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PUBLISHED EVEKY THIHSOAV. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Feb. 11. 1915.
Diversification Should
Stick to Safe Crops.
In common with the press of
the South in General, and of
Georgia in particular, we have
repeatedly urged a change from
the all-cotton policy of our farm
ers to the plan of diversifying in
the crops planted. We are grati
fied to note that from all sections
of the state farmers have de
termined to plant less cotton and
more of crops that they can use
for their own support.
With most commendable zeal
the railroads have joined in the
movement, and are giving direct
aid by offering handsome prizes i
for stimulating grain and live
stock farming. For their help
the press of the state, as well as
the farmers, owe them their
thanks and appreciation.
Hut the purpose of this note of
warning is to call attention to the
fact that a wild rush into truck
farming by those who have no
experience is likely to produce
results quite as disastrous as the
old cotton regime. Some writers
and some railroad boosters are
urging the planting of tomatoes,
snap beans and all manner of
perishable crops. Right here is
where the danger of overdoing
the thing comes in.
One-tenth of the cotton lands
of Georgia planted in crops that
perish in a few hours after ma
turity would glut the markets
with these things, and have the
transportation lines calling for
freight or products that did not
pay carriage charges. A rush in
to these things by men who have
no experience in marketing them
would mean quick disaster.
There are a number of crops
our farmers have planted in a
small way all their lives that are
far safer than any kind of truck.
Corn is today a more profitable
and safer crop than cotton. It
(I k s not rot in a day, and can al
ways be fed at a good profit right
at home and made into a double
profit, not subject to lie eaten up
by freight and commission
charges. Two paying crops a year
arc* easily taken from acreage
sown to oats. The common pea
nut will bring more per acre than
cotton, and can be made and har
vested at about half the expense.
And the same is true of other
well known crops that Georgia
has always planted. Every dol
lar’s worth of home products that
can be made and that prevents
the sending of that dollar out of
the stato for these very things is
just a dollar made. The figures
that toll of the money sent out of
Georgia every year for corn,
w heat and bacon, to say nothing
of seed peanuts, peas and other
things, have already staggered 1
staticians.
The Georgia farmer who goes
to tlie nearby store every spring
to buy lus seed peanuts, made in
Virginia, his seed oats every fall
made by some of his more thrifty
neighbors, and even his seed eofn j
and seed peas, can not possibly
have any excuse about not hav
ing any market for these things.
Right hero in Montgomery
county we have frequently seen
a thrifty farmer sell bacon and
seed oats and peas to the local
store's and s. on that farmer’s
neighbors go to ft he same place
and buy those uu ntieal products
on time to make his crop oil.
We cannot but consider it the
height of folly to encourage this
class to plant such perishable and
precarious crops as tomatoes and
snap beans. The putting up of
these things in cans for future
use or sale is a ditTerent proposi
tion entirely. •
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Atlanta Journal:—After all,
President W’ilson will get more
votes out of the ship bill than the
Republicans and bolting Demo
crats.
Valdosta Times:—ln Mexico,
when they cannot get to kill the
man they want, they take his
son, brother or next door neigh
bor. Somebody must die.
We see where two million Jews
are penniless in Russia. Don’t
worry, Thomas, they’ll everyone
have a big department store in
side of six months.-Hartwell Sun.
Dublin Courier-Herald:— The
Courier-Herald wants to see ev
ery hoy in Laurens county living
on a farm raise a pig this year.
If he can succeed in making
“Little Renjamin” tip the scales
at 300 pounds the Moultrie Pack
ing plant will give the owner
anywhere from twenty to thirty
dollars in cold cash for him on
the hoof.
Adel News:—Each county
ought to have the books of its
officers audited every year so
that if there are any discrepan
cies they can be corrected before
the amounts grow large. Very
few officials are short intention
ally, hut the lack of system is
very often the cause of shortages.
Officers ought to insist that they
be given a clean sheet each year.
Vidalia Advance: —With about
1,000 acres sown in wheat in
Toombs county, the prospects for
a roller mill are bright. There is
much wheat sown in all the ad
joining counties, and next year
year there will be more than
double this year’s sowing.
Monroe Advertiser:-Congress
is to standardize the barrel for
fruits, vegetables and dry com
modities, but the sizeof the “pork
barrel” will remain the same.
Darien Gazette:— Before he re
tires from office in June Govern
or Slaton is going to see to it
that Georgia’s financial affairs
are in good shape. He is leaving
nothing undone to accomplish
4 this end.
I’em broke Enterprise:— The
State wants the automobile li
cense for 1915, and it is up to the
owners to make reports. Some
pay and some don’t, but it seems
that the state is going to have
private agents out, and it may be
best for owners of machines to
attend to this matter at once.
