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Newspaper Page Text6 jSTll®. act even 50r. not one eent wtto you under oer ***y condition*. No axtrarz eharw* fee f*n<-y. *wel! *ivte*. no extra JT eharce for extra bi«. extreme pea'i bettor*, tunnel or fancy TA looca. no extra charse for anything-, | gIFRO.* Before you take another /- < I order, before yon bey a »utt_or pcr.-«.St get owr aarnr'e* and new o. er.*qeet* fi ‘ es *** taderow beows jawre write, we Lt ; ft harea new deal that will orenyocr eye?, L. ask every man to answer tots, pj every boy in long pan t*. every mar. u,.A JJ everywhere. No matter where you live I ,J, arwhatyoudo.wnt-usalettorcrvMtal ■ >», and say "Seed Ale Your Kne Free r* t . O4rr” the Ng. new different tatlor.ng a. V HeaLCnetanothirgaEdnoextracwre*. >g ■' Write today, this minute. Adcres«<y ?-■ '>.ifW' Bac * tK aK-wt’ih Order J&rti/izezs N ow! For immediate shipment in cars loaded to capacity. Railroads are overcrowded. Every day’s delay lessens your chances of increas ing or even growing normal crops. Don’t Delay Order Today Armour Fertilizer Works General Offices: CHICAGO Atlanta. Ga. Greensboro, N. C. Wilmington, N C. Nasbvi'le, Tenn. ’ Jacksonville, Fla. Augusta, Ga Baltimore, Md. New Orleans, La. Houston, Texas. WRITE NEAREST OFFICE liillllllg 1 I 'ji"B Jjßli liWli XXTE HAVE just issued the most at- - * ’ tractive seed Catalog for the spring ll of 1918 that was ever published by a South- \k>V-”• <4 era seed house. Contains 100 pages, pro- SwA i 1 : fusely illustrated, with a magnificently fl fi designed colored cover in bright natural kn* ■ colors. '' You should have this splendid Catalog \ : before you begin your gardening next woffrE-r 2£ spring. It will help you raise better farm crops, finer vegetables and more perfect l\Sx. flowers. It will helpyou make more money. Hastings’ Seeds Are Always Fresh Clean and Full of Vitality A half million Southern farmer* and gardener, vs* slxSn&sW a ? Hastings'Seed* year after year. Hastings’ Seeds , aregrown particularly for Southern scilaand clima’e JAxSxv / ws-Ep J '•£ I' and that is why they always produce better results /'F than ether kinds. ’ ' Write a postal for your copy of Hastings’ uJ H ' Spring 1918 Catalog at once. I-REE, of course. /Zc j H. G. HASTINGS COMPANY : S<xrtA’sFor«mc*t Seed.men** 1 m3J>-•. ATLANTA GEORGIA 7 - C H' G HASTINGS CO- \ * I A»’a»t• ' t-eo-frs Ajr i; U :: ! Hi 1 iIIH!J.IP Bllllllftliilllnmfffflffiii! .. 1 Ai., l I 'W ; - 1 i International Tractor Service TI7ISE tractor buyers insist upon these three V> features in their machines: The tractors I I must operate on the cheapest fuel a farmer can buy. ] I Thev must be so simple that the farmer or his help ; can learn to operate them. Thev must do enough good work in the field and at the belt to more than pay for themselves. International, Mogul and Titan kerosene tractors meet all three of these demands. 1 International Harvester tractor owners get, through our 89 * U. S. branch houses, a service that enables them to keep their tractors going whenever there is work for them to do. It , includes necessary instruction in the care and handling of the machines, both before and after purchase; the supplying of ■ I repair parts as promptly as circumstances will allow; and the j* furnishing of exjiert help for the more difficult repairs. ■ Keep this service feature in mind when you come to buy your tractor. It applies equally to our Mogul 10-20-h. p., Titan 10-20-h. p. and International 15-30-h. p. tractors. It will be difficult for us to furnish your tractor as soon as you want it. fl The demand is hard to keep up with and shipping facilities d are very much handicapped. Send for catalogues now. Be < ready for the heavy rush work of early spring. U International Harvester Company of America 1 (ißcvryeratei) . —. g CHICAGO v U S A/m J HiF champton Decriag McCormick Milwaukee Otbovne Mjj/ 9 Howard Says Cotton Crop Will Not Exceed Nine Million Bales Feb/ IS.—Congress man Howard, of Georgia, today said on the floor of the house that in his opinion if every man and every mule in the United States is put to work on this year's cotton crop, it will not amount to more than 9,300.000 bales. He is op posed. he said, to fixing a price on cot ton. IE DAG E’S L. I GLUE //.