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HOW TO PREVENT COLDS
The diseases of cold weather are
spread through discharges from
the mouth and nose and are maiu
*l ycaught by coming in contract
with infected persons, though the
infected person may be only slight
ly ill. This class of sickness is more
prevalent in the winter because
people live and congregate in
doors more than during the warm
weather, often in rooms with insu
fficient ventilation. hTe most com
mon of such ills are had colds and
grippe or influenza, together with
the pneumonia which may follow.
]loth had colds and grippe are
catching and may at times become
widespread and assume the propo
rtions of an epidemic, as was true
of influenza during the fall of 19IS
when more than one-third of our
entiie population was attacked in
a short time. It is quite likely that
influenza will recur during the
coming w inter, though it w ill pro
bably be in a mild form, since
those with little resistance to the
disease had it last year
Influenza and bad colds are
spread in the same way and the
methods of preventing the two dis
eases are the same. By obeying
the following rules an individual
can protec himself from these and
other spit-borne diseases:
1. Avoid people Aviso are cough
ing and sneezing.
2. Do not attend crowds or large
gatherings indoors or outdoors.
3. Keep three feet from a per
son talking.
4. When you cough or sneeze,
cover your nose or moth with a
handkerchief, or turn your face
i downward.
5. Don’t use a cup or other eat
ing utensil used by others without
thoroughly Avashing and boiling it.
6. Don’t put into your mouth
fingers, pencils, or other tilings
that do not belong there.
'7. Wash your bands before eat
ing.
8. Eat plenty of simple, nourish
ing food. Be sure that he bowels
move freely and regularly.
,9. Sleep and Avork in rooms fill
ed with fresh air. hut keep the
body warm.
10. If you get influenza or a se
vere cold, go immediately to bed
to ward off pneumonia, and stay
in bed several days after the fever
subsides to avoid subsequent
weakness.
Benjamin Franklin, Avhose rule
for keeping well Avas “to keep the
head cool, the feet warm, and the
bowels open,” has some interest
ing comments on the cause and
prevention of cold, lie says: “1
believe it is unnecessary to have
cols, for T have observed that
when 1 treat myself to plenty of
outdoor air I re\er cold.
■ When f have caught cold, I notio
' but put home ownership above ev
ery luxury. The automobile, the
piano and the talking machine are
fine, but let them wait, a id put the
money in some land, (wen if it is
no more than twenty or forty
acres.
To the average man who already
owns his place we would say save
for improA’ing it—for making the
farm and home more efficient and
enjoyable. Hood teams, ‘good build
ings and fences, modern imple
ments and equipment for making
the farm Aiife’s Avork easier and
ed that one or two days before its
appearance 1 had eaten too heart
ily and then sat around in a closed
room with many others until the
air got bad and the room filled
with tobacco smoke. I have also
noticed that by staying much in
the open air and lifting my bed
roqm windows high, that I get
we! 1 quickly.”
The sure remedy against colds
is to eat moderately and breathe
plenty of pure air. Of course, the
skin, kidneys and bowels must he
made to act freely: for if they do
not. this, too will reduce resistance
and let the cold genus grow in
the nose and other iar passages.
To sum up. all colds and indeed
all disease.' of the breathing or
.THE OPEN-FURROW METHOD
OF PLANTING OATS
On account of an unusually
poor corn crop many farmers are
going to find themselves short of
feed, and there is every probabili
y that feed will be very high dur
ingl9l9-19_!9.
Confronted by such a problem,
it is highly advisable tha a large
acreage of fall oats be sowed,
(iood varieties for this purpose
are Appier. Texas Bed Uust-proot
and Fulglium. In ease of winter
freezing, the same land should be
re-sowed about February In, with
Burt oats.
Now is the time to sow fall oats,
and the open-furrow method, or
iginated by Col. If. -I. Redding at
the Georgia Experiment Station,
has proved its value. The follow
ing is Fob Redding's own descrip
tion of bis method as given in
Bulletin 44 of this Station, which
is now exhausted for distribution:
“By all means use a regular
grain drill, if one can he bad that
will sow rust-proof oats satisfac
torily, aixl there are some that are
guaranteed to do it.
