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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1921.
CONSERVE THE SOIL; PROBLEM OF GREAT
IMPORTANCE, ACCORDING TO DR. ALLEN
(From The Hoschtou News)
No problem of greater importance
than the conservation of the fertility
of the soil confronts the farmers of I lie
Piedmont section of Georgia. Our
lands are rolling, and wash readily. We
often have torrential rains, which adds
to the difficulty. The proper laying off
of terraces on many of our fields, due
to (lie varying contour of tlie land, is no
simple problem. But unless terraces
are properly laid off, and then properly
built up, our lands will soon wash away.
No man ever made, or ever will make
any money farming on poor land. Ev
ery man that tills the soil knows this
to be true, and no man willingly tills
poor land, yet how few farmers, eith
er landlords, or tenants take any great
interest in conserving the fertility of
the land they cultivate. They contin
ually rob the laud of its fertility, and
■ allow it to wash and leach and adopt
no means of restoring to the soil the
plant food they remove. This is the
reason we may see all over our beloved
Southland field after field that is too
poor in plant food to be profitably
cultivated. The man who continually
checks on his bank account without
making any deposits will soon exhaust
his funds. Likewise the farmer who
continually takes from the soil the plant
food it contains without replacing any
will soon have poor and wornout land.
According to Dr. Morgan, President
of the University of Tennessee, every
acre of land in Georgia contains ten
million dollars worth of plant food.
Think of it! Ten million dollars in
the soil of every acre of land you work.
And you are allowing this valuable
■ treasure to wash away with every rain
*Ahtt comes. You are continually draw
ing on it without making any deposits.
.You carry away this treasure every
yeti/r in the form of cotton, cotton seed,
corn, and grain, and you take little in
terest in replacing the elements you re
inove in these crops. Did you ever se
riously contemplate the soil? It is the
only eternal thing on earth. Men, ani
mals, plants and trees pass away. The
soil remains forever. You can scarcely
study a greater subject than the soil.
In most all old countries of the earth
land constitutes the chief element of
wealth.
The soil, one foot deep, on each acre
of land, weighs 4,000,000 pounds. Each
hundred pounds of average North Ga.
dirt contains one-eightli of a pound of
phosphorus, one-tentli of a pound of
potash, and one-fourth of a pound of
nitrogen. Divide 4,000,00 by 100 and
then multiply the quotient by the fore
going fractions and you will have the
number of pounds of each of these ele
ments of plant food on each acre of
your soil, one foot deep. A bag of 8-2-2
fertilizer, put on an acre of land, will
go but a little way toward restoring the
plant food rmoved from the soil by a
crap of corn, more especially if the
stalks are burned. Such a bag con
tains only eight pounds of pliospho
'rus, two pounds each of potash and ni
trogen. When you burn corn stalks
and cotton stalks you destroy valuable
elements of plant food, which you try
to restore by purchasing these same ele
ments in a bag to put back on the land.
You will never get anywhere by that
method. There would be just as much
sense in burning corn, needed for food,
from your crib, and then buying more
corn to replace it. You have been
advised to burn cotton stalks to kill
the boll weevils, but you will make no
cotton for the weevils or yourself eith
er if you destroy the fertility of your
soil. lh> NOT burn your cotton stulks.
You will get rid of the weevils just as
effectively if you plow' under the stalks
as you will to burn them. You have
to plow the land anyway, so there is
no extra expense involved. There is
as much fertilizer plant food in the
stalks on an acre of land as there is
in a 200 pound bag of guano. Besides
the,,<iumus in indispensible. Humus
helps to hold the moisture in the soil,
conserves and supplies plant food, and
aids in preventing the laud from wash
ing. “New Ground" is abundantly sup
plied with humus. "Old land” has lit
tle.
