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THE A. B. & A. RAILROAD
Convenient Schedules between all points In
Georgia and Alabama.
Dates of sale to points in the South and local points on
the A. B. & A. Railroad December 16th to 25th inclusive, also
December 31st and January 1st, 1916. Return limit Jan. 6th.
Dates of sale to the Southwest ‘(Oklahoma, Arkansas
and Texas) December 20, 21 and 22,1914. Return limit
January 18, 1916. I
Dates of sale to the Central North, Illinois, Iowa, Min
nesota, Missouri, Nebraska; South Dakota, December 19, 20,
21. 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31, 1914. Return limit Jan. 18, 1915.
Call on nearest ticket agent of the A. B. & A. Railroad
for full information, schedules, specific fares, eto., or write .
• W. W. CROXTON, G. P A.,
A. B. & A. R. R., Atlanta, Ga.
will,.
Wanted to Buy
Pure Georgia cane syrup in barrels
and half barrels. Quote lowest
wholesale price.
W. H. DAVIS, Augusta, Ga.
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NOTICE THIS!
If you need anything in this line call on
T. S. Copeland and get it \ Any kind of
a team, horses and mules, general livery
stables, and variety works, lumber, doors,
and door frames, windows and frames,
mantels, sashes, moulding and shingles.
See me before buying and you can ex
change cotton, corn, syrup or any kind of
country produce for same. -
t. s copelIand
Central Avenue
Office Phone 162
iIRO,
Residence Phone 130
GEORGIA.
1 Buy Bread, Cakes, Pies, etc., cooked at Cairo
•| J ? Bakery.
We are sole agents for the famous Stone’s Cakes, baked
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Patromze Home Industry and
Home People
in Atlanta—six varieties.
We also sell all kinds of Fancy Groceries, to suit the
most exacting.
Cow Feed and Horse Feed of all kinds.
If yeti are not our customers we would be pleased to
serve you.
Mitchell & Walker
Phone 97
WANTED TO
SELL CHEAP
One 12 “Horse Gasoline Engine
and 20-inch Burroughs Corn
Mill; also one small Fay and
Eagan Planer.
W. L. PARKER
Whigham, Ga.
Value of the Annual Farm
Conferences In the Y&ar of
The Agricultural Crisis
Pre4. Andrew M. Soule, Georgia State College of Agriculture
The Annual meeting of the Georgia
brooders’ Association will bo held
January 16, the annual meeting of tha
Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Asso
ciation on January 16-19, tho annual
meeting of the- Georgia Horticultural
Soolety ou January 19-20 and tho an
nual mooting of the Georgia Apple
Growers' Association ou Jauunry 21.
All are to be hold at tho College of
Agrtcutlure at Athens. Those moot
ings follow Immediately aftor the
short courses, thus affording Bhnrl
course students an opportunity of at
tending these splendid meetings with
out the usual cost.
Special railroad rates have boen ob
tained for these meetings as well' as
for the short course. Those who at.
tend should be sure to ask for the spe.
olal rates.
The program for these meetings will
be rich with valuable Information.
Practical men who have dealt with
and met their various problems in
Georgia will appear on the program.
Authorities of nation-wide reputatton
will come with their special messages.
Special efforts are being made to pro-
TIMELY SPRAYING OF
APPLES.AND PEACHES
J. W. Flror, Georgia State Col. of Agr.
Time and labor can be saved by so
timing tho spraying of peacheB and
apples as to control or destroy several
fungus trouble and an insect at one
operation. Nearly all orchards are in
fested with the San Jose scale. This
necessitates at leaBt one spraying dur.
ing the dormant soason when the or
chard 1b slightly Infested and two
sprayings when badly Infested. Even
when no scale has been observed in
the orchard during tho past season, It
la advisable to make a spring spray
ing to prevent Infestation. It will
serve also to clean up tho trees and
prevent such Injurious fungus trou
bles as the curl of the peach and scab
of the apple.
