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NEWS AND VIEWS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Making of Nitrates at
Big Muscle Shoals Plant
Would Lower Guano Cost
BY B. E. REYNOLDS
‘ Tn the Southern Agriculturist
The war department in co-opera
tion with the United States depart
ment of agriculture is conducting ex
tensive research work in nitrate fix
ation at a large laboratory near
Washington. This work was begun
in April, 1919, by authority of Sec
retary of War Baker, with an an
nual allowance of $300,000. A party
of farm paper correspondents and
farmer organization representatives
visited the laboratory recently and
inspected the highly interesting and
successful experiments now being
carried on.
The functions of the fixed nitro
gen research laboratory are the in
vestigation of methods of fixing ni
trogen by the Haber -cyanamid, arc.
and miscellaneaus processes, and
the investigation of methods of dis
posing of nitrogen products for ex
plosives, in agriculture and other
wise. A 20-acre test plot, in Ala
bama is being used in practice trials
of the various forms of fixed air ni
trogen in actual crop production. In
these experiments with corn and cot
ton the records indicate that cyana
mid shows up equally as well as
Chilean nitrates in crop growth.
Cyanamid must be carefully han
dled, and tests are in progress to
find the best means of applying it to
prevent damage to the plants and
yet to be effective as a fertilizer
The experimenters used 80 pounds to
the acre, which is much more than
the farmer would use in field dis
tribution.
In the experiments the cost of
manufacture has been considerably
less than the prevailing prices of
any form of nitrates now on the
market. Tests are being made to
develop forms of nitrate easy to
handle, safe for the crops, and
economical in production, and which
may be used in combination with
other fertilizing elements.
The results of these experiments
and tests in the Washington labora
tory provide an abundance of con
vincing proof of the wisdom of the
Experim ent Station
Announces Results of
Cotton-Spraying Tests
BY H. P. STUCKEY
Director Georgia Experiment Sta
tion
With the increased interest in
spraying and dusting cotton against
the boll weevil, the Georgia experi
ment station has begun some tests
to determine the effects of certain
spray and dust mixtures on cotton
foliage.
The first mixtures tried out were
put on in July while the cotton was
in active growth. They were* used
on eleven plats of cotton as follows:
1. Fish oil soap, 2 lbs.; arsenate
of lead (dry), 1 1-4 lbs.; nicotine sul
phate, 1-4 pint; water, 50 gallons—
liquid.
2. Arsenate of lead (dry), 1 1-4
lbs.; fish oil soap, 2 lbs.; water, 50
gallons—liquid.
3. Fish oil soap, 2 lbs.; arsenate
of lead (dry), 1 1-4 lbs.; nicotine
sulphate, 1-4 pint; stone lime, 3 lbs.;
water, 50 gallons—liquid.
4. Arsenate of lead (dry), 1 1-4
lbs.; fish oil soap, 2 lbs.; stone lime,
3 lbs.; water, 50 gallons—liquid.
5. Dry arsenate of lead, alone—
dust.
6. Dry calcium arsenate, alone—
dust. t
7. Paris Green, 1 lb.; dry air slak
ed lime, 10 lbs.—dust.
8. Check.
Little Profit in Furs
For Trappers This Year,
Trade Reports Show
Conditions affecting the fur mar
ket this season, according to re
ports from principal centers of the
trade, are such that prices this
year will not repay the trappers’
efforts in going after a large catch.
Practically the entire 1919 catch
is etill on the hands of the deal
ers, unsold, it is reported, while
the present tightening of bank cred
its makes it impracticable for the
important dealers to finance new
purchases, even if they deemed that
cvirse advisable.
To aggravate matters, according
to authoritative opinions in the
Increase Reported
In Farm Tenantry
In Central West
CHICAGO.—The increase in farm
tenantry which has become an is
sue in Kansas does not appear uni
form throughout the central west,
according to reports received here
from a number of agricultural au
thorities. While the majority of the
several states heard from report an
advance, Wisconsin notes no change,
owing to the opening of new farms,
and Oklahoma declares a decrease.
Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and
Ohio show increases. The situation
in the various states named is thus
indicated:
Farm tenantry in Oklahoma has
shown a decrease of 7 per cent dur
ing the ten years since 1910, accord
ing to figures from each county com
piled by H. H. Shutz, federal statis
tician for the state. In 1910, farm
owners made up 45 per cent of the
tillers of the soil, and renters 55
per cent, while now owners represent
52 per cent and renters 48 per cent.
