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Birds the Best Friends of the Gardeners.
Birds, of course. How well
you guessed it. No one ever
doubts it for a moment,, says
Prof. W. J. Hoxie in the Savan
nah News, but yet the amount
of real good that is done the
gardener by these same friends
is not half—no, a tenth -realized.
Just at this time of year the Cut
worm moths are flying before
sundown and a little after.
Though they live but a short
time, they are looking for a safe
place to lay their 1,000 to 2,000
eggs. Now, fitting along behind
Mrs. Cut-worm comes the hungry
Bull-bat, and in the few twilight
hours has been known to gather
in ninety—think of it ninety,
or perhaps twice ninety thousand
cut-worms less in that little
garden patch he was hovering
over. And along conies a sports
man with a gun to test his
marksmanship before the game
season opens and down comes
the gardner’s best friend to be
displayed as a triumphant proof
of the skill of a sporting gent or
the wonderful power of some
new gun that he has just pur
chased.
But lucky for the gardeners
there are birds that, though less
in size, make up for bulk in ac
tivity. The modest little Chick
dee, for one, is with us the year
round, and his principal food
consists of the eggs and very
youngest worms and smallest of
the newly-hatched worms. Thus
he gets at the root of the evil be
fore much damage can be done.
The larger insects, such as fur
nish food for Mocking Birds,
Larks and others of that size be
ing full grown members of their
species, have done all the dam
age they can before being killed.
From which we gather the lesson
that while the big birds are use
ful the little one are positively
essential to the gardener. To
state the rule mathematically, the
value of a bird as an eliminator
of insects in an inverse ratio to
his size. Write that down and
paste it in your hat, all you
gardeners and farmer. Learn
the lesson well, and you will re
replant less corn, cotton, cab
bage, tomatoes, etc., and when
you go to market you will sell
less wormy corn and fewer lace
worked cabbages.
In a multitude of counselors
there is wisdom. All over the
country, except in the South,
the birds are being carefully
studied in special reference to
their economic relations to* the
agricultural interests. In a list
now before me of some 800 spe
cial students in the United States,
there are but a beggarly fifteen
in the South. And nowhere in
the whole country is there such
a crying need for a better and
fuller knowledge of the economic
relations to agriculture and for
estry of birds and their food
habits.
For years the Biological Sur
vey has been conducting investi
gations along these lines. A few
of their results may furnish food
for thought. “From 3,000 to 5,-
000 insects have frequently been
found in a bird’s stomach at one
time.” That, of course, means,
just a day’s work eating nothing
but insects.” Bullbats, too, please
remember, come into this class.
Again we find that “insert food
formed 00 per cent, of the con
tents of the stomachs of fly-catch
ers, 94 of warblers and 95 of
wrens.” This at first looks as if
the entire food of these individ
uals was not strictly normal, but
a few lines farther we find the
remark that “this small percent
age of vegetable matter was
probably accidentally swallow
ed.”
The study of the destruction
of the seeds of weeds by birds
has really only just begun.
Still, enough has been determin
ed to warrant us in saying that
there are certain species of birds
that show a decided preference
for weeds that are almost im
possible to eradicate “by hand.”
Take the familiar example of
our common—alas, too common
Sand Spur. Shose of us who
can remember Savannah before
i the advent of the English Spar
row know that this “patient
I sticker” did not then grow about
jail our street sides and parks.
[Cardinals were then quite plenti
j ful about the city, and they are
very fond of Sand Spurs. Two
or thi*ee pair of them would
clear up the Psrk Extention in
one season. If you don’t believe
it, try it. There is away.
ALABAMA PREPARING
FOR BOLL WEEVIL.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. S. —
“Tiie people of Alabama Had as
well make up their minds to face
j boll weevil conditions, and there
is special reason for alarm, at
that fact,” said State Agent !>.
