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COTTON EXHIBIT TO BE A FEATURE
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Encouraging progress is being
made in plans for the Hart County ■
Harvest Festival to be held here j
next month and every indication is |
that we are to have one of the best
exhibits of products produced in the i
county that has ever been displayed. |
This is made possible by the work |
being done in growing pure-bred send
of different farm products.
One of the most educational cotton
exhibits ever shown is being planned ;
by the organized communities grow
ing College No. 1 and other pure
varieties of cotton seed. This coun
ty is already famous for its leader
ship in growing College No. 1 cotton
and these local units amalgamating
into a county association will make a [
display well worth the while of every i
farmer in attendance to study.
This cotton exhibit will show as
nearly perfect stalks as can be |
found. Stalks having only fruiting
branches will be sought and it can
be clearly seen that stalks of this
kind are the ones to grow. Vege-I
tative branches are the natural re- |
suits of run-down and unimproved
cotton. Vegetative branches never ,
grow fruit directly on them, there
fore these branches cause cotton to
be late thus giving the boll weevil
a better chance.
The difference between different
stalks will be shown and an oppor
tunity afforded for studying types
which will be especially instructive.
The work done here and throughout
the state last year by the club mem
bers who grew pure-bred cotton em
phasize the great importance of hav
ing the right type of cotton and pure
bred seed more than words can pic- '
ture or stress. With improved cul
tural methods and good seed these
boys more than doubled the average
yield. That is enough to stress rhe j
attention being given this work.
Those ngaged in seed work can
not have as complete cotton exhibit
as should be shown because of the :
small membership in this work. Those !
not members of the community or- i
ganization thus engaged are likewise |
invited to lend their aid so that due |
stress will be placed on this ex
hibit.
Corn will likewise be given prom- |
inence due to similar work being
done with it and every farmer in the
county who can get a good education
al display of corn is urged to help
make the corn exhibit second to noth
ing to be seen on display.
The community exhibits composed
of everything being produced in the
different communities of the county
will be of untold interest and a most
■excellent advertisement feature for
the county. These exhibits will be
watched most closely to see which
will show the most products of value
or of educational interest in any
way. The aid of every person in
the county is needed in this under
taking.
W. S. LONG,
Chairman, Agricultural Committee.
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EXPERT PRAISES FOUR HARTWELL
SCHOOL BOYS WHO WON CONTEST
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Mr. L. M. Sheffer, assistant State ;
supervisor of vocational agriculture
in Georgia, along with the Hartwell I
High School stock judging team and )
their teacher (whose names appear
I elsewhere in this paper) were the ;
guests of the Hartwell Kiwanis Club ■
at its regular meeting last week.
Mr. Sheffer, in telling of the hon
ors won by these boys, their past ex
periences and what they might ex
pect on the trip to the National Da-
I iry Show in Milwaukee this week,
1 very forcibly presented to the Ki
) wanis Club an important phase of the
agricultural situation in Georgia at j
j the present and how other states had
met the condition.
Mr. Sheffer said, in addressing the
gathering:
i “Georgia is an exceedingly well
i favored land in soil and climate. The
Piedmont section is unusually bless
ed in these respects. This section is
1 especially well adapted to dairy ,
farming. It has a mild climate. All i
o fthe clovers, including alfalfa and
sweet clover will grow luxuriantly.
Pastures that can be utilized for
eight, nine, or even ten months in
the year can be had in this sec
tion. Feeds, such as cotton seed
meal, peanut meal, velvet beans, soy
beans, .etc., that are high in protein :
which is so necessary in rations for
dairy cows, are found in abundance.
“In addition to soil and climate,
Georgia is favored over other sec
tions with superior market facili- (
ties. There is a demand at home (
for several million more pounds of
i butter than is being made in the
state, at the present time. Os the
’ six million pounds of butter that
were exported from the Uniited
! States last year, four fifths of it
went to Cuba, Central and South 1
America. The location of Georgia \
will make it possible to compete with
j any section of the country in these j
■ markets.
“Probably the greatest problem
i that will have to be overcome before |
! Georgia attains the prominence in i
i live stock production for which she I
is destined is to create an inherent (
love for good animals on the part of |
the boys who are to be our future
! farmers. This can be encouraged by
maintaining stock judging contests
in which boys will be encouraged to
study aniimals, understanding the
function of the various types of ani
mals, and learn to know the out
standing individuals in each breed.
“About ten days ago the boys in
the Hartwell live stock judging team
visited the Farm Crest Guernsey
farm at Sandersville which has one
of the finest dairy herds in the
South. Mr. W. H. Howell, manager
of tEje farm, said that in order to
have cows make the best possible
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., SEPTEMBER 26, 1924
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records in milk production, ‘You have
’ to mix a little love with the feed.’ '
; This farm has no doubt the largest
herd of Guernsey cattle these boys ‘
have ever seen.
