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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1913)
WILL MAKE CORN CUB MOVEMENT NATION WIDE Agricultural Department of United States will Push Work. So fruitful has been the work of the Bovs’ Corn clubs in the South that the federal Depart ment of Agriculture now plans to make this movement nation wide. What the organization of youthful farmers has accomplish ed for grain culture in this sec tion, it can accomplish for other rural interests throughout the country. In the boys and girls of the farm, there is a tremendous store of energy that can be turned to creative and progressive account. Jt is through them that the cause of scientific, as contrasted with haphazard, methods of agricul ture can be pressed forward most speedily and most permanently. When they are made to feel that they have an active and definite part in the affairs of the farm ai d in the advancement of their country’s interests, when they are given an opportunity to win honors and to produce results, tney will have little inclination to abandon the life to which they were born for that of the city. The old cry of “back to the farm” has been succeeded by a wiser slogan, that of ‘‘stay on the farm.” And this appeal is being supported by intelligent efforts to make rural life truly attractive, or rather to bring to the front those advantages which are inherent in rural life. Among the most interesting and, per haps, the most effective of these efforts is that represented by the Boys’ Corn duh movement. This enterprise has not only increased the yield and improved the quality of corn in those States where it has been in: jguia'ed. It has also quickened and en riched the interest of the hoys in their native environment. It has proved a wonderful agency in the agricultural education and progress of the South. It is gratifying to know that this con structive movement is to l>e ex tended throughout the nation. — Atlanta Journal. An Angry Tree. In Idaho there exists a species of the acacia-tree that a writer in Harper’s Weekly says is en titled to he classed as one of the wonders of’plant life. The tree attains a height of about eight feet. When full grown, it closes its leaves together in coils each day at sunset. When the tree has thus settled itself for its night’s sleep, it will (hitter vio lently if touched, and if you shake the branches it will emit a nauseating odor strong enough to bring on a headache. In Idaho it is called the ”an gr> tree,” and it is said that it | was discovered by some men who were making a camp for the I night, and placed one end of a canvas covering over one of its sensitive branches, to use it as a I support. Immediately the tree began to jerk its branches sharp- • ly. The motion continued with ! increased “nervousness,” until at last there came a sickening odor that drove the tired men to ; a more hospitable camping place. • The Id rgest Magazine in the World Today's Magazine is the largest i and best edited magazine pub- j lished at 50c per year. Five cents per copy at all newspapers. Ev ery lady who appreciates a good magazine should send fora free sample cony and premium cata log. Address, Today’s Maga zine, Canton, Ohio. Fstrav Notice. % Taken up at my place one black barrow hog. marked crop in one ear. split in the other ear. Owner can get same by paying cost of this notice and feed, and proving ownership. G. G. Horton. Als.jo, Ga. March 22d, 1013. A Kansas Gale. The Western “cyclone” has many strange antics to its credit, but. if we may believe Mr. Pe ter’s story in the Kansas City Star, the high winds of the open prairie are even more to be dreaded than the whirling force of the tornado. There are some things that an old resident learns out there from observation and experience. One is that when you are facing a hard wind, you must keep your mouth shut. One day I was traveling with a tenderfoot from the East. He was a long, slen der man, about six feet and three inches long and about six inches wide. He had no more meat on his bones than a fork handle. As I was saying, one day we started to ride across the prairie, when the wind came up in our faces, blowing at the rate of one hundred miles an hour or so. That tenderfoot opened his mouth to say something to me. I heard him make a curious noise, [and looked round to see what was the matter, and saw that he had inadvertently swallowed about six or seven barrels of wind. He looked like an inflated air-cushion, and seemed to be about four times his natural size. It seemed to set him sort of crazy, and he jumped out of the buggy. When he lit on the ground, he bounded into the air like a rubber ball, and then went bounding across the prairie like a tumbleweed before the wind. At the end of three miles he fell in to a canon, where the wind couldn’t get at him, and stopped, hut it was a week before he was back to his normal size. Business Tax Notice. All parties subject to business license tax in the town