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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. W rite today tor our Free Book whicb tells bow Full instructions in Fur Grading told in plain and simple language that all can understand. Study our ‘Trappers Manual 1 ' -it will I teach vou how to tell if you are getting a square deal in the grading of vour furs, the only book on fur grading ever published, i Free to Trappers Also ‘Tur Facts" and : Trappers Supply catalogue Get full in | formation about our ‘Smbke Pump,” the . wonder invention for trappers A card at letter brings ah this / I - information FREE Write today ABRAHAM FUR COMPART 2X3 N. Main Street, St. Louis, Mo., THE JAPANESE WAY | * A girl and a fan beats a ma r jBT v chine and a man. In Japan, i where farming implements have • -mruIIMMaML not changed in centuries, chaff is Mrnwnqfll still separated from the wheat in YMMEaMSL the good old time-honored meth "mrrJ* ~ IsSSESh od shown above. Where girl la- *b°r is cheap and American ma- < chinery expensive, more efficient implements are rarely used. 1 uifira A X’ >\ M J --J ' - “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 a, U A real test for overalls BENDING over the big driving- | shafts, climbing the swaying lad- | ders —it’s a real test for overalls in Joi a steamer’s engine room. Daniel Canty has taken over forty voyages as a steamship engineer. Today he wears Blue Buckle Over Alls on every trip. “They stand the racket better than 11 rar 1 1 any overall I know,” says Daniel Canty. M Whether it’s running engines on sea or on land or bringing in crops on the farm — jy| millions of other men on big jobs have found that Blue Buckles meet the test of the heaviest work. 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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 frequently observed to note whether becoming sour or ropy, in which case it must be boiled or new I brine provided. Twenty-eight to for ty days are usually sufficient for I curing beef by this method. 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 the farmer can prepare for himself. I have always held that the farmer who purchases any considerable quantity of hay or grain could not expect to maintain himself in a pros perous condition. These are crops which our soil and climatic condi tions should enable us to produce in a measure commensurate with our needs. 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