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CREDIT CORPORATION
IS BEING FORMED
The Georgia Agricultural Credit
Corporation, sponsored by the Geor
gia Peanut Growers Co-operative As
sociation, is now applying tor a char
ter and expects at an early date to
he in position to assist farmers
through short term loans to make
plans for their 1924 crops. The credit
corporation is beginning with a
minimum capital stock of only $lO,-
000, which has already been sub
scribed, yet this limited sum will
make SIOO,OOO available for loans on 1
agricultural paper under the Inter
mediate Credit Hank plan of putting
up teu dollars of government money
for every dollar of capital stock
subscribed. Stockholders of the cor
poration, all of whom are officers or
members of the Peanut Association,
expect the capital stock to be in
creased to SIOO,OOO at an early date,
and probably to $200,000, which latter
sum would make $2,000,t>00 available
for farm loans in the State.
Headquarters of the corporation
are nt Albany, and Paul J. Rrown,
President of the Albany Exchange
National Hank, and Chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Peanut
Association, is Chairman of the new
organization. Money, however, will
be deposited in local banks in every
place where bank or individuals take
stock in the credit corporation. The
new- organization will make available
the first government money ever of
fered to Georgia farmers on short j
term paper and not on land mortgages.
Loans will bo made in some cases on j
crop mortgages, and in other cases j
on chattel mortgages or land mort
gages. c ashiers of local banks where
the funds are dejiosited will pass on
all loans up to SSOO, but loans in ex
cess of that amount must be approved |
by a loan committee of the corpora- j
tion. It is the plan of the corporation
to secure capital stock subscriptions
in the communities where the great
est agricultural distress exists, in or
der that the Peanut Association mem
bers and other co-op members may
secure accomodations in financing
their crop plans for 1924. Under the
11,872 IN GEORGIA JAILS
THE FIRST HALF OF 1923
The Federal Census Bureau Gives
Figures for State.
There were 11.872 prisoners serving
penal sentences in Georgia in the
first six months of 1923, according to
figures of the census department, of
which number 5,779 were present on
January 1, and 6,098 were committed
between January Ist and June 30,
1923.
Fifty-two county jails and work
houses and nineteen city jails and
work houses did not report, while
twenty county jails reported no sen
, tenced prisoners and thirteen jails
returned a similar report.
Os the number of sentenced pris
oner in state institutions on the
first of January 396 w ere in the state
prison farm, 3.260 in county chain- j
gangs, 1,974 in county jails and work
houses, and 176 in city jails and
work houses.
Griffon Clothes for men, $20.00 to
$35.00. Men who want to be well
dressed should see this pretty line
of Clothing.
C. E. BOYETT’S CASH STORE.
terms of the resolution under which
the corporation was formed, loans will
be limited to members of standard
co-operative marketing organization.
These funds will be used to buy seed,
fertilizer or other supplies necessary
to produce the 1924 crop. Since each
loan will be passed on individually,
and since the administration of the
corporation will be in the hands of
| the Peanut Association officers or
■ members, it is expected that members
; of that co-op will benefit most largely
j from the new' credit organization.
In some parts of Georgia many far
| tners are unable to buy seed for their
1924 crops, and the Peanut Associa
| tion, w hich has w'hat is said to be the
i finest seed peanuts ever collected in
i Georgia, is unable under its constitu
tion and by-laws to sell even its mem
bers on time. The new credit corpora
tion is expected, therefore, »to be a
great help both to the Association and
to its members, who will be able to
borrow money through the new organ
ization at 7 per cent for six to nine
months.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
MANY BIRDS FEED
ON BOLL WEEVILS
During the past few years the
boll weevil has appreciably decreased
the yield of cotton in the American
cotton belt, according to reports of
the United States department of
agriculture. At the same time an
irresponsible element of the cotton
belt population is allowed to range
the fields and woods, gun in hand,
slaughtering at will some of the
most important natural enemies of
the boll weevil, the birds. Sixty-six
kinds of birds of the southeastern
states have been discovered by the
biological survey of the United States
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department of agriculture to feed up- j
l on boll w'eevils. The most active of |
these found in a single stomach of j
the enemies are the orioles, which i
actually take the insects from the
squares of the cotton plant, and the
swallows, that feed upon the weevils
when they are in flight and extending
their range. No fewer than 41 boll
weevils have been taken from the
Bullock oriole, and large numbers of
the weevils are habitually taken by
all species of swallows. Every one
of the series of 35 cave swallows ex
amined had eaten boll weevils, the
largest number in any stomach being
48 and the average 19, it was stated.
In winter the most important de
stroyers of the cotton pest are black
birds, meadow larks, titlarks and
Carolina wrens, the report said.
