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BETTER PASTURES
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31,000 Acre* Seeded to Grazing
Grasses Within Few Years,
Railroad Head Says
Since 1921 better pastures have
been started by 2421 farmers in
Georgia and Alabama and they have
seeded more than 31,000 acres.
This interesting statement is made
by President L. A. Downs of the
Central of Georgia Railway in a
discussion of the work of the Agri
cultural Department of the Central.
The Central of Georgia inaugu
rated test pasture work 4 years ago,
paying half the expense of the ex
periment in each of the 80 counties
served by the road. Results have
proved that these test pastuers are
' grazing an average of 1 head of rat
tle per acre, while even the blue
grass sevtion of Kentucky requires
two acres of pasture per head of
grown cattle.
This proof that Georgia and Ala
bama can produce milk and meat as
cheap as any other section has
stimulated stock raising in thd
southeast.
The management of the Central
of Georgia has recently made an
other offer to encourage soil build
ing, or soil reintegration. The rail
road will pay half the cost of es
tablishing test pots on which wint
er legumes wil be used! to improve’
the soil. It is expected that these
will give profitable increases un
crop yields.
In discussing the successful work
of the Agricultural Department of
the railway, President Downs makes
acknowledgement to the farmers,
newspapers and the public generally
for co-operation and support.
FARMERS URGED TO
CONTINUE POISONING
ALBANY, Aug. s.—The Dougher
ty agent has warned planters of the
county to apply calcium arsenate
immediately to their cotton, as the
third hatch of the boll weevil is due
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CHAPTER 1
Game But Nervous
Dad Morgan stood; with his shoul
ders against/ the top rail of the cor
ra fence, apparently asleep o • his
feet. The sun had a persuasive
wartnth, which was good tor Kinks
in the system. He never could de
cide whether it melted or baked
the twinges out of him; bat he knew
it for an emollient of power and
virtue. His figure (.dropped som
nolently. His pipe hung Joosely
from a corner of his mouth. His
eyes were half closed.
But Dad Morgan was not asleep,
nor were his half-closed eyes idle.
They were watching two riders de
scend the slope on the far side of
the wide coulee in which the rancn
buildings sprawled. There was a
piebald horse ridden by a girl and
a sorrel riddes by a man. They
were still somewhat distant for dis
closure of these details, but Dad
Morgan knew who was coming. Th e
pace of the riders was a walk, and
Dad understood the meaning of it.
“I expect he’s got himself all
chafed up,” he mused. “But he’ll
put it on his nerves; see if he don’t.
Nothin’ ever happens to him regu
lar and natural, except maybe
swearin.”
The riders were out upon a green
level, and the piebald horse broke
into an easy lope. The sorrel fol
lowed, then checked and settled
down to a restless walk. The girl
in front turned in her saddle, glanc
ed backward', brought her mount to
a stop and waited. When the sor
rel had come abreast the two horses
walked again in the direction of the
ranch. Dad Morgan grinned, shift
ed his position against the fence and
began filling his pipe.
He was smoking lazily when the
riders came to a pause at the corral
gate. The girl swung off with an
easy sweep and waved a gauntleted
hand.
“Hello, Dad.”
“Howdy, Sally? Howdy. Wreck?”
The man on the sorrel made no
answer, for he was engaged in a
task. With both hands gripping the
ponimel, he raised himself in the
stirrups, tightened his lips, and
scowled. Then, very slowly, ho
fetched his right leg across the sor
rel’s back. As he did this he flat
tened himself forward until the
pommel burrowed into the pit of
his stomach and his arms gripped
the sorrel’s neck in a tense embrace.
Then he slid crabwise to the ground.
He stood there fir several seconds,
looking at his legs, which had re
tained the posture necessary to en
close the barrel of a horse. .Slowly
he straightened them, on ■ after the
other. There was a groan in his
look ,but he did not give it speech.
He turned a savage and challeng
isg eye in the direction of Dad Mor
gan.
“I’m fine,” he Said.
“You’re lookin’ real well,” ob
served Dad. “Had an idea you might
of got lamed up some, but I can’t
say as I see any signs of it.”
