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THE TIPTON GAZETTR,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1817.
7Lhc Litton (Bajette
BIDDING FOR AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL.
MARKETING CANNED GOODS.
PREPARE FOR A LONG FIGHT.
Published Weekly
Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
as mail matter of the second claaa.
L. Herring . • • E^tor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
*nd Tift County, Georgia-
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Making Apple‘Cider.
For four years the highest ambition of at
least one boy’s life was to own a cider press-
People tell you now that apples will not do
well in South Georgia, but forty years ago they
were a thrifty and 'reliable crop. Perhaps
climatic conditions have changed or people do
not give them the proper care now. but apples
as a crop in this section hav.e practically ^dis
appeared. In those days we not only had them
to eat and for jellies, pies and pot dumplings,
but we had sufficient to spare to make cider
Tb*t the various counties of the Twelfth Dia- j Realizing that the problem of marketing is
= trict are submitting bids for the location of the vital to the success of the canning industry, es-
11 Souttl Geor-
occasionally-
There was not a cider press in all
gia and the process of converting apples into
the amber fluid was laborious and slow
long trough, which had been originally adzed
from a cypress log. was purloined from the
cane mill and in this the apples wi
a pulp with a maul that had done service for
several years at rail-splitting time. To keep
the maul going, pestle-wise, until the apples
were pounded to the proper pulpy consistency
was a strength-trying and back-breaking task,
but we looked to results in those days and didn t
care so much for the effort.
Sunday morning, company came over to
spend the day. The women folks were soon
in the kitchen, where the dinner of the week
was under way. and the men followed the boy
to the orchard, where trees were shaken and
the apples gathered. There were the big
horse apples, turning from bright green to yel
low; the "sweetnings,” snow white and mealy
when ripe; the’lady fingers, long and yellow
tinged with red and the cider apples, small
and acid and pink striped.
They were carefully washed in a big tub at
the well and then poured into the trough, where
all took turns with the maul-pestle until
wet with perspiration and spattered with
juice. When at last the apples were ready a
large nail keg was brought into sendee and
heads knocked out. It was set on end on a
sloping shelf built beside the wall of the log
smokehouse 4 and the bottom filled with a lqyer
of clean oat-atraw. Then the apple pulp was
poured in. oatztraw packed on top and on this
placed a keg head. Two pieces across this
and then a short upright, fitting into a notch
near the end of a long pine pole which end was
fastened in a crack of the smokehouse. The
weight of two men on the swinging end of this
pole furnished the necessary leverage to press
the juice from the apples. It was a crude
process and much of the apple was wasted but
what cider was obtained was as good as the
product of the best press. It was sufficient for
that crowd on-Sunday and agreeably filled in
the wait for dinner.
Later when the naval-stores operators, at
tracted by our pine forests, came to this coun
try they brought customers for all cider the
apples grown hei^could produce. White em
ployers and their corps of negro laborers came
direct from North Carolina, where apples and
cider were plentiful and they had a taste for
both. For n time at least the boy did a thriving
business converting the family apple crop into
cider and hauling it on his ox wagon ten miles
to the nearest turpentine distillery. To be
sure, he could only make a gallon or two at a
>imp and a gallon only retailed for forty cents
making at least two days work necessary to
earn a dollalr. but money went a long way in
those days, and the boy was sorry when the
apples were gone. He had nerve? seen a cider
press except in print hut for many months
treasured the picture of one in a. catalogue and
dreamed of the day when he yould be able to
buxjt and go into business as a manufacturer.
But tJte apples passed and other things caused
the cider industry to be at first neglected and
then forgotten.
But the cider made wouldn’t do to fool with-
Sweet, it was treacherous, and when allowed
to harden had a kick that had to be watched.
new Agricultural school slated for that dieted
reminds the Gazette of 11 years ago when the
eig^tesn counties then in the Second District
met in Albany Nov. 19th, 1906 with the Board
of. Trustees to submit their respective claims
for the location of the school. That was the
first and only meeting at which there was near a
full attendance df said Board, and then there
was one absent.
Competition. for the school was keen. For
nearly a month meetings had been held in Tif
ton and the local campaign for the school was
well organized. City and county had been
thoroughly canvassed for subscriptions and
when the last'ntepting was held on Saturday-
night before the meeting in Albany Monday it
as realized that every cent had been secured
that it was possible to raise A committee of
30 was tamed to represent Tifton at the meet-
in Albany and the sum of $32,000 was
pledged to supply the school with a home.
