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MI A TENTH-ACRE OF TOMATOES
CAN MEAN TO A COUNTRY GIRL
By Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture.
To one Georgia girl who In a mem
ber of the Girin' Canning Club, a tenth
acre han meant $l3O profit. 80 much
money can mean, when rightly spent,
a great deni for any country girl. A
fow yearn’ profits from a little tomato
patch may mean a courne In one of
the beat colleges of the country. It
may mean the opportunity for devel
oping nomo natural talent to the full
est possible extent and the attainment
of nome great place In the world, when
otherwise the lack of the little means
necessary would have prevented that
achievement.
Such success an can be won with
a tomato patch will certainly afford
a vision of the great opportunities of
farm life, and an Inspiration that will
contribute to the happiness and con
tentment of the country girl who Is
SOME SPRAY INFORMATION
T. H. McHatton, Professor of Horti
culture, Georgia Btate College
of Agriculture.
Insects that eat leaven and swallow
them are killed by arsenate of lead,
mode by mixing two pounds arsenate
of lead, two p<mnda of quick Hmo and
60 gallons of water. For small appli
cations an ounce of arsenate of lead,
one ounco of quick lime and one gal
lon of water will serve the purpose.
Insects that suck their food llko
plant lice, may be killed with soap and
•water, using one pound soap to six
gallons of water. They may also be
destroyed by boiling one pound to
bacco dust In a gallon of water for
one hour, diluting with water to the
color of ordinary tea, and applying
-with spray pump. Soup may also bo
iiddi-d to the tebacco fluid.
For plant diseases the most general
ly used fungicide Is Bordeaux mixture,
made of one ounce copper sulphate
mixed with two quarts of water, two
ounces of quick lime slaked and made
up of two quarts with water, the cop
per sulphate and the slaked lime mix
tures are poured together through a
(fly screen which gives a gallon of the
{Bordeaux mixture.
In combatting plant diseases it Is
Important that the same erops should
not grow on the same ground year uf
ter year. A minimum amount of dam
age will result If rotation Is practiced
ami sometimes a disease can ho en
tirely overcome In this way.
HI TO APPLY COTTON SEED MEAL AS
A FERTILIZEfI FOR GREATEST RESILES
By Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture.
It would bo considered little short
of u crime In Europe to apply direct
ly to the soil any mnterlul which can
first bo used with advantage in the
nutrition of live stock. Ileuce, it Is
not surprising that the farmers of
Henmark, Germany and Kngland are
loathe to believe that we in the South
apply directly to the soil as fertilizer
hundreds of tong of cotton seed meal
each year.
Mon who havo fed cotton seed meal
to any considerable extent agree that
its feeding value is conservatively es
timated at S4O por ton. Add the fer
tilizing and estimated feeding value
of cotton seed meal together and we
have a ton of cotton seed meal worth
S7O. Figuring that 7B per cent, of the
fertilizing content of cotton seed meal
is retained in the manure of the ani
mals to which it is fed, there is left
when it is fed, a net value of $62.60.
Considering that it is worth $62.60
when fed to live stock, why throw
away S3O with every ton applied di
rectly to the soil os fertilizer? When
MULE FOOT HOGS NOT
IMMUNE TO CHOLERA
Dr. W. M. Burson, Professor of
Veterinary Science.
Four mule-hogs were purchased
from a breeder who advertised that
they were immune to hog cholera.
Kaeh was given a cubic centimeter of
blood from a hog sick with cholera,
and all died. Some hogs of every
breed are naturally immune to chol
era, but the indications are that mule
foot hogs are as much subject to the
disease as any other breed.
SUMMER SCHOOL IN
COTTON (TRADING
Loy B. Baet, Cotton Industry, Georgia
State College of Agriculture.
Beginning June 29 and continuing
to August I, the regular summer
inclined to think that her goal can
be attained only at work In the city.
The little tomato patch also teaches
Its lessons of the nobility of labor,
the value of exercise In the open, the
lovable secrets of nature, the recom
pense of honest endeavor.
liy all means the girls should join
the girls’ clubs of Georgia. It pays
In every possible way. The girls are
esteemed and honored for It. Fran
cis ilodson Burnett began her liter
ary career by picking blackberries to
get a start, and who would not say
that as much can be obtained from
work in growing tomatoes or raising
poultry? It Is the start at achieving
things early In life that has meant
so much in achieving success In after
life. Why not let the girls begin with
the tomato patch?
PREVENTION OE
COLIC IN HORSES
W. M. Burton, Professor of Veterinary
Bclence, Georgia State College
of Agriculture.
The most common forms of colic are
indigestion and Impaction or clogging
of the bowel with coarse fibrous ma
terials.
