Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-21

F.. in the afternoon il will nearly al
| ways be ready to churn the following
morning. Usually from II to Is hours
| are required for it to begin to clabber
and take on a glossy velvety appear
| ance 1t is then ready to be churned.
The practice of keeping milk or
cream by the fire in the living room or
bedroom cannot be too strongly con-
| demned In warm weather after the
! milk is brought to 20 degrees f. it may
| be set on the porch or in any warm,
airy room which is not occupied. In
| cold weather blanket or some papers
| should be wrapped about the cream YES
sci to help retain the heat. A second
and even more important reason for
keeping milk and cream out OF living
rooms and the bedrooms is that milk
forms an ideal place for disease germs
to grow and, if they get into the milk,
| make the butter and buttermilk posi-
| lively dangerous Typhoid fever, diph-
! iberia and many other diseases are
| spread in this way
During ripening or turning" milk or
cream should be thoroughly stirred two
or three times, to keep it smooth and
prevent the formation of Jumps. But
| so many will say, "the whey will eat
up the butter" There are two causes
| for the "wheying off" trouble. First,
milk or cream that gets too sour before
being cLurned tends to whey on.
! Second, the use of dirty milk vessels
or those not steamed or scalded thor
oughly cause most of this trouble.
| thick, heavy clabber is not necessary
for successful .churning. The milk need
be only slightly sour, or mildly aclo
when it is ready for churnlng.
THE WORK OF A COUNTY AGENT.
| BELOW our readers will find a short sum-
married. statement OIL %nat one oo oOus IN
| a single county during the year 1917. III
| is self-eVident that a man who can per-
/ form this sort of service work. Is one Oh
| the county's most important and essental
| assets.
| ORGANIZATIONS: The work began
February 19, 1917. The first work,
| which required a year, was to get ac-
| quainted with the county and its peo-
pie. This was done through organiza-
tons BY organizing the children in
the schools into clubs, and the farm
ers in the community organizations.
Farmers clubs were organized at Du-
rand, Odessadale, Stovall, Gay. Alva-
| ton, Woodbury., Raleigh, and Manches-
| ter. One hundred and thirty farmers
| pledged to give personal cooperation
in this work. Two hundred and fifty
one school children were enrolled in
/ clubs promising to grow an acre OF
corn or feed a pig or calf.
| LIVE STOCK DEVELOPMENTS: In
| the encouragement of better live stock
the following breeds have been brought
| into the county: 10 pure bred Aber-
deem Angus, IS pure bred Holstein, 16
Hereford, Z Short Horn, 81 pure bred
hogs of the following breeds: Hamp-
shires, Berkshires. Durocks; 10 dip
ping watts were built and charged,
silos and one barn planned and built.
| in checking the spread of hog cholera,
| $50 hogs were inoculated, and five out
breaks of hog cholera were checked
that would have spread over a larger
area of the county, resulting in consid-
: cradle loss
COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIES: In the
encouragement of velvet bean acreage,
/ 1T was necessary to encourage indus
| tries to care for this crop, resulting
| in placing six large commercial feed
mills and two small mills in the coun-
| ty. One canning factory and curing
house for sweet potatoes has been in
stalled.
| FARM MACHINERY: Through the
encouragement of better farm machin-
| cry, 80 harvesting machines for har-
vesting velvet beans and two farm
| tractors have been placed. in the
| county.
| CAMPAIGN WORK: A campaign
was made to inform the farmers of the
destructiveness of the boil wevil, adj
vising them to make every effort to
make their farms self-sustaining The
| second campaign was to encourage the
! farmers to pick up and destroy the first
| appearing weevil The third campaign
| was a campaign for more foodstuff.
| Through this campaign every church
was filled with a speaker to warn the
| farmers of the great shortage of food
! stuff and to encourage them to plant
| more food crops. The fourth campaign
| was for more wheat, every commun-
| ity was visited and great stress put on
urging the farmer to plant more wheat,
| and it is safe to say that the acreage
| will be increased 400 per cent.
FARMERS MEETINGS: Through the
| organization of the Farmers club, 81
| meetings were held and 81 lectures Civ
en-, bringing a message on better farm
| ing to total attendance of 1922 farm
| ers.
SUMMARY OF WORK.
The statistics given below are taken
| from my weekly reports sent to the
department, and will give in detail gen.
| eral summary of work:
| Farmers called at office -. -. All
| Letters written -. -. -. ..... 91S
| Special circulars sent out -. $50. $50
| Bulletins mailed -. -. 49,. SOS
Club members visited go. -. -. 216
| Schools visited 80. - -. go. "a
| Special visits to farmers go. -. 312
| Meetings held -. -. -. 81
| Attendance at these meetings 1922
Telephone calls ... .. .......... 2S6
| Miles travelled by rail -. .... 1892
| Miles travelled by auto Sc. -. .4,049
Total value OF thoroughbred
live stock introduced SIS 30.0 90
| Total value of farm machinery
introduced . -. -. -. $4,000