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V and it will be no trouble to get just mule that you are looking for. We are here to stay and you and belieye we are better equipped than any dealer Georgia. Give us a trial and we will help you .piake \S prosperous in the history of your life. Don’t try to farm with a plug but equip yourself wit and you will find farming much more satisfactory and the Help Wanted oy to work at cigar factory. Come to see me. C. D. Roddenbery. 28 tf. For Rent For Rent--Two furnished rooms, with out board, close in. Apply to The • Strayed trayed—One black sow, marked slight swallow fork in right ear and slight undebit in left. Strayed from farm of Mrs. J. M. McICnown, about Jahuary 10, 1911. M. G. McMai e js. sertion we Lost Tuesday afternoon, January 23, ■'“i unuuaiy 60, UII Broad street, a gold brooch. Cres cent with woman's head and small diamond. Finder return to this office and receive reward. For Sale For Sale—One 60-Egg incubator and one 120-Egg incubator. See me fat once. Walter L. Wight. / mm One Hundred Bushels of Corn Per Acre By Martin V. Calvin. The question is coining up from every side, “IIow shall .1 proceed in order to make 100 bushels of shelled corn per acre?” The reply is, there is no royal mad to success in corn production anymore than for learning. One iViay outline a general plan which may eventuate in a large .yield per acre, hut there are so many contin gencies one cannot undertake to give a guarantee, On river bottoms, flooded two years out of five, 100 bushels of corn per acre is a matter of course, almost. And in the crib at a cost, all told, of 20 cents a bushel. 1! asked the Barkley Bros., Jack- son, Ga., to give me the facts as to their procedure in producing 137 bushels to theacrc. The quintessence »f the statement was that they used 1,070 pounds of high grade material m addition to thirty tons of stable and lot manure. . Master Joseph Stone used *ft75 pounds of high grade fertilizer in addition to six tons of stable ma nure. He made 103 bushels on one acre. The very Vieat of the. far-famed Williamson method of corn produc tion is to be found in the fact that &e used per acre 1,721) pounds of liigh grade fertilizing material. He dealt with acres and that' deepens interest in the results he won, not <OTie year, but several years. The general average yield of his field was cigntv-four bushels. A few of ihe acres yielded 12.5 bushels each. 1 am emphasizing the facts pre sented because they relate to a B>ranch of farming as greatly in need of reform as any other branch. There is,! indeed, greater neglect m the matter of supplying plant food to crops than in any other de partment, so to' speak, of the work. There is no such thing as over valuing the function of a high grade lertilizor. In view of the very lib eral -manner in which the complete fertilizer and fertilizing material is purchased each year it is of the highest importance that farmers should be induced to use it intelli gently and with an open hand. You would be- utterly astounded to know how small was the average application of fertilizer to corn and aotton per acre in this state last year. The tenant was the “manat the bat’ ’—especially the share-ten ant. The duty rests upon the land- fords to remedy the long existing irfi. They have not had time to fook into the situation, hence they know nothing of it. To bring the subject to the attention of a few n.ay arouse them and the leaven s ill work actively. Reform on this line will do as much as any other that is being ad vocated to bring about a higher av erage yield of corn and cotton per acre in this state, The phrase, oft repeated, higher, average yield per acre throughout the state,” may prove tiresome to the oVersedsative, the hvpercritics and tne careless, but it wiil not down. The trouble is wc suffer from wavds. Several years ago the late Farvish Furman electrified the state cotton growers especially, by a pub lication of results which his famous formula brought in bales of cotton Straightway hundreds of farmers set about using the Furman formula the nexty ear. In less than three years the wave receded, and lower fertilization was substituted for the Furman idea and practice of higher fertilization. Here is the formula. I give it because a few cotton growers may wish to try it this year: Barnyard manure 750 pounds Cotton seed 750 pounds Acid phosphate 307 pounds Kainit.Ji.. -133 pound# 1 otal 2,000 pounds I so 4Q0 to 300 pounds per acre. It is commonplace information that a prereqpisite' to successful, truck farming is the extra libc.al use of high grade fertilizer adapted to (he crops desired to he produced. The minimum per acre is 1,600 and (lie average is 2,000 pounds. This is notably laid ns to Irish po tatoes, cabbage and green peas. Experiment"Ga-, Jan. 21, 1911, Pleasant Valley. Times arc dull around this sec tion. Quito a number of people of this section attended preaching at Pleas ant Groye last Sunday. • Mr. and Misnames Fonder gave a candy.drawing ££| their home it was enjoyed bv many. TAldus Reagan hAS’nearly finished his new house. There will be a singing at Pleas ant Valley Ischool house the third Sunday in February. We hope to see a big crowd out. We are having some had looking weather m w. Our school is thriving fast. They are going to ceil the building soon. Our debating society will start up again soon. Guess Who? Death of an Old Citizen Early Thursday morning Mr. R. L. Massey, who lias been confined to his room for .several months with dropsy of the heart, died. Mr. Mas>oy was 73 years of age. Tie leaves seven children, three sens and four daughters to mourn his death. Rev. Walter C. Jones Jcon- dueted the funeral services Thursday evening. Interment at the Caiio cemetery.. Building Warehouses W. G. Baggett it Son are having warehouses erected at Cranford,Reno and Calvary which will be occupied by tlijm. They will also continue business at Cairo and it will bo un der the immediate control of Mr. W, Cr. Baggett. Subscribe for The Progress arid you will get the news while it is news. R. C. BELL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR IRA CARLISLE Associate General Practice: Office over Post of fice. Five Year FARM LOANS prompt ly negotiated at low rate of interest. CAIRO, GA. Have Your Family Photographed A series of pictures of the children at different ages prove price less-as years pass. Le me make them now wlifle they arc with you. ,. E- WOODY Studio Bryan St. Cairo, Ga. ItlTti Mill tVEB. MULES During the five years we have been doing business in Cairo we have never been quite so well prepared as now to sup ply the farmers and others with HORSES and VEHICLES, HARNESS, ETC. You will find here, at all times, a nice bunch Kentucky Horses and Mules the horse or to please Southwest I the most prosperous in * Don’t try to and you will find greater. with good stock the profits* much Our BUGGY stock is complete and we have the best that money can buy—and not only that— we have the Npatest, Light Running Buggy on the market today. This coupled with the VERY BE TERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, enables us to offer This coupled with the VERY BEST MA- you a BUGGY THAT HAS NO EQUAL. We invite comparison and court an opportunity to prove every as- In Our Harness Department You will find the most complete stock carriedin this section of the state. If you have never used MEXICAN A or GEMOO GUARANTEED HARNESS give them a trial; They are the BEST IVI.OIM ELY CAN BUY. J9' ’ Arrived Last Saturday, Carload horses and mules. Be sure and see them* For Sale or Swap Cash or Credit J, D. HOLMAN, - Cairo, Ga*