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THE NEWS, Established 1871.
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SPALDING FfflH
MAKES HG PROFIT
DIVERSIFYING CROPS
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Mark D Riegel Will Clear $3,710
in Hard Cash on Seventy-
Five Acres.
. SPECIAL CROPS ARE
POTATOES AND CABBAGE
An Average Profit of $49 Per Acre
is Infinitely Better Than Cotton
• ' Tree Afcres to the Bale.
* Mark D. Riegel is one of Spalding
county’s farmers that is not worry
ing over the low price of cotton or
the possible advance of the boll
weevil. The reason is he doesn’t plant
cotton on his plantation, but uses his
; ground for crops that will yield food
stuff for man and beast.
So, while his* neighbors are in a
frenzy over the situation Mr. Riegel
is smiling and working and laying
up money to his bank account.
In a former story regarding Mr.
Riegel’s farm the details of his pep
per planting and canning industry
were told. The machine to peel pep
pers, which he, designed and built, is
now at work putting up 100,000 cans
of pimentoes.
Other features of the Riegel farm
that are very interesting are those
relating to cabbage and potatoes.
Mr. Riegel will plant cabbage in
the field soon, as his one and one-half
acre cabbage bed has already been
sown with the plant;, now in a thrif
ty glowing condition. Twelve pounds
of seed were used in sowing this bed.
To Plant Some Cabbage.
Next year Mr Riegel will have just
twenty-fivb acfes in cabbage alone.
Twenty of those acres will be in one
field. '
As a successful cabbage planter
My. Riegel has had fine experience
in the past. In one special'instance,
under ideal conditions, he raised thir
ty tons of trimmed heads of cabbages
on one acre. The conditions for that
yield were ideal and unusual. .Jug that
•field plants set out eighteen inches
apart grew so large that they lapped
l“«ves cn every side, making trimmed
heads weighing ten pounds each.
As an average yield an acre should
produce five tons of cabbage and this
is what is expected next year. From
one ton of cabbage an even thousand
cans of sauer kraut can be made.
From the 125 tons of cabbage next
year he calculates that he will put up
125,060 cans of kraut.
' This kraut in thre epound cans will
yield a net profit of one cent a can, or
an acre profir of $75.
Big Potato Crop.
This year Mr. Riegel has fifty
acres in sweet potatoes. Two varie
ties have been used in planting, the
Myers’ early and Southern Queen.
In potato culture he has been very
successful, having made a record
yield of 400 bushels to an acre. This
year the crop will not be so large, on
account of dry weather, but still the
average yield anticipated is not less
than 125 bushels per acre.
Mr. Riegel beds 300 bushels of
seed when he prepares to plant, using
three-fourths of an acre for bed room.
Seven thousand plants are placed to
the acre, the transplanting machine
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Championship Game
Tie in Tenth Inning
Boston, Oct. 12—-(Special.)—The third of the series of games
for the world’s championship is being played here this after
noon.
At 4 o’clock nine innings ha d been played the score at that
time was a tie, standing two for the Boston Braves add two for
the Phaedelphi. Athletics.
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GIRIFFIN is progres
sive. Every day it
moves forward, It is
e [ always growing,
being used to set thbn out. The ma
r chine plants and inters the young
’ sprouts .at the same time, allowing
only an extremely -mall number to
1 die.
. This year’s potato crop will be put
, up in ctyis. or at least two-thirds of
’ it will. Since a bushel of potatoes
will make twenty-two cans, 4,000
bushels will make 88,000 cans on each
, can of which Mr. Riegel calculates he
will a profit of three-fourths of
a cent.
The remaining 2,25 G bushels will
be stored and sold from wagons when
everybody else is out and their
mouths watering for potatoes.
A potato house holding 8,000 bush
els has been built by Mr. Riegel, in
which thousands of bushels are stored
with the less of much less than I per
cent.
Profits o/ Year’s Work.
An interesting study of the profits
derived from these two crops on Mr.
Riegel’s farm may be made. Espe
cially is this true when contrasted
with cotton.
