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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO. Ghuku*«. FARM DEPARTMENT Conducted by P, H. Ward, Farm Demonstration Agent 5=gll--.>-=a. ! =ug~. ■" OUR OAT SPECIAL we *Uko feel sure that each aero of Hint 1 a ml is lifter t Inin it was boforo tlu! oats were planted. C. A. VANDUZEE. Plant Oats. 1 Plant Oats Early. Plant Oats on good land. Plant oats on land that is well pre pared. Plant oats on cotton stall: land. Swat the weevil. ' Plant onts with a drill if possible, other methods will give good results but this is best. Plant oats on land that has been all plowed and well harrowed, an extra good harrowing will be well paid for in the yield of oats. Plant oats and increase the supply of home grown feed to where we will not have to depend on the west as our corn crib. Plant home grown oat seed always. You may make a crop of oats with seed that you do not know where they wore grown but the chunces aro crtninly against you. Form a club nil'your neighborhood and buy a binder to harvest your oats if you do not grow enough to have a binder of your own. It is out of date now to cut oats tyith a orudlo, You can’t afford it, Plant More Oats Our first purpose in devoting the Farm Apartment this month to onts is to arouse an increased interest in Qrady County to this important crop. Without any regard to the boll weevil the oat crop deserves very much more attention than the most of our farm ers have been giving it, and now that the weevil is present with liis efforts that can no longer he ignored, the oat crop should become a large fac tor in the re-adjustment of things to meet the changed conditions. It needs no argument to prove the value of oats on the farm. They ore good for all animals, including man, to eat. The farm that is abundantly supplied with nil or.t crop, does not have to worry over trie high eost of western feeds. Oats ean .be grown more cheaply and with less labor than almost any crop that w know of, and with the added fact .that they will grow and mature almost between other crops, it ought to be a very evident fact that they are a necessary factor in the ecomieal plunning of a farm adminis tration. ■ On land that is thoroughly prepnr-’ ed and seeded enrly in the season to seed known to be reliable there is no crop that we enn grow with so little chance of failure as the oat crop. And if followed, as they should al ways be, by a lgmne crop that will so quickly improve our soils. Possibly one reason that oats have not been more largely grown by our small fnrmers is because of thp ex- pensivenoss of the proper machiney for planting and harvesting. It ought not to be hard in most communities to arrange among several farmers to own drills and binders together. 1 Threshing mnehinos can always lie secured to come and thresh the.oats for a toll. The suuccessful growing of oats re quires land free of stumps, but ns that is a prerequisite of good farm ing any way, that should not lie mi •argument against, oat planting. In order lo mke this issue of real worth to our farmers we sent re quests to a number of men who have been successful oat growers in this and other sections asking them for n contribution for publication this week. Several- of these hnv been un able for various reasons to respond, but we are glad to give the splendid articles that follow. They are full of splendid suggestions, and if you will read them all carefully we feel that your interest in this great crop will be intensified, and that oatfi year in Qrady County will mark a great increase in the acres of green that cover our fields in winter find in the biishols of grain that bulge our cribs in summer. ■ Rend nil the articles) that we are printing in this issue, then resolve to get some of your best land well propared for seeding to outs in Octo ber and November, ... 1 A Message from Judge H. C. Hammond of Augusta Mr. D, L. Williams, Cairo, Qi,. •My dear Mr. Williams’ i In reply to your esteemed favor of the 12th., let me explain that 1 have been out of tin; city since Sunday, I take a great deal of pleasure in making this dolnyod reply, though 1. hope it will he in time to help you in your splendid work for your section. I remember with much pleasure meet ing you in Atlanta. You are at lib erty to use pnst ns you please the enclosed. Cut it up or cut it down, just ns you like. My interest in your section of the country is very grout and 1 hope to visit it some day ere long. 1 will lake your suggs,tion njbf<ut mentioning' the plnnting of pens in connection with my oat crop. How I wish, my good friend, you could see for yourself the picture tlmt is exhibited in my eighty acre oat field today. The shocks of pen vines, put with a push rnke, look like some army encampment, I write hur riedly but gratefully, and you will find mg always anxious to co-operate with you in any move for the better ment of Georgia. Very, truly yours, HENRY C. HAMMOND. would find in them u joy and profit of which he had never dreamed. Sifieerely hoping that your issue of the ,26th, will stir the fnrmers of Qrady County on this vital ques tion of Winter grown grain and for age, I am, sir, with respect and es teem, Very truly yours, HENRY