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This department will cnee.Tuiiy endeavor to furnish any information*
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president Bute Agri
cultural College. Athens. Ga.
Have You a Cow’
In thia day of high prices and ditti
‘culties of food transportation the cow
becomes the most valuable asset which
the family can possess. This is par
ticularly true of the man who lives in
the country, in any of our small towns
or cities, or in the outskirts of our
larger cities. The man of family is
naturally more concerned abotjt the
maintenance of a cow than the man
without children. It has been clearly
demonstrated over and over again that
in no way can as much cheap, nourish
ing and desirable food be provided for
children as through the medium of the
cow. There are literally thousands and
thousands of places throughout the
south where enough land is available to
provide a satisfactory range for a cow
and on which enough food may be
grown to supply her principal needs.
Such Heine the case it seems desirable
that attention should again be directed
to the Importance of the cow in the
present food emergency.
What will a good cow do? She will
produce in the course of 10 or 11
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An Open Letter to You Farmers
With Farm Produce to Sell
You have raised something on your farm this year that you want to sell, and
sell FOR THE VERY HIGHEST PRICES YOU CAN GET.
The pocketbooks of the people in Atlanta and other cities and towns in Georgia
and the South are open to buy all that you have to sell, AND THEY ARE
WILLING TO PAY HIGH PRICES, TOO.
The only thing necessary is for you to let the people who want to buy what you
have for sale know that you have it.
And this letter is published to tell you HOW you can let them know in the
QUICKEST, EASIEST and CHEAPEST manner:
The LAND AND INDUSTRIAL SECTION of the big SUNDAY ATLANTA
JOURNAL is read each Sunday by approximately EIGHTY THOUSAND
FAMILIES in Georgia and the other Southern States, and these 80,000
families have the money with which to buy your surplus farm produce.
YOU CAN DO WHAT OTHER FARMERS ARE DOlNG—you can make
THE JOURNAL’S LAND AND INDUSTRIAL SECTION your market place.
The cost is small, but The SUNDAY JOURNAL reaches so many people
who want the particular farm products you have to sell that YOUR RE
SULTS WILL BE SURE.
It makes no difference whether it be a few hogs, cattle, chickens, eggs, or such
farm products as corn, potatoes, velvet beans, peas, peanuts, pecans, or
whatever else that vou may have a surplus of (even though, you have just*
a small amount) YOU CAN SELL IT FOR THE HIGHEST PRICES BY
ADVERTISING IT IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL’S LAND AND IN
DUSTRIAL SECTION.
TRY THIS JUST ONCE AND SEE HOW PROFITABLE IT IS.
Just write to us what you have, how much, and the prices at which you are
willing to sell it. Mail it, together with your check or postoffice money
order for $4.20, to the
Land and Industrial Department
The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta, Ga.
And we will publish your advertisement in next Sunday’s Land and
Industrial Section of The Sunday Journal. Then get ready to sell
what you have to sell.
DON’T PUT THIS OFF UNTIL TOMORROW—DO IT TODAY, and sell
your surplus farm produce for the VERY HIGHEST PRICES.
Address your letters plainly to the
Land and Industrial Dept., The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
months, if properly fed and cared for. a
minimum of 600 gallons of milk, equiva
lent to 5.160 pounds of milk. This is a
remarkable performance when you con
sider the highly nourishing and desir
able. qualities which milk possesses, and
when you remember that the cow turn
ing out this large qukntity of milk has
probably produced in the period men
tioned several times her oody weight
of one of the most desirable and essen
tial food products available to the hu
man race. While these figures may look
large to some, there are thousands of
cows which will make as good a record
as that indicated, and an extraordinary
good animal will often produce a yield
of two or three times as great. On the
above basis of yield, however, 600 gal
lons of milk will provide a family of
five with all of this wholesome, nour
ishing and essential food product they
need. It has been shown definitely, for
instance, that milk is essential to the
welfare of young children. It contains
all the elements necessary to their prop
er nourishment in the nature of what
are called vitamines. It is the most
wholesome and desirable food which can
be given to people suffering from tu
bercular trouble, or who are suffering
from more or less chronic forms of in
digestion. The importance of milk has
been more fully demonstrated by the
present war crisis than ever before
This is shown by the fact that the most
desperate efforts have bee. made by all
the European countries to maintain their
supply of milk on .some basis adequate
to their national needs. Os course, this
they have been unable to accomplish
satisfactorily. The next step, therefore,
was to reserve the use of milk for hos
pitals and young ch lie ten. older and
more mature persons being cut off from
its use altogether. In pre-war times
we did not realise how much milk we
used or how important it was to young
children. It has taken gnat crisis
such as we are now passing through to
make us appreciative of the importance
of the dairy cow.
