Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07

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1889, while Smiths farm income
was only $79$- No deduction was
made for the labor performed by the
! operator and his family, so that
these amounts represent the returns
| for the labor of the two farmers and
| their families.
| Doe worked his mules at produc-
tive labor 234 days. while Smith got
| only as days. Doe was able to en-
ploy his mules profitably IS more
days than Smith.
The yield OF crops per acre on
Does farm run much higher than
on Smiths. Doe got 200 pounds of
lint cotton and 1000 pounds of to-
bacco per acre; Smith got only so
pounds of cotton and $50 pounds of
| tobacco per acre. No doubt, in ad-
dition to the live stock system of
farming, better cultural methods
added greatly to Does profits by in
creasing the yield per acre of his
crops. Doe had velvet beans in all
his corn; Smith had velvet beans
in only half of his corn.
These farmers are only two ex-
amples of the many records obtained
for the purpose of determining the
hest systems to follow, as well as
the cost of production and season
able distribution of labor. These
data collected from the farmers
make it possible to obtain the actual
experiences of a large number of
farmers and to put them in q form
whereby all may profit by them.
If the farmers experiences were
not collected and disseminated in
this way, it would not be possible for
many farmers to derive benefit from
the experiences Of other farmers
than those of their nearest neigh
bors. BY collecting experiences from
farmers in actual figures over large
areas, it is possible to select the
systems that have been tried out
and proven to be the most profita BILE
and to pass these along to all the
farmers.
In 1919, a farm survey of the
school patronage area of Winter
vile, Clarke county, was made
which showed among other things
that twenty-three varieties of cot
ton were being grown on $500 acres
of land around the school and that
no attention had been given to the
varieties recommended by the Geor
gia State College OF Agriculture.
In the early spring of 1920, a
community meeting was held at
the Winterville High school to Coz
slider a program for improving the
community agriculture. More than
$50 of the farm folks attended. A
program was launched for improv
ing the staple Of the cotton on a
community basis. The agricultural
college recommended college No
l" as the best variety for eco
nomical improvement of the staple.
The lead was taken by the boys
in the agricultural department If
the high school. That year, ten
boys obtained from the college
enough seed for each to plant one
acre Of college No. IT,
In 1921, these boys, together with
their parents, planted so acres of
college No. l." This was planted
along with other varieties and it
was this year that it drew consiG-
BILE attention from the entire
community, because of its ability to
produce large amount of its crop
before the boil weevil arrived in
destructive numbers.
In 1922, 495 acres passed inspec.
ton by the Georgia Breeders as
ISOLATION and around this cotton
was formed The Winterville Pure
Seed association" in the summer OF
1922. This association sold more
than 1900 bushels of purebred
College No. /" seed, and retained
some 100 bushels for local plant
ing.
Out of 5000 acres now being
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vile community, about LOO acres
are being planted with college No
T. seed. This is we'll over fifty Der
cent Of the entire cotton acreage
Thus, in a period Of four years, a
community is well on it's way to
definite improvement of it's staple.
This idea should form the basis
for improving cotton staple through.
out the south.
Results and conditions brought
about by the cooperative carload
sales of live poultry in Georgia dur
ing the past year have exceeded all
hopes Much Of the present and
enormous increase in the production
of poultry in all sections of the
state can be attributed to the prices
brought about by cooperative carlot
sales.
Because of our large rural popula-
ton and the distance most farmers
are from market, the small poultry
producer was never able to market
advantageously until the coming of
cooperative poultry sales. The
country store merchant and buck
ster set the prices, and during the
heavy producing period they set
them below the cost of production.
There must be an outside market
for excess perishable products dur
ing the heavy producing season.
There has always been outside mar
kets for poultry and eggs. but the
small producer could not take advan-
quantity to market economically.
BY all farmers cooperating, this diff
ficulty has been overcome.
During the past ten months, sc
carloads of poultry have been sold
comparatively. Prices have been
higher than ever before, not only
at the sales, but in every town and
crossroads store in Georgia. At
a sale in Madison May 8, cash prices
paid at the car were cents higher
than Atlanta (. o. b. prices the same
day.
Sales have been held in practi-
cally every section of the state.
Turner county has held eight CO.
operative carlot sales during the
past year.
Because of the success in co-opera-
tive sales of live poultry, the same
local rPaniZation directed nv the
county agents will hold cooperative
carlot sales of eggs this coming
year. Cooperative sales have made
poultry raising for the small farmer
profitable. Sales have been educa.
tional; in short, farmers have
learned to properly fatten and con-
dition poultry, keep better poultry
and sell by the pound rather thar
by the head.
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