Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-12
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW NJ SOULE

! acres of amber cane for silage, this
same acreage to be sown in oats
for summer silage.
Fifty acres sown to peas for hay,
to be followed after harvest by oats
for grazing and cutting.
Eight acres in alfalfa, this acreage
to be gradually extended to 20 or
| 25 acres.
One hundred acres in corn and vel
vet beans, the corn and a portion of
the beans to be harvested and fed
ground in connection with the silage.
| This same 100 acres at the last cul-
| tivation to be broadcasted in oats
| for grazing and for a winter cover
| crop.
These dairymen are thoroughly
| converted to the business of feed
ing ensilage to milk cows both win
ter and summer, and they reckon
the beginning of their success from
the date the first silo was erected.
They. have fine summer pasture,
but Notwithstanding this fact, the
cattle on coming off pasture, eat
silage greedily. They contemplate
during another year introducing the
soy bean into the ration so that
with alfalfa, peavine and the soy
bean, they will be able to feed a le-
gume hay running high in protein
the entire year. They sell the out
put of the dairy as whole milk for
which they are under contract. A
registered bull is kept at the head
of the herd, and a portion of the
heifer calves are raised by hand.
Registered cows are gradually being
introduced into the herd.
The county agent has been on
the ground and watched with inter
est the development of this dairy
farm; saw the metamorph.c from
loss to one of profit, and has been
gratified with the spirit of co-opera-
ton and the willingness with which
the owners adopted the suggestions
made.
These people are now riding on
top of the world. There is no hest
ties here. They have projected
plan and all their efforts are CEN
tered around this project. The re-
suits already accomplished have
proven what a self-sustaining sys-
tenn of farming will do. Their farm
has become a factory in which the
raw material grown from the land
is converted by the dairy cow into
the finished product for which the
whole world stands in need, and for
which it is willing to pay.
The cow and the hog are magi-
clans for turning raw materials into
fin iChn6 QYtin1nc and nf
southern farms would do we'll to
take leaf from the notebook of
the above dairymen.
How Cooperative Marketing Helps
Farmer
A great deal has been said and
written about cooperative market
ing in Georgia. Few people realize
however the degree of progress that
has been made along this line. In
the matter Of hog sales, remarkable
results have been achieved. In one
county alone it is estimated that
the agents service in the matter
Of handling hog sales on an up-to.
date basis insured the farmers re.
celving at least $4,000 more than
they otherwise would have obtain
ed. That certainly was a fine re-
turn on the investment which the
county was making in the county
agents salary. Hog sales are now
conducted in many parts Of Georgia
Hogs have been the means in large
number of counties of saving the
farmers from financial ruin. It is
gratifying to know that hog sales
were begun in November, 1915, and
the interest and success attending
this method of preparing hogs for,
market and selling them has steadi-
ly grown from that date forward.
1t was a county agent who first con-
ceived this idea, and his services
should not go unrewarded or his
memory be forgotten. The ytory