Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-14


meal obtained from the seed of six
acres OF cotton. In addition, a good
permanent pasture should be pro-
vided.
Where only sufficient hogs are
kept to supply the family needs they
will get a large part of their feed
from waste products and from graz
ing the fields after the crops are
gathered. At least one acre of corn
will be needed to finish fattening
tile hogs. However, on most farms
in south Georgia, hogs are grown
as cash enterprise. A definite sys-
tenn of grazing and finishing crops
is necessary.
In order to provide the food for
an average white family when aver
age yields are obtained, there will
be needed about 2 IL acrs for such
supplies as potatoes, garden Vege-
| tables, syrup cane and fruit and
one acre of corn for meal. Where
soils are adapted to wheat and local
| mills for grinding are available
| three acres of wheat will provide
| the necessary flour besides till for
| threshing and grinding and seed for
| the next year.
Two cows, three hogs and a flock
OF twenty-five hens will be more
than sufficient to furnish the live
stock products needed. However, it
is better to have a surplus Of these
important products rather than to
Re without them at certain seasons
of the year.
On many farms, the chickens are
forced to pick up most of their Hv-
ing from the waste around the barn
lot. This practice doubtless accounts
at least IN part for the low produc.
ton of the average farm flock. To
be profitable, the poultry should be
fed as regularly and as carefully as
other live stock. One and one-half
acres of corn and one and one.half
ceres OF oats provide feed for the
Tic cks needed to furnish poultry
products fer the family. If eggs and
chickens are produced for market.
the feed acreage will have to be
correspondingly increased
Summarizing the acreage Of the
various food and feed crops. we find
tnat TO maintain a family farm hav.
ing two mules, two COWS, three hogs
and twenty-five hens with just aver.
age yields being obtained it would
require IL IL acres OF corn, acres
OF wheat and acres of cowpea hay.
This is a total of 80 IL acres of
crops grown on % IL acres Of land.
The coWpeas will follow the oats and
wheat.
The selection Of profitable cash
crops or enterprises involves the
consideration of many factors. OF
these, tie soil is one of the most i'm
portant.
The effect of soil adaptation is
most marked with respect to such
specialized crops as tobacco and
certain truck crops, but its effect is
seen on general crops like cotton
and corn. An illustration is found
in the Sumter county and Brooks
county farm management surveys
made in 1918 and 1914, before the
boil weevil forced a change in crop
ping systems. In Sumter county,
where the principal soils are rela.
lively heavy types Of the Triton and
Greenville series, the per cent of
and devoted to cotton was 56S, while
in the southern part of Brooks coun-
ty where the soils in general are
more sandy and cannot be cropped
per cent of the crop land was used
for that crop. The development of
the bright tobacco industry in Geor
gia has been restricted to few
counties where a certain phase Of
the Norfolk sandy loan is found in
abundance. It has been tried in
nearly every county in south Geor-
gia, but wherever the soil was not
suitable, the result was a failure,
These illustrations serve to show
how important is a consideration
of the soil in planning the cropping
system. Other factors, such as the
available labor supply, market IA
cilities, probably market prices, in.
sect pests and plant and animal dis.
eases will have to be considered in
choosing the crops and planning The
cropping system. 1t is unlikely that
all factors will be favorable at any
one time for any crop. The soil
may be suitable for a crop, but ex-
cessive marketings costs, or some
other factor may make the crops
Improbable. On the other hand.
when prices are high and other fac
tors are favorable, it is possible to
grow certain crops at a profit in
spite of handicaps.
1t is, therefore, impossible to map
out uniform cropping system to
cover all requirements. Each farm
er must plan his system with teh
advantages and shortcomings of his
own farm in mind, making use of
all the information he has or can
get regarding crop adaptation, croc
costs, labor distribution and fluctua.
ton of prices.
In south Georgia, the farmer has
wide range of crops and various
types Of farming to select from.
among the cash crops which are
being grown profitably, cotton, pea
nuts, watermelons, cantaloupes. to.
bacco, sweet potatoes, sugar. cane,
oats, hay, peaches and pecans are
the most important. Successful
general crop farms, hog farms, dairy
farms, fruit farms, beef cattle
farms, truck farms and various com.
blnations of these are to be found.
Nitrate Under Cotton in South
Georgia
j. III. B., MOultrie, Ga, writes:
what do you think of using 500
pounds of acid phosphate and
200 pounds of nitrate of soda
under cotton at the rate of 300
pounds per acre? Will College
No. l be satisfactory variety
of cotton for this section of the
state?
There is only one objection to
using College No. cotton in South
Georgia. This strain is not resistant
to the wilt disease, which is more
or less evident in your section of
the state. If you plant this variety
on land infested with the fungus
which produces this disease, you
Will probably lose the greater part
of your crop. We think it would be
better for you to plant Toole cot
ton' as this is quite strongly re-
slstant to the wilt fungus. 1t is
| grown successfully h1, NOW, ,ooo,lo