The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-10-20


wnlcn are worth quite as much as the
solids, and the solid manure is often
permitted to heat and burn to an extent
that depriSes it of half the nitrogen il
contains. Horse manure, which has the
liquid mixed with it, will very surely
burn so as to injure it if nothing be
mixed with it. The best and the most
available material to use for an absorbent
is fine dry muck; not wet muck. but
well dried. It should be dug out sew
eral years before used, and to make il
fine and dry, it should be spread on dry
land, say two or three feet thick. and
the pillow and cultivator run over ii
often enough to prevent the growth of
grass or weeds. When it gets fine and
dry it should be put under cover. where
it will be handy to the cattle, and where
it will be perfectly dry. With such
material at hand the farmer can save all
of the waste materials of both the house
and barn that have in them the elements
of plant food. 1t requires but a very
small quantity of this material to absorb
the liquids of the farm or to prevent the
escape OF ammonia. But when the
farmer attempts to prevent waste bv
cartlng to his barnyard large quantities
OF green muck. he makes a great mis-
take. for 1t will not absorb the LIQUIDS,
and 1t, to considerable extent, INJURIES
the solids; first, by delaying decomposi-
ton when applied to the soil, and
second by filling the soil with an acid
that is HI state to injure rather than
benefit plant growth.
THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE IN
AMERICA.
"An expert of the Powell irrigation
survey claims that the irrigable lands
OF the Central Vert, now wholly bar
rem, will make eight states like Indiana. -
This statement is depressing agricul-
ture in the North. Indiana now makes
II 100000 bushels of corn and Al, 1928, 600
bushels of wheat. Duplicate that eight
times over and you will understand what
burden of overproduction of corn and
Wheat the farmers of the North and
West will labor under. Already in
many parts of the West corn is burned
as fuel because it cannot be sold at cost.
Let the incoming tide of foreign farmers
occupy the immense unsettled tract
furnishing eight SiNes the arabic land
OF lndiana-let them~go to, raising corn
and wheat, and it is easy to see what the
result will be.
How different is it with the farmers
OF the South. Here we have monopoly
OF the best money crop that is grown from
the soil. A territory fifty times the size
OF Indiana may be added to our farm
area, but it does not increase one pound
the yield of cotton. This is the Southern
farmers monopoly. The South will and
must remain the worlds supply fo1.
staple. Twenty years ago the foreign
supply OF cotton was nearly equal to the
American supply. But the foreign sup
ply has decreased 1000, 900 bales. and the
American supply has increased 4 1000, 00O
bales. Egypt, Brazil, India, Russia
none of these can compete with the
Southern States Of America in supplying
the world with cotton. 1t is our monop-
oily. 1t is what God gave us when he
intended that these states we all love sc
we'll should come into their inheritance
at last, even though they come through
travail and sorrow.
This method of treatment for smut in
wheat and oats is worth 81 .000, 900 to the
farmers of Michigan. and in proportion
to the crop, is valuable in Georgia. 1t is
taken from Bulletin 81 of the Michigan
Experiment Station:
MOTHOD OF TREATMENT FOR SMUT II
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WHEAT.
Have two kettles of water not more
than two feet apart Kettle No. !
should contain warm water from III
degrees to $50 degrees Fahrenheit.) TIL,
water in kettle No. 2 should be heated
to 1876 degrees Fahrenheit. The first i
for the purpose of warming the see(
preparatory to dipping them into tn
second. Unless this precaution is take1
it will be difficult to keep the water il
the second vessel at the proper tempera
ture." The seed to be treated should b.
placed in a sack that will allow tn
| water to pass through readily "a coars,
gunny sack is good) According to tn,
size of the kettle, the sack may contain
from One-half to one bushel. A les.
amount will make the process slow anG
larger amount will be unwieldy, anG
some of the kernels may escape treat
ment. Dip the wheat into kettle No.
lifting it out and plunging it in two OF
three times. This process will take but
minute or so. Now dip it into the
second kettle with water at 1874 degrees
or 1876 degrees: keep the wheat well
stirred. Perhaps there is no better way
than to lift it out and plunge it in sew.
eral times. This should be continued ter
or fifteen minutes, according to thettem
perature of the water, and then spread
out to dry. A second person should reg
late the temperture of the water and dc
nothing else. Probably it will be found
best to have a fire under kettle No. 9
sufficient to raise the water to 145 degrees
or $50 degrees Fahrenheit, and then ado
cold water to reduce it to 1874 degrees OF
49, degrees Fahrenheit when the seed is
put in.
If at the end of ten minutes the TEN.
perature of the water has not been re
duced below 1873 degrees, the seed should
be removed and dipped into cold water
If below 1873 degrees Fahrenheit, il
should be left in fifteen minutes or ever
longer if the temperature should fal
below 1870 degrees.
FOR SMUT IN OATS.
The treatment is essentially the same
for oats except that the temperature OF
the water in kettle No. 2 should be 13f