The following suggestions, If careful
ly carried out, will do much toward the
avoidance of these troubles:
1. Furnish a variety of feed stuffs
all the time.
2. Feed only perfectly sound feeds.
3. Divide the dally grain ration Into
three feeds, morning, noon and night.
4. Provide roughage of good quality,
not too woody and give It to work ani
mals only at night.
6. Do not foed grain nor give a large
amount of water to animals that are
overheated or very tired. Allow them
to rest and cool a short while first.
6. Water frequently during warm
weather and always before feeding
rather than afterward
7. Keep salt where the animals al
ways have access to It, but do not mix
It with the feed,
8. See to It that the teeth of old
animals are In good condition, for
thorough mastication of the course
foed stuffs.
9. During winter give a feed of wheat
bran or other laxative feed once a
week.
10. Avoid sudden changes lu diet,
if It Is necessary to change to some
other kind of feed make the change
we consider that it Is humus which
our Southern soils most need, and
that manure affords the best of hu
mus, is it not probable tiiat Indirectly
cotton seed meal Is worth more as a
fertilizer when fed through animals
than when applied direct, not to men
tion the value of the beef it produces
or the milk and butter, or the energy
for work stock?
Not a few farmers are paying as
high as S3O a ton for wheat bran and
from S3O to $36 for middlings to feed
live stock while they use their cot
ton seed menl for fertilizer. Cotton
seed meal takes the place of and is
better than bran. The purchase of
bran is, of course, not necessary and
represents that much money thrown
away. It Is exceedingly strange that
the whole world should learn the feed
ing value of cotton seed meal before
the South. It is Inexcusable that the
Northern and Western farmers should
find the Southern farmer so easy a
victim as to swap him bm for cot
ton seed meal.
school In cotton err |. O [ v _
en at the College of A . This
course is free. v.; :i t i(, ;1 G f
a fee of fl, and is e< coinci
dent with the Summer ei,, ,>! of the
University of Uecv i. Lectures on
cotton grading, what it takes to con
stitute grades, particularly how to de
termine middling cotton on which all
other grading is based, will be given,
laboratory work will constitute an
Important phase of the work. Gov
ernment samples of standard grades
will be used for comparisons. The first
week is devoted to middling cotton,
the second to higher grades, the third
to lower grades, each day review
ing the grades covered, and the fourth
week will be market week, each stu
dent being required to buy and sell
a given number of bales and get or
give correct prices for same.
This summer school has been the
means of turning out a number of good
cotton graders. It has also been used
by manufacturers who claim that It
has proven of great assistance to them
in buying.
BANKS CCUNTT fOUBNAL. HOMES.GA.,
NOTES
MEADOWBROOK
farm
Filth breeds disease.
• • •
Start slowly with poultry.
• • •
The horse must have fresh air.
• • •
The gooso lays a score or two of
eggs In a year.
• •
Earliness Is one of the main Items
In raising broilers.
• • •
There 1s a large opportunity for
Improvement lri horses.
• • •
Beware of the oily-voiced tree agent.
Buy of firms of known Integrity.
* * *
It is the wise poultry man who
studies the comfort of his fowls.
...
A weed cut before seeding means
hundreds less for the ground to be
feeding.
...
A little ground charcoal mixed with
the chicks’ feed will help keep away
digestive troubles.
• • •
Common salts will prove a reliable
laxative where a physic Is needed lu
the treatment of swine.
* • *
Onions, beets, spinach, radishes and
lettuce may be sown as soon as the
ground enn be worked easily,
* • •
Eggs cannot be produced without
nitrogenous food In some shape.
Bones are absolutely essential
• • •
Hardiness In poultry Is not Indicat
ed by color or plume. Hardiness de
pends upon the care of the fowl,
• • •
Any man who has ever had corns or
bunions can sympathize with ahorse
that has tender feet from any cause.
• • ♦
Tho successful business man stud
ies the requirements of tho market
and the farmer should also follow this
method.
Go over all garden tools and see
that they are ropalred or replaced
with new ones before next seasons
work begins.
• • *
Plant a quart or two of onion sets
as soon as the ground can be worked
White or yellow sets of the smallest
size are best.
• * •
A boar of heavy bone is more to
be desired than one of slight build.
Fineness as a quality Is more desir
able In the sow.
• • •
Every farmer should try to have a
good garden every year, as It goes a
great way in supplying the table with
pure, healthful food.
• • •
The average farm hen produces
about six dozen eggs yearly, which Is
just about enough to pay her expenses
and leave a little profit.
• • *
The period of gestation with the sow
is 112 days, or 16 weeks, and seldom
varies to ft great extent. Keep your
service record accordingly.
A small plot, even if it is not more
than a rod square, on which new
seeds can be tried out is Interesting
and quite often of real value.
