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HULME’S FARM IS IN GEORGIA COL. T. LARRY GANTT per Sere. Itja the Whitley Pro lific, ft Georgia production, and the stalks hare from two to four ear*. We aaw a feld of very fine corn planted the 18th of June, af ter a crop of outa were harveated from the lapd. It la conccddt? by all who know Harold Hulme’ ’ that he la one of the moat progressive and sUccess-’ ful farmers In tqla section of Geor gia. It Is Hu? general Impression that a farmer must be horn and trained between the plow-handles, a. It were, to succeed. But Harold Mr. Hulmea plants several van- llulme has demonstrated that such etles of cotton but preterta College training in notesKHtlai. He fs'llt No. 1. as It Is ar, early variety ermlly & town.boy, being born and and yields well. It wilt require reared In 1 Athens and acquired his several articles to tell about Mr. agricultural lore by study. Some • Holme's farm and ihls different eight or nine years ago. fresh from 1 crops. Next week we will publish the halls of college, he took charge I a wonderful story of a new grass of their farm and from the first- crop ho has introduced, which he -ear mastered .the business and calls tho Hulme Grass. It yields In as made of It a crowning Success, hay and as green stuff for ensil age reads like a romance. IVEO AT Mr, Hulme says he pays his IOME .hands standing wages and feeds them. He can always fin work on produced in this section,-far morelsnys: "Our spinners prefer the profitable than cotton has ever I American cotton and will return been. Think of our importing!to It as soon as possible, because canned beans and brooms when they have been using It for gen- we can grow the material soieratoina and therefore know the — " -—well. Furthermore, (he profitably at home. Mr. Willi- grades - ford says he is told that brdoni grades are uniform, which is more corn has advanced in price from $80 to |400 per ton and it can 'bo grown as successfully in Madison and other counties around Athens as anywhere onithe continent. It is easily worked, requires no fer tilizer or poison, and the seed make splendid chicken feed. Why not some of our farmers inves tigate this new crop? FIGHT ON WEEVIL than can be said for the /oqtsld era,’ and this makes for better production from the spindle and looms.” Let our southern cotton-growers sit steady .n the boat, hold on to the advantages they now have—- growing their own supplies and making of the staple a surplus and money crop—and ours will become one of the richest and bushels per ncre. He planted one field of bearded wheat, but says it also had come rust. He hsa a grove or sixty bearing pecan trees, and everything else . tit t be produced In this coun try. He has always made it his practice not Only to raise'at home everything to maintain his farm but sbme to sell. But what most Impressed us with Mr. O’Kelly’s farm wag the way he has improved and brought up his land since we tlrst knew *.♦ He has shown what can be ; ac complished In this section. And he MAKES "MONEY Oil truck farm oh the Bogart road. H« lo.t one'arm la,a aaw mill, but *yi hf can do if muck work no my man. Mr. Adame rent, land from the Meiara. Scott for hla truck Ing bualneaa. nnd la making moat independent section* on the;and lowing legume planta. George has done thla by rotating croua. ceaa.of it. He aaya there la more American continent. Even the eastern cotton mills are 1 being moved to the south, and this only a beginning of the end. All our old . ettliens , remember j hlsd farm in so keeps hts hands Cousin Billy"' Mathews, one of our busy. In Mr. Bond, his manager, he it and moat respected citizens nd successful, .farmers. "Cousin illly," as all ..called him, madejt rale to grow plenty of every- hlng to susta.u hts farm and made If cotton a surplus and money rop. "The Blftok Friday.'’ foUow- ng the panic..that threatened to rreck the whoIe.,oountry, "Cousin, Illly,' 'rode bin horse Info Athens id w»a asked If be did not think _e country wss ruined? "Why. ie replied, "I see nothing to worry bout. Whgn I left home this lornlng my cribs were full of corn, ly bams of Mr.