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6 NEWS AND VIEWS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER New U. S. Method for Making Acid Phosphate May Mean Large Savings WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 29. What may prove to be a revolution ary development in the fertilizer in dustry of the world has been reached by the bureau of soils. United States department of agriculture, which has just solved the problem of extract ing phosphoric acid from phosphate rock by heating mixtures of this mineral, sand and coke to a smelt ing temperature in a fuel-fed furn ace. The new process has been work ed out oil an approximately com mercial basis at the department's experimental plant at Arlington, Ya. The phosphate used for fertilizer in the United States comes largely from the deposits in Florida. There are also 1 large deposits in Tennes see and a number of beds in South Carolina where the rock was first exploited for this purpose. The established method for producing soluble phosphate has consisted in treating the rock with sulphuric acid. In practice, a quantity of sul phuric acid equal to the quantity of rock is used, and the resulting product which is known as acid phos phate contains only one-half the per centage of phosphoric acid contained in the rock from which it was de rived Commercial acid phosphate, for instance, made from a 32 per cent rock, contains only 1 per cent of phosphoric acid. The elaborate ■washing and screening process now used in preparing phosphate rock for treatment with sulphuric acid often results in the loss of two-thirds of the roek, and it was with a view to saving this immense waste of phosphate that the new process was evolved. Experimenting with Heat The United States department of agriculture has been exnerimenting for some time along the lines of freeing the phosphoric acid by means of a high degree of heat. It was first to adapt the Cottrell precipita tor to the collection of phosphoric acid, the apparatus having been pre viously revised by Dr. Cottrell to abate the smoke nuisance and to re cover sulphuric acid from smelting operations. The first work was done in an electric furnace which was thought to be required to generate the high degree of heat necessary, about 1,000 degrees C, or 2,900 de gress F. At this temperature mix tures of phosphate rock, sand, and coke were reduced to a molten slag which was tapped off at intervals, the phosphoric acid escaping in the form of fumes which were after wards collected in a liquid or solid form. It soon became evident that this ■process would be prohibitively ex pensive with an electric furnace, ex cept in localities where electric power could be obtained at a very low cost, about $25 per horsepower a. year, and the department therefore turned its attention to the possibili ties of Using’ crude oil, the cheapest fuel obtainable in the vicinity of the large phosphate rock deposits of Florida. The efforts have recently met with success, and figures kept Farmers of Arkansas z Are Making Progress In Diversifying Crops BY E. T. LEECH Editor the Memphis Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Arkansas papers are “playing up” news of the holding of wheat by northern farm ers. The day I reached Little Rock all the papers prominently display ed stories of the “strike” called by the National Wheat Growers’ associa tion, which seeks to keep wheat from the terminal markets until the price reaches $3 a bushel. If northern farmers are holding their wheat for better prices, then why shouldn’t southern farmers hold, their cotton? This is the cotton rais ers’ question. And they are holding, though ap parently not as tightly as they have been urged. Reports Rock showed the little fellows —small ten ant farmers who raise two to five bales—were crowding the roads with their little mule carts, carrying their cotton to town to he sold. Much of such cotton is called “distress cot ton," which means what the name actually implies-rthat its owner is broke, in debt, needs food and clothes and is selling to fill pressing wants. But the Big Growers Are Holding But in the case of big growers, who hired and fed laborers, present prices are below the cost level —and these big growers are holding. S. Y. West, president of the Little Rock exchange; H. M. Bennett, manager of Arkansas’ biggest firm of cotton buy ers; E. J. Bodman, banker and agri culturalist, and many others told me Arkansas aims to market 10 per cent of her crop monthly, thus distribut ing sales and improving prices. Arkansas cotton men are also in sisting the cotton be picked, ginned and stored, and are consequently op- “What Are Vitamines? Necessary Food Element Puzzles All Scientists “What are vitamines?” This is a question asked repeat edly since the importance of these compounds in foods has come into prominence, but no definite answer has yet been given. Investigations by scientists at universities, agricul tural experiment stations, and in stitutions for medical research have revealed much Information regard ing the function of vitamines in body maintenance and building, and the parts of the various foods in Which they are to be found. That vitamines are compounds ab solutely essential in the food, in or der to maintain the weight of the body and produce growth, has been definitely proved. The lack of vita mines causes deficiency diseases, so named because they are due to lack of something in the diet. Vitamines