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DY COUNTY
PUBLIC DR All
The Old Uellsble ,
.1. F. .MOIITGOMKRY
Day Phone lit, Klaht 147
T«r OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRADY COUNTY,-
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1910.
Will Be Held Thursday, April 20-Experts Will Speak-
Farmers and Business Men Should Attend.
An important conference of
farmers and business men from
all South Georgiii has been call
ed to meet in Albany, Ga., on
Thursday, April 20th, at ten
o’clock a. m., to discuss and con
sider the best methods of deal
ing with boll weevil conditions.
This conference will be held
under the auspices of the Geor
gia State Board, of Entomology,
the States Relations Service of
the United States and the Alba
ny Chamber of Commerce.
TJjIh will Ihj-one ol' tho most nota
ble, most interesting timl most im
portant conferences till llils subject
yet hold. It will bring .before farm
ers and business men of flte entire
section some of'the foremost experts
of tho country, in dealing with tlie
Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil.
Experts To Be Present
Among the speakers will lie Hr. W.
13. llunler of Washington, D. C., in
charge of southern Held crop insect
investigation; Dr. Bradford Knapp of
Washington, head of tin; States Re-
lati'ons Service; 12. Lee Worsham,
Slate Entomologist; ,1. Phil Campbell,
Stale Agent for the Stales Relations
Service; Ira W. Williams, Expert In
Cotton Breeding, and Chancellor D.
C. Barrow, of (lie University of Geor
gia.
These men are all well equipped to
deal with the situation and to tell
farmer's, bankers', merchants and busi
ness men of all classes who are iu-
■terrsicd in litis problem just what
should be done lo make farming profit
able in spite of the presence of the
'weevil.
All Who Can, Should Come
This conference should bring to
gether all possible Tanners and busi
ness men who tiro interested—Ena
Ihere is scarcely a one who Is not—
lroni the entire hull weevil territory
in Georgia, now covering an area of
approximately 111,400 .square miles, or
practically one-third Of the cotton
growing territory of the state.
1 lie young cotton will soon he com
ing on and the wT-evlls that passed
successfully through tho winter sea
son, will, before long, he emerging
from winter quarters to attack the
young squares. There is every indi
cation that the weevil is going to
prove a very serious pent lliip year
in at least 30 to 35 Georgia counties
in the southwestern section of the
state, from Haralson county all the
way down to tho Florida lino and as
far over os Lowndes in the extreme
southern portion. »
A Serious Problem
Georgia farmers who have arranged
their planting tills year upon the the
ory that the boll weevil is going to
be a very serious problem in these
counties this year, will come out best.
Tim preliminary preparations have, in
moot instances, no doubt, been made,
but there is a great deal yet to he
done, and every farmer and business
nmn in the affected territory, should
be well prepared for What is to
conic.
It is Ihe purpose or the Albany con
ference to discuss and plan “PRE
PAREDNESS" for boll weevil cond!
tions, and to this end there has been
no more important meeting held since
the boll weevil entered this state.
The Georgia State Board of Ento
mology urges and advises every farntet
and business man In the infested ter
ritory who can possibly do so, to be
in Albany to attend this meeting and
hear these speakers, on Thursday
April 20.
Cream Wanted
Call Meeting Live Stock Asso
ciation at court house, Wednes
day, April 19th, 10 A. M.
The Sanitary Dairy Association
at Thomasville wants all the surp
lus cream produced in Grady Coun
ty and is.willing to pay for it on a
butter basis.
Now what are the fanners of our
county going (6 do about this mat
ter? This is a golden opportunity
now knocking at our door, an
por.tuni.tjr to make a start for bet
ter farming, better and cheaper fer
tilizer, permanently fertile soils-and
better homes and living.
Wednesday'morning at 10 a. m.
nt the Court House there, will be a
meeting of interest to every one in
selling cream.
At that time the . question of a
receiving plant to collect the cream
and ship to the Thomasville con
cern will, he discussed. If you arc
interested be on hand at the ap
pointed time. Don't stay away
and depend on someone else to
start the movement. It may take
your help to get started. Be There.
