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TgE ATHENS, GA„ HERALD
SPORT NEWS
c By
<i4UMN SI. WOODALL
Jeff Smith Pugilist Highbrow
Red And Black Basket
ball Squad Off On Invas
ion Of South Carolina.
Play Clemson Tonight.
Stven husky members of the
lied and Black basketball team
boarded the 8 o’clock Southern
train Thursday morning on a cake
' invasion of South Carolina. .
The Georgia team, fresh from a
full week of steady practice, will
do battle with the Qlemson Tiger
quinUnt at Clemson tonight.
Games with Furman and Woffird
follow on Friday and Saturday,
nights.
Coach Stegeman carried tho
following men on the trip: George
Clark, Joe Bennett, Jake Butler,
Josh Watson, Ed Guit, Bob Rich
ardson, and “Slick'
New York Sure
; To See Ty Cobb
At Top of Game
DETROIT.—Ty Cobb Is certain
to be a bigger drawing card than
ever before in New York this year.
Cobb, who always goes big in tho
metropolis is certain to be more in
tho spotlight than ever because of
that disputed New York hit.
Tho hit was allowed by Presi
dent Johnson, putting .Cobb in the
.400 class. The New York writers
made a big fuss over the matter,
claiming Cobb was not entitled to
it, at the same time panning Cobb
and the American league presi
dent
It’s a cinch that the attitude of
the New York scribes made no hit
'with Cobb. When the Tigers arrive
~ in New York this slimmer the mem
ory of that disputed bingle will be
fresh in Cobb’s mind,
j ’ Little things like that arouse the
fighting spirit of Cobb and it is a
certainty that his best work of
1923 will be in New York 4f effort
will bring results. Cobb will try
every way possible to show .up his
detractors.
Basketball Is
Latest Menace
NEW Y©RK.—Basketball during
the winter Is becoming ns big a
' problem to the major league club
ownors as post-season barnstorm
ing.
: A number of major league play
ers are playing professional bas-
ketbnll during the winter. This is
■'parUcularly true In the east, where
professional basketball has a large
following.
Basketball la a strenuous sport
Tho Impression prevails that a hard
winter of basketball Is far from
good for a big league ball player.
Basketball takes a lot out of the
athlete and hardly gets him In
shape for a six-months' grind on
the diamond.
At present the club owners have
. mo Jurisdiction over their players
'relative to basketball and can on
ly ask tho players, to refrain from
indulging. Since the compensation
is worth while most of the play
ers ignore the request that they
- give up the game.
Druggists Have To Pay More
Than Their Share Of Tuxes
Rotarian Tells Club Tuesday
_ _, , IT . _ burden of taxation rested upon
Dr. Lloyd Palmer Makes ,t k at iiu^ *>f' businhib more than
Interesting Address on
His Classification At En-
thusi ' ‘ Hal
tmsiastic Meeting.
FARM CONFERENCE
AGAIN DISCUSSED
Dr, M. Ashby Jones,
Noted Minister, WiK
Speak At Next Meeting
Of Club.
Thp Rotary club’s weekly meet
ings are proving of much interest
to its members as well as accom
plishing many things worth while
for-tho benefit of the community.
The meeting Wednesday was en
thusiastic throughout and the ad-
• d W. of Mr. L. P. Palmer, on his
classification, druggist, was ex
tremely interesting to the mem
bers. He brought out the item of
taxation which is imposed upon
the druggist and showed that the
Sidelights On
Cotton Meeting
If farmers will adopt the follow
ing “creed” ibe effects of tho boll
of 1ns business shows that brains'for the others a re bevomi
and good judgment pay better out!the flames. KmKSl
the farm thsn.m any other calling,to she different cribs dcd »•
is a »P le »- W» Produce and fam ktXeC « !
farm sho 'vs
business men in session in Athens
Wednesday:
First—Pn
on any other.