What amount of milk will a cow of
the class we are discussing provide for
a family of five? In the first place, each
•nay consume daily three glasses of
milk. If the milk be churned, one-half
pound of butter will bb obtained there
from. and butter Tat after all is the
most wholesome and desirable of all
fats. Three-fourths of a pound of cot
tage cheese may be made and there
will still be left three quarts of butter
milk and whey for bread making and for
Jse in the maintenance of chickens and
young pigs. In this connection it is im
portant to remember that the foregoing
products may be made to take the place
of meat, which in the case of a farmer
may be sold for cash and the family
exchequer enriched thereby. On the
other hand, where the family lives in
the country or the suburbs of a town
they will be made more vigorous,
healthy and happy if maintained largely
on a milk dietary. Milk is more easily
digested and assimilated than meat anil
it provides the same sort of nutrients
in a cheaper and more desirable form. .
There is much complaint at the pres
ent time about the price of milk. As a
matter of fact, it is one of the products
we have obtained relatively cheaply
throughout the United States and on
this account we are opposed to paying
high prices for what after all furnishes
us with a larger proportion of desirable
nutrients at a lower cost than anything
else we can buy.
In addition to all these advantages
the dairy cow becomes an important ad
junct to the land owner for the pur
pose of enriching and maintaining the
fertility of his land. In a year the ma
nure. if properly preserved and mixed
with suitable absorbents, will amount to
ten tons. If this be applied to the land
on which food crops are grown or to the
vegetable garden the soil can be main
tained in a high state of cultivation
and abundant crops of any kind pro
duced. Next to milk one of the most
wholesome and desirable additions to
the average dietary would be an abun
dance of vegetables. These must be
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL!, 'ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918.
produced on rich soils so they will grow
rapidly and therefore be tender and pal
atable. As vegetables are perishables
a succession of them must be produced
throughout the year. It is much easier
to accomplish this on a rich piece of
land than on a poor piece. Aside from
all the commercial fertilizers that might
be used, it has been definitely demon
strated that yard manures provide more
huinus for the soil than almost any
thing else which can be used to replace
them. Manures derived from this source
contain many ferments and enz.j mes
which are valuable in bringing the soil
to a proper condition for the growth of
crops. An abundance of humus in the
soil insures the production of maximum
crops of the highest quality in the gar
den, therefore the value of the cow for
this purpose should not be overlooked.
The next proposition is concerned
i with the feeding and maintenance of
! the cow. What will it take to aecotn
plish this, and what will it cost the
individual possessed of two or three
acres of spare land? This problem is
easy of solution, as by far the greater
part of the food products can be pro
duced on the land in question. To main
tain a cow in a high state of nutrition
for’a year it will be necessary to sup
ply 1.5 tons of leguminous hay, 2.5 tons
of silage or its equivalent of some oth
er desirable food, 1.5 tons of grain, 2
acres of rye or oat pasturage and 2
aces of permanent pasture. In most lo
calities the permanent pasture is best
provided through the utilization of a
Bermuda sod on which Japan and but
clover have been seeded. The rye or
oat pasture is easily provided through
seeding either one of these crops in ear
ly September. In that event there will
be plentj ot grazing through the fall
and the greater part of the winter. In
the early spring when the grass comes
on the remainder of the rye or oat crop
tnav be turned under and the land plant
ed to silage. For this purpose sorghum,
kaffir corn or green corn may be used.
