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My Dear Children:
I notice a marked improvement in your letters, they are brief, but
well expressed: let the good work go on; try to tell me what your
plans are for the fall and winter. I have some lovely plans in view
for you and hope we can have the pleasantest season together.
If you can. write me the number of jars of fruit and glasses of jelly
you have put up and the amount of vegetables you have canned, if you
have raised chickens or pigs tell mt what success you have had. I
want to keep a list and this fall publish it. so you can see just what a
busy, active, useful crowd of girls and boys belong to “Aunt Julia’s”
club. With much love, AUNT JULIA.
Ibeve bojrx and gtrl« belong to the club and
want to ro~t all of the cousins. Florida Pean.
I<rlasil. Ha.; Zella Smith. Statwrilta. N. C..
K. F. D. 7; Italia Sweat. Beach. Ga.. R. F. P.
1. Hox 23; Ensma Brooka. Madras, Ga.; Veda
Foreman. St. Petersburg. Fla.; Freeman Thomas.
Hanceville. Ala . Route 1. Lox S; Myrtle Moore,
heo. Ga.. Rcute 1. Thelma and Marguerite Far
ley. Clanton. Ala.. Route 5; J. C. Pierce. Sand
Mountain. Ala.. More* Abbott. High Springs.
Fla.. R. F. D. 1: Paul Girardeau. Groveland.
Ga.; luxate Spruill. Punwoody, Ga.; Willie B.
handers. Evergreen. Fla., Route A, Box 169;
Roxte Lewis. Barwick. Ga.; Clinton Sharpton.
lutgaa. Ala.
Pear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I am writing
my first letter to The Journal end I hope It
ea-apes the wastebasket, ton girle and boya
write me. I will answer aU letters I re
ceive. I -am a Lone Scout and live up to the
beat of health. I am working all day long and
oon't have tnnch time to go out. My birthday
ia March 21. I like aw.mming and other sports.
I anil close, boplog of succeaa to the letter box.
CHARLIE ACER.
X-Ray Itapu. Base Hospital No. 2. Fort Bliss,
Texas.
little Georgia girl into your happy band ot
trays and girls?
Übo has my birthday. January 31?
Guess 1 bad better close by asking a riddle:
B.g man run little man all day and never catch
him. With love to Aunt Julia.
IEKA WADE.
Chester. R. F. P
Hear Aunt Julia: Will you please allow an
. taer North Carolina boy into your happy baud
ut girls and boys? 1 am sixteen years of age
and have Ue birthday of Carrie Young. I go
to school and like it fine. 1 will study the
i. grace thia year. 1 am six feet one and
vce-aalf inches high, weighs IGO pounds, bare
j. hair and light blue eyes. I think it
would be nice to each one of the cousins
to write about the country they live in. It
would be so interesting. I will close and I
‘•ope the waste basket has been drafted. Your
tiepaew. WILLIAM MeIVER CAMERON.
Sanford, N. C.
I‘ear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I am another
southern girl from the Tar Heel State, I would
like to jnn your happy band of cousins for a
little cba|l. 1 am seventeen years of age. I
live in New Yoriß We expect to go back
south before long. The weather is very pleas
ant here now. although we have quite a lot of
rain.
This is a beautiful place in which we live.
lam very lonesome up here. Will the cousins
write me? 1 will answer all cards or letters
received. With lots of love, I remain
• LAMIKA SMITH.
New York Mills, N. Y.. Box 343.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you admit an Ala
bama boy in your happy band of cousina? My
n rot her takes the dear old Journal and I al
ways enjoy reading the cousins* letters. This
is my first attempt to write to the page, and
1 nope that Aunt Jnlla will be kind enough
to put this in print. I Itve on a farm of about
H 75 acres and like farm life fine. My home
town la in the central west part of Alabama.
For schools we have the university, eity high
senooi and a few grammar schools. 1 think
the population of Tuscaloosa is between 15.000
and 30.UUV. I am nineteen years old. Who
has my birthday. February 12? Come again.
Miss Fannie Aragon. lour letter was fine,
wnat did you cousins do for the Fourth? The
neighbors gave a large picnic down here. But
I did not go. I went in swimming instead.
Aunt Julia, please pardon me for staying so
long. Y«ur Pixie cousin.
JEFF CAPLES. JR.
1 uses loose. Ala.. R. No. 3.
