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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. & k 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