“On the Station farm we hav
found, even when the drills were
laid two feet or one and a half
feet apart, using ;i common scoot
er plow. or. better, a single-row
fertilizer and sooil distributor,
that oats so solved always produce
a larger yield than when sowed
broadcast and harrowed in. Hut a
more important discovery is the
fact that when the seed are sowed
in open furrows and barely cover
ed. leaving the furrows open or
unfilled, the oats plants are very
much less liable to be killed hv a
severe freeze. The idea was con
ceived several years ago, and an
nually since avc have sowed the
larger porion of the fall-soAved
area in drills IS to 24 inches apart,
latterly using a < lantt fertilizer,
distributor. This sows hut one row
at a time, lias no covering attach
ment. but simply opens a small
furrow.' and sows the seed, he sin-
gle Allied following in the furrow
and barely covering the seed. The
result is. the plants come up one
and a half to two inches below
the general surface, and the
‘eroivn’ of each plant is formed
and established say two to two
and a half inches below the gen
eral surface. The winter rains,
light freezes and thaws gradually
hut only partly dll in the open fur
rows, and the more vital and sen
sitive parts of the. plants are left
at the original depth, below the
reach of even very severe freezes.
“The long anticipated freeze at
last cane, and our theory was put !
to rruebd test. On February 9. j
I''!->!), the thermometer sail k to 15 ,
degrees, followed on successive
mornings by 19 and IT degrees.;
On the 12th it was dm to II d<- ;
grecs. and on the niorn’ug of the
13th it stood at 7 degrees below
zero—the coldest day since Febru
a’ v 8, 1835. 1 1 To result aa as that
fall-sowed oats and Janua ry-soAi •
ed oats were pretty generally de
stroyed everywhere. Hill otiropen
furroiv drilled oats, excepting two
acres, stood the test remarkably
well, and though severely injured,
made 40 bushels to Ihe acre. Of
the two acres so planted that were
badly killed, the rows were laid
east and west; of all the ot her sec
tions the rows were laid north and
south; tlnis developing another
significant fact, that the ideal di
rection would he northeast and
southwest, in order to protect Ihe
plants, by means of the wall of
gans (the diseases peculiar to cold
weather) are largely due to air
starvation. November is the best
month in the year 1o sanitate i
homes and schools and to form
the habit of livinu. working, and
sleeping, outdoors or in rooms fill
ed with fresh air. and to learn to
observe the rules of personal hy-
Jc e. And these are things the
individual must do for himself if
he would receive their benefits
and e i- y good health during the
j winter.—Ex.
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER. GEORGIA
earth, against the northwest wind.
“In order to make more sure-of
tin 1 correctness of the preconceiv
ed theory that the open furrows
would scenic the oats from fatal
freezing, on two one-acre sections
that were sowed in open furrows
running east ami wos. on every
alternate tenth acre the furrows
were tilled up Hush by running
over them with a clod-crusher and
smoother. hTe result was that the
oats on these alternate tenths
were almost entirely destroyed,
not one plant in ten surviving the
severe freeze, ami the plots were
resowed with spring oats. But the
other tenths, of which the furrows
were left open, although severely
injured, produced 40 bushels of
grain per acre, or more than half
of tlie expected crop.
“When carefully drilled, one
and a half to two bushels of oats
are sufficient for an acre; when
broadcasted, from three to four
bushels of the same oats are re
quired for one acre.”
A fertilizer containing 10 per
cent available phosphoric acid. 3
per cent ammonia andno potash
applied at the rate of from 200 to
400 pounds per acre; folloVed by
top-dressing the last of February
with from 7.1 to 100 pounds of sul
phate of ammonia or 100 to 110
punds f nitrate of soda usually
I produces good ats. T. 17 Kcitl.
Chemist and Agronomist. Georgia
Experiment Station.
GOVERNMENT WILL ISSUE
QUOTATIONS 0?f COTTON
AND COTTON SEED
Washington. I). To give to
the producers and others informa
tion regarding actual cotton prices
in their local or near-hy important
markets, the Bureau of Markets
of the United States Deparmcnt of
Agriculture is inaugurating a cot
ton price ((notation service and
will issue reports from five impor
taut points in the cotton belt. Fot
tonseed prices also ai ill be covered
The first report is to be issued
from Memphis. Term., for the dis
trict immediately' surrounding
that point; other reports will fol
low from district headquarters at
Atlanta, (hi.. New Orleans. La.,
Charlotte. .V (and Dallas. Tex.,
for the territory immediately sur
sounding each of these points.