“In addition to visiting the dairy
I exposition in Milwaukee, I hope it 1
! will be possible for us to take these :
j boys through some of the famous
dairy sections of Southeastern Wis
consin. It will be possible for them
I to make a trip through Waukeshaw,
’ Jefferson, and Dane counties in one
day. In Waukeshaw county alone
! there are more Guernsey cattle than
i are on the Island of Guernsey to- i
day. It will be an inspiration and a
lesson to Georgia boys to see the
love for the animals that is found
among such breeders.
“Dane county is another outstand
ing dairy county. I have worked
on farms in this county as a farm
j hand during summer vacations, and
| have had farmers tell me of the con
■ ditions that existed there about thirty
years ago; how the wheat yield had
declined to eight bushels per acre;
the soil was clover sick; there were
no varieties of corn at that time that
would mature in so sold a climate;
soy beans were then unknown. Thou
sands of farmers were giving up
their land and moving to cities.
“At this time less than a dozen
men at the agricultural college of ;
Wisconsin accepted the responsibil- !
ity of doing something to help solve
f the problem for the farmers of the i
| state. (This idea was new at that
time because most of the agricul- I
tural colleges were training scien
tists). They decided that dairy |
farming was the solution. The men
primarily responsible for fostering
hte dairy business in Wisconsin in
i the early days were Dean Henry, I
I joint author of Henrv and Morrison’s I
: “Feeds and Feeding”; Dr. Babcock,
I originator of the Babcock test for
' butter fat in milk; Professor R. A.
| Moore, Agronomist, still at the col- 1
; lege; Professors King, Craig, and ;
. others. The work of these men
) touched every farm in Wisconsin |
I with the result that dairymen have I
I learned the proper ration for cows.
They have learned how to dtermine l
the unprofitable cows in their herd.
The soil fertility has been restored.
The average yield of corn for the
state is forty-seven bushels per acre;
and the farmers now have a stable
yearly income.
“No doubt the members of this
club are wondering how this affects
us and what benefit can come from
studying a state so far away. Geor
gia agriculture, like that of Wiscon
sni, thirty years ago, is in a tran- i
sitional stage. Our own college of .
agriculture has pointed out the val- !
Reporter Is Kidnaped
and Branded on Arrr
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Lucien San Souci, reporter for i
newspaper of Providence, R. 1., say:
he was kidnaped and branded on th*
arm by members of the Ku Klux klar
during a klan meeting near Woon i
socket, R. I. San Souci said he over ,
heard a conversation regarding th*
meeting, and, anxious to get a storj
for his paper, hurried to the scene. H*
says he was seized by about twentj
men of the*hooded tribe, beaten and
then branded.
$600,000 to Be Spent
on the Harding Tomb
Marion, Ohio.—At least $500,000 will
be expended in the construction of the I
Harding memorial tomb and SIOO,OOI .
in beautifying the memorial site and
surrounding area included in the gen
oral landscaping scheme, Brig. Gen. i
Charles E. Sawyer, chairman of the I
executive committee and in charge of
national headquarters of the Harding
Memorial association here, announced.
General Sawyer has recommended
to the executive board of the associa
tlon that Albert D. Taylor of Cleveland
be employed to have charge of the
lancseaping. Requests urging mem
bers of the executive committee to in
dorse Taylor were telegraphed from
headquarters.
Contributions totaling $994,000 have
been received to date. Funds in excess
of the $500,000 will be set aside as an
endowment for the maintenance of the
memorial.
A stylish coat on a man’s back
enables him to put on a bold front.
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A lot of people who grace the
show window really belong on the
bargain counter.
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It takes a strong-minded spinster
to believe that the reason men don’t
propose to her is because she never
gives them a chance.
ue of the “Cow-Hog-And-Hen” pro
gram for Georgia. It has taken
years of patient work to bring the
dairy industry of Wisconsin to its
present state of development; and it
will take years of work on the part
of the agricultural leaders, county
agents and others of this State to *
develop this industry in Georgia.
“A team of boys selected from the i
group which will compose the future
farmers of this state, representing
Georgia at the National Dairy Show,
will mean much in developnig this
program. They will not only see
the prize winning animals from each
of the dairy breeds but will have the
opportunity of coming in contact
with the leading breeders of the
United States, and gain from them
a vision of the opportunities as well
as inspiration for the development of
the dairy industry in Georgia.
“That this is an opportunity worth
striving for is shown by the achieve
ment of students who have partici
pated in this contest during the past
16 years. Os a total of 559 students
who have competed in this contest,
the occupation of 56 is unknown.
Ten are dead, leaving 493 for which
information is available. One hun
dred and seventy-eight are engaged
in educational work. Os these.
18 are professors and five assistant
professors in agricultural colleges;
13 are instructors or assistants: 17
are engaged in extension work; eight
are with the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, and the remainder are
instructors in agricultural or exten
sion work other than animal hus
bandry or dairying. There are 45
county agents. A total of 167 are
successful farmers, 12 are in public
service work; one is president of a
breed association; two are secretar
ies of such organizations; ten are in
the creamery business; three in the
dairy supply business; five are in the
ice cream business; eight in the re
tail milk business; four dairy inspec
tors; and one secretary of a state
dairy association.
