de
come to a great commonwealth. If
m ° ne y spent for foodstuffs out
side the state were retained at
V COU! u easil y ha ve schools;
roads, farm homes, orderly towns
u? c d t-4 V V lages and . & rea t educational
hl St r« Utl 5 n ® superior to anything to
nni«n Un< T ln any oth er state in the
union, is an end so desirable not
worth struggling to attain?
The conditions Indicated exist in
a state where the number of hogs
has been increased in a decade by
nearly 2,000,000 head, a tribute to
the valuable and importance of the
educational work promoted primarily
dR-?s U ion th r e enc 7 of the extension
; the ., Georgia State Col
s , A sriculture. We can raise
hogs and all other animals needed as
cheaply and of a satisfactory quality
and grade as can be finished in any
other section of the country. What
we need in Georgia is another mil
ni O rl Q a Og3 ; IVeJl Ve J? ave P acß ing plants
already to handle them, and it is
the surest means of lifting the mort
gage off the farm, defeating “Billy”
and Repins at home about
$00,000,000 worth of money that we
still send to the west for meat and
rats. A silo on every farm and
twenty-five acres in grain would
wipe out our stock feed bills. If
we marketed our surplus fruits and
vegetables systematically and gave
this industry just a little worth
while encouragement, we would soon
be growing and canning a surplus
of these crops, and it is certain that
every home in Georgia could be pro
vided with locally packed foods of
excellent quality. What reason is
there that our poultry industry
should not be increased to an unlim
ited degree? Why should be import
fresh vegetables in a state where
there are square miles of undeveloped
territory adapted to trucking? Geor
gia now holds a leading position in
supplying the nation with peaches,
watermelons and muskmelons. Why
should we not include tomatoes,
greens, beans, cabbage, lettuce and
apples? There is no reason why
flour should be imported because
every farm, If properly organized,
would follow a diversified practice
that would insure the planting of a
sufficient area to wheat each year
to supply the needs of the family
and afford a desirable surplus for
the residents, of our towns and cities.
Butter and cheese of the first qual
ity can be made in almost unlimited
quantities. This has been demon
strated so frequently that the reitera
tion of this statement does not seem
worth while. Already the Georgia
State College of Agriculture has es
tablished, through the agency of its
extension division, five cheese fac
tories in Georgia where an article
of the choicest character Is now be
ing made at a profit to the patrons.
Certainly we can raise all of the
work stock that is needed. The
progeny of a pair of high grade Per
cheron mares, which cost the Geor
gia State College of Agriculture $470,
were sold for $1,250. After ten years
of service, these mares were sold for
$250. They certainly earned their
“board and keep,” for they did as
much per head as any mule on the
farm. There is left in the posses
sion of the college at this time .-a
pair of three-year-old fillies which
are worth at least SSOO.
All that we need is education
the lines indicated so as to develop
the knowledge and energy which will
enable us to branch out in all these
new lines of effort. If we handle
the next crop of boys and girls
properly, if we provide for them
the right type of vocational instruc
tion in relation to agricultural and
home-making industries, they will
solve this problem and make Geor
gia self-sustaining in all respects.
Is the prize worth striving to secure?
Its attainment would place Georgia
in the forefront of the sisterhood
of states. A state that pays SIOO,-
000,000 income tax to the federal
government should not balk at an en
terprise of , this character. Wg_can
no longer §ay we are too poOTTLet
us give the boys and girls the priv
ileges and opportunities to which
they are entitled. Let us stop the
leaks once and for all by learning to
live at home. ;
Classifying Hogs for Exhibition
The leading shows -usually classify
the hogs for show in the following
manner; this classification is com
piled so as to fit conditions for the
shows of 1920:
Aged Boar—Two years old or
over.
Senior Yearling Boar —Must have
been farrowed v.. 2-r September
1, 1918 and before March I, isrii.
Junior Yearling Boar—Must have
been farrowed or or after March 1.
