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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1914)
Bli lb CULMV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONEB, Editor anti I’ub. Subscription $1 a Year- Entered as second-class matter, Novem ber I;*i7, a’ tlie jiostoflice at Jackson, <>, Telephone No. 166. Communications aro welcomed. < or respondents will please confine them selves to :*OO words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. | 1 j , j ; SPECIAL NOTICE The Progress wishes to remind those of its subscribers who are in arrears that an early settle ment is desired. We have been patient with you, have sent the paper in good faith and we ask you for a remittance because we need the money. In limited qualities, meat, po tatoes, wheat and syrup, will be credited on subscription. II you haven’t the dollar bring us some thing we can eat or sell. Unless a prompt remittance is received from those due us for a year they will be cut off the list. Butts County Progress. 10-16-tf Diversify. Plant oats. Raise a hog. Raise a cow. Plant wheat. Plant alfalfa. Diversify after the Butts coun ty plan. The countv fair is a great edu cator for better farming. _______________ Study the Butts county plan of diversification and tell others about it. Judge Reagan is calling upon the people to support the Demo cratic nominees. Life in Atlanta is .just one row after another between the mayor and police chief. The Butts county plan of diver sification is the best thing that has been offered so far. The official ballot for the state election is the longest on record. It is literally a yard long - . If you just must talk hard times go off in a swamp and talk to yourself. Don’t croak in public. The South is not a beggar. This is not the first time that our peo ple have had to work out their own salvation. - One or two growlers can do a vast amount of harm to a com munity. Refuse to listen to their wailing. Look on the bright side. Some members of the Butts County Boys Corn Club are after a county record this fall, and it will not be suprising if they get it. Why not a roller null for Jack son? It Is something the people have long needed. A cash grain market will help diversification along wonderfully. The farmers of the South now know that they will not get any help from the government. They will now proceed to help them selves as best they can. It is to be regretted that poli tics got mixed up in the various schemes to help the cotton far mers. There is politics in nearly everything nowadays, it seems. Says The Albany Herald: “Some of our all-cotton farmers who have been in the business for many years are going to dem onstrate to the world next year that a man is never too old to learn.” Farmers should remember that when they plant grain this fall they are doing the best thing possible to advance the price of cotton. Let the world know that a large grain crop has been plant ed in the cotton belt and the cot ton market will be materially strengthened. HARD TO BELIEVE The United States Commission er ot Pensions reports that the government paid out a total of $172,417,546 in pensions in the fiscal year ending June 30. This is a reduction or nearly two mil lion dollars from the $174,171,660 which the government paid to pensioners in 1913, the year when the pension tide reached high water mark. Let not this item in the day’s news escape your attention, gen tie reader. Fail not to take note of the fact that for the first time since the War Between the States a year has passed which did not witness an increase of the pension burden. From 1866 to 1914, the United States government has paid to war pensioners the almost unbelieva ble sum of $4,633,511,926. Year after year the pension disburse ments have increased, thanks to a system which made it possible for men who never smelled pow der, wore a uniform or rendered the smallest patriotic service during the war to get their names on the pension roll, via the ne farious “private pension bill.” And now, at last, the annual pension expenditure has failed to show an increase over the prece ding year. Glory be! We are almost afraid it is a bad omen —afraid another war will come along, to give the | total another grand boost. A- I, bany Herald. EVER SALIVATED BY CALOMEL? HORRIBLE! Calomel is Quicksilver and Adis Like Dynamite on Your Liver Calomel loses you a day! You know what calomel is. It’s mer cury; quicksilver. Calomel is dan gerous. It crashes into sour bile like dynamite, cramping and sick ening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put into your system. 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It Is manufactured by a well ///rytiL Known company, who are \ perfectly reliable." a ■ Ta.la with Blight lax* Jgj A lOllCatlre qualities. “I have noticed a great Aww many others taking this jrQftJr M remedy, and I have yet IC\T IB failed to see a case where the continued use of Peru- V rVitg na did not complete a sat isfactory cure in reason- T\/' IpH able time.” THE BUTTS COUNTY PLAN The Butts county plan of cot ton acreage reduction has been widely commended. The Macon News has the following editorial on the subject: The farmers of Butts county held a lively meeting the other day, and after various impracti cable schemes had been suggest ed for the relief of the farmer, both at present and in the future, a plan was agreed upon which commends itself to every tiller of the soil in Georgia. One speaker at this Butts coun ty gathering urged all within.his hearing, and those who could not hear, to “hold cotton for (not less than) ten cents until hades burn j ed up and the ashes blew away. ” There was some more talk on this order, and the meeting settled down to business. The program eventually evolved was adopted in a resolution to the effect that “to every one-horse farm” they would plant two acres in wheat, five in oats, eight in corn, one half acre in sweet potatoes, one half in sorghum or ribbon cane and “follow stubble with peas or other foodstuds, and plant the remaining land in cotton if so de sired.” For each plow they agreed to raise one hog. If this schedule of planting had been adopted by all of the farm ers several years ago, the cotton crisis would not have occasioned any concern in Georgia among the agriculturists. If adopted now and put into faithful execution, the Georgia farmer need never complain of hard times again. 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