Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW ri. SOULE

water should also be provided. If
there are no trees to provide shade,
this should be provided by the use
Of canvas and other material. Never
pour water on hogs when they are
hot; instead. pour it under them.
Careful laborers can handle hogs
any kind of weather without exer-
cising them unduly. Clean out the
stock cars, and then fill them to
inches deep with the same sad
which was brought in with the hogs.
Just before loading the animals into
the cars, again wet this sand just
as wet as water will make it. If
the weather is unusually hot, put
into the car at least three 100-pound
blocks of ice just before driving in
the hogs. These pieces of ice are
distributed one midway between the
door and either end of the car and
one in the middle of the car. 1t is
not necessary to suspend ice from
the roof IN gunny sacks. However,
this can be done. Thoroughly sat
isfactory results are had from the
method just described.
Never load car to full capacity in
hot weather. Seventy to eighty five
rumber ] hogs are about all that
should be loaded in an ordinary
stock car in extremely hot weather.
Let the hogs rest in the lots until
just enough time is left to get them
unloaded, without rushing, before
the train picks them up. Once the
car is in motion, the wet bedding
and ice will make the animals thor
oughly comfortable.
w. p. Howell, AdeI, Ga,
writes: Please send me all the
literature you have % pecan
culture-top working and the
diseases of the pencan, espe.
cially ON the leaf case bearer
and die back or rosette. ANY
information you may give will
be highly appreciated.
The top working of pecans may be
successfully ACCOMPLISHED by pro-
ceeding as follows:
Undesirable varieties must be top
worked by budding or grating.
Budding is accomplished by getting
the cambium layer of the bud to
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of the tree. You will readily Under
stand what is meant by the '.cam-
blum" if you go to tree and peel
off some of the bark. Then scrape
away the soft, wet growth that lies
just underneath the bark. This is
what constitutes the caYnb:um layer.
To top work a Seeding pecan, cut
back the tree during the dormant
season. The following June or July,
bud the new growth by either the
annular or the patch method. The
work can best be accomplished by
obtaining bud sticks fir, / the va
riety which it is desired to propa-
gate. These bud sticks are about
two feet long, containing dorman
buds of this seasons growth or of
the previous seasons growth. These
buds are cut out and inserted under
the bark of the tree selected for
this purpose. After they have
taken" the seeding portion of the
twig budded should be cut back.
Next year, remove or rebud other
Seeding portions. Annular budding
means to take a ring Of bark with
bud on it for bud stick and
transfer this ri: IN the tree to be
budded. Patch Kidding is the simple
incis:on of bud as indicated above.
Best results are generally obtained
by top working of young trees.
The leaf case bearer can be con-
trolled by using arsenate of leads as
spray during August to October.
For each pound of arsenate of lead
powder take fifty gallons of water.
To this material four pounds of
builders lime should be added. Stir
thoroughly and spray uniformly.