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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL*
TREE SURGERY
DESERVES MORE
REAL ATTENTION
At present tree-repair work has not
received the recognition and approval
from tree owners that it deserves.
This may be due at times to unfa
vorable experiences with dishonest
or ignorant tree surgeons, at other
times to the reluctance of the own
ers to spend much money in preserv
ing their trees, or from their Ignor
ance of the benefits that may result
when tree-repair work is properly
done.
Reliable tree surgeons are doing
much in a practical way to educate
the public as to the benefits of tree
repair work. A few states have laws
regulating tree-repair work on a com
mercial basis.
The LTnited States department of
agriculture Invites correspondence
concerning methods of tree-repair
work and Is prepared to advise for
or against any particular method so
far as experience and the results
of experiments permit. Farmers’
bulletin 1178 on tree surgery will
be sent free on application.
Tree owners are urged to remem
ber that the necessity for tree-rpair
work fifteen or twenty years hence
may be reduced materially by promt
ly attending to fresh injuries of to
day.
Most persons can, at least with a
very little preliminary practice on the
simpler types of work, undertake
ordinary tree surgery provided they
are familiar with the use of a gouge
and mallet, a saw paint brush.
A steady head and ability to climb
will be necessary for work in the
top of the tree.
A badly diseased or injured tree
should be removed and replaced by
a healthy one unless there is some
very special reason for trying to
preserve the tree.
Two axioms of tree-repair work
that should be borne in mind con
stantly are: that prompt treatment
of freshly made wounds is the sur
est and most economical method of
preventing disease and decay in the
future, and that all wounds made in
tree surgery should be cleaned, steril
lized and protected from infection
just as thoroughly as in animal sur
gery, and for the same reasons.
Joint Distribution
Works Successfully
For These Dairymen
With the assistance of the dairy
division of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, the dairymen of
Dubois, Pa., are conducting a co
operative mil--distributing plant
with decided success. As the own
ers are primarily producers and un
familiar with the business of milk
distribution, the dairy division keeps
in touch with the work being done,
and advises the stockholders in re
gard to the management of the
business. Similar assistance is giv
en to other organizations, whether
co-operatively or privately owned,
whenever requested.
The price which the farmers get
for their product is determined by
dividing the net receipts from sale
of milk, after deduction for operat
ing expenses and sinking fund,
among the farmers in proportion to
the amount and quality of milk
they have respectively brought to
the plant. Starting in July, 1917,
with a business of only 800 quarts
they are now handling over 2,000
quarts daily, and have been paying
remarkably good prices to the mem
bers. The enhanced profits were not
the result of high charges to con
sumers. but of economies brought
about by co-operation, such as re
ducing the number of delivery wag
ons. The cooperation of producers
in one concern has also enabled
them better to handle the problems
of surplus and shortage of milk.
The supply has been kept adequate
to the demand: and p.t the same
time the quality has been more uni
formly satisfactory than formerly.
Since last February the price al
lowed for any particular milk has
been based on its butter-fat content.
All milk is expected to have at least
3.25 per cent of fat, and for this
milk the minimum price is paid.
For every one-tenth of 1 per cent of
fat above the 3.25 there is an ad
ditional allowance of 4 cents per
h u n d red-weight.
Best Winter Legume
The United States department of
agriculture finds hairy vetch the
best winter legume for all localities
in the eastern half of the United
States where red clover fails or
where crimson clover is not a suc
cess. Vetches make excellent feed,
either green or as hay, and are also
exceedingly usful as cover and green
manure crops.
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THE JAPANESE WAY |
* A girl and a fan beats a ma
r jBT v chine and a man. In Japan,
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“Fertilizing the Air”
Brings Great Returns
In Raising Vegetables
Experiments conducted by German,
chemists have Indicated that much
success may be expected from a
newly-developed method of “fertiliz
ing the air” in order to provide a
greater supply of carbonic acid to
growing plants. Plant physiologists
have mainly devoted their efforts
to applying fertilizers to the soil,
says the Salt Lake Tribune.
