The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-12-24
DEMONSTRATION AGENT MAKES
LAST REPORT FOR 1874
Demonstration Agent R, iii. Kent Gives
Summary Of Work Done During the
Closing Year

not due altogether to the amount Of
plant food taken from the soil. but
/ the amount Of vegetable matter lost
lby the clean culture and the ex-
1 posare 81 the soil to winter rains
without any protection from leach
ling and washing
1 There hassbeen planted in the 3
icounties, 200 acres vstch, $50 acres
fof bur clover. rs acres Of crimson
clover, and 200 ofvelyes beans &C.
cordins to government methods.
These crops are going to mean more
| to the farmers of this section than
we can now realize. They are 60
ling to solve the fertilizer question
as nothing else will. The farmers
OF Georgia spend annually s18, Co.,
goo for the fertilizer ingredient
known as amonia. They can raise
the greater part Of this amonia by
planting these crops. but how quick
remains tc be seen. They have been
/ constantly told this and If they
| don't avail themselves Of this great
saving opportunity, they have no
zone to blame but themselves. We
can we'll afford to buy potash and
acid il we raise amonia, the most
lcostly Of the ingredients needed.
Several experiments have been
conducted with lime, and gave good
results in every instance. Especially
lis this true where it was applied
lin low OF bottom lands. There il
no doubt that it viii be used more
extensively in the near future to
correct the acidity in the many
thousands Of acres in the two coun-
ties.
Alfalfa, where planted, fertili-
zed, hmed and inoculated, right
has proven success. The average
of all of which I have a record yie-
Ilded 2 IA tons per acre and the
highest yielded 4 ~ tons per acre.
1000 acres will be devoted to -ye,
rape, and bur clover principally the
former two, as pasturage for cattle
and hogs. This indicates that our
farmers are changing their view as
70 what constitutes a pasture. A
pasture is not woodland, branch or
creek, but : field where something
lis growing that stock can eat.
i The work has been instrumental
lin getting into the territory enc
Kentucky jack, IA head Of purebred
beef cattle. and distributing % head
lof purebred hogs. Tie superiority
Of this stock over our common stoc.,
has been plainly demonstrated. 70
. head OF cattle have been freed Of
ticks, and IA concrste hog wallowt
have been built to free the hogs Of
!, lice. One concrete vat has been
built and two more will be built in
the near future. 80 boys have beer
!, induced to join the Four Crop Clut
and this means that each county
will be given a purebred shorthorr
bull next year, BY the Central O
Ga. R. r. 1855 hogs have been in.
oculated as a preventative Of cho'
fIlera. 81 per cent Of this number
lived despite the fact that a large
number we're sick when treated
J This has been the means of saving
the two counties several hundred
5 ldollars, as a great many would have
r died.
Il A great effort has been made II
t aequaint the farmers Of the coun.
ties with the Demonstration WOrl
n and what it hopes TO accomplish
d | by holding meetings in differen
parts Of the counties. Six of then
: were held during the year AMI
: reach several hundred that would
not have been reached. A simila
effort has been made through th
. county papers but | regret to kno'
' that there are numbers that DON
: take the county papers. This is
2 very depIOrabIe fact, but no one ca
!. dispute it. The county papers .