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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30.
RAISE ROCS FDR
COTTON IN 6A.
United States Government Ad
vises Farmers to Grow Live
Stock as a Money Crop.
Washington —Four measures are be
ing recommended by the United States
Department of Agriculture to the far
mers of the South in order to remedy
the conditions created by the collapse
of the cotton market. These are:
1- The reduction of expenses by
the production of more food for
the family and more grain and
forage for the livestock.
2 The substitution of other money
crops for part of the cotton acre
age.
3. The raising of more livestock.
•J The addition of humus to the soil
in order to make fertilizer less
expensive.
The first thing to be done, say the
government specialists, is to plant
winter crops to be used partly for
winter and spring grazing, partly foi
spring hay and grain, and partly for
cover crops to be turned back into the
soil for fertilizing purposes. These
crops should Include oats for grain,
and oats, barley, or rye for hay, and
any one of these for winter and spring
grazing or for humus value. Al
though October and November are
the best months for planting these
crops in the cotton country, the time
may be extended into the winter. The
winter crops should be followed by
summer legumes, such as cowpeas,
soy beans, etc. Fall and winter vege
tables should be planted for home use
and for the market.
Hogs are recommended as the best
form of livestock to grow. Imme
-1 diata steps 3hould be taken to in
crease the profits from hogs and hog
products by the planting of crops for
winter and spring grazing, to be fol
lowed by summer and fall crops for
the same purpose. Growers are also
being warned to take rigid precau
tions against hog cholera. If strict
quarantine measures are adop ed and
if the animals when threatened are in
oculated with anti-hog-cholera serum,
growers should suffer little loss from
this source.
Hogs, however, can not be grown
profitably when they have to be fed
on grain $1 a bushel. A succession
of pasture crops is therefore of prime
importance. For Georgia, rape, rye,
vetch and bur and crimson clover are
recommended with cowpeas, Bermuda
pasture, alfalfa, velvet beans, arti
chokes, and, above all, peanuts to fol
low.
The chief difficulty in the way of
planting these crops is that all avail
able labor is now needed in the cot
ton fields. This emphasizes all the
more the extensive use of machinery
and implements which will minimize
the need for human labor and set the
hands free to do other urgent work on
the farm.
GEORGIA APPPLE
CROP STATISTICS
Washington, D. C.—The 1914 apple
crop of Georgia is estimated at 1,-
896,000 bushels, according to a report
of the federal department of agricul
ture issued recently. The yield in 1913
was 900,000 bushels and 1,400,000 bush
els 'in 1912. The condition of the crop
at the present time is 78 per cent of
normal, and the average condition dur
ing the past ten year period has been
51 per cent of normal.
The apple crop of continental Unit
ed States is estimated at 230,249,000
bushels for 1914, while the yield last
year was only 145,400,000 bushels. The
average price being paid to farmers
for apples at the prevent time is 62
cents per bushel. .
THOROUGHNESS OF THE
GERMAN MILITARY
MACHINE SHOWN
..Amsterdam. —No better illustration can
be given of the far-sightedness and
thoroughness of the German military
machine than the elaborate re-building
operations in course of completion at
Liege. In the comparatively short time
since its forts were wrecked by the in
vader's artillery, Liege has been rebuilt
into a modern German fortress, and Is
to be used as an object lesson for stu
dents in the German military schools. It
is built as though the Germans expect
to stay.
All the Belgian forts have been re
paired, with a single exception; much of
the old artillery has been replaced with
Krupp fortress cannon of the latest
type, and even the landscape has been
remodeled with a view to defense. All
the newest ideas of German and Aus
trian military experts have been em
bodied in the placing of ordnance, in
the erection of ramparts, in trenches,
observation places, highway mines, sec
ondary batteries, and block houses.
There is an intricate system of con
necting works between the various main
points of the outlying defenses. Great
attention has been paid to the use of
villages and forests for concealing forti
fications. The trenches are flat with
the ground so as to be visible only from
above, and are protected with concealed
barbwire entanglements. The trenches
are drained and partially covered for
protection against rain and snow, while
the width is ample enough to allow car
riage of stores and ammunition without
Interfering with the troops.
A considerable part of the hard labor
involved In completing the trenches is
done with a "military traction trench
digger," which cuts a furrow about three
feet wide and three feet deep.
