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Co-operation With Farmers
The co-operation between the PEOPLES
BANK and the farmers of this vicinity is a disting-
nishing feature of its service.
A strong bank in the center of an agricultural
community finds many ways in which in ^hicb
it can benefit and encourage farmers.
The management of this bank believes
thoroughly in giving liberal aid to its farmer pa
trons’ not only in the way of deserved financial
support, but also in helping them to formulate and
carry out plans which will result in greater returns
from their labor.
Things Concerning Farms a *» d Farmers
Crop Conditions in the Corn Belt
Peoples Bank
GEO. W. FLEMING, Pres. JOHN M. JACKSON, V-Pres.
G. C. COOK, Cashier.
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The condition JF crops is a theme
of perpetual interest to all of us
who have anything to do with farm
ing. Crop conditions in the terri
tory from which Southern farmers
buy too much of their supplies of
meat, hay, and corn are of almost
as much concern as prospects nearer
home. Especially now, when re
ports indicate a poor corn crop over
much of the South, there is need to
take note of conditions in the Com
Belt.
Hence the writer records here
some impressions made on him
along these lines during a trip from
which he returned about the first of
August.
For about 400 miles through the
entire length of the State of Kansas
watch was kept for single fields of
corn that promised to yield over a
reasonable fraction of a normal
crop. Seldom was the search suc
cessful, for the only fields seen that
promised fair yields were the small
areas of corn, those planted on up
lands so late as not yet to have
reached the tasseling Stage, and a
part of the older corn on extremely
rich bottom land. Otherwise it is
within the bounds ol conservatism
to say that the corn crop of at least
a large part of that State is a fail
ure. In most fields the tassels have
been dried by the long period of dry
weather and but few silks are show
ing. In some exceptional fields a
large proportion of the corn plants
are green, but wilted during the day
and fired near the base. The dry
ing of the tassels, to which corn in
that region is more subject than in
the central Corn Belt and in the
South, is the symptom which the
farmers there consider the most
positive proof of the failure of their
corn crop.
In Missouri and southern Illinois
dry weather has greatly injured, but
not generally ruined, the corn crop..
Reports from fellow travelers indi
cate that dry weather has severely
injured the corn crop in other parts
of Illinois, in Kentucky, and in ad
jacent States. A common report
from widely scattered localities is
that little or no rain fell in the Cen
tral West during the five weeks pre
vious to the first of August.
This long period of dry weather
has also affected other crops be
sides corn in which Southern farm
ers are interested. Take, for exam
ple, the hay crops. As a rule, the
meadows seen from the car win
dows in the States traversed are in
a most unsatisfactory conditions.
War to Begin on Boll Weevil
The saving of millions of dollars
to the farmers of Georgia is going to
depond on whether the people of
this state awake in time to the fact
that a great, hand-to-hand battle
with the boll weevil is pending.
This Mexican pest is expected to
actually reach the southwestern bor
ders of Georgia about this time next
year. When it gets here, it will be
too late to stop the first damage.
Georgia senators and congressmen
at Washington are at this moment
busily engaged with the United
States department of agriculture in
a council of war as to the best
methods to bring the advance of
the weevil to a standstill, or at least
save Georgia as far as possible from
the results of its ravages.
The proposition to establish a
zone in which no cotton will be
grown next year and which would
amount to a boll weevil barrier is
not regarded with favor. It would
be of doubtful legality and very ex
pensive.
In their preparations for keeping
Georgia farmers informed and sup
plied with the best methods of
fighting the evil, Senator Hoke
Smith and Congressman Rodden-
berry, who are taking a leading part,
are receiving not only the co-opera
tion of their Georgia colleagues, but
also of senators and representatives
from adjacent southern states.
Senator Smith and Congressman
Roddenberry have retained thous
ands of pamphlets and bulletins on
the boll weevil, and are already
sending them to farmers along the
Alabama line.
In one section where red-top is the
prevailing hay grass and where a
light cutting has been made, the
stubble is almost as brown as grain
stubble. One instance was noted
where extensive fields of red-top
stubble had been burned over by
sparks from passing trains, so dry
were the meadows.
Verbal reports are to the effect
that over much of the region in
which timothy and red clover are
grown for market, the yields of these
crops are very light. Likewise in
Kansas, from which the South
doubtless imports more alfalfa hay
than from any other State, the sec
ond cutting of alfalfa is, as a rule,
extremely poor, or the plants are so
small as to be more profitably util
ized for seed rather than for hay.
