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• r m.'iiY ebjjfeiW JUWfflS, CAIH,.. ... S=) ■im -•gh :£mf' Remember the weevil. 5|gKj Live stock farming builds . soil fertility. Dip that tick. Cows with ticks will never reach their best develop ment. Use the best bull available. Re member that the bull is at least half the head and you cannot af ford to uso a scrub bull. A word of friendly advice from you may cause that skeptical neigh bor of yours to try dipping his cat tle. Once he has tried it and noted tho benefit that comes to his cattlo. the balance is easy. Tho tick is costing Grady county each year a great deal more than it will cost to free tho county of ticks in this good year of 1917. Lots all together for a tick freo county in 1917. Make good pastures for your hogs and keep them as much as • possible from mixing with other hogs. In the case of hog cholera an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Serum is fine when it has to bo used but it is- much bettor to not have to use it at all. When you do have hogs to die from cholera it is your duty as good citizen to see that they are thoroughly burned at once. It is neither good citizenship nor good noighborliness to allow the dogs and buzzards to drag them around and scatter the disease broadcast. BOLL WEEVIL ’LL GIT Y0H| IF YOU DON’T WATCH OUT: {Apologies to James Whitcomb Riley.) NEGRO BEAtS THE BOLL WEEVIL !■ According to reports from Alabama a negro of that state has discover ed a method of combatting the boll- weevil, and has succeeded in raising cotton which is not bothered in the slightest by the pest. The Montgomery Advertiser des cribed the method as follows: “John McDuffie, a negro planter six miles north of the city, has worked out a novel and seemingly certain means of eradicating the boll weevil. He had 250 acres of finest cotjton in the county and not a single'weevil. has been found in it. On being asked how he killed he said he did not kill them, ■ but prevents their coming to his cotton. McDuffie is an intelligent man, and originated the method of nning them away himself. If it is a fact, as is claimed, ho has found the long sought method of preven t- ing the waste of millions of dollars in the south through the ravages of the pest. “The method is simple. Mc Duffie takes crude oil, tar and cam phor gum. He puts these in c. pot and boils them. With sufficient oil in the mixture to make it liquid he, wets common crokus sacks in the mixture, then squeezes them as dry as he thinks necessary. He says if too much of the mixture is used it will kill tho young cotton. The wet sacks are fastened by a drag stick attached to the plow beam. Each week the crop is plowed and dragged over with these saturated sacks, both sides of the cotton get ting a touch from the fumes of the mixture. .On going down one side the sack touches lightly and sido, and when the plow returns it touch es the other side. “This method costs about 16 cents an acre, McDuffie says. He says he used this method with suc- ces in 1915, and that he got five more bales per horse last year by having the weevils out of the way. If it is a success, and it seemingly is, this negro has solved a problem that hns confronted the best brains in the south for the past ten years.” Moultrie Observer. Break your Cold or La Grippe with a few dose Of m Tho Demonstration Agent came to our house today, * To tell my Daddy how to farm, raise dorn and poavino liny, And goobers too, to feed tho hog3, alfalfa for the sheep, And how to toll when soil is sour nnd how to mnko it sweet. And ail ua children gathered round to lionr the agent’s chatter. As ho told Daddy this was wrong nnd something else the matter, And listened close to everything ho had to talk about, And tho boll weevil that gits you if you don’t watch out. Oneo thcro was a farmer didn't raise no hay, Didn’t own n mower nnd thought it didn’t pay, Pulled the fodder off tho corn, didn’t believe it kopt, Tho grain from growin sound and good, rathor thought it he’pt. Bought somo moldy hay from Kansas, twenty-five a ton, Called tho doctor for his mule, brought him on tho run, Doctor said, “your mulo is doad, ton dollars is my pay, You’ll have less loas of mulo nnd hoss if you’ll feed homo grown hay.' Then ho scooted down the rond in his old Ford runabout. And tho boll weevil ’ll you if you.don’t watch out. Onco thoro was a farmer kopt a brindlo oow, , Nearly coverod up with ticks, oouldn’t see as how Tho pesky .things did any harm, he’d seed ’om all his life) Tick eradication was a lot of useless strife. Brindlc got tho 'hollow tail’ also lost her cud, Split her tail and bored her horas and greased her backbone goad, Brindlc soon gave .up the ghust, then this farnjor man Bought milk for tho baby in a little old tin can. Baby got the colio and mighty nigh past out, And tho weevil suro will git you if you don’t watch out. Onco thcro was a cotton planter wouldn’t rniso no feed, Agent told him that ho ought, but he wouldn’t heed. Run a credit at tho store, mortgage on tho crop, Wouldn't let