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Ft mere all vver Dixie „4 Armbcv* the M
praran* th a Prr*»- Tt'y thig ia tSa o*4
Hay Rrwaa aver mad.. It HfallHteU. do«b!»-
dmte, Kctt draft and to Wrfto foe
wr catai < of Bay owo. Paa BaUara. Bncgiaa. Wagon**
lfarn««a aad Pr*a Watrfc Feb.
B. W. MIDDUEBROOKS
Nay Frase Dvpt. BAWriUSVILL*. GA-
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J Send Us No Money
Ta JUST YOUK NAME T.
A You fir-n't uttd money to get an auto-
Ta »°bUe Let me gtre you one of my brand W
new. neter used, latest model. fi«e-MS-
Mnger Ford Touring Cars. I hart fires v
awa> danse st them. T-u might a> well
haw one. too. If ran have no auto and
r* vant w. urd me wur nice right stray. Tt
0 and sax: "I vast te set eae of yaur Ford
care." + pMt-eatvl will do W
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FERTILIZER FACTS No. 41
■F The South MUST f
sBL Grow More Grain ■■'“'J
BHf
■rc&sL The South must not be a slacker in grow- /jfr
y'- * n ß grain this Fall.
Every acre available for planting oats.
wheat, rye. etc., must be drafted into
service, ploughed, FERTILIZED and
The country calls for grain
|MX and MORE GRAIN. The
South has proven that it is
fflUI possible and profitable tc
jrow grain. It is up to the
■ |||| South to grow more gram
II t^B f° F W W
al/< Patriotism 'tt’g
and Profit
I I "Vnte to-day for Bulletin No. 21
"Profitable Winter Wheat" 1*»
and No. 22 on "Profitable Oat
I Production”. They will help you.
Soil Improvement Committee
// Southern Fertilizer Association
KX^M ® u ‘^ in « 8 Atlanta, Ga. 1
Dear Aunt Jnlla and Cousins: Os course on
our introduction I am a little bashful, never
theless please pardon my mistakes and permit
me to take my seat among the jolly crowd.
Father has been taking The Journal for some
time, aud we all think It grand. Most of all
I enjoy reading the cousins' letters and. the
"One Woman," not omitting many other splendid
articles. I, like most of the cousins, live on
the farm and truly think there eaunut be a
wore lovely place. Surely I shall always pre
fer the country, where, on a calm morning of
spring and summer, one <-an breathe the fresh,
flower-scented air and drink of the pure, re
freshing water from dear old mother earth.
What do you cousins intend to choose for your
vocation? I am looking anxiously forward
to the day when I shall stand within the
school room instructing the children therein just
as a typical teacher should do. 1 finished high
school last term. 1 was indeed delighted to do
so. However, 1 am sorry tv leave my school
friends and teachers because school days are
the happiest of our life. Yet I hope that 1
shall attend college some day. if not very soon.
Although, instead of enjoying our school days
forever. It is imperative that we go out into
the service of humanity and lift the burden
of Ignorance from the lives of those who have
not and are not enjoying tbe opportunities
w-hicu we cousins do. What do you cousins think
about the war? It is a serious problem, yet the
young men of our country seem to be hastily
enlisting under tbe folds of the Star-Spangled
Banner. And some, with hearts resolved and
purpose fixed, have reechoed tbe words of
Patrick Henry. "Give me liberty or give m<-
death." And Aunt Julia is right; we girls and
"stay-at-homes" should not be stackers.. 1 shall
be delighted to correspond with any of the
cc usins near by age. especially any in Florida
who would like to write to a South Carolina
blonde between fifteen and eighteen. With
Love and best wishes to auntie and tbe cousins,
lovingly. ELIA MAE WILLIS.
Taylors. S. C., Route 1.
P. 8. —I will answer all cards by exchanging
views.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you ad
mit a little eleven year old boy into your happy
baud? I enjoy reading the dear old Journal
but I like the letter box best of all. I am
Hilda Wetherly'e brother. My ambition is to
be a mechanic. 1 like to make different lit
tle things to play with. I have just finished
a toy automobile. I will be in tbe fifth grade
when school begins. Please print this. Aunt
Julia, for I want to surprise mama and papa.
Would like for some of my cousins from the
northern states to write me and describe their
country. Hurrah for the letter box.
HUGH WEATHERLY.
Qulficy, Fla., Tuesday, a. tn.
Hello. Aunt Julia: As I never have written
tc your department, thought I would step in
for a while. I live in the denr old bills of
Georgia, and think no other state can beat it.
