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j'P>'ESDAY( JUNE 12, ILi2
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HERE IS PROOF.
Policy No. 394,807, issued in 1911, at age 42, $5,000;
premium - $209.90
Dididendin 1912 . 34.00
Net Copt, 1912.... $175.90
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FARM LOANS-i am prepared to make
you a loan on your farm, giving the privilege of
making annual payments, stopping interest on
amount paid. H. 0. JONES
ALFALFA
IS NOW A
GREAT CROP
■MI STATES PRODUCT IT
Oklahoma Turning Out a Fine
Crop This Tear
Oklahoma City, June 11.—..Oklaho
uu farmers should in the next six
" p eks get $4,000,000 from the sale of
heir first cutting of alfalfa,” said H.
V- Cottrell, agricultural commission
er of the Rock Island lines, who was
iii Oklahoma City on his way to the
alfalfa growing country. “The coun
y from the Rocky mountains to the
Atlantic is short of hay and hay is
'■l inging unusually high prices. Okla
homa farmers will be the first to have
;iy large quantity to market and
should market their alfalfa as early as
early as possible and in the best of
ondition, considering the weather.
there is an extreme shortage of
both cattle and hogs in Oklahoma, so
teat the farmers can afford to sell all
lm first cutting of alfalfa, except the
small amount needed for work horses.
The money this alfalfa will bring to
Oklahoma farmers will come in be-
Inro the wheat money and will make
renditions better all over the state.
1 he better quality the hay the more
" >»fy it will bring and a little vare
less handling among the growers will
•' "co the price one-third to one
half.
"Alfalfa hay brings top prices when
it is bright green in color, half the
total weight consisting of leaves, and
the aroma is rich.
“The first cutting should be made
when not more than one-tenth of the
plants come in bloom. If the grower
feels reasonably sure of a week’s dry
weather it will pay to cut as soon as
a few plants have blossomed. This
will put the hay on the market a week
earlier.
"To make alfalfa hay that will bring
a high price, the plants, after being
cut, must be exposed as little as pos
sible to the sun. Pound for pound,
alfalfa leaves are worth four times as
much as the -stems. Where alfalfa s
cut and allowed to cure in the swath,
the sun quickly kills the leaves and
makes them so brittle that a large por
tion of them drop off.
“The quicker the alfalfa plant ! s
thoroughly cured after cutting the bet
ter; and quick curing can be best se
'•urel by a method of handling that
will keep the leaves out of the sun.
The haymaker who gets the highest
price for his hay handles the cut
plants so as to keep te leaves alive as
long as possible.
"When the plant is growing the
leaves pump moisture from the soil
and evaporate it into air. After the
plant is cut, as long as the leaves are
alive they keep pumping the water out
of the stems and evarorating it into
the air. If the leaves of the cut al
falfa plants can be kept alive for 12
to 24 hours they will thoroughly dry
out the plants, making good hay. If
the leaves are killed quickly by let
ting the hay lie in the swath, the wa
ter slowly evaporates from the stems
and it takes several days for the first
cutting to cure. The way to keep the
leaves alive is to keep them shaded.
“The easiest way that 1 have nsed,
provided it does not rain, is to start
the mower in the forenoon after the
dew has gone; follow the mower in 30
minutes with a side delivery rake,
ihrowing two windrows together, put
ting most of the plants out of the
sunlight. The next forenoon, after the
mowed ground becomes dry and hor.
run the side delivery rake to throw
the windrows over on the bare ground,
where the heat will help cure the
hay.
“The only way that I have been able
to make good hay in showery weather
s to put. it up in tall, narrow cocks
for curing, and just before stacking
open up these cocks to the air and
-on for a couple of hours. This'takes
labor, but the extra price the hay I
'vil! bring often makes the method
pav.”
