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OWN YOUR CROP
: INSTEAD OF OWE IT
rFood And Grain Crops Will Make
Agricultural South Independent,
Says H. G. Haetlngs
Atlanta, Ga.—(Special.)—The cred
it system under which the agricultu
ral south works and stays poor is an
alyzed in a striking way by H. G.
Hastings of Atlanta, chairman of the
agricultural committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce, and a member of
the executive council of the South
eastern Fair. He does not mince
words in talking about the situation.
“Every season during the last fifty
years," he says, "there has been trou
ble in the cotton belt whenever the
crop was large and the price low, or
the crop short. Each time the cry of
hard times goes up, and the reason
back of it is that the fanners cannot
get enough money to pay their debtß
out of their so-called cash crop—cot
ton. It is disheartening because It is
so absolutely unnecessary.
“A cotton farmer’s debts are large
ly for food and grain, charged up
against him on the merchants’ books
at two to three times the price that
those same items could be produced
on his own acres, and usually without
serious interference with a crop of cot
ton as large as he now makes.
“The trouble is that most cotton
farmers owe their crop instead of
owning it when made.
“The credit way looks the easy
way, but it strangles most farmers
before they get through life.
“1 have said repeatedly in public
addresses that no state or section of
any country can bo prosperous that
is regularly dependent on another
‘ section for its food supplies. What
Is true of a state or sectian is true
of the individual farmer.
“The great exhibits of grain, hay
and food products shown at the South
eastern Fair held in Atlanta in No
vember, give the lie to the statement
that these things cannot be grown
here at home successfully and prof
itably.
"A good big home garden kept
planted and rightly tended through
tfce season will produce half of the
' living besides furnishing an abund
ance for canning or drying from the
surplus.
“When we make our food and grain
we will have few or no debts at the
store; we will own instead of owe
our crops when made, and farm
wealth will accumulate in the south
instead of farm and crop mortgages.”
Critical Period
In Cattle Feeding
M. P. Jarnagin, Professor Of Animal
Husbandry, Georgia State Col
lege Of Agriculture
There is such a thing as a cow
losing more money living than dic
ing. Such a situation is likely to be
confronted when the pasture is cut
short by drouth or early winter, and
the animals are not given a chance
to hold their gains.
Supplemental feeding should begin
as soon as the animal stops making
satisfactory gains on the pasture. At
the College farm feeding in the pas
ture begins about Novt'mber 1, at
which time shocked corn stalks, with
Telephone Saved Child’s Life
One of the children fell into a water tank on
an Alabama farm and was rescued unconscious and
apparently lifeless. File frantic mother rushed to
the telephone and called the doctor six miles away.
He told her what to do and started at once, but
before he arrived the child was out of danger.
The protection of women and children is only
one of the chief values of the telephone on the
farm.
You can have this service at small cost. See
the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or send a
postal for our free booklet.
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S. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, GA.
CLEANING UP FARM
RILLS CROP PESTS
J. Phil Campbell, Director Of Exten.
aion, Georgia State College
Of Agriculture
According to entomologists, the prac
tice of cleaning up the farm in the
fall and winter means the destruction
of crop pests that go into winter quar
ters in edges of fields, on banks of
streams, sides of roads, terraces and
all places where vegetation is left un
disturbed.
The entomologists say that certain
plan’s left on the terraces or around
the edges of the field is to encourage
the existence of the red spider. Also
that some other weeds foster the
bud worm beetle and other insects
that do damage to useful crops later
on. These same authorities have found
that the corn stalk borer which caus
es “windfalls” of corn, makes his win
ter habitation among the roots and
stubble of the corn plant. Likewise,
the corn ear worm stays from two to
two and a half inches below the sur
face in the corn and cotton fields
where the soil is not disturbed.
The boll weevil, of course, winters
over in weeds and rubbish on the
farm to some extent, and it is of
greatest importance in holding this
greatest enemy of cotton in check, to
clean up all of its hiding places on
: the farm.
No better time is to be found for
fighting insect enemies of the farm
than in the winter, when, by killing a
few, thousands of their offspring will
be prevented from coming into exist
ence later on.
Fall plowing and winter cover crops
get rid of most of the insect pests of
the field. This, with the cleaning up
of the terraces, fence corners, banks
of streams, etc., constitute preventive
measures that mean much in saving
of crops later on.
