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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
THE FARMER'S FORUM
Small And Large Farms
By J. C. McAuliffe
For the last ten years people have
talked of model farms and the revo
lution sweeping over the rural dis
tricts transforming the backwoods to
a modern Utopia where Arcadian
feace and quietude reigns despite
the bustle occasioned by prosperity
and plenty. Small farms have been
urged as the proper way to bring
about these changes, but now it
seems that there is another manner
in which this work may be brought
about and that is through the capital
ized farm.
Around Augusta this plan Is already
being tried In a small way. It is said
to be the solution of the labor prob
lem so far as the negroes are con
cerned as they like the colonization
plan very much. On large farms of
this character there is a church and
school especially for the negroes of
the farm end while it receives the
county support It is also given some
support from the farm itself, making
it Just a little better than the aver
age school and church. This Is one
of the features and the management
being up-to-date makes it an improve
ment over the little one horse farm
usually oprated by negroes, or even
others who do not know how to
handle soli and crops.
Collier’s Weekly records the fact
that Prof L H. Bailey of Cornell
college of Agriculture has refused to
respond to the president's call to
head the commission which Is to in
quire Into the life of the American
farmer and suggest how to make that
life more complete and more in har
mony with what the president thinks
it shoult be. It says that Prof.
Bailey’s t'f’ory is, that the old tlmo
representative unit of American farm
life, the less than one hundred acre
farm, has passed: that the future
our agriculture is to he a combina
tion expression of capital, the same
as the Standard OH! that we are
swinging towards an evolution of
large rather than small farms and
with it will come a social evolution
in the wmy of farming communities,
where the foreign laborer can secure
a community of his own; where co
operation of capital and ownership
and labor will work out a different
order of farm life. Possibly this may
THE POULTRY CORNER
Some Poultry Notes
By Fannie M. Wood.
Crimson clover sown the first of
September makes good picking for
the hens along in November.
Time now soon to weed or cull the
(lock. The keeping of unprofitable
fowls eats big holes in the profits.
Look out for two-legged chicken
thelves. They are very active in
many localities just now.
It pays to use the china nest eggs.
Biddy Is more apt to lay an egg where
she finds one already.
Yes, sir, it's a good plan to plant
trses in the poultry yard; good for
both the poultry and the trees.
Do you raise snnflowers? Know ye
the seeds are geod for the hens that
are slow in getting their new winter
coats.
Turkeys are very nervous. They
iase more in weight in handling and
shipping than any of the feathered
tribe.
It takes bard work to make a suc
cess of the poultry business and it is
not at all muscle wwrk.
A certain and satisfactory way to
get a small start of the breed you
want is to buy a trio in the fall. And
you can buy them cheaper right now
than you can late in the fall, reme
ber.
If you are in the habit of giving
the turkeys a light supper of some
choice grain, they won't forget while
PREPARING FOR WINTER
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
We should begin at once prepara
tions for the winter accommodation
of our fowlß. The Interiors of ah
buildings should be thoroughly clean
ed ; all rubbish and litter from nest
b<&os and every portion of the build
ing should be gathered together, haul
ed away and burned. The Interior of
tbe building should be thoroughly
sprayed with a liquid lice killer. Ev
ery f <;k should be gone over in this
way | ter every particle of dust and
dirt been brushed down and
swept away never spray over dust
and dirt on the side walls, roosts and
nett bo*es
ft one spraying haa thoroughly ob
’.iterated all insects, follow up in a
week. If you wish, with a coat of hot
whitewash on the side wails and ceil
ings, Again spray the inside of the
nest-boxes, fll! them with dry, clean
straw, said they are ready for win
be true, some time. Who knows?
But we think this change will be i
long time in coming; that with all
the desire to rush away to the city
it will take a century maybe to ex
tinguish from the breast of the Am
erican farmer the old time sense of
Individual ownership, where he Is
"monarch of all he surveys." The old
spirit of "independence" in the heart
of the farmer has been the source
of much ol the originality of Ameri
can genius in all that has gone to
make the sum of American civiliza
tion. The forces of that civilization
in all their modernness are much
stronger today for the existence of
the small farm, even with all its draw
backs of economic management.
