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THURSDAY. JANUARY 1. 1923.
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Winder, Ga.
\nd THE BARROW TIMES, of Winder, Ga., Consoli
dated March Ist, 1021.
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112 Candler Street Telephone No. 173
It is going 1° tuke money and hustle to whip the
holl weevil.
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ItV none of our business but we can't help but con
gratulate the city of Savannah on the splendid work
she did the other day when she voted into office anew
set of city officials.
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Editor Howell, of Cuthbert, is in favor of the
world trying tin* Cone methods for all its evils. Al
right, go to it, John. Well see next July if you are
get!Lug hlgger and bigger.
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Editor James P. Davidson of Cleveland, has been
visiting right often over in Commerce of late months,
hut he must have received a backset recently. Hear
him as he wails:
The grievest words
The tongue can say,
Is when your girl
Hays: “Git away.”
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A New Law
ANEW law went into effect in Georgia on January
Ist that we think is a good one. Under this law
mi one can give away a child (uuless It be to a near
relative of the child) without first securing u license
for such action from the superior court in the district
in which the child lives or the one who proposes to
give- away the child. As we said before this is a good
taw ami it should receive the support of all our peo
ple*. The giving away of children like so many pup
pies is an outrage, and this new law is intended to
correct this evil.
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‘Chickens Come Home To Roost’
THE above caption is an old saying hut it is abso
lutely true. Whenever we do wrong we may
know that at some time we must pay for the wrong
doing. If everybody realized this 'inexorable law
perhaiw we would put forth greater efforts to do
right.
France has invaded the Ruhr territory of the Get
uuin nation because the latter has failed to peifoim
the task that was set for her to do by the allies. Now,
■the German Chancellor denounces the occupation of
the Ruhr territory as “a breach of the Versailles
treaty," and “as the use of might against a defense
less nation."
Just a few years ago a former German t hunceUor,
when Germany was aggressively beginning the* great
war, said: “Just for a word —neutrality—just for a
scrap of pnpt i Great Britain is going to make war
on a kindred nation.” Just at that time, too, the
German hordes were descending upon Belgium, a de
fenseless nation.
Fifty years ago, Bismarck, the greatest of German
chancellors, when 1 France was protesting that she
could not pnv the burdens that the victorious Ger
mans weu* forcing upou her, said, “They forget that
we are the stronger and take what we want.”
And when Germany was having some trouble in
collecting these war tuxes from the French, just as
ttie French are having trouble now In collecting the
war taxis imposed upon Germany, the great Bis
marck said: “If we cannot collect these taxes prompt
ly we can send flying squadrons wherever the Freuili
show themselves recalcitrant and shoot, hung and
burn. When that has been (lout* a few times, they
v. 11l learn some sense."
It seems that Germany in the past has sowed to
the wind, and she Ls now reaping the whirlwind.
France may be doing wrong hut Germany has no
right to whine.
A New Day
We often hear remarks about the good old days of
the past. Happy is the man who realizes that we
are living in anew day. New problems are to he
solved, new issues are t<> he met, and new responsi
bilities are to he faced. The yesterdays never repeat
themselves. The strongest characters arc* the for
ward-looking men and women of the world. Some
one tins said that of no use to the* world arc* the men
who study to do exactly as was done Ik fore. We
need to know that the human race does not go over
ihe same paths year after year. Every year brings
anew path, new duties, new opportunities. Let us
think, plan and do during 1023 and we'll win.
But One Remedy for Conditions.
MR. PHIL CAMPBELL, the head of the agricul
tural extension work In the* stale, has a timely
article in last Sunday’s Athens Banner from which
we take the following words:
“There is hut one remedy for the present depres
el conditions in this section. This remedy is to grow
cotton, it can he done. It will lie done. In the fut
ure it will he moie haphazard business than in the
past hut when the final adjustment comes the farmer
will have a more self-sustaining business, and cotton
will be a surplus crop. Cotton must be grown with
or without calcium arsenate. If the supply of cal
cium arsenate cannot he had at prices that would
justify its use, then some cotton must be grown with
out it.
