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SMALLEST COTTON CROP
IN TWENTY-IV[ YEARS
Forecast by Government-Production
Placed at Little More Than Eight
Million Males.
'Washington, July 1.-Cotton pro
duction this year promises to b the
smallest, crop of the last (iuarter of
a century, today's forecast by the De
partment of Agriculture placing it at
8,433,,000 bales, or nearly live million
bales smaller than last year's crop
and nearly eight million bales below
the jecord crop of 1914. This year's
acreage is 28.4 per cent smaller than
last year's.
Th( aereage this year is the small
est since 1900 and never before, ac
cordling to the Department of Agri
culture, has there been so great a
chance from one year to another in
ae rca Li as there has been from last
ye ; toc this year.
The condition of the growing crop
has not in twenty years been so low
on June 25 as it was this year. All
sections of the cotton belt has been
fi Mt tic d. It is due, according to gov
em ncit oxperts to an adversely late,
wet s:I ig, and to the presence of
boil wevil inl Iarg'te numbers.
Owi~ng to the unfavorable conditions
of April anid May and to other dis
coura:Iging factors, hort age of ferti
lizer, and unsatisfactory price; aban
donrnit of planted cotton aceage
has ben greater than usual east of
the Mississiipi river, raniging from
5 per cent in North Carolina ancd
Nissi ippi to as high as 10 per cent
in Girgiai. West of the Mississippi
abacnomnt has been slight. Thie
a''ndient was taken into consid
ecatit '.the crpc reprting hoard an.
loucedl~-', ini its prceliminairy estimate
of aereage-.
The~ amountl ocf commciercial fecrtilizer
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used per acre on cotton this year, ac
cordin gto the reports representing
the bureau of crop estimates, is about
66 per cent of the average amount
used annually in the four years, 1917
20, Virginia reporting 86; North Caro
lina 80; South Carolina 65; Georgia
73, Florida, 75; Alabama 72; Mississ
ippi 60; Louisiana 32; Texas 47; Ar
kansas (U; Tennesse 61. The returns
of sales of fertilizer license tags,
compared with last year, show to May
31 for North Carolina about 65 per
cent anid to the close of June in
South Carolina 50 per cent, Alabama
45 per cent, Mississippi 40 and Texas
33. Special returns to the agricul
ture Department indicated only about
55 per cent as much as last year in
North Carolina, 50 per cent in South
Carolina, 42 per cent in Mississippi,
compared with the usual only 49 per
cent in Georgia and 33 per cent in
Florida.
Thus, Said the bureau's statement,
all indications point to a reduction in
absolute quantity of fertilizer pur
chased much greater than the unpre
cedented reduction inl acreage of cot
ton, and this is confirmed by the
figures quoted showing lessened use
per acre. This lack is reflected in
the relatively low condition of cot
ton, which is almost ten points below
the average condition at this (late.
The quality is generally reported as
lower than in previous years.
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EX'ERIMENT DESIGNED
TO TEST LONGEVITY
OF NUTGRASS NUTS
Ai interesting experiment to cover
fifteen years has been begun by the
weed specialists of the United States
P Deparitiment of Agriculture i toasCer
ta in how long the nuts of nutgrass
can stay in the soil and still retain
their viability. Many ailmost unbe
l iev'able stoies are told by farmers
and others in the Southern Coastal
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nutgrass nuts remain viable in the
soil. Some stories toll of grass nuts
being dug up after 30 years' burial
and still sprouting. A seemingly au
thentic case has been found by the
Government weed specialists where a
house built in 1912 was removed from
its site eight years later and grass
nuts sprouted on the spot from which
it hatd been removed.
In order to get definite information
on this point, four galvanized-iron
cans, each about 2 feet square and 4
feet deep, without bottoms, were sunk
into the soil at the Arlington farm
near Washington, and 250 pounds of
soil well filled with the grass nuts was
placed in each. The cans were cover
ed against light, and it is planned to
open them on the 1st of June, 1923,
1926, 1931, and 1936, respectively, to
test the viability of the nuts.
Velvet bean vines are known to
smother nutgrass, but if the nuts will
remain viable in the soil for an inde
finite period, it is seen that other
means of extermination will be neces
saryv.
PN 31 ENTO-l>EPPlElR GitOWING
SUCCEISS EN GILS' cLUBs
One of the aims in the club work
a mong the boys and girls of the 15
Southern States, conducted by the
States Dairy Association in coopera
tion with the State Agricultural Col
leges, has been to foster the introduc
tion and grow%'th of crops for which
'there is a wide and steady demand, or
for which a demand can be easily built
up locally. The Spanish pimiento,
formerly imported firom Spain, is an
example.