From the cabbage a net profit of
one cent will be made on 125,000 cans,
or the sum of $1,250. From the pota
toes he will make a net profit of three
fourths of a cent per can on 88,000
cans, or the sum of $660. And on the
remainder of the potatoes, 2,250 bush
els, sold at one dollar per bushel he
will make a net profit of SI,BOO.
All told, then, from seventy-five
acres of ground in cabbage and pota
toes Mr. Riegel conservatively, esti
mates that he will make a total net
profit of $8,710, or an average of
more than $49 per acre.
The same seventy-five acres in cot
ton would make twenty-five bales.
The cotton at ten cents per pound
would barely let the farmer pay out
of debts incurred in making the crop.
It pays to diversify.
Giant Elevators Opened.
(By United Press.)
Winnepeg, Man., Oct. 12. —The im
mense internal storage elevators at
Saskatoon and Mosse Jaw were ready
to receive grain today. These eleva
tors, which costs $3,000,000, have been
equipped 1 with a modern bagging and
eleaning 'apparatus, and will be used
to furnish seed grain which at present
is generally secured from line eleva
tors. Each of the elevators has a ca
pacity of 3,250,000 bushels.
Motorcycle Show Opens.
(By United Press.)
Chicago, Oct. 12.—With all the
available exhibition space filled, the
third annual motorcycle, bicycle and
accessories show, which opened here
today, promises to be a huge success.
The show is being held in the First
Regiment armory.
GRIFFIN, GA-, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 12, 1914.
NEWSAND SUNTO
AGITATE GROWING
ALFALFA IN COUNTY
This Clover Crop Considered a
t Ready Method of Assisting
the Farmers.
CROP ONCE PLANTED
WILL LAST 50 YEARS
A Thousand Acres Planted in Spald
ing Illis Season Would Prove of ,
Tremendous Profit.
The News and Sun today inaugu
’ rate 1 ; a campaign that we believe will
1 be of great Value to Spalding county.
We propose to indoctrinate the peo
ple of this county and section on the
subject of growing alfalfa. '
Immediately following the present
comn ercial cenfusior it will be ne
cessary for the southern farmer to
curtail his cotton crop and to plant
the difference in some other crop that
will bring in money
Beyond a doubt alfalfa is that crop.
Planted this fall it will bring in
money next year more quickly than
cotton and will at the same time im
prove the fertility of the land and
enhance its financial value.
If there is one plant in the world
that is more talked of, excepting the
great staples of wheat, corn, cotton
and oats, it is alfalfa. This is not
cnly true in the United States, but it
is true of the entire civilized world.
It is one of the most adaptable plants
in the world, seemingly growing un
der almost eveiy condition of soil, cli
mate and elevation. We have seen
it growing luxuriantly on the highly
cultivated farms of France, we have
seen it np near the Canadian line, in
the fat off states of Oregon and
Washington, we have seen it grow
in the greatest luxuriance in the ex
treme t urning heat of the below sea
level desert valleys of southern Cali
fornia, and we have seen thousands of
acres of it in the high plateau coun
try of southern Mexico, nearly 8,000
feet above sea level.
It is a wonderful plant, wonderful
in its adaptability tt so many parts
of the world, wonderful in its long life
and heavy yield, wonderful in its high
value as stock food.
Alfalfa is the most permanent clo
ver crop. If there is an acre or an
acre and a half of alfalfa on every
one-horse farm, in the south, the own
ers of those farms need never worry
about buying hay or forage and it
woul.l also largely take the place of
corn
We have seeh work stock in Califor
nia in the finest condition we have
ever seen horses and mules and
they didn’t get a peck of grain from
one year’s end to the other. They
got al! they wanted of alfalfa hay
and that was enough.
Alfalfa is as nutritious hay as can
be grown and when once established
on land <• there to stay. We under
stand th’r" is one patch of alfalfa in
this section of Georgia that is 42
years of age and is better now than
when it was two or three years old.
Think of a single plowing lasting
over forty years! It’s a stayer and
it has be»r piling up hay for its own
er each year and semetimes five,
nracticaUy five tbns to- the acre an
nually.
