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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1912)
1 TO THE FARMERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: | imimmmvmmvi'mnw\vWHW | v | MV | Mviini“**‘***‘»* , *»* 1 * f"» | | The Southern States Cotton Corporation ?2 ! 1 p| | Has been organized for the purpose of obtaining for the farmers I I |j $ of the South the price of 15 cts., basis Middling, for their cotton p j| I ~ . I m |t Now Announces to the Farmers of Montgomery County That it is Prepared to Issue Selling Certificates Guaranteeing || to Them the Above Price for all Cotton Delivered to Them After August, 1912. § In r riiese (Certificates the (Corporation Guarantees, for the Consideration of JI.OO for Each 500 Pounds of Cotton Contracted |j About, to Sell for the Account of the Holder of the Certificate Pounds of Cotton for Not Less Than 15 || l! Cents per Pound, Basis Middling. j| n U For full information and to secure Selling Certificates, see § I• ’ I 6 J, B. BREWTON. Secretary for Montgomery County I H . ’ fl fi iwviwwwtMiwww%wwt»w>%MM»wwwwi%MW4w«iM»wvwwiMWMiwm*mwi M % I I Southern States Cotton Corporation g j GENERAL OFFICES, MACON, GA. 1 FARMER AND HEN SHOULD CONSOLIDATE Many Farmers Fail to See Advantage of Raising Poultry. The majority of the farmers j look upon the hen with indiffer-j ence, and consider her and her progeny as something to been-; dured as the means of supplying the women folks with a little loose change or something to be exchanged at the country store for groceries or various small ar ticles dear to the feminine heart. The busy housewife, already overburdened with her numerous duties, is supposed to have these fowls as her special care, espe cially in the springtime when thunderstorms are so frequent and detrimental to the little chicks. Vet there must boa supply of chickens reared to re plenish the deteriorated stock and for an occasional fried or mist chicken dinner. Os the number of eggs pro duced, or of the value of the market poultry either consumed at home or sold, no account is j kept. Their actual cash value is never estimated, yet they are highly estimated as a table deli cacy. The thought is foreign to the average farmer that these hens produce more than they cost, and they are as much of an item to the income of the farm as the hogs, horses, cows, crops, etc., that go toward making a pros perous farm. Go through the West and the vast prairie lands and you are impressed by the absence oF poultry from the farms. There are farms and farms with not a goose, hen or turkey to tie seen. Where these farms are few and far between, we would think poultry would be a vital necessi ty, and the morning calls of the rooster making the welkin ring with his clarion call, and the soft cluck, cluck, of the old hen to her brood of little chicks, would be dear to the heart of the house wife and help dispel that feeling of utter loneliness which one feels must come while her hus band is away with his crops and herds. The West has not awak ened to the great possibilities of poultry, but the time is slowly and surely coming. That hens are profitable, and yield returns on the capital in vested, can be proved by obser vation and investigation. The bulletin issued by the Canadian government on beef raising shows the profit derived from an experiment of feeding nineteen steers at the experimental sta tion at I,acombe, Alberta. The steers cost $39.66 each and were fed for 109 days. At the end of that time they were sold. The cost of feeding was carefully kept, and the selling price aver aged $13.97 in advance of the cost on each steer for 109 days of, 42 per cent. Now compare this with a flock of hens. Take, for instance, tjie experience of one man with a flock of fifty hens, kept on a small range within an hour's ride of the city. During three months they averaged 46.78 eggs each, which were worth at the wholesale from 30 to 25 cents a dozen. The coat of feeding one lien for three months was 39 cents, leaving a profit of about 38 cents, or a profit on an invest ment of about 50 cents of 72 per cent The value of the hen is not reckoned in the question, for it would be the same before and 1 after the period. Here is profit nearly double that of the steers in less time. If the farmer would keep a few accounts and do a little figuring, his his eyes would be opened to the tremendous possibilities in THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1912. THE OLD PAPER AND THE OLD HOME Made His Heart Leap Again to See it Again After Many Years. “Sport, would you mind letting me look over that newspaper when you’re through? I wouldn’t ask you, only 1 was raised on that paper in my old home town, and the sight of it makes me homesick as the devil. I remem ber how I used to go out in front of the house before breakfast and fetch it in for the folks when I was a little shaver. That was my first chore. I recollect how the newsboy would roll it up and put a twist in it to keep it tight and give it a fling over the fence, along about daylight, and some times you could hear it bump on the front door, and then you could tie sure of finding it all right if the dog didn’t find it first and chaw the ends otf. i But sometimes the boy would not aim so straight, and the pa per would light in the flower bed or get hung up in the honeysuckle , vine or buried in a snowdrift. I starting a poultry plant in com petion with his hogs, cattle, crops, etc. Let us remember the principle ! that small things are not despis able—a drop of water helps to I make an ocean, a grain of sand aids in building up a continent, a single hen helps to make possible an annual increment of millions of dollars to the national wealth. Small as may be the business of our poultry farmer, it is a busi ness whose proportions are incon ceivably large. The hen is i great, and we will take otf our hats to her income-producing powers. So therefore, let us form the Farmer, Hen & Co.— Home and Farm, i recall one time when I looked and looked, and father and mother came out and looked, and the whole neighborhod came over and looked, and we didn’t find it till the next rainstorm, when the eaves trough overflowed and we got a ladder and climbed up to see what was the matter. “When I saw you open this pa ' per just now it was like stepping back thirty years. They haven’t changed the type or anything. The ink even has the same old homey smell it used to have. I believe if I was blindfolded and you held that paper under my nose I could tell you the name of it in one guess. Same old head lides, I see, same old personal column, same old police notes, same old ladies advertising for hired girls, same old jokers’ cor ner that we turned to first when we were kids, same old jokes, too, I reckon. It’s like an old friend from home that when you see him you think time must have overlooked him somehow and left him with the same kindly face he had in the old days. : “You are through with it, you < say? Then I’ll take it along, and < when I sit down to read tonight 1 it will be like turning the clock 1 back thirty years. ’’ Newark < (N. J.) News. Land for Sale. j I am offering for sale a tract of farming land lying on the west side of the Oconee River, in j Montgomery county, Landsburg District, about nine miles north j of Glenwood on the Old Dublin : River Public Road, containing' j lfil acres. On this tract of land ; is a good eight-room dwelling \ house, a few acres in cultivation, : and the remainder of the tract j fairly well timbered. Almost the ; entire tract is susceptible to im- ; provement and cultivation. Also : one Lot of swamp land lying near j to the farming land described. A \ bargain for the right man. This j land must be sold. Write or ap- j ply to J. B. Geiger, Mt. Vernon, Ga. J I THE GREATEST CURE I FOR | COUGHS"*COLDS I DR. 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