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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS. CAIRO. GEORGIA.
FARM DEPARTMENT
Conducted by P. H. Ward, Farm Demonstration Agent
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To the Citizens of Grady County.
Ciiro, Gu., June 28th,
DEAR SIR:
This is to remind you that next Saturday, the first day of July is the time for the annual election of
officers of the Grady County Live Stock Association and for the appointment of new committees to carry
forward the work of the various departments,
This letter is being mailed to all the registered voters in Grady county. If you arc already a mem
ber of the Live Stock Association you are expected to, be present promptly at 10:00 o’clock at -the Court
House; if you arc not a member you are urgently requested to attend this meeting and become a member.
There are many good reasons why every citizen of Grady county should identify themselves with this
Association.
The object of this Association is the developing of the live stock in our county. By live stbek we
mean hogs, cattle, mules, horses and all other domestic animals that can be raised profitably on our farms.
The farmers of Grady county are already engaged in diversified farming and stock raising to a greater
extent than any other county in Georgia. This fact is gratifying, but we know there is lots of room for im
provement, and in order to bring about this improvement this Live Stock Association, and the work that
has already been accomplished through the efforts of this Association of Grady county’s progressive citizens
certainly justifies its existence by co-operation on your part, through this organization you will serve your
own best interest and also serve the best interest of your fellowman.
The boll weevil is here and he is he’re. to stay; and it is absolutely imperative that we turn to some
other means of making money in the place of cotton. Live stock is the most inviting field, and if the
farmers of Grady county will put.forth intelligent effort'in this direction the' boll weevil will ultimately
prove a blessing.
Among the many problems to be worked out by this Association we name just a few:
1. To encourage our farmers to engage more extensively in the growing of live stock by systematic
education and information on live stock.
2. To aid them in securing better breeds of stock by co-operative investigation and buying.
3. To secure and disseminate information as to the best methods of handling live stock, making
pastures and growing crops that arc suited best for stock. I
•1. To assist in marketing to best advantage stock when ready for sale.
THIS ASSOCIATION NEEDS YOU AND YOU NEED IT. The dues are nominal, only 50' cents
per year. This money is needed mainly for printing and postage.
It is our purpose to have interesting and helpful meetings, securing the best speakers* available on
each topic and these meetings are always open to everybody, whether members are .not. But we feel that
every progressive citizen should be glad to become an active member of an organization that means the
uplift and greater prosperity of all our people. *
Mpet with us next, Saturday. Enroll as a member of the Grady County Live Stock Association.
Very truly yours, •
W. B. RODDENBERY, President.
* . ’D. L. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
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Some Interpretations Of The
Smith-Lever Extension Act
(ANDREW M. SOULE, President On. Stato College 6f Agriculture.)
Extension teaching is defined In
Section 1 of tire Smith-Lever Act as
an effort “to aid in the diffusing among
the people of the United States useful
and practical Information on subjects
relating to agriculture and home eco
nomics, and to encourage the applica
tion of the same.” If is provided that,
pending the inauguration and develop
ment of the co-operative extension
work, nothing in the Sfnith-Lover Ex
tension Act shall bo construed as dis
continuing the farmers’ co-operative
demonstration work which has already
;been in progress In Goorgln several
years. Fifty thousand dollars a year
have been available from this source
for some’time past and this appropri
ation has been wisely continued uf> to
the present time. It is well to beat-
in mind that the stato Is expected to
offset the above fund through local
subscriptions just as definitely as the
funds are available under the Srnlth-
iLever act. This statement will, no
idoubt, clarify thd situation for many
land will explain why the counties are
called on to appropriate funds to .aid
in defraying the salaries and expenses
of both nlen and women county agents.
Moreover, since the pnssago of the
Smith-Lever Act, the States Relation
Service has been established by Act
of Congress. This offiefe is intended
to act us a clearing house between
the United States Department of Ag
riculture and the agricultural colleges
in the several stateB. Since many bu
reaus of the United States Department
of Agriculture have funds at their
disposal for expenditure on various
projects to bo conducted in associa
tion with the state colleges of agri
culture, the usual half and half basis
adopted as a policy by Congress and
the United States Department of Ag
riculture, Georgia, for instance, is ex
pected to offset at the present time
over $86,000 of what may be termed
indirect congressional appropriations,,
or soe the funds withheld and used
elsewhere. Since the above appropri
ations are being increased from time
to time; it is reasonable to suppose
that the stato will always be called
upon to finance extension projects out
of 'the money provided by local sub
scriptions aside from those set aside
by the General Assembly of the state
to offset the Smith-Lever act.
The work which may be properly
conducted under the terms of the
Smith-Lever act is definitely stated in
Section 2, which reads ns- follows :
'“That co-operative, agricultural exten
sion work shall consist of the giving
,of instruction and practical demonstra-
tlon in agriculture und home econom
ics to persons not attending or resi
dent in said colleges in the.several
communities, and imparting to such
Persons information on said subjects
through Hold demonstrations, publica
tions and otherwise; and this w-ork
shall be carried on in such manner as
may be mutually agreed upon by the
Secretary of Agriculture and the state
agricultural colleges receiving the
benefits of this act."
From the context qf the preceding
paragraph, it appears that co-operative
agricultural extension work shall con
sist primarily in giving instruction,
and, second, practical demonstrations
in agricultural and home economics
to persons non-resident at the agricul
tural college. The leaching work pro
vided for shall be mude clear through
field and home demonstrations, publi
cations and otherwise. Correspond
ence, of course, may often be con
ducted to advantage, and personal con
ferences be held with an individual
or a group of persons. It is expected
that the county agent shall be a prop
erly educated and qualified expert in
agriculture or home economies, and so
capable of diffusing essential Informa
tion of benefit to all the activities re
lating to the school, the farm and the
home. The ugent should be essential
ly a teacher and must work with and
through the schools, thus aiding mate
rially in laying the proper foundation
on which-to build up scientific elemen
tary Instruction in agriculture and
homo economics, and so successfully
correlate the activities of the school
room to those of the home—a funda
mental undertaking, the importance of
which every thoughtful person is al
ready fully convinced.