There is an abundance of nitrogen in
the air. This can be gathered and put
into the soil by raising leguminous
crops. This method is much cheaper
than buying it in bags. A good crop
of alfalfa grown on the land will put
S4O worth of nitrogen Into the soil on
each acre where grown. Velvet beans
cow peas, and crimson clover make the
land rich wherever grown. Velvet beans
are a wonderful soil builder, putting
4 enormous quantities of both nitrogen
and humus into the soil. My own ex
perience with them has demonstrated
this fact to my own satisfaction. Grow
velvet beans on poor, worn-out land
for two years, and then plant the land
in cotton or grain, using only acid phos
phate as h fertilizer, and you will be
surprised at the crop. A writer says
if you grow velvet beans on your land
every year yon will wear diamonds.
The velvet beans will make the land
rich, and the rich land will make the
owner rich.
SNAP SHOTS
W. H. FAUST
It a travesty on religion for a fel
low with a $5,000 salary to urge a girl
with a salary of SSO per month to eat
less in order to help save the heathen.
We have in Georgia men who could
not fill tlie pulpit of Gumlog going
around telling real pastors how to run
the functioning churches.
Some of our schools come about as
near reaching their constituents’s needs
as a hog would to interpreting the con
stitution.
As long as the newspapers give pages
to “Fatty” Arbuckle and lines to our
churches the devil will continue to re
main in the saddle.
Preachers are flooded with letters
and suggestions as to what they shall
preach about, and most of the stuff
.would make a hog sick in the lower re
gions of his stomach.
Lots of would-be-reformers are cuss
ing the women for wearing such scan
ty attire. Bless their souls, they are
ahead of our common mother, Eve.
She only wore a smile, and finally im
proved to a fig leaf.
The fellow who speculates in cotton
will pass sleepless nights, and fail to
pay his honest obligations if he doesn’t
watch out.
China and India have civilizations
thousands of years older than ours be
cause they do not believe in the doc
trine of force.
When a nation takes the sword it
usually finishes with it. The pruning
hook and plow is a much better weapon
to use for permanent uplift.
Joke all you please about the ineffi
ciency of medicine, but when you get
ivally sick you send at once for the
doctor.
Guaranteeing ehautauquas in Win
der hasn't made any of our citizens
rich in the last ten years.
When a thing cannot stand on its
own merit, then the fellow who fools
with it must pay to keep it going.
There are people who will listen en
thusiastically to a bunch of negroes
playing guitars, who leave when a real
lecture is to be rendered. But then
the country is still full of wooden
heads.
Folks say that cotton is poor and
will till soon be open, but then David
said on one occasion “All men are liars.
About the only job a fellow wants
these hot days is to be time-keeper of
a base ball game at the north pole.
LEAVING WINDER.
1 am leaving Winder for Atlanta
where I will make my home with my
daughter, Mrs. Omie Richaiv I
feel that Winder is the denrst place on
earth. I thank the people for their
kindness and the many favors shown
me since my husband's death. May
the Lord guide and direct us and bless,
us until we all meet again is my pray
er. —Mrs. L. .1. McElhannon, Winder, Ga
DR. PIRKLE HEADS
DRAIN ASSOCIAT’N
(From the Hoschtou News)
Dr. J. A. Pirkle of Monroe, a son
of Mrs. June Pirkle of Hoschtou. was
i elected president of the Georgia Drain
age Association for the ensuing year.
! jjf, succeeds Dr. L. G. Hardman, of
! Commerce. The Walt on News says of
Dr. Pirkle:
“Dr. Pirkle is one of the greatest
drainage nthusiasts in the county and
1 one only has to take a view of his corn
fields ulong the streams coursing their
j way through his farm to realize the
j reason for the enthusiasm. His en
thusiasm is well grounded. We con
-1 gratulate both Dr. Pirkle and the as
sociation upon his selection." —Jackson
Herald.
LOST DOG. —White and black spotted
hound, tail curled to right.—Notify J.
R. Finch, Route 5, Winder.
An average acre of North Georgia
land contains 4,000 pounds of nitrogen.
| To make a good crop of corn or groin
requires two and a half times this
much, or 10.000 pounds. This is the
reason that nitrate of soda makes the
crops grow so well. < >ur soil can bo
filled with nitrogen by growing the
above mentioned leguminous crops.
