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jrpm*V MORNING. j OCT. 23, 1914
BY VIRTUE OF A PROCLAMATION OF THB GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA CALLING MEETINGS OF THE PEOPLE ON SATURDAY, THE 24TH OF OCTOBER 1914, TO ADOPT I • s~pATE TO
COTTON ACREAGE AND INCREASING PRODUCTION OF FOOD CROPS, TO MEET AT THE COURT HOUSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTIES, NAMING THE SEVERAL ORDINARIE 24TH
CALL SUCH MEETINGS AND APPOINT COMMITTEES. ETC,, A CALL OF THE PEOPLE OF TROUP COUNTY IS HEREBY MADE TO MEET IN LAGRANGE ON SATURDAY AT 10 0( LOC ,
TO TAKE SUCH ACTION IN THE PREMISES AS THE PEOPLE CONCERNED MAY THINK BEST FOR THEIR INTERESTS. ^ ^ WOOD YARD, Ordinary
I HAVE APPOINTED THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN AS A PUBLICITY COMMITTEE: JUDGE F. M. LONGLEY, E. B. CLARK AND L. C. DAVIS.
H. T. WOODYARD, ORDINARY.
Fainting
Chats and Comment
A Business
Proposition
The latent thin* to claim the at
tention of the American farmer is
the subject of efficiency in farm
operations. We have heard much of
efficiency in manufacturing and com
mercial operations, and the former
has been quick to see the application
of business management to his own
operations. It is true that farmers
do work too much with their hands
and not enough with their brains. In
many cases whore an accident has in
capacitated the farmer from carrying
on his work actively and he has been
compelled to direct it, his success has
been greater than when he formerly
did the work with his own hands,
skillful direction of labor and a care
ful planning of the work arc two of
the most needed reforms in our farm
operations. A study of the cost of
producing a farm product pleads to
improved methods.
Both man and horse labor on the
farm uro expensive. The successful
farmer will study how to occupy this
labor most fully. Farm labor is, in
the nature of things, rather peculiar
in that it docs not extend uniformly
throughout the year. There are the
busy seasons and then there are the
slack seasons. When labor must be
hired by the day or for but a few
months during the year it is much
higher priced than when it can be
contracted for by the year. Horse
labor which is occupied but a few
months of the year becomes very ex
pensive. The progressive farmer
studies how he can double up his
teams and have one man drive them
so as to economize in man labor.
Much is being said about the substit-
ution of motor power for horse pow
er. Such is usually economical only
when it does away with the keeping
of a number of horses.
The successful manager studies the
best disposition of his crops. The
policy of feeding everything grown on
the land may be good policy and
it may not. It is not. good economy
to feed u crop when its murket value
unfed is greater than the market
vnlue of the finished product. As a
rule, it is better to concentrate the
products of the farm into flesh, milk,
and butter, but many farm products
do not admit of such disposition.
It is significant that (it) per cent of
the improved land of the United
States is represented in farms rang
ing in area from 100 to 500 ncres. It
is also significant that in the grain
growing sections the farms of this
size nrc increasing in number at the
expense of larger areas and smaller
areas. The size of the farm is all de
pendent upon the character of opera
tions. Where the crops grown per
mit of horse cultivation the area of
the fnrms is usunlly large und there
is a tendency for them to increnso in
size. Where the crops grown require
a great deal of hand labor, farm areas
are small and there is a tendency for
them to decrease in size. In general,
the size of the farm effects the econ
omy of labor. On largo farms both
man and team labor can be more
economically employed. On large
farms there is also economy in the
»«#■ of machinery. The usme equip
ment of machinery will caro for 120
acres of land as well ns it will 40
acres of land. On a large farm the
distribution of capital invested in
buildings, machinery and livestock is
much less per acre than it is on smnll
farms. On u large area the propor
tion of crop which may be sold or fed
to fattening animnls above that need
l'd for the maintenance of the farm
er’s family, his work stock, and for
seed is larger than on the small farm.
On large farms the opportunity for
large labor income is better than on
small farms.
Another problem which farms have
to contend with iR that of marketing
Marketing should not be a fnrmer’s
proposition. The farmer is primarily
a producer and not a salesman .Much
remains to be done in the working
out of satisfactory farm marketing.
Much has already been accomplished
by • co-operative organizations. The
future will see larger results in this
direction. The distribution of per
ishable products to consumers re
mains to be successfully worked out.
There are within our own borders
sufficient consumers for all the pro
ducts which we produce if the pro
duct can only be brought to the con
sumer. The elimination of the costly
handling of the product between the
producer and the consumer must be
solved.
Best Space to
Give Cotton
A recent bulletin issued by the
United States Department of Ag
riculture, entitled a “New System of
Cotton Culture,” discusses tne matter
of spacing cotton and the relation of
distance between rows and in the
drill to carliness and productiveness.
