Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-04

other farm products should be dsvel-
oped.
Live stock industries should be en-
couraged.
Boys and girls industrial CLUBS
should be fostered.
Publications should be prepared and
distributed giving definite information
on topics in which the farmers ana
farmers boys and girls are Interested
Correspondence and reading courses
should be maintained.
Research and discovery OF new truths
concerning agriculture should be pro-
NOTED.
The college Of agriculture should be
made cooperative clearing house or
agricultural information for the people
of the state, old and young
AGRICULTURAL SOIL SURVEY.
Referring more In detail to the agri-
cultural soil survey. IL Is known that
the three elements Of plant food are
nitrogen. PHOSPHORUS and potash. a
siol survey In Brooks county shows
practically no potash. "A soil survey
in Barlow county shows ample potash.
and yet the farmers of Brooks and
Barlow counties are buying the same
commercial fertilizers and putting il
upon their soil.
BY the use OF $4,000 in cooperation
with similar sum which will be fur
nished by the national government, ar-
ricultural soil surveys can be made in
sufficient number of counties In the
state, the soils in the counties being
classified and analysed. to furnish the
farmers In every county In Georgia
practically accurate information as to
the plant food in any particular aof1
which he Ncultivates. He will then add
that commercial fertilizer which hrs
soil needs for the particular plant culti-
waited instead of wasting his money by
haphazard purchases.
Referring to the work of Improved
strains of seeds and as an illustration
OF what can in this way be accomplish
ed, the college OF agriculture has de-
veloped cotton seed that is practical-
ly immune to anthracnose or boil rot
1t has been sent to twenty-six places
In the state where 1t is being grown
The successful development and use OF
this seed would save the farmers or
Georgia approximately $4,000. 100000
year, for they lose cotton worth about
that much from this disease.
Seed development through the col
leges Of agriculture In other states
have increased immensely the net pros-
its which the farmers OF those states
have made by their labors
Georgia owes as much to her farmers
as any state in the Union and we must
not be behind in serving them and
thereby serving all the people.
Boys and girls industrial clubs
should be organized in every rural
school in the state. 1 wish every bov
in every rural school next year would
join corn club and cultivate his patch
at home. Every girl should be a MEM
Der of the girls industrial club ana
study home making and home hygiene
as part Of her school work
The state college Of agriculture, with
the cooperation of rural school SUPER
visors, can accomplish this result.
l believe that $4,000 appropriated to
the state College of Agriculture anfau-
any Tor the next two years, TO be used
upon the lines l have suggested. would
be the best investment ever made BY
the people OF the state. I have gone
over with the trustees the line OF work
which would be done While II fs not
feasible to undertake exactly to ~claasi-
~ the way In which the money would
be used. the tentative plan fs as follows:
For general extension and DEM
/ onstratfon work. .... g1sB0e
For agricultural soil survey 10000
For boys and girls clug work. 10000
For plant Improvement and dis
tribution Of seed. ........ 1000
For horticulture. ........... 1880
For poultry, live stock and dairy
nusDanory- .......-... 10000
Total. -. -. -. $50. 900
Upon most OF the lines we will be able
to obtain from the national government.
through the department. OF agriculture
appropriations equal to state approprfa-
tons.
Never before IN the history Of the
state have the farmers been so ready
to meet work of this kind and to utilize
1t.
Never has there been time when It
was as important as now that intensi-
fled, scientific methods should be follow
ed on the farm.
The immense return which IL will
bring to the farmers, and, therefore, to
everybody, can scarcely be estimated
The line of work proposed will also
carry knowledge to the boys and instruc-
ton to the girls worth more than any
$4,000 we can spend In the rural
schools.
If it were necessary to take this sum
from what otherwise would go to the
rural schools. it will be worth far more
/ to the rural schools than the money
spent directly in them.
4 With this work done from the State
College Of Agriculture. with the infor-
nation distributed through bulletins and
/ through the local press as well rs
through personal visits and farm insti-
tutes. in short period the majority or
the farmers Of Georgia will be cuItfvaf-
ing their land almost as successfully a.
the very best are doing now
With this work from the State College
Of Agriculture and with the rural school
supervisors for whom have asked. the
proficiency Of the rural school can be
doubled.
Instead OF crying back to the farm
the duty is on the state and nation e
help make the farm remunerative and
nelp relieve rural life of some OF Its
burdens.
There are other subjects which I
know will be before you. but which I
c-nhot discuss now.
1 believe this legl--ature viii be mem
orable for its constructive work.
Let US lay aside all partisan plans and
labor earnestly together, moved alone
| by the desire TO build Georgia and serve