The rider of the sorrell stumep
stiffly forward half a dozen steps.
“Who—me? Lame? What would
I get lame for?”
“Come to think of it, Wreck, I’m
durned if I know. I reckon anybody
who can set on a flivver for fifteen
hundred miles, maybe sixteen hun
dred, is kind of acclimated. Any
how, the sheriff says—”
Dad Morgan broke off at a slight
but peremptory gesture from the
girl, who had opened the corral gate
and was accelerating the piebald
horse through it with a gentle flick
of her quirt.
She was a free, loose llimbed girl,
brown in the cheeks and neck, clear
and serene of eye—a girl of the
open spaces and the rolling range.
The wide calm of the big country
somehow found its expression in
Sally Morgan. But the look that
went with the gesture, while it
never broke the calm, checked Dad
as surely as though it had been an
order from Ma herself.
The rider of the sorrel watched
his mount follow the piebald into
the corral, then straightened his
shoulders, set his teeth and stepped
off briskly in the direction of the
house. He stumbled once, pulled
himself together with a wince and
hastened his step. Dad watched
him until his figure disappeared
through the doorway.
“Now, I’m wonderin’ which
nerves—”
Sally stopped him again. “Let
him alone, Dad. He’s
how.”
I ain’t sayin’ anything he cart
hear, Sally, I’m just wonderin’
which nerves is responsible. We
ain t allowed to lay it on the sorrel,
or on the saddle, or on any of the
failin’s of human flesh. It’s got tc
be nerves or nothin’.’’
“Well, don’t plague him about it.
If he wants to blame it oh his
nerves, why should we care? Ard
I don t think he likes to have you
call him ‘Wreck’.”
Dad viewed his daughter with a
glance of surprise.
He ain t ever said so,’’ he re
marked.
“And would you expect him to?
He’s a guest.”
“He’s payin’ eight dollars a week
to Ma. I ain’t sayin’ we asked him
for it. Ma didn’t want to take nbih
in . But when a plan’s payin’ he’s
got the rights of free and unlimited
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speech. And if he don’t like—”
“He’s a guest, just the same, ’
repeated Sally. “And so long as he
stays here we’re under an obligation
to treat him right.”
“I’m treatin’ him all right, ain’t
I? There ain’t a single thing about
life in these wild and irreverent
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“HE DON'T MIND MY CALLIN’
HIM ‘WRECK’.”
parts I haven’t told him, any time
he asked me. Why, all I been doin’
the past two weeks is easin’ educa
tion into him.”
Sally smiled.
“And I’ve picked up considerable
about nerves, which sort of makes
it an even split,” added Dad. “He
don’t mind my callin’ him ‘Wreck.’
If he was goin’ to squeal about it,
why would he lay claim to bein’
such? You heard him say it. I’m a
nervous wreck,’ he says, sort of
proud.”
“Oh, well, don’t rub it in, Dad.”
“Ain't rubbin’ it in Ain’t goin’
to,’ Dad looked up suddenly. “Did
you say something about his bein’
game?”
Sally smiled again and her glance
wandered to the crest of the grassy
slope and seemed to go beyond it.
“It was awfully funny,” she said,
“but I was scared so a minute. We
rode over as far as the second ridge;
I wanted him to see a real piece of
range country. He wouldn’t admit
he’d never been on a horse before.
But he did pretty well, although the
sorrel was getting servotis from the
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wasy his mouth was pulled.” ;
“It’s catchiji’, maybe?’
“Perhaps. At any rate, we were
standing there, right close to the
edge, when a bee lit—tn the sorrel.
You know what happened. The way
he went ever that horse’s head you d
have thought he’d learned to fly. It
carried him over the edge, too, and
he went down about tw r enty feet be
fore he grabbed hold of a bush and
stopped himself. I thought he was
going all the way,”
“I expect you roped him?” ob
served Dad.
“He wouldn’t let me. He got m;:d
as fury when he Saw I was going to.
He said he guested he could cljmb
back without any help, and he did.