Tliis can be done without any expense
'whatever. In fact these crops make a
profit in addition to filling the soil with
nitrogen and humus. But if we grow
jeotton and grain crops continually we
exhaust the fertility of the soil con
tinually. Shall we, in one or two gen
erations, heedlessly use up the resources
that the Almighty bequeathed to man
kind. and leave to posterity our once
fruitful Georgia soil in such a calam
itous condition? To do so would be a
sin against nature and nature’s God.
The spirit of patriotism and Christian
ity rebels against such a course.
L. C. ALLEN.
Hoschtou, Ga., Oct. 1, 1921.
Tallassee Dots
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Maynard and
children were the dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Fleming Sunday.
Miss Mellie Ilaynie had as her guest
Saturday night Miss Lois Nicholson.
Misses Bird and I'rudie Belle Sikes
.had as their guests Sunday Miss Ber
nice Davis and Misses Mozelle and
Pauline Hartley.
Miss I’rudie Bell Sikes spent Satur
day night with Miss Thelma Davis.
Miss Ethel Sikes has returned fi> her
home at Bogart after spending a few
days with Mrs. J. C, Sikes.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Fleming were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. ('. Sikes
Saturday night. s
Mrs. H. G. Hartley was the guest of
Mrs. Draper Saturday afternoon.
Mr. J. C. Sikes and son were in Win
der Thursday on business
Mr. and Mrs. Huff of Sandy Cross
were the guests of their sister and
brother, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Patton
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bart Lyles were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ilaynie
Saturday night.
Meet Your Friends
And
Leave Your Packages at
Where a Great Transfer Sale Is Now Going
on by the
Bankers Mercantile Company
of Buffalo, N. Y.
While you are at the Fair, leave your bags and packages at our store and at
the same time take advantage of this wonderful sale. New merchandise is com
ing in daily and is being added to the stock, marked at very appealing prices.
Some of these bargains will please you more than anything at the Fair grounds.
Read These Few Items and Judge For Yourself.
Men’s Star Brand Work
Shoes, go at .... 2.75
One lot Women’s good
Shoes at $3.45
One lot of old Ladies
comfort Shoes go at 2.48
One lot Men’s Hose, go
at 09
$30,000 MUST BE RAISED
This sale will last only a few days more. While you are at the Fair you can join
business with pleasure and get your winter shoes and clothing at these rock bot
tom prices. Give us the once over. It will do you good to see merchandise mark
ed in old pre-war prices at
•s
We Are J. T. Strange Cos. WINDER,
Evenings Bankers Mercantile Cos. in Charge GEORGIA
THE WINDER NEWS
Tlic entertainment givn by Miss Mel
lie Ilaynie Saturday night was enjoyed
by all present.
NOTICE.
1 w ill give $5.00 to any one who will
bring me an ear of good, sound corn,
suitable for seed that has 2240 grains
on it.—Hillman I). Jackson.
Examination for Post
Master At Winder
There will be an examination for
postmaster at Winder on October 14.
1921, Winder is rated under the second
class of post offices. Those who wish
to take this examination should apply
for form 2241, stating the title of the
examination for which the form is de
sired, to the Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D. C., or at the postoffice
In Winder.
HASSLER SHOCK Absorbers on
your FORD saves Tires and makes it
ride easier. Let us tit you an a set.
10 days free trial.—Smith Ildw. Cos.
One lot Women’s Hose,
go at 10
Bell and Klimax Over
alls, go at 98
One lot of Outings, go
at 12|
The Winder Pure Milk
Dairy
Fresh sweet milk for 7 o’clock breakfast
and early supper BUTTERMILK just from
the churn. ICE COLD BUTTER fresh every
day.
SWEET CREAM easy to whip, but hard
to beat.
Buy tickets for regular delivery night and
morning. Phone in special Sunday orders on
Saturday. Morning delivery only, on Sun
day.
J. W. SAUNDERS
SUBSCRIPTION: $l5O A YEAR
36-inch Silks, black,
brown, navy, value $2,
go at $1.29
One lot Women’s good
S3O Suits, go at $9.95
One lot of Women’s and
Misses Coats, values to
$35.00, goat $7.95