Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-21
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
~ DR.. ANDREW M. SOULE

letters, seven newspaper articles
| Held nine meetings, III present.
Two car loads of hogs have been
sold comparatively at a price for
| tops of $10.24. This price was con-
sidered above the market price. An
other sale is being worked up for the
next month. Grazing crops doing
| fine.
The seven cream stations In the
county are. shipping cream regular
| ly and the partons for the most part
are we'll pleased with the returns.
Arrangements are being made with
the bankers to bring in and auction
off some good milk cows this fall.
Sweet Potato association has COM
pleted it's first years work and paid
: eff it's members. Returns have been
| fairly satisfactorily and great acre
age of potatoes will be planted this
year. More pains being taken in the
! purity of variety of potatoes planted.
The association will profit by its
mistakes another season.
The Irish Potato association is ar
ranging to hold its crop for July
and August trade. Too much wet
weather has injured the Irish potato
yield.
Examination Of several Of the pas
ture demonstrations have been made.
In a few cases a poor stand OF Les
pedeza. Carpet grass good. Fifty
acres more of Carpet grass will be
sown in July.
More interest in the Pig club
among the boys than ever. The
clubs in the different communities
have each organized a baseball team
and through the summer months will
keep up interest by playing ball
when they meet to receive instruc.
tons regarding their pigs. The Du-
roc Jersey and Spotted Poland-Chi
associations have contributed $500
each as special premiums to the
club boys.
More than $4,000 pounds Of cal
cium arsenate have been sold in the
county. Arrangements have been
made for special demonstrations in
the use Of calcium arsenate in every
part Of the county.
Wayne County, w. T. Clary, County
Agent.
Travelled SIT miles, wrote 80 let
ters, two newspaper articles.
Irish potato demonstrations have
been harvested. The yield ranged
from IL to 80 barrels per acre, and
have been sold at from 1918 to $4.25
per barrel for No. Is, f. o. b. cars.
The crop brought about 100000.
Taken as a whole, the demonstra-
tons have been satisfactory and the
farmers will try this crop another
season.
Have arranged for six dernonsta-
tions in the thorough use Of calcium
arsenate to control boil weevil. Five
thousand pounds of calcium arse
nate were sold at Jesup.
The hog grazing demonstrations
are doing well. Arrangements are
being made with Is farmers to feed
out a number Of hogs each for CO:
operative hog sale. Swine plague
and cholera have been prevalent in
one area. Have been able by the
demonstration in the use Of serum
20 get the outbreak checked.
Have given 13 Of the young home
orchards the summer pruning in or.
der to prevent heavy winter pruning,
Ninety per cent of the trees in these
Have visited 10 club boys. The
club boys are feeding out hogs for
an early fall car load shipment.
White County, r. b. Miller, County
Agent.
Travelled $50 miles, wrote so let.
tiers. Held four meetings, 70 pres.
ent. -, :~-r y 49,, 80
Sixty per cent Of the home or.
chards throughout the county have
conformed to the spray program full
ly, throughout the season. The diff
ference will be quite noticeable in
/ the sprayed and unsprayed fruit.
The first Of the month three cal
| loads Of fertilizer were purchased CO
operatively. This made 20 cars thus
| bought during the season at saw
ing of from $1,000 to $1,000 to the
| farmers.
The farmers have also bought 1903,
900 sweet potato. plants cooperative
ly at a saving of IS cents per 1000
90 bushels of soy beans at a saving
of LOS per bushel. The farmers arc
learning that it pays to work to
gether.
Plans have been perfected this
month for a county fair.
Whitfield County, Eugene Baker,
County Agent.
Travelled S64 miles, wrote 1913 let