Most of the old Belgian forts have
been entirely remodelled; some have
imtn raised, some lowered, with a view
to greater efficiency of shell fire or to
'increasing the sweep of country which
their guns can command. Ther are sev
eral false batteries cleverly constructed
to attract aeroplane or cavalry attack.
The town is dull and quiet. All shops
end cases are required to close at S
o’clock In the evening. Newspapers are
at a heavy premium,
Do your Christmas shop
ping early and avoid the
rush. There’s no time like
the present.
It will pay to say “I saw it
in The Herald.”
INDOORS'
Cv /. Btos8 tO 5 )
jr/ 9^en we *kens even
a strong constitution as
shown In nervous symptoms, lan
guor and repeated colds.
SCOTT’S EMULSION is helping
thousands every day; its rare
oil-food enriches the blood, aßpa
aids the lungs —It is a
strength-sustaining tonic Yf lf
free from alcohol, try it. /] sf
MUST* MINISTERS
ID MEETING MONDAY
Money to Belgian Relief Fund
Be Sent Through Salvation
Army. Elect Officers Next
Monday.
The regular weekly meeting of the
Ministerial Alliance of this city was
held in the pastor's study at the St.
John M. E. church at noon Monday. It
was reported that SB6 was raised at
the Union service Thanksgiving Day,
held at the First Presbyterian church,
and it was authorized to send the
■money, which is to go to tne Belgian
Relief Fund, straight to the Belgians
through the Salvation Army, which is
in direct touch with them.
Other matters of vital interest lo
cally are in a formitive state. Some
interesting announcements may he
made, however, within one or two
weeks.
At the meeting next Monday officers
of the association will be chosen,
several of the local ministers having
recently been removed to other
charges, among whom were some of
the association's officers.
SENTENCES IMPOSED IN
POLICE COURT MONDAY
Small Docket, Only Twenty-
Four Cases, Appeared Before
Judge Irvin Monday Morning.
Number Dismissed.
In Recorder's Court Monday morn
ing Elbert Howell, colored, was sen
tenced to pay $lO and costs or serve
20 days in the City Stockade for rais
ing a disturbance in a house on lower
Reynolds Street, on Saturday night.
Marie Lilian Holmes, colored, was
given $lO or 20 days for fighting in
the street.
J. H. Rambo, white, was sentenced
to serve 30 days at the stockade for
loitering.
J. E. Hilton, white, was fined $25
for firing a pistol at 3 o’clock Sun
day morning in a house on Jones
Street, and was bound over to the
City Court on charges of carrying a
pistol without a lioense and of carry
ing a concealed weapon, under bond of
$l5O and SIOO respectively.
Blanche Ross, a white woman, got
$lO or 20 days for cursing an old lady.
The following received sentences of
$3 and costs or 5 days for being
drunk: O. L. Lofley, white; Pat Ed
wards, white; A. F. Padgett, white;
and W. J. McKnight, white, (the lat
ter's sentence was suspended); Henry
Hampton, colored, sentence suspend
ed; Robert Warren, colored, and John
Grady, colored.
A number of bonds were forfeited.
ATHENS BOOTLEGGERS
BOTTLES GET SMALLER
Atlanta, <3a. —From Athens comes
the sad news that the depression In
the ready cash market has reduced
the size of the bottles carried In stock
by the bootleggers. The police of that
city note that the traveling blind
tigers are now handling their white
lightning in half-pints instead of the
accustomed pints, and argue from that
indication that hard times have struck
at one of the county’s most important
industries.
Atlanta has not been troubled with
blind tigers for a long time, either
because the clubs supply the demand
or the quality of tiger liquor is so bad
that all the regular customers died.
Christmas Dollars
follow the path of least resistance. They go
where the attraction is greatest and the invita
tion most urgent. They are repelled by lassi
tude and indifference.
Make Christmas
Shopping Easy !
Tell the gift-seeking public about your
wares, not simply when they happen to pass
the store, but every evening when they read
THE HERALD and are alert for Christmas
suggestions.
Be Sure to Say “I Saw it in the
Herald.” It Will Pay. Try it.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA,
AUGUSTAI BUSY
COMPLYING UN
IRE “WAR TAX”
Stamps Must be Procured
From Atlanta or Savannah.
Government Has None Here.
Deputy United States Revenue Col
lector H. W. Perkins was in the city
Sunday and was asked for informa
tion regarding how and where the
“war tax" stamps can be obtained.
