Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-05

The pony exhibit was well represent
ed by Shetlands owned by Mr.. C. r.
Ellis, of Macon, and ]. p. & W. H
Hall, of Cochran, Ga.
THE BEST TYPES OF Two-HoRsE
CULTIVATORs.
]. NJ o., Carlton, Ga, writes: I am
thinking of buying a two-horse cuItivat-
or, and would like some information
from you in regard to them. Can they
be used successfully on rolling land, and
where can they be obtained?
Two-horse cultivators can be used
with advantage on many of the farms
of Georgia. Our college farm is situ-
ated in the Piedmont region in a very
broken and rolling country, and we
have had no trouble in using two-horse
cultivators here on corn, cotton and
other farm crops OF course, when the
cotton makes any considerable develop
ment, it Is necessary to use a one
horse cultivator Corn can be cultivat-
ed longer and practically all the Gull
tivation can be done quite successfully
with a two-horse implement. OF course,
there are numberless makes on the
market, but the price does not vary
widely We have not tested all of them,
but q number have been in use on our
farm for several years and have prov
en- very satisfactory. OF course, you
know we have no interest in the sale
of any make Of Implement, and are only
anxious to see them used so that part
of the expense of hand labor which has
been depended on in the past may be
eliminated and more work accomplish
ed with greater efficiency at lower
cost through the use of implements
and horse and mule power. This is the
cheapest way for the farmer to handle
his land areas from this date for
ward. ..t.
LATE MATURITY. OF COTTON.
j. r. c., Gainesville. Ga. writes: have
twenty-five acres of cotton, and 1t is
we'll fruited and most of them look to
be rnatured but it will not open. Have
picked about fifty pounds per acre so
far Can j do anything to cause it to
open? Our cotton is badly damaged by
anthracnose worms boring into the bolls,
and brown rot; also had cotton cater
pillars, but they did not damage us as
much as they did last year
The late season is probably responsible
for the fact that your cotton will not
open, and there is little you could do at
the present time which would tend to
hasten it's opening. If the rains would
stop and the weather clear off, the cot
ton would open up quite rapidly, but it
is not likely to do so as long as the
weather conditions of the past few days
continue. 1t is, of course, important that
you secure an unusually early maturing
variety at your elevation above sea level.
You can do much to hasten maturity by
this means even in such an unusually
late season as we are now experiencing.
Insects and fungous diseases have been
unusually bad in the cotton fields this
year, and the damp weather has been
responsible for a part of this trouble.
The real cotton caterpillar develops so
late in the fall that 1t is not likely to do
serious damage in your section of the
state. Spraying with paris green when
the pest first appears will do much to
control this pest. Anthracnose can only
be successfully fought by using seed Of
varieties which have proven resistant to
this trouble.
Several insects do some damage to cot
ton bolls, and, locally, sometimes this is
serious trouble. If you rotate your
cotton, however, and destroy the stalks
so as to prevent Information, and pillow
the land deeply on which your cotton is
growing this fall, we do not think you
will find this a serious trouble next
summer
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