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AVERAGE YIELD
SWEET POTATOES
Proper Method of Selecting
The Seed for Sweet
Potatoes.
The average yield of sweet po
tatoes for the State of Georgia is
less than 90 bushels per acre.
This is very low when compared
with] numerous cases on'record
where growers have prodcuced
more than 400 bushels on an acre.
At the Georgia Experiment Sta
tion a half acre plat of Porto Ri
co variety, on average red clay
loam soil, produced over 200
bushels of potatoes, a large per
centage of which were market
able. Other varieties as the Tri
umph, though'not considered as
good in quality, are known to
produce yields of 500 to 700 bush
els per acre.
The Georgia Experiment Sta
tion is raising only the Porto Ri
co variety because.it is ,believed
that this is the best variety for ,
this State. The strain of Porto:
Ricos raised at the Station is one
of the best in the State, and is
being improved as to uniformity
of size and freedom from disease
through selection and seed treat
ment from year to year.
What is being done at the Ex-!
periment Station, may be donej
by the sweet potato growers:
throughout the State. Growers
may become familiar with the
sweet potato diseases by experi
ence or better, by reading the
bulletins describing such diseases.
With this information any grower
should be able to go into the field
at harvest time and select hills of
potatoes which are free from dis
ease, and which have five or more
marketable potatoes to the hill.
A sufficient number of such hills
should be selected to supply po
tatoes for bedding the next
- , —Photo by Franc)* Prlc*.
One of the prixe-winning exhibitors in the Agricultural Department es the
Southeastern Fair. Many displays of this type will be seen this year at
the big exposition in Atlanta, October 13th to 22nd.
LIVE STOCK AND AGRICULTURE FORGE TO FRONT
RECORD BREAKING YEAR
EXPECTED AT SOUTH
EASTERN FAIR
Diversification and Increase in
Livestock Breeding Brings
Change.
As the opening date for the 1921
Exposition of the Southeastern Fair
draws nearer, evidence increases that
a record breaking year in the depart
ments of livestock and agriculture is
coming.
There isn’t a doubt but that the in
terest of the breeders of the country
will find a common center at the great
Southeastern Exposition in Atlanta,!
October 13th to 22nd. Inquiries re
garding the 1921 exhibits of all clas
ses have been pouring into the execu
tive offices of the Fair offices for the
past three weeks, and mailiag of the
premium list, which has just beea com
pleted is expected to increase '.he flow
of correspondence consideraoly. Ail
spring. A more uniform type of
sweet potatoes will be obtained if
only the medium sized, well
shaped potatoes are saved from
the selected hills for seed. Such
selected seed should be stored,
carefully, by itself, preferably
in crates, in a modern curing
house, which will insure their
keeping until ready to bed in
the spring. Where growers have
no storage houses of their own it
would pay them to rent suffi
cient space to store their seed po
tatoes in one of the many com
mercial storage houses now in
operation throughout the State.
Some growers believe that po
tatoes stored in banks or pits will
produce sprouts or draws better
and quicker than potatoes stored
in curing houses. This is a mis
taken idea, as proven by the Ex
periment Stations and growers
throughout the South, who have
tested this and found that the
seed potatoes stored in properly
operated houses produce more
and better plants per bushel of
seed.
It is as important to get the low
! yielding, diseased hills sweet po
tatoes out of your seed strains,
as it is to get’the bad seed out of
your corn or cotton seed, or the
poor producers out of your cattle,
hogs and poultry.
Your profits from sweet pota
| toes will be increased, and the
State's average yield per acre
will be raised if you will start
this fall to improve your sweet
potatoes by seed selection along
the lines above mentioned.
J. A. McClintock.
Plant Physiologist.
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automobile painting, Give me a
trial and be convinced. Satis
faction guaranteed, prices rea
sonable.
H. H. Johnson.
the breeds that thrive In the South
east are going to make a great show
ing .
in agriculture Georgia has made
marvelous strides in diversification
Cotton is no longer the overwhelming
crop of the section. This year will see
this spirit reflected in the exhibits oi
Agriculture and Horticulture, which
will come from all sections of the
Southeast. Early entries in the in
dividual exhibits are surpassing those
of last year, and a movement more gen
eral than any in the history of the
state fair is seen in this indclation.
