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There isn't any farm remedy, so far
as we know—no farm relief of any
kind—that provides for an existence
without work and a fair degree of
thrift. We have disappointments to
come if we have any idea that con
greas can provide such farm relief in
any form of legislation.
Atlanta is big enough to deserve in
the handling of its local public offices
something better than perpetual bank
ruptey of its public schools. A water
rate hike of fifty percent is now go
ing into force as a result of unwise
handling of the school funds the past
year. The public always pays for rot
ten local politics in one form or an
other. It never fails. I
Talk of the fliverless farm doesn’t
appeal-—not a bit of it. A farmer and
a farm whose promise in effort and
resultant yield will not justify the
flivver —the moderate, economical,
gane use of the flivver, are a com
bination about which nobody wants
to hear a word. The hard-working,
thrifty farmer saves time and makes
money with his flivver. It ought to
he part of the sensible equipment on
the farm. It is already—and ig likely
0 stay that. !
LOCAL FARMING
Our dairy development is on the
mend. Ten-cent cotton and enough
ahead for two more years has upsget
some of the x.u-lplral.imm of the all
cottoner. Two or three years ago
people in this community who cared
about general business conditions
year in and year out, sought to estab
lish a diversified farming program.
Just now twelve months ago those
same people— including the Cordele
Kiwanis—were skinned alive daily by
many who felt they had been cheated
out of fortunes in high-priced cotton.
Only twelve months have elapsed. To
day the farming element is being
forced to turn to something other than
cotton. -
We have some better butter-fat
producers. We have some poultry in
come. We have some peanut pros
pects. We have some pecan develop
ment. We have some fruit and truck
promises,
But those who tried three years ugni
to help are not going to say anythins{
else. Self preservation is a first law
of nature. Our brother on the farm
is still our brother. His welfare is
ours, but he must go it alone till he
invites discussion and deliberation to
gether for our common best interest.
That's what knocking netted him-—
and us — last season — just twelve
months ago. That's what it will net
every time. It never fails. In the
meantime all the people of Crisp
county together ought to be counsel
ling for the future. It always helps.
Men profit from studying together
their problems.
¥ THE ROSE SHOW
The Rose Show this year will
be the largest yet and it will at
tract thousands of visitors to see
millions of roses in bloom and on
display.—Thomasville Times- En
terprise.
‘We hope the rose show in Thomas
ville will prove large enough this year
and in future seasons to cause the
people in that city to invite all the
state to come and attend and share
the pleasures that may result. Roses
are spring’s most lavish and liberal
harbinger. No such bower of beauty
ever enshrined a south Georgia home
as that which comes out of a setting
of roses.
Thomasville is a city of roses. It
has claims in this direction that are
distinct and rare. Its rose show
ought to make it worthy of the visits
of thousands of people. It is worth
going a long way in the spring time
to see the rose gardens in that com
munity. They are there in great and
rare beauty.
FIVE YEARS OF EFFORT
The fight for a power supply for in
'dustrial use in Cordele is not a new
one. Twenty years or more this com
munity has paid ag high a price as it
has been possible to find anywhercl
in America for a towh of its size. It
has heen handicapped badly for light
ing and power— is today still at a
great disadvantage.
These are facts that never prove a
help to the community when publish
eq to the world, but the fight had to
be made in the face of jibes at The
Dispatch whenever it was written into
these columns. And still there are
people who charge us with knocking
right and left when we say a wnrrfl
iuhmn our power and lighting. ‘
~ But great progress has been mndc,l
and this community is on the wn.v}
now to relief both in local power sup-‘
ply and in the cost of ))rodnction.l
Whatever may come in the future, it
is our hope that the “knocking” that‘
has been done will have to prove
wholly and completely constructive;
land that may be claimed for it if we
‘build and operate our hydro-electric
rpowcr plant which is now near
'cnough to be calleq more than a
dream, I
Five years ago a resolution was
drawn and presented at a wedk-day
luncheon of the Cordele Kiwanis club.
llt followed a complete canvass of the
community—a stock-taking which re
lsulted in over five hundred citizens
'nxpresslng a desire in writing for pow
'er and lighting relief and in favor of
a municipally-owned lighting and pow
er plant. The signatures of those
people are in a file available yet for
‘use.
But the resolution, which is also
'qmllable. is interesting reading. It
was adopted, made a Kiwanig aim torl
the year, and follows: ‘
“Whereas, the city of Cordele is
now paying for its lights on the
‘streets and in the homes much higher
'prices than other industrially com
peting communities in Georgia, and
especially in:the richest sections of
south Georgia, and
“Whereas, the business enterprise
represented in the industry already
fl'l()cnted in the city of Cordele is pay
ing a much larger price for power
‘than is necessary, thus handicapping
every plant and mill and business us
‘im;; power to such an extent that pow
er is a hazard instead of an aiq to
business growth, and
“Whereas, the city of Cordele has
its power plant already in the water
pumping station anq its laboring
forces already paid, so that with the
investment of approximately fifty
thousand dollars, the city of Cordele
can produce its own current at a
‘much lower price than it can be had
from any other source, therefore be
it resolved by the Kiwanis Club of
'Cordele,
“FRirst, that this club pledges itself
to the business of taking up this pow
‘er problem with the City Commission
fers and remain on the job till some
l'thin: in the form of relief from high
"prices is secured; that we remain loy
al to this cause for industrial Cordele
till the city government owns the
power producing plant, either as a re
serve plant with current purchased at |
wholesale ang distributed on our own
rates, or produced in our local water
plant and furnished in a steady. con
tinuous uniform service at a cost!
which will induce users to seek a
more modern, a more generally im»l
proved operation of their plantst‘
through electric current. |
' “Second, that this club ask the co
operation of the Lions, the Board of
Trade, and all other civic organiza
tions in Cordele for the pursuit of a
plan which will put Cordele on an
equal footing with Albany, Thomas-
Iville, Moultrie, and other competing
itowns for electri¢ light and power.”
