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Cattle Tick Quarantine
Lifted by Uncle Sam in
Many Southern Counties
WASHINGTON.—The release of
$2,171 square miles of quarantined
area in the cattle-tick infested
•tates of the south is made in a re
vised quarantine order signed by Sec
retary of Agriculture Meredith,
which becomes effective December 1,
1920. Failure of county officials to
co-operate with the United States
department of agriculture in eradi
cating the tick in their areas caused
the requarantining of 7,971 square
miles. Under the revised quaran
tine there will be approximately
218,000 square miles held to be in
fested.
Areas Affected
The effect of the new order is as
follows:
In Alabama the following coun
ties and parts of counties are re
leased from quarantine: Fayette, La
mar and Washington: the remainder
of Bibb. Calhoun, Cherokee, Cle
burne. Houston and St. Clair; and
a portion of Shelby. A portion of
Jefferson county and a portion of
Mobile county are requarantined.
£• In Georgia the following counties
;are released'from quarantine: Baker.
Ben Hill. Bleckley, Bulloch, Crisp,
Decatur. Dodge, Dooly, Evans, Glas
-iock, Laurens, Macon, Pulaski. Semi
nole, Taylor, Telfair and Wilcox./
In Louisiana, Arcadia Parish is're-
Salvation of the South
Is Being Worked Out
With Own Resources
BY B. T. LEECH
Editor of The Memphis Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Somebody once
ealled cotton “The fabric of civiliza
tion.” The title was appropriate—
and because cotton is so vital to civ
ilization, the south, in particular, and
the world, in general, have for weeks
been concerned over the most serious
financial crisis In the cotton-growing
•tates since the civil war.
A few weeks ago the united cot
ton people of the nation threw up
their hands and yelled “Ruin.” For,
right at the marketing season, cot
ton started a sudden and sharp de
cline that carried the price down to
50 per cent below the prevailing fig
ure of planting time.
Committees rushed to Washington
and appealed for aid; stories of hold
ing movements and gin burnings
filled the telegraph wires. Northern
manufacturers, who sell autos, shoes,
pianos, pans and a million and one
other articles in the south, suddenly
saw one of the nation’s greatest
markets menaced by financial de->
pression.
The same men who rushed to
Washington are today sorry they
did so. Those who yelled “ruin” will
now optimistically tell you that, in
spite of a tremendous loss, the south
will “come through safely,” and
that the lesson it is learning will
bear fruits in better financial and
agricultural conditions in the fu
ture.
From Abject Pessimism to Optimism
In short, the public feeling has
apparently run from abject pes
simism to optimism.
As for the so-called night-riding
and gin-burnings, they don’t exist.
I have talked to scores of cotton
men, in many southern cities, and
I have yet to find a gin fire which
was proven to be incendiary.
In fact, cotton men cfaim the gin
fires this year are not more numer
ous than in other years. During the
ginning season, and after months of
dry weather, numerous gin fires are
not unusual.
The country should forget night
riding—it exists only in the movies
—but the country should study the
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d£WS AND VIEWS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
leased from quarantine. and St.
Helena. Livingston, Sabine, LaSalle,
and Calcasieu Parishes, and a por
tion of Ouachita Parish, are requar
antin.ed.
In North Carolina, Pasquotank
county is released from quarantine.
In Oklahoma the following coun
ties and portions of counties are re
leased: Atoka and Bryan: the re
mainder of Latimer and Sequoyah,
and a portion of Le Flore and Choc
taw.
Tn Texas the following counties
and portions are released from quar
antine: Bell, Brown. Burnet, Camp,
Coryell Delta. Denton. Falls, Frank
lin. Gillespie. Hill, Hopkins, Lampasas
Limestone, Mills, Navarro, San Saba,
and Wise: and a portion of Com
anche and Lamar.
The existing quarantine of areas
in the states of Arkansas, Florida,
and Virginia and the territory of
Porto Rico is continued.
Good Progress Made
The revised quarantine shows that
work against the cattle tick general
ly is progressing very successfully.
