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THE TIFTON <
ZEifton <5a3ctte
^ Published Weekly
(office at Tifton, Georgia,
■ mail matter of the second cihss.
. Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
1 . Breaking in Buck and Brandy.
Sunday morning the two neighbor boye
came over early.
When the cattle were turned out juat after
sunrise Buck and Brandy had been kept back
with the calves. They were two-year old steers,
and husky fellows. Nearly every faim in those
d&ys had its yoke of oxen. They cost nothing,
fed themselves, and were handy for hauling
wood, straw for litter, going to miH.. and for
the hundreds of other tasks about the place.
Breaking them in was considered "fun, although
at times the fun grew n little rough.
Both these prospectivcs had been gentled by
the boys; taught to stand and be rubbed, nnd
to submit to being l"d by ropes nround their
horns. But they had never been yoked, and it
was to share in this sport that Dan and Bill
came over before the breakfast dishes were
cleared.
Either the steers smelled a rat. or they
were excited over being kept in the pen' when
the grass was green, sweet and tempting on the
distant hillside, for when the boys came, nei
ther steer would submit to being petted or
roped- Brandy was hemmed in a corner and
yielded easily while Bud slipped a plow line
over his horns, but Buck was of fighting stock.
He sent Bat to the top of the fence to escape
a charge and caught Dan's pants on his sharp
horn as he dodged. But four boys are entirely
too much for one steer, and Buck was cornered,
caught, tripped and roped. When he got up.
he was mad all through, but couldn't help him
self.
During the week. Bud and Bat bad made the
yoke. The bows of.blackgum. soaked in hot wa
ter and bent, with wooden keys tied with buck
skin strings. The yoke proper of pine, trimmed
with a drawing knife, with two holes for the
bows bored near each end about eight inches
apart. In the center, a large iron ring was
swung from a staple.
Getting the steers in position to lay the yoke
across their necks was a task of labor and pa
tience- -ft was accomplished by sheer force of
strength and weight of numbers A boy swung
on each line and after awhile drew the heads
together, while the other*, by pushing and driv
ing. at last got their bodies alongside. Then the
yoke was laid across, held in position by two
while the others, after tying lines to the gap-
posts. slipped the bows underneath the necks,
and drew them into position. This with much
duet raised, and oodles of free advice inter
changed.
At first it was not contemplated hitching the
unbroken steers to a cart. Instead a long pole
had been provided, which was slipped into the
yoke like a cart tongue and trailed on the
ground. But when the yoke was in place, and
bTTI and Bat holding a line on either side at
tempted to drive off. the steers flung up their
heads, and instead of going on as urged, turned
in the yoke, so to speak, the tail of one pointing
due north, the other south, and their noses only
kept from touching b^the yoke.
When the boys, by main strength, pushed the
bodies around until the animals stood alongside
they flew back as if on automatic springs as
soon as pressure was released. The boys sat
down, wiped the streaming sweat with jacket
sleeves from their faces and ruminated. Bat
had an inspiration:
"Tell you what,” he said: “pull ’em around
■ ag tin; line 'em up and tie their tails together.” mip * iru • ln
Happy thought
With much- grunting and pushing, -the steers
—"wgre~>gntn ttngd~np-Then wiTTrrr tiriw of bm *
was jerked off his feet and dragged
hind the now thoroughly frighteiyp
raged animals, alternately dodging Buck’
hoofa and trying to catch and mount the pole
which waa dragging close by him.
But troubles were not over. Down the lane
the steers dashed. Vaising a cloud of dust, Bat
and the pole trailing. Towse adding to the cort*|i
fusion by fierce attacks on Buck, and#the three
boys shouting and running in an effort to head
the flying team. Half way down the lane, by
old'stump in a clump of briars, was a nest
of yellow jackets. The boys knew they were
there long ago. and had threatened to burn
them out some night, but the right time had not
come. As the aggregation passed, a toss of
Bi/ck’s head sent Bat against the stump, and the
nest was ruined. In hot revenge, the yellow-
jackets came out, and tackled everything in
sight, without discrimination—boys, steers and
(log. .
Buck and Brandy were doing their best, but
under the stimulus, they did a little better, and
parsed out the end of the lane bellowing, snort
ing and mad all through. It began to look bad
for Bat. for the steers were making about as
good times as the pursuing boys’ best and he
was now in danger of being dragged to death.
But at the end of the lane was pine woods,
and as soon as the steers passed the fence they
left the road, taking through the trees. In the
very nature of things, yoked as they were, they
couldn’t go very far. for the pines were close
together. The inevitable happened, as it al
ways does. Buck and Brandy were accustomed
to.going where they wished, and didn’t realize
that the yoke made any difference. Nearing'
small pine. Buck started on one side of it; Bran,
dy on the other, at full speed.