Nearly every section of the state
showed a decrease in the number of
renters, according to Mr. Shutz, who
based his report on returns from all
farms in the state, numbering ap
proximately 193.000. Mr. Shutz noted
a growing tendency on the part of
renters to buy a small tract, from
ten tq twenty acres, and rent adjoin
ing land. He said high crop prices
have enaoled many renters to swing
into the ownership column.
“The percentage of rented farms
has remained about the same and. in
a few cases, has increased somewhat
ip the southern half of Wisconsin, so
the economic condition there is not
different from the condition in the
corn belt states.” Joseph A. Becker,
agricultural statistician at Madison,
Wis., writes. 1
"However, the large number of new
farms being opened up in the north
ern part of the state, virtually all of
them operated by owners, has more
*han kept up the percentage of owned
farms. Summing up, there has been
some tendency toward an increase in
farm tenancy, but the opening up of
new farms operated by owners in the
northern part of the state has more
r..»an offset this in Wisconsin.”
Farm tenantrv increased 4 per cent
in Illinois in the ten-year period,
from 1909 to 1919, according to fig
ures compiled by the state depart
ment of agriculture at Springt’eld.
’Tenantry in 1919 was estimated at
45.5 per cent.
Corn prices at the farms of pro
ducers have been highest in the
•Rocky Mountain and Pacific stages,
in averages of periods of years, from
1866-1875 to 1896-1905. after which
the highest place has b°en held by
the South Atlantic farmers.
THE ATLANTA TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL.
proposed operation by the govern
ment of the Muscle Shoals nitrate
plant. This plant, which was erscted
by the government in war time at a
cost of $72,000,00 is fully equipped
with a capacity for producing by the
cyanamid process an output of 40,-
000 tons of fixed nitrogen per year,
an amount equal to about 250,000
tons of Chilean nitrates. The plant
was tested out in 1918, and a small
quantity of fixed nitrogen produced,
but since then it has remained idle,
and unless operated by the govern
ment or private interests it will
deteriorate rapidly, as does any un
used industrial plant.
The Kahn-Wadsworth bill, which
authorizes the government to oper
ate this air fixation plant, reached
the floor of the senate last winter
and was pending in the house com
mittee when congress adjourned. It
has the support of all the farmer or
ganizations having representatives in
Washington, who maintain that the
operation of this plant would pro
vide an effective means of producing
much needed fertilizer at a reduced
cost and thereby decrease the cost
of production of cotton and food
crops. The Muscle Shoals plant is
in the heart of the south, where a
large part of the commercial fer
tilizers is used, and with good trans
portation facilities to all parts of the'
country. The Washington bill
creates the United States Fixed Ni
trogen Corporation. The directors are
appointed by the federal government.
The stock will be owned by the
United States government, $13,500,-
000 preferred stock paying six per
cent to the government issued
against cash to be obtained from
sale of on-half reserve stock of so
dium nitrate n<hv held by the ord
nance department; common stock is
sued against the property to be turn
ed over by the government. The ni
trate plant at Sheffield, Ala., the one
at Muscle Shoals, and the Fixed Ni
trogen Research Laboratory will be
turned over by the government to
this corporation if the law is pass
ed.
9. Paris Green, alone—dust,
10. Nicotine sulphate, 1 pint; fish
oil soap, 2 lbs.; water 50 gallons—
liquid.
11. Syrup, 2 qts.; arsenate of
lead, 1 1-4 lbs.; water, 50 gallons—
liquid.
The foliage of the plants were well
covered with the different mixtures,
and no rain fell for six days after
the application. Subsequent observa
tion showed that none of the
different mixtures did any apparent
harm to the cotton foliage.
No weevil attacks were observed
on the squares while covered by the
mixture, but punctures were found in
squares which grew after the sprays
were applied. It was not expected
that a single application of any of
these mixtures would control the
boll weevil. The object of the test
was to determine the resistance of
the cotton plant to the different mix
tures, so that a spray schedule could
be planned with a fair degree of cer
tainty that the foliage would not be
injured.
This one trial indicates that cotton
foliage in active growth is decidedly
resistant to the common insecticides
which makes them comparatively
safe in the hands of the average cot
ton grower.
trade, a long and costly strike has
kept 10,000 workers in the manu
facturing end of the industry idle
since May. The strike ,is still in
effect, and operations, as a conse
quence, have been tremendously
curtailed.
