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BUIIS COUNTV PROGRESS
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter, Novem
ber 8, 1'.*07, at the post oft! cc at Jackson, fia.
Telephone No. 166.
Communications are welcomed. Cor
respondents will please confine them
selves to ftOO 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sign your name, not for publication,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.
Patronize the R. F. D. service.
No better time to pay up than
riprht now.
Cut out war talk and talk bus
iness. It’s more profitable.
What has become of the old
fashioned man who said, I’ll pay
as I go?”
If the price of wheat continues
to soar corn dodgers will soon
take the place of biscuits.
Macon claims to be a city of
55,000 souls-to say nothing of
blind tigers and beer saloons.
How would you like to be the
weather man and get all the
cussing and abuse being heaped
upon that individual?
The weather has prevented the
farmers from doing much plow
ing to date. Another point in
favor of a smaller cotton urop.
General. Robert E Lee’s birth
day falls on next Tuesday and
the day will be appropriately ob
served throughout the country.
While the most of us are won
dering whin the war will end
here comes Lord Kitchener and
says the war will really begin in
May.
This is the year of all years
when the people want to see an
economical administrotion of the
public business and a lower tax
rate this fall.
Well informed citizens declare
the quantity of fertilizer used in
1915 will be much less than last
year. This, of course, will make
for a smaller cotton crop.
Butts county ought to take up
the Pig Club work in a determin
ed sort of way. There is need
of all the hogs that can be raised.
Hogs make an excellent substi
tute for cotton.
A preacher in Thomson, Ga..
voluntarily reduced his salary
S3OO a year, giving as his reason
the fact that he wanted to share
in the hard times forced upon the
people of this section by the war.
During his four years as gov
ernor Blease of South Carolina
has pardoned more than three
thousand criminals. He turned
loose over a thousand felons at
one stroke of his pen a few days
ago.
Mayor Davant of Savannah has
had his salary raised to $6,000 a
year and is now the best paid
mayor in the South. He will de
vote his entire time to the office
and his friends say he is worth
| the price.
The people of Georgia did not
warm up much to Belgian immi
gration. The fact is all of the
cities are full of families who
would like to get a few acres to
cultivate under the same condi
tions as were offered the Belgians
We felicitate The Butts County
Progress on its thirty-third birth
day. Editor Doyle Jones has one
of the brightest and best week
lies in Georgia and we always
look forward to its coming. May
the new year bring even greater
success to Editor Jones and his
excellent paper. Monroe Adver
tiser.
Hearing From the Farmer
It is gratifying to observe the
protest of the farmers of Butts
county against any curtailment
of rural free delivery service.
There has never been anything
done that meant more to the
productiveness, attractiveness
and success of the farm than the
“R. F. D.”
The tendency toward the city
life is largely due to the isolation
of the farmer—his inability to
have companionship for himself
and family or communication
with the outside world. The tel
ephone is a great modern asset
to the farm, but the mail service
brings the the world’s doings to
the farm door daily.
Millions of money is spent by
the government and the news
papers to place before the people
information which is of benefit,
and of all the people whose wel
fare is most important and to
whom the information is most
essential the farmer heads the
list. The R. F. I>. gives the far
mer in addition an express ser
vice that enables him to send to
the market at small cost any pro
ducts from the farm as they are
ready, thus providing another
very desirable and in time popu
lar convenience for both the pro
ducer and consumer.
The farmers of Butts are to be
congratulated on taking an inter
est in the suggestion of curtail
ment of the R. F. D. service and
filing a protest. The service
should be improved and increased
in every way possible—not re
duced.—Macon Telegraph.
Save the Breeding Stock.
In making settlement this fall
and winter we fear the breeding
animals in the south may suffer a
depletion, which we can ill afford
at this time. It is not unusual
for the mortgages on which sup
plies to make a crop are obtained
to include the cattle and other
live stock on the farm. If the
merchant or landlord is not able
to collect what is due him he may
take the sows and other young
female stock, and when this is
done it is usually shipped out of
the South. While we cannot de
ny any man the right to take the
stock covered by mortgage in or
der to collect what is due him,
this is a time when every effort
should be made, both by the
creditor and the debtor, to save
all the female live stock now on
the farms of the south. Non
producing animals may be sacri
ficed, but surely every mare that
will bring a colt, every cow that
will produce a calf, and every
sow that will furnish a litter of
pigs from w T hich the farmer may
make his meat supply shuld be
spared. In the long run this
will not only be the best for the
farmer, but it will also result in
benefit to the merchant and land
lord.
By all means, the creditor
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indigestion, foul gases, bad breath
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should spare the females on the
farm, and every one of them
should be put to work by the
farmer, for the increase will be
needed as a “money crop” or to
increase the home food supply. —
The Progressive Farmer.
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Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
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ery case of Catarrli that cannot be cured
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FRANK J. CHENEY.
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my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1886.
(Seal) A. W. GLEASON.
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
The year 1915 is here, and
watchman what of the night?
A lot of grain is sown but not
as much as we would like to see,
but it isn’t too late to sow oats
yet until the 15th of March. Burt
oats will make fine on good land
sown that late. If you haven’t
sown a good supply, by all means
sow more. This is one year the
farmer must take hold of the sit
uation as rough as pig iron by
making a crop as economically as
possible. And the way to do it
is cut expenses in every way that
is in keeping with common sense.
Go to work and make a crop
and then we wont owe it when
we make it. Plant such crops as
will mature early and that will
hedge us against the hard times, j
Don’t fail to plant a big crop of
corn. The time has passed to
make big crops of cotton to be
given away.
There is a lot being said at pres
ent about what it cost to ship a
bale ©f cotton to Germany, but
they fail to tell you what they
get for it after they get it there.
Now just hold your breath while
we put down a few figures. The
lowest estimate to make 500
pounds of cotton is S4O and the
average price the farmer gets is
$35. So you see the farmer is $5
behind in the transaction. Now
let’s figure a little and see what
the cotton buyer gets out of it.
He buys your bale of cotton at
$35, he pays $18.75 to get it to
Germany. So he is out $53.75.
He sells it for 18 cents per pound,
which brings him S9O and when
he deducts $53.75 from it he has
a clear profit of $36.25. Now these
are figures I dare anybody to de
ny. But some smart Alex will
stand on the street corner and
tell you it is such a risk to get
cotton to Germany, when the
TO
OUR
CUSTOMERS
On accounts due us we will take
Wheat, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed,
Baled Hay, Peas, Hogs, Cows, etc ,
at market prices. If you haven’t the
cash bring us your produce and we
will credit your account. We
our customers will take advantage of
this opportunity to settle what they
owe us.
This offer is good until further
notice.
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time to acquire the necessary skill.
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whole truth is the cotton buyer
runs no risk at all. For his cotton
is insured against all loss before
it leaves the American port.
Now with all these facts and
figures that stand out as bold as
a towering mountain over a laugh
ing valley that cradles the even
ing shadow, ain’t it time for we
•farmers to try to see if we can’t
have some sense?.
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