The guests of the club numbered
several of the members of the Ro
tary club of Elberton, among them
being ff. 0. Jones, Harry Jones,
Harry Hawes and Dr.-A. S. Hawes.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule gave a
most interesting talk on the com
ing Farmers’ week end Market
Conference which will be held at
the State College of Agriculture,
January 22 to 27. Programs for
the occasion were distributed, on,:,,, w ” "r —jr—
among the members. IfrmnMA ha j lIy ’ U81n K
The meeting on next Wednesday 1,0 °? P°. unds Per acre
ill nffoy mi nn.ie.v.i of fertilizer containing high per-
did advertisement for our State
Agriculture College.
I have alreay told of the suc
cess Mr. Hulme made of the sweet
potato and it is the same with
J«>srw,hs
farmer to make“a trip^f a p t a h y »
—•» —s»« cisoAo ui wic uou . , —. sand miles to inspect tho *-■ nou *
to the atly " cu ‘ raU “ d J He e Thow°. P wlmf^r WWith Har ° ld Hulme ’
^ consensus of Ui e lands in this section hv inf*1.
bankers, farmers, experts and
-Prepare the soil to be
planted thoroughly.
Second—Select the best obtain
able suited to the climate here and
oerams for 5' hieh will , bt ! ar ra P idly and pro-
dhSShnSi du Si a good yield and stupe,
distributed | Third Ferflli..
will offer an unusual attractive eenta^ oT o^X '5 "L gn P e f‘
programme. Dr, Ashby Jones, of f potash > acld phosphate
Atlanta, will deliver anaddress ' and . " ltrogen ?“ 8 substance. Use
S"d every member will have an in- “ e T- a0 , tha * ? r ° wth .of Plant
vlted guest. The meeting on the
31st, will be devoted to boys /Work
which has been quite a feature' of
the meetings of the Rotary club
since it was organized here three
yeprs ago. ' f j- ' _
The address of Mr. Palmer was
of so mueh interest a number of
the Rotarians have requested that
it be published, and it appears in
the Herald today.
He Lucy Cobb Endowment Fund
(By Mrs. R. C. Orr)
The Lucy Cobb alumnae have]never set aside any sum {or Lucy
i ct their hdarts on raising one I Cobb,- though Rome, Georgia, no
hundred thousand dollars as an ! larger 411811 Athens, gave Shorter
endowment fund for .the Lucy i£° llege , °j} e ,» hundred and fifty
frem ^HtU 0l f ne H d, i‘ h b e i4 eSt i d “ *un d towards an on-
up ^ewfrs and djVtJSP n f P Bu }. the Lucy Cobb alumna <= are
® n ? do a sma11 P ie ce | not dismayed. They would like to
of pcTOanent unprovement c,ery-! Ee e the money for this endowment
ou,anA^±- in-by-thousands and tens
JEFF SMITH
By BOB DORMAN
NEW YORK—Books—Darwin,
Huxley, Emerson.
More books—Keats, Poe, Dumas,
Balzac, Shakespeare.
And 8 till more books—Hugo.
Goethe, Byron and Milton—thrown
In for good measure.
No we Are not discussing the
hobby of some college professor,
merely the recreation which Jeff
Smith takes in his few. idle mo
ments.
Jiff Smith is' a priaetlghter.
He might be called the “king
without a throne.” Battling for 13
years he has been undefeated In
the middleweight and light heavy
weight devisions. Though a true
middleweight he baa beep forced
to seek work among the heavies,
due to the flat refusal of the offi
cial champions In his division to
t him under any, conditions.
It to get back fo books.
Besides the few aforementioned
Jeff possesses a great array of
work! in the original text, German,
Italian, French, Dutch and Span
ish. Jeff, besides being a prize
fighter, Is a linguist. He la as much
at home with a French novel as hls
son would be with the latest edi
tion of "Mqther Goose.”
As his sons, we should say. For
Jeff has three.
Three boys for whom he alts and
plana groat things.
Jerome Is to .become a brilliant
lawyer. Byron Is slated for the
medical profession and Vincent is
to he a great architect.