Hoavd’s Dairyman discussing the
subject says that it would be prefer
able to see an evolution which shall
take hold of the American farmer
first and make him intelligent enough
to manage the small farm as It should
be managed; intelligent enough to
understand what his soil, his crops,
his animals all mean in their fullest
sense. The United States is not suf
fering today because of the small
ness of its farms near so much as
on account of the smallness of our
comprehension as farmers. The small
est farm is yet challenging the under
standing of the scientist, the econo-,
mist, the college, and the farmer.
But the problefn of the small farm
vs. the large farm will not be settled
for many years to come vet. Those
who. wish to do their own work and
do it right must stick to the small
farm in this section. While the large
farms may be operated successfully
just as large corporations are in oth
er lines of business still there is a
place tor the small farm around Au
gusta and they will flourish when giv
en care and attention.
Generally the more condensed and
finished the product the more the
profit.
Medium sizer sheep usually have
the best as well as the heaviest
fleeces.
A large udder does not always in
dlcate the amount of milk a cow will
give.
picking about in the fields that some
thing awaits them at home. They en
joy being fed, and the evening meal,
even through you think they don't
need it, should not be forgotten if
you want tamo, contented come
home-at-night birds.
I like to talk to them while they
are eating, I sped you will laugh at
me, but I believe kind words mean
something to turkeys as well as other
stock on the farm,
The Plymouth Rocks lay more
eggs in a year than the Bramahs,
and the eggs hatch better, a writer
in one of the poultry journals claims
Now the Bramahs may not lay quite
as many eggs as the Rocks, hut the
Rramah eggs hatch as well for us as
the eggs from any of the Ameri
can breeds. Whenever the Bramah
eggs do not hatch well there is some
thing wrong with the management,
Thay are losing ground, not so
popular as they once were, the same
I writer tells us. This is true I be
lieve in some sections of the country,
but in other localities It will be a
long time before other breeds take
their place on the farm. Some do
not like them on account of their
feathered legs Every breed has Its
faults but for the ordinary purpose
of a farm fowl It seems to us no
breed surpasses the big, hardy, hand
some Bramah.—lnland Journal.
ter service. If the floor is thoroughly
; clean and dry, it might, be well to
cover it with a coat of six or eight
Inches of clean, fresh soil, and scat
ter on top of this a foot of dry litter,
and the building is ready for winter
occupation.
By the end of October In most lo
calities all the prospective egg pro
j ducers of the coming winter should be
I gathered in their bouses. Remember
! that to he lUiccessful, you must select
the pullets that are old enough to
produce egg* this winter, and the com
Ing two-yearold hens that have pass
ed through thetr mouit and show vlg
orous Indications of returning to (he
e-gg production at an early period.
Free range over a plentiful growth,
of herbage Is a sure start for a profit- i
able winter egg production, providing
there has been a sufficient grain sup
ply furnished the growing chicks to |
SIMM WITH
GEORGIA COTTOi
I
Queer Conditions Now Pre-;
vailing and Black Root
Is Causing Much Trouble
In Some Sections.
_____
In Georgia black root Is making
lhe crob an uncertainty in some sec
tions, farmers are powerless when ;
the crop is attacked and they have in'
stand idly by and watch ihe magtilh- 1
cent plants die out. There is only
one way to fight ihe disease and that !
is with wilt proof seed. The Uni
ted States government, down at its
demonstration farm near Blaekshear,
Gs.. developed a type of resistant cot
ton three or four years ago and it
stands all soH of attacks.
Dr. T. F. Bergeron, a prominent
farmer or Jenkins county, had a plat
of ground year before last where all
his cotton died from wilt. Last year
! gave him a few seed and secured
others from the government and he
planted the infected spot with them.
