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Broughton To London-Americans
News comes that our Pulpit Editor, Dr. Leu
G. Broughton, was the guest of honor, deliver
ing the address at a recent dinner of Americans
in London.
It will be remembered that Americans living
in England built the tower of Christ Church, of
which Dr. Broughton is pastor. This tower,
the most imposing in all London, was erected as
a memorialto the great American patriot,
Abraham Lincoln.
We imagine that the gathering of so many-
London-Americans about the Church of the
great London-American preacher keeps him
from having so much of that “lonesome feel
ing ’ ’ caused by so much distance —and the Lon
don fog.
Other Broughton news that will hold inter
est for their American friends, is the announce
ment that Len G. Broughton, Jr., was admitted
into the Oxford Parliament at the same meet
ing with the young Prince of Wales. This
University Council is modeled after the House
of Parliament, entering into the discussion of
all public questions which concern the welfare
of England.
Very frankly, we are not yet enjoying the
absence of either the Senior or Junior Brough
ton, but if they must be in England we are glad
to see them considered largely necessary to the
best life of the conspicuous circles in which
they move.
REDUCE ACREAGE—INCREASE
CROPS.
The time of the large farm is al
most past. Intensive farming is the
thing nowadays. With prices of good
farm lands rising to unheard of
heights, the farmer of the present day
can’t afford to he satisfied with old
fashioned methods and light crops
from many acres. The farmer that
formerly made a poor living for him
self and his family off about a hun
dred. or a hundred and sixty acres,
has recently learned that he could sell
all but twenty to forty acres of his
land and by adopting intensive meth
ods of farming make more off the
smaller acreage than he formerly made
off the large farm.
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Corn Growing on Dynamited Soil. Corn Growing on Soil Not Dynamited.
Result of Experiment with Dupont Red Cross Dynamite on Clarksville,
Tennessee Experimental Farm.
The smaller farm has many advan
tages over the large one. The invest
ment in the land itself is an import
ant item, now that good farm lands
have so greatly increased in value.
Some years ago the farmer could take
up a Government claim of 160 acres at
little or no cost. A little later the
same land could he bought for a few
dollars per acre. Then, as the good
free lands were no longer available
because of all having been taken up,
prices began to soar. Now $25.00 per
acre is considered a low price for de
sirable farm lands and runs from that
figure up to several hundred dollars
per acre. The farmer who attempts
The Golden Age for February 20, 1913.
Open For Lecture Dates.
Dr. Broughton, coming as Director of the
great Atlanta Bible Conference, will not only
be a feast to those who attend the Conference
and also his large circle of friends, who love
the social side of this remarkable man, who
knows how to be both a religious and civic
leader and a friend who is a friend; but the
Alkahest Lyceum Bureau informs us that it
makes possible a week of lecture dates on his
way back to New York, between the dates of
March 18th to the 25th. If you are fortunate
enough to be in reach of the route, of course,
your town wants a date, so write the Alkahest
People, address, Empire Life Building, Atlanta,
Ga., at once.
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EPIGRAMS.
“Ten go to Church and one communes with
God.
Man’s inventions have annihilated space, but
who shall deliver us from ourselves?
Wealth, position, culture and genius do erect
their barriers, but the final test is greatness
of soul.
Tho’ a man possess five talents, let him
concentrate on one.
Tho’ he have but one poor gift, it may il
luminate the universe.
to operate a hundred acres today has
a very large investment of capital tied
up in his land. Unless he has adopt
ed modern methods of cultivating,
planting, harvesting and marketing his
crops, his income from his investment
is not what it should be. Unless he
has netted at least 8 per cent, on his
investment in land, buildings and
equipment, a business man would tell
him he was not a successful farmer.
The way for the farmer with a large
acreage to make money nowadays is
to sell off all but a comparatively few
acres and farm that intensively. Se
lect crops best adapted to the soils.
Watch the markets and plant what
the indications are will be in demand.
Use the money obtained from the sale
of the surplus land in thoroughly
equipping the part retained with mod
ern machinery, tools, good stock and
in improving the buildings.
Then adopt the most modern scien
tific methods of cultivation, fertiliza
tion and soil preparation generally,
with a view of making the acres re
tained yield the largest and finest
crops that can be raised.
