The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-08

Forest Service also will give special
attention to the development of the
Georgian portion of the Appalachian
National Forests, especially in the
direction of planting and the con-
struction of roads and trails. 1t will
also cooperate with the State, dollar
for dollar, in preventing forest fires
and depredations of forest insects.
Soils and Road Building:
The Bureau OF Chemistry also
will continue it's Investigations into
the spoilage of corn meal and it's
possible connection with pellagra.
The branch laboratory of the Bureau
OF Chemistry at Savannah will be
maintained and will continue to do
active work in preventing interstate
commerce in adulterated and mis-
branded foods and drugs and those
which have deteriorated or become
unfit for human consumption.
The Bureau of Soils, in cooper
alton with the State, will continue
it's soil surveys in Clay, Colquitt
| TattCall and Terrell Counties.
In road building matters, the De-
partment will maintain a road build
ing engineer in Georgia to cooper
/ ate with the county and other au-
thorities in the development and
maintenance of the line of good high
| way running from Atlanta to Wash
ington, and giving the territory
through which it passes good market
roads to shipping and selling centers
| The department will also cooperate
with some of the counties such as
Glynn in helping them devise and
develop logical systems of market
roads.
Animal Production:
"The appropriation for the eradi-
cation of cattle ticks has been in
creased from 1926, 900 to 100000
| Provision is made that $4,000 of
| the new appropriation shall be used
| for live stock demonstration work
in areas free of ticks. Fifteen coun-
| ties in Georgia are now free of ticks
as result of work already done, and
with the special appropriation the
Department will be able to assist the
farmers in these counties in raising
more and better cattle
''The new item in the bill of
| 100000 for experiments and dem
| onstratiOn in live stock production
! in the cane sugar and cotton dis
| tricts also will provide some means
| for promoting cattle raising in this
| State, provided the State authori-
| ties enter into the necessary COOP
erative arrangements. The Dairy Di-
vision of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry has had one of its men work
ing in connection with the State au-
| thorities in assisting farmers to
build silos, milk houses and barns,
and in encouraging them to test their
nate Improbable COWS. This work
will be continued under the new ap-
| preparation.
Fruit Production in Georgia:
Georgia is rapidly coming to the
front as one of the leading fruit
| producing States in the South. There
are excellent opportunities for pro-
duction of fruits in the northern
part of the State and these are be-
ing taken advantage of in a num-
| Der Of ways. In connection with the
| genealogical and horticultural work
of the Department, various prelim-
| mary surveys have been made with
the object of indicating the regions
where certain types of fruit and GER
| tain varieties are more likely to sue
coed.
Special studies will be made of
| the apple and peach with particu-
! lar reference to improving methods
of handling, transportation and mar
| keting. Efforts will also be made to
locate somewhere in the higher por-
! lions of north Georgia important
work having to do with the improv
ment of the potato crop.
''The Department is now engaged
| in an effort to find more desirable
varieties of potatoes, and promising
sorts introduced from the mountain
regions of South America need to be
thoroughly tested out. They need to
be tested out furthermore under elm
attic conditions more nearly approach
ing the subtropical than can be
found in the North, but the work
must be done at considerable eleva-
ton. 1t is planned to carry on con-
siderable of this work in the North
ern part of the State