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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1913)
TTye LTorTtgorryery lAorfitor. 1 PUBLISHED EVERV THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, j Entered at the Poxtoftice its Mt. Vernon. Oh. as Second-Class Mail Matter, i H. B. POL SOM, Editor and Owner. $* a Year, In Advance. j»*-I.«*KRI advertisement* must invariably be paid in advance, at the lejjal rate, and as the law riiM-ct-; and must be in band not later than Wednesday morning of the first week of insertion , Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, July 17, 1913. It is so much easier to find fault with county officials than to take a day off and try to help them. Os course Senator Bacon was safely elected again on Tuesday, but people will not go out and vote at this busy season while there is no opposition. When paid attorneys are al lowed to sit on legislative com mittees and shape legislation to suit their employers you will al ways find the rights of the peo ple to he a very insignificant quantity. Co-operation for the benefit of the whole people is about as much akin to the combines hatched out in this section for personal greed and control as an angel is to a hyena. “The greatest good to the greatest number” sounds good to us yet, notwithstanding the fact that it creates only a slight ripple far back on life’s tem pestnous ocean overwhich we are passing. In Georgia new county wrang les waste the greater part of the time of the legislature. In Florida they have common sense enough to allow the people inter ested to settle such matters by their ballots. Georgians are eternally crying out for more laws. If there was not another one placed upon the Statute hooks by tin* present leg islature, except one for the just equalization of taxes, it would he better for us. A sensible man will turn around and retrace his steps when he finds himself on the wrong road. A tool plunges ahead to his utter loss and confusion. A county or section that tries strife and con fusion until the world is nause ated would act sensibly to rest awhile and consider. With the finest section in the world, and natural advantages that cannot be estimate Mont gomery county lias been the seat of war and internal st so so long that our reputation has become statewide. And nobody has ever been profited or saved an honest dollar out of the turmoil. The Typhoid Fly. ('leanliness is the sworn and effectual foe of the typhoid fly. A recent issue of Suburban Life gives the following explicit and easily-followed instructions for insuring cleanliness, as they ap ply to the elimination of the fly with death on his feet: Sprinkle the garbage cans with lime or kerosene, and keep them constantly covered. Do not allow decayed vegetable or other material to accumulate. Keep your promises clean. Be careful that all doors and windows are screened. Screen all food, if it is not i>os sible to keep the flies from it any other way. To kill flies in the house, dis solve 31S grains of bichromate of potash in ten ounces of water. It should bo sweetened with sugar and placed in shallow dish es throughout the house. This material is cheap, can he pur chased at the drug store. Another anti-tly mixture isone jutrt formaldehyde (formalin) and four parts of water. If this preparation is placed in tins or saucepans alniut the house, it will prove very effective, as it at tracts the flies and kills them in stantly. ► Gleanings From 2 t h t t Wisdom’s Field. 2 •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Perry Homd Journal: —There seems to be a wheel within a wheel concerning some of the ap pointments to federal offices in Georgia. In some instances it is a kind of “now you see it, and now you don’t see it” proposi tion. G reen s boro Her aid - Jou r n al: — Lditor Callahan, the genial edi tor of the DeKalb New Era, wants us to tell him how to get some meat to go with his beans. Bake the beans, stew ’em or par boil ’em. The price of meat is too high to waste on beans. Seneca (S. C.) Farm & Fac toryA small, rattlesnake was killed in Farm & Factory's stock room on west Main street recent ly. A short time before that a good size rattler was found in Farm and Factory office. There appears to be a bed of the rep tiles on this block. Monroe Advertiser: —The peo ple of Georgia should rise up and demand that all this new county agitation be stopped: The Leg islature can accomplish nothing because all their time is taken up with the new county hearings and the new county debates. The Legislature should “sitdown Ion” the selfish ambition of all these little cities, and give their attention to paying the teachers, to the hook question and to tax reform. I lawkinsville Dispatch-News: Three seems to be no longer doubt hut that Senator Hoke Smith is “chief cook and bottle washer” at