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THE LAGRANftE REPORT!*, .1 FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 11, 1M WIVES OF BELGIAN SOLDIERS Photo copyright. 1914, by American Press Association. They ire shown lined up to get the allowance of about 10 rents a duy from lbe government while their hus bands are fighting. Farming Chats and Comment $1,000 Made Off “Trash” Mr. W. A. Hodnett of East Vernon District is possibly in a position to •open some of the Troup county far mers’ eyes. While in LaGrange Sa turday, ne stated: “I expect to make a thousand dollars this year on noth ing b ut trash from my farm, I have found that I can’t depend on cotton i for a living. I have about one hun dred acres of my farm planted in cot ton this year, moBt of this land ia rent ed by negroes and was planted in cotton by them. I will say now that thia is more than twice as much of my farm that will ever be devoted to cot ton another year.” When asked what he referred to ns trash, Mr. Hodnett said: “Wood, fish, water melons, eggs, chickens and things of that kind. 1 have already sold about $625 worth of such things nnd expect to sell lots more.” For an •example of wuys that money could be 'made, ho referred to one acre which he had devoted to “Pride of Georgia" water melons. Although about half of those were seedless and no good, Mr. Hodnett has already realized $7T.70 from this small patch nnd states that he still has more melons for sale. This prosperous farmer has cer tainly come to the right conclusion and here is hoping that the other Troup county farmers will follow his exnmplc. However there is one thing that the IaGrange people will prob able not agree with him, that is in us ing the term of “trash" for chickens, eggs, butter, etc. Regulating the Cost of Living The effort of the United States . government to regulate the high cost of living by probing the high and fancy increase of prices of foodsti^fs recalls the fact that many govern- \ incuts, even the ancient Romans, also labored to this very end. By means of the agrarian laws the Gracchi endeavored to supply deserv ing persons with grain oelow the 'market price; but these measures were futile, for the decline of agricul- ' lure and the growth of capitalism caused large numbers of tne people to flock to the cities where tne in creasing spirit of discontent was a menace to society! Matters grew worse under the empire, and Diocle tian had the courage to issue an edic attacking the evil of high prices, his schedule covering nearly all the articles which his subjects would have occasion to purchase. The result of • this legislation was that nothing was .offered for sale, and the scarcity be came so pronounced that the law wa revoked from absolute necessity. Som years later, the Emperor Julian mad' a similar attempt on a small scale He lixed the price of corn for th people of Antioch by a royal decree. As a result the holders of grain hoarded their stock. To offset this the emperor brought supplies of it into the city from Egypt and sold it at the legal price. The grain was then bought ua by speculators and Julian was obliged to acknowledge his inability to defeat an immutable economic law. Even the drastic measures of the * common law of England were of Httle ’avail in preventing the arbitrary in crease of charges for food, though on •occasions it was invoked for the 'punishment of the offender. With these historial examples be fore us, there is little encouragement to be gained out of the federal pro posal to check the increasing cost of living during these war times. Deal ers, wholesale as well as retail, have too many adroit methods for evading the law; so many, in fact, that the consumer is practically helpless. It is, of course, entirely possible that some modern legislation may be devised which will fit the emergency and give relief to the people from the commercial sharks, but it is prac tically certain that there is now no existing law applicable to the situa tion.—Macon News. Raises “Seedless Watermelons” Mr. W. A. Hodnett of East Vernon District brought a seedless water melon to The Reporter office Satur day morning. He probably has the honor of growing the first lot of me Ions Af this kind. This melon was small and displayed a kind of a knotty appearance. When it was cut, the meat was found to be u whitish pulp and dry. This pulp was also cut and disclosed regular watermelon meat which tasted Just 'like the heart of any other melon. Mr. Hodnett states that he pur chased the seed in South Georgia and plnntod them in the usual manner on good oak and hickory soil on a one acre plot of his land near the A., B. & A. railroad. He sayH that about half of the melons lay down flat on their long sides. These have seeds and Mr. Hodnett has already realized $77.70 from their sales. The other hnlf of the melons are in a “sit up” position, resting on one end. These represent the “anti-seed” party nnd give the patch the appearance of a military company which has just been culled to attention.. Cattle Raisers Encouraged Atlanta, Sept. 10. (Special)—Presi dent P. D. McCarley, of the Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of Geor gia, last Saturday issued a circular letter to the members of this organi zation, which is composed of prac tically every cotton oil mill man in the state, urging them to extend a line of credit to the cattle feeders in their vicinity whereby these cattle feeders may be encouraged to increase their interest in the livestock industry. He points out that this form of co-operation will prove of inestimable value, not only to the cotton oil mill men and to the cattle raisers, but to the state as well. For several years this association has lent its utmost efforts in the di rection of encouraging the raising of livestock, but this industry has not been taken up with the activity that it should be. President McCarley states that the present low prices prevailing for both meal and hulls gives the oil mills and the cattle raiBers the best opportunity the south has ever known for putting into practical effect the advice and assistance so freely offered. In concluding hiB address to the members, President McCarley sayB: “We would therefore earnestly re quest that you give this matter your very serious consideration, and let’s help each other to find a market for our products, by helping our feede friends to make some money, and by helping the state to save a great des by producing beef here in Georgia.’' - Black remarked: “A proposMen tf » mine tor you Pro not •i T-jea good thin*, 1 assure you." 1 Whits replied, "Well. 1 am not!" ” -JJpptBCOtt'SL Advertising and the Living’Cost (Herbert S. Houston, in World’s Work.) The educational committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America has seen that a business which in America calls for an ex penditure every year of double the cost of digging the Panama canal must fully justify itself to the pub lic. Naturally so vast a sum raises the suspicion that it may have some part to bear in the high cost of living. Advertisers challenge this suspicion and point to the fact that advertised articles have maintained the same price levels, despite the general ten dency to higher levels, and they say that this has been possible through larger sales secured by advertising. The educational committee is survey ing this whole subject and it announc ed at the recent convention of ad vertising clubs at Toronto that dur ing the coming year it would add to its activities the work of a committee that would seek to make all the pub lic know how it is being served through advertising. The Chosen People Those who till the soil are the chosen people. Farming is as old as the human race and is yet in its infancy. Success is bound to come to the farmer who plans while he plows. No civilization has ever advanced beyond its agricultural development. No farmer is successful who thinks more of his barn than he does rf his home. The development of the farmer him self must precede the full develop ment of the ground he tills. The most beautiful fact ini the farmer’s work is that everything he plants is a lesson in faith. The beBt farmer does not bother about getting ahead of his neighbor; his great business is to get ahead of himself. We must give to the people who live on the farm the same educational advantages for their children as those of the cities enjoy. The country clergy is an agency of much potentiality because the ru ral life movement is religious as well as industrial and social. There should be u social and an industrial survey of every community. The pastor, the teacher and the school und church officials are they who make such a survey. In a recent survey of a community in New England the average annual income of 154 farmers who had a common school education was $229, while the average net income of 122 farmers of the same locality with a high school education was $482 an nually. This was worth to each far mer who possessed it $263 each year. The agriculturalists of Georgia will occupy a more conspicous place hence forth, especially for the next year or two, particularly those who prac tice diversification of crops. The men who apply intelligence to their farm ing methods, who study the teach ings of the demonstrators and follow the latest examples of scientific tilling, will be those who rank with tne most successful and the most prosperous planters of the state—Macon News. Differing Blood Corpuscles. The crystals of the blood of a white man are extremely small, measuring less than one two-thousandth part of an Inch In length and are sbuped rath er like thin bricks. The blood crys tals of a negro appear like thin red plates, or long, thlu, flat bars, easily distinguishable from those of a whits Peanuts As a Field Crop C. E. Hoke, Oklahoma. The Spanish peanut has achieved a fixed place among the farm crops of the southwest, where it is raised as a feed crop to be used along with £aftr, milo or feterita. This crop was introduced into the southwest many years ago, but attracted little attention as a field crop until 1909. According to Prof. H. M. Cottrell, the Spanish peanut has been known to thrive with an annual rainfall varying from 13 to 55 inches and at an