The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-03-04
FARM STATIONS
OF UNIVERSITY
WQRTH'MItL|OAS
RESULT OF EXPERIMENTS MADE
EY STATE iNsTtTUrion SHOWN
IN REPORT DIRECTOR.
CONTROL of PLANT DISEASE
Selection of Seeds, Use of Lime and a
Great Many Other Announcements in
Agriculture Have Reen Due to the
Work of the Stations.e1
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 28.-That
the University of Tanaoss &c through
it's three agricultural experiment sta
tons at Knoxville, Columbia and Jack
son is serving the fa.megs Of the state
in most effective way Is shown in d
report recently made bye. A. Mooers,
vice director of the stations. BY
means of field experiments, research
and investigation these stations have
made discoveries and recommends
tons which have been worth millicns
Of dollars to the farmers dad which
form the basis for The rapid develop
Encnt of q progressive agriculture
the state. This work has
kRen conducted with crops, soils!
LRant diseases and live stock: The
outstanding accomplishments as indiH
gated n the report are here given. )fI
r. There is always AN urgent demand
among the farmers of the state TO-
Information as to the variety of corn
best suited to Tennessee conditions
and soils. After ten years OF field
thials with all the prominent varie
ties when subjected toslike conditions
as to soil and cultivation, the stations
/ ff On ~ trVr to ha f1n l,nr
adapted for genera vse and the most
productive under Tennessee conditions.
This variety was accordingly recon-
lnended to the division of extension
or the University, which in turn,
through its county agents, advised
feimers throughout the state. Today
1t is the leading variety IN Tenne ssee
and its use is increasing annually. An
Increase Ct one bushel per acre means
30nU,0G0 bushels more per year FOR
the state for the state as a whole
and an annual increase of nearly that
many dollars. @1'pa 0's3r. $&
b BY breeding and hybirdizing, winter
barley, the only tbeardless variety
that is hardy enough togo through the
Winter in Tennessee, has been develop
ed This new bailey. wffhli lis. yalu-
able for both hay 'aiid grain, fs'l'ecog
nized by the Unit ted States department
of agriculture as the hest variety of
winter barley known.
From Culberson winter oats an
improved strain which natures two
weeks earlier thanNth6 grey truf com.
monty grown, has been obtained and
found to be especially suited to rich
land where it stands up better and
yields more than any other.
Trice cotton, one of the best varie-
ties now grown along the northern
border of the cotton producing area, |
was improved and introduced by the
experiment stations. The Tokyo soy
bean, late variety which produces
larger yields than the common NAM
moth yellow, and the Yokoten, a very |
valuable mid-season variety, are new
varieties. highly recommended from
experiments made at the stations.
Three distinct strains of Lespedeza,
or Japan clover, have been developed |
from the common variety which was |
once thought to be worthless. An up
right growing type which is more Wig:
orous. and productive than the com
mon, variety and which is especially
suitable for hay purposes is Of distinct |
value and has much commercial prom |
ise. A second strain is especially I
adapted for pasture and third for
seeding at high attitudes since this
important crop does not ordinarily /
succeed.
Plant disease investigations have
been given careful attention by the
stations for number of years. A few
years ago it became almost impossi
BILE to grow he'd clover in many parts
of the state because of a disease
known as Glover Sickness" BY in
vestigation of the disease and selection
of seed from plants that withstood it.
a resistant strain has been developed
and red clover can now be- grown sue
cessfully on land where there would
ordinarily be complete failure Of
the common varieties.
The tomato industry which had
grown to large proportions in the
Humboldt section of West Tennessee
was threatened with destruction by
wilt disease few vars ago. The dis
ease appeared about twenty years ago
and gradually grew worse until whole
fields were completely destroyed 1t
was critically studied by Prof. S. II.
Essary, botanist at the West Tennes-
see station, and after years of work
he has developed tomato that is re- !
sistant to the disease and that will
produce abundantly in fields where
the common kind fails. He has also ]
found that the disease appears under
continuous growing of tomatoes on {
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