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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1920)
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. ..isvtsu 2 Kii s u riLH# 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 ' Mount, V er ic[ay . U)r - hould tior —~ 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. 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B, Brown, Cashier of The Commercial Rank, who being duly sworn, 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. d ~ - hi If: /''t'VE GROWN : / Say- iLl\ [ WmSKERS DOWNTO] :: /BE PASSING- \ } SINCETHAT \ : | (BY LIKE THIS \ [ GOODRICH GREY TUBE j :l| 8 \ WHEN ALL VDUR ) \ EIRST PASSED ) | (GRANDSON ABLE / \ l THIS WAY / ||i (koMIIIR) ji'j j 1 ' * j "'' ' ‘ ' j I A Full Line Goodrich Tires. Also !: Other Auto Supplies'in Stock. j MASON HARDWARE CO. Mt. Vernon, Ga. | MONEY TO LOAN ON MONTGOMERY j: | COUNTY FARMS. At sto (i per cent, in Amounts of SIOOO j to $IOO,(X)(), on Five to Ten Years time, i I represent one of the largest Life Insurance 1 • 1 Companies, with Unlimited Capital, and can close loans on short order. ; CALL OR WRITE W. 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