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• • Phone 31 • • We want your trade. We will appreciate your trade and we must have your trade. If its anything in the GROCERY LINE you want, call us, we have it, and if we havn’t got it we’ll get it. And if you want it quick, just say quick and you’ll get it quick. All you’ve got to do is to PHONE 31. WHITE & STRINGER LEADING GROCERS CAIRO, GEORGIA W.T. CRAWFORD. Treiildcnt WALTER L. WTGHT, Cashier [ THOS. WIGHT, B. H. POPE. 1 J. N. MAXWELL. . A FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK Capital Stock $30,000 CAIRO, GA. Will You Do It Now? There is only one way to save money—that is to deposit l it regularly in a good conservative bank. We do a strictly banking business and our business-like * methods are known to all. | Start a Bank Account with Us Today, | We have the Bank—You have thelMoney. i i Cow Hides Want© I pay the highest cash prices for hides. Bring them to me. Green hides bring you more mo«Gy than flint, See me before you sell your beef cattle. Milk cows bought and sold. G. D. REDDIDK, p THE MARKET MAN.^ j|| EXALL ON BETTER FARMING People Muet be Taught Absolute Necessity of Returning All Fertilizers to Soli. ft an STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF The Bank of Whigham, located at Whigham, At. tlio of Ttncinogg 1W1 Ga. RESOURCES LIABILITIES Remand Loans, 2,180,15 Time Loans 05,361.59 Overdrafts, secured by cotton, 2,857.04 Banking House. 2,572.79 Furniture and Fixtures 2,009.30 Other Real Estate, ' 13,000.05 Due from Banks and Bankers in this State, _ 96.00 Due from Banks and Bankers in other States, 833.SI Currency, 1848.00 Gold, 120.00 Silver, Nickels, etc. 3022.93 Cash Items. 317.33 | TOTAL, 325,195.25 * Capital Stock Paid In, 25,000.0( Undivided Prolits, less Current Ex penses, Interest and Taxes Paid, 9,197.9! Individual Deposits, .subject.to Check. 33,628.51 Savings Deposits, 20,-3'(7.9' Time Certificates, 6;095.1P Cashier’s Checks, 924.61 Bills Payable, including Time Certi ficate representing Borrowed Money, -30,000. Of Other Liabilities, TOTAL, 125,195.25 .-* v IN STATE OF GEORGIA, I County of Grady. I , Before me came 0. C. Spence, Cashier of the Bank of Whigham, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of saic Bank as shown by the books of file in said Bank. O. C. Spence, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 12th day of September, 1911. G. B. Stapleton, N. P. G. Co. Ga. | ■ ■j Want To Buy Farms! In small or large bodies; im proved or unimproved. Send me good description; mention, number of acres; grade of land; improvements; distance to town;- location; community; distance to schools aud churches; running water; price and terms. Write W. E. Craigmiles, Thomasville, Ga. For Sale by J. S. Powell. Six-room house, corner lot, 100x200 on Pearband avenue. House comparatively new, arte sian water in abundance—$1,000. Terms 3easy.‘ Apply to M. L LEDFORD, Cairo, Ga. Travelers Alabama ward. Effective July 31st, connection between trains 185 and 187 at Bainbridge will be made. No. 187 will leave Bainbridge 6 ;40 PM, and will arrive Dothan 8:40 P.M, FOR QUICK SALE. In the address of the president of the Texas Industrial Congress at Its late meeting, Col. Henry Exall spoke, In part, as follows: "The population of Europe and America at the beginning of the nine teenth century was about 180 million; It Is now over 410 million. The pop ulation of the United States in 1800 was seven million; It Is now almost 100 million. The opening up of this new country, with Its rich soil, so cheapened food production that the population Increased by leaps and bounds, and despite the Civil war, with Its Incalculable destruction of life and property, and its paralyzing effect upon progress, our population has grown from thirty million In 1860 to nlnety-^wo million In 1910—300 per cent in fifty years. At the same rate of increase we will have 28G million people to feed In 1960. In this con nection It Is well to remember that despite the fact that within the past forty years we have put.Into cultiva tion the major part of the great prairie plains, the richest body of land of like fertility on the face of the earth, comprising what Is known as the Mississippi valley, and includ ing the black belt In Illinois, and west through Iowa and the Dakotas, and southwest through Kansas, Ne braska, Oklahoma, and Texas, and notwithstanding the fact that great Improvements have been made for cul tivating and harvesting crops, and great advance Jias been made In seed selection, and some Improvement in cultural methods, so little has been done to conserve the fertility of the earth; so constantly have we mined rather than farmed it; subtracting f; om It without adding to it, that the' average crop of corn and wheat com bined per acre in the United States Is less than it was forty yedrs ago. The population is Increasing at a