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Double the Cotton Crop
Without Increasing Acreage
By R. J. DeLoach, Professor of Cotton Industry, State
College of Agriculture, in Southern Ruralist.
Every year brings to us new and
more practical method of dealing
with.the enemies of cotton, but in
all stch discussions we cannot fail
to observe that the burden of the
message is to diversify, to intensify,
breed early crops, and learn to live
in the face of difficulties. These
terms have been used so much that
they have lost much of their force,
and I fear they have very little
meaning. Perhaps it Would be bet
ter if we could hear more (, f how to
intensify or how to diversify- This
is the method or the tactics I am
going to use in the present series of
articles.
One law I would attempt to lay
down at the outget is that wo must
make a close study of verities of
cotton in order to be able to decide
which is the earliest and best yield
ing in cur particular community,
and under our peculiar conditions
severally. Our motto will be “try
them all, and hold fast to that
which is good.” Another sugges
tion is, begin to approach the
merchants on the question of mak
ing markets for home-grown forage
crops from and grain. This can and
must be done. A merchant in a
southeast Georgia town told me
that he handled eighty-four tons of
hay in 1910, and seventy-seven
came Indiana, Ohio and Illinois,
while seven wore bought locally.
When asked if he would be willing
to purchase more ’ocally he im
patiently replied: “Yes, if the
farmers would rais it; but they do
not seem to care to try to raise any
thing but cotton.” Just how many
merchants there are in the state
of Georgia like that I would not
pretend to try to guess, but farmers
can make many more of them if
they begin to make hay.
We can easily double our present
yield of cotton on the .same acre
age, if we make or create the proper
conditions for its growth. But
grant that we do not care to more
than equal the present crop for
many years to come. Then we
should begin now to reduce the
acreage and'increas the yield per
acre, and clear some money on every
pound we do make. A certain
mountaineer was asking his neigh
bor when he planted corn. “Well,
about the third week in June,’* was
the reply. The question was asked
at once: “Why do you plant so
late? Do you think it pays to plant
that late?” “Well you save three
plowings and a darn lot of gather
ing,” was the drawnout reply. Per
haps we do feel that way sometime,
but such a feeling is sometime,
accompanied with a pretty bad
case of hookworm.
ces E. Willard’s life of unceasing
efforts could not have failed. Her
work was strenuous but with every
effort she gave her soul a chance to
find that richer life and she was
made bigger in soul and character.
It was the broadness, the Godlike
ness in Frances Willard’s nature
that appealed to the best in others.
The influence of such a woman
never dies, for it is not so much
what we are that shall make the
world a better or a worse place in
which to live.
With the remembrance of this
life, let us up go out determined, as
Frances E. Willard was, to com
plete the fnsk entrusted to us,
however diffi cult o r however
humble it may seem. God
ill not only point the way but will
accompany us, to uphold us in our
efforts to carry out his work'. Let
us open our hearts to receive a full
measure.of the Masters love and
sympathy so that we, too, may
prove helpful to others. Then, and
and then only can we hope to re
ceive the reward of a well-spent
life—the love of our fellowmanand
the sound of our Fathers. “Well
done],’
AN’T TRACE PELLAGRA.
Fraces E. Willard.
By Miss Nell Denton.
There are but few women in our
country who have became so widely
known as Frances E. Willard,
the founder of the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union. She was
born in Churchville, N. Y.» in 1S29.
Her childhood was singularly beau
tiful. Free as the birds of the air,
yet guided gently and wisely by
loving parents. She came into
young womanhood like a well de
veloped flowe r, ready to open its
petals, reveal its beauty and shed
its fragrance upon the world,
In 1884 when Frances Willard
was a girl of fifteen, the North
western University was founded
by the Methodist, at Evanston, a
suburb of Chicago. One of the
provisions of the charter for this
institution was that anyone dealing
in the sale of intoxicating liquors
within four miles of the scho( 1 would
' forfeit the claim to their land. As
a result of this legislation the town
of the Evanston thus early became
allied with temperance and as the
years have passed, and other similar
restrictions have been made, the
boast and pride of her citizen is
that they have a community so
clean morally and so fnie from the
influence generated by intemper
ance.
To this town, FrancesE. Willard
was carried at the age of eighteen.
The foundation of a splendid wo
manhood was laid in the early
training of Godly parents and in
fluences surrounding her in the
university and town deepened
her impressions and perhaps had
much to do with inspiring that
girlish neart with the zeal that
afterward brought forth the Wo.
man’s Christian Temperance Union.
After being graduated from this
university, Miss Willard taught
in the Pittsburg Female C< liege and
other institutions. She was finally
made dean of the woman’s depart
ment of her alma mater, being the
only lady member of the faculty.
Two years- of her life were spent
abroad prosecuting studies pre
paratory to writing. The works she
afterward gave to the public proved
to be as potent for good ns her own
noble life, and thev are still bless
ing the thousands unto whose hands
' they have fallen.
After a busy life full of study
over the perplexing problems of her
age, frought with marvelous benefits
to mankind, Frances E. Willard
went to her reward in February,
1898. Who can estimate the power
of her life! By what means can
we judge the influences set in opera
tion by this magnificent child of
God! Wherein lay the charm that
enabled Frances Willard to prove so
great a blessing to the world?
First of all, even as a girl, she
had the deep realization of her in
dividual responsibility. She felt
thatjGod had intrusted to her,and as
He has to all,a mission that no one
else is expected to carry out; that
He would fit her for her work if she
were but willing to be used. With
realization came the determination
to use the talent God had given Irel
and as was the case with the lad
and his few fishes, her abilities were
enlarged and multiplied till thous
ands, nay, hundreds of thousands
have been blessed bv one hurnled
life.
Then, too, beside realizing that
God needed her life and consecrating
it to his service, Frances E. Willard
had a steady aim in view throughout
her life. She based her work on
unswerving principles, she was
stable! She was not a creature of
iinpluse, For her to think was to
act and her concentration, her
singleness of aim, her direct
peskof purpose are largely respon
sible for fhe'.idlidracter of work she
was enabled, to'do. '
She was sympathetic, Christ was
indeed enshrined in her .heart and
His far-reaching sympathy for all
needy ones emanted from the beauti
ful life of this woman.- There were
none too humble for her to help
none too degraded for her to reach
out an encouraging hand, none so
vile but that her purity would stoop
to raise.--.
With these noble attributes Fran-
United States Scientists May
Indict Other Plants as Well as
Corn.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 26.—
Scientists of the public health and
marine hospital service after an ex
tended review of the latest inves
tigations of pellagra and its possible
elation to corn are in as much
doubt as ever as to the real causes
of the disease,
The general conclusion is that
pallagra and pallagroid affections
may be due not only to the use of
Corn as food, but also to the use
other graing and plant stuffs
of various localities,
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Last week’s letter,
We are having some veiy
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danger.
Albert Powell made a business
trip to Cairo Saturday.
Misses Bertha Powell and Cassie
Eagerton attended the Teachers In
stitute in Cairo Saturday last.
I, J. Wilder made a business trip
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Miss Bessie Lee Wilder returned
home last Wednesday after spend
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Susan Coker.
Misses Bertha Powell and Cassie
Eagerton visited the latter’s parents
at Brinson Saturday and Sunday
last.
Miss Annie McClelland, of Pleas
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day.
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day.
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Miss Ruby Wilder spent last Sun
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men’s clothing and left their dis
carded clothes behind. No clue has
been found to the guilty.
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