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The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.)
BY TKIIODORE TXX.I.ER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2.—The
United States department of agricul
ture is employing new methods in
combatting the peach Insect pest,
\which it estimates caused a loss of
perhaps $2.000.000 in Georgia this
year. The 1920 season, the depart
ment says, was particularly fuvor
;U»le to circulio or pest development
And the resultant loss was quite
heavy. At the present time, the de
partment explains, defensive meas
ures are largely spraying during the
spring and early summer. This
method of control, generally used by
peach growers, has heretofore result
ed in a fair degree of protection to
the crop.
The combination of unusual cir
culio abundance and hot and rainy
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ficacy of the control measures in
vogue, and the bureau of entomology
is conducting experiments to deter
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Spalding Farmers
Planning to Hold
Cotton Off Market
GRIFFIN. Ga., Oct. 4. —About 75 to
100 of Spalding county’s representa-'
tive farmers met at the county court
house Saturday to discuss plans for
the holding of the present cotton crop
and of combatting the low price of
fered. Paul Flynt, •who is chairman
of the Spalding county branch of the
American Cotton association, presid
ed and stated the object of the meet
ing. Resolutions of the American
Cotton association officers’ meeting
held in Atlanta were read and dis
cussed. These resolutions stated
that the cost of present crop per
pound was from 38 cents to 40 cents;
that the farmers were offered only 23
cents per pound and urged upon the
farmers the necessity of holding the
present crop for at least 40 cents pei
pound. „
Dr. J. H. Phillips, A. P. Patterson,
.Tack Walker, Paul Flynt, G. S. B.
Grant, T. W. Futral, and others, ad
dressed the meeting. These men
stressed the Importance of holding at
least 75 per cent of this year’s crop
off the market for at least ninety
da>‘s.
The low price of cotton ajid the
ravages of the boll weevil, which has
destroyed at least 40 per cent of the
crop, is going tp hit the farmers of
this county hard, it was pointed out,
Unless they can realize something
like 40 cents per pound, it Xvill have
been raised at a loss of sls to S2O
per bale. They called upon the mer
chants. bankers, manufacturers, and
all other classes of citizens to lend
their moral aid to the movement, dis
claiming any intention of crippling
any industrj- or enterprise, but acting
only in the interest of self preserva-
The meeting finally adjourned with
out takipg any definite action or
adopting any specific plan, to meet
again Monday morning at the same
place. There is no doubt that senti
ment among those present and
throughout the county was Strom,
against selling at the present Price,
and that the bulk of this crop will be
kept off the market in this county.
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Making Farmers Out of Soldiers
Is What Uncle Sam’s New Policy
In the Army Is Doing for America
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BY HAL M. CO CUBAN
(Special Correspondent. of The Tri
weekly Journal.)
CAM PGRANT, Hl.—Secretary of
War Baker recently visited the Re
search and Development Service
schols of the American army here
at Camp Grant. Brigadier General
George Bell, Jr., commanding officer
at the camp, took Baker “round thk
place” and showed him soldiers at
work in almost every branch of busi
ness there is.
But where do you suppose Briga
dier General Bell finally ended up the
trip, and then spent as much time
at this one branch as he had in all
the others?
Right down on the farm! And it
was a government farm, at that.
“Back to the ram”
The old ”back-to-the-farm” cry is
the slogan of one of the branches
of the Research and Development
Service of the United States army.
Hundreds of enlisted soldiers have
answered the call and taken up the
agricultural course of the new “build
ers of men” training system Uncle
Sam has adapted for peace time.
If you ever visit Camp Gyant and
want to find Brigadier General Bell,
and he’s not at headquarters or at
his home, run down to the farm.
That place is his hobby!
The army farm is at one end of
Camp Grant and it covers 400 acres
of rich land. Enlisted men are
working this land and, when they
step back Into civil life, they will
know all there is to know about
raising crops and tending cattle.
Military Orders Off «
There is no indication of regular
army life present on the farm with
the exception of- khaki uniforms
worn. Even are absent in the
dairy and plowing branches, where
the soldiers wear white suits and
overalls. They are farming, not get
ting military training. It’s regular
farm life fro mevery angle.
Small grains, corn and forage crops
are grown ort twenty-acre plots.
These foodstuffs are sold to the
camp mess halls at a lower figure
than the market price.
A mule barn, sheep shed, poultry
bouse, hog house, stock judging (pa
vilion, dairy barn and implement
sheds have been erected. All types
of farm machinery are used and stu
dents are Instructed in the use of
each.
A prize herd of cattle that would
make a county fair envious is part
of the farm equipment. If a soldier,
after training on Uncle Sam’s farm,
can’t tell the difference between a
Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, a
Short Horn and an Aberdeen-Angus,
it’s his own fault.