The farmers interviewed on this
subject agreed that even if rains
should visit Kansas soon, the third
cutting would be reduced by the
dry weather which spoiled the sec
ond cutting.
Pastures are brown and bare in
all the country seen where hay
crops are poor. From ali that I
seen and heard, the coming year
wil) be one of scarce and high-priced
corn and hay.
It is the part of wisdom for South
ern farmers to realize thoroughly
and in its personal application that
com and hay and meat will proba
bly be higher in 1914, and that it is
not yet too late for us, in a climate
where the small grains mature
about the first of June, to take some
stepfi that will minimize the amount
paid by Southern farmers for food
stuffs grown in other States. Some
of the means to this end will be the
subject of a later article.
Fortunately the wheat crop of the
territory mentioned, is good, and we
may hope that the price of flour, at
least, may not soar.—J. F. Duggar,
in the Progressive Farmer.
Bright Prospects for
the Georgia State fair
The News views with interest and
appreciation the bright prospects
for a notably successful exhibition
of the Georgia State Fair.
The fair association is promoting
state-wide interest in corn growing,
swine breeding and the home can
ning industry by the offer of num
erous and liberal cash premiums,
and it is more than likely that the
fruits of this undertaking will be
conspicuously manifested at the
forthcoming fair.
Many agencies, of course, enter
into the reasons for a record break
ing corn crop in Georgia this year,
but the state fair is not the least of
them. It has sought lor several
years to encourage the farmers to
give greater attention to corn grow
ing.
The prospects for good crops
throughout the state, recently re
ported by the Fourth National Bank,
as the result of county census, as
sures splendid prospects for the
state fair. Both go hand in hand.
When the crops are good the farm
ers are supplied with sufficient
money to attend the fair in person
and to also make exhibits.—Macon
News.
To Induce Hog Raising
In the effort to encourage south
ern farmers to raise more hogs, the
Southern Railway, through its live
stock department, has issued a
booklet entitled, “Hog Production
and Conditions for Success in the
South," a copy of which will be fur
nished on request of F. L. Word,
live stock agent, Atlanta, Ga.
The booklet contains much prac
tical and valuable information as to
the care and feeding of hogs, selec
tion of breeds, treatment of diseases,
and cutting and curing meats.
Chapters on each subject have been
supplied by experts.
That the south consumes more
pork and raises less than Any other
part of the United States despite
the fact that pork can be produced
more cheaply in the south than in
the north or west, is a well known
fact and a condition that greatly
impedes the progress of the section.
The long open season and the great
variety of food crops at his com
mand give the southern farmer the
opportunity to make more money
raising hogs than is possible in any
other territory.
Depth to Plow for Oats ~
How deep should land be plowed
for oat?
If the plowing is done far enough
in advance of the seeding of the
oats to allow the soil to settle prop
erly and to receive a few good
rains, it may be plowed as deep
as the plow, team and cost
will permit. The deeper the land
is plowed up to eight or ten . inches
in July or the first half of August
for oats to be sowed the first of Oc
tober, the better the crop will |to-
bably he, but unless there is consid
erable vegetable matter to plow un
der and this deep plowing, more
than six or seven inches deep, is
done only once in a period of years,
the cost may make it unprofitable.
If deep plowing is done in July
or August for oats to be sowed in
October, it is also important that
the land be thoroughly disked im
mediately after plowing to prevent
too great loss of moisture or dry
ing.
For land that has been well plow
ed in the spring, especially when
the breaking for the oats is not
done until seeding time, shallow
plowing—three or four inches—or
disking thoroughly is probably bet
ter than deep plowing, unless there
happens to be an abundant rainfall
soon after the land is broken, which
is rare at that season.—Progressive
Farmer.
President Wilson
Helps the farmer
When President Wilson ordered
the secretary of the treasury to an
nounce that 25 to 50 million dollars
would be deposited by the govern
ment in the banks of the south and
the west, with which to “move the
crops" if that much were needed, he
made a "big hit” with the farmers.
Heretofore under the Republican
rule, "Wall Street" would squeal
about shortage of money, and then
large sums would be deposited by
the Federal government in the Wall
Street banks, and then they would
lend the money to the western and
southern banks which in turn would
loan it for crop-moving purposes.
Under the Wilson method they get
the money without paying tribute
to Wall Street. We are not apt to
hear of any more tightness about
moving the cotton crops of this
year.
Sow Oats Early This Year
It is not too early to begin plan
ning for getting the oats sowed
early enough this fall. Year after
year oats are sowed during Novem
ber or left until February or March,
that might have been put in during
the latter part of September or dur
ing the first half of October, if the
work had been better planned.