Those who have returned from the
trade excursions in the west part of
the state readily .agree with Commis
sioner Cottrell as to the amount that
will be realized from the first cutting
of alfalfa this year. In all that sec
tion the crop is the best ever seen in i
the. state.
The first cutting will be made in a
few days, and the hay will soon be
ready for market. The fact that the
crop is light elsewhere is favorable
•o Oklahoma, and the railroads will
be ready to handle the crop in this
first cutting. Oklahoma farmers may j
expec good prices for their alfalfa
this year, which will be the first step
n the prosperity that is to come to
'he state after three dry years.
The enthusiastic voter wouldn’t be
'f he knew what it was about.
The best thing about an artistic
emperament is not to have it in the
'amily. I
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A fool always has the advantage of
avinp- nothing expected of him that
•? can't make good on.
THE. AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
USEfOf FERTILIZERS
WILL ALWAYS PAY
If Ihe Fertilizers are Used
Intelligently
The good farmer will always use
commercial fertilizers, and his land
gets better he is likely to use them
more rather than less, and to find
them increasingly profitable.
Let us see if we can’t put the mat
ter in the simplest form and see why
this is true: A fertile soil, as one of
our correspondents says, is one which
will produce good crops. Crops grow
in the soil and are made up of dif
ferent substances, some of which
they get from the air and some from
the soil. These substances, we term
plant foods. The size of the crop is
limited by the amount of these sub
stances which it is enabled to get—
or rather, by the amount of the least
plentiful of them. This limiting food
is nearly always phosphorus (phos
phoric acid), potassium (potash) or
nitrogen. All these are derived from
the soil. The mere amount of any of
these substances in the soil, how
ever, does not of itself determine the
growth the crop can make. They
must all be taken up by the very small
root-hairs of the plants after they
have been dissolved in the soil-water.
If any of them be in such combina
tions that they will not dissolve in the
soil-water, they cannot be used. If the
soil be hard, so that the roots cannot
penetrate it; if it be dry, so that ther"
is not sufficient soil-water to dissolve
the substances upon which the plant
feeds; if it be soggy, so that air can
not circulate and the bacteria which
change the unavailable foods to avail
able forms cannot thrive, the crop will
be cut short. If there be a lack of
potash, no matter how much of the
other plant foods may be present or
how good the soil condition may be,
the crop will be limited by that scar
city of potash. On the other hand, if
there he waiting to be dissolved
■■-rough of all the plant foods to mak°
q record vield. and the soil he drv and
"ead so that it does not reta’n mois
ture there will be only a small crop
made.
All these things help to fix the size
of the crop. On most Southern soil
lost crons are limited by the poor
texture of the soil—by its being too
wet. which shows the need of under
drainage, or by a lack of vegetable
matter or hnmum—rather than by
lack of plant foods. This does not
mean, however, that it will not pav
to aunlv plant foods—which is exact
ly what is done when fertilizes are
applied. Better methods of tillage,
better drainage, more humus in the
soil, would undoubtedly enable most
land to make larger crops than it row
does w'ith much less fertilizer than is
now' used, or with none at all.
But Southern soils are not rich in
plant foods. Some are poor in potash,
most in nitrogen, practically all in
phosphoric acid. Even after tillage,
drainage and the addition of hunium
have enabled the land to make much
better crops, these crops will still be
limited by the scarcity of one plant
food as compared wdth the others. Will
it not pay, then, to supply this needed
substance and thus still further in
crease the crop? Os course, it will.
The men w’ith the richest soils—the
truckers and intensive farmers are to
day the ones who can use commercial
fertilizers most liberally and get the
most profit from them, and it will al
ways be so.
Let no one talk about getting to the
point where he will not have to use
fertilizers. Let him fill his soil with
vegetable matter, cultivate it well,
give it good drainage and, if stu
dies fertilizers and his soil, he will use
more fertilizers than ever—not be
cause he has to, but because it will
pay him.—The Progressive Farmer.
it isn’t necessary for a married man
to waste valuable time in making u >
his mind.
