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SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SAVING SEED CANE P. A. Jfones Gives His Experience For the Past Several Years— Thinks Cane Remains In Bed Too Long. Mr. Editor: — Will you give space for farm dis cussion? If so lets take up sorting and saving seed cane at this time,as the time is near. I will give my experience. This disease came some few y#rs ago and was so serious it put iqe to work to try to optter my condition. I first tried digging up my seed early and bedding. This was in the Bpring of 1907. When I took it up to plant it was 65 per cent dead and what was living was was affected.’ .1,found by cutting the stalk in toe middle that it was red in the pith, with taps and roots. I cut the taps .and roots off, then planted the cane ais a whole, mixed, but did not get any stand. I hauled the dead cane out to my hogs, though it made them very sick. In the fall of 190S, after 1 failed, I went at it with determination to do better, plowed my bed up to give fresh dirt to bed on. I saved my seed until it rained, then I beded flat and saved some seed out of mnv planting cane, then some out of the second year and covered it smooth, light and flat. In the winter near the 25th of lie comber I investigated it and it was doing nicely. After hearing so much complaint from my neighbors, I investigated nvy-cane again and found that it was very sorry. In two hours I was taking up the old and planting new. Nearly all of the second years stubbles were dead.. Now and then I woul<J find a stalk not affeeted I noticed that it«*pas a stalk with no fodder to amount to anything. At the roots whe e I would find a lot of fodder it would be dead, and may be have a living top. The cane in this bed that was dead, was no good at all. It was nearly all black rotten Out of it 1 saved or planted about 40 per cent. On taking up my first .years stubble seed I found them affected as in 1907, with that red Btreak in the pith, near the middle of the stalk. One other thing I noticed, it had put out little roots .at the joints, and where it was af fected bad but not dead the roots were dead. I cut out the affeeted paVt on some and planted it separate This I planted 76 per cent. I went into my seed from my planted cane and it was affected as my first years stubleB. I noticed that it would be the cane with the most fodder on it —it would never be a healthy stalk affeeted. It would be a poor stnlk or yellow in color. The pure and well developed stalk would keep good. I had my ground broken with a two horse plow, I threw up four high furrows, used with turner, leaving it deep in the center, I dropped this cane seperate, put my lot fertilizer on it, threw up four high furrows. Iu March I worked off my dirt and put my guano around it. On second year stubles I got 50 per cent of a stand. On my first years stubles I got about 80 per cent. On my seed from planted cane about 75 percent But cane was up when some were plauting. The few rows I selected was good, on two acres I got 32 bar rels of syrup, made one acre in the third week of October, got 12 bar rels; made the other the third week in November, got 20 * barrels. In the fall of 1909 I dug my seed very late, the lost week in October. Planted my second years stubles as I dug the bed, my first years stuoles I watched it and found that it was decaying. The first week in Feb ruary I took it up and planted un der-the same method, results good comparatively. The fall planting was not good at all. My idea is to pick well developed cane of a red color for seed, with not much fod der around the roots, not too rank, bed fiat, and dig wet if you can, cover right up as fast as you dig, watch and when- affected take up, cut short and be sure to plant early. In my boy hood' days I helped papa dig cane in the rain, when you could nearly hear ice rattle in the beds, and mamma would tell the old nmn he was giving the last one of us pneumonia, and planted when we couldn'tstriphalf a dozen stalks before we would have to make for fire and warm our fingers, then he would scold us and sny he was sorry “we had no constitution,” you may know the rest. In those days cane never stayed in the bed over four months, now they keep it in the bed six months with less winter too. I believe there is something in the way you bed, the sort you bed, when you plant, where you plant, the way you plant. Cane has its nature as everything else, It is to he studied for the best results, faaye given some of my expeiences, and a