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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Wood Ashes Contain
Amounts Of Potash
Not Generally Known
BY r. II. SMITH

Chemist, Georgia Experiment Station
: As a source of potash, wood ashes
have greater value than Is gener-
ally understood. The use of wood
as fuel results in an ash product
containing amounts of potash vary
ing with the kind of wood and the
amount of unburned material. Va
rieties of southern woods have been
examined at the Georgia experiment
station, and the potash content Of
the ashes as determined is shown in
the table: i
Ash, BAT; white oak, 29.9; dogwood,
ZOE; hickory, 1879; Sycamore, 1872;
red oak, 1874; post oak, 1874; mag
pine, 1914; old field pine, rs.
The table refers to the pure ashes
with only small amount of unburn-
. ed material. Ordinarily ashes con-
. tain large quantity of charred and
incompletely burned wood and the
content of potash is proportionately
lower. Such an ash contained only
ashes of the kind might well be
1eached to obtain the soluble car
Donate of potash. The results show
that pines contain much less potash
than do the oaks and hardwoods.
Ashes obtained by burning by-prod-
ucts, as waste from wood working
plants, are of the highest grade, con-
tanning only small amounts of I'M
burned substances. When carefully
collected and kept dry, wood ashes
give good results by applying at rate
Of 200 or 800 pounds per acre when
the land is laid off. This should be
two or three weeks before other fer
tflizer is applied. Besides potash,
ashes contain other inorganic plant
foods-phosphoric acid and lime.
T. Il. SMITH. Chemist
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Uncle Sam Nets Millions
From the Fur Industry;
His Example Is Excellent

the United States government real
ICES millions of dollars annually
from it's fur industry. The. sealskins
taken on the Pribilof Islands by the
bureau of fisheries in 1919, to the
number of 27.S21. were worth nearly
100000. From these islands the
same year the government. harvest
ed 93S blue foxes, with pelts worth
$165,O00. The skins of bears, bob
cats, coyotes. mountain lions, and
timber wolves killed by predatory
animal hunters of the biological
survey in 1918 and 1919 brought
In the resultant stimulation of the
fur garment trade the department
foresees an intensified pressY"> on
fur-bearing animals, which ts5ye been
rapidly decreasing in number as a
result of excessive trapping, clearing
of forests, and draining of marshes.
Already beavers and martens have
been eXterminated,' over a large part
Of the country. Even in Alaska.
trappers have had a close season of
several years declared for the pro-
lection Of beavers.
,(To Be Continued)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Crow Not as Black
As He Is Painted,
Federal Expert Saws

That the crows character Is not
so black as it is usually painted is
disclosed by investigations made by
the bureau of biological survey of
the United States department of ag-
riculture.' In fact, the departments
'birdhlen" say that much of the
work the crowd does is Of direct
assistance to the farmer, for "Mist err
Crow" wages warfare all summer
long on insect pests. In fact, in
sects supply about one-fifth Of it's
food, and those which he prefers in
his diet rae the worst insect pests
the farmer has to contend with
grasshoppers, caterpillars and white
grubs and their parents, May bee
ties.
On the other hand, the crow raids
the cornfield and the poultry yard,
and kills small wild birds and ce-
stroys their nests. From the evil
dence at hand the crows merits and
shortcomings appear about equally
divided. While it would not be we'll
to give it absolute protection ard
thus afford the farmer no recourse
when the bird is doing damage, the
bureau of biological survey believes
that to adopt the policy of killing
very crow that comes within gun
shot would be equally unwise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Prof. w. Lassetter,
Diversification Expert,
Returns to Georgia