His family and his books. They
are his world. Jeff does not like to
talk about Mb profession. He would
rather talk of his "boys.”
one* - - —
^“sShscrib^alread 1 ^ ^ 033 ! of thousands/but Aey welcome
tL. . air f ady \ any contribution to this endow-
, wlth t Sf* Co1 * "lent fund.
When Magg.c Norton Stanley Especially do they welcome a
rose up in her seat that June day,!gift which comes as n token nf
let’? 5 start^n^ndnwme S ?'f “, G '. rls j lovc and personal effort. Such a
our own?.nev • *“ nd gift is the entertainment given to-
"w^ y - iSijf $ cs m -
7Z “dSuS “'was'^subscribed' 1 " t ^^ucyCdbb
Sn“ d meeu a ng",th a er V *^--??!5 0in - g * the Lucy Cobb endowment
Ruth Never Again
To Pack Old Time
Wallop, Say Pitchers
NEW YORK — Will Babe Hath
. do* » comeback in 192S, thrill the
fans with his terrihe wallops and
win back bis fast-waning pres
tige?
If you would believe a half
dozen of the star pitchers who
' dropped around Ft the recent
noti ng of :ue major leagues.
Ruth haa seen his best days as a
slugger.
“Never again will Ruth be as
troublesome as In 1921, when he
made those 69 home runs," re
marked one prominent big league
twitler.
“In those days, Ruth was fear-
by every pitcher in the Amerl-
u League, while those in the-
fatlonal were thankful he wasn't
J 6I..4 ..wnwl.ollow DntB nrna a
In that organization. Ruth was a,
big threat in those days, but that
big bat of hls n olonger carries
the base-Mt dynamite with which
it was once loaded.
"Ruth hps lost confidence In hls
t to hit. and withont.it he Is
... an ordinary bataman.”
There you have the opinion.of
,Jkone of the best pitchers In the
American League.
it was
J “Ruth
xlTui
But he indicated that he thought
a fighter should keep in the open as
much as possible. For that reason
he roams the country in his auto
mobile with his family in all kinds
of weather.
He believes in plenty of rest,
plenty of plain, wholesome food, a
little exercise to prevent stiffness,
and In keeping miles away from
him as is also road work. He claims
wprry.
Liquor and tobacco are barred by
that a fighter burns up his vitality
in that form of violent exercise.
He has no trainer and has never
had a rub in his long career. He
will not allow any water to be
put on him while engaged in a
bout, and will only take a slice of
orange between rounds.
Smith, despite the fact 1 that many
of hls recent bouts have been with
heavyweights, says he can still
make the middleweight poundage
without any great effort He is
willing to fight Johnny Wilson at
any time and let the present
"cheese champion” have most of
the purse just to get a chance at
the title.
300 Women Meet
In Washington
WASHINGTON.—.More than 300
women delegates representing fifty
odd national women's organiza
tions—Industrial, social and civic—
were here Thursday for tho open
ing session of the conference on
women in industry called by the
Women’s Bureau of the Department
Secretary Davis ot the depart-
of Labor.
ment of labor, was on the program
for the opening address. The sub
jects for discussion during the day
were: “What Women -Workers
Mean to Industry,” and “What in
dustry Means to Women Work
ers.”
Two Residence ;
Permits Granted
Building permits have been Is
sued by City Engineer Barnett for
two new residences In addition to
the three to bo built by M. p. O’Cal
laghan, permits for wMch were Is
sued on January first J. M. Cas
key is to build one for the Chris-
tian church on Dougherty street,
next door to the church and A. J*.
Winston la to build another five
room residence on Hall street.
Shiver Me Timbers!
