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ACREAGE REDUCTION
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL
Wheat and Oats Profitable
Crops to Take Place
of Cotton.
With surplus of this year’s crop
on hand, reduction of acreage es
■ sntial; sow large crops of small
grain immediately. Secure pot
ash from cotton seed meal.
Begin now to plan just what
you are going to plant next year,
and just which fields will be
planted to certain crops. If the
present European war continues
for another year, it will be worse
than suicide for our farmers to
grow a big crop of cotton next
year.
It is absolutely essential to re
duce next year’s crop 50 per cent
or more. If this is not done,
everybody is going to suffer.
There is no use mincing words
about it. Let the European war
continue a year and if the cotton
acreage isn’t materially reduced
the South will face one of the
greatest calamities since the Civil
war. Even though the European
war should end in less than an
other year, the nations that are
now at war could not spin near
their normal amount of cotton.
Their commerce will be so
thoroughly demoralized that it
will take them several years to
get back where they will consume
their normal amount of cotton.
I urge with every ounce of
energy I possess, that every one
of our farmers make up their
minds right now to cut their cot
ton acreage next year not less
50 and as much as 75 per cent
if they can possibly do so. A
seven or eight million bale crop
next year will most assuredly
bring just as much money as a
crop double that size.
It must be kept in mind that
not less than from three to five
million bales of the present crop
must be carried over until next
year, and that much added to
seven or eight million bales will
be just as much cotton as the
world will need, provided the
European war is still going on.
And if it isn’t, the demand for
cotton will be greater than the
supply, and what we do have
will bring a good price and give
us just as much money as if we
had a surplus.
THINGS TO DO NOW.
Put in an extraordinarily heavy
acreage of wheat and oats.
That great section of the
Southeast, known as the pied
mont or hilly section can grow
wheat, probably better than we
can this far down in the cotton
belt, but we can grow it at a
profit here.
Mr. F. B. Mcßride, Mt. Ver
non, Ga., R. F. D. 2, on 3 acres
harvested 63 3-10 bushels, which
at $1.50 per bushel will bring
$94.95. Mr. Mcßride told me
that his wheat paid a better pro
fit per acre than any land he
planted this year. On this same
piece of land he cut about two
and one half tons of fine peavine
hay.
It is very important for every
farmer to act promptly if he is go
ing to get his oats in this fall.
Let me give you a few examples
of what might be done with the
oat crops:
The eleven cotton states, in
cluding Tennessee, in 1912 had
4,140,000 acres of oats on which
they produced something over
97,000,000 bushels. There are
in these States over 6.500,000
horses and mules. If we were
to figure only 3 pounds of oats
for each horse and mule per day
for three hundred days, with 32
pounds of oats to the bushel, at
the average production per acre
of each of these states, it would
require 7,898,000 to raise the
necessary oats to feed the mules
and horses at this small amount
per day.
In these figures no account is
taken of the other uses of the
oat crop, feeding value of oat
straw, etc. Oats will without
doubt be a good ash crop also.
At this date the demand is good
Express Co. Employee
Routs Bold Bandits.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 6. —
Two masked bandits shortly be
fore midnight attempted to rob
the depot office- of the Southern
Express company here and after
a revolver battle with R. E. Mc-
Namee, night money clerk, in
charge of the office, in which a
number of shots were fired, were
driven off.
The men attempted to,gain ad
mittance to the office by posing
as employes of the company and
when McNamee opened the door,
covered him with pistols. He
backed away and opened fire on
them. They fired. None of
their shots struck McNamee nor
is it known whether either of the
bandits were hit.
There was about forty thous
and dollars in money in the office
at the time.
Big Loss Sustained; .
Lee County Gin Burns.
Americus, Nov. 7. —E. L. Bell,
of Americus, sustained heavy
loss last night in the complete
destruction of his extensive cot
ton ginning plant located at
Adams Station, in Lee county.
The fire w s discovered at 9
o’clock in the seed house and ex
tended quickly to the modern
ginnery and storage building
adjacent.
Cotton seed from probably 100
bales, together with the bales of
cotton, were destroyed. The
valuable plant cost $15,000.
There was only $3,000 insurance
upon the property.
Leaps Thirty Feet In
River; Is Pulled Gut.
Dublin, Nov. 7. —Walter Phin
izey, a white man, jumped from
the Oconee river bridge this
morning in what is believed to
have been an attempt at suicide.
A negro boat hand saw the leap
and pulled the. white man from
the river in time to prevent
drowning. Phinizey, although
suffering from the shock of the
30 foot fall, will recover in a few
days, it is believed.
Despondency may have been
the cause of the act.
Rural Route Mileage.
All the counties of the state
have reported on the rural route
mileage in their bounds, and the
total is 41,696 mi1e5, twocounties,
Fannin and Mclntosh having no
rural routes. Carroll county has
the greatest number of miles,
686, Cobb has 667, Laurens 664,
and Gwinnett 618 miles. Ten of
the others have over 500 miles
each. The fund to be distributed
is $92,739.58, ar.d each will re
ceive $2.25 per mile.
