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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS. CAIRO. GEORGIA.
GIADY COUNTY PROGRESS
S. R. Blanton & Son, Owne«.
S. U.Blanton, Editor.
Z. V. Blanton,lAssoclutc Editor.
Miss Addle Lou Powell, Local Editor
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF. GRADY COUNTY
One:Dollar Per Year, In Advance
KEEPING UP THE MILK FLOW W*
AND KEEPING DOWN THE COST
By Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture.
Adverting Rates Reasonable and
Made Known on Application.
Entered at Cairo, Ga„ Postoffice
as Second Class Mad Matter.
Atlanta, Ga., February 23.—
With the survey of Georgia look
ing into the manufacturing needs
of the State merrily progressing;
the campaign launched creat ng
interest in the building of good,
permanent roads; the fight on tin
boll weevil menace • steadily con
tinuing; the Buy-at-home and
Buy-in T Georgia movements beinj
steadily pushed, and with the or
ganization and re-organizatien of
trades bodies and county Guam
bars of Commerce, the officials oi
the Georgia State Chamber 01
Commerce are managing to keep
busy every hour of the workin*
week, In addition to this more
spectacular work, the Stati
Chamber is gradually compilinj
a mass of statistics of every char-
actei, which will prove invalua-
ablo in its later work in trying to
induce capital and new blood to.
come into Georgia.
President C, J. Haden, of the
State Chamber, in initiating the
industrial sureey of the State, ad
dressed letters to various cities
and to\vns asking what kind of
manufacturing enterprises would
be most suitable in the respective
committies. The query has caus
ed a veiitable avalanche of mai
to shoot into the headquarters of
fices of the Chamber. The infor
mation received will be complied
and a systematic campaign for in
dustries carried on later.
Wluit should a cow be fed? It Is Im-1 meal. It should, of course, he Ted In
possible for a cow to makfc rich milk i connection with grass or silage, but In
nud elaborate It In large onantltles un-! the absence of these it can be fee
less she is properly fed. An analysis i with hulls or mixed hay. The write,
if milk shows that It consists largely hits known cows 'to . be fed on ftotloi
if water, hence the. need of succulent I seed meal, silage, hulls and.good pas
'noils, either grass or substitutes there 1 ture grass for years and maintain tin
/or Milk also contains large, ijuuntl : best condition and produce a largr
les III protein, if till! cow is not red amount of milk rich In blitter fat.
ibundanllv of food containing a high j There are thousands of farmers U
per cent, of Ibis element, there will he Georgia who maintain cows on then
•i great redaction In milk How and i lots or on their Tamm who aro failing
dually a drying up. to secure the best returns rroiu them.
There are many food stuffs from (hough they are. fed expensive rations
which adequate protein may he obtain- They are often not feeding enough pro
ed, but the farmer should, of course, tein, or If they are, it is In too ex
seek the cheapest kind that will serve pensive a form to prove profitable. Il
the purpose. Is it wheat bran, mils, only oHe concentrate Is to be fed, Il
shorts, cotton seed lnoal or Other is Infinitely better to fend cotton snee
food 7 meat to u cow at. I he rute of from <
la the South there certainly eoald to .1 pounds per 1,000-pound live welglr
he no better nor more economies; i when she Is giving two gallons of mill
source of protein than cotton seed per day.
RAISING BREEDING SWINE FOR PROFIT
Milton P. Jarnagin, Professor Animal Husbandry, State College of Agr.
The College or Agriculture has a , along, hut with proper care, two 111
Tamworth sow that holds a record ters can always be obtained and ai
lf44 1 average of 15 pigH will be more nearl>
ol lurrowing -.1 111 two litters in one j w |, at ,, an | )(J poped for.
year, 2,1 of which lived. Twenty-one j While other breeds of hogs are rals
of these pigs sold just after wounlng : od at the College, the Tumworth is giv
at $10 apiece. Two were Inferior, and . ell prominence, Tor the reason that tin
were sold for pork production while South is a large consumer of bacoi
still pigs at $5 apiece. < and lard substitutes produced in tin
Tills plain hut motherly Tamworth ' South make It less important to spe
sow, whose picture is given herewith, j ciulize on lard types. Other bacoi
hast created a revenue Of $220 In one types will do well la tile South also
year. Some breeders ask not less than I Those who may lie Interested ii
$15 for pigs, and if the College bad held | the subject of raising pure bred bog;
out for such prices it could probably j for breeding purposes can obtain in
have obtained them, lint to encourage j formation about types, bousing, feed
the breeding of pure bred swine the Ing and grazing in a bulletin just is
lower price was asked. j sued from tills department. It can In
No one can expect to average as ' obtained free of cost by writing tli
many as 25 pigs in two litters right j College.
WANTED—Ten thousand
me il hull and oat sacks.
See us for all kinds of ferti
lizers, buggies and wagons.
W. G. Baggett & Son
A Plain, Motherly TamWorth That Produced a Revenue of $220 In Pigs In
One Year at the College.
