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Mills Crushing Legume as Sub
stitute for Cotton Seed—Meal
Has Feed Value.
‘ By C. B. WILLIAMS,
Chief Division of Agronomy, North
Carolina Agricultural Experi
ment Station,
In order that any people may main
tain their soils in the highest state of
productivity in an economical way, It
will be necessary that proper systems
of crop rotation are used, and in these
rotations it will be necessary to bring
in leguminous crops at as frequent
intervals as practicable.
One of the crops of this nature that
may be used to good advantage is
the soy hean. If properly handled,
this crop may be used as the means
of adding to the productivity of the
soils as well as to increase the net re
turns from the farm. Recently there
has been marked interest throughout
the South in the growing of soy
beans. This interest will undoubted
iy lead many farmers of the South
to greatly increase from year to year
the acreage devoted to the growth of
this legume. Since it appears that a
new outlet for the beans has devel
oped from the crushing of the seed
by a number of oil mills, the farmer
should feel assured that, for .such
seed as he may have to put on the
market, hereafter, better prices, as a
general thing, may be expected. How
ever, should good prices not prevail,
because of the high feeding value of
the seed, the beans may be used for
feeding to such live stock as may be
on the farm.
Tt is reasonable to suppose that
within a few years the boll weevil
will cover all the cotton-growing area
of the South, and when it does there
will probably be a material reduction
in the production of cotton in this
country. Let our people prepare for
this day by growing some Crop to‘
take a part of the acreage that is now
devoted to the growth of cotton. It
has been found in the chief soy-bean
growing centers of the South that
where these beans are properly plant
ed and cultivated farmers may ex
pect something like two-thirds to
three-fourths as large yields per acre |
as are secured from corn. The prices
per bushel for the beans has always!
been from 50 to 100 per cent greater
than for the corn. {
Good Summer Crop. |
The soy bean is one of the very
best crops for summer growth in the
South for soil-improving purposes,‘
for feed, for work-stock, and for oth
er live stock that may be on the farm.‘
It grows well under most of the con
ditions obtaining in the South, and{
farmers generally would find it to
their advantage to grow more of this
crop, It grows during the hot sum
mer months, and may be removed
from or plowed into the soil any time
during the early fall in order for the‘
land to be put into a winter-growing
crop like wheat, oats, rye, crimson
clover, hairy vetch or a combination
of these.
The farming people have hardly be
gun to appreciate the possibilities of
properly handled soils, in the grow
ing of remunerative and restorative
crops. This matter has been strik
ingly brought to the attention of the
people in the case of soy beans.
This crop was introduced some
thing like 35 years ago, yet very llt-‘
tle was heard of it, outsidg of very
limited areas, until quite recently,
when a campaign was begun to in
duce the cotton oil mills to use bPans‘
for crushing purposes in the same
general way that cotton seed had
been used for many years before.
This campaign not only opened the
eyes of the oil crushers to the possi
bilities of the soy bean in a commer
cial way, but of the farmers, also, to
the great opportunities of this crop.
The first commercial manufacture
of soy-bean oil and meal from domes
tic soy beans in the United States was
started on December 13, 1915, by the
Elizabeth City Oil and Fertilizer
Company, of Elizabeth City, N. .
From the start this mill operated
night and day solely on soy beans
until it had crushed its supply of
about 20,000 bushels. This mill was
able to crush about twenty tons dur
ing each 24 hours. The change from
the manufacture of cotton-seed oil to
sov-bean oil was made by them with
out any expense as to extra machin
ery and with but little expense for
adjustment. The superintendent of
the mill has estimated that the labor
expenditure required in making the
adjustment did not exceed $5.
Soy-Bean Oil.
One of the chief products secured in
the crushing of the beans is the oil.
This 01l has wide usefulness at the
present time in the commercial world.
The amount of oil in the beans
amounts to from 17 to 20 per cent.
This ofl, when expressed from good,
gound beans, is practically neutral,
and about 95 per cent of it 1s saponi
fiable.
In a bushel of Mammoth Yellow soy
beans there are ordinarily contained
about 11 pounds, or 1.42 gallons, of
oil, welghing 7.72 pounds per gallon.
The oil mills at present are able, by
expression methods, to get out only
70 to 75 per cent of the total amount
of oil contained in the beans. By the
use of appropriate solvents, such as
gasoline, practically all of the oil
might be removed.
