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EUROPEAN WAR SHAT
TERS KING COTTON'S
THRONE
FLEECY STAPLE MUST PAY
RANSOM INTO THE COF
FERS OF WAR.
Nation Rings With Cries of
Stricken Industry.
By Peter Radford.
Lecturer National Farmer** luion.
King Cotton has suffered more
from tiie European war than any
other agricultural product on the
American continent. The shells
of the belligerents have bursted
over his throne, frightening his
subjects and shattering his mark
ets, and. panic-stricken, the na
tsfn cries out “l>*<i" save tiie
king.”
People from every walk of life
have contributed their mite to
ward rescue work. Society has
danced before the king; milady
has decreed that the family ward
robe shall contain only cotton
goods; the pi*ess has plead with
the public to “buy a bale”; bank
ers have been formulating hold
ing plans; congress and legisla
tive bodies have deliberated over
relief measures; statesmen and
writers have grown eloquent ex
pounding the inalienable right*
of “His Majesty” and presenting
schemes for preserving the finan
cial integrity of the stricken
staple, but the sword of Europe
has proved mightier than the pe i
of America in fixing value upon
this product of the sunny south.
Prices have been bayoneted, val
ues riddled and markets decimat
ed by the battling hosts of the
eastern hemisphere until the
American farmer has suffered a
war loss of $400,000,000. and a
bale of cotton brave enough to
enter an European port must pc.
a ransom of half its value or go
to prison until the war is over.
Hope of the Figure Lies in Co
operation.
< The Farmers’ Union, through
the columns of the press, wants
to thank the American people for
the friendship, >yr- pathy and as
sistance given tiie cotton fann
ers in the hour of distress and to
direct atteuti n to co-operative
methods necessary to permanent
ly a-sist the marketing of all
farm products.
The present emergency pre
sents as grave a situation as ever
confronted the American farmer
and from the viewpoint of the
producer, would seem to justify
extraordinary relief measures,
even to the point of bending the
constitution and straining busi
ness rules in order to lift a por
tion of the burden off the backs
of the farmer, for unle s some
thing is done to check the inva
sic'it (if the war f rcc up >n the
cotton fields, the pathway of the
European pestilence on this con
tinent will be strewn with mort
gaged homes and famine and
poverty will stalk over the south
land, filling the highways of in
dustry with refugees and the
bankruptcy court with prisoners.
All calamities teach us lesson*
and the present cri-i serves to
illuminate the frailties of our
marketing methods and the weak
ness of our credit system, and
out of the financial anguish and
travail of the cotton farmer will
come a volume of discussion and
a mass of suggestions and finally
a solution of this, the biggest
problem in the economic life of
America, if, indeed, we have not
already laid the foundation for at
least temporary relief.
More Pharoahs Needed in
Agriculture.
Farm products have no credit
and perhaps can never have on a
permanent and satisfactory basis
unless we build warehouses, cold
storage plants, elevators, etc., for
without storage and credit tacili
tie . the south is compelled to
dump its crop on the market at
harvest time. The Farmers’
Unions in the cotton producing
states have for the past ten year*
persistently advocated the con
struction of storage facilities. We
have built during this period
2.000 warehouses with a capacity
of approximately 4,000,000 bales
and looking backward the result'
Have You Poultry Troubles 7
Cure the liver and you cure the bird. Nearly ,
all poultry troubles are due t 0 POULTRY MEDION-f
Thousands of poultry' raisers who use it an year i 9a splendid cure for liver
round to keep their flocks in good health, highly trouble, roup and chicken
K cholera. Given regularly
recommend with the feed, in small
- doses, it also makes an
Pn/a STOCK & POULTRY “^“V.ts.owe,
JO*'**' MEDICINE Purcell,Old*.
It’s a Liver Medicine.
Also a strength!!# Tonic. At your dealer**.
ton hold the calloused band and
soothe the feverish brow of her
&ex who sows and reaps the na
tion’s harvest or will she permit
the male of the species to shove
women—weak and weary—from
the bread-line of industry to tiie
back alleys of poverty?
Women and Children First.
The census enumerators tell us
tl at of the 1.514.000 women who
wi.rk in the fields as farm hands
4U>.000 are sixteen years oi age
and under. What is tub final des
tiny of a nation whose future
mothers spend their girlhood
days behind the plow, pitching
hay and hauling manure, and
what is to become of womanly
culture and refinement that grace
the home, charm society and en
thuse man to leap to glory in
n.ible achievements if our daugh
ters are raised in the society of
the ox and the con^g ff j 6 rt s fitp of
ifie* plow F
In that strata between the ages
of sixteen and forty-five are 950,-
000 women working as farm
hands and many of them with
sucklmg babes tugging at their
breast, as drenched in perspira
tion. they wield the scythe and
guide the plow'. What is to be
come of that nation where pover
ty breaks the crowns of the
queens of the home; despair
hurls a mother’s love from its
throne and hunger drives inno
cent children from the school
room to the hoe?
