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Thfi Storing Of Sweet Potatoes
T. H. McHattton, Professor Of Horti
culture, State College of Agri.
One of (he greatest problems that
will confront the nation this year will
he the storage of crops after tin y are
produced. Il is an easy maiter for
the Georgia fanner to grow sweet
potatoes. Jt Is a very common crop
and one that is grown extensively
throughout the stale. The problem of
holding this crop over for winter use
is a vital question at this time.
Storing in hills and jits is not very
practicable. We cannot afford to lose
this year the potatoes that normal
ly rot under such conditions.
The most approved method of sweet
potaio storing is to harvest the crop
as soon as it is mature, to thoroughly
grade the potatoes, throwing out all
the bruised, injured or rotting ones.
These may be immediately u> ed either
on the table or fed to hogs, if they ara
not fit for table use. The good pota
toes should then bo carried to a stor
age house. This storage house should
be made with dead air space in the
walls and with a double roof. The
potatoes are carried into this house
and put on trays or bins in the sides
of the house. A stove is in the cen
ter of the sweet potato room and the
temperature is brought to from Hu to
JOO degrees, Where -it is held for a
week or 10 days until the potatoes
have gone through their sweat. After
this the lire is allowed to go out and
the temperature is kept between 50
and GO degrees. This may necessi
tate a fire being built in the stove
from time to time during the winter.
l,t may lie rather early for this in
formation to bo given out, hut now is
the time for the Georgia farmer to
think about the conservation of nis
food supplies through the winter.
The sweet potato house should be built
before the crop is harvested.
How To Save Onions
T. H. McHatton, Professor Of Horti
culture, State College of Agrl.
Tlie great trouble that the Geor
gia farmer has with onions is hold
ing them through the winter. The fol
lowing methods of handling are rec
ommended in order to save the onion
crop. The usual practice is not to
harvest onions until the tops are
thoroughly dead. This, under our
conditions, Is a mistake. As soon as
the first few Inches of the .top begins
to yellow itnd die (he onions should
he either plowed out with a small
one-horse plow, or one should go
through the field with a potato hook
or tine hoe and puli each onion over
on its side. In this way the top dies
down an.l dries out without ranking
a point of entry for water into the
onions where the top bends and
splits just above the bulb. After. the
top lias died and dried and the onion
has pretty well dried out it should he
removed from the field and spread in
a well ventilated, airy place. Here
tlie curing is completed. After this
the tops may be removed and tlie
onions put in racks or crates in a
storage room where they may be pro
tected from freezing.
If the Georgia farmer can save the
onion crop this year, even tlie small
crop of homo garden, it will mean a
great deal of food for use this w inter.
Increasing The Oil Content
Of Cotton Seed By Selection
L. E. Rast, Jr. prof, of Agronomy,
Ga. State College of Agriculture.
As a result of four years' work in
the Cotton Industry Laboratory of tho
Georgia State College of Agriculture,
it was found that the oil content of
cotton seed Is an inherent character
istic of the variety and that the per
centage of oil in' (lie seed of any va
riety can be increased by selection
with no corresponding loss of oilier
desirable qualities. There are slight
variations from year to year depend
ing upon tho season, but these environ
mental factors influence all varieties
alike, and the* seed of varieties that
were high in oil content the first year
have remained so during subsequent
seasons, in a general way, the varie
ties with tlie highest proportion of
meats to hulls produce the mom oil;
hut there is no positive correlation be
tween percentage of meats and oil
content since the percentage of oil
in the meat varies with the variety.
The difference between ihe seed of
the highest and lowest oil yielding va
rieties for the three years was 10.4 gal
lons per ton. This means that by
growing the superior sorts and elim
inating the inferior ones the aver
age value of cotton seed could be in
creased $3.00 to SIO.OO per ton.
Our experiments have clearly
shown that there is no decrease in
yield of lint cotton as the oil con
tent in tho seed is increased; but on
the other hand, the strains showing
the greatest oil content in tlie seed
are the highest, yielders of lint cot
ton per acre. Thus in 'addition to high
oil content, it seems the seed can ho
made more valuable bv reason of the
high yield of lint. With an annual
crush of 800,000 tons of seed in Geor
gia, attention to this line of work will
result In the addition of at least SS,-
000,000 a year to the agricultural in
come of our state.
Jrop Acreage For
One-FEorse Farm
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia
State College of Agriculture.
Field and Food Crops.
On the average one-horse farm in
the South there should4m. planted in
1917:
5 acres in corn and velvet beans.
5 acres in c.vwpeas for hay, to
be followed by winter oats.
5 acres in cotton.
5 acres In peanuts to be crushed
for oil or grazed down by hogs.
1 % acres in sweet potatoes to be
followed by winter cover crops.
1% acres in alfalfa or crimson clo
ver, cow'peas or soy beans.
1 acre in rape, oats, veich, cow
peas or soy beans.
1 acre in truck crops followed
by hay or grazing crops for hogs.
10 acres should be set aside for
pasturage for cows and hogs.
(4 acre in orchards.
% acre in garden.
Total cultivated land, 28 acres.
Animals Which Should Be Maintained.
1 good horse or mule (work
stock).
2 miik cow’s.
1 calf.
1 yearling (slaughter for meat).
2 brood sows.
80 hens.