The Southeastern Fair has fully
maintained its reputation for taking
care of exhibitors In all divisions. The
premiums in livestock and agriculture,
summed up, make a fortune of no in
considerable size. The Atlanta fair,
! however, finds pleasure in doing this {
kind of work for Georgia and its sur- i
rounding states as they make up an j
agricultural and livestock area second j
| to none in the United States and from I
it’s very beginning the Southeastern
Fair has devoted the greater part ot
its industries to the development ot
both industries
MONTGOMERY MONITOR-—THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 1021.
REALLY AN OLD, OLD STORY
The Younger Generation, It Would
Appear, Has Always Been “Going
to the Bow Wows.*
Are the children of today going to
the bow-wows, or is it just an appear
ance? Are tiie children of this world
today worse in their generation than
the children of yesterday? Let us
take a census.
A volume of sermons printed in 1850
contains a wail from Dr. Lyman
Beecher about "the terrible luck of
parental discipline in these later days.’
Dr. Jonathun Edwards made the
same gloomy remark a hundred years
before, saying that children behaved
rudely and lacked the chastisement he
had received.
Going back two centuries we find the
famous Hugh Latimer, chaplain to Ed
ward VI, declaring that during his 50
years of observation the manners of
boys, their development at church Hnd
their conduct toward parents had un
dergone a woeful declension.
John Knox remarked on the discour
aging signs of the times as to parents’
lack of authority over their sons.
Going back to the Old Testament,
it seems that the same doleful views
prevailed among the Hebrews, for one
of the prophets gives them this needed
warning:
“Say not thou, what is the cause
that the former days were better than
these? Thou dost not inquire wisely
concerning this.”
So that, taking it all around, we are
quite undisturbed about the present
generation. It is probable that we
were just the same little fools that
they are—only a mere bit littler. We
have forgotten.
BAN PLACED ON EXPLETIVE
Some Spanish Priests Forbid Use of
Word “Caramba"—Good Story
in That Connection.
There is a church in La Guaira, Ven
ezuela, which is said to have been
erected with the proceeds of tines im
posed upon the people of the parish
who profaned their conversation with
the word “caramba” —the common oath
among all classes of people —or with
stronger expressions. The church is
therefore called “La Iglesia de la
Sauctissima Caramba.”
The word caramba is meaningless,
hut it is constantly in the mouths of
all people, without regard to sex or
condition, and is not usually considered
reprehensible. But now and then a
pious priest will he found who prohib
its its use among the sheep and lambs
of his flock.
A story is told of three pious friars
who were traveling a hot and dusty
road one day, driving a donkey which
bore their luggage. The beast became
obstinate, and Anally lay down in the
dirt, much to the damage of their prop
erty. One of them, more Impulsive
than the rest, forgot himself so far us
to utter the first syllable of the for
bidden expletive, and said “Car!’’
The seeoud exclaimed “Ilain!” and the
third “Ba !*’ which completed the un
holy word, and thus expressed their
sentiments Jointly without imperiling
their souls. —Philadelphia Ledger.
Odors In Apartments.
There are times in the city dwelling,
especially In an apartment, when just
before the arrival of guests the hostess
is conscious of a deadly odor stealing
o'er the scene.
Instead of relying on the Incense
burner which must be carried from
room to room in such an emergency
and which often sends out only a fleet
ing fragrance, it is a good plan to keep
ou hand a little oil of cinnamon. Kill
a shallow vessel with water and place
it on the stove. When it boils put in
a teaspoonful of the cinnamon oil. A
spicy odor will soon till the rooms. The
water should simmer slowly, but not
boil violently, after the oil is added.
It Is said that oil of lavender and
other fragrant oils will give the same
result. It is rather amusing to keep
one’s method of perfuming the home
a secret, as this will add to the indi
viduality of one’s setting.
Birth of Photography.
Photography was cradled in obscur
ity. Centuries ago Lacock, in Wilt
shire, was a thriving town, famous for
its tapestries. Today it has a far
greater claim to fume, yet few people
outside the county have ever heard
of it.