Caravan Of Cotton
Easter Egg Hunt to be
Held at Copeland’s Park
An announcement that will no
doubt be of interest to the children
and also the grown people, of Cairo,
is t-hut an Easter Egg Hunt will'be
given at Copeland’s Park on I 1 1 i-
day afternoon, April 22nd at 3
o’clock by the W.C.T. U. This wilt
be an occasion of much merriment
for the children, and the grown
people ought to also enjoy it. No
better spot could have been selected
for the egg hunt, as Mr. Copeland
has put the Park in beautiful shape.
There will be an admission fee of
5c-for children and IOC for grown
'ups, to defray expenses. Every
body bo on hand and take part in
the fun.
Remember there will be plenty
of lemonade on hand.
Last Tuesday aftwncon load
.after load of cotton followed each
other down Broad St. and lo the
cotton warehouse until forty four
bales had rolled up to the ware
house for weighing. This cotton
was brought in by Mr. E. F. Thom
ason the efficient manager for Wil
der Planting Co.
This cotton was a part of the fif
ty two bales that were grown on
fifty acres by these hustling biisi-
op-1 ness men,
Mr. Wilder and Mr. Thomason
are among our men who hayo learn
ed that stable manure is about tit?
most valuable adjunct to farming,
and for several years they have
been feeding soma,beef cattle each
winter; That is why they can pro
duce fifty two bales of cotton on
fifty acres with almost no commer
cial fertilizer, while most of our
county requires from two to five
acres of cotton planted to produce
a bale. .
Our farmers must learn that the
soil is their bank, and that live
stock raising is the surest way to in
crease their capital stock, because
it is the quickest way to add to the
fertility of their land.
Messrs Wilder and Thomason
have a splendid lot of steers that
they will sell in a few days-and. we
have no doubt that each steer willj
bring more cash and more profit
than was secured per bale for those
44 bales of cotton sold Tuesday.
FIRST LIST OF NOMINEES
ENTERED IN AUTO CONTEST
Fertilizer. Shall We Raise
it or Buy it?
SEND IN YOUR NAME IF YOU WANT AN AUTOMOBILE FREE
Handsome Prizes Offered by The Grady County Progress
Bring Forth Big List of Entries—$5.00 in Gold Goes
Saturday, April 22nd. \VinIt! It is Not Too Late
to Enter This ContcsL •
When The Grady County Progress asked for a list of nominees,
and invited the folks to send in their names (or the names of friends)
to compete for the Ford, 5 Passenger Auto and other prizes, we expect
ed that a few names woitld reach this office, but .didn't' expect, ti flood,
but the big list announced in this issue shows that the people of tbit
section recognize a proposition of real merit as it passes by. Now we
will see who the real hustlers of this section really ARE.
ALL CLASSES ARE REPRESENTED .
A Ford, 5 Passenger Auto coSt $475, and $475 for a few weeks work
is PAYING YOU about $50 lo $00 a Week for your time. The prop
osition is big enough to command the serious attention of any person
in this section; no matter of what consequence that person may be for
I here are very few of us earning $50 to $60 the week. And tho best
worker will WIN.
THE PRl£E LIST
A Ford Five Passenger Automobile
A Standard Hobart M! Cable Piano
A Buck Range, the best made
A 100 Piece Set Royal Blue China
$25!00 in Cash Prizes
A Cash Commission to Non-Prize Winners
ESS PUT TI
WHY THE PROGRESS PUT THIS CONTEST ON
The above-prizes will be won by some one. WHY NOT YOU?
