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Miss Annella Cook and Mr.
Carl Adams have returned from
Lumber City, where they repre
sented the Mt. Vernon Epworth
League in the District League
Convention.
Hon. R. A. Smith, the genial
and able representative of Toombs
county, in the legislature, was
attending to business here Satur
day.
Regardless of the frost here
Monday morning, several boys
were out after the little red-eyes
and warmouth perch, and caused
the untimely death of several
from the size of your thumb nail
up to two inches in length.
LOTS F'OK SALE-Four de
sirable building lots in the town
of Alston for sale on easy terms.
W. F. McAllister,
Mt. Vernon.
Miss Willifred Sutton of At
lanta is here on a visit to her sis
ter, Mrs. Thomas J. Mcßae.
Mr. George Pritchett of Reids
ville, formerly of Dublin, passed
through here Tuesday en route
home.
Miss Belle McLeod and Mr.
Jack Crawford of Vidalia were
here Sunday, guests of Miss Iris
Simpson.
Fresh Meats, the choicest, can
be found at O. 11. Morrison’s.
i
I)r. A. L. Hirleman, in charge
of the moving picture exhibition
of the State College of Agricul
ture, was a caller at this office
Tuesday.
Miss Vera Wright and Mrs.
Drew, who have been spending
some time with Mr. and Mrs: 11.
J. Wright here, left Sunday to
visit points in Florida before re
turning to their home in Massa
chusetts.
Uses and Abuses of Fertilizers
By Prof. R. J. H. De Loach, Director of Georgia Experiment Station.
2. INTELLIGENT USE OF FERTILIZERS IN GERMANY.
The Second of a Series of Six Articles.
All state Institutions have fostered the fertilizer trade since its origin
In the early fifties Statu organizations of all kinds have taken a lively
part in the building up of the trade, and in later years the status have taken
It for granted that the trade is profitable to farmers and merchants alike,
and have therefore framed laws to regulate its manufacture and sale. In
every state where fertilizer is sold in appreciable quantities laws have been
passed exacting certain requirements of the manufacturer, as to analyses,
grades, etc. Resides tin* trade, over-ambitious, might forget its obligation to
the consumer and offer for sale inferior material under the name of fer
tilizers. We may say without fear of successful contradiction that the
states themselves are largely responsible for tho rise and volume of the
fertilizer trade.
It has long been recognized that Germany leads the world in many
lines of science. This is perhaps true In regard to the use of fertilizers in
• arly years. Germany discovered that mineral salts applied to growing
crops increased the yields immensely, and gave time and study to the under
lying causes, and ha - suggested to the other parts of the world many valu
able lessons on Iter findings. Von Liebig, through his studies and lec
tures on modern agriculture, lias made known much of the work of Germany
In the early history of the use of commercial fertilizers. Liebig says that
Kuhlman, a German agricultural scientist, applied aalammontac to a meadow
In the years IN4f> and ISlti. and found that on a hectare tacres) he gatli
cred 8,140 pounds of buy more than on the same kind of meadow where he
did not use the salattimoniae. lie secured this result by using about -Oh ]
pounds of salamntoniac to the acre.
In commenting upon this Von Liebig has the following to say: “It is |
quite certain, that in the action of the guano, which produced the crop next
highest after the t'ltili -■altpetcr, an unmistakable part was played by the
ammonia contained in it tin the other hand, however, the experiments
with eiirboua e and nitrate of ammonia show that a quantity of ammonia,
or nitrogen, equivalent to that in 110 pounds of guano and employed under
the same conditions, was almost without effect."
Fertilizer Experiments In Germany.
A little further along he says: “The most recent observations on the
comportment of the soil towards the food of plants show how slight is the
knowledge we ;•< . e s of their mode of nourishment, and of the pan which
the soil, by its physical condition, plays in it. The comportment of the
salts of ammonia, of chloride of sodium, and of nitrate of soda, towards
the earthly plu plflites in the soil, may perhaps assist us In throwing
some light on their action, or one of their actions, on the growth of plants.’ J
This statement was made because it was always found that when common j
salt was added to certain mineral manures, greater yield was obtained,
and Von Liebig came to the conclusion that this was due to the relation of
this added material to the liberation of potash In the soils.
Only a short time after the war between the states the German pot
ash beds were discovered and by rapid leaps and bounds this material gained
In favor with planters as well a-, experimenters. The necessity for find
ing a combination to liberate the potash in the soils was now removed
and thorough satisfaction was found in the use of the nitrate of soda and I
the potash -alts, and lu re the industiy stood for a long time. Liebig does
claim, however, that Tril-.tstc phosphate of lime crept into the formula and
was found efficient This fact is very significant and happened to be dis- !
covered by a constant stud) of the use of the nitrate of soda and potash
salts. Liebig thought that these two plant food materials had the power |
of dissolving phosphoric acid in the form of earthly phosphates, and these
in turn added gieatly to the yield of farm crops.
Germany’s C-op Yields Greater Than Other Nations.
