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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.