Alfalfa hay is selling in Atlanta to
day for 330 per ton. Do you know
rny better paying farming than that?
This article is our introductory ser
mon on the growing of alfalfa in
Spalding county. It is a general
statement. In other articles forth
coming immediately we shall speak
'urtner of the immediate profits to
be derived from alfalfa, the method
of culture, the fertilising value to
land and the nutritive value as stock
feed. ,
THIS INTERESTS YOU.
Annual Convention of National Nut
Growers' Association Will Be
Held in Thomasville. ~
The annual convention of the Na
rional Nut Growers’ Association will
be held in Thomasville, Ga., on Octo
ber 5W to St).
Ti e leading pecan growers of the
xnmtry will be there. If you are in
terested in pecans it will be worth a
trip of hundred'- of miles to meet and
talk with these men wh’c are making
. the n-odern pecan industry.
The program is rich with inter
est.
Yor. can’t afford tc miss this meet
ing. In this day of low-priced cotton,
? is good to learn sc met Fing that will
! pay hetjer.
For further information write, J.
B. Wright, secretary, Caig>, Ga.
Columbus Day Celebration.
(By United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 12.—Knights of
Columbus held celebrations today on
the anniversary, of Christopher Co
lumbus’ discovery cf America on this
dateml4»2.
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THAW’S FIGHT BEFORE
SUH GBHBT NOW
Appeal From Decision of Federal
<■' Court One of Most Dramatic
Cases in Supremo Court.
(By United Press.) £
I Washington, Oct. "Renewal of.
. his f.gbt for liberty l>y Harry K.
, Thaw wasone of the most dramatic
i and important cases facing the su
preme court when it re-convened to
day j?«r the 1914-16 sessions.
Thaw’s appeal from the decision
cf the Nev Hampshire federal court
refusing to set him at complete lib
erty upon a habeas corpus plea was
on the docket of the court.
Application to advance the case for
early hearing this fall or winter from
Thaw’s counsCl was expected soon.
In the ordinary course of the court
the case would not "be reached for a
year or more. Thaw is now technical
ly in custody of the United States
marshal f"r New Hampshire, follow
ing his fHglit from Mattewan asylum.
One of the last acts of the supreme
court be'ore it adjourned last spring
was refusing requests of Thaw to be
released on bail pending hearing of
his appeal and a permit to go to
Pittsburg to testify ir litigation af
fecting the estate of his father, the
late William Thaw.
Former Governor William Stone, of
Pennsylvania, is Thaw’s chief attor
ney. It is believed here that Wil
liam Travir Jerome, popularly called
Thau’s “nemesis,” and the attorney
general of New York, will oppose any
move looking to advancement of
Thaw's appeal to block in any way
his long effort to make good for all
time his escape from Mattewan.
Supreme Judge Takes Oath.
(By United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 12.—With im
, pressive century-old ceremonies, the
United States supreme court conven
ed today for the October term, after
the four months recess. The final
oath was administered to James C.
Mcßeynolds, who with this ceremony
became a full fledged justice. After
the due erks of the court crier the
members of the court filed in from the
ante room and took their places along
the bencn Mcßeynolds entered just
. behind them, aqd took his place beside
. the clerk, just in front where he sta
tioned himself last year as attorney
i general of the United States. Chief
. Justice White then called attention to
! the f'.'t that there was a vacancy on
I the bencn, and that James C. Mcßey
, nolds. of Tennessee was present and
duly accredited and qualified for the
position. He greeted his new col
ieague and welcomed him to the bench
in the name of the entire court.
i THE WEATHER
Forecast ftr Tuesday—Fair.
j Temperature for
X±l 24 hours ending
jBt&J at noon today:
1 ySSVwk Jfri Maximum, 84.
I Minimum, 60.
V CEP Mexa,72.
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STILL DESTROYED.
Deputy Sheriff Mallory and Bailiff
Ison Run Moonshiners
Near Vaughn.