Os course, it will be pointed out that
a silo is impractical for the one-cow
man and this is true, yet the crop pro
duced on this land may be cut and cured
as fodder and fed through the winter
satisfactorily if chopped up small in
cutting box. The feed required for a
day should then be weighed out and
set aside and moistened with watei
containing a little salt. This will soften
it and add greatly to its palatabllity,
and then if the grain used be scattered
over and mixed with it it very whole
some and palatable winter ration will
be provided and a very satisfactory
substitute for silage also made auu
able. As to the leguminous hay, this
should be fed at the rate of about 10 to
15 pounds per dny. It should be kept
in a rack where the cow may have ac
cess to it whenever she feels like it.
kfter the grain ration, cottonseed meal
mav with propriety constitute the. prin
cipal feed used. For instance, if 1.000
pounds of cottonseed meal be mixed saj
with 1,000 pounds of oats or barley or
velvet bean meal or peanut meal, and
1 000 pounds of corn a very desirable
ration will be provided. This should
be fed to the cow at the rate of about
1.5 pounds per 100 pounds ot body
weight. It is not such a difficult mat
ter therefore, when a few acres of land
are available to maintain a cow. and
even in the absence of a permanent pas
ture area to be used as an exercise lot
it will pav hundreds of individuals to
keep a cow. There i$ no more Important
adiunct to the home, and certain!} the
man in the country cannot afford to be
without a cow, and this is try? thou
sands .of our semi-urban residents who
have large families to maintain and
wish their children to grow up to vig
orous manhood and womanhood.
A Good Standard Variety of Wheat
II the., Blakely, Ga., writes: I am plan
ning to sow wheat thin fall on bind which
was planted in peanuts thw year. VI blch is
tin* l>P«t virietv’ How much seed shuold be
used X 'acre? What is the best fertillwr
Will it do as well sowed the first of N<>-
veß ber as in October What can Ido to
neient tiie smut?
Wheat may be sown in your section
o/thTstaToVny time between the first
and fifteenth of November. It is true
that much later planting is sometimes
practiced, but from our experiences and
observations we are led to bel’evethat
late planting of wheat is a mistake, ie
sulting frequently in a failure of th
crop to develop properly during the fall
months and hense subjecting it to great
er iniurv from rust in the spring Tn
order to produce wheat success!ully. it
must be well-rooted in the autumn so
£ ” he ready to grow off vigorously
as mon ns the weather opens nn In the
snrinz. On Innrt such as you describe,
of course, discing should be all that is
necessary to bring it into a good condi
?!on fo/nlanting to wheat. rresum-
Iblv vou have kept voiir crop
free from weeds and grass, and as a
rille the «01l after peanpts hpye
wrnW" Ihnronn i'' " ,
Our
Household
training rou etebnity
I am glad to print all the letters,
but it seems to me that the three I
am giving you today were intended to
be in this copy of Our Household. Each
one of them shows the right spirit, and
each one touches a side of life that is
a benefit to the world. The mother
who prays as well as teaches her chil
dren to obey is the sort that has 'made
the men of our present generation.
There are deserters in the armies and
thieves in prison because their par
ents were not firm with them; they
Vvere allowed to have their own ways:
and if they could not get what they
wanted honestly they got it any old
way. The boys whose mothers hang on
their necks and cry because they must
go back at the expiration of their fur
loughs are the sort that may expect to
hear of their boys in the guard houses
No country ever rises htghen than the
women in it. •
Then comes Mvrtie Harris’ letter. She
‘s out among the sick: she sees the ef
fect of discipline there. The child or
grown person who has not been taught
self-control Is the one disease soonest
destroys. I,ike medicine to the nerves
is the habit of taking things quietly.