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eeorgiu, Grady county;
To Whom it may Concern, and
to the Legal Voters of Whigham:
You are hereby notified there
will he an Election held in
cordance with the- following or- j th<ulenomjnatiqnof 8375,00. Paid
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OF ELECTION
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teen in Number, That said Bcftids on their tickets these words, t
shall draw inlerest at the rate of j‘F OR ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Six per cent per annum, All in- BONDS OR AGAINST ELEC;
tereaf shall bf; paid airually, be- j TRIG LIGHTS BONDS.” AncT
gining on the 1st, day of January ; shall vote for cr against these
11)15, and anually thereafter, j Bonds, Also at the same time apd
And there shall be One Bond of place at the same Election shall
Company
The Home of E & W and
. Mgnhatten Shifts'
finances, to-wit:
V Resolution for Electric Lights
Bonds: and for Water Woi ks
Improvement Bonds:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
MAYOR AND COUNCIL: And
it is hereby resolved by the au
thority aforesaid, that it appear
ing to the Mayor anr)’ Gbifhci'
hat the Town of Whigham if
very much in need of Electr.ii
Lights, and to establish and erect
i system of Electric Lights, that
t will be necessary to make-im-
jrovements arid repairs, in-the
Water Works System now.in use
by the Town, so as to operate
both conjunctively, together, be
Jieving that it will meet with the
ipproval of every citizen and tax
payer-
(A) That a Bond issue oi
56,000.00 should be issued for the,
mrpose to establish and erect
in Electric Light System for the
Town of Whigham.
(B) That to meet this requir
ed improvement, that a Bond is
sue of the sum of $2,000.00
should be issued for the purpose
if improving and repairing the
Vater Works System now in use
by the Town of Whigham.
Now therefore be it resolved;
and it is hereby resolved by the
Authority, the Mayor and Conn-
til, that there shall he an elec
tion held in the Town Hall, the
same being the only place where
elections are held for Mayor and
Council on the 31st day of March
1914, tor the purpose to deter
mine whether there shall be or
not be a Bond issue in the sum of
$6,000.00 for the purpose to es
tablish and erect an Electric
Light Plant and System for the
Town of Whigahm, That said
Bonds shall be of the denomiim
tion of $375,00, Each, and Six-
anually hegining on the 1st, day
of January 1918. And anually
thereafter untill all Sixteen Bonds
shall he paid olf in full on the 1st,
day of January 1933, All of
which shall be paid in lawful
Mmeyofthe United States at
any Bank in Atlanta Georgia,
And-lhe same Election shall be
he.d for the purpose to determine
wheather there shall be or not be
a Bond issue for the sum of *2000,-
00, for-the purpose of improving
and repairing the Water Works
System'now in use by the Town
Vy.higHaiiVsO" as to opcaat.e thri
Water Works and Electric Light
Plant togather, /That said Bonds
shall be of tlTe denomination of
*125,00, Each, And Sixteen in
number, that said Bonds shall
draw interest at the rate of Six
per cent, per annum. All interest
shall-be'paid' anually begining on :
on the 1st, day of January .1915,
And anually thereafter, And
there shall he One Bond of the
denomination of $125,00, paid an
ually begining on the 1st, of Jan
uary 1!)1S, and anually thereafter
untill all the Sixteen Bonds shall
be paid off in full on the 1st, day
of January 1933, All of which
•shall be paid in lawfui money of
the United States at' any Bank in
Atlanta Georgia,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
P.Y THE MAYOR AND COUN
CIL, That an Election shall be
h§kl oft the 31st, day of March
1914, By Three Free Holders of
said Town as Managers in the
Town Hall the only place where
the elections are hold for Mayor
and Council in said Town, That
said Managers shall open- said
Election for Voteing at 9, o’clock
A. M. And shall close the same
at 3, o’clock'P. M. of the same
d ay. All legal voters shall have
have thete words on their Tick
rils, “FOR WATER WORKS
BONDS ? OR AGAINST WATER . . v
WORKS BONDS?”' Arid Shall *
Vote for or against these Bpnds,
, i
tiori witli the Mayor and Council .
togather .shall consolidate' the
vote at said election and declare 1
the results, And sboyld-ttie-re- ;
suits declared be the' required
two thirds as fixed by law. in. '
favor of the Bonds issue for Elec
tric Lights Bonds, then these
Bondsshall be and is hereby au
thorized to issue as heretofore set.
out in this resolufibn,
Aftd should the results declared
he the required two thirds as fix- .
ed by law in favor of the Bond
issue for Water Works Bonds, _
then these Bonds shall be and is
hereby authorized tc issue as
heretofore set out in this resoulu-
tion. -
Be it further resblvedf by the- ,
Mayor and Council, that the May
or is hereby authorized to call the ..
Election as set out in this resolu
tion. 3? C
Read in full in open Council
and passed, This Febmmry 23rd,
1914.
R. R. Terrell, Mayor-
E. P. Truktck, Alderman.
D. G. Me Nair, Alderman.
J. E. Cobb, Alderman.
W, C. Bell, Alderman.
I certify the above to be true, ,
J. O. Harrell, Clerk, Town of
Whigham.
Louis W. Rigsby
Attorney-at-Law
Office with Col. M. L. Ledford
Cairo, - Georgia.
WANTED—Ten thousond
meal hull and oat sacks.
See us for all kinds of ferti
lizers, buggies and’wagons. ‘
W. G. Baggett &, Son
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Grady Conuty’s Largest Store
House Dresses
Irl vyhicK you may always ap
pear Neat and Well-Dressed
even when occupied Ntvith
Housework
Many Women feel that they
haven’t time to make a
house dress or two—and
- is no need to
make them when you can
buy
at $1.00 to $111
These have just come in. They are made of the
best quality ginghams, chambrays and percales in
dark or light colors. They were made by expert seam*
stresses and every on,e is perfect fitting. The range
of sizes is complete for ladies and messes.
New Spring Dry Gnodi Are H4r6 ur
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