Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-28

and fifty per cent for correct rea
sons for placings.
6. The selection of referees for
this contest will be left to the county
agents entering club teams.
z. No county agent or any of
the contestants will be allowed to
visit the livestock barns or pens un'
til the contest is over.
8. The prize proposed is one hun.
dred dollars for the county agent
and his team of three boys winning
in the district contest, this money
to be used il defrayinG the expenses
of the agent and team of three boys
training for and participating in the
state contest to follow the district
contest.
State Club Judging Contest Rules
The winning club teams in the dis
tr1ct club judging contest will par
tlcipate in the state contest. In case
no district contest is held in any
agricultural school district, a coun-
ty agent may enter team Of club
boys in the state contest.
The prize in the state contest will
be a free trip to the International
Live Stock exposition for the county
agent and his winning team of three
boys and one for the state pig club
agent.
Other rules governing the state
contest will be the same as for the
district contests.
If you are interested in these con-
tests, you might find it to your adj
vantage to secure for your club con-
testants the following literature on
judging live stock.
Curtis Live Stock and Judging
Selection, published by Lea &
Febiger, Philadelphia, at 50, a spe-
cial price quoted me. Bulletin 335
by the Wisconsin Experiment sta
ton, Madison, entitled Judging
Dairy Cattle" Price S cents per
copy.
Club prize offerings for 1922 in
clude:
4. Free trips to the international
Live Stock show, Chicago, for coun-
ty agents doing best club work.
Free trips to International for
boys doing best work in corn, pig,
sheep and sweet potato clubs.
Free trip to International fer
county agent and his winning team
of three boys in state club Judg-
ing contest.
One hundred dollars cash prize
for county agent and his winning
team of three club boys IN dls-
trict club judging contest IN each
of the twelve agricultural school dls'
tricts.
Many other cash prizes and trips
vet to be secured will be announced
later.
Seventy-five state scholarships TIC
short course at State College OF
Agriculture for club boys doing best
club work.
There is much to work for in club
work this year.
Don't forget the 10000 goal we
want to reach this year!
Commercial Cultivation of Onions
M. P. p, Washington, Ga,
writes: I am thinking of de-
voting about 5 acres to onions
for market. Do you think it
would be profitable? What va
'ieties would you recommend,
and how should they be cult
waited and fertilized?
We can raise onions in Georgia tC
-xc, -ent advantage. I know Of nc
place where they may be grown
moro successfully or developed tc
better size or maje to possess fl
quality. The onions we grow. in this
state, however, contain a great deal
of water, and it is Ve-J difficult on
at account to handle them in q
r---..lner which insures their keeping
= a sufficient length Of time tc
market them satisfactorily. [ have
always been of the opinion that this
could b accom-. lished by grading
tn onions when they are matured
ing them in shallow trays in
sweet potato storage warehouses or
structures of similar design, and
drying a part of the surplus mois
ture out. If this were done believe
thu onions would keep satisfactorily
and that they could then be mar
keted along through the early
spring after the first rush of onions
he gone out of Florida and Texas
but before the northern crop has
had time in which to mature and
be harvested and made ready for
the market. I believe it is worth
while experimenting along these
lines. In so far as know
nothing very definite has been done
There is no apparent reason why
we could not ship fresh onions di'
rectlv to consuming markets where
they would be Immediately sold out
and used. I see no reason why we
could not accomplish this as we'll as
Texas or any other section where
the production of onions has been
made a specially. On the other
hand, they can mature this crop
much earlier in the season than we
ca, and that gives them ALI ad.
vantage in marketing which we
probably do not possess. I believe,
however, there are plenty of con.
Stunning centers in the United States
to use vastly more onions than are
now grown, provided the crop is
properly distributed and not ship
ped to a few consuming centers
thereby Cutting the market and pre-
venting the growers obtaining 6
price which justifies the production
of this crop.
There is doubt as to the advisa
bility of planting Bermuda onions
this TAR north in Georgia. OF course
at TINS season, or even earlier, the
seed could be planted with salts
faction. Possibly Bermuda sets will
prove hardy in his section. There
is some uncertainty, however, about
that. They will likely go through
the winter here save possibly fol
one or two hard freezes which may
prove very destructive to them
The Prizetaker and the Red anl
Yello Wethersfield are STANDARD
so-ts for general field cultivation
They are hardy in this section ant
produce onions Of fine quality.
Onions planted at this season O
th1 year in 1S-inch rows will yielC
a good crop of sets for planting il
tn fall. They may be transplantet
whenever seasonal conditions =
NIT, say in late September or vs,rly
n IL