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Mills Crushing Legume as Sub
stitute for Cotton Seed—Meal
Has Feed Value.
By C. B. WILLIAMS,
Chief Div_i.ion 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 he necessary to bring
in leguminous orops at as frequent
intervals as practicable,
One of the crops of this nature that
may be used to good advantage is
the soy bean. 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 theore
has been marked interest throughout
the South in the growing of soy
beans. This interest will undoubted
ly 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 crushitg 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
goneral thing, may be expected. How
ever, should good prices not prevalil,
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.
It 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
whore 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 price
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 purpose™
for feed, for work-stock, and for oth
er live stock that may be on the farm.
1t grows well under most of the con
ditions obtaining in the South, and
farmers generally would flnd it to
their advantage to grow more of this
erop. 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, hatry 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 Temunerative and restorm}ve
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, vet very lit
tle was heard of it, outside of very
limited areas, until quite recently,
when a campaign was begun to in
auce the cotton oil mills to use beans
for crushing purposes in the same
general way that cotton seed had
heen used for many years before,
This campaign not only opened the
eves of the oil crushers to the possi
bilities of the soy bean in a commer
clal way, but of the farmers, also, to
the great opportunities of this crop.
The first commercial manufacture
of soy-bzan oil and meal from domes
tic soy beans in the United States was
atarted on December, 13, 1916, by the
PFlizabeth City Oil and Fertllizer
Company, of Wlizabeth Clity, N. C.
From the start this mill operated
night and day solely on soy beans
until it had orushed its supply of
about 20,000 bushels. This mill was
able to crush about twenty tons dur
ing each 24 hours. The change f‘rom
+he manufacture of cotton-seed oil to
sov-hean 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.
i Soy-Bean Oil.
' One of the chief products secured in
the crushing of the beans is the 01l
"Phis oil has wide usefulness at the
present time in the commercial world.
The amount of oil in the Dbeans
amounts to from 17 to 20 per cent.
This oil, when expressed from good,
sound beans, is practically neutral,
and about 95 per cent of it is saponi
fiable.
In a bushel of Mammoth Yellow soy
beans there are ordinarily contained
about 11 pounds, or 1.42 gallons, of
oil, weighing 7.72 pounds per gallon.
The oil milla at present are able, by
expression methods. to get out only
70 to 756 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 oil is used
in this country chiefly in the manu
facture of soaps, varnishes, paints,
enamels, linoleums, and water-proof
i materials. It has entered, also,
l{:gsome axtent in the manufacture of
edible salad oil and butter substitutes.
The untseated 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 ig almost liter
ally spreading all over the Gulf
States. it is the velvet bean. A few
years ago it was unknown. But now
it is becoming so well and favorably
known that Gulf State farmers are
giving it right of way. They plant 1t
Ilong 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 so 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 50 feet or more.
At the right time hogs go into the
tangles of vegetation, composed of
corn and velvet beans, literally root
in. Thsir presence is noted only by
the agitation of the leaves and stalks
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
cial business has been established
with bean meal as a basis, the meal
being made by grinding bean and pod
together.
Many of the Scuthern cotton farm
ers regard the velvet bean a salva
tion at a time when the boll weevil
has made it impossible 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 their 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 ig a little nitrogen factory for
making nitrogen from the air, just as
the United States Government is pro
posing to do with hydro-electric pow
er plants p¥incipally for preparedness
‘for war.
seed oil completely, with guite 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 01l
After hydrogenation the oil has a
wider field of usefulness, and may, in
some cases=, entirely replace linseed
oil or other drying oils with very sat
isfactory results,
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
vellow 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, employed 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, secured by a solvent process
would be of a darker color.
The soy-bean cake secured by ex
pression methods has a pleasant
taste, not unlike malted milk, and
when ground into meal may be used,
at the present time, chiefly for feed
ing to live stock or for fertilizing
punposes. The meal as a feed is high
ly concentrated and nutritious, and
all kinds of stock 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
Lighly concentrated nature. As a fer
tilizer it acts satisfactorily. Much of
the meal produced by the oil 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 fertillzer standpoint, soy
bean meal is richer in plant-food con
stituents than is cotton-seed meal.