alti tude ranging from sea level to 6600 feet. This crop stands drouth as well as kafir, milo-and cotton. If only a small area iH planted the usual practice is to drop the nuts by hand. There is a planter now on the market, however, especially designed for them. A single unshelled nut should be dropped in each place and the space between them should be about 15 inches. This rate of plant ing will require about one busnel to the acre. The width of the rows should be about the same as ior corn or kafir. If there is plenty of mois ture in the soil, the nuts should be soaked in water for 25 hours before planting. If the Boil is dry, however, this should not be done as it will ruin the seed. Level Cultivation Best The cultivation of the crop is prac tically the same as for corn, cotton or kafir. If a crust forms beiore the plants come up, an ordinary spike- tooth harrow may be dragged over to break it up. The cultivation should be shallow and frequent and should continue up until the time that the pods begin to form. Hilling up is neither necessary nor desirable. Par ticularly if it is dekired to make the crop into hay, the cultivation should be level, or otherwise it would be difficult to cut and rake. The old idea that the stems had to be covered with dirt in places, in order to make the pods set on, has been disproved by recent knowledge. When the vines begin to turn yellow the nuts are nearing maturity, and will soon be ready to harvest George Bishop, a successful farmer In wes tern Oklahoma, says: “Most of the peanuts which have been grown in the southwest, have been harvested by hogs and for the present, at least, this is undoubtedly the best plan. Where the nuts are grown for market, however, the vines are loosened up by running the share of a turning plow with the moldboard removed, just deep enough to cut beneath the peanuts. The vines and nuts are then raked into windrows and in a day or two, depending upon how quickly they cure, they are put into stacks conven ient for threshing. The practice of first mowing the hay and then turning the hogs in to harvest the nuts is the one which seems the best plan for the beginner. Recent tests have shown that the hogs will make prac tically the same gains when fed on the peanuts alone as when turned on n field from which the vines have not been removed. Threshing is done with a special peanut thresher and the straw is saved for feed. According to Prof. Cottrell, a stock man in Texas pastured a large acre age of ripe peanuts with hogs in 1910 and made n gain of 1023 pounds of pork to the acre. In feeding trials at the Texas station, it required less than three pounds of peanuuts for each pound of gain on pigs that weighed from 40 to 50 pounds at the start. At the Arkansas station, an acre of ripe peanuts pastured by hogs made 1252 pounds of gain, while an adjoin ing cornfield yielding 30 bushels to the acre made only 436 pounds of gain per acre on hogs. At the Alaba ma station with corn charged at 70 cents a bushel, each pound of gain on hogs fed corn alone cost 7.63 cents, while the cost per pound when they were fed corn and kept on peanut pas ture ranged between 1.85 cents and 2.28 cents.—Southern Farming. Thought for the Day. Science Is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may from a raw recruit, and its methods differ from those of common sense only as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner In which a aavage wields hia club.—Huxley. “The goods which please are already half sold,” runs a French proverb. Q Our reliable goods have long pleased this community because they combine the quali ties of durability, utility, value and beauty. E y es Scientifically Fitted. TAKE CARE OF YOUR EYES; the Window to your Soul Lehmann Jewelry Co. LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co. We are now prepared to make all kinds of castings from iron and brass and to repair machinery of every description. Our foundry is modern in every detail, being equipped with the latest machin ery and appliances. We have secured the services of workmen of long experience and whom we know are in every way qualified to give perfect satisfac tion. Our machine shop is equipped with the latest machines and tools and our workmen in this department are also capable of turning out high class work. COMMUNICATE WITH US IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IN OUR LINE. IT WILL PAY YOU GOOD SERVICE AT REASONABLE PRICES IS OUR POLICY. P. S. BRING ALL YOUR OLD IRON AND BRASS TO OUR SHOPS. WE PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES. LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co. -:For Sale:- The 15 acres of land known as the Lakeland Park pro perty in East LaGrange, has been sub-divided and 142 building lots for negro dwel- ings will be offered for sale about Sept. 15. Interested parties, apply to R. L RENDER LaGrange, Ga. For that hot, “stuffy,” “sticky,” “no-count” feeling — Cools -- Refreshes— Stimulates A. delightful flavor all its own ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE @kvia- LABEL BOTTLED BY (HERO-COLA BOTTLING CO. LaGrange, Georgia