1919, and before September 1, 1919.
Senior Boar Pig—Must have been
farrowed on or after March 1, 1920,
1919 and before March 1, 1920.
Junior Boar Pig—Must have been
farrowed on or after March 1, 1920
and before September ~ 1920.
Aged Sow —Two years old or over.
Senfbr Yearling Sow—Must have
been farrowed on or before Septem
ber 1, 1918 and before March 1, 1919.
Junior Yearling Sow —Must have
been farrowed on or after March 1,
1919, and before September 1, 1919.
Senior Pig—Must have been far
rowed on or after September 1, 1919,
and before March 1, 1920.
Junior Sow Pig—Must have been
farrowed on or after March 1, 1920,
and before September 1, 1920.
Champions
Senior Champion Boar —The first
prize winners in the aged -boar class,
the senior yearling boar class and
the junior yearling boar class are
brought together to compete for
senior champion boar prize.
Junior Champion Boar—The first
prize winners in the senior boar pig
class and in the junior boar pig class
are brought together to compete for
champion boar prize.
Senior Champion Sow —The first
prize winners in the aged sow class
and senior sow class and
the junior yearling sow class are
brouglTt together to compete efor
senior champion sow prize.
Junior Champion Sow —The first
prize winners in the senior sow pig
class and in the junior sow pig class
are brought together to compete for
the jiinior champion sow prize.
Grand Champion#
Grand Champion Boar—The senior
and junior champiqn boars are
brought together to compete for the
grand champion board prize. x
Grand Champion Sow —The senior
and junior champion sows are
brought together to compete for the
grand champion sow prize.
Herds
Old Herd—Old herds consist of
one boar and three sows farrowed
prior to September 1, 1919.
Young Herd—Young herds consist
of one and three sows farrow
ed on or after September 1, 1919.
Groups
Get of Sire—This class consists of
four animals, any age, either sex, all
sired by the same boar.
Produce of Dam—This class con
sists of four animals, any age,
either sex, all farrowed by the same
sow. '
Baising- Figs After the Farrow
ing Period
W. D., Americus, Ga., writes:
I wish to get all the information
I can on raising pigs from the
time they are farrowed, how
they should be handled and the
ration best suited for them.
When pigs are farrowed, they
should be fed for six weeks to two
months through the dam. This re
quires the most liberal nourishment
of the mother animal. There is
nothing better to give the brood sow
at this time than shorts made into a
slop with skim-milk. If skim-milk
is lacking, water may be used. Corn
should only be fed in limited quan
tities and, when used, should be
mixed with digester tankage in the
proportion of ninety parts of corn to
ten parts of digester tankage.
The sow should be given the run
of a small pasture; preferably one
which will provide her with some
green feed. In the winter, cereals
may be used for this purpose, and
in the spring and summer, Bermuda
grass and various clovers. The lot
should be laid off so that cowpeas,
soy beans, velvet beans, corn and
peanuts may be to provide a
succession of food throughout the
entire growing season.
The pigs should be taught to eat
as soon as possible. They wiP soon
learn to gather some food 4>»errt
selves. They may receive whatever
the dam eats. If fed for six weeks
to two months through the dam,
they should be healthier and strong
er at weaning time than if taken
away from her at an earlier date.
If pastures of the character sug
gested can be provided the pigs will
get plenty of exercise and will gath
er a considerable part of the mineral
matter so essential to their welfare.
By following the methods suggested,
you should be able to grow out a
bunch of young pigs successfully
and at a fairly reasonable cost.
Destroying Johnson Grass
H. L„ Abbeville, Ga., writes:
I have a littje Johnson grass on
my farm that I would like to
get rid of. I have been informed
that there is a certain cattle dip
that will kill it. What do you
think of this or Is there a bet
ter method?
Johnson grass is very difficult to
eradicate. . This is due to the char
acter of the rhizome, or root stalk
which is developed under the ground.
