Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-02
FARM EDUCATION
BY DIR. ANDREW M. SOULE

ricultural. situation in Georgia?
The college has developed and
given to the people of the state of
Georgia College No. cotton, which
is now being produced on a com
munity basis at several points in
the state with remarkably favorable
results. In one community where
they previously grew twenty-three
varieties of cotton, they are now
growing College No. l. Not only has
the yield been increased because of
the earlinesS of this variety, but the
strains produced in that section
have been greatly improved as well.
| The use of this cotton throughout
the length and breadth of the state
would add to- the revenues of our
farmers ac least five million dollars
a year. The college, of course, train
ed the great majority of the men
and women in the extension service
and also the teachers in the voca-
tional schools of agriculture and
| home economics.
We have demonstrated here at the
college that an old cotton planta-
ton can be taken and made over
into a stock farm. In the last six
teen years, our sales from this farm
in round numbers amount to $25,-
600 as against $175,000 worth of an
imal products. The college has play
ed very active and important part
IN demonstrating that calcium ar
senate could be used effectively for
the purpose of minimizing boil wee
WI damage to a reasonable degree.
Inc fact that our cotton crop has
decreased so much in volume in the
last three years is due to our hay
ing been at the vortex of the on
slaught of the boil weevil. We are
learning how to meet and overcome
his ravages, and we are coming
back very rapidly along this line
as well. A good deal of the new cap
ltal coming into Georgia is going
into all sorts of enterprises, in which
cotton mills would probably lead.
A lot of it is being spent in the de-
Velopment of power plants and on
office buildings and other Urban i'm
proVements. Our mineral resources
are being expanded quite rapidly,
and foreign capital is being used for
this purpose. | do not think anyone
could more than guess at the in
crease in investments which have
taken place in this particular field.
ana | would not be SURPRISED if if
totalled 100000 900 for the wear
1873. The migration of the negro
tends naturally to break I'D the old
plantation system. This discom-
modes many people temporarily, but
IN the end, it will be a great bless
ing. The tendency now is for more
white men to buy land, and the oDer.
alton thereof will in the end result
IN lessening tenantry, which is al
ways desirable. Naturally, as the
tenant works into the state of q
landowner, he becomes a more pro
gresslve individual and constructive
citizen.
Human Food Value of Peanuts
*. a. g., Valdosta,- Ga, writes:
L would like to have the most
authentic information as to the
comparative value for human
food purposes of the different
varieties of peanuts.
The Spanish peanut contains 2
considerably higher per cent of bil
than the Virginia or other varieties
OF the same character. In tests
made it would appear that where
the Spanish strain contains 52.5 per
cent of oil the Virginia strains Weld
43-3 per cent. There is about 500
pounds of waste in a ton of Spanish
peanuts. This includes the shells.
pops and trash. One might, there
Tore, figure on securing a yield of
about 200 pounds of oil from a TON
OF spanish peanuts of a good grade.
On the other hand, the Virginia
varieties containing approximately
AZ per cent of OIL will show a vast
age of about 800 pounds a ton in
the form of shells and trash. The
yield of oil from these strains would
thus be approximately SEQ pounds
per ton.
Different varieties of peanuts
grown under the same conditions
show but little variation in their
compositions Of course, it is self
evident that the Spanish varieties
are the only ones which should he
cultivated where the purpose is to
make oil. The Virginia bunch and
runner strains and the Valencia and
African varieties containing less oil
are probably a little better balanced
FOR human food uses than the SDan-
1sh strain. When the oil is expressed
from the Spanish variety, however.
1t would be possible to secure a verv
nigh grade of peanut meal for use
as an amendment in the production
OF many varieties of bread and
cakes, or for use as a concentrate
IN association with corn and other
cereals for the nutrition of farm
animals.
We think we have pointed out the
primary factor to which YOU should
give consideration in differentiatine
between varieties of peanuts, namely
the difference in oil content shown
between the Spanish and other varie-
ties