C. IIAMMON. Editor The Grady County Progress. My dbar sir: The progress and the wonderful promise of your now County and the section.of the State in w;hioh it is located, is today one of the most in teresting fntures in Georgin develop ment. No prophet should dare sot a limit to the agricultural possibili ties of the soil and climate which is yours. The queston of sucess is not one of soil, climate nr location, hut of the capacity and determination of your people tq mnko the most of their resources. I am specialy de lighted, and I warmly congratulate you and ftran on your effort to create interest in diversified forming. Wfie- thor your people willingly would take thus step, the boll weevil is a neces sity which demands it. The great meat pnekers of the country have stated that the most promising sec tion of the entire country for beef and bacon in South Georgia. Your wonderful Summer .pastures and crops—lending the latter, corn, peas, peanuts and beans—menns a source of animal food supply which is un surpassed in any section. But I want to urge upon you the utiliza tion of that long season between the harvesting of these crops and their planting again in the Spring. My advice to you is grow "oats, grow onts. Plant it in the Fall time, and in your section ‘ from October 10th, to November 20th. Oats planted on good land; oats planted with a reas onable amount of fertilizer; oats grpwn from a good native seed that you know about. Oats, are the White Man’s crop. Oats, more, than corn and wheat, have put the great North west ahead of us as an agricultural country. Oats are the cheapest means of getting your grain and forage for work stock, cattle and dairy cows. Oats are far and away the surest crop you can plant. Oats require no hoeing or plowing. You sow and you reap. I have been grow ing Seed Oats exclusively on , my farm of one hundred acres for'the past fifteen years. I have never lost a crop. I have peifeeted a Southern Seed Onl, .prueliealiy free from beuids:. cold resistant, drought re sistant. n wondai-IT.l yieller, and two weeks earlier than Texas or Appier tuts. I re-nlean and grade all my seed and these nre treated Vor smut. No farmer in your section should pluut a seed of Western or Northern onts about which he knows nothing ami which is not suited to his sec tion. You enn absolutely secure a seed of oats that is rust proof, stnnt proof, a heavy yielder and free from all grass and weed seed. I am profoundly interested in stirring up pur Georgia fnrmers on the oat prop osition. It mentis so niuch to them. It conflicts with no other crop. If i s in line with and helpful to all other crops. If only the South'Georgia farmer would give, I shall suy, one- teuth of the thought and labor to oats that he does to corn and cotton, he A Card From Mr. Sasser The Progress which is doing so much for progress in our county, has requested that I say a few words in regard to the valno and essen tials of success with ont crop. Lund that yields 25 bushels of corn per acre will ordinarily, yield from 30 to 40 bushels of onts and the cost of production is a great deal loss. We ago fast becoming a stock raising county. If we attain the success we should in this line of business, onts are absolutely essential here. All young:stock need muscle making ma terial and onts is our only hope for supplying this element. The rules of success mny be summed up under five heads: 1. Always plant in the fall, Octo ber and November nre best here. Moro people fail with onts on this ac count than any other. My experience is that the yield is almost doubled by plnnting in the fall. Plant with driil if possible but broad east is alright: 2. Plant a homy grown rust-proof variety, such ns the Appier or Ban croft. If the crop is large, plant two varieties, Fulghum for the second. It does not make ns much grain as the later maturing varieties, but it enables one to distribute his work over u little longer ppriod of time. 3. Trent ont seed to prvent smut. Next to spring planting and rust, smut is our most serious enpmy, The treatment :is simple and very inex- pejisive. Any druggist will give you Hie /-particulars-. - • • 4. Plant in fair to good soil. In normal times, 200 pounds of neid phosphate . might lie advisable at planting time and a top dressing of 100 to, 150 pounds of nitrate of soda about March first, but'not at. pres ent prices. 5. Grow a legume crop after the onts. This is by far the most im portant of all the rules. Cow pen*, are my preference but lespedezn is a very promising crop for that pur pose. J. M. SASSER. Card from Dr. C.A. VanDuzee It is pretty generally understood today, in Grady county, that we can’t hope to make as much cotton as we did before the boll weevil came here, and»we have gat-to make some changes. I think there nre ninny of my neighbors who will admit that two years ago the land on .