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LyPAY.' OCTOBER 1S, 1923.
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Viev/s of Athens
Made For Paper
'ms.
Gathered
Larry GanttE
Tracy Mathewson, photographer
for The Atlanta Constitution, wfflt
be in Athens several days making
pictures of interesting scenes here
for the rotogravure section of that
newspaper which will .begin to
appear some tfme soon. Mr. Math-
ewson's visit was arranged by the
Chamber of Commerce.
:
6TIITES COTTON CROP FOR 11. E.
[GEORGIA AT ONE-THIRD BALES PER
I: SECTION “CAME BACK.” SAT
■ince the appearance of the boll state of Georgia on account of the
|vil South Georgia farmers have ! ravages of the boll weevil.
ised this section growing | j\ representative was sent to
, ami fur « time it weemed * Georgia to Inves'/gate cnodtllons.
f our farmers would be forced 7his party went taro all parts of
(abandon thjp great money crop. ; the state where the company had
(they kept up the fight against i lent money, lie rode all over this
J pest and |!t Is'conceded that j section and looked at the farms
lory is now~With?n their grasp.; and talked with farthers. On bis
>theast Qeoi’gla-.has surely ar-, return home the company issued
inrJM uun i return mime me company lssuea
il and our farmers have the a circular announcing that here*
weevil on tbh run. if not rout* after loans would only be made on
and not only this, but they farms where farmers had adopted
• rlearly all grown plenty of the Northeast Georgia plan of
crops to run them another. fighting the boll weovll. The com,
,'pany says; “From wide-spread
do not wish>to exaggerate saudy of the pest and the various
‘ “* * methods of control, we advise the
u«e of calcium arsenate In the
liquid form, home-made mixtures,
and that it be applied in the day
One of the most successful hog
rn’eers In thV* section says we
can compete with Tennesse, or
any other state in raising hogs
Jf we prepare for the business; but
we cannpt afford to grow corn to
feed them and then gather their
feed. Then can, on the rich west
ern prairies, grow corn much
cheaper than we do; but even in
these states they only use corn
to harden the meat before putting
their porers on sale, but ra<pe
them on grasses and clover.
But these^ are cultivated feed
I, conditions,-' but give facts Just
[received from YeYablo farmers.
| every one knows, the average
r fs prone to look on the dark
•ally discour, time,
ten the desire
I to encourage
erve and not
ave won out.
hundreds of
mem num me vifferent COUU-
j around Attiart/ and with few
Options they, have all made
fcty of food stuff to do them. It
. and they
. It has
e Banner
I fanners
> up. Andj
I have talT
hiers from the
We especially advise the killing
the early weeq*I and general use
of the poison throughout entire
sections of the country by co-op
v — — crattan of neighboring farmers.”
very conservative estimate to, The empany states that it will
■ the cotton crop at pne third ‘ ooly loan money to those farmers
bale per. acre. In gome sec* who adopt the use of calcium ar
senate and pledge themselves to
Its continued use. The agent re
ports that of all sections of Geor
gia he ylslted the farmers
i the yiel1f4wlll .be a half bale
|he acre. \yjth the staple brlng-
I from $140~to $160 per bale, it
lasy to fom'4»tv'Wea of the lin
ed conditions over twelve Northeast Georgi’a have been most
pths ago. It fo true that some
mere are burdened with old
», but If the price of cotton
1 they . time pay olt
1 opiigatlona. J
t the best evidence of the lin
ked conditions of our Northeait
Wgia farmers is the report of
|investlgaVon made by a repre*
ittlve of the John Hancock Life
nee. company of Boston,
that loans a large part of
Imonejron farrtt/ Borne time 1
the Job. Hancock company
Isldered withdrawing from the
successful i combatting the pest.