I live two miles from school, and seven miles
from the nearest town. As this is my first
trip better not stay long, for fear Aunt Julia
will not have time to print my letter. Will
close by asking a riddle. Riddle me. riddle
me, what is that. Over the head and under
the bat? Can you guess it? As ever your new
cousin. SARA PEARSON.
Note. Ga.
P. S. —I would like to correspond with some
of tbe contains.
Dear Aunt Julia: I haw* been a silent read
er of the letter box. I will now rise up and
tell mt name. I am a girl of fourteen years
and am in tbe seventh grade. I live seven
miles from tbe city of Monroe. I go to school
at Pleasant Grove, and like it fine. Nona
Eaton and Helen Connor, you have my sympa
thy. I, too, am an orphan. I will close by
asking a riddle: Wbat is it that has legs
from head to foot? I must make a sasty exit
or Mr. Wastebasket will get me sure. l»w to
all. ONIE GERTIE GORDON,
Watham. N. C., R. F. D. 4.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you please admit
another little girl into your happy circle? I
am twenty years old. I live on a farm "n
the dear old hills of north Georgia, in Bartow
county, near the little town of Adairsville,
with my father and mother, six brothers and
two sisters, do you see I'm a happy girl. For
pc st ime I read or play the organ. Sallie
Waeeer write again and tell your age. You are
just right about kindness. For there isn't any
thing worth so much and costs so little as a
kind wwd. or a pleasant smile to some one iu
trouble. I suggest that we all discuss the Bi
ble for a while, for It is the -vny to eternal
gloory. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God. With love
to all. I’ll give room for some one else.
JEMIMA THOMAS.
Adairsville, Ga., Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: T wonder If
this fa Mr. Wastebasket's. "nap hour?" If 1t
is why I know that my letter will be goodly
ropy. I live in town but I'll tell yon cousins.
It's about al! I can bear. We've just moved
from tbe country. I'Jl not mention any of the
nnpleasantant life of town, fnr I don’t like to
read of it. This is a beautiful town, but not
very large. Cousina. I think I see Aunt Julia
coming with the hedstlck. so here's a riddle
and I'm gone: What is it that crops grass so
close as a goose? Would like to correspond
with anv of you. Fnrew-11,
NAOMI GRTSSER.
Pine Park, Ga.
Dear Julia and Cousina: Here I am
again My second letter wasn't printed but I
will trv again. What do you ail think about
the war? I say it Is awful. But It may not
he long before our country will he in peace. I
hope so. any how. I live in the country and
like it fine. Well cousins. I will close for this
time. Would like to correspond with the
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEK'4, 1917.
Education Jtjß,
Successful FakminGt
$ Andrew JI. SoulE
.This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agri
cultural College, Athens, Ga.
A SURVEY’ OF THE LIVE STOCK
SITUATION.
Statistics are unpalatable to the av
erage man. They do not seem to ap
peal :o ills imagination. They are too
matter-of-fact and not sufficiently
spectacular to interest him. Yet their
consideration is basic to escertaining the
true status of any business or industry.
Tlie general dislike for statistics is in
large measure due to the difficulty of
of their ready assimilation. To under
stand them requires careful study and
this the average farmer or business
man has not been ready to bestwo up
on them, because like the English, he
has always muddled through somehow.
This indifference to statistics accounts
in large degree fog our woeful lack
of a proper appreciation of the true
economic situation which confronts us
as a people. We are surprised and start
led when we learn, that the food sup
ply has been circumscribed and that the
cost of living has advanced in such an
alarming manner. It has been much
easier in the past to follow the false
reasoning and "spread-eagleism” of the
orator or to swallow bodily the absurd
explanations offered by the demagogue
until at last we have reached a point
where these things no longer act as
palliatives and we are face to face with
the necessity of studying and solving
econmoic questions through the exer
cise of the highest intelligence and skill
which we as a nation are in position to
bring to their correct solution. 1 have
no apologies to offer, therefore, for the
statistical data presented in this paper,
as I consider it necessary to the eluci
dation of the discussion which follows.
A survey of the livestock situation
cousins. R- M. WOODRI Ft.
Pinehurt, Gn., Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia: 1 have been reading the
letters for some time ajid thought that I would
write to your letter box. Slip down, cousins,
and give inc a seat. I am from the dear old
state of Georgia, and 1 see <lmt Georgia is
ahead . Well, cousins, how many of you have
pets? I for one, tbe hoe is one, and I have a
kitten and two dogs. I go to school at Har
mony academy, and I am in the sixth grade.
How many of you have my birthdate. May 80?
