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HOW MUST PEANUTS
BE MARKETED NOW?
fThis Is Question Worrying
Many Farmers
Whether It pays better to market
peanuts at the oil mills or to let the
hogs harvest the nuts le of Interest
fto farmers now in deciding the acre
age and the variety of peanuts that
(they will plant, also the number of
Ehoga they must have on hand when
the crop is ready to harvest.
* An agricultural survey made in
Brooks county, covering two hundred
find eighteen farms, shows that on
an average one acre of Spanish pea
nuts will carry five one hundred and
Bfty pound hogs from August first to
Beptember twentieth, with a gain in
iwreight of three hundred and fifty-eight
pounds, which, at twelve cents a
pound, would be worth $42.95. The
average cost of these peanut* hogged
off was $11.09 per acre which shows
a profit of $31.86.
On these same farms the peanuts
harvested show an average yield of
thirty-seven bushels or eleven hun
dred and ten pounds which at $120.00
a ton would be worth $66.60. The
average cost of these peanuts when
modern picking machinery is used is
about $20.00 per acre, so that the
profit would be $46.60 per acre.
This indicates a greater profit on
the side of the marketing for oil. It
must be remembered also that these
farmers have been growing hogs for
market for many years and are skill
ad in handling thorn. When on pea
nuts ample mineral matter must be
Supplied to secure good gain.
This survey showß that on an aver
age the North Carolina, or Running,
Peanuts furnishes grazing for about
tour one hundred and fifty pound hogs
from September fifteenth until Jan
uary first, giving an average gain of
tour hundred and two pounds of pork
per acre. They are well adapted for
late grazing for hogs, but are more
difficult to harvest.
The use of hogs to harvest peanuts
preferable where land Is plentiful,
labor Is scarce, increase of fertility is
advisable, and capital is sufficient.
The production of winter grazing
crops for the hogs also gives profitable
employment at seasons when work is
Black.
It is probable that with the cotton
acreage of South Georgia reduced by
the boll weevil that a combination of
some peanuts for market and some for
hogs will pay best as the substitute
for cotton as a cash crop. This is
•specially true under the present la-
V>r conditions where the supply of
labor is hard to get and uncertain in
the length of time that it will be avail
able. Tlte farmer who plans to hog
ofT part of his peanuts and harvest
the balance for the oil mill is playing
aafe, in that he can harvest his crops
■with the hogs if he lacks a supply of
labor in the fall, or the price of pea
nuts should drop too low, or If the
price of peanuts Is good and labor
available he can harvest most of them,
eave the waste with his hogs, and mar
ket the hogs earlier. For these rea
sons it will probably pay to use more
of the North Carolina peanuts for
market them is the custom at the
present time in South Georgia, where
the white-skinned Spanish variety is
planted almost exclusively for mar
ket purposes. —Prof. G. C. Schempp,
State College of Agriculture.
A general Idea of the quantity ol
food sent to European allies by the
United States from July 1, 15114, to
January 1, 1918, is given by figures
Just announced by the U. S. Food Ad
ministration. Iu that period the Unit
ed States has furnished complete year
ly rations for 57,100,833 people. In
addition there was enough extra pro
tein to supply this portion of the diet
for 22,104,570 additional men.
The total export of wheat and wheat
flour to the three principal allies is
equivalent to about RB4.OOO.tXK) bushels.
Pork exports for the 3*4 years amount
ed to almost 2.000.000,0'0 pounds. Ex
ports of fresh beef tot: led 443,484.400
pounds. The amount of food exported
to Russia is negligible compared with
that sent to the western allies.
ONLY AMERICA CAN HELP.
“On your side are boundless
•uppllea of men. food, and mate
rial; on this side a boundless de
mand for their help.
“Our men are war-weary and
their nerves have been strained
by more than three years of
hard, relentless toil.
“Our position is critical, par
tlcularly until the next harvest
but the United States can save
us.
“You Americans have the men,
the skill, and the material to
save the allied cause."
SIR JOSEPH MACLAY.
British Shipping Controller.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918
STATE COLLEGE WILL
NOT CLOSE THIS YEAR
Collegiate Work To Be Given In
Summer Emergency
Course
Instead of closing in June, as in
other years, the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture will remain open
all summer, giving a three months
emergency course In vocational agri
culture in an effort to suply the nec
essary agricultural leadership for our
state. So acute has the situation be
come and so great is the demand for
men with agricultural training that
the teaching force of the State Col
lege has volunteered its service for
twelve months in the year as long as
the war lasts.
Not only are more and more sci
entific farmers needed for the country
wide campaigns for increased food pro
duction, but tho government research
work, experiment station and exten
sion work are calling for more men
with agricultural training than can
now be supplied.
Organized businesses are calling for
agricultural men now aa never before.
They are needed in chemical works,
in newspaper shops and by seed
houses, fertilizer concerns and imple
ment dealers. It seems now that the
demand for agricultural teachers in
high schools and colleges will not be
fully supplied for many years to
come.
In recognition of the work the Col
lege of Agriculture is doing the Gov
ernment is sending a number of draft
ed men to the institution for special
training. This number will be enlarg
ed from time to time as accommoda
tions will permit.