At the present time the 01l is used
in this country chiefly in the manu
facture of soaps, varnishes, paints,
enamels, linoleums, and water-proof
%ng materials. It has entered, also,
to some extent in the manufacture of
edible salad oil and butter substitutes.
The untreated oil may replace lin
In Gulf States Cultivation of the
Newly Tried Legume Is Prov
ing Profitable.
By CHARLES A. WHITTLE,
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
A wonderful bean is almost liter
ally spreading all over the Gulf
Siates. It is the velvet bean. A few
vears ago it was unknown. But Nnow |
it is becoming so well and favorably
known that Gulf State farmers are
giving it right of way. They plant 1t
along with corn, and by the time the
corn is ready to mature there is no
corn to be seen. The only evidences
of it are hummocks of velvet beans.
Sometimes the beans are soo heavy
that the corn stalks go down under
their weight and leave no visible sign
of the corn’s existence. On rich soil
the vines extend 60 feet or more.
At the right time hogs go into the
tangles of vegetation, compoged of
corn and velvet beans, literally root
in. Their presence is noted only by
the agitation of the leaves and slalks
above them. When the hogs are in
duced to come out of the fields some
weeks later, they are in prime condi
tion for the butcher. Likewise beef
and dairy cattle rustle in the corn
'bean patches and do well all winter
'with no other feed than that provided
by corn, beans in the pod, fodder and
stalks. The feeding value of the vel
vet bean is quite high, and a commer
clal business has been established
with bean meal as a basls, the meal
being made by grinding bean and pod
together,
‘ Many of the Southern cotton farm
ers regard the velvet bean a salva
tion at a time when the boll weevil
has made it imposstble to raise cotton
very successfully. Some of the farm
ers plant corn, velvet beans and pea
nuts together, so that the hogs need
not stop thelr harvesting above
ground, but may plow the ground
while rooting for peanuts.
Velvet beans and peanuts are le
gumes, which to the intelligent farm
er mean richer soil. Each leguminous
plant is a little nitrogen factory for
making nitrogen from the air, just as
the United States Government is pro
rosing to do with hydro-electric pow
er plants principally for preparedness
for war.
sced oil completely, with quite satis
factory results, in the manufacture of
soft soaps: but it can only partially
take the place of cotton-seed oil in
making hard soaps. This is because
the soap made from soy-bean oil is
of a somewhat softer nature than that
manufactured from cotton-seed oil.
After hydrogenation the oil has a
wider field of usefulness, and may, in
some cases, entircly replace linseed
oil or other drying oils with very sat
isfactory results. i
Feed and Fertilizer. |
The meal secured from crushing the |
beans is the most valuable product,
and will have the widest usefulness.
That secured from the crushing of
yellow-colored beans is of a bright
yellow color, while that produced from |
the brown and dark-colored beans is!
of a somewhat darker shade. Meal,
too, that has been treated with ordi
nary solvents, emploved for this pur
pose to remove the oil, is of a bright
er color than are those meals from
which the oil has been removed by
heating and pressure. The oil, how
ever, setured by a solvent process
would be of a darker color. w
The soy-bean cake secured by ex
pression methods has a pleasant
taste, not unlike malted miltk, and
when ground into meal may be used,
at the present time, chiefly for feed
ing to live stock or for fertilizing
purposes. The meal as a feed is high
ly concentrated and nutritious, and
all kinds of \tock seem to relish it
when fed to them properly. It should
not be fed in large quantities for any
great length of time, because of its
highly concentrated nature. As a fer
tilizer it acts satisfactorily. Much of
the meal produced by the 01l mills
of the State during the past year
seems to have been sold, without any
difficulty, to manufacturers for the
making of mixed fertilizers.
From the fertilizer standpoint, soy
bean meal Is richer in plant-food con
stituents than is cotton-seed meal.
From avallable analysis, the meal, on
an average, contains 7.48 per cent ni
‘trogen, 1.4 per cent phosphoric acid,
and 1.83 per cent potash, All these
}constituents contalned in soy-bean
‘meal should be in about as available
form for use by crops as they are in
‘ootton-seed meal. Based on these
‘percentages, an exchange, purely from
‘the fertilizer standpoint, of about 1,-
}SOO pounds of soy-bean meal of av
erage composition for 2,000 pounds
(33 1-3 bushels) of beans would be
about equal in money value. Where
the farmer makes an exchange, he
should, however, secure at least
cnough above this amount to cover
well the cost of delivery of the beans
to the mill. The meal, being a very
concentrated product, should always
sell as high, or higher, than cotton
seed meal, as It is usually richer in
protein than the latter.
