The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, June 19, 1924, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8 FARM NEWS OF COBB COUNTY COBB COUNTY THE BANNER COUNTY OF THE EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH. ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT GOBB GOUNTY FARMS AND FARMERS Dr. J. W. Ellis, of Kennesaw, is a strong believer in making the cotton “rop more profitable by following an intensive method of cultivation. He plants a small acreage on good land, uses a liberal amount of high grade fertilizer and poisons the weevils consistently from the appearance of the first squares to the first open blos soms. By following this plan he pro duced Tour bales on four acres last year, and is going to adopt the same plan with this year’s crop. Cobb county farmer® are planting a larger acreage of soy beans and other forage crops this year. More ‘would be planted were it not for the fact that seed are scarce and high. Why not grow your own seed for next season? A very small patch will pro duce enough seed for the average farmer. If it is not convenient for you to thresh them you can beat them out very easily. - Mr. M. M. Durham, of near Black wells is planting six acres of Loredo soy beans for seed. Also a large num ber of farmers in Austell, Powder Springs and other comunities of the county will grow this crop for seed. This is good news. We need more soy beans and if you will grow the seed a still larger acreage will be, planted from year to year. C. M. Head a prominent truck grower of the Countyk is right when he says that one way to beat the bean beetle and other insects is to make your ¥rop grow so fsat that they will produce some in spite of these pests. If you will follow Mr. Head’s plan and spray the crop also you are sure to have success. The truck growers and home gar deners are making war on the bean bettles this seasog. Some are using Cal-Sulphur whie other are qsi'ng a mixture of 1 Ib. of calcium arsenate, 1 Ib. of sulphur, and 4 lbs. of hydrat ed lime. Both are good remedies and are perfectly harmless. * Don’t be afraid to eat beans immediately after applying the dust. Of course, it is wise to wash the beans well. If you should not wash the beans you would havs to eat one bushel to get enough poison to make you sick. Very few will eat one bushel of beans at one time. Wilks Arnold, a watermelon grow er of McLand is going to use every precaution in preventing wilt and an thracnose on his crop. He is treat ing his seed and will spray with bor deaux mixture throughout the sea son. The schedule for spraying water melons with bordeaux is as follows: 1-Make the first application when the vines are about one foot long. 2-Make second application ten days later® 3-Spray the third time about one week after the main crop has “set” on the vines. 4-A fourth spray should be applied 10 days later. Remember that this spray is a preventive and not a cure, therefore, don't wait until your vines are badly diseased to begin spray ing. Meetings on How To Fight Weevil For Next Week The schedule for bol! weevil cam paign meetings for next week is as follows: j Monday, June 23, at 12:15—Mt. Bethel School. Tuesday, June 24, at 12:15—Citi zens Banking Co., Roswell, Ga. Wednesday, June 25, at 12:15— Cross Roads School. Thursday, June 26, at 12:15—Dr. Glore’s Drug Store, Mableton, Ga. Friday, June 27,/at 12:15—O0sborn School. Come to these meetings prepared to give your experience in controll ing boll weevils. Be on time and you will not be detained from your field ‘work very long. If you have not bought all your summer needs in clothing better come to Miller's Clearance Sale now. AND SURROUNDING TERRITORY Tersely told by R. L. Vansant, County Demonstrator * The term growing stock, or young stock,is applied to ckickens from the time they are taken from the mother hen or brooder until they have ma tured and are ready to be transferred to the laying houses, A general idea prevails that after brooding is ovér nothing more should be done with the young stock until they are transferred to the laying house. Thig period is one that should be giiren a great deal of attention, for set-backs mow will undo practi cally all the efforts put forth during the brooding season. The idea is to keep them growing steadily. Free range is essential to good health, It is possible to wonfine a few birds in a bare yard, but it is not advisable. Many poultry farms have tried confining their young stock, but now they are convinced that broad open ran'g'e‘is essential to good health, vigor, and vitality. Young stock in confinement usually crowd causing many deaths by suf focation and an outbreak of roup js likely. The feed bill con also be cut down by supplying open range. Green feed seems to have a con ditioning effect upon poultry of all kinds. It is very essential in grow ing stock. A bountiful supply of green feed will lessen the feed bhill considerably. Oats, wheat, and rye are excellent for green feed when