I Tie census bureau shows that
155,000 of these women are forty
five years of age and over. 'There
is no more pitiful sight in civili
zation than these saintly mothers
of Israel stooped with age. drudg
ing in the field from sun until
sun and at night drenching their
dingv pillows with the tears of
despair as their aching hearts
take it all to God in prayer. Civ
ilization strikes them a blow
when it should give them a
crown, and their only friend is
He who broke bread with beg
gars and said : “Come unto me
all ye that are weary and heavy
laden and I will give you rest.”
Oh, America! the land of the
free and the home of the brave;
the world’s custodian of chivalry,
the champion of human rights
and the defender of the oppressed
shall we permit our maiden*
fair to he torn from the hearth
stone by the ruthless hand of
destiny and chained to the plow?
Shall we permit our faith Tl
wives, whom we covenanted wiih
God to cherish and protect, to be
hurled from the home to the har
vest field, an ! our mothers dear
to he driven from the old arm
chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from
the forces of civilization, can we
not apply to our fair Dixieland
the rule of the sea —“women and
children first?”
There must be a readjustnienf
of the wage scale of industry so
that the woman can be taken
from the field or given a reason
able wage for her services. Per
haps the issue has never been
fairly raised, but the Farmers’
Union, with a membership of ten
million, puts its organized forces
squarely behind the issue and we
now enter upon the docket of civ
ilization the case of “The Woman
in the Field” and demand an im
mediate trial.
Over-production and crop
mortgage force the farmers into
ruinous competition with each
other. The remedy lies in or
ganization and in co-operation
in marketing.
Old men have visions, young
men have dreams. Successful
farmers plow deep while slug
gards sleep.
Whatever change the tenant
farmer makes, it is bound to be
for the better —it couldn’t be for
the worse.
The soil is like a man’s bank
account. It can soon he exhaust
ed bv withdrawing and never de
positing.
The growing of legumes will
retard soil depletion and greatly
add to its power to produce.
Education is i developing of
the mind, not a stuffing of the
memory. Digest what you read.
SANiia Ci UMJY |OUJUtAL, HOrtfcK.UA ,
Agricultural Short Course and
Profitable Diversified Farming
Pres. Andrew M. sou!e, Georgia State College of Agriculture
It is all important that if you are
going to raise other crops than cotton
that you know what to raise and how
to raise It. You cannot afford to
learn by costly experience. You can
pick up valuable inclination here and
there, and you will pick up some that
is good and some harmful without
knowing which is good and which is
bad till you have tried It.
Reliable and workable Information
Is the sort which a College of Agri
culture offers, because such informa
tion has been thoroughly "tested and
iutnpareii with experiences from all
the world. The business of such an
institution in teaching farmers is to
teach them right, to offer the truth
that has been determined by painstak
ing testing, perhaps for years, with ev
ery element of error or doubt removed
as far as it Is possible to remove it.
For these reasons the progressive
farmers have come to value agricul
tural colleges highly and to make use
of the short courses.
In Georgia a -crisis is faced. It
will be unprofitable to raise the usual
amount of cotton next year. Misfor-
STARTING GARDEN PLANTS
T. H. McHatton, Professor of Horticul.
ture, Georgia State Col. of Agr.
Every farmer should produce plants
for setting his home garden, such as
tomatoes, peppers, egg plants, etc., for
which a (Ixl2 hot bed 18 inches deep
w ill be sufficient. At the bottom put
about four inches of brick bats, or
chunks of wood, to create drainage.
Then put on three layers of ferment
ing, fresh horse manure, each layer
being about four Inches thick and
well tramped down before the next
is put on. On top of the manure put
about five inches of garden loam.
The temperature will go above 100
degrees. When it falls to about 90 or
85, which will be in about four days
or a week, plant tile seed. When the
first true leaves appear, transplant
the young plants about two or three
Inches apart in the hot bed. Tills in
sures better root development.
For south Georgia seed should be
sown about January 15, for middle
Georgia February 1-15, for north Geor
gia about March 1.