of Mt, Vernon, are hereby notified that same is due, and are required to nay in the amounts to the under signed, and save further ex pense. A. B. Hutcheson, Clerk Town Council. March 12, 1913. OH, THOSE YELLOW YAMS Texas Has to Import Them from Alabama. Under .the heading “Alabama Taters in Texas,” the Houston Post, Houston, Tex., remarks ed itorially: Getting down close to the prac tical things of life, we notice in the market columns of yester day’s Post that yellow yam sweet potatoes all the way from Ala bama, arrived on the Houston produce market on the date indi cated and sold readily at $1.25 per bushel. Concerning this, The Adver tiser. Montgomery, Ala., ob serves that “The Post resents the of Texas farm ers to their opportunities of rais ing sweet potatoes and argues that Texas lands will raise sweet LX)tatoes as well as Alabama lands. No doubt Texas lands are all that The Post claims for them, but for the present we would suggest to Alabama farm ers that they not let up in grow ing this easily marketable pro duct, but flood Texas with yams. It pays to raise yellow yams when they bring $1.25 a bushel, and Alabama is the yam center of the universe.” Those yellow yams are tip-top and if anything that equels them has ever been grown on Texas land the fact has been concealed carefully. There may he many attractions in Texas the Post brags continually of its red headed widows but the yam samples which those unfortunate, yearning Texans have received arc almost sufficient doubtless to cause a stampede— to cause them to take “that midnight chu-chu” or any other train “for Alaham.” As a matter of fact, the grow ing of potatoes in Alabama has become an important and profita ble industry.—lndustrial Index. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR —TiIURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1913 VETERANS WILL SEE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN Trolley Being Constructed to Accommodate the Multitudes. Chattaqoqga, Tenn., March 23. —lt has been said that th rich est asset that Chattanooga has is historic Lookout mountain, and the saying is true. Lookout mountain is really a beauty spot in a land where scenic beauty abounds. And while this scenic beauty cannot be excelled any where on earth, Lookout moun tain is also probably the most historic eminence in the world. It bears the marks of many wars, and carries on its tablets the his tory of two races of people. Lookout mountain was first a habitation of the Indians, as In dian relics gathered on its sum mit and sides clearly show. The Tennesee river got its name from the Indians. The of Ten nesee was named after the river. In the Indian tongue the name signifies spoon. Some historians contend that Indians named the river from a view they had of the stream from the point of Lookout mountain. The view from the point of Lookout mountain is certainly one of the finest in America. Many people who have traveled over the world declare that there is nothing so good in scenic beau ty in all Europe. Quite a num ber of European potentates and geniuses have visited Lookout mountain, and their verdict is unanimous that the view from Umbrella rock on the highest point of the mountain is unex celled. Lookout mountain will, of course, be a point of much inter est to the veterans when they assemble here in their 23rd reun ion May 27-29, and in order to supply ample transportation fa cilities a trolley line is being con structed to the top of the moun tain, which will be completed for the reunion. This new line, with the incline railway, will satisfac torily handle all of the traffic that the reunion brings to Chat tanooga. A Profitable Dream. The relations that existed be tween General Washington and his younger friend, “Light- Horse Harry” Lee, —the father of Gen. Robert E. Lee, were exceedingly close and tender. It is an authentic tradatio n the Lee family that Washington re garded the brilliant young caval ry officer almost in the light of a son. Lee was inclined to be a spend thrift, and his lavish use of mon ey often brought on him the pa ternal reproof of his older and more discreet friend —and the reproof was often followed by affectionate assistance in extrica ting him from his embarrass ments. Mrs. Washington was almost equally fond of the young officer, who often made long visits at Mt. Vernon. During one of his sojourns there, Harry Lee re marked to his host at the break fast-table: “General. I had a singular dream last night, which I must tell you. 1 actually dreamed that you made me a present of your Westmoreland place.” The next day, at the dinner table. Harry Lee found under his plate a document nothing less than a deed to him of the West moreland estate. For some mo ments, dazed with astonishment, he stared at his friend. “Now, Harry,” said Washing ton, calmly, “take good care not to dream Mount Vernon away from me!” —Youth’s Companion. Spring Millinery. J. H. 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