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"HE EGUGLAS ENTERPRISE
Fouglaa, Ceorijio
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NOTICE
A meeting of the county executive
committee is called for next Tuesday,
Aug. 8, at 11 o’clock, at the court
house, for the purpose of making
assessments for the September pri
mary, and transacting what other
business might come before the meet
ing. A f ! attendance is desired.
J. W. Quipcey, Chairman.
NOTICE
Cm account of scarcety of help in
this rffice thi week, we are unable to
pri t. ail the news we want to, and
especially we are forced to give up
the idea of publishing an editorial
page, if we expect to print at all.
We hope to be placed differently next
week.
SOME BENEFITS OF
SMITH LEVER FUNDS
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia
State College Of Agriculture
In that section of south Georgia
xrliere the boll weevil has so unex
pectedly appeared, there is much work
to be done to lead' cotton fanners into
raising other crops and to instruct
them In the best methods of cotton
production under those conditions. It
la therefore, Tory gratifying to tha
farmer* and business men of that seo
lion to find that just such service is
provided through the Smith-Lever
funds. With these funds experts can
be employed to go among the farmers
and render the very practical help
that le needed. Th* foresighted fann
er knows by this time what he may
♦xpect from the boll weevil. This type
of farmer is, therefore, ready to lie
advised. The backward and unpro
gressive farmer will not believe that
the boll weevil will harm him until
the harm 1# done, but eventually he
will be very wtlllug to receive advice
as to what he must do.
amith-l-ever fun U hav* been instru
mental In saving hundreds of thou
sands of dollars' worth of hogs during
the past year, through the demonstra
tion agents inducing the farmers to
use cholera serum and by the agents
themselves applying it- The agents,
ef course, are supported in part by
Bmlth-Lev*r funds.
All that the county demonstration
agents have done to advance farming
in Georgia, all that they have saved
the farmer not only with cholera se
rum, but by spraying for the destruc
tion of insect and fungous* pests utid
rattle lick eradication; all that they
have saved in regard to the use of
fertilisers; the better crops they have
demonstrated can be made by improv
ed methods of cultivation; the improv
ed and labor saving machinery they
have been instrumental in introducing;
the purebred animals they have
brought into the state; the cereal
crops they have led the farmers to
cultivate, the legumes, the fruits, the
truck all the millions of dollars they
have saved or crealed is only a verv
small iota of what the state pays for
It through the Smith-Lever funds.
In addition there are the boys’ corn
clubs, the girls' canning clubs, the pi*
clubs, poultry clubs, four-crop c'ubs,
the domestic science work.
Besides there are the field experts
that travel from the College doine
work In dentonstrating in cereals, fer 1
tiliaers and methods of cultivaiion on
various soil types; experts also in
beef production, dairying and hog
cholera control.
For every dollar that the state put#
up for projects of the Smit.h-l.rf'ver
funds, it gets another dollar from
the United States treasury, in
amounts that increase graduaiy till the
INCREASE COHON YIELD -
BY BREEDING GOOD SEED
State Department Of Entomology Will Help Farmers
Breed Seed To Make Better Crops.
Atlanta, Ga.—The time has come in
Georgia when successful cotton pro
'tuction demands careful and persist
ent attention to the breeding of the
highest type of seed, says the State
Board of Entomology in a bulletin on
cotton breeding shortly to be issued
for the information and advantages of
farmers of this state.
Good seed, the department points
out, is not only imperative in planting
to meet boll weevil conditions, but to
produce strains that are resistant to
the many destructive diseases to
which the cotton plant is subject in
’ fforent sections of the state.
For the benefit of Georgia’s cotton
growers the department employs a
number of experts in cotton breeding,
whose entire time is giver, to this
work. Among them are Ira W. Wil
liams and C. A. McLendon, both of
whom have furnished valuable data
for the bulle’in soon to be Issued.
These experts are at lb. service of
•be farmer upon request, whenever he
may desire their assistance in the mat
ter of producing a higher and stronger
type of seed.
