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Treatment of
Potato Disease.
Two of the most common and
widely distributed diseases of
Irish potatoes are common scab
and Rhizoctonia or scurf. Both
of these diseases occur more or
less abundantly every year, caus
ing considerable loss, especially
to those growing potatoes for
seed.
Scab is caused by a fungus
which attacks the tubers causing
a characteristic roughness of the
surface. This roughness is due
to numerous irregular diseased
patches which take the form of
holes. These holes vary in size
and are from one-sixteenth to
one-fourth of an inch in depth.
Potatoes thus affected have a
very ugly appearance, are of
poorer quality than healthy tu
bers and do not demand the nor
mal market price.
Rhizoctonia is also a fungus
disease and appears on the tubers
as small round black spots. These
spots penetrate only to a very
slight depth and may be scratch
ed off with the finger nail, how
ever, as in the case of scab, the
tubers are giving a very ugiy
and undesirable appearance. In
addition to this, seed badly in
fested germinate poorly and pro
duce weak, unhealthy plants
that are not capable of producing
standard yields.
Both diseases are carried over
from season to season either in
the soil or on the tubers. In case
of the former, crop rotation will
prove advantageous. The prin
cipal means by which the disease
is harbored and spread, however,
is by the continuous practice of
planting diseased seed. Since
this is true, the most advisable
method of preventing outbreaks
of the disease is to plant only
that seed which is absolutely
free from disease. Disease-free
seed may be had at very little
expense by merely treating the
seed potatoes with some good
disinfectant just previous to
planting. Formalin is generally
used for this purpose, the method
of treating being as follows:
(1.) Prepare a tub, barrel or
other suitable container for the
formalin solution.
(2.) Mix the formalin in
water in the proportion of one
pint of formalin to 30 gallons of
water.
(3.) Dip the bags of uncut
potatoes (the amount in each
bag depending on the size of the
container used) into the solution
and allow them to soak for two
hours.
(4.) Remove from the solution
and allow the potatoes to remain
in the bags for one or two hours.
(5.) Empty bags on clean
floor or burlap until cut for plant
ing.
The method outlined above has
given good results at the Georgia
Experiment Station and is gen
erally conceded to be a very
satisfactory method.
W. C. Herron,
Asst. Plant Pathologist,
Georgia Experiment Station.
Oak Grove Dots.
Special Correspondence
Mr. Lawrence Gillis and family
of Orland visited Mr. D. S.
O’Brien Sunday.
Mr. M. A. Peterson was in
Alston on business Monday.
Mrs. Foskey and daughter vis
ited Mrs. W. D. Lawrence last
week.
Mr. H. S. Fullford and family
were in this section Saturday
night and Sunday.
Mr. J. A. Reynolds made a
business trip to Alston last Mon
day.
Miss Estelle Milligan and Mr.
Will Hughes were out riding Sun
day p. m.
Miss Annie Reynolds visited
M**s. Louella Daniels Wednesday
afternoon.
A very large crowd attended
Sunday school Sunday afternoon.
Miss Willie Meeks and sister
tment Saturday night and Sun
day in this section.
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FANCIES ABOUT
THE PURINES
There Has Been Much Misrepre
sentation in America About
People and Conditions.
By MAXIMO M. KALAW,
Secretary of the Philippine Mission.
A certain lady
at i- ouia
Exposition saw at
a ba 11 ro o m a
; brown complex
ly, *1 ioned man In fault
-1 xf' less evening dress
: J and accosted him
%s; : with the inquiry,
I suppose you are
, Japanese, sir?"
The man ad
•Afkii'S dressed replied,
' madam."
“Then you must
c.j'/comst he Chinese, she
Maximo M. Kalaw. Su j, ( ]' T , .
“No, I am not.
I atn a Filipino,” he replied.
“How's that?” ashed the lady. “I
thought they were all savages living in
the woods.”
“Well, I’ll tell you how I came here,”
he said. “A month before 1 left the
Philippines I was living in the woods,
In.t. the American Governor decided to
catch as many wild men as possible,
train them and send them over here.
So here 1 am, Just as you see.” And
tie St. Louis lady actually believed
him.
That is what you would call fancies
about tbe Philippines. The fact is,
however, that the 11,000,000 Filipinos
and their ancestors have been civilized
and Christians for .'>oo years; that the
non-Christian population, according to
the census of 1918, is only 500,000, and
even these are not all uncivilized.
Another fancy is that not until the
coming of the Americans were school
buildings seen in the Islands, roads
built, or substantial houses erected.
Ho you know that for hundreds of
years the Filipinos have had colleges
and schools and that the University of
Santo Tomas is only twenty-flve years
older than Harvard? That as early as
1860, .out of a population of 4,000,000
people, there were Sit schools for boys
and 888 for girls? -That in 1892, eight
years before the coming of the Ameri
cans, there were 2,137 schools?
