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Ml. Vernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, Mar. io, 1910.
THE FARMERS AT HOME.
Soma years ago Mr. 1.. H. Bail
ey, director of the State College
of Agriculture, Cornell University
delivered an address on some of
the present problems in agricul
ture. After speaking of the spe
cial farm problems—those ques
tions relating to the obstacles to
ward profitable farming, to in
sects, fungi, weeds and animal di
seases; after expounding the prin
ciples through which it is possi
ble to augment production, Mr.
Hailey said that the education
must reach the farmer as a whole
man, niust’tonch Ins business, his
homes, and his ambition, Ins re
lation t o good roads and good j
schools and the church, to social
forces and to all that make life!
upon the farm comfortable and
happy.
We must st.ndv, he said in the
I
course of his adddress, “the san
itation of tluqlarm house' t hat
is, health hi the larni home. We
must improve the architecture of
the farmhouse, making it more;
a!tractive as well as more com
fortable. We must reach the
reading of the farmer, the raising
of children and the marketing <>l
his crops. These, said Mr. Bail
ey, “are th(> subjects that the ris
ing educational impulse must at
tack.”
This,we believe our renders will
suv, has been the course of Home
and Farm for the past thirty
yekrs. Nothing k that concerns
life on the farm has been beyond
the reach of our treatment. Home
ami Farm, as we say so frequent
ly, “is,made by,farmers for farm- 1
»*rv‘’ Ibre t hey tell t heir exper
ience with insects, drouth and
llnods, poor soil, poor 6 seod, poor
markets.
We believe that th" farmer is
coming to a better understanding
of his relations to society, to com
merce. We believe that he is de
manding better roads, better con-;
siderution from the government ,
authorities. Through co-opera
t ion he is get ting better prices for
his products, and through educa
tion—that is, through experience
ns well as through teaching—he
is understanding better the char
acter of his soil, lie secs that if
he wants to keep his family at
Home, lie must keep them happy
there, lie must give them social
pleasures, contact with their fel
low-men and women, pride in
their calling.
And so gradually the condition
of the farmer is being improved
and life on the farm is becoming
more attractive.
Now there is a great world move
ment for drawing back the man
to the soil. The cities have been
drawing him away, but the trol
ley line, the rural delivery, the
telephone, better roads and better
schools will reconcile the farmer's
family to farm life.
Then better prices for farm pro
duct* is paying the farmer better
for his unremitting toil. It is
possible to increase the product,
per acre of every farm in the
South It. will be done when prices !
111 the market justify.
These are the subjects that in- 1
terest farmers, these are the sub
jects treated in t hesecolumns from
time to time. Let us hear from
the farmers themselves of the
thiugs that lu* nearest to their
thoughts, to their daily life. In
England they are asking why Ger
many raises better crops per man
and per acre than England raises
The reason is that the English
farmers do not own the farms. The
great landed aristocracy control
the lands and they get little out
of them.
There is a world-wide demand
for more food crops, a demand
that must be satisfied. We can
not increase the lands, but we
must increase the product of the
lands. The farmer is at last com
jug into his own.—Homed; Farm.
THE ANT AND
THE SLUGGARD.
' The man who never works
hasn't a right to eat. But the,
man who never plays can’t eat.
ft is well enough for the sluggard
to go to tlie ant. But there are ,
ants who would find it profitable
to call on the sluggard now and |
then, contemplate his sleek jowls!
und imbibe a bit of his reposeful-,
ness.
All this is apropos a remark 1
which Dr. Woods Hutchinson
made u» a conference of teachers
in Indianapolis, Jnd. The doctor
said that where a hundred people ;
die from overindulgence in pleas-j
me, a hundred thousand die from
j overinduigence in work. He add-:
ed that, grown folks should be!
taught the importance of (day,
just as children are taught the
* importance of study.
Not ail of the hundreds of
thousands of men and women who
dc from overwork are responsible
; for the oncoming of their parti
cular disease. With some of them
it is simply a question of break-!
mg down or starving out. But
'with very many of them it is
otherwise. There are brains and
bodies so tempered that they find
it all but impossible to lie placid.
Th'* capacity for recreation and
levity is by no means a common
thing Indeed, it is a golden gift
w hich few nidi are wise or l'ortun-!;
ate enough to carry with them :
from the green, enchanted forest :
I of you!h.
Most oI the really big men of
the world, however, retain much j;
>f Lheir boyhood. They mingle j:
play with work, and that is why
they work so well. The most!
strenuous character in American!:
history has given the good part of j
a year to a hunting trip in the j:
jungles of Africa. Sir Walter :
Scott, who wrote more books than
any man of his time, was accust- j;
joined to spend the forenoon of
loach day sauntering among the j 1
hills around Abbotsford. The j
business or professional man, the U
farmer or the craftsman who j j
wishes to work spontaneously and i!
effectually, must in some form or
other play whole-heartedly.—At-
Uinta Journal.
SONG BIRDS OF THE SOUTH.
From the Macon Telegraph. J
This is the mule, half brother,
to the horse, second cousin to the
o\, and closely allied with Sam
>o in all good, bad and indiffer
ent words. He is perverse in many
tilings, but when directed aright
he is exceedingly useful. He is
ready to go to work w ith the crow
. mg of the cock, and he is equally j
ready to salute the dinner horu.
