The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, February 08, 1912, Image 5
POOR MAN’SJCHANCE. Hog raising is assuredly the poor farmer’s chance to get a good start, because it requires but little capital to start; SSO in vested in a good recorded sow, bred to a good recorded male will, in less than six months, with av erage luck and and good care, bring his money back and pay feed bill, leaving a good profit and the original brood sow, which, bred again, repeats the gain, or doubles his money twice a year, Besides, the second lit ter should be larger, stronger, better pigs, if the sow was a gilt when purchased. In 1903 I pur chased a 70-pound Duroc gilt for S2O, and I can date my change of fortune for the better from that time. To show how rapidly may be the increase, I will give an example. On October 21, 1910, Evangelene Second farrowed 11 pigs and raised 7; again in April, 1911, she raised 6, and in Sep tember 8 more, making 21 pigs in less than a year, besides two of her gilts of October farrowed in August, 1911, 25 pigs and raised 18, so I had 39 pigs raised beyond the danger point and ready to begin sending out, from one sow within a year. Besides, the gilts I sold may have raised as many more. And, mind you, numbers are below the av- T e of my sows for the season. ■ "average number raised per sow is above eight for each litter- Now where can a man do bet ter on SSO capital? But by all means get the best and recorded stock to start with, so you can get the best prices.—C. C. Mc- Clelland, in Town and Country. FIVE CENT COTTON NEXT FALL. To plant or not to plant much cotton is, just now, the import ant question among Southern farmers. It is an economic fact that if the farmers of the South put in a fourteen or fifteen mil lion bale crop this spring, they will run the price of the staple down to 5 or 6 cents a pound next fall. It is impossible to control the output of cotton by trusts and combinations among the planters as is done in the manu facturing industries. But the prudent farmer will take good care to plant enough grain and miscellaneous crops and raise enough live stock to supply at least his own wants, and then plant whatever cotton he can without going much into debt for it. Jackson Argus. KNEW WHAT SHE MEANT. Prof. Harry Thurston Peck is a foe to the hidebound and pe dantic grammarian, the type that declares “Tomorrow is Monday” is wrong, the right version being “Toworrow will be Monday.” Prof. Peck rebuked the hide bound grammarian at a studio tea in New York with a story, says the New York Tribune. “A lady,” he said, “had a rather dissipated husband, and one evening she said to a friend: “ ‘ I wish I knew where George was.!’ “The friend, a professors wife, said primly: “ ‘ I presume, dear, you mean you wish you knew where he is?, “ ‘No, I don’t” said the lady. ‘I know where he is. He is up stairs in bed with bloodshot eyes and a terrific headache. I want to know where he was!’ ” THE CHAMHION BUTTER COW. Newton, N. J. —The world’s record for butter production in a single year, held so long by Col anitia, a Wisconsin Holstein cow, has been broken by Clothilde 11., an Eastern cow of the same breed. The new champion has just completed her year’s test, and, according to the official fig ures, produced in 165 days 1,177 pounds of butter from 25,000 pounds of milk. It takes an exceptionally good cow to make 106 pounds of butter in a month, even in full flow, but here is a cow that has averaged that amount for twelve months in succession. JQHNSON-NORMAN. Announcement is made of the t approaching marriage of Miss Louise Johnson and Mr. Robt. C. Norman of Washington, Ga., the interesting event to take place April 9th. The marriage is of interest to Mt. Vernon people be cause Col. Norman was partly raised here. He is a practicing attorney and a son of Rev. Robt. Norman who formerly was a practicing attorney in Mt. Ver non. THE LABOR PROBLEM. The change in farming condi tions in this section of the South has been such as to make the la bor situation one of the most per plexing problems on the farming map this year. In all the towns there is a dearth of houses, for folk are going back to town in greater numbers than they came from the cities a few years ago. It means that the producers will have more work to do this season and the price of the necessaries of life will continue to stay up in the pictures, or go higher. Hogs, corn, chickens and sundry other good things won’t grow wild on the bushes. It will take a lot of work, more corn, peas and hay and other products than ever be fore to supply the demand. The farmer who will launch out on the plan of making sup plies for home can rest assured that he will not overdo the thing, for there is not a town in the en tire eastern half of the cotton belt that will not take everything in the way of produce, from a common Georgia collard on up to the finest capon, eggs, turkeys and similar things. And the best of all of it for the farmer—the producer—is that a good price will be paid without much mur muring. The people of the city are beginning to learn just what it takes to grow all these good things and no longer the blame is placed on the producer for high prices. A few years back a farmer taking eggs or butter to town was given the price the purchaser would make, but now the situation is different and the producer names the price. The consumer "can take his choice, of course, about paying that price, but it’s either that or starve. A closer co-operation between them—producer and consumer —has been the demand for ages, and it is now becoming imperative that something like this be consummated. The va grant, the man in cities or coun try who does not work, is a tax on the commonwealth and there should be some measure of pun ishment inflicted on him which would prevent the innocent and helpless from becoming his prey. The world needs producers and the demand of civilization is for men who will struggle to bring out the resources of any city, community or neighborhood. The drone, in farming or else where, is an undesirable charac ter, and with the demand being made upon the world for pro ducers they should not be toler ated in one place any more than another.