« A HOUSEHOLD NECSSSITY THE ATLANTA SEMLWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY TT, IWo. Sunday School Lesson Feb. 20, 1918 DR. MARION WlcH. HOLL. Mark, 4:91-34 Golden Text: "The eaxtr. shall be full of knowledge of the Lord as the water cover the sea." I*a 11:9. Lest His disciples should misunder- I stand what He had said about jKirables. ! .lesus gave them another one. He ask ed a very pertinent question. “Is the lamp brotight to be put under a bushel or under a bed'.’ And not to be set on a stand?" No one would think oi pur chasing a lamp and never, use it, or place it where it is light would do no •rood. Jesus therefore was teaching his disciples that the truth should be re vealed and be brought to light; but the purpose of His giving the truth to them was in order that they might spread it. Good ground Is that which bears fruit. Unless the seed does bring forth fruit, the soil is not good; for the seed is al right. He warned them, therefore, that they should take heed how they hear, for God would hold them to account for the measure of their responsibility. God gives us grace in order that we may be come stewards of the manifold grace of God. Therefore, Jesus added that un less we use that which we have, we shall lose; that if we do use, we shall have more. This seems at first to be unfair, but it is the necessary sequence. The man that has knowledge gets more; the man who does not use the klowledge that he has, not only never acquires any more, but even loses some of that he has because he shrivels up mentally. Take heed, therefore, how ye hear: for if you want to get. you must give. This is the law of the spiritual Kingdom. The Growth of th* Kingdom Lest the disciples should feel, how-1 ever, that the kingdom of God depended ' on their efforts, 'He told them that the , I kingdom of God was like a man casting | seed upon the earth and going to sleep and the seed springs up and grows in a way he knows not how: for first comes the blade, and then the ear. and then the full grain in the ear. When the harvest i comes he puts in the sickle and gathers i the gar in; it is the fruit that is after. ■ We do not know how the kingdom of God grows. There is just that same de- - velopntent which we find from seed to harvest time. Paul may plant, Apollos may water, but God alone can givei the increase. We may cultivate, but with out the soil and seed and sun and show ers, all of which is God’s part, there will be no increase. But be assured of this, that God is looking for fruit and the whole purpose of His providential care . is in order that He may have the fruit. | That is what He is looking for in your life; that is why He has been bestow i ing on vou all that He has. Shall He find only 30-fold, or GO-fold or 100-fold t in your life? The Mustard Seed * Illustrating another phase of the truth of . | the kingdom which has been hidden in mystery, Jesus toid them that the kingdom of God is like a mustard seeti, which is smaller than nil | ~tl:er seels, Lut it grows until it becomes I greater than all of the h-rbs. becomes a tree, ' anti puts out great branches so that the birds I of the heavens lodge under the shadow of it. : I’rcbably about no other parable, except the parable’ of the leaven, has there been so much misunderstanding as about this one. the teach ing has been that the < hurch began with such a small beginning—like the babe of Bethlehem, the twelve apostles. 1-0 disciples—and has grown until tiovr there arc millions who are its 5 adherents, and so that hospitals, charitable in ; stitutiocs. Ked < ross work, etc., have lodged in ' the branches of it like the birds of tbe heavens. But this is not the teaching of the parable. 1 To understand it. we must know wbat the I kingdom of God is. We pointed out.last week that the kingdom ' t>: God is not the < burch, and the ebnreb is not the kingdom of God. but is only one phase of it. I Iht kingdom of God is the reign of God I throughout the universe. Tbe kingdom of | heaven is the establishment of the kingdom of ■ I God upon the earth after tbe rebellion caused - by Satan has been sulxlued. The church is one ; of the means which God is using to bring about the establishment of the kingdom of God upon the earth. The kingdom of God includes the eternitv which is past, time, and the eternity wlneh follows. Tbe church is only a small part of time. The kingdom of heaven in its present form is i the sphere of Christian profession in the pres ent age. This includes the true church; it in- I eludes the apostate church; it includes Chris i tian