East year’s high prices led to a
huge catch. Falling off of demand
left something like $75,000,000
worth of furs on the hands of the
dealers. The combination of cir
cumstances that nas arisen works
directly against the possibility of
profit in trapping activity this year,
according to the views of leaders
in the tra.de.
Splendid Showing by
Demonstration Agents
In Florida Field
During the last year Florida coun
ties maintained home demonstration
agents. Some idea of the value and
extent of their work can be gotten
from the following summary of some
of the things they havg accomplish
ed during the last fiscal year:
More than 4,000 girls and 4,000
women have been enrolled in and do
ing home economic work in Florida.
These girls have filled more than
45,000 containers with fruits and
vegetables.
They made 2,772 garments.
Furnishings for their bed rooms
were made by 1,054 of the girls.
About 1,600 have learned to patch
or darn.
Twenty-three are enrolled is a "Go
to College club.”
The women have filled 452,000 con
tainers with fruits and vegetables.
In one county there were sixteen
beeves and sixty hogs canned.
Pure-bred poultry has been intro
duced in 1,800 fat-ms.
The Hernando County Egg circle
received SB,OOO for their poultry
produce.
A campaign for more milk for chil
dren has been carried on throughout
the state. Good dairy cows have been
purchased by many club members.
Eighty members have kept the cost
of production and value and disposi
tion of dairy products, demonstrat
ing that it is profitable from a mon
etary standpoint to keep a good cow
in Florida.
Sixty-three homes have been re
modeled under direction of home
demonstration agents. Thirty-one
lighting systems Jiave been installed;
twenty-four homes painted; three
whitewashed.
Eighty-three home orchards have
been started. Eighty-four club mem
bers have planted muscadine grapes.
Hot lunch counters have been in
stalled in twelve rural schools.
A research laboratory has been es
tablished where experimental work
is bbing done upon Florida products.
The above summary speaks con
vincingly for this great work. No
other argument is necessary.
Arkansas Teamwork
Co-operative marketing has result
ed successfully for the cattle and
hog growers of Craighead county.
Ark. Cattle formerly sold at $3 to $6
a hundredweight under St. Louis
market. A carload of ninety-four
hogs was originally collected and
shipped through the activity of the
county agent and brought from $5 to
sll above the local price. Local buy
ers are now paying approximately
the St. Louis price.
SOME PRIZE WINNERS IN THE CATTLE SHOW AT
THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR HELD AT MACON DURING THE
PAST TEN DAYS. At the top is a'picture of R. S. Tippin holding
his Jersey cow, Houssie 11, from the Rockdale Farm at Acworth,
Ga., which won first prize for aged cows. In the center is T. C.
Crawford and Royal Bird’s Lass, a prize winner from the Mead
owcreet Farm, Greensboro, Ga. Below is Raleigh’s Farmer’s
Glory, senior champion bull wherever shown this year. His own
ers, Diggs Farm, at Rockingham, N. Ca., recently refused an offer
of $30,000 for him—Staff Photos by Winn.
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Federal Hunter's Trap
Ends Lawless Career of
Huge Silver Tip Grizzly
Silver Tip Grizzly is dead.
He was a bad actor.
This is the epitaph that the bio
logical * survey of the United States
department of agriculture conceived
when it received a letter from
Charles J. Bayer, predatory animal
inspector of the bureau, at Lander,
Wyo., telling of the end of a 1,000-
pound monarch of beardbm which
has been kiling stock in the vicinity
of Dubois, Wyo., for several years.
A fifty-pound No. 6 bear trap anchor
ed to a twenty-four-foot tree trunk
was Silver Tip’s undoing; but he
the tree and tore a swath eight
miles long forest before
he finally gave up the ghost. Fifteen
dead cattle, each killed with a crush
ing blow beneath the eyes and each
with the liver removed as a bear
delicacy, marked the trail to the
point where the animal was trapped.
A SIOO bounty had been placed on
Silver Tip’s head by stockmen. They
were saved this money, however, as
government hunters are not allowed
to accept bounties from any source.
Another stock killer has thus been
removed from the range.
