About The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1917)
A dry, hacking cough is hard on the lungs, often causing them to beech BALLARD’S HORE- IIOUND SYRUP is a healing halm that quickly repairs damage in the lungs and air passages. Price 25e, 50c and SI.00 per bottle. Sold by. Wight & Browne. etq* otmra no* J! udnit lajjoo,! 10 aoa « ‘oaji ■ , • • II n i —rfiij SERVICE J. E. Wright, M. D‘- ' Physiciart fa Surgeon., Pltones; .Ofllcc ‘10j Rcs. t4.. , Office with Dr. Glower A transportation line has just 1 one thing to sell and . that ore thing is service. The lino that sells good] service is' a good line. It is the object of the Central of Georgia Rnilroud to sqII its patrons the very best service.' Our ser- , vice is not a thing supplied by any o n: employe, nor does it consist of special attention to any one in dividual patron. It means good efficient, courteous intention from our working force to all tbe people ' or us near this idea as is humanly.** po siblo. We try to render such service all the time. We are not content with haying given the people of the South good Service; we want to make it better; we wish to go to, ' the limit in making travel easy for: the whole people. If you are going on nny trip* that may be accomplished by use* of our lines, let our nearest repre sentative know about it. It wilU be good exercise for his talents ,toi practice courtesy and efficiency on you. . ' Birmingham, St. Louis, Chicago), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis. New York, Boston and many other la-ger centers are most con veniently reached via the- ontrnli, and its connections. . CENTRAL OF GEORGIA Ms ' WAY. ' THE RIGHT WAY SERVICE. Georgia’s Boll Weevill Insurance ANDREW M. SOULE, President Georgia 8tnt:e (Joltefle Of Agriculture. P , . * • .Giunv cmiN’^V PROGRESS. CAIRO, vtnyawM, Farm Products Other Than Cotton For Tho year 1910—Field Truok And ' Fruit Crops.'* Value 64.000. 000.00 12.000. 000.00 ' 1,300,000.00 6.040.000. 00 260 ‘903.760.90 1.676.000. 00 126,000.00 Crop Quantity Corn 64,000,000 bu. pats 10,1)00,000 bu. Irish Potatoes .......... 1,000,000 bu. Sweet Potatoes ........ 7,800,000 bu. Tobacco 1,236,000 lbs. Apples 626,090 bblD. ® $3.00 Pears 126,000 b». Q> $1.9,0 W.oq 76o $1.30 80o. Hay ' Wheat Rye Peaches .... Watermelons ■ Cantaloupes 366,000 tons © $22.00 7,832,000.00 3.808.000 bu. @ $1.26 126,000 Ul. © $L»5 3.711.000 bu. © $1.00 28,000 acres & $40.00 8,000 acres @ $60.00 4.760.000. 00 166,260.00 8.711.000. 00 1.120.000. 00 400,000.00 pea- 8,000,000.00 2,800,000.00' Other grain and Seed, Including oowpeas, velvet beans, nuts Sugar Crops Flowers, plants and nursory products „ ’ Small frills , - XK 600,000.00 7,000,000.00 Honey nnd Wax Grapes, Nuts and Tropical Fruits Other vegetables Including truokorops $12?,659,000.00 $19,472,000.00 16.760.000. 00 49.140.000. 00 13.041.000. 00 9,261,000.00 386,000.00 - Number And Value Of Farm Animals Hogs 2,484,000 Horses 126,000 Mules 815,000 Cows 414,000 Other Cattle i. 686,000 ., Sheep 161,000 $107,060,000.00 Value Of Animal Products Sold Pork products from 1,200,600 hogs © $12.00 $14,400,000.00 Other animals slaughtered 226,000 @ $25.09 6,626,000.00 Milk and butter 8,000,000.00 Eggs and‘chickens 9,000,000.00 $37,026,000.00 Total Value Field Crops And Animal Products $169,684,000 This constitutes a remarkable record and represents the degree of diver. alttcationB Georgia has accomplished without the stimulus of the, boll weevil, Cotton Possibilities Under Boll WeevirCondltlons The cotton crop for the year 1916 has brought the Georgia farmer tho greatest returns that he can hopo to receive for a long time, on account of the boll weevil. This 1b the record—It Is very conservatively stated: Cotton, 1,800,000 bales © $80 per bale : $144,000,000.00 Cotton seed 900,000 tons @ $50 per ton ... 46,000,000.00 Total value lint and seed 189,000,000.00 Georgia’s Total Agricultural Income 1916 $348,684,000.00 Georgia stands second In cotton production. She should and can hold her position If her people profit by tlte opportunities Bho offers. . Though her planters will suffer temporary loss J,lloy can and will snake. It Sack through increasing tho number of dairy and beef cattle, bogs and poultry and by en< larging their acreage of peanuts, velvet beaks, potatoes, fruit, truck, and cereals. * ’2; > Until Georgia learns how to produce, the largest amount of. cotton under boll weevil conditions, tt\iR prob^leaha'Uhe^leltlsy^htsmdiffjjn Recent years will bo reduced by 10.to 60 pdr cefit. ReioUTW.greater.yields shpuid bo ob tained under boll weevil condition's in'noftli, Georgia;'.bdo&uBe-of the