Failure of local authorities, how
ever, to co-operate with state and
federal officials in “mopping up”
their sections is responsible for
many districts stilL being held un
der quarantine which would other
wise be released. It is expected, how
ever. that by next year such co
operation will be secured that a
much more substantial area will be
freed from quarantine.
general cotton situation, for cotton
is America’s greatest export crop;
cotton furnishes employment to
hundreds of thousands In the north,
and the cotton section is one of
America’s chief markets for manu
factured products.
Two Phases to Present Crisis
There are two phases to the pres
ent crisis. First, the growers say
the 1920 crop cost 25 to 35 cents a
pound to produce—and the present
selling price is below cost. Second,
more than 5,000,000 bales remain in
warehouses from the crops of the
last three years, on which millions
of dollars have been loaned, and
there is no market for this cotton.
These 5,000,000 bales of “holdover
cotton” represent that part of the
crop which is of low quality—short
fiber, stained and filled with trash
—which American mills will not
use. Germany, alone, used to take
more than 1,000,000 bales of this
yearly for rope, burlap and the
heavy clothing of her peasants. With
the German and other central Euro
pean markets closed by war and
inability to purchase because of lack
of cash or credit, this cotton back
ed up on the American market.
Thus the south is trying to get
rid of its old cotton and at the
same time to secure a better price
for its nejv cotton.
The government early refused to
handle the situation. The south then
set to work for itself. Out of its
difficulties have arisen a number of
plans for export ’corporations, co
operative marketing and changed ag
ricultural conditions which, while
they may not save this year’s crop,
promise tremendous improvement in
future years.
Meanwhile, bankers, buyers and
cotton factors declare from 60 to
75 per cent of the 1920 crop will
be held for some months and then
marketed slowly, and that the. south
has the finances to carry out this
program. They also expect a grad
ual rise in raw cotton prices and
a steadily improving financial situa
tion. '
THIS PICTURE SHOWS A DRAINAGE DITCH CUT WITH DYNAMITE ON THE FARM of Hugh Richardson, Pace’s Ferry
road, during the recent National Drainage congress held in Atlanta. The ditch is more than 1,000 feet long and wad laid open with
one explosion. It is claimed that the cost was about one-third of what it would have be6n if cut with shovels in the usual manner.
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Raise More Cattle
And Food Products
Is Expert’s Advice
By Roland Turner, General Agricul
tural Agent, Southern Railway
System
Labor conditions make it neces
sary to change our farming system
so as to increase the ratio of horse
or tractive power to man power if
the value of our farm production is
to be maintained. Southern farming
has employed too great a proportion
of man or hand labor. A greater
proportion of our lands should be
given over to the production of for
age and feed which can be utilized
or marketed to best advantage as live
stock.
Through diversified farming we
must correct the economic error of
buying food and feed from other
sections. The system .of farming
followed in tjhe south has caused a
constant deterioration of our soils.
Farms on which live stock are kept
increase in fertility and produce more
profitable crops. Live stock raising
in connection with southern agricul
ture will build up and maintain soil
fertility. Higher producing capacity
and greater prosperity will result.
An acre in the south will produce
a greater volume of highly nutritious
grazing over a longer period than in
any other part of the country. We
can produce grain feeds and we have
a wide range of leguminous * crops
with large yields, ideal for forage.
We also have cotton seed and pea
nut meal and cake at our doors.
Live stock markets have been de
veloped and packing houses in the
south have capacity for 70 per cent
more meat animals than are being
produced. Southern farmers should
take full advantage of their oppor
tunities for profitable live stock pro
duction.
U. S. FARMERS
LOSE HEAVILY
IN DISTRIBUTION
The cry about giving the farmer a
square deal has dinned our ears for
a long time, says “Uncle Dudley,”
in the Boston Globe. So far, how
ever, especially in New England, he
has received more advice than help.
His labor problems are discussed by
the public—and forgotten; his high
expenses fail to paste themselves in
the ledger of public attention. So
he stands, embattled behind his col
lapsed fences, waging difficult con
flict with the inexorable laws of eco
nomics.
To a large degree, the local situa
tion is symptomatic of the country.
And it is exactly this which has
finally induced the man at the plow
to recall a suggestion of school days.
“If you would have a thing well
done, you’must do it yourself,” re
marks Myles Standish in the reader
about the eighth grade. The farmer
is turning to himself for the solu
tion.
