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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1913)
BANK TOOK CHANCES LIVE STOCK SECURITY Helped Farmer Who Could Risk Live Stock Business. Hickman was down and out financially. He owed the bank $277. His stock was worth less than $275. In that part of New Mexico where Hickman cast his fortunes the banks do not lend money on real estate. There is nothin# much save real estate above the horizon. But this par ticular bank was interested in fate of Farmer Jlickma- to the extent $277, and the shrewd young banker decided it was up to him to save Hickman from stagnation and dry rot. So the bank bought twelve cows withcalves and turned them over to debtor Hickman for S4O each, taking his note in payment. This was on March 1, 1012. In October Hickman sold the cows for $45 each and the calves for s2l, which cleared the note with a few dollars to spare. In No vember the bank sold him forty head of mixed cattle at $35 to S4O a head. Hickman fed them for six weeks on kaffir and milo and then sold them at an advance of $5 a head. * l March 3 of this year Hickman, via the bank, got fifty-four head at $37.50; April 15 he sold them at. $12.50. Along about this time he had a chance to buy twenty-two head of mules; the bank took a chance to the extent of $1,352.50. Before the deal was closed, Hickman had contracted to “feed up’’ the mules and sell them in September for SBS a head, ora total of $1,870. Bend ing money to this man Hickman had become a pleasant and profit able habit with the bank. During the borrowing period Hickman built a barn for SOOO, and when last heard from he had eight dairy cows, seven horses and a colt, worth $1,630, and all free of encumbrances. His profit in mules is additional velvet. This method of financing the farmer in the Southwest is one of tht‘ best possible examples id' helpful lending. It pulled Hick man out of a hole, set him on his feet and transformed him from a bankrupt into a prosperous citi zen. It enthralled an entire community with the possibilities in beef and dairy cattle and mules. And to complete the circle, it brought handsome divi dends to the banker who promo ted the enterprise. Credit on the hoof has a big future ahead of it. Country Gentleman. Said What He Pleased One Time. A lower Illinois edito declar ing he had become tired of wedd ing the whitewash b...shin the matter of obituaries, decided to reform and tell the truth just once. His comment onthedeath of a well known citizen in the community follows; "Died, aged 56 years, 6months and 13 days. Deceased was a mild-mannered pirate with a mouth for whiskey and an eye for booty. He came hero in the night with another man's wife and joined the church at first chance. He owes us seven dol lars for the paper and a large meat bill, and you could hear him pray for six blocks. He died singing, ’Jesus Paid It All,’ and we think he is right for he never paid anything himself. He was buried in an asbestos casket, and his many friends threw palm leaf fans in the grave, as he may need them. 11 is tombstone will Ih> a favorite resting place for the hoot owls." Kind of a Failure. "So you don’t approve of those London suffragettes?" "I don’t know much about them," replied Miss Cayenne; j "but I can’t help feeling that a woman who can’t subdue a few men without the use of dynamite is something of a failure." Cotton Must Be Properly Prepared. Cotton men are warned in a circular sent out by the Georgia Banker: ’ Association that the regulations governing the prepa tion of cotton for shipment, as, adopted by the Southeastern rail- j roads and steamship lines recent-1 ly, must be lived up to on and after Sept. 1, next. If the regu lations are not obeyed the details of the failure to obey them will be entered by the railroad or steamship agents on the bill of | lading for the cotton and those entries, the hankers’ association ! states emphatically, will "destroy the negotiability of these bills of kuling insofar as the banks are | concerned.’’ That practically j means that the man who wants his cotton handled with the al i most necessary assistance of the banks must conform to regula tions. Chief among them are those requiring that the hale shall be of standard size, well covered, well marked and dry. It j will be to the interest of every farmer and everybody else who has a hand in the preparation of cotton for shipment to see to it that the regulations are carried out to the letter.—Savannah News. Wilson’s Address At Gettysburg. On July 4th at the great re union at Gettysburg, President Wilson addressed the great throng. In his speech these words occur: "I have been chosen the leader of the nation. I can not justify the choice by any qualities of my own, but so it has come about, and here I stand. Whom do I command? The ghostly hosts who fought up on these battlefields long agoand are gone? These gallant gentle men, stricken in years, whose lighting days are over, their glory won? What are the orders for them, and who rallies them? "1 have in mind another host, j whom these set free of civil strife I in order that they might work out, in days of peace and settled order, the life of a great nation. That host is the people them selves, the great and small, with-, out class, or difference, or kind, or race, or origin, and undivided in interests if we have but the, vision to guide and direct them and order their lives aright in j what we do. | SOME RESULTS OF WORK IN DEPARTMENT OF COTTON INDUSTRY OF COLLEGE By Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture. One cotton manufacturer who took a course, in cotton grading at the Col lege of Agriculture claims that it has saved him $5,000 a year. Eleven students have been placed In ware houses and one in cotton breeding work. Sunbeam cotton which has been bred at the College' to become resis tant to anthracnose, is now distribut ed In 71 counties with about 5,000 acres planted in 1913. It is already saving about $20,000 annually to the larmova. Us merits are resistance to anthracnose, grades high in lint in market, is early and big boiled and thus well adapted to boll weevil con ditions. Experiments show that a crop of legumes plowed under gives bettor ATTEND FARMERS' IFISTI- TiiTE THIS SUMMER The State College of Agriculture has planned to hold a number of far mers' institutes during June. July and August throughout a greater part of the stute Three teams of men will cover as many different routes, hold ing institutes each day at some place. This is the summer work of the staff of the college of agriculture, follow ing the close of the school session. Subjects will be discussed at these meetings that touch the present and future welfare of the Georgia farmer. The men are sent out for the Informa tion that they can carry to the farmer. The farmer is invited to make use of them to the fullest advantage by ask ing questions and calling attention to any local agricultural problems Each man in his line, will be glad to answer every question possible, especially those that are practical and have to do with the needs of the locality In which the institute is being held. An increasing number of farmers have beeu attending these meetings THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THT’RSPAY. JULY 10, 1913. "Our Constitutions are their larticles of enlistment. Their or ders of today are the laws upon our statute books. What we strive for is their freedom, their rights to lift themselves from . day to day and behold the things : they have hoped for, and so make way for still better days i for those whom they love who are to come after them. "The recruits are the little children crowding in. The quar termasters’ stores are in the mines and forests and fields, in the shops and factories. Every day something must be done to push the campaign forward, and it must be done by plan and with an eye to some great destiny. "How shall we hold such thought in our hearts and not be moved? I would not have you live even today wholly in the past, but would wish to stand with you in the light that streams upon us now out of that great day gone by. Here is a nation that God has builded by our hands. What shall we do with it? "Who stands ready to act again and always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor? The day of our country’s life has but broad ened into morning. Do not put uniforms by. Put the harness of the present on. Lift y " arms to the great tracks of life yet to be conquered in the interest of righteous peace, of that prosper ity which lies in a people’s hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. “Come, let us be comrades and soldiers, yet to serve our fellow men in quiet counsel where the blare of trumpets is neither heard nor heeded and where the things are done which make blessed the nations of the world in peace and righteousness and love.” Missed It Once. “Don.t be afraid. Come in nay wife’s out. Have a little something? Here’s a nice quality of old ” I “Good heavens, man; you’ve got the wrong bottle. Look at that label. Don’t you see it’s marked ‘poison?’” I “Oh, that’s all right. That saves it from the cook. My own i invention, you know. Clever, ! isn’t it? Never failed but once.” “How was that?” j “Cook couldn’t read.” value in cotton production than 6 tons of barnyard manure per acre. Experiments show that two plants to the hill, the hills about 24 inches apart, give the highest yields on rich clay uplands. | A complete fertiliser 10-3-4, applied 500 pounds per acre, and 6 tons of barnyard manure put in drill row and thoroughly mixed with soil yielded 2,680 pounds of seed cotton per acre, as against 380 pounds where no ferti lizer was used, or as against 807 pounds where 10 tons of barnyard manure and 200 pounds of acid phos phate were used; or as against 10 tons of barnyard manure, 200 pounds acid and 50 pounds muriate; or as against 10 tons manure, 400 acid. 100 potash and 25 nitrogen. ouch year. Wherever they have been held the attendance Is always great j er the next time, proving conclusively | that the lecturers have hit the mark I and have told the farmers things that 1 have panned out. One South Geor gia farmer told one of the speakers on the occasion of his second visit that he had saved him S7OO by his speech , the year before. Suih words of ap preciation of tlie practical information given, are being frequently received. If any farmer thinks that whaf these lecturers are giving to the far mers is theoretical und not practical, he is urged to go to the meetings and prove it. While not infallible, the staff members of the College of Agri culture do know u good many things for certain that have been proven with painstaking care and by unquestionable methods. It is these facts that they are seeking to take to the farmer. Nothing that has not been thoroughly proven have they the right to advo cate. Go out to the farmers Institute and got further information. No one has too much. 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