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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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