The plants grew well and but few
died from the wilt. This season se
lected seed were used and throughout
the section there is no cotton quite
so good as the wilt proof. Hundreds
of acres of cotton in the section will
make scarcely anything an account ■ f
the black root and wilt, but this looks
well and will make a flue crop.
It is only another lesson In de
velopment and one that will be sure
to hear fruit. Seed selection must
be the watchword of the farmers of
the future, whether it be witn cotton,
corn, or it matters not it it be some
of the minor crops.
The indica'ions are that Georgiu s
cotton crop will be easily gathered
this year, and but few complaints for
lack of labor are heard. While gen-f
erel improvements are being made on
all farms, still there seems to he as
much labor as is needed in any walk
of life. It will be a great thing for
the agricultural sections nl Georgia if
there is no labor depression felt this
fall and winter. Commissioner of
Agriculture T. G. Hudson lias esti
mated the cotton crop to be one-fourth
NEW YORK’S FRESH
EGGS ARE EXPOSED
R efrigerator Supply Pro
vides Best Eggs to be
Found There.
Most of the best eggs now in the
retail shops of the city are from the
cold storage houses and have been in
the refrigerators for a third of a
year. The best grades coming from
the coolers were packed in last April.
Much of the rupply packed since then
is not so good as the older lot and Is
selling at lower prices.
Without this refrigerator supply the
metropolitan market would he in a
plight. wi*h not nearly enough de
sirable eggs to meet the demand. As
| It is there is not a sufficient supply
!of unquestionable goods to fill the
I orders of the best trade. One trouble
Is that many hens, particularly In the
south and west, have stopped laying
on account, of the moulting season
1 having eotne.
There ae only about two million
eggs being received daily as a rule,
: and the proportion of those that Bhow
! good qualities is exceedingly small,
J Ungraded eggs are so uncertain as to
have no fixed vaiue for quotation pur
, poses.—New YorK Herald.
balance nature’s food supply gathered
on the range. Grain, bugs and herb:
or green food are the thr< c absolute
necessities for the proper growth of
egg producing pullets. A sufficient
grain supply provided on tbe range
balances the green food, hugs and
worms that are picked up by the fowls.
Nothing makes them grow so fast a,:
does this kind of a natural food.
A year ago the middle of May last,
about 150 Barred Plymouth Rock
chicks were hatched, which were kept
partly with hens, and partly In brood
ers about the poultry yards on a small
farm. Between the 10th and 10th of
July 150 chicks were hatched from
eggs produced by these hens. These
150 chicks with their mother hens
were placed In box coops In the mid
die of the corn field. They were hop
per fed, and their water supply given
them in crocks once or twice a week
These 150 Barred Plymouth Rock
chicks that received a natural oppor
tunity to grow, outgrew any of the
chicks hatched from the same eggs
on th,. same farm. The result was
that nine of the chicks grown on this
farm won blue ribbons at winter
shows; three of them were cockerels
and came from the lot that were
grown In the corn field Quite a nutn
her from the same flocks were dress
ed and exhibited as market poultry.
First cockerel, first pullet and the
best four dressed fowls cam,, from
the lot grown In the cornfield, prov
ing that the nearer they can be grown
to natural conditions, the better suc
cess will be attained.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
Don’t Sacrifice Cotton
AT LOW PRICES
The cotton crop of the south is the
only hope of independence unless the
farmers raise things needed at home.
Just now fho manipulation of prices
lias had a depressing effect upon the
agricultural world in the Cotton belt
and unless something is done the
farmers will be robbed out of mil
lions of dollars. Even cotton men
in the south are trying lo create tin l
impression that there is no hope of
cotton going higher, but year after
year, for the last five or six years
this cry has been heard and always
came to naught.
Though cotton has went down at
times it was only to react and go
higher before another season open
ed and closed. There is a lesson to
be learned again in the south and
that is to handle the crop slowly and
put. it on the market just ns needed.
If the south should hold off cotton to
such an extent that only one or two
million bales should come In sight
for the first two months there would
be a great scramble for the raw ma
terial. But from Europe comes false
reports, like the following which is
given with criticism from the Cotton
Journal:
below the normal, but It may turn
out even worse and all the fleecy
staple should be saved by the farmers.
