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WHAT IS THE LIMIT
OF CORN PRODUCTION?
Can Georgia Beat Alabama
Wfth a Record of
232 Bushels?
What is the limit to the amount
of corn that can be produced up
on an acre under ideal conditions?
When Jerry Moore of South Car
olina grew 228 bushels on one
acre the whole world applauded
him and there predictions that
the record would stand for a long
time. And it did stand three
years. But this year, generally
considered not a very good corn
year, an Alabama boy, Walker
Lee Dunson, reported a yield of
232 bushels.
What a lesson there is in those
figures for farmers who have
been content to raise 10 or 12 or
20 bushels to the acre! Young
Dunson holds the national title of
champion corn grower. But it
may be unwise to predict that he
will continue to hold it many
years.
Os interest is the fact that he
spent but 20 cents a bushel to
produce his yield, half as much
as Jerry Moore spent. - He and
the former champion have shown
that the South is the natural
corn-growing section. They cap
tured championships in competi
tion with boys throughout the
country, including those in the
great corn-growing belt. Boys
from thirty states are being en
tertained at Washington by the
Department of Agriculture. The
South sent, to the capital the
champion of them all. Only the
failure of the South’s farmeis to
see the possibilities before this
section in growing corn can pre
vent the South from being the
nation’s chief granary within a
few years. —Savannah News.
The Making of a Diplomat.
They had been mutually at
tracted to each other at their first
meeting, says Answers. Stealthy
meetings at teashops and theaters
had enabled them to arrive at
that stage called “love.” The
wedding day had been fixed, and
the South of France chosen for
the scene of the honeymoon.
“But, George,” she said one
day, “had you not better call and
tell mamma all about it? She
ought to be told, you know.”
“Yes; I suppose she ought,”
admitted George, somewhat
doubtfully.
Now, mamma was a chilling
and haughty widow, and George
felt somewhat nervous as he
waited in the drawing room for
her to appear.
“I understand,” she said, sail
ing into the room, “that you
have been making love to my
daughter in secret. In these cir
cumstances, therefore, I feel it
to be my duty to forbid you ever
to see her or to enter this house
again! Good morning!”
“Madam,” said George, pulling
himself together, “it is true I
see you now for the first time.:
Had I seen you before meeting
your daughter I should never
have thought of her for a mo
ment —I should have loved you
to distraction!”
“Ah, well!” said-mamma, op
bending. “What I objected to
was the secrecy of it all. Come
into the next room and I will in
troduce you!”
Real Spirit Os Christmas.
How often have I heard the
word: “I wish that I were rich at
Christmas-time, for then I could
do so much for others, ” writes
Margaret Woodword in an article
on the problem of Christmas giv
ing, in Suburban Life. “How
strange it is that we never seem
to learn the lesson that it is not
the giving of things, but the
giving of self, that counts! It is
the spirit of Christmas which we
must strive after —not the multi
pliplication of gifts.”
For choice rust-proof seed oats
see me before the supply is ex
hausted. W. H. McQueen,
ad Mt. Vernon.
If I Had The Time.
Some boys will pick up a good
education in the odds and ends of
time, which others carelessly
throw away, as one man saves a
fortune by small economies, which
others disdain to practice. What
young man is too busy to get an
hour a day for self-improvement?
You will never “find” time for
anything. If you want time,
you must take it.*!
If a ,’genius like Gladstone car
ried|through life a little book in
his pocket lest an unexpected mo
ment should slip from his grasp,
what should we, of common
abilities, resort to save the
precious moments from oblivion?
“Nothing is worse for those
who have business than the visits
of those who have none,” was
the motto of a Scottish editor.
Drive the minutes, or they will
drive you. Success in life is
what Garfield called a question
of “margins.” Tell me how a
young man uses the little ragged
edges of time while waiting for
meals or tardy appointments, af
ter his day’s work is done, or
evenings—what opportunity!—
and I will tell you what that
man’s success will be. One can
usually tell by his manner, the
direction of the wrinkles in his
forehead, or the expression of
his eyes whether he has been in
the habit of using his time to
good advantage or not.
“The most valuable of all pos
sessions is time, life itself is
measured by it.” The man who
loses no time doubles his life.
Wasting time is wasting life.
Some squander time, some in
vest it, some kill it. That pre
cious half-hour a day which many
of us throw away, rightly used,
would save us from]the ignorance
which mortifies us, the narrow
ness and pettiness which always
attend exclusive application to
our callings.
Four things come not back —
the spoken word, the sped ar
row, the past life, and the neg
lected opportunity.—Success.
