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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1914)
SOUTH REBUKED FOR ONE-CROP SYSTEM Brooks County Farmers are Independent Because Os Diversification. The South was rebuked for a “siave-like devotion to a single crop” by resolutions by the Brooks County Industrial Club, which came Friday from the secretary of the club in Quitman to Secretary W. G. Cooper, of the Atlanta Chamber of Com merce. The resolutions blamed the exclusive planting of cotton for the uncertain situation through out the South, and urged the production of other things. They declared diversification has been pushed successfully in Brooks County. The word of one Brooks coun ty farmer was attached to the resolutions that although he would lose this season SI,OOO by the inability to market his cot ton, the value of his syrup is en hanced SO7O over that of last year’s, and the increased value of his meat will be S7OO. Fertilizing the Soil. ‘‘Fertilize the soil, not the crop.” This is the advice of fer tility experts in one of the cen tral states at the beginning of a survey of individual farms to rec ommend mixtures that will sup ply each soil with the plant food it lacks. They have their eyes upon permanent fertility, and their advice is unquestionably sound so far as it is applied to the general mixed farm without specialties. If a farm can be so handled as to add to the soil the proportions of vegetable matter and fertilizing elements neces sary to bring it, into a desirable physical condition the maximum yield of all crops may be expect ed for a number of years. This is undoubtedly to the best inter ests of the average farmer who is following a general rotation system. The specialist who is growing truck, fruit or other crops of high acre value has his eye upon the product of a particular year more than upon the average yield of the several crops in rotation. He is more nearly in the position of the stockman who must adapt his rations to the needs of an in dividual animal instead of mere ly striking an average for the whole herd. Some of our grow ers of fruit and truck have the crop feeding idea worked out in great detail. They regard their soil simply as a basis of operation into which they make deposits as in a bank, and they draw upon the fertility assets by means of a special crop. Schemes of permanent fertility have proved most attractive to the grower of diversified crops and have not disturbed the truck grower, who regularly uses large amounts of manures and com mercial raw materials. Country Gentleman. Candidates Must File Statement of Expenses. Attention of those interested is being called to the law which re quires all candidates both those who have been defeated as well as those who are successful, to file with the clerk of the superior court, a sworn statement of their campaign expenses. This state ment must show from whence the money came and how it was spent. It must he filed within twenty days of the date of the primary. A failure to comply with the provision of this law is made a misdemeanor. See section 5)2 of the civil code of 15)10 and section 671 of the criminal code. 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, Naranja, Fla. I Why South Carolina Turned Down Blease. Practically complete returns from the South Carolina primary are even more disheartening to the followers of Gov. Blease than were the earlier returns, although i even they indicated that he was • beaten in his race for the Senate ■ by Senator Smith. The voters made a wise decision. Governor • Blease’s two terms have given his state a lot of unenviable no toriety and it might have been continued if he had been sent to the Senate. He stands for things that arc not good for either South i Carolina alone or the nation as a whole. His defeat may be taken as evidence that his state is tired i of “Bleaseism,” which includes the wholesale pardoning of crim- 1 inals, the approval of lynching! and a sort of rampant defiance of! wholesome conservatism. His political elimination was a good j day’s work. —Savannah News. Possum and Taters. Wagon loads of potatoes upon Americus’ streets these August I days insure protection against i the Meat Trust, the flour and! sugar combines, for, while prices locally are a trifle altitudinous at present, the tuber crop is enor mous and sweet potatoes, a few ; weeks hence will be plentiful at fifty cents per bushel. The yield this year, owing to favorable j seasons is a bumper one and j every family can have all the po- ! ; tatoes they can consume. I This is an important crop in j Sumter, where thousands of > bushels of the finest potatoes are produced at trifling cost —just > that of planting and digging the ■ crop when fully matured. And • delicious dishes can be made of | them. If Americus only had a can nery for putting up sweet pota toes the tubers might be kept in definitely. As it is, the tubers, when properly put up in mounds, will keep through the winter. An abundant crop of potatoes is a safeguard against 40 cents Chicago bacon, for the possum crop promises well, and anvone who cannot enjoy roast possum with yam potatoes upon the su burbs of the dish, is not to be re garded as really human, anyway. Besides potatoes, there will be a great crop of turnips grown in Americus gardens and on Sumter farms; fall tomatoes will be plen tiful and even if meat and flour maintain top prices the folks at home will live all right, and live Well, too. Americus Times-Re-j corder. ” Pork In Georgia. The Home and Farmstead has the following on pork production I in Georgia: ‘‘ln 1800 there were 2,036,116 swine in Georgia in enclosures and on farms and ranges. In 15)10 there were only 1,836,246. “During this period our pop ulation nearly trebled, but we had nearly 200,000 hogs fewer than we had fifty years ago. Since 1800, however, there has been a steady gain in the num ber of hogs on farms and ranges in Georgia—an average of 25 per cent for the state at large.” The cotton conference was one I of the largest meetings ever held j in Macon. The immense audito rium could not seat the crowd.! l he> were men of business, far- 1 mors, bankers. Their concern was how to meet the disasters which have befallen us all by rea son of the war in Europe. It vir tually has blocked our ports. Our great staple, cotton, has noi market. No wonder such serious con ■ corn. What have we to sell ex j cept cotton? 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