The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-15
ASSOCIATION AGENT TELLS
pD' Wv WORK DONE AND THE
CONDITION OF CROPS.
INF OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING

,-ises That Farmers use More
Su un,se. Power to the Man. Cement
rots and WalIows For Cattle and
uoos Being Erected.
This marks the close of the dem
4notion work in your county for
o na month of April, and I take great
wv loosure in submitting the following
pDmmary of the work done;
nnring the month l have visited
90 demonstrators, 80 club members,
, ~ 81 hogs, wrote 60 letters
ir Ds travelled Ala miles. A number
~" - timely things have been stressed
ND discussed with the men visited,
o. o. tha outlook for results is very
.noouragiDg. Of course we, as well
every other man who lives on a
.,.r know that we cannot make
.honoos and improvements on the
s.rr like we want to in a short time,
bnt If is very gratifying to see our
farmers doing their best to better
themselves in the ways outlined in
tba work. A large number have al
roadv commenced, and others have
pynressed a desire to do so. We can
mi helm to agree with them that it
NAYS TO be conservative and reasona-
bIv sure of the results in anything
that we begin. We farm to get a
nroft out of it, but if we don't get
this we had better follow some other
line of work. l find that but few
farmers, after they have gotten ac-
orainted with the merits of any
movement, after they have seen that
there is a profit in it for them, will
not ioin in and lend helping hand
IN the work that will mean so much
IN their county. | am always very
careful to recommend anything to
our farmers that is still an expert
ment. and the results doubtful, I'M
less it be on a small scale. We all
know that there are number OF use
full, mOney-making crops that we are
growing very little of at present. Five
Of these crops are being tried out on
the soils of your county this year,
and the results are awaited with
much interest. If we find that they
will not succeed we, of course, do not
want them; but, on the other hand,
if they prove that they can flourish
in our soils and climate we will want
to see larger areas planted another
year. The sad fact that We cannot
always raise cotton as cheaply as we
have been raising it has daWned on
US. Although it will long be money
crop of the South we will see the
profits from raising it greatly de-
crease in less than two years. Know
ing this as we do we are doing our
best to find some recourse in the way
OF making our farms pay us. Every
successful farmer is making his plans
for the future, not waiting for cri-
sis to force an abrupt change upon
him, force him to follow lines of ag-
riculture about which he has not
studied, and about which he cOnse-
quently knows nothing. The best
way to avert a crisis is to prepare
for it, and We are glad to see that
some of our farmers are doing this
making the changes that will best
SUIT their inclinations and conditions.
II oehooves every farmer to be think
Ing and planning that the future may
nave peace and prosperity in store for
MN. He has a government that stands
Wiling and ready to help him work
Out MS salvation, but he himself has
something to do.
The attention given separate crops
Will be briefly given.
Cotton.
md that on account of the dry
weather crust has formed, and as a
result a great deal of the moisture
necessary to get the seed up has evap-
o'dteu. Where available the harrow
HdS Oeen used to break this and the
o'"uu Is better. After the cotton has
vo~e up a number of farmers bar it
Va On narrow ridge and let it stand
W. long before chopping. A great
a0'i OF moisture that the. crop will
'0'u Is lost. | think the results are