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til are d fttt^^sppee.--(It Tifton, Georgia,
pfiijatter of the afeeond class.
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County Georgia .
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A LAND OF CORN.
After all, perhaps this will soon be a corn
_ iwing country. One firm in Tifton has bought
over 1,000 bushels of com this season from the
farmers of this section and a milling concern at
Lenox has bought 1,500 bushels since the middle
of November. Add to this that Tifton has ship-
g| ped eight carloads of live stock and two car
loads of dressed meat this season, and the read
er can see that we are on the road to independ
ence.
The money paid out for meat and com is
quite an item, but worth a great deal more than
the money is the example to other farmers.
Crop diversification is cumulative. The man
who diversifies and is prosperous sets an ex
ample that others in his community follow. We
expect to see five times the amount of com
bought In Tifton and vicinity next year that was
bought this season, and three times the amount
of live stock shipped to market.
Tift county does not yet feed herself. Her
people buy more food products than they sell.
But a change is under way and the record of this
season is a harbinger of better times. And it
was made at the end of a year when the cotton
acreage was at least one-third larger than it
will be this year.
PT WHY WAIT FOR APOLOGIES?
Since the beginning of the trouble in Mexico,
but two courses have been open to the United
States; but two courses are open now. One is
to send an army into Mexico and conquer the
country. The other is to keep our bands off
and let the factions in Mexico fight it out
among themselves.
To wait for Mexico to solve her own problems
means a great deal of annoyance, much misun
derstanding and a great deal more self-control.
But to invade Mexico meahs to spend millions
in money and sacrifice thousands of lives. While
they are now fighting each other, the moment
hn American soldier crosses the border with
the intent to invade, all factions in Mexico
Would unite against the invader. The country
is large, sparcely settled and for the most part
mountainous. To subdue it would be the work
of years. There is little probability that pub-*
lie sentiment in this country would uphold such
an invasion.
We must either take Mexico or let it alone.
Half-way measures will do more harm than
good. Just now the best thing to do appears
to be let it alone. We are under no obligations
to restore peace and order in that country at
the point of the bayonet. If Mexico was our
equal in military resources, there would be no
sentiment in favor of American intervention.
Because the country is weak does not make in
vasion right.
Still, it is generally recognized that there is
little prospect for peace and order in Mexico
until some strong power restores one and main
tains the other. This nation will not allow
any other to interfere and it may be that in the
course of time the pressure will become so great
that intervention on our part cannot be longer
avoided. Until that time comes, the best thing
this government can do is to warn its citizens
to stay out of Mexico and to let that country
severely alone.
]■.[' With all due respect to the earnest desire of
Washington for peaceful measures and to avoid
friction, a fine opportunity to impress on the
warring powers of Europe a wholesome respect
for the American flag was lost in the case of the
: Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
No doubt Germany will make apologies and
pay for the damage done after a time, bmt it
, looks at this writing as if she will take her own
tj. time co dw so. There seems *o be a disposition
to haggle ovtr the rointj at issue and 10 avoid
Ef/gui long as possible an acknowledgement of
MAKING HISTORY.
Mr. J. L. Herring,.Editor,
Tifton, flaxstte, Tifton, Go. ,
Poor 81, y Attached U the warning
given by the Agricultural Department
agalnet Texaaf Oklahoma and Ark-
ansae planting "half-and-half” cot
ton.
Yon will note they advise planting
“Triumph” and “Lone Star.”
I have not seen anything relative
| to "Lone Star” but note according
to the official test at the Alabama
Experiment Station at Auburn, Ala.,
as set forth in Press Bulletin No. 75,
the yield of “Triumph” was 258
pounds lint cotton per acre, while
that of “half-and-half” was 403
pounds lint cotton per acre.
Also note in the anthracnose test
by the Georgia State College of Ag
riculture, the amount of diseased
bolls from anthracnose in “Triumph",
was 16.9 per cent, while my cotton
was 7.35 per cent.
I sent to the Government Agricul
tural Department samples of my cot
ton, and attached is copy of telegram
from them. I insisted on immediate
action.
All parties having orders for seed
with me that have not been delivered
are at liberty to cancel; and I would
suggest if they wish the seed, to come
and get them at once, as I will prob
ably not offer these seed for sale
but a few days longer.
It is up to the cotton grower to
choose between the government
warning, their own and their neigh
bor's experience, compared with the
Georgia and Alabama tests.