his tenants do a thing but plow nnd chop. Weevil lit down-in tho Gold, middlo of July, Court in session in the town, cotton all laid by. All the hands gone fishing, or to barboouo, No use hanging round tho place, nothing thcro to do. Weevil kept n multiplyin happy ns you please, Hatin'up tho tender squares, thick ns Rover’s fleas, Pioking time came on nt last, planter suro was sore, Couldn’t pay tho mortgage off nor settle at the store. Had to sell the mules and lonvo, Wife was in a poub And tho weevil suro will git you if you don’t watoh out. And the demonstration agent said he’d show Daddy how To set tho cultivator and run the two-liorse plow, Ho’d help him build a silo and tell him what to grow To fill it with, and feed tho cows and make the sweet milk flow, And he’d show him how to build a vat to kill the ticks and liee, And keep tho cows and pigjio; tei all 1 joking fino and nice. He’d show him how to spray the trees and kill tho ’culco’, And help him get the best of stUi, and tell him when to sow His oats, so ho’d have some to sail noxt summer, don't you know, And' keep tho niggers busy and not let them roanj about, And the weevils wouldn’t get him if ho’d just watch out. each 5100.00 ho wishes to borrow. fho only limit to tho numbor of farmers who may apply for charter for their national farm loan association is that thoy shall bo ton or moro. Other things bo- ing equal, tho larger the number of farmers who join in making tho application, tho bettor it will be. The application is to be accoin plished by an affidavit “stating that each of the subscribers is tho owner, or is about to become tho owner, of farm land qualified und cr section twelve of this not ns the , , basis of a mortgage loan; that tho Wf. M. .lhursoiK j oan desired by each person is not 'css thnn 8100 nor moro than 810.000, and that ■ the aggregate of the desired loanh if not less than 320.000. ” The Application for Charter is accompnined by a subscription at par to stock in tho federal land bank by the would-be } national farm loan association equal to fivo per cent of the total sum desired on mortgage loans. In other words each national farm loan association agrees to invest in land bank shares all the money it gets from its own members for shires in its own association. “Upon receipt of tho necessary papers, tho directors of tho federal land bank shall send an appraiser to investigate the solvency and character of tho applicants and tho value of their lands, v and shall then determine whether in their judgment a charter should be granted to suoh association.” Their recommendation and the papers are then sent to tho federal farm loan board at Washington. “Is said recommendation h un favorable, the charter can bo re fused,” but if it is favorable the board “shall thoroupon grant a charter to the applicants therefor, designating tho territory in which such an association may make loans, and shall forward said charter to saio applicants through said foderal land bank.” How ever, tho board “may for good cause shown any case refuse to grant a charter.” THE FEDERAL FARM LOAN SYSTEM. Elsewhere in this issue we pub lish a call looking to the formation of a National Farm Loan Associa tion under the Federal Farm Loan System. This loan system is full of great posibilities for the Ameri can people and its benefits arc not to be confined to those vo whom loans will bo directly made but will extend with real force to all those various interest whose welfare is dependent upon the prosperity of the agricultural interest of our country. One of the basic principles of this new loan system is that of co operation and if no --other result was accomplished thnn to teach our American farmers the advan tage. of cooperation it would have served a good purpose. We print herewith a few para graphs from Hon. Herbert Mynck on National Farm Loan Associa tions:— National Farm Loan Next to the individual farm and farmer, the federal farm loan sys tem is based fundamentally upon locnl units composed of ten or more farmer borrowers. The act authorizes such farmers to organ- tficir own club through which to borrow money nt reasonable rates on long-time and easy terms of repayment upon the security of first farm mortgages. Such a club the act denominates a “national farm loan association.”