Our farmers have learned, some
valuable lessons about growing
cotton under boll weevil conditions
and we believe in time thAy will
conquer the pest, If no't eradicate
It. Next year farmers will be able
to buy calcium arsenate at about
ten cents per pound aim we pre-
(Vet Its use will be general and
plied. But for the boll weevil we
the poison more Intelligently ap.
very much doubt it etton today
would be hrlnging more than four
nr five conts per pound. We be-
Hero there fa now breaking upon All of
our n southern cdttoh growers the plAntei
growers
brightest outlook since the sur*
render of Lee at Appomattox.
DH?
is a success. He said n* would
not advise any community to
start a cheese factory with lest
than 200 gallons of milk a day.
he Oconee Enterprise is urg-
its people not to grow die*
raged and abandon their
se. factory. That paper says,
f it takea two gallons of av*
;e sweet milk ,tp make a pound
butter, which; iclls for forty
1, would it not be well to take
ty cents per gallon for the
at a cheese factory and get
six quarts or more of sweet
(n» tk. knrM. n* uhlplroni.* 1
ky for 'the hogs or chickens. 1
I* Enterprise also says: “Some
|ple reason that we should
until there are moro milch
in the community before
■rting the production of cheese,
there never wall be any more
than w* now have unless
i way is. provided to market
i milk. nr./
he above paragraphs are con-
pive arguments In favor of a
■e«e factory for Oconee, and
|wer 8 every' objection that can
I raised. That the establishment
cheese factory encourages
|tle*raising is $jght now answer-
1 by the fact^that Oconee is
Jiir.g off itcsytttlc by the car-
|J, while ittdethorpe county.
V has a &Eee4e factory, and
Ikes, with afjargc creamery,
i both buyfflg JTl the fine milch
than 200 gallons or milk a day,
but with this supply, and which
will increase every month ai
more and more cattle are added to
the herds, a cheese factory can be
mado to pay. But the greatest in-
come is from the by-producta like * }*»**• l * ° n ® of 1
poultry, hoga, increase in dairy ,n this aectlon and
herds and improvement to farms | who have
by droppings from cattle.
The Lexington cheese factory
...... .— gi
crops’ wtyle in the country around
Athena we have several nutriclous
natural grasses suitable for a sum
mer feed for hogs. This gives us
a decided advantage over any sec
tion farther north. But in order to
profitably raise bogs we must pre.
pare pasturage for them, to sup
plement other feed. Corn will
probably be always used as a
basis fo rheg feed, but it cannot
be depended on aone. Grazing
crops are necessary, that the hogs
can gather themselves. In fact,
there should be three pastures, ao
that when one is exhausted the
others come.
On field No. one in the fall
plant a mixture per acre of one
ond one-half bushels of ota plowed
In, three pecks of rye harrowed In,
and eight or ten pounds of rape
brushed In.
As soon as these crops get so
the hogs cannot pull them up be
gin grazing. In field No. .2 in fall,
$lant oats one and onone half
bushels, rye, three pecks, and
crimson clover ten pounds. These
two fields should be grazed’ dur
ing the winter and early spring.
In field No. 3 In the fall plant oats
one and one half bushels, and
wheat one bushel. Til’s is to
grazed when it heads out In the
spring. When • No. 1 has been
grazed off plant peas or soy beans
with corn in every other row. Plant
No. 2 fiel din the spring; plant
soy beans or Spanish peanuts with
com in every other row. Plant the
same crops in No. 3 field. This
gives a rotation and the most num
ber of days In the year on grazing.
T (he above crops are easily
d and cultivated and no cast
for gathering.
cents farmers can make more
money raising cotton than ever’be.
fore, except in those boom year.