are present and are needed in such small quantities in the food that chemists have not yet been able to Isolate them from the many other compounds which are in foods. For this reason, we know very little of the actual character of vitamines. Three Types of Vitamines According to a statement of Dr. Carl O. Johns, in charge of nutri tion work in the bureau of chem istry, United States department of agriculture, vitamines have been classified into three different types depending upon the functions which they have in promoting well-being and growth. The first type is known as water soluble vitamines, and these are nec essary in order to obtain growth from- food. Lack of these causes beri-beri, which manifests itself by disease of the nervous system and by other symptoms. These vita mines are so .nd in seeds, in green plants, in certain bulbs and fleshy roots and fruits, and in milk and eggs, as well as in certain organs in the animal body. The seeds re ferred to include beans, nuts and the various cereal grains. When ce reals are very highly milled in or- THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. on the experimental runs at Arling ton indicate that phosphoric acid can be extracted more cheaply in an oil burning furnace than by the old sul phuric acid process. One problem which department scientists have worked out is that of keeping the fuel in direct con tact with the rock material until the reaction is well started. For this purpose, and for convenience in handling, the material is briquet ed with coke and sand. BriqueOing keeps the coke fuel within the mass, and retains it until the reaction is well started. Sand or silica is nec essary to bring about the chemical reactions and this sand is largely present as an impurity in the Flor ida phosphate deposits, together with a clayey ingredient which acts as an excellent binder in making the briquettes/ Thus the very im purities which make rock objec tionable under the old process are turned into an asset. Economics Effected The practical value of the new development is indicated by the fact that, in the experimental runs at Arlington the department chemists were able to recover a 64 per cent phosphoric acid (47 per cent P 205) as against the 16 per cent product ordinarily obtained by the sulphuric acid process. By passing ammonia gas into this phosphoric acid, solid ammonium phosphate, a very con centrated material containing two valuable fertilizer ingredients re sults. This material can stand heavy transportation and handling charges. It is also practicable to mix the phosphoric acid with phosphate rock In such proportions as to give a product containing 50 per cent of soluble phosphoric acid. This prod uct is similar in its properties to ordinary 16 per cent acid phosphate, is convenient to handle, and may be used by an intelligent farmer who has the technical knowledge to reduce the quantity placed upon the soil, and to guard against direct contact with seed. It also will per mit a material saving in freight to central plants where the product may be diluted or mixed with other ingredients for shorter hauls. The difference between a 50 per cent product and a 16 per cent product means an immense saving in the freight charges, and the release of large quantities of rolling stock and vessel tonnage now engaged in the transportation of phosphate and phosphate rock. While the actual cost of. the new process in a large industrial plant is difficult* to estimate with accur acy, in the work thus far done, even on a small scale, it was found that the fuel consumption was only about 15 per cent of the value of the product, while with the sulphur ic acid process the cost of the acid used seldom runs below 22 per cent. This factor, together with the re duction of freight charges, justifies the assumption that the new process will be of the utmost importance to the fertilizer industry and to the farmers who are compelled to use a constantly Increasing amount of commercial fertilizer. posing the plan of Governor John M. Parker, of Louisiana, who sought to have the governors of all cotton states ask the gins to close for one month. These cotton men say failure to gin will mean deterioration and loss. None of Arkansas’ 1,800 gins is closed; a dozen have burned, appar ently from natural causes, that and a sudden scare which thrilled the state, when a negro gin guard was murdered at England, Ark., disap peared when two negroes confessed they killed him to steal his week’s pay. H. M. Cottrell, of the Profitable Farming bureau, is bat tling for diversified farming and bet ter agricultural methods. This year Arkansas raised 100,000 more acres of corn than of cotton, and peanuts, sweet potatoes, hogs, rice and soy beans are more and more claiming the farmers’ attention. When Arkansas feeds herself, cotton can be held or sold, at the owner’s will, is Cot trell’s doctrine —and it’s winning thousands of converts. Urges Co-operative Marketing- Bodies The Arkansas division of the Amer ican Cotton association emphasizes the necessity of the farmers organiz ing a body for the mar keting of their crops and financing the exportation of their cotton. It is. also promoting an export cor poration in the hope of selling $lO,- 000,000 of stock to finance the expor tation of the more than 5,000,000 bales of low grade cotton now backed up on American markets. This is one of a number of co-oper ative plans now making headway in the south. der to