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6 NEWS AND VIEWS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER Editor Leech Outlines Principles and Progress Os Cotton Export Plans BY E. T. LEECH Editor The Memphis Press NEW ORLEANS, La.—Out of the sensational drop in raw cotton prices and the closing- of Central European cotton markets, there has developed here, in the gateway of the south, a movement which leading southern financial men declare will revolu tionize the business of the twelve principal cotton-growing states. By December 10, it is expected, $6,000,000 worth of stock will have been sold for the creation of a great southern export bank, and this bank ■will then immediately begin opera tions in the single line of financing southern exports, chiefly cotton. The site of the bank will be New Orleans, and its entire stock will be subscrib ed by southern banks and financiers. Second Bank Organized Under Edge Law The bank is unique in that it is the second export institution organized under the Edge law, sanctioning the formation of such combinations in order to promote foreign trade; and it will be three times larger than the first Edge law bank, formed in the east several months ago. Almost within the last six weeks there have developed in the cotton states two great movements, both in their infancy, yet both making such progress that they promise suc cess. The first of these relates solely to the' farmer: it is a general south wide movement for co-operative farming organizations to promote better agriculture and united mar keting. The second movement is for co-operative financing of this marketing chiefly through exporta tion, and its best example in this new export bank, although there are several other export associations on foot which promise some degree of success. These movements are not simply of sectional interest. They vitally af fect the w hole nation. Capitalization of 912,000,000 Planned The Federal Foreign Finance cor poration, the name of the new south ern export bank, came into life her* at a meeting of more than 100 lead ing bankers from the entire south. New Orleans bankers pledged more than $1,000,000 stock and all banks in the south are being asked to sub scribe at least 3 per cent of their capital and surplus. Although , a minimum capitalization of $6,000,0‘00 ■was provided, plans call for an ul timate capital of twice that amount. "A bank of $12,000,000 can finance Laid Eggs Every Day ®SSfi*C’-? M\ Z’MSHfH t.\.<’ ‘%>4’X£SSs*-*''-*39«£ £Kv*. (l- VvV Mrs. F. Bock, Albany, N. Y., writes: “Out of six hens I got six eggs daily. 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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. exports to the amount of 10 times its capital stock, largely through a sys tem of trade acceptances,” Moore head Wright, Little Kock bank pres ident and one of the directors of the new organization, declared. Although the new bank will fi nance exports of cotton, rice, sugar and lumber—the south’s leading products—it is expected chiefly at present to furnish an outlet for near ly 6,000,000 bales of “holdover” cot ton from the last few years. May Use Wireless To Give Market News To Nation’s Farmers Arrangements for trying out the wireless as a mfeans of sending out ■ agricultural market news to the farmers of the country are being made by the United States depart ment of agriculture. The trial serv ice will be offered to half a dozen or more counties adjacent to the District of Columbia, going out probably from the wireless station i of the federal bureau of standards to numeerous private licensed opera tors who would aid in distributing the reponts to farmers and others interested in the territory covered. Should the experiment prove practicable the service will be ex tended to other parts of the coun try. Although no system, of divid ing the country and of operation has been determined upon as yet, the plan favored at the present time calls for the use of 17 wireless sta tions throughout the country. There would be ten 250-mile radius sta tions. eight in the east where mar ket centers are more numerous and closer together, and two in the far west; two 300-mile radius stations to reach the outlying points of Maine and New York, to be located in the northeastern part of the country, and five 500-mile radius stations west of the Mississippi river. Each of the distributing radio sta tions would be connected with the Washington office and with the oth er distributing stations by leased telegraph wires, and twice a day would receive for immediate release by wireless a summarized report o market conditions and quotations at principal market centers and ship ping points. Detailed reports of market conditions in the immediate territory served would also be re leased, as well as crop and weather reports issued by the United States department of agriculture. Effort Is Being Made By Farm Bureau to Solve Milk Problem CHICAGO, Ill.