Yours truly,
J. i. L. Phillips.
(Copy Telegram.)
Washington, D. C., March 15, 1915.
J. J. L. Phillips, Tifton, Ga.
Cotton you sent less than seven-
eights inch average lengths, weak
and wasty; not advisable to plant
Letter follows. Brand.
i fault.
Upfey- The act of the German cruiser was one of
simple piracy. We are not at war with Germany
nor with any of her allies. Yet our ship and its
J*'. cargo was treated exactly as if we were at war.
I Following this act of piracy was the act of braz
en impudence in sailing into an American port
Bi; for repairs and supplies, with the crew of the
E,. destroyed American vessel on board.
This was not a time to write notes to Ger-
many. It was time for Germany to write notes
us. If Captain Thierichens and his officers
id crew hall been promptly clapped in jail and
their ship declared forfeit for an act of piracy,
it would have caused a wholesale respect for
our flag no matter on what sea it is sailing by
every one of the belligerents in the present war.
The note and explanation would then have come
from Germany and this country would have held
the whip hand. No doubt the cruiser and her
officers and crew would have been later releas-
,«d. but the lesson taught would have been a
lutatory one. Germany would have been no
florae off. To hold both would be really doing
them a favor for they will probably be destroy-
«d if they put to sea.
All the powers at war need a lesson in res
pect to neutral shipping and this country h is
an opportunity to teach them one.
Georgia financiers and Western mining ex-
Aperts are said to be ngakihg plans to develop
| the gold fields of North Geergia. A smelter in
K,. Atlanta costing $200,000 with an ore mill in
B/ponnection is a part of the plans under way.
»:'peretofore, North Georgia ores have been mill-
f ed for gold and sliver alone, which amounts to
a very small per cent of the ore handled,
le present plan is to utilize all of the contents
of sulphide ores and make a profit of- whal
lerly went to waste. It has often been a
ject for comment that the valuable ores in
ia mountains were not utilized for a profit,
fore the discovery of gold in California turn-
,, miners westward, there were many rich
in this state, and some of them were
operated until a few years ago. Now there is
pirevivar of mining for precious metals in Geor
and one of the state's chief sources of min-
wealth is being developed. One significant
point about the new enterprise is that the money
finance this North Georgia industry comes
South Georgia, a Dawson banker beim.
le of those actively interested.
When Pf'IHp II of Spain in 1688 g.-,i iiered
the fleet which he called his “Invincible Ar
mada” he collected what stood for 300 years as
the greatest gathering of ships in the world.
Phillip had under the command of the ablest
seaman in Spain, Santa Cruz, 131 vessels with
8,000 sailors and 19,000 soldiers. Bad luck and
bad management combined to send the greater
part of the Armada to the bottom without any
special effort on the Englishman Drake's part,
If Phillip could open his eyes now and take
a glance over towards the Mediterranean he
would see a congregation of warships that
would make his famous Armada look like a
child’s toy. One of the smallest of the fighting
craft gathered there by England, France and
their allies to force the Dardanelles could send
a fleet like Phillip’s to the bottom without losing
a man, and there is about as much invested in
one of those dreadnoughts as Phillip spent on
his entire equipment. One of the new 15-inch
guns will throw a shell farther than Phillip’s
fleet could sail between watches and less than
a dozen of them carry as many men as there
were sailors on his' 131 vessels.
The gathering of warships is the greatest in
the history of the world, and its like will prob
ably never be seen again, for time brings
many changes in type and armament. Along
the Dardanelles is a great place to make history.
Xerxes made some there as did Csesar and
many others among the great commanders of
ancient times.
The fleet of the Allies is making history there
now. First it is a history of achievement be
cause it is the first time that 15-inch naval guns
and some of the other new equipment have
been brought into -action. Then it is a his
tory of accomplishment, because on the result
of the scrap a new map of Europe will depend.
I As the Turko-German resistance along the
Dardanelles grows stronger the price of wheat
advances.. When it appeared that the Turkish
defenses were crumbling before the British 15-
inch gun% wheat dropped 20 cents a bushel.
