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Here's to the winners.
Smile, d—n vou, smile.
Everybody is glad it's over.
Now get busy and forget it.
Brace up and smile—you’ll sur
vive it all.
Lest you forget it boost that
county fair.
Be on hand for that mass meet
ing Saturday.
Don’t let the election give you
a grouch —smile.
The voters were very much in
evidence Wednesday.
Let’s have more business and
less politics in the future.
The war will now come in for
its full share of attention.
Now forget all the hard things
said during the campaign.
The voters put them one to a
hill with their little ballots.
At any rate it was not as hot
as some campaings we’ve seen.
Many a political expert has an
other guess coming in the sober
gray dawn of the morning after.
Don’t forget the mass meeting
of farmers and business men on
Saturday afternoon to discuss the
cotton situation.
They can’t find a name to suit
the war in Europe. Why not ac
cept old Bill Sherman’s definition
and let it go at that?
Spalding county also spends
more than its income. The fig
ures for 1913 being $35,394.35 to
tal receipts against $49,874.80 to
tal disbursements.
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HON. J. WALTER WISE
Mr. Wise was nominated for Congress from the Sixth
District Wednesday without opposition. His
friends predict he will make a brilliant rep
resentative in the National Congress.
FARMERS INSTITUTE WAS
6REAT THING FOR COUNTY
Editor Progress:—Last Friday,
August 7, we attended the Farm
ers Field Meeting at Mallets
Spring, and not only enjoyed the
day from a social standpoint, but
came away feeling that we had
been benefited in many ways.
With the hope that it may be
of interest to some who did not
have the pleasure of attending
this meeting we would like to
give a few impressions that we
gained from the day’s exercises.
First the social features:
There was a crowd of several
hundred present from Butts
mainly and a few from adjoining
counties, including many farmers
and their families, the members
of the Boys Corn club, the Girls
Canning club and a number of
business and professional men
from Jackson. The weather
during the forenoon was ideal,
being somewhat cloudy and cool
enough to be pleasant. No more
suitable place could have been
selected for the meeting. The
shady grove, the big spring of
sparkling water, the number of
sheds and buildings with veran
das to which the people could re
tire when a shower came up,
made the surrounding all that
could be desired. Then in addi
tion to all that Mr. George Mallet,
the generous and thoughtful host
of the occasion, had provided
seats for the people, tables upon
which to spread their luncheon
and left nothing undone that
would enhance the enjoyment of
the day. We would like to say
here that we Butts county people
have many things to be proud of,
not the least of which by any
means, is the fact that we have
men like big hearted George
Mallet, who is not only doing his
county a good service in setting
the pace in better methods in
farming and stock raising, but is
ever ready to lend a helping
hand to any movement that is
for the uplift and betterment of
the people.
The first feature of the pro-
gram was an address by Prof.
Lowery of the State Colloge of
Agriculture, on soil fertility. He
made a good plain, common sense
talk on the many practical ways
in which we could conserve and
build up the fertility of our soils.
An interesting feature of his ad
dress was the display on explan
ation of soil survey maps of sev
eral counties of the state show
ing the amount of phosporic
acid, potash and nitrogen per
acre, etc. Prof. Lowery held the
close attention of the crowd
throughout his address and was
followed by Dr. Bradford head
of the Boys Corn clubs of Geor
gia. Of course the doctor made
an interesting and instructive
talk interspersed, with lively hu
mor which caught and held the
attention, not only of the boys,
but of every one present. The
main drift of his talk was along
the same line of Prof. Lowery’s,
building up and preserving the
soil and increasing the fertilty
by adding humus, etc. One sig
nificant fact the doctor brought
out was that the yield of corn
per acre in Butts had increased
from an average of 9 bushels in
1909 to 16 bushels in 1913.
Following Dr. Bradford came
the crowning feature of the day,
the address of Miss Dowdle, of
Rome, who is at the head of the
Girls Canning club department,
Miss Dowdle startled her hearers
and caught their attention from
the very first when she arose and
declared that the worst imposed
upon person in America today
is the woman on the farm. And
as she was talking mainly to an
audience of farmers, we all real
the truth of her words as she
depicted the burdensome and in
convenient condition under which
the majority of the women on
the farms have to do their work.
Even in many instances in the
homes of the well-to-do farmers
her burdens are made unnecessa
rily hard and monotonous by the
unthoughtedness of the men of
family in providing the most sim
ple and inexpensive conveniences
to lighten her burden. None but
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a man with a stone heart could
haye been unmoved by her ap
peal for a square deal for her
fellow-women on the farm.
Next came the noon hour with
a generous spread of a basket
dinner with fruits, melons, etc.,
which was enjoyed by all. An
interesting feature of the after
noon was the cattle dipping. It
was regretted that rain interfer
ed with the canning demonstra
tion of Miss Dowdle and Miss
Waldrop. Although this has been
a discouraging year on the Girls
Canning club work, yet the good
women are blazing anew way of
opportunities and possibilities for
their sex and their efforts ought
to meet with hearty co-operation
and encouragement.
In a recent trip over a portion
of our county we were surprised
to see the quantity of fine peach
es rotting on the ground, as well
as other fruits and vegetables go
ing to waste, which ought to be
canned or preserved in some way
for other use.
In conclusion we wish to call
attention to the fact that the peo
ple of our county are rapidly
waking up to the possibilities of
the progressive and up-to-date
methods of farming. And right
here we would like to say that
from recent extended observa
tion and discussion with the peo
ple of our county we believe that
Mr. Worsham, our county Dem-
onstrator, has done some good
work this year. As we all know
Mr. Worsham started late and
being a stranger among us he
was at considerable disadvantage
in his work this year, but we find
that he is in close touch with the
people and many are showing an
increased interest in better farm
ing. The best feature of his work
as we see it is that he is reaching
the class of people that need hel
ping the most.
m Farmer.