Trained Teachers
In the hog, sheep and poultry fie
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Dean C. B. Waldron, formerly of
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C. H. Pollock, of North Dakota and
Cornell, is farm manager, and R. L.
Leech, formerly of the University of
Illinois, is in charge of stock rais
ing.
“We are teaching soldiers how to
become real farmers—how to grow
ctops anti raise stock,” says Dean
Waldron. “That is our reply to.
those who said the army took boys
off the farm.”,
Unpopular Skunk Is
Real Friend of Farmer
Few persons have seriously con
sidered establishing friendly rela
tions with a skunk. It has been
done income cases under the .misap
prehension that the animal was a
cat, and the results have been un
pleasant. But the Biological Survey
of the United States Department of
Agriculture has Investigated the
skunk and found him to be the
best wild-animal friend the farmer
has. •
Almost any farmer might have
two or three dozen skunks at work
for him destroying mice, grasshop
pers, cyickets, and white grubs, and
furnishing him from SSO to SIOO
worth of fur a year. All that is
necessary is that he respect their
dens, keep his poultry in skunkproof
yards, kill an old horse for them
every fall, and be tactful when he
meets them in the evening. There
is a marked depression of the fur
market at present, but recovery to
normal is anticipated.
It has been estimated that a
year’s catch of skunks in New York
I state is worth $1,000,000. Only one
! fifth of them are black or short
striped. If all were of this higher
grade, they would be worth $3,000,-
000. The department suggests that
a preserve stocked with black
skunks would eventually double or
treble the catch of skunks in the
territory surrounding it.
’ Crisp County Fair
Oct. 25 to Nov. 1
' CORDELE, Ga.. Oct. 2.—Crisp
) county fair will hold its annual ex
i hibltion October 25 to November 1.
I. G. Williams will be in charge of
the live stock exhibit and will pro
vide competent judgex and report all
awards to the fair secretary.
The poultry exhibit will be under
' a special tent and in charge of F.
. S. Dorsey.
The canning club and poultry clubs
<!f the county are shaping their ex
hibits under the direction of Miss
Lou Hamilton, home demonstration
agent. The nig clubs are busy and
have many attractive exhibits. Dem
onstration Agent C. B. Culpepper, as
■ sisted by A. J. Clary, have charge of
: these.
1920 Flax Crop
I In 1920, 6,000 acres of flax were
cultivated in the United States, as
' against 5,000 acres in 1919, the
United States Department of Agri
culture estimates. Wisconsin, Min
| nesota, Michigan, and the William
! ette Valley of Oregon lead in pro
i duction. The 1920 crop is valued at
$1,600,000.
Raising Wild Ducks
Wild ducks can be successfully
propagated in many marshy locali
ties. The United States Department
of Agriculture has issued a new cir
cular telling the most practicable
breeds and how to handle them.
A big army farm, embodying the best in modern agriculture, is
part of the vocational training course at Camp Grant, 111. The pho
tographs show Secretary of War Baker and Brigadier General Bell
inspecting a pen of pedigreed pigs. Below are some farmer-soldiers
at work. /
‘Cotton Day’ Was Success
Throughout the Entire Belt,
Haruie Jordan Reports
The Tri-Weekly Journal is in re
ceipt of the following report of the
observance of “cotton day” from
Harvie Jordon, secretary of the
Atnerican Cotton association:
“September 20 vva« the day set
apart by the American cotton as
sociation for ‘cotton day’) to be ob
served by the people in all the coun
ties and parishes of the cotton belt.
The purpose ,of the me«rtlngs was to
secure indorsement and pledges for
loyally standing by the association’s
recommendation for holding cotton
for forty cents per pound, basis mid
dling, this season, and to indorse
plans for increasing food and feed
crops as adopted at the cotton con
ference held at Montgomery, Sep
tember 1-3.
“With but two exceptions, the gov
ernors of every cotton state prompt
ly complied with the request of the
association, and issued sivong procla
mations for cott6n day. From press
dispatches, newspaper clippings and
official reports from the various state
divisions it is apparent tnat ‘cotton
day’ was observed by large ans! en
thusiastic meetings in practically all
of the cotton-growing counties. Meet
ings were held in every county in
South Carolina, several hundred
farmers, bankers and Merchants at
tending each meeting and enthusias
tically indorsing all the plans pre
sented by the association. The re
ports submitted on the condition of
the crop generally indicated a short-
Calhoun County, S. C.,
Joins Move to Found
Export Cotton Firm
At the enthusiastic meeting held
on Cotton day, Calhoun county,
South Carolina, not only unanimous
ly indorsed the formation of an ex
port corporation, accepting cotton in
'payment of stock, as recommended
by Governor W. P. G. Harding of
the Federal Reserve board, but in
addition to this it urged that the
incorporation committee of the ex
port corporation when it meets on
September 29 should arrange to ac
cept not only cotton in payment of
stock, but also accept cash and lib
erty loan bonds in payment of same.
