The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-25
"FACTS FOR THE FARMERS"
ARE SENT OFT FROM THE OFFICE
OF VICE PRESIDENT EGAN.


Railroads Extcnd-This Has Been
His Idea in Compiling Valuable In
formation for the Farmers. Know
ing That Their Prosperity Means
the Prosperity of the CentrnI-Dai-
ries, Hog Raising, Chickens ana
the Use of Cotton Seed Are Com
mended to the Farmers--NeNvs and
Notes of the Railroads.
The Central Railroad is continuing its
efforts in behalf of the farmers seeking to
better their condition by valuable sugges-
tons and placing information within their
reach that experts have passed upon AMI
that, If followed, will be likely TO aid far
! mers materially.
Vice President John NJ. Egan of the
Central has always been an advocate of
the building up of the country through
which railroad runs, helping the people
and the farmers on to prosperity by every
means possible. This is a policy he has
followed, believing that the building up OF
the country means the building up of the
road, the increase of its value and earn
| ing capacity and general prosperity for all.
During the three years Mr.. Egan has
been connected with the Central he has
done much for the farmers, having gone
to considerable expense in their behalf.
In some instances he has furnished seed
| for experiments with new crops or advice
about the different trea tment of old ones.
The opinions of experts have been sought
at an expense TO the Central, and their
views have been widely disseminated in
neat pamphlet form.
The latest of these pamphlets is in an is
sue of $4,000 that are being sent to agents
all along the system for distribution among
the farmers. Each agent is sent twenty
hve with instructions to use his discre-
ton in their distribution care being taken
| TO give them to those farmers who would
be likely to make intelligent use of the
| suggestions given.
The pamphlets are entitled Facts for
the Farmers" who are requested TO
please read and reflect" BY way of In
| PRODUCTION, Mr.. Egen says
by permission of the Secre tary of Ag-
ricuiture, beg to submit for your rerusal
the following excernts from the publ
| cations is ued by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, in the hope that they
VIII prove both interesting and instructive
to you.
MY object in sending this information
to you is that you may become acquainted
ent condition of the farmers in Georgia and
Alabama can be improved.
The original pamphlets, from which
these excerpts have been taken, can be
obtained by writing for same to the Unit
cd States department of agriculture, at
Washington, d. C. Some of them are fur
nished free, upon application, and others
are sold at very low price"
The position of honor in the Facts" d.
that of the opening pages, is given by Mr..
Egan to dairying, the subject being di-
vided into the dairy herd, cattle for the
dairy, attendance and milking and many
other valuable discussions. Facts About
| Mix and Fifty Dairy Rules supple
ment these, and dairymen or those ex-
pecting TO go into the business would do
| well to read what MIR. Egan has compiled
| for their information. He is a great be-
lever in dairying as a source of profit
| for farmers, and nothing would please him
more than to see every farmer along the
line of the Central with a we'll established
| dairy.
Hog Raising in the South" is also dis
cussed at length the industry furnishing
a profitable side line for the farmers
Good advice is given as to the selection
of a breed, while crops are enumerated
| that furnish food direct for the hogs or
admit of their roofing to advantage after
harvesting.
Poultry Is another division of the pam
| DnleI, ana the various DIetQS OF lows InaL
| are found profitable are given. Chickens
| with farmers wives and daughters to care
| for them, are regarded by Mr. Egan as an
| Indispensable adjunct of a well ordered
| farm and what he has to say with refer
| ence to the best breeds will be read With
| interest.
| The use of cotton seed for all that can
| be secured therefrom is advocated by the
| vice president. After some discussion of
! cotton seed oil and cotton seed products
| as food for live stock, he summarizes as
| follows:
Cotton stands pre-eminent among farm
| crops in the ease and cheapness of It's
production as compared with the variety
| and value of its products.
1.-THE amount of soil fertility actually
| removed in a crop of cotton, even when
both seed and Hint are sold is smaller than
| that removed by either corn or oats, and
when care is taken to return the seed or
! an equivalent in meal to the soil these
| losses are almost insignificant.
Cotton roots furnish useful drug: h
stems and leaves together have a cer.siA
value as fodder, and the stems alone have
| been utilized with some success for fiber
| and for fuel; but next in importance to the
| lint stands the seed, which furnishes a
| great variety of valuable products whose
| applications are being rapidly extended.
1.-THE 100000 tons of seed worked at the
| oil mills during the season of 1S93-94 could
| have been made TO produce under favor
| able conditions in round numbers $1,000, 900
| gallons of crude oil, worth, at Is cents per
gallon, SIG, $50, 600; 600 .000 tons of meal
worth, at $40 per ton, 81, 900 600; $50 coo tons
of bulls, worth. at 50 per ton. $19S0,000; be-
| sides hnters to the value of a million or
| more dollars.
'iThe oil is the main product of the seed.
| The larger portion of the oil manufacture
| ed in this country is used in the prepsr-
| alton of food products, principally refined
| lard and salad and cooking oils. 1t is
| also used in the manufacture of soaps of
| various kinds, washing powder, cosmetics,
to some extent for Illuminating pur-
poses. as a lubricant (when refined), in the
manufacture of bolts and nuts and gem
orally as a substitute for olive oil The
| fact that it is not strictly a drying oil
| however renders 1t unfit for use in paints
The refuse from the refining of the oil is
valuable stock for the manufacture Of