The Grady County Progress is conducting this contest for two
reasons; First, this newspaper has sevorial hundred dollars due it on
subscription accounts and it wishes to collect, this money in. Also The
Progress feels that there are several hundred possible subscribers in our
field that can be secured Who arc not taking the paper. The Progress
offers tlnsinngnifieent list of yi izes, and ANYBODY may compete for
them. There, are no charges to enter, everything is free; nncl if you
DON’T WIN, under the rules, The Progress pays a CASH COMMIS-
sion on.business secured for this paper. The regular subscription rate
is charged, and there is no increase in the price of the paper to either
old or now subscribers, hence the prizes given dosen’t cost our readers
one penny- additional so far as the subscription rate of The Progress is
concerned. Turn lo the last page and read the full details of the plan.
GET BUSY AT THE START
This 5 Passenger Ford Auto; Hobart M. Cable Piano; $85.00 Buck
Range or set of Crockery will be won by. candidates who get busy AT
THE START of the contest. You want to go to work at the start,
WHEN IT IS EASY TO GET SUBSCRIPTIONS. A hustler of aver
age ability who will start in now and see friends and ask them to "sub
scribe or renew to The Grady County Progress, can get at least S10 to
S20 or mbre a day in on subscriptions. This would mean 36,000 to
72,000 votes a day. Also it would mean a eouple of dollars a day IN
COMMISSIONS' ALONE, IF ONE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING
ELSE IN THE CONTEST.
. Win $5.00 in Gold Saturday, April 22nd.
The Progress will make a present ol $5.00 In Gold to
Ihe candidate In the contest that turns In the most CASH
SUBSCRIPTION BUSINESS up to Saturday, April 22nd,
at 4 p. m. WIN THIS FIRST SPECIAL CASH PRIZE and
SHOW YOUR FRIENDS that you possess WINNING AB
ILITY.
You cannot turn In more than '50,000 vote ccrlltl-
cates per week until alter May 13th; blit you can turn In
all the cash business you wish.
' A valuable dressing for flesh
wounds, bprns, scalds, old sores,
rash chafed skin, is BALLARD’S
SNOW. LINIMENT. It is both
healing and antiseptic. Price 25c,
50c and $1.00. Sold by Wight &
Browne.
Notice
On Tuesday April 18th 1016 we
will close our studio for one week
only. Open again April 24th, 1910.
L. M. Sullivan, Photographer
,. WRITE, PHONE, OR CALL
If there is ANYTHING.lhat any candidate, or any person inter
ested in this offer of a FORD AUTO FREE, docs not fully understand
about this contest, we urge that person to write to Tho Contest
Manager,Lock Box 128, or phone him at The Progress, (phone number
221) or COME.IN AND SEE US. Wo will have our Contest Manager
fully explain anything not understood, help you lay out a plan for your
campaign, and give you any advice that he can give. If YOUR name
is entered in this contest, and you are NOT interested, let us know it,
and we will send postage for the return of the receipt book sent lo you.
BOUGHT OF LOCAL PEOPLE
Tho Ford Auto was purchased of tho Cairo Motor Co., and is on
display at their ware rooms. Including freight, this car cost $475 laid
dnwn at Cairo. • „
The II. M. Cable Piano is on exhibition at the store of the Cairo
Furniture Company. This piano is widely and favorably known in this
[CONTINUED, ON PAGE TWO)
In another pari of this paper
there is a notice of an opportunity
for us to sell milk and a call for all
those interested to be on hand at
the Court House next Wednesday
morning to discuss moans of tjvail-
ug ourselves of this opportunity.
.Now what did you say when you
read this?
Did you resolve to he there, or
did you say to yourself that you
were not in the dairy .business and
were not. interested? Many tann
ers will make this latter comment,
and nine out. of tea who do so will
inrfko it without due consideration
of the facts in (lie case. And here,
Mr. Farmer, is the main reason you
should he interested in this milk
question, whether you are or not.
Georgia spends millions ever y
year for fertilizer. Grady county
spends a big .part of this.
How much of this comes out of
your pocket? How many times
have you bought your farm over
agaiu by using commercial fertili
zers, and how much richer is your
soil now than it was ten years ago?