The worst infection of the apple
scab takes place during the wook or
ten days previous to the opening of tho
buis. A thorough spraying with lime-
sulphur solution at that time is recom
mended. The strength of the solution
depends upon the development of the
bud. Up to the first showing of pink
by the buds, use winter strength or 6
sent nl the meetings at the first of the
year, programs of unusual merit, ow
ing to the crisis In agriculture which
the state Is fnclug.
Make up your mind that you will
attoni] the ton days’ short course nnd
stay for tho farmers’ conferences !
With such information and inspira
tion obtained at tho beginning of the
year, iib will be available at these
meetings, the work of tho twelve
months will he more profltnhle and
pleasant. What bettor place can one
go In Georgia to got tho desired In
formation for varying tho farm pro
gram'from cotton to a profitable dl-
veralfleallon, than to (ha short courses
and the farm conferences at tho State
College?
Tho wives of tho farmers will find
tho 'meetings interesting and profita
ble. The meetings of the horticultu
ral society have always been well at-
fended by women. Should the women
coma while the girls’ course Is being
conducted, they will bo greatly Inter
ested In tho canning, domestic science
and poultry work tn which they are In-
structed.
gallons of the commercial llmo-sul-
phur to 50 gallons of water. Reduce
the strength to 2 or 3 gallons to the
50 of water after tho buds Bhow pink.
Tho spores of the leaf curl fungus
live over the winter on'the branches
and twigs of the peach tree and be
come active during (lie two or three
weeks before tho buds opon. During
this time, by making the winter spray
ing with lime-sulphur solution (com
mercial llmo-sulphur 6 gallons to 60 of
water), tho scale will bo combatted
and tho leaf curl prevented. This
spraying must bo timed accurately
and made thoroughly to get the best
results. Mlslblo oils will not take the
place of tho lime-sulphur solution, al
though they will destroy the scale,
Bordeaux mlxturo used at the time
above mentioned Is vory effective
against the scab, but Is not effective
against scale.
During the spring of 1914 serious
dnmage was done to the blossoms and
young twigs of peach trees by the
brown rot fungus. This dlseaso does
greatest Injury to tho fruit, but also
Lakes Its toll from tho health of twlgB.
The Infection takes place at bloa-
sotnlug time and If the second spray
ing Is delayed until the buds swell
lime-sulphur will kill the spores,
JANY (oiks in town have learned that when they want really fine
cheese they must come here. It’s so. We know a whole
lot about cheese—how to judge it, how to buy it, how to
keep it Cheese aids the digestion, but you must know •
how to eat it, and you must eat the right kind.
Drop in if you are a strapper and talk cheese.
White & Stringer,
Cairo, Ga.
Getting Farm Products Graded and
Packed for Best Market Prices
Prea. Andrew M. Soule, Georgia State College of / griculture
Not a few farmers who desire to en
ter other lines of farming than cot
ton fear that they will not find a mar
ket for what they raise. It Is. there
fore, very Important for the farmers
to know something about standardiz
ing his product, about the grades and
the packing to get the best prices.
Co-operative organizations of farm
ers are of prime Importance In this
connection. An agreement should be
reached as to what particular crop or
.crops will be raised to the end that
as large number should grow the crops
as possible and enter the market with
carload lots In order that the cost
of marketing should be the minimum
and the proflts to the grower the
largest. The business man and bank
er might well co-operate with the
farmers and assist in putting the
movement on a business basis. To
know beat what to grow It Is Import
ant that an agricultural specialist be
consulted, a man who knows what the
soil Is bust adapted to, how the cli
matic oendltlous will affect the crop,
who knows something about the prof
its to bo made ou various crops, some,
thing of the demand, the best markets,
what methods of cultivation to give
and what kind of fertilizer to apply,
how to standardize the product and
in what sort of holders to put crop.