The plants should not go into the
night with wet foliage, nor should
any day pass that the plants are not
allowed to have fresh air, bearing in
mind that the temperature should not
lie lowered appreciably. *
Value of the Annual Farm
Conferences In the Year of
The Agricultural Crisis
Pres. Andrew M Soule, Georgia State College of Agriculture
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Breeders’ Association will be held
January 16, the annual meeting of the
Georgia Dairy and Dive Stock Asso
ciation on January 18-19, the annual
meeting of the Georgia Horticultural
Society on January 19-20 and the an
nual meeting of the Georgia Apple
Growers’ Association on January 21.
All are to be held at the College of
Agricutlure at Athens. These meet
ings follow immediately after the
short courses, thus affording short
course students an opporninity of at
tending these splendid meetings with
out the usual cost.
Special railroad rates have been ob
tained for these meetings as well as
for the short course. Those who at.
tend should be sure to ask for the spe
cial rates.
The program for these meetings will
be rich with valuable informatics
Practical men who have dealt with
arid met their various problems in
Georgia will appear on the program.
Authorities of nation-wide reputation
will come with their special messages.
Special efforts are being made to pre
TIMELY SPRAYING OF
APPLES AND PEACHES
J. W. Fircr, Georgia State Col. of Agr.
Time and labor can be saved by bo
timing the spraying of peaches and
apples as to control or destroy several
fungus trouble and an insect At one
operation. Nearly all orchard* are in
fested with the San Jose aeaie. This
necessitates at least one spraylnt dur.
ing the dormant season wh the or
chard is slightly Infested tnd two
sprayings when badiy inrßc*<i tven
when no scale has been ooaervetl in
the orchard during the past -caron, it
is advisable to make a spring spray
ing to prevent infestation U will
serve also to clean up ths trees and
prevent such injurious fungus trou
bles as the curl of the peach and scab
of the apple.
The worst infection of the apple
scab takes place during Lae week or
ten days previous to the opening of the
buds. A thorough sp-aylog v Ith lime
sulphur solution at that time is recom
mended. The strength ;f 't; so ution
depends upon the development of the
bud. Up to the first showing of pink
by the buds, use wiatsr strength or 5
tune has already fallen upon the cot
ton crop of the past season. The farm
er must extricate himself from his
difficulties by keeping his acres at
work for him, growing some other
crop. What it will be, what is best
adapted to his soil, to his market, to
his farm program, should be ascertain
ed, and then the cotton farmer should
set about growing these crops by ap
proved methods, with economic ma
chinery and with scientifically cor
rect rotation.
The Georgia State College of Agri
culture cannot carry the desired in
formation to the farmer half so ef
fectively in any way than by means
of the short courso of ten days that
it offers to fanners at the beginning
of each new year. The facilities tor
Instruction, the object lessons and il
lustrations of the College laboratories
and the farm, are of greatest value
in Imparting information along the
various lines that farmers of Georgia
are now seeking.
Any one can come. An admission
fee of only $1 Is charged. The ten
days spent at the College will make
broader men and better farmers.
SUDAN GRASS IN GEORGIA
John R. Fain, Professor of Agronomy,
Georgia State College of Agr.
Experiments have been conducted at
the College plats which show that Su
dan grass promises to be a very use
ful hay producing crop for the state.
The experiments were primarily to de
termine the best time to seed Sudan
grass Apparently March or April is
the best time to sow, but during 1914
the spring was very dry and a fair
test cannot be said to have been made
of what the yield would be when
planted at that time. The largest in
dividual cutting was obtained from
seed sown in July. The earlier sown,
however, gave as many as three cut
tings and, of course, a greater total
production.
Sudan grass has the appearance of
Johnson grass without any of its dis
t.dvantages. It is not a pest, but will
produce quite as well as Johnson
grass and makes an excellent bay.
On account of the sudden wide spread
popularity of Sudan grass and the lhn
Red amount of seed, the price of seed
Is very high. The high price has
tempted unprincipled persons to mix
with it Johnson grass seed and sell
as Sudan grass seed. Such seed, of
course, would afflict a farm with a
pest. Care should, therefore, be taken
to get Sudan seed only from reliable
dealers.
sent at the meetings at the first of the
year, programs of unusual merit, ow
ing to the crisis in agriculture which
the state is facing.
Make up your mind that you will
attend the ten days’ short course and
stay for the farmers' conferences !
With such information and inspira
tion obtained at the beginning of the
year, as will be available at these
meetings, the work of the twelve
months will be more profitable and
pleasant. What better piace can one
go In Georgia to get the desired in
formation for varying the far a pi i
gram from cotton to a profitable di
versification, than to the ei.ort conrt.es
and the farm conferences at the Slate
College?