obtain a very fine white flour, a large part of the vitamines may be removed. Vitamines are also lost when rice is polished in order to remove the outer layers which con tain most of the vitamines. It is for this reason that a diet consist ing mainly of polished rice may cause beri-beri, while unpolished rice does not cause this disease. Fat-Soluble Vitamines The second type is known as fat soluble vitamines, and these are found in butter, eggs, milk, and in certain animal organs such as the heart, kidneys, and liver, and to some extent in other fats as well as in green vegetables. They also exist in smaller quantities in certain seeds. When fat-soluble vitamines are absent from the diet animals and men are subject to a disease of the eyes, which appears to be re lated "to xerophthalmia and which, if prolonged, may produce blindness. The third type is known as anti scorbutic vitamines—that is, those which prevent scurvy, which mani fests itself by disease of the bones as well as in other ways. These vitamines aye found in oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other citrus fruits, and in green vegetables such as tomatoes, spinach and lettuce, and in eggs and raw milk. The dry ing of vegetables frequently de stroys the actiivty of the antiscor butic vitamines. The best source of vitamines is in the leafy parts of vegetables, and this is one of the reasons why spinach, lettuce and cabbage are valuable foods. Restoring Morgan Strain of Horses Efforts of the United States depart ment of agriculture to restore the Morgan strain of horses, which had become nearly extinct, showed their effect in the recent 300-mile test for army horses. Out of 27 entries, only 10 finished, and of these, the sixth and seventh were Morgan horses, one of them raised on the department's stock farm in Massachusetts. The horses were required to travel 60 miles a day for five days, carrying the regulation cavalry load of 245 pounds. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE DUTY’S CALL When the great war broke out and threatened to engulf civilization, we hastened to the rescue. This was the proper thing for us to do. Through the might of our armies and the co-operative service of our navy, we were able to give abundant support to our allies, which was necessary to wrest the crown of vic tory from the brow of the central powers. The energy and might of our blow® ■were so forceful and rapid that the Germans were compelled to surrender ignominiously one year be fore the foreign military experts be lieved the conclusion of hostilities could be reached. It was fitting that the capture of Sedan by American and allied troops should have wit nessed the final surrender of Ger many for its environs fortyTSeven years before were the scene of Ger man’s greatest triumph over France. Our part in the war and the motives by which we were actuated are well known to the people of the South and need not be reiterated at this time. That we entered it actuated by the highest type of idealism and that we fought for the salvation of the ■world, the freedom of its peoples and the preservation of Christianity are facts generally appreciated. That we should have been the saviour of mankind in a sense must ever be a source of pride and gratification to every true American, and it is cer tain that no page in our history will stand out more gloriously in the future than that which records the heroic deeds of our soldiers abroad and the achievements of the men who handled our transport service on the high seas. Having accomplished so much that was essential and worth while, should we now sit down and be con tent with the laurels already won? Or do we still owe a service to man kind which no other nation is in posi-. tion to render save our own? War in itself is a terrible and frightful thing. It is the most destructive of all the agencies which man has invented for the .breaking down of good government and those things which make life most worth while. War is a hydra-headed monster of the most frightful mien, but in spite of this fact, ilt is not the most hor rible thing with which humanity has to deal. The consequences of war are more destructive and appalling to the afflicted populations than the actual fighting. Sickness, disease, hunger and the moral depravity which follow in the wake of war take their toll of human life by the thou sands as compared with the tens perish on the field of battle. The - results following in the wake of war, therefore, more to be dreaded than the actual strife itself. When the food supplies of a nation become exhausted and the physique Tuns down, when the industries are crippled or put ou of existence and unemployment becomes general, it is not surprising that a restlessness shhould develop which often leads to revolution. If one war with all its appalling destruction is sufficient to bring these conditions in its wake, what of the countries where several campaigns have followed one another in rapid succession. The situation outlined above, repre sents but a mild interpretation of conditions which exist in the greater part of Europe at this time. The nations as a whole are hopelessly sick and discouraged. Their national credit Is exhausted. Tjieir man power has been decimated and their wealth swept away. Their hornes burned, or in many instances dese crated. Their industries and their agrequlture are both prostrated. Thlere are millions of children or phaned and left without