*W smokfe-bouse f meat, and 'ftrertr. plow moving, cousin Billin' Mathews was the indfather of Harold Hulme and e has probaidr. (Inherited arming Instil out from says he has a good man and when absent be .knows hit Instructions are. being carried out io the letter and everything going on right. BELIEVE ATHENS NEEDS CANNERY Mrs. Troutman the lady who bar made our curb market euch a crowning aucceee, rays aho will not be gatiafied until there la an hla organisation In Athena to market sound Judg- ' the aurprua vegetables brought In in. Tho farm by farmera for which there la not e works’was* a^part Of the old a local aale. The .ucceto of the fathews place and who owned a curb market will induce farmer, w pass u^f..n arwl tha an. • miHutf do this. , > > . j this In the Wiiaervilte-tS^Iu 1 !, nnd lb# en- -siimot do this. trm haa been brought^ Ighest state of idfcinra _ Curb imarket la the beat thin# t/ acres planted lnfevfer organised in Athens, and can iiL-va* toiling, nnd.be and Should be moulded into a ^;i‘Vnri r &lbo-Wn Wajis, Md ybe hud should be moulded into l\lV ,TLn torn undeV ' next! area, bu.lqe.,.. Mr. Bradberry ray. Ich he will turn iring wb better I' five aerea of suitable _ __ tj cap h. Irrlgatad,. , apf mirare a« tier’furnish fnore Plant It 111 vreetobles and like pro- » mature "JJ.. Hulme 1 duce. and will make more clear UmU *ho» d ho believe#’a heavy coat i money than a farmer can by cul- W'JZ'i h U.«Turaed h uL V e y r5 ; -v- n a. hundred acre. In cel. erth a. muehsaftonof fertU; ‘ £ Troulm>n , h| , „ M or per nre determined that Athens will by ™ Jf® ■ro.n^ M a cover cZ ”•*> spring have a flr.t-cl«e esit id crimson clover as a cover cr i> j f-.tnrv rnmhlned She has these entorprl.it figured out and says ehe can convince any on* that they wlll-prive a paylnr investment. All the vegeUbles iught to the city and not mar. lie, can be sold to the □salble material to take ■tliHiaiSi the eaanery. Athrar ulld up your-,land. But he uses as a winter pasturage for cat- e, and when he breaks up bit nd In the epring the plow turni Oder a coating of vegetation. - ulme .tiae'Te negro boy tow: ■ rattle ddt to L it he InMbda lo*g h vrii ound.hls»ntlre>Tafln.Ii b"”™ J .pends thousands of diUara every itton or any other crop for two I rnr for | m p 0r t,d canned good, 'are In spccesslon on the “““ I that should be at hoi eld. he covers the ground wit# „„ Troutman has able manure. icees of everything she has under- Mr. Hulme eay* unless a farmer Bnfl wt ftre counting on date* crops and plants legume h#r , 0 c arry her plane through, ops, land need, resting the same Farmer, in this section believe In men. T^pse land owner* whose , h#r ttn4 w hen a stranger vlrlls the arms were Idle thla year for lack i cut j, m „rk.t they always hunt hen labor to cultivate them will find j up. We wish we could Inject eome im producing better crops and n f her spirit Into svery cltlsen of sy will gain about aa much lu| xth>M . > future bad tnetr land orked thla year. We Inspected Mr, Hulme s cot- on. Ho has 150 acre* planted he itaplo and says .. would have mad* much more bad he boll weevil never appeared, rhls has been a most unfavorable Uar tor cotton. But wc sever car no jar. nviroe say. wife who made them with hcr own k bale per are on tome Helda, and ^ ^ (oun<J hose T^o, have j fifty cants etch, and are as terv- h* Is good for 110 tf lK b«l« : | lce , J bI , u broom , , emnlf for „ ? # HVlmr^y“.«“of hli’I^W®®* broom, sei.lng for 75 b |eld *. h ® Jn talking with Mr. Wffllforf ere, but this. J™* “'®^f,„J about these brooms we unearthed SELLS BROOMS AT A PROFIT Mr. K. B. Williford, of Madison county, n».r Comer, brought to Fsrmers In this section whuj have intelligently and persistently; fought the boll weevil will double] thb yield of last year, and there are individual instances where a bale of cotton per aero will be made. And each year they are learning better how to combat the peat. It is How established that we can grim cotton under boll weevil conditions, bnt it is a never ending and very costly work. But cotton i* the sbuth’s greatest monoy crop and we- can find notiling to take ita place. Our section has a monopoly in the production of the short staple cot ton, and the world depends upon it for raiment and many o uses that naught else can cheaply supply. The increased price for cotton this season will serve to balance tho short crop, and the reduction in acreage will permit our