57- Total.
These should be maintained on ev
ery one-horse farm in order that the
family may he properly supplied with
ihe necessary milk, butter, meat,
chickens and eggs.
This plan should be adjusted or mod
ified by the proper committees having
the food ijiipplies in charge in tho re
spective states to meet local condi
tions.
World’s Food Supply Deficient
J. P. Campbell, Dir. of Ext., State
Col. Of Agri., Athens, Ga.
Tlie following statement by David
Gubin, American Representative to
the International institute of Agricul
ture, is of vital concern to tlie Ameri
can people, and Georgia farmers
should do their share to relieve the
tense situation.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Rome via Parts, April 5.
“For the first time in many years
there exists,a, deficit in the supply of
corn, wheat, rye, barley and oats, esti
mated at a, total of 130,000,000 bushels
less than tlie normal requirements
for countries open to trade. The
situation is worse than was expected
last October.’’
Who is going to feed Georgia this
year?
Tho West lias been feeding the
State to the extent of about $85,000,-
000 per year.
Congress has declared that a state
of war exists wiili Germany. This
calls for an army of a half million
to a million men wdio must be fed.
The Western supply which has been
coming to Georgia will necessarily he
diverted to feed our army as well as
the army of the Allies
The following statement by Asst.
Secretary Vrooman of the United
States Department of Agriculture be
fore the Cattlemen's Association in
Atlanta, Georgia, April 5, is emphatic;
, "The most important question con
fronting us is this: Feeding our ci
vilian population, our army and navy
and the armies of our allied powers.
Unless the South grows food crops in
abundance,7—in greater quantities
than this section has grown at any
time in its history, the South —like
Germany,—faces starvation."
It may be a little late —but not too
late- for the farmers to consider se
riously more crops for food and feed
stuff s.
Tlie boys and girts should be en
couraged to join corn, pig, canning
poultry and- other agricultural clubs.
Conserving ': products" raised, es
pecially by canning and preserving
perishable frutWund vegetables.
Save the breeding stock, as these
will be at a premium, not only during
the interval of the war, but Immedi
ately afterwards.
Help your neighbors to secure
planting seeds and fertilizers.
Farmers should undertake to feed,
not only themselves, but their city
neighbors. City folks should buy the
local farmers' products in preference
to imports.
This is a Patriotic duty as well as
a necessity.
We have the authentic information
from the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, that wi ll the western supplies
diverted, there is a possibility of
Georgia suffering from hunger be
fore Christmas.
Unless we meet the emergency,
Georgia will be a weakness to the na
tion in this war.
It is also pointed out by President
Soule that it may be impossible dur
ing the progress of the war to secure
the transportation of cotton to the
eastern markets. Consequently, the
United States could manufacture only
about seven millipns hales and the
price of cotton would likely drop to
a low rate.
Call on the county agent when he
can be of service to you in suggest
ing what, when and how to plant
many garden and field crops.
PEARSOX TftlßrXK, JUNE 1, ]<>l7
MUST STAND GREAT PRESSURE
Steel in Modern Guns Is Subjected to
Strain Which Is Beyond Ordinary
Comprehension.
Modern high-power guns could not be
built without steel strong enough to
resist the enormous pressure to which
they are subjected. How great these
pressures are is beyond comprehen
sion, says the Wall Street Journal.
At each discharge of a gun, In the
case of field pieces, for less than three
tenths of u second the pressure ex
ceeds 20 tons to the square inch, and
the speed of the projectile leaving the
muzzle is more than 2,500 feet a sec
ond. The energy developed is placed
at about 500,000 foot-pounds. In other
words, considering the cannon a mo
tor working during an exceedingly
short time, its rating is about 20,000,000
horse power.
Not only must the metal be able to
resist these strains time after time,
hut to do so under unfavorable con
ditions, such as high temperatures
produced by the explosives. And not
only must the metal of the gun he
us strong as this, hut it is the same
with that of the shell. The shell of
a French ''7s” supports a pressure
estimated at 17 tons, the work
of the device that takes up the recoil
reaches about 12 tons to the square
inch, and the mount neutralizes at
each discharge about two tons.
It hits been possible to test, in the
machine shops the pieces of a battery
that has fired several thousand shots
and to show that they have suffered
not the slightest deformation.
WHERE COAL IS S6O A TON
Prices Have Scared So High in Italy
That People Have Resorted to
Ancient Heating Method.
With coni selling at SBO n ton, and
the government gradually taking over
all existing supplies and prohibiting
Its use by hotels and hoarding houses,
and with gas and electricity dear or
the supply reduced. Italian households
arid business offices have had to re
vert to the ancient method of burning
finely powdered wood charcoal dust
in 11 two-gallon earthen Jar, says the
Toronto Globe.
The Jar Is filled half full of char
coal dust, placed in the open air or
near an open window, and some live
iouls of wood or charcoal put in the
renter of the dust. Slow combustion
is started and gradually the entire sur
face of the dust burns to ashes while
ihe smoldering lire reaches downward.
When, after 12 hours, no more smoke
and little gas Is given off, the heated
jar Is placed In the cold room and let
stay there for 21 hours, after which
a fresh layer of dust Is placed in the
jar and the process repented.
Before the war this means of heat
ing had been abandoned except by the
very poor.
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