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Deputy Sheriff Mallory and Bailiff
R. S. Ison,went out. to Vaughn on a
“still hunt” Sunday night. About
two miles north of that place they
raided a 60-gallon illicit distillery,
tog at her with about ten gallons of
whiskey. Several moonshiners who
were running the still saw the offi
cers and made thgir escape. ’ ,
Standing of Vote
For Queen of Fair
Ethel 80wden3,561.
Marianna Searsl,l29
Olivia 8r0wn1,073
Annie Kate Jayl,ool
Kathleen Prothro’.l,42B
Hattie Headl,ol6
Laura Bailey .. ....1,003
Lois Walker .. 1,001
Robena Henry 1,020
Jewel Hutson .. .. 1,713
Mary Baird .. .. v .. 1,125
Josia L r e Rogersl,oos
Louise Durkee .. .. .. .. i... 1,005
Cynt&a Ellis, .. .. 1,190
Ruby Head... 1,289
Cordelia Pattersonl,oll
Marie Slade .t .. ..1,141
Janie Mc Dowelll,ool
Martha Cdel,ool
Lucile Rodgersl,o3l
Flora Sledge 1,002
Susie Dickinson... 1,008
Loy Tymipsetdl,oos
Mae Reid ’1,055
Rebecca Brown ... 1,002
Mary Lucia Slade 1,001
Helen Drewryl,o3B
Ruby Stevens .. 1,001
Lillian 5c0tt..1,127
Cather.r.e Sibley .?.1,001
SOUTHERN Hl WANTS '
TO OISCONWE TRAINS
Asks Railroad Commission For Au
thority to Stop Operation of
Trains 29 and 30.
The Southern Railway has asked
perriissh n of the railroad commission
to discontinue- the operation of trains
29 and 30 between Atlanta and Co
lumbus. cJ': U;
The following notice from the rail
road company is self-explanatory and
made in conformity with law:
NOTICE.
Atlanta, Gai Oct. 12, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Southern Railway company has made
application to the railroad commission
of Georgia* for authority to discon
tinue operation of trains Nos 29 and
30, hetwetn Atlanta ar.d Cclumbus.
• The said application has been as
signed for hearing before the railroad
eomr ission at its office in Atlanta on
Monday. October 19, 1914, at 10
o’clock. / »
This notice is published in accord
ance with requirements of the rail
road commissior. of Georgia in order
that parties desiring to be heard in,
connection with the matter may com
municate with the commission on or]
before tbe date indicated.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
tin uiro puce
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Alfalfa Club Advocates Market
r Where Farmers Can Congregate
' For Trading Purposes.
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’ At the meeting of the Spalding
- Comity" Alfalfa Club, held in Grifftn
last Saturday, the subject of a market
place where the farmers and truck
growers can congregate for<he pur
pose of trading their products was
broughi up.
Griffin is assuming somewhat the
s customs and habits of n metropolis
I and a’l cities of It? size which are
I progrls«ive urr provided with some
special location for trade and barter.
I It was ruggested thal the city
I might set aside some public place for
I this purjx»s<, where the products of
the farm and garden might be concen
i ■. i at-<l by the producers to the exclu.
I sion of a!) hucksters or non-producers
i on certain (lays of the week, and
I where lionsekeeperh would be sure to
> find a fresh and choice selection of
vegetables, poultry, fruit, etc., which
* might be purchased direct from the
i farmer without the middleman’s ex
tra c.»st.
It was nr.t the intention of those
who discussed the subject to estab
lish a market house, as this rather
old-fashioned method is being abol
-1 tshed in almost all cities. The famous
1 French Market of New Orleans and
' many others of like character have
' been dismantled and removed; the
! idea being to set aside a special place
where the wagons, trucks and other
I vehicles operated by the farmers and
truck growers could assemble. It was
’ suggested that the center of Taylor
street between Eighth and Hill, or
the center of Solomon between Hill
» and Sixth, night I’c designated by
the city for this purpose. J
No definite action was taken in
i the matter.
New York Suffragists Meet.
(By United Press.)
