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VOL 2. NO 21.
VIENNA. GA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 23.1902.
TWICE-A WEEK $1.00 PER YEAR
WILL JT PAY?
A Dialogue in Two Acts, as Seen and
Heard from Fence Jamb.
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Hullo John. How is your crop?
Very rood, where I used “green seed”
it is better then where I used Guano.
It is? Did you ever try cotton seed
meal, Kainit and Acid mixed? No. It
in too expensive.
You are mistaken. It is cheaper than
the Guano, and will be much cheaper
now, that we have the Cotton Oil Mill
at Vienna.
I’j the way, John, what are you going
to do with your cotton seed?
1? Why I could not make a crop
without my seed. ,1 always put them
under my corn, cotton and cain. YES
SIR, every time.
John, did you ever think and calculate
and compare your calculations?
No, it is no use, It just won't pay to
sell jofiv seed.
You are certainly mistaken, for in
this day of progress, John, it will not
pay us to go ahead and not stop to con
sider, and compare the old way with
the new.
Neighbor—Do you mean the old wny
of farming, and getting along?
Of course, it will not do for us to
plow our lands like our fathers did, nor
\ with the same tools. No, we must keep
up with the latest improvements and
inventions. Just so John, and there has
been just as great improvements along
the line of fertilization as in cultivation
John, we must fertilize and use the best
at that, that. we can procure at the
least expense—the yield considered.
That is rigiit, neighbor!
Now you are coming at iny question.
Will it pay to fertilize or feed our seed
green, or will it not pay better to ex
change them for meal and other chemi
cals and muken fertiliser at less cost,
and that will bring agreater yield, and
instead of exhausting your lands, build
them up?
How can we do this? Can it be
done wjthout any' great loss to the
farmers?
YES, YES, I answer emphatically, IT
CAN BE DONE, IT HAS BEEN DONE.
The greatest waste of your seed is
to use them green, or to feed them to
your stock, just so.
Neighbor, I would just like to see you
prove either or both of these positions.
Well John, to the facts and figures—
you know they don’t lie.
No, when properly used, but you will
have a tough job to prove that it will
pay us farmers to sell or exchange our
seed.
Well John I will let you be both
judge and jury if you will promise not
to be biased or bribed, but a true and
impartial verdict render, according
to the facta, figures and. testimony
given: John, we will not deal with the
many nomenclatures, or high sounding
names, but will take a few things up
with which we are familiar. Our land
must have, to render the plant sufficient
food to make a bountiful yield; Am
monia, Phosphoric acid and potash, and
plenty of each. Now when we use green
seed we find from the Department of
Agriculture of Georgia, page 96, that
lOOibs of cotton seed contains:
Ammonia 3.80
Phos. Acid 1.20
Potash 1.17
Total......:....:.. 6.24,
and that lOOlba meal contains*
Ammonia ....8.25
Phos. Acid 2,80
Potash 1.80
fresh land, without rust or blight. Now
I always calculate, not so much in per
centage as I do in dollars and cents,
and having used both.seed and meal,
acid and kainit, I find that there is no
comparison, and that 2001bs of meal,
acid and kainit will give me, year in
and year out, twice as good results, and
is decidedly cheaper.
Cheaper? How can that be, when you
have your own seed and don't have to
to buy them? They don’t cost you any
thing.
Hold John, hold, there is just where
our farmers lose sight of what they
make. If we would regard each and
every article of value we produce, prop
erly, and try to realize on it, as we
should, it would show a nice profit each
year. To better illustrate this fact let
us figure a little. (I have already
figured this out before, however.) To
manure one acre of cotton, with' 16]
bushels it costs $3.38 (for that is just
what I sold my seed for last season) and
to manure one acre with meal, acid and
kainit, costs $1.80, just what I paid for
it on abredit this year. Now you see
the savings,
Green cotton seed $
Meal, acid and kainit .j. $1.80
Total 12.86
making a gain of 8.61, being more than
double. Now, the seed out of a bale of
cotton will not fertilize two acres in
cotton sufficiently, as it will give only
about 16 bushels per acre which can
not be relied on, as much of it comes
up and loses heavily of the manorial
value. But when we use 200 pounds of
cotton seed meal, potash, acid and
kainit, per acre, dually mixed, we have
the best fertilizer oh earth and one we
can.rely on implicitly; andthequanti-
(y fcm make our old fields produce like
A saving per acre of $1.53
or a saving in every bale of cotton of
$8.06. Now while this is not much
John, yet to me it amounted to $806.00
tliis year; enough to.buy my sugar,
coffee, tobacco, rice soap, potash, thread
postage stamps, for the plantation and
I have carried the old lady and children
to town twice and turned them loose
on the money for Sunday fixings and
soda water (and I bought a jug of the
best ten year old rye you' ever swal
lowed) and we paid our subscriptions to
both of the Vienna papers out of it. qnd
I still have $11.85 to spend between now
and the time I sell my this year’s crop
of seed.