But hay, grain and forage should
receive much consideration, lor these
products were never higher here than
now. Hay is somewhat cheaper than
a year ago, but It is only due lo the
fact that It is now In ihe midst of
the season. Next spring It will be
higher, and now Is a good time to
plan tor sowing grain and forage
crops, or something for grazing dur
ing the early winter months. Prob
ably beardless barley is one of the
best ctops to plant for this purpose.
Rye Is also splendid, both as a cover
crop and for grazing. There are
plenty of them that can be grown
profitably, and it, will be well to In
vestlgate right now and get busy with
the work.—Home and Farm.
A Few Poultry Points
FOR THE POULTRYMAN
FMnnt a few squaro rod* of munglrn
or sugur h«et« for vr*gt*tahlo food during
tho winter. A .square rod of mungloH,
if w<*ll Rrown, will furnish a supply for
100 hons all wlnlor.
If you havo not had Rood link with
your now Incubator the chances are that
tho fault Is your own. Incubator makes
could not remain long In business u
they should continue to sell faulty ma
chines.
The time to sell ducks and make tno
most money out of them In when they
wolrli five pounds apiece. This weight
Hhould be made in ten weeks. After
that aRe every pound costs more than
can be Rot for It.
Fat and well finished hens nre selling
well now. Shut the hem In 11 rather
small, shaded yard and feed them wen
for two weeks, and they will he in the
best posßll.dc condition for marker,
weighing heavily, firm and round and in
condition to command the best prices.
It Ih/A a bad Idea for the poultryinati
to raise!,u patch of tobacco to be used
In helping to keep tbe stock free from
lice. Pull the plants before frost and
JORUM
( ir n Mistake to rhluk that ants
destroy plants. It is generally plant
or root lice that cause the dcstrnr
tlon; hut, of course, the ants are re
sponsible for the presence of the
lice. The latter are really the ants’
dairy cows. They care for them and
place them on plants of their liking
to get the "honey dew" secreted by
the li f e [f )j,, || f .,. (ir( . u |, ov ,. ground,
spraying with kerosene emulsion will
destroy them. If they are on the
roots of the plants a liberal app.l
cation of tobaeco dust placed at the
roots of the plants, anil this worked
into the surface layer of the sou
will prove effective. Some advocate
pouring boiling water Into the ants
burrows, but If the lice arc already
on the plants the destruction of the
ants will not remove the lice on the
other hand. If the lice are killed th
ants will usually leave.
It Is estimated that In the United
States this year k,198,000 acres have
been planted in Irish potatoes, an In
crease over last year of 2.4 p«r cent
An inferior sire Is breeding down
wards.
Regular feeding maxes animals
more content.
Conducted By
J. C. McAUUFFE
“We quote below an extract from
a circular letter being distributed all
over tile world by a leading firm of
Hamburg, Germany. Issued on Au
gust 14th. Listen, Southerners;
" In view of the continuance of
good weather in the cotton belt, our
last week's estimates (14 to Hi mil
lion bales) of the yield are probably
much too low. There must very like
ly come au avalanche of cotton bury
ing, everybody trying to dam It. Am
erican farmers are said lo be willing
to dictate a minimum price of Hi
cents they \4ould probably lie much
wiser in dictating a minimum price
of 5 cents, else they will lose the
chance to sell their cotton from 9
to fi cents. If no very serious mm
Happens soon, King' Cotton will
soon be considered a 'Pariah.' ’
"This firm does business under the
very shadows of the great spinning
Interests of Great Britain and the
Continent. Not content with issuing
unreasonable "Bearish" statistics re
garbing the probable yield of the
American crop, this foreign firm goes
further and undertakes to advise and
dictate to Southern farmers at what
price they should offer their cotton
for sale, and then tolls them what
will happens If (hey refuse. It l«
enough to make the blood of every
southerner boil in its veins and stir
the Anglo-Saxon manhood of every
man In the south to the highest ten
sion of resistance. Slnee the spring
of 1905 the South has forever turned
its back upon the accoptanre of any
price less than 10 cents per pound
for a crop of American cotton, basis
mlddlln. Five and 6-cent«otton has
been buried In the defeats of the
past, never to he resurrected under
the victorious banners of a united
and confederated people, who now
have the manhood, the Independence
and fortitude to successfully resist
the dominating Influences of foreign
consumers mid their mouthpiece*.