The Board of Trustees met in the Albany
City Council Chamber and then adjourned to
the Dougherty county court house, the coun-
il chamber being entirely too small to accom
modate the crowd. Albany. Camilla, Pelham,
’’’ifton and Ashburn were the bidders. Albany
offered $20,000. 200 acres of land, and free
water and lights; Camilla offered $51,000, 300
acres of land, water and lights (on call it was
admitted that only $10,000 was cash at hand);
Pelham offered a choice of several tracts of
land and a certified check for $19,000; Ashburn
offered 250 aerfes of land, water and.lights
and $45,000: Tifton’s offer was 316 acres of
land, water and lights and $30‘,000, with tele
phone service and sewerage free for ten years.
During a recess the committee^ from Tifton
held a conference and admitted that all of its
available resouce9 Were In. Without any sug
gestion from the other members of the commit
tee, wken he arose to fill five minutes of the
time allotted Tift county for argument, Mr. H.
H. Tift, who had already .subscribed $6,200 of
the $32,000 raised, voluntarily amended Tfrton’
bid to $55,000 in ca^h. supplying the other
$25,000 out of his own'pqckct. He had al
ready donated the land, at \first reserving the
timber; but on the suggestion that this would be
neededior the study of foresty, he donated that
also, valued at $4,500. "Hie land was worth
$31,500.
Pelham then raised her cash bid to $32,500
Camilla raised hers ta $58,000; and Ashburn
raised hers to $60,500. Mr. Tift again raised
Tiftonb bid $5,000, making a total of $60,000'
'Mr. J. |. L. Phillips donated the telephone ser
vice aid at one time offered to raise his sub
script^ $1,000. Mt- Tift again offered to
raise Tfton’s bid, but this the committee asked
him notto do as it considered that he had given
enought$60.000 being what an expert estimated
! the buildings should cost.
After the Board of Trustees went into execu
tive sesion. with the financial question out of
the way the decision was a tug of war between
pecifclly relative to the boys’ and girls’ canning
clubs when the production passes the amount
necessary for home consumption, the govern
ment has issued a very instructive bulletin con
taining suggestions for marketing.
One of the first essentials is a standardized
product, and clubs are urged to see that all fruits
or vegetables put up by them are uniform
pack, appearance, quality and condition,
carrying out this plan, appropriate labels are
necessary. Firstojf all the home market should
be supplied and^o^do this retail dealers should
be consulted as to the quantity of the various
products they handle and the price they pay.
Advertising is urged, by means of permanent
exhibits of canned goods at some place easily
accessible; temporary exhibits at various stores
and at fairs, the use of local newspapers and
the cooperation of the housewives in demand
ing that their orders to the grocers be filled
with home products.
In North Carolina a committee of club mem
bers in each community canvassed the house
wives for orders, to be delivered through their
grocers. In Chattanooga, the clubs maintain
a booth in a central market house with a club
member in charge. Various other plans are
outlined in the bulletin, which is for free distri
bution. The Gazette commends the fact that
they can get assistance in marketing their prod
ucts and the suggestions made to the canning
club girls of htis immediate section.
The statement that the county farm demon
stration agents as a class will not be exempt
from military service will work a hardship on
nearly 100 of these young men in Georgia who
kept their jobs when they might have secured
good positions with the officers training corps
Nearly all of them are college men and as such
could have readily passed the necessary ex
aminations. But there was a general impres
sion that the government wanted farm work
kept up to the highest possible standard and
that the county agents were needed for this
purpose. Desiring to serve their country
along the lines in which they were the most
capable they passed up the opportunity
secure good paying army positions- Now if
they drafted they must take their chance:
in the rhnks. They are loyal and patriotic
and make no complaint, but it does seem like
the government should have advised them soon
er if they .were to be held subject to military-
draft Quite a number of them may be retained
ZS CENTS FOR COTTON
Whatever lay opinion may be as to the dura
tion of the war, army men expect a long, hard
fight. In an address to'the students of the
Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhat
tan Gen. Leonard Wood, recently transferred
from the Department of the Southeast to Camp
Funston, said:
“This war will not be easily won- Many
hundreds of thousands of our boys must go
across the sea. and many, many thousands©!
them will not come back. They are K 01 "?
against a nation whose soldiers are willing to
die in heaps—whose soldiers are the best train
ed men in the world, and as good soldiers as
ever stepped forth. Also, they belong to. a
nation whose acts we condemn. The situation
of the Allies is bad, and the breakdown in
Russia will make the war much longer and
much more serioijst'
The folloyyiiig is especially commended to
the. attention of those who think we ought to
wait until Germany cleans up Great Britain
and France and come over here
"We must finish it on the other side, or it will
be finished here.”