any visible means of support. Famine and plague stalk abroad in the land. Con ditions must get worse before they are better. The very existence of any worthwhile type of civilization or of stable government is threat ened. Under the circumstances, it is not surprising that such a situation should have arisen. What are we going to do about it? Can we sit idly by an dassume an air of indif ference? Is it possible that we are not concerned about the welfare of suffering humanity across the sea even though they may include our recent enemies? .Is it a matter of indifference to us that want, social leprivacy and Bolshevic tendencies should assume the ascendency in the greater part of what was formerly considered a part of the most highly cultured and civilized* section of the world? Some diseases spread by contact. Some presumably through the air. If no effort were made to control many of them, people would die literally by the hundreds of thousands. In the wake of the great world war there has developed in Europe all sorts of new social diseases aside from those which ordinarily affect the human race. Europe represents a great sxyamp at this time from which miasmas are ascending in an unbelievable volume. ’ Uhless we con trol and stamp out the poisons being generated there and restore order and good government and feed and clothe these .people, we are bound to be the inheritors of a part of the calamities that have befallen them. I believe We are interested and con cerned in the restoration of peace and order in Europe because of our devotion to the ideals of Christian ity, but if we, are actuated by no other save the basest and most sel fish of motives, we must act quickly as a matter of self defense. What are some of the things we should hasten to do to help correct the existing situation? First, we should provide for the generous nu trition of the millions of European children who are now homeless waifs on the drifting sea of society. These children are not to blame for the sad afflictions which have overtaken them. We may harbor in our hearts resentment against the individuals which caused these children to suf fer so atrosciously, but we cannot well hold that sort of a sentiment against the innocence of youth. There seem to be eleven million children in Europe which were orphaned by the war. Possibly this is an understate ment rather than an overstatement of the facts in the case. The Ameri can Relief administration is now striving to feed at least three mil lions of the most dependent of them so as to preserve their lives. They are only able to offer them at best one meal a day of about six hundred calories, but that is sufficient to car ry them through the winter and to prevent the utter impairment of their health. These children are ab solutely without any resources of their own. Thousands of them are moving around from one center to another with no place to call home, with no means of obtaining clothing and without capacity to help them selves. Are they to become robust and worth while citizens of the coun tries to whicfh they belong or are they to become a menace to order, decency and good society for the next fifty years? We m«st choose, and choose now, what our attitude will be toward these millions of homeless waifs which the receding tide of war has left behind it. I do not be lieve that any good citizen who un derstands the situation will hesitate to aid in doing his part toward the correction of so disastrous a calam ity as the further neglect of these children will constitute. I do not think that any worthy citizen can sleep calmly in his bed surroufided by the comforts and luxuries which the blood money of the war brought to all of us and feel indifferent to the want and suffering of this horde of starving children in central and I eastern Europe. I do not think we can hope to prosper and find favor in I the sight of that God whom wejeo devoutly worship and l<et between three- and six millions of our fellow beings starve because we are too thoughtless, indifferent or careless to gather together and send them from our super-abundant stores enough food and cast-off clothing to nourish their bodies and sustain life through out the coming winter. The Honorable Herbert Hoover and his devoted band of workers are now appealing to the American peo ple for the funds necessary to care for these children. There are some who will no doubt feel that business conditions are bad and that we are in a sense pinched and unable to aid others under the circumstances. I fear in spite of what we are now experiencing that we still do not understand the meaning of sacrifice or suffering. The war enriched us with the full greater part of the wealth and the gold of the ■world. The temporary slowing down of business is but an incident in our national life. We have more food to waste and more clothing to throw away in this great United States than it will take to care 1 for the six mil lions of starving children in Eu rope. We also have plenty of food to supply the needs of the one hun dred thousand intellectuals who are slowly starving to death in Central Europe. They reprebent whatever of heart and soul may be left in those terribly afflicted countries. If they are to perish from the earth through our neglect, all that is worth while in leadership will pass away with them and the rapacious, the bloodthirsty, the incapable and the ignorant adventurer will then at tempt to formulate new