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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1914)
MADE MONEY BY PLANTING TOMATOES. Over Three Hundred Dollars Made on Each Acre Cultivated. We find tomatoes most profita ble, says Lethia Farabee, in Farm Life. Fast year we planted some seed in a hotbed, and the rest in open ground as soon as danger frosts had passed. 'he hotbed was long a id narrow, and a thin grade of muslin was used to cov er them, which gave plenty of air and sunshine. At night and during heavy rains, they were covered with boards. The beds faced the,south, with the north side of the bod much higher than the south, giving chance for the sun in the day time a good slant to run oir water in heavy rains. Those planted in open rows were put in about one foot apart, in rich soil, when there seamed danger of frost, we covered them with old clothes. Because of their earlier bearing, the hotbed plants yielded a much heavier crop and sold for a higher price than tho c grown in the open ground. The ground for transplanting plants was broken as early as possible after being well covered with manure. It wa worked in to good condition, and rows laid oil' about four feet apart and fer tilizer dropped in hills which wete from three' to three and a half apart in the rows. Rows were crossed off in line so plants could be cultivated both ways. As soon as plants were large enough, the were transplanted to hills, setting well down in the ground, leaving the bushy part of the plant only above ground. This makes a strong vigorous branching plant. They were cul tivated every week until young tomatoes were sotting, and vines began to fall over. The dry weather of last summer did not seem to all’eet our tomatoes much. We made three grades, all large smooth ones going in one basket, the smaller ones in another, and the smallest and those that burs ted open in another. None were wasted except the ones that rot ted. baskets were tilled good and full, with same quality all througg. We soon built up a good tiade and received a better price than those who did not grade. We got a good price throughout . the season, getting as high as $2.30 per bushel. From our two acres of tomatoes, we so d five hundred and thirty-five baskets, averaging $1.15 per basket, thus realizing a total of $015.25 on the patch. Sweet potatoes we also find a paying-crop. Co-operatition In Action. No topic is of more interest and none more directly atfects the farmers of the Smith than that of farm co-operation. It is preached through every news paper. It is taught from every stump. National associations are gathered to promote it. The ar guments arc unanswerable. The results are unsatisfactory. Home and Farm would not have these, efforts to secure co operation on a big scale or a little ! scale abandoned or lessened; but i we believe there is one missing; element, one ingredient needed to achieve the highest success. That element is community co operation. You must teach the farmer at home, home co-opera tion, in order to make him real- j ize the benefit of the broader movement. As in our own government, the success of the republic depends upon home rule, upon local self- i government: so, in our judgment, will the success of co-operation among the farmers depend upon developing among the farmers a spirit of community co-operation. - Home and Farm. Wanted Sood ( am*. I want to purchase for cash 5,000 stalks Seed Cane. Will take 2,tHX) white and 000 red cane. See me at once or write, 1 Perry Blount, ad Soper ton, Rt, 3. I The World’s Great est Detective. William J. Bums. The World’s Greatest Detec i tive! There’s no room to doubt it. He’s the only man since Atlas was first awarded the job of bearing the world on his young shoulders who could do so much at once. Why, they do say that Caesar could write two separate letters at the same time, using both hands, and that our friend “Nap” Bonapart could dictate to several stenographers at once, but it remains for William J. Burns to give the world the greatest example of ambidexter ity and all the other “ambi’s.” Why before he’d been in At lanta thirty minutes and before he had time to do aught but pose for his picture and give a half dozen interviews, he had un raveled the Phagan mystery. Why indeed the thing that had baffled the Atlanta detectives land the Atlanta papers for so ; long he disposed of in the bat ting of an eye. Did you read of him, how he read his mail, dictated letters to his stenographers, ordered his breakfast, chewed into to lucious sweetness of a grape fruit, look ed over the morning newspaper, gave three interviews, dis coursed on various topics and solved the Phagan mystery all in the same twinkling of a gnat’s eye, while the populace looked on in open eyed wonder? “Excusin’’ Roosevelt and Blease, he’s the greatest living personal press agent and Atlanta fell all over herself in doing him honor, in winning, dining, inter viewing, photographing and writing hinv up; and if he has done all the things the newspa pers say he did, he hasn’t even had time to think about the Frank case. But what does that matter, he is the world’s greatest detective and without investigation and without thinking he is able to find the guilty party. Eagerly, so eagerly and expec tantly do we await his report; but you may stick a pin here, his r port will lie exactly the report that he was paid to give. He has had the free advertising, the homage of a hero-worshiping people and the golden shekels, and we’ll soon know “thetruth.” Monroe Advertiser, Farming Prospects Bright. This should be another banner year in the Southeast. With the possible exception of 1911, the farmers have made a better be ginning with their work than ever before, and never did gen eral conditions seem more propi t ous. A remarkable amount of early plowing has been done. Nearly all land that is to be cultivated was well broken in January or February. And then, when this plowed ground was soft and moist, came the generous mantle of snow. In some sections it rested on the ground for days. Insect and germ life was killed, the soil was vastly benefitted and, incidentally, the prospects fer a large fruit crop in this sec tion were immeasurably im proved by the freeze.—lndustrial Index. Libel For Divorce. Lois M. Jackson vs. J. Pat Jackson. Complaint for Divorce in Mont g.uncry Superior Court. • he above named defendant, J. Bat Jackson, is hereby required personally or by his attorney to be ami appear at the Superior Court to be held in and for said county on the first Monday iu May, 1914 next, then and there to answer the plaintiff’s suit in an action for a divorce. In default, therefore court will proceed as to justice shall appertain. Witness the Honorable E. D. Graham, Judge of said county. This the 9tb day of March, 1924. M. L. O’Brien, Clerk. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY’ A n !TI 9 iOH Plant 10 Acres of Grain T IF you have ten acres of grain, it v 11 ]■ y you to buy a binder. Save enough grain ordinarily wasted with the cradle to pay interest on investment. Is ready when the grain is ready. Influenc s i e grain acreage each year. A splendid in fluence. Buy now, for prices will be no lower during harvest rush, and if v. e can get yours in car shipment, may save freight difference between car and local rate. 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