He stated that they must be procured
from either the collector of internal
revenue, Hon. A. O. Blalock, Atlanta,
or from the office of the deputy stamp
clerk, care of the Customs House
Building, Savannah, Ga. Mr. Perkins
Is compelled this week to attend U. S.
Court in Savannah.
The “war tax” goes intf> effect on
Tuesday, December Ist, after which
time ail legal documents, bills of lad
ing, telegrams, bank notes, etc., and
druggist articles must bear the “war
tax” stamp, as required under act of
congress, passed on account of the
war in Europe affecting this coun
try’s revenue.
All day Monday the office of Deputy
United States Clerk Skinner in the
Federal Building was crowded with
people asking information as to what
is taxable under the new act and
where the necessary stamps could be
obtained. The filling out of blank
forms, etc., is not required under the
' war tax," but is required under the
“special tax,” wdiich became effective
November Ist.
Mr. Skinner has the blanks. Thirty
days grace was allowed those subject
to the “special tax” and if returns are
not made by the end of that time all
delinquents are subject to fine as pro
vided for under the act. The thirty
days grace Expires tonight.
DEATHS
KENNEDY, MRS. RUBY.—Died yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at
the family residence, 1815 Fenwick
Street, in the 19th year of her
age, following an illness of several
months. Funeral services were
conducted from the Pearce Chapel
in the Wrightshoro Road this af
ternoon at 3:80 o’clock. Rev.
Thomas Walker officiating and
the interment followed in the
Pearce Chapel cemetery. Deceas
ed is survived by her husband,
Mr. W. E. Kennedy, one daughter,
Mabel Elizabeth; her mother, Mrs.
C. M. Wilkinson, and two sisters,
Mrs. Walter Avery and Mrs. Wil
liam Grimes of Garfield, Ga.
SHERMAN, MR. WILLIAM.—Died
suddenly at Ills office in the Bon
Air Hotel as the result of heart
failure. The body of deceased
was shipped to his home In
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., this after
noon at 2:40 o’clock, for funeral
services and interment.
WiM ABOUT ft NEW OVERCOAT?
Our stock is replete with most attractive Top
Coats of every description.
Prices are very low. We have the famous Alco
and Society Brand Suits and Overcoats, and many
others.
Always pleased to show you.
M£ CREARY’S
\j. / ¥ 1
Prescribed by
doctors for
n'metoen years.
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p / y
Heal your skin
with Resinol
NO matter how long you have
been tortured and disfigured
by itching, burning, raw or scaly
skin humors, just put a little of
that soothing, antiseptic Resinol
Ointment on the sores and tho
suffering stops right there I
Healing begins that very mfn
ute, and m almost every case your
skin gets well so quickly you feel
ashamed of the money you threw
away on useless treatments.
ReHnol Ointment and Resinol Soan >rn
sold by all druggists.
ijupji
I
/A thirst is a 1
/ great blessing
/if you can get
’ Chero-Cola. Drink
it from the bottle
through a straw.
Always uniform.
Perfectly delicious, i
nChero-Colal
READ THE “WANTS”
One of the Most Important, Instructive,
Interesting and Attention Holding
Series Ever Issued.
Starts in the Herald
Today
By C. V. GREGORY
Author of “Home Course in Live Stock Farming,”
“Making Money on the Farm,” “Home
Course in Modern Agriculture.”
Mr. Gregory Deals
With the Follow
ing Subjects^
1— The Growth of the Cities and the Increased Cost of
Living.
2 Restoring the Balance. Back to the Land.
3 How the R. F. D., Telephone, Trolley and Good
Roads Are Modernizing the Farm.
4 The Modern Farm House.
5 Social Life in the Country.
6 Farming—the Young Man’s Opportunity.
7 How Some Men Have Succeeded on the Farm.
8 — The Country Girl’s Career.
9 The City Man as a Farmer.
10 — The Farm as a Place to Grow Old.
11— Rural Education —The Agricultural College.
12— Rural Education —Secondary Schools.
13— Rural Education —The District School.
14— Bringing the College to the Farmer.
15 — The Mission of the Country Church.
16— What Co-operation Is Doing for the Farmer.
17 — The Farmer and the Government.
18 — The Country Town.
Be Sure to Read This Interesting Story
Starts in TODAYS Herald
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