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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. Davis,
j Naranja, Fla.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUG., 27, 1014.
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