All of these birds should receive all
the protection the southern planter
can extend.
The slaughter of birds has largely
contributed to the increase of de
structive pests jn the United States,
and has caused the loss of millions
of dollars.
AT COST AND LESS.
1 am offering my entire stock of
Groceries on River street at cost
and less. I am unable to look after
business and must close them out.
■ If you want real bargains, come at
I I once. Will open only on Saturday.
J. D. FUDGE.
’subcommittee WILL
MEET ON MARCH 4
!To Arrange for Holding of State
Presidential Primary.
Atlanta, Ga. —A call has been is
sued for a meeting on March 4th of
the subcommittee that will have
have charge of the Democratic pres
idential preference primary in Geor-
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gia on March 19th, to complete plans j
for opening of voting places in every j
county in the state, Mrs. Bessie An
derson, secretary of the state exec
utive committee, announced today.
The committee is composed of Mrs.
Anderson and G. E. Maddox, of Rome,
ex-officio members; H. H. Elders, of
Reidsville, president of the Under
wood campaign committee in Geor
gia; Miller S. Bell, of Milledgeville,
j manager of the McAdoo campaign;
j J. B. Daniel, of Troup county, who
: signed the Reed campaign announce
j ment; Hiram Gardner, assistant state
executive secretary, and Mrs. T. F.
Greene, of Athens.
HENS MAKE AN
UNUSUALLY LARGE RECORD
Flock of 47 Lay Average of 185.6
Eggs in a Year.
SEWARD, Neb. —Eight years of
work with a small flock of English
White Leghorn chickens brought Reu
ben Vogel, farmer living near here,
the honor of having the biggest
producing flock of hens in the 200
farm flocks entered in the state agri
cultural extension service accredited
farm flock project.
His 47 hens averaged 185.6 eggs
each during 1923. The flock is kept
on a small acreage outside of Seward,
and in addition to his farming busi
ness Mr. Vogel has a small business j
in this place.
Two pullets and cockerel from ped- ■
igreed stock with high egg producing j
records constituted the foundation of
his stock eight years ago. Good
breeding of the pullets is shown by
the record wherein it is recorded j
that 14 of his 24 pullets in 1923:
laid more than 200 eggs each, the 1
top pullet laying 260 eggs. One of |
MY. Vogel’s hens laid continuously
for 15 months, putting 302 eggs ini
the basket during that time.
Tax Receiver’s Dates.
GEORGIA —Early County:
Providence permitting, I will be at
the following places on the dates
named for the purpose of receiving
tax returns for the year 1924. Re
turns of property for taxation are
based on your holdings of January
1, 1924. All ladies who have regis
tered and were 21 years old on Jan.
1, 1924, and not over CO at that
| date, are required to return a poll
j tax of one dollar;
Colomokee—April 9, a. m.
Mansfield's Mill—April 9, p. m.
Naramore’s Store —April 10, a. m.
Cain’s Store —April 10, p. m.
Bundy’s Store—March 5, p. m.;
April 11. p, m.
Cuba —March 5, a. m.; April 11,
a. in.
Olive’s Store—April 14, a. m.
Davis’ Store —April 14, p. m.
Cedar Springs—March 3, April 15.
Rowena—April 16.
Grimsley’s Mill—April 17.
Lucile —March 6, April 18.
Arlington—April 4.
Rock Hill —April 21.
Hilton —April 22.
Killamey—April 23.
Jakin —March 12, April 24.
Kestler—March 11, April 26.
Damascus (Old Town) —March 10.
Blakely—Will be in Blakely every
Saturday and April 28, 29 and 30.
Books will close on May Ist and re
turns will be placed in the hands of
the Equalizers.
J. C. WEAVER, Tax Receiver.
EASTERN STAR NOTICE.
Carrie Cordray Chapter No. 40
Order of the Eastern Star meets on
the first and third Tuesdays of each
month at 7:30 p. m. at the Masonic
Hall. Visiting Sisters and Brothers
cordially invited.
ANNIE P. ROBERTS, W. M.
EMMIE R. MELTON, Secretary.
FARM
I nil 111 For Rent
! 75 acres in Early county, Ga., Smiles
; west from Damascus; CO acres clear
jed; house and barn. Also 325 acres
in Early county. Ga., one mile from
Columbia, Ala. Splendid improve
-1 ments, fine dairy farm. W 7 ill sell on
i ten years time, or rent reasonably,
j FARMERS LAND LOAN AND TITLE
I CO., Albany, Ga. 8-ts
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WANTED—Some pure Porto Rican
lor Nancy Hall Sweet Potatoes for
' seed. JOHN UNDERWOOD.