policies and plans of government for this exten sive and densely populated section of the universe. No greater crime could ever be laid at our doors than ■ that we sat idly by and permitted the loss to civilization and repre sentative government of these hun dred thousand teachers, scientists and savants upon whom the duty and responsibility of reconstructing Cen tral Europe now depends. It will take approximately three million dollars a month to do the job. We have about one hundred and ten million people in the Unit ed States. We are, therefore, asked to give only about thirty-three cents per capita. This is the, price of a ticket to a movie show. Are we not willing to sacrifice that much for the purpose of helping to save a hu man being? It ins a long way across the great Atlantic ocean, and the blighting touch of war has never been experienced by most of our peo ple. We are disposed to live rather self-centered lives. We canrtot pic ture in our imagination the fright ful suffering and the agonies which starving populations endure. We can not visualize the pale, wan faces of these millions of perishing children, and, so it is difficult for us to sense our full duty in the crisis by which the world is now confronted. We need to sit down in a quiet corner and reflect upoi the situation over there. Let us fofget for the moment our own selfish aims and objects. Just as certain as we do this, wilt the funds be forthcoming to finance that marvelous life and soul saving program which Mr. Hoover has un dertaken. We are sound at heart and gen erous by nature and impulse. Thanks giving is at hand. Peace and good government reign throughout our great country. We are blessed with the most phenomenal harvests in our history. Let us give enough of our surplus wealth and food to show to the world that America still believes in civilization and in God. In the words of oily great president, Lincoln, let us see that “government of the people by the people and for the people” shall not perish from the earth. Varieties of Turnips Suitable for Greens C. S. M., Waycross, Ga., writes: I am interested in growing tur nips that will make good greens in the spring. What varieties would you recommend? A considerable variety of turnips may be planted in the south, the roots and also the tops being used for food. Some of the varieties grow and develop better at one season than another; hence a collection of several varieties will probably give you more satisfatcion than the use of a single variety. One of the varie ties primarily • recommended for use as greens is the seven-top or salad turnip, and you should have no trouble in getting a supply of seed of this variety and if you expect to grow only one strain in your garden, it will probably prove more satisfac tory for general use than any other sort. The Extra Early White Egg, the Purple or Red Top, the Strap Leaf, the Early White Flat Dutch, the Purple or Red Top Globe, the Yellow or Amber Globe, the Im proved American Rutabaga, and ■ the Seven-top turnip are all standard varieties. These strains may be planted from early summer until late fall, and yzill provide a succession of greens throughout a very consider able part of the year. Studying the Elements of Plant Breeding. S. R. C., Rome, Ga.: I want ” to take up the study of plant breeding at home, and wish you to suggest the first one or two books I should start with. Is there any periodical devoted to this subject? It would be difficult for one to make much progress in the study of plant breeding through the agency of purchased books. Practically all the publications on this subject are more or less technical in character. Judging from our experience one would need to have elementary and basic courses in botany and biology in order to get the fundamental prin ciples of plant breeding clearly in mind. If you have had work of this character, then you could quite likely use some of the various books to ad vantage which are now recognized and used as standard texts in the various colleges and universities of the 'Country. There is a magazine published at Washington, D. C., called the Journal of Heredity, which gives a great deal of valuable infor mation relative to plant breeding. It is, however, a highly technical publication, and, therefore, might not be of much service to you. I believe the subscription price is $2 per year. There are some farmers’ bulletins, of course, which give' suggestions about the selection of various types of seed, such as corn and cotton, and a peru sal of these would no doubt prove beneficial. You can secure the list of available farmers’ bulletins by writing to the Secretary of Agricul ture, Washington, D. C., and such of the bulletins as you may wish to have can be furnished you free of cost on application to your congress man or senator. Corning Beef on the Farm W. S. K., Alma, Ga., writes: Please give me a recipe for pickling beef. By pickling meat you no doubt mean the same thing as corning it. Meat selected for this purpose should be fat, and as a rule, the cheaper cuts are selected. Sections of the plate, rump or brisket may be used, though, of course, any part of the beef should be corned. The piece selected should be cut to the dimensions of about six inches. The meat should be thoroughly chilled but not frozen. For each one hundred pounds of meat take eight pounds of salt. Place a layer of meat in the bottom of the con tainer, and then a layer of salt, and so