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DAILY TIMEMNTEAMIM, TH0MA6VILLE, OEOROIA
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OECEMS ER £S, 1
RAMIE, FLAX AND HEMP MAY BE CROWN
SUCCESSFULLY BY FARMERS IN GEORGIA
Pre-Inventory Sale'
We find that we ha ve a large amount of remnants
in Georgettes, Crepe de Chines, Taffetas and
Messalines, which will be on sale at,
per yard 95c
Best quality outings, per yd. 15c
Dress ginghams, per yd 15c
54-inch best quality Chiffon Broadcloth,
per yd $2.65
54-inch Prunella Skirtings in Plaids and
Stripe, per yard $2.75
Readymade Sheets, each 69c
Towels, each 10c
H. GOLDSTEIN
Atlanta, Oa. t Dee. 9, 1923.
Hon. S. Guyt McLendon,
Secretary of State,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir:
I beg to submit, herein, a report on
the prospects for success culture of
ramie, flax and hemp, In Georgia.
All three of these fiber plants may
be grown profitably In the state, but
for various reasons, the culture of
'ramie seems to offer the best prospects
for success. Both flax and hemp are
annual crops, while ramie is perennial.
Flax is rather of a northern crop;
hemp prefers a lime soil; ramie grows
to best advantage in a warm climate
with rather abundant rainfall, and doe*
well in almost any soil.
Ramie. In order to start the culture
of ramie on any considerable scale it
:essary to grow the planta from
seed, in beds, as in the practice with
tobacco. The seedlings should be
shaded until they are two or three
inches high, and may be transplanted
in the field In about five or six weeks.
, After a start has once been made,
the surest method of propagation is
to dig up old plants and break tha
roots into small parts, planting these
root cuttings.
Ramie is usually grown in %-foot
rows, the plants being spaced from 20
to 30 inches apart in the row. This
will give some seven or eight thou
sand plants per acre. In planting root
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The second year, the young growth
Bhould be cut and thrown away In
April, after danger of frost la over,
fertilised, plowed and hoed.
The crop should be harvested about
July 1st, and in October.. For this
purpose reapers may be used,
servatlve estimate places the probable
crop at about 475 pounds of fiber per
:re per year.
The planting of ramie need
disturbed for five years. Many of the
plants will continue to do well for
years or more but the stand becomes
that It Is more economical to
dig up the roots and separate them
every five years.
Ramie fiber is much stronger than
any other known fiber; has a silky
luster; resists atmospheric changes;
is easily dyed and but little affected
by moisture. The culture Is rather
limple and easy and can be carried
out very successfully in nearly all
parts of Georgia. The only drawback
to the cultivation of the crop has been
the lack of a market because of the
difficulty in decortication.
Flax. Although flax Is grown more
widely in the North than In the South,
it may be cultivated very successfully
in Georgia. It grows to best advan
tage In clay soils, but the quality of
the lint is best in plants ffora sandy
Flax is an annual. For best results
le land should be plowed in the fall
cuttings the crown roots should be dis- (but not harrowed). In the spring it
carded. should be replowed, disked and bar-
Ramie may be grown, as has already rowed. The seed should be sown with
been stated, on almost any tpye of a grain drill, not more than 1V4 Inches
soil found in Georgia. It does best on deep. The crop should be atterated
sandy loam and is least successful on with legumes and should be well fer-
stiff clays. tilized. -
The preparation of land should begin ; Flax matures in 85 to 100 days. It
in the fall. The land should he plow- is best gathered with a harvester,
ed deeply (never less than 12 Inches) | Hemp. This is also an annual, the
and cross harrowed. In the spring It culture of which, in this country, has
should bA plowed and harrowed again.' been confined mainly to the blue grass
(Early February.) Then after lying 'region of Kentucky. It thrives best
for a month the field should be laid upon limestone soils, but will do very
off in flat beds, about 4H feet from well on almost any type,
centers, the centers raised about six; The soil should be prepared well
inches. If planting roots, the bed* and the seed sown about two inahes
should then be barred off with a deep, with a wheat drill, using
scooter four inches deep, the root* bushel per acre. The land should be
placed in the rows and covered with fertilized with ISO pounds of nitrate
furrows. A week later, when the and 160 pounds of muriate per
roots have begun to sprout, the ground This crop demands plenty of nitrogen,
ihould be run over with a harrow car- The average production is about 732
rying a board at the back to mellow pounds per acre,
the soil. 1 For the three crops, all available
The ground should be well fertilized data indicates that ramie would be
with stable manure, or with cotton preferable for the coastal plain and
seed meal and kalnit at the rate of perhaps for the Piedmont plateau;
300 pounds per acre. i flax would do best in North Georgia,
When the first growth is about three and hemp could be cultivated to
feet high it should be layered. This advantage in Northwest Georgia.
Is accomplished by mellowing the the three plants I believe ramie offers
ground, bending the stalks down and the greatest possibilities for the state
holding them with a forked stick as a whole.
while they are covered with 4 Inches, Respectfully submitted,
of soil. It is necessary to cultivate (Signed)
the plants In the spring and early sum-. WILLIAM F. TURNER,
keep the weeds down. ' Acting Entomologist
iLarge ' Capital Becoming MobiHzatiori
Of Small Holders* Savings, Says Hoover
Urging lndividualism, For Fellow Men
This it the third
courtesy of Doublcday,
which Herbert Hoover,
services to humanity by
of American citisenthlp
(Ml peter Mil breient through the
Indivldueliim,* the new book in
end well beloved for kit many j
‘ teekt to define Ike treemret
vision of ownership among many
ployee.