We have here hints of what afterwards really developed to be
facts -namely that he three gteat elements of plant food that should be
applied to the sod l>r x<hhl crop vie'ls are phosphoric acid, ammonia and
potash For many years these three elements have been the essential
elements of plant food in a fertilizer formula.
Today Germany applies more mineral salts per acre to her crops than
any other nation in tho world, and partly as a consequence gets higher
yields of farm crops than any other nation It is significant that these
two facts are so closely related, but it must be remembered that Germany
has learned the lesson of good tillage—deep plowing, the proper use of
vegetable matter In the soil, and the dangerous practice of continuous
cropping with any single crop. It is also to be remembered that the lands
on which the most money can be cleared without any kinds of fertilizers
are the laud* that will give greatest profits with fertilizers.
Hon Tom Eason of Mcßae was
i a visitor here Tuesday morning.
Mrs. C. E. Cook left Tuesday
1 morning for a visit to Blackshear
and Waycross.
Col. Girard Cohen, a prominent
* young attorney of Savannah, was
’ a visitor here Saturday.
Mrs. Claude Wright and Miss
Jeddie Cockfield spent Sunday
last in Mcßae.
t Corn club boys who propose to
compete for the valuable f rizes
offered this year by the M. D. &
S. railroad should not forget to
make application to Mr. W. B.
Alford, Macon, Ga., and have
their names properly entered.
If you do not feel inclined to
lift up your voice in song, >ou
may enjoy hearing others sing.
And next Saturday and Sunday
is the time, and Ailey the place
for the big meet of the Montgom
ery County Singing Convention.
Fancy Groceries that measure
up to the highest standard of
purity and freshness. O. H.
Morrison, Mt. Vernon.
Mr. Thomas Morris of Higgs
ton was a visitor here yesterday.
Mesdames J. L. Carmichael
and Wm. Holder and Mr. Geo.
Sumner and Mr. Stratman of
Swainsboro came down yester
day to attend the Presbytery.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Priest of
Higgston were visitors to Mt.
Vernon Tuesday.
Mrs. Helen Daniels of near
Longhond. is here attending the
Presbytery. She is stopping
with Mr. and Mrs. Howell Mc-
Lemore.
Mt. Vernon feels highly com
plimented bv the coming within
her gatesjthis week of such a fine
body of Christian gentlemen as
compose the Savannah Presby*
I tery.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1916
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Peanuts For Oil
And For Swine
j John R. Fain, Professor Os Agronomy.
Georgia State College Os Agriculture.
That there is now at least a limited
opportunity in the production of pea
nuts for oil for those who are not in
a position to graze the peanuts ofr
with hogs, is unquestioned. This will
certain last as long as present mar
ket conditions in oil prevail.
If the producer of peanuts can con
tract ahead for 75 cents per bushel or
above, he can figure a profit of some- !
thing like 16 cents per bushel based
on 40 bushels per acre at average
cost of production, if contracts can
not. be made ahead for a definite price,-
wherever possible, the farmer should
lie in a position to graze the nuts off
wilh hogs, in case the price of nuts ;
at harvest time, does not make it prof- S
Itahle to put them on the market.
Estimates for the profitable produc- j
tion of pork can be based on 200
pounds of pork per acre. There are a
good many reports of as much as 1,
000 pounds of pork per acre on pea
nuts, hut 200 pounds can safely be
taken as the minimum. If 600 to SOO
pounds of pork can he obtained it will
give a larger profit than peanuts at
75 cents sold to the oil mill.
One of the main differences between
grazing hogs and selling nuts to the
mill is the maintenance of tiie fertil
ity of the land. Tills is a most im
portant factor and it should he clear
ly kept, in mind that where hay and
nuts are all removed the land will de
preciate in crop-producing power.
Where the hogs graze I lie peanuts the
land should increase in crop-producing
power. »
Livestock Campaign
Quits Successful
Milton P. Jarnagin, Professor Os A.ni
mal Husbandry, Georg a State
College Os Agriculture.
The campaign for more and bet
ter livestock which lias been conduct
ed in Georgia by Ihe College of Agri
culture in co-operation with the rail
roads, proved as great a success as
could be hoped for. Practically the
whole state was included in the itin
erary, every line of railroad being
used. About 175 stops were made by
tiie exhibit cars, the arrangement be
ing to make two stops a day. About
175,000 people visiteii the exhibits and
heard the speeches made by the ex
perts accompanying the exhibits.
All those who saw tlie exhibits know
more today about what pure bred live
stock is, what different breeds ate
and their adaptability to local condi
tions than they ever knew before. Un
questionably many have been led to
desire pure-bred animals and many
have already determined to have such
types of animals as their foundation
for breeding. The ultimate outcome
of the campaign, therefore, will he a
large contribution to tiie improve
ment of livestock, the influence of
which will continue indefinitely as the |
effect of better breeds develops from
year to year.
This campaign would have been im
possible without (he assistance of the
railroads. They joined most heartily
in the undertaking.
The exhibits of homegrown feeds
added conclusive arguments in favor
of the livestock industry in Georgia.