farmers to grow food :rops. So instead of King Cotton to rule over and enslave the southern fanner, we ran make ol the old tyrant a useful and prot- jtable servant.,,, GEORGE O’KELLEY HAS FINE FARMS! |f you want to see one of finest and most up-to-date farats In Georgia or the south, vielt that of Mr. George O'Kelly, on the Wlntcrvllle road, four mile# from Athens. You will be well repalf for your trip. All of. our oldei ritlsenav remember hla father, who Tiad n photograph gallery on .Broad street, but every night would go by buggy to his farm. Bike all of the land In that section—now the garden spot of Upper Georgia—It was thin eoil, worked In the old- faehloned way. Dr. Jonea who owned the Southern Cultivator at that tlmeetho only farm paper In the South, also had an "experi mental'' farm on this road, but the scant crops were not much of on advertisement for the doctor as an expert fanner. ' CLAIMED OVER PRODUCTION .1 Before - the appearance—of-..the boil weevil, the claim was made , ipn acre?, and 1 • at, and sometimes below, reduction. 1 But' two anwri dikin' succession haa' reduced • p *- * point where ab normal condition the stocks to point where any thing ,lilts normal - conditions exhaust them -before tha l. harvested, r. t - t iev/ crop U harvested. A recent letter from * the staff of .the Lomlen,, ?eWd tom^Twith the mar- iets of the worldf They are now using Peruvian, African and In dian cotton, but they cannot make with these cottons a* '*"• uid it is more costly to spin. The mult is that English "'““J"] lure of cotton goods <» ibout one-balf and. their con mmptlon of cotton of course is proportionately cut. th« The negro is the peasantry of the southland the beat and cheap est labor we can have. An over powering number of these people labor on farms, and it ig best for their race and also the white land- owners that they be intelligently trained. And that they can be trainod to become successful farmers has been demonstrated in numerous instances. The late Col. James M. Smith had negroes trained ns foremen, and told : thd writer that he met with much * ♦tori.v letter results by havinfr negro foremen,over^^hia black hand* than begin hdvaneid hiw ^ fn , . •* da III ,i*M» reCS* , i - , . e “dsdd , other Anil wei believe it will ba the -■ Atu ’ ..i.— ssreiin rnn At M* father'* death Oeor#e O’K^lly bought the farm, contain- began' At one# O’Kelly never plants the same crop on a field two years in suc cession, and by this means keep* the soli supplied with humus. It would be a day well spent for far mers in the counties around Ath ens to visit George O'Kelly and learn his methods. Hi NOW TO FARM Prof. Phil Campbell, of tho State College of Agriculture, is now engaged in a most needed and commendable work. Prof. Camp bell. has throughout Georgia. a number of negro farm demonstra tors at work improving production by negro farmers, thus enabling m to become more prosperous and content. : aWri<uiltKri>l metnods tlo'n. Hh; b»«. alnca adedd , anolhei;djlfcq_ of that asjrdiiirjjwj* gro farm < demonstration agent* for members of their rare; > In Georgia to eurpaas, JI ^ 'well for ihuf. Camp' nnd easier money In lomatoe. •ban nny crop di-own, nnd eopccl. - 1 1>- if you can get them Ir. market early and late. Ho Is now felling to jobbera at 82 per crate and say, he haa made 8800 cratev on, MI acre, but thin Is an extra fins yield. But most sny year you can grow from 800 to 000 cratea by proper preparation of tho land. Mr. Ad am* says, there Is more ,Work and legs profit in beans than] ttfy crop n tracker can grow. If you can get your bean* on the market, very early they' pay injeely, hilt' When other vrcotablrs sro plentiful beano become a drug. ‘He snyo hs t. not an export wnterinHon ralqor, but make* them ' pay .Mm ■ abopt MOO Dor acre. But It doe* not require much labor to grow melons. He says there da-.aom# profit In corir; but no big thing, wbtn ov- cryons is selling it.-*.