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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 155
2200 pounds of seed, the ingredients for the inoculation neces
sary to obtain the best results, and four cars of lime, of forty
tons a car, for application to the lands. On one of these farms,
from four acres sown in alfalfa in the fall of 1914 there were
five crops of hay cut, aggregating 17 tons of weighed, dry hay.
Berkshire Hogs for Breeding
C. W. Fowler of Cobb County made $72.50 in 1915 from
millet and cowpea hay on an acre and one-half of land. Mr.
Fowler makes a specialty of Berkshire hogs for breeding pur
poses, and sells $2,000 worth of registered hogs a month. He
feeds shorts and grazing crops, rye, sorghum, and Bermuda
grass, green rape every day in the year, and utilizes the wet
places on his farm.
Actual Cost of Suckling Pigs
A series of interesting experiments were made on three of the
State Test Farms in Georgia in 1915, to ascertain the cost of
raising young pigs from the time of birth until the weaning age.
Varying results were obtained. At farm A, sow No. i raised
six pigs at a cost of $14.03, and sow No. 2 cost $16.23 to raise
four. Farm B, sow No. i, four pigs, $15.98; No. 2, nine pigs,
$18.25. Farm C, sow No. i, six pigs, $10.16.
Record Crofi of Sweet Potatoes
Georgia is famous soil for sweet potatoes, and for several years
the government reports show the total value of the yield to have
been greater than that of any other state. The average farm
price in 1915 was only 61 cents a bushel, and the average acre
production only 85 bushels, but farmers who give this crop any
thing like the attention it deserves get results far above the
average. J. G. Thomas of Baldwin County is one who makes as
much as 300 bushels an acre, and on ground he says would not
make half a bale of cotton to the acre. Sweet potatoes pay
handsomely when properly cultivated. L. C. Oliver, near the
Chatham and Effingham county line gets $250 an acre from
double potato crops—Irish, followed by sweet.
Boy Farmer Makes Big Start
A thrifty farmer lad is John M. McLellan of Whitfield County,
who has earned a farm of his own before he is 17 years old. He
lives at home with his father and still goes to school regularly,
but takes his stock of milk to his customers in Dalton every
morning, works his land and tends his cattle. At the start he
borrowed the money to buy an old mule, but traded that for a
cow, saved his milk-earnings and bought more cows. In two
On page 80 is shown the
three acres on which
Maurice Crowder won
the four-crop contest in
1915. In the foreground
are Soy Beans, which
followed a crop of Oats,
which made 78 'bushels.
In the background is his
cotton to the left, and to
the right his acre of
corn, which made better
than 100 bushels.
Maurice is shown on his
Percheron mare, the
prize awarded him by
the Central Ry. of Go.
in 1914.
The Southeastern
Land Show, at Atlanta,
in February, 1917, un
der the auspices of the
Georgia Chamber of
Commerce will prove a
wonderful object lesson
to Western farmers.