The habit of ohedierice will help the
nurse for the medicine must be taken,
and the Christian life is the only one
that can make the "Dying bed soft as
a downy nillow ” and the onlv wav to
be sure of the ChHstian life is to train
nn a child in the way he should go. and
when he is older he wi'l not denart from
It. There fire nrodiza] sons, but hack
fhev go to their Father’s house if the
foundation of a Cliristian character was
laid in ■’-oiitb
And Mrs. Keggs’ letter t“Hs ben
tn make m’ges cut that we did not con
sider worth while even two vears ago.
Mrs. Keggs’ narcissi have made a beau
condition. if this field is very dirty
or covered with trash, breaking the
land would be a good practice. Lou
should not plow it too deeply at this
season of the year and should immedi
ately ' roll after breaking it so as to
provide a relatively linn seed bed, in
which the wheal does better.
As to varieties, there are a number
of standard sorts which do well through
out Georgia. Among these are Leap’s
Prolific, Bed May, Georgia Red, Fulcas
ter and Mediterranean. These are stand
ard sorts and you should have no diffi
culty in securing a good seed of any
of these through any reliable seed mer
chant Possibly there is some one in
your community who raised wheat suc
cessfully last year and would be willing
to sell you a small amount for seed.
You should be able to purchase good
seed anywhere at a cost of 53.50 up to
|5.00 or $6.00 per bushel, depending on
the care with which it has been selected
and trueness to type and the name of
the variety chosen. 1 suggest that you
seed at the rate of a bushel and a peek
to a bushel and a half pet- acre. \A’e
would .certainly plant wheat with a
grain drill. At the same time or shortly
before seeding we would apply to the
land a mixture of at least 300 pounds
of fertilizer, consisting of equal parts
of cottonseed ineai and acid phosphate.
The fertilizer should be well mixed with
the soil and should not come directly in
contact with the wheat grain. A com
bination grain and fertilizer drill will
enable you to plant satisfactorily with
out endangering germiniation of the
wheat by its coming in contact with
the cottonseed meal in the fertilizer.
You can prevent the wheat from being
smutty by treating it at the time of
planting with formaldehyde. One pound
of formaldehyde mixed with 40 gallons
of water will be about the right strength
of this material to use. Spread the
wheat out on the floor and sprinkle
the solution in question over it, using a
watering can for this purpose. Be sure
thai all the grains of the wheat are
thoroughly wet. Stir this mixture fre
quently while sprinkling the solution
over it. Cover with a tarpaulin or
carpet and let stand for several hours.
Then spread out to dry and seed imme
diately.
Fertilizer Suited to Fruit Plantations
I>. E. I’.. Port Lauderdale, Flu., writes:
What fertilizer should 1 use, aud how much
per tree or vin efor plums, upples. cherries,
grapes aud peaches, all one year old?
Ordinarily fruit plantations of the
character you describe should be fer
tilized with a complete fertilizer. By
this we mean a formula containing nit
rogen. phosphoric acid and potash. Un
der existing circumstances it will prob
ably be impossible to secure at a
justifiable cost a desirable mixture of
this character. This is due to the fact
that most of our pbtash was imported
in pre-war times and the sources from
which it came then are no longer avail
able. It is true that we have increased
the production of potash salts quite
extensively in this country, but prac
tically all the material of this charac
ter which has become available is need
ed in our war industries. There are
nevertheless, two or three sources from
which our potash can be derived. One
of these is tobacco stems, another, is
cottonseed hulls, and the third is wood
ashes. Cottonseed meal, of course, con
tains some potash, and this is also true
of velvet bean meal.
Situated as you are, and in view of
the relative scarcity of commercial
nitrogen, we think you will probably
find it desirable to fertilize your fruit
trees with organic nitrogen derived
from slaughter house by-products or
with cottonseed meal. Nitrate of soda
will be very difficult if not impossible
to obtain, and the government has al
ready commandeered all supplies of sul
phate of ammonia.
We believe that if we had your prob
lem to handle we would proceed about
as follows: If there is any woodland in
the vicinity of your farm we would
gather up all the brush, broken down
tree trunks and limbs and burn, giving
preference, of course, to the use of the
hard woods. The ashes should be saved
and protected from the weather and
then scattered around the base of your
fruit trees in a circle corresponding to
the spread of the Ihnbs. Do not put
the ashes close up against the trunks.