Tattnall Journal: —If rivers
continue to stay as full as they
are now for a month or two lon
ger. fishing will be good for those
who can’t make a living in any
other way. If we can hold out
till summer we can certainly live
then.
Savannah Press:—When J. Og
den Armour says meat will soon
become a luxury he probably
means that it is only a couple of
hours until dinner.
Atlanta Constitution:— Just
when Mexico is inclined to stop
I her foolishness somebody stum
bles over an old sword and be
comes a general. '
Savannah News:—There is no
lull moon this month but that is
not the result of the spread of
prohibition.
LaGrange Reporter:—Edison
says our civilization is only a thin
veneer. Your’e mistaken, Thom
as; it is not even a veneer—just
► a coat of Japalac.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, HER. 11, 1815.
For Long Term Farm
Loans,
SEE A. B. HUTCHESON,
I am negotiating some very
attractive Long Term Farm Loans
for the best companies doing bus
iness in Georgia, with lowest rates
of interest and the most liberal
terms of payments
I have several years experience
in the loan business, am located
at the county site and believe that
lam in position to give you the
best terms and as prompt service
as any one.
If vou need a loan see me before
application.
A. B. Hutcheson,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
PATRICK C. HERRINGTON
Attorney at Law
Kent Office Building
Mount Vernon, Georgia.
A. L. Lanier,
Attorney at Law,
MT. VERNON, GA.
Will Practice in all the Courts of
the State.
PIANO . TUNING.
If your Piano is worth anything,
it is worth EXPERT TUNING.
Any other kind will ruin it. I
have a diploma, and guarantee
all work. Write, and I will call.
ORGANS REPAIRED,
Charles L. Hamilton,
MT. VERNON. GA.
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W. It GRIMES,
Blacksmith & Repair
Works,
ALSTON, GEORGIA.
All Classes of Repair Work Work
Qu iokly and Correctly Done.
Bring Me Your Work.
MULE sT.
Will have a carload of
Choice Farm Mules
in (*lenwood on Sat
urday, .Jan. 30. Prices
Reasonable. Call and
inspect stock.
ALEXANDER & CO.,
Glen wood, Ga.
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| Loans of any amount from SBOO to $50,000 oti farms in Mont
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Have lands examined by a man living near you.
I LOANS ON FIVE YEARS TIME, payal do in easy installments to
suit borrower.
GEO. H. HARRIS j
Merchants Bank Building McR ae, Ga. §
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HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPAIRING WIFE
After Foot Years of Discouraging |
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Up in Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue.
Catron, Ky.—ln an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock
writes as follows: “1 suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, 1 could only sit up for a little
while, and could not walk anywhere at
all. At times, 1 would have severe pains
in my left side.
The doctor was called in, and his treat
ment relieved me ior a while, but 1 was
soon confined to my bed again. After
that, nothing seemed to do me any good.
L . W. BUSH,
Dental Surgeon,
offices 2d Floor Bank of Soperton Building
Soperton, <ia
(J Per Cent. Monev.
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A few applications for loans
on choice city or country property
in Montgomery county desired at
: once. Interest at 6 per cent.,
payable annually or semi-annual
ly. Five year loans: See me at
once.
J. K BREWTON,
Ailey, Ga.
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Half Your Living
i Without Money Cost
A right or wrong start in 1915 will
make or break most farmers in the
Cotton States. We are all facing a
crisis on cotton. Cotton credit is up- |
set. The supply merchant cannot ad
vance supplies on 1915 cotton. You
; must do your best to produce on your
I own acres the food and grain supplies
! that have made up most of your store
j debt in the past.
A good piece of garden ground, j
! rightly planted, rightly tended and
I kept planted the year round, can he
i made to pay half your living. It will j
j save you more money than you made j
on the best five acres of cotton you |
; ever grew! But it must be a real j
garden, and not the mere one-plant
; ing patch in the spring and fait.
Hastings’ 1915 Seed Book tells all
about the right kind of a money sav- !
; ing garden and the vegetables to put
I in it. It tells about the field crops
! as well and shows you the clear road
i to real farm prosy ity. comfort and
independence. IT S FREE. Send for j
it today to H. G. HASTINGS & CO.,
Atlanta. Ga. —Aclvt.
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! 1 had gotten so weak I could not stand,
and I gave up in despair.
At last, my husband got me a bottle of
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and 1 com
menced taking it. From the very first
dose, 1 could tell it was helping me. 1
can now walk two miles without its
tiring me, and am doing all my work.”
If you are all run down from womanly
troubles, don’t give up in despair. Try
Cardui, the woman’s tonic. It has helped
more than a million women, in its 50
years of continuous success, and should
surely help you, too. Your druggist has
sold Cardui for years. He knows what
it will do. Ask him. He will recom
mend it Begin taking Cardui today.
Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladas'
Advisory Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn., tor
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