B -Ruth lacked co-ordlnatiou in
rills hitting last summer.-’ ramurk-
<vj another pitcher. We.was out
- of tune all summer. The eye. the
b.ain. and tho arms were not act
irg jn unison. Co-ordination
ir oro or less a gift, and they say
„nce lost It is about the hardest
thing In the world to regain. --
Truly, Babe Ruth has stress-
ous days ahead. 4
Raid on Whiskey
Warehouse Stopt
YORK Ta. — An attempted .raid
in tho bonded whiskey warehouse
the New Hallam distillery com
any at Hallam, eight miles east
was frustrated early
and eight men were
under arrest. Fourteen
rucks, manned by a score of men
tVe re involved In the attempted
raid on the warehouse, which con
talus liQUOf valued at 1600,000.
years later an intensive drive | Lucy C^bb Mumnae h and h friendf of
reapond^rliberaBy. 126 " 8 ° f Cobb.
A+Vinna • • va. s I The time ls 8:3 0 tonight and the
Athens, as a municipality haa'price of admission is fifty cents
Clarke County National Farm
Loan Association Elects New
Officers, $40,000 Available
James W. Morton Will J.JDfcvis Pinned
Head Organization Fori „ tl
1923, _j- h. Hubert- Vice Beneath Car; Not
President. I Seriously Hurl
H. o. EPTING IS
by diligent cultivation.
the lands in this section by intel
ligent and scientific, cultivation.
Take cotton as an example. In
1922, in spite of the continuous
three-fourths of 4^ale per acre.
He showed me one' patch of four
acres from which he gathered'five
bales of cotton and on other fields
he made a hale per acre. He used
35 pounds of calcium arsenate per
acre. Owing to . the unfavorable
. crop year, Mr. Hulme says h®
containing high per- could not have done much better
had there been no weevil. But cot
ton is only one of his many crops.
He raises everything that can be
grown in this section and has ‘Y^c-
ord yields of the different crops.
Mr. Hulme keeps books onjiis
farm and his crops, with cost of
production and profit are no guess
work.
IMPROVES
HIS LAND
Mr. Hulme refused in boom
times $250 an acre for his farm
and says he would not today ac
cept that price for he is improv
ing his lands every year. He show
ed me one field from which he
gathered 105 bushels .of oats per
will be accelerated from time it
comes up.
Fourth — Cultivate intensively,
that is plough crop often, keep
clear of grass and keep the mois
ture stirred.
Fifth-Augment all this, which
in itself will produce a fair crop
under favorable conditions, with ap
predation of calcium arsenate if
it can be applied at not more than
$5.00 per acre, remembering'that
calcium arsenate docs not produce
cotton hut merely protects those
squares, blooms and bolls produced
Dr. A. M Soule, president of the
State College of Agriculture said
at the meeting of bankers, farm
ers and business men here Wed
nesday that English manufactur
ers told him in Brazil that Eng
land needed three million balto of
cotton annually that would staple
from one to one and a fraction
inches in length.
This section once raised practi
cally nothing but cotton that would
measure to these requirements but
the CTBflp hflq /Innwonf nf/tJ ...J
the grade has depreciated an'd
farmers are not enjoying the ad
vance price they once received for
their cotton in the Athena terri
tory Dr. Soule believes not enough
care is being taken in the selec
tion of seed.
It is estimated that on million
acres will "be planted in cotton in
the Athens territory, that is with
in a radius of fifty miles in 1923
and sufficient arsenate can only
be secured to use as an adjunct to
proper fertilization, Cultivation
ond other factors in its growth.
“Unless a fanner plans for a
bale of cotton per acre he cannot
grow it successfully, was stated at
the session. “The half bale per
acre farmers’ days are : as- ’ and
he might ’ust as well look foi an
other lfe&i.'tiDod,” was the cp'lom:
see
of one scotch made.
SEC. & TREAS.
Clarke County Organiza
tion Has Loaned 859,800
Since Formation.
Clarke county farmers have ac
cess to $40,000 for loans on farm
lands or property as a result of
a new allotment made by the Na
tional Farm Land Bank, it was an-
nonced Wednesday by H. O. Ept-
ing, secretary and treasurer of the
local organization.
New officers for the Clarke
County National Farm Loan As
sociation were also announced
Wednesday. They are, James W.
Morton, president; J. H. Hubert,
vice president an H. O. Epting,
secretar yand treasurer.