L. Moss, of the Farmers’ Co-ope
rative Demonstrative Work, who
has just moved with his family to
Montgomery and is preparing to
take charge of the government’s
work among the farmers of Ala
bama.
“Even when the boll weevil
arrives, the possibilities for the
farmer m this locality are im
mense. The man making a hale
of cotton to the acre or 40 bushels
of corn, lias a fine margin for
profit, and the farmers who meet
the weevil with full corn cribs
and smoke house's will have little
to fear.”
Mr. Moss has just returned
from a trip over the weevil infect
ed portions of Mississippi, and
says that in many places where
intelligent methods of cultivation
are used and crops are diversified,
the farmers are in better financial
condition than they were before
the arrival of the pest.
When asked about the spread
of the weevil, the co-operative
agent said that the insects travel
faster along the southern end of
the cotton belt than further north,
due partly to the westerly winds
which prevail along the cost dur
ing the fall months, the dam [mess
in that, section at the period of
greatest infestation, the lateness
of frost and to other causes.
Those interested in clever milli
nery will find here the smartest
of new ideas in Tailored and
Dress Hat Models. We want
your business and will appreciate
it. We assure you of our best
endeavors to please.
J. If. Hudson, Ailey.
Lumber City, Route 2
Special CorreHpoielmieo
Mr. .J. B. Coleman is visiting in
this section t h is week.
Mr, C. L. Wood and family vis
ited at tiie home of J. It. Turner
Sunday afternoon.
Dr. Brantley of Appling county
visited at the home el Mr. A. J.
: Cox 1 uesday last.
i Mr. Lash Cox and daughter,
Miss Julia, is visiting in this sec
| tion this week.
L. B. Turner left Monday last
for South Carolina and other
points east.
Miss Dunie Cox visited at. the
home of J. W. Lovett Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. D 15. Pittman and family
1 visited at the home of J. if. Turn*
! er Sunday last.
Mrs. Mary Wright is visiting
friends in this section this week.
Mr. Joe Cox made a business
trip to Me Rue Saturday last.
Miss Bobie Fortune was a vis
itor at the home of .J. D. Brown
ing Sunday last.
J. li. Turner and son made a
: business trip to (Jlenwood Satur
day last.
Miss Sadie Cox visited at the
; home of J. W. Nash Sunday last.
Miss Mary Sears visited her sis
iter, Mrs. Mimbs, Sunday after
noon. *
Miss Annie Bell Odom was a
visitor in this section Sunday.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—'THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 13, 1910
USING POULTRY MANURE.
Three Farmers Express Opinion!,
About Its Value as Fertilizer.
Tin- following opinion* concerning
the use of poultry iiianure were gntta
ered by tlie Ornuge .Itnld Farmer:
"As ponltr.v immure Is the richest
and tuosi valuable farm fertilizer 1
take special care of it. I'lic most prof
liable way* I have found in dispos
ing of it is to use it ns a top dressing
for grass, it is also espo< tally vnl
liable for onions and newly set straw
berry plants. Corn and nearly all
garden crops do woll with it. it is
especially rich in nitrogen ami is
quickly available for ilie mo of plants.
1 never mix ii with wood ashes or any
thing that contains lime, because lime
sets free the nitrogen in the form of
ammonia. Sifted cos I ashes are not
objectionable, nor i- gypsum. Sand
and loam are useful, dry muck is espe
cially so." Henry If. Ingalls, Greene
County. X. V.
“1 have applied several hundred
bushels of poultry manure mixed with
twice its bulk of stable manure in I lie
fall or early spring to corn land that
was badly run down. The result was a
yield at the rate of eighty throe bush
els of corn to the acre. I have also used
considerable poultry manure on the
garden, but here it should be applied
in the fall and harrowed or disked in
to give best results. If applied in the
spring it often burns tender plants.
My best results have come on the corn
In my estimation it is much better
than any complete fertilizer costing
.$"4 to Slid a ton. provided It is kept
dry by being mixed, as made, with
nmek or other good absorber.”—-Fred
Grundy. Greene County, 111.