That plants, through their leaves,
feed upon the carbonic acid of the
atmosphere, as well as other elements
taken up out of the soil, has long
been known. The new method aims
to augment this process. Starting
with the known fact that the carbonic
acid contained in the air is slight—
the average is said to be only .03
per cent —the investigators concluded
that a considerable addition of that
gas to the atmosphere should in
crease the growth in plants. They
made experiments in that direction,
which are described by Dr. F. Riedel
in “Stahl und Eisen,” the organ or
the German iron industry.
The chemists at one of the large
German iron plants in the Essen dis
trict made tests with a gas from
the blast furnaces purified of sul
phur and duly diluted with air. Be
ginning in 1917, they used this puri
fied carbonic acid in greenhouses,
where it was distributed through
perforated i pipes.
The results are described as re
markable. Even after only a few
days the plants treated with gas
showed a more vigorous growth than
those in an adjacent greenhouse.
i They began to blossom earlier, and
i their general development was much
| greater. The yield of tomatoes was
■ increased 175 per cent and cucum
> bers 70 per cent.
I At the same time experiments also
i were made in the open air on square
plots around which punctured tubes
I were laid. Here an increase of 150
. per cent in yield of spinach was
i reached, 140 per cent in potatoes, 134
J per cent in lupines and 100 per cent
■ in barley.
I Encouraged by these results, the
| chemists repeated the experiments
lin 1918 on a much larger scale, us-
I ing a plot of 30,000 square meters.
I This time they got an increase of
I 130 per cent with tomatoes and in
i one case as high as 300 per cent
with potatoes.
According to the author of the arti
cle dealing with the subject, other
experiments proved that this fertili
zation of the air ‘i’s far more ef
fective than that of the soil,” even
! though the latter be on a liberal
scale. Fertilizing the soil alone gave
an increase of 18 per cent, but soil
and air fertilizing together gave an
increase of 82 per cent. The chem
ists do not regard the use of car
ibonic acid gas as a substitute for
•■soil fertilization, but, as an addition
• to it —both are necessary.
I Dr. Riedel believes that the discov-
I ery will lead to very important re
| suits, and thinks it. should make
• every agricultural region adjacent to
j furnaces an enormous food producer,
i He points out that a battery of fur
| naces producing 1,000 tons of pig
i iron a day consumes 1,100 tons of
coke; also that the carbonic acid gas
contained in the fumes from that
coke produce 4,000 tons of vegetable
substance like potatoes, if it could be
fully utilized; and even if so low
a portion as 10 per cent of it could
be regularly converted into crop
products this would be an end well
worth striving for.—Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
Nut-Bearing Trees
Cost No More to Plant
Than Other Varieties
Nuts form- the only vegetable prod
uct raised in this country which in
the raw condition furnishes a com
plete and fairly well-balanced ration
for human beings.
In many parts of the country el
derly persons, past their period of
activity, are now deriving an income
sufficient to pay taxes, insurance,
and general upkeep of the home
property from crops of nuts de
rived from trees which they planted
during their younger days while
their neighbors were planting shade
trees.
There are very few farms or city
lots in the entire country which
could not profitably be planted to
some kind of \nut-producing trees.
The income may not always be im
portant, but whatever it is will be
clear gain. It costs no more to plant
a nut-bearing tree than it does one
that produces nothing but shade. Nut
trees are commonly regarded as be
ing slow in coming into bearing. The
black walnut and hickory are popu
larly regarded as being of too slow
a growth to develop into useful shade
trees during the average lifetime of
man.
As a matter of fact, on the con
trary, walnuts of certain superior va
rieties now being propagated are so
precocious as not infrequently to
bear nuts while still in the nursery.
In a number of instances from a
peck to a half bushel of nuts have
been borne by trees ten and twelve
years old. No exact figures as to
yields of hickories are available, but
some of the varieties are bearing
at from twelve to fifteen years old.
In regard to the chestnut, which is
now being largely wiped out of ex
istence by the bark disease intro
duced from Asia about 1900. efforts
are being made by the United States
department of agriculture to hybrid-
Profitable Tips
On Curing Meat
Ceanliness is the most impor
tant factor in butchering and cur
ing meats, says the United States
department of agriculture, in
Farmers’ Bulletin, 913. Meat be
comes tainted very easily.
