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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS
VOLUME 33.
DEMONSTRATION WORK FOR
THE PAST YEAR REVIEWED
Prof. Worsham Tells What Was
Accomplished in Butts County
Anything new and untried is
viewed by many people rather
skeptically until the worth of it
is proven beyond the shadow of
a doubt. Many do not consider
that it requires time and patience
for anything whatsoever to grow
from its germination to maturity.
A demonstrator of farming does
not claim to have had as much
practical experience on the farm
as some of the older heads, and
they do not claim to know it all.
We have all had more or less of
the real actual experience right
on the farm itself, and further
more this practical experience
has been supplemented with the
scientific knowledge which has
been gathered from the past and
the present through the medium
of the individual, the experiment
stations, the colleges of agricul
ture, the farm papers and other
sources. There are farmers in
the county so well up in their
profession who can probably give
us information which their less
fortunate brothers need to know.
They are the ones who make the
best demonstrators and co-opera
tors. Our business is to get and
give information. The govern
ment welcomes the knowledge
Cotton. Yield Per Acre. No. of Acres. Variety.
L R Dodson If bales 1 Vandivers
JR Conner li bales 4 Broad well
J H Patrick 11 bales 2 Cleveland Big 801 l
A F Taylor 2000 lbs seed cotton II Christopher
G W Thornton 2000 lbs seed cotton 11 Vandivers
W W Wilson 1750 lbs seed cotton 4 Bowden
S K Smith 2000 lbs seed cotton 1 Reddings Select
J W Maddox 1575 lbs seed cotton 1 Cleveland
G F Etheridge 2168 lbs seed cotton 2 Truitt’s
L M Crawford 1600 lbs seed cotton 7
W M Andrews 2313 lbs seed cotton 2 Cochrans
C R Carter 1 bale 9 Vandivers
T B Fletcher 2000 lbs seed cotton 1 Cleveland
G H Ridgeway 1 bale 1 Sunbeam
W A White 1800 lbs seed cotton 2 Bowdens
G W Jinks 1800 lbs seed cotton 1 Cleveland
J M Thaxton 1750 lbs seed cotton 11 Cleveland
J M Ball 1700 lbs seed cotton 21 Cleveland
M D Garr 1700 lbs seed cotton 1
The last five yields are estimated as we have not received offi
cial reports from them.
Corn. No. Acres. Yield Per Acre. Kind.
G W Allen 1 60 Hastings Prolific
Van White 1 60 Clarks
A C Finley 4 60 Hastings Prolific
J P Ray 2 65 Hastings Prolific
J O Gaston 2 60 Hastings Prolific
L R Dorsett 11 55 Hastings Prolific
J W Maddox 1 37 Hastings Prolific
Several of the corn yields were
considerably reduced on account
of the continued drought. Very
few have reported. The boys’
yield, which are included in de
monstration work, have already
been published.
Among those who have legumes
seeded this fall are:
Kirby Smith, bur and crimson clover
and vetch.
E. A. Fincher, alfalfa, crimson
clover.
George Mallet, alfalfa.
L H. Hendrick, vetch.
J. D. Thomas, alfalfa.
R. V. Smith, crimson clover.
Dr. A. F. White, crimson clover.
Tan White, alfalfa.
W. A. White, crimson clover.
C. N. Vickers, crimson clover and
gained by every farmer from the
big land owner to the humblest
negro tenant. They seek the
truth and try to disseminate it.
He seeks the best knowledge
obtainable on the particular sub
ject in which the farmer is inter
ested and carries it to him. Fur
thermore he shows how this may
be accomplished by some con
crete example in the neighbor
hood or county in which the far
mer resides. He works on the
principle that seeing is believing,
and that there is enough known
now about the science of agricul
ture to more than double the
present yields of the average far
mer is proven by the fact that
the boys corn club are doing this
every year. The pig club is de
monstrating that pork can be
raised at about 3 cents per pound.