w. c. Lassetter, formerly Of Villa
RIGA, and since 1917 director of gov
eminent extension work at the Uni
editor of the Georgia-Ala bama edi-
ton of the Progressive Farmer No
vember 1, with headquarters in At
lanta.
The return Of Mr.. Lassetter to
Georgia will add a notable member
to the staff of distinguished agricul-
titled with the farming interests of
Prof. ". c. Lassetter was born
and reared on farm in the Pied
mont section of north Georgia at
progressiVe lessons saf of ied dfYersit See
agriculture; for on the farm where
he grew up, the wheat, meat, corn,
oats, hay, poultry, milk, fruits and
vegetables consumed were grown on
the farm, cotton being made a. true
cash crop. In 1909 Prof. Lassetter
graduated in agriculture at the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, and shortly
after 19O9-1U became assistant ag-
economist at the Ohio State universi-
ty: In 1910 he came to the Univers
sity of Arkansas as professor of ag-
rronomy and assistant agronomist Of
the experiment station. In 1915 his
duties were enlarged by making him
assistant director of agricult dral ex-
tension work. and in 1917, director,
which position he still holds. Mr..
Lassetter during his whole life has
been especially interested in agro-
nomy-soils, fertilizers, crops and
crop production. He is a most eff
fective speaker to farmer audiences
on subjects within the lines of his
activities.
The state of Arkansas has made
great. progress agriculturally during
the time Mr.. Lassetter was at work
there, her crop values increasing
during the ten years from S11O,-
900, 600 to 1895, 100000, or an increa Sc
Of 232 per cent. In this large in
crease the agricultural extensioa
workers of the state, under the direc-
ton of Prof. Lassetter, have played
an inportant mart ' W.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Profit Made by Farmers
SIN all in Recent Years,
Gouernme ntSurueySho1Us

income less per cent on invest
ment), have been computed for each
group of farms.
The average. farm income Of the
county, Ohio. for. the seven years
1912-1S. was $50: the labor in
come. $276; the return on invest
ment,. 4.6 per cent. In addition to
food, fuel and house rent. estimated
to be worth. on the average, 1853 per
years. For 1912 the farm income of
these farms average $456, and for
1918 the average was $719. These
farms are in a hilly section, where
The 1913 farmer sin Clinton coun-
ty, Indiana, being on better land
than the Ohio. farmers: made cor
respondinglv better showing. Their
seven years. 1910 and 1s1S-1s. and
on capital was 81. and food, fuel,
and house rent furnished by the
farm, s425. The average farm in
come of these farms increased from
1882 in 1910 to s2.97S in 1918.
The farm income of the so Wiscon-
sin farms average s1,29S for the five
years, 1913-1S. the labor income
S40S; and return on investment-de-
termined by deducting from the farm
income the value of the farmers Ia
income ranged from s1.O79 in 1913
to 1890 in 1918. On most of these
farms the principal source of income
is dairying.
Of the 1S5 farmers in the. three
areas, none made e labor income of
$1,000 for every year of the study,
but 10 in the Indiana area and in
the Wisconsin area made labor in
comes averaging over $1,000 per
year for the period. Four farmers
e per cent Of the entire number)
made over $500 labor income every
year. Averaging labor income and
loss over the whole time, IS per
cent of the farmers failed to make
any labor income at all. Ten per
cent failed even to make 5 per cent
interest on investment in any year
of the study.
Department specialists point out
that though farm incomes in most
cases showed q marked increase dur
ing the years 1916-18, as compared
with incomes for 1925, these in
creases are more apparent than real,
in view Of the decrease in the pur-
chasing power of the dollar The
turnover for the recent years was
larger than for the earlier years, but
the returns were relatively little
larger, If measured in terms of the
things 1t would buy rather than in
terms Of dollars and cents.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
j. S. Wannanna ker, Leader
OF Cotton Growers, Asks
Conference With Wilson