Save all pieces of meat for sau
sage. There are many ways of
converting it into a palatable prod
uct.
All waste fat, trimmings, and
skin should be rendered and the
product used to make soap.
Bones sould be crushed or
ground for chicken food.
Never put meat in cure before
the animal heat is out of it.
Always pack meat skin-side
down when in the curing process,
except the top layer in a brine
cure, ■which should be turned
flesh-side-down.
Keep close watch on the brine,
and if it becomes “ropy” change
it.
Do not forget to turn or change
meat several times during the
3uring process.
The fat of dry-cured meat
sometimes becomes yellow, but
that does not make it unwhol
some.
It takes more time to smoke
dry-cured than brine-cured pork.
Slow smoking is much better
than rapid smoking, the heat is
not so great and there is less
chance of causing the meat to
drip.
GAS SUCCEEDS
AS WEAPON FOR
ORCHARD PEST
The results of what is known as
the para-dichlorobenezene treatment
for the eradication of the peach tree
borer lead experts of the United
States department of agriculture to
believe that a practical means has
finally been found of ridding or
chards of this disastrously destruc
tive pest. Previously the only effec
tive method of fighting the borer was
by removing the soil around the
base of the tree and digging the
grubs out of their galleries with a
knife. It is estimated that the borers
have done $6,000,000 damage a year
and that $2,000,000 a year has been
spent in fighting them.
The para-dichlorobenzene method
was firs£ used extensively by or
chardists in 1919. It consists in
sprinkling fine crystals of the insecti
cide on the soil around the base
of the infected tree and covering with
earth to hold the gas. The sub
stance is highly volatile and forms
gas when the soil is between 74 de
grees and 80 degrees F. This gas
is five times heavier than air and
sinks down through the soil. It is
highly effective against the borer;
and a pound of the insecticide, cost
ing not more than 25 cents, is suffi
cient for 8 or 10 trees. The labor
is scarcely one-third of that formerly
required. The saving, therefore, is
great.
This year the para-dichlorobenzene
process has been used extensively in
the Georgia peach belt, some locali
ties buying as high as 50,000 pounds
and large individual growers as high
as 2 tons each. Growers declare
that it is one of the greatest accomp
lishments in the history of the de
partment, comparable to the self
boiled lime-sulphur treatment for
the control of brown rot and scab
of the peach.
Shippers’ Compress
Company Asks Raise
In Rates for Work
The Shippers Compress company,
of Macon, of which R. F. Willing
ham, of that city, was organizer and
president, until his recent failure,
on Wednesday presented to the rail
road commission a petition for in
creased compression rates. It oper
ates compresses in Toccoa, Atlanta,
Macon, Augusta, Savannah and nu
merous other cotton concentration
points. It asks for an increase from
75 cents to $1 per bale for standard
density compression, and from
to $1.35 per bale «for high density
compression.
There was also heard Wednesday
by the railroad commission the peti
tion of the Consolidated Telephone
company, with headquartters in
Moultrie, for rate advances ranging
from'’ls to 25 per cent. The company
has telephone exchanges in Moultrie.
Boston, Pavo, Doerun, Barwick, Ber
lin, Sale City, Whigham, Norman
Park and Collidge.
Attorney John A. Hynds, of Atlan
ta, represented the compress com
pany. Attorney J. Prince Webster
formerly rate expert of the railroad
commission, represented the tele
phone company.
ize the Japanese chestnut, which is
largely resistant to the blight but of
inferior quality, with the native chin
quapin or dwarf chestnut. These ex
periments have been under way for a
decade or more, and some very in
teresting hybrids have already ap
peared.