Gentlemen haven’t wc tried com
mercial fertilizers long enough to
know that it is a failure as a per
manent soil builder? When a doc
tor. takes ehnrgo of a patient who
needs building up he may'first give
him. a hypodermic of something
stimulating if he needs' something
to rally him, but that will be the
last of the hypodermic. G o o d
wholesome food will then follow.
Very few doctors try to fatten a
patient with tli? "hypodermic
needle. But all over the South-we
have been trying 'to improve and
enrich our lands by this method.
Wc have stimu,ated them over and
over again with injections of com
mercial fertilizer, but have failed to
follow this up with tho good whole
some strength-giving nourishment
that isi found only in barnyard
manure. And what are the results?
They are many, but these three are
the worst. (I) poor farmers.. (2)
farmers’ wives living without the
modern conveniences in her home
that her city sister enjoys and that
would make her life one of pleas
ure instead of drudgery. (3) farm
ers’ children growing up without
the opportunities of securing a
proper education. And this Inst is
a millstone tied around (lie neck of
our future civilization,
But how are wc to use barnyard
manure when we havn’t got it? It
can’t be done. You must get it
first. The cow is the main factory
in which manure is made and every
farm should have a large enough
manure factory to produce every
pound of fertilizer needed on the
farm. This is not. a thoory ad
vanced by the writer, but is a prac
tice in the oldest and best agricul
tural countries of the world. Eng
land with her lands that have been
under cultivation for a thousand
years is one of the richest farming
sections of the world, and she has
maintained and increased her fer
tility by the use of barnyard
manure. If she had followed our
system of farming all through her
history, up to the present time, in
stead of being the most powerful
single nation in the world today,
she would be known only as a des
ert island.where a few fumilies and
their small herds of goats earned a
scant living.
Tho crying need of our country
today is more cows and better
cows. Wc need cows that have a
mission to : ' fill in this world. A
factory to be profitable must be
run along business lines and stick
to a definite purpose. A wagon
faetbry can’t build wagons one
week and tooth brushes the next
Sam Small
To Lecture
April 18th
Rev. Dr. Sam \vj Small will de
liver his famous ‘‘Calvary Charge”
address on ‘‘Routing the Liquor
Traffic” in Cairo on Tuesday, April
17th, at 7;30 p. m./in the Baptist
Church.
The coming to Georgia just now
of Dr. Small is a glad boon to this
state. ITc is our “Sam” and be
yond question stands at the head
of the platform lecturers in tho
United States, especially on every
phase of tho liquor question known
to Georgia.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says
(hat Mr. Small “Is an oraror of ihe
first rank in his generation; and not
since Robert G. Ingcrsoll electrified
an audience in that city has a Cin
cinnati audience risen to an orator
as it did to Sam Small.”
The Boston Herald says: “The
speech delivered by the Rov. Sam
Small at Faneuil Hall, Boston, at
noon, to n crowded audience of busi- •
ness men, was like a cavalry charge
by Phil Sheridan. He wus cheered
vociferously almost every minute of
the time he was speuking. He is
the most gifted orator the South
has ever sent this way.”
No doubt Dr. Small will be
greeted by a large audience in
Cairo.
A cordial invitation is extended
to everybody to attend.
Admission Free.
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and something else the next anti he
a successful wagon factory. The
same thing applies to our cows. If
they are to lie economical produc
ers of manure, they must furnish
something else that will nay for
their feed, labor of caring for them
and interest on the investment.
Just here is where the dairy cow
comes in lo the best advantage. It
is a,proven fact that dairy cows '
pay better and require less capital
invested than do beef cows. For
these reasons .the dairy cow pre
dominates wherever intensivo agri
culture’ is practiced, or where the
farms are of medium size. The
easiest way for us to make tho
change is by milking the best cows
wc now have and improve the grade
of our stock by selccton and breed
ing to good, bulls of one of the
dairy breeds. The area over which
commercial fertilizers are extensive
ly used is surprisingly similar to
t hat .infested by the cattle tick. In
a year or two our county will be
free of ticks and wc can then ship
in better -cows.
It is now time to change from
guano to cow ano.