Inspector Bayer Tells the Story
In a letter to Dr. A. K. Fisher, of
the biolcgical survey. Inspector Bay
er gives the following account of
Silver Tip and his end:
‘‘While reports came in occasional
ly of a large silver tip that was doing
a lot of killing in the vicinity of
Dubois, no authentic report was re
ceived until the spring of 1918, when
several cattlemen asked that we send
a man after the bear. A hunter was
sent up there and reported killing the
bear that summer, but investigation
proved that the bear most wanted
was still at large He was particu
larly destructive that summer, not
only killing cattle, but destroying
camps and fire boxes belonging to
the forest service and wrecking any
thing that he happened to encounter.
“A second hunter was sent up
there in the spring of 1919. He, too,
worked to get the bear, but without
success.
‘‘Hunter Rowley was then recom
mended to us as a bear hunter, and
we put him on the trail of the grizzly
in the spring of 1920. For a long
time he was unable to find any fresh
sign of the bear, or to find any cattle
freshly killed by him. About July
15, this summer, he came upon a cow
that had been killed a short time be
fore by the bear, and he took up the
trail.
‘‘He kept after him until he got
him, the fore part of September. Dur
ing she six weeks that he followed
the bear, he found fifteen head of two
and three-year-old cattle that the
bear had killed, belonging to the
Double Diamond outfit, near Dubois.
"AU these cattle were killed by a
crushing blow between the eyes, from
the bear’s open paw. In most cases
the cattle were not eaten upon, ex
cept where the bear had taken out
the liver and eaten that.
"The trap that finally got the
bear was a No. 6, and wa/s set about
August. 15. The clog used was a log
twenty-four feet long and five inches
through.
"The clog was broken off about
fifty yards from where the trap was
set, and the bear carried away seven
feet of it, and had this fastened to
him when he was found. He was
found eight miles from where he got
into the trap.
A Trail of Destruction
“In trailing through the timber
many trees six and seven inches
through had been uprooted, and in
several places the bear got into
windfalls and tore out the down logs,
almost making a road behind him in
doing so.
‘He was dead when Mr. Rowley
found him. and had been dead too
long to permit of taking his skin.
Mr. Rowley said the bear* would
Citrus Growing in
South Discussed in
New Bulletin
“To what extent can citrus fruit
be grown in the south?” ‘“How can
losses, such as citrus growers suf
fered in the past, be avoided?” “Can
money be made in the citrus indus
try?”
Because these questions have been
asked so many times and because
there is a widespread interest in the
subject, the United States department
of agriculture has made a special
study of conditions in the gulf states,
the results of which have been pub
lished in Farmers’ Bulletin 1122, “Ci
trus Fruit Growing in the Gulf
States.”
This bulletin briefly sketches the
development of citius fruit growing
in Florida and the other gulf coast
sections, points out some of the un
fortunate experiences of growers in
the earlier years and the lessons
taught by those experiences, empha
sizes the importance of choosing suit
able locations, sitgs, and soils, and
gives information concerning grove
management, including the prepara
tion of the soil, planting the trees,
methods of tillage, use of fertilizers,
pruning, protection against frost in
jury, and the other operations that
count in the successful production
of citrus fruits.
The more important varieties of
the different citrus fruits, especially
for Florida conditions, are discussed;
also many other matters’that the
grower or prospective grower needs
to know about. The prospective
grower, who is not familiar with
conditions in the regions to which
he may turn his attention, is ad
vised not to make any investments
until he personally examines the
land on which he proposes to locate.
This bulletin, which may be ob
tained free on request to the United
States department of agriculture, is
intended to help not only the pros
pective and the inexperienced grow
er, but also to give experienced grow
ers a better understanding of the
most satisfactory methods in use
in the regions with which they may
not be personally familiar.
Florida Boys’ Clubs
Makes Fine Records
The Polk County Boys’ club con
test was held in the city hall, Bar
tow, September 30. In spite of the
poor season, the corn club boys
made an average yield of 26 bush
els an acre, and an average profit
of $33.70 an acre. Good records were
made in the peanut club. One boy
reports that his pig gained 113
pounds in 87 days. This pig came
from the Highland Oaks Farm,
Pierce.
Seven scholarships to the Boys’
short course at Gainesville, De
cember 6 to 11, were awarded as
prizes, the money having been ap
propriated by the local county com
missioners. In addition to the
scholarships, one $lO and two $5
cash prizes were awarded. These
cash prizes were placed in the banks,
opening savings accounts for the
boys. They will add club savings
to these accounts from time to time.
weigh about 1,000 pounds, the front
feet would measure about 8 1-2
inches, and the hind .foot about
twelve inches in length.