Athenian's A u t o m obile
Falls Off Slieht Em
bankment on Mitchell’s
Bridge Road.
Harry Hawes of Elberton told
of making five bales on five acres
ln.st.year. He dusted with calcium
arsenate after proper preparation
of the ground, selectin g the seeds
All applications for loans on
the new allotment must be in by
February 20, it was announced.
The money can he borrowed at"
five and one-half per cent inter
est for a period of thirtv-three
years with privilege of taking up
the loan any time after the fifth
year.
Since its organization in the
summer of 1921 the Clarke County
National Farm Loan ■ Association
Mr. J. Davis suffered painful but
not dangerous injuries Wednesday
afternoon in an automobile acci
dent on the Mitchell’s Bridge road.
Mr. Davis was pinned beneath
his car when it fell over a slight
embankment near the bridge. He
was promptly rescued and hospital
authorities summoned.
Mr. Davis was taken to the Gen
eral Hospital in Bernstein’s am
bulance in a semi-conscious con
scious condition where, after an
examination, it was found he was
rot internally injured. He was
bruised about the body consider-
brains, " science
methods can do. It will
1 farm (
GIL LEADS STATES
By J. LUCAS
The grand old state of fj„ nrgil
has again been placed at the top
of the list of other states in th«
Union. This time she has be w
given this honorary position, net
because of her agricultural or
manufacturing records, but be-
cause of the fact that she has
given more men to "Uncle .Sam 1
for his navy than any other state
in the union.
Not because of the Boll Weevil
nor due to the fact that ?ubslj-
tence was necessary, have th«* P
noble sons of Georgia joined
acre and then sowed it in peas and ranks of * h e greatest navy in the
sorghum mixed and cut .six tons
of splendid hay to the acre. From
this one field he has an income of
$1§Q per acre, and which i sa re
turn of ten cents on a land vqlue
of $1,500. Mr. Hulme is a great be
liever in hay and says it is the
best paying crop our farmers can
grow. From his alfalfa he makes
four tons of hay per acre, and will
plant 100 acres of that one crop.
He has brought up his land to
grow alfalfa as successful as in
any section. He has now in shuck
four cribs of corn and has been
celling ever since gathering time.
He has it ground into meal.
It would take a page or more to
tell about this beautiful and suc
cessful farm, but I will content
myself with enumerating the dif
ferent crops. Mr. Hulme. is now
marketing besides raising the
greatest abundance to run his
farm and feed his hands and stock.
He is now selling sweet potatoes,
corn fodder, oats, meal, hay, peas,
world, but solely op account of
the opportunities offered.
(F. Buice, the navy r^cruitlnu
officer said that It had always
been the opinion of a great ma
jority of the people, that, if a man
enlisted in the Navy, it was be
cause of the fact that he either
was unable to get a living any
other way, or he was not able to
stay out of jail. "This idea." he
said, “is absolutely wrong, us far
as our Navy is concerned today.
We do not accept any man unless
heis of the highest moral charac
ter, and in the best of physical
condition. Furthermore we will
not think of taking a man who haa
not at least a common school
education, that is *o say he must
he is of the highest moral charac
telligently. You would be sur
prised, he continued, “of the num
ber of high school, and even col
lege men, that have been enlist
ed from this State.”
Since the opening of the Re
Cruiting stations kist July, mor
Pedigreed Abresa rye, potatoes, than 1300 men have entered the
turnips, meats, and cattle. If you Navy from Georgia. This 1
record that has never been made
in any other state in the Union.
need any of the above products
Mr. Hulme can supply you at the
market price.
And there is no little hand full
of these products either, but he .has i * UDJL1C tj6lVlC6
them for sale in quantities. He has j P • if .
now four large cribs of corn that j CJlglllCCrS lVlCCt
have never been touched and seven
cr eight thousand bushels of sweet j WASHINGTON —
F°: tat ?. e !L A " d ,w^y. er r. U , S I ee ,_° n representing .county r
ganizatlons for public service as
delegates to the American
:irg l et
rapidly.