Prices Paid for Beans by the Oil Mills.
The price which the mill men can
pay for soy beans will be governed to
a large extent by the prices they are
able to secure for the soy-bean oil and
meal. If these products bring good
prices the mills ought to be in a po
gition to pay the farmer a good price
for his beans. During the past fall
farmers generally were able to se
cure from the oil mills from $1 teo
$1.15 per bushel. In some cases as
high as $1.25 per bushel was pald.
South Carolina Is Successtully Growing Grain and Forage Crops
Palmetto State Farmers Are No Longer Wedded to Cotton Alone
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Live Stock on Every
Farm Urged in Mi
arm urgea 1n iiss.
Agricultural College Officials Unfold
Plans for Extension Work
in State.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, MISS.,
Jan. 13.—What promises to be the most
comprehensive cooperative movement
for the betterment of farming ever un
dertaken in any State has Jjust been
launched by J. E. Ruff, the newly ap
pointed district agent in the co-opera
tive farm demonstration work of the
Mississippi A. & M. College and the
Federal Government for south Missis
sippi, who is planning not' only for
neighbor to qooperate with neighbor in
his territory, but for every agency now
-working for the upbuilding of agricul
ture, including professional crafts and
representatives of other occupations to
unite as one organization, meeting at
one central point to determine the two
or three specific lines of farming that
have proven most profitable in that sec
tion and acting in unison by means of
these definite enterprises to drive
straight toward the goal of a highly
profitable agriculture for the whole of
south Mississippi.
Announcement of these plans were
made here by President.-W. H. Smith, of
the college, following a conference be
tween President Smith and Mr. Ruff.
One of the specific enterprises that
will be pushed by this federation, as ex
plained by President Smith will be
stock ralsing, with the glogan, ‘“Live
stock of some kind on every south Mis
sisslppi farm.”” In some communities the
interest will be centered on hog ralsing,
other communities will be made into
dairy centers, and still others into beef |
cattle capitals, while, as Mr. Ruff seesg
it, over all of south Mississippi sheep
should be grown to utilize the weeds and |
coarse hay that are not relished by u(hm“
forms of stock.
Linked to the live stock teachings will‘
be that of growing plentiful feed sup
plies, and especially of legumlnoun‘
crops, which furnish food not only to
the stock, but to the soil as well. |
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For Dairy Products
JACKSONVILLE, FLA,, Jan, 13.—Two
specially constructed refrigerator cars
are being built by the Seaboard Air Line
Railway to handle the milk, cream and
dairy products of the dalrymen of Tal
lahassee and Ison County, who will
ship their goods here. These cars will
be ready this month, according to Mrs.
Florence R. S. Phillips, of Tallahassee,
who came here to arrange for distribu
tion of the Products in this city.
Mrs. Phillips i 8 one of the leading
business women of Tallahassee, being
secretary of the Tallahassee Boosters’
Club. Mrs. Phillips received informa
tion regarding the construction of the
cars several days ago from B. L. Ham
ner, general industrial and development
agent of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way. The output from Tallahassee and
immediate vicinity will be sma’l at first,
but plang are being made for an in
crease. ‘“‘There probably will be only
about 100 cans a day to begin with, but
I know there are many cattle growers
who are planning to extend their work
into the dairying business, and before
lmany weeks elapse I think the business
will make wonderful headway,”’ said
Mrs, Phillips. 2
This Section Also Contains Real Estate, and Want Ads
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1917.
|
Thoroughness of Early Plowing |sl
Important Factor Toward
Successful Harvest.
—_— l
One very essential principal in corn
production in the Central South is
winter breaking of sod lands. Other
things being equal, sod land will give
better returns than soil which pas
been cropped the preyious year, lhflrv‘
being more humus in the sod land,
and humus holds moisture which is
so essential. However, if the land is
sloping to such an extent that the
heavy winter rains will wash away
the turned sofl, then early spring|
plowinz is permissible and advisable.
in turning, three things should be|
kept in mind, depth to plow, thor
oughness of work, and dryness of]
land. Depth of plowing is a matter
needing study. It is desirable to plow |
not less than 8 to 10 ilnches, yet if
the land has been turned shallow
previously, the desirable depth must
be reached gradually. ‘
, The upper surface of the soil is]
the most fertile, containing the|
greater part of the plant food and
organic matter, When the soil is
plowed deep this layer of organic
and plant food is covered with in
active, inert material on the surface.