It is better to sow oats in cotton,
either broadcast or in drills—two
drills between each row—early in
October than to sow them next Feb
ruary. It is always a difficult mat
ter for the cotton and corn farmer
to get the oats in early enough, but
every effort practicable should be
exerted to get them m before the
middle of October and in the north
ern part .of those sections where
Get Rid of the
Smut in Your Grain
oats are sowed in the fall, they
should be sowed by September 15.
—The Progressive Farmer.
Pigs Pay
DO NOT sow oat or wheat seed
this fall without first treating to pre
vent smut. An examination of al
most any oat field this year would
have convinced anyone that treating
the seed to prevent smut is profit
able if it prevents this trouble. It
certainly prevents it if done properly.
To Study Bell Weevil
A party of experts will leave on
the ninth of next month for Ala
bama, Mississippi and-into Louisiana
in order to make a study of boll
weevil conditions. Their party will
be composed oif Messrs. J. Phil
Campbell, G. W. Firor and Chas. A.
Whittle, of the State College of
Agriculture, who are all working
in conjunction with the govenment.
Messrs. J. D. Price, commissioner
of agriculture, Assistant Commis
sioner Hughes and State Entomolo
gist, E. Lee Worsham will also go
with the party.
Best feed for Young Calves
What is the best feed for calves
five months old, the mothers not be
ing milked?”
For calves five months old that
are sucking their mothers, there is
no better feed than equal parts of
corn and oats and some good legume
hay. If the milk supply and the
legume hay are fairly abundant,
com alone will give excellent re
sults and is usually cheaper than
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Mr. T. M. Ticknor, who attended
the meeting of the State Agricultiy-
al Society at Cuthbert this week and
successlully pressed Albany's in
vitation to the Society to hold its
next annual meeting in this city
is enthusiastic over the State Agri
cultural Society as.au educator. He
says that these annual meetings of
the Society are really worth more
to the farmers who attend them
than any of the farmers' institutes,
although he does not mean to dis
parage the latter in the least. He
is enthusiastic over the fact that
the next annual meeting of the So
ciety is to be held in Albany and
will urge the farmers of this sec
tion to attend it—Albany Herald.
Members of the Winnipeg Grain
exchange late Saturday estimated
that the loss to the farmers of wes
tern Canada by Thursday’s storm
will reach ten million dollars. The
crops on many farms with acreages
running from 200 to 600 have been
wiped out in the Rapid City, Mani
toba, district, south of Brandon, and
near Souris, Nanitoba. Some farm
ers will not have enough for seed
Perry Home Journal: Intensive
farming is now growing in popularity
in Georgia, and the expense accounts
of the farmers are being decreased
by the increased diversity of their
crops. The progressive farmers are-
realizing on their good judgment
HELPLESS AS BABY
A Louisiana school boy bought a
pig of the female persuasion, for
ten dollars. He raised and exhibit
ed her at both the county and state
1 fairs and won first prizes, and $65
in cash. He was offered $75 for his
gilt but refused to sell. Instead he
bred her and from only one litter he
has sold $70.50 worth of registered
pigs, and has two left on hand, each
worth $10. In addition to the pre
miums he received at the fairs, he
received two.pigs from Fort Worth
Stock yards worth $25. His gross
income [from his ten dollar pig
$257.50. We’ll wager that boy will
not be in a hurry to leave the farm.
—Ex.
Down in Mind Unable to Week,
and What Helped Her.
Summit Point, W. Va.—Mi*. Anna
Belle Emey, of this place, says: "I suf
fered for 15 years with an awful pain in
my right side, caused from womanly
trouble, and doctored lots for it, but with
out success. I suffered so very much,
that I became down in mind, and as help
less as a baby. 1 was in the worst kind
of shape. Was unable to do any work.
1 began taking Cardui, the woman's
tonic, and got relief from the very first
dose. • By tne time I had taken 12 bot
tles, my health was completely restored.
1 am now 48 years years old, but feel as
good as I did when only 16.
Cardui certainly saved me from losing
my mind, and 1 feel it my duty to speak
in its favor. I wish I had some power
over poor, suffering women, and could
make them know the good it would do
them.”
If you suffer from any of the ailments
peculiar to women, it will certainly be
worth your while to give Cardui a trial.
It has been helping weak women faff
more than 50 years, and win help you.
too.
Try Cardui. Your druggist sells it.
Wriuto: Chattanooga Medtalne Co.. U
Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga, Tann., for SfttM
In,truct,on, on your case and 64-page book • T Hom«
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