The ashes may be applied any time this
fall or in the early spring. Then in
February we would make a mixture of
equal parts of acid phosphate and cot
tonseed meal and use around ike trees
at a rate of 5 to 10 pounds per tree,
depending on the size, age and condi
tion of the. trees. At least 25 pounds
of wood ashes should be used to each
tree. This will be found a quite satis
factory and desirable method of ferti
lization to follow with orchard planta
tions under existing conditions.
Castor OH Bean Seed in Great De
mand
M. J., Brewton, Ga., writes: Please toll
me if I can sell the seed from the castor
plant. If so, where could I find a market
for them, and what price are they likely
to bring?
It is very gratifying to know that
you find the’ columns of The Journal so
helpful to you. An endeavor, of course,
has naturally been made to make them
reliable and also a source ot new in
formation on all topics relating to agri
culture to our readers.
Presumably there is no objection to
your selling seed from the castor bean
plant. I suppose you have produced
these on your own plantation. In that
event there is no definite price as to
what vou shrould charge for them.
Products produced on one’s own farm
may be sold under any reasonable plan.
At the present time there does not seem
to be anv clear understanding or appre
ciation as .to the merits of any varie
ties of castor beans for oil production.
They are chit fly valuable for this pur
pose, of course, and the endeavor to
stimulate their production at this time
is based on an attempt to obtain a large
I quantity of oil from this crop for use
in airplane motors. Such fields as are
i growing in Georgia at the present time
seem to represent a mixture of seed of
different varieties. The seed used last
' year came chiefly from India. In so far
as I know, no analysis of seed of differ-
I ent varieties has been made, therefore
their merit for oil production is not as
yet clearly defined. Presumably there
will be a good demand for castor bean
seed another year and I imagine you
will not have any difficulty in selling
such seed as you have on hand at area
! senable price.
I I believe last year the government
d stributed seed at $3, but owing to the
increased cost of labor, fertilizers and
machinery the price will probably be
higher this year.
tiful spot in this sitting room, une can
i put the bulbs in water and be sure of
beautiful flowers even if a thin skin of
ice forms on the water. 1 enjoy my ge
raniums as long as I possibly can, out
am sure of my narcissus.
And all of us must thank her tor
telling us about those peas. They would
be a tremendous improvement on what
we had last year. Ours began to tire
last year about the time the peas came,
and did little good. They were the
rankest sort of vines, but tired' too soon
for any service.
Truly this terrible war has taught us
many lessons. 1 was thinking last
night of the negro soldiers in France.
We of the south think of the race more
i as hewers of wood anti drawers of
| water, but the reports that come trom
! "over there” show that some of them
have proved heroes side by side witn
their white officers. I wish ail of you
1 could have read of a negro man, a color
! bearer in his company. There was a
I German airplane just over them, a ma
i chine gun count have mowed them down
: as they marched along the dusty high
way. ’’Disperse, every man tor him
' self!” called the captain. This color
; bearer had unfurled his tlag and it was
: gaiiy fluttering. Every man scurried
! ior the wheat field. Imagine the
! thoughts of the white captain as he took
’ his eyes off the hostile airplane to see
’ that negro flag bearer still marching up
■ tne road wtih “Holl, Jordan, roll,” ior
his pacemaker. "Drop that Hag and
hide, commanded the captain.
“Oh, no, Mais Captain. Dis ilag don’
git drapped in de dus for any o’ dem
baby kmers.”
And on he went —with his glasses the
captain saw the enemy turn as if to
demolish the flag and the man, then it
wheeled and went home. The effect on
the company was like magic. Their flag
was even a bit more to them than ever
before. They tell in line, caught up
with their color-bearer and took up
the song, “Rob, Jordan, Roll.”