He had rather rale.- thirty bale*
at thirty cents per pound than
ninety bales at ten cents. By re
ducing the acreage. But no far.
mer can prosper, it matters not
how much cotton he raises an**
what prices he Is paid for it, and
buy suppliep to feed bl* family,
hards, and stock at time prices
Mr. Erwin raises everythibg * to
rupply his farm Including meat,
flour and al Mae. Mr. Erwin says
a farmer should not buy anythlns
be can produce on his farm. He
rained the Big Bone Poland China
hogs. Tie says to feed negroes y««>
want the fattest, greasiest hogs
you can find, for to get good work
out of a darkey you must give hlfii
plenty of healthy, wholesome and
strengthening food. -
Mr. Erwin says the condition of
the farmer is improving, and their
only drawbacks are those old debts
erected during boom times. He
referred to one year when he sold
his cotton crop at four and threq-
qunrter cents per pound, and
compared it with the price of to
day, and in those old days the
average farmer had to buy
time prices al) the food to feed his
family and run his place.
about three years. We know a! will fatten hogs. Not many graa-
man who set out a pecan grove ing crops will do this, but you try
and between each tree he planted!rape and see.
a peach, with an idea that about- We do not advise giving hogs
London now has a shortage o
children four and five years old.
the time the peaches began to fail only rape, but some corn too.
the pecans would commence to
bear. But both the pecans and
peaches began to bear the same
year,
KEEP OP FIGHT
ON BOLL WEEVIL
HART EXPERIMENTS
WITH T(
SMALL ACREAGES
has been established long enougl
as to
Evsry one who knows Tom Er
win of Oglethorpe, will concede
that he ia one of the best farmers
one of the few
always raised,
plenty of food crape to run their
placea and make of cotton eurplus
money crop. Mr. Erwin wae In the
This year, as bn experiment.
Hart county farmers planted 72
acres In tobacco. The editor of
the Lavonla Timea laat , week,
ith Mr. Best, the expert tobacco
representative vlrited the farm of
Charley Norman, five miles below
Hartwell, who planted five acres
In the weed this year. It take*
about five acres of tobacco to fill
a curing house 16 feet aquare.
These houres are built of logs and
very roughly constructed. It re.
quires about $26 to purchase the
piping for curing tobacco. Mr
Norman has his tobacco curel
ready for grading. He thinks he Will
make about 800 pounds per nctV
Vou can best grow tobacco on :hl*
land, and It does not do so we 1 on
rich ground. You get five curings,
pulling the leaves from the bottom
of the stalk os. they mature. Mr.
Best, the expert, thinks the Hart
county tobacco will bring about 20
cents per pound.
The freight and commission will
ha*c to come out of this which wilT
brlnrr the net price down to abou
18 cents per pound. The yield par
acre ranges from* 700 to 1,00(*
um. Stil u ihe farmers of
Hart and Elbert will plant say
1,000 acres in tobacco It would au
thorize a warehouse at home cen.
tral point and buyers would thfen
purchase direct from the growers
and freight apd commission charg
es be eliminated. Mr. Norman le
■o well pleased with hie experiment
that he will plant five acres of to,
bacco again next year, and an ef
fort Is being made to secure an I
The cotton growers In thecoun
I’es around Athens have this year
checked the advance of the boll
weevil, and where poison has
been Intelligently used a Very
good cotton crop will beraade. But
you must keep up the ffght, Mr.
Parmer, and donot cQnr.no your
waret are' against the peit to the
growing season. Destruction of
the cotton stalks, as soon as the
crop is gathered is one of thefac-
toraMn boll weevil control, and it
l*a well to realize that 4 .hfs season
of the year.
A farmer who has been success-
ful In growing cotton under boll
weeiO conditions says be plowed
under his stalks immediately after
the last picking of cotton, niching
the plcning to that end. He says
when you destroy the food on
which boll weevil I/ves before the
time for their herbinatlon, the
weevils die, and when cotton be
gan to blossom thefollowlng spring
weevils wore not there to attack
It Later, this farmer says to pro
tect himself from the pests bred
by his neighbors he used poison
And hesaid hefound plowing under
stalks in the early fall unqestlon-
ably helped theland. Intelligence
and Industry will win against the
weevil, and one evidence of Intel.
Vgence Is to follow those who have
found theway. All cotton stalks
should begathereed as early
possible.