The wives of tbs farme'S will find
the meetings interesting and profita
ble. The meetings of the horticultu
ral society have a /.ays been well at
tended by women Phon'd the women
come while the girls’ eon-se Is be rig
conducted, they win be greatly inter
ested in the canning, domestlo ■dem-e
and poultry work in which they are In
structed.
gallons of the cou:ie. ciul linn sul
phur to 60 gallons of wafer. Reduce
the strength to 2 or 2 gallons to the
60 of water after t.l. - bods rhow pink.
The s(lores of the i -af mir! fungus
live over the winter on the branches
and twigs of the peach tree and !>*•
oorne active during the two or three
weeks before the buus open. During
this time, by making the winter spray
ing with lime-sulphur solution (com
mercial lime-sulphur 6 gallons to 50 of
water), the scale will be combatted
and the leaf curl prevented. This
spraying must be timed accurately
and made thoroughly to get the best
results. Mtslb'a tri'a will not take the
place of tLa lime-sulphur solution, al
lough they will destroy the scale.
Bordeaux m'—ure used at the time
aowve mentioned is very effective
a*, inst the stab, but is not effective
against scale.
Lairing the soring of 1914 serious
damage was core to the blossoms and
young twigs of peach trees by the
brown rot fungus. This disease does
_ ealest injury to the fruit, but also
take? it-; to’l from the health of twigs.
The infection laßes place at blos
soming time and ;f the second spray
ing is delayed until the buds swell
lime-sulphur wiU kill the spores.
THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
An Ancient Method of Collecting the
Precious Yellow Dust,
lu the legend of the golden fleece
lies hidden the record of an ancient
method of the Tlharenl, the sons of
Tulml, for the collection of gold The
north coast of Asia Minor produced
large quantities of the precious metals
as well as copper and Iron. Gold \vn
foutid In the gravel, as often happens
still In streams draining from coppei
regions The gold ill copper ores m-la
tually containing Insignificant mat.-
of the precious metal, aeeuum.aV' u,
the course of ages and sometimes P.rms
placers of astonishing richness
* The ancient Tibarenl washed the
gold hearing gravel first by booming
which concentrated the gold into rela
tively small amounts of sand Tills
was then collected and washed through
sluices having the bottoms lined with
sheepskins Ihe paid would sink Into
the wool, while the sand would be
washed away In tho swift current
writes Courtenay de Kalb In the Min
trig Age.
The skins were removed from the
sluices, the coarser gold shaken out
and the lleeces, still glittering with the
yellow metal, were hung upon boughs
to dry so that the rest of the gold
might he beaten from them and saved.
The early Greek mariners, witnessing
tills process, carried home tales of the
wonderful riches of a land where n
warlike race of miners hung golden
fleeces upon the trees in the grove of
Ares.
The natives of the country of Tubal
Cain still cull the high grade copper
ore and break It Into smalls, which
they cover with wood and roast to
matte: they still work the matte In
forgelike furnaces to black copper,
which they ship to Alexandretta ad
to Euxtne ports. They still make the
famous carbonized Iron that was cele
brated as Damascus steel because It
was distributed through this mart to
the rest of the world after receiving a
finish by local Damascene workmen.
TRIBUTE TO COTTON.
Henry W. Grady’s Glowing Eulogy
Upon the Wonderful Plant.
Henry W. Grnrly, the silver tongued
orator of lilt* south, once pronounced
this eulogy upon the cotton plant:
"What a royal plant it Is! The world
waits in attendance on Its growth The
showers that fall whispering on Ita
leaves are heard around the earth. The
gnu that shines upon It Is tempered by
the prayers of all the people. The
frosts that chill It and the dews that
descend from the stars are noted, and
the trespass of a little worm upon Its
green leaf means more to England and
to English homes than the advance of
a Russian army upon her Aslan
frontier. It is gold from the time It
puts forth Its tiniest shoot its foliage
decks (he somber enrtb In emerald
sheen Its blossoms reflect tbe brilliant
hues of sunset skies In southern climes
and put to shame the loveliest rose,
and when loosing Its snowy fleece to
the sun It floats a banner that glorlfles
the field of the humble farmer.
“Its fiber Is current In every bank In
all the world. Its oil adds luxury to lord
ly banquets In noble halls and brings
comfort to lowly homes m every clime.
Its flour gives to man a food richer
In health producing mine than any
the earth has ever kn nvn, and a cura
tive agent long soughl and found In
nothing else. Its meal >. feed for every
beast that bows to do muu's labor
from Norway’s frozen peaks to Africa’s
parched plains.