PUT OUT PECANS
If we owned the land, we think so!
well of pecans that one of our tirst'
aims at permanent improvements‘
would be to put out a pecan orchard.
That is proving such a fine farmingl
asset in this section that it ought to!
claim more of the attention of landi
ownerg here. Without marked changes
in the value and output of this crop,
Crisp county will have great orchards
of pecans before long and you wil”
be a lucky land owner if you have!
an orchard of your own. I
It has often been claimed that a
pecan orchard in Crisp county iy
lWurth more than a citrus grove in!
Florida. It is coming more and inor
true as the development of tho or
chards here bring in handsome I'l*:s
turns for those who own them. There
are many farm orchards which
prought in fine returns in the fall of
1926. We have hundreds of thousands
of trees yet coming and we must still
'pnt out pecan trees. This is a staple
crop—one which does not run into
lrreight tonnage—one that cannot be
‘grown 80 widely as to make it easy
‘to over produce.
The investment is not so large. The
trees can be put out and cared for.
‘The returns are féir]y sure and they
are profitable., We want the young
farmer by all means to get some more
acres into pecan orchards this remain
ing few weeks of winter so that the
atart will be early. Let's not wait.
‘The pecan is worth planting anq wait
ing for in yield.
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By courtesy of the Associated
Press a brief summary cf the story
recently appearing in this column
about the Six Wonders of Crizp
had a wide publication, and among
those who evinced some consequent
interest, is an intelligent woman
down in Florida who wishes some
acorns frem our Cork tree, from
which to raise other cork trees. We
are sorry it can not be done. These
acorns will not germinate. Why?
That is an intercsting questicn. The
cork tree is an exotic—native of
southern Europe and ncrthern Afri
ca. Does that account for it? This
ccrk tree is living in isolation from
its kind—in bachelordom—unmated.
Does that explain in any measure
the fact that its acorns will not re
produce after its kind? At least
some interesting speculation is sug
gested. And the lady’s request has
set us in search, of some authorative
information.
Pcach trees are, as we recall, native
of Asia Minor. During the period of
settlement of the Georgia cclony
peach trees were planted here. But
they would not bear peaches in rea
sonable quantity, Why? Trees are
male and female. Fertilizing pollen
must reach the latter from the
former. There were a great many
honey bees in Asia Minor as well as
peach trees. Bees were broucht to
the Georgia colony, and the problem
of peach production was solved.
For many years myrna fig trees
would not produce figs in any sat
isfactory quantity. Why? ‘An answer
was sought to that question, and
much time, energy and money ex
pended in quest of the real solution
of the problem. Finally an old priast
of Asia Minor explained that the
pollen was carried from tree to tree
by a certain little moth. The Smyr
na fig tree had been breught here,
but no moths. After these little dis
tributors of fertilizing pollen had
been brought, this particular varie
ty of figs began to be produced in
commercial quantities. Especially in
California are there now large and
paying orchards of Smyrna figs,
;
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~ Now, we are not vouching for the
laccuracy of the statements made
‘touching difficulties encountered and
solved in the peach and fig indus
‘tries, but merely reciting recollec
tions, which may be erroncous; which
lare, however, in accord with the
‘theory that may afford explanation
iof our cork tree’s failure to produce
acorns that will germinate.
‘ There is an interestinz and illumi
nating articles in the Literary Di
‘gest of February 5, 1921, about the
Crisp county cork tree. Rather, it is
a review of an article previously ap
pearing in American Forestry Maga
zine, contributed by George N. Lamb
who says that our cork tree “is un
doubtedly the largest specimen of
cork-oak (Quercus suber) in Ameri
ca,” and recommends planting of the
tree for profit in the territcry of
the long-leaf pine. “If cork-oak could
be substituted for the ‘serub oak’
that is now coming in on the cut
over long leaf pine lands, a valuable
economic resource would be availa
ble for future generations, and this
would brir;g together ihe two most
singular and striking species appear
ing anywhere in the forests of the
world.”
Very good; but since our cork
tree won't grow trees, what shall we
do about it? Probably acorns can he
had from places where the tree iz
indigenous. Or, maybe it can be sue
cessfully budded on scrub-caks—a
member, far removed, of the same
family. i o
The Literary Digest in comment up
on Mr. Lamb’s interesting article,
says that plenty of evidence -is
available that the cork tree will
flourish in this region: that all it
needs is ‘a little encouragement,
‘which ought to be forthcoming when
‘the financial reward is kept in
mind.”
© Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Humphrey an
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twentieth, who has been named Don
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