Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-10

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Hunter, entomologist, United States
department of agriculture; c. P
Blackwell, Clemson College, S. c.;
H. w. Barre, director of the South
Carolina experiment station, Glenn
son college, and J. N. Harper, of the
soil improvement committee, Allan
ia. Ga.
The principal address at last
nights session was delivered by
Judge r. w. Bingham, Louisville,
KY, publisher and chairman of the
National Cooperative Marketing
Council. "Co-operative marketing"
Judge Bingham said, ''is the great
movement in America today, and Is
the salvation of the agricultural in.
dustry of the nation.
Agriculture is the basic Industry
of the country" he continued. eff
the farmer is prosperous, the whole
country is prosperous. If the farm
er is reasonably prosperous, then the
country is safe"
The Lenroot-Anderson bill, and the
Capper measure, now pending in
congress, would be of great aid to
the farmer. Judge Bingham said.
Better Teachers Needed
University and agricultural! presi-
dents, at session yesterday, adopt
ed a resolution declaring that agri-
cultural instruction is dominated by
city residents, and adding that work
Of farm training be extended to the
people of the rural districts and not
merely to the students in the
schools. D. G. Hull, president of
Mississippi A. & M. college, presid-
ed over the meeting OF the educa-
tors.
1.-THE rs per cent agricultural
school patronage which comes from
the cities and towns is directing
the farm instruction policy for the
rs per cent which is derived from
the rural communities, DR.. III. A.
Morgan, president of the University
Of Tennessee, told the conference.
1.-THE city schools are paying higher
salaries and taking the trained men
who ought to be giving their work
to the farm districts.
The apparent tendency of agricul-
tural education to move the trained
students from the farms, was de,
plored by a number Of the educators.
AS a remedy for this situation they
urged education of the older people
on the farms, as well as the boys
and girls of school age.
busting the plant and field with
calcium arsenate, and destruction OF
the old weevil with the eggs by prun.
ing off and burning the squares in
Tho re
two of the foremost methods advo-
Gated to fight the boil weevil. Best
methods, it was agreed, were still
in a state Of momentary develop
ment.
United States department of agricuI-
ture; r. w. Harmed. Mississippi A.
& M. college, and Wilmon Newell, of
the Florida experiment station, dis
cussed the question from the ento-
biological standpoint. Leading agron-
omists who gave their views were: J.
r. Fain, Georgia Agricultural col.
lege; J. N. Harper, director, southern
soil Improvement committee, Atlanta,
Ga; w. r. Pate, North Carolina ex-
pertinent station; w. r. Perkins,
Louisiana State university extension
director, and j. r. Hicks, director of
experiment station. Agricultural col
lege, Mississippi.
The WeeviI Situation
In summarizing the boil weevil
situation today Mr.. Coad said: cit
seems obvious that busting is fairly
well established and spreading rap
idly on the higher yielding lands and
that sufficient data has been accumu-
lated to warrant a reduction in the
minimum yield requirement advised
for profitable poisoning. However,
there still is a very large zone of
production for which poisoning is
not profitable.
There is need for further develop
ments, tending to cheaper weevil
control by dusting."
Poisoning was found usually to be
Improbable, he stated, unless an in
crease of at least 100 pounds of seed
cotton per acre could be secured. A
good profit is obtained from any in
crease over 200 pounds, he had found
Mr.. Newell, proponent of the so.
called FLORIDA method" of weevil
control, stated that the objective OF
this method is the removal of squares
from the cotton plant after the
Weev1l has emerged from winter
quarters. This process should be fol
| lowed by busting both plant and
field with the arsenate poisoning for
best results, he believed. Removal
| OF the early squares resulted also in
| increased plant growth and accelera.
ton of fruiting, his experiments had
shown, he declared. Continuing, he
said:
The squares and weevils thurs re
moved, are taken out of the fields
and burned. This is followed imme
dlately by an application of calcium
arsenate at the rate of five or six
pounds per acre. This requires per.
sonal attention to each individual
plant in the field.''
Wider Economic System
Three outstanding add1 -sses in
which the delegates were told OF
the possibilities of extending cot
ton production westward and north
ward, Of the necessity for a wider
economic system for the south, anC
a warning that the southland is
| losing in rural population, featured
| Wednesdays sessions.
They were delivered by W. D