—Rhea Hayne, in Home and Farm. JUST TWINS. A pair of delightful children are the little son and daughter of Burt B. Gorham of Ambler Heights, says the Cleveland (O.) Plaindealer. A stranger who has a weakness for kids met them on the street last week and spoke to them. “Whut’s your name?” he I asked the little boy. “Randolph Gorham,,, answered the young man, promptly. “And what is yours?” the girl was asked. “Phyllis Everleigh Gorham,” she piped up. “Ah, I see. So you are broth er and sister?” The children looked at each other and laughed merrily. “Why, no,” they replied in chorus—“we’re twins.” __ If you want money quick, write ! Lyons Loan & Abstract Co., Ly-' ons, Ga., for they are loaning 1 m >ney cheap. 1 THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 1912. WILSON CERTAIN OFiliM Montana Newspaper Halls Him as the Standard Bearer of the Democratic Party. PROGRESSIVE AND ABLE MAN True Patriot and Morally and Intel* lectually Fit for the High Posi tion to Which H# Is Reason ably Sure of Election. Helena (Mont.) Independent.—The people will name the democratic party's candidate for the presidency. In the next democratic convention there will be no boss whose voico will be heard above the rallying cry of real popular sovereignty; tnero will bo no machine which will .interfere with the registering of the people’s will. From Malno to California, from Minnesota to Texas, the delegates who will assemble to name the party’s Standard-bearer in the next campaign, will come with but one purpose la view—to restore real democratic gov ernment to power In the nation's capi tal. In view of this situation, a situation which la most encouraging to the party, it Is possible now to forecast the result of the democratic conven tion, and that forecast points uner ringly to the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton university, and governor of New Jer sey, for the highest office within the right of any people. The democratic candidate must he a progressive. Such a man is Wood row Wilson, whose record in New Jer sey has stamped him as one of the most progressive men in public life. Tho democratic candidate for the presidency must be unafraid and free from all Influence of political bosses. Such a man Is Woodrow Wilson, who, In his own state, unhorsed a political dictator whoso power no ono before had shaken. People Have Faith In Him. The democratic candidate for tho presidency must be essentially demo cratic. Such a man is Woodrow Wil son, whoso political ascendency has been accomplished only by reason of the faith the people have In him, and who will carry into the high office no secret bargains with those who manip ulate politics for private gain. The democratic candidate must be morally and Intellectually fit for the place. Such a man Is Woodrow Wil son, whose training enables him to give to the great problems of the day an Integrity above question and a mental capacity and a knowledge of public affairs which has probably not been excelled In an executive officer since the days of Jefferson. In Woodrow Wilson, there is ample evidence of America’s ability to de velop In each crisis In the nation’s affairs a man who Is equal to the emergencies of his time. Washington appeared on the scene, when the dis satisfied colonies needed a strong man and a military genius to lead them to national independence. Jefferson came when the new democracy needed a man to take the reins of the govern ment from the hands of an embryo no bility and restore It to the people. Jackson came when the money power first asserted Itself in the control of the American government Lincoln came when the union was about to break upon the rocks of domestic strife. The Man for the Occasion. And now, when greater problems than those which confronted Wash ington and Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln demand courage and ability of almost superhuman character; when from tho length and breadth of tho land there goes up, as In 1800, the prayer, “God give us a man,” when plutocracy le enthroned In high places and when the life blood of the coun try Is being sucked by tho vampire of big business; when greed and avarice have been substituted for patriotism and Justice; when sporadio and half hearted attempts to right existing wrongs only aggravate them; when the nation demands again the genius of a Washington, tho faith In the peo ple of a Jefferson, tho courago of a Jackson and the sublime patriotism of a Lincoln —at euch a time as this It Is llko watching the hand of a benefi cent destiny to seo Woodrow Wilson loom largo on the eoene of national politics. Not only tho Democratic party, but the nation, too, is blessed that such a man is available for the presidency. Let George Do It Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, while campaigning strenuous ly In the Interests of tho Democratic candidates, came to a small hostelry In S”sex County, In tho northern seo tion of the State. The waiter handed the presidential possibility the menu card, but tho Governor, tired from the day’s cam paigning, pushed It away and said: “Now George, I don’t want to both er with that. Take It away and go out and get me a good dinner. Get the best you have. That’s all” The waiter brought In the dinner which the Governor ate. As he was leaving the dining room the waiter said: “Mistah Wilson, if any o' you' friends from down at Princeton what can’t read neither comes up this