-- He^ irrows nYl kinds 6T Vegetable# and says hfe makes his trucking business pay. But if Athena would arrange to can or ehlp country produce farmera could then go in. to the trucking business systema tically with an assurance of sell ing all they rater. The Insects that prey on beans nnd many other vegetables are a serious menace. - Secretary Carroll says he I llevea that a cannery company can be organised in Athene, one could be made to pay and la needed. W» ^Ktd 'A‘ some years'ago Taut that' boll weevil daje and .era planted nothing bst hderlhe changed con- upon us a cannery a psWtiMh+Mtn***'in It Wohia fceopi *t -*oh* * m of nlrfite# (By Associated Press).; , ATLANTA—State . Superlnlon- dent of Schools N. H. Ballard is mplctiog plana fbr the survey of Georgia’s educational system and tha actual work'Is schodaled to | Mart within the n»x( several day* according to Infc-ms'lnn Mvon out I at hla department. Announcement that the aurvey ] would be made was given by Dr. Ballard several weeks ago am'I rtnc# then he ha, held many con-1 ferencea in a number of ( i Georgia counties with educational officials, i Numerous reforms In the present ■yetem are necanmiry. according tq| the superintendent, who has em phnslied that ono of the,chief of theodM a change In .the flavidal I rapport i of tbk scuohid. Anderson Plumbing Co. PLUMBING AND HEATING Good Mechanics Good Material Best Prices Phone, 1116 40 W. Chiyton AMBULANCE 106-Phone-1025 DORSEY’S Funeral Chapel Hancock and College Avenues. — —-j ’ Plenty of Money to Lend on Real Estate [during tUd’yaar-'n .Li „^«oWan and fUMMMf S-. o -"U no a b*'found t . 'equal If], Mr. O'Kelly hai done — .— r. much as any'farmer In Clarke «*» "J* try this, egpqrimont aa coupty to ehcoursgo Ptorrrrelv. ««- ■ ricuiiure. ! He is n lenuer ip «•> r*“*- r*‘ r, j “"••I movement lb ..slat the farmer. ,nd!po°pl4-,Jt_is * mistolto -to educate| . / Radio Making Hit on Farm jiyi h th.' lt MwchesZ [wtotrev'llie'puro sZ nl AiEII>ctotlo h n ^Ihope'lfitUte, lot when they are|dto for 'ptactloal and nodal pum, ■ ■ “‘“ of AmuricVfWIntpwWh Pure seed Aviation UB|fht >c|entiflc _ 1Bd .dviheed peeaa la thown hi a recent rar- ATLANTA—The ■; speed . with ilane he can never! which fanners have taken up rar- States With the huUdinu of 5 0t ) h J, throuiR for he would crura every mills In the cotton fields “' ‘UI clod and make of It a perfect oe*d I.Wd cannot compel* be c , unt#d on mBk Last Friday the writer paid a vis agriculture* they are in a position Ivey made by the United It to Mr.' O'Kelly and spent some where they have full latitude to Department of Agriculture, o . co(| y of wh , ch hu bttn r^.ivra at the capItoL County agricultural agouti estl* mate there now ire approximately 40,000 radio seta bn farms In 780 counties. Thle lo an average of 51 sots per county. Applying thla av. erase to 2,850 agricultural counties a total of more than 145,000 aet time Interviewing him and Inapect Ing hla farm. He waa preparing an alfalfa patch of three acres and hie old alfalfa field ho had plow ed up and wae arranging to sow the land In oalo. With n tractor and largo plows ho had thoroughly broken prou nek but eald ho was gn for ha would crush every -land tapnot compel lecturers aha as leadort.ljl luring worltjf mv. wavnWouUWnOT grow’ But manufactura cotton intt „ me- ^This tsla of woe from English kptarmre trill not find much sym pathy from our aouthern cotton growers who will remember that ho pity was extended them when toko"«n y rw.- ment of these English mamifab- turen without profit, and some times below cost Of production- snrpliui hat been ortaMted and warehouse, swept clean! the tide his turned and the cotton producer I* being given a share of-the fruit* of .hi* toil. WORTH PICKING SmhSmiMits-tta. h. h«W curb maricet a bundle of he will make home-made brooms, sent in by his Mr. HV-me says be will maze her own lug at least 100 bushels of osts ue r a ore. And another specialty with George O’Kelly, he plant* only the bnt and purest saed, and had or dered n pew kind of oats that cost titm $8 per busheL dly la a gnat believer In alfalfa, and will plant tore) acre. In that crop. He say* ha cult hie alfalfa generally five time* during the season and will make three tens per acre. He says It I*' a wonderful crop to Im. prove land and nothing can equal It. He geta 180 per ton for al falfa bay. Like hla oata he war pACpariSra the *« an ash bank. and crop* We counted the bwn boll, on a number of near ;e stalks ind they number from t to *0. Mr. Hulme gay* he dqet -It select ii patch to demonstrate rlth. but hla entire cron Vf(ll JTT erase about the same. The Stalk* a