The yoke struck the pine with a resounding
crash and broke in two at the ring; the impact
sent Buck a somersault, landing him
back and so addling him that the boys running
up were able to detach the rope from Bat’s
wrist before the steer conlij regaih r his feel.
Brandy did n-t fare so well: he was nearer the
pine, which struck his right horn and knocked
it off.
The fun waa over for the day—.besides. the
boys had enough. Ruck was miniw a tail and
Brandy short a horn, both animals marked for
life. There were more Sundays to come, afrer
the wounds had healed an^ the boys grew hun
gry for sport again, and Buds and Brandy,
sanely broken, filled many years of yoked use
fulness. But their initiation into Jfields of labor
furnished excitement which the^boys never for
got. if the steers did
FIGHTING THE WEEVIL iN LOWNDES
According to the Valdosta Times, a determin
ed fight is being made against the boll weevil
in Lowndes county. Meetings are held in all sec
tions of the county, and instructions given the
farmers on how to locate the weevils and how
to pick them. The importance of picking them
off at once is stressed, for "a weevil picked
now means many thousand less to contend with
later ln the season.’”
Of the necessity for prompt action and the
interest taken by the farmers the Times says:
At the farm of Geo- L. Touchston seventy-
five farmers were present, and all of them took
keen interest in the suggestions made by Mr.
Burley. There were.forty farmers at the farm
of L. E. IVebb, where a-meeting was held. Meet
ings are being held^aj the farms of Tom Car-
roll. Tom Dampier and one in the Clyattville
district.
Tc give an idea of the prevalence of wee
vils in the county, the following facts are
given by the County Demonstration Agent Mar
shall: On 1-10 of an acre of land being worked
by r.. H. Carter, 25 weevils were found in one
afternoon; on J. H. Hall’s place over 200 wee
vils were found on 3 1-2 acres; on Butler
Booker’s place. >149 weevils were found on
five acres in one picking; on !. A Hodge’s place
141 weevils were found on 2 1-2 acres at one
picking, and'on M. L. Weldon's place 75 wee
vils were found on 2 1-2 acres at one picking.
Mr. Marshall states that he lias been in only
one field in the county looking for weevils
where he found none.
The Gazette is pleased to note that the cot
ton growers of Lowndes are alive to the dan
ger and are taking prompt measures to save
their crop. To have heeded the statement of
Mr. Worsham that the weevil alarm was false,
or the assertion of Mr. Willett that those wee
vils coming out so early would die in twenty
days, would have been fatal. To have regarded
the passing of the weevil as certain and took
THE WHEAT CROP.
A GOOD SUGGESTION
On many hundred hillsides in Tift county,
the wheat is ripe for harvest. And the tune of
the cycle, the cradle or reaper is the tune of in
dependence.
Europe may war and conscienceless specula
tors do their worst; as for Tift county and her
people, for a time at least, they are independ
ent.
To be sure, we have not produced enough to
feed ourselves; but we have grown twice the
amount of wheat we have grown before, and
that helps a lot, my countrymen. Flour may go
to twenty dollars a barrel, as some have pre
dicted, but for a while the majority of
Tift county farmers will have their own bread
and a better and sweeter bread than can be
bought through the channels of trade.
What has been done in this line this year
can be done again. The wheat acreage can
increased from yeap-ttf year, until the farmers
of Tift will not-sfnly supply their own tables
but have sufficient .to spare to supply the mer
chant and professional man. and we will al«
be independent.
Why not try it?
Tifton Ga., Route 5, Hay 14, 1WT
Editor Gaxatte: >
Recently I bar* - been wondering
if sweet potatoes coaid be reduced
by a similar proceaa to that used to-
make beet pulp.
I know from experience that eweet
potatoee are fine feed for the pro
duction of good milk and butter, and
if they could he converted to a pulp
no doubt many e crop of potatoes 1
could be saved that often go to
ruin by rotting before aw' '
be found.
H you think tha suyyestlon ».
anythin* begin to advocate It in p
paper and probably some of T
biy hearted men, who love to ai
county yrow and prosper i
ceed to have some expert*
and find out if the potal
possibilities aa a feed o'
If suitable equipmmi'
gotten up it seems to
potato pulp, plant i
thing for Tifton anJj
nection with Tifl
!
