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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1914)
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 I Scrubs Fatten Quickly | You want your pigs to eat as much as possible 1 when you fatten them. Give them a great variety looking ihTp.auo of feed, keep the appetite keen and the digestion in fatten and eaee them Bee good order, and you will obtain the desired result; mthd7feed/soon had I especially if you mix with the grain ration a dose of w"fich e nitiedmfover 0 K» i Ree Use stock 1 MEDICINE I I I 25c, 50c and sl. per can. H Whets the appetite—Helps digestion. At your dealer’s. ft MACON, DUBLIN & SAVANNAH R.Y. Schedule Effective 12:01 a. m. April 12. 1914. NO. IK No. 20 STATIONS No. 19 No. 17 \ M I’ M blAllUN* A. M P. M 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 A- M. P. M. Arrive Leave |A. M. P. M. 1 | 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. 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