I will close by asking a riddle: Wbat is it
that walks on four legs at morning, two legs
at noon and three legs at night? ilopipg to
see this in print, I am your new cousin.
ROBY MEEKS.
Success, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: W ill you ad
mit a North Carolina girl In your concert? I
live in the Country, Papa takes The Journal
and I like to read the cousins' letters fine.
1 go to school at Alton and am in the fifth
grade. My teacher's name is Mrs. Julia St.
Clair and I like her fine.
For pastime I crochet. I don't like to make
tatting much. Would some of you cousins send
me scum crochet patterns? I will return favor
in any way possible. Well. 1 will close by ask
ing a riddle: it walks all day aud conies home
and sits in the corner at night. Lovingly.
ANNIE HEIJ.F. YARBROUGH.
Monroe, N. C., Route 4.
Hear Aunt Julia: I’ve come for the first
time, so please move on down, because 1 want
a seat by Aunt Jnlla. I live on a farm about
nine miles from Dublin, Ga.
My name is Rosalie. I am nine year old. I
nave one sister nnd two little brothers. My
sister is six yenrs old. I will be in the fourth
grade next September. I am inamnia's oldest
child.
I will close by asking a riddle: All around,
the house, all through the house and all under
the house and it don’t make but one track,
lour new cousin, ROSALIE MI'NS.
Dublin, Ga., Ronte 1.
' Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here 1 mu
again, as 1 promised. I'd come on m.w birth
day and such a lovely day it is, but the clouds
look as if it might rain soon. Our erop is
looking just fine at present, but the corn had
begun to suffer before the raiti last week.
Come again, Sallie Waeaspr. I sure do like,
what you said about kindness. I think the let
ters get better every week. I am always glad
when Wednesday comes. 1 always like to go
to the mail box on that day. What do you
cousins- do these days? I have been picking
blackberries. Mamma has been busy canning
One of my sisters belongs to the tomato Hub.
We sure have lots of them this year. Mamma
has a patch of her own. We are expacting to
have a fair next fall and I'm hoping it will
be successful. The name of the subject 1 would
like to discuss is "The Kind of Books -tor
Children to Read.” With a hearty handshake
to each reader of the Letter Box and a "big
bear hug” for my dear Aunt Julia, i'll go.
OBELI,E WALLACE.
Florence, Ala. .
Dear Aunt Jnlla: I enjoy reading the matiy
good letters written by tbe boys and girls. My
home Is in Georgia. law a lonely boy. 1 have
no father or mother living. It is my desire to
live honestly. 1 do not use intoxicating liquors.
It is unnecessary to sj<eak of the dangers from
using liquors. The mind of a person under
the influences of liquor is unable to protect
itself from accidents and exposure. How many
have passed from this world anti have lost
their health and strength and become sufferers
by indulging in liquors? 1 am tn the United
States army medical department, on duty as
assistant to chief operating surgeon, at Base
Hospital No. 2, Fort Bliss, Tex., which is five
miles from tbe Mexican border line. Would Hke
to receive letters, cards, photos from the read
ers. With love to Aunt Julia and cousins.
CHARLES ELDERS.
Base Hospital No. 2. Fort Bliss, Tex.
Dear Aunt Julia: Please give me a seat In
your merry band of young people. My brother
takes The Journal and I think it's a fine paper,
especially so since our dear aunt gives us a let
ter box. I am a country girl and I like tbe
country lust fine. How many of you cousins
raise chickens? I haven't raised any yet, but
am going to try my luck soon. 1 am sure it will
be fun for me. Well, my letter Is growing long,
i must be going. Would like to receive cards
from cousins of near my age, which is 20. Yours
lovingly, MILDRED PITTS.
Griffin, Ga., Route A.
Hello, Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins' It is
raining this nxm-ning: I guess it has set in
for a wet spell. It started yesterday at 'din
ner time. I went fishing Tuesday afternoon,
but didn't catch a fiab. r went to Flint river
fishing. How many of you cousins like to go
to school? I do for one. Am in the eighth
grade. Am thirteen yenrs of age. I have a
corn patch and this rain will do lots of good.
Will try to answer Zehna O'Kelley's riddle. It
is a dime, I think. Plense print this.
ARTHUR WATJCER.
Concord, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you ad
mit a little girl from Columbia? My* father
takes the dear old Semi-Weekly Journal. I
like the cousins’ corner fine. I am dark
complexed, brown eyes and light hair. For
pets J have a cat and chickens. I have tny
little garden and live on a farm.