Cultivation causes this root stalk to
sprout from a large number of the
sections into which it may be
divided by the- plow or other imple
ment used to destroy it. On this ac
count, the best method of destroy
ing it has been found to be through
the use of smother crons which keep
from developing. A Jgood crop to
use for this purpose in your section
of the state would be velvet beans.
Cowpeas could, of course, be used if
you prefer. Planting should be done
as early in the season as weather
conditions will permit. Break the
land thoroughly before planting
these crops, turning the Johnson
grass roots under- to the greatest
depth possible. You may have to
continue the use'of smother crops
for several years, but we know that
this method of practice will enable
you to'destroy Johnson grass be
pause we have had to overcome the
very difficulty by which you are now
faced. It is true that white arsenic
will destroy Johnson grass, 'but if
used in sufficient quantity to attain
the end desired, it will poison the
land so that it will be of no value
for agricultural purposes for some
considerable time to come. The
spraying of white arsenic one-plants
or on the ground is also a dangerous
practice. You cannot poison John
son grass effectively because of its
fleshy roots and the fact that they
are so well protected by a good cov
ering of soil.
Other methods of practice advocat
ed for the destruction or Johnson
grass is to break up the land with a
shallow plow, rake out the roots with
a harrow and then destroy them by
burning. Another method is to plow
all land shallow at this season of the
year so that the freezes may help
to destroy the roots. We have not
found any of these methods as ef
fective. however, as the plan we have
suggested.
A Good Bation for a Mule
W. G. K., Gainesville, Ga.,
writes: Please tell me how to
mix sl|elled corn, oats and cot
ton seed meal by measure to
make a balanced ration for a
farm mule.
Under the conditions described in
your letter we would mix together
four hundred pounds of shelled corn,
two hundred and ( fifty pounds of
oats and one hundred pounds of
cottonseed meal. You can measure
these materials with i sufficient ac
csracy in sacks or in bushel meas
ures. It is not desirable under any
circums-tancea to undertake to feed
more than one and one-half to two
pounds of cottonseed meal per day
to an average sized mule weighing
between one thousand and twelve
hundred pounds. The reason for
“this lies in the fact that cottonseed
meal is a ery concentrated food
It is especially rich in nitrogen.
Horses and mules nped a ration con
taining a considerable amount of
proteins and nitrogen; but they do
not require any excessive amount
of this material and hence a ration
should be adjusted to their needs
in this particular. For instance,
when overfeeding of nitrogenous
food is indulged in, azoturia is pro
duced in both horses and mules and
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1920.
Georgia Shows Splendid
Headway Against Tick,
Federal Report Proves
The cattle industry in Georgia is
being reclaimed from the dominion
of the tick. Federal reports show
that during July 888,219 dippings of
cattle were supervised by federal,
state and county employes. This fig
ure is one of the largest recorded in
a, state east of the Mississippi river
since systematic tick eradication be
gan in 1906.
Georgia is using 3,700 dipping vats
to combat the parasite which for
years has stunted the cattle and
caused heavy mortality. The dipping
is done in arsenical solutions ap
proved. by the United States depart
ment of agriculture for the eradica
tion of cattle ticks.
Already 36,674 square miles in the
state of Georgia have been released
from federal quarantine, and cattb
from the released districts may now
be moved interstate without the
former rstrictions. With a continua
tion of the extensive dipping pro
gram, .federal officials expect that
large additional areas in Georgia will
be ready to be released from quar
antine in December, when the work
for 1920 is completed.