This is not only a great opportun
ity for the Hartwell boys, but it
carries with it a great responsibility.
They have this chance —it is up to
each of them personally what he will
do with it. The teams from Geor
gia who have gone before have main
tained against the keenest of compe
tiitiion first rank among all comers.
“Their responsibility does not end
at Milwaukee. They have placed
’hemselves in the class with leaders,
hey have had the opportunity for
gaining a vision of their greatest
possibilities. With this comes the
responsibility of living up to their
opportunities.”
BRITAIN STARTS
LEPROSY FIGHT
Fund of $1,250,000 Sought
to Combat the Malady
in the Empire.
Manchester, England.—More than
300,000 persons in the British empire
suffer from leprosy, it is estimated.
In this day of advanced medical
science leprosy can be cured. So the
British Empire Leprosy Relief associa
tion lias been formed to raise funds to
wage a campaign against leprosj- in all
parts of the empire. For this pur
pose $1,250,000 is needed.
To arouse interest in the work a
public meeting took place in the Man
chester town hall recently. Lord
Mayor Jackson, who presided, intro
duced Sir Leonard Rogers, a Fellow
of the 'Royal Society, one of the
scientists responsible for the discovery
of the new cure. In an interesting
survey of leprosy and its treatment,
first by segregation and latterly by
means of both segregation and injec
tions of preparations from oils, Sir
Leonard said the disease still exists
in European countries, including Rus
sia, Turkey, Crete, Spain and Portu
gal.
Disease Not Hereditary.
“Leprosy is not highly infectious, as
used to be thought, and it is not
hereditary,” he continued. “In 700 cases
I have investigated in the last six
years it was found that at least 70 per
cent had lived in houses with other
lepers before contracting the disease,
and that at least 30 per cent had slept
in the same beds with a leper. At
tendants on lepers frequently get the
disease, which is essentially one of
house infection; children are especial
ly liable to it.
“Segregation,” Sir Leonard con
tinued, “Is of undoubted value, but it
is a slow method and there are great
difficulties in carrying it out in the
tropics. It is inevitable that as long
as we have nothing better to offer than
isolation, amounting to imprisonment
for life, the leper will hide the disease
as long as possible.
Up to a few years age the only
remedy of any value known was the
old Indian remedy of chaulmoogra oil,
and its nauseating qualities were such
that most lepers could not take
enough. In 1916, at the request of
Doctor Heiser, who had obtained some
success by means of injections, I, with
the aid of chemists, began research
work which resulted in the extraction
from this oil of salts, solutions of
which, when injected, proved far more
effective in destroying the leper bacilli.
It was the first Instance known of the
destruction of bacilli within the tis
sues by a vegetable substance. Today
similar valuable preparations are be
ing made from six different oils and
used in the treatment of leprosy.
“The next advance came in 1919,
when two American workers, Pro
fessor Dean and Doctor Hollmann, dis
covered a compound called ethylester
chaulraoograte, which can be injected
directly into the muscles instead of
into the veins, and as this is less
troublesome it is now in general use.”
Americans Aiding Lepers.
After giving figures from several
sources showing the remarkable suc
cess obtained in treating the disease,
Sir Leonard said that at present only
10 per cent of the lepers in the Brit
ish empire are getting the advantage
of this treatment —“although the
Americans are applying it to every
leper in their dominions” —and that
the British Empire Leprosy Relief as
sociation is being formed with the ob
ject of bringing it within the reach
of all.
At the Strasburg international con
ference last July. Sir Leonard con
cluded, a resolution was passed at his
suggestion that nations are not justi
fied in segregating lepers for the bene
fit of other people unless they provide
those lepers with the best possible
treatment.
Sir William Milligan of the Royal
infirmary, Manchester, said he had
seen a case of leprosy in Manchester.
He could not forget the impression
made upon his mind by lepers while
he was in Vienna. Some of them were
most revolting. Manchester, having so
large an Interest in countries like
India, the Malay peninsula and Africa,
has a special duty to help in the elim
ination of this disease.
Felon Wins Parole
by His Radio Voice
Philadelphia.—The sweet sing
ing of a sentimental ballad by
an eastern penitentiary convict
and broadcast from a local radio
station won a parole for con
vict C-1412, who had three
years more to serve on a ban
dit charge. The name of the
convict was withheld.
Several months ago musically
inclined convicts broadcast a
concert from the penitentiary
through Station WIP. Hardly
had C-1412 finished when the
penitentiary phone became busy
with requests for the identity
of the man. Many letters were
received, and a lawyer who in
terested himself in the case suc
ceeded in obtaining a parole.
Among those who interested
themselves in the convict was
said to be Governor Ritchie of
Maryland.
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October 16, 17, 18
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