How many of you glrlr crochet and make
tatting? I do, for one. I am eleven years
old and in the sixth grade. 1 Hke to go to
scliool. I hope my letter will escape the
wastebasket. Good night.
ALICE LEE HARRIS.
Columbia, Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you admit, a little
Georgia boy Into your happy band? I live on
a farm of about 100 acres nnd don't like coun
try life as well as I do city life. F am
thirteen years old. I go to school and am in
the fourth gride. I belong to the Pig club
nnd have a fine pig. J would like very much
to correspond with some of the girls nnd boys
of near my age.
Plense stand aside, Mr. Wastebnsket. until
I pass. Hoping Aunt Julia good luck. I re
main. your nephew, ‘
GEORGE BAILEY.
Ben Hill, G., R. F. D. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
n Florida hoy to join your hnpny hand. I
live on a 3R-acre farm, part of it in n grove.
I nm a Com club boy. T have some ,nico
corn this year. We live right by a big lake.
Come on. Florida boys and girls, the other
states are getting ahead of us. For pastime I
go fishing and swimming. T am fourteen yenrs
old. Would Hke to correspond with some of
the cosisins from 12 to 17 years old. As my
letter Is getting lengthy 1 will close. With
best wishes to Aunt Jiills nnd the consins.
Respectfully. CARROLL HODGES.
Orlando, Fla., R. X.
must of necessity deal with the past,
present and future conditions and pos
sibilities of this industry in the south,
in this conection it is proper to state
that this discussion is based on a con
sideration of the number of live stock
held on the farms in the following fif
teen states as taken from the 1910 cen
sus: Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Kentucky, Tennesee. Alabama,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla
homa and Texas.
ANIMALS IN SOUTHERN STATES.
1910.
It appears that in 1910, there were
15.016,000 head of livestock worth
$172,699,000 owned on southern farms
At that time there were 172,435,000
head of live stock on all the farms in
the United tSates, worth $2,131,702,000.
It appears that a little more than one
fourth of the livestock owned In he
United States was in the south, while
they had a value of les sthan one-fourth
' of the total value of all the animals
| owned in the United States.
tin January 1, 1917, according to the
[bureau of crop estilhates, the live stock
lin the southern states numbered 48,-
I 1.71,000 and were worth $877,643,000.
i The number of animals in the United
i States was 179,553,000, worth $3,961,-
1527,000. There was an increase for the
■country as a whole, therefore, In num
bers, of 7,118,000, and in value of sl,-
1829,825,000. In other words, while the
’ increase in live stock as a whole was
Relatively small, the value almost dou
■ided.
"Animals In the southern states, 1916?
Number. Value.
Dairv cows u.0M.000 $ 14!l,4C2.00(»
Other cattle 13,795,000 210,093,1100
Sheep 7,190,000 '25,574,000
Swine 18,374.000 80,070,000
Totals 1... 45.010.000 » 472,099,000
ANIMALS IN UNITED STATES 1910.
.Number. Value.
I;airy cows 20,025,000 $ 706,230,000
Other cattle 41,178,000 703,287,000
Sheep 52,4+7,000 282.841,000
Swine *58,185.000 31W.338.000
Total ....172,435 IKK! $2.131.702,0U0
Number. Value.
Dairv cows 5,880, WK) 8 27«,085.000
Other cattle 13,18)5,000 305,747,000
Silt-op 0,«78 > 000 87,047.000
Swine 22,1299,000 198.704,000
T.otala 48.171,000 8 877,013.000
ANIMALS IN UNITED STATES 19)0.
Number. Value.
Dairy* ■ '>»’ 22,708,000 81,858.485,000
Other cattle 40.8+9,000 1,465,780,000
Sheep 48,488,000 346,064,000
Swine 07,453,000 701,242,000
Totals .179,553,000 $3,961,527.1.00
I+uring the six years under discus
sion, the number of animals in the
south increased by 3.155,000, as com
pared with 7,118.000 for the United
States. There was also a very sub
stantial increase In value, amounting
roughly to $405,000,000. In the matter
of gain in numbers, the south more than
held its own, but did not make much
progress as compared with other sec
tions of the country in an increased
valuation of its live stock. An analysis
of the figures shows that there was
quite a ,gain in the nuialter
of dairy cows, amounting to 238,000
head. In the number of beef cattle there
was a loss of 790,000 head. Sheep also
declined by 218.000. Hogs Increased
by 4.025,000 head. It is gratifying to
observe that the hog industry is be
ing recognized at its face value, and
that this line of animal husbandry Is
.being systematically advanced through
out the south. The hog Is a- mortgage
lifter in the truest sense of the word,
and will pay the farmer as large a re
turn on .his investment in as short a
time as he can obtain from any other
class of stock. As a means toward in
creasing the food supply and adequately
feeding our own people, building up the
income of our farms, and enabling us
to diversify and rotate our crops in a
satisfactory manner and reduce or over
come the losses which the boll weevil
may cause in various states, let us en
courage swine husbandry in every legi
timate manner. If we do this many of
our most difficult problems wilt be sat
isfactorily solved.