“The fact that other hunters were
after the grizzly to get the SIOO
bounty made Mr. Rowley’s work
harder.”
Ground Limestone Does
Wonderful Things if
Soil Needs Sweetening
BY 9&MBS SPEED,
In the Southern Agriculturist
Any one who has knocked about
as much as I have in the past ten
years must believe in ground Hu
stone most religiously. I have seen
it do such wonderful things that I
supposed I was jiroof against be
coming excited over seeing b’g re
sults. However, a drive out through
McCracken county. Kentucky, v.-
Mr. Kilpatrick, the county agent,
gave me some definite surprises.
In leaving Paducah by almost any
road, one is impressed with the fact
that most of the land is cold, white
and wet. It is the type of land that
will grow clover for a few short
years after it is cleared of timber
and then infuses to grow the crop
successfully any longer. As we
climbed a slight rise a few miles
out of Paducah, we came to a beau
tiful orchard of some fifty acres.
The apple trees were five years old
this autumn and showed that they’
had been well t ucn ire of
properly nourished, while beneath
them grew a crop of clover.
In chatting with the county agent
about this crop of clover, I learned
the secret of its growth. Two tons
of ground limestone and 1,600 pounds
of raw rock phosphate had done the
business. This treatment had made
the stand of clover possible and had
given the owner of the orchard half
a ton of hay per acre, besides an
ample amount of hay for mulching
the young trees. As we drove out
through the country, mile after
Cattle Tuberculosis is .
Dangerous and Costly,
Says Florida Bulletin
Probably no other diseases is a
greater menace to the cattle Indus
try than tuberculosis, says a bulle
tin from the college of agriculture,
University of Florida.
It has been estimated that this
disease causes an annual loss of
$40,000,000 to the live stock indus
try of this country. Another fact
which makes this disease of great
importance to mankind is that it has
been proven transmittable from cat
tle to man. This danger is prob
ably less than some people think.
Probably four or five per cent of
tuberculosis in man comes from in
fected cows. It is transmitted
through the milk and, therefore,
children are most frequently the vic
tims.
The germs are somewhat differ
ent types, depending upon the ani
mal infected, according to Dr. A. L.
Shealy, professor of veterinary
science at the Florida College of Ag
riculture. It is somewhat long, slen
der and curved in man; it is short,
wide and straight in cattle. The
bovine type, taken into the human
body, assumes the same character
istics of the human type. The germ
is killed bj’ pasteurizing the milk.
Tuberculosis is transmitted from
one cow to another by contaminated
food'>and water. These are often
contaminated by the feces of an in-
Grade Sweet Potatoes
And Avoid Losses
When in Storage
BY J. A. M’CLINTOCK
Plant Physiologist Georgia Experi
ment Station
Losses of sweet potatoes in stor
age are due to the attacks of para
sitic fungi or molds. Diseases like
black rot, stem rot, scurf, etc., are
transmitted to the potatoes from dis
eased plants; while others, as soft
rot' are not carried by the plants.
Soft rot, caused by the black, bread
mold, Rhizopus, is the most import
ant storage rot of sweet potatoes.
The spores or seeds of this mold are
found in the soil, on the tools and
containers used for harvesting, and
in dust floating about in the air.
These spores germinate and grow to
best advantage under moist condi
tions, and do not readily attack the
dry uninjured skin of a sweet potato.
If Rhizopus spores lodge on a cut
or bruised potato they readily ger
minate and grow on the moist sur
face and soon turn the potato into
a rotten mass. The mycelium or
roots of the fungus are able to grow
from a rotting potato into an adjoin
ing uninjured one, and thus the rot
introduced on a cut potato may cause
the loss of many uninjured ones.
Knowing that soft rot generally
starts in cut and bruised potatoes
it is important that care be used to
grade s oas to remove all cut and
bruised potatoes from the ones in
tended for storage. It is preferable
to grade the potatoes in the field,
putting all the good ones in crates
or other containers to be transferred
to the storage house or bank. The
cut and bruised potatoes should then
be gathered and sold for immediate
use or fed to stock.
When the potatoes are being graded
all which show black rot spots should
be sorted out and fed to stock, as
they are not suitable for human food.
There is generally some loss from
rotting In storage even under the
best of conditions, but it is not ad
visable to attempt to remove such
ttl.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920.
. mile. Mr. Kilpatrick pointed to fields
of clover here and there which had
had a liberal dose of ground lime-
I stone to sweeten them.