And he wouldn’t let me catch tie
sorrel, either. It must have taken
him twenty minutes at least. And
then it took him another five min
utes to get on. I can’t d. scribe ex
actly the way he did it. It was like
shinning up. Os course, he was
pretty well scratched and mussed,
and his temper was in a frightful
state.”
“Any language?” asked Dad.
“No; he was too busy, I think.
Coming home he nearly fell off
twice, trying to ease himself in the
saddle. But he mever squealed. And
he says he’s going out riding tomor
row morning. He won’t make it,
though; he’ll be too lame ti move,”
Dad nodded with understanding.
Any dude would be too lame to
move under equal circumstances.
Yet he was not entirely certain that
the Wreck would fail to move, even
though too lame; for he had away
of playing the game according to his
own rules.
“I’ll put on a house dress, I be
lieve,” said Sally.
“Sure,” agreed Dad. “Bob’s
here.”
She paused for an instant, a look
of surprise in her eyes.
“When did he come? I didn’t ex
pect him until tomorrow morning.”
“He came a while back. He ain’t
goin’ to be able to go with you to
morrow, as near as I can make out.”
Sally frowned involuntarily, then
shrugged and continued her march
toward the hoime. Dad settled back
against the fence and resumed his
musing. Sally would be mighty dis
appointed if she did not get to the
train tomorrow 7 ; she was all packed
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L TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5, 192-1
and expectant. But he knew that
she would not say very much; she
was not much of a hand at, complais
ing. Still it seemed, even to Dad
that it "was too bad to postpone ev
erything right at the last minute.
He would not mind riding over with
her himself, but it was too long a
trail for people with twmgs and
kinks. Sometimes he wished the
ranch was a little mitp nearer the
railroad. But Sally Aever even com
plained about that.
There had been no railroad at all
when Dad Morgan came into the
range country; at least, none within
a couple of hundred miles or more.
Now there was a main line north of
them, only about thirty-five miles
on a good trail. It seemed very near I
to Dad when it first came, but when
Sally began going to school in the
East, and there wer e seasonal go
ings and comings, with the necessity
of maintaining communications be
tween city and ranch, Dad realized
that it was not very close, after all.
So far as he and Ma were concern
ed, that made no difference. But
Sally had grown up, and she had
an education, and she knew the
ways of places far beyond the
range, and—vtell, Dad understood.
Still, even Sally was quite satisfied
with the range country, provided
she was not quarantined there.
It was not a very large ranch chat
Dad Morgan surveyed through half
squinted eyes, nor was it a busy one.
The air of idleness was everywhere
about it; idleness, but not decay. It
was simply a randh taking a long
and honorable rest. The busy years
were behind it.
(Continued in Our Next Issue)
KENT’S GARAGE J
Merritt Bldg. Jackson St. |
To My Friends and Customers:. ■
After having been in another state during the past ■
year 1 have returned to Americus to live again. To those g
who know my work as a finished repairman I can only fl
say that hereafter past standards will be maintained and |
that I will do all work personally. f
B. B. KENT t
Merritt Bldg. Jackson St. ■
MANY IRISH JUDGES DOI *
NOT SPEAK GAEL!
DUBLIN, August 5.—A ref- W : |
attempt to compel railway ti |
panies in the Free State to'll I
their announcements and tick® I 3
the Irish language only, or in jl H
Irish and English, was vigor®!
opposed by Senator W. B. Y<V
the poet, who in the course of f !■
address revealed that he had trf 8
to learn Irish and failed, as he jl J
always failed to learn any o th| ®
language than English.
A strong feeling has manifest. 18
itself in favor of making this W
try bilingual. Irish is compulsoj MH
in the schools, and in the Lav M
Courts it ranks equally with ,En I f
glish. It is but rarely H
however, and when it is, causes' U
some embarrassment to judges and
counsel, most of whom are ignorant
of it. Occasionally an
puts in an affidavit in Irish only ■ /
and the Court permits an adjourn- > /
ment until counsel have succeeded f ■
in obtaining a translation. / I
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