It may be surprising to many that
there should have been a decrease in
beef cattle of 790,000 head. This is a
grave economic mistake and must be
corrected If the south is to become per
manently prosperous and successful. It
is all the more regrettable that this
decrease in beef catFle should have
occurred in view of the great success
which has attended the campaign for
tick eradication, and the relatively large
area which has been set free as a result
of this work which has been carried
forward by the federal bureau of ahi
mal industry in co-operation with the
several states. The decrease in the
number of sheep on southern farms is
also to he greatly regretted. There is
no explanation for sitch a condition
save the fact that the worthless cur has
be.en allowed to flourish at the expense
of the “golden hoof” of the sheep. In
England sheep are grown by- the mil
lions on lands similar to thousands of
acres'unadapted for general cultivation
to be found in the south, yet which are
susceptible of producing a fine variety
of grass and forage crops. In England
sheep are raised for miftton and the
wool is a surplus crop. There is no rea
son why this Industry should not be
established on similar lines in the south.
Where Great Britain, with an area of
120.000 square miles, maintains, roughly
speaking, between twenty and twenty
five million head of sheep, we in the
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1 GIRLS! MAKE A I
| BEAUTY LOTION 1
i WITH LEMONS j
At the cost of a small jar of ordinary
cold cream one can prepare a full quar
ter pint of the most wonderful lemon
skin softener and complexion beautlfier.
by squeezing the juice of two fresh lem
ons into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white. Care should be taken
to strain the juice through a fine cloth
so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lo
tion will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is used
to bleach and remoj-e such blemishes as
freckles, sallowness and tan and is the
ideal skin softener, smoothener and
beautlfier.
Just try It. Get three ounces of
orchard white at any pharmacy and two
lemons from the grocer and make up a
quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant
lemon lotion and massage It daily into
the face, neck, arms and hahds. It
should naturally help to whiten, soften,
freshen and bring out the roses and
beauty of any skin. It Is truly marvel
ous to smoothen rough, red hands.
tAdvt.)
south are maintaining less than seven
million on 899,747 square miles. On a
comparative basis the south should be
maintaining Over 150,000,000 head of
sheep, or between five and six for each
inhabitant. At the present time Eng
land is maintaining one sheep for each
two of her population. Is it any won
der that the cost of living should be
rapidly increasing; that meat should be
come in some senses of the word scarce
and so high-priced that the average in
dividual cannot use it freely; or that
the cost of woolen clothing should
reach such exorbitant figures? The
writer likes dogs, believing them to be
one of the most wholesome and desira
ble of all pets, but the dog should not be
given free range to destroy what should
be one of the country’s most important
industries. We have literally thrown
sheep to the dogs. When will we come
to our senses and confine or destroy the
worthless cur and give the golden
hoofed sheep a chance to aid in the
agricultural emancipation of the south
and in the restoration of much of our
worn and gullied lands which now lie
practically idle? Surely this situation
cannot continue much longer. It Is too
much out of joint with the< times.
Su'rely some Moses will arise to lead
us to see the light and act In a rational
manner towards the solution of this
question and the establishment of sheep
husbandry on some basis commensurate
with our opportunities and the needs of
the south and the nation as a whole.
The question natifrally arises as to
the relation of animal industries in the
south compared to the population as a
whole. In other words, what are we
doing towards providing ourselves with
animal food as compared with other
sections of the country? As already
pointed out, the area of the fifteen
southern states is 899,747 square miles.
The area of the United States Is 3,026,-
789 sqtlare miles. The south therefore
comprises practically one-third of the
total area of the United States. In 1910
the population of the United States was
91,972,266. and of the south 28,855,939,
or a little less than one-third of the
total population. We possessed, accord
ing to the figures of 1916, about one
fourth of the dairy cows, about one-third
of the beef cattle, about one-seventh of
the sheep, and about one-third of the
hogs owned in the United States.