“Every day I sprinkle the dropping
boards in my poultry house with sifted
eoal ashes and clean them off every
morning. The manure thus secured
is spread on the garden in preference
to every other fertilizer. My garden
bents those of all my neighbors."—E
B. Leek, Suffolk County. N. Y.
THE FARMER’S CREED.
1 believe in stacking, in the point
ed tops grouped in every grove and
barnyard. I believe in the manure
spreader. I believe in farmers’ pic
nics and Chautauquas and fishing
trips, in getting away for a day now
and then after the summer season s
work is over. 1 believe in the fall
pastures of rape in the stubble fields
when the blue grass takes its sum
mer rest. —lowa I lomeslead.
SSOO FOR THREE DAYS’ WORK
How It Paid a Kansrs Boy to Use
Disker Before Plowing Wheat.
Last year the extension department
of the Kansas Stale Agricultural col
lege issued a circular urging disking
wheat immediately following the head
er, to he pin wed two or three weeks
Inter. Most of the farmers thought
this would be too mm h trouble for the
Increase in yield il might bring, but n
boy in. Edwards county persuaded his
father to let him have thirty acres on
which to iry that plan. His older
brother also had thirty acres adjoining
his Held, which lie put in in the or
dinary way. the same as his father did
1.(11 10 acres. The soil was Hie same,
the seed wheal was the same, and the
rainfall was tlie same.
The only factor that differed in the
historj of the crop’ was ihe disking of
the wheal stubble immediately after
the header. Vet the wheat (brushed
out forty-six busfrJs and ten pound:
to the acre for the ground lluit had
been so treated, and the brolher's yield
was-only twenty-live bushels. That
was about the average for the l.oon
acres of tin- farm also. Wheat at bo
cents would pay the boy who disked
before time to plow about SOOO for
three days' work.
T ransplanting.
Transplanting such vegetables as to
malic- and cabbage is of able in
making the plants stocky and in de
velopitig the root system. in trails
plaining care should be taken not to
break too many roots If the ground
Is moist ear d before the plants are
taken lip the dirt will cling to the
roots and few of them will be broken
The garden trowel is the best imple
ment with which to take up plants for
transplanting. The same instrument
may be used to make the hole in
which the plants are to he placed. See
that the roots ere spread out well and
not till compacted in one hunch
Transplanting in the garden had bet
ter be done toward evening or on a
cloudy day to prevent willing. If tie
ends of part of the leaves are pinched
off evaporation will be cheeked and
the plant’s chance for living through
the operation improved. A little wa
ter poured inlo the hole will help if
the soil is dry. A piece of [taper
placed over eac h plant and held down
with clods for tiie first day or so will
help them to get a start
Dairy Products Worth $1 000,000.000.
According to the last year book of
the department of agriculture, there
are 21.720.iHi0 milk cows in tin- United
States, and these are worth $702,915.
000. The magnitude of the industry
can perhaps be best understood when
it -is considered tiiat these cows pro
duce yearly about ? 1.000.000.000 worth
of dairy products
Muslin Window For Cow Stable.
Cows should not -tiiud facing a win
dow unless the window be covere*
with muslin. Bj Ihe way, the muslin
window in a cow stable Is belter by
far than glass. It gives a subdued
light aud furnishes ideal ventilation.
GEORGIA ANO ALABAMA
BROKE TIGER RECORDS,
Washington, Oct. 11. Figures
heceivod by the commissioner of
internal revenue show that in the
prohibition states of Georgia and
Alabama the destruction of moon
shine distilleries in July and Au
gust broke all records in the his
tory of the internal bureau.
These two states comprise one
collection district.
In July the total number of
distilleries raided in the two stat
es was 99. and in August 115 were
put out of business. They were
mostly scattered thru the moun
tain districts, altho some of them
were found in cities and towns.