“Each farmer should supply himself with a small
quantity of calcium arsenate at present prices, enough
to dust his cotton in the earliest stages <if its growth,
especially about the time it is beginning to put on
squares. In addition adopt the best cultural methods
possible, good seed, good fertilizing, early planting as
soon as spring opens and the most rapid cultivation
that has ever been given. If it is a dry year we will
make cotton. If it is a wet year we will make less
cotton, but first of all the farmer must be self-sus
taining. In addition to the food and feed consumed on
the farm, poultry, milk and butter and other products
should bring in some money returns during the year.”
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Poisoning the 801 l Weevil
jlffß. L. I>. IIILL lives at Gough, Ga., where it is
•HA said he lias had wonderful success poisoning the
boll weevil. Indeed, it is claimed that he planted one
per cent of the acreage last year devoted to cotton
in Burke county and harvested four per cent of the
total crop. Burke was the banner county of the cotton
licit in former times, but with its area diminished and
with the ravages of the boll weevil, Burke is some
what reduced in rank. Still Mr. Hill’s success in
making cotton under boll weevil conditions is nothing
less than spectacular.
Now comes Mr. K. G. Yonce of Ridge Spring, S. f’.,
and confirms, in a measure, the reported success of
Mr. Hill, if not quite the game. Mr. Yonce has ad
dressed a letter to Mr. Coker (of Hartwell we as
sume i in which he says to those who may doubt the
success of his experiments with growing cotton :
“Don’t send your son or tell your negro how to make
the test, but go and do it yourself.” Sons of the far
mers are prone to pass the buck to someone else, and
that is what Mr. Yonce* wishes to guard against.
Mr. Vonct belongs to the small farmer class and hif*
experience, is therefore, interesting to the large cir
cle of cotton producers. It is related as follows by
the Columbia State:
“He had this year only ‘27 pounds of calcium arse
nate. He mixed that with water and naolases and
sprayed ten acres live times—at a total cost for arse
nate anil molases $6.1)5. He used 175 lbs. 8-3 fer
tilizer to the acre and on a ‘common grade of sandy
land.' and made a half bale to the acre. He believes
if lie had the poison with which to spray in August
and had used 400 pounds of phosphate to the acre he
would have made ten bales instead of live.
“The demonstration facts, important to the cotton
growers, in relation to the Yonce experiment are, first
that weevils were thick on the cotton before there
were any forms; second, they ate the poison greedily ;
third, they died within three hours after eating; fourth
when the cotton was small a few droys of the liquid
poison to the plant proved sufficient; fifth, his Helds
were cleaned of weevils and there were no punctured
bolls to pick up until after tho first of August. From
that date date Mr. Yonce had no more poison, and it
is presumed the late crop suffered from the invasion
by migrating weevils. The method of his attack pre
vented the breeding of weevils in his cotton. lie suf
fered only from those that were bred in other fields.
"If it is worth while preparing land and planting
cotton it is worth whilt spending two or three times
as much per acre as Mr. Yonce spent when there i-s
sound reason to expect such treatment to net at least
a thousand per cent on the investment. Calcium ar
senate is scarce, tint a small farmer has demonstrated
how a few pounds can bo made to go a long way; how
the weevil can be killed cheaply, and cotton produced.
Any other farmer, every other farmer, can. at least,
make a similar effort to protect himself. And Mr.
Yonce hogs him to do the work himself —don't send
your son or tell your negro how to make the test, but
go and do it yourself. Good advice. The tight against
the weevil is the most serious fight the farmer has
ever had and if he is to win out on the farm all his
energy and intelligence must be put into it. It is not
u boy’s Job or a hired man's job.”—Athens Banner.
THE WINDER NEWS
My Barter Business
Is growing every day. All kinds of country produce
bought and sold. My prices are always right. Bring me
your country produce and get my prices. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
MEATS AND GROCERIES
W. C. JETT
Phone 155 Winder, Ga.
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