Therefore, in spite of the substantial
increase shown In the number of swine
in the past six years, we are barely
.holding our own In the matter of main
taining our animal industries as com
pared with the rest of the country. It
behooves us to realize this situation
and take steps to avert the crisis which
will shortly confront us unless some
thing radical towards encouraging and
developing our live stock industries Is
accomplished very soon.
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ADDING TANKAGE TO A RATION
FOR HOGS.
W. D. L., McNair, Miss., writes: I have
six pigs three mouths old, and have been
feeding them two gallons ot rice polish, one
gallon of wheat shorts and one-half gallon
of shelled corn. They weigh from 88 to 97
pounds. Would the addition of tankage be
of any value? What crops should I plant for
tile |4gs?
You are using a very good ration for
your hogs. The material you. furnish
them contains a fair amount of protein
and no doubt this accounts for their
making a good growth. They are a fair
weight for their age. Os course, pigs
up to at least three months of age
should be fed for growth, therefore
they should have a liberal ration of
protein. If you could add some skim
milk to the ration you are feeding or
■I e it to reduce the concentrates to the
form of a thin slop it would improve
he ration. We believe there is no bet
ter combination of grains you could
use for these pig« than those you are
now feeding. We do not believe it is
necessary for you to purchase digester
tankage, certainly not if you can get
skim milk to use in the manner indi
cated.
You should, of course, provide graz
ing crops for these hogs and for this
purpose many things may now be
planted and will soon be ready to graze.
A succession of early maturing varie
ties of cowpeas and soy beans should
be available. Then ; you should have a
good area of peanuts. Grow also enough
corn and velvet beans to provide some
of the grains to be fed after the pea
nuts are grazed dow*n. Y’ou should be
able to make these hogs attain a good
size by the first of October, ang at a
reasonable cost if you follow the plan
indicated.
It is important to keep pigs free of
worms, and any medicine which will
accomplish this economically may be
used with advantage. Y’ou should also
keep them free of lice. This is best
accomplished by providing them with
one of the mechanical devices known as
a “Hog Joy.” They do not cost much
and will be found effective for the pur
pose in question. The hogs keep them
selves rubbed with the disinfectant
used In these hog tanks and this pot
only keeps lice off of them, but pro
tects them from disease.
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TREATING A CASE OF STIFLE IN
A MULE.
J. E. 0., Manchester, Ga., writes': I have
a young mule that has been lame about two
months. I took rer to a veterinarian and
he said it was stifle and re treated her,
but it did no good. I would like for you
to suggest what is best to do for her. Do
you think the velvet bean is better than the
eowpea for improving the land? 1 sowed
peas in my corn and rye in my cotton In the
fall, and was thinking of trying beans and
peas in tbe corn thia year. What do you
think of it?
A case of stifle is often difficult to
treat successfully, and we gather from
what you state in your letter that the
proper treatment was applied if this
was the trouble. In many cases stifle,
tends to become chronic, due to th*e fact
that in some animals the muscle does
not seem to be sufficiently rigid to hold
the bones In place and hence the stifle
bone frequently slips out. A treatment
for a ease of this character is not sat
isfactory. One of the best things to
use is a stifle shoe. Repeated applica
tions of light blisters and rest from
strenuous exercise may also prove of
benefit.
Velvet beans are certainly well
adapted for growth in all of the coastal
plains and in the lower part of the
Piedmont plateau. In the northern part
of the plateau It Is doubtful if they
will do as well as cowpeas and we
could not advocate their growth tn that
section of the south. Y’elvet beans of
course if planted In corn, should be
seeded when this crop is about 10 inches
high. We prefer to plant alongside the
drill row, using about a gallon and a
half to one peck of seed per acre. We
do not think you will make a mistake,
however, in sticking to a good strain
of cowpeas which has proven to be
adapted to your section of the country.
SYMPTOMS OF BOV’INE TUBERCU
LOSIS. ,
W. R‘. W.. Gore, Ga., writes: Would
ybii kindly give me symtoros of tuberculo
sis iu cows? I have one that seems to have
phlegm in her throat at times, but she
looks well and has a good appetite.
Tuberculosis is a disease attacking
domestic animals. It is chiefly found
among cattle. In the human being it is
what we call consumption. The disease
is due to a germ which is always pres
ent In the system of an animal having
tuberculosis. It is a dangerous dis
ease as It is possible for it to be trans
mitted to human beings, though the
germs producing it may be killed by
pasteurizing or heating to 185 degress
Fahr.
