Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-31
Triton FARMERS PLAN
COOPERATIVE SOCIETY
Meeting is Called for We'd
neSday 10 Devise Plans
For Organization
Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)


Triton, Ga, Dec. 2S.-The Triton
chamber of commerce jointly with a
committee Of prominent farmers of Tiff
county has called a meeting Of farmers
of the county for Wednesday, January 8,
at 10 a. m. for the double purpose
Of organizing an association of farmers
for the purpose the work Of cooperative
farm demonstration in the county, and
of meeting the dairy instruction car
of the Southern railway, which will be
If Triton on the morning of January g.
The Second District Agricultural
school, located here, has recently in
stalled dairying machinery, the first In
this county and in consequence this in
dustry has been given considerable I'M
petus, and many farmers are contemplat-
ing an increase in their dairying Ia
ciIities. The coming of the dairy car
at this opportune time will attract
large attendance.
At the farmers meeting it is hoped
that an effort to finance the county farm
demonstration work for the succeeding
two or three years will be successful.
The comprehends the raising of $1,000,
to which will be added another thou
sand offered by the Chicago Crop I'M
provement committee, without strings,
for the advancement of improved meth
DDS in farming.
At this. meeting some facts will be
given which prove that scientific or
book farming does pay. Something
more than a year ago agents or the
United States department. of agricul-
ture and the State College of Agricui-
ture authorized the Triton chamber OF
commerce to appoint county demon
stration agent w. S. Smith was named.
A condensed statement of the result
of the years work shows: Fifty-six
farmers cultivated a total of 2OS acres
of cotton and 146 acres of corn in
patches of from one to five acres each
The cotton yield averaged 1926
pounds of seed cotton per acre against
former average of $50 for the same
land, and twenty-four bushels OF corn
against former average of less than
good corn year in Georgia The total
fourteen bushels, and this was. not
value of the products Of the S54 acres
was $5,S67, which, while large as
comparative result, is much below what
this some or other land can be made to
yield with the experience of this year
to fortify the work of next year.
The demonstration next year will be
extended to other products, on which
greater values per acre can be gained.
Myers Brothers, sold $500 worth OF
strawberries from three acres, they
made 1000 bushels of sweet potatoes on
forty acres, and on one or these acres
which they cultivated with especial
care, they produced SsS bushels. Some
of these potatoes they will sprout ana
the remainder they are holding for a
dollar and S1.25 per bushel. Corn club
boys raised variously from 80 to lit
bushels of corn per acre. E. G.. Hood
raised on ninety-six acres-some Of II
new land, from sixty to ninety-five
bushels of Irish potatoes at an average
net gain of $40 per acre and followed
this crop with sweet potatoes of which
he raised 200 bushels per acre and
which he,is holding for the spring mar
ket.
1t is the idea Of working the land to
secure the maximum yield which the
chamber of commerce is endeavoring to
have the farmers take up, ana the safest
and quickest way to rach this Is
through the expert knowledge and In
struction of men educated to the work