. In common language, it will be called a “local association,” or still more briefly, a “local” of the federal land bank of which it is a member. •. N How Composed. Any farm loan association, to quote the statute,, “may be organized by persons desiring to borrow money on farm mortgage security under the terms of this act.” 1 “Ten or more natural persons who are the owners, x or are about to become owners, of farm land qualified ns security for mortgage loan under section 12 of this act may unite to form a national farm loan association.” The qualifications refered to in section 12 pertain to the purposes for which loans may be made, pay, ment of interest and principal etc., as fully detailed in Chapter Ten. , “No persons other than borrow ers on farm land mortgages shall be members or share-holders of national farm loan associations.” “No such loan shall bo made to any person who is not at the tirao or shortly to become, engaged in tho cultivation of the farm mort gaged.” How Organized: Each feder al land bank doubtless will furnish a blank form to be signed by the farmers who wish to form n nat ional farm loan association-. “Any person desiring to borrow on farm land mortgage through a national farm loan association, shall subscribe for shares of stock in such farm land association to an amount equal to five per centum of the-face of the desired loan, said subscription to bo paid in cash upon the granting of the loan.” This means that each would-be member must pay 85.00 for one share of the par value of Authority of Associations. Upon receipt of its charter, such national farni loan association shall bo authorized and empowered to receivo from the federal land bank of the district sums to be loaned.to its members . under the terms and conditions of this act.” The formers cpmprising the as sociation chooso a board of not less than five directors, which shall eleot a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, and a loan committee of three members. “All officers and directors, except tho secretary-treasurer, shall during their term of office, be bona fide residents within, the territory where the association is authorized to do business, and shall be share holders of the association,” We are still buying and paying the highest Price for it. But the time is getting shorter, so you better bring it as soon as you can. Be Sure to Bring to Right Place. Do not Sell Without Seeing Me. 1 1 . • . 1 ’’ _ ;i;‘ Located in Wight Hardware Company’s Warehouse. Rear of Hutto’s Blaoksmith Shop. Cairo Junk Co. Cairo Georgia. Low Fares Account Southeastern Land Show via A. B. and A. Atlanta, Ga., February 1 to 15, 1917. Tickets on sale January Slst, February 3rd, 10th, 11th and leth and 1/ith, 1917, good returning up io and including February 80th unless ex tended to March Gth, 1017 by deposit of ticket and the payment of a fee of SI.00 to Special Agent, Atlanta. All persons having land or property for sale or exchange, or desiring to purchase, should visit the Southeastern Land Show. The low fares are also open to anyone desiring to.visit Atlanta on businese or for pleasure. For further information apply to A. B. & A. Ticket Agent. W. W, CROXTON, Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. - State of Ohio, City of Toledo, l „ _ Lucas County. | “• Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he I. senior partner of tho arm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business In the City of To- " ■ 'oresald, and sum of ONB _ each and bv* cry case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use Of HALL’S CATARRH CURB. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before mo and subscribed In my presence, this 6th day of December, (Beil)***' A. W. N GLEASON ic Hall’* Catarrh Cdro ts taken Internally and acts directly upon tho blood and mu cous surface, of the system. Send for testimonials, free. _ F. J. CHENEY * CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’. Fcmtlr Pills for constipation. A dry, hacking cough is hard on tho lungs, often causing them to bleed. BALLARD’S HORE- HOUND SYRUP is a healing balm that quickly repairs damage in tho lungs and air passages. Price 25o, 50c and 81.00 per bottle. Sold by Wight & Browne. J.E. Wright, M. D Physician © Surgeon Phones; Office 40; Res. 44. Office with Dr. Clower Third Annual eorgia Go-To-Sunday School Day February 11th, 1917 For Ml Sunday School* of all Denominations The Sunday Schools of Georgia Invite You to At- N tend the Sunday School of Your Choice. Take a Friend. Largo Posters, Programs, Blanks for getting now scholars and a sheet explaining how to make tho day a success furnished freo to any Sunday Sohool on request to tho GEORGIA SUN DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 1519 Hurt Building, Atlanta. >/.* m $11.85 From Cairo, to Tampa, Florida / And Return Account Gasparilla Carnival, via, Atlantic Coast Line “The Standard Railroad of the South." Tickets on sale January 31st to Feb. 5th, 1917, in clusive. Limited to reach original starting point return ing prior to midnight, of February 20th. However, ex tension of final limit to March 3rd, 1917, (prior to mid night of which date return journey must be completed,) may be secured by passengers personally depositing their tickets with Special Agent at Tampa not later than Feb ruary 20th, and upon payment of fee of $1.00 per ticket at time of deposit. For further information, call on, H. W. LAWSON, T. A., Cairo, Ga. -—. , . .........it.a:.-,' —...a - . . Money Loaned I make farm loans at 5 1-2 per cent interest and give the borrower tho privilege of paying part of the principal at the end of any year; Btoppin interest on amont paid, but no an nual payment of principal required, Come to to see me, or Write me stating your needs; and I will save you money.