Ho is said to be lacking in the J
pride of ancestry and the hope of j
posterity, and for that reason 1
j probably his history is sha
dowy and uncertain. But he has
work to do and therefore enters
largely into the economy of the
farm and dray line.
The pi ice on his head has ad-*
vanned along with the horse. The'
auto wagon has not reduced his
value; on the contrary, he grows
in value if nut in grace. He is
not romantic nor fleet nor beauti
ful; neither is he noted for his
“horse-sense. ’ He is plain,prac
tical and homely. His voice is
not like the swan’s, nor are his!
heels made of love licks. Geor
g a farmers buy him by the thous
ands annually, work him hard,
f*ed lnm poorly, wear him out,
and then buy him again. The
stream of gold that goes to Ken
tucky for him cuts the profit out
of cotton.
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THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—TITT’RSPAY, MARCH 10, 1010
, SLEEPING SICKNESS VIRUS
IN VEINS OF ROOSEVELT.
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Washington, I). C. —Captain
Fritz Duquesne, of German East
Ffrica, lion hunter and Boer war
fighter, at one time considered
by former President Roosevelt to
head his African expedition, ex
pressed four here that Mr. Roose
velt and members of his party
have not escaped infection from
i the sleeping sickness. Captain
Duquesne said that the subtle
' poisons of the infections African
1 regions are in the blood of the
members of the Roosevelt party,
unless they miraculously escaped
! infection, and that they will
' manifest themselves before the
; party reaches Europe.
“It is highly probable,” said
1 Captain Duquesne, “that every
■ niembur of the Roosevelt party
; now has the virus of the sleeping
sickness in his veins. It may not
develop until they reach .Europe,
or even America. The sleeping
!sickness sometimes is not rnani-
J fested in the person for several
. months after the infection occurs, j
lit is well nigh incredible that the
Roosevelt, party, passing through
so many of the sicknesss zones,
has escaped infection,”
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Epilepsy,
Fits
"My son was cured of a very
bad case of epilepsy with Dr.
Miles’ Nervine.”
MRS. D. BAKER, Cleveland, O.
"My little daughter who was
afflicted with St. Vitus’ Dance
is now entirely well after taking
Dr. Miles’ Nervine only four
months.”
MRS. C. G. BENNETT,
Alma, Mich.
Epilepsy, Fits, St. Vitus’
Dance and Spasms, are all nerv
ous diseases. They have been
cured in so many instances with
Dr. Miles’ Nervine that it is
reasonable to conclude that it is :
almost sure to cure you. With
nervous diseases of a severe
type, persistent use has almost :
invariably resulted in a complete
cure or lasting benefits, worth
many times the cost of the rem
edy. The best evidence you can
get of its merits is to write to
those who have used it. Get a
I bottle from your druggist. Take
it all according to directions, and
if it does not benefit he will re
turn your money.
How
Do You
Feed
| Your Crops?
DO YOU KNOW just what your cotton and corn
need, and are you furnishing' it in such quantities
as required and in such shape that tae
plant can use it ?
Suppose you should put the food for your stocl in a
box, nail it up and place it in their trough would ye ti ex
pect them to thrive and grow r fat ?
Hardly !
Well, did it ever occur to you that when you use limpy,
badly mixed fertilizers you are putting this same preposi
tion up to your crops —offering them plant food in such
shape that they can’t get to it?
Fertilizers, to do your crops any good, must dissolve in
the soil waters. These are constantly in motion, rising to
i the surface during the day and sinking at night passing
and repassing the roots of the plant, w’hich absorb the food
contained in the water —and this is the only way in which
the plant can feed.
Therefore, when you buy fertilizer, you should do so
with the idea of furnishing food for your crop and on the
. same principle that you should purchase food for your
stock. It should not only contain the necessary Ammonia,
Phosphoric Acid and Potash, but above all else these
should be In soluble form —the mechanical condition
: of the fertilizer should be such as to permit the plant to
absorb every particle of it, and the goods should be manu
factured from materials that will not give up their plant
food at one time, but furnish a steady supply th-oughout
the entire growing season.
This is the fertilizer you should have and can {let —
in only one way. It is impossible to produce a goods like .
this by the dry-mixing of raw materials, whether you do
this at home with a shovel and a screen or buy it from (j
someone who has made it the same way —the only differ- ■
ence being in the quantity.
i These materials must be ground to a powder, and it re- ?
quires machinery costing thousands of dollars to do it a
properly. They must then be so manipulated that when
complete, you have a compound, each ounce of which is
: exactly like every other ounce, and not a mixture, one
part of which would contain too much Ammonia and too
little Potash, while another part would be exactly the
opposite —and all of it contain plant food locked up and
not available.
Remember that the chemical analysis of a fertilizer is no -
}■ test of its crop growing qualities. The chemist can pul- '
verize lumps and by the use of various means search out
the plant food ; your crop can’t.
You can take an axe, break open the box and get the
corn ; your mule can’t.
Don’t risk a crop failure !
Insure your peace of mind as well as your crop by using
Armour’s
Animal Ammoniated
F ertilizers
Manufactured by
Armour Fertilizer Works
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