Science, universalism, unitarianism. Rus- i I sellism. Ilomanism. and many other “isms." The mustard seed never grew naturally into a tree. It was always aw herb; but when it 1 attained an unnatural grosVh. as in tbe para- I ble, it had gone beyond what it was intended Ito he. The birds of the heavens cannot mean good things that sre lodging in the branches of ttic church; for Jesus Himself on the same day | taught that the birds of the heavens which snatched away the seed were symbols of Satan himself, for the same expression is used here as there. Il- could not mean one thing in one place and exactly the opposite in another place in using the same symbol. The teaching of that parable, therefore, is t al the kingdom of heaven, which is the sphere of Christian profession, starts with a i small beginning, but grows to unnatural pro -1 portions until it harbors tbe devil himself. ' This same truth is taught in the parable of . in- lesion; leaveu in the Scripture always, ' ■it hint exception, being a type of sin. Hie same truth is taught in the parable of the \ tares, where the good and evil grow up t<>- g< th-r in tbe kingdom of heaven until the s reaping time comes, when the true division takes nlncc. It is taught also in the parable i oi the dragnet. Here, then, is the responsibility which we, 1 trust recognize; God intends for us to know, tbe truth in order that we might use it and kcc'vf more truth. He planted seed and waters them in our heart.’ in order that we might bear fruit; but He warns ns lent we should be ■ like the tares, like the bad fish, like the leaven, and like the unnatural growth at the mustard ; seed harboring the work of Satan. Some of these da’s the kingdom of God will , be established on earth. There will be no mere sin; God shall have the honor which is dne Him and tha obedience which He has the right to expect; God shall be all in all. Let I u?< take heed how we hear and how we use | what we have. God 1* depending ou us to ; bring about that glorious day. GERMANY TO LULL PUBLIC WITH RUSSIAN VICTORY i Utterly Disorganized Slav Army Can Give Little Re- | sistance to Huns WARHTNGTON, Feb. 19.—Germany’s j military leaders hope to lull the German i ’ people with "a victory’’ against defense- ' : less Russia. That was the way military men sized lup the German-Russian situation and i the fact that despite a German-Austrian , opposition to warring on the Russians. the Teuton armies are now striking anew at Russia. The German leaders, according to the thought here, hope to work their will with Russia, get desired territory by i shutting Russia off from the Baltic, and I then try to still the murmurings at i home by presenting ihis new “victory.” The utterly disorganised Russian ! army can give the Germans little re- ■ sistance now. While there is sufficient military forces and equipment for the Holsheviki to fight against the Ukraine government, there is now scarcely the j shell of a fighting army, hence the Ger mans are expected to have free swing. While Russia's sole thought has been I for peace, and peace at almost any price, it is possible that the Teutop course will fan the militarist spirit , I anew. Russia still has a considerable force under arms, but the lines of com munication are poor and the supplies are low. Morale is shattered, so, all in all, Germany is going up against one of the easiest and most unique military ventures apparently which any army !ever had. The German drive will he used in the ; American propaganda to emphasize the ' German annexationist policy, and the emptiness of the Teuton claim of dc i sense of Ukraine will be pointed out. , MRICULTORALiFV 22 Ewcation IO & Andrev/ <>OULE This department wiil eheu.’fuily endeavor to furriisn any information Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agri cultural College. Athens. Ga. RELATION OF OIL <’< INTENT TO VALUE OF COTTON SEED A few years ago the editor of these columns predicted that cotton seed would soon be bringing prices far in excess <>f those then prevailing because of their wonderful value as a producer of human and animal food. The pre diction then made has been fulfilled much more quickly than was thought possible. It is true that war conditions may have something to do with the very high price which cotton seed now command, but it is believed that the general appreciation of their value for the purpose indicated is such that they will command a much