“Take what we are willing to give
or go scourged with the lash of purer
ty wielded by our hands," is the mes
sage given the south.
FOR PROFIT
AND PLEASURE
hang them In the barn nr Hied In dry.
A handful of the cruched haven In the
nesta will add much to the comfort of
the Hitting and laying hen*.
A growing chic, llk«* a growing animal
require* plenty of good, whaleman** food
.supplied liberally and often, In order to
enable them to grow and mature more
rapidly and lo develope properly.
To be fluccoHHful with pure-bred nlgh
quallty fowln, one munt keep them grow
lug from the time they come from the
Hhell until flnlMhed for the show or brewt
log pen. Knrh time they have a *et
baeklt detract* from their future quality.
One of the greatent wet beck* young
chick* can have I* getting chilled or
taking cold.
It pay* to hake food for young chink*.
Take equal pnrtH of coatee corn meal,
wheal bran and a handful of meat meal,
or ground Hcrnpa to a quart of the mix
tore amt h*ke like u Hhortruke, lining
baking M'idn to lighten |t ;M , ( | enough
wholeaorne fat to shorten It *o It can be
easily crumbled. If well baked If wh.
keep n long While, Com menial Poultry.
FILLERS.
i It Is the comfortnlilc which
(Ills the milk pill with milk find the
milk with butter fat.
THE MOULTING SEASON.
The season of molting for poultr
usually h,*gins in August tittrl ends in
December, though there are variations
from this rule, some hens molting
earlier and others Inter ttmn the
months stated. This studding of
feathers while a natural protest Is a
very debilitating one, hut after the
birds have passed safely over It and
galmd strength and vigor, they will
he In better condition than before to
resume their duties Molting, for the
time being, Is both trying and a s
vote drain upon the system of the
fowl, because the feathers are full of
nitrogen, which creates In the fowl „
desire for certain kinds of food to n
place the waste and furnish the nut
lerlal for making new feathers. It Is
a time too wlu-ii the bird should re
celve generous food, with the b.-st of
care and attention; for exposure to
rain, wading through the grass when
the dew is on, roosting In damp places
or exposure to sudden and strong cur
rents of sold air may tiring on Ills
of the worst kind, for there Is hnrdl
any protection against sudden changes
of went her when the fowl Is almost
denuded of Its usual coat of feathers
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Eatlmatea cheerfully furnished on Tin Roofing, Quttere, Eto., Qal
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DAVID SLUSKY,
1009 BROAD STREET.
THE WANT ADVERTISEMENTS ARE
“HUMANIZING!”
When more people come to use and answer classified advertise
meats, more people will know each other—
More People With Interests Will Meet
mom people will find channels and opportunities for reciprocal aer
vice.
Truly, the want ads are "humanizing" people shaming away
the scorn of email things, the scorn of "bargaining." of exchanging
useful but not used things for useful and usable one*.
USE HERALD WANTS LOR RESULTS.
Auguiti, Os., August 31, 1»0fc
To Our Friends and Patrons,
Our large and varied stock of Vehicles. Harness, Carriage a»d
Wagon material, etc., has been absolutely saved by my corps of sales
men, mechanics and porters, scarcely a thing damaged.
For the past three daye, Friday, Saturday and Monday, we have
been cleaning up «nd rearranging slock, and are now just In condi
tion as If nothing had happened to this goodly city.
Soliciting a continuance of the favors heretofore so liberally be
wtowed by Friends and Patrons, We are.
Very truly yours,
H. H. COSKERY.
St. Angela’s Academy
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