Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-21


certain, as well as economic methods of
putting within the reach of thousands of
people at a trihing cost some of the very
essential and fundamental facts pertain
ing to farming which have been accumu-
lated through scientific research during
the past few years. With the co-opera-
ton and active interest of those whom
this work will certainly benefit and in
spire great good is bound to follow in
its wake. The college is ready and anx-
ious to do its share. Let every communi-
ty interested in this great work indicate
| its approval by sending in an application
for school at the earliest possible date.
DEVELOPING COTTON IMMUNE TO
ANTHRACNOSE.
The press of the state frequently calls
attention to the fact that we are suffer
ing tremendous losses on account of an
thracnose attacking the cotton fields OF
Georgia This is very true, and we full
ly realize the Importance or seriousness
of the situation, and for the information
of our readers, would say that the Col
lege of Agriculture is working on this
problem. Professor DeLoach has during
the present year grown a patch of Cooks
cotton, which he has carefully selected
and which is apparently free from an
thracnose. We expect next year to grow
considerable area of this cotton on the
college farm and hope we may be In po-
sition to distribute some seed of the
same. Possibly a very limited amount of
seed can be sent out this year to a few
farmers who will grow it with special
care, though We think it inadvisable to
send out seed of any strain with which
we have been working until il has been
given sufficiently long to demonstrate to
our satisfaction that it is free from any
special defect which we have been trying
| to eliminate.
This special patch of Cooks cotton has
yielded more than two bales per acre.
This cotton was grown through the use
of compost and farm-yard manure ap-
piled at the rate of two tons per acre,
with $50 pounds of 3-10-4 fertilizer. You
will see that the amount of fertilizer
used was not excessive and is easily with
in the reach of any farmer. The land
was well prepared for the crop, the COM
post being used under the drill row. The
compost undoubtedly made II possible for
this cotton to hold it's foliage and to
Withstand the drought to better advantage
than much under which fertilizer alone
was used, and this lesson of itself, If full
ly appreciated by the farmers of the state,
would more than repay the amount the
college has cost or will cost the state in
the next ten years. The writer is fully
cognizant of the potential nature Of COM
mercial- fertilizer and that the same must
be used in Georgia. but would like to en-
phasize the point, which is not appreciat-
ed as it should be, that much better
results will follow the use of commercial
fertilizers where the land is supplied with
a fair amount of vegetable matter, either
in the form of farmyard refuse or green
crops incorporated in the soil. Since
will Weld a. cent of
lint, which is probably a larger per cent
than any other variety which can be
grown in Georgia, the elimination of an
thracnose to which it is peculiarly sub
iect, means much to our farmers since
this cotton is adapted for growth over a
large part of the state. / have no doubt
that Professor DeLoach will be success
full in his effort to develop resistant
variety. and have taken this occasion
10 notify our readers of what was going
on so that they might realize that the
collage is fully alive to the importance
of this problem, and is making l believe
commendable progress in the direction
of developing a strain resistant to an
thracnose.
Aside from the work in progress on an
thracnose, / might say in passing tnat
Professor DeLoach has thousands OF ny
hrids growing on his experimental piats
and that he is developing some unusually
interesting and promising varieties OF cot
ton. We should be more than pleased 70
have the citizens of Georgia Visit our Gem
ons+ration field and familiarize themselves
with what is going on, believing tha' ny
fitted as well.
roi,or Agricultural Department Semi weekly
Iournsl. / will give my mode OF Iarnlhs RIM
I terrace all my lands, so as the Top O On ~
.arrace hank is developer at each emu; on -
tober / / sow in drill one acre OF osts , ion f cot
~ run fertilizing with 10 bushels Oh coz
ton seed per acre. 1hose 'no' ~S
81 sny october 1 ten acres in wheat IN 1rl US
nstng as fertilizer Is bushels OF cotton seeu tn
go 7 break all my land, IL possible, III '"o
su ANYWAY. / lay off ell my lands win
middle buster right when l want my 0on ~
cotton rows, each row forming M "a winter rains.
IT is the washing or teaching Of lands mat uoes
~" In the spring / use from 800 to 900 Poup Ss
.. sotton seed meal and acids per acre IN lhe
al S,,S - hreak ont I use all the lot manure
can on my corn in the drill Win zVV Pou"u'
'i Liant corn in March; cover with double
s.nct nIov l plant cotton on April TO- Corn Is
nIented with heavy ridges. Just as my ,od
bagins 10 sprout ] run a harrow over lne ianu'
do the same with my cotton 80 land
never stop a pillow except Tor OUT i thn
Moro lands are ruined by not blowing than
soH meas after stubble using a harrow 70
oo,ar The stubble shades the land untn ulc
49, start I plant peas in the middle OF my
corn rows at last blowing: .+ura for
want two acres Of Bermuda pasture TOE
each head Of COW or mule; . ~ Ss'S dTr When
nv neas begin to rpen ! NOV the vines, put
Nm in pens with the wheat straW-slA. i0" ,'sr
ers Of each acknowledgement suhhins, IL
The pen With sheating plank rev rons