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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1912)
GREAT VALUE IN OATS AND EASY TO MAKE Most Profitable Grain Crop Because Os Little Cost To Make. The value of the oat crop is not usually recognized by South ern farmers, says W. R. Smith, Farm Demonstrator. It ranks fifth in value of the field crops and third in value of the grain crops. It may be asked why so valu able a crop has been so long neg lected in the South. The follow ing may be given as some of the reasons: 1. In the early days the idea prevailed that oats were not adapted to Southern lands. 2. Newly cleared lands hav ing stumps made it easier to handle corn and other crops. 3. The custom of feeding farm stock corn only as the grain ra tion became fixed and hard to change. 4. Harvesting in the old way by grain cradle was slow and laborious. It has been fully demonstrated that most of the land is well adapted to oats. Much of it has also been cleared of stumps so all the improved planting and har vesting machinery may be used successfully. The old idea that corn was the best grain for stock has been overcome and it is now conceded that oats is much better food for all young animals and lor work stock during summer months. The following may be cited as some of the reasons for growing oats on the Southern farm: 1. Oats on similar soils will produce as many pounds of grain as corn. 2. Oats require less labor to grow and harvest than corn. 3. Oats furnish the best grain for young stock and for work animals during the summer months. 4. Nearly all soils in the South are adapted to oats. 5. Fall sown oats is one of the surest grain crops. 6. Oats may be followed by a soil improving crop such as cow peas or soy beans. 7. Makes a good substitute for cotton as a money crop. 8. Fits well in a systematic crop rotation. 9. Affords a better distribu tion of the labor of hands and teams throughout the growth. 10. Helps to solve the labor problem. The land should be well broken several weeks before seeding, if practical, in order to allow set tling of the soil. The surface should be thoroughly prepared by disc and section harrows be fore seeding. At time of seeding apply from 200 to 300 pounds of acid phos phate per acre. About March 1, or when oats begin to “boot" or joint, broadcast 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. Follow with section harrow with teeth well slanting to prevent uproot ing plants. It seldom pays to plant any but fall oats in the South. The time of planting ranges between Sept. 20 and Nov. 15. The most satisfactory results have been obtained from October seeding. Red Rust Proof or related varie ties, such as Appier and Culber son, constitute the best general purpose oats for the South. It is better to procure native grown seed, as these will be acclimated and practically rust proof. The best results have been ob tained by planting with grain drill. If grain drill is not avail able, the seed may be sown broadcast by hand and covered with plow or disc harrow. For the northern portion of the cotton belt the open furrow sys tem of planting may be safest. This is done by opening drills with shovel plow eighteen to twenty inches apart, sowing the seed in this furrow and covering lightly. The quantity of seed should be Some Pumpkin and Some Corn. Theodore H. Price, the well known cotton man tells his story about a farmer in Texas: He showed me an unusually large pumpkin the other day and ex plained that it would have grown much larger except for a peculi arity of the soil. When I asked for an explanation, he informed me that the pumpkin vines grow so fast there they drag the pump kins along the ground so rapidly that their complete development is prevented. But a Cartersville man tells one equal to it. An old farmer came to town with a long face and announced that he had lost his entire cornfield bean crop. As this is a serious loss to a Geor gia farmer and his family, he was asked how the calamity oc curred. The old fellow replied that his land was so rich and his corn so vigorous that it grew so fast it pulled all the beans up by the roots. Too Fast. “I don’t believe in forcing schools for children,” said Gov ernor Woodrow Wilson at a din ner at Trenton. “A child that knows at four as much as ordi narily it would know at eight is, to r mind, about as tasteful an obj< tas Calhoun Clay’s watch. “ ‘Tr .i’s a fine watch you’ve go: m Calhoun, said a friend. ‘ls it a good goer?’ A ,-.t goer?’ said Calhoun Cla you bet your life it’s a good goer. Why, it can do an hour in half the time!’ Milwaukee News. To Start a Canning Factory. The Georgia Southern and Florida railroad officials, and es pecially the industrial depart ment, are enthusiastic over the outlook for a large canning fac tory at Fruitland, Ga. Work on the factory will begin on the fifth of October and it will be pushed to completion as rapid ly as possible. Sweet potatoes, vegetables of all kinds and syrup are to be canned. The promoters of the enterprise are men of ex perience and the railroad officials are going to try to get the farm ers down that way to plant plen ty of cane and other products for use in the cannery. It is believed that the canning factory will prove a good paying investment and that it will also encourage the growing of vege tables and truck. —Valdosta Times. The State College Has Good Attendance. Athens, Ga., September 28. — Thirty-three per cent more stu dents have enrolled in the long courses of agriculture at the Georgia State College of Agricul ture up to this time than were registered last year up to a simil ar date. The increase is remark able considering that this is a short crop year for Georgia, and certainly evidence an appreciation of the college by the farmers of the state. Every part of the state is well represented in the i attendance. When the present college build- I ing was erected some would have j it that the building was too large but already the class rooms and laboratories are overcrowded, j President Soule states, however, that provision can be made for a limited number more of agri i cultural students. Inquiries be ing i r eived indicate that others | are going to enroll. lab' it - '.rue for any of the . is. From two to two a; i one-half bushels seed per acre uave given the best re turns. For further information send for the following bulletins: United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin i No. 436. Alabama Experiment Station Bulletin No. 127. Georgia Experiment Station Bulletins No. 44 and 72. THE MONTGOMERY MOXITOR-TIUIRSDAV, OCT. 3, 1012. SUCCESSFUL MEN GET TO WORK EARLY Atlanta Men Who Caught Habit of Early Rising On The Farm. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 28.—Atlan ta’s mature millionaires and mid dle-aged business men who have risen to positions of leadership in the communinty attribute their success in a good many instances to a life-long habit of early sising acquired on the old farm. It is positively amazing how main, of the big men in Atlanta, bank presidents, noted lawyers, real estate magnates and finan ciers, get down to their desks every morning, year in and year out, earlier than their clerks and stenograpers. Instead of rolling down be tween 9 and 10 o’clock in their limousines, you can see a long precession of the best known fi nancial figures in Atlanta hiking it along about 7:30 o’clock every morning to work. The procession is usually headed by Forrest Adair, who is never at his desk later than 7:45. Close in behind him comes Asa G. Can dler, who works as hard as any of the SSO a month clerks and stenographers in his big building. Pretty soon rolls along Col. W. L. Peel, white haired but active as a boy, president of a big bank, president of the Music Festival Association and leading spirit in a lot of other enterprises. Luther Z. Rosser, one of Atlanta’s really big lawyers, recognized heavy weight of the Georgia bar, is in such a hurry to get to his work every morning that he sometime* forgets his necktie. Alex W. King and Jack J. Spalding, both names to conjure with work a longer twelve-hour day than any struggling young lawyer of the whole local bar. Dick Gray and Clark Howell make a habit of getting down town as early as any of their reporters. The list could be strung out with dozens of other names almost as equally well known. A Freak Pig. Will Davis, a colored citizen of this county, claims to possess a pig that, from his description, we judge excels anything in the way of a freak of nature that has been seen in this section for a long while. This pig, Will says, has only j one eye, which is right in the center of the forehead, and has a snout one and one-half inches long, resembling in form that of an elephant; it has two natural pig’s feet and two with nails re sembling the finger-nails of a child; has no hair except it’s eye-brows, and its skin is per fectly white; was born on June 11th, and had five teeth at birth. Fine Chickens. A few choice thorough-bred R. I. Red and Barred Rock cocke rels for sale. Belmont strain, Mrs. W. A. Peterson, Mt. Vernon, Ga. Church Pews for Sale. The pews in the Mt. Vernon Methodist church are for sale at a reasonable rate. In good con dition. Call atMt. Vernon Bank. SEED PEAS. We have a limited number of bushels of first class Peas. Clay :, Unknowns, Straight Running j Speckles, Running Speckles mix led with Clays, Straight Un knowns, which we will deliver for the next 20 days at the f<>: lowing prices: | Choice Clays, Unknowns, 2.85 Straight Running Speckles, 2.70 Rnn’gSpkls mixd wth C1ay5,2.75 A few damaged Running Spec les at $2.50 If you want good stock serxl us your orders, think that pric will be higher. Peas on hand un til August. H. n. Franklin, TENNILLE, GA. I YOUR TRADE ? ® Is always appreciated, whether | large or small. See me for |j SPRING AND SUMMER 1 | Honest Goods, Honest Weights and Honest Measures, i g Courteous treatment for long years has marked my business, p | What you need in j DRY GOODS, SHOES, HATS, GROCERIES AND FARM TOOLS i | will be Sold at Live and Let-Live Prices. 