on until all the meat is used. There should be enough salt left to entirely cover the top of the meat. Allow to stand in this condition over night. For each one hundred pounds of meat used, take four pounds of brown sugar, two ounces of baking soda and foui ounces of saltpetre. Dissolve this in lukewarm water. The meat should now be weighted down and the solu tion poured over it. In warm weath er the water used should be boil ed and cooled. Remember that san itation is an important matter in corning beef successfully. You should examine the meat from time to time and if there is any evi dence of the brine becoming sour or ropy, pour it off and either re boil and cool, pr prepare a new brine. The meat should be cured by the corning process in from 28 to 40 days. Destroying the Granary Weevil D. K., Douglas, Ga., writes: I am sending a bottle contain ing several flies. I have a friend who has six thousand bushels of seed oats and the flies are in them by the thousands. What can be done to kill them? The oats are in a good tight barn and could be fumigated if you 'suggest this as a remedy for their destruction. The oats about which you write are undoubtedly badly infested with what is known as the An goumois grain moth. This insect derives its name from a province in France and was found in this country in 1728. It does its great est damage in the south where climatic conditions are more to its liking. It not only attacks stored grain, but is very partial to break fast cereals as well. The moth is brownish in color and very closely resembles the clothes moth in both size and color and general appear ance. Grain attacked by tfiis moth should be fumigated with carbon bisulphide at least two or three times at intervals of about two weeks. You should use not less than six pounds of carbon bisulphide per each one thousand cubic feet of space to be treated. This par ticular insect requires intensive fu ,Unless you combat it it wil7 g rtlJ n the L manner indicated }L„ WII A destroy the oats in ques tion. Its work is evidenced by the appearance of tiny holes in the M e n r ? e l> Eventually the entire con- M Dt T ° h L the * ernel wiH be destroy fn’p renders th ® grain useless of seed. In fumigating- to destroy this moth proceed as fol lows: Put the grain either in one tiph7 I °Pn blns .u that are relatively outsat Ur ‘b®, car bon bisulphide ?( t sn t c ?nn rae indicated and place it in shallow pans on top of the C my er the grain with a heavy The car b o n bisulphide will quickly evaporate. It is heavier than of 1 * rr/i W I U ‘l lnk through the mass of grain to be treated. Leave the cover on the bin for at least twen ty-four hours. Then stir the grain to aerate it. Carbon bisulphide is not poisonous to handle. It will Ot n? urn bands or injure the howevnr A S quite inflammable, however, in the presence of light It should be handled therefore in the daytime and not in the pres ence of a lantern, pipa or cigar. It is best not to store it in or about tn p-p^^T 11 / 68 ' You shou ld be able to get it from any drug store. This is the best, simplest and surest treatment -for the destruction of the moth in question. It will give property desired results if handled Disposing of Velvet Beans to Advantage E. S., Sparta, Ga., writes: I am going to move this fall as soon as possible and I have about tiye acres of bunch velvet beans which I planted between the hills u I ? y . corn - ! have cut and shocked the corn and want to shred it. Labor is scarce and it will be almost impossible to nave the beans picked after they a S e ma tured. I have thought of pulling up the vines and piling about four rows together and letting them cure like hay and use ior winter cow but do not know wnether they will cure or not. It is not practicable to pasture the beans without go ing to the expense of fencing the land. Please advise me how to save the best to the best ad vantage. It would be a simple matter to ad vise you how to handle your velvet beans provided you had a fence' around the area in question. Os course, it would not pay you to erect a fence if you intend to leave your present location in so short a time as your letter indicates. I have been wondering if you do happen to have a small amount of wire or other fencing material available so that you could put up a temporary fence around a small area, say one-eighth or one-fourth of an acre at a time and move the fence as often as may be necessary. This is a common method of prac tice in some sections of the state and in many other parts of the coun try as well. It saves the necessity of making large investments in fenc ing and answers every purpose. It is true that it probably calls -for the expenditure of some-extra money in the way of labor, but this is labor which you can perform yourself. There are only about two other methods we could suggest that are likely to prove of any practical value. One would be to either herd hogs or cattle on this areea of land for cer tain parts of the day. Children can sometimes do this after they have re turned from school. The other plan would be to pick .the beans, which, of course, involves a good deal of labor, and then feed them out as necessary. The bean dries and becomes very hard as you doubtless know and is not readily injured by rain, frost or weevils and so will keep in good condition for several months. There would be no objection to pulling up the vines in the manner you have Indicated. With wagon beds you