Great Geewhilikins I What a fool
have been. I see it now. Just think: I
have been raising 60 bales of cotton for
10 years, and each year losing $163. on
my seed alone. No wonder I have been
hard up and you have been getting
along so well, and making money and
buying lands. If I had been saving that
$158.00 a year for ten years I could buy
Smith's place there by me and have
$300 left, for he only asks $1200 tor it,
less than half its value, and I need it
and want it so bad, but Ican't raise the
money, so must lose it.
Too bad John, too bad; but profit in
the future by your losses in the past,
and remember that effort and energy is
a monument of gold to every man, yet
it takes wisdom, reason and thought
to polish it and make it valuable.
Neighbor, that is a truth in fancy, but
a stubborn fact.
Yes John, but truth is always more
strange than fiction, and facts like
women, “stubborn things,"
Well neighbor, its all plain to me
now, and my wife says "it’s never too
late to mend," so I am going straight
to Vienna, and see if I can't make
deal with ED HOWELL, the manager
of the Cotton Oil Mill, to buy my seed,
or'trade me meal and hulls for them
Good. Do that if you want buckle and
tongue always to meet, and havealittle
coffee andsugar money always on hand.
Good Bye.
ACT 2.
Say neighbor? What about your
wonder worker, cotton seed meal, and
hulls" as a feed for stock to produce
beef, butter and milk?
I am glad you have asked thequestion
again; we ought to know the whole
truth, and find the total profits in our
business, for it pays to feed meal and
hulls to cattle, beyond a question, in
more ways than merely to keep them
alive. Now listen John, we will
have to dispense with some of the
long words osed in the bulletin of the
Department of Agriculture. Suffice it
to say, however, that there are at least
four things that must cater into every
substance as feed to produce the best
or fair results. They are Dry Matter,
a filler, Protien, Carbo-Hydrate and fat.
John, an experiment has been made
at the station and result compared and
published in the bulletin of the Ga.
Department of Agriculture No. 36.
pages Nos. 49 and 60. We find from
these experiments, first, that 6 pounds
of seed are equal to 3) pounds of meal.
Second, 6 pounds of seed fire not equal
to 4 pounds of meal. Third, that one
pound of meal would therefore be equal
to 1.71 of cotton seed.
What, neighbor? What did you com
pare with at the station?
Peavine hay. corncob meal, wheat
bran, silage and cottonseed.
You did? Do you reckon, neighbor,
that they are telling what happened or
are they making figures just to catch
ns?
No, John, these are figures that the
state of Georgia is preparing every
year for our benefit.
Neighbor, I have heard that cotton
seed meal and hulls were mighty good
food but did not believe it before.
Neighbor, that is why -saw-mill cows
and oxen are so fat and sleek, and the
old ones bring sueh fancy prices in beef.
Yes, the saw-mill men don't feed on
anything else as a leader.
No, nor as a follower either, ha 1 ha 11
You see John, both of yourquestions
have been answered by facts and fig
ures, that it does not pay to use our
seed as a fertilizer, nor as a beef, butter
and milk producer; but it does pay us
and the manufacturer, to manufacture
our seed, use the meal and hulls for
food for stock and fertilise our lands.
And instead of letting the oil, like the
rose unplucked, "waste its perfume on
the desert air," dissipate its great com
mercial value in the earth without
profit to man or beast, we can. utilize
every property, of our seed to the best
advantage.
Neighbor, you are right! I shall sell
my seed except enough to plant, and
buy my feed and fertilizers, hereafter.
Now you are talking, gentlemen.
0ometO8eeus. ViennaOU Co., Ed.
Howell, manager. Good-bye.
OVER TWO-THIRDS
PAIR ASSOCIATION
STOCK SUBSCRIBED
m
Donated One Hundred Dollars to
this Worthy Enterprise.
COTTON CENSUS
WILL BE TAKEN
IN THIS COUNTY*
Judge J. I. Walden* of this City, Had
Been Appointed for Dooly—ViH
Make Three Rondo.
Cutting at Richwood.
Sunduy night a cutting affray
took place at Richwood between
Tom Rese and DaveZeiglercolored,
Tom cutting u twelve inch gash in
Dave’s leit side, extending around
to the front of his stomach. The
weapon used was a razor.
Dr. R. H. Pate was summoned
at once who sewed up the gash,
but not until the negro bad bled
considerably. He was getting
along very well at last account.
The cause of the difficulty was
not learned und the case will not
be prosecuted by the wounded negro
as an agreement was reached where
by the negro that did the cutting
is to pay all the expenses. This is
probably .the best solution of the
matter,
Mrs, McKinney Dead.
On last Sunday about noon Mrs.
Jane McKinney passed away] at
her home near Kerns, after a linger
ing illness of three weeks, with
that dread disease—consumption
In her death the community has
lost a good woman.
She leaves four married sons and
one single daughter to mourn her
death.