In fact, the conclusion which the cam
paign enforced with no room left for
doubt, is that Georgia affords splen
did opportunities for livestock grow
ing.
Farmers CauiiortEt! About
Phosphate-Lime Fertilizers
W. A. Worsham, Jr.. Professor Os Ag
ricultural Chemistry, Georgia
State College Os Agriculture.
Requests have come to the College
of Agriculture for informa;ion about
the value of phosphate lime which is
being advertised under attractive
trade names, and, in away, to indi
cate that the soil requirements for
phosphorus and lime can be obtained
! very cheaply in this way.
The Department of Agricultural ;
Chemistry of the College makes the
following statement: “From their ad
vertisement the reader would fie led
to believe that the material is differ
ent from the finely ground phosphate
rock, commonly known as 'floats.' The
descriptions ate such us would easily
lead the farmer to believe that the
i lime in the phosphate material is cn
j pable of correcting the acidity of the
! soil —the purpose for which lime is
1 used. There are only three forms of
j lime which can be used for correct
ing the acidity of the soil, but at lime,
slaked lime and ground limestone. No
oilier form of lime should be cousid
ered by the farmer for this purpose.
The particular material which is be
ing advertised to suppij both p’
: photic acid and lime is a lov gt.uie
! phosphate rock finely ground, it con
tains a relatively high p •cen’r.Te of
| iron and aluminum which is ebjec
j tionable. The lime contacted in phos
phate rock and acid phosphate i
no value for correcting soil acidity
"Any one contemplat'ag using t -i;
phosphate should write the C \.. sot
la circular recently
* of ground rock phosp!
Value of the Farm Woodlot
J. B. Berry, Prof. Forestry, Ga. State
College Os Agriculture.
Just what value do you place on I
that patch of woods on your farm,
1 or do you consider it only as an ob- !
stacle to the cultivation of the land?
A hund'd years ago timber was very
plentiful and prices low. At the pres
ent time the best of the timber in
the East and South has been logged,
or destroyed, and lumber prices are
advancing rapidly. No longer are the
big timber holders of the United j
States recklessly logging their land.s
—rather, they are holding their tim
ber to take advantage of the rapid
increase in wood values. It is con
servatively estimated that the pres
ent forests of the United States
cannot supply the demand for
; more titan seventy-five years.
I When this is gone we shall have to
< mpete with England and Germany
in the world’s markets. During the |
year 1014 lumber prices In Germany
j ranged about four times as great as
in the United Slates, and these prices
showed an increase of 10 per cent
to 15 per c< nt over the current prices
of the year 1313. If this then is true —
that the present lumber prices of the
United Slates will be increased 300 1
per cent or 400 per cent during the
next twenty or twenty-five years—can
there be any doubt as to the value
ol a timber investment?
The South is particularly favored
in the matter of wood produc
tion. Nowhere else do trees and Tor-;
c ts grow more rapidly. During the
course of twenty years a second
growth thicket of old field pine and
yellow poplar has developed into a
forest, the trees of which average 12
to 15 inches in diameter. While trees
of this size do not produce a high per
centage of good lumber, there is a
strong demand for this class of mate
rial in the production of boxes and
packing cases. Even as rough lumber
the product of these trees would have
a value of from S2O to ?40 per thou
sand feet, and, at the present rate of
increase, these prices will have dou
bled in ten years, quadrupled in twen
ty years. If this is true, and there
can be no doubt of it, are there any
other portions of the farm with the
potential value of these thickets of
young trees? What, then, is to be
thought of a man who clears away
this young timber, often from steep
slopes, with the object of placing the
land under cultivation for a few years
until erosion has carried away
the surface soil) and then abandon
ing the area to weeds and small
trees until nature has painstakingly
and slowly re-established a forest cov
er? Instead of creating wealth, is he
not in reality destroying it?
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc.,
required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912,
Os The Montgomery Monitor, published weekly at Mt. Vernon, Ga., for April 1, 1916.
State of Georgia—County of Montgomery.
Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared
H. B. Folsom, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor
of the Monitor, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of
the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication
for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24. 1912, embodied in section
\ 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business man
ager are:
Publisher H. B. Folsom, Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Editor * do
Managing Editor do
Businsess Managers do
2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation,
give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of
of the total amount of stock.)
H. B. Folsom, Mt. Vernon. Ga.
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per
cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are:
None.
j 4. That the two paragraphs next above giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and se
curity holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear
upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears
upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or
corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two parapraphs contain
statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under
which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustee,
hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no
reason to believe that an other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in
the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him,
H. B. Folsom,
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Ist day of April, 1916. Jas. F Currie
( Seal > Com. N. i>. M. C., Ga.
_ (My commission expires June 30, 1918.)
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Republicans Put Out
Candidate for Congress.
Dublin, Ga., April 10.—J. M.
Outler, of this county, was nom
inated today by Henry Jackson
Republicans for Congress from
the Twelfth District. The nomi
nation has been accepted, and
for the first time since the dis
trict was created the Democrats
: will have an opposition candidate.