Every fanner should develop hi--
own cotton seed both to meat Vr-I! wee
vil conditions and to re list disease.
The reason for thi- is, n* Mr Mc-
Lendon points out, that the cotton
plant Is the product of two force-,
environment and heredity. Climatic
and soil conditions and nr -Ihoda of eul
ure vary In different sections; there
fore, the best seed for a particular
locality is produced in that locality it
olf. As to heredity, selection be
comes a compara* ivoly easy matter,
because it involves simply the choice
from year to year of the seed from
die plan' or plants which grew the
Wrongest, mature he earliest ar.d man
if" it tile greatest degree of resistance
to black root or wilt disease and oth
er diseases attacking the plant.
For Weevii Condition?
Good “pedigreed” seed locally adapt
ed is absolutely essential, Mr. Wil
liams points out, if weevil infestation
is very great. By pedigreed seed is
meant that, which extends back for a
number of years and which has bean
developed as rapidly as possible from
a single stalk.
“The proper method is to sslect say
fifty stalks of the variety considered
best and plant these fifty stalks in fif
ty different rows; examine carefully
and study the different rows, and se
lect the most desirable and most pro
ductive row- Increase this row into a
block and from the block into as large
an area as possible, if tins-large area
does not. plant (lie entire field, in
crease again the next year. Select the
individual stalks each year .from rows
or blocks of previous selection and re
peat I.he method every-year. By this
means Ike farmer will have pedigreed
seed coming as close hack as possible
from one stalk, and continuing this
procesa from year to year, the period
of breeding wifi ultimately extend
through a long number of years.
“If a farmer is not witling to go to
the trouble of developing his seed by
this method, he should purchase one or
more bushels of seed each year from
some man near hiui who does do this,
and from such seed plant his entire
crop.”
Adapted To Locality
The .Stale Board of Entomology has
found by numerous tests that a va
riety of cotton good in one section of
the stale, is a failure in another. That
is why it is most important to get
a variety as well bred as possible that
is best adap'ed to the locality. The
seed chosen should be from stalks
which are absolutely free from any
signs of wilt or root knot. Afler a
wilt resistant variety is secured, the
farmer should see to it that his cotton
is free from other diseases. If he is
compelled to lose some cotton from
the boll weevil, he can not afford to
lose it from any other cause. Among
the most destructive of these diseases
are angular leaf spot, or “black arm,”
as it is known by sea island planters,
which is a germ disease, and anthrac
nose, a fungus disease, which is next
to black arm, and, in conjunction with
It, the most destructive agency to the
bolls of cotlon. These two diseases
ere perpetuated in the seed, which
makes it of the highest importance to
choose the seed from plants unaffect
ed by them.
The type of stalk to be chosen un
der boll weevil conditions is a small
stalk with ns tittle foliage as possible,
but which should be equally productive
as larger stalks. It should have me
dium sued bolls, because the greater
the number of bolls to the stalk, the
larger will be the number of them to
reach maturity free from weevil at
tack. I'nless a farmer is breeding for
length of lint and selling upon that
basis, it is bettor to devote his energy
to securing ttie highest per cent of
lint. This is largely a matter of in
dividual decision.
What is known as "mass selection”
may be practiced under certain condi
tions with good results. This consists
! 'n going through the field and select
-1 ng the seed front the healthiest and
sst productive stalks from a wilt re
NOTICE.
1 suggest a* a committee to look
after cleaning off camp ground, Col.
Levi O'Steen, Thos. Griffin, J. A.
Daughtry. Mrs. E. L. Vickers, Id”.
C. A. Ward and Mrs. B. Peterson.
This committee will please decide
’n and advertise a day to meet and
.lean off the grounds. Meeting Le
ins on Friday right, August 4th.
11. M. MORRISON.
WE DOUGLAS ENTERPfUWS, DOCK,!,AS, GEORGIA, AUG., 5 1916.
mutant variety on heavily infested
land. From year to year the cotton
is thus rendered more resistant and
more productive.
