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The Peanut
Attention is bttin'g directed to
the value of peanuts as a money
crop. As in case of all other crops
it is necessary, in order to make
the crop profitable, to give it more
than ordinary consideration, that
is, as to the best methods of cul
tivation, harvesting and market
ing the crop. Primarily,- of course
a sandy foam will bo selected in
which to grow the crop—corn land
being preferred.
• I should say that the peanut crop
of Georgia, 1910, amounted to quite
2,000,000 bushels. The yield per
acre for the whole state was much
too small. South Georgia is. the.
home of the peanut. It 'will, ..grow
anywhereiin the state, ■ but it de
lights , t in •Sduth Georgia soil and
conditions.
In all tne state there are only
ninteen counties which, give' atten
tion to the crop;v Of these (nam-
them in the order of production,)
Brooks 1 Thomas Decature, Lowndes
and Worth lead. -' The next group,
is composed of the counties of Dooly
Colquit, Montgomery,Coffee,Pulaski
invin and Miller. Then come Sum
ter, Mitchell, Early, Schley^ Hous
ton, Wilcox and Terrell. The
range of production is from 35,000
to 200,000 bushels to a county.
The Spanish nut seems to be the
m,ost popular. It is prolific and
gives a heavy yield of forage.
This variety is excellent for man and
beast, you must have observed that
quite all the peanut venders offer
the Spanish variety. That variety
is rich in oil,and of excellent flavor
Spanish peanuts are very nutritious.
Two years agoja gentleman in New
York City who was desirous to keep
the Lenten season ,in spirit and prac
tice, «-as should every good church
man, was advised to eat roasted
peanuts and drink a glass of sweet
milk at lunchon daily. He began
with a small quanity Spanish nuts,
gradually increasing the quantity
until he could eat a pint quite each
day. He had been for several years
a great sufferer from dyspepsia.
After the third day he remarked
how much better he felt. His'
health steadily improved. At the
close of the season he was in perfect
health.
I recall with delight the fact that
my mother was accustomed occa
sionally at mid-winter, to make our
peanuts what sne called “an im
provised chocolate.” She had the
nuts roasted until they were dark
brown, almost black. Then they
were boiled just as one boils coffee.
Served hot with butter crackers, the
chocolate rich beyond compare, was
esteemed bv the entire household as
a treat fit for the gods
At the Georgia Experiment Station
for a period of seventy-nine days,
two pens of pigs were fed, respec
tively, on corn and soy beans, and
corn and new peanut's. The peanut
pen showed a gain of 152.5 pounds:
the soy bean ■ pen a gain of f 29
.pounds—a difference of 23.5 pounds
in favor of the peanuts. The peanut
pen' showed a profit of $20.21; the
soy.bean pen, a profit of $13.62.
Having prepared the area set
apart for this crop, run the rows two
and'a half feet apart; make deep
furrow and check lightly 18-to 20
inches, Apply in furrow air-slaclfcd
lime at the- rate of 1,000 pounds
per acre. Use bull tongue or small
shovel for- the purpose of incorpora
tion the lime with the soil. Do this
ten days to tw6 -weeks in advance of
planting. When ready to filant,
that, is immediately after all danger
' of frost is past, apply in furrow with
’horn / 200 pounds of 16 percent acid
phosphate followed by 100 pounds
-of kaifiit. Incorporate with the soil
. then .throw two furrows and knock
off with,a board.
Ho notishell the nuts but break
into two parts. Open the ridge'
• with", bull tongue,
four inches; deep. At each elteck
dropfthree to five seed; cover, with
hoe or foot and press the'-earth to
the seed. i Keeh free from grass and
weeds; cultivate ns you do corp.
If nuts are for hogs, begin to use
them ns soon as they are about to
pass into the dough st-ate; if for
mat Icet or for eating in winter, har
vest after-first light frost, t
The formula given has. assisted in
producing oVer 2,000 pounds of nuts,
f.ee from pops, per acre. Two
bushels of . nuts in pods will plant
an acre.
I love to talk about bay-making.
It is a subject in whjph^.we should
all feel and act a deeper interest'.
There is money in prime, hay.