From available 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 contained in soy-bean
meal should be in about as available
form for use by crops as they are in
cotton-seed meal. Based on these
percentages, an exchange, purely from
the fertilizer standpoint, of about 1,-
500 pounds of soy-bean meal of av
erage composition for 2,000 pounds
(33 1-83 bushels) of beans would be
about equal in money value. Where
the farmer makes an exchange, he
should, however, secure at least
enough 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
geed meal, as It is usually richer in
protein than the latter.
Prices Paid for Beans by the Oii Mills.
~ The price which the mill men can
pay for sov beans will be governed to
a large extent by the prices they are
able to secure for the soy-bean oil and
meal. If theee products bring good
prices the mills ought to be in a po
sition 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 to
151.1.') per bushel In some cases as
high as $1.26 per bushel was paid.
South Carolina Is Successfully 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" Miss
arm Urged 1n .
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 just been
launched by J. B, 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 cooperate 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 raising, with the slogan, ‘‘Live
stock of some kind on every south Mis
sissippi farm.”” In some communities the
interest will be centered on hog ralsing,
other communitles will be made into
dairy centers, and still others into beef
cattle capitals, while, as Mr. Ruff sees
it, over aN of south Mississippl sheep
should be grown to utilize the weeds and
coarse hay that are not relished by other
forms of stock.
Linked to the live stock teachings will
be that of growing plentiful feed sup
plles, and especlally of leguminous
crops, which furnish food mnot only to
the stock, but to the soll as well.
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S. A. L. Builds Cars
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 dairymen of Tal
lahassee and Leon County, who will
ship their goods here. These cars wl]l‘
be ready this month, according to Mrs.
Florence R. 8. Phillips, of Ta%lahaflsefl.‘
who came here to arrange for distribu
tion of the products in this city.
Mrs. Phllfips is 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. .. Ham
ner, general industrial and development
agent of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way. The output from Tallahassee and‘
immediate vicinity will be small 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 dairyving business, and bhefore
many weeks elapse I think the business
]will make wonderful headway,” saw|
Mreg, Phillips,
This Section Also Contains Real Estate, and Want Ads
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1917.
Thoroughness of Early Plowing Is
Important Factor Toward
Successful Harvest,
One very essential principal in corn
production in tne Central South is
winter breaking of sod lands. Other
things being equal, sod land will give
better returns than soil which has
been cropped the preyvious year, there
being more humus in the sod land,
and humus holdsg moisture which is
so essential. However, if the land is
slaping to such an extent that the
heavy winter rains will wash away
the turned soil, then early sprmg‘
plowing i 8 permissible and advisable.
In turning, three things should I»el
kept in mind, depth to plow, thor-|
oughness of work, and dryness of!
land. Depth of plowing is a matter
needing study. 1t is desirable to plow
not less than 8 to 10 inches, vet if
the land has been turned shuHm\'l
previcusly, the desirable depth must|
be reached gradually,
The upper surface of the soil is
the most fertile, contalning the
greater part of the plant food and
organic matter. When the soil isl
plowed deep this layer of organic
and plant food is covered with iln
active, inert material on the surface,
Therefore, as a precaution, I would
suggest 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 subsolil.
Thoroughness of plowing is as im
portant as thoroughness in other|
lines of business and the farmer
practicing such methods is usually
ranked as a progressive one. All
working ~ especially of our heavy
clay lands, should be done only when
the soil is in proper condition, that
18, when it is.dry enough not to “pud
‘rfle” when worked. A single ].!nwing]
'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 fpr
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«ned under will begin to decay and
change to plant food. Spring turn
ing ieaves more or less alr spaces
which cut off the moisture supply
from below. Then, by winter break
‘ing we are able to gather and con
serve a greater amount of moisture
for the summer crop.
Tiine 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
tables.
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, cauliflower, beet, onion,
lattuce, 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 roots, beets, spinach, carrot, cel
ery, radish and parsley. Set out aspar
agus roots, onion sgets and hardy lettuce
plants. Early 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 field
peas and oats, and toward end of month
grass and clover seeds can safely be
put in. Sow dwarf essex rape for sheep
grazing,
London Tourist to
Reside in Asheville
ASHEVILLE, Dec. 30.—Four weeks
from London; arrives in Asheville;
impressed with the beauties of the
city and its environs; buys a home
site the next day and immediately
begins building operations.