And If you have grassy patches
or timbered land near your cotton
field, these should also be burned
over as they are biding places for
boll weevils. Mr. Gunter forman of
the farm of W. I. Abney says the
worst Infested spot tht syenr
their cotton was near o wooded lot
and which they would not burn off;
as It belonged to another party.
They lad very few weevils Jn their
fields adjoining wooded land that
was burned off in the spring. (
Fight the pest in winter as well
as summer.
RUMMAGE SALE TO BE HELD
ATLANTA, Ga.—A ruram:iK»»
sale will be conducted here at the
farmer's market no Courtland S't.
next'to the auditorium soon, by th»
ladloa of the Druid Hilia presbyte-
m wr
risn church circle No. 1.
N.E. GEORGIANS ARE
COTTON DELEGATES
A large number of northeast Geor
gians have been ncmed by Gov.
ernor Walker to attend the
vniiiuii u f the Americas Cotton
Association in Columbia, S. C.
Tuerday, among them being J. D
Price and T. J. Shackelford wh^
WRIG1EYS
represent the state at large.
The delegates named by Governor
Walker from this section follow:
R. E. Hodgson, Athens; W. I
McMullen. Hartwell; H. G. Dennis,
Franklin; L. O. Benton, Montlctllo;
C. E. Adams, DanlelsytUe- C. R.
Rogers, Covington.
E. B. Ezell, Eatonton. W. W.
Bird, Crawfordvllle; J. T. Hardin.
Comer; J. T. Hulme, Elberton; O.
A. Adams, Royston. F. E. Boswell
Greensboro; F. B. Maddox, Law,
rencevllle; R. C. Norman, Washing
ton.
• eifcjjf
Sealed for you
Wrfeley*s is made of
pore chide and other c
ingredients of highest
quality obtainable.
PRAISES HARTWELL
PAPER FOR AIDING
FARMER READERS
Hart Is one of the most advanced
and progressive counties In this
section both from an industrial end
agricultural stnadpolnL The finest
bale of cotton ever raised in the
South came from Hart. Its farmers
have always lend the van in every
movement for betterment of
dltions. And the Hartwell Sun
The criminal docket, which Is
unusually light this term, was
taken up Monday momin? in the
superior court. The first case
disposed of was that of Gray Ray,
colored, who plead guilty to forg
ery and was given twelve months.
He passed a forged check at the
curb market.
The next case taken up was
that of Percy Peek, colored, for
burglary. Inis case went before
a Jury. It is charged that Peek
robbed the homea of J. Bather
Wier and Tom Scott.
One murder case will come up
this week when Grant Johnson and
Warren Show are to be ■ tried.
They are charged with shooting
another negro laat August.
Tho grand jury re-convened
Monday^ and the presentments of
the body are expected Tuesday cr
Wednesday.
But it Is no nse to
mate WRIGHTS 100%
In quality and then reach
you in poor condition.
PEANUT CROP VALUABLE
LOUISVILLE, oa.—Peanut* are
bringing In much better result*
to Jetteraon count, farmera than
cotton. It being etalmated that
the g-eM will b- nearly h.lf a tnn
per acre and the preaent price of
peanute being 140 per ton. The
farmei. are no. engaged in the
barreling of their crop*.
acreage large enough to authorln
city recently and we had a mot
lnt.ra.tlag talk with him. He la a
■elLmad. man, flatting life n
poor boy, and by hard work and
good . management now owns over
era and”otlier 'citFaeni of Oconee! 400 acre* of the flneet land In thl,
•end a committee of men and wo-| aectlon. Tom eay, he hoe alway,
men In whom they have confl- made It hla rule to go alow and keep
denco, to Lexington and make a out of debt ae much aa poaalble. H.
thorough Investigation of the would never buy land until ho hod
to furnieh authentic fi|
profits in the buait
managed by bueinee* men and
conducted on .trictly bualnees
principle*. Why not let the farm*
buyer* to vlalt that aectlon.