-ur farm was pretty well run doeii, i.nd I know that all of you would rather hear one short story of what we have done, than a lot of things about what wo hope to do. Last year we put a little stable manure and a light application of 'commercial fertilizer under three and a half acres of early corn, and drill ed cow pens in the middles when wo laid it by. We, out the corn off and fed ?! to our hogs. Last fall we piowod the whole of the pen vines under, nfter picking the peas and sowed it to Fulghum oats. .3 his spring we threshed one hun dred and seventy-five and one-fourth bushels of number one odts, from the three and a half acres, and after giving the thresher ten per cent for threshing, we sold the rest of the onts in Cairo for fifty-three cents a bush el. Now that same piece of ground is ready to, begin picking pens again, and the vines will be piowod under again this fall. The next step will be to plant Fulghum oats. That is the whole story, but if anyone thinks, he can do the same trick by wait ing until Christmas to plant liis oats, or that he can be careless about leaking his land or harrowing it, or doing any part of his work, he will surely hnvo missed the point. Wo figure that after paying for everyitem of eost, in cash, for labor, seed and threshing that we have over Card from W,C. Jones Mr. Editor: I mu very glad Hint you are to give to the people an oat edition at this distinctively important time. The boll-weevil is hero and he is liere to <tny. Our great grandsons will ho battling with this giant pest. There nre (joins few that don’t believe there is such a thing ns u hull weevil, hut it will he but n short time till th will he easy to be convinced. A friend from Glenwood, Ain., writes; “The boll weevil 1ms ruined the cot ton crop here and nil over Alabama. It will take from 10 to ,30 acres to make a hale. Gloomy pjospeets the farmers.” If Mexico hud invad ed our nation, with an army of every available man, from 10 to (10, they oonld never hnvo done us the damage that this army of pests doing. Now the thing is to crush him not with folded hoods and cries of pity, but with an energy that will defeat the strongest foe. We must diversify crops. We enn’t drop cot ton entirely, that would bring a dis astrous panic, hut raise it under boll weevil conditions, and crop divers! fiontion. This line of thought would lend us out into pages, hut we must be more specific, “Plant more onts,” should bu.ono of our strongest slog ans. It is one of our most profitable crops. I am sorry to say there nre very few oat fnrmers in our coun ty. The majority of our fnrmers make no preparation to plant onts. They sow a few acres in January or February nfter syrup ranking is over in some discarded spots that they don’t want to cultivate. One acre of oats, well fertilized in good land, plnnted in October before syrup-mak ing, is worth-10 acres planted the last of January, without care or fer tilizer. Let me make a suggestion to the small farmer, like myself. Put a good sprinkling of stable, or eow farm manure on an acre, or two of your best land, with 200 to 300 lbs. of neid phosphate to the neve and drill in at least 2 bushels of good seed onts to the acre the last of Oc tober nt least, anil yop will have no erop that will pay you better. You enn put a second erop, if yon desire. Put -some of your onts at least on' good land. Do you know’ the champion ont crop of Georgin, was 2 acres of onts, grown in Grady county by the writer, 22fl 1-2 bushels of apple oats on 2 acres. They wore harvest ed in 1915, (reported in your homo paper and in Southern Cultivator) followed with sw’oet , potatoes as second erop, from which was hous ed 665 bushels besides the gleanings for hogs. Plant more oats. Plant some of your best land. Plant every nook and corner. Plant for winter-cover crops and for grazing and you will be delighted. W. C. JONES. Children Cry for Fletcher's , ■— an( l has been made under bis ner- s A °.V al su I )cl 'vlslon since Its infancy. a hAllow no ono to deceive vou In this All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-ns-irood ” aro bur Infftnts m aud S CldtoeniElileriencrasK ‘KK What! is CASTOR IA Cnstorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil. P n ™„ eorlc, Drops and Soothing: Syrups. It is pleasant contains neither Opium, Morpliluo nor other Nnreotlo substance. Its ago Is its guarantee. It destroys Worm* and nllnys Feverishness. For moro than thirty years It has been In constant use for the relief of Coimthfatlon Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles aui Diarrhoea. It^rcgulntcs the Stomach anlBowchT GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of For Represenative To the white voters of Grady Co: The many friends of Capt. J. F. Stone hereby wish to announce his candidacy for representative from Grady County in the next General Assembly, subject to the State Primary, called for Septem ber 12th, next. If the people sec fit to honor Capt. Stone with this responsible trust, he is pledged to represent faithfully the interest of all the people and use his every effort'in furthering their best interests. He is not the candidate of any interest or faction but Relieves in Grady county, her people and his state, and will do what he can by hiB influence and vote to favor such measures as will mean the greatest good to the greatest num ber of Georgia’s citizenship. We urge the people to give Capt Stone their support as we krjow him to be well qualified to render acceptable service to us. Very Respectfully, . Friends of J. F. 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