Neither does this veteran fighter take much
stock in surprising scientific or mechanical in-
entions turning the scale in our favor:
"This war will not be won by new inventions
—not by some wonderful production of Edison
or some other marvelous combination of cir
cumstances. It will not be >von in tfe? air and
and all the talk about winwiflg in the- air .means
nothing, although we need ill the aerop lanes
we can get. This war will be won by well
trained and well disciplined men,”
The war will be won by men i the ranks
Trained officers, airships, a.'!*! all of the aux
iliaries that science and mechanic?*! genius can
give will be the factors, but it is the private
■oldier who must win for us. Therefore, mili
tary officers do well to lay stress on the fact
lhaLthe ranks must be filled with men thorough
ly traiped for the work they are to do. And I
tjiat-rfot until Amwica gets enough men on the j
Grow.r. Urs«L la Hold StapU foe- a
Fair Prleo. -
A bulletin hu been issued from the
Bureau of Market* under the Depart- '
ment of Agriculture at Atlanta, l*a~
B. Jackson, director; urging th*
Southern Farmer to stubbornly nold^*
bis cotton for a 25-cent price.
It is argued that the Government 3 -
has set the price of wheat at $2.20 ’.
per bushel as against 87* average
number of year* past. In the »
proportion cotton should be 25
cents a pound.
Moreover, sUtistiee show that the
cotton crop has been short for the
past three years and the only thing
that has kept the price down has
been the big surplus left frem the ,
1914 crop. This, says Mr. Jackson, §
■rill soon be exhausted and we may '
'ook for the price to rise.
As a matter of justice
price of cotton should keep pice wi4
other increased prices. 26 cent cot
ton touay will buy no more floor,
meal or ment, lard, cloth or steel or
anything else than would 10 cent
cotton a short'time ago.
Mr. Jackson further states that
the Southern Fanner as a rule will
i such financial condition this
that he can reaiat the tendency
t<, sell an in cases where obligations
pressing the cotton in the ware
house can be used as good collateral.
If any experience difficulty in doing
thia they are asked to nptify the
State Bureau. If desirctr thia may
be done through the' loco| Board of
Ttude office. The farmer may ex
pect and find . a reasonable 'co-op
eration there.
TO THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR
Adolph Dr.
as county agents, as the statement is made that ft to end with another year, but
il and Johnny Ford Go
From Tift Corn Club.
Six boys from tho com club of
Tift stood examination before Coun
ty School Superintendent Ammons
Friday in competition for two free
firing line' to turn the scale will the change ^ scholarships at the Southeastern
cojne | Fair in Atlanta. The boys were
It is fortunate for thU country that Its lead-, F " J *"' , ‘ Ad.'jh Dr.,.1 John.
, ' ... . „„ ny Ford, Milton Stripling, John and
ers are preparing for a long war. while all nope Wnj , h Con( . er
for a short one. With all of its shrewd c-alcu- j Frcderick and Adolph Drexel and
lations. Germany made one mistake that will Johnny Ford passed the best exami-
prove fatal. If expected the war to be a short nation and as Frederick won one of
one and the entrance on the lourfh year finds 'W°JPh *”■>
. ... Johny 1-ord were awarded the schol-
the country that precipitated the conflict pra\- >rihips
ing for peace on any terms that it can make. 0 '
satisfactory Co its own people. 1 WOMAN cures horse COLIC
Wisely, our military men are making every
preparation for five more years of war. Wei. The men were away as usual. Th*
* * ... . horse was bad. A lone woman could
hope for it to end.m less than a year;,*we expect not o drench » th e oM g*.
each case will be passed upon on its merits, but
some will probably be called.
prepared for it to'last through many years. colic Remedy that you drop
THE GOOBER AND THE PEANUT.