—There ’is a big surplus of milk in the country and milk prices generally should be lower than they are, J. W. Cover dale, secretary of the American Farm Bureau federation, said here in ex planation of the federation’s call for a national conference of milk producers. The conference, he said, aims to work out some better meth of of marketing milk and will con sider the possibilities of co-opera tion. “A number of condenseries abso lutely refuse to buy milk and many producers don’t know what to do with a large part of their supply,” Mr. Coverdale said. “In New York state producers have put up several of their own condenseries and have bought several more that had closed. They propose to can their milk and lay it away on the shelves until the time when the public will want it. “There is so much milk without a demand for it that I think milk could be sold for less and still pay out. People would use more of it. Some of the people are not using as much milk as they should. “The present difficulty dates back, I think, to the high price of sugar. Sugar is used in condensing milk and the condenseries filled their shelves with milk put up at a price. There is no export sale and the condenseries are trying to force the consumer to buy this milk. The I people are not doing it, and the re sult is there is too much condensed milk in the country.” Government to Put Rice Experiment Station in Georgia In the announcement 'that the gov ernment has decided to place a rice experiment station in Georgia and has selected provisionally a site at Thalman Junction, in Glynn county, not far from Brunswick on the line of the Seaboard and A. B. and A. railroads, leaders in the Advertise Georgia Enterprise declared Monday they saw another evidence of the necessity for advertising Georgia’s natural resources and thus develop ing the state both agriculturally and industrially. The rice station, they said, will be one of only three in the entire country, the others being in Louisiana and South Carolina. Subscriptions to the Advertise Georgia Enterprise are being receiv ed daily by Governor Hugh M. Dor sey, to whom checks are made pay able as general chairman. Among the subscriptions ackonwledged Mon day was one for $250 from W. E. Richards, division manager of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical company. This Kind of Bait Is Deadly to Rats A study of barium carbonate as a rat poison, made by the United States department of agriculture, in dicates that a 20 per cent mixture with food makes a satisfactory bait. With this percentage a rat ordinar ily needs to eat only one-third or three-eighths of a meal of average size to get a fatal dose. It was found that with this dose many of the rats poisoned died within 24 hours, though an occasional rat was found which survived an even larger amount, thus indicating that 100 per cent mortality is not to be expected in any case. A summary of results of experi ments conducted by various persons with a view to determining the dead liness of barium to different animals shows the fallacy of the assumption that barium is poisonous only to rats. It is pointed out that the fatal dose of barium per pound tends to decrease relatively as the size of the animal increases, and that a bait calculated to be fatal to rats may be assumed to be more or less dan gerous to small domestic animals also. County Agent Finds New Peanut Market One of the functions of the county agent under the co-operative exten\ sion system carried on by the United States department of agriculture and the state colleges of agriculture is to devise new channels for marketing stock and produce. In Barham coun ty, Ala., mill prices on peanuts were lower than the farmers deemed profitable. Through the efforts of the county agent, 23 carloads, 460 tons, Iwere sold to the confectionery trade at an advance of $17,250 over the mill prices. Co-operative marketing saved the farmers from S3O to $37.50 a ton. 4, KIDS START T 0 WORK EARLY .1 ill 1 ' 'W I -wi / jKWF SINGAPORE.—They start them off to work early in Singapore. Half-naked children, like the one shown above, are frequently seen carrying water from the well to their homes. Government Expert Say Well-Cared-For Garden Is Farm Money-Maker Whether it is conducted on an ex tensive scale to supply the market or whether it is to produce food for the family the garden plot is likely to be the most profitable acreage On the farm. Gardening, really begins in the fall. When tifc last vegeta bles have been removed and stored the prudent gardener sets about to prepare the ground for the next year’s crop. Clearing Away Refuse Any rubbish, dead vines or plants, and bean poles or tomato stakes should be cleared away, says the United States department of agricul ture, and the ground sown to rye or some other green crop to prevent the loose earth from washing under the winter rains. A cover crop also improves the physical condition of the soil. When a cover crop cannot be supplied the next best thing that may be done is to plow or spade the soil and allow it to lie rough through out the winer. This practice destroys Hotbed Furnishes Early Vegetables at a Time When They Com mand Highest Market Prices. many insects that lie just below the surface. The winter frosts have a lightening effect upon the soil, espe cially on clay soils. The earliest and choicest vegetables are harvested by the man who main tains a few hotbed sashes and uses wiem to start his garden. He is able to handicap the frost line by several weeks, and to set strong, well-devel oped plants in his garden at a time when his neighbors are planting seed. The far mincome is at its lowest point in the early spring, but it can be increased considerably by the sale of young plants grown in the hot beds and ready for transplanting. Tomato, cabbage, eggplant and pep per plants are always snapped up when the first warm planting days come, and they are easily grown in the hotbed. A little more space and a little more seed than the grower needs for his own use are likely to bring good profits. Before