Straight Selection Best
The department recommends straight
selection of seed in breeding rather
than the crossing of varieties or hy
bridising. it is believed this will pro
duee the best and most satisfactory
results under ordinary conditions.
“The possibilities in breeding cotton
according to the latest approved meth
ods are almost unlimited,” says Mr.
McLendon. “In the light of recent evi
(lence in this work, it seems entirely
possible so to conduct the breeding
experiments with this crop as to
change the shape and si7,e of the plam
and its fruit, free or nearly rid it of
destructive diseases, increase or de
crease its earliness and productive
ness, the length, strength and percen
tage of its lint, purity the seed sam
pie, and otherwise niter or improve all
the o*her inheritable characters of th:
plant.
The probl.no of cct’ iu improve
r.!"n!. th: ugh breeding operations re
olv. .h -Mi into a fit:icily local prop
•—p i ; if th" 1.-os’ :'- alts arc 1 1 be ob
tained, has been demonstrated time
and ac.:ir, in various eawriraent-.
conduce,i with' hi it-.; 'fife p'aco
effect, or the combined effect of i-.-,ca■
oondiiions, so con.: behavior
>’f the cotton plan: that noth'ng short’
of a th: rough knowledge of the lot „i
adaptability cf a curiam variety or
strain of co r : v: cat: serve as an In
dex to Its pos •.vli’los for Improve
ment. That is, each - >:i type with i;
attendant dim hr c-:-ndiUo;t.- in th
-'dale C- ■ sill carry a. certain
variety of cot 1 '--■••or than will ar.j
other type of soil, ar.d so on for the
different soil and climatic areas cf the
sta'.e.”
It is further pointed out that while
in some sections big boii varieties pro-
dnee the greates yield, in others tiic
small boll varieties give the best re
sults; from which it is apparent how
unreasonable it is for tha South Geor
gia farmer I r> expect the best results
from seed bred in the northern part
of the state, and vice ve sa.
Department Will Help
While the process of seed breeding
is comparatively a simple one, it in
volves many oeutda which manifestly
cannot be given in the space of a brief
article. The forthcoming bulletin will
present all of these details and will
be furnished f;ee upon application to
any farmer in the stale desiring it.
In the meantime, it is important that
cotton planters all over Georgia should
have the general Idea of the seed
selection process right now when the
time is approaching for such selection
to be made. The farmer who has not
ed the best variety adapted to his lo
cality can begin his seed selection pro
cess-as the bolls ripen and open. For
this purpose, as already stated, he
should choose good, healthy, early
maturing plants which are uuaffected
by wilt or other diseases.
The department is ready to lend ev
ery possible assistance to the planter
in fjiis work. It wilt furnish the
bags 'in which the seed should be
placed as gathered. This bag may be
tied directly to the stalk and (he cot
ion picked and put into it. The cot
ton should be picked as fast as it
opens and becomes dry. It will not
damage in the bag in ordinary weath
er Just >as soon as most of the de
sirable bolls are open, the sacks
should be removed to some dry place.
Cotton to be used for seed should not
be left in the bolls any length of time,
as tbe seed are liable to damage very
rgpidly.
When the cotton is all picked these
sacks can be sent to the State Board
of Entomology, State Capitol, Atlanta.
Ga., or to the Entomological Experi
ment station at Thomasville, Ga.,
where the seed will be ginned and the
per cent of lint carefully calculated.
The seed will be returned to the farm
er for planting with a table showing
the per cent of lint from the different
stalks. The department will also gin
samples at any time from different
progeny rows, and calculate the per
cent of lint in order to help the farm
er determine which of his seed makes
the highest percentage.
Begin Th# Work Now.
It is time now to decide upon the
variety and the spot in the field from
which the start for breeding is to be
made; and just about tbe time the
cotton begins to open the real work
of selection shyukl bttgin. Selecting
a few superior early plants is the first
step, and this should be done before
any coftOß 1§ Picked froyx the patch
where you are to make the "election.