Such is the record of A. E. Bar
ton, a former English iron manufac
turer, in deciding upon a permanent
home in this city.
Mr. Barton had been here but one
day when he decided this was the
place for him to spend the balance
of his days. He arrived in New York
from IL.ondon only a few weeks ago,
and with his wife, vas motoring to
Florida® to spend the winter, when
they decided to visit Asheville on the
way. One day’s looking around was
enough to cause him to make up his
mind. The next morning he bought
a lot, started excavations for the
foundation and in the meantime con
sulted an architect,
Sheep-Raising Off
eep-nalsing ers
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- Opening in Florida
GAINESVILLE, FLA. Jan. 13.—The
present high price of wool has aroused
much Interest in shéep-growing, and
many farmers are thinking of entering
this field. C. L. Willoughby, professor
of animal husbandry in the college of
agriculture, University of Florida, thinks
nearly every farm could support a small
flock of sheep to advantage on the rough
forages and scanty pastures.
It would be best probably to start in
gheep raising with a few native ewes
and breed up the flock with a pure
bred ram, says Professor Willoughby.
For mutton purposes the Southdown and
Shropshire breeds are good, and for wool
the Merino and Rambouillet are hest.
The Rambouillet breed is good for both
wool and mutton and is quite successful
in Florida,
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Live Stock Board in
Florida Is Proposed
West End of State Plans Series of
Meetings to Influence
Legislation.
PENSACOLA. FLA., Jan, 13.-—Eetab
lishment of a State live stock sanitary
board by the next Florida Legislature
will be one of the objects of a s_vste-‘
matic campaign to be conducted in ev
ery county and precinct 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 [egislature, and
this meeting will be followed by the
meetings on a smaller scale in all of the
counties and precinets of this part of the
State
Dr. Knapp said 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 m‘
Florida because all of the States border ‘|
ing on Klorida have such departments
of Government to contiol the breeding,
shipment and marketing of live stock.
The State l.ve 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.
Busi Men Asked
To Aid in Tick War
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JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Jan, 18.—The
Business Men's Club has been asked to
co-operate with the Government tick
eradication workers in their efforts to
rid Florida of this cattle pest by Dr.
K. L. Nighbert, of the Department of
Agriculture |
Dr. Nighbert has told the business
men of the fight that is being waged to
clear the Southern Htates of the Texas
fever tick. He says the cattle and beef
industry is one of the most staple and
substantial in which the Florida farmer
can engage. He has told of the handi
caps that the tick workers have met In
Georgia and other States, where in sev
eral instances the difiping vats have
been dynamited, He asks the club mem
bers to assist him and his co-workers
to mold public opinion ia favor of a
wholesale crusade against spread or tol
erance of the pest,
Florida Gardeners |
State Classed in Three Divisions,
With Special Crops Best Adapted
to Each.
For Florida gardeners the following
sugestions are made as to February
planting:
[ North and West Florida—Asparagus
seed, early corn, Brussels sprouts, cab
‘bage, carrots, collards, eggplant sced,
English peas, Irish potatoes ,kale, lecks,
lettuce, onlons, parsely pepper seed,
rutabagas, salsfy, spinach, beets, tur
| nips.
i Central Florida - Asparagus seed, early
corn, sea island cotton, beans, Brussels
‘;sproum. cabbage, cantaloupes, carrots,
| collards, cucumbers, eggplant seed,
'h‘nglish peas, Irish potatoes, kale, leeks,
Jettuce, onions, parsley, parsnip seed,
lrulubazns, salsify, splnach, Windsor
beans, beets, sugar cane, fleld corn.
Southern FKFlorida--Adams early corn,
beans, beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage,
cantaloupes, carrots, cucumbers, egg
plant seer, Irish potatoes, kale, lettuce,
okra, onions, pepper seed, splinach,
‘Mumsh, Windsor beans, fleld corn and
LBHK&H‘ cane.
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Inferior Live Stock
- Not Wanted in South
| .
~ Improved live stock is in great de
;mflnd in the South, and breeding ani
mals must be imported from the NOI‘UI-‘
ern Htates. Because of this demand a
few Northern breeders are shipping to
Southern buyers animals that are poor
representatives of the breed. Some of
the live stock papers recently have
printed reports on this subject and warn
Northern breeders to ship to the South
none but high-grade animals.