Tehrefore, as a precaution, it is sug
gested that the deepening be grad
ual rather than at one turning. Disk
ing a sod before plowing aids in get
ting good contact between the sur
face soil and the subsoil,
Thoroughness of plowing is as im
portant as thoroughness in other
lines of business and the farmer
practicing such methods is usually
ranked as & progressive one. All
workings, especially of our heavy
clay lands, should be done only when
the soll i 8 in proper condition, that
is, when it is dry enough not to “pud
dle” when worked. A single plowing
when too wet will have a bad effect
for three or four years. The same
is true of harrowing and cultivating,
yet to a somewhat less extent.
The time for turning land for
corn is in the winter, or before
spring; because, first, the action of
the weather—freezing and thawing—
pulverizes the soil and the material
t. rned under will begin to decay and
change to plant food. Spring turn
ing leaves more or less air spaces
which cut off the moisture supply
from below. Then, by winter break
ing we are able to gather and con
serve g greater amount of moisture
for the summer crop.
Time is also an important factor.
During the winter both man and
‘horse have more time then in which
they are not occupied than in the
spring. £
Seedmen Suggest What and How to
Sow for Spring Vege
tahles.
Seedmen and truck gardeners are now
turning their attention to the prepara
tions for February planting in the
Southern States, north of Florida. Seed
men recommend that next month gar
deners sow in hot beds or cold frames
early cabbage, caulifiower, beet, onion,
lettuce, raddish; and in hotbeds sow
eggplant, tomato and pepper. The last of
the month sow in open ground early
peas, spring kale, rhubarb and horse
radish rootsg, heets, spinach, carrot, cel
ery, radish and parsley. Set out aspar
aFus roots, onion sets and hardy lettuce
plants. Barly plantings of potatoes can
‘be made. Hardy flower seeds can be
forwarded either by sowing in hotbeds
or in pots and boxes in the house for
later transplanting.
. For the farm, prepare plant beds and
put in tobacco seed. Sow Canada fleld
peas and oats, and toward end of month
grass and clover seeds can wsafely be
put in. Sow dwarf essex rape for sheep
i grazing,
Politics Not to Rule
o
In Farm Loan Banks
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Organization
' of the twelve Federal land banks has
sheen undertaken, the farm loan board
" has announced with a metermination to
eliminate politics entirely in the selec
“inn of the men who are to sget up and
5:»;:&-(‘:;1,» the new institutions.
i The board announces that every effort
will be made to get men whose fitness
will commend them, not only to farm
'urx. who must borrow money, but to
investors, who must look upon farm
loan hon;fi.u ag safe and prime securities
Secretary McAdoo has made public a
letter he has addressed to the Governors
of all States, urging that they recom
mend to their x‘esref'tlv» Legislatures
the enactment of laws to make farm
loan bonds legal investments for trust
fiinds ond savings banks,” where such
Ilaws are necessary. Mr. McAdoo also
' has written to the various farm loan
lnrxnniznlh)hs of each State pointing out
| the desirability of co-operation by them
}whh the Governors in any measures
adopted looking to the enactment of
I such legislation.
. .
Sheep-Raising Offers
Opening in Florid
GAINESVILLE, FLA., Jan. 13.—The
present high price of wool has aroused
lmurh interest in sheep-growing, and
| many farmers are thinl‘(lnz of entering
§this field. C. L. Willoughby, professor
| of animal husbandry in the college of
| agriculture, University of Florida, tfiinks
nearly every farm could support a small
flock of sheep to advantage on the rough
forages and scanty pastures.
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sheep raising with a few native ewes
and breed up the flock with a pure
bred ram, says Professor Willoughby.
¥or mutton purposes the Southdown and
Shropshire breeds are good, and for wool
the Merino and Rambouillet are best.