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 12.—Automo
bile load after automobile lead of suff
ragists -young and old—have been
pouring into Rochester for'the last
two days. It is estimated that the
biggest crowd evjr in attendance at
a woman’s suffrage meeting in New
York state war on hand here this
morning when the forty-sixth annual
convention opened. This is the last
meeting of the New York suffragists
before the submission of the suffrage
amendment to the voters.
Aerial Derby to Be Held in N. Y.
(By United Press.)
New York. Oct. 12—With the cream
of the American aviatorr entered, the
aerial derby around Manhattan Island
this afternoon is expected to prove a
thrilling eve..L Nearly every class
of heavier than air machines is rep.
resented and keen rivalry has been
manifested. Large prises have beer
offerM. The start will be made from
Oakwood Heights aviation field, Sta
ten island.
1 The mnro I «rody the'world tbe mon
I am .■onttoced ot Ibe Inability of torn
I to create anything durable.—Napo*rs
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THE SUN, Established 1877.
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FRENCH FORCES
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Aviatois Continue Work of
Dropping Bombs in Parts
Without Damage.
ATTEMPP TO TAKE
PXZEMYSL ABANDONED
'Auatrtans Defeat Russian Divisions
Near J. 'neut.-Further Advances
in Galacia.
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Par.s, Oct. 12.—German aero
planes continue to drop bombs 7;
■on the aipital, according to an
nouncement made this aftci
noon. However, no damage is
reported.
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Ire Gorman attack between
Laasigny and Roy has been re
pulsed hyl(heJ££ench, according
to oilicial announcement.
. Tl e German night attack on
the extreme right near Sta»dU
has o been repulsed.
Cavaliy engagements continue
in the region between Losßasse .
and Hazelbrouck.
Tti« attempt of the German
western line to sweep forward
from the French coast to the
straits ol Dover has been xe
pulsed.
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I British Aided Antwerp.
(By United Press.)
Berlin, & Wireless, Oct. 12.-One
British muiine brigade aided in the
(lefense of At>twerp, according to of
ficial nnnounoement.
Reports from Vienna are to the
- effect that thp city heavy de
’ structior.. •
1 Russia has abandoned the attempt
: The Austrians, it is reported, de
’ to take Przemysl
1 seated six Russian division near Lan-
?ut -v-d touted one Cossack division
' sast of Njmeo.
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Further Advances in Galacia.
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Petrograd, Oct. 12.—The war office
’ today announces further advances
made in Galacia and Bukowina, but
the details are •lU.feM tor Ch.
present. .
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As He Attempts to Cross Street in
Atlanta Machine Backs Over
Him—ls Not Seriously Hurt.
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Samuel 11. Deane, of this city, was
. badly injured in Atlanta Sundays’ |
’ night when an automobile backed over
. him as he started across Broad and
I Mitchell streets on his way to the ter
( minal station. Reports received here
. Sunday night wen. to the effect
. Mr. Deare had been seriously hurt.
I Cluir, father of the injured boy,
, went to Atlanta Monday morning and
brought his son home, and it wan
( found thet with the exception of a ‘■■
badly bruised left leg and arm he was
not seriously injured.
Mr Deane is a popular young man a
and his many friends are glad • #
know that be escaped serious injury-'’ i*.
However, he will be laid up at. home <
for several day? on account of the Jv’j
accident.
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Bankers in Annual Meeting. .
(By United Press Y
Richmond, Va., Oct. 12 Billiojia
dollars of financial strength were rep
resented heie today when the annual |
convention of the American Bankers’
Association convened for a weete’S-J*
-.essi'-n. Three thousand
and visitors are expected. Problems ' ,
of pressing and great importance of . *
finance, particularly resulting from *
the European war, were on the pro
grant for discussion. Representa
tives for legislative action by the
Washington were pro
posed ’Htc southern cotton financial
situations were particularly scheduled
for analysis. An elaborate program
cf entertainment awaited the finan
ciers, indrding dinner, luncheon, ra
cept’ons, balls and boat trips. This
morning the visitors were given au
tomoUle rides to points of interest.
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