’ily and djiltical^njr right at home.
BEST
this farm is the "best Mr. Hulme
tells nie that he intends to'go ex
tensively Into that business ol
raising Irish' potatoes for he sees
nb sense in importing them from
other States, when they can be so
successfully and profitably grown
J. T. Pittard of Winterville told
of his experience in 1921—year be
fore last. He had 20 acres that he
tested. From 8 of them, where he
dusted about five times using only
dry dust, he picked six and one
half bales and from the other 12
where he used a molasses mixture
until the last application when the
weevil had gotten so far ahead of
him that he dusted the cotton, he
raised only 5 bales. Last year Mr.
Pittard grow 78 bales on 200 acres.
He dusted it all and had a bad sea
son, it being too wet.
ablv. however.
The car in which Mr. Davis
riding slipped oft the road near a
store on tho right hand side of tho
road on this side of Mitchell’s
bridge. He was passing another
car and drove his car too close to
the side of the road, it is stated.
Thursday at noon Mr. Davis was
reported from the hospital as “do
ing nicely,” although he was pain
fully bruised. He is not conslder-
has placed $59,800 in this county. ed to he In a dangerous condition.
The government loans the i.i, ney I since he suffered no broken bones
for the purpose of aiding the farm-1 nor internal injuries,
develop hi sfarrn , property.
1 jWhUo meremantagolng around'
bundled up In overcoat, * muffler
and such'. Miss Ida SchnaU, wril-
known athlete, Is doing her'daily
dozen In tbe snow of w.T>b»w.-
Beachr. N.^Y.. ,wlth nothing more •
to protect her'-from jh* Jwintry
blasts than her bathing aulL^Here
she is shown, wrist-deep'tn^henr,
completing a band stand limie^of
the exercises she pertorms'dallAy *
tbe aide of the ocean.'
Money can be borrowed for the
purpose of buying additional land,
paying existing debts on land, pur
chasing live stock, machinery, fer
tilizer or improving or erecting
buildings.
Allotments are made every nine
ty days.
Among those visiting in Athens
Wednesday were: Mr. and Mrs.
Bherman Oranges. Younasville,
Ohio; Russel A. Singleton, Atlan
ta; J: M. WMborn, Ohio; C. P.
Terry. Louisville, Ky.
H. N. Fisher. Atlanta; Mrs. N.
Waldo -Kennedy and son of East-
ferd, Ohio and Mrs. Alice Ken
nedy, 'Ohio; j. M. Layman, St.
Louis; c. N. Bond, Atlanta.
W. B. Mann, Atlanta; B. Tolbert
and Mrs Tolbert. Commerce; F.
P. Boyt. Atlanta: G. F. Perry. At
lanta; R. C. Hamlin. Atlanta; B.
P. Walker. Atlanta; S. H. Smith.
Atlanta; Pope B. Erwin, Atlanta;
Gordon F. Wood, Richmond, Va.;
T. B. KlAg, Chattooga, Ga.
NEW STEAMSHIP UNE
BALTIMORE, Md. — Announce
ment that a line of passenger
steamships soon will operate be
tween Baltimore and 1 Miami, Fla.,
with a stop .at Charleston, S. c..
was made Tuesday by Meson.L.
Williams, president of the Balti
more and Carolina Steamship eo.
A freight line already is in opera
tion between thesa ports.
Yes, You’ll Meet
’em In This One
Picture Anyway
Today you cgn step right into
the Palace theatre and meet the
“Mason Corner Folks,” your
friends.
Q yes, they’re your friends, mine
and all of us, though you may not
have ever met them in person. You
know them; they inhabit every
community, every .village and
every city, but-thrive best in the
small places.
“The Mason'Corner Folds’’ are
presented in “Quincy Adams Saw
yer,” an all-star moving picture
production that has come to' the
Palace for two days, beginning to
day.