laden with bolls from bottom top. Mr.vHulme says be applies lctum areenate In the dust from _.id follow* direction* of the de. wrtment ol agriculture. He has lusted bis cotton six time*, and »pt It up during the season. He the government employs ex- anil scientific men to ex- •eriment with crops, and they r better than he does. Farmer* ■ better follow the direction, if these expert*. Mr. Hulme use* rom 400 to 800 uounda of 8, 4 1-2, fertilizers to the acre of Us own _anutacture, and which In equlva- ent to about 800, pounds of stan- 'vrd grade, on ACRES - N CORN - He has 30 acres planted In corn, nd It is equal to his cotton crop. The com will average JO bushels a little story of what three short rows in a garden can be made to Pag, and which shows the wonder ful' possibilities of our country. Last spring Mrs. Williford blanted ■ three rows in her garden in beans and they brought her tC when sent to Athens and sold. In June after the bean vines died down, she planted the land in broom' corn. The corn grew off well and matured in about a hun dred days. This lady made some brooms for her own use, and they were so serviceable that she sent some to our curb market for sale. From these three garden row* Mrs. Williford gathered enough materia!, to make twenty nice brooms, and which will bring her in 910. With the bean crop her net income from this narrow strip of land will be f 16. You can per haps estimate what ctp b* done with an acre or more But the danger that menace, the cotton-growers of our imme diste section, ss ltkewta® the en tire belt. Is, encouraged by the high price now paid for the small crop, that next year tney * frBt „ bu , mct0 r and planta and plant too Jaw ““'SSect the harvest, nil of hi. om.ll grain rad hav crops. Ho uso# all the labor, savin# ahd Improved farming im Mr. O’Kelly has this yoar 7B acres planted in cow ptaa for hay. He says It takes an extra *ood crop of peas to make a ton of hay per acre, but being a. legume plant It greatly Improves the land and fr the clever af the south. !!« says no crop pays the farmer like hay. for the time and labor expended H» get# $25 per ton for his pea- vino hay./ His two little sons, tho oldest only fifteen years old. op S5b Tnd not Jnly SSU* the food crops • but give tHe nulls on 3Sr C 2E«Sri£ to prices. This h “ every thinking cotton-grower that ffiwfKSS &,“ar «£&$£ grower has now the worid by tne toil and a down-hill pull, if n* W l 0 d nl w y |th 0 to. h wfw P «*vil among us^nd theSmt is here to .toy- ratten is a very uncertain crop. If wo* have a dry summer we can, by the intelligent «»• J*hSuSX make * s™* 11 C ”P ® f c .'? tt0 "’ if it rains incessantly the weevil ‘Lt? wour orospecU. It plemcntr, and makes his crops with much less expense than the aver age farther. He has brought hla fond up to such a state for culti vation. that he can use a tractor and machinery oil nny of his fields exercise their allotted place in the south, and can he of tervico to themselves, the white land-owner and their' country. Of course it will take time and patience to complete this work, but the sooner it starts the sooner will it bo pos sible. In traveling through the country one can pick out at a glance every farm worked by a negro cropper or renter, from its Inferior crops and poorly culti vated ilckls. If a few negroes in every community can be taught every community can be taught how to intelligently plant and cultivate their crops their pre cept end example will be sgrfad to others.. ; * n i » r •-£ - on farms throughout the countr# Is estimated by the department* Federal weather forecasts,- crop, reports and.market quotations nqw are. broadcart from 150 radio Sta tions throughout the country, cording to the survey.' In i ' By J. WILLIAM FIROR, ilanted first in beans an broom corn, two crops year. Our farmers are just learning tho luuuy money-crops that can be will destroy your prospects. Ill dopsnd, upon the seasons. But the world must have our cottop, and the smaller the crop the high “ the price. Let us continue to n reduce the grestast abundance of food supplies and make, of cotter a surplus crop, end ell will be W Thc south need never feujjeri- cu* competition from cotton grown in other countries. An g^glish manufacturing journal George OlCelly has sixty acres