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URL HUNT COL W In his addresss to the people at the Taylor county fair, held at Butler, Mr. W. T. Anderson laid much stress on the econmic use of farm waste. Kentucky farm ers, Mohawk river farmers and others used to dump the stable manure into rivers or creeks or haul it off as so much worth less trash. And cotton hulls were given .'away to whoever would pay the freight on them. One can pass by tenants houses on the farm and see that the tenants do not yet even pen the cattle or the manure. These things—this farm waste —led Col. B. W. Hunt to write concerning the bagasse, which we call “cane-pummies,” and its waste, and how it can be economically utilized by the farmer, and following is his letter to Prof. John R. Fain, professor of agronomy, State College of Agriculture: “Dear Prof. Fain: Answer ing your inquiry regarding en siling bagasse, f lam feeding daily sugar cane to all my bo- vines. No words less strong than sinful waste describe the non-use of the remainder of left storks after expressing the juice of sugar cane and soghum. “I am pleased to say that my cowu. otherwise well fed and also running in velvet bean fields yet cat the bagasse with avdity. “I do not think it possible to produce I etter flavored milk than that from cows eating sugar cane waste and peanut meal. “These two cattle feeds are evidently destined to immeasur ably advance the live stock in dustry ot the cotton-producin’fe States. "The bagasse I shredded very fine, blew it fresh from the canchull into silos, sprayed it with water and packed as any other dnsilage crop. “I wish every newspaper in the south would shame the dairymen who buy beet pulp bagsse, paying the beet * mills therefor the railroad toll and passing by a roughage I prefer viz , sugar cane bagasse, thrown out to waste, Benj. W. Hunt.” The above letter from Col. Hunt speaks for itself. It will be observed that he turns his cattle on pasture of velvet beans and uses peanut meal as a food for his cattle. Talking with Judge F. F. Putney, an extensive farmer of Dougherty county, he said in his contracts he would require plant ing freely of peanuts, as we now have a ready and assured market for them, the same as for cotton seed. In a chat with Col. John E. Donalson, of Bainbridge, who has extensive planting inter- eets in Decatur county, he spoke very encouragingly of velvet beans and peanuts as money crops. On one ot his farms he planted only a small acreage in cotton of early variety, planting in a shallow or water furrow, so that the cotton was protected from winds, just as we now protect oats, making safe early planting. This was ahead of fhe weevils. On that same farm, a large one. he planted velet beans and peanuts. The velvet beans when young and tender are eaten just like butter beans, or can I be used on the table as we do mash- potatoes. It is a new dish to tenants, but they like it and it reduces the cost of living. As peanut gathering is a job, I asked Col. Donalson how he managed it. He said: “When the time comes and we plow up the peanuts, we stack themVip as you do fodder, vine and all. We do not wait to dry the pea nuts. They do no rot. We stack >hem as you do fodder, right from the field as they are plowed up. Later threshing machines come around and thresh them and the peanuts are taken to the mills and are ready for sale.” Col. Donalson said his tenants were pleased with the results and have more money than those on the Dougherty county farm which was planted in cotton inthe same old way. Mrs. Donalson was with the Colonel and she added: “Some two years ago we were ’depressed over the weevil ques tion, but now our lands are as valuable as ever. Velvet beans and the peanut solved the pro blem. Our tenants on the plan tation, devoted to these crops other than cotton, are in better shape than ever before. I have become very much interested in farm diversification. The first year of the change as negro tenants have to learn, is some what troublesome, but after that we have found the tenants take to it, for they raise more hogs, and make their living on the farm.” Now this was interesting to me, because it was the eperi- ence of practical people; for none excel Col. and Mrs. Donalson in culture and conditions. Their experiments are worth something and buoy one with cheerfulness Col. Donalson in his chat further remarked “that it would be unwise to pass embago laws that for the present we must quit our over-indulgence in lux uries. Not embargoes, not boy- j cotts, but we need a wholesale ; selfdenial and prudence. We | waste to much; there is waste on the farms, waste in the households and the people of the I United States are living to fast, I and wasting their substance in i peckless indulgence. Let us re- S turn to saner standards of living, !rather than resort to embargoes! ! and and thereby gain the illwill l ot all the Allies.” Bicycles are fasionable on the East coast, who not make them so here, We have the Royal Racers, The Motor-Bicycle Co. All Holiday Shoppers Know That We Will Take Care of Them With the best line of merchandise that has ever been shown in Bainbridge. The prices that we quote below are the very best that any one can find, so why not take advantage of them while you can. There has never been such a feast of bargains. See them. ‘AMERICAN GIRL” SHOES FOR LADIES $3.50 TO $4.00 Just received a nice line of ladies Sport Coats, all kinds $ 3.95 A better sport coat in beautiful __ styles 5.95 Ladies Plain Felt hats, all shapes 1.95 Swell line of Crepe de Chine Waists for only 1.98 Ladies Good Silk Fibre Sweaters 3.48 Ladies Silk Fibre Sweaters in all shades 3.48 Ladies Wool Poplin Top Skirts if2.95 to 4.95 Ladies Coat Suits in Poplins and serges in all shades $12.50 to.. 17.50 Swell line of Crepe de Chines, per yard 1.50 Silk Taffeta, Messalines, and per yard 1.38 LADIES HIGH TOP BOOTS $8,00 VALTE FOR $6.00 “KING QUALITY” SHOES FOR MEN $4.00 $5.00 Line of ladies waists in all shades and styles gg Ladies House Dresses gg Small boys outing pajamas each '35 Ladies outing gowns gg Childrens caps of all kinds 'g 0 Boys Mackinaw coats sizes 10 to 18 4 95 Boy’s all wool suits 750 Men’s Mackinaws at 5 75 Men’s All Wool Blue Serge Suits.. 12.95 Good Quality Men’s overcoats.... 10.00 Men’s Overcoats $5 to 7.50 Boy’s King Quality shoes 3,50 Knox All Hats for men 2.00 Feltcraft hats for men 3 qq ■ LADIES $17.50 PLUSH COATS AT $12.50 KLINE BROTHERS Water Street THE LIVE ONES Bainbridge, Ga. LET US HELP YOU SOLVE THE GIFT PROBLEM Visit Our Toy land In The Basement. Mothers, bring the chil dren and let them enjoy the bewildering assortment of toys. Headquarters For Santa Claus Your Convenience is the idea I have in mind in the arrangement of my gen- erous Holiday Displays. Gifts of the more practical and serviceable kind you will find on the first floor— whether it be of Ivory, Cut Glass, China, Brass, Mani cure Set, Stationery, Hand kerchiefs, Hosiery, Sweat ers, Blankets, House Slippers or Neckwear. A Most Unusual Dis play of Holiday Handkerchiefs. Childrens 5c and 10c. (also Boxed) Plain and Embroidered Cambrics, 5c to 25c. Crepe de Chines, White and Fan cies, 25c. Ladies and Gentlemen’s Initials, 25c, $1.50. Ladies Sheer Linens, Plain and Em broidered, 25c to 75c. Fancy Boxed Handkerchiefs for 25c to $1.50. BOEN BELCHER Bainbridge, Georgia.