It was at Lacock thut William Fox
Talbot produced the first photograph.
The event preceded the announcement
of the discovery of the daguerreotype
by four years, and five years later —in
1839 —Fox Talbot startled the scien
tific world by exhibiting a series of
photogenic drawings, as he called his
photographs, at the Hoy a I Institute.
Fox Talbot’s village resting place is
marked only by a plain stone —a mon
ument which has been the subject of
very few photographs.—London Mali.
Calling In Cairo.
Foreigners who are compelled to
live in Cairo sometimes take up their
residence in a remote portion of the
city which Is not laid out with any re
gard to the convenience of persons
who are finding their way about. There
Is no system In the arrangement of
the streets or houses and strangers
have greut difficulty in finding any par
ticular location. A well-known doctor
j undertook to furnish directions by
| which the house of a friend could be
j reached hy a third party. Here are the j
| “directions:” “The M—’s live in a i
| house without a number In a street
without a name next door to an Ar
menian butcher who, I think, has no
sign, west of Ahdln palace: The stair
case has eighty-seven steps.”
Ilf in Need of Money |
Come to See me at Once, |
Either Short or Long Term Loans. §
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MONEY IN BANK FOR SHORT TERM LOANS 1
and can secure money on either Farm or City B
I Property within Ten Days or Less B
IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR PROPERTY 1
See me at once, as I have clients now for both
farm and city property in this section. j|
Come to see me, or phone and I will call on you. i
|J. Wade Johnson I
I MT. VERNON I
Commissioner’s Sale.
•
Georgia—Montgomery County.
In re: Jeffers on [Standard Life In
surance Company vs F. B. Calhoun,
Number 75,4 In Equity, In the Dis
trict Court of the United States for
the Southern District of Georgia—
Eastern Division.
By virtue of an order and final de
cree passed by the Honorable Bever
ly 1). Evans, United States Judge, on
September lfith, 1921, in the above
stated case, the undersigned as Com
missioner will sell before the Court
House Door of the Court House of
Montgomery County, Georgia, on
the first Tuesday in November, 1921,
during the legal hours of sale, to the
highest and best bidder for cash, the
following described property of F. B.
Calhoun, the defendant in the above
stated case, to-wft:
All those two tracts or parcels ol
land situate, lying and being in the
1664th District, G. M., Montgomery
County, Georgia; One tract contain
ing one hundred fifty eight and seven i
tenths (168 7-10) acres, more or less,
and bounded on the nort h by lands
of B. F. Hamilton, east by lands of
Davis Whitaker, south hy lands of
Lernual Whitaker and on the west j
by lands of W. L. Calhoun; tlie oth- |
er tract, containing forty seven ami {
one half (47 1-2) acres, more or less, |j
and bounded on the north and north- {!
east ov the Macon, Dublin and ba- 1 1
vaunab Railroad right-of- way. south !
east b.v lands of W. L. Calhoun,
southwest by lands of J. T. Warnock,
and on the west by lands of Mrs.:
Mary Ann Blount and northeast by
lands of J. T. Warnock. The two
tracts described above aggregating
two hundred six and one-fith
(206 1-6) acres, more or less.
.Said tract of land is sold for the j
purpose of satisfying a decree of the j
court in the above stated matter
wherein it was adjudged and decreed j
that Jefferson Standard Life Insur-j
ance Company recover from the pro- |
ceeds of the sale of the above de- I
scribed property the sum of three
thousand ($6000.00) dollars principal
and $677.86 as interest thereon to Au
gust 27th, 1921, besides Interest on
$6666.40 from August 17th, 1921 at i
eight per cent per annum, and j
$667.79 ax attorneys fees.
David S. Atkinson,
Commissioner.
27 Commercial Bank Building,
Savant alt, Georgia
Bryan A Middlebrooks
1203 Candler Building
Atlanta, Georgia.
Attorneys for Plaint iff.
Building Material.
Best grades of Rough Lumber,
Framing, Sills, etc,, cut on short
notice. Mill six miles north of
Mt. Vernon. See or phone
Jas. W. Adams,
1113tf Mt. Vernon, Ga. i
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AILEY, GA. I
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