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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
6
The Georgia State Department of Agriculture reports crop conditions as of August 20, 1902. Drought and rust plague many areas, with hot dry winds harming prospects. some counties report good yields while the majority fall short of average across northern, middle, and southern sections.
Agricultural notice urges Georgia farmers to plant more wheat to cover flour needs and livestock feed amid corn drought and hay shortfall. It recommends harvesting the extra wheat while doughy and notes Georgia ranks fourth in bleached cotton cloth production with 24 million square yards.
A Home and Farm writer describes a simple fruit drying house built at low cost. The design uses a dirt fire box, clay and cement plaster, and a chimney of sticks and earth for strong draft. Trays arranged to maximize hot air flow dry fruit in about six hours.
A Rural New Yorker report describes a new potato harvester with a depth adjustable shovel, endless rear chain, revolving cylinder with rods, an internal auger like spiral, and a rear elevator delivering to sacks or piles. With two men and four horses for sacks, or one man for piles, it can harvest about 1000 bushels in ten hours, digging four to five acres per day.
Georgia beef cattle offer a remedy to the Western meat taste issue caused by cold storage changes. The Department of Agriculture notes high prices and limited Western supply, urging Georgia farmers to pasture, breed top beef strains, and establish local packing houses for cheaper, home raised beef.
Market growers should plant two to three celery varieties to build a uniform product. Northern growers favor White Plume and Golden Self Planching for summer and fall markets, while storers also plant Giant Solid to ensure year round supply.
The internal revenue service rejects palm oil in oleomargarine. The agricultural press discusses a corn hay era and proposes a contal system weighing grain replacing the bushel. The summer silo gains prominence as ensilage proves valuable. bonemeal boosts hog health and cuts corn needs by a quarter. bird depredations rise this season.
An ad promotes Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine as a cure for sick stock. It urges medicine over cheap foods, claims to unload bowels and stir liver, and promises better work, higher milk, more flesh, and increased eggs with a 25 cent can. It ends by urging purchase from a dealer.
Farm Journal describes an apple picker that guides fruit down a cloth spout into a basket without bruising. It also notes a berry pruner by a Country Gentleman correspondent, forged by a blacksmith from good material and mounted on an old fork handle for quick selective cutting through dense berry rows.
Okra or gumbo thrives in the southern states and home grown seed remains best. New varieties like Liensity, Dwarf Green, Dwarf White, French Market, Perkins Mammoth Pod, and White Velvet have been tested. Tall Growing stays strong but Velvet Dwarf White and Density offer earlier harvests. a succession plan blends older and newer varieties to cover summer to frost.
The August Crop Reporter notes cane conditions were below last year and below the ten-year August average in all major cane states except Texas, which stood eighteen points above the ten-year mean. Rice conditions lagged in all key rice states except Texas, being under last year and the eight-year August mean, with one state showing a thirteen point rise from last year and exact alignment with the eight-year mean.
The sugar beet season shows wet conditions in the middle states hindering results, while prospects brighten in the central west. Harvesting is underway in mountain and coast states with Pacific coast factories at full blast. Several new factories will process the 1902 beet crop as Ontario opens four mills, per Oringe Judd Farmer.
A reader advises how to grow tomatoes under glass for late autumn and winter. With a small heated glass house one can train vines on wire under the roof, using pots or boxes, aiming for a 70 degree day and 65 degree night. The Lorillard tomato is recommended for its flavor, texture, and bright red color, with hand pollination sometimes used to ensure fruit in winter.
Fairy vetch ranks as a valuable winter forage, cover crop, hay, or soil renovator. Growth depends on rich moist soils though it adapts to dry sands. poor clay or sandy soils require high fertilization. Seed sowing in August or September at one to 1.5 bushels per acre, with cereal companions for support, and grazing possible after autumn rains begin varies by latitude and weather. Fertility accelerates growth and soil enrichment through nitrogen fixation.
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