In an experiment conducted at Eas
ley, S. C., in 1913 cotton spaced thir
ty-four inches in the drill yielded,
at the rate of 1165 pounds of seed cot
ton per acre; spaced thirty-eight inch
es in the drill, 793 pounds per acre;
and spaced fourteen inches in the
drill, 1,029 pounds per acre. Other
experiments conducted at) Norfolk,
Va., in 1912, gave similar results.
The closer spaced cotton was also
markedly earlier. Distances between
rows were not stated.
These results, while interesting,
are not the first of the sort, being al
most exactly in line with results ob
tained by the Texas, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi, and possibly other. South
ern experiment stations. In 1907 and
1908 Newell, of the Ixmisiana Sta
tion, under boll weevil conditions,
and on hill, bottom and prairie lands,
almost uniformly obtained the best
yields where cotton was closely spac
ed. In these experiments, the best
results were gotten from rows three
to three and one-half feet, wide, with
plants ten to twelve inches apart in
the row. In 1911 at the Mississippi
Delta Experiment Station the beRt
yields were made in rows three and
one-half feet apart, with plants eigh
teen to twenty-four inches in the drill
The Station at Agricultural College,
Mississippi, has almost uniformly ob
tained its largest yields from com
paratively close spacing.
We believe thiR mass of scientific
evidence warrants very careful obser
vation of cotton spacing on the part
of every cotton grower. If we are
not spacing our cotton so ns to get
the largest yields we want to know it
and change our spacing accordingly.
As are many other problems of farm
practice, we believe this question to
be one to a certain extent local in na
ture, depending in a degree upon the
nature of the soil, and that it should
be handled accordingly; but we sug
gest that our renders experiment a
little themselves with wide and nar
row spacing, so that the relative
merits of each may be judged. We
would also suggest that our South
ern experiment stations might well
do further investigational work along
these lines.—The Progressive Fnr-
mer.
ACTION IS TAKEN
AT CONFERENCE
Chas. i. Haden Was Directed to
Ask Governors to Take Steps
Acting upon resolutions passed by
the recent Southeastern Food Crops
conference, held in Atlanta, Governor
Slaton Thursday issued a proclama
tion calling upon the farmers and
business men of every Georgia coun
ty to assemble in mass meetings on
Saturday, October 24, and organize
in an effort to decrease the production
of cotton and increase the production
of foodstuffs.
Charles J. Haden, president of the
Georgia chamber of commerce, who
was chairmun of the Southeastern
Food Crops conferences, was directed
to request the governors of each cot
ton-growing state to cnll the people
of their various counties into mass
meetings for the purpose of organize
ing farmers and business men into a
movement to cut down the production
of cotton, increase production of food
stuffs, prepare for marketing and fi
nancing food crops and for all other
welfare purposes.
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How About
Grain Drills
The groat European war, depres
sing on it hns cotton prices and ad
vancing prices of grain makes it all
the more important that we arrange
to sow liberally of all grain. Particu
larly is this true of oats for early
feed next spring, as there is every
likelihood that, because of dry weath
er in many parts of the South and
the heavy foreign demand, grain
prices will be unusually high; while
nt the same time, because of a lack of
demand for cotton there will be little
money with which to buy feeds.
To succeed with oats it is very
neecssury that they be sown in the
fall, and to get the best results they
should be put in with a grain drill.
Practically without exception drilled
oats have given better yields than
when broadcasted. These increased
yields from drilling have ranged all
the way from one to fifteen bushels
per acre, and it is certainly safe to
conclude that an average increase of
two bushels per acre may be counted
on. With oats at present prices, ev
en, it is plain that where any consi
derable acreage is planted the drill
will soon pay for itself in increased
yields, to say nothing of the labor
saved.
However, in a large part of our
territory, where only a few acres of
oats per farm are grown, the logical,
sensible thing to do is to co-operate
in the purchase of drills. The size
and kind of drill to purchase will, of
course, depend upon local conditions
and the acreage to be planted. In
the northern half of the Cotton Belt
fall-sown oats usually are not safe
from winter-killing unless sown in
the open furrow; hence the open-
furrow drill should be purchased.
These come in various sizes, from the
one-horse drill, which will put in five
or six acres a day, to the larger ones
that seed two or three times as fast.
Even assuming that only six acres a
day are seeded and that there is only
a month in which to get the crop in,
it is possible to seed a comparatively
large area—certainly several times
as much as the average farmer sows.
Then farther South, where there is
no particular danger of winter kill
ing. similar co-operation could be had
with the ordinary drill.
