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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
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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. It was a neat thing to do
The dirt put on the grade was not i
enough to make mud. but enough to
open a clear track for the water into j
each ditch.
1
Prevent and
Relieve Headache
“It gives me great pleasure to
be able to refer to I)r. Miles
j Anti-Pain Pills as the best rein--
; edy we have yet had in our
house for the prevention and
cure of headache. My wife who
has been a constant sufferer for
a number of years with above
complaint joins me in the hope
that they may fall into the hands
of all sufferers.”
JOHN BUSH,
YVatervleit, Me.
Used Them Four Years.
“Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills
are the best I ever tried for tlie
relief of headache. 1 have used
them for nearly four years and
they never fail to give me relief.
I have tried many oilier rem
edies, but have never found any
better.”
JOSF.PTI FRANKOWICK,
854 Trombly Av., Detroit, Mich.
There is no remedy that will
more quickly relieve any form
of headache than
Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills.
The best feature of this re
markable remedy is the fact that
it does not derange the stomach
or leave any disagreeable after
effects.
Druggists everywhere sell them. If
first package falls to benefit, your drug
gist will return your money.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
GOVERNOR BROWN PRAISES
GEORGIA POULTRY MAN
Atlanta.—“lf any one knows
chickens, Uncle Dudley does,”
said Governor Joseph M. Brown
Wednesday, while talking of his
visit to the state fair at Macon
and referring to The Atlanta
Georgian’s expert who writes
about chickens. “He certainly
knows all about poultry and is
doing a good work for those who
arehnterested in it,” he continu
ed. “I saw hint at the state fair
Tuesday and had a long chat, with
him. I think a great deal of
Uncle Dudley and was glad of the
opportunity to talk with him.
“One of tlie best agricultural
displays which was ever exhibited
at a fair can .now lie seen at .Ma
con. 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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