Live Stock Exhibition
As evidence of interest in im
proved live stock an Internationa’
live stock exhibition will be held
ih Atlanta this fall, and it is ex
pected that ma-ijy pure-bred anima's
brought from other states for ex
hibition will remain in Georgia a;
foundation stock for an extensive
and profitable cattle industry. Re
ports from federal tick eradication
supervisors indicate that the intro
duction of fine live stock In Georgia
is following very closely on the trail
Heavy Loss in bruit age
Noted in Cotton Belt by
American Cotton Body
At this date reports coming into
the headquarters of the •American
Cotton association irom all sections
of the cotton belt, indicate an unusu
ally heavy loss in the fruitage of the
crop. The semi-monthly crop condi
tion issued by this association on
the 15th instant indicates a loss c
10 per cent since August 25th. Other
private semi-monthly reports show
estimated losses of from 6 to 10
per cent since the last of Augus
Not only has the weather coiulitions
caused heavy dropping of young
bolls, but the boll weevil is destroy
ing a percentage of the matured
bolls in many sections of the belt.
Numbers of farmers who have been
Cotton Has Other Enemies
Besides Deadly 801 l Weevil
Popular opinion to the contrary,
the boll weevil must yield place to
the weather by a larger margin as
a destructive factor in reducing the
production of cotton lint. Destruc
tion by the boll iveevil is apprecia
bly less than that by deficient mois
ture alone, according to the Bureau
of Crop Estimates of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Its conclusions are supported by an
nual investigations made "by the bu
reau during the last eleven years.
Damage Record
During this period the normal pro
duction of lint was reduced per
cent by all causes of damage. The
boll weevil, one of these, according
to the estimate, was responsible for
7.3 per cent, or about one-fifth of the
total damage to the cotton crop for
the eleven years.
The onset of the weevil in Geor
gia, Florida, and Alabama, in the
years 1916-1919 has made a reduc
tion of the crop in all states d>
this cause alone 10 4 per cent below
a normal crop, while the raductior
due to all causes in these years is
41,1 per cent.
Comparing deficient moisture with
cattle. Cases of this character fre
quently occur at this season of the
year. Corn, as you doubtless know,
weighs sixty pounds to the bushel,
oats thirty-two pounds and as cot
tonseed meal comes 'already sacked
and tagged for the most part, you
should have no difficulty in deter
mining its exxact weight And so
mixing the materials in the proper
proportion. We would feed the
above ration at the rate of ten to
fifteen pounds per day, depending on
/the size of the mule and the na
ture of the work performed.
A good roughage ration should
also be provided. About twelve to
fifteen pounds of mixed hay, shred
ded corn stover or bright peavine
or sorghunj hay may be used tor
this purpose.
Treating a Case of Lumpy Jaw
J. L. C., Laurens, S. C., writes:
I would like to know the treat
ment for lumpy jaw. I saw it in
the Journal a few weeks ago
but have lost the copy, and
would appreciate it if you would
repeat the remedy.
There are various ways, no doubt,
of treating this trouble, but I think
the pursuit of the following plan
as advised bv Dr. Mayo, a veteri
narian of national reputation, might
prove as practicable as any you
could follow.
“If the tumor is free from the
bone, the best treatment i» to re
move it with the knife, and treat
the part as a simple wound. If it
cannot be removed, in many cases
it can be cured by giving iodide of
potash internally in doses of one
to three drams once daily, dissolved
in a half pint of water. In about a
week, a condition known as ’lodism*
is set up. This is shown by a dis
charge of mucus from the nose and
eyes, and a scurfy condition of the
skin, especially of the neck, as if
bran were scattered at the roots of
the hair. When lodism is noticed
the mediejne should be stopped. The.
tumor in most cases gradually dis
appears. and the animal makes a
good recovery. If one treatment is
not sufficient, it may be repeated
in two wteks. An animal with a
tumor thlit is discharging should
not be allowed to run wl.n other
cattle, as the pus scattered on the
food may carry the disease. In
most cases, It is. thought that the
fungus grows outside the animal
body on mdte?ial that may be taken
as food, and, entering a wound, is
capable of growing and causing the
disease.
“If the tumor is not large or is
not discharging so as to affect the
general health, the flesh of the ani
mal is not considered to be danger
ous for food."