the Georgia pie coun ter in Washington. What he says has more weight with the administration than all the rest of the Georgia delegation put to gether. Waycross Herald:—Charlie G. Gates, son of the late John W., propounds this conumdrum: “What is a million for? I spend a million dollars a year.” All right, (’has.; come down this way and get into the newspaper game. Fitzgerald*Press:—Meat is get ting scarcer but it’s going to be bought and its price higher, tariff or no tariff. What then can our farmers more wisely do than turn to cattle in conjunction with the raising of cotton and corn? Not every one is equipped for cattle raising of course, but many are splendidly equipped. Clinch Co. News:—Thousands of melons are hauled through Homerville daily by the freights, on their way to northern mark ets. Looks like one of them would run into the ditch anyway. Commerce News: Reading be tween the lines, we infer that no man who voted for Joe Brown will get a job in the Atlanta post oflice under the Democratic ad ministration. Thus we go from bad to “worser.” Dublin Courier-Dispatch: The Georgia suffragettes held their annual convention in Atlanta this week. That city was pretty well loaded with trouble makers, \\ ith the legislature and the suf fragettes both in session at the same time. v Darien Gazette: It really looks as if the Georgia legislature was anxious to do something to bet ter conditions. IjoC hold up their hands in their effort to put some needed reforms on the statute books. Rome Tribune: A liars’ con vention is to be held in Waycross. We have a few in Rome that the Tribune-Herald will back in a match against the winners of the Waycross affair. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY. JULY 17. 1913 GREAT IMPROTANCE OF THE HAY CROP Thoroguh Preparation And Liberal Fertilizing Are Required. Tnis is a badly neglected crop even when a large acreage is growm, not one field in a hundred making the profitable crop that it might if proper drainage, right soil preparation, and fertilization were given the attention that the importance of the crop would in dicate should be given. I have seen—all over the south— men pulling up corn fodder for feed, when they had many little pieces of the richest sort of bot tom land, one acre of which would have produced three times the hay that an acre of corn blades will make; and the har vesting of which could have been done at one-fifth the cost of the same amount of corn fodder. Let us clean up, right now, ten thousand of these little rich ; pieces, grub out the hushes, plow l as thoroughly as we car harrow until we have about ru.i d the land. Then sow in an early raa ; turing variety of peas and soy ; beans that will mature in time to make hav of by the middle of j September, Then disk or coulter I the stubble until we have ruined : the land again, sow 500 pounds !of burned lime or 1,000 pounds jof finely ground lime rock per i acre and harrow again (coulter ling would be better, as by that means the working of the soil would be done to a greater depth.) Then apply 500 pounds of 10 per cent acid phosphate or if a car of ground rock can he used in the neighborhood, use 250 pounds of the acid and 500 pounds of the raw rock. Harrow this in thoroughly and if located in the clay sections, sow six pounds per acre of herdsgrass, six pounds of | sapling clover, and six pounds of timothy. Harrow lightly, and if the weather be dry, roll the land. On sandy soils, or in the hotter sections, I would leave out the timothy. Now don’t neglect the deep w-orking of the soil; for while the grasses are shallow-rooted plants plants they must, in order to make large yields, have a con tinuous supply of moisture, and the safest way to increase this condition is to make a storage reservoir for water, which means a well drained, deeply broken,, finely pulverized soil, well filled '■ with vegetable matter. And hay at 1 cent to 1 1-2 cents per pound will pay well for liberal supplies | of mineral plant foods, especially phoshorus. A few of my friends who are; tobacco growers followed my ad vice last summer and seeded one to three acres each of hay, using the above methods, and they are as proud as can be over the mag nificent crops of hay that are coming on toward the harvesting time. Our Farm Life association is making a “gum shoe” cam paign for more big crops of hay in Rockingham county. North Carolina, and I give it now as my opinion that one county will be selling hay in large quantities be fore you other fellows wake up to the fact that big hay ms are about the most profitabl crops the hill fanners of the south can produce. It has been demonstrated time! and again, for some years past, that from three to six tons of mixed hay per acre may be pro duced on our warm clay and loam soils when we give attention to the proper preparation