PLANT RICE, THERE IS PLENTY TIME
Mr. G. V. Cuningham. Assistant State Agent
States Relation Service. Department of Agri- **
culture, joins the Gazette in urging South Geor
gia farmers to plant rice. He la'so calls atten- j__
tion to the need for a storage warehouse for | Havana hi
sweet potatoes at Tifton. Sp “ iQ in 1
Mr. Cunningham says
and diligenct
and at presei
,. .«k>a tjtejr j?jls . finnjy. bound. .together.
In triumph the hoys stood aside.' while again
Bill and Bat took thelf places, line in hand.
But boys proposed and contrary janimals de
posed! A* soon ns he was slapff d with the end
of the line and told to “gee upVBuck gave a
surge to swing his tail toward the north star
again, found it fast, bellowed, reared up on his
hind feet, camt down to earth with another bel.
low andenort. gave-another surge against his
entangled tail, and jerked it off short.
The boys were puzzled, for Buck’* bleeding
stump left nothing to tie to. They combined
brute strength, force of number and moral sua
sion. and wfere about to succeed at last in get
ting a start, when the Boy’s dog, Towse, came
along. Towse had a sore foot, and was sensitive
He had no idea of taking part in the fracas, but
•as tie ; wa» jawing Ruck'* h«*ad. t^st «iwaged,
and aggrieved animal made a dash/ at him. His
horn missed as Towse dodged, bur; Jiis hoof
struck the dog's sore foot and he in'tiirn made
for the ste^s nose. Bat kicked him loose, bu*
he circled fcround, and caught Buck by wfiat
was left of'-his tail.
With a benvoy Buck dashed and Brandy, at
tached and also frightened, went with him
Both boys were surprised. Bill was standing in
front and the yoke sent him rolling in the dust
Brandy going over and stepping on him at least
twice in passing. Bat had looped the llneunmnd vertising the resources of South Georgia and
- » ■-*—*■ ——■«* northern Florida and we should get our share.
his v
and when the unexpected start came
THE NEED FOR FOOD CROPS.
Before the fall grain crops are marketed,
there wil be eighty thousand men in the train
ing camp in Atlanta and an equal number in
Augusta, besides those alveadv in the nation’s
service ini those cities, and as in other parts
of the state. Besides the National Guard units
this will give approximately 200,000 men in
camps in Georgia, to be fed and just across
the line, in South Carolina, is a camp of
eighty thousand more at Columbia.
Here is a ready cash market for all kinds
of food stuffs; for the products of field* the
truck farm, the dairy, the poultry yard, the
home cannery—and the meat packing plant.
Considering these facts, to which must be
added that half a million men now feeding
thentselve- will be in camp next fell, to be fed
by the nation, and where is there room for
doubt that food production is the piost profit
able business in which a farmer can engage
And in what direction lies the duty of the pa
triot who desires to serve his country-
THE COW AND THE FORD.
-No longer can There be any question of the
supremacy of the cow ovec the Ford. Some
■ply to a question, the Gazette
man tried !u ,-ive .some of-the reasons why no
farmer should i.between a graded hull
Ji.riilvi-ar,. h.iiin iWjnmiv there,
lingered some doubt as to the superiority of
UpM*ti-5>v?r-T5Hwt»PeI 1 not * n** Ton’^ef TiIt
even a shin bone to support it
I'esterday a Ford touring car passed through
T : fton and one of the passengers in, the tonneau
v. is n cow. To be sure, she was not grown,
she was well into the enrling age. and her
appearance showed good blood. X w 'o men w
driving nd another in the tonneau acted
va!§t for the bovine.
Can there any longer linger doubt as.to
which is the more valuable', when Tift county
cows do their traveling fn Fords?
THE GEORGIA-FLORIDA FAIR
The premium list of the Georgia-Floridtt
fair, to be held at Valdosta October 23-27 is out
Besides the general agricultural exhibit, the
fair specializes witVi "a live stock sHow. the A.
P. A. poultry show, woman’s club work and pig.
canning and poultry clubs. Under the manage
ment of Mr. J. M. Ashley the Gebrgia-Florida
fair has been a marked success since the first
year of its organization. It has setadily grown,
each annual exhibit urpassingg its predecessor.
This year the fair promises to eclipse previous
reeprds.
Tift county should by all means be represent
ed by a creditable exhibit; it cannot afford to
miss it- The fair is doing a great work in ad-
Editor Gazette: I have read with grout iiit.-ress there. I »
your editorial on the growing inf rice t - i I wan t j Museum and *<
to commend it to the farmers.
thronaij
ime of the A
[buildings. 1 »* the WhltJ ,
. , , .. .'and'the Capitol building. Went t.