Her remains were interred in
the Wallace cemetery Monday af
ternoon at 4 o'clock. A large crowd
attended. The burial ceremony
was performed by Rev. Reuben
Reynolds.
FOLEY’S KIDNEY CURE.
Will cure Bright’s Diseases.
Wilt cure Diabetes.
Will cure stoneia. in bladder,
Will cure kidney ob-i bladder diseases.
The Dooly County Fair associa*
tion stock is still growing and two-
thirds of the proposed capital stock
has already been subscribed.
This is an enterprise that every
substantial and enterprising farmer-
merchant and business man in
Dooly county should have
interest in, if it isn’t but one share,
125.00.
While subscriptions for stock
continue to be added to the list,
they are not coming as rapidly as
they should. The News feels a
deep interest in this enterprise as
we believe that it would be the
means of stimulating a greater
desire among the farmers for
diversifying their crops and making
a greater yield at a small expense,
and whenever the farmers are
progressive and prosperous the
merchants and other industries are
likewise.
' Below will be found a'letter
from the A. & B. railroad, con
taining a subscription to the Fair
association:
Waycross, Ga., Aug. 9
Mr. O. M. Heard,
x Vienna, Ga.
Dear Sir:— . ,
By direction of Mr. Geo. - Dole
Wadley, vice-president and general
manager, I enclose herewith, Sa
vannah Exchange for fiioo.on, as a
contribution from this company
towards the Fair association in
your city.
This is in accordance with the
conversation- held with you by Mr,
Wadley. Yours very truly,
W. J. Swain, Auditor
New Postoffice.
Rev. A. Jerry Sanders of the
Bradshaw neighborhood wus in
the city Wednesday to get his mail
and among which was a blank
bond from the Postofiice depart
ment at Washington, to be filled
out for the establishment of a post
office on his place. The name of
the new postoffice will be Jerry,
and it wilt prove quite a conven
ience to the people of that commu
nity, whb have heretofore been
forced to go several miles after
their mail. Rev. Mr. Sanders will
be the postmaster of the office which
was named after himself.
We are very glad to know that
the office will be established, and
while we already have a number of
subscribers in that community, we
hope to be able to increase the
number considerably this fall.
JUST LOOK AT HER.
Whence comes that sprightly step,
faultless skin, rich rosey complexion,
smiling face. She look, good, feels good
Here Ishersecret* She used Dr King’s
New Life Fills. Result—all orgras act
We. digestion good, no headache, m
chance for blues. Try them. Only 25c
Forbes & Coxe Drug Co
If we did not have the right kind of
buggies and wagon and the right kind
of prices, it would be impossible for
to sell os many as we do. The kind
show sell themselves. J. P. Heard
Sons, the Buggy and Wagon People.
Mr. Simon F. Peavy, of the
United States Census office at
Washington, was here one day this
week and appointed Judge J. A.
Walden to take the cotton census
of this county, with Messrs. W. D>
Murray and J. Gordon Lasseteras
alternates.
This season only three ronnds
will be made to each gin in the
county and only seven days will be -
allowed foi each round in which to
take the census, and all ginners are
requested to keep an accurate ac
count of each bale ginned and be
ready when called on for a report*
He will make his rounds in October,
January and March, and will re- '
ceive fi5.0fi.per day from the gov
ernment .department for his work.
One man will be appointed for
every county in the cotton states,
and it will be worked in such a
systematic manner that nearly a
perfect report of every bale of
cotton ginned m the south will be
known in a few days after taking
the census. This will be the means
of stopping the fake reports that
have been sent out In the past few
years to the disadvantage of the
farmers.
It the reports of the census this
season are-successful the number of
census will probably be increased
next year, and we can see no reason
why it will not, and that every
ginner will gladly give a correct
report on each round of the census
taker.
QUICK RELIEF FOR ASTHMA.
Fleers Hooey and Tar affords imme
diate relief to asthma sufferers ln,the worst
stages, and it taken in time will effect a
cure. For sale by all dealers.
The Houston High Scool Opening.
The Houston High School opens
its doors for the fall term Septem
ber the first.
Those who are friends to the
school and it's interests are looking
forward to a lively opening with
much to be said of the good work
the school is doing. It is announced
that Mr. Willie D. Upshaw will be
present to inspire everybody with
his school and educational oratory*
Mr. Upshaw is not u stranger at
Arabi, and the people of his entire
state know of his ability to create
great enthusiasm.
He will doubtless be greeted by
a large attendance of boys and
girls for matriculation in the school
and numbers of other people who
are looking for a rare treat in his
presence.
Don't fail to take
advantage of our
SPECIAL PRICES on
BUGGIES and WAGONS
thleweok. In fact
everything in OUR
PLACE haa values.
J. P. Heard A 80ns;
Foley 9 s Honey aad Tat
cures colds, preveatspaeumoaie.
\TaJisri**7 "P*n*T