very little of my ideas at this time. Remember this is not from an expert nor from the experiment station. P. A. J.nes. Affairs in Georgia by Pargraphs The cotton cop in Dooly will not be more than 65 per ccnt’of an ave:- age crop. A large part of that has already been marketed. The Amevicus board of trade has been in correspondence with the of ficials of the Seaboard and Central roads asking for home seekers’ rates to that section. A voluntary petition in* bank ruptcy was filed with the United States commissioner by William H- Smith, of Rockdale, Lawrence county, j He is a merchandise mer chant. (His liabilities are $2,340, his aesest^ $1,473. Two hundred millions of dollars is the value placed on the cotton and corn produced in Georgia during the past year, in the annual report of the commissioner of agriculture just issued. Clerk to the commissioner of Crisp county, CaptS. W.Coney,of Cordele Ga., has been instructed to ad\tr- tise for bids for the erection of a court 1 house at Listonia, in the Eleventh District that county. The thirty-seventh annual session pf the Mercer Baptist Association will be held with the Funston church five miles west of Moultrie,Tuesday, October 18th. C. E. Whitfield, Funston, Ga., has charge of the ar rangements. „ Saturday afternoon Henry Ivey a negro, was shot in the arm at Culverton. The other party to the affair is unknown. The shooting is said to be accidental. W. M. Phillips, who lives on Route 6 from Tifton, is growing fine rice. He has recently gathered a heavily beaded bunch six feet high. He has three acres yielding 500 heavy bundles to the acres. George Mathis, a colored Tifton shoemaker, has received a black hand signed “White Caps,” in forming him to get ready for hell, as he would be lynched. Apparent ly the letter had been sent by some darkey. Heavy rains have follen through out Lowndes county and consider able injury has been done the cotton crop in consequence. Where... the rains were extremely heavy or ac companied by high wind is much cotton has been beaten into the earth. At Athens H. S. Merick was con victed of a midsmeanor in violation of the new state law , was fined $80 or six months and a motion was made for a new trial. 3EEEE3EEIE 3E===1C nr ana® John Stetson Just received | $5.00 Hats for Only $2.25 AT , ABE POLLER'S. □ P. S.—I am now in New York buying good bargains in Ladies’ and Gent’s Ready-Made goods for my old customers and to make new ones. Yours truly, ABE POLLER. ^ J L= MKMUMWdW MtWMM |||| g—— | |||| s- We’d Like to Have that Next Job of |l II . .Tills . iii i A splendid assortment of newest and tastiest type . ,,-u. stvlej and highest grade papers have just been in stalled in our Job Department. U Good Printing costs but little more than m s poor work, and is much more satisfactory * Let us figure with'you on anything in the PRINT ING line. We’ll do our level best to please you. PHONE 141. CAIRO, GA. ^11111=11111 For first class commercial ig come to this office. print- Tax Notice First Round. Duncanville Oct. 17 Higdons “ 18 Whigham “ 19 Spring HilL., “ 20 Lime Sink “ 24 Blowing Cave “ 25 Spence “ 26 Pine Park (afternoon)..— “ 27 Ragan (G. W. Rehburgs Gin afternoon) “ 28 Second Round Duncanville Nov. 14 Higdons — “ 15 Whigham -- “ 16 Spring Hill “ 17 Lime Sink “ 21 Blowing Cave ». “ 22 Spence “ 23 Pine Park (afternoon) “ 28 Ragan (G.W. Rehburg gin afternoon) 0 “ 29 Popes store (forenoon) Dec. 5 Rigsbys (afternoon) “ 5 Whigham “ 12 The dog tax law has not been re pealed and everyone owning a dog Notice to Farmers. We will have our two new English Gins for Long Cotton in op eration at Dyson’s Ginnery in Cairo for this season in two weeks. We will pay Special Attention to the Ginning of your long cotton. Will also have Bagging and Twine. COPPAGE & CARR. For Job Printing See Progress. or dogs are supposed to pay the tax. I am reliably informed by good law abiding citizens of the county that a great many dog owners have not returned them for taxes, if my friends throughout the county will co-operate with me in finding out who these parties arc I will do all in my power to see that the taxes are paid. Not only are there . dog tax dodgers but people who do not. own dogs try to dodge tax every year, 1 have caught many of these in the past. Get a list of all. bands working at these mills and turpen tine stills turn over to me and I will guarantee over half of them will be tax defaulters. Respectfully, R. W. Ponder. your Job Print ing to The Progress office. We have the best equipped plant in this section. Eg