terrible rate,, and production Is con stantly decreasing, fhe grain acreage Increase for the past ten years has been about twenty-three per cent; the production has Increased about thirty-five per cent, but the consump tion has increased sixty per cent “Ten years ago we produced about 500 million bushels of wheat and ex ported thirty-seven and a half per cent of it; n u w we produce 700 million bushels Of wheat, and export seventeen pef cent In the. same time our corn crop has grown from two and halt billion bushels to two and three-qtfar- ter billion bushels, but the home de mand has BO infifeased that, our ex ports have fallen from nine to three per cent. For ail these years we have been in. the proud position of having corn and wheat for sale, anti cheap tbod fbr all our people, but lihless we immediately and radically change our agricultural methods wte Will, within the next few years, be buyers of food. The pertinent question is: ‘Who will have it for sale at anything like rea sonable prices 7’ It behooves Us„ therefore,, to save and to use every particle of fertiliz ing matter that is within our reach. Tile nitrogen, phosphorus and potash in the.atklks from 100 bushels of corn arfe worth, In carload lots .oday, if We. ‘hiid to buy it, $10.55. The same mlifcral elements In the stalks from s, *bale of cotton are worth $9.69. As g. -mi., we burn both, and temporarily destroy the usefulness of the land ur-on which the fires are lighted. . We are not only clipping the coupons, but wo are cutting into the bo^y of the bonds. "The people must be taught the ab solute necessity of returning every thing possible In the line of fertilizers to the soil; protecting it from wash ing by terracing, and plowing around Instead of up and down the slopes. They must be taught to thoroughly prepare the lands before planting the carefully selected seed, and by con- jtant shallow mulch cultivation to keep down the weeds. They must not lay by and leave their crops, hut must he taught to know that as the Btalk grows larger It has more live weigh to sustain, and :lt needs more nourish ment Cultivation should continue un til the crop is positively made. The rule has been to lay by the crop and leave It to fight the suokers, weeds, dry, parched earth and hot w ln . alone, when Its Ufa work is yet to he accomplished. , , "If this one last Item mentioned, namely, not to lay by and leave the crop, but to keep a soft mulch on top of the ground, and the crop entirely free from weeds and suckers until the grains are hard upon the stalk, were literally put into effect, It would add millions of dollars to the value of the crop In the state this year.’’ Commercial Printing We are Overhauling our Job Presses and Commercial Printing Department We will soon be In a position to EX) a class of High-Class Job Work and at Prices that are Proper Progress Job Office .87 Modem Type of Yorkshire. I will sell sell my entire plan- thtion, closely and conveniently situated to Cairo, at' a very low figure if’bought at once, If you want a bargain,^communicate with Tne'quick, first come, first serve. J. WileyIMerrett, Jr. Charcoal to Preserve Health. Charcoal Is a great absorbent and should be used freely In the drinking water. A little pulverized charcoal fed occasionally will greatly assist in maintaining the health of the fowls. The best plan is to have it handy and when feed Is being mixed, put a spoonful In the mash. This should be done once or- twice a week. (By a M. TRACT.) A certain amount of grain feed is needed to grow hogs with the greatest profit, and still more is needed to fat ten and fit them for market, but it should be used only to supplement the feeds which the hogs harvest for themselves in the field. Pork can not be made economically when all, or even a larger proportion, of the feed oomeB from the crib or the mill. The hog is an omnivorous animal and needs "roughage” and fresh green feed tor his best health and growth and to produce meat of the best qual ity When young his grain feed should be such as will furnish mater ial f or bone and muscle, and not such as will produce an excess of fat; while as the animal ‘ approaches maturity, fat-producing foods should be given more liberally. No one kind of grain feed can he used economically from weaning until the full-grown animal Is slaughtered, and there should be a gradual change from the nitrogenous, muscle-making food given to the pig to the carbonaceous, fat-making food, which is more profitable for the last few weeks before klllfng. The young animal must have good bone and mus cle before it can carry the heavy load •of fat desirable for the butcher or de velop the strength, vigor, and health necessary In a good breeding animal. Growing Clover. 1 In order to keep land in proper condition a certain .amount of clover should be grown, No crop lends Itself to rotation more readily than clover. km*