colder weather prevailing there. '> Some Talking Points About Georgia’s Agriculture In 1916 Georgia had 2,434,000 hogs, which when compared with the census figures of 1909, show an increase of about 600,000 head. Georgia hr seventh among the states In hog production. The increase in the number of hogs in Georgia in 1916 over 1916 was 14 per cent, the greatest increase of-any . state. According to figures of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United Slater Department of Agriculture, Georgia -Is first of all the states having pig blubs, for lowest coBt of production and for greatest profit' in producing pork. Excellent porJc Is being made in- Gborgla at 3 cents and less per pound by tho use of the combination of corn, velvet beans and peanuts, the hogs doing the harvesting. Georgia's corn crop has been nearly doubled in quantity and., value since 1909. During this period, the Boy’s Corn dubs have been developed and '' the county demonstration agents have been doing their educational work. The results are significant. The greatest yield of corn from one acre in Georgia is 214 bushels mbde by a Com Club member. Georgia has the largest number of Corn Club mombers of any state In the union. Georgia stands 16th among the states In corn production and 3rd among southern states In this regard, Texas and Kentucky alone surpassing her. Georgia has the largest acreage of any state devoted to pecans. Georgia is second ip production of peaches and by “reason of the quality and earliness, the selling price is high and profits are large. Georgia has 41,000 rural people—men, women and Children—who are or ganlzed Into clubs and otherwise, to do some definite demonstration work in improving farm conditions under the direction of tlie extension division of the Georgia State College of Agriculture. ■■ - Tho velvet bean has come into great ’commercial impartu'ace, especially in south Georgia where it is extensively grown wit® coin, it increases live stook possibilities, and when grain and pod are ground together is offered as a valuable feed upon the market. During receht months several public sales of purebred" livestock him been made In Georgia. In this way and through private ptfreiiases, some o: the best breeding stock out of the most famous dtrafiis of beef and dairy cattle in tbe country have been obtained by fefeprgla farmers WATCH GEORGIA GROW A Letter From a Whigham Citizen Whigham, On. Jan. 2 1017 Editor Qrady County Progress: I set? that there is being pre parations made for a great land show in Atlanta, On., February 1 to 15th., of this year. Wo have had that fore stalled and beaten by an enterprising old Baptist preacher. Wo refer to Eldar .Jowers who came to this community several years a’go to preach the gospel. I-Ie was from North Alabama ai d :io noted 1 he difference in tempera- uro here and at his former home, during lire winter. He also noted the ease with which the, level pin; lands of this section can bo culti vated in comparison to the land.- anlbng the hills and Mountains o! north Alabama. He noted (hi various crops' that can bo pro duced here, and instead of having an organization to- inaugurate a land show. He has made a show of land to some of his old friends a id neighbors, and the fruits oi -his show of land hus produced good results in that it has brought ti our immediate community many good and industrious men with t leir families. UhUBS IN BACKS OF CATTLE. DR. W. M. BURSON, Prof. Vet. Med., Georgia State College Of Agrl. Grubs under the skin of the back in cattle are the larvae of the bot fly of cattle, a serious pest of the cat tle Industry. Losses are caus ed by the files bothering cattle during hot weather and interfering with grazing, growth, fattening and mtfk production. During winter while tills grubs are in position under the sltln, loss of flesh in beef cattle, causing de struction of, meat, and great commer cial damage to hides are the result of Infestation. Over each tumor in the baok will be found a hole In the skin. One or more holes in a hide lowers the market grade one or two cents per pound. Bot flies do not live outside the bod ies of cattle during the winter. De struction .of tho grubs under the skin prevents the propagation of bot flies during the following summer. Tho grubs may be destroyed by crushing thorn under the skin, by squeezing them out through the open ing In the skin, by injecting a few drops of gasoline into each tumor, or 4iy dipping cattle In the arsenical so lution used for destroying ticks. The mature fly deposits eggs in the vicinity of tho heels of cattle d.urlqg summer. The application of h