I am certain, however, that the
reader will be more interested in a
field of corn on Mr. Herbert An
derson’s farm. Mr. Anderson, xyho Is
an extensive farmer and or
■ chardist, informed us as we walked
i nut toward the field that this par
’ ticular field had been too poor to
giow corn or much of anything. He
spread three to four tons of ground
limestone per acre and then seeded
it to sweet clover two years in suc
cession. The field was kept in
sweet clover for four years and he
secured enough pasturage from the
held during that time to pay
the limestone and the seed. Mr.
Anderson, Mr. Kilpatrick a’- 1
estimated the corn crop at least 50
bushels to the acre, but I am cer
. tain the reader would rather see
just how this corn looked, as Mr.
Anderson shucked an ear or two for
our inspection.
For the farmer who reads this and
wonde.s If it will pav him to ■
i ground limestone on his land ft is
t merely necessary to say that the
farmers in McCraken county have to
ship their ground limestone a dis
j tanc 1 ' •' ■ !>
and then haul it to their farms. But
when a farmer can Insure himself a
crop of red clover or sweet clover
on land wh.cn would not g ow
j either without ground limestone, the
1 cost is not so great after all.
fected animal. The common drink
ing through is a menace of infec
tion. Cattle standing in stanchions
adjoining an infected cow. or occu
pying it later, are often found in
fected. It is easy for one infected
cow to infect an entire herd, if run
ning together.
Lowering the vitality of the cow
makes it more apt to contract the
disease Feeding non-nutrious feeds,
starvation, stabling in dark and
poorly-ventilated stalls, filth, pre
vious diseases, make cattle less re
sistant and more susceptible to the
disease
Relative to symptoms, there are
none which can be relied upon al
ways. The most suspicious are, con
tinuously losing flesh, unthriftiness,
weakness, hair standing erect, coat
losing its normal “gloss,” and cough
ing. Sometimes swollen lymph
glands can be felt when a cow is tu
bercular. These glands are located
at he point of the shoulder, in the
region of the throat, and in front of
the udder. Diarrhea is usually pres
ent in intestinal tuberculosis.
A great .campaign is being waged
in Florida to free it of this terrible
disease. Recent reports are encour
aging, but there yet remains much
to be done. The greatest precau
tions must be kept always, at least
till the state has been declared “T.
B. Free.”
potatoes by sorting over all of those
stored, ’as by so doing the good pota
toes are more or less bruised and the
spores from the rotting ones are
scattered throughout the house. Tests
along these lines at the Georgia
periment Station have proven that
the fewer times sweet potatoes are
handled In harvesting and storing the
smaller the loss' will be from storage
rot.
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EYE TEST GIVES
WAY TO DETECT
T. B. IN CATTLE
The eye test for detecting tubercu
losis in cattle has the approve of
the scientists of the bureau of ani
mal industry, United States depart
ment of agriculture. The opthalmic
or eye test is used as a check upon
the older methods, as it happens
occasionally that an animal that will
not react to the subcutaneous injec
tion or intradermal test will react
to the eye test.
Two tuberculin -tablets are placed
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lower lid of the left eye, and obser
vations are taken at approximately
the third hour following and at fre
quent intervals up to twenty-four
hours. Reaction to the test is indi
cated by discharge and swelling.
The bureau of animal industry is
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of the eye test alone where cattle
are intended for interstate shipment.
The test, however, furnishes an ad
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the older method.
The eye test is not well adapted
for use upon range cattle or cattle
in transit, because of the possibility
for dust setting up an irritation not
related to tuberculosis. It has its
best use on the dairy farm, where
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results.
The experts have observed that in
herds which are frequently tested- by
the "subcutaneous method it is ad
visable to apply the intradermal and
the eye test. The combined tests
sometimes detect reactors which
have escaped detection by other
means.
Storage Increases
Farmers of Manatee county, Fla.,
this year will store sweet potatoes
on an extensive scale for the .first
time, due to the work of their coun
ty agents. Because of the difficulty
of obtaining proper storage, it for
merly was a common occurrence for
farmers to ship their potatoes to
northern markets or canneries with
in a short time of harvesting, and
later find themselves compelled to
purchase potatoes by the three
pound can at several times their
original market price. A commu
nity storage house with a capacity
of 10,000 bupshels has been erected,
and farmers have space allotted
where they can place their potatoes
and take them out at will.
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