ton Of commerce-and the effect will
be disastrous. Defiation must of
course be based upon production.
Following the world war, it can only
come as a result Of an enormously
increased production. We are forced
to bear the. burden of enormously
increased transportation charges and
greatly increased taxes due to the
world war. We are compelled to
meet the enormously increased scale
of wages. Due to these facts, the
cost of agricultural production has
enormously increased. All of this has
not only brought to us stupendous
losses, but has brought us face to
face with a most serious condition
concerning future production.
1.-THE revolutions of time furnish
no previous example of a nation
shooting up to maturity and expand
ing into greatness with the rapidity
which has characterized the growth
of the American people. The world
war has made the United States
a world power, the controlling fac
There can be no retreat, no drawing
back The opportunity for world SUI
premacy in commerce has been
knocking at our door. The products
of our fields, mines, forests and fac
tories should have access to world
markets. Our nation should be the
champion of the freedom Of the
secured and promoted through in
tense commercial activity, world
wide. Commerce, tends to wear off
these prejudices Which maintain dis
tinction and animosity between ma
TONS It unites them by one of the
strongest of all ties-the desire Of
supplying their mutual wants. 1t
\ tn h
fishing in every state an order of
citizens bound by their interest to
be the guardians of public tran
guilty.
1--WE are today treading in the
same steps that other historic ma
tions have taken and regretted Ag-
riculture is the foundation of COM
merce and civilization. Throttle ag-
riculture, and commerce and civili-
cation will perish. Throttle com
merce, and you will dam civll1za-
ton. 1t is only as a result of in
tense commercial activity, world
wide, that it will be possible to
bring peace and prosperity: Ihere
is need for an enormously Increased
production from the fields, the mines,
the forests and the factories of
America, for the purpose-of upbulld-
ing. through the only channel
through which we can secure and
promote peace-commerce- nigh
err civilization which should come
as a result of the fearful sacrifice
of the world war.
"This request is being made IN
hahalf of the various associations
Of America who have signed the in
closed call for the convention In
washington on october IL and 10.
Assuring you that your attention
and reply will be highly appreciated,
[ remain,
81 S. WANNAMAKER,
"President American Cotton Associa-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. Ii
Figures on farm profits, covering
seven years in two areas and five
years in a third. were made public
by the United States department of
agriculture today. These figures
show:
That comparatively few of the
farmers in the groups studied have
been making large profits during the
recent years of comparatively high
prices.
That their average return on in
vest,nent increased from about per
: cent in 1918 to per cent in 1919.
That most of them are making less
than $500 cash per year over aid
above the things the farm furnishes
toward the family living, which,
however. constitute a very important
factor.
The facts brought out in this re-
port are of special significance since
they represent the results of continu-
Gus studies of the same farms ex-
tending over a longer period of time
than do any other such investiga--
lions thus far completed by the de-
partment.
Specialists of the, office of Farm
Management and Farm Economics,
who have conducted these invest:ga-
tions, say that while the results will
, not justify, making flat generaliza-
tons as TO what farm prOItS are Tor
the country as a whole, they believe
they should have weight in the con-
sideration of the general problem, as
indicative of the trend of farm re-
turns in representative farming sec
tionS.
The three groups of farms studied
are located. respectively, in WASH
ington' county, Ohio (25 farms, hill
country. years.; Clinton county. In
diana Goo farms, corn belt, Z years.,
and Dane county, Wisconsin GO
farms. dairy region. 5 years. Rep
resentatives of the department visit
ed these farms year after year, talk
ing records covering the farm bust
ness under the following heads:
s Distribution of farm AGRA.
Crop yields.
s Amount of work. stock and other
live stock.
Amount Of labor used.
Amount and distribution Of farm
capital.
Amount and distribution of re-
ceipts and expenses.
Value of the family living obtain
, ed from the farm.
s Amounts of the more important
products sold and prices received.
From the figures thus obtained,
the farm income (receipts less ex-
penses), and the labor income (farm
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
A New Log Saw
Cuts Faster, Costs Less, Makes More
Money for Users and Works
While You Rest

: A new improved power log saw, now
being offered, outdoes all other log
saws in cutting wood quickly and at
little cost. A new 4Acyc1e, high pow
or moter equipped with Oscillating
Magneto-no batteries to fail you
makes the saw bite through logs
faster than other log saws. 1t fin
ishes it's cut and is ready for another
before the ordinary saw is we'll start
ed. This log saw-the Ottawa-has
specially designed friction clutch,
controlled by a lever, which starts
and stops the saw without stopping
the engineA Others have initiated,
but no other power log saw has this
improvement just like the Ottawa.
The Ottawa Log Saw sells for less
money than any power saw of any
thing like it's size.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

(This is the second insta11ment Of
a special article telling of the
chances for making money out of
furs at a time when great scarcity
and demand are the rule. The third,
and final, insta1lment will appear in
next Fridays issue of, The Tri-
Weekly Journal.)
The biological survey cites the
case of one man who bought a mink
lined coat complete in 1913 for $500;
after wearing the coat two years he
sold the lining for $1,000 and re-
placed it with nutria at a cost :, Of
$3.50; in 1917 he sold the nutria lin
ing for $3.50 and put in a muskrat
lining, at, a cost of SO; in 1919 1919
and still has the shell of the coat
and clear profit Of $S45, Two boys
of muskrat, skunk and, mink skins,
during the winter of 1920. Alas
kan trappers in 1918 sold furs valued
at $1.363.6OO. Skunk skins are esti-
mated to have brought s1.OOO,oOO to
New York state trappers in a single
year.
A fact not generally known is that
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Sorghum Growers