Full Seed Ouls.
I have for sale the Famous Ap
pier and BancrolT Seed Oats. See
me at once for seed.
1). S*. Williamson,
Olotf Uvnldu, Ua.
Cit at ion,
Georgia—Montgomery County.
L. S. Adams, administrator of
the estate of W. T. E Adams,
lute of Huid county deceased, hav
ing made application for leave to
sell all the real estate of said de
ceased, (Ins is lo notify all per
sons concerned that said appli
cation will be heard ut, my office
on the first Monday in November,
1910. This the 3d day of Octo
ber, 1910.
Aicx McArthur, Ordinary.
Citation.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Whereas, Mrs. Sallie K. Morris
has made application for guard
ianship of Frank 11. Williams,
minor of Mrs. W’ylly Williams,
deceased, this is to cite all per
sons to file their objections if any
they have within the time allowed
by law, else letters of guardian
ship will be granted as prated
for. This the 3d day of October,
1910.
Alex McArthur. Ordinary.
Administratrix Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Under and by virtue of an order
granted at the regular October,
term of the court of ordinary of
said county, will be sold before
the court house door in said coun
ty on the first Tuesday in Novem
ber, 1910, between the legal hours
jof sale to the highest and best
[bidder for cash the following
! property to wit:
Three certain tracts of land in
the Town of Mount, Vernon, (fa.,
One tract hounded on the north
by lands of the Methodist church
parsonage property and lands of
•las. McNutt, and M. L. Currie,
<in the east, by a seventy-foot al
ley, on the south by Spring street
and on the west by Railroad ave
nue. One tract hounded on the
north by lands of McNutt and
Currie, on the east by lands of
McNutt and Currie, on the south
by lands of C. D. Loud ami on
the west by Railroad avenue.
And one other lot hounded on
the north by lands of W. It.
.VleQiieen and John O Mcßae,
on the east by Railroad avenue,
on the south by Spring street
and on the west by Fulton street.
Sold as the property of the estate
of N. K. Beasley, late of said
county deceased, for the purpose
lof distribution. This the 3d day
of October, 1910.
Mrs. W. C. De Loach, Adx.,
Estate N. R. Beasley, deceased.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia Mmitgojrn ry County.
Will in? Kola In fmi: lie court. lioiiho ilner in
lit. Vi-rnee on tin- first Ttu-mlay in No'.
llljll, between I||<- legal hours of sale, tu the
highest bolder for eusli, certain |r(«»|n-i' Iy, of
which tin- following in a eoiii|ib.-tc <lim rijilion:
One hundred and fifty tie re- of land
more or less situated in lot number
three hundred and fifty six GkV>) and
being all of said lot except fifty on<-
acres sold nIT the north west sidi ol
said lot; anil also one hundred and
fifty acres of land more or less, -itn
a.ted in lot, nutnher three hundred and
fifty-seven (ifs7 ) and being all of -aid
lot except filly one acres sold nil tin
north east side of said lot, all ol said
land Hggregat ing t lime hundred acres
and all of it lying and being in Hie
Tenth (loth) land district of Mont
gomery comity. Georgia.. Said two
tracts of land levied on a- the prop
erty of I*. J. Guest to satisfy tin- fol
lowing executions to wii : Two exe
cutions issued from tin- * it.y Courl
of Mount Vernon of said county in
favor of The Mount Vernon Bank
and against T. < Johnson. A. M.
Johnson and ii. J Gue-t; also one
execution issued from the justice
court of the JiUHrtl district. G. M. in
favor of The .Mount Vernon Bank
and against B. J. Guest and Dan A.
Morrison; said property Icing in tin
possession of the said M. J Guest and
pointed out for levy by plaintiff in
jfi fa. Written notice of levy given
as required by law. Tins the nt h day
of October. 1910.
James Hester, Sheriff.
M. H. Calhoun and W. M. Lewis,
' Attys. for Fills.
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