As stated b.V you. there IS plenty •>* time yet in the Washington monument which
, , , .. _ ;in which to plant rice. Then there is on every is 555 1-2 feet high. While I waa
no steps to destroy it would have given the pest | f ann j an( j {oo j ow y or use j n p i an ting other coming through North Carolina I
all the leeway it wanted to wipe out the crop; that will grow the finest kind of rice. <l"t n«t «e<- but three fruit trees and
thU year. i If ihe farmer, will write me I shall try to lo- I did
Even under the best circumstances, the grow j cate planting seed for thrtn. we that was an old negro man thatj.
. i i_ u „ „ nnr TndfT'wish to commend the enterprising cit- looked to be about 70 years plowing ,
, in Lowndes may aspect to lose a pood per , ‘ w proposes to put in a rice mill. It is a .= old l.n.dl. os. H, ... l,,lo, oj
m of their crop The acreage is too large toi^reaEmove. , ThT'o "^-J^lkTn”fiu5r K ’haB?*
free it entirely of the weevil, no matter how Tifton needs too, a sweet potato curing ware- B **, '^a^muic* that T hnvc *e#n.
lous th« efforts made. But with vigilance j hou e and I hope this will be put in also. Sweet Virginia was quite different. I
much of the crop,may be saved.'potatoes offer a grajit opportunity this year,
-.riee* it i« worth furhting for. : More calories ■ f food energy can be produced .^ raz,nK crop *' ,uch “ t ' ,0TW4
bv an acre of sweet potatoes-than any other j J* V( . not homesick yet, r-
" - - - * -•cet p6- * •*
SELLING GEORGIA WHEAT.
rop.
i large i
ted that I would. I I
r
A Crisp countv farmer has sold his wheat ‘ n 8 them,
crop to ^ Cordele dealer for $2.75 a bushel.:
days of hi^hnrices and scarcity of breadstuff*
rl
- anyht_, -- . . r ^.
sick after leaving it if they had spent
three years there.
WHY THE SPECULATOR? \ hrt f'mmoA’id'tiVS.kTS
With wh^rs $2.75. corn at $2 and meat at Some people insist that the speculate and ^ f JSf25$'5j*2ti*5
25 cents a pound, twenty-eent cotton looks like not the short crop is responsible for tho soar- ,he Union.
a piker’s crop. | ing prices for food supplies. Gibbetown? ti.'j.
But aside from the profit, is. the significance If there was no short chop, we would have no r„x No. 43.
of South Georgia haring wheat to sell in these ?peoplator on the bull side of the market. With WILL OPEN 'OFFICES
according to the Dispatch. The farmer has 80 limited production, the speculator can porce Dr A G Fort arr jved homo Sun-
acres in wheat and even at the low estimate; up the price at will; with a bumper cron, .no da> . morr ,i nR from Orleans,
of ten bushels to the acre, his crop will bring combination of men can keep the pried up. where ha. ju*t finiahed a po*t-grad-
him $2^50, or something over $30 an acre. Frank Norris wrote a novel just before his uate course In the eye. ear.
It is hard to imagine a more profitable erop. death, "The Prt." which was one of the best il ^ at Tu , a “^'“ ni ™^ u ‘" * !
or one grown with .less expenditure of labor lustrations of this fact we ever read. It told of *‘ nr Fo ™' ig a ^ n(ti ng to
and money. This farmer can still put in a crop a m an who drove the price of wheat up for two th j ciyatt-Elks building and-
of corn and beans, a peanut, a sWeet potato, or years, but when Dame Nftture got busy and the hope* to have them ready In a few
a pea and hay crop, on this land. West, stimulated by fancy prices, planted ev-1day*, lie is looking unusually wall
erything in wheat, he was ruined by the crea- ■ nJ *“>'* ,h *‘ he enjoyed hi* work
DOING HER BIT. ture of his own creation. _ ‘ TeeU^wiS
The statement from Capt. Heidt that Tift The best way to defeat the speculator is t lht . t> . picn ] Tlfton meeting on all
county has sent jnore men to the army, in pro- ra j se plenty of food crops: this and nothing else g ij cs by his number* of friends here.
portion to population, than any county in the will bring prices down, war or no war. o j
state, evidences the Tift county spirit. $100 Reward, $100 -
What her people see to be their duty, they WHY NOT BROOM CORN?
do well. Those who felt their country’s call a side crop, .broom corn offers many" at- l lJ‘ii' 0 h Vn5
the front have gone: those left behind will tractions to the South Georgia farmers, »° ro 'Miitutk!nU
not fail to do their bit toward feeding me army section around Tilton, crops of broon Jn>rn iirk!j'iViuircon^iiiu^n^ tr*si-
paying the war tax. and seeing that, the sick h aV o been grown for several years, and so well v”. : ''' a l l i nr .. “i
and wounded do not suifer.