A special committee was appointed
to canvass for stock in the export
corporation in Calhoun county and
this committee in a few hours
raised $60,000 in cotton and $3,000 in
cash. This amount will be largely
increased. Calhoun county is thor
oughly alive to the tremendous bene
fits to be secured by the organiza
tion of the export corporation. It
realizes that this will furnish a mar
ket at profitable prices for not only
low grade cotton, which cannot be
sold, but also for good grades, which
can only be sold at a price far be
low the' cost of production; that in
addition to this it will furnish not
only a temporary relief but a per
manent beneficial relief of great
magnitude. The export corporation
will place the machinery of the
marketing of raw cotton into for
eign countries for the first time in
the hands of the south, and will ab
solutely revolutionize the raw cot
ton industry.
Demonstration Agents
Aid in Marketing
Work of exceptional value to
farmers has beers done by various
county agents in connection with
the organization of live-stock ship
ping associations and livestock auc
tion sales. The shipping associations
have been especially successful in
Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Oregon, as well as in several states
in the south. The livestock auction
sales have been developed in Cali
fornia on an Australian model which
was introduced by a county agent
who had been engaged, in agricul
tural extension work in New South
Wales. The value of the stock mar
keted through these auction sales la
California amounted to $1,790,330
and increased returns to the farm
ers by $166,946 over prices which
the stock would have brought had
the auction sales not been held.
Killing Sheep Parasites
Treating sheep for parasites saved
one Monongahela County (W. Va.)
farmer SSOO this year, the United
States department of agriculture is
advised. During a two-weeks’ period
the farm bureau of Roane county.
W. Va., had more than 709 Ifead o e
sheep treated for parasites without
fatalities.
age of from 10 to 33 per cent be
low the August expectations. It was
the general consensus of opinion to
sell no cotton at present prices ex
cept to meet pressing obligations,
and then to sell only the off>grades
and finance the better grades in stor
age.
"In Georgia mass meetings were
h£ld in fully one hundred counties.
County organizations were perfect
ed in many cases and plans started
to establish local co-operative mar
keting associations. Alabama came
to the front equally as strong as
Georgia, while most encouraging re
ports as to county meetings have
been received from all the states.
Parish meetings will be held all over
Louisiana on the twenty-fifth to
celebrate ‘cotton day’ and ceement in
stronger ferms the splendid organi
zation work already done in that
state.
On no occasion in the past have so
general and widespread county meet
ings been held oq a single date and
so largely and enthusiastically at
tended by the people. It is conserva
tively estimated that fully 500,000
cotton growers assembled in county
mass meetings throughout the cot
ton belt on September 20, and pledg
ed allegiance to the American Cot
ton association, and the plans it has
promulgated in the interest of the
growers. The success of ‘cotton day’
this year fixes it as a day of annual
celebration through all the years to
come.”
Loss of $2,000,000 in
Georgia This Year by*
Peach Pest Is Reported
The season of 1920 was particu
larly favorable to curculio develop
ment, and the loss to Georgia peach
growers has been quite heavy,
amounting perhaps to as much as
$2,000,000, the federal department of
agriculture figures. At the present
time defensive measures are largely
spraying during the spring and early
summer. This method of control,
generally used by peach growers, has
heretofore resulted in a fair'degree
of protection to the crop. The com
bination of unusual curculio abun
dance and hot and rainy weather has
greatly lessened the efficacy of the
control measures in vogue, and the
übreau of entomology is conducting,
experiments to determine the possi
bility of wholesale destruction of the
beetles in orchards by thorough
spraying and dusting of the trees in
the fall. It is expected that pre
liminary results from this work will
soon be available and from which it
will be possible to decide what value,
if any, this method may have.
New methods of bombating the
plum curculio, which has been rais
ing havoc with the southern peach
crop, are occupying the attention
of the bureau of entomology. United
States department of agriculture.
This beetle, which attacks not only
the young fruit as it is nearly ripe on
the "trees, lays its eggs under the
skin, the resulting grubs eating their
way into the heart Os the fruit. The
life of an individual adult curculio
may be nearly one year, and the
beetles thus continue feeding on the
leaves of the peach until hibernation
late in the fall and two or three
months aftUr the fruit has been har
vest e d.
Gwinnett County Fair
Draws Crowds From
All Parts of County
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga„ Oct. 5.
The Gwinnett County fair closed a
most successful week Saturday night
at midnight. The fair opened Tues
day, Sept. 28, and while the weather
was cold and windy for two days,
the attendance was good all along.
On Saturday, day and night, the
grounds were simply overflowing
with people from all sections of th*
county.
