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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1910)
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. * VTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTfTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTVTTTTTTTTT• ► 4 ► j j When Selecting a Bank 3 ► j The points to consider are these: j First. Is it a safe and sound institution. When I intrust ► my money to it can I always count on getting it back when I ► need it. 2 ► 4 £ Second. 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