Could anything prove more heroic? I
wish every one of you could take the
Red Cross magazine. There is where I
read this incident. I always find it full
of inspiring, helpful things. Soon you
will be called on to help the various
organizations that are helping “over
there.” Money must be paid out, or
they cannot furnish the food, the shelter,
the stationery your boys use when they
write to you. and the comfortable huts
they have for the ones back from the
front. Our Liberty Loan was fine, that
was an investment that returns a small
per cent. But the money you give the
Red Cross, the ‘‘Y’’ and the Salvation
Army is truly bread cast on the water,
and God will bless you an hundred fold.
Faithfullv vours.
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
Tuscumbia, Ala.
The Christian’s Way
Leai - u my pa-
ueut is icauuß. a wail step in a mm
uce. a am uui uursmg lor uociors uo«
enjoy n so inucu. a reel so sorrj,
.uuiign, ioi cue slck, but awe to wait
nil Luein. lis sau io see Uaem uae, iou,
out a am tdauKiui to say 1 seldom nave
seen mat side ox my protessiou.
a always wonder al' tney are ready,
and trust they are. A cnrastian xaie
Mears xruit axom the begmaiang, axau
me end is glorious, xne lixe is suaigm
and true axau we nave to be very waxen
xuL VVe must live in word, ueAi and
thought only as we believe Cnrisi would
umiei' an circumstances. W e must for
give more tnan seventy times seven. 1
uon t Know, though, mat we are re
quired to associate witu sucn persons
and put the conndence in tnem we did
oeiore they proved unwortny as many
as three times anyway. And above
all 1 despise a hypocrite. Decide on
wnat is right ana tnen stand up to it.
But ponder well first, one's judgment Is
sometimes warped. Thiuk good before
the first step is made. We all make
mistakes occasionally, and perhaps one
i is made, and when seen, later just be
the true Christian and acknowledge it.
’ Be a Christian every inch, be one in big
I and little things, lx you don’t you are
Ino Christian, it is so easy to persuade
oneself that the way we want things is
right. Come again, all of you. 1 do
not see the dear old page regularly, but
-1 do get one at home. 1 am seldom at
home these days. Good wishes to all,
MYRTIE HARRIS.
Cary street, Elberton, Ga.
LET’S ALL PBAY MORE
My Dear Mrs. Thomas: I have been
■ a reader of your Househod all the year
•and have thought 1 would write and
, tell you how L nave enjoyed reading its
; letters. It has been ot so much inter
est to me that 1 could hardly wait for
Friday’s paper to come. Mrs. Thomas,
1 have a lot that 1 want to talk about.
> 1 hardly know how to begin. 1 think
this war the awfulest thing that ever
has been. I have a dear brother in
■ France by now, if he did not get sunk
in that ship that went down the tenth
of this month. I pray that God has
I spared him to get over safely and that
He will guide him through with a safe
return home from France. Brother
asks me in every letter he has written
me to pray for him, and 1 want to ask
all the praying people to pray for him
and all the rest of the soldiers to win
this war, if it be Gods will. If we
ask anything of Him believing in Him,
we shall receive, it or better. If we
keep His commandments we are of Gad
and if God so loved us we also ought
to love one another. 1 am just a poor
woman, but I would rather be poor and
fear and love God than to have ill-«
gotten gains.
Tbe Lord said bow hardly they
that have riches enter the kindom of
God. It is easier for a camel to go
through a needle’s eye than for a rich
man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
This is the tenth chapter of Mark, and
I had rather be poor here on earth and
be rich hereafter and by the help of
trod I am going to that swjet home
some day. I am a child of God. 1
' have been washed in Jesus’ blood and
I am trying to live a Christian life. I
. have a heap of trouble and temptations,
I but by the help of God I bear them
and still trust in Him. I have had
people to say this year that I could
not go to heaven for .whipping my chil
dren. But I think that God will reward
me for trving to make men and women
out of them. God says. ’’Spare the rod
nnd spoil the child.” Come on, all you
Household writers, with those good let
-1 ters. They surely are good. 1 guess
vou are getting tired of reading my
! sorry letter, so T will go.
