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1 TO THE FARMERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: |
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| The Southern States Cotton Corporation
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p| | Has been organized for the purpose of obtaining for the farmers I I
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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|
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U For full information and to secure Selling Certificates, see §
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6 J, B. BREWTON. Secretary for Montgomery County I
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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,
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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
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PRICE 500 AWP 11.00 g
IkßSaaßMgggaW SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY —BBB—i
The BANK OF SOPERTON j
Paid in Capital Stock, §25,000.00
Surplus and undivided
profits 86,500.00
Total resources over 8100,000.00 I
General Banking Business Conducted, Accounts Solicited. 8
|! Interest on Time Deposits
OFFICERS:
? N. L. Gillie, President. J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President, j
;|| J. E. Hall, Cashier. I. H. Hall, Asst. Cashier
DIRECTORS:
j; N. L. Gillis, M. B. Gillis, J. J. O’Conner, W. C. Fntrill,
W. D. Martin, W. H. Fowler, J. E. Hsll.
j SOPERTON, GEORGIA.