higher figure in the future than they have done in the P3*t. It is very in'eresting in this connection to note that the seed are capable of great improvement at very little expense or effort on the part of the farmer or the mill man who handles them. Analyses made at the College of Agriculture during the past few years show that there is a very wide variation for instance, in the oil. content of seed, in the percentage of hulls they con tain, and in the content of nitrogen I Ginners: I I Buy Early! I w Owing to pressure cf war* w S conditions the necessity for M Jfi ordering immediately, to in- M ■ sure deliveries, is more in- Ji ■ sistent than ever. |i Ginners, buy the Best. 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One man with a i | K can rip out any stump that can be pulled with the t L.- best inch steel cable. «k Works by leverage same £ principle as a jack. 100 pound ’ w® pull on the lever gives a 48-ton 'wer~ ' pull on the stump. Made of the finest steel—guaranteed against breakage. Endoned by U. S. SAocrtng Government experts. easy lever HAND POWXft. operation A, A a $ ’ Stump i' ’’ Write today for special 1 offer and free booklet on , Land Clearing. '■? > Mik Walter J. Fitzpatrick Box 424 \ 182 Fifth Street > i ’ an Francisco > ' • A. California as well. There is a corelation existing between high lint production and hign oil content, therefore if the proper va rieties of cotton are selected and plant ed there is no reason why an average of several gallons of oil per ton above the present yield may not be obtained. This fact is so very important to the farmers of the south that it cannot be emphasized too stronglj- in Georgia. It is possible, through the planting of the right varieties of seed, not only : to produce a lint which will command ' a high price and at the same time ob- i 1 tain as high yields as have ever been ! secured, but to add materially to the I oil content of the seed as well. It would . |be a comparative!j- simple matter to ! I increase the value of Gorgia sd crops i for oil production by at least $5,000,000 i a year. In order that our readers may be fully informed about what has been ' done un to the present time and given . an opportunity to study the merits of I the different varieties of cotton for the purposes indicated above, a summary of the Investigations made by Prof. L. E. Rast, of the agronomy division of the College of Agriculture. Is presented be low : RESULTS OF VARIETY TESTS 1917. Total Gallons Per Cent Per Cent Rank. Variety. Oil Per Ton. Hulls. Nit. In S. 1— Mexican . .<63.5 43.18 2.79 2 Rexall 62.6 43.1! 2.95 3 Meade 62.0 35.79 8.63 4 Simpkins 62.0 42.51 3.11 5 Toole 61.2 43.21 3.04 6 Petway’s 60.11 43.94 2.F2 7 College No. 1.... GO. 7 43.26 2.82 8— Poulnott 60.2 43.58 3.02 9 Li’esey’s 59.6 44.74 2.91 10— Cook’s 5».4 42.51 2.76 11— Oliver 59.3 44.49 2.93 12— Williams* 59.1 45.19 2.77 13— Kinj 58.9 41.51 3.4« 14— Toole 58.9 43.17 3.1/7 15— Mexican 58.6 46.46 ’.76 16— Hites .....58.6 41.17 3.30 17— Hooper’s 58.3 44.57 2.»1 18— Webber 57.7 44.17 3.14 19— Brown's No. 2....57.4 45.22 3.00 kO—Cleveland 57.4 45.42 2.88 21— Hawkins 57.1 46.06 2.79 22 Meadow’s .......56.8 45.98 2.98 23 Cleveland .50.1 46.46 3.05 24 Sunbeam 56.0 44.70 3.19 25 Cook 56.6 46.14 2.83 26 Cadwell's 56.6 46.18 2.80 27 Perfection 56.3 45.70 3.07 28— Trice 56.0 42.48 3.58 29 Simkine 55.9 41.91 3.43 30— Lewis 63 .55.6 44.56 2.97 31— Webber 49 55.4 45.57 3.21 32 Cleveland 55.4 47.06 . 2.81 .'S—Toole 55.3 43.99 3.35; 34—Texas Bur J 55.1 46.96 2.85 Ss—Culpepper K 5.0 46.92 2.81 36 Brown's No. 3 ...54.8 43.46 3.62 37 Cleveland 54.5 47.51 2.82 38— Half and Half ...54.5 43.63 3.46 40— Cleveland 53.6 44. 3.211 41— Flowers 53.8 46.25 3.12 42 BrambletVs 53.0 42.21 3.25 43 Christopher 52.9 43.60 3.17 44 Ideal 52.6 46.62 3.22 45 Langford’s 51.7 47.95 2.92 46 Lone Star 48.0 45.74 8.52 47 Holden 47.6 45.43 3.72 48— College No. 27....47.0 47.25 3.44 From the accompanying table, it can ! be seen that there is the large differ ence of 16.5 gallons of oil produced from the best and poorest varieties analyzed. This shows that if seed purchases were based on quality, and at present prices of cotton seed, oil ($1.31 1-4 per gal.), those farmers growing College No. 27 would have to sell thei» seed for exactly $21.66 per ton less than those who grow I Mexican Big 8011. In other words, if j average seed with a total oil content of I 56 gallons per ton are