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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1910)
GLYNN COUNTY TO HAVE EXPERIMENTAL FARM. Brunswick, Ga., Nov. s.—The commissioners of Glynn county are considering the advisability of establishing a county experi mental farm. Quite a number of citizens are in favor of the move ment to establish such an insti tution and a committee of three commissioners have been appoint ed to look into the matter and re port at the next meeting of the board. It was pointed out that great results have been produced by experimental farms conducted by the United States and various states. Glynn has a county farm and the land is suited for truck ing purposes suited to this sec tion. The land is already under cultivation and the original cost would be small. It is thought the farm could be made self-sus taining and in the end to pay a small dividend at the end of each year, besides giving actual il lustration of the value of the land in the county for fanning pur poses. ALMOST PERPETUAL MOTION Some scientists up in Maine are backing a scheme of a New Jersey man named Macdonald, who has invented a plan for util izing the tides to secure power. If these scientists are not mis taken Macdonald has invented a plan for getting continuous pow er from the incoming and outgo ing tides. They have put their faith in it and are assisting in selecting a place on Kennebeck river to make a trial of the inven tion. If it should prove to be suc cessful and at the same time economical, the great water pow ers of the country will not be on the lakes and rivers iy the in terior, but on the coast. There the opportunities for utilizing the tides are so great that the govern ment will have no occasion for conserving the water powers on the public domain. The Pinchot- Ballinger controversy will drop out of sight, so far as water pow ers that are now in use or are be ing conserved will be very much less than they are. Macdonald has his working model on exhibition at Bath, Me., and as far as we have seen noth ing has been said that indicates a lack of confidence in it. As suming that it will do what is claimed for it, there will no long er be occasion for uneasiness about the exhaustion of the coal supply. The use of coal will be much more limited than it is now and power will be much cheaper. Industries will be established along the coast rather than in the interior. The incoming and outgoing tides will furnish all the power that this country, when as thickly populated as Japan, will need. But before we assume | that power is going to be so cheap that the coal mines will be put out of business, so far as coal is used to produce power is concern ed, let us wait until the results of experiments with Macdonald’s invention are known. When we know 7 them we shall be in a bet ter position to speculate as to what this new new source of pow er means. — Savannah News. TEXAS COTTON PALACE. Waco, Tex., Nov. 5. —With vis iters from all over Texas and the Southweet in attendance, the Tex as Cotton Palace and Exposition ; was thrown open to the public and will continue for fifteen days. Despite the opposition of the ministers of the city and state, the exposition will be open on Sunday. The main building of the exposition, the Cotton Palace, is considered by experts to be one of the handsomest edifices of its kind ever erected anywhere. The displays of the cotton and otheij agricultural products of the Star state are the most complete ever attempted. Arrangements have been made for daily airship flights and demonstrations of a newly perfected cotton picking machine, one of the mechanical marvels of! the age. 1 p nmi a) IMPLEMENT Construction and Methods of Using a Plank Drag. WORKS BEST ON MOIST SOIL Better Results Achieved by First Crowning Roadway With a Blade Grader—How to Operate the Machine Successfully. How to construct and use one of the nest useful atut handy devices for Uu eroviuK earth roads is described In the breeder's Kazette by Professor L. VV. hose of the Nebraska experiment sta -tation. who says: The spilt lojr drag, or, as It is coin ; iuoniy called, the King drag, is with ! 4, >. KISH HOAD DRAG MADE OF PLANKS oui doubt the best implement for keep ing roads in shape and in many in stances is as efficient as any other Im plement in the construction of earth I roads. The King drag cun be constructed ! of either a split log or a plank, but in Nebraska the plank is much easier to obtain than the log; hence this brief description pertains to the construction ! from planks. Select a good yellow pine, ash or oak ! plank two inches thick, twelve inches wide and fourteen feet long. Cut this in two at an angle so that one edge : of each piece is seven feet six inches long ami tile other edge is six feet six inches long. Spike to the back and ! along the center of each of these j plunks a two inch by six inch piece. ! which re-enforces the plan. Bore the holes for the cross stakes about twen ty-six inches apart and four turtles from each end with a two and one-half inch auger, using care to keep the auger perpendicular to the plunk. The two inch by four inch brace at tlie front end should start from the middle of the rear plnuk and drop to tbe bottom part of ihe front plank. The blade, whic h is generally made of stock cutter steel, should be given the proper cut ing slope by placing a wedge shaped strip between it and the plank. Cue eud of the chain is fastened to a cross stake, and the other pusses through a hole in the plunk and is held in posi tion by means of a pin. The use of the drag is more satis factory if the road has first been crowned with a blade grader, but whenever this is not convenient and the traffic is not too heavy the road may be gradually brought to a crown by means of the drag. The surface of the average country road should be covered hi one round with tin; drag. One horse should be driven on the inside of the wheel truck and the other on the outside, the drag being set by means of the chain so that it is running at an angle of forty-five degrees With (he wheel track and working the earth toward tbe center of the road. In the spring, when the roads are more likely to lie DIKT ROAD BEFORE DRAGGING. rutty and soft, it is generally better to go over the road twice and hi some places oftener. Tlie drug should he floored with boards which are separated by open spaces of sufficient width so that tin dirt which falls over will rattle through, and yet they should he close enough so that the driver can move about upon the drag