The girls canning club is show
ing what can be done with pro
ducts of the garden toward mak
ing life on the farm worth living.
Below we give a few of the
yields made the past year.
These are the yields of some of
the Demonstrators and Co-opera
tors who have reported. Cotton
yields are good; corn yields are
reduced by drought:
vetch.
Clifford Higgins, crimson clover.
Gordon Thompson, alfalfa
J. L. Barnes, crimson clover.
G. P. Saunders, crimson clover.
G. I. Watkins, crimson clover.
Victor Carmichael, crimson clover.
L R. Dodson, crimson clover.
Early Edwards, crimson clover.
J. O. Gaston, crimson clover.
G. W. Jinks, crimson clover.
W. E. Pace, crimson clover.
L. D. Watson, bur clover.
During the year there have
been a number of farmers to
purchase Percheron horses. The
following are owners of Perche
rons purchased this year: J. Ed
gar Hale, T. B. Fletcher, H. M.
Fletcher, Claud Brittain, Ernest
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1915.
LEE'S BIRTHDAY
WAS OBSERVED
Public Schools Had Short
Exercises
U. D. C. HAD PROGRAM
Memory of Great Soldier
And Civic Leader Kept
Alive in Hearts of The
Southern People
The anniversary of the birth
day of General Robert Edward
Lee, Tuesday, was observed in a
patriotic manner in Jackson.
A short though interesting
program was rendered by the
Jackson public schools Tuesday
morning. The Rev. Olin King
of the Methodist church conduc
ted chapel exercises and spoke
briefly on the career of General
Lee. He was followed by Prof.
W. P. Martin, superintendent of
schools, who paid a beautiful
tribute to Lee the soldier, the
civic leader and the unblemished
Christian gentleman. A portrait
of Gen. Lee was then displayed
amid the patriotic applause of
the audience.
In the afternoon the members
of Larkin Watson chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy
had a most interesting program
at the home of Mrs. B. F. Wat
kins, Jr. A large number of the
members and visitors were pres
ent and thoroughly enjoyed the
bright program.
The banks were closed for the
day, which is a legal holiday in
Georgia.
Atlanta Will Have Week
Of Grand Opera as Usual
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 21—Atlanta
has decided to have her annual
grand opera season this year and
drown the calamity howlers.
This was largely made possible
however, by the practical optim
ism of Forest Adair, a leading
real estate man, who announced
that he would double his sub
scription to the guarantee fund
and expected other live Atlan
tans to do the same.
A program of operas entirely
new to Atlanta, with two excep
tions are on the r * tentative list,
and the season is expected to be
as successful as any in the past.
Pace. J. W. Carter.
Mr. George Mallet is to be com
mended for his introduction into
our county of about 35 head of
short horn cattle.
There will be no special demon
strations in cotton next year, so
says Mr. Knapp. He sees the
need of stressing food crops and
discouraging planting the fleecy
staple. I would like to have de
monstrators in oats, wheat, rye,
barley, clovers, grasses, corn,
cane, potatoes, peanuts, cow
peas, velvet beans, soy beans,
live stock, poultry, gardens and
orchards and other special crops
included in diversified farming.
H. L. Worsham.
DELEGATES NAMED
FOR MACON MEET
BusinessMenAndFarmers
Will Confer
JUDGE HAM~APPOINTS
Market For The Products
of Georgia Farms Will be
Provided by Georgia
Chamber of Commerce
Judge J. H. Ham, Ordinary,
has appointed delegates to the
Market Conference in Macon on
January 29. Five merchants and
business men and fifteen or more
farmers are to be appointed by
the ordinaries of the seventeen
counties that will participate in
the conference.
It is hoped that all those named
by Judge Ham will be able to at
tend the Macon meeting, as no
more important conference has
been planned in the state in a
long time. The following gentle
men have been appointed to rep
resent Butts county at the meet
ing in the-Central City:
Messrs. J. B. Settle, F. S. Eth
eridge, E. L. Smith, J. H. Car
michael, S. 0. Ham.
