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The ButlerHerald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS.
Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
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HIT OR MISS
k Considerable of our truck patch is
Le.ng “het up” by “Old Sol."
These are the days when there is
x o “setting son.”
Even the solar system believes in
going over the top.
Amateur weather prophets have
used up all their “amunition” regard
ing their rain predictions, now some
body better pay the Preacher.
Will! Sammie Smile?
Well! Some Say so.
I! know dam well he will
if you will buy W. S. S.
And help to pay the bill.
Change the Label.
From actual inside information we
arc painfully aware that the packer
or canner of Pork and Beans get all
the pork and the consumer gets the
beans.
What has become of the old-fashioned
girl who used to do her hair a ia cleo
de Merode to hide her big ears?
‘ Grady Farmer Hend for Dath of
Wife.” Headline in Tuesday's Macon
To>-graph. Gee! That Merganthaler
must have had a cold in the head all
right.
SIGNS.
Tfe is a very loyal guy,”
Said wise old Mr. Bowsers;
‘T know he’s patriotic by
The patches on his trousers.”
—Detroit Free Press.
“He is a very loyal guy,”
Said astute Mr. Ci'ook;
~'J know he’s patriotic by
Bis lean and hungry look."
—Macon Telegraph.
And patriotic too is he
Who’s named Aroostock Roose
Fer he I know, for I have seen
Him wear half-soled shoes.
PERSONAL.
If! the coming Legislature will pass
a bill to stop all the Bills now running
for some office, all will be forgiven.
I. W. W.
Italy Works Wonders
Wonder how it sounds to O’Leary?
To Teddy:
O, Teddy they may scold you
And call you any name
But few of them have given
So many sons to fame.
MISFORTUNE
Dajne fortune how I love you
When you do smile on me
But your daughter as I will avow
Ought to “gang a glee.”
This column herein foregoes all its
privileges, expressions, soft stuff and
riard to allow space for ye editor to
cuss out, up and down, ail citizens of
this locality who do not and will not
buy W. S. S. providing they can afford
sum*.—excusing newspaper men.
FAIR WARNING
After spending at least
Sundays to think of an
Original thot
For our Thursday column
And racking our brains to
Get some new turn for
Old wornout phrases
We hereby and in solemnly
Fwear that we will fight
A. duel, either in eating or
Shooting, with a certain
J. D. S. if a certain J. D. S. dotes
Not stop publishing on
Tuesdays previous what
We consider our own
Personal Brain Stormlets.
For Thursday’s space killers.
SPIDER.
The Pneumonia Season.
The cold, damp weather of March
seems to be the most favorable for
the pneumonia germ. Now is the
time to be careful. Pneumonia often
results from a cold. The quicker a
coM is gotten rid of the less the
danger. As soon as the first indica
tion of a cold appears take Chamber
lain’s Cough Remedy. As to the
value of this preparation; ask any
one who has used it.
OUR NEXT
PRESIDENT.
It is perhaps a bit early to be
broaching the subject of who our
next president is to be, but it is
being broached just the same, and
in view of the present world con
ditions and the fact that the next
presidential campaign will be
fraught with issues of great
magnitude, it is only natural that
the matter should come up for
discussion this time earlier than
in former years.
It is being seriously proposed
that Woodrow Wilson offer for a
third term. Recognized by many
as the outstanding leader in
thought and action of the Allied
nations and perhaps of the neutral
world also—if any corner of it is
really neutral—Mr. Wilson is now r
held by some of his admirers to
be the only logical man for the
president’s chair during the four
years to follow the present term.
During those four years—it is
hoped and believed—the nations
of the world will settle down to
their respective places in the new
regime, which most Americans
forecast will be one of peace and
which Mr. Wilson plans shall be.
Trade relations, ideal and other
wise, will be resumed between the
countries. The dream of a league
of nations may be realized or in
some measure approached. The
question of armaments must be
definitely worked out—a problem
almost a puzzle.
Not only will the wounds of the
world have to be bound up dur
ing those four years, but feelings
a hard thing to get at—will have
to be to some degree soothed.