Colored Cotton Grown
Bv Carolina Farmer
COLUMBIA, S C. —A. W. Brab
ham, of Olar, S. C., has finally sup
cecded in his efforts of several year
to produce cotton of a colafc- othe
than white. He has- exhibited sou
samples of cottons of color which
sustain his assertions tftiat he ha 1 ’
successfully produced these cotton
of extremely fine fiber. The sample
shade from light brown to dart
b'-own and from light green to dark
green.
Imther Burbank once wrote Mr
Brabham that he would undertake
the job of producing a black cotton
for $1.0( 0,000 Brabham replied tha
a glance at his own samples tol-’
him that he was in a fairway t r
produce it at a much lower cost tha’
just a mere million.
As for growing absolutely Ailac’
cotton this year, Mr. BrabharrSsay
he is sure he would have produce
it had not a package c/f blue-tinte-’
or linted cotton imported from Indi'
gone astray. He has a Hindu botan
Ist of Delhi gathering specimens o f
cottons in color in India, and this
botanist has localed blue, gray and a
light pink.
of the departing tick. Competition i
at the live stock exhibition, it n '
stated, will be as keen as shows oj '
similar character in northern stater i
and in regions of the south now free
from ticks.
Florida the East Stronghold
From present indications Georgia ■
.will be one of the next states to be
entirely freed from ticks. The prog
ress is due largely to the energy of
cattle owners in supporting tlcl
eradication work and
foresight in realizing that' livenstocK
cannot be grown profitably until the
tick menace is removed. |
Florida, the sister State of Georgia
lying to the south, continues to be
heavily infested with cattle ticks
ayd is expected to be the last strong
hold of that parasite in the south.
The department of agriculture points
out, however, that by dipping 2.000,-
000 cattle per hjonth cattlemen in
Florida could make rapid progress
toward removing that state from
federa] quarantine. In fact, with the
larger tick-infested area of Florida
the dipping of 2,000,000 cattle per
month would be no greater under
taking than the extent of systematic
dipping now in progress In Georgia
The fact that a larger per cent of
cattle are owned in Florida by per
sons having little or no land makes
the problem somewhat more difficult,
but not seriously so. Notwithstand
ing these problems, the detailed fed
eral records prepared each month
for all regions in which ticks occur
show systematic “mopping up” ot
this pest, and the final extinction of
ticks in the United States is a matter
merely of a few years.
examining: the grown bolls In weevil
infested districts assert that from 10
to 25 per cent of the matured bolls
have been punctured and the larvae
of the weevil ruing the lint cotton.
This. infection is also damaging the
grades of the lint cotton where only
one or two of the sections of the
bolls are infected.
That the loss in fruitage during
the past few weeks has ben heavy in
ail the states, including Texas, there
is now no question of doubt. The
Texas crop will be much smaller than
anticipate ! one month ago. The same
is equally true of South Carolina and
Georgia, the next two largest cotton
growing states. I .
all insect pests as a cause of cotton
crop damage in pounds of lint that
failed to be produced shows that in
the eleven years deficient moisture
caused a loss of 38.2 pounds of lint
per acre on the average and all in
sect pests 29.3 pounds. In the total
damage to these ten crops of cotton,
amounting to 113.4 pounds of lint i’
the average of the years, all climatic
causes account for 71.6 pounds, or
almost 2 1-2 times the loss due to al
insects. The average of the last five
years gives a damage of 40.1 pounds
to all insects and 73.3 pounds to all
climatic causes, or less than twice as
much.
Yearly Doss Enormous
It is indicated that the boll weevil
costs the cotton crop approximately
2,000,000 bales, one year with an
other, since this pest has invaded
Georgia and Florida. If the produc
tion of these 2,000,000 bales had been
realized yearly instead cf prevented
during the last four years, their value
and the value of their seed to the
cotton grower at the farm price of
lint and seed on December 1 would
have averaged about $300,000,000 per
year.
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