could gather large quantities of the beans either imme diately or just as needed. In feeding them In the lot we would first soak them thoroughly so as to soften them. They can then be fed in an ordinary trough to cat tle. One should, of course, provide some kind of roughage and not al low the animals to engorge them selves. Right methods of feeding beans are quite commonly practiced in some parts of the state where the crop is grown on red land. Land of this character cannot be grazed; hence the necessity of feeding the beans in a dry lot in the manner indicated. I would not gather together large quantities of green beans and pile them up as they are likely to heat, but if they could be spread out in a thin layer in some outbuilding, they will cure out all right even if gathered now. Our idea would Be to haul them in just as needed. SEND Z- CATALOG RIFLES, REVOLVERS, FISHING TACKLE AND SPORTING GOODS Fa 13 w. Market. LOUISVIUIKY HAMILTON RIFLE ro BOYS otgix Guns (on Tout 35 ans) for aellingour Ma« shot Jing at only REPEATING WE TBUST YOUI sxes Tocir? 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This is the second year of weevil infestation in the locality and they appeared In considerable number in August. Picking was fin ished by November Ist and the yield for the season is given, together with the amount picked by October 1. The results are stated as pounds seed cotton per acre. Yields Total Variety. Oct. 1. Yields. 1. College No. 1 1110 1590 2. Piedmont Cleveland. 765 1575 3. Ezy Muny 900 1560 4. Scott’s Cleveland .. 780 1530 5. Cook 1214 840 1500 6. Texas Burl2oo 1470 7. Culpepper 960 1440 Agriculture Department Warns Farmers Against ‘American Coffee Bean’ At frequent intervals in recent years promoters have resorted to ex travagant advertising of the merits of the Jack bean, according to the United States department of agricul ture, the latest efforts in this direc tion that has come to the notice of the department is unusually extreme in its praise of this crop: “Mr. Farmer, $8 Invested in America Cof fee Beans and Planted on One Acre Will Bring You in Four Months $400." I The American coffee bean is our old friend the jack bean, says the department. Ever so often it is ex ploited as a wonderful new crop. Long ago it was advertised as “Pear son” and “Wonder bean.” In 1913 one advertiser called it Wataka, or Giant Pod stock bean, claiming it would yield 400 bushels per acre Last spring it came out as the South American coffee bean, with the in formation that it would yield ?00 to' Here Is The Offer That Broke iTiTff i Mioe Trust Market! 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Pure regular in shape, this old variety is immense clusters of big, sweet bei- white flesh of peculiar rich flavor, the standard winter pear every- ries. Rich, winey flavor. Very Very sweet and juicy. Bears big where. Dark green. A splendid juicy. Individual fruits average crops at an early age. A Russian keeper, nt its best in late winter. inch long and an ‘nch through. variety and very hardy. * CLIP COUPON ON DOTTED LINE AND MAIL TODAY I 1 The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: » | Enclosed find $1.50. Send me The Tri-Weekly Journal for ONE FULL YEAR. Also I . send me FRUIT COLLECTION, FREE, as per above offer. ' Name 1 I Postoffice State'.R. F. D. No i. Wannamaker Cleve- land 540 1440 9- King 990 1410 10 Bank Account 900 1410 11. Trice 900 1410 12. Hartsville 14 870 1410 13. Webber Deltatype... 750 1410 14. Cook 585 840 1380 15. Jacob’s Big 801 l ... 810 1380 16. Express 930 1350 17. Allen’s Cleveland .. 675 1335 18. Steinheimer’s Cleve- land 675 1335 19. Webber 49 (long sta- ple) 660 1290 20. Cook 588 765 1215 21. Cleveland Big 801 l . 735 1215 22. Hardin 690 1170 23. Coker’s Cleveland .. 645 1155 24. Cleveland 829 ...... 600 1110 25. Meade (long stajffe) 450 900 The varieties showing the highest total yield do not consistently give the greatest yield to October 1, as was the case in 1919 when the dif ferent strains of the Cleveland va riety were all at the top of the list Texas Bur gave the highest yield up to this date, but it stands seventh in the total-yield column. The dif ferent strains of Cleveland and Cook show considerable variation in total yields. F. H. SMITH, Chemist. 600 bushels per acre. This fall it appears as the American coffee bean, and the seed is offered at $25 a bushel. The extravagance of this price is offset by the promise that each acre of the »><an will yield in four months’ time a crop worth S4OO. The jack bean is at most a crop of very small value. It will- yield a fairly large crop of green herbage, but this is so extremely bitter that it is very difficult to get animals to elther Breen or as hay. Pos sibly it may be better as silage The seen crop varies from 20 to 35 bush els per acre. The beans are not rel ished by animals, and cattle do not make much gain when forced to eat it, as determined by the work of th- Mississippi Agricultural Experiment station. The bean is to a slight ex tent used as food by Mexicans and others,'but the flavor is very strong and in some cases serious digestive disturbances have been reported. The seeds contain much urease, a sub stance used in medicine, but a few tons of jack beans supply the world’s annual demand for substance. All the evidence available indi cates that the jack bean is not likely to become of much value to Ameri can agriculture. 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