A perfectly reliable person should
have charge of the grading and pack
ing. To fall In grading and packing Is
to lose all.
The expert service which the Col
lege of Agriculture can render direct
ly and In co-opcration with the govern
ment experts, It Is very ready to give.
Tho department of markets of the
United States has been called upon
by the authorities of the College of
Agriculture to rendor service In Geor
gia by sending market exports to as
sist farmers In disposing of the crops
which they are growing, tn many In
stances, for the first time.
Don’t Sell Breeding Animals
Milton P. Jarnagln, Prof. Animal Hus.,
Gaorgla State College of Agr.
To meet the demand for canned
beef, the packers of the country have
been buying cattle all through the
South In large quantities. . The war
in Europe has made this unusual de
mand. The buyers are Indifferent
about the quality of the cattle for
this purpose. They buy practically
everything that Is offered. In
one shipment a-certain large pack
ing house of Chicago took 10,500 cat
tle from South Georgia and North
Florida. Tho owners sold recklessly
and parted with many heifers and
oows that should have been held for
the foundation of a permanent beef
business. The loss Is tremendous
when viewed In tills way.
Not only have the packers been af
ter the cheap cattle of South Georgia
and North Florida, but the ranchers
of the West and the cattle men of
the North who want foundation stock
for breeding up with a pure bred sire
are still buying large quantities.
The owners of these cattle are miss
ing their greatest opportunities In not
feeding their cattle up for the market
ami pellipg beef prices. It was dem
onstrated In experiments oonducted by
the writer In that region that It was
possible to buy cattle, feod tor 100
dftys on allage and cotton seed meal
gnd not 27 per cent on the investment
by selling for beef in Richmond, Va.
Ss Forestry?
Jas. B. Berry, Professor Forestry,
Georgia State College of Agr,
Not long ago a gentleman said to
me: “What Is this ’forestry’ you’re
talking about—I’ve hoard about It be
fore, but WHAT IS IT?” That’s
hard question for a small space, for
forestry Is broad and general like agri
culture. To bo more specific,, forestry
Includes logging, milling, turpentining,
grazing in the forest, tree planting,
tree diseases, protection from fire,
marketing forest products, forest leg
islation, in tact everything that has
to do with the growing of trees from
the time they are planted till the
time tho wood Is manufactured and
marketed. Next to agriculture for
estry produces products of the great
est money yalue, aggregating more
than ?1,200,000,000 in one year aftd
with a roll of employees of more than
800,000 men.
For the trained and efficient for
ester there are wonderful opportuni
ties. With the lumber companies hq
develops Into a superintendent of log
ging or milling. With tha railroads
and mining companies ho becomes
manager of the creosoting plant. With
the government he develops Into a
national forest executive. With the
state he becomes state forester. The
Georgia State Forest School offers an
opportunity for a man to develop Into
an efficient forester. The school also
offers to aid residents of the state In
the management of woodlands.
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Which Hotel?
For real good service, comfort
able rooms, splendid meals, mod
erate prices and convenient loca
tion visit
.amer
Macon,
Georgia.
Cairo Ice & Bottling Co.
Dealers In
COAL AND WOOD
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Best Coal $8.25 Ton Stove Wood $4.00 per Cord
Cut Ready for Stove
Will store your meat for 30 days at
1 c per lb.
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The City Pressing Club
Has moved to the Sapp building near the Court House.
We have the most up-to-date Steam Presser in South
Georgia, nothing like it in Cairo. This presser insures
your clothes being cleaned at time pressed. No danger
of them being scorched.
We also do first-class dyeing and are laundry aeents.
Become one of our many satisfied customers
City Pressing Club
J. T. Sellars, Proprietor
Cairo, Georgia
FARM LOANS
We are in the market for farm loans
from $1000 to $3000. The war is
over in the loan business. If you will
see us right away and bring your land
deeds, we can make you a good propo
sition.
BELL & WEATHERS
Cairo, Georgia