Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17

/ to develop other and better varieties
4 and soon the Dixie was evolved. This
| has the characteristic growth of the
/ Peterkin group of varieties and hence
has gained much wider popularity than
| the Dillon This variety is now being
quite extensively grown in many sec
tions of the south. At present there are
/ a good many so-called wilt-resistant
varieties which possess more or less
/ merit, such as Columbia, Coker, Weber.
! One of the best known mad most extern
siVely cultivated strains at present Is
| the Covington Toole, developed by Mr..
| Covington, of Headland Ala. This is
selection from the Improved Toole. This
| strain possesses the earliness and pro-
| ductiveness of the Toole, yields a high
| percentage of lint, is uniform and fairly
| resistant to the wilt fungus. The bolls
are somewhat small and the lint short
| but probably it is one of the best
/ strains which the farmer can be adj
vised to grow on land which is badly
! infested with wilt Every farmer who
has land infested with this disease
should of course, plant on it only
strains which have proved to be more
or less resistant In developing strain
| of cotton resistant to wilt II must nat
urally, of course, be produced on wilt
| infested land so that the non-resistant
plants or strains will be as rapidly
eliminated as possible. Therefore.
every farmer who is cultivating cotton
under such conditions should set aside
at least an acre of land or more, de-
pending on the size of his plantation,
and devote il entirely to the production
of seed cotton. He should pick SEED
| from plants in his field which appear to
| be the most resistant, or which, Tor IN
s.ance have survived in areas OF the
] field where all others have died out
The seed from these plants should be
kept separate and should be planted in
a row across his test patch. Suppos1ns
that the seed of 100 or 200 plants are
| gathered and saved, it will undoubtedly
be found that the plants in some or the
rows are much more resistant 10 VIII
disease than others. 1t will also be seen
that some of the types OF plants pro-
duced in the matter of yield, and per
centage of lint, are more desirable than
o,bers The seed of these should be
carefully selected and planted on a null
tiplying plat another year In the mean
time the seed from the whole test area
NAV be gathered and used for next
wears crop of course, If there are some
strains which prove to be non-resistant
they should be thrown out ana ols-
carded.
If NAV be argued IIldA NillS pom "
action will call for the expenditure o.
Considerable time and effort on the
mart of the land owner. No doubt 1t
will. but by following the method sug-
gested il will be possible for him 10
grow and cultivate cotton successfully
on land which could otherwise not De
,,sed for this purpose. This method Of
meeting and combating the raVages OF
the wilt disease is offered as compare
1 en- T4fN
tice on every farm. 1t will enable the
farmer TO grow cotton profitably where
he has had to abandon it's cultivation,
and the more widely and generally TINS
method of meeting and combating the
iuroads of the wilt fungus is employed
the sooner we will be able to eliminate
the greater part of the S35,OoO,OO0 tax
now assessed against our cotton crop by
reason of the presence and largely I'M
checked spread of this pernicious fungus
in the cotton fields of the south.
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Danger Prom Overlooking With Cotton
Meal
I'M F., Avon Park, Fla writes: have
a young COW with her second calf She is
in good condition except her eyes and they
run water at times ana seem weak. Piease
tell me what causes IL and give me rem
edy.
1t may be that you are feeding your
COW an excessive amount Of cottonseed
meal II you have been using meal and
bulls alone as a ration you should make
a change in the feed for some little time.
Cut down the ration of meal very mate
rally. replace with wheat bran mashes,
and supply your COW with any green
food which may be available in your
section at this time.
of course, the sore eyes may be due
to other causes, but the use of very
rich concentrate, such as cottonseed
meal, without enough variety in the ra-
ton is often responsible for the devel-
opment Of a condition such as you de-
scribe In case the animal seems per-
fectly healthy and the bowels are act
ing property the trouble may be due to
some slight infection such as pink-eye.
In that event laxative food should be
given and the eyes should be batned
three times daily with hot water for
twenty minutes at a time. Then take
a solution of boric acid in the proper
ton of one gram of the acid to three
ounces of clear 'steriliZed water and
drop into the eyes with medicine drop
per such as you can obtain at any drug
store for few cents.
4 X y
The Proper Time of Harvesting Broom
Corn
W. II. NJ, of Smyrna, Ca, writes: When
is the proper time to bend down for curing
the tops Of broom corn?
The proper time to handle broom
corn is as follows:
Cut or bend the brush when it still
retains a good green color. The best
time to do this is while the plant is in
full bloom and Just before the pollen
| is shed.
If cut at this state of maturity no
seed is secured, but much better quail
| ity of broom may be obtained. When
one wishes to produce seed to plant an
other year, ii is quite proper to let it
come to full maturity for this purpose.
The resulting inferior brooms can be