Although cotton receipts at Tifton are only
about 40 per cent compared with the same date
last year, the proportion is larger for the bal
ance of the state. The total for Georgia to Sept.
1st, was 146.630 bales, compared with 212,-
787 bples to Sept. 1st 1916. Receipts are much
larger comparatively speaking in counties above
E. F. Bussey and Co., Enigma,
ABOUT CONTROLLING THE TEMPER.
Frota the Atlanta Georgian.
Way- permit little things to annoy you so
much?
There are enough big problems to'worrj- over,
enough serious vexations to meet without per-
S- witting those trivial nature to get th" best,
of you.
These outbursts of temper battling with mat
ters of small importance unfitZyou for mastery
in matters of great consequence^,
Using too much nervous energy.
Proof? That it requires s 0 much less to
arouse you to an irritable state than it did a few
‘ sooths ago.
Warning enough this should be. What about
gn years hence?
If you find yourself in a state of nervous col-
i consult a physician and let him find a
t rests with yourself, realize before it if
» that you are losing power as an indi-
the peaonal influence of Mr. Tift and that of j the boll weevil belt. Those for this immediate
Mr. J. L Hand, of Pelham. Trustee J. L. Pick- section show some larger in proportion than Tift,
ard led file fight on the Board for Tifton, second- j Ben Hill, 2,(&6 bales for 1916 compared with
ed by J.J. Knight, of Berrien, and after Dough- ( 3,860 bales for 1917; Berrien, 1,645 against
erty dripped out. by A. J. Lippitt. Tifton led 3,049; Coffee, 3,599 aaginst 4,039; Colquitt,
on the frst ballot with 7 votes against<6 for Pel- 4.624 against 8,212; Irwin, 3,331 against 5.168;
ham, 3 for Oaniilla and 3 for Ashburn. Tifton :Tift, 3,096 against 6,413; Turner, 3,971 against
led on aery ballot, reaching 9 on the fifth when ( 6,180; Worth, 4,386 against 8,170-
Pelham-touched her high water mark of 7. On —
the eighth ballot Tifton received 11 votes one The Germans are sonpr they invented gas,
Board was in session two hours- The, ac,;ord ' n 8 to Percival Phillips,
more than was necessary for a choice- The- at P*e British -fror\t.
iK-lcgation from here did not realize what a .who were the first to feel the effects of. poison
strain ittad worked under until the battle was!8“ ** are paying the Gasmans back w.th
over interest at Lens. Their deep mine chambers
A spatial train was chartered over Atlantic! and cileries protect them from the shock of
.Coast Ups for the trip home and we were met h eav y "bells, but the deadly gas vapors drift
on our return by screaming whistles and the d own uirshafis and stairways and through
whole town at the depot. Mr. Tift and a few rred doors, so that the Germans are un-
'able to sleep, eat or drink, without wearing
i correspondent
He says the Canadians
others of the delegation were taken, vie et armis,
seated in posts of honor on a one-horse wagon,
and drawn up town to the corner of Love and
Second, where the crowd was told how it was
done.
Mr. Tift not only proved himself a friend to
the school on that occasion but also during con
struction of the buildings and during the lean
years when only his personal influence and re
sources kept it going.
The Second District school easily ranks as one
of the best in the state, and no county-in the
masks. A captured Prussian officer is quoted,
as'saying that he thought t£e troops at Lena
would willingly’ crucify the'man who invented
the stuff.
Gem-Swift and his hike will have no terrors
for the Brooks county Selectman, who walked
22 tailes and ran the last two miles of the dis
tance to catch his train for Camp Gordon.
THEIR PROPER NAMES _
District has cause to regret that it was located From the Savannah Press:
When it comes to naming potatoes the old
boys who selected the cognomens made a big
hit. We are advised that the proper way to
at Tifton.
Ordinary Charlie Graves sayB that it is all a
mistake about the war boosting the matri
monial business, so far as Tift county is con-
ferried. This has-been the dullest year of the
past seven for the marriage license clerk and
he is sure the decrease-is at least 25 per cent.
Since the declaration of war .there has been
fewer marriages than before. We said all the
time Tift county had no slackers.
The old saying that figures can’t lie is a back
number- Witness the argument pVo and con
on the county unit question.
