The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-06-19

kmS OIL agriculture pears TO the
common sense needs Of the practical
farmer
While all such teachers have tie
therory, write entertainingly OF soil
surveys, discuss knowingly the pos
sibilities OF this acreage for oats,
that for corn and the other fC cot
ton, i is not often that one s@e5 a
Cana 1T professor come mo l.ae
South, AS paid propagGndist OF
ideas, which il ADOPTED, Will irnpov-
erlsh the great commonwealth that
pays him $4,000 year to teach con-
SerVatiOn
Yet, this is just what Dr. Soule,
the 1913 naturalization Of the State
Agricultural College, is attempting,
through insane suggestion to the
Georgia farmer and breeder.
DR.. Soule, who, in addition to be-
ing paid $4,000 per year, out of the
State treasury, is drawing additional
salary as q correspondent, educating
his readers to loss, says that alfalfa
cannot be grown to success in Geor-
gia.
To counter this the Fancier-
Farmer will wager DR.. Eou1e $1,000
that any average acre in any county
in Georgia can he made to produce
four tons Of alfalfa year, within
three years preparation.
We will let this much-advertised
farm expert, who spells S-o-u-l-e in
every spade of soil he analyses, Sc
lect the county, and we will select
the acre. Or, we WI let Mr. J. J.
Brown, the assistant agricultural
commissioner, select Lotn county and
acre, and it is a go. The loser to pay
the cost Of preparation.
Alfalfa is being grown success
fully, wherever a crop is planted in
Georgia. From Turner county Mrs.
Belts sent to a member of our staff
ten days ago.. a sample bunch of al
falfa that measured nearly three
feet, seeking information as to
whether it was ripe enough to cut.
Many of our farmers are growing
from ten to forty acres--but it was
only a few days since that Jackson
county planter came into orr office
and said that he had been deferred
from planting alfalfa by failure fore
casts sent cut from the State Agri-
cultural College. Upon leaving,
however, he said he would prepare
his land thoroughly, SOW it in peas
this month, and plant alfalfa in Oc-
tober. He will produce five tons the
first year, or $125 per acre. Look
out for him, DR.. So lie.
Then Dr.. Soule would feed cotton
seed meal to chickens. A great
breeder is this DR.. Sou-e. 1t
wouldn't be a billion-dolar industry
long, if there were many such pro-
motors, and these were allowed to
butt in, as it were, and bodily take
the poultry industry, through the
Vaccinations Of politics from the
Experiment Station at Griffin, and
transplant it, with it's appropriation
of encouragement, to Athens, where
he holds in tentative waiting, prob
ably some other expert who is
stranger to climatic conditions in
the South.
And he would grow calves Oh cot
ton seed meal! Well, it is simply
question Of no cattle or no Soules.
Then we und arstand that he would
have all breeding and agricultural
information distributed through the
State Agricultural College. Prob
ably he would study the insects and
tell us more about the san jose scale
and the boil weviI than the State En-
tomologist has ever known.
When that is done, he would look
into other departments of conquest,
and soon, if allowed to have his way,
we would not need department Of
agriculture; the Experiment Station