Montgomery county has 247
miles, and should receive $555.75,
which, according to the law, goes
into the road fund.
Possum Hunt Fatal
to Farmer in Floyd.
Rome, Nov. 7. — Evan Jones, a
farmer, aged 22, while ’possum
hunting late last night, was kill
ed when a tree in which the ’pos
sum had taken refuge, was cut
down and fell upon him. His
skull was crushed and he died in
stantly.
I
Just received a nice line of
Ladies’ Coat Suits. Prices very
reasonable. J. H. Hudson,
ad. Ailey, Ga.
in this country and abroad.
How is it in our State? Do we
raise enough oats to give our
horses and mules a quarter or a
third, of a feed p<m day. to say
nothing of a full feed, for three
hundred days?
The Chamber of Commerce of
Georgia estimated last winter
that this State purchased 39 mill
ion dollars worth of oats. Some
of the cotton acreage can well be
devoted to this valuable crop.
H. L. Cromartie,
Farm Demonstrator.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1914.
Slaughtering and Cuiing Fork
Dr. W. M. Burson, Prof. Veterinary
Science, State College of Agr.
Many Georgia farmers produce
more meat and lard than is neces
sary for home consumption, but do
not handle the product in away to
get the best market prices.
In producing high grade meat care
in the feeding and selection of ani
mals is tiecessaty. Hogs grown on
pasture and fed peanuts or forest
mast, produce pork too oily to get
proper firming of meat and lard. Such
hogs, if fed on corn, sweet, potatoes
or wheat shorts from two to four
weeks before slaughtering, will pio
duce much better meat and lard.
The most desirable meat is pro
duced from hogs weighing from 175
to 250 pounds live weight. Animals
to be butchered should be kept off
feed twenty-four hours before slaugh
tering hut should have plenty of wa
ter. When thus handled they will
bleed out more freely and the meat
will have better curing qualities.
The best method for slaughtering
a hog is to suspend it by the hind
legs by means of block and tackle, or
similar arrangement and bleed from
the neck, without shooting and stun
ning the animal. When slaughtered
in this way the heart remains active
and (drives the blood jout of the
body.
The proper temperature for scald
ing is 175 degrees fahrenheit. Too
hot water will set. the hair, making
scraping difficult. A small quantity
of wood ashes added to the water
makes scalding and cleaning easier.
The leaf fats should be removed at
the time of dressing the carcass.
Meats should he thoroughly cooled
before placing in cure. If weather
is too warm for proper cooling, ice
should lie broken into pieces of about
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MACON, DUBLIN & SAVANNAH R.Y.
Schedule Effective 12:01 a. m. April 12. 1914.
NO. IK No. 20 STATIONS No. 19 No. 17
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700 I 15 Leave Mason Arrive II 20 1 ID
7 14 4 30 Swift Creek 11 07 3 56
723 440 Dry Branch 10 58 347
727 414 Wmthrop 10 54 313
7 31 4 45 Pike’s Peak 10 50 3 39
739 457 Fitzpatrick 10 43 332
744 501 Ripley 10 38 327
7 56 5 12 Jeffersonville 10 26 3 15
8 06 | 5 22 Gailemore 10 14 3 01
8 16 i 5 31 Danville 10 04 2 54
8 21 i 5 86 Allentown 9 69 2 49
8 31 5 46 Montrose 9 49 2 39
842 557 Dudley 988 228
8 48 6 04 Shewimtke 9 32 2 22
8 54 6 09 Moore 9 25 2 15
9 10 0 30 Ar. Lv. 9 05 1 55
Dublin
9 15 630 Lv. Ar. 905 1 55
931 6 46 Gatlin 8 49 1 89
941 656 1 Minter 8 38 ! 28
951 706 Rock ’ ulge 826 1 16
956 7 11 Orlutnl 8 20 1 10
10 11 726 | Soperton 80512 55
10 22 j 7 37 I Tari vtown 7 58 12 48
10 80 7 45 Kibbee 7 15 12 85
10 45 800 i Vidaiia I 78012 20
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CONNECTIONS:
At Dublin with the Wrightsville dfc Tennlllc and the Dublin & South
western for Eastman and Tennille and intermediate points.
At, M aeon with Southern Hallway from and 10 Cinei until ti. Clin Ila noogii
Home Birmingham, Atlanta and intermediate points. Also the Central of
Georgia Hallway, G. S. &E. Railway, Macon and Birmingham Railway
and Georgia Railroad.
At Rockledge with the Milieu and Southwestern for Wadley and in
termediate points.
At Vidaiia with the Seaboard Air Line for Savannah and intermediate
points, and with the Milieu and Southwestern for Milieu, Stillmore and in -
■ertnediate points.
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