the ground freezes in the fall is a good time to clean out the old hotbeds. Unless the soil used in the hotbed Sunshine Is Fine As Cholera Remedy A few days’ work in the pig pens and yards scraping, disinfecting and cleaning is pretty good hog-chol era insurance, says the United States department of agriculture. Strict san itation is the best aid the farmer can give to the work of the hog cholera serum. It is unwise and un economical to depend entirely upon the serum to protect the swine from this costly disease. In 1918, the farmers paid a serum bill of over $5,000,000 and they still lost $60,000,- 000 worth of pigs'. There can be no doubt as to the effectiveness of the serum treatment, but the sensible farmer will do what he can with shovel, hoe and disinfectant to re move the cause of the trouble. The threat of cholera is always present so long as there are undrained cess pools and walows. Straw stacks should never be left from one year to the next if they are where the hogs can reach them. Shelters and pens should be so constructed that they may be easily cleaned and ex posed to the sunlight. A few days devoted to work of this sort in the fall when the hogs have been taken from the pens will do much to pro tect the herds of another year. End of 50-Year Quarrel JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—A quarrel that lasted fifty years was settled when Mjss Mary Rockwell became the bride of her sweetheart of half a century ago, Orville D. Lyon. is to be exchanged for fresh earth it should be shoveled from the bed and tossed into a pile nearby. The decayed manute from the bottom is scattered over the pile and thorough ly mixed with it to form rich soil for next year’s beds. Over this goes a coat of straw or leaves held down by bits of board to keep it from blowing. Some farmers find it convenient to use evergreen boughs instead of straw for the outer covering. New hotbed pits should be dug so that they will face the south, and ihe location should be selected so chat the bedsVvill be protected from cold north winds and late spring ’storms. Sometimes the earth taken from the new pit is suitable for use in the hotbed, but this is the ex ception rather than the rule. A few loads of leaf mold from the woods mixed with the natural soil will often form a smooth, rich stoneless mass which gives an ideal hotbed filler. The back or north side of the frame is usually from twelve to eighteen inches high, while the south end is about eight inches, so that the whole bed may have pitch enough to get the sun upon all parts. The stand ard hotbed sash is handled by most dealers, and measures three feet in width and six feet in length. A frame just wide enough to support the sash seems to be the most sat isfactory, though wider beds are sometimes used with supporting ridges placed at six-foot intervals. A well-painted cypress sash, glazed with good double-strength glass well set in putty should give the careful gard dener twelve to fifteen years’ serv ice. Heat for the hotbed is furnished by means of a bed of horse manure eight to sixteen, inches thick in the bottom of the pit. Permanent hot beds are often heated with coils of steam or hot-water pipes under the bed. Hotbeds require constant care to prevent their becoming overheated, especially during bright weather. Canada Pays Farmers Wheat Dividend of 18 Cents Per Bushel WINNIPEG, Manitoba.—A final dividend of 18 cents a bushel will be paid to farmers by the Cana.dian wheat board, accord ing to an announcement made after a recent audit of the books of the board. The payment will be made on “participation certificates,” the method used by the Canadian gov ernment to return to farmers profit made by the government on their 1919 wheat above the guaranteed price. This payment will bring the 1919 price, based on northern wheat in storage at Fort William, to $2.63 a bushel or an average price through out the year of $2.50 at points of shipment in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The board has already distribut ed $38,000,000 on interim dividends and payment of the remainder of $28,000,000, it is expected, will be completed before the first of the year. More than $60,000,000 repre sents the share of farmers in the prairie provinces. The other $6,000,- 000 will go to eastern Canada and British Columbia. A Long Story (Boston Transcript.) Hub (who wants his dinner)—Nearly 8 o’clock. And you said you were just going to step in next door to see how Mrs. Gabble ton was. Wise —Well, she insisted on telling me. 5 TRUNK LINE HIGHWAYS FOR SOUTH GEORGIA In the Second and Eleventh con gressional districts, which together form tile southern boundary of Geor gia, the state highway department is constructing five main trunk line routes and a number of inter-con necting routes as a part of the ulti mate system of state highways that will link every county seat in Geor gia. The highway department today gave out for the information of the public a statement showing the work under construction in the Second and Eleventh districts, which em brace the counties of Baker, Cal houn, Colquitt, Decatur. Dougherty, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell. Tift, Thomas, Worth, Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Ech ols, Glynn, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Pierce, Lowndes, Ware and Wayne. These counties extend in a tier across the southern end of Georgia from Ala bama to the Atlantic ocean. It is the purpose of the highway 'department to