Chinese Study Agriculture.
There are K’O coll -gus in China rie
foteil to the study of solentitle agri
pit turn
AND
We have just unloaded another ear of first-class young mules, some
of tlicyn being among the finest mules ever shipped to Winder, all are
broke and ready for work, and are the kind wanted by the fa cruets
of t his section.
We are carrying at all times a big lot of mules and horses and feel
that we can furnish the kind you won’t, anything from a good small
untie to tin- finest large mule. Also have at all times a hunch of good
second-hand mules and horses at prices that will please you.
We arc exculsive agents here for the “(>hl Hickory” and white
hickory w agons. These are among the oldest and best and are too well
known to require description. We have on hand a big stock of these
wagons, hot 1 ! in the Auto tread mid the old wide tread wagons.
Also we are agents for the good Blount Buggies and arc carrying
them in stork at all times.
When in need of a horse or mule, wagon or buggy, give us a call.
We feel sure that we can make it to your advantage to trade w ith us.
We are now located in our new building on Candler Street.
J. M. Brooksher Sons
Winder, Georgia!
POWERFUL ‘ KICK IN WHIS
KEY MADE WHILE YOU WAIT
Prune Juice and Caramel Used in
“Non-Beverage" Alcohol That
Does the Work for New York
ers.
New York. November 10. Since
the prohibition law-went into ef
fect New York's insistent and en
thusiastic drinkers have been rou
jsuming the “non-beverage” aleo
j hoi w hich usually goes into hair
tonic, cologne ami patent medi
cines at 30 or to cents a glass—
according t* Colonel Daniel B.
I’orter, supervising internal re
venue agent here.
Prune juice and caramel have
aided bartenders to eater to cus
tomers and whiskey made “while
you wait" from the hair-tonic in
gredients has been colored and
served as “Scotch.” “rye" and
other favorite brands.
This has come about because
there lias been no genuine “ red
liquor" available since July I.
Colonel Porter said. It lias proven
have not been lei in on the secret,
! satisfactory to customers who
because it h as a powerful “ kick. “
The “non-beverage” alcohol
, was manufactured under the war
time food-control law and cost
a barrel. When the saloon
; I obtained it ins next Inisi
,i t aeration was to buy a lialf
do.V'UCinpty barrels and dilute it.
V,
[then with his stock of prune juice
1 and caramel at hand and his bar
!tender ready, lie served his dis-
guised stock by the small glass.!
making profit of anything frnnij
.81,000 to 83,(Mi1), according to liowj
much heart he had for his eusto-]
mors. Colonel Porter asserted.-
Atlanta < ’(institution.
Who has the best o| the liar
gain. \ew 'i ork or (leorgia .’ The
New Yorkers are delighted with
their whiskey made from hair ton
lie while (ieorgian’s jump at the
opporf iiiity In pay five and ten
!dollars per quart for whiskey said
to be made of syrup skimming,
! buck-eyes and fertilizer.
Merits of Wooden Barrel Obvious.
A liaml lain in* rolled. This is Its
greatest merit, says Popular Science
Monthly. Every oOier shape <>f con
tainer'Which weighs over ii hundred
pounds when tilled, mast tie lifted bod
ily and carried on a hand truck or by
hoisting machinery. One man can fin
load a carload of sugar—2oo barrels
of it —in less than an hour. Don't you
wish U were* at your door? Vo other
container can lie handled at this rate,
even by two men wurking at tup speed.
Alma Bacon County
Georgia
Have some line farm lands at astonishing low prices.
They have 17*0 acres in one body, lying on railroad,
with station on place and highway runs through land and
only 3 miles from court house.
This body of land is cut into 34 tracts of from 1$ to
3D) acres to the tract. Each one of them fronts road, and
all of them high, dry desirable farms for all kinds of pro
duce.
These landns can he bought on terms of five years; by
paying 20 per cent down and can be bought in separate
tracts or as a whole.
$ 1.7,000 worth of improvements on place.
'l'd appreciate this land i.s to see it and we will take
pleasure in showing you.
Prices from 420 to per acre. You will never find
land as good as this al these low prices.
We have many other farms in our county we can make
it 1o your interest to buy.
Write for further information or come and let us show
you.
lackson & Cos.
%/
Alma, - Georgia.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13th