Agssai
-AND SUCCESSFUL FARMING
ztpA. x Dr AndrewK. Soule
Georgia’s Undeveloped Potentialities
Georgia is the largest state east
of the Missippl river. The area is
59,475 square miles, equivalent to 37,-
584,000 acres. According to the most
recently available figures, 26,953,413
acres are In farms. Os this amount,
12,298.0'17 acres would be regarded
as productive land and 14,600,396
acres as unimproved land. This
leaves approximately 10,630,587 acres
of wooded, cut-over, or unimproved
wild land. It will thus be seen that
only one-third of the state’s total
area is devoted to crop growing at
this time. It is generally recognized
that our acre yields are relatively
low and that we have not yet at
tained anything like the high stand
ard of which we are capable In the
management and handling of our
land.
In spite of these facts, our soil
and climate and the fine energy and
capacity of our people enabled us
to produce agricultural crops in 1919
worth $625,000,000 in round numbers.
We also raised and sold animal prod
ucts worth at very conservative fig
ures $125,000,000 more. Our total out
put of soil and animal wealth In
1919, therefore, aggregated the great
sum of $750,000,000. This was ac
complished through the utilization
of a little more than one-third of
our landed area. It is true that a
considerable part of our unimproved
land and some of our wild land were
utilized for the maintenance of live
stock; but our improved pasture
areas are still negligible in extent,
and the greater part of the food con
sumed by our live stock was raised
on our cultivated land. In any event,
it would be a simple matter to raise
the standard of production on the
improved land to where one-third of
the state’s area would yield $750,-
000,000 worth of new wealth a year.
Already we stand sixth in crop pro
duction and seventeenth In animal
production.
Georgia is verging on the border
of a blllion-dollar state in so far
as the creation annually of agricul
tural wealth is concerned. If all
the land capable of cultivation in
Georgia were handled along up-to
date and strictly scientific lines, we
could easily double the output of
our agricultural wealth, making Geor
gia a $1,500,000,000 state. If an equal
area of our unimproved land to that
now* cultivated were brought under
the plow, we could attain this end.
If we briilg an equal area of our un
improved land under the plow and
raised the standard of production on
all our cultivated land in a reason
able degree, we can make Georgia a
$3,000,000,000 state in the matter of
agricultural production in a relative
ly short time.
The need of the day and the hour
is more food and more raw materials
for industry. The standard of living
of the American people has already
undergone a revolutionary change by
reason of the era of high prices by
which we are now afflicted- People
sare being crowded together in our
towns and cities in a shameful and
sort of hopeless manner. Food pro
duction is decreasing. The open
country Is being deserted by the rush
to secure the supposedly high wages
which the city affords. These facts
show the future of agriculture. Our
basis industry is trembling in the,
balance. We must choose now as to'
whether we will continue to be pro
ducers of raw materials on a basis
commensurate with our own neecls
and those of the world or whether
we shall drift into the position of
an industrial nation importing a con
siderable part of the raw materials
needed by our manufacturing enter
prises. This picture, which is not
overdrawn in any sense, shows the
marvelous opportunities which lie
ahead for making Georgia a very
paradise of agricultural production
and a purveyor of essential raw ma
terials to the industries of this coun
try and the world at large. The
figures presented indicate the un
paralleled opportunities for advance
ment and development all along the
line. They demonstrate the wonder
ful latent possibilities of Georgia
soils. They show that the alchemy
of our climate and 'soils is blended
in proportions such as has seldom
been brought together elsewhere in
any other section of the universe-
The young men and young women
of Georgia, the farm owner, the la
borer and the capitalist should take
heed of the facts presented. They
should catch a vision of the marvel
ous opportunities the constructive
development our agriculture af
fords. There is no more alluring
field of service, of opportunity, or
reward than lies ahead for the skilled
and capable agriculturist who,
through training, has prepared him
self to handle the soils of
in a capable and efficient manner. Yf
we direct into this channel a suffi
cient percentage of our men , and
women and utilize a proper propor
tion of our reserve of potential
wealth, Georgia will Indeed go for