Hatreds that lie deep in the soul
will have to be looked after, and
while the world is being made
entirely safe for democracy, some
arrangement of an expert and
skillful nature will have to be
worked out during those days
that follow the peace table, where
by European border lines (and
our own border to the south, if
you please) will cease being frail
dykes between opposing torrents
of hot blood ever ready at a
stroke of the steel to again rush
at each other and w r aste their flow 7
upon the field of Mars.
Without a doubt, it is up to the
United States of America to work
out these world problems. In ev-
way, w r e will be better able than
any other nation to take charge
of the complicated project. Then,
too, as a nation that entered the
war for no personal gain but only
to settle a world issue and convert
into reality a millennial ideal, this
country and its leaders is the logi
cal factor to guide the hand of
fate in the world during the pe
riod soon to come.
Eight years of training in a
hard school will have fitted Mr.
Wilson peculiarly for the big job,
it is true. But will he, like
Washington, refuse to accept the
chair for a third term? Or if the
Democratic nomination be again
tendered him. will he break
another precious American pre
cedent in view of the unusual
situation in the world today?
Taken all in all, it represents a
problem of world politics, so to
speak, but the nation can trust to
the Democratic party to put the
right man in charge.-Macon News.
NATION WIDE
ECONOMY.
To carry out the program of
national economy demand of the
American people by the war they
must adopt scientific and syste
matic methods of economy. Spas
modic and periodic saving will not
fulfill the demand upon us.
One method that has been pro
posed and has the approval of the
Treasury Department is for every
American to pledge himself or
herself to economize and save,
and with the savings at definite
periods purchase specific amounts
of war srvings stamps.
We must give our nation, we
must give our men in arms, all
the strength and support'possible.
To do this we must cut our own
demands, on the labor, materi
al, and money available to the
Government.
A definite systematic plan of
saving, strengthened by resolve
and a pledge to save and lend to
the Government will be produc
tive of the best results. The sav
ings plan campaign is now on.
Every patriotic American should
make a pledge to save and keep
the pledge.
AMERICAN SAVES
THE ALLIES
Neither the press of the allied
countries nor their statesmen
have hesitated to admit the great
importance of American aid. Nei
ther have they backed away from
the results of the battlefields
and the faith which thev put in
our strength and the response to
the need of today is remarkable.
Andrew Bonar Law recently
classed the “battle of St. Quentin
and the first battle of the Lys as
great German successes” and
Lieut; Col. Repington, the great
English critic sa>s “as to the loss
es on th,e two sides we are in a re
gion of conjecture” but he confi-/
dently asserts that “every month
there comes to us what I have
called an American army.” The
British chancellor emphasizes the
allied success at Arras and the
second of the Lys and particu
larly points out that “the great
force of allied reserves is in
America.”
While refusing to give the num
bers of American troops engaged
in France he wants the house to
realize “how 7 big the change has
been and so reads an extract from
the minutes of the last supreme
war council, which declared that
“thanks to the prompt and cor
dial co-operation of the president
of the United States, arrange
ments which have been set on
foot for the transportation and
brigading of American troops will
make it impossible for the enemy
to gain victory by wearing out the
allied reserves before he has ex
hausted his own.”
It is not surprising that the re
ferences to America were loudly
cheered.
What the Papers of the
State are Saying.
Learned men tell us that in La'-
in the word “editor” means some
thing “to eat.” In the United
States its meaning is altogether-
different. It means to scratch
around iike blazes to get some
thing to eat.—Telfair Enterprise.
News comes from abroad that
America’s soldiers are the best
fed fighting men in the world.
Well, America is the best country •
in the world, and her soldiers de
serve ail that is best in the world.
—Gainsville Herald.
It is probable that it will be
sought at the present session of
the Legislature to so amend the
Sunday laws that farmers may be
permitted to work on Sunday.
There is no need of such legisla
tion. What is needed is law to
make loafers and idlers work, and
preferable on the farms, during
the week.—Oglethorpe Echo.