The College has just issued bulle
tins describing its courses in agricul
ture, agricultural education, forestry,
veterinary medicine and home econom-i
ics and all of these are for free dis
tribution. Especial attention is called;
to the Summer Emergency Course in:
Vocational Agriculture. —Editor, State
College of Agriculture.
TEN THOUSAND BOYS
FOR THE WHEAT CLUBS
Large Enrollments Have Al
ready Been Reported
The County Agents are now making
a drive for ten thousand members of
Roys’ Wheat Club to grow an acre
of wheat next year. All of these
boys are being organized this spring
for the purpose of growing one acre
of cow peas to be harvested for seed
or hay as the boys desire and this
acre to be followed by wheat this
fall. Many counties have already re
ported the enrollment of one hundred
or more boys for this purpose. Each
boy who grows an acre of cow peas
to be followed by an acre of wheat
will be feeding one soldier in the
trenches.
In addition to the boys’ wheat club,
many farmers have joined farmers’
wheat clubs during the past winter,
and many more are preparing to grow
wheat next year. Each farmer is urg
ed to grow from one to five acres of
wheat or a sufficient quantity to feed
his family and labor on his farm. In
dications are that wheat shortage will
be as acute in 1919 as it has been
in 1918. —Prof. J. Phil Campbell, State
College of Agriculture.
The Budget System.
The budget system is not n system or
form of government, but a mode of pro
cedure in certain matters. Primarily
a budget is a bag or sack with its con
tents. which may be anything from gar
den truck or cooked food to official
documents. In England, where the
word acquired its political or govern
ment term, it means the annual finan
cinl statement or the facts and figures
which the chancellor of the exchequer
makes lu the house of commons, sitting
as a committee of ways and means.
The term has never been much used in
this country, but it is sometimes ap
plied to the estimate of government
receipts and expenditures submitted
iu the annual report of the secretary
of the treasury as a basis for appropri
ations to be made by the congress.
Briefly, the budget system or a na
tional budget may be defined as the
financial statement of the government
for the next fiscal year, showing In
detail the services and expected
amount of revenue, and an Itemized
estimate of expenditures in the differ
ent departments of government to be
covered by appropriations not to be
overruu.
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JACKSON, GEORGIA
PHONE 190
OVERSCRIPTION
OF 20 PER CENT
1,836 Persons Subscribed
to Red Cross
A MAGNIFICENT SHOWING
Tabulation of the Red Cross drive
in Butts county shows that a total of
1,836 persons took part in the cam
paign.
The county’s quota of $2,000 was
oversubscribed 20 per cent, the total
reaching approximately $2,400. *
By district the following number
of persons subscribed:
Buttrill—l43.
Coody—l4B.
Iron Springs—l 32.
Towaliga—l93.
Dublin and Flovilla—l32.
Worthville—l22.
Jackson (district) —148.
Jckson (city)—so3.
Pepperton—226.
Indian Springs—B9.
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Since the first of May there has
been a sharp advance in the price of
newsprint paper. On the first of July
the advance in the second class pos
tage become effective. The only silver
lining to the cloud is the fact the
newspaper fraternity will not have to
work overtime figuring an income tax
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About one of the best things the
war department has yet done is to is
sue an order to round up all loafers,
gamblers, etc., after July 1. This
genty will have to go to work or fight.
That’s right. There is no room for
drones now.
Ladies, see our big line
of wash Skirts, Georgette
and Crepe de Chine Wai&s.
Some swell things just ar
rived .
The Busy Corner.
Mr. and Mrs. Bynum Beeland, of
Pepperton, have the sympathy of
their friends in the loss of their nine
months-old daughter, whose death’ oc
curred at 10 o’clock Monday morning.
The funeral wa6 held at Flovilla
Tuesday afternoon.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stop* tht
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVE’S signature on each box, 30c.
54 Millions From 42 Agencies, an Increase of
38 Millions Insurance in force is the record of
New England Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Boston, Mass.
THOS. N. McKIBBEN
Manager Griffin District
GRIFFIN : : : : GEORGIA
DR. BYRON RECEIVES
REPLY TO HIS LETTER
Dr. J. Lee Byron, who recently ad
dressed a letter to President Wilson,
favoring a six months course for
training medical students for over
seas services, received the follow
ing reply:
May 24, 1918.
Dr. J. Lee Byron,
Jackson, Georgia.
Sir:—Your letter of May 11, ad
dressed to the President, has been
referred to this office for attention.
The Surgeon General directs me
to inform you that your plan for in
creasing the personnel of the Medical
Department is appreciated and the
Department is very glad to receive
suggestions concerning the adminis
tration of the medical service from
civilian physicians.
The needs of the service are most
urgent for physicians at present but
it is believed that by co-operation of
the Medical Societies, Associations
and Journals and the Council of Na
tional Defense in this city, the re
quired number of physicians can be
obtained.
Your letter, however, has been care
fully noted for further attention
should it become necessary as the war
progresses, to resort to such a scheme
Very truly yours,
C. W. AYARS,
Major Sanitary Corps, N. A.
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Candidates for governor, United
States senator and state house officers
have a little more than three months
in which to present the issues to the
voters—providing the voters can hold
out that long.
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