From the great wheat belt of
America there assembled in Chicago
a conference. It was of farmers. It
took one highly important step: Four
committees were ordered to investi
gate the co-operative agricultural
movement in the United States and
abroad. The purpose is to effect a
co-operative national organization to
market products and to purchase sup
plies.
A Wasteful System
This may easily prove the most
significant step American farmers
have taken since the beginning of
their troubles. For it may not only
constitute an agency tending to sta
bilize markets and thus protect agri
culturalists from hazardous fluctu
ations, but it may also be a blow
aimed directly at the casual specu
lator in the necessaries of life. Thus
would it win for the farmer the ap
probation of his partner, the con
sumer.
Our system of distribution is no
toriously wasteful. Tons of vegeta
bles were allowed to rot in Nev.-
Jersey recently because of faulty
marketing arrangements. Yet, across
the river, a few miles away, Dv
the largest metropolis in the world,
with nearly six million mouths to
feed thrice daily. In the west, says
a news dispatch, thousands of bush
els of onions are being plowed under
because of prohibitive transporta
tion and uncertain market. The co
operative movement could remedy
this. For no political party,-no busi
ness in the country, could afford to
disregard the voice of such an or
ganization.
The four farmers’ committees will
discuss some interesting things in
their investigation. In California
the co-operatve agriculture move
ment has neached a stage where it
amazes travelers from New England.
There is no end to the co-operative
storage plants, growing associations
and marketing agencies.
The Co-operatives of France
Most of this country, however,
they will find practically virgin soil
for a large scale of co-operative ag
ricultural movement. America is al
most alone in the world in this.
England has agricultural co-opera
tives of tremendous importance.
They have spread all over the isles.
It was against co-operative cream
eries, the other day, that reprisals
were directed in Ireland.
It is in France, however, that the
New England farmer will find an
analogy worth his pondering. For
not by any means does the co-oper
ative apply only to large scale farm
ing. In the land of Jacques and
Pierre it is,applied to six-acre farms
with prodigious success. There the
co-operative owns all the implements
of the profession in each society.
Modern machinery, such as the peas
ant cannot afford himself, through
the society, becomes his servant.
And an equipment of machinery suf
fices for an entire community of
farms.
The organization does the market
ing and the purchasing. Fertilizer
problems are brought to the mat not
only by individual farmers, but by
powerful and well financed organisa
tions—and solved. So are other
problems. The farmer loses none of
his independence.
New Judging Test
To Feature N. C. Meet
Something new in the way of a
swine-judging contest is to be held
at the North Carolina State Live
stock meeting in Salisbury, Decem
ber 8-10. W. W. Shay, president of
the N. C. Swins Breederes’ associa
tion, has arranged for it as part of
the swine extension exhibit.
Hogs without heads —in outline —
of five age classes from junior pigs
to aged boars, of five breeds of hogs
will be exhibited with nothing but
numbers to distinguish them.
Prizes amounting to SSO will be
given for correct placing as to breed.
If more than one the money will be
divided equally among the winners.
The outlines are true photographic
reproductions of champions, and first
prize winners, about two-thirds life
size.
You simply tell the breed.
The contest is .open to members in
good standing of the North Caro
lina Swins Breeders’ association.
If you are in arrears pay the sec
retary. Dan T. Gray, and enter
contest.
N. C. Cheesemakers Win
Honors at Chicago
North Carolina cheesemakers came
back from the National Dairy show
at Chicago this year with a silver
MANY FARMERS
ARE NOW MAKING
SORGHUM SIRUP
Before the war the farmers of the
United States produced 13,000,000
gallons of sorghum syrup annually.
The shortage of commercial sugar
and its high prices during and since
the war brought the sorghum syrup
production up to more than 36,000,-
000 gallons a year. A large acreage
of sweet sorghum is grown com
mercially, but the marked increase
in sorghum syrup production is
not entirely confined to the ’ large
growers. A great many farmers are
following the suggestion of the
United States department of agri
culture and are growing small
patches of sweet sorghum to sup
ply their own requirements. It is
time to plan for next year’s sor
ghum crop, especially with reference
to the selection of the ground, its
preparation, the source of seed and
the procuring of the syrup-making
equipment.