When vve are made to realize
what Belgium and Northern
France have suffered we should
hang our hands in shame, when
we fret and complain when called
upon to make such small sacrifi
ces as our government is asking
of us. Belgium has been devast-
ed and our people made abject
slaves to Germany’s “Hellish Hor
des.” Northern France has been
a seething mass of shell fire and
her landscape, converted from
fields of verdue and beauty into
trenches and shell holes. When
we draw the comparison of the
conditions in these counties and
our own fair land, and think of
what the people have suffered
and what we have been called
upon to do, we are forced to feel
a keen humility at the mander in
which some of us have rebelled,
because we felt it might mean the
loss of a few dollars. If it takes
the last dollar of profits out of
our pockets, and the last gram of
wheat out of our barns, and the
last drop of sugar out of our cup
boards, we should gladly and will
ingly give it all in order to free
the world from the blighting curse
of Prussianism.-LaGrange Graph
ic.
HOW MUST PEANUTS
BE MARKETED NOW?
This Is Question Worrying
Many Farmers
Whether it pays better to market
peanuts at the oil mills or to let the
hogs harvest the nuts is of interest
to farmers now in deciding the acre
age and the variety of peanuts that
they will plant, also the number of
hogs they must have on hand when
the crop is ready to harvest.
An agricultural survey made in
Brooks county, covering two hundred
and eighteen farms, shows that on
an average one acre of Spanish pea
nuts will carry five one hundred and
fifty pound hogs from August first to
September twentieth, with a gain in
weight of three hundred and fifty-eight
pounds, which, at twelve cents a
pound, would be worth $42.95. The
average cost, of these peanuts hogged
off was $11.0-9 per acre which shows
a profit of $31.86.
On these same farms the peanuts
harvested show an average yield of
thirty-seven bushels or eleven hun
dred and ten pounds which at $120.00
a ton would be worth $66.60. The i
average cost of these peanuts when
modern picking machinery is used i3
about $20.00 per acre, so that the
profit would be $46.60 per acre.
This indicates a greater profit on
the side of the marketing for oil. It
must he remembered also that these
farmers have been growing hogs for
market for many years and are skill
ed in handling them. When on pea
nuts ample mineral matter must be
supplied to secure good gain.
This survey shows that on an aver
age the North Carolina, or Running.
Peanuts furnishes grazing for about
four one hundred and fifty pound hogs
from September fifteenth until Jan
uary first, giving an average gain of
four hundred and two pounds of pork
per acre. They are -well adapted for
late grazing for hogs, but are mor*
difficult to harvest.
The use of hogs to harvest peanuts
is preferable -where land is plentiful,
labor is scarce, increase of fertility is
advisable, find capital is sufficient.
The production of winter grazing
crops for the hogs also gives profitable
employment at. seasons when work is
slack.
It is probable that with the cotton
acreage of South Georgia reduced by
the boll weevil that a combination of
some peanuts for market and some for
hogs will pay best as the substitute
for cotton as a cash crop. This is
especially true under the present la
bor conditions where the supply of
labor is hard to get and uncertain in
the length of time that it will be avail
able. The farmer who plans to hog
off part of his peanuts and harvest
t.he balance for the oil mill is playing
safe, in that he can harvest his crops
with the hogs if he lacks a supply of
labor in the fall, or the price of pea
nuts should drop too low, or if the
price of peanuts is good and labor
available he can harvest most of them,
save the waste with his hogs, and mar
ket the hogs earlier. For these rea
sons it will probably pay to use more
of the North Carolina peanuts for
market them is the custom at the
present time in South Georgia, where
the white-skinned Spanish variety is
planted almost exclusively for mar
ket purposes.—Prof. G. C. Schempp,
State College of Agriculture.
BOLL WEEVIL FIGHT
SHOULD BEGIN EARLY
Pick By Hand Weevils Appear
ing In Early Season
Everything possible should be done
to promote rapid growth of cotton
plants in early spring, so as to has
ten the formation of flower buds, or
squares, before heavy weevil infesta
tion occurs. The moat important
means to this end is frequent and
shallow cultivation to conserve the
moisture, and with the present labor
shortage, two-horse riding cultivators
should be more generally used for
this purpose. Cultivate after every
rain, if possible, since this helps to
prevent the shedding of early squares
Pick the weeviis by hand as soon as
they are found in the field. It is very
important that an attempt be made
to pick all the weevils that have gone
through the winter and entered the
cotton fields in the spring. At such
time no eggs are being laid. The wee
vil only lays eggs in punctured
squares, and no squares are yet form
ed. Since there are only a few wee
vils in the field at this time, they
are hard to find, and it requires pains
taking care to pick them. They can
be located- by the appearance of the
plants on which they are feeding.
