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VOLUME SIX
Farmers Meeting Wednesday
Was A Great Success
The farmers meeting at the Court
House l ist Tuesday morning proved
to be very interesting and instruc
tive.
The speakers were Messrs. Grabel
and Stratford, of the Agricultural
department of the Southern Rail
way. Congressman Hughes was
present and just before the meeting
closed he was requested to make a
talk. Hs made a good speech
which was well received.
Mr. Grabel, assistant manager of
the agricultural department of the
Southern Railway, was the first
speaker. He has a good voice, t
good delivery and is thoroughly
equipped to discuss scientific farm
ing in all its phases.
He slated that he had quit mak
ing set speeches, but had come to
make a heart to heart talk with the
farmers and wanted them to ask
any question they desired, that in
stead of making an address he sim
ply wished to talk over with them
better methods of farming.
He was asked when was the best
time to break land. He said he
thought the best time was just as
soon as you get the crops off in the
fall. He did not think it was a
good idea to let land lie idle,
thought it should be employed all
the time. He says land goes to the
bad when unemployed
He stated that he di ' not believe
in burning cotton and corn stalks.
Said it was best to cut them up and
turn them under. They helped to
form a reservoir to hold wate.. He
advised not to burn stalks to kill
boll weevil. Said when stalks got
hot enough to burn the boll weevil
flew away, he advised to put insects
and all into soil and cut up the
stalks with a disc harrow. He ad
vised to break good and deep, say
14, 15 or 16 inches. Go down with
disc and then follow with subsoiler.
He thought a disc plow was much
better tnan a turning plow and
some time you can go down deep
enough to save the trouble of a sub
soiler. When using a turning plow
without harrowing you have a lot
of clods that don’t lay close together
and your seed fall in the open
places and then the tender roots of
plants have to butt up against these
clods and they are not strong
enough to push through them.
He advises to follow breaking
plow with disc harrow at least
every half day.
The plant will hunt plant food at
the top unless thoroughly pulveriz
ed deep seed bed is prepared at the
bottom.
After land is prepared, put on a
cover crop of rye. oats, vetch or
clover.
Some one asked “how about cul
tivating oats that were sown broad
cast. He states that near Pine
hurst, Dooly Cnunty, he saw five
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COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1913
acres of oats up 3 or 4 inches high
run over with a weeder and made
a better yield and looked greener
than an adjoining field of oats
planted at the same time under
same conditions and on same kind
of soil. He thinks that one hushel
to five pecks of oats is the proper
amount to plant under ordinary
conditions to obtain best results.
Mr. Stratford was the next speak
er. He stated that $127,000,000 was
spent hy the State of Georgia for
corn, hay, oats and dairy products,
and stated if we could make 94)4
bushels of corn to the acre in
Bleckley County, which was done
by Harvie Meadows, a member of
the Boys’ Corn Club, there was no
excuse to send to the west for corn.
He says this is best country in
the world for stock raising as we
could have all the year round past
ures. He assured the farmers that
the boll weevil was coming beyond
the least shadow of a doubt and ad
vised to cut down the cotton acreage
and plant better seed and early
maturing varieties. He was asked
how to fight the boll weevil when it
come.
He said you would have to burn
the square the boll weevil got into.
The squares turn yellow and drop off
when the boll weevil gets into them.
He said we would perhaps make
two more crops in Bleckley before
the boll weevil got here. That he
was making a systematic advance
at the rate of fifty miles per season
but did not know whether it had
crossed the Chattanoochee or not.
The weevil attacks cotton as soon
as it comes out of winter quarters.
It attacks squares, blooms and
small bolls. Later on in the fall
the second brood attacks grown
bolls.
We have often heard the question
asked, why does Texas raise so
much more cotton than she did be
fore the boll weevil come. Mr.
Grabel stated that the main reason
was Texas had doubled her acreage.
The great Western Cattle Country
where there was formerly no cotton
planted has been turned into a reg
ular cotton growing area. He says
it is a high and dry altitude and
the boll weevil don’t bother the
cotton there and then again the
Texas farmers have learned how to
combat the weevil. This lands lays
2000 feet above the sea level and
there is no boll weevil in this high
altitude.
Mr. Stratford was asked the value
of cotton seed as a soil builder. He
thought you could get better and
cheaper fertilizer for soil building
and advised farmers to sell their
seed if they could get a good price
for them, and purchase other ferti
zers to go on their land. He said
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How Do You Spend Your Money?
Money spent to beautify your home will be a credit to your memory .
We suggest that you call and see the Bed-Room Suits, Rockers,
Organs, Pianos, and Sewing Machines while you are spending
your money.
Jackson Furniture Company
Georgia Product Day Nov. 18th.
It took Georgia just ten days to
wake up to the significance of Geor
gia Products Day, which will be
observed throughout the Empire
States of the South on Tuesday,
November 18th. From Rome to
Brunswick and from Bainbridge to
Clarksville, the question. “What
does Georgia grow, produce, raise
and manufacture?” is agitating the
minds of hundreds of thousands of
people. On Monday, November
10th, the headquarters office of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce in
Atlanta announce that cities and
towns in half the counties of the
State had made definite arrange
ment to observe the day with a din
ner seating at least 100 people.
The officials of the State-wide
Chamber confidently expect to line
up every county by the end of the
present week.
Governor Slaton immediately saw
that it meant literally millions in
cold cash to Georgia annually to
have her people know just what the
State can grow and manufacture.
Hence his proclamation endorsing
Georgia Products Day idea. The
mayors of a hundred cities and
towns issued local proclamations.
Trade bodies, civic societies, frater
nal organizations, school boards —
in short, every organization com
posed of far-sighted men and
women enthusiastically proclaimed
the Georgia Products idea a splen
did one.