planted, in cotton and at 'the time of. our visit\hnd gotten out five bales, and could nick 200 pounds a day. Mr. O’Kelly says h* will average two-thirds of a bale pif acre In spite of the boll weevil. He began to use poison before s square appeared and has kept It bo. The first applications were'the Hill Mixture, but when his plants began to gain site he used calci um arsenate In the dust form. Of all the methods Used In the fighting of the boll' weevil, the de •traction of the cotton etalka earl# In the fall seeme to be the least un derstood sr.d l««.t applied. Why this Is true Is somewhat difficult to see. It does not seem possible that th# farmer* are not interested in October In making a crop the following year, further. It does not seem possible (hat farmera arc not generally Interested In reducing the chance of heavy weevil Infestation throughout any community or county. Therefore, the reason must b* thr.t the application of this meth od Is not thoroughly understood, nor appreciated. During the time between now and , killing frost, the boll weevils will continue to lay eggs, tp feed the cotton, to develope into grabs, pupae and a constant hitch |<VS t >d B 5*8,IS 45 w 5 Ing frost, the greater the number number of weevils In this county nre Increasing nt a rate almost beyond human conception. Rlncs nil of the top crop is gone, farm ers naturally have stop thinking about fighting tho weevil ns fa r as this crop Is concerned, but what nbout next year? It Is a simple fact that tho greater the number of weevils present nt the first kill ing fro*, the greater tho number that will be present next spring. He raiser, corn not only for his The weevils’ that batch out dur- own use. but has It for sale, and *"* ^ two we * k * ^ u§t *>®fore his crop will average 30 or *5 bu-J the *«>* comes hav# the she!# p. r acre. IIo plants a pro-} < be«t chance to go through th« liflc variety of corn. This year in j winter. spite of rust, his wheat niado 16Hl M destroying the stalks duri -*19job. teiicn j brfii offioo oj nAuoil i M Reduced Rates To Atlanta Account Southeastern Fair Tickets on sale October 5th to 12th. Final ;:^l October 15th, 1923. One and One Half; Fares for the Round Trip VV I 11 , J. P. niLLIUPS, G. P. A, 9 Atlanta and Weak. Point Railroad jCo* Western Railway of Alabama, Georgia Railroad. the first 15 days of October therj will be no weevils hatching out 1*! these ".I** on which the stalk* j are destroyed and the wevviU that are adult now will search fo» other fields of cotton. This is the reason why the destruction of cot- •ton stalks during the month of October is so effective In lessen ing vhe wettvil emergency sux! spring. Thre are some cotton fields which all of the cotton can be picked next week, still mors which will .have all of the bolls oiyn the following week, The de- stractioii of the stalks on thess fields, either by ripping up oi turning under or some other meth' od—the principal thing .is to dS' - itroy the' stalks nnd prevent the production of green sprouts or bloom, Is very deslrabl?. Blues Clarke county fsrmers have waged one of the most determlnod fights against the weevils that any coun ty has ever put on, why not star! the next fight early, thereby, stand a much better chance to make s cotton crop next kear and lessen the cost of poisoning next season. The sowing of osts as near to October 15th as Is practicable is ths best timing of this crop in this county. Experiments running over s , period of eight years at the Ag rlcultural College here show that ths same variety on the same soil October 16 each yesr ay * erase 47 bushels per acre,while tht, same variety on the same sol J,sown on November 15 averaged 19 .and a half bushels; In sowing oats It Is BOLL WEEVIL CONFERENCE New Orleans, La. October 25th—26th, 1923. One and one-half fares for the round trip. The Boll Weevil Menace is a subject of great importance to farmers and commercial in terests alike and this meeting will be held under the auspices of the Louisiana Bank ers Association; A very large attendance is expected. ‘ For further information as to rates and Pullman reservations, apply to local ticket agent, or J P. BILLUPS, G. P A., /Atlanta and West Point Railroad Co., The Western Railway of Alabama, .Georgia Railroad 'WjK . ' ^"■T|