Loulsiana breeders have suffered loss
by recelvlng stunted and disqualified
pign 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, i 8 to require a guarantee that the
animal must satisfy the buyer or it may
be returned and money refunded. The
majority of Northern breeders are ready
to send good animals to the South at
comparatively low prices for the pur
pose of introducing the breeds and mak
ing future good customers of Southern
farmers, Reputable breeders usua]ly|
will be glad to make the guarantee Sug
gested,
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Organization in Atlanta Perma
nent Institution for Develop
~ ment of Southern Lands.
By ARCHIE LEE.
Now that cotton is hovering avound
20 cents a pound, Georgia farmers, in
contemplating (he new orop, are aglhe
ing themselves and their neighboss
how to malke the old red hills, as well
as the black soil of the lowlands, pré=
duce more. No cotton—nor other
crops, for that matter-—was left in the
flelds this year for want of pleking,
and it doesn't take a detective to
learn that they are going to malte
their farms produce every pound pos
sible next year.
Agronomists are agreed that at no
other period in the agricultural his
‘tory of the South have farmers been
80 ready to learn the lessons sclen
tiets have to teach about soll devel
opment. Experiment stations and
agricultural colleges are enjoying the
popularity of “war brides.” )
| It is a happy coincidence that at
this period the Southern FPFertilizer
Association has established in Atlan
ta a farmers’ service organization,
which is to be a permanent institution
for the development of Southern farm
lands. The idea is to disseminate as
much information as possible,
through advertising, publiclty and
correspondence, about the Pproper use
of commercial fertilizers.
Experts Engaged for Work.
Within a few days the new organi
zation will be in full swing. Profes
sor J. N. Harper, recognized as one of
the foremost agricultural authorities
in the South, has resigned the posi
tion of dean of the South Carolina
Agricultural College, at Clemson, 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 smolls
and crops of the University of Ten
nessee, at Knoxville, to take the
place. An editorial manager and an
assistant agronomist are to be ane
nounced shortly,
These men are experts on farming
and the use of fertilizers. 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 dapart
ment are in the new headquarters of
| the Southern Fertilizer Association,
|in the Rhodes Building. The terri
tory to ba covered includes the States
of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Tennessae, Mississippi, Louislana and
Arkansas.
Efforts at soll development by the
Southern Fertilizer Assoclation were
begun in a small way some Vears 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.
l Service Without Cost.
Detached from the assoclation., the
new organization would stand as a
';»nrolv vhilanthropic effort. Tt haea
nothing to do with selling fertilizers.
land all its cervice 1s given free, The
Southern Fertilizer Association is
composed of approximately 95 per
lm-nl of the wholesale fertilizer daa.*-
ers in the South, and for the expendi
ture necessary to maintain the serv
fce bureau, their benefits will be only
the general and indirect return of a
greater use of fertilizers by the farm
ers,
“Broadly, the lesson to be tanght
about fertilizers is that it Is not &
stimulant, but a food, to plant life,”
Is:n‘»l Harry Hodson, of Athens, the
president of the Southern Fertilizer
Asgsoclation, in outlining the plans of
the farmers' service department.
When 1t is remembered that the
ante-bellum custom of wearing out
flelds and abandoning them was
proved obsolete, and the true agricul
tural development of the South waas
begun only with the introduction ot
commercial fertllizers, something of
the scope of this new organization
and of the promise of Southern farm
land development can be grasped.
Ernest E. Dallis is sacretary-treas
urer of the Southern Fertilizer Asso
ciation, and the members of the soil
improvement committee are W. B
Richards, Atlanta, chairman; D. B
Osborne, Atlanta; Harry Hodson,
Athens; L. M. Bogle, Tupelo, Miss.t
W. B. Stratford, Montgomery, Ala.,
and W. Macß. Bmith, Norfolk.
Demand for Better
Li in
ive Stock Growing
The demand for better live stock ia
growing in the Bouth, and a great many
farmers are disearding 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 U'nless the common practice
of feeding is improved the importation
of new blood will be neutralized. The
necessity of plenty of winter feed for
any animal is apparent, whether it s
scrub or pure-bred.
Many live stock producers are objeot
ing to the high cost of feed. They for
get that the price of animals has alse
increased in proportion, so that they.:n
realize just as great profits from f -
ing now as they ever oouldy =
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