We are u,tl>fleld that If a nun.
her of farmers in our .aectlon
would plant from three to fir)
nagemenl
showini
Sr Jlr oSy make* and c'annot eupply the de*
week Wilkes sent a commlt-
i of farmers to investigate *
* herd for sale in Putnam, with
iew to buying them all.
[This week v we met Mr. Will
|ox, one of the leading citizens
■ Lexington, knd asked him about
[v their cheese factory was sup
pling. Mr. Knox said he sold
end visited the pi»nt every
that* It
fming; that- It wa, »»»««•■ ^ " 0 t 7onden**d milk, 1U
not only .the atoekboldera but " ds of wh ole-tnilk powder, ft*
cm .An MinnHoH tho factory * * o t.. .Lon.* nw
wa s a success
cheese factory.
will take pleasure . , ,
books and giving all other desired
information. You can then go to
work intelligently and with all
facts before you.
Mr. Arnold, of Arnold & Abney,
*ay* he doe* not see why thl* sec
tion should not manufacture at a
profit all the cheeee needed They
have to import chjew by the car*
load and pay ** 1 * h L, ch *r*”
from distant etatei. JThle alone
Tactu
would giVe our local Tactorte* a
good atart. , , . .
The Lexnlgton cheese factory U
tailing every pound of eheaH- «
paid for what he then owned
In discussing the negro exodus
Tom says hi* negroes did no*
leave him and he has always been
able to get and hold all the *abo*
he needed. Dhen the collapse In
prices and hard time* came or. hf
had plenty of home-raised pro,
duce to run hie farm, and he told
bis negroes that so long a* ae had
a bushel of corn or side of. meat
half of It was tbeir's. But they
must keep at work and ho would
find plenty for them to do.
acres in tobacco, It would prove a
paying crop. And tobacco can be
grown on thin land, not suitable
for cotton and then you have no
boll weevil to combat. We know
that 700 pounds per acre le a small
yield for tobacco, and even at If
cents a pound you can estimate
what an acre will bring In cash.
doing a splendid work in publish-
PECAN GROWERS
Some intereeting figures have
been compiled by the United
State, Department of Agriculture
to show what can be made from*
definite quantity of milk. Uelng
100 pound* of milk which te*t» 4
per cent, it ha* been foond that
this quantity will make about 4.8
pound, of butter, 11 pound, of
Cheddar cheese, 45 fifteen-ounce
of condensed milk, 1ZA
men who anpplied Ihe factory of SwtaI c h«*e, or 23
th milk wel» -well pleased. Sounds of Camembert cheese. The
[Thoir factory wae an e*tablish-, t amounts of these products
1 ' ■' thst can be m.de from lOO pound,
ef milk varies with the richm
and growitig institution of theii
and county. 'Another gen'
fmsn from Oglethorpe told ui
at dairymen around
He, who have been ..
.eir cream Itf Athena, aent one
| ittnment of milk to the Lex-
T-’ton cheese /setory and were ao
W pleased with the reeulta that
1 are now tending all of their
i to the attache factory. They
•boat fi^ipeia par gallon
are for cream And had returned
ner cent in whey, and which
them to raise hog* and
i. In fact. Instead of one
"fit for tbe1r\reim > they .had
sources / of ' incomi
hogs and chickens.
of milk varies with
of the milk in fat and other cot
Arnolds- id ,_ A mnnbor of by-product* are
•hipping allo formed by the different pro
cesses.