We tn America have had too
much experience of lift to fool out
selvee Into pretending that all me
are equal In ability, In oharactei
In Intelligence, In ambition.
clap-trap
a tingle ooncem art i
The overwhelmingly largest portion
Of our mobile capital is that of our
vast majority of all this la the ag*
negated small savings of our people.
Thus large capital la steadily bo*
coming more and more a mobilisa
tion of tho savings of the email
fcoldar—the actual people them
selves— and Its administration bo-
soma* at once more sensitive to ths
moral opinions of the people tn or
der to attract their support The
directors and managers of large
concerns, themselves employees ef
-President
irned their
life without economlo
and eight of them
manual labor.
by arbitrary In-
t come to
_ of individual ism.
i need tb-day is.steady de-
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG
CANADIAN WOMAN IS
KIDNAPED BY ESKIMO
when the weather was temperate, she
frequently went swimming in the sea
near the group of huts which made up
the village in which she lived. One
day she failed to return. Indications
on the shofe pointed to the terrific
j fight she had made against her ab-
Carried away by savage “fish fang” ( ductors. Torn cothing was found,
Eskimos, tin wildest and least civiliz- indicating that she had been stripped
ed of the tribes of northern Canada, before abduction.
Miss Marguerite Lindsay, a cultured j It was reported that members of
Canadian g rl, member of the expedi- the “fish fang” tribe had been seen
tion headed by Dr. W. T. Grenfeld, J there, and there is little doubt but
the Far North. Although her fate f that she was carried into slavery by
is unknown, slight knowledge of this these savages, more, cruel than the
terrible band gives some hint of the American Indian. CarrieV away in
horrors which she must have gone to the trackless north the white girl
through. | had no means of leaving a trail be-
DUapp«ar*d While Bathing. jhind her, and her would-be rescuers
[iss Lindsay went with the expedi-, were baffled at every turn,
tion to do settlement work among the I Powerful friends and relatives,
Eskimos. During the summer months headed by her brother, are conducting
a frenzied search, using airplanes and
dog-sleds, in the hope of finding the
unfortunate girl who once waa a ‘
er of society in the Canadian capitals
and London.
to assure to the Individual through
government la liberty, Jqstioe,
tellectual welfare, equality of
portunlty, and stimulation to I
Xt's In maintenance of St society
of tho wreckage
•ed tb
better, brighter, broader
maivMuauam — an individualism
that carries Increasing responsibil
ity and service to our fellows. Oui
need Is not for a way out
forward. Our Individual^
ed tn Oar vary nature. Xt Is based
lershlp is disappearing forward. Our individualism la
works of to-day ars
ring more and more bo
on conviction born of experience,
one In- Equal opportunity, the demand for
a fair ohaaoe, la the 'formula of
American individualism because It
IS the fetthod of American achieve-
aftqr spending several days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Robison.
and Mrs. Ben Smith, and Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Davis, of Merrillville,,
spent Sunday with Miss Mattie Smith.
Miss Ode Rich, of Atlanta, Go.
spending a while 'with her uncle, ilr. Sunday.
R. J. Merritt.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sasser, and
family, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. C. G. Thomas of Cobb, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Brady, of
~ » in this community
We are very glad to sny Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Dennis, Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Bullock of Meigs, have moved in
our community.
The social given at Mrs. R. C.
Cooper's homo Monday night was
enjoyed by all present.
JAMES B. BURCH
Lawyer
Civil and Criminal Practlca
Third Floor Masonic Bldg.
THOMASVILLE, GA.
F. A. STROBEL.D.C
Licensed Chiropractor
Chronic Disease and X-Ray
Wsrk a Specialty
Office Phone, SU
“ t. Phone, m
Dr.R* B« O'Quinn
DINTAL SURGEON
Office (n Medical Bldg.
Extracting a Specialty
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Beauty Culture
UKkirek BUldu* 1,4 IlM,
Boom 111. Phono II
n™—t WtTtee |L vetoed
Aon* H. Lifbtfan
56 MEN AND TWO WOMEN
HAVE HUGE LIFE INSURANCE
Fifty-six men and two women car-
ry life insurance of $1,000,000 or
'more, and the aggregate reaches $88,-
485,000, according to figures com
piled. Interest in large life insurance
policies was rekindled last week when
James C. Penney, of New York, be
came third among High policyholders,
with' $3,000,000. The list of highly
insured persons follows, ths policy
holder living in New York uni
otherwise stated:
Adolph Zukor $5,000,000
Rodman Wanamaker .... 4,500,000
Pierre du Pont, Wilmington
4,000,000
James C. Penney 3,000,000
John Wanamaker 8,000,000
Percy A. Rockefeller.... 3,000,000
J. P. Morgan .......... 2,600,000
B. E. Bensinger, Chicago. 2,500,000
Henry Davidson, Chicago 2,500,000
William R. Cos 2,000,000
Arthur Letts, Los Angeles, 2,000,000
Julius Rosenvald, Chicago 2,000,000
John N. Wniyt, Toledo . 1,800,000
Louis F. Swift, Chicago.. 1,800,000
Douglas Fairbanks, Los Au-
fdes -..—— 1,000,000
BEULAH
The Christmas program given at
BeulAbJWAy night, *as enjoyed
F. Robison, who holds
•nWMgJ*|<^Uon in Jacksonville,
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