In view of the fact that southern
soils require a great deal of vegetable
matter, one of the methods of helping
to meet this requirement, while at
the same time combatting the weevil,
is to pick cotton early, cut down the
stalks and turn them under before the
first frost. This stops the food sup-
I ply of the weevil and stops the propa
gation of some of them.
ears removed, are scattered about on
the thin places of the pasture. By the
middle of November cottonseed meal
at the rate of about a pound per
calf is put in troughs in the field. By
December 1 they go into the barn. A
daily allowance of 2% to 3% pounds
of cottonseed meal, a little wheat bran,
15 to 20 pounds of silage and 4 to 6
pounds of hay, Is then fed to the
calves.
The breeding herd is carried on 2
pounds of cottonseed meal, 25 to 30
pounds of silage and 6 to 8 pounds
of oat straw. On this ration they go
through the winter in vigorous condi
tion for calving a month or 6 weeks
before being turned out to grazing.
To let the cheap summer gains be
lost by poor fall and winter feeding is
the best way to lose money on beef
cattle.
LOCUST GROVE
The newly elected editors of
the “Gray Book” have enter
ed into their work with much
zeal and interest. They will be
assisted by Prof. Smalley. The
following have been selected on
the staff: Miss Ruby Barton and
Mr. Fred Smith, Editors-in-chief;
Mr. Luke Arnold and Mr. Carv
Westbrook, Business Managers;
Mr. Harold Morris, Literary Ed
itor; Mr. Ross Thomas, Athletic
Editor; Miss Julia Veal. Societies
and Clubs; Mr. Freeman McClure,
Religious Activities; Miss Sarah
Moore, Music; and Miss Ada
Reynolds, Local Editor. A staff
artist will also be chosen. This
annual publication will represent
all the activities of school life.
The try-out for speakers places
on the champion debate will be
held Feb. Ist. The supject for
the try out is “Resolved, That
men and women shall be paid
the same salary for the same
grade of work.”
Avery valuable contribution of
books was recently made to the
library by Mr. A. M. Pace, of
Jackson.
It has already been noticed
that there will be many who will
try for baseball this spring and
Locust Grove may expect the
best team in years.
The new students who have
entered Locust Grove Institute
since the holidays include: Roy
Johnson, of Millen; Emmett
Dykes, of Cochran; Edgar Pat
terson, Clairmount Springs, Ala.;
Hinton Daniel, Locust Grove;
Miss Marion Beavers, Morgan
ton; Jay Smith, Newnan, L. E.
Smith, Newnan; A. E. Alexand
er, Blakely; Hudson Pitts, Wa
verlv Hall; Sam Gardner, Locust
Grove; H. G. Upshaw, Douglas
ville; Miss Ruth Norris, Nichols;
Bennet Arnold, Ashland, Ala.;
James Phinazee, Griffin; James
M. Smith, Cochran; J. C. Stone,
McDonough; Clark Luke, Ocilla;
MUST QUIT EATING
CROP BEFORE MADE
South Must Stop Time-Honored Sys
tem Of Economic Suicide,
Says H. G. Hastings
Atlanta., Ga. — (Special.)—“The peo
ple of the south must quit eating their
cotton or other so-called ‘cash crop’
before it is made if they ever expect
to accumulate wealth and have the
comforts and luxuries of life due
them,” says H. G. Hastings, agricul
tural vice president of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, and a fore
most authority on farm conditions in
the southeast.
“The south must stop forever its
time-honored system of economic sui
cide," says Mr. Hastings. “Advance
steps were made last year toward a
condition of farm independence in the
Cotton Belt. They were forced steps,
it is true, but they marked an advance
just the same, and more bread and
meat, more grain, forage and other
food and feed stuffs were made in
1915 than ever before, with the result
there are tens of thousands of farm
ers better off than in past years,
despite short crops and business de
pression.
"With higher cotton prices, it is
going to be a great temptation to
drop back into the old habit of put
ting cotton, or whatever other cash
crop one may be growing, in pawn
for bread and meat. We are suffer
ing today from the old system forc
ed on us by conditions following the
Civil war, necessary then, but unnec
essary now r .
“Year after year we have stayed in
the same old rut as a matter of habit,
eating our crops, so to speak, before
they were made, a financially suicidal
policy for the farmer, each year put
ting his nose a little closer to the
credit grindstone.