To Rub Them Out.
A funny story is being told in
medical circles, says Pearson’s
Weekly.
A man went to a quack doctor
for treatment. He had a sharp
pain internally, and remarked
that it might be caused by his
habit of sucking the point of a
lead pencil. The quack said he
was suffering from lead poison
ing and gave him some pills
which he said would cure him.
Next day the man came back
very angry.
“A friend of mine has examin
ed the pills you gave me,” he
said, “and they are only bread.”
“Os course they are,” was the
bland reply. “Don’t you know
that bread is the finest thing to
remove pencil marks with? You
didn’t want me to give you india
rubber pills, did you?”
Christmas Here In 1492.
The first Christmas ever spent
by white men on this hemisphere
was devoted to saving what could
be preserved of a shipwreck. On
Christman eve, 1492, the caravel
Santa Maria with her consort,
the Nina, was coasting down the
shore off the island which the ad
miral christened Hispaniola, now
known as Haiti.
At 11 o’clock on Christmas eve
Columbus, feeling that the ships
were safe in the calm, left the
deck and went to sleep. A
steersman at the helm violated
orders and left a boy in charge.
The boy at the helm did not
hear the breakers as the current
sucked the ship inshore and was
not alarmed until the vessel
struck. Columbus answered his
cry for help, but the ship could
not be saved, and all on board
were safely transferred to the
Nina. Christmas was spent try
ing to save the Santa Maria.
M. E. CALHOUN
A tty at Law,
Mt Vernon', Georgia
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, DEG. 18, 1913.
Farm for Kent.
Good three-horse farm on pub
lic road from Lumber City to
Dublin, six miles south of Glen
wood, (P. H. Clark home place).
High state cultivation, good wa
ter, school, church. See
W. C. Riner,
ad Glenwood, Ga.
Stray Notice.
Came to my place about three
years ago, a dark red Steer now
about 4or 5 years old. Mark
staple fork in right ear and
smooth crop in left ear. Owner
can get same by paying feed
bill‘and"advertising fees.
J. C. Clifton.
Uvalda,fGa.,:Nov. 25, 1913.
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For Long Term Farm
Loans,
SEE A. B. HUTCHESON,
I am negotiating some very
attractive Long Term Farm Loans
for the best companies doing bus
iness in Georgia, with lowest rates
of interest and the most liberal
terms of payments
I have several years experience
in the loan business, am located
at the county site and believe that
I am in position to give you the
best, terms and as prompt services
as any one.
If vou need a loan see me before
application.
A. B. Hutcheson,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
A. L. Lanier,
Attorney at Law,
MT. VERNON, GA.
Will Practice in all the Courts of
the State.
CLINTON P. THOMPSON,
Attorney at Law,
MT. VERNON AND ALAMO.
Mt. Vernon office Tuesday, Wed
nesday, Thursday. Telephone.
PIANO . TUNING.
If your Piano is worth anything,
it is worth EXPERT TUNING.
Any other kind will ruin it. 1
have a diploma, and guarantee
all work. Write, and I will call.
ORGANS REPAIRED.
Charles L. Hamilton,
MT. VERNON, GA.
W. B. GRIMES,
Blacksmith & Repair
Works,
ALSTON, GEORGIA,
All Classes of Repair Work Work
Quickly and Correctly Done.
Bring Me Your Work.
Ham i* Burcii
Attorney at Law
McRAE, GA
Practices in all the Courts.
Wire Fencing.
We have just re
ceived large lot of the
Famous “American”
Wire Fence, every of
which is guaranteed.
All sizes. Display at
blacksmith shop.
MASON & HUTCHESON,
MT. VERNON, GA.
BUIC K
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A Note to You:
Jan. 23, 1913.
We have no regular delivery
wagon as yet. Within a few
years air ships will come into
general use, and many of our
patrons will have deliveries made
from our place in this novel and
rapid manner.
In the mean time, should you
not live directly in touch with
our drug store, many of your
purchases can be forwarded by
Uncle Sam’s new mail service—
the Parcels Post —delivered right
at your door. That class of goods
commonly known as merchandise
will be forwarded at our expense,
free to your door, and we should
be glad to have our patrons take
advantage of this new and eco
nomical method of shopping.
P. S. School books cannot be
forwarded at the Parcels Post
rates.
Mt. Vernon Drug
Cmpany.
FARM
HACHINERY
If you want Best
Prices on Mowers,
Rakes, Disc Harrows,
Grain Drills, Buggies
and Wagons, see
D. S. Williamson,
Alston, Ga.
MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!
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