The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-09-23
Farmers Round Up Institute
Held at mississippi A. s
M. College.
Concluded From Last Week.


ture. Professor A. B. Mckay,
In a few we'll chosen remarks intro
duced the subject and the speakers.
Mr.. Jno. w. Day of Crystal Springs
In his easy but forceful manner
told how to make the soil rich and
productive, when and how to plant,
cultivate and harvest the various
garden crops, laying great stress
on the matter of getting large
yields at the least expense and la
Dor from small areas, how to follow
one crop with another in rapid sue
cession. how by studying the soil,
the different crops that may be
grown in proper rotation etc., the
land may be gradually render
ed more and more productive. Mr..
]. w. Quarles of Long Beach,
Miss, after briefly speaking of the
trucking industry OH the Gulf
Coast, in his own attractive style,
impressed his hearers with the i'm
portance of making the gardens
and the orchard important factors
in the matter of reducing living ex-
penses by keeping the family con-
stantlY supplied with variety of
nutritious and helpful food. He
gave many helpful suggestions as
to the manner of making the fall
garden, canning and otherwise pre-
serving fruits and vegetables, and
growing at small expense at home
many articles of food which when
purchased in the markets come at
high prices.
Prof. E. E. Ferris, of the Nc
Neil Experiment Station, discussed
the subject of commercial fertiliz
ers in very instructive manner.
He said that the consumption of
these fertilizers in Mississippi had
grown from II 900 tons in 1896 to
I4o,o 900 tons in 1908 and that the
cost to farmers about two and one
half millions of doIlars:that roughly
speaking the several plant food ele-
ments cost the farmers of Missis-
sippi as follows:
Potash, $500. 900; Nitrogen. $780,
900 Phosphoricacid, SI.soo.ooo.
The results of all his experiments
indicated that at least for the pres
ent potash was not needed in these
fertilizers.
That nitrogen and phosphoric
acid were needed, but that the nj
trogen could be gotten from the
atmosphere by cow peas, and other
pod bearing plants much cheaper
than it could be bought i'll CONNER
cial fertilizers. The average fertil-
izer sold in this state is made by
mixing together 1900 lbs. of acid
phosphate GOO lbs. of cotton
seed meal and 200 lbs. of kahn
it. This cotton-seed meal has
feeding value for live stock equal
to its fertilizer value for plants.
and experiments at Mcneil have
shown that it is easily possible to
get both values out of it. He said
the farmers were paying five cents
a pound for the phosphoric acid of
acid phosphate, but that in many
instances they might substitute the
ground phosphate rock at one
fourth the cost per pound.
By special invitation President H.
L. Whitfield of the Industrial
institute and College address
ed those present on the subject
OF the State Home Improvement
Association recently organic
ed at the Industrial Institute
and College. President Whitfield
outlined the plan for organizing
the women of the counties and
communities of the state into clubs
for the study OF all the problems
of home making. All questions
incident to home planning, decora-
ton, furnishing, sanitation, physi-
cal conveniences. the relation oi
the home to the school and church,
the parents as teachers of their
children, and all like questions will
be carefully studied, and through
meetings for the exchange OF ex-
perIences, DuIIetins, institutes &C., /,
this information l. to be dissent