ward by leaps and bounds. Under
such circumstances, who has a
broad enough vision and a big enough
conception of the future possibilities
to correctly portray the Progress
which will take place in the next
twenty-five to fifty years? The fields
stand ready to the harvest. The call
is for skilled workmen, the rewards
which He ahead are certain - Georgia
has already demonstrated that she
?he ’Umpire State of the South ” and
it takes no great stretch of the imag
ination to see that the development
of her latent resources has only Just
be fn "feeding mules doing hard work
they should have about f lf teen
pounds of a mixed Brain rati°m Cat_
tlo will not require so much. ;sel yn
er will sheep. Hogs in
to weight consume , co^’^ erdb 2®
amounts of concentrated food As
they use concentrates chiefly, how
ever, we may eliminate them from
the present discussion. e nr
In preparing roughage rations for
live stock, we may use corn stover,
sorghum fodder, 9? w pea hay grown
sinsrlv or in combination with ml
iet or sorghum, peanut hay and vel
vet bean hay. The principal rough
age available on the average farm
will be corn and sorghum fodder. We
should take, ordinarily, about two
thirds by weight of these crops and
one-third by weight of roughage pro
vided from any or all of the legumes
mentioned. Grind this up r
horses and mules. Mix one thou
sand to twelve hundred Pou nd s
this roughage with eight hundred
pounds of a ration made up of seven
hundred pounds of corn and cob
meal and one hundred pounds of
high grade cottonseed meal or pea
nut meal without the hulls. You
may add one hundred pounds of
bran. You may replace the velvet
bean meal and the bran with two
hundred pounds of chqpped oats if
you have them at harm to use in
the manner indicated. ’, Mix the
roughage and <rain together v ®£y
thoroughly after sprinkling it with
black strap molasses. Moisten the
mass slightly with water contain
ing a little salt before feeding. This
will provide a very excellent ration
for feeding work stock. The same
roughage ration may be fed to cat
tle, but the grain part of it should
be changed. You may cut the corn
down to four hundred pounds and
feed with it four hundred pounds
of cottonseed meal, peanut .neal or
peanut and velvet bean meal com
bined in equal parts. Hogs will do
well on a ration made up of six hun
dred pounds of corn and cob meal
and four hundred pounds of pea
nut meal from which the hulls have
been excluded. It would be better,
of course, to use only two hundred
pounds of peanut meal and replace
the two hundred pounds of it with
shorts.
These are some suggestions we
believe you will find practical and
helpful ‘in solving the situation by
which you are now confronted.
Data About Milking Goats
P. H., Augusta. Ga., writes:
Please tell me all you can In re-
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER fl, 1020.
gard to milk goats; also can you
recommend Tennessee No. 50
winter beardless barley?
Goats have been used for milk
production among the poorer peo
ple of the world for many centuries.
The goat is more commonly met
with and more generally utilized Jor
milk production in foreign coun
tries than in the United States.
Goat’s milk contains 4 1-2 per cent
of fat and a little more albumen
‘than cow’s milk. If goats are kept
under sanitary conditions, there is
no unpleasant flavor or odor to the
milk. Some breeds of goats are
quite heavy producers of milk.
Among these breeds may be men-
tioned the Maltese goat bred on the
Island of Malta in the Mediterranean
sea. There are about two hundred
thousand people on this island and
they maintain nearly thirty thou
sand goats. Some animals produce
from three to four quarts of milk per
day. The Toggenburg goat, from a
valley of that name situated m
Switzerland, is also a good milk pro
ducer. Other strains of milking
goats have been developed in Switz
erland, Nubia, Turkey and also other
eastern countries. There is an
American Milk Goat Record associa
tion. It was established in 1903.
The period of lactation with goats
varies, running from three to six
months. Milk goats are not com
monly met with in America, and
they are high in price, but there
seems to be more interest in the
breeding of the than for
merly existed, and no doubt in time
this animal will become an impor
tant factor in the production of milk
especially for invalids and chil
dren.
If the Tennessee No. 50, winter
beardless barley was developed at
the Tennessee experiment station
and is recommended by them, you
can depend upon its value. Other
wise, we would be somewhat skep
tical about planting it as a number
of. the beardless winter barlies
which we have tried out have not
proven very satisfactory under the
soil and climatic conditions prevail
ing in this section of Georgia.