Yours ’veny truly.
MRS. T. P. ERVINE.
! Jefferson. Ga., Route 1.
A Good Suggestion
Dear Household: I am grasping time
I by the forelock to run in and chat a
| bit with you. While 1 have not been
‘ here in some time, I do read all that is
I written on Mrs. Thomas’ page, and en
joy all the letters. I surely have made
every edge cut this year and found some
‘ new ways of saving that 1 never prac
i ticed before. •
Who knows but what this terrible war
is a blessing in disguise? The American
people surely have seen that they can
get on without the things .they used to
get from Germany. And it has brought
, about new friendships and inventions,
WONDERFUL EGG PRODUCER
L Any poultry raiser can easily double
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1 and makes hens work all the time. The
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266 Means St. Atlanta, Ga.
| though 1 hate to think of the suffering I
i and anguish from the dear boys and
' their mothers, on all sid.-s. J have a dear ;
i seventeen-year-old lad (a volunteer) in
the truck company, the youngest truck
driver in the United States. He has
made three trips through in cars to
New Jersey from Detroit, Mich.
I am getting busy now and resetting
my violet beds. I often wonder how.
the flowers did that 1 sold to different
ones. I could not write to all of them.
I feel proud of my year's work (or
rather I feel glad and thankful that
the heavenly Father has blessed my
efforts in doing what I could do to help).
I was enabled to buy two hundred dol
lars’ worth of bonds with money made
from my garden and flowers. I sold
English peas by the bushel and saved I
two bushel of seeds. 1 do not consider
them perishable, as they are good dry.
If you soak soak them over night and
boil till the skin will slip off like lye
hominy, they split like a shelled pea
nut and you have the split pea like the
northern people use for soup.
I am going to try to get my John
to fertilize an acre for cotton and let
me plant peas on it and one of apricot
plant cotton in the middle. Peas are a
legume. I read where one man cleared
his cotton, the peas paying all expenses.
The “Bountiful” is a bunch pea and
grows bunchy and upright like the
Spanish peanut. But not quite as early
as Alaska. I make a planting in No- i
vember, January and February. I plant L
my seed plot and do not pick from ■
those I intend for seed. They are very '
solid. I believe they would be fine for |
stock. My cow eats the green vines i
readily. One good thing about this
bunch variety is—after peas are all '
picked off the vines are not fired, they
remain green. I have them pulled for
the cows at different times as I need i
them.
Let's hear from someone else next.
Faithfully yours,
MRS. C. O. KEGG.
Perry, Ga.
U. S. Tanker Outfights
German Submarine
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 30—A tor
pedo and shell fire attack by a .German
submarine on an American tank, a I
British freighter and a Norwegian
freighter, October 21, seven hundred I
miles from the French coast, in which
the American tanker stopped to engage I
and apparently out-fought the U-boat,
w-as described by the crew of the Nor- 1
wegian ship, which arrived here today. ■:
The three vessels were traveling to- !
gether, the Norwegian crew said, when
the submarine made its appearance |
known by launching a torpedo at the '
Britisher. The enemy then appeared on i
the surface and with two deck guns
opened fire on all three ships. The ves
sels scattered and the Britisher, being I
the fastest, was soon hull down on the I
horizon. The Norwegian ship, unarmed, i
moved off in an opposite direction, while I
the American tanker, turning so as to I
present a stern target, opened fire and j
in short order made the U-boat sub- !
merge.
The next day, the Norwegians added,
a periscope appeared about 400 yards off '
the port quarter and moved up until it |
was square abreast the ship. Expecting ,
momentarily the crash of a torpedo, the ‘
crew prepared to take to the life boats. 1
The submarine, however, made no at- 1
tack, but pushed forward until it crossed j
the steamer’s bow and soon disappeared. ,
The periscope was in sight about ten
minutes.
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U-Boat With White
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WASHINGTON. Ort. 30.—Confirma
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Mr. White is the well known breeder
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; laying.
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