Club girls in the South were first
interestel about six years ago in grow
ing pimiientos by way of v'ariety in
their cdll) gardens. Tlhei r work gave
an impetus to local use of the peppers,
hot h fresh and cananet, they shortly.
found that the pimiento wasl a valuable
amilition to chutney, creole sauce, Dix
it eli~h , pepper retlish , catsup, and
similar prodlucts which toiunil a ready
market. In 19'19 Sout hern club girls
'repiarled over 1 20,01)0 pi n ts of can nedl
goodls in which pi mion tsc were usedl,
and in 1921) over 200,)00t0 pint jars of
whole ItimlienItos and( Iimienlto--Ilavor
'd relishes. The girls have found thIiat
the pimIIientos may ibe kept f reshI duLr..
ing the winter mvonths by packing
them in sa wdu st wvhiich is scerunulIous
ly cleanead and thoroughly dry.
TIIIOUGH'IT HEST' IO O11 Esl'gi
I-or healt~h and( for (Ionom0icail use of
the pasturage it is undesirable to keep
heep on the same grou nd more than
from 101 to 14 (lays, say sp'cia lists of
tihe Un ited States D~eparatment of Ag
ricou1.turo, in dliscussi ngt the riuest ion of'
raising sheep on tem pora ry pastu res.
'he miost generally useful size of lot
IA I acrec to 25 sheep. Thbis area, on
(0 average, furinished in ex periments
I4 dlays' feed.
A rranginag the size of lots on the
basis o~f I acre t~o 25 sheep is more
sat is factory than seeding lareger areas
and( using hlurdlecs to piermiit. advance
tot fresh feed each dlay. less5 Ibor is
nlecessa ry, and by going to entirely
neOw grounid aifter' 10 or' 12 dlays tile
danger of plicking upl Parasite larvae
((n gr'oundl g razedl OVer (ear]le is prie
venitedI. With a I -acr'e lot, for 25 ewe's,
or' correspondingly larger ones for
larger flocks, it is anl adldd adviantage
if the ir length is two 01 three times~
the braduoth.
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With a heavy crop of forage that
would last longer than was consider
ed safe to hold the flock on the same
ground, a short piece of cross fence
can readily be put down to diviae the
pasture into two parts. The smaller
lots are also convenient with purebred
flocks to provide for the separate pas
turing of smaller lots of ram and ewe
lambs.
Movable fencing is not likely to be
satisfactory for the outside-lot fences
unless the whole prea to be used lies
in a long strip with side fences, when
only two end pieces need to be inl
place at one time for the ground be
ing grazed.
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PICK AND PICK BERRIES
CAREFULLY FOR SIlPMENT
If a grower 'vishes to ship black
berries by parcel post, he should ex
ercise care in picking and packing the
berries. Carelessness in picking and
handling blackberries sometimes caus
es more injury to the fruit than does
the treatment given while in transit,
say specialists of the United States
Department of Agriculture. Success
in shipping blackberries is dependent
largely on favorable Weather condi
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tions and the way in which the fruit
is handled in transit.
The shipping weight of a 16-quart
crate of blackberries is from 27 to 30
pounds, and the charge for postage to
points within the first and second pos
tal zones is from 31 to 34 cents. The
cost for crate and postage on a 16
quart crate of blackberries will vary,
therefore, from 58 to 64 cents. It may
be possible at times to snip more than
one kind of berries in a crate, such as
a combination shipment.
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PINE BARK FISH STEW
PROVES POPULAR CANNIED
A new, popular product that is be
ing markete'd by the canning clubs in
the Southern States along the Atlan
tic and Gulf Coasts is "Pine Bark
Fish Stew." The development of com -
bination foods peculiar to certain lo
calities has been particularly foster
ed by the extension agents of the
United State sDepartment of Agri
culture and the State agricultural col
leges who carry on boys' and girls'
club work. Almost every country in
the world, and practically every dis
trict in the United States, has a
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special "one-piece" dish made of the
products in that region. The gumbo
of the far South, the New England
boiled dinner, the bouillabaisse of
Marseille, reproduced in New Orleans,
Hungarian goulash, Chinese chop suey
Indian curry, Irish stew, French
ragout, are instance of this tendency
to blend flavors in one dish.
"Pine bark fish stew" is a charac
teristic dish in South Carolina. Very
probably it was introduced by settlers
from the southern part of France and
from Italy. Italians living in South
ern California serve a similar fish
stew. The home demonstration
agents, seeking a popular and some
what novel product which would not
he in competition with commercial
canned goods, decide(d to have the
clubs make a specialty of canning
"pine bark fish stew." Onions, toma
toes, celery, pimento, and fish are the
ingredients which are cooked slowly
in vegetable oil and poured o'pr
"southern style" rice. At large out
of-doorf, gatherings and community
iunches this is served on pieces of
pine bark, giving the dish its name.
In Florida, Georgi'a, and all the Gulf
States various local fish are adapted
to the combination.
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