The county agentB should be prima
rily regarded as a teacher ami adviser
to all dt the -people of the county,
whether they are attending school or
at work in the field or the home. He
should be capable of rendering most
valuable service and aid to the school
teachers through the county school
commissioner and the county board
of education, and through the adult
population through personal contact
with them as they follow their voca
tions in the field and In the home.
Funds appropriated to aid in the main
tenance of the county agents from
whatever source derived would seem
Improved Serum
Specialists Find Way to Pro
duce a Clear, Sterilized
Anti-Hog-Cholera Serum
Free from Foot-and-Mouth
Virus.
The following from the last
Weekly News Letter of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture will be
of particular, interest in this county
where so much serum is used
the prevention of hog cholera.
A new method.of preparing anti-
hog-eholera serum, which permits
the economical production of a
clear sterilized product, has just
been described in the Journal of
Agricultural Research of the de
partment. The advantage claimed
for the now 'method- is that it
makes possible, the production of
an anti-hog-cholera serum which
can he quickly sterilixed by heat
to a point that will absolutely kill
any germs of foot-and-mouth dis
ease and so yield a serum that is
absolutely safe even if taken from
a hog which might harbor foot-and-
mouth discuse and yet give no in
dication of being infected.
The method, as described by its
discovers, Dr. Marion Dorset and
R. II. Henley, of the Biochcmic
Division, Bureau of Animal Indus
try, consists in adding a slight
amount of an extract from ordin
ary white navy beans to the defi-
b'ri n a t e d hog-oholcra-immuue
blood, which has been flip form of
the serum used in the past. The
addition of this bcamextract causes
the red cells of the blood to agglut
inate, and when the mixture is
whirled on a centrifuge the red
cells pack together and form a
rather stiff jelly-like mass! It is
to constitute a just and legitimate ex-, then possible to pour off a dear
penditure of public money available 1 _ i . . , , „
for education or for the promotion of, S l '"’ ^ vm K >C1,U | the red colls,
any public service' work performed which play no part in preventing
in the interest of all of the people hog cholera and which in fact
° f simply tend to dilute the seiuiu
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Sheriff’s Notice
List- of names furnished to the
Sheriff by the Attorney .General’s
office as having Revenue License to
deal in whisky, beer, etc.
The Grady Pharmacy, Retail
Liquor Dealer, Cairo, Ga.
Wight & Browne, Retail Liquor
Dealers, Cairo, Ga.
Haywood Brooks. Retail Liquor
Dealer, R.F.D. Whigham, Ga.
Pearce Drug/Do., Retail Liquor
Dealer, Whigham, Ga.
i B. L. Prince, Retail Liquor
Dealer, Whigham Ga. (This last
name license is to run from July
1015, and was paid for and issued
May 1, 1916.
To the last drop
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COFFEE'.:
. Is Perfect
o Ask Your Grocer
A bilious, half-sick feeling} los
of energy, and constipated bowels
can he relieved with surprising
promptness by using HERBINE
The first dose brings improvement,
a few doses puts the system in fine
vigorous condition. Price 50c
Sold by Wight & Browne.
and render its sterilization by heat
impracticable. To increase the
yield of clear serum the discovers
added a small amount of ordinary-
salt and found that they obtained
from 70 to 7.4 per emit of clear
serqm. .The clear serum thus oh
tained it was found could he heated
for 30 minutes at a temperature of
60° C. without changing its con
sistency or lessening in any way
its effectiveness in preventing hog
cholera. The heating to this point
for this time is more than sufficient
to kill uny germs of foot-and-mouth
disease which might accidentally
be present. Practical tests with
hogs show that probably all of the
anti-bodies useful in combating
hog oholera were retained in the
serum and the red cells extracted
contained so few, if any, of these
valuable bodies as to make the
residue of red cells useless in pre
venting the diseuse.
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COME TO US.
Your Table will be well supplied with the best
the market uffords if you buy your groceries and provisions
from us.
Your BanK Account will be amply safe
guarded because our prices are away down, as low as posi-
blc for groceries and provisions of quality, even lower than
they "should he.
Your Health will be amply protected because
we sell only goods of known purity and excellence.
Your Appetite will be well satisfied because
we sell groceries of quality- that possess an unusual amount
of nutriment, amt they are good to the taste.
Your,Friends will remark on the excellence of your
cooking, for the goods we sell, combined with your own
good sense, will produce a meal fit for the gods.
White & Stringer
The Leading Grocers
To the Voters of the Albany Circuit:
I take this method of announcing to you my candidacy for the
position of Judgejof the Superior Courts of the Albany Circuit, subject
to the action of the Democratic White Primary, and invite your careful
consideration and active support. I am 54 years of age and have been a
practicing attorney actively engaged in the practice of law for thirty
years, with the exception ofjcight y-enrs during which time I served as
Judge of the City Court of Bainbridge. My record ic open to all. The
unanimous endorsement of the Decatur County Bar Association is an
approval of my services as Judge of the City Court of Bainbridge.
If the people of this Circuit confer upon me the high honor I now
seek, I pledge you my undivided timejand attention will he given to the
duties of the office. I will stand at all times for,the enforcement of our
laws as written. I believe iii equal justice to all and partiality to none.
Assuring y-ou that. I will appreciate your support, I am,
Most respectfully yours,
W. M. HARRELL
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via
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July 6th, 1916.
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night train.
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