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greyest preachers in the South. I few weevils. But beginning five Jap Girls Trained With Rifles THE OLD HOME TOWN
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By Stanley
A FARMER SAYS that calcium;
arsenate will amen destroy the j
boll weevil, tie tcuni n low,,
damp spot in his field'? alive withj
weevils. He secured a small quan-j
tity of calcium nrseuate and
sprinkled it on the stalks. The-!
next day he found ever two hun
dred dead weevils on a small patch
and not a live one
ay.
THE CHECK FACTORY, that]the lumber section begins, he no-
anufactures cloth for automoblie. ticed much land untilled and
shut down this week, but |crops are sorry. Mr. Smith says
sumo operations next Mon-,he was surprised to sec such fine
Owing to decreasing de-[crops and farmers in such fine
fer goods ami the scarcity (spirits.
_jy%£,r-j H a rt Tobacco
THE SEWERAGE system beipg j
ill c:» Oglethorpe avenue and/
tcrsccting streets was finished
otton,
Crop Is Fine
t Saturday and is now Toady
for connections. The water mains
will be laid in September, when
the piping is shipped. The resi
dents cf that section appreciate
these improvements, but are anx
ious to know when they will be
given street lights.
MR. MENDEL MORRIS left
Sunday for Atlantic City and
other pleasure resorts
north, dnd will be
month or so.
CALCIUM ARSENATE can now
be bought at wholesale for fifteen
cents per pound. A largo major
ity“of farmers mix their poison
with water *aml mmasses and they
say thaTby so doing they can
save from one-third to one-half
of the poison and it does better.
The saving thus made has doubt
less helped bear down the price.
^ At "intrrviiFAn n r MR. R. J. CATLETf, a promi-
MR. G. M. Will TEH * y * neJ ,t farmer of the Dry I’ond see-
Jackson county, operates a large ■ Uon „f Jackson county, says the
saw mill m Greene. He says tne uge p 0 j son there ure keeping
price of lumber has decHned ^you down thc boll weevil and crops of
all kinds have greatly improved.
Dale, another Jackson county
farmer, who lives near Clarks-
n ! u boro, says they find very few
men try to keep going so as to (weev jj a j n cotton and while corn
hold their hr :da together, but un-1 ig sma) | it cominIt out a ; 8eL ,
less thejr can ^:nd Mlc for their, the rajns _ Jackaon win make „
Many Thousands Added
to Revenue of County By
New Crop Will Average
750 Pounds.
per thousand and it is slow sale
at that figure. Last, week
saw mills in Greene closed down
and others will do so. The mill
boards there is nothing left but
to shut down.
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AROUND ATHENS— Gkl TWO
WE CONSIDER# Mr. Harold I
Hulme the best possible authority! —. « __ A —-
a crops, as he is one of our | OUT OUR WAY
A RELIABLE gentleman
last week traveled over Greene
and Putnam counties, says that
not one acre in a hundred is in
cultivation — only small patches.
People practically gave up farm
ing and depend . <n lumber for
money. This gentleman says
can buy good farms in some see'
tions at $2 and $3 per ac».
himself, the last
lost $16,000 try
negro labor, so h : s land
? of his nelgnoors ioau| C om j s growing off nicely, as
$60,000 on his farms since t e * Ljj other crops. In speaking
vent of the toll weevil, In ■the the negro exodus Mr. Hulme i
coantics around Athens farmer* there are plenty of darkeys,
continued to work and fig # our lands need resting up and let
weevil and arc rt 'Wa e a part of your farm lie out awhile
HARTWELL, Ga.—That Hart
vounty s first tooaceo crop is a
success from every angle, and
lb> , ... that arc lew farms in the
absent for a I ,vl,G le county where the crop can-]
not be grown successfully and:
] profitably, wa fl brought out last
Friday by A. M. Best, the county’s
tobacco agent, at the meeting of
the Kiwaidfc Club.
The report of Mr. ,JJest was the
ptincipal feature of the day’s pro-j
gram, and it is very gratifying to j
all to learn that the new crop be-]
ing experimented on here is to'
bring many thousands of dollars
additional revenue In even this
first year. ,
The grade grown here will bring I
from 25c to 60c per pound, he'
dated.
The production will average 750
pounds per acre. v ,
crop if the seasons
most progressive and observant
farmers. Mr. Hulme says he
knows only one man who is ryot
* I using poison this year, and he has
"'only a small patch in cotton.
Crops have comb out wonderfully
“ Vu A.* /‘ Crops have come out wonderfully
sc three year., n.. within the past ten days since the
rains. Very few weevils are
fine crop prospects. This gentle
man savs negroes who went north
are writing, back to their former
employers for money to return on,
but they do not heed such requests.
Many farmers have not tlje money
tb-advancc and do not care to risk
fanning with negro labor.
will be worth more than the crops
made. If we have u surfeit of
labor the danger is that our farm-
us will again become Cottontots.
Now they are raising cotton as a
surplus crop and growing plenty
of supplies^
ON MONDAY we called on our
wholesale houses und they say
the past month trade has been
Dog Days begin. An old citizen
says we can *knovni tfood and business is now on a
SS S'r.n"«rinX~PeriodV"li« bMta.xar.au Hulme .ay.
past yean, at this season, they
ould not get in corn, oats and
T ACT ffpinAY Mr* Lomrstrret couw not set in corn, oats ana
She i connected hay fast cnou K h to .apply the dc-
Mr. LonZ n»nd, of farmer., but they now
StoV her “matton BC 'lt X n=^bor H who "h^StoSrtuSto
^*?hc h 'acrlfk'od h« propertV to And when the new crop,
“y and rave Tallulah Falla from <°®o our farmer, will sign
JK p* r Comoany their declaration of independence
the Georgia I ower C ompany. i aKai , lst Kraia aml hay crow .
A CABLEGRAM received by hi, era »l the west.
wife from Rev. Mr. Jenkins state, j
that he hud safely arrived in: HR. SMITH, n member of our
SWcden, being a delegate to tho « V ™r. .ay, he last week took a
World’s Baptist Conference. Ho trip through the country from
will atop over In Athens for hi* Au > c "» to Augusta, via Washing-
family erf returning to hi. church ton. In Wane, county crops arc
ili Texas. Mr. Jenkins filled the extra fine and farmer, arc hope-
puipit of tho First Baptist church ful. He never snw better corn u;id
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