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wool and mutton and is quite successful
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Live Stock Board i
Florida Is Proposed
West, End of State Plans Series of
Meetings to Influence
Legislation,
PENSACOLA. FLA., Jan, 13.—Estab
lishment of a State live stock sanitary
board by the next Florida Legislature
wHI be one of the objects of a syute«l
matic campalgn to be conducted in ev
ery county and precince of west Florida
during the next few months by Dr. J.
V. Knapp, of the bureau of animal in
dustry of the United States Department
of Agriculture,
To give impetus to the movement a
meeting of the West Florida Cattlemen’s
Association will be held in Pensacola
on a date to be designated between now
and the meeting of the Legislature, and
this meeting will be followed by the
meetings on a smaller gcale in all of the
counties and precincts of this part of the
State.
Dr. Knapp sald that the establish
ment of the live stock sanitary board,
which, under the State Government, has
the same functions as the bureau of ani
mal industry for the national Govern
ment, was an absolute necessity in
Florida because all of the States border.
ing on Florida have such departments
of Government to control the breeding,
shipment and marketing of live stock.
The State ILive Stock Association,
which meets in Gainesville January 16~
19, will discuss establishment of the sani
tary board and tick eradication, Similar
meetings will be held in middle and
southern Florida to discuss the same
proposition before the Legislature meets,
Business Men Asked
To Aid in Tick W
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Jan, 18.—-The‘
Business Men's Club has been asked to|
co-operate with the Government tiek
eradication workers in their efforts to
rid Florida of this cattle pest by Dr.
E. L. Nighbert, of the Department of
Agriculture. ‘
Dr. Nighbert has told the business
men of the fight that is being waged to
clear the SBouthern btates of the Texas
fever tlck. He says the cattle and beef
industry is one of the most staple and
substantial in which the Florida farmer
can engage. He hag told of the handi
caps that the tick workers have met in
Georgia and other States, where in sev
eral instances the dipping vats have
lbeen dynamited. He asks the club mem
bers to assist him and his co-workers
to mold public opinion in favor of a
wholesale crusade against spread or tol
arance of the pest.
Florida Gard |
}Statc Classed in Three Divisions,
With Special Crops Best Adapted:
to Each.
For Florida gardeners the folowing
sugestions are made as to February
planting: }
| North and West Florida--Asparagus
seed, early corn, Brussels sprouts, cab
bage, carrots, collards, eggplant seed,
English peas, Irlsh potatoes ,kale, leeks,
lettuce, onlons, parsely, pepper seed
rutabagas, salsify, spinach, beets, tur
nips,
Central Florida-—Asparagus seed, early
corn, sea island cotton, beans, Brussels
sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupes, carrots,
collards, cucumbers, eggplant seed,
English peas, Irish potatoes, kale, leeks,
lettuce, onions, parsley, parsnip seed,
rutabagas, salsify,- spinach, Windsor
beans, heets, sugar cane, field corn.
Southern Florida—Adams early corn,
beans, beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage,
cantaloupes, carrot®, cucumbers, egg
plant seed, Irlsh potatoes, bale, lettuec,
okra, onions, pepper seed, spinach,
| squash, Windsor beans, fleld corn and
lsugur cane.
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Inferior Live Stoc
Not Wanted in South
Improved live stock is in great de
mand in the South, and breeding ani
mals must be imported from the North
ern States. Because of this demand a
few Northern breeders are shipping to
Enu&hern buyers anjmais that are poor
repMsentatives of the breed. Some of
the live stock papers recently have
ernted reports on this subject and warn
‘orthern breeders to ship to the South
| none but high-grade animals.
‘ couislana breeders have suffered loss
!by ruceivlmf stunted and disqualified
,pigs in Northern shipments. In Florida
a breeder of hogs received from a breed
|er in another State a pig for which a
high price had been paid, and the ani
mal proved to be poorer in conformation
and quality than the Florida buyer had
on his own farm. :
The best plan to use in buying breed
| ing stock, experienced live stock men
say, is to require a guarantee that the
animal must satisfy the buyer or it may
be returned and money refunded. The
lmajority of Northern-breeders are ready
to send good animals to the South at
:-,nrm-urm%\'ol:.' low prices for the pur
oge of introducing the breeds and mak
p
ing future good customers of Southern
farmers. Reputable breeders usually
will be glad to make the guarantee sug
gested. i
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Organization in Atlanta Perma
! nent Institution for Develop
- ment of Southern Lands.
| By ARCHIE LEE.