Buttrill district, J. H. Mills, C.
H. Farrar.
Coodys district, J. W. Maddox,
Geo. F; Etheridge.
Dublin district, S. K. Smith,
C. A. Towles.
Indian Springs district, A. H.
Ogletree, W. P. Castleberry.
Iron Springs district, C. A.
Pittman, L. R. Dodson.
Jackson district, J. M. Gaston,
G. E. Mallet, L. M. Crawford, S.
H. Mays.
Towaliga district, J. E. Hale,
T. P. Bell.
Worthville district, E. A. Fin
cher, J. H. Pope.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO
HAVE INSPECTION FEB. 5
Alexius Commandery No. 22,
Knights Templar, will have its
annual inspection on the evening
of February 5. The inspecting
officers include the following
members of the Grand Comman
dery: Sir Knight John W. Mur
rell, of Atlanta, Grand Captain
General, and Sir Knight M. A.
Weir, of Macon, Grand Treasurer
On the night of the inspection
there will be work in the Order
of the Temple and it is hoped
there be a large attendance of
the members, particularly the
Sir Knights in McDonough and
Monticello.
To prepare for the inspection
there will be a called convocation
of the commandery Friday night
at 7:30 o’clock.
Osage orange wood is a source
of dye and can be used to
supplement the imported fustic
wood, as a permanent yellow for
textiles.
News print paper has been
made by the forest service labo
ratory from 24 different woods,
and a number compare favorably
with standard spruce pulp paper.
TO PLAN FOR
FARM MARKETS
Conference Will Be Held
In Macon
IS IMPORTANT MEETING
Market Conference Will
Be Held in Macon Janu
ary 29 With Seventeen
Counties Represented
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 20—If the
merchants and farmers of the
section around Macon respond to
the call being made by the Geor
giaChamberof Commerce through
the ordinaries of the several
counties for a meeting in the au
ditorium of the chamber of com
merce, Macon, January 29, at 10
a. m., there will be no reason
why the fears of the farmers, so
often expressed, that they will
find no market for food crops if
they raise them in 1915, should
not be allayed.
If the farmers of Georgia re
duce their cotton acreage for 1915
one-third—and that, according to
the most conservative estimates,
is the least that will prevent dis
astrous results from over-produc
tion—there will be not less than
1,800,000 acres, usually planted
to cotton, that must either be
planted in food crops or lie idle.
If this land is permitted to lie
fallow, at least fifty thousand
farm laborers will be forced to
flock to the cities, already over
flowing with unskilled labor, to
try to secure employment of some
kind, and there will be consequent
privation in Georgia from lack
of sufficient food production to
meet consumption.
The very fact that Georgia im
ports such vast quantities of food
stuffs from other states proves
that there is a great market
available for home products. By
getting farmers and merchants
together, the Georgia Chamber
of Commerce expects to switch
this trade from the West to the
Georgia merchants and farmers.
All that is necessary is that the
merchants agree to give Georgia
products preference, if equal in
quality, preparation for market,
and price to those from other
states. If this is done, the far
mers will plant them.
The ordinaries of seventeen
middle Georgia counties have
been asked to appoint delegates.
It is expected that there will be
a large attendance and that the
planting, marketing and financ
ing of food crops will be settled
for central Georgia, making that
section self-sustaining, with cot
ton as a surplus cron.
MRS. W. A. FAULKNER
PASSES TO BEYOND
Mrs. W. A. Faulkner, who re
sided on the line of Butts and
Monroe counties, died at her
home Sunday. Death was due to
congestive chills, it was stated.
Mrs. Faulkner is survived by her
husband and three small children.
The funeral was held Monday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at Towa
liga church. Interment was in
the cemetery at Towaliga.
NUMBER 4.