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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.