As we have said before, eo-opera-
ll on properly begins with the smaller,
more elemental things; and as a be
ginning, we do not know of any form
of co-operation that should prove
more profitable just now than com
munity ownership of grain drills.—
The Progressive Farmer.
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♦ themselves to lend credit and ♦
7 financial assistance only te 4
♦ such farmers as will agree te ♦
4* said acreage reduction. Law- ♦
♦ yers can assist in the prepara- ♦
♦ tion of such contracts between ♦
the parties concerned as will ♦
♦ be legally binding. ♦
♦ "The people of the great ♦
♦ state of Georgia have never ♦
♦ yet been found wanting in the ♦
♦ hour of peril. It requires *
♦ courage, patience, self-reliance ♦
and mutual helpfulness to ♦
♦ meet the present crisis. I ♦
♦ know that our citizens possess
♦ these qualities to an eminent ♦
•> degree. Let us all unite to *
•> preserve our dear southland *
<• from the disaster which men- <•
♦ aces it and insure to our clrit- <•
♦ dren a more abundant prosper- ♦
<• ity than we have ever knojvn. <r
•> “Given under my hand and •
♦ the seal of this office, this the *
15th day of October. «
•> “JOHN M. SLATON, Gov. «
♦ “By the governor: « •
♦ A. H. ULM. O*
♦ "Executive Secretary,” ♦
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SLATON ISSUES
PROCLAMATION
Requests Business Men and Far
mers to Organize for Plans.
❖ ♦
•> "Whereas, The world-wide •>
•> war hus to a great extent <•
•> destroyed tho markdt for cot- <•
<• ton, thereby inflicting upon *7
<■ our section a blow such as it *7
♦ has not experienced since the ♦
<• Civil wur, and ♦
♦ “Whereas, It iB universally
<* agreed that it would be suici- ♦
♦ dnl for our farmers to con- <*
•> tinue the planting of cotton to C
<• the exclusion of food crops, •>
♦ and <•
♦ “Whereas, Crop reduction ♦
♦ may be brought about only by *7
♦ free co-operation among the ♦
*> representative classes of our ♦
♦ community, rather than by ♦
7 legislative action, which would ♦
♦ imperil our constitutional ♦
♦ liberties, and ♦
"0* “Whereas, The Southeastern ♦
♦ Food Crops conference has •
7 suggested that mass meetings 7
♦ be held in every cotton-produc- 7
<• ing county on Saturday, Octo- 7
♦ ber 24, to organize the farm- 7
7 ers and business men in a joint 7
♦ effort to decrease cotton pro- ♦
♦ duction, increase food crops, 7
♦ prepare for financing and ♦
♦ marketing the same and for ♦
♦ the general welfare, O
♦ “Now, therefore, I, John M. 7
♦ Slaton, governor of the state ♦
♦ of Gieorgia, being in strong ♦
♦ sympathy with this movement 7
♦ and wishing to give it all the 7
♦ official encouragement within ♦
♦ my power, do hereby designate ♦
♦ Saturday, October 24, for such 7
♦ mass meetings to be held in ♦
♦ the various county sites of 7
♦ this state. I suggest that the 7
♦ ordinaries of the respective 7
♦ counties act as chairmen of 7
♦ committees on preparation, 7
♦ naming such associates as they 7
see fit. I urge that all classes 7
< ®’ lend a hand in making these 7
♦ meetings a success, farmers, *
♦ bankers, merchants and law- 7
7 yers. C
♦ “Cotton growers should be 7
♦ pledged to reduce the acreage ♦
♦ planted to at least one-half ♦
♦ of the present planting, and 7
♦ enlarge the food crops. ♦
♦ “Merchants and bankers ♦
7 should co-operate by pledging ♦
The Reporter is
73 Years Old
With this twelve page issue
The LaGrange Reporter begins its
seventy-third year of usefulness. It
has always been the policy ef this
paper to forward every movemeat of
true worth, and in every way to co
operate with the business men of
quality and befriend the farmers in
their time of need.
The Reporter is the official organ
of Troup county and its subscription
list at this time nears 2,500. Each
week from twelve to sixeen pages
are crowded with local news items
and state-wide interests that per
tain directly to the needs of this sec
tion.
At this time, this news bearer can
be made especially useful to the far
mers of this and surrounding coun
ties and an effort is being made to
increase the circulation. To co
operate with the farmers, farm pro
ducts will be accepted on subscrip
tions either new or old, at the regular
rate of ono dollar per year. Lint
cotton will be received at the rate ef
ten cent* per pound and eettwi seed
at the rate ef 520 per ton. Other
farm produce will be accepted at
the highest market prices. This ap*
plies to such articles as chickens,
eggs, fresh meat, cem, oats, peas, etc.
We will be glad to send you sample
copies of our regular edition.
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