Sorghum can be grown in every
state in the union, with the possi
ble exception of Maine. No other
sugar substitute can be produced
over such a wide area. The depart
ment recommends that a short-sea
son variety, maturing in from 70 to
90 days, be, used in the northern
states. The sorghum producer must
have a crushing mill to extract the
juice from the stalks and a pan to
boil the sap. The equipment is not
expensive and the business offers
co-operative advantages where sev
eral farmers wish to grow sweet
sorghum. It would be advisable for
prospective sorghum-syrup makers
not already provided with the neces
sary equipment to get in touch with
one or more manufacturers or deal
ers in these outfits in order to have
everything ready for next year’s
crop of syrup sorghum.
The sweet sorghum containing 10
to 20 per cent sugar is grown for
syrup and never the grain sorghums,
which contain much less sugar. The
sugar does not readily crystallize
out when the sorghum juice is boil
ed down to the point where a gal
lon of syrup weighs 11 pounds and
contains 7 or 8 pounds of sugar,
which is approximately the standard
weight and content of a gallon of
syrup.
In growing sorghum for syrup ev
ery effort should be made to get
pure, sweet sorghum seed. Every
year complaints are received which
indicate that some of the seed pur
chased for sweet sorghum produc
tion contained seed of broom corn
or other non-syrup making plant.
Some growers avoid this mistake by
saving their own seed from the best
plants growing in their own sorghum
patch or field. Only well-formed
heads produced on typical well-de
veloped stalks should be selected for
seed. The selections should be made
when the seed is in the firm dough
stage or entirely ripe. When the
seed is in the dough stage the stalks
are in proper condition for syrup
making, but greater care is necessary
in ordei’ to keep the seed from heat
ing or molding. The heads should
be placed loosely on shelves or rackg
where the dry air can circulate
through them. When dry remove the
seed from the heads and keep in a
warm, dry place free from mice or
weevil.
Poison Bait Called
Good Remedy for
Destructive Cutworm
Cutworms are the almost hairless
caterpillars of several species of
moths. The eggs are laid mostly
on grass in heavy spd land The
larvae feed on the grasses. Conse
quently, on land which has had con
siderable grass, cutworms are most
troublesome. When such land is
plowed the natural food of the cater
pillars is cut off and they are forced
to concentrate on the plants that are
set out later. They are especially
troublesome to such crops as cab
bage and beets.
The cut surface of the plant on
which they feed is so small that it I
is impractical to attempt to poison :
them by direct application of the ■
poison to the plants attacked. They |
are best combated by means of the ;
poisoned bait, a good one being:
Bran, twenty pounds; cottonseed
meal, five pounds; paris green, one
pound. Thoroughly mix these while
dry and then add two and a haU
gallons water and two quarts of
syrup.
The mixture should be thorough!'
damp but not sloppy so that it wil
fall in fine flakes when sown broad
wist over the ground. Prof. J. R
Watson, of the Florida experimen
station, recommends this remed
and says that it should be put ou
after sunset so that it will remai:
moist all night. If sown properly i:
will fall in small flakes that will no
be dangerous to fowls and game. I'
should be broadcasted or scattere- 1
along the rows or about the bases of
the plants to be protected.
and bronze medal, won on only two
cbeddar cheese entries.
Among a total of 43 entries from
eight states —30 of them from Wis
consin—North Carolina’s showing
placed her third in honors, only two
states. Wisconsin and Minnesota,
making a better showing in awards.
Other states entered were California,
Oregon, Idaho, New York and Illi- ■
nois.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, l»20.
N. C. Live Stock Meet
At Salisbury Will
Observe ‘Dairy Day’
December 9 will be “Dairy Day” at
the State Livestock Meeting, Salis
bury, N. C., according to an advance
announcement of the program given
out by’ J. A. Arey, secretary-treasur
er of the N. C. Dairymen's associa
tion.
The list of speakers includes L. P.
Bailey from Ohio, one of the pioneer
breeders of dairy cattle; Dr. Tait
Butler of the Progressive Farmer,
and C. S. Plumb, former professor
of animal husbandry at Ohio State
University.