A list of growers of pure sorghum
SEED mas been issued this year by
pertinent station at Manhattan. SIN
plement1ng similar lists which have
been published in the past on wheat
corn and other principal cereal crops'
Inc list is made from field inspec-
ton and enables farmers to tell ~ e
exact grade Of sorghum Or percent
which is to be obtained from snv
grower. This service has been Of
great gre ia advantage to the farmers of
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
SWEET POTATOES
WILL BE STORED
AT FITZGERALD

FITZGERALD,, Ga, Oct 8.-Ben
Hill county farmers, through the
county farm bureau federation, will
cure and store sweet potatoes on a
cooperative basis this year, and also
will hold a series of cooperative
livestock sales, according to a pro-
gram of activity prepared by a com
mittee named at the last meeting of
the county advisory council.
k At the meeting, Marion Dickson,
proprietor of the Dixie Stock Farm,
was elected chairman; Mrs. S. NJ
Whitchard, large truck farm operat-
Or, vice chairman, and c. T. owens,
county agent, secrtary. The finance
committee, which has made arrange
ments for carrying out the cooper
ative program, is Wesley r. Walker,
chairman; J. Horton Taylor, Mrs. r.
l.. Stone, and C. T. Owens, ex-oficio
The Lon Dickey tobacco warehouse,
the largest in the new south Georgia
tobacco region, will be used for cur
ing of the advisory council Thurs
the price rises from it's usual low
fall rate, sixty cents now, to the
usual rate of $3.50 per bushel in the
spring. Expert market men will be
employed through the bureau to pre-
pare the county's production of about
1000 bushels for market and to
sell them on a cooperative basis
Stock yard and sales equipment has
been leased for the series of live
stock sales to be conducted on a CO.
operative plan.
The details of the program for the
year were closed at a special meet
ing of the advisory council Thurs
day morning, at the county court
house.
TIE last meeting of the council
was opened with an address by M. C.
Gay, marketing expert of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce and the State
College of Agriculture. He stressed
alton now as never before in the
history of Georgia and the south.
Demonstration Agent
Home demonstration work under
the extension program of the State
College Of Agriculture will again be
introduced into Ben Hill county
homes through cooperation of the
enues and county school board with
the Fitzgerald Fair association, Fitz-
gerald Chamber of Commerce and
Ben Hill County Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton.
Following a meeting Of the board
of education, when Miss Georgia
Crews, district agent, spoke, and the
board appropriated $500 of the $3.50
needed to supplement the federal ap-
preparation for the work, officials of
! the four other bodies interested them
selves in the proposition. The county
has not had a home demonstration
agent since the war started G. T.
Owens is farm demonstration agent
Bonded Warehouse Planned
One of the first bonded cotton ware
houses to be erected by a farmers
organization under the provisions of
the new state law concerning CO.
operative enterprises, will be built in
time to handle the next years crop
by the Ashton bureau of the Ben
Hill County Farm Bureau associa-
ton, it was stated by Former Rep
resentative Wesley r. Walker, chair
man.
The farmers will incorporate under
state and federal laws and during
the next year build the bonded ware
house and a sweet potato curing and
storage house in conjunction. The
program of the bureau FOR the fol-
lnUyjY1p ino1I1Hnc IN, o1o
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

this consists in 1oaning to a settler
money from state funds for 36 years
at 5 per cent, levelling his land, and
encouraging him by scientific advice
and aid to improve his allotment,
usually about forty to sixty acres.
"The Mondell bill for soldier land
settlement is on the shelf and\ the
Smoot bill is unsatisfactory" said
DR.. Mead. cit looks like Uncle Sam
is going to leave whatever land set
Elements we are to have UP to the
states.
sit is gratifying that they are
will save America from food short
age is to- get our own people back
to the land. This must be done
scientifically. and with the, backing
of the government"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