. Now that cotton is hovering around
20 cents a pound, Georgia farmers, in
contemplating the new crop, are ask
ing themselves and their neighbors
how to make the old red hills, as well
ag the black soil of the lowlands, pro
duce more. No cotton—nor other
crops, for that matter—was left in the
flelds this year for want of picking,
and it doesn’t take a detectlve to
learn that they are going to make
their farms produce every pound pos
sible next year.
Agronomists are agreed that at ne
other period in the agricultural his
tory of the South have farmers been
s 0 ready to learn the lessons scien
tists have to teach about soil devel
opment, Experiment stations and
kugrir-ultnm] celleges are enjoying the
| popularity of “war brides.”
It is a happy coincidence that at
this period the Southern Fertilizer
Association has established in Atlan
ta a farmers’ service organization,
which Is to'be a permanent institution
for the development 8f Southern farm
lands. The idea is to disseminate as
much information as possible,
through advertising, publicity and
correspondence, ‘about the proper use
of vngnnr-rl_»inl_fnrvlliz_m:s, emis
Experts Engaged for Work.
Within a few days the new organi
zation will be in full swing. Profes
sor J. !\’.\ Harper, recognized as one of
the foremost agricultural authorities.
in the South, has resigned the PO~
tion of dean of the South Carolina
Agricultural College, at C'lemson, and
assumed the duties of director of the
service organization. He will have
associated with him Professor J. C.
Pridmore as agronomist. Professor
Pridmore gave up the chair of soils
and crops of the University of Ten
nessee, at Knoxville, to take the
place. An editorial manager and an
assistant agronomist are to be an
nounced shortly.
These men are experts on farming
and the use of fertllizers. They will
be in close touch with the Govern
ment experiment stations and the ag
ricultural colleges of the South and
the State and Federal Departments of
Agriculture, and will furnish specific
as well as general information on soil
problems.
The offices of the service depart~
ment are in the new headquarters of
the Southern Fertilizer Association,
in the Rhodes Building. The terri
tory to be covered Includes the States
of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Tenness2e, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas,
Efforts at soil development by the
Southern Fertilizer Assoclation were
begun in a small Way some years ago
by soil improvement committees. The
demand for this sort of service has
grown to such an extent that it was
considered necessary to create the
farmers’ service organization to sup
ply it.
Service Without Cost.
Datached from the assoclation, the
new organization would stand as a
purely philanthropic effort. It has
nothing to do with selling fertilizers,
and all its service is given free, The
Southern Fertilizer Association (s
composed of approximately 95 per
cent of the wholesale fertilizer deal
ers in the South, and for the expendi
ture necessary to maintain the serv
fce bureau, thelr benefits will be only
the general and indirect return of a
greater use of fertilizers by the farm- -
ers. o
“Broadly, the lesson to be taught
' about fertilizers is that it i{s not a
stimulant, but a food, to plant life,”
said Harry Hodson, of Athens, the
president of the Southern Fertilizer
Association, in outlining the plans of
the farmers’ service department. -
When it I 8 remembered that the
ante-bellum custom of wearing out
fields and abandoning them was
proved,obsolete, and the true agricul
tural development of the South was
begun only with the introduction of
commercial fertilizers, something of
the scope of this new organization
and of the promise of Southern farm
land development can be grasped.
Ernest K. Dallis Is secretary-treas«
uvrer of the Southern Fertilizer Asso
ciation, and the members of the soil
improvement committee are W. M,
Richards, Atlanta, chairman; D. B.
Osborne, Atlanta; Harry Hodson,
Athens; I. M. Bogle, Tupelo, Miss.;
W. B. Stratford, Montgomery, Ala.,
and W. Macß. Smith, Norfolk.
Demand for Better '
Live St rowin
ive Stock G g
The demand for better live stock i 8
growing in the South, and a great many
farmers are discarding scrubs for pure
bred and good grade animals. The pro
duction of such stock will emphasize
more than ever the necessity for plenty
of feed. Unless the common practice
of feeding is imrroved the importation;
of new blood will be neutralized. The
necessity of plenty of winter feed for
any animal is apparent, whether it I 8
scrub or pure-hred.
Many live stock producers are objeel
ing to the high cost of feed. They for--
get that the price of animals has also
increased in proportion, so that thoy.%i
realize just as great proits frem f
ing now as they ever couid. L
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