fed before it gets tough and old. Al falfa and clover fields are among the best for supplying these necessary greens. When green feed in the field runs short, cabbage, collards, lettuce and rape can be supplied form the garden, Shade is often overlooked. Have a tender feeling for the young stock, and give them some place to rest dur ing the day, away from the scorch ing sun rays. This can be done in several ways. The orchard affords a very fine range as the trees fur nish natural shade and the young stock collect a large number of in sects, Natural shade is always best. Corn or sunflower patches offer good shade . If no natural shade is avail able then construct some by use of tree limbs and crocus sacks. This is better than nothing. Very often houses are neglected. Do not put too many in one house. A hounse 6 x 8 will accomodate fifty young ones. This house should be clean, placed in a dry place, well ven tilated, and free from.drafts on the roost poles. Litter should be kept clean in the houses at all times. Once or twice a week they should be cleaned. Droppings should never be allowed to collect in large quan ties. Sanitation cannot be stressed too intesively. When young stock is taken to the range, it should be left there until just before they come into produc tion. It is not a wise idea to leave this stock on the range without any attention at all. Just as soon as the sexes can be told they should be sep arated, all cockerels that are not to be saved for breeders should be sold before, or by the time they reach two pounds. All undesirable pullets should also be sold with these cock erels. Feeding growing stock may not be quite as complicated as feeding baby chicks, but it must be done right. A mash mixture of 50 pounds wheat bran, 25 pounds ground oats (if not available use wheat middling) 35 pounds corn meals 20 pounds meat scrap, should be in hoppers before them all the time. The grain mix ture composed of 25 pounds cracked corn, 25 pounds whest, 15 pounds oats, is very good. This should be fed at least once a day by an atten dent as this gives oppertunity to‘ observe the stock. Any sick or un= healthy birds should be removed at‘ once. Oyster shell should be kept in hoppers all the time as this helps] to build cells and bone. Charcoal is also recommended as it aids diges- tion. Don't forget that free range, green feed, good housing conditions, shade and sanitation are the main things to consider in growing young stock, W. C. McCoy, Poultry Specialist Come to Miller's Great Clearance Sale at once. Positively closes Mon day, June 23, at 6 P. M. PICK UP AND DE STROY PEACH ‘DROPS’ In order to control the infestation of curculio on the late varieties of peaches it is essential to pick up and destroy allthe immature peaches that fall, If fhese drops are picked up and destroyed the numbers of the sec ond brood of worms will be material ly reduced by preventing.thousands of worm of the first brood from reaching the adult stage. Drops wshould be destroyed as soon as col lected by burying in a trench eigh teen to twenty-four inches below the soil surface. A layer of quick lime should be placed over the drops be fore filling in with soil. Destroying the drops by boiling has proven more satisfactory than burying. In spite of the cold weather this past winter it has not reduced the number of insects, as records show at Fort Valley that the curculio is more numerous in peach orchard at the present time than they were a year ago. - On account of the extent of the curculio infestation, the growers are also advised to use the’extension harrow under the spread of the trees as frequently as possible up until July Ist in central Georgia, and July 15th in north Georgia to prevent curculio pupae in the goil “rom reach ing the adult or beetle stagze. George H. Firor, Field Agent in Horticuiture. BROWN SPOT OF CORN - High temperature combined with moist weather favors the develop ment of the disease known as corn brown-spot, which first appears as slightly bleached or yellow spots on the corn leaves. The disease is caused by a minute fungus parasite, which attacks the leaves, leaf sheaths and stalks. The light colored spots, first noticed, turn darker in a few days until they be come brgwn to reddish brown with a lighter margin. They are smal], and when numerous give the blade a rusty appearance, & The treatment for the disease con sitst solely in preventive measures, as no fungicide has been found that will penetrate the spore walls and kill the spores, according to Dr. O. F. Burger, of the Florida Experiment Station. The methods suggested for control where the disease has oc curred are the complete removal of all diseased stalks from the field; crop rotation, and the use of seed corn that is free from the spores of this disease. Where the corn is used for gilage or stover the plants should be cut early and as near the ground as pos sible, in order that as many as pos sible of the spores be removed. In order to obtain seed