worth $73, then I Mexican Big 801 l seed with 63.5 gallons j oil per ton are worth $82.84 since they 1 contain 7 1-2 gallons more oil than av i erage seed. College No. 27 would like- I wise be worth sll.Bl less than average 1 seed, or only $61.19 per ton, since they j contain only 47 gallons of oil per ton, or nine gallons per ton less than average j i seed. Seed below the average tn oil con- j ■ tent, and certainly those below 20J>0 i per cent oil, should not be planted un -1 der any circumstances, since they re duce the average price received for seed by ail cotton growers in our state. I*he average yield of oil and its value jis taken into consideration by the oil ' mill man in determining prices paid for cotton seed. If the demand for oil is such that the price rises, the farmer may expect, and usually gets, a better 1 price for seed. If the price of oil de- ' I clines, the miller as a matter of self- I ; protection pays less for seed. The price 1 of oil is at present considerably above normal. A decline is naturally expect ed. and the only way to prevent a cor | responding decrease in the price of seed •is to improve their quality. The only practical method of doing this is to in- ; ; crease their oil content, and evidence that this can be done is available from .several sources. Upon examination of the accompany ing table it will be noticed that the 1 ; varieties ranking 20, 23, 32 and 40 are 1 Jail Cleveland Big 8011. Likewise, num-; 1 bers 5, 14 and 33 are different selections of the Toole variety. Some of the breed- J ers of the above varieties have selected plants and isolated strains that are j much superior to others. No. 5, for tn- 1 stance, and No. 33. are both Toole seed. ; ' but from different breeders, and there j Jis exactly 5.9 gallons oil difference, j which at present prices of oil makes the seed of the better strain worth $7.74 i more per ton than those of the poorer J J one. The same table shows college 1 rank ing seventh and college No. 27 last. These are two pure strains of the same variety, both of which breed true to type and are high yielders of seed and lint cotton. The college No. 1, which ranks seventh, produced in 1917 1,893 pounds seed cotton per acre, and the one at the bottom of the table, which ranks forty-eight, produced 1.785 pounds seed cotton per acre, thus making but little ■ difference in the value of the cotton j ' they produced. At the present trier,’ i would be no difference in the price paid for the seed from the two strains, yet J i the prevailing prices of oil would just!- ! fy the payment of $17.98 per ton more; the inferior one, since they contain | for the better strain than for those of | , 13.7 gallons more oil. If seed from the 1918 'Top are to be i sold according to standards based on | oil content, which is the most accurate I basis for settlement since the value of the oil represents more than 89 per , cent of their purchase price, then all , farmers growing varieties the seed of ‘ which according to the above table con- . ' tain less .than 20.5 per cent oil should abandon them or at least tinderstand ! that their seed will probably bring 1 from $5 to $lO less per ton than average seed when offered to the mills next fall. 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There is no use increasing one cr two of these if one or two are left short. The short stave is going to decide the increase. Consider carefully. It is not the first cost of your ferfilaer but the profits from the use of your fertilizers that is vital. Profits come from maximum crops and maximum crops can ONLY come , from lengthening all the staves. Feed the plants a complete ration —a complete fertilizer erf available plant food that can be used to produce a big crop this year. Frederick V. Brown, of the U. S Department of Agricultare, says in the Year Book of 1916: “An analysis of the fertilizer in vestigations carried on by the experiment stations of this country and abroad brings out the significant fact that, generally speaking, the use of complete fertilizer —that /is one containing all three dements —gives larger returns than the use of one or two of the fertilizer ingredients. Pat your Fertilizer Problems up to the A.grical tural Experts of the Farm Service Bureau —This Office Does Not Have Fertilizer for Sale. SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Southern Fertilizer Association Rhodes Building Atlanta, Ga.