The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-06

tainer is AZ inch 712 or ounce
burlap sack. Just now the cotton
sacks are very much in favor and
properly so. Ordinarily the burlap is
cheaper. If cotton bags are used
practically the same size is preferred.
| This bag contains about two bushels
OF wheat.
Where wheat is shipped in sacks
bags should be we'll sewed and not
tied as is the practice in Georgia. II
the burlap bag is used the regular
burlap sewing Irvine should be en-
ployed; correspondingly if the cotton
bag is used cotton Irvine would be
best. In shipments of less than car
loads each sack should be tagged
with the name of shipper, consignee
and point of destination.
| Proper care should also be given
to the weighing of wheat. 1t does
not, however, need to be shipped in
bags of uniform weight unless that
is stipulated at the outset as one of
the conditions of the trade. At most
all railroad stations depot scales can
be employed for the purpose and at,
least give an approximate basis for
the assessment of freight charges.
Hay as at present raised in Geor-
| 10 ho5 in n because
| il is rare that any one kind of grass
seed is sown, but the meadows usu-
| aIIy grow up in an indiscriminate
mixture which, while good feed on
| the farm, will not command good
price on the market.
In purchasing hay if a man wants
choice green alfalfa he will not ac-
cept a mixture of alfalfa, swamp
grass and bermuda as substitute.
If he wants timothy, clover, peayine
or any other variety of hay he Will
not be satisfied with a mixture OF the
three.
Therefore, the first thing to be
done in raising hay is to decide on
the variety to be raised and then
strive, as near as possible, to keep
that field free from other grasses.
The subject as to which variety is
best to be raised is too lengthy to dis
cuss here, other than to suggest that
alfalfa, which only has to be planted
once and which produces four or five
crops a year, is in growing demand
everywhere and worthy of thorough
investigation by the progressive farm
ers.
After getting the hay meadow in
shape to produce some particular
kind of forage the next thing to con-
slider is proper curing and baling.
Many a good crop has suffered mate
rally in market value owing to the
careless and improper manner IN
which it is taken care of after cut
ting. The brightness and sweetness
must be preserved to make 1t bring |
top price. Then after curing it
must be properly baled. The most
suitable size is a bale weighing about
one hundred pounds and bound by
three wires. The smaller two-wire
bales do not stand transportation as
we'll and the loss from burst bales is
so great that it causes hay so baled
not to bring as good price as the
threeLbale wire, even though OF equal
quality.
These suggestions, if followed out, |
will make Georgia-raised corn, oats, |
wheat and hay able to compete with
Western-raised grain and forage OF
the same quality. The best admon1-
ton is for the farmer not to expect
to get as much for his goods as 1t
would cost him to buy them. He pays
the manufacturers a profit on the
clothing made out of the cotton he
produces and thinks nothing OF 1t.
So he must expect the distributors OF
the other part of his crop to make
legitimate profit for handling. If
he would but consider the high
freight rate the Western shipper has
to pay to deliver his grain and hay
in Georgia he would realize that ne
is actually getting a great deal more
for his crops than the Westerner,
even when sold in competition with
Western-raised products, as the rate
to Atlanta, for instance, from the
Ohio river-the nearest point from
which this grain and hay can come
is "a cents per 100 pounds, which
figures Z 2-3 cents per buShel on oats, |
1871 cents per bushel on corn, IA 70
cents per bushel on wheat, and $3.50 |
per ton on hay. The freight rate on
alfalfa from Colorado, where the !
best hay grows, is from $40 to 81 |
per ton, so it is easy to see that in |
the very crops which he feels that
he cannot raise there is great ad-
vantage in favor of the Georgia farm |
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