Bjflion the Germans got there and the defenses
were strengthened the price stiffened and
BnMtgdmoEtaa high as it was before the attempt
BnjQKie $e passageway -was begun. Mean
while, the reduction of the forts appears to nro-
Bgesi steadily, although slowly. Winning a pas-
IN THE FARMERS’ HANDS
Soon after the outbreak of the war it was pre
dicted that exports of cotton to Europe would
not be over four or five million bales. Already
we have exported six million bales and it is pre
dicted that by the end of March the totals will
cench seven million. “After March,” says the
Cotton Record, “it looks fair to estimate that
i,500,000 to 2,000,000 bales more will be ex
ported and this would make the total for the
year 8,500,000 to 9,000,000 bales.”
This is not far from a normal export. Bc-
.•ause the output of manufactured cotton
roods in this country has fallen off the home
icmand is curtailed instead of that of Europe.
The blockade of German ports will curtail cx-
lorts to a certain extent but this will be offset
n part by the cargoes of cotton sunk or des-
royed and the new uses for cotton in the man
ifacture of munitions of war.
It is the strong export demand and the pc
istent holding of cotton in the South that is
teoping the price steady. But one more factor
s necessary to insure a steady market durng
he spring and summer and a fair price for
next fall’s crop. That is cut down the acre-
ige.
This is the beginning of the planting season
rnd the cotton growers of the South can fix the
price for the balance of the past season’s crop
rnd for this year’s crop as well by a substantial
ncrease in grain and food crops and a corres
ponding decrease in the cotton acreage.
If we were sure the British ships waiti
fide the three mile limit are watchful <
out-
oug'n,
may be a^matter of months but it seems
“cally certain now that it wi II be won, and I perhaps the easiest way to solve the problem of
i* flood of Russian wheat will knock the the Prinz Eitel Friedrich Would l/be to It* nar
r out of-infiated prices in this coun
,„tvy. J put to sea.
Office of Information, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture
Warning to Producers tn Oklahoma,
Texas and Arkansas Against
”Hnlf-nnd-Hnlf” Cotton
Washington, March 17.—During
the last two years the attention of the
Department of Agriculture has been
directed to the fact that active cam
paigns have resulted in the introduc
tios into portions of Oklahoma, Tex
as and Arkansas of a variety of cotton
called “Half-and-Half.” It is report
ed that the seed has been sold for as
much as $6.00 per bushel, under the
representation that it 1b an exceed
ingly prolific variety, yielding fifty
per cent of lint, or a five-hundred-
pound bale from one thousand pounds
of seed cotton. Many inquiries have
been received from planters through,
out this section asking for advice con.
cernlng this cotton.
The Department’s representatives
hava oxamined many samples
Half-and-Half” cotton from these
states and have grown it in experi
mental plantings, and have found it
far inferior to cotton ordinarily pro.
duced in this section.
The Department’s field tests on
numerous varieties have shown that
“Half-and-Half” does not maintain
a high rank in total lint yield per
acre. The large proportion of lint to
seed apparently results from the fact
that tho seeds are very small and
light. The danger of judging cotton
by lint per centages has been explain
ed in Bureau of Plant Industry Cir
cular No. 11, and tho .caution has
been ropoated in U, S. Department
of Agriculture Bulletin No. 60.
The lint of the “kalf-and-Half
varioty is of poor character, irregular,
wasty and very short, a largo portion
of tho samples examined being less
than sovon-oights of an inch in
length of staple. Cotton less than
seven-eighths of an inch is untend
ersblo on future contracts made un
der the provisions of the United
States Cotton Futures Act, and there
fore buyors will penalise it whenever
discovered.
Tho Department is informed that
many person's who grew this variety
have succeeded in selling it at prevail
ing prices, but this can not long con
tinue. When cotton of less than
seven-eights of an inch in length
sells for full market price, it is be
cause its true character was not de
tected. Whenever cotton firms find
a large part of the cotton in any com
munity falling to seven-eights of
an inch or loss in length, buyers will
be withdrawn from the district or
they will scale down the prices on all
grades to meet the lower prices
which must be expected for such
short staple.
Many interior buyers, as well as
practically all the larger cotton firms,
lave declined to handle this cotton
it any price. They state that its
int is far inferior to that commonly
grown in their territory and is not
acceptable to thoir regular custom,
era.
Competent spinners have stated
that this variety as ordinarily grown
produces so short a fiber as to ren
der it wholly unsuitable for tho class
of work which now consumes the
great bulk of the cotton of the west
ern belt.
