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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1922)
MAKE FIGHT ON MALARIA Discuss Subject at Medical Convention Held in Chattanooga. Malaria will be the chief sub ject of discussion ’at the next meeting of the Southern Medical Association which will be held at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Novem ber 13-16, 1922. As a part of the Southern Medical Association meeting the National Malaria Committee will hold;Jts annual meeting on November 13th. On the next three days there will be held a Conference of Malaria Field Workers, where the prob lems in malaria control encounter ed during the past season’s work will be discussed and plans laid for next year’s work. All of the State Health Officers of the South, many prominent physicians and sanitary engineers, who are in terested in malaria and its con trol, will be present atj[these meetings and discuss the latest advances made in controlling this disease which is reckoned the most serious of all health prob lems in the South. In addition to these meetings a malaria exhibit will be displayed during the entire week. This ex hibit will give a simple but vivid picture of malaria and its effects upon the healtn and welfare of the South—How malaria is trans mitted by the mosquito—How malaria has interfered with the agricultural and economic de velopment of the South—How malaria can be controlled by edu cation, by improving the stand ard of living, by destroying mos quitoes and their breeding places, by fish (top minnows which feed on mosquito wigglers), by taking enough quinine to actually cure instead of merely enough to tem porarily relieve chills and fever, by proper screening, and by oth er measures which may be satis factorily employed under peculiar local conditions. The keen interest which is being shown by health officials, leading physicians and sanitary engineers of the South in the study of malaria fever.is merely an expression of their judgment based on experience that the con trol of this disease is of more im portance to the welfare of the people of the South at the present time than is the control of any other preventable disease. They also feel that in the past the seriousness of malaria to the South has not been properly ap preciated. For these reasons a concerted effort is now being made by public health workers to rid the South of this menace to its prosperity. Practically every state health officer in the South has within the last few years secured special appropria tions for malaria study and con trol, and with the co-operation of the United States Public Health Service and the International Health Board there is being ac tively conducted a well organized campaign for malaria control in practically every Southern State. Picric Acid. There has recently arrived at Macon a carload of government picric acid, intended for use in this section. Montgomery coun ty farmers in need of this explo sive for blasting purposes should communicate with County Agent J. B. Tyre, as it it is procured only in this manner. PS MWffl v FOR THE RELIEF OF Pain in the Stomach and Bowels. Intestinal Cramp Colic. Diarrhoea ■^^OLD^VERYWHER^^^ CROWS FORM “BIRD CYCLONE” Peculiar Black Funnel Extends From Ground to Elevation of Perhaps Two Thousand Feet. Crows gathering together near Fri day Harbor, Wash., in Urge numbers formed a "bird cyclone," the first ever observed In this part of Puget sound, where the species la common and numerous. The formation is sometimes called ! ! by scientists a well of crows, and j they rotate round and round like the j circular storm against the sun. The leaders must have been at an elevatlou of 2,000 feet, where they flew In constantly widening circles while many birds were just clearing the tree tops. I From the ground to the highest the big • black funnel was made up of crows, j The unique formation continued for ! perhaps an hour, tne lower birds gradually soaring until In breaking up all were about the same height. The singular pnrt of this bird circus was the noticeable fact that not a caw was heard while the formation was In air, but once the huge flock had settled in the firs along Orcas island pan demonium reigned, each apparently trying to outdo another. The congregation of crows in Im mense flocks occurs every summer to ward fall. Their favorite roosts are fir trees near Friday Harbor. HAVE TRAVELED ALL LANDS Practically Few Secrets Unrevealed to the Experts of the Depart ment of Agriculture. There Is one group of buildings In Washington where, within a few min utes’ walk, you can find someone to give you Intimate details ns to any spot in the known world. It Is the Department of Agriculture group. Dr. E. W. Nelson, chief of biological survey, probed the secrets of ancient Guatemala and tlmn, still a youngster, spent four .years In Alaska —In the ’7o’s, and has a big island named for him. Dr. Walker Swingle, citrus fruits, knows China inside out, and lias a working knowledge of the language. Dr. H. E. Shantz, chief of plant physi ology, recently spent 13 months In Interior Africa, while Prof. Silas Ma son explored the desert of Sahara for cuttings for American date operations In the Imperial valley. Dr. B. T. Gal loway, chief of the plant quarantine office, lingers lovingly over a steaming hotbed that reminds him of a year in Java. Dr. Wilson Poponoe has hunted rare plants throughout South America. Dr. David Fairchild, chief of plant in troductlon, lias toured practically all of the known world. Dr. J. F. Kook now is probing the secrets of Hunnan China, where even the geography is not accurate. Cape Cod Turnips. On Cape Cod a special type of tur nip is being developed, asserts the Washington Stur. Not that there Is anything unusual to l>e said for the taste of this turnip as compared with similar turnips raised elsewhere. But the interesting thing about the Cape Cod turnip is that It will grow on farms having sundy top soil. It has proved useless to recommend that the regular Cape Codder move elsewhere if lie wishes to grow crops that did not promise to do well in the Bam stables and the Truros. "Why not adapt the crops to the land?" asks the native. The answer is a turnip with an unusually long tap root which pen etrates below the sand stratum to the moist subsoil and flourishes even in spots that weeds find discouraging. Pennsylvania 44 Wheat The single head of wheat about 50 grains in all —selected In 1909 at the Pennsylvania State college as the best developed in many selections made over a period of years is resulting this year in a crop of about a quarter of a million bushels of wheat. About 10,000 acres in Pennsylvania have been sown to tills harvest with the new variety of wheat which is called “Pennsyl vania 44,” and it is expected that be tween 25 and 34 bushels will he pro duced from each acre. The seed, wide ly tested in the past three years, lihs yielded, on the averuge, five bushels per acre more than other varieties. Coal-Slack. Finely divided coal, which for a long time was treated as a waste product, aud known as “slack,” has now a high value as a filtering material for sew age. Tills has been tried both in the United States and abroad. In thl» country a demand has long existed for fine coal, as small in grain as wheal or rice, for fuel, and a large business is done in the exploiting of the enor mous piles, almost mountains, of coal waste about the mines of Pennsylvania The material Is put through a me chanical washing process, and the flue sand-like coal Is separated aud a* sorted by size of grain. Bulgarian Aluminum Coinage. The Bulgarian government, through its British representative, is asking aluminum producing firms In this cuun try for quotations for the supply ol metal in connection with the new law authorizing the issue of aluminum j coins in the denomination of one and | two leva to the total nominal value ol 60,000,000 leva. The normal rate ol | exchange Is 25 leva to the pound, but j the present rate Is about 700 to th« j pound.—London Tiroes. Aerial Mail for Palestine. The aerial mall route established j between Cairo and Bagdad has been | extended to include Palestine. A regular fortnightly service will be maintained in each direction. I I THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. Diversification and Co-Ope ration Make Thrift. One of the great benefits of co-operative marketing is that it will help the farmers of the South get on a cash basis. 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