They mutilate the tender buds in the
top of the plants, and every bud thus
injured by the weevil turns brown.
By carefuly searching such plants, one
or more weevils will usually be found
hiding in some inconspicuous place.
Of all times at. which weevils may
be picked, early picking before the egg
laying season begins is the most im
portant. A careful search should be
made for them every week, even if
only a few weevils can be found per
acre. In a short time, they will begin
laying about eight eggs per day, and
if each egg is placed in a separate
square, it takes but little figuring to
determine that one weevil can destroy
squares faster than several plant# can
produce them. — Prof. Loy 0. Rast,
State College of Agriculture.
Join These Americans
On the Road to Victory
See the crowd I It is a happy crowd ! Why?
Because it is on the road to Victory. It is an
old road, the Thrift road, the broad highway to
personal success. And as usual, the success of
the individual means the success of the Nation.
The Nation to-day wants Victory. The individ
ual here at home can help best by winning a mil
lion smaller victories over waste and extravagance.
Join the crowd! Take the Thrift pledge!
Raise the W. S. S. flag and keep it flying. Put
your quarters and your dollars behind your sons and
husbands and brothers on the sea and in France.
JOIN THE CROWD!!
Be
a War
Saver
wuLuarans sumps
uiouirnt
UNITED STATE# *
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STATE COLLEGE WILL
NOT CLOSE THIS YEAR
Collegiate Work To Be Given In
Summer Emergency
Course
Tnstpad of closing in June, as in
other years, the Georgia Sta.te Col
lege of Agriculture will remain open
all summer, giving a three months’
emergency course in vocational agri
culture in an effort to suply the nec
essary agricultural leadership for our
state. So acute has the situation be
come and so great is the demand for
men with agricultural training that
the teaching force of the State Col
lege has volunteered its service for
twelve months in the year as long as
the war lasts.
Not only are more and more sci
entific farmers needed for the country
wide campaigns for increased food pro
duction, but the government research
work, experiment station and exten
sion work are calling for more men
w-ith agricultural training than can
now be supplied.
Organized businesses ar“ calling for |
agricultural men now as never before, i
They are needed in chemical works,
in newspaper shops and by seed
houses, fertilizer concerns and imple
ment dealers. It seems now that the
demand for agricultural t'eachers in
.high schools and colleges will not be
fully supplied for many years to
come.
in recognition of the work the Col
lege of Agriculture is doing the Gov
ernment is sending a number of draft
ed men to the institution for special
training. This number will he enlarg
ed from time to time as accommoda
tions will permit.
The College has just issued bulle
tins describing its courses in agricul
ture, agricultural education, forestry,
veterinary medicine and home econom
ics and all of these are for free dis
tribution. Especial attention is called
to the Summer Emergency Course in
Vocational Agriculture.—Editor, State
College of Agriculture.
A Bilious Attack.
When you have a bilious attack
your liver fails to perform its func
tions. You become constipated. The
food you eat ferments in your
stomach instead of digesting. This
inflames the stomach and causes
nausea, vomiting and a terrible head
ache. Take Chamberlain’s Tablets.
They will tone up your liver, clean
out your stomach and you will soon
be as well as ever. They only cost
a quarter.
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One of Our
Best Assets
Demand the genuine—call for
it by full name.
Imitations Are Made
to Deceive You.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Fav
orite! or Colds.
J. L. Easley, Macon, Iil., in speak
ing of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
says, “During the past fifteen years
it has been my sister's favorite medi-
cinefo r colds on the lungs. I myself
have taken it a number of times when
suffering with a cold and it always
relieved me promptly."
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