1 j WARRANTED NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES, M’CORMICK I | MQWERS, REAPERS AND BINDERS, HARROWS 1 I AND CULTIVATORS ARE SPECIALTIES WITH ME. f W. H. McQueen J | (The Old-Line Merchant, With “the Goods”) | j Mt. Vernon, Ga. 1 Immzmmxssmw A PROCLAMATION. Submitting' a proposed amend ment to the Constitution of the State of Georgia, to be voted on at. the general State election to be held on Wednesday, October 2, 1912, said amendment relating to the making of tax returns t< the Comptroller-General. By Hi: Excellency, Joseph M. Brown, Governor. State of Georgia, Executive Department. Atlanta, July 21), 1912. Whereas, the General Assembly at its session in 1911 proposed an amendment to the Constitution ol this State as set fourth in an Act approved Aup uet 19, 1911, to-wit: An Act proposing to amend the Constitution < . Georgia by adding to second Section of the seven! it Article of said Constitution a new Paragraph for requiring certain tax returns to be made to tin Comptroller-General on or before the first day of March of each year, and for requiring the tax arising on such returns to be paid on or before Un iat day of September, end to authorize the Gem al Assembly to pass such laws as may be necessary and proper for carrying out said provisions. Section 1. lie it enacted by the General As sernbly, That it shall la? and is hereby proposed to amend the Constitution of Georgia, by adding to % the second section of the seventh Article a new Paragraph to l>e known as Paragraph six, as f<>\ lows: “All persons or classes of persons who were, by laws of force January Ist, 1911, requir ed to make returns for taxation to the Comptroller General, and all who rnay hereafter be so required, shall, on or before the first day of March of ea< h year, make such returns as of date of January Ist of that year, and shall pay the taxes arising on such returns in favor of the State on or before the firs! of September of the same year, anything heretofore contained in the Constitution or laws «»f Georgia to the contrary notwithstanding. '\ '<e laws of force on said date governing such returns and payments, and the collection and enforccmen thereof ohall remain of force as applicable to tie. returns and payments herein required until the same shall be changed by law. The* General As sembly shall have jxwer to make or alter all law ■* t hat may be necessary or proper for enforcing the provisions of thi Paragraph. Hkg. 2. He it furt her enacted, I bat whenever the above proposed amendment to t be Omfttitm ion shall lx; agreed to by two-thirds of the memo* , elecled to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and the same has been entered upon their Journals, with the ayes and nays ta’.*n thereon, the Governor shall cause said amend rnent to be published in at least two riewspap in each Congressional District in thin State for- he period of two months next proceeding the tim< holding the next general election. Heg. iS. Be it further enacted. That the pro pox;<l amendment shall be submitted for iatili< a tion or rejection to the electors o^thisState at. s he next general election to be held after the publi- a tion as provider! in the second Section of this At in the acveral election districts of this State, ;<x which election every pernon shall be qualified vote who is entitle! to vote for members of th< General Assembly. All persons voting* at u h election in favor of adopting the proposed amend rnent to the Constitution shall have written m printed on their ballots the words “For amend merit to the Constitution requiring tax returns o the Comptroller-General to tx- paid on or befor* September Ist of earrh year," and all persons op I#os<sri to the adoption of said amend merit, shall have written or printed on their ballots the wool “Against amendment to the Constitution ro<p. ir.g tax returns to the Comtroller-Cieneral to »m paid on or before September Ist of each year. - Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws-' parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and th« same are, hereby repealed. Now. therefore, \, Joseph M Brown, Governor of said State, do issue this my proclamation her* by declaring that the foregoing proposed amend - rnent to the Constitution is submitted for ratifica tion or rejection to the voters of the State quici tied to vote for members of the ( General Assn-m 1 at the general election to be held on Wednesday, October 2, 1912. By the Governor: Johkph M. Brown, I'hill.ip Cook, Secretary of State. M. B. CALHOUN, Atty ut ..aw, Mt Vernon, Georgia-. The BANK OF SOPERTON j; Paid in Capital Stock, $25,000.00 Surplus and undivided I profits $6,500.00 | Total resources over $100,000.00 |. General Bunking Business Conducted, Accounts Solicited. I Interest on Time Deposits OFFICERS: N. L. Oilliß, President. J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President. J. E. Hull, Cashier. I. H. Hall, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS: N. L. Oillis, M B. Oillis, J. J. O’Conner, W. C. Futrill, : W. 1). Martin, W. 11. Fowler, J. E. Hall. SOPERTON, GEORGIA. |P! eposits Insured | Against Loss | 0: 0; _ iji 000 0 No Mutter from What Source it May Come :|; 00 00 7 ! j We are constantly adding new :|; I accounts and our business is increasing ijj at a very satisfactory rate. iji Possibly you also might be glad to iji j join 11s. i; THE PEOPLES BANK I SOI’EItTON, GA. | DROP IN A DOLLAR MU GET THE NEWS.
