Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-04-24

HOW 1 WENT TO SCHOOL :
AND MADE $757.65. I

(By Frederick Williamson,)
Commerce, Ga.

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Last year my project consisted of
forty white Leghorn hens, one acre of
soy beans, one acre OF corn and four
acres of cotton.
Two years ago I had some money
and did not know what to invest it
in. My father suggested that I buy
some chickens. So l bought about fif-
ty white leghorn pulets eight weeks
old. did not know anything about
raising chickens, but I succeeded in
raising forty of them to maturity.
These were not laying and did
not know what to do with them; so I
went to the agricultural teacher to
find what to do.
| was not feeding them anything
but wheat and he advised me to mix
a dry mash for them. I mixed this
and kept it before them all the time.
In two or three weeks I was getting
about Is eggs a day.
| had poultry house that was clos
ed on all sides with no place for ven-
tilation. We built an open front house
oxlO and another 10 x12 and divided
my chickens. This was in the spring
and the following fall I Joined the
agricultural class at the Commerce
High School.
The next spring bought six hun
dred egg incubator and a five hundred
chick brooder. The agricultural class
helped me with the brooder house. I
set three hundred eggs for myself and
three hundred for another person and
got one hundred and seventy five
chicks out of this lot. The next time
the incubator was set in cellar that
mad been used for dairy. I set six
hundred for myself this time and
Matched four hundred and sixty. 7
raised two hundred and seventv-five
pullets and sold the cockrels when
they weighed one and one-half pounds
and got enough for them to paw for
all the feed it had taken to raise the
pullets and cockrels.
Now I have a house 2Ox52 and
have three hundred hens. 1 have now
learned to Gull them for egg produc-
ton and l am trap-nesting all of
them. | hope to have several hundred
hens by next fall.
otal returns ------------ $4,000
Profit eaoe ro
Our agricultural teacher got some
Laredo soy bean seed and divided
them among the two agricultural class
es, He sold each boy one gallon, which
was enough to plant one acre. We
wrote for bulletins and studied these
and planted and worked them accord
ing to these. I turned the land, harr-
owed it and planted the seed in rows
about two feet apart. The weather
was so dry that for a while it SEEM
ed as if they would not grow. I put
nitrate OF soda around them and when
1t rained they grew off very well. I
made eleven and one fourth bushels.
We had them thrashed with GRAIN
thrasher at cost of fifty cents per
bushel. We shipped the seed to- Ath-
ems, Ga, and got ten dollars per bu-
shell for them.
Expenses $22 As
Total returns ----- $122 50
Profit e1ooor
had selected two acres for the
soy beans, but did not plant but one.
l decided to plant the other acre in
late corn. On June 25th I planted this
acre in Cocks Prolific Corn. put
one application of nitrate of soda
around it just before it tasseled and
made thirty bushels on this acre
Expenses ------- o1s
otal returns ----------- $3.50
Profit an ~
learned in class and by STUDYING
Farmers Bulletins how cotton could
be raised under boil weevil conditions
and wanted to raise some myself. Nv
father did not think much of this for
ne was not going to plant any.
He let me have man to help me
turn the land and plant it. planted
it on May the 9th
From studying l had learned tha,
cotton should be poisoned as soon as
the squares begin to develop. From
then on l kept close watch on it and
when found many weevils I would
poison with Calcium arsenate in dust
FORM
About two weeks after I had pois.
oned it my father came over expect.
ing to find it all eaten up, but he die
not find but very few puncturet
squares. He then wished that he had
planted little cotton. From this or
he was in the field every day looking
it over. About the middle of the seas.
on he decided to plant cotton the next
Year.