The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-23

What State COIIeSe Is DoihS'
President Andrew M. Soule of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture,
sddressipg the Georgia State Bank
NC, Association, at their recent ses-
sioD in Macon, on the Regeneration
Of Agriculture in Georgia." told the
so,1,ars that it is in their power to
INC about more completely and
-,,iol,1v the regeneration of the agri-
',1+,,ra Of the state than can any
thor class of citizens. From the
,oi1 he said, came the worlds per-
u,orant wealth. To permit wrong
Methods of agriculture rob the soil
~ its fertility is to impair capital
md restrict credit as well as to
threaten the nutrition of the worlds
population.
AZ long as land owners live in
..ou,n and turn their farms over to
,rrorant uenants there is little hope.
ceorgia's soils must be better mixed
a
with brains. The state must raise
m q generation of educated and
trained young men and women for
insnirational leadership in every
community.
While the past decade has been the
most remarkable for the development
of agriculture in Georgia yet, said
Mr.. Soule. in certain lines the state
is far behind. The average size OF
Georgia farm is 965 acres, on
81 which there was an average of only
one horse when there ought to be al
least four. He strongly asserted
that the future success of agriculture
in Georgia largely depends upon the
development of the live stock indus
try. The census shows only an aver
81 age of $72 per farm invested in ma
chinery. whereas efficient and eco
nomic cultivation required ten times
that much.
Effect of the Tenant System.
Of the 291,0 farms in the state
$4,000 are operated by tenants.
While the number of farm owners in
creased 10000 during the last de-
cade the tenants increased $4,000.
As result of the tenant system,
lack of live stock and machinery and
other things the state showed in the
last census an average of II bushels
Of corn per acre, Is bushels of oats
per acre, less than hall a bale of cot
ton per acre. Thousands of boys have
demonstrated that as much as from
80 to 124 bushels of corn can be
grown per acre Abundant evidence
exists that from 40 to IS bushels of
pats can be grown to the acre by
light methods and as much as two
bales of cotton,
Emphasizing the need of mixing
brains with Georgia soil DR.. Soule
falled attention to Minnesota, which
his year has appropriated $780,
100 for the promotion of agricultural
EDUCATION. The state of Georgia is
peng asked for $175, 900 a year for
he College of Agriculture and anoth-
er building worth 100000 to ae-
Gomplsh a greater task than Mime
otas.
What State College Is Doing.
How the College of Agriculture at
linens is lending a hand to the farm
was reviewed together with some
the important lessons that the col
zee has taught. DR.. Soule referred
the college having grown on an
Urinary Piedmont farm an average
6S bushels of oats per acre for
pur years, as much as 6S bushels
oats and Y bushels of corn, how
ming soil increased the yield of
pIh 10 bushels per acre, how inocu-
Vlon and lime of alfalfa increased
e yield more than three times, and
wv savings could be made in fertil-
efs by understanding the require
Fents of the soils.
Ut, Soule told how it had been
uonstrated that a grade Percheron
are could do the work of mule
~ drop foal that was worth
0z.oO at the end of six months;
college COW is showing a profit
?" on a sum equal to $3,S35.50.
the college manufactures serum
AZ saved 80 per cent of hogs where
disease existed in the herds,
lefeas the state is losing million
"ars worth of hogs a year from
disease.
4 campaign for the People.
he college. he said, is making a
npaign against more than half a
mon dollars preventable loss in
= each year in Georgia by teach
NO" to test and grade eggs to
oeIter prices. The value of spray
las been thoroughly demonstrate
" the college in North Georgia
orchards, where trees sprayed
0' per cent of fruit salable while
unSprayed had 80 per cent unsal-
How barns and farm bunga-
van De built at half the ordinary
W adopting plans that the col
furnishes free to farmers; how
1o'lege has developed a strain if
y" mat is resistant to anthrac-
ana suited to boil weevil condi-
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