“If the south had not been so rich
in natural resources, this system
would have bankrupted us long ago.
What's the answer? It is home pro
duction by each farmer of every dol
lar's worth of food and grain supplies
needed on his farm that it is possi
ble to grow on his own acres. This
means good big home gardens; hogs,
chickens, cows and something to feed
them on through the year.”
NO. 9186 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Jackson National Bank
At in the State of Georgia, At the Close of Business Dec. 31,
resources
Loans and discounts (notes held in the bank) "'*l3o 946 67—$ 248,582 00
Loans on cotton - - ' ’ j
Rediscounts 2 437 18-
Overdrafts, secured, $ unsecured, $2,437.18- -e’ooo 00
U. 8. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value)! 5,
Commercial paper dep. to secure circulation (book\aluei
Other bonds to secure postal savings. ’
Premium on bonds for circulation
Subscription to stock of Federal Reserve bank 5,4 * 2 700 00
Less amount unpaid... ' 9 ’ m
Banking house ’ 6 444 72"
Furniture and fixtures 7185 18
Due from Federal Reserve bank— " ’
Due from approved reserveagentsinNew \ ork,
Chicago and St. Louis $ 6,522 19
Due from approved reserve agents in other re
cfti 40 <,OOO Otf
sp vo ritips - 001 “v 1
Due from banks and bankers (other than above) „
Checks on banks in the same city or town as reporting bank *> •
Outside checks and other cash items
Fractional currency, nickels and cents 16 -•
Psotes of other national banks -
Federal reserve notes
Lawful money reserve in bank:
Total coin and certificates 2,925
Legal-tender notes... 2,950
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer, (not more than
5 per cent on circulation) 3,750 00
Other assets - 233 30
Total $388,700 80
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $ "5,000 00
Surplus fund.. - 15,000 00'
Undivided profits $ 14,410 44
Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid 4,503 64 — 9,906 80'
Circulating notes 75,000 00— 75,000 00
Dividends unpaid
Demand deposits:
Individual deposits subject to check 84,649 38
Certificate of deposit due in less than 30 days 6,000 00
Cashier’s checks outstanding 1,578 52
Postal savings deposits 1 29 ’
Total demand deposits. $92,129 49
Time deposits"
Certificates of deposit due on or after 30 days 9,774 74 9,774 74
Rediscounts with Federal Reserve banks.. 111,890 07 111,890 07
Notes and bills rediscounted...
Bills payable, including obligations representing money borrowed..
Total .$388,700 80 ‘
State of Georgia—County of Butts:
I, R. P. Sasnett, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
R. P. SASNETT, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of Jan., 1916.
S. J. FOSTER, Clerk Superior Court.
Correct—Attest: J. Lee Byron, E. L. Smith, A. H. Smith, Directors.
James Childs, Jenkinsburg; Seth
Dekle, Graymont; Charlie Adam
son. Jonesboro; Price Cody.
Statham; Edwin Smith, Auburn;
W. G. Veal, Deepstep; Hugh
Kennon, Adel, James R. Mullis,
Cochran. Jim Fudge, Colquitt;
Forest Castellaw, Locust Grove;
Miss Audry Wall, Locust Grove;
Miss Susie Dolvin, Siloam.
Miss Carrie Knott and Mr.
Harvey Knotb of Dalton, have
been visititing their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Knott.
The city officials of Locust
Grove have been re-elected for
the current year. They are Mr.
Lon Pitts, mayor; and five coun
cilmen, Messrs. Elbert Parr, W.
J. Upchurch, Harris Brown, Dr.
E. G. Colvin, and J. C. Mc-
Knight.
Mr. and Mr. J. J. Copeland
spent the holidays in Siloam.
They returned to Locust Grove
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith
were in Atlanta recently.
Messrs. Tom Harkins. W. C.
Combs and “Chug” Combs spent
the week-end in Atlanta.
The people of Locust Grove
rarely witness a more beautiful
wedding than that of Miss Mar
garette Hester Combs to Mr.
Palmer Gaillard. of Macon. The
ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Walker Combs, of Monti-
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ing at 7 o’clock. An informal
reception was later held. The
bride and groom left on the 9:20
train and will be in Atlanta for a
few days. After the seventeenth
of January the couple will be at
home to their friends at 129
Rose Park, Macon.
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