TEXTILE ASSOCIATION MEETS
-from
MOULD 1
DD 8UPP1*
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Th« Southern
Textile Aaiociation recently held
g meeting here called by O. A*
Franklin, general zuperintendent
of the meeting and superintendent
of the Sibley Mill. Reporta of
uectfonal meeting* were made at
the meeting, whfch was held to
bring together alt euparintendante
of textile mIlls In theaogtb twice
i year for general discussion of
mill operation and other problem*
__ ... I We had a moat interesting con-
Mr. Erwin remarked that he had i venation with Mr. Frank Lips
now on hand enough porn, f*ira»;e jeomb about the pecan. Mr. Lips
and other stuff to run him ne*( !«”»*> «* on this sub
year without his new crop. lle|J®JJ* * nc » has now an, orchard of
always made It a rule to krep.ro. peenns on his farm on the Bo
ttom -ahead m case of a «rop r °ad f n ? another farm
failure. He did not lote one of-hts |”®* r oy that he intends to set in
old hands and they work well und’.W 0 ® 11 *- He has also 12,000 young
.Tom Erwin rays he Is good for
at least half a bale per acre thlh
year, and has one field that was
not planted In cotton last year on
which he will make a bale per acre
He said he wae learning fast how
to combat the pest, and would grow
a crop of cotton next year, rain© or
shine. He found out that to ^row
cotton you must kill off the old
winter weevila before a square ap
peared or they would get ahead of
you and no amount of poison
would keep them down. Next year
he would apply a coat of molaeset
and calcium areenate mixture to hi»
cotton as soon aa it got out of the
ground and put on two more ap.
plications if possible, before it be
gan to take on squares. If a far.
mer will begin to use poison eoor
enough he can keetAown the wee-
vile without much trouble or cost
but once let them get a start, on
you end they will Increase fast or
then you can kill them.
REDUCE
ACREAGE
4 at thlrtj
Mr. Erwin
ing every week Intereeting fapts
about Its county. In the last Issue
of that paper It telle about a piece
of cotton on Mr. B. I. Thornton’i
place where he turned under crim.
eon clover, and will make a bale
per acre this year with nottring but
acid phoephate. This carries out '.he
views of Mr. Harold Hulme about
building up and improving land.
Mr. Thornton also has come Gandy
that he ha* been breeding
himself for several years. *
The Sun say* rape Is the beet
hog pasture you ever planted, un
ices It be alfalfa. Sow In row* with
stable manure on good land, up.
Ing four to alx pounds per acre. It
1* broadcasted also but| hogs
tramp It down worse th:in when
planted in rows. An acre in good
rape will graze a dozen sboats tor
several weeks. Ask Mr. N. J. Ridg-
way near Canon of others who
have tried It. It will come In four
to six weeks after planting. de„
pendln; CR £a<
pecans, grown from the seed, and
which he wdl graft from hi, or-
vhard of select nuts, and go Into)
the business of growing young
tiees for sale. A pecan grove is
as valuable aa a Florida orange or
a Cornelia npple orchard.
Mr. Lipscomb says that Dr.
Patrick of Athena has bought
thirty acres of land .near his
farm and ia now setting it in pe
cans. The trees are as largt as a
person’s wrist and cost $3.60
apiece. They will begin to bear
fruit in two yearn after being net
out. Dr. Patrick will also plant a
peach orchard. Other land-own
ers on this road will probably go
into the pecan business.
The pecan is a long-lived tree
end the older they are the more
nuts they bear. There are trees
around Athen, known to be nn
hundred yean old. The oldest
pecan tree ia on the Greer piece
on the Lexington road, and on tha
Amasiah Daniel place, near Cher-
okee Corner, ia a grove of pecans
planted baton the civil war.
It is a mistaken idea that yoo
must wait for yean on a. pecan
tree before it begins to beer. This
wag the ease with seedlings, but
a grafted tree from a reliable
will begin to bear nuto in
THERE’S MONEY
in the Want Ads.
Are you listening to the tn-
sistent pounding of Opportu-
ni‘y? Are you aware of the
fact that the Want-Ad columns
of this paper present some of
the best possible opportunities
—opportunities to buy, to sell
or to offer a service T The cost
is comparatively amall when
you consder the excellent re-
Many an important business transaction originated in the
Want Ads, Many a good position was secured by means of a few
well chosen wrods. It’s the best medium of keeping in touch
with the world. Use our columns if you want real results.
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Phone 75
suits.
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