Before this agitation became gon-
■ral. a high-grade sample of this cot
on was submitted by the Department
o two prominent members of the
N’ew Orleans Cotton Exchange, who,
m the first attempt to putt tho staple,
dated that the fiber waa so short
hat it would bo rejected as “perish
'd staple” by their elamification com*.
mittee and would nof'M tondcrablc
in New Orleans cotton \ contracts,
llllllUU.pzacU?
remark.
Various cotton exchanges in the
Southwestern states have taken offi
cial action to prevent the delivery of
this cotton on contracts made be
tween their .members.
As grown in Texas, it is lacking in
storm-proof quality, as the cotton
drops from the bolls very easily and
the individual seeds often fall apart
Repeated complaints are received
from English spinners of ths number
of “mixy" bales of American cot
ton. This condition arises largely
Ihrough the introduction of short
staple into long staple cotton terri
tory, or of long staple into commu
nities growing short staple cotton.
Any serious mixing of varieties
which have fibers of different lengths
results in serious losses in waste
whenever the cotton is spun upon
machinery adjusted for the longer
varieties. Spinners will be quick to
discover any serious admixture of
shorter and inferior cotton, and the
growers will suffer if such varieties
become popular in their territory.
In view of these facts the Depart
ment warns the farmers of Okla
homa, Texas and Arkansas that the
introduction of “Half-and-Half, 1
any other variety of cotton produc
ing fiber of less than seven-eights
of an inch in average length, will be
likely to seriously damage the repu
tation of their local markets, and
may result in a few years in basing
the price in such markets on this in
ferior cotton. These same districts
are now receiving a slight premium
over the regular quotations for short
staple. It will be a matter of parti
cular regret to see tho results of the
campaign which has been carried on
by tho Department in these states in
behalf of pure, big-boll varieties
(Triumph and Lone Star) jeopardiz
ed by the promiscuous introduction
of cotton of greatly inferior staple.
Such a policy must result in very se
rious losses to ail the growers in the
communities where the poorer types
become common. ,
As the seed is tho primary factor
in determining length of staple and
there are early maturing prolific va
rieties with staple of at least an inch
in length, every cotton farmer should
secure and plant seed.
AND WE ARE PAYING WAR TAXI
James Callaway, in Macon Telegraph
It ia well to have discussion, but
debate in the Senate went into the
ridiculous. It is estimated that Sen
ator Burton’s thirteen-hour talk
against time on the shipping bill cost
$250,000 in time of the Senate, print
ing and stenographer’s bills. Sen
ator Lodge’s tirade cost $150,000;
Senator Gallingcr’s speeches cost
$200,000—expatiating on nothing in
particular.
THE PLAIN TRUTH
What More Can Tifton People Ask?
When well known residents aad
highly-respected pcoplo of Tifton
make such statements as the follow
ing it must carry conviction to every
reader;
“For about two years I suffered
from weak kidneys,” says T. A. Au-
trey, farmer, of 611 Tift avenue, Tif
ton. “The worst trouble was with
tho kidney secretions. They were
too frequent in passage and made me
get up many times during the night.
They were also highly colored and
burned. I Jiad soreness in the small
of my back, but the worst pain
seemed to be around my left kidney.
After taking one box of Doan’s Kid
ney Pills, I felt much better. I can
gladly recommend them to others.'
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—'the same that
Mr. Autrey had. Fostef-Milburo
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. adv.
HARD TO REALIZE
Douglas Enterprise:
John Herring happened to be in a
reminiscent mood the other day and
wrote an editorial on “Twenty Years
Ago,” in which he recited some facts
well known to the writer. We re
member those days, but it is hard to
realize that twenty years has passed
Since that time.
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impurities caused by weaknaoa of the digestive organs
or by inactivity of the liver.
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Hall’s Big Removal Salt
On April ist, we will move Jo our
new quarters in the Bowen building:,
and to save expense and trouble of
moving, we have decided to put on a
special sale to reduce our stock by
date mentioned above.
On Saturday, March 20th
Our sale begins, and will last for one
week only, but in that period of time
we will offer you some of the greatest
values ever put before the people of
Tifton and Tift county.
Everything Reduced
We especially invite your attention to our
Shoe and Crockery Departments. We will
close out our entire line of Crockery ware
at this sale. Don't miss it.
the Date, from Saturday. March 20th.
to SaMay, March 27th. One Week Only,
Everything Cash. Nothing Charged at
Sale Prices.
R.E. Hall’s Dry Goods Store
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Leather bill folds.
Cane, purses, etc.
See these premiums and you will save
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