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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