A modern method of soil preparation
which has yielded good results where
it has been tried under proper condi
tions, is subsoiling with dynamite. The
object of this is to shatter the subsoil
iso as to increase its moisture storage
-capacity, mellow it and make it more
pervious to root growth anjd expansion
and to release plant food in the lower
strata of the soil.
The success of this method has been
amply demonstrated in the South dur
ing the past two years. Corn and cot
ton have yielded bountifully under the
new method of cultivation.
In a recent newspaper article, the
writer says: “To my mind there is
coming to the notice of farmers a far
more efficient way of deep soil tillage
than has heretofore been known, that
is, with dynamite. Too expensive, you
say! Well, how expensive is it for
six or eight big horses to pull a deep
tillage machine over an acre of ground
and twenty inches is as deep as they
can go? How expensive is it for four
horses to pull a subsoiler running ten
inches below the bottom of the plow
furrow? How expensive is it to have
a crop fail on account of insufficient
moisture stored in the ground? When
the planter realizes the importance of
breaking hard dry subsoil to a depth
of five feet or more and follows this
with good scientific farming, he will
be fully repaid for his effort. Os all
the methods of deep tilling in use to
day, I think the dynamite method is
the be§t, quickest and, in the long run,
the cheapest. But whatever the meth
od, let us get down deep into the soil
and make a reservoir for the precious
raindrop.”
Mr. J. S. Fowler, of Anderson, S. C.
well known in the South as a user of
dynamite in farming, while on a busi
ness trip to Columbus, Ohio, in August,
1911, was interviewed by a reporter on
the Ohio State Journal. Among oth
er things, he said: “The cotton crop
in the South this year will be a record
breaker in spite of the reports of dry
weather. We are plowing deep for
our cotton, and the dry weather
doesn’t damage us as it once did. This
year streams were dry, cotton mills
are closed, because of failure of water
power, but there has not been any
damage to the crops. New methods
of farming have made us practically
independent of the mid-summer
drouths.
“Cotton has never looked better
than this year in all the Southern
States in which I have been, and the
weather has never been so dry. Un
der old methods of planting, the crop
would have been almost a total fail
ure. This fall hundreds of old farms
will be dynamited and next year they
will raise immense crops of corn and
cotton. It costs some money, but
we are getting it back and have never
been so prosperous.”
To one the rising sun doth call to despised
labor and toil.
To another it invites to new and divine ser
vice.
To one it is a commonplace phenomenon of
nature.
To another it is the harmonious voice of God.
IDUS E. McKELLAR.
Oxford, Ga.
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“THE SON OF THINE HANDMAID.”
Ps. 86:16. Hugh F. Oliver. Ps. 116:16.
0, take me to Thy heart again!
For only there is rest for me
Forgive the folly that hath been,
And trust the truth I promise Thee.
At other shrines I’ve knelt to pray,
To other hopes my hands have clung;
The false and fair have been my stay,.
And heathen songs my lips have sung.
But now I kneel where mother knelt,
As in the days when she was nigh;
0, may I feel what then I felt —
The joyous hope of Home on high.
Th’ embracing Everlasting Arms,
The strength Thou givest to the weak,
The peace above all earth’s alarms —
And hear what only Thou canst speak!
In a letter dated September 23, 1912,
Mr. Fowler says “In reference to
breaking land with dynamite for farm
ing purposes, will say that the land
so broken in the spring of 1911 shows
a greater improvement than it did
the first year. The upland corn was
at least 40 per. cent, better than the
corn raised on adjoining land that was
not dynamited. I dynamited four
acres this year and I find a great dif
ference in the corn compared with
the adjoining land. The greatest dif
ference, as stated above, is the second
year. I also broke some land for cot
ton late in the spring this year and
I am much pleased with the results,
as the cotton is still green and
blooming and has stood the dry weath
er better than the other land.”
There is no reason why the farmers
of this country should not be pros-
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Spivey Cotton Field,
Eatonton, Ga.
perous. Prices of farm products are
very high. The farmer that will keep
his cost of production down by adopt
ing scientific methods of agriculture
and who will reduce his investment in
land and do away with the necessity
of employing labor and horses to poor
ly farm large acreages, can make more
money than ever before and maintain
his independence and his freedom from
restraint.
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