Nowhere in the country wide can
more or better hay be produced than
in Georgia and in the cotton states.
All that is necessary! to demonstrate
this fact more gCherally , an, oon-
clusivly, in this state and' in other
Southern-states, is to bend out ener
gies to the task. And the task is an
easy one.
Last year at the station 1,000
pounds of high grade fertilizer were
applied to a measured (not an es
timated) acre, and eightv bushels
of actually measured shelled corn
produced. That acre was,thoroughly
broken and treated ( to 400 pounds
of 15 per cent acid phosphate, 200
pounds of sulphate of ammonia and
100 pounds of muriate of'potash,, It
waS then seeded to wheat hairy vetch
two and a half bushels of vetch.
This week the wheat being in the
milk and the vetch in sull bloom
the crop was harvested. The yield
was 5,125 pounds of cured hay—first
class hay. ■
By Martin V. Calvin.
Experiment, Ga., April 21, 1911.
' The Charge at Marengo.
As an instance of. magnificent
blundering, sung by poets and
treasured .in story, no record is ever
likely to come up to that of the
Light brigade in the Crimean war.
But perhaps most remarkable was
Kellerman’s charge at Marengo.
From daybreak until late afternoon
the Austrians had the best of it.
Desaix said to Napoleon, “The bat
tle is completely lost,” adding: “But
it is only 4 o’clock. There is time to
gain another one.” A little later
Kellerman with 400 mounted sa
bers—carefully hidden by a vine
yard till the fateful moment arrived
—dashed out upon the flank of the
Hungarian infantry. The onset was
irresistible. Two thousand imperial
soldiers surrendered with their gen
eral, and the French, inspired to a
final effort, wrested a brilliant vic
tory—unique, even in Napoleon’s
career—from their opponents.
Her Ultimatum.
“I should like to chat with you
awhile, Mrs. Duggan,”, the young
lady says who has taken up settle-,
ment work. “I want to talk with
you about”—
“Are ye one, of them uplifters?”
Mrs. Duggan interrupts, without
taking her hands from the wash-
tub.
“Well, in a sense, that is my
hope.”
“Well, I’ve just this to say. I
was one day behind with my wasli-
in’s last week because of helpful
visitin’ committee ladies, an’ from
now on them that wants to improve
my condition -in life will either have
to do the washin’ while I sit an’
listen or pay me 50 cents an hour f’r
bearin’ them through with an inter
ested an’ inspirin’ expression.”—
Judge.
Atmospherio Concussion.
The man who was hurrying up
the stairway leading to the elevated
railway station trod on tfie skirt of
the middle aged dame who,was pro
ceeding more leisurely, whereupon
he indulged himself in a bit of-muf
fled profanity.
. “What did you say, sir ?”"'she de
manded.-
“I waB—er—trying' to make a
noi$e like an apology, ma’anr/’-'
“Thanks,” she rejoined with a
frosty smile. “Now will you—er—
‘kindly make a noise like an ill man
nered’ pefspn falling down p. stair
way?” ' .' ... "v; .
... Then the, procession moved on
running about ,,02ain in.silence.—Chicago Tribune.
Application for Charter.
GEORGIA-Grady County. 1
' To the Superior-Court of said county:
The petition of K. P. Wight, W. S.
Wight, Thomas Wight, G. A. Wight,
P. M. Baggett, W: G. Baggett, J. M.
Poulk, E. J. Poulk, C. E. Mauldin J. B.
Wi r ;ht and M. L. Ledford, all of the
county of Grady, and state of Oeoiyin.
and G. Al. Poulk of Bibb county, and
State of Georgia, respectfully shows:
1. That they desire for themselves,
their associates and successors to, he
incorporated and made a body politic
under the name and style ^of .• ■ •
Georgia j Fertilizer
laqttirlng. Company
for the perib'd of twenty years. A '
, 2. Tne principal office of said com-
K shall be in the city of Cairo, state
sorgia, Grady county, but petition
ers deeire the right to establish branfch
offices within this state Or elsewhere
whenever the holders-, of a majority of
the stock may so determind; . v ■
3. The object, of said incorporation is
pecuniary gain to itself and its shaffe-
holdersi' ,
4. The business to be carried on by
said incorporation is that of operation
of cotton gins, cotton seed oil mills' and
the manufacture and sale of fertilizers.
