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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 ®jc €ocl)tan Journal. 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 (Continued on last page) 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 NUMBER 14 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.”