give the public a de tailed account of the highway work •in progress in every section of the state, and the statement dealing with the Second and Eleventh districts is tlie first of these. In subsequent statements the department will de scribe the work in other sections. Through the southern tier of counties, as stated above, there are now being constructed four main highways north and south, and one main highway east and west. The north and south highways are the ones connecting Chattanooga, Tenn., with Tallahassee, Fla., which runs down the western part of the state; the National Highway, or Georgia’s part of it. from New York to Jack sonville, and running from Macon down through the south central part of the state!; the Dixie Highway, begins at Chicago and ends at Miami, Fla., and runs also through south-central Georgia; and the Ma con-Brunswick highway, which trav erses the southwestern part of the state. The east and west highway runs from Savannah on the south east corner of Georgia to Bainbridge on the southwest corner of the state. Thus the southern tier of counties, when these main trunks have been finished, will be criss-crossed by four principal highways running north and south, each one traversing a different section, and by the great Savannah-Bainbridge trunk connect ing two sections of the state which have heretofore been isolated. On the extreme western side of the state, which is the Chattanooga-Tal lahassee route, there are under con struction the following projects: Steel and concrete bridge over the Flynt river at Albany, which is 60 per cent complete, 'and will cost $295,000. Sixteen miles of sand clay road in Mitchell county between Camilla and the Dougherty cotinty line, which is 40 per cent complete and will cost $145,000. Concrete and steel bridge over Ochlochnee river in Thomas county between Thomasville and Camilla, which is 95 per cent complete and will cost $96,000. The Savannah-Bainbridge trunk highway has under construction the following projects: Six concrete bridges over Tired creek and its tributaries in Grady county, the total cost of which will be $59,000, and which are more than 90 per cent complete. Four other bridges in Grady county have been surveyed and approved. Nine miles of sand clay road and four concrete bridges in Thomas county between Thomasville and Boston, which will cost $40,000. Seven milesr of bituminous ma cadam road m Brooks county be tween Quitman and Blue Springs. This is 87 per cent complete and will cost $220,000. Also a steel and con crete bridge over the Withlacoochee river at Blue Springs to cost $53,- 000. The two counties are paying part of the cost of this bridge. Eight miles of sand clay road in Clinch county between Homerville and Waycross, costing $42,000. The i plans have been approved for this ! project and the wobk will start ! shortly. Nine miles of sand clay road in I Bierce county between Blackshear and the Wayne county line, togeth ! er with a concrete bridge, the whole to . cost $143,000. I Thirteen miles of sand clay road in Liberty county between Ludowici I and Hinesville, the survey of which I project is now being completed. Concrete bridge across the Flint river at Bainbridge in Decatur coun ty. On the National Highway, which in south Georgia runs from Macon to Jacksonville, the following projects are underway: Six miles of paved road in Tift county from Tifton to the Cook coun ty line to cost $184,000. Eight miles of concrete road from Adele, in Cook county towards Tif ton. This work is 30 per cent com plete and will cost $70,000. Five miles of concrete road from Valdosta running north in Lowndes county. T'. is is 65 per cent com plete and will cost $71,000. Also in Lowndes county, five miles of con crete road from Lake Park to the Florida line, which will cost $150,- 000. The Dixie Highway, Georgia’s por tion of which runs from the Blue Ridge mountains to the Florida line, traverses an important section of the Eleventh district, and includes four teen miles of sand clay road between Nashville and Milltown in Berrien and Lanier counties, which will be started soon, and eight miles of sand clay road in Echols county between Statenville and Melrose, also on this route are seven miles of paved road in Ware county, running south from Waycross, which will cost $155,000; nineteen miles of bituminous macad am road in Charlton county with four concrete bridges; and eleven miles of sand clay road in Bacon county from Alma to the Ware coun ty line. On the Macon-Brunswick trunk line are included the following projects; Eight miles of concrete road in Glynn county from Brunswick run ning north, to cost $277,000, and a contemplated project of eleven miles of sand clay road in the same county. Three and a half miles of sand ■slay road from Jesup, running east, rto cost $79,000, which has been sur veved and approved. Seven miles of sand clay road from Hazlehurst to Lumber City in Jeff Davis county, which is being surveyed. Legislation Sought to Prevent Gambling in Grain Futures by Tax WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—Preven tion of gambling in grain futures through a prohibitive tax on all spec ulative deals in grain is to be sought by Senator Capper, of Kansas, as the chief item in a program of leg islation which he intends to propose soon after congress meets next week. Senator Capper, who arrived in Washington Monday, said the anti grain gambling bill probably will provide for a tax of 10 per cent of the value of the goods involved on all speculative deals in grain. This would practically prohibit such deals, he said. Other items in Senator Capper’s program include re-establishment of the war finance corporation to pro vide credit for home manufacturers and farmers; provision for credit to foreign nations to stimulate foreign trade; strict governmental economy and reduction of the vast army of government clerks. He also plans to urge immediate return to the United States of all American sol diers now on foreign soil. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920. Extra Care in Cleaning Cowpeas for Market Pays Valuable Profit Until the growers see fit to place their cowpeas on the market in a clean and attractive condition they may expect the wide difference be tween the price they receive and the wholesale price charged by the dealer to continue, say marketing specialtists of the bureau of mar kets, United Slates department of agriculture. When the dealer is bompelled to do work that the grow er fails to perform, it is the dealer who enjoys the profits. Marketing Factors According to estimates prepared by the bureau of markets some 100,- 000,000 pounds of cowpeas enter com mercial channels every year. Os this quantity 25 per cent is of mixed varieties and sold at a discount of from fifty cents to $1 per 100 pounds. A large percentage of it also is made up of poorly thrashed, unclean stock containing much foreign matter and packed in second-hand bags, improp erly sewed. As a result of the use of these inefficient marketing meth ods the average wholesale selling price for recleaned stock during the spring of 1920 was 60 per cent high er than the average price paid the growers for the 1919 crop of cow peas. Similar conditions prevailed with regard to the 1917 and 1918 crops. To secure higher prices for cow peas, specialists of the bureau of markets who have made a careful in vestigation of the matter recommend the following practices: 1. Clean cowpeas thoroughly be fore marketing. All hulls and other foreign matter, as well as light and immature seed, if any, should be fan ned out. 2. Keep the varieties pure. Only straight varieties should be planted for grain or seed production, and precautions taken to prevent mixing at harvest time. 3. Sack in new even-weight bags, well sewed. This prevents waste in handling and the package will be more attractive to the buyer. 4. Market in as large lots as pos sible. It costs the shipper or local dealer practically as much money to receive, weigh, record, and pay for one bag of cowpeas as it does a ten-bag lot. If car lots are avail able the cost of handling per unit is still smaller. All efforts made by farmers or growers to improve the quality and marketability of cowpeas add to the initial selling price. The operations outlined above must be performed by someone along the line of distribu tion if the product is to bring the highest prices, and the agency that does the work is not only reimbursed the cost but earns an additional mar gin of profit as well. Cause of Shortage , Cowpeas are usually grown as a catch crop, and on most farms re garded of secondary commercial im portance. Yet the farm value of cowpeas produced in United States is something like $30,000,000 a year. Approximately 750,000,000 pounds of cowpeas are produced annually, about 45 per cent or, or 340,000,000, pounds of which is required for planting. Os this latter quantity, 15 per cent is sold by growers direct to farmers and 30 per cent normally enters commer cial channels to be distributed by various dealers. In 1919, and again in 1920, the demand for cowpeas for planting purposes exceeded the com mercial new crop supply, and abnor mally high prices prevailed. 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The amount of grazing which will be afforded will, of course, vary with the growth of the crop and the quan tity of corn not gathered, but it is the custom with many cattlemen to allow one-third to one-half acre a month for each steer or cow. The usual period for pasturing velvet beans is about three months, but this may be shortened or lengthened as deemed advisable. When the period is longer because of large acreage in proportion to the number of cattle there is necessarily some loss of feed through decay. Hogs should be permitted to follow the cattle, as they will consume practically all the beans which the cattle fail to get. A common prac tice is to allow one or two hogs in addition to the cattle for each acre of beans. A good stand of velvet beans should produce about 150 pounds of beef and 100 pounds of pork an acre. “Sweet Potato Speical” For Carolina Counties With a view to cutting down the waste between the grower and the consumer of sweet potatoes, .an ex hibition car known as “The! Sweet Potato Special,” was sent through nineteen counties of South Carolina during September and October by the United States department of agri culture extension service, and Clem son Agricultural college, the co operation of several railroad com panies. The car carried demonstra tion material on the proper harvest ing, storage, preparation and market ing of sweet potatoes, together with a model of a practical sweet potato storage house. Farmers in South Carolina, in com mon with ten other southern states-, market only a small proportion ot their crop. The department, through the co-operative extension service, aims to cut down this waste through promulgating better methods. than grain production. 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