"It Is a heritage that God gave to
this people when he reached the skies,
established our mountains, girded us
about with oceans, tempered the sun
shine und measured the rain—ours
and our children’s forever and forever
—and no prhicelter talent ever came
from ln omnipotent bund to mortal
stewardship ’’
Flooding Holland.
Holland’s safety In time of war lies
In her ability to fl<>,d grout tracts of
land. William of Orange flooded the
country In 1574 und by so doing drove
out the Spanish Invaders. The same
policy was udopted on the occasion of
the French Invasion of 1072 The move
ment <>f a lever at Amsterdam Is suffi
cient to open every dike and dam In
Holland simultaneously It Is said, to
put under water within the space of a
few hours the whole country from
fwrilen. on the Znyder Zee. by Ut
recht to Geertruldcnberg, at the mouth
of the Meuse—Argonaut.
Abel’s Fjte
“I’m afraid." said the patient wife,
“that yours will be the fate of Abel.”
“Why. what do you mean?" a-died
the astonished husband
"Well.” sbe replied. "Abel was killed
by • etob. sod your club will be the
death of you if you don't come home
oftener ” „ _
Identifying Her.
“Brown, do yon know the lady across
the street?” asked Smith
"Let me see.’’ replied Brown; "she
certainly looks familiar That’s my
wife’s dress, my daughter’s hat my
moUier-tu-mw s parasol Why. yes!
That’S our cool; Ladles’ Home Jour
nal.
Pa'tly Prepares.
*T)ld you *m-, o and in getting that
manage’ ee-ne, von?’
“Yes lb i- _■ 10 let me play the
part Of a d-. gentleman
•*Weli von can walk al right ->o
you’ll merely have to learn tin- other
part.’’—J udpe.
AH Bttled.
Howard—l hear your dum liter i> go
ing to marry an English n in. n Is
It all settled? Coward— lea: <_'.<-ry cent
■be had.-ritttmrgUJfteßs.
Nash-Gillespie
Last Friday night at ten o’clock
occnred the mar tinge ot Miss .loti
Nash and Mr. ('has. \\\ GilUspio
at the Methodist parsonage, Rev.
Sarn’l Hagan oilicia ing. It was a
very quiet affair, only two
friendn of tho coutaaeting patties
being present. r Jhe marriage was
kept secret until Saturday morn
lug at 10 o’clock at whic time the
bridal patty boarded a train a
Muysville for Atlanta where they
are spending t heir honeymoon at
the Ansley Hotel.
The bride is a beautiful and ac
complished young lady of Nor
wood, Ga. She has spent the pa<t
three months here leaching in tli ■
public school and lias made many
warm personal friends, allot whom
are glad to know that she wilt make
this her permanent home.
Mr. 0. W. Gill spie is Clerk ot
Oonrt of Banks county and one ot
the most h ghly respected citizens
of this sections.
The Journal along with his hun
dreds of other friends extends eou
grutu'ations.
“She is mine own;
And I as rich in having such a
jewel
As twenty seas, if all their s ands
were pearl,
The waters m ctar, and the rocks
pure gold.’’
Empire Laundry.
We are agents l'or the Empire
Laundry of Athens. Our basket
leaves every week. Leave your
laundry at our store.
HILL & lilt )W 7.
To Our Subscribers
If the little yellow label on your
papei shows you aie in arrears with
Journal please call in and settle
the bill. All can pay the small
amount they are due us and it will
relieve your conscience and our lii
nancial strain.
Cabbage Plants
Weather conditions have been
ideal and i am justified in saying
that you can’t buy any better
plants, and 1 feel sure you will be
more than pleased with them at
the reasonable price offered. Va
rieties: Earlv Jersey, Charleston
Waked ‘ld, Early and Late Elat
Dutch, Early and Late Succession.
Price 500, 75 cents; $l.OO per
$1000; 5000 and over 85 cents per
1000. Special pi ice on largo
quanities.
Beet, Letluce and Onion
Plants ready after December 1-1.
Write for price on these.
Plants by mail 35 cents per LOO.
Shipments are made same day
or let is received and satisfaction
will be cheerfully given.
Apppeciatrn-' your favor-;,
Alfred Jouannef,
K.t PiecLant, S- C.
Stale Adopted School books will
b" fo'.io l it handler & Jackson’s
and a aC Cornelia.
ft a i-.. v
[’ “ o oll.cr es good |
Vs# New Home Sowing Macfcioe Car-fonj,
' OKANGi- MASS.