How to Cur® and. Cora Beef
C. E. H., Cave Spring, Ga.,
writes: I would like to have a
recipe for keeping beef. The
market is so dull that I can
not sell to advantage, so want
to kill enough this fall for use
this winter, as the cattle are
fat.
Various methods of corning beef
may be followed. I presume that a
great many people have what they
call their favorite method. A recipe
worked out by the veterinary divi
sion of the Georgia State College of
Agriculture has proven very satis
factory, and I direct the attention
of any readers who may be inter
ested in preserving and keeping
beef to this recipe. I know that
if it is properly followed out that
meat can be cured and kept effec
tively. It should be easier to pre
serve and keep it at this season of
the year for use throughout the
winter than in the hotter months
of the summer season. Meat pre
served by this method is thorough
ly wholesome and desirable. Some
people are very fond of corned
beef. Others do not care for it.
This difference of opinion, how
ever, largely constitutes a matter
of taste. Remember, that it is of
the utmost importance that this
recipe be followed in the closest de
tail. Any variation therefrom will
likely prove disastrous. You cannot
afford to take any short cuts in
the manner of handling and pre
serving slaughtered beef at this
season of the year.
Beef for corning should be fat.
The meat from the plate, rump,
briskets and other cheap cuts should
be cut into pieces about six inches
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square. The meat must be thorough- I
ly cooled but not frozen.
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salt one-quarter inch deep in the |
bottom, then a layer of meat. Con- I
tinue with alternate layers of salt I
and meat, reserving enough salt to I
cover the top layer. Let it stand |
overnight, then add for each 100 |
pounds of beef, 4 pounds of brown |
sugar, 2 ounces baking soda and 4 |
ounces salt-petre dissolved in 1 |
gallon of lukewarm water. Weight I
the meat down so as to keep all of I
it under the brine. During warm |
weather, water* for making brine |
should be boiled and then cooled, I
and everything done in the most |
cleanly manner possible. During I
warm weather the brine must be I
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UTXX.XEXITG FARM AT
HOME
A. R. Louisville, Ga.,
writes: tin® ■ farmers in this sec
tion wo-id like to have a formu
la by which they can mix their
own feed for their cows, horses,
mules and hogs. They have
raised plenty of peavine hay,
corn with vellvet beans on it,
some peanut hay, sorghum cane,
etc. They wish to know how to
use what they have raised
stead of buying prepared feed
SSO per ton. The weevil has
gathered the larger part of the
cotton crop and they must have
another money crop, either feed
of live stock.
There are of course many machines
on the market which will grind or ;
chop up all sorts of coarse fodder i
into a condition which permits of its
being readily mixed with concen
trates. An endless variety of feed
stuffs may be made in the manner
indicated and many of them, if
properly prepared and fed with skill,
give excellent results. There is, of
course, no reason why you should
not prepare a thoroughly satisfac
tory home-made ration of this char
acter, if you prefer. It is, of course,
difficult co give you any satisfactory
proportions of crops as grown under ■
field conditions to combine. This is
due to the fact that one acre of corn
and velvet beans may yield the equiv
alent in feeding value of fifteen
bushels of corn and another acre
the equivalent in feeding value of
thirty bushels of corn. I do not
know of any more practical or desir
able method of procedure under the
circumstances to recommend to you,
therefore, than the following:
You must cither by some effort
on your part determine the percent- '
age yield of, grain and roughage on I
each acre of land and then figure tjiis j
out on the basis of bushels of grain
per acre and pounds of forage or
stover as the case may be or else you
can harvest the crops separately, and
handle as indicated below. The aver
age horse or mule weighing 1,000
pounds should receive, when doing
hard work, approximately twelve to
fifteen pounds of hay per'day. Cat
tle will eat somewhat more roughage
because they are ruminating animals.
Hogs cannot handle roughage with
advantage at all. Sheep will use it
in about the same proportion as
cattle. This makes it difficult to
suggest any one ration, therefore,
that will suit all classes of live
stock. Most of the concerns to which
you refer make different grades, or
combinations, of foods for different
classes of live stock for obvious rea
sons. The food stuffs they sell are
generally no better than that which
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