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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. * ‘ t * ^0 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.