Why Lose Time
My Fellow Countryman,
to Come to Town?
Telephones and Rural Mail
puts you in close touch
with our store.
The cost of a postage stamp puts
the goods at your door promptly.
Try It.
Walker's Pharmacy
The Mail Order House
Phone No. 9 Cochran , Ga.
The people of Georgia annually
send out of the State over two hun
dred millions of dollars for products
and articles which are either grown
or manufactured at their very
doors. If a wall were built around
Georgia it could support upon it’s
own area, very comfortably and
without crowding, fifteen millions
of human beings, producing every
thing for the sustenance of life and
of comfortable living.
The hotels of the State will serve
Georgia-products menus on that
date. Countless families in Georgia
who will be unable to attend any
of the banquets, will eat dinners
and suppers consisting of Georgia
products.
Guests attending Georgia Pro
ducts Day banquets, have been re
quested to wear some article made
in Georgia. Secretary E. H. Hy
man, of the Macon Chamber of
Commerce, will appear at one of
the Bibb County dinners, wearing
an entire outfit made in Macon.
The officials of the Georgia Cham
ber of Conmerce at present are busy
in supplying suitable speakers to
cities and towns holding Georgia
Products Day dinners.
Limited quanity of seed oats, one
dollar per bushel. These oats were
selected from oats that made 75
bushels per acre.
adv. J. P. <fe W. H. Peacock.
President Finley Talks
Of Railway Accidents
Washington, Nov. 10 —President
Finley, of the Southern Railway
Company, speaking today of rail
way accidents, said:
“There has never been a time in
the history of railway when so
much attention has been given to
the prevention of accidents as at
present. This is a matter to which
railroad managers in all parts of
the United States are giving con
stant and intelligent attention, and
the accident bulletins of the Inter
state Commerce Commission show
that progress is being made and
that safety of travel is being in
creased. Thus, in the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1910, there were
395 passengers killed on the rail
ways of the United States, or one
in every 2,459,957 passengers car
ried, and the ratio of passsngers
killed to the number of miles
traveled were o l, e in 81,969,610
miles. In 1911, the number of
passengers killed was reduced to
356, or one in every 2,801,713 pas
sengers carried ond one in 93,263,
187 miles traveled by passengers.
In 1912 the number of passengers
killed was reduced to 318. Com*
plete statistics of passengers carried
and miles traveled in 1912 are not
vet available, but as there was a
substantial increase in passenger
traffic over 1911 and the number of
fatalities was less, the ratio to pas
sengers carried and miles traveled
was reduced.
“There is, I believe, an exagge
rated idea of the danger of railway
travel. This is due, in my opinion,
to the wide publication of accounts
of those occasional accidents in
which, unfortunately, a number of
passengers are killed and injured,
and to the fact that while complete
and accurate statistic as to railway
accidents are compiled by the Inter
state Commerce Commission, there
are no complete and reliable statis
tics as Ito other accidents for the
United States as a whole. There
are a number of cities and some
entire states in which records of the
causes of deaths‘are kept. These
are embraced in what is termed the
‘Registration Area,’ which includes
twenty-two States and the larger
cities in fifteen other States. The
registration area is estimated by the
United States Bureau to embrace
63.1 per cent of the total population
of the United States, or somewhat
more than six-tenths of the total
population. For the calendar year
1911, the Census Bureau reported
42,331 cases of accidental death,
exclusive of railway acccidents, in
the registration area. As bearing
on the comparative 3&fety of differ
ent ways of travel it may be noted
that, as compared with 318 deaths
of passengers from railway accidents
in the entire Snited States, there
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were, in the registration area, 1,883
deaths from street-car accidents,
1,291 from automobile accidents,
and 2,247 from accidents in con
nection with other vehicles. The
comparison is more striking when
it is considered in connection with
the conditions under which a rail
way must operate, with its trains
moving day and night in all condi
tions of weather over a right of way
which, in the nature of things, can
not have the same degree of protec
tion as the streets and highways
over which street cars, automobiles,
and other vehicles are operated.
“The total number Of deaths in
the registration area from accidents
in connection with street cars, auto
mobiles, and other vehicles in the
calendar year 1911 was 5,411, or
more than the total number of pas
sengers, railway employees, and all
other persons, excepting trespassers,
killed in railway accidents of all
in the twelve months ended June
30, 1912, including accidents in
railway shops.
“As I have pointed out, statistics
as to no other class of accidents are
so complete and reliable as those
relating to railway accidents, but
comparisons with such fragmentary
statistics as are available from other
sources bear out those which the
Census Bureau reports as to the
registration area. Thus, the Unit
ed States Bureau of Labor has col
lected statistics which show that, in
th year ended June 30, 1911, there
were 206 fatal accidents in the vari
ous branches of the government ser
vice, and but nine of these were in
the railway mail service. The re
ports of the Superintendent of the
Life Saving Service give the num
ber of deaths each year from disas
ters to vessels under the American
flag, covering only those cases in
which vessels were totally lost or
materialy damaged. For the last
ten years these have averaged 486
per year.
“It is a noteworthy fact that
of the total numbei of those who
are killed on the railways of the the
United States, more than one-half
are trespassers. It is largely within
the power of the States to prevent
these fatalities by regulations re
specting trespassing on railway
property. It is a mistake to believe
that trespassers who lose their lives
on railway property are almost in
variably tramps or vagabonds.
Even if they were, it would be most
desirable, in the interest of human
ity, to prevent killing or injuring
them, but an analysis of reports of
the accidental death of thousand
trespessers in a section of the Unit
ed States revealed the fact that a
large proportion of them were child
ren and that, of the adults, many
were persons whose lives were valu
able to the community.”