The exhibits were unusually good,
and the big show’s midway was
thronged with a happy crowd out for
a good time. This year all -wheels
of chance and games of skill and
immoral shows were kepY off the
midway and nothing was seen that
even the clergy could not visit with
approval.
The war department had a wire
less outfit at the fair and also #
motor searchlight. The searchlight
was used very effectively at night,
and people for twenty-five miles
af-ound observed the light as it was
flashed across the heavens.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1920.
BETTER SYSTEM •
OF MARKETING
SAVES MILLIONS
Five and a half millions dollars.
That is the amount of savings and in
creased profits estimated to have
been secured by producers through
the assistance of the United States
bureau of markets’ field representa
tive in marketing, working in co
operation with state marketing
agencies in eleven states during the
year ended June 30, 1920. This fig
ure is made up of hundreds of Indi
vidual items of sayings and addi
tion profits estimated by growers,
shippers and marketing agencies
concerned and reported to the United
bureau of markets.
State co-operative work in mar
keting is carried on by the United
States department of agriculture in
thirty-one states, but information re
garding the total savings effected in
all of them is not yet available.
Improvement in methods of mar
keting and distributing farm products
is the object of this marketing work.
Investigations of grading, packing,
loading, shipping and marketing are
made and visual demonstrations
given producers to familiarize them
with the best marketing methods.
Thus, some 200 denominations of ap
proved practices of preparing farm
products for market and over 700
talks relative to, packing, grading,
handling, storing and selling farm
products and the formation of as
sc ciations for co-operative activity
were given. In one state alone two
co-operative live stock shipping as
sociations, with a membership of
3,030 shippers, were formed, and an
estimated saving of $73,548 secured
through the co-operative shipping of
333 cars of cattle, hogs and sheep
from thirty-nine counties.
Aid Marketing Organizations
While complete figures are not
available, those at hand show that
the field men were instrumental in
the formation of 183 marketing or
ganizations, including fifty live stock
shipping associations and fifty-seven
fruit or vegetable associations. They
also assisted in the organization of
twelve credit unions and
federations of existing associations,
most of which are state-wide >.i
scope. One hundred and sixty-six
wool pools, handling over 10,000,000
pounds of wool were given assist
ance in organization and grading.
In a number of states the field men,
through state agencies, secured the
adoption of federal standards for
farm products and containers. One
hundred and thirty-eight groups of
producers were assisted in making
co-cperatlve sales. One sale included
417 head of cattle, which sold for $2.-
508.97 above the prices quoted by
local buyers on the day of sale.
Instruction in the marketing of
sweet potatoes was given producers
and shippers in the Southern stares.
Tn one state plans and specifications
for 39 sweet potato storage houses
were furnished and in another state
53 storage houses constructed from
plans furnished by the United States
bureau of markets. A sweet potato
exhibit car was arranged and moved
1.100 miles over four railroads touch
ing 31 points in the sweet potato
producing sections. The exhibit in
cluded a miniature model storage
house, working plans and specifica
tion'- for storage houses, pictures,
charts and slides showing approved
methods of production, harvesting,
storing, grading and packing.
Demonstrates Approved Methods
Exhibits illustrating approved
marketing practices were conducted
in six states. In most instances
these exhibits were in connection
with state or district fairs or at
expositions of more than state im
portance. Colorado’s potato ship
ments run from 9,000 to 13,500 cars
a year. Os this quantity, 40 per
cent is moved during the winter
months when there is great danger
of frost damage in transit. To stim
ulate interest among Colorado potato
growers and shippers in better mar
keting conditions, an exhibit of a
full-sized freight car was produced
in the Denver auditorium at the
western potato show this year to
show by actual demonstrating proper
methods of lining and loading cars
of potatoes to prevent loss from
freezing in transit, and of sewing
sacks to prevent loss of potatoes
slipping through the tops of sacks.
Some 3,000 people attended the ex
hibit, and it is confidently believed
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be loaded properly.
Twenty-five short instruction
courses relative to various phases of
marketing were given in six states.
In one state a course of lectures cov
ering 12 weeks was given in a school
of commerce. Co-operative enter
prises in three states were given as
sistance in accounting problems. The
collection and dissemination of- infor
mation relative to quantity, quality
and price of local produce offered for
sale was arranged for at 11 points
in 4 states. z*.
The United States bureau of mar
kets’ report of the work of its field
agents in marketing shows that the
accomplishments were greater in
number and of more value to pro
ducers and consumers during the
year ended June 30, 1920, than in
any previous year. It is fe*t that
wofK jl this character should make
possible the development of a con
sistent national policy in improving
marketing methods.
American Hemp
American farmers planted 14,d00
actes to hemp in 1920, according to
the United States Department of
Agriculture. The crop is valued at
about $1,500,000.
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