A man never has much trouble with
his wife if she is willing to admit that
he knows it all.
DIET AND HEALTH
HINTS
By DR. T. J. ALIEN
Food Specialist
USE OF DRUGS DIMINISHING.
“No medicine will be given by
and by, for people are going to
eat the right things.’’ Dr. W.
A. Evans of the Chicago Board
of Health quotes this statement
of a widely traveled, experienced
English nurse, speaking of the
preparation of food for invalids.
Dr. Wiley has been quoted to
the same effect. The expense
for drugs at the Massachusetts
General hospital has been re
duced 50 per cent. In ten years.
In the same article, Dr. Evans
says that “a cup of hot water
is a good temporary stimulant
in case of fainting or temporary
exhaustion. It has Its advant
ages over alcohol for this pur
pose. There will probably al
ways be use for drugs, but nat
ural means of course, and es
pecially food are to be used
more In place of drugs.
(Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
LIGHT INFANTRY
ARE 10 PICNIC AT
WILDWOOD PARK
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Special Train From Americus
Tomorrow
The picnic of the Americus Light
Infantry at Wildwood Park, Colum
bus, tomorrow will be an occasion of
pleasurable interest to the soldier
boys and their many friends making
the trip to Columbus with them. The
special train will leave Americus ov
er the Seaboard at 7:30 o’clock and
the round trip rate of one dollar is
open to the general public. The sold
ier boys count upon an attendance of
400 or 500 pleasure seekers going with
them to Columbus.
FARMERS LOSE MAN HOGS
FROM CHOLERA IN WILCOX
Several Hundred Fine Porkers l)le of
the Disease.
Abbeville, Ga., June 11. —Unless the
plague of hog cholera ceases, the farm
ers of Wiicox county will have to buy
their meat this fall. The plague started
about a month ago, and in the last
week or so a large number of hogs
have died. About this time every
year hob cholera develops in this com
munity, but the present fatalities ar<-
greater by far than any of previous
years. It is not confined to any one
section, but is prevalent all over the
(ounty and especially in and around
Abbeville. The farmers around here
seem to find no help for the disease
except the segregation of the diseased
hogs. The following well-known
farmers have lost heavily lately.
Oscar Cannon, 30 head; John McDuf
fie, 2 head; J. W. Rodgers, from 45 to
50 head, and others including G. W.
Pike and James Smith.
FIRST MELON OF SEASON
BROUGHT IN YESTERDAY
Sumter Grown Froduct Is Presented
To Times-Recorder.
To. Mr. G. C. Thomas, residing near
Cobb, is accorded the honor of bring
ing in the first watermelon of the
Sumter county crop. Mr. Thomas pre
sented the Times-Recorder a melon
yesterday taken from his field of fif
teen acres. It was of the Watson va
riety, and the big “patch” of fifteen
acres will soon be good tQ look upon.
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The girl who thinks she is in love
may be better off than one who is af
flicted with the real thing.,
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DIET AND HEALTH
HINTS
By DR. T. J. ALIEN
Food .Specialist
STIMULATING THE APPE
TITE.
Loss of appetite is a symptom
in nearly ail disease, and so is
loss of desire for activity in oth
er directions. It is not cus
tomary to stimulate the desire
for activity, muscular and men
tal, in sickness, and it is more
than probable that the practice
of stimulating the appetite of
the sick by enticing foods or by
giving highly concentrated or
stimulating foods is an error,
for the digestive organs and ail
the processes of nutrition need
rest as well as the muscles and
the nervous system; and hence
the success of the rest cure.
In most cases tl.e body has stor
ed in itself a reserve supply of
food fur emergencies, and as a
rule It is best to feed lightly in
sickness and in many cases to
J withdraw T.uu altogether for
« longer or shorter periods, ac
| cording to conditions.
(Copyright t 9ll, by Joseph B. Bowie*.)
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