Tuberculosis is a very insidious dis
ease as it may attack almost any part
of the body and may make itself evi
dent in a short time or may successfully
conceal Its presence. The symptoms
vary greatly. The lungs of course are
AUTOMOBILE ACCXDE3TTS.
I do not remember a single day dur
ing this fateful summer of 1917 that
the daily papers have failed to chron
icle the death of one or more persons
from auto accidents. This week, at
least a half dozen persons have gone
to the cemetery by the automobile
route, while twice as many are trying
to live after being maimed and bruised
in the same accidents.
When will our auto drivers remem
ber that they had better stop at all road
crossings until they are assured that
the way is clear—that while steam en
gines make a noise. Likewise auto en
gines have noises that should be re
garded. and one noise may confuse and
confound the other and dangerous noises
—until the driver’s mind is perplexed.
. There is one thing about auto driving
that needs explanation, namely, the
speed mania that afflicts the great ma
jority as soon as they get to going
swiftly. I have seen these drivers ta,ke
risks that have made me quiver with
dread of accidents, and they cannot be
restrained with the feeling that the
average chauffeur takes on this speed
mania, like race horses take on the
fierce madness that prevails on the
race track, that I am really• more in
clined to ride behind a slow old horse
than to own a fine auto car, where 1
might go much easier and appear in
better style. The world of auto serv
ice has gone mad. like the world has
gone war mad. We cannot realize that
speed always augments danger. When
a mlle-a-minute fast railroad train
bolts the rails, it spills death and de
struction without fail, yet the travel
ing public will seek the fastest train
and still they know that their lives are
in the hands of a single engineer, on
the leading engine, and that engineer
can Jose his mind fn a minute, or if!
he drinks, his brain may be perplexed. l
or he may see things wrong in the
darkness and the storm, and pay the 1
penalty with his own life. The speed
mania in automobile driving is respon
sible for ninety per cent of the. acci-'
dents. Why not be fined for going
more than 20 miles an hour, as a dan
ger signal?
GOOD COUNSEL— SENSIBLE ADVICTt.
The best possible thing for a man to 1
do when he feels too weak to carry any- i
thing through is to go to bed and sleep '
as long as he can. This is the only re
cuperation of brain power, the only ac- ‘
tual recuperation, of brain force; be
cause during sleep the brain Is in a
state of rest, in a condition to receive
appropriate particles of nutriment from
the blood, which takes the place of
those which have been consumerd by
previous labor, since the very act of
thinking burns up solid as
every turn of the wheel or screw of I
the steamer is the result of consump- j
tion _by fire of the fuel in the furnace. ■
The supply of consumed brain substance
can only be had from the nutritive par-.I
tides in the blood which were obtained ,
from the food eaten previously; and th£ i
brain is so constituted that it can best |
receive and appropriate to itself those !
nutritive praticles during the state of
rest, of quiet, and stillness of sleep.
Mere stimulants supply nothing in
themselves; they goad the brain, force
it to a greater consumption of its sub
stance, until it is so exhausted that
there is not enough left to receive a
supply.—Medical Journal.
.-\bout Jhe first week in August I..re
alized that I was losing strength. 4winc •
to a spell of illness in June.
Finally I went to a first-class infirm
ary to recuperate, and only left there on
the 28th of August. I am still trying
to rest, and am sufficiently improved to i
walk around the house.
I commend the foregoing counsel and ‘
advice to rundown people, especially of
the aged variety.
At eighty-two years there is more
necessity for a rest cure than at
eighteen. With best wishes for those
who do not need a rest cure and loving
sympathy for those like myself who
were obliged to try to get It.
I am truly yours,
MRS. FELTON.
most frequently attacked, though the
seat of the trouble may be chiefly in
the glands. When the lungs are affect
ed and the animal becomes badly dis
eased. emanciation is likely to occur and
the appetite become capricious, the coat
is rough and staring, the eyes sunken
and dull and there is usually a cough,
especiallj’ Athen the air is cold. There
may also be discharge from the nose
and eyes. If the udder is 'affected,
there may be inflammation, followed
by the formation of hard lumps in the
glands.
An animal affected with this disease
should of course be tested with tubercu
lin immediately and if a reaction is ob
tained, it should be destroyed by burn
ing or buying deeply. The tubercu
lin test may be safely relied on. It can
be administered by any competent vet
erinarian. One who feels that the cow
maintained, for instance, for the use of
the family is likely to be diseased,
should have this test made immediately.
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