The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-08-02
FARM NOTES
By f. 3. Ferris.


7. II. Montgomery, County agent
Of Lawrence County, headed d dele
cation Of IS farmers for visit 20
. .ha Experiment Station. These rnen
we're particularly Interested in
growing cotton. and the work on
the station having to do with testing
various varieties, fertilizers and sew
etai methods of poisoning cotton
against the weevil interested taem
more than anything else. Taey were
impressed with the relative value Of
Trice cotton as compared with many
other standard varieties Of thIs
crop, because this Trice ariety
had already matured a respectable
crop Of bolls while most otner kjnds
lad few grown boils and the pros
pect for developing additional fruit
was remote on account OF 5he
serious infestation Of boil weevil.
They were impressed, too, with
results of numerous ways Of fer
tihzing cotton seeing the effects Of
the various combinations of plant
food on the eyeiopmcnt of cotton
The census of opinion among them
seemed to be that mixture Of
some 200 pounds each Of Acid Phos-
phate and Nitrate oi Soda and
100 pounds of Kainit was the
cheapest and best fertilizer shown
In the experimental work showing
the efforts Of poisoning the boil
Weeyil they were more favO:ably
impressed with the Florida method
than with any otner method tried,
However, the Coad method Of
poisoning closely approaches it in
effectiveness, but apparently was
costing more to gain the same
control This was only as it ap-
poayed to the eye up to TINS time
ard future Development may change
all present indictions.
On Thursday following, Mr Clyde
Smith, Agricultural Agent OF Jeff
Davis County, headed a delegation
i fifty farmers who drove some
100 miles, and after inspecting the
wors, Of the Station, spent TIE night
in the dormitory Of the Agfricu1-
;aral High School, where they we're
made to feel at nome through .he
Kindness and affability ot M i.
Huff These meE were largely nj
terested in the same things that
attracted the delegation from Law
renee County, bit Il number OF them
were also Interested in olchard
crops, particularly pecans, satsuna
oranges and sand pears. Ate,
visiting the Experiment Station they
were driven to see the large pecan
orchard of Governor Bi!bo, the well
kept satsuma orchard OF Mr.. Scar
borough and the wonderful sand
pear trees of Dr. Stewart. One of
the leaders in the party expressed
the opinion that the sight repaid
him for the trouble he had in
making the trip.
These last visitors left early
Friday morning for a stop-Over at
Lumberton to visit the pecan
nursery of Mr. Bass and later to in
spect places of interest in and
around IIattiesburg.
Both of these parties came from
we'll developed agricultural conl0tu
mites and were on the alert for
finding better methods of growing
the staple farm crops and more
reliable additional crops to substa-
t1te nj the place of cotton and corn.
l. is the policy of the Central Ex
pertinent Station, through the State
Extention Force and their represen-
tatives in the various counties, TO
have these delegations from the
several counties visit the Expert
ment Stations nearest them and
profit by the work in progress, It
is also felt that the Stations them
selves will gain as much as the
farmers in learning from them just
what their particular agricultural
problems are and later planning
their work So as to help them meet
these problems.