Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-01

bloom. 1t is common tnlng TO see
three or even four blooms on
single flower bearing stalk OF a
cultivated strain. This represents a !
four hundred per cent improvement
on nature. We only need to make
about a thirtythree per cent i'm
corn yield to the degree essential.
That should be an easy matter to
accomplish. 1t would be brought
about if we really eliminated the
are plenty of fields in which one
third of the stalks do not produce
profitable ear. Determine this fact
for yourself and it will increase
worthless and Improbable stalks of
corn and replacing them by worker
plants that will bear profitable
ear.
Better cultivation of our land
will also increase the yield. Much
of the land devoted to corn is in
differently prepared and carelessiy
handled after planting. Fertilizers,
if intelligently used and adapted to
the soil In to which they are applied
not only by an average of five
bushels, but ten bushels or more
per acre. This plan of cultivation
does not call for the outlay of a
usual exertion on the part of the
landowner. 1t does require the use
of better seed which has been Sc
lected with care and the more
use of high-grade and better i'd
justed fertilizer formulas. These are
things which are easy to put into
practice. but if we make a cam
paign along these lines on a state
wide basis, it is just as certain as
day follows night that we will ma
terially increase the yield of our
corn on the present acreage There
should be no difficulty next year in
doubling this crop up to the point
dred, million bushels. The attain
ment of that end would represent
the addition of possibly sixty mill
lion dollars worth of wealth to our
enough corn to finish out all OF of our
hogs properly and to feed our work
stock and beef and dairy cattle
peter than they had been fed be-
fore. 1t would keep within the state
some millions of money now sent
outside for concentrates of various
kinds. 1t would recoup us for our
WeeVil losses. 1t would constitute
the FIRST great step in advancement
Georgia self-supporting and indie
pendent in the matter of supplies
Of animal foods of every kind,
character and description. In the
succeeding two years we could drain
and bring, under the pillow the added
areas of bottom lands to insure the
increase of fifty million additional
bushels to our corn crop. We could
not use this much corn advan-
program of development might with
propriety be extended over a Pc
riod of five years. If we double the
corn crop in the next decade, we
vancement. in agricultural practice
along those lines which are essen
tial to insure the permanent pros
perity of the state. This would re-
dred thousand acres a year. The
problem is easy of execution. It is
the desire to succeed and win
through that we must arouse. Geor-
are undrained and which are. cap
able of producing from fifty to
one hundred bushels of corn per
acre for long periods of time to
three million bushels Of corn an
nually. This undrained land consti-
tutes a menace to our people. 1t is
holding back development and prog
ress all along the line. 1t is our
join in the great campaign neces-
sary to drive home and fully i'm
press upon our people the neces-
sity of doubling the corn crop. Corn
and prosperity are one and insep..
the state of Georgia and her peo-
pie are concerned. This is not a
vision of the imagination. 1t is not
a conjurer's dream. 1t is not some
thing impracticable and far-fetehed.
but represents a simple analysis of
concrete facts. 1t will take courage,
concentration and effort to over
come the barriers of indifference and
disbelief by which progress is al
ways confronted, but it can be done.
AS I have said frequently before,
we have a battle to fight and
doing. Now is the day of grace.