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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1914)
THE POPULARITY OF FARMER CONGESSMAN Little Things that Make up Character of Dudley M. Hughes. The papers have referred to the popularity of Congressman Hughes, of the Twelfth district, and a gentleman of his county says of him: Aside from his personal mag netism and great worth, the pop ularity of Congressman Dudley M. Hughes, of the Twelfth dis trict, is due in part to little inci dents like the following: Some years ago he decided to plant some Johnson grass on his plantation, and some of his neighbors finding it out and be lieving this grass to be harmful, went to him, telling him that they feared the grass would get on their farms and do them harm. He packed the seed away and would not plant a seed of it. Some one asked him why he did not help to get the stock law in force in his community. He remarked that a great deal of the water supply—the springs and creeks —in the district was on his land, and he did not want to put his neighbors to the hardship of having to keep up their stock on dry fields. The writer was traveling on a certain railroad some years ago, and a gentleman, a cripple, came and took a seat by him, being very much flurried. He failed to have quite enough money to pay his fare, and the conductor was about to put him off, when Dud ley Hughes furnished the means with which he was made to go on his way rejoicing. The voters around the polls in McDonald district, Twiggs coun ty, were discussing the merits of their congressman on the day of the election, when one of the party said this of him: When j his father died, leaving his moth er a widow with a number of helpless children to raise, he owed Mr. Hughes a large amount of money. Mr. Hughes hearing of the death of the father sent the note to his widow, cancelled. —B. S. Fitzpatrick, In Macon Tele graph. Ought To Let The Other Fellows Worry. The sentiment of the weekly press everywhere is on the bright side of things, with a tendency to lead the pessimists to the light. This, from The Cureo Star, is a fair sample of its op timism: ‘ ‘With both the raw material and the manufacturers why should Americans get panicky? It looks like the panic ought to attach to the other fellow entire ly, Again while Europe is marching, fighting and laying desolate a continent, America is going right ahead producing. Those feilovvs have to have our stuff and will have to pay good prices for it. We shouldn’t wor ry. If they haven’t got any more sense than to waste their time and substance in a needless war Americans ought to be smart enough to put their hands in their pockets and take their mon ey for life’s necessities.” The idea is, ‘‘Let the other fel lows do the worrying. ” Looking | for trouble, and finding it, they will have to get out of it as best ! they may.—Atlanta Constitution. Man and 3 Daughters Drown in Mississippi. Euclare, lowa, Aug. 21.—Four people today were drowned in the Mississippi river near here. Thos. Thomas, aged 56, lost his life trying to rescue his daugh ters, Dorothy, aged 21; Elizabeth, aged 17, and Katherine, aged 11. The oldest girl was wading be .hind a boat containing the others when she went in water over her head. Her two sisters leaped in to help her and the father made a futile attempt to save all three. Pulling Fodder Injuries The Corn Crop. A reader wishes to know how much the yield of corn is de creased by pulling the fodder, according to the Southern cus tom, and how this compares with cutting and shocking? The decrease in yield of grain from pulling the fodder or leaves will depend on the size of the yield and the stage at which the fodder is pulled. If the corn is green, the loss may be as much as 10 or 15 bushels of shelled corn per acre, by weight. In one test in Mississippi the loss from pull ing the fodder and topping was 13.5 bushels, if my memory serves me right. On the other hand, if the yield is lighter and the crop allowed to more nearly approach maturity before the fodder is pulled, the loss result ing from the removal of the leaves, or leaves and tops, may be very little. An average of several experiments in a number of Southern states with corn av eraging about 25 bushels per acre, due to pulling the leaves off before the corn has matured. j When this loss of corn and the, cost of pulling the fodder and later gathering the corn are com- \ pared with the cost of cutting' and shocking and the larger amount of forage secured by this latter method, there is no ques tion about it being unprofitable to pull fodder.—The Progressive! Farmer. All About Tides. Many people, when at the sea side, regard the rise and fall of the ocean as a profound and baf fling mystery. The mystery really is not very j hard to understand. As we all know, the surface of the ocean rises and falls twice in every lu nar day, this rise appearing along a coast to be a horizontal motion | —always ebbing or flowing. Now, the lunar day consists of about 25 hours. Thus, of course, the “time” of the tides varies I each day. The tides, moreover, do not always rise to the same height. Every fortnight, with the new and full moon, they rise very much higher than at other times. These high tides are called “spring” tides, the alternating low tides being termed “neap.” When the moon is nearest to the earth, the rise and fall of the ocean is markedly increased. Thus the spring tides are great est at the equinoxes—i. e., at the end of March and the end of Sep tember. Yes, you say, but what has the moon to do with it at all? Sure ly it is the sun which attracts the earth. That is so. But, although the sun’s attraction on the earth is far greater than the moon’s, the moon is so very much nearer to the earth that the difference be tween its attraction at the center and on the surface is three times as great as the sun’s. And it is this difference which causes tides. Oats Advance $3 Ton In Spokane Market. Spokane, Wash., Aug. 22 l Oats have advanced $3 a ton in j the local market in the last few | days, the result of heavy buying ! orders for the English govern ment and a further advance is | predicted as not enough of the cereal now- is in storage for im mediate shipment to fill the de mand. Spokane dealers are ; quoting $25 the ton for consign ment from international points to Winnipeg where grain and hay for use for English military forces are being assembled in large quantities but farmers are reported not selling freely. Sawmill Wanted. Wanted, a second-hand port able sawmill and 20 H. P. boiler. Must be in good condition and sold at a bargain. Write me. E. L. 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