way you Jest send ’em to George an' I’ll take care o' ’em all right.” • | Reliable Goods. | | THE BEST IN SHOES, HATS AND CLOTHING | ! • n § and Genuine Dry Goods will be found in my stock. I § S offer only Dependable Goods in all lines. Special attention g I to Farm Tools. See me for » LYNCHBURG PLOWS, DISC HARROWS, 1 j GRAIN DRILLS, HARVESTERS, I NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES, ETC. § S Bargains in Dry Goods and Shoes. For a Square Deal, sec || Wi H. McQueen, I | (The Old-Line Merchant, With “the Goods”) 1 | Mt. Vernon, Qa. | IMPROVE YOUR MILCH COWS. One of the activities of the Department of Agriculture of which little has been heard in the South is the improvement of the dairy herds. Its most fruitful work so far has been the encour agement of the cow testing asso ciations. Eighty-five of these testing associations have been found in twenty states. The plan is to engage an. expert to visit farms of members periodi cally, inspect and correct herd records, test the milch cows, and reccommend changes in feeding and handling. The main object is to discover the cows that pay and to weed out the cows that do not pay. Secretary Wilson is quoted as declaring that in many cases the average profits of the members of these associations have been doubled in four years. One typi cal instance has been given me. A farmer was shown that he was losing 44 cents on his herd of 8 cows during the month of the test. He followed the advice given him, sold the five poorest milkers of his herd, bought bet ter stock and three months later was making a profit of $32 on his herd. At the end of the year his monthly profits had grown to SSO per month. This may be called scientific dairying. Upon examination the j science is found to be the appli cation of common sense to dairy management. This is the same brand of science which has ena bled boys to increase their yields i of corn from fifteen bushels an i acre to from 75 to 225 bushels per j acre. Bradley Hancock, Jr. In Home and Farm. Fountain Pen Lost. Lost on Sunday last in ML Vernon one Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen. Had a gold band with the initials “C. C.” inscri bed. Reward if returned to the Monitor office. TOO QUIET FOR SLEEP. Lase Ridley of McPherson county says, according to the Topeka Capital, that after old Deacon Smartweed of his neigh borhood died his widow couldn’t sleep. This thing went on for weeks, and the old lady was going from bad to worse. They finally call ed in the family doctor. He made an examination and then went over to a neighbor who had a corn sheller and asked him to move it over and set it up right under the window of the room where the widow was and start it to grinding. Then he had a barrel of water brought and put in the next room and the bung taken out so that when the water ran out it would make that suck ing sound. Then he had a boy go up on the roof and haul a board across the shidgles. When all the different kinds of noises started at one time a look of calm content settled over the face of the old lady and in a few moments she had sunk into a deep and peaceful slumber. “What was your idee for doin’ all that, dock?’’ asked Lase. “Easy enough,” said dock. “The deacon and that woman lived together for forty years, and when the deacon snored he made all of those kind of noises at the same time. That poor woman is dreaming right now that the deacon is sleeping peacefully by her side. It was this unusual quiet that was kill ing her.” Money to Loan. I represent some of the best loan companies doing business in Montgomery county, and can se cure loans for a term of five years at a very’ small rate of interest. Commissions charged are small, and parties desiring to negotiate i loans in Montgomery or Toombs counties will save money by seeing me before making application elsewhere. M. B. Caijioun, Mt. Vernon, Ga. j DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Georgia, Montgomery county. To all whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that I have withdrawn t'r. in the firm of Mix on & Davis, doing a general mer cantile business at Tarrytown, Gu., and have on the 20th dav of December 1911, sold my entire in terest, including stock of mer chandise, notes and accounts and all choses in action in said co partnership business to L. A. Ar lington, he assuming all liabili ties of the firm of Mixon & Davis, in so far as they bind me. Tne firm hereafter will lie conducted under the style of Davis & Ar rington. My liability ceases from said 20th day of December, 1911. JOHN P. MIXON. NOTICE TO PUBLIC. Notice is hereby given to the public not to trade for nor buy •lie certain promissory note for forty-five dollars ($45.00) given to O. W. 15 >wdon and signed by Mrs. B P. Massey, principal, and B. J. Guest, security, and dated Jan 17th, JOl2, and made paya ble Oct. Ist, 1012. The above de scribed note being fraudulently obtained by selling the under signed a wind-broken mare and claiming said mare to be sound, and afterwards finding her to fie wind-broken and worthless. This Jan. 24th, 1912. Mas B. P. Massey, Principal. B. J. Guest, Security. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. The mercantile business of Hutchinson and Padgett of Glen wood, Ga., has this clay dissolved by mutual consent. J. C. Padgett sells his interest, to J. H. Hutch inson, who will collect all bills and pay ail debte of said firm. This Jan..2d, 1912. J. H. Hutchinson, J. C. Padgett. LOST—From Mt. Vernon sta tion, Dec. 21, one tan leather suit case, 24 in. long. Address near handle M. Cone, Ivanhoe, Ga., U. S. A., Cunard S. S. label on end. Liberal reward for re turn or information as to its whereabouts. Mattie Cone, U. B. I. Mt Vernon, Ga. sor 6 doses “666” will cure any case of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c.