The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-30
REPORT OF HIS
WORK MADE BY
Mr.. NJ QUARR|E
CROP EXPERT SAYS COTTON
AVERAGE IN EscAMBIA COUNTY
HAS BEEN cURTAILED-coRN
PROMISING, BUT DAT CROP
HAS MISUNDERSTANDING
CULTIVATION IS SCARCE.

| At the regular monthly meeting OF
| the Escambia County Crop Improve
ment Association held Monday, in the
rooms of the commercial association,
Mr. c. K McQuarrie, the agricultural
adviser, submitted his report cover
ing the work for the month Of April.
This showed that he visited 122
| farms, covering the territory of Cot
tage Fill, Bluff Springs, Muscogee.
Oakgrove, Bradt, Roberts, Pine For
est, Kupfrian Park, Ferry Pass, Can
Torment, Barrineau Park and McKtn-
nonville. He travelled 413 miles by
rail- 127 miles by team, and 81 miles
by auto: reported general farm crops
in a backward condition, owing to a
late spring more particularly in the
northern part of the county. Quite a
number In the cotton growing sec
lions are reducing the cotton acreage
and some are cutting 1t out entirely
and growing some other crops; they
| are afraid of the boil weevil and
owing to the cool nights prevailing,
| this crop is not looking well. Mr.. Nc
! Quarrfe suggested some methods to
help get the crop hurried toward bet
ter conditions.
| Corn is very promising where the
soil has received proper treatment"
/ he said, ''the wire worm and cool soil
I
| in some places, and a few farmers
have ploughed over their land and re-
planted the crop. This is a good plan
to pursue, as It warns up the soil and
helps quick termination. The bud
worm is apt to be troublesome, how
ever in late planted corn, but If proper
methods are used, this can be success
fully overcome.
| '"The oat crop has suffered severely
from prolonged rainy weather in the
early spring; some fields are not worth
cutting. The condition of this crop
shows very conclusively the lack Of
proper treatment after these rains.
/ The lack of weeder or harrow on
the farms, to run over that crop after
a rain has cost the farmers Of the
county thousands Of dollars in the
oat crop this year.
Irish potatoes promise well, but for
| lack of good seed the stand is poor.
This is a crop that can be grown as
a cash crop by every farmer in the
county. and is very profitable when
/ the proper methods are used in its
production.
'I am very much surprised to find
SO few of the farmers and truckers
growing strawberries. The local mar
ket is a good one for this fruit, and
at present fully eighty per cent of the
strawberries consumed in Pensacola
are from outside of Escambia county;
/ this is a state of affairs that should
| not exist and IN the years to come
an effort should be made to grow
enough of this fruit not only to sup
ply the local market, but to ship TO
other markets, because 1t is very
| profitable crop to grow. am sur
urised to find so few farmers with
fruit trees on their places. Figs and
peaches can be grown very prof1ta-
bly,. end so can Satsuma oranges, and
japanese persimmons-
II find the fertilizer question a very
live subject among all of those visited.
! have supplied them with formulas for
/ the different crops and explained as
well as possible methods of getting
what they should. for the crops in
view.
Truck crops such as cantaloupes,
watermelons. tomatoes and beans. do
best when sprayed at the proper state
of growth by Bordeaux mixture. Have
| suggested to those in this line of work
| that they provide themselves with
sprayers and some of the dry materials
| to use when conditions demand IT.
| Have been on the poor farm and
suggested to the superintendent q line