ISOLATION says that in order to do
this peanut meal should be used.
With the present outlook of the pea
nut market it is probable that a con-
siderable amount of peanut meal will
be manufactured this season.
In referring to the necessity of a
tariff on peanuts and oil, the asso-
citation bulletin calls attention to the
department of commerce report for
the year ending June 30, 1920, show
ing an importation of peanut oil to
Since that time, it is said, importa-
tions from Japan from July 1 to Sep
TENDER Is are 8,264,845 gallons. The
import of peanuts during the same
time was 132,412,423 pounds.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

CHICO. Ca1.-(Special to the Tri-
eminent having "fallen down" on the
Monde1l bill, providing for land col
onization after the manner of the
MEAD plan" here, individual states
are turning toward California to
show them the way.
The state of Washington proposes
to spend 100000 a year for ten
years on land colonization modelled
after the California plan: The state
ton with DR.. Elwood Mead, father
of the California plan" with similar
intent, and the governor Of Kansas
will try to amend the constitution so
that his state can issue bonds for
the same purpose.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

California is elated with her first
experiment at Durham, south of
here. Recently the Durham settlers
held their first fair and exhibited the
harvests from their state aided
farms. So successful has this ven
ture' proven that the state is rapid
ly completing its second colony at
Delhi in MERGED county, and this
month will throw open for settlement
some eighty new farm sites there.
Furthermore, the land settlement
board will go before the next state.
legislature and ask for another ST.
100000, to start a third colony.
E state Loans Money
The California projects operate
similar to the New Zealand method,
known as the MEAD. plan.' Briefly
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
The FOreStnrS

Forest lookouts lead lonesome
lives, but. not devoid of excitement,
At Mount Eddy in the Shasta region
OF california, recently, the United
states department of agriculture for
esq service Ms advised, lightning
S Sorr foo+ the lookout station, tore a
stunned the lookout, J. s. Mcclem-
mems. He recovered just in time r.
save the house and shis own life
Thfrty-f1ve lightning fires were
caused in that vicinity the Same dav
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Bad as Dynamite

Grain dust and similar mill sift-
tngs appear harmless, but filtered
through the air and ignited in a
closed structure, they are as deadly
as dynamite. Such explosions cost go
lives and 100000 property damage
IN 1919. The United Staces depart
ment of agriculture dust-explosion
investigation service has practically
eliminated the evil
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Kentucky Drops Hemp

Kentucky once led in hemp produc-
ton, but has turned to more profit
able crops and relinquishedI the lead
to Wisconsin, accordingAto the United
States department of agriculture, The
Badger state cultivated 1000 acres,
half the country's total, this year,
followed by Minnesota, Michigan,
Ohio and California, with Kentucky
sixth.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Bonded warehouse Planned
MuSkrat Farminq

Muskrat farming has given for
merly worthless Maryland marsh
land a value of $50 to $40 an acre,
the United States department of
agriculture finds. In addition to the
hides the carcasses are sold at 25 to
80 cents apiece for meat. They are
considered a delicacy in some no.
tells.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14

One man wheels this outfit from
cut to cut and log to log like bar
row.. Separate attachments cut down
treeS' and cut up branches. \ Extra
power lets the engine do heavy work
of all kinds. Owners of the Ottawa
Log Saw laugh at coal shortages and
are making big money with ease, the
machine doing the work. Thirty five
to SO cords cut any day, rainy or dry,
by one man, are normal figures. And
wood is approaching $40 cord! The
Ottawa Is compact, simple and dur
able. tt sells for cash or easy pay
ments> and is guaranteed. If you
have wood to cut the ottawa Log
Saw will be the most satisfactory
machine you've ever owned. We sug-
gest that you write the Ottawa Mfg.
Co, 854 Wood ST., Ottawa, Kas., for
their complete new illustrated book
and prices, sent free to all readers
Of this paper.-(Advt)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-14
Saving Cotton Duck

Life of cotton duck, used for pro-
tect1ng farm machinery, sacked
grain, market fruits, field crops, etc
may be prolonged and the cloth
m 1en more serviceable by simple
dew-proof1ng worked out by the
United States department Of agricul-
ture.