Dr. C. V. McCullum, of Johns Hop
kins University, will speak on the
“Value of Diary Products in the Hu
man Diet.” He is noted as the dis
coverer of “vitamines” and his ex
periments are said to have revolu
tionized the study of foods, both in
America and Europe, and to have
had far-reaching effects in relation
to the health of the nation, especial
ly that of children.
Educational exhibits will be dis
played illustrating the food value of
dairy products and their necessity
of the young. The present average
dallv consumption of dairy products
in the United States is a little less
than a pint of milk, 2-3 oz. of butter,
1-6 oz. of cheese, and 3-4 oz. of Ice
cream per person. It should be one
quart of milk, 2 oz. butter, 1 pz.
cheese, and 2 oz. ice cream Dr. Mc-
Cullum will tell why more dairy
products should be used.
Another exhibit will show the ad
vantage derived from co-operative
breeding association. At the evening
meeting this will be discuss
ed bv Professor Plumb. The Rowan
County Co-operative Guernsey Bull
association is one of the largest in
the south, so an opportunity t<
study the actual working of an asso
ciatlon will be afforded in addition
to Professor Plumb’s address., Mov
ing pictures conclude the day s pro
gram.
Abandoned Farms
Increase in Ohio
There was a net decrease of 60,-
000 in the number of men and boys
over 15 years of age working on
Ohio farms for the year ending in
June this year, according to a sur
vey made under the direction of
Secretary of Agriculture N. B.
Shaw, by W. F. Callander, agri
cultural statistician for the United
States bureau of crop estimates and
the state bureau of agricultural
statistics. The survey covered from
100 to 300 farms in every county
in the state, selected at random.
The report further shows that for
every man who returned to farm
life during the year, seven left the
farm for other employment. Based
on the returns received, it is es
timated that there are now about
410,000 men and boys actually
working on farms, compared to
470,000 a year ago, and approxi
mately 500,000 three years ago.
Os this number 70,000 were report
ed to be hired for wages this year,
compared to nearly 100,900 a year
ago, showing that about half of
those who quit farming during the
year were hired men.
The survey also shows an esti
mated total of 29,000 vacant habit
able houses on farms this year,
compared to 18,000 a year pre
vious. That part of the report cov
ering the number of abandoned
farms has not yet been tabulated.
The investigation also shows that
of the total number of farms in the
state which changed hands last
year, 80 per cent were purchased by
actual farmers who are living on
them, while only 2o per cent were
purchased for speculation or by
men who purchased them to rent
to others. The bulk of the farms
sold were purchased by native
Americans, except in the northeast
counties, where the purchase of
many farms by persons of foreign
birth is reported.
Fotato Shrinkage
“Shrinkage" in bulk carloads of po
tatoes averages 3 per cent, accord
ing to a survey of marketing condi
tions made by the United S/ates
department of agriculture. This
amounts to 1,200 pounds per carload.
The “shrinkage” is less where pota
toes are sacked, as this reduces pil
fering and rough handling to “the
minimum.
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CREEK CHANNEL
CHANGED WITH
USE OF DYNAMITE
One of the most Interesting fea
tures of the recent National Drain
age Congress held in Atlanta was a
demonstration of the use of dyna
mite for cutting ditches. The dem
onstration was made on the farm of
Hugh Richardson, on Pace’s Ferry
road. W. B. Alford, agricultural
representative of the E. I. DuPont-
DeNemours Powder company, was in
charge of the explosives, while Knox
T. Thomas, consulting engineer of
Atlanta, was in charge of the en
gineering details of the work.
A strip of bottom land on Wolf
creek was selected for the demon
stration. At that point the natural
channel of the creek winds around
low foothills in a very crooked and
circuitous route, so that the channel
is overloaded in tfrnes of freshet,
and the creek overflows and inun
dates the bottom land. The object
of the demonstration was to cut a
straight ditch across the bottom and
throw the creek into the ditch so as
to cut off the detour around the foot
hills.
The soil through which the ditcb
was run was .sandy loam washed
down from the hills. Holes were put
dowo with punch-bar and soil augur
Dynamite was placed three feet deep
with the holes sixteen inches apart.