To lead in volunteering is a
honor.
3 the gi
iK^wel
•rs that
r are planting i
pleased ari
again this year. __ ^
Broom corn is bringing $ lnO a ton on the ^% h «Str , o , "« ,, iiusdi?d*Do?!S
"If people would cat-more onions we wouldn't ‘market now. As much as half a ton to the acre 1 ( - --r l “ cure ' B *“
have so many epidemics of mumps, measles.} has been mired-near 'Fifwri; -and- growers say;
whooping-cough &nd other contagious things." a t r , n to four acres can be easily produced. The
said an observer to the Gazette man the other is a crop worth t” $200 an acre and re- tifton people in fire
day. “I was making a.trip through the Cum- quiring as little attention as millet «r sorghum. A up.*-;*! 4«liv«ry letter froa
Fprfcmd mountains once, and stopped for th- It is certainly worth more’than passing' tf-teii Mr H - ‘>’>*vat. Jr. wtio-is w>rta*
—hi Atlanta t« ms parent*, Mr all
Mrs.- V. tr-tVMrof. wiv? Ttint hr Tai
all of hi* p-'r-onnl effect* in I
nd pc-
nigh* with a retired professional man win
'roughing it there, tie was a man ot scholarly at
iaimugHts-antl -a- keen sfbsc-cer- A* .l>sia? J» ...
ing "fend spoke of small pox in the country-, he
told me to eat plenty of onions, and I would
never take that or any other contagious d;s-
Antl I believe the old fellow w.v right I >ni.
ot take smallpox, and since then havei.Bust:
■
ing matrimony. Believe onions did most of i’-
You noticed how the old-time mother used t-i ’wvV
put a bag of assafoetlda around the bn by* ' nigg<
neck to keep it from catching things? Well, u- lhc-r.
safoetida is made from onions and garlic, so [light
there you are. And its no use to joke about on
ions being strong enough to keep anything
away, either.”
r is. istc k. -Rn»Vr- -foil-Wed-Ttrcr qfp fltlitajf"tSJJpV QUi
• 11 :i i
isillusiot
for him.
•erything
Georgia can produce annually $450,000,000
in additional food crppa-ifc her. 7.500.000 acres
of waste land** are-drained, according to the 1
Georgia Drainage Association, which meets in
Athens on the 23rd and 24th. in its sixth annual
session. In the general scheme of conservation,
the 'wet lands of Georgia should not be allowed
to longer escape doing their bit toward feeding
the world.
“The correspondent that sent out the report
a few days ago that Irwin,county farmers had
plowed up 3,000 acres of cotton and had plant
ed corn instead, evidently did not know how
fond Irwin county farmers are of cotton rais
ing.” says the Ocilla Stir. We feared the netys
was too good to be true-
i !<* fiml furl inn- c.v-v street. nlxo ha-i
cup *h:• t cheers. Ho’has re-
•d. No more North
• -ays.' Wages are high, but <
higher, and by the time a man pays for
itr<!.ami keep, his wad looks like thewid-
nhc. To crown all. Buster su' s ther- treat
•s like red-headed step-children; and
is no corn bread; absolutely nothing 1»ut
tread and no nigger vt-anls to live jon.that
working diet. Lucky for him, Buster had
-to pay-his way-home; many of his kind
not so fortunate. Still, despite these ex-
thousand of negroes are leaving the
■uth every week for new and untried fields, prove.that
' lot the mother during tho.
Tbe Mhcon • County -Gitiren wan twenty Wee
years old Friday. They have beetv twenty-five Women nil of the safe.
Mother’s Duty
to Her Child
Science Shows Pre-Natal Suffer
ing Has loiter Effect
childbirth ha* i
Ui.in of the work
: surgeon* for a
day investigate
. luring.-t*~ “
ample?
year, ot usefulness to Oelithorpe nml Macon enpeud
county; a quarter of a century of gooey -work. penetrating oil*, h .i*.
management for the twenty five years
come.
,o lie sbrohitely
; the expectant mother.
I "Mother’* Friend” ha*
by thousands of mother* „
An Athens man in Savannah yesterday told pn !!'i CP 'J' • !T,1 ‘ in < r * lle
. ... periw ot e::poctancy is
them not to be surprised if eggs were a dollar in comfort. AM drugeists
a dozen next winter. Now is the time to. plant a ‘' M< ? thcr,!, Friend.”
sort of t
t rrtdfe la
Write t
when, this feminist n
the rooste,- out of business.
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