The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-23
FARMERS SHOULD
DIVERSITY CROPS.
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old methods are now in comparatively
easy circumstances. Tho National Fdll-s
cational Assuciation has observed 5S this
IT was found to be hard to&induce ss inc
Southern farmer & 10 undertake Il to pay
more taxes for ichoU,s Hhile he was SO \
hard -up Els m ater!ai condition had TO-
! be improved before he could afford heav-
! Ter taxes or to keep his boys In school
instead Of at work J; in the fields Ths
| association is y hclping US conduct our
propa gar,da for better farming methods
as the surest and most direct wa y 20
| the su ccess OF it's aims for the Improve
ment OF educational conditions Y N the
South 5;9a n 3 u; li9S5a3 .s
| n few years ago induced the farmers
OF Perry 4 county, Ala. TO raise alfalfa
and hogs instead OF cotton. One farmer
cut thirty and n half tons OF &alfalfa OH
OF eight acres and sold tho ma Y ior w ~
| q ton. & 3B5 . ssE
Scientists arc experimenting with
view to improviAy the cotton and Dr.
Galloway says he believes some important
dayelopments in this direction may bs
expected soon, il !. @ i5
Plans Laboratory.
9H.,We Il are going to establish plant
Iaboratory8 in Texas, In the neighborhood
of brownsville, !" said DR.. Ga lloway. }Hand
shall probably send some men down
there soon to begin operations. There y
vast territory IN southern ', texas ',, Whicn
g. $undeyeloped, owing to the light an.
mai rainfall. We shall endeavor to as
certain the crops and the particular spe-E
cies adapted to the particular climate.
! Manages and bananas can DO grown
1 there with profit l think"
DR.. Galloway told Of the experimental
! farm near San Antonio. donated BY the
| r. l<tA, 7xuytNt 0h ny
are heing conducted for the purpose Of
nscertaining what crops can be most
nrofitably cultivated IN. n climate 80 dry
a. that in the San Antonio section. Hos
told OF having recently received through
1 DR.. Cook, OF the department, about torty
varieties OF corn from Guatemala from
which considerable is expected In the
wnv OF drought resiatlng qualities, Dr..
| Cook. who has recently returned from
Guatemala, brought one variety OF corn
| which may be we'll adapted to the san
| Antonio section. He says the leaves OF
/ this corn curl up comparatively tightly
when the weather begiSs to grow dry, ana
\ remains In this condition unit! me ram
i falls, 1T suffers very little from lack
~ moisture, and the corn natures -
/ fully as IL In a more humid climate.
Breeding Of Plants,
There is scarcely limit set py ".
galloway upon, what the department may
accomplish In the way OF discovering 10y, heW
varieties, OF Increasing the dlsease-
| resisting qualities OF certain plants ana
81 reducing the breeding OF plants 20 -
point more nearly approaching exactnens'
The department has made y poss'ple 20
produce precisely the kind OF tobacco as
| the plant from which the seed IL taken.
Forivears the tobacco growers We're
troubled by the inability to procure good
seed Il has long been known that tobac.
~ does not produce seed which will
nrod,,ce the kind Of tobacco as the plant
- which the seed grew. The depart-
ment discovered that THIS was que %
foreign pollenization-rthat ls,. ne pollsn
from inferior plants would fertlllze the
aaad plants, and even mulleln would oo-
1 coaionally become crossed upon the to-
hacco, The device Of slipping Q paper
"a . over tho clump of seed pods was hlt
mo-, mo and since that time there has been
~ trouble In making the tobacco crop
nrecisely like the plant which supplied
| the seed. The result Is seen N the to-
Sacco fields Of Maryland, where tho
IL IA last earSyielded, IN many instances,
4 On bounds an acre, whereas 700 was Q
tair Yield under the old method OF grows
ing the seed, 49,.
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