John L. Herring, of Tifton. is celebrating the
„ third anniversary of the founding of the Daily
losing just that sort of power which is I Gazette. Mr. Herring has fulfilled the flatter-
s to your happiness and success in life, ing predictions made when he started it, which
little mere patience and a broader] was about twice as much as the average news-
, and you won’t poison your mind and paper man could have done.—Thomasville
these to-no-good-pgrpose frenzies, j Times-Enterprise.
speak of Irish potatoes in ■ the most cultured
Boston circles is to ask for the solanum tubero
sum. We guess this is where the philosopher
who said a rose by any other name would smell
«s sweet got his tip. The sweet potato, we are
told, is really the impomaea batatas. This is
!
Tl
So she came over and dropped Farris
Colic Remedy on the horse's tonga*
“ and the horse was well when tk* -
Says the Dawson News: men came home. Moral: Get Fanfa .
The Cordele Dispatch wonders if we know CoI>c Remedy so the women can cur*
horse colic, we sell it at 60 cent*
the difference between a goober and a peanut. , bottle on the Money Back Wan.
Why certainly, esteemed brother. And do you , _ Phillips Mercantile Co.. 1311510, ~
know that the peanut, and the goober are dif
ferent varieties of the groundpea. and there's,
really no. difference in the appearance, shape
und taste of the nuts. In alLgssentials they are
really the same.”
It really hurts our tender heart to show up
two beloved friends like Editors Charlie Brown
and Clem Rainey, but in the interest of the
truth we are constrained to speak. These boys
are .city farmers: they have been raised in town:
round a newspaper office, and have given file
real farmers advice for so many years that
they think they know all about the business,:
out breaks like this give them away - . .... '
The peanut is not a goobc - .
goober’s first cousin, or maiden aunt, or r... 1 I
nal grand mot her, but it isn't a goober, altho.ig !
ij is often miscalled so- The real goober grows
one in a pod instead of two, three or more, as
the peanut, and these cluster at the root or-thej
-vise, very very\nuch like the Spanish peanut.
The goober is shaped’ like an English pea but
about four times as large. It is not consider
ed edible by two-legged animals, but makes
splendid hog feed. A good many years agoj
it was planted extensively through this section
when people gave more attention to hog raising |
than they have in recent years. We would be.
glad to see it come back, for it would fill a use
ful purpose in these days of diversified agri
culture.
The peanut may properly be called a pinder
or groundpea, but it is ip no'sense a goober,
We hat6 to do Charlie and Clem this way, but
they ought to stay within their limitation*.
Dealers in shoes at retail in New York show
a lack of uniformity in prices about equal to
that displayed by South Georgia job printe:
A World reporter found shoes, which soid for
$8 a pair in one place bringing $10 three doors
further on and a block' away selling for $12.
At one place the price jumped $2 a pair over
bad'enoguh. but just think of asking for some-Sunday, shoes bringing $6 in 1914 being
specimens of the Tilanaga potato of India. Its-heid a t $12. Scarcity of leather was given as
official name is Amonphophalluscampanulatus. ^ excuse, although one store manager frankly
of the matter. In Jamaica they have a wild pair. Evidently, the shoe manufacturers m-
pofato which is commonly spoken of as the j tend to get th'eirs while the getting is good. It
Ipomaeafastigita. Giving it such a name as j s t 0 j,e hoped they will be fair enough to cut
that probably had a good deal to do with run-. out the shoddy wh ii e prices are up.
ning it wild.
While the pisum sativum, the arachis hypo-, ~ — “ ,
gaea, the solanum tuberosum and the impo-. "The Kaiser has offered ten days rest as a
maea batatas are interesting things to grow, special reward to^Jhe German soldier who
the average Georgia farmer still has a tender brings in the firffAmerican prisoner. Bill is
feeling for the gossvpium herbaceum which > - ht the Tooten who does it will need ten days
whitens the fields of the state at tjns season ana * •%. _ ....
which^many of us believe ought to be worth j’***'
thirty cents a pound. ,'*•
is the way the Savannah Press figures
Pains,
Dizzy
Spells
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walk,7 would just pretty
•early fell. Was very
much run-down. 1 told
my husband I thought
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He got me a bottle,, , it
helped me so much that
he got me another bottle.
I got a whole lot better.
Tha dizzy spells and the
bearing-down pains . . .
left me entirely.”
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run-down, or sutler tram
%%cualy pains,
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