The seed should be separated from
the lint, preferably by a band gin.
and under no circumstances should
there be any other seed remaining in
it. The department has hand gins
for this use and for the benefit of ary
farmer desiring its assistance in
breeding his seed.
Speaking for the Board. Sta’e Ento
mologist E. I.ee Worsham invites’and
urges all Georgia cotton planters to
send to the department f be seed they
have- selected for ginning and calcula
tion of the cent of lint. In this
way a beginning can be made now
and from year to year the farmer’s
supply of seed to nice’ bo'! weevil
conditions and tesist disease, will be
larger and larger until he ultimately
has enough o plant his entire «•»■*»
CITY OFFICIALS
G. M. STANTON, Mayor.
G. A. TANNER, Mayor Piotcm.
J. D. KNOWLES. City Clerk.
G. A. Tanner. O. F. Peon, J. M.
Hall. I. C. Sapp, E. J. Barkley, Cou’ -
c-L
B. P. O. E—W. O. W—K. of P.—
IRA RICKETSON, Chief Police*
A. lIENItICKSON, Chief Fire Dept
GOV. INAT. t HARRIS
t
Will address the voters of
Coffee County at the Court
House in Douglas on
Saturday Aug. 5 fit 10:30 A. M.
Everybody is invited to
hear Georgia’s distinguished
Go vernoron the political issues
.in the present race.
Ladies Especially Invited
OLD ORiiOLES
FAMOUS PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
*-'•!- ,
By RANDOLPH ROSE
ffTIITHAT was fc!i<v j&k
YV smartest team in
baseball?” That's a j \
question I’ve often beer* W VM
asked. The answer is so 5? r
simple, 1 don't think J
any well-informed fan JL I
wiil dispute me,
It was the old Ori
oles. back twenty years
ago in Baltimore. On •
that team was John RANDOLm ttOSB
McGraw, the little Napoleon of haseball,
now manager of the Giants; Hugbie Jen
nings, the foxy manager of Detroit; Wil
bert Robinson, who as manager is pull
ing Brooklyn oat of the cellar; Willie
Keeler, one of the wisest players that
ever lived; Joe Kelly, now a scout for
the New York Americans, and others I
don’t recall.
Those fellows played baseball, ate base
ball. and slept baseball. In spirit they
were more like a college team than any
team that ever played. They didn’t
work at baseball. They played the game
for the sheer love ox it, and would
rather die'than lose.
After a game they'd hold a council in
the evening. They’d go over the plays
of the day and figure out where t l, ey
had made mistakes and where they could
improve the play. They'd plan out
something new. Then in the morning
they’d go to the diamond and work out
their new theory in practice.
Right here is where inside baseball
was originated. They invented the hit
and run, Keeler invented the bunt. Up
to that time a batter was judged accord
ing as to how far he could hit the bail,
but Keeler proved a puny little bunt
was better sometimes than a long hit.
Out of these games came the plan of
hitting to right field \vi:*i a man on first
or second, so that the right fielder would
have a longer throw from right field to
third than the left fielder would have.
This is about the only team that holds
a reunion. Each year at the annual
league meetings in Now York this old
team gets together and talks over old
times. Keeler, although out of baseball
and a wealthy real estate operator in
j Brooklyn, crosses the bridge for this
' meeting. It is >aid that this is about
all he ever goes to New York for—to
meet Ilughie and Johnny and the other
boys, and talk over how they invented
plays that everybody accepts as matter
if fact nowadays.
Yes. I think this is the smartest team
of ball players that over got on the
diamond together.
NOTICE.
Those now registered in Coffee
county and living in one district de
icing to change to another can con
veniently do so now by notifying or
seeing Eugene Merier, or Tax Col
lector Dan Vickers.
Shoe Values
We now offer some special
prices on our Entire stock of low
cut Shoes.
Now is the time to get a pair
at a Bargain.
The Boston Store
Douglas, we give premiums Georgia
ft] 0 othe The home which ha* shade^^^B
y. tr. n. on v mm? his and some tnost moo*y when sold. Tho cost Jgg|
a incotnf. planting _the home
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