Three test shots were made as a
preliminary, then the whole string
of holes were linked together with
one electric wire fired simulta
neously, so that the entire ditch was
laid open by one explosion. In less
than fifteen minytes a ditch 1,011
feet long had been fully and cleanly
cut, with a perfect down grade for a
flow of water, and Wolf creek sud
denly found itself out of its age-old
channel in a new, straight shoot to
its confluence with Nancy’s reek.
Mr. Thomas vouches for the fol
lowing cost figures on the whole op
eration:
Dynamites227.so
Detonators .50
Unskilled labor 12.00
Supervision 10.00
Totals2so.oo
He figured the cubic yardage re
moved at 1,096; the cost of dyna
mite per cubic yard at 20 3-4 cents;
the total cost at 22.8 cents per cubic
yard.
“This yardage,” he states, “was
moved, at approximately one-third
the cost of shovel ditching. A per
fect grade was maintained through
the entire length of the ditch, with
out any additional work. All of the
drainage ditches with which I am
familiar could use . dynamite to ad
vantage for cutting lateral ditches.
The common practice is to cut the
main ditch With a dredge, but often
the lateral ditches are not cut, and
complete drainage is not secured.”
Louisiana Sugar Crop
The condition of the sugar cane
crop in Louisiana on November 1 is
estimated at >1 per cent of a normal
as compared with a 9-year average
on that date of 78.3 per cen% and a
condition of 72 per cent on October
1, 1920.
A condition of 71 per cent on No
vember 1, considered, with the esti
mated acreage of cane to be cut for
sugar (194,800 acres), forecasts a
probable sugar production of 362,-
743,000 pounds. The production in
1919 was 242,000,000 pounds, and in
1918, 561,800,000 pounds of sugar.
Potash arriving al an American factory ' 5 f
. Plenty
of Potash K
AFTER five years of Potash
. famine there is now plenty of
Potash to be had at prices that
will permit it to be used at a
good profit.
When Potash in mixed fertil
izers was sold at five dollars per
unit, everybody exclaimed that
the price w»i ” prohibitive. ”
This was a state of mind. As a
matter of fact, when the records
of long continued experiments,
east, south, and west, were care
fully gone over it was found that
there were plenty of cases where
the crop increase from the use of
Potash on corn, wheat, oats,
cotton, tobacco, potatoes, vege
tables and fruit returned over five
dollars per unit, even valuing the
crops at prices current before 1914.
Now prices of Potash are less
than one-half of these "prohibi
tive prices,’’ and prices of farm
products are still high enough to
make the purchase of the five to
ten per cent Potash fertilizers a
very profitable investment when
yields alone are considered
But this is not all. The shipping
ind keeping quality of many of
jur truck, fruit and special crops
las suffered from lack of Potash.
Plant diseases have increased
or the same reason.
Our best lands have been over
worked to the limit and need
estoration.
The fertilizer manufacturer
who really has the foresight to
understand that he serves his
own and his customers’ interest
jest by furnishing what his com
munity really needs will return
to the formulas that were found
most profitable for his. commun-
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ity before the Potash famine
upset things. Indeed this is put
ting the case mildly, for provision
should be made not only to re
store the old high Potash formu
las, but to use additional Potash
to restore the drain on the soil
during the past five years.
We never advised the use of
Potash on soils where we had
reason to believe it would not
prove profitable, and never shall
do so.
There is not a single crop on
which Potash has not been found
profitable on Many types of soil.
In the readjustment period
when farmers must use every
means to assure success it is of
utmost importance that they
should not be turned aside in
their efforts* to buy fertilizers
with a reasonable (five to ten)
per cent, of Potash.
Potash Pays
and as ter five years of Potash f am
ine it will pay better than ever.
It takes time to produce and
ship Potash and large stocks art
not carried at Potash works.
Therefore it is imperative that
you notify your dealer at once
what brands of fertilizer you will
require and that you should not
be induced to change your order
on any claim that the right kind
of goods cannot be secured.
Stick to it and you can get what
you know you want.
SOIL AND CROP SERVICE
POTASH SYNDICATE
H. A HUSTON. Manager
42 Broadway New York