of the seed bed so as to insure abun dant supplies of moisture then are liberal in the use of available plant foods. The hay crop, you should re memder. too, is one that will re main for several years after once seeding; producing profitable crops and the close-growing sod will prevent any washing of the soil. One mowing machine will handle twelve three-acre crops in neighborhood and not be work ing a third of the time at that. The twelve hay growers can pur chase this machine at a cost of $3 per man, or a dollar per acre for the crop, and the machine will do firstclass work for ten years. If the crop should average on ly two and a half tons per acre, it would mean a gross income for these twelve farms of SI,BOO for the year, and net above the cost of fertilizers $1,056. The aver age farmer can prepare the three acres of land and not know at the end of the season that he had been doing any extra work, and he can harvest the crop for about what it would cost him to haul the same amount of western hay from the depot to his farm:—At lanta Journal. His Obituary. Sam Polk was editor of the Polktown Clarion in Tennessee. Horatius F. Johnson, as befitted his name, was running for pub lic office. Sam said some things about Horatius in his paper and Horatius announced in the court house square that he intended to go down to the Clarion office and end the earthly existence of the mud splutter coward who wrote it. These things were reported j to Sam. He went down to his: office to compose a fitting reply, ; says the New York Evening Post. “That scoundrel and miscre ant, Horatius F. Johnson,” he wrote, “announces that he will cease the business of degrading public office by putting himself |up as candidate long enough to j come down to the Clarion office and ram this sheet down our j throats. He will also leave a | wife and four children.” Mules foi Sale. Five head mules, ages 4 to 8, good workers, and in fine condi tion. Prices correct and terms easy. E. T. Mcßride, Alston, Ga. Mr. H. B. Folsom spe t'Tues day in Sooerlon. E. M. RACK LEY Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co. MT. VERNON, GA. L. \Y. BUSH, Dent cl Surgeon, Offices 2d Floor Ur ik of Soperton Building, Soperl<>n, (la MONEY TO LOAN On Improved Farms in Montgomery County sit u Small Rate of Interest. J. E. Hiil!, Soper ton. A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, «. MT. VERNON, GA. 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Fist your l l property wtih us for sale—we will iind 1 > a buyer for you. Wind her you w ant * ► * * •> 2 > to buy or soli, we can handle the d(»al 2 > to your advantage and get results, on 3 > farm or city property in this county 3 I IF YOU WANT MONEY ] ► 2 Get in touch with us. We are in position to supply it on 3 jj* short notice, and on very agreeable terms. We have good > connections with the big firms that want to lend money to < £ the farmers of Montgomery county. Drop in and talk the ,3 matter over with us. We can do the business to suit you. 1, i • 3 l MONTGOMERY 000NTY REAL ESTATE \ \ AMD LOAN CO. j % MOUNT VERNON, GEORGIA 5 » a •AA&AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&AAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA* MACON, DUBLIN & SAVANNAH RY. Schedule Effective Oct. 22, 1911. No. 18 No. 201 QTATIOXN No. 19 No. \i A M. P. M j bIAIKEN.B A M . P . M . 7 (X) 4 00 Leave Macon . Arrive 11 25 4 28 7 14 1 14 Swift Creek . 11 12 3 27 723 428 Dry Branch 11 08 404 727 427 Atlantic 10 59 400 7 81 4 81 Pike’s Peak 10 55 8 5G 789 489 Fitzpatrick 10 48 349 744 444 Ripley 10 43 844 756 450 Jeffersonville 10 81 3 3,2 SO6 506 Gal It- more 10 19 321 810 516 Danvillr 10 09 311 821 521 Allentown 10 04 306 8 31 .5 81 Montrose 954 ! 256 842 542 j Dudley 948 j 245 8 48 ; 5 48 Shewmake 9 37 2 89 854 554 Moore 980 282 910 610 Ar. Lv. 915 217 Dublin 915 615 ; Lv. Ar. ; 910 212 917 617 ' SMI) &S J I 908 210 921 621 NM 1) «fc S J 19 01 206 981 631 Gatlin 854 156 941 641 M 6-ter 8481 145 951 651 R f Ige 831 133 956 656 Orlaml 8 25: 127 10 11 711 Soperton 8 101 Jl2 10 22 722 Tarrytown 758 100 10 80 730 Kibbee 7 50j12 52 10 45 745 Vidalia I 7 3.5:12 37 CONNECTIONS: A t Dublin with the Wriiditsville & T*>nnille and tile Dublin ASouth wi-so n * >r Eastman and Tonnilb* and intormodiate points \r '-1 j, ■ wi’li Southern Railway Imm and tot ineinuatti. ( hattanooira, R, in imngham, Atlanta and intermediate points. Also (lie ( entrul of (i _ Railway. O. S. &F. Railway, Macon and Ririningliam Railway and (if >i,ri:i Railroad. \> R oklf-liTf with the Milieu and Southwestern for Wadley and in termedia!'* points. , , _ \- Vi.lalia with the Seaboard Air Line for .-savanna)) and intermediate ; with in Milh*n and Southwestern for Milieu, Stillmorc and in -1 '■ J. A STREYER, G. P. A., Macon, Ga. Take the County Paper and Get ail the news of Montgomery.