“To grant self-government to Luzon
under Aguinaldo would be like grant
ing self-government to an Apache res
ervation under some local chief.” Thus
spoke a former President of the United
States during the Fllipino-American
war. Exaggeration could be an excuse
at a time when the dignity of the Am
erican people demanded the extinction
of Filipino opposition, but do you know
that the Philippine Republic, before the
American occupation of the Islands,
had the approval of prominent Ameri
cans who were on the spot—like John
Barrett, Director of the Pan-American
Union, who compared it favorably with
he Japanese government? That Ad
miral Dewey considered the Filipinos
better fitted for self-government than
’ lie Cubans? That they had drafted a
constitution at Malalos which elicited
he approval of distinguished Repub
licans like the late Senator George F.
if oar? That before the coming of the
Americans they had produced national
lieroc* like the martyred Jose Rizal,
prom.wiiced by a Republican congress
man, Representative Cooper, as the
noblest victim that has ever fallen'into
die clutches of tyranny?
Anil do you know that the Filipinos
have not had for hundreds of years any
caste system, blood distinction or royal
families, and that, unlike their oriental
sisters, they are the only Christian peo
ple in the orient?
Poo.de have pictured an ignorant
mass of Filipinos, illiterate, poor, liv
ing a life of servitude for a few
wealthy land owners and foreigners,
with no houses or farms or property
.of their own. Do you know that 70
per cent, of the people above ten years
of age can lead and write and that this
percentage of literacy is almost as high
as some of the slates of the Union?
That it is higher than in any country
of South America, higher than the lit
eracy of the Spanish people, and un
questionably above that of any of the
new countries recognized in Europe?
Do you know that there are a million
nd a half farms in the Philippines
md that 96 per cent, of these farms
.re owned by Filipinos. In other words
bat out of the 11,000,(XX) Christian
Filipinos, 8.000,000 of them at least live
on their own farms, with houses of
heir own, independent of any absentee
andiord or foreign master? Thar 91
>er cent, of the urban property con
listing of houses and lands is owned
>y the natives of the Philippines, and
nly 9 per cent, is in the hands of for
•igners? Yet these are facts cabled by
Voting Governor Charles Emmett Yea
■r to the War Department from the
'■rent census estimates.
Having solemnly promised the Fill !
duos their independence and having
one iiefore the world as the champion
f self-determination, tbe Filipino peo
!e cannot understand how America
m consistently refuse to make good
>ese promises.
LIMATE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
i The Philippine Islands have a mild j
tropica! climate. The nights nr> j
ol and ins ok**>- are unknown. Th
-rnperature recoro for the past thirt.
_*urs sliov.s an £»c:a e . of bo a*- e .v.-
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THUftS <25, 1920.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
To the People of Montgomery
County:
1 respectfully ask the honor of
representing Montgomery county
! in the lower house of the General
■Assembly of Georgia, 1921-1922,
j hereby announcing my candidacy,
■ subject to provisions of the State
| Democratic Executive Committee
and rules of the Democratic Exe
cutive Committee of Montgomery
county. Very truly,
Horace B. Folsom.
FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL
OCONEE CIRCUIT.
J, In.
I hereby annmison, Wr candi
dacy for the Cross’ o ]j c jt or '
General of the/ ster ’ !
Circuit. Shot’y p 0 an( iected to;
this office I prjregor, Dri'scharge
its duties .gston, Colourlessly,
honestly and£ these dat* 0 f m y
ability. „ ;V’.HOUN.
~ nave an '
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FOR JUDGis c-'CONEE JUDI
CIAL CIRCUIT.
To the Voters of The Oconee
Circuit: i
For seven years I have served
you as Solicitor-General. During
which time you have had an op
portunity to judge my fitness for
public office. I now desire to
serve you as Judge of our Circuit.
I, therefore, subject to the Demo
cratic Primary, hereby announce
my candidacy for that high office.
If you elect me, I promise to be
as fair and fearless in the dis
charge of its duties as 1 have al
ways tried to be as Solicitor-
General. Your vote and endorse
ment will be duly appreciated.
W. A. Wooten.
Farm and Dwelling
For Sale.
In Mt. Vernon; convenient to
school and business. See or write
Mrs. E. W. Armfield,
214 W. Huntingdon St.,
Savannah, Ga.
Fred M. Harris
Attorney at Law
MT. VERNON, GA.
M. B, CALHOUN
Atty at Law,
Vernon, Georgia
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE COMMERCIAL BANK,
(Branch of The Mount Vernon Bank)
Located ar, Uvalda, Ga., at the Close of Business March 10th, 1920.
REtjOURCKB :
Domain! Loans $ 95 00
Time Loana 50,10!) 18
Bonds and stocks owned oy the
Bank 5,700 00
Banking house 2,500 00
Furniture and fixtures 1,372 70
Cash in vault and amount
deposited in banks 55,804 08
Overdrafts unsecured i 32
21>tal $115,583 18
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says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bank, as shown by the
books of tile in said Bank. J. |{. BROWN.
Sworn to and subscribed before mo this 18th day of Match, 1920.
B. L. O’Neal, Notary Public, State at Large, Uvalda, M. C., Ga.
My Commission Expires April 22, 1921.
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LIABILITIES I
l Capital Stock Paid in $15,000 00
t Undivided pr tits, leas current
ex. iut. and taxes pair! 11,149 19
Individual deposits subject to check 58.1)72 40
i Demand Certificates 150 00
i Time Certificates 29,791 43
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l Total '5115,583' 18
