The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., November 02, 1912, Image 1

About The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920

Image provided by: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

                
SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON PAGE 2.
H s
1 _—____ _^ ~__BIRMINGHAM, ALA..—MEMPHIS, TENN.
voi. aavit. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1912. _Weekly: $1 a Year.
«"'■■■M _
Keep in Touch With \\iur Experiment Station^ I
IN I HIS issue will be
found two short articles
on cotton anthracnose, a
disease which has been un
usually prevalent over much
of the South this year. Al
most every year, however,
we get inquiries from far
mers as to what causes their
cotton bolls to rot and how
they can prevent it. The
! same thing is true of many
other plant diseases, and
many insect pests.
The loss to the farmer
from these diseases and in
sect enemies is enormous.
Various estimates are made
as to its extent, but really
no one can do more than
guess at it. Often, too, the
farmer does not even know,
when a new disease attacks
his crop, or a new insect
pest appears, what the
troublesome visitor is.
Most of us who are “just
plain farmers” are not at all
well-informed as to fungi, or
bacteria or all the multitude
of flying, creeping and
crawling things that we have
to contend with. Yet it is
important that we know a
bout them. Often the suc
cess of our crops, and the
reward of our year’s labor
depend upon our knowing
how to fight these tiny—
often invisible—foes.
The Question, then, is
where are we to get this information—when a new disease appears,
or a new insect begins to do damage, how are we to find out what it
is and how to fight it?
There *8, .as a ru^e* just one place to which we can turn with reas
onable certainty, and that is our State Experiment Station. Af%e
e.xperiment Station there are men engaged in studying these things—
men who have made it their life work to find out about the fungi and
pacteria that cause the various diseases farmers see their plants suffer
ng with, or who devote their time to learning how insects live and
ow they can be killed These men cannot, of course, tell the farmer
now to treat every plant disease or how to kill every “bug” that
annoys him, for they, too, have much to learn along this line, but
ev can usually give all the information that is to be had.
‘ here are other places, of course, - where information can be had
on these subjects. Most farmers know something of fighting some
’“e more destructive insects, and of controlling some of the more
win'h °in . n* diseases. There are various books and bulletins which
anH som.e State Departments of Agriculture can give prompt
it Mettf,CtlYe a*d : The Prgressive Farmer is always ready to do what
sn*° v usually refers such inquiries to some Experiment Station
rae., wJ- , t 38 a general rule the best thing the farmer can do in a
inf OI . 8 hind is to apply directly to his Experiment Station for
information and assistance
ct f.'ei.y farmer should keep in close touch with the Experiment
not vV0 his State, anyway The services of these institutions are
eat th:aIuah*® only when disease breaks out in the crops or insects
Tho it would pay .the farmer to keep in touch with his
°n *or this part of its work alone, this is far from being the
important part of that work.
COTTON BOLLS AFFECTED WITH ANTHRACNOSE
Write the Director of your Experiment Station today and ask him
to put you on his regular mailing list. Here are the names and ad- 1
dresses for the different States in our territory.
Alabama—J. F. Duggar, Auburn.
Arkansas—C. F. Adams. Fayetteville.
Louisiana—W. R. Dodson. Baton Rouge.
Mississippi—E. R. Lloyd, Agricultural College. !
Tennessee—II. A. Morgan, Knoxville.
Texas—B. Youngblood. College Station j
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
FARM WORK FOR NOVEMBER —Professor Massey's Sugges
tions and “Ten Things to I>o". 4
GET A PIG—The Progressive Farmer's New Campaign in Which
You Should Join. 12
HOW TO IMPROVE THE GROUNDS OF OLD HOMES. 22
SIX PER CENT COTTON TARE—A Letter and an Editorial. . 13
THE COUNTRY CHURCH AND COUNTRY LIFE—How the Church
■ Can Help in Many Ways. 0
THE MISSISSIPPI STATE PAIR—A Good Display of Farm Pro
ducts at Jackson. 20
THE SETTLERS WE NEED AND HOW TO GET THEM—Tv "
Suggestive Letters. 3
WHEN BUYING PURE-BRED STOCK—How to Get Your Money’s
Worth . ' 14
WHY A CHILD SHOULD CHEW HIS FOOD. ............. . io