corn free form spores, pick ears from disease free plants. Gather the ears without husking and husk after they have been carried to some place where spores will not be blown on them af ter the husks are removed. Farmers Sons Large Per Cent of Students at Southern College Macon, Ga., June 18,-—Are South ern colleges being filled by farmers’ sons and young men whose fathers never had a chance to get a college education? Such is true if statistics gathered concerning the fathers of Mercer Uni versity students apply to the parent age of a majority of Southern col legians. Out of the 1,000 students at Mer cer during the past year, records show that the parents of 33.6 per cent were farmers. Coincident to this is the fact that the fathers rep resented, 65 per cent never wen to college. Next to the farmer, ministers lead in the number having sent sons to Mercer, with physicians and lawyers following close behind. . The leading clasifications of the thousand father represented during the past year are: Farmers, 33.6 per cent; ministers, 8.4 per cent; physicians, 6.4 per cent; lawyers, 6 per cent; real estate deal ers, 1.6 percent; insurance men, 1.5 per cent, THE RARIKTTA JOURKNAL NOTIGE, SWEET POTA- Gentlemen: If you expect to grow sweet pota toes for sale next year now is the time to begin ppeparations. The State Board of Entomology with your cooperation hopes to eradicate Stem rot and reduce Black-rot and other sweet potato diseases to a minimum in Georgia next year. In order to accomplish this it will be necessary for you to observe the following pre cautions: 1. Grow your own seed potatoes from vine cuttings. Plant the vines on soil where sweet potatoes have not grown during the past four years. 2. Have your field inspected for stem-rot and other diseases before digging time. 3. Before digging seed potatoes dis infect tools and wagon with bi-chlo ride of mercury solution. 4. Bank potatoes in a new place where potatoes have never b;en banked before. If you have a cur ing house, disinfect all crates used. Clean out and spray the floor and walls of the house thoroughly. 5. Next spring have your potatoes inspected before bedding. Cull them close, throwing out all that show rot, cuts or bruises. 6. Dip the potatoes 10 minutes, in bi-chloride of mercury solution (1 oz. to 8 gals. of water) before bedding. Bed them on new soil where potatoes have never been grown. If these precautions are taken your totatoes will not rot in storage; you will have clean, sound seed next spring, and can grow healthy plants free from all disease. | Next year no Certificate Tags will be issued unless three inspections are made, viz., Field Inspection, Storage ' s For Y Folks, It’s For You That we have gone to considerable expense in installing the Marshall System of Constant Potential Charging Do you know what this means? Itmeansthat you are not obliged to wait an indefinite period of time to have your batteries re-charged. Instead it means that we can now re-charge them In 8 to 10 Hours The Marshall system is considered the latest and most modern method of handling battery service and it has a capacity of serving 25 to 35 batteries each twenty-four hours. » Bring Me Your Batteries ———————-W "_*_——-—M We carry a complete line of the famous Exide bat teries. The only battery people in the world that ‘carry a battery for every purpose; whether for automobiles, rodios; in fact, for every use. ~ | ASK FOR EXIDE BATTERIES Watkins Tire & Battery Co. Church Street : Inspection, and Plant Bed Inspection. These inspections will be made free of charge if this office is notified in advance. Py Co-operate with us in stamping out the Sweet Potato diseases. If your neighbor is selling or giving away uninspected plants please notify us. Help us make Georgia sweet potatoes and plants clean and free from dis ease, R Jeff Chaffin Chief Inspector Now You Can Buy Tough as a Rhino ® In Marietta It is with pleasure that we announce that J. W.Hardeman & Sons Marietta Are handling the splendid CUPPLES CORD TIRES, and from time to time we.are going to tell you about these tires in this space,. Cupples Cord Tires are genuine first quality, covered by the Rubber Association guarantee—the same guarantee which protects users of Goedrich, Firestone and other makes of standard tires. These tires are full air bag eured, special ly eonstructed for medium air pressure, manufactured by the Cupples Company, one of the largest and oldest corpora tions in the country. Call and see them and get the popular prices at which they will sell. : Rhino Tire Company Atlanta Thursdidy, June 19, 1924 COME TO THE PIEDMONT SEC.- TION OF GEORGIA, WHERE THE LATCH-STRING HANGS QUTSIDE. " CARD OF THANKS We wish to express cur most sin cere and heartfelt thanks to our many friends for the loving kindness shown us during the recent illness and death of our dear husband and father. Also for the beautiful floral offerings. May the Lord bless each and every one of you. Mrs. R. A. Steele And Family.