fly-re- • pellant of flsh oil—three parts, kero- sec o, one part—during fly time will help to keep down Infestation. HELP TO SAVE THE HALF MIL LION DOLLARS LOST ANNUALLY THROUGH RAVAGES OF THIS PEST HaWKC:- - CALF QLUBS OF GEORGIA. A movement has been launched by the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Georgia St&te C allege of Agri- ’ culture to organize calf clube. To mdke it possible for a^ many to be long to the dubs afl possible, the con tent that will first be promoted wlU be on feeding grade calves. The boys” showing the- best records ot - handling and feeding for a given pe- ntxl \TOI< Win- pljdlfe, Exhibitions are to be modcf at county, state and other important fairs in the state. DO NOT FOLLOW COTTON WITH COTTON The practice ot following cotton With cotton is considered a poor farm ing practice, but' in weevil territory ii is considered dangerous to the crop if'he College of Agriculture is urging through county agents and others thal the ffttmer be persuaded as far bf possible to use cotton fluids: for othei crops and put tho cotton whore it did not grow tho previous year. HIGH RECOMMENDATION FOR GEORGIA INSTITUTION It has come to the attention of . the authorities qf fhe^Gcopfita State Col legp of Agriculture that tb'e Unite: States Department' of Agriculture bar highly recoKmiendep the cotton cbuhM of tfla itfst'nntfon 'to residents of other states. A prominent farmei of Missouri came to Athens to take a course in cotton industry as a re- ««r. y, a. Among those who have come at a result of this show of land and purchased land arc, Richaul Jow ers and Mr. Davis his brother-iu- taw. They have bought about 175 acres. II. L. Allen lias bought tho Sam Harrell farm ol one hun tired acres on which is set about sixty acres- of budded pecan: Mr. M. C. Johnson has bough one hundred, and eighty three a:res. Miv Isaac Burk has bought wo hundred and fifty acres. Mr. lames Newberry has bought one hundred and twerity-fhq ajjes. Mr Rufus Thomas lint bought seventy-five acres. Mr Wm Foster has bought one hun dred ncres and Mr! Livvvsoh Salter, has bought sixty acres, and with these can be mentioned, Mr. R. A. Ellis who bought one hundred acres nnd Mr. J. E,*Lawrence who bought one hundred^and fifty icrcs.^Thc last two mentioned c uno"from north Georgia, and this ir not all that can be shown ; s the fruits of this show of land. A great ni@iber of families have con e -t) experiment oil out 1 lands,' clim ate, crops and if they fnd it satisfactory, will buy land-latu. Vrnong this number who Ini'e rented laud for experiment are Mr. Jarj'Otl Gandy, Mr. Ed Ferrell, Mr. Vivian Murkcrson, Mr. I.ca- man Tippet, Mr. J. A. Powe 1, •Mr. B. L. White, Mr. John Tin m- s, Mr. Marin Sailer, Mr. Jack Salter, Mr. C. E. Kail and ildcr Dalis Jowers, tlie letter is a ter of the old minister^, who United • this move. “When Elder Jewels began tils ihow of .land. to. | his Alubr.n a friends ho was assisted by Sam Harrell who vtas farming on his Brownlee farm near Whigham. Mr. Harrell had,bought the piece about that lime and ho showed’ty actual demonstration what tl c pine lands of this section will do under proper cultivation, and when these good peop|p began to come in to look for homes 1 e siemecl to take pleasure in show ing them around and explaining tie proper methods jo bring out the best that is in pine lands. We learn from Mr. Harrell wl o is in toueli with a groat.many wl o ire here for experiment that if. they find this section is wlnt they expect, they will so report nnd perhaps a great many families will come in here next Winter, nnd 1 will surgest that any of our people who have land that they can spare for sale or for rent, can assist in this show of land by be ing reasonable in prices and kind ly in their dealings for if those who come arc as those who have come it will be a benefit to our county and state for us to so act as to keep them here. “Citizen.” These Buildings Show The Wonderful Improvements in Grady County Schools 09 tuuiuoai/ii *08*0, *11 ‘aoSJacI uom -wada aoj 0}|j^\ -«»n!P3« d M -uipaipacjcjaa^i *sniuo3 10 otjojjs b—oSed -uono!p4|uooqi -S93cd 00ZZ 'suonut * sn lll 0009 J9«o ’saujuj |E3;i|dBJ>o|ij OGO’ZI ‘sjODfqns lesiqdBjSoag OOd'lft ‘.^f^ B|nqEa °A 000'00t ueifi «M« ejomojospuBsnoifl ptni „ip32BRjou -mil jB ? » bi .wo H „ ../looajum , ,,/m^wioiiv sipqMy, „ •rm snonuimm « tr :, suonujfltoo i) Sf IvqAWL «» BI oioqn uijbatmonoza, IsniusrjcJ bi ,wojj n bo qgps Buopssnt* Siifizzad jo Bputij ifB-jg^ioipan jnujf qiT-ur sjo.ttsun uojjuojb atatl Biqx 1H 9 W pnoijBanp^jo Xjuoumbs 1VMGS1WR3JJWIM3H sjQisaaM, ~ 'ofpyuejSsvM -muuuujamv* soumio ;01 U9AI? -■