It offers .an array of stars sel
dom ever collected in one produc
tion. This array is headed- by
Blance Sweet, who returns in this
picture after many months’, ab
sence. This is a great American
home and community life picture
and will .touch a cord in ever per
son’* make-up.
You will enjoy it, I know. I
have read the story and many re
views where it has been shown. It
is A EEAL picture.
• —C. E. M.
Elberton carries her educational
program to the rural school, fur
nishing entertainment along with
the lectures and conducting
round table
school.
Engineer!
widp
TOOLS
Mr. Hulme uses- the most im
proved farming tools and has his
lands brought up to a state where
he can substitute labor-saving ma
chinery for muscle. Of the 600
acres in cultivation every field .is
worked like a garden.
4 wish every fanner in oaGrgia
and the South could visit this form
for it would prove a mine or in
formation for them. As stated I
have seen many fine and progres
sive farms but nothing to com
pare with that of Mr. Harold j san
Hulme. Mr. Hulme tells me that
he is very fortunate in having as
his manager, Mr. Jerry Bond, a
young man raised in our section.
Mr. Bond knows all about the farm
_ _ and Mr. Hulme can leave his busi-
discussion at every ness in the manager’s hands with
assurance that it will be properly
looked after.
And another noticeable thing
.about Mr. Hulme’s farm. He has
not had his building bunched but
they, are scattered over many
acres- In case of a fire only the
building that catches will be lost,
glneering council of the Feta-
ated American Engineering so-
cietles, opened a two day conven
tion Thursday, the main purpow
of which is to map out a National
program of public service effort
in co-operation with gevernment
agencies.
The Muscle Shoals problem in
the light of Henry Ford and oth
er lease officers was one of the
chief matters to be discussed.
Herbert licover, as first president
of the Federation, is the guest of
honor of the convention.
Fruit Growers Fear
For Their Crops As
Warmth Continues
Morton S. Hodgson said his firm
was recommending that Hill’s mix
ture be used while the plant was
young, to conserve arsenate.
The bankers in attendance show*
ed an eagerness to do something
towards helping solve the cotton
growing predicament and were not
present to "advise” the man who
has been \growing cotton all his
life without offering, that is the
banker, something tangible to the
farmer.
Model Clarke
County Farm
(By T. Larry Gantt.)
A few days ago I visited the
prettiest and most advanced and
successful farm I have ever seen
in my travels over the South. It is
that of Mr. Harold Hulme, about
six miles from Athens, near .Win-
tervilie. This farm belonged, to
"Cousin” Billy Mathews; one of
our splendid old citziens of some
forty years ago, and a grandfather
of Harold Hulme. This place com
prises 800 acres of which 600 acres
are in the highest state of intern
sive cultivation and the rest in
wood lots and pastures. The land
lies as level as a prarie, and
every foot has been impoved and
brought up to the highest state of
productiveness.
When I was writing up the dif
ferent farms in our section several
parties tqld me that I ought to
see the -farm of Harold Hulme and
I would find something worth
writing about. But I kept putting
off my visit until Mr. Hulme kind
ly offered to carry me out to his
place. Of course I was only too
glad to aedept the invitation.
ATHENS
$500,000 FIRE MAN , , ' , I
ALTOONA, Pa.—Fire early Harold Hulme is what you may
Thursday destroyed the L. Go d- denominate as a self-made farm-
strin department t store and the er. He is an Athens raised boy and
Bon Ton department store adjoin • did not start farming until he
ing with an estimated loss ot S500,- |finished his course in College,
1000. The cause of the fire has not making a special study of.agricul-
been determined. Iture. And the success he has made
FRANCISCO — DecIdicuB
fruit sreets and grape vines
throughout San Bernartdlno coun
ty are starting to bud three
months ahead of nature's sched
ule. Since December 18, there
have been 18* days during which
the maximum temperature did not
drop to 70 degrees and four days
the thermometer has hovered
about the ninety degree mark in
cluding one day of summer weatb
er at 92 degrees. Growers and
vineyardists are uneasy over the
situation, fearing that one frosty
night would kill next year's crop.
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