5. The capital stock of said incorpo
ration shall be Twenty Thousand ($20,-
000.00) dollars with the privilege of
increasing the same from time to time
to, any sum not exceeding Two Hun
dred Thousand ($200,000.00) dollars by
a majority Vote of the stockholders,
said stock to be divided into shares of
One Hundred ($100.00) dollars each:
Ten (10) per cent, of eapital to be em
ployed by them has been actually paid
in.
Petitioners desire the right to have
the subscription to said capital stock
paid in money or property to be taken
at a fair valuation. ‘
6. Petitioners desire the right to sue
and be sued, to plead and be impleaded,
to have and use a common seal, to
make all necessary bylaws and regula
tions and dp all other things that may
be necessary to the successful carrying
on of said business, including the right
to buy, hold a.nd sell real estate and
personal property suitable for the pur
pose of the corporation, and to execute
notes and bonds as evidence of indebt
edness incurred, or which may be in
curred in the conduct of the affairs of
the corporation, and to secure the same
by mortgage, security deed or other
" irm of lien under existing laws.
7. They desire for said corporation
the power and authority to apply for
and accept amendments to its charter
of either form or substance by a vote
of a majority of its stock outstanding
at the time. They also ask authority
for said corporation to wind up its af
fairs, liquidate and discontinue at any
time it may determine to do so by a
vote of two-thirds of its stock outstand-
at the time.
They desire for said incorporation
the right of renewal when, as provided
the laws of Georgia, and that it have
such other rights, powers, privil
eges and immunities as ard incident to
like corporations or permissible under
the laws of Georgia
Wherefore, Petitioners pray to be
incorporated under the name and style
aforesaid, with the powers, privileges
and immunities herein set forth, and as
are now or may hereafter be allowed a
corporation of similar character under
the laws of Georgia.
M. L. Ledford,
Petitioners Attorney.
Filed in office 11th day of April,
1911.
J.M. McNair,
Deputy Clerk,
GEORGIA—Grady County.
I, W. T. Crawford, clerk of the su
perior court of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true ana
correct copy of the application for
charter of Georgia Fertilizer and Man
ufacturing Company, as the same ap
pears of file in this office.
Witness my official signature and the
seal of said court, this the 11th day of
April, 1911.
W. T.. Crawford,
Clerk Superior Court.
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A few things that are carried in stock at
Mitchell’s Old Reliable Grocery.
baratoga Chips, Peanut Butter, Pure
Food Canning Co’s., Fruit Jam, all
flavors, Swift’s Premium Hams, Mer
ry Widow flour, water mill meal, and
anything good to make up a tempting
. dinner.
Why not try us for Groceries
from now on.
We solicit your patronage and assure
.you it will be appreciated. We buy
eggs, butter, chickens and seed pea
nuts and pay cash. ; ,
J.H. MITCHELL
PHONE 97.
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BUSINESS WANTS
FOR RENT—A five room house. Ap
ply to Dr. W. A. Walker 4-7-11
For Sale—Pure bred Wjendott eggs
for hatching. $1.00 per setting. Mrs.
J. C. Courtney, Cairo, Ga. 32 tf.
For Sale—Select planting peas all
kinds, write for prices. H.M.Frank
lin, Tennille, Ga. - 31 lOt.
Large Bared Plymouth Rock and White
Leghorn eggs for sale by G.W. Hurst
at Hursts Poultry Farm. Prices 50
cents for 15 eggs. Phone 35. Cairo,
Georgia. 36 tf.
FOR SALE...
Wm. Allen place 7 miles north of Cairo, 500 acres.
5 horse farm open. >
The Jonathan Walden place 7 iftiles southwest of Cairo
4 miles southeast of Whigham.
175 acres of the Whit Gainbus place. Will sell all
these places at prices that will please you. |
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Time Table No. 2 .
Effective Saturday, October 1st, 1910,12:01,' A. M
Between CAIRO AND CALVARY
South Bound
STATIONS
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