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LyPAY.' OCTOBER 1S, 1923. Tffli BMWBH-HEnarft gTHENg. KEgRBW! ’ 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. 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