quite freely. To Insure the successful o|ieration of the drag it is necessary for the driver to use careful judgment. Some times it is esseutial that the blade he held down so that the drag will cut roots and weeds, while at other times the front edge should not hear too heavily upon the surface, as it wiil dig out a soft place which would lie better if left undisturbed. This regu latlon of the cutting edge can he ac complished by the driver moving back and forth or to the right and left on the drag. If the road is to lie crowned with the drag it is often well to plow a light furrow along the sides and work this loosened dirt to the center. On roads with heavy traffic the drag should be used much oftener and with more care than on roads with lighi traffic. The distance from the drag at which the team is bitched affect* the cutting A long hitch permits the blade to cm deeper than n short bitch: likewise r hen doub'etroe will cause ’he ei l THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR— THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 10, 1010, ting edge to settle deeper than a light oue. There are very few periods of the year wbeu the use of the drag does uot benefit the road, but it does the Liest work when the soli is moist and yet not too sticky. This Is frequently within a half day's rime after a ruin When the earth Is in this state it -works the liesl. and the effects of work llig it are fully as beneficial as at any other time. The Nebraska soils when mixed with water and thoroughly worked become remarkably tough and impervious to rain, and if compacted in this condition they become extreme ly hard. Tills action of the soil in be coming so hard and smooth not only helps to shed the water during a rain, but also greatly retards the formation of dust. So much has been written and said pertaining to the great benefits from tlie use of the mad drag that many people beginning the use of it become discouraged before they are well start ed. They should uot feel thus, as it often takes a whole season for the road to become properly puddled and baked to withstand the rains and traf tie. After a road lias been worked with a drag only a short time It is not well to expect it to stand up to heavy trnf tie during a continued damp spell with out being affected. However, it will take far heavier traffic than most earth roads receive to more than scutT up the surface. During tlie four years that the writer has observed the road shown In the illustrations only once has it ever become so soft that teams were not hauling a ton and a half of coal In each load over it. Even in the full of UkiO teams were delivering 3,500 pounds of coal at a load to tlie university farm boiler house before the roads became frozen. It is not well to consider the benefits from a good road as solely confined to heavy traffic, for there is no doubt that the time saved to light vehicles THE SAME ROAD AFTER THREE YEARS DRAGGING. and the greater pleasure derived from their use over good roads fur sur pass the economy In heavy hauling While driving over a well crowned smooth road the team does not have to follow the usual rut. no slacking has to he made for Irregularities in the surface, and it matters not whether one or two horses are being driven. Calcium Chloride For Preventing Dust. The Houston (Tex.i Post has tlie fol lowing discussion of dust preventive: Second in Importance only to the construction of good roads themselves is the solution of the dust problem Automobile traffic lias had a rcvolu tionury effect upon road building and lias taxed the utmost energies of mud engineers throughout the world to cope with the new conditions which have arisen. Tlie dust that is raised by a rapidly moving mneliine is disa greeble and annoying not only to otliei Users of tlie highway as well us the occupants of automobiles following in tlie wake of the car ahead, lint also the residents along tlie road. The only real and permanent solution of the problem is Ihe construction of n blndci that will not yield to the effects of nit tomohtle traffic. Dll and tar togctliei with various other preparations have been tried out. and especially abroad with only fair success. In most eases their application is expensive and their effects disagreeable. Tlie greatest sal isfaetlon from all standpoints ha been obtained both in tlie United State* and abroad from the use of cal clum chloride. It is the cheapest of all layers, with the exception of water and in some cases is much more eeo mimical than the latter when (lie cost of dust prevention for tlie whole sett son Ik taken into consideration. One of its greatest advantages Is that ll is clean and absolutely odorless. In fact, it seems to have been demonstrat ed that calcium chloride can be used with profit on frequently traveled highways. Good Road Helper*. Don't be jealous of the automobile owner, for If he doesn't happen to own land In your township he is paying taxes in some other place and thus contributes his share toward the mak ing of better roads, and In many In stances he is advancing money to aid in road construction. If a road Is made better for an automobile It Is ; also made better for a buggy with a load of eggs In the back end. A Good Mov*. Tt is a good idea to have a clean I ditch at each side of the mad before ; winter. The other day a farmer plow ed a good furrow out of each ditch ; of the road alongside his farm, and he pulled the dirt over the grade with a rop.d drag. 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The corn is the finest that I ever saw, and it is not from just one section, but the whole state. That of Bulloch county is as good os that from Cobb, and alI sect ions have-an excellent exhibit, which goes to show, by the way, that Georgia can produce good corn in all sections.” White Hickory Wagons. Call Oil M<‘-Kile & Bro. for The Cele brated White Hicko ry Wagons. You should make it a point to investigate this wagon Indore buying. They have a record in this county for long and successful service. MONEY TO L.OAN On Improved Farms in Montgomery County at a Small Kate of interest. J. E. Hall, Soperton. V. P. MOORE Painter & Decorator If your house needs a coat of paint, send for me, and have I he job done right, and at lowest figures. MT. VERNON, GA. Hamilton Burch, Attorney and Coun selor at Law, fIcRAE, GA. Crimix.l Ijtw »u<l CoUecOoua, luclo liu« Hail ro*d Tort Cane*, a Specialty. GRAND PRIZE RACE SAVANNAH, GA. NOV. 12th, 1910. Special Rates via Seaboard. 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