• • *
The hog raiser is getting started
right when he buys a few well bred
sows or a pure bred boar. Let every
farmer aim to produce better hogs.
• • m
Our hogs fail to maintain their
size, first, because they do not get
enough feed, and second, because
they do not get the right kinds of
feeds.
• • •
Too much care cannot be taken In
buying nursery stock It's heartbreak
ing to care for trees for four or five
years only to discover that they are
worthless.
• * *
Most hen houses are not sufficiently
well ventilated, particularly at night.
Pure air supplied without causing a
draft is necessary to the health and
productiveness of the fowls.
• * •
With turkeys it is well to avoid
inbreeding, but it Is better to keep
the same male two years and mate
to his own offspring than to select a
trio of chicks year after year with
out introducing fresh blood.
• * *
Black feathers in white varieties
nre a disqualification, but such feath
ers unless too frequent are very often
found in the whitish birds and are us
ually removed by expert exhibitors
before the fowls are shown.
• • *
Charcoal is one of the most essen
tial articles in the food in successful
poultry farming. Place ears of corn
on cob in oven until charred, and then
shell off corn and feed to chickens
An Immediate change will be noticed
In the condition of fowls and egg pro
duction.
Honesty in Advertising
Wehavealwals striven to win and hold the confi
dence of this community. Its belief in us, its entire trust,
is a prize, that above all others, we aim to keep.
By our deeds and our words we seek to establish this
bond of confidence between the public and ourselves.
To this end we have endeavored in the past to ma e our
announcements in a simple language impossible to mis
construe, and the same policy will be carried out in the
future.
Truth is the very soul of advertising. We wish our
advertisements to be taken literally. In them we say
only what we mean, and we promise only what we can
literally fulfill.
Advertising is one of the principal contact points
with the public, and upon the quality of it, to a great
extent depends our success. Therefore our announce
ments by their candor, truthfulness, and straightfor
wardness but reflect the salient features of our policy—
If you want Dress Goods, Shoes,
Millinery, or Notions, of the best
quality at the lowest price high
class goods can be sold, call on us.
We Delight in Showing
GOOD GOODS
MRS. and. T SMITH
>1 AYNMLLE, - - GEORGIA
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. O N HARDEN.
Office al Residence
Five Miles North-easi of Homer.
('tills Answered Promptly.
TEI.KPHON K < 'ONN Et TION.
Dr. J. S. JOLLY
Homer, Ga.
Will answer calls Day or Night.
Residence call at Hill Hotel.
Office East side Public Square.
S. R- JOLLY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Homer, Ga.
Office in Court House
J. S. Chambers, m. and.
b tick in <>i.n Postoffice Ru ii.i
inu.
HOMER. GA.
FAiRBANKS-MORSE ENGINES
It is useless for you to go to a
city, pay your expenses, and a
higher price, when you can pur
chase what you want in the follow
! ing line right here in Maysville.
FrirbanKs-Morse Engines
lse Either Gasolene or Kerosine
Electric Light Plants
For Town or residence® — any ca
pacity
Water Systems of All Kinds
Kesevoits of any capacity
Cypress and Metal Tanks
Feed and Grinding Mills
Wood saws or any machinery that
would be needed to use w ith
an engine.
H. T. PARKS,
Maysville Garage.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
! Your druggist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching,
T end, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14dnr.
The application gives Kate and Rett, % K.
WOODRUFFS
FACTE RING CO., of WINDER, GA., offer their new improved
Woodruff Up-to-date Gasoline and
Oil Engines
2 IIP 00; 8 HP SBO.OO ; 4 1 2 HP *140.00; ti HP S2OO 00; 8 HP
$275.00, F. O. li. Winder, Ga. We want you to see the engine and
examine it for yourself, and compare prices and quality and save half
your money and get anew improved engine. Call at our store and
let us explain our special proposition. We have the engines in stock
and ready to deliver to you.
Gillespie Company
Maysville, Ga
3 Equals 25
A startling statement bdt a true one in this case. ———
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your own ground *eed (cost about 3 cents equal, of Bee Dee STOCK *
—in what they do for your animals and fowls,—two O U O L J 32 page iiiusmt
pounds of any ready-made stock or poultry tonic ted book, fatty explaining
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believe it, try it out I Buy, today, a can of — Bee Dee Stock Medicine
Company.
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DCC U MEDICINE 23c, 50c and sl. per ctk
Changes feed ini, tsaic —Makes It resah-pradadof. At roar dealer's.
P. B. 3
FOR SALE
We have bought 100 High Point buggies.
The first car will be in about August the 15th.
G-ood up-to-date styles and prices right,
RICHIE & WELLS ,
Cornelia, Georgia.