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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1907)
Southern Agricultural Topics. Modern Methods That Are Helpfui to Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman. Lettuce as a Crop. Lettuce is one of the oldest vege tables, having been grown for many centuries. It is one of the crops of the Northern truck farmer. Here in the South it is considered more of a delicacy than a staple crop. It is not generally found in the farm gar den and is not grown by a majority of the truck farmers who market their crops locally. Of late years it is grown very ex tensively during the winter in Flori da, North and South Carolina, for shipping to Northern markets. In central and southern Florida it can be grown in the fields without any protection, but in northern Florida they protect it with common sheet ing when necessary. In North and South Carolina it is sown in cold frames so constructed that the crop can be cultivated with the horse. Practically all of this lettuce is shipped to the Northern cities. Very little lettuce is marketed dur ing the winter by the local gardeners around the Southern cities. In this they make a great mistake. For it can be sown in September, transplant ed to hot beds and marketed by Christmas. At this time of the year it brings a fancy price and is very much in demand, and there is plenty of time to use these same hot beds without any additional preparation, for growing spring plants, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, egg plants, etc. In this way enough may be made to more than pay for the growing of both the lettuce and the plants. Even if the frames are not needed for the growing plants, the lettuce can be grown in frames at a handsome profit. As tomatoes can be had a great deal earlier if the plants r.re trans planted before setting out in the field, the plants may be grown in hotbeds during December and transplanted into the frames where the lettuce has been grown, thus getting double service from the frames. Lettuce sown during the late sum mer may be marketed before it is cold enough to kill it in the latitude of Atlanta. It can be sown during September and transplanted to cold frames where it will stand until it is warm enough for it to head, in the early spring. If it is to be forced so as to be marketable by Christmas it must be transplanted into hot beds — that is beds prepared with an under layer of fresh manure. Lettuce plants for the early spring crop should be raised in hotbeds and transplanted as soon as warm enough. Lettuce is very hardy and can be easily protected during winter with ordinary sheeting. The late spring crop should be sown in drills in the field. The lettuce plants should be one foot apart each way, both in the beds and in the field crops. The field crop should be cultivated with the wheel hoe and the hand hoe. Rich soil, good seed, and frequent cultivation are the essentials for suc cessful lettuce growing. At least one thousand pounds per acre of commer cial fertilizer should be used, and up to fifteen hundred would pay. Good lettuce can not be grown on poor soil, and a rich mellow clay loam makes the best lettuce soil. The fertilizer should analyze six per cent, nitrogen, five per cent phos phoric acid and seven per cent, pot ash. Lettuce grown in the field should not be forced too fast, especi ally during hot weather. We ruined about a thousand heads this spring by forcing them too fast with nitrate of soda, causing them to go to seed without heading. On the local market lettuce is sold by the dozen heads, the price vary ing with size and demand. When shipped, it is sold by the drum or barrel. —B. If. Hannicutt, in the Southern Cultivator, SIOO.OO a Month For Farm Boy! I have stated on the platform many times within the past two years that it is possible for an intelligent, industrious young man to produce crops by his unaided labor to the value of $1200.00 per annum. More over, 1 have given it as my opinion that such a young man is not living up to his privilege if he does not do this well. I have gone a little fur ther than this and advised young women not to marry any man who j has not demonstrated his ability to measure up to this standard. Country boys and country girls are entitled to as good a living and to as many comforts as boys and girls who get their living from any other calling. But it is as clear as the noon day sun that if the standard : Of production of the average farm laborer of the Southern States is to ] be the portion of these boys; and if ' they are to support families on (he , basis of about $200.00 per year, their comforts will be few and their living ! bard. Take all the farm laborers of ] the State of lowa and they produce crops to the gross value of neaff slooo.oo each. There arc many of | these 370,000 men and boys who very . much exceed the average and produce j crops equal to the SI2OO per annum or even more. The Georgia or South Carolina boy is as fully intelligent as the lowa boy. It would be slander to say that the Southern boy is not as indus trious as his Northern cousin. Then what is the trouble? Why not look into the matter and find out where the trouble is? One thing will be observed at once. About eighty per cent, of Georgia’s entire farm produce consists of the one crop, cotton. Her live stock pro ducts amount to less than five per. cent, of her total sales. On the other hand lowa does not confine herself to any one crop. The sale of live : stock products of that State amounts to forty per cent, of her gross and to fifty per cent, of her net products. The system of farming practiced almost universally in the Southern States was inaugurated during the time of slavery. Cotton growing re quires the maximum of human la bor. Slavery furnished cheap labor and there Mas no great effort made to supplant human labor with that of the horse or machine. We are yet going along under the old system do ing M’ork with human hands that ought to be done by horses and en gines. The result is that we only make about .14 as much clear money as our Northern friends who do use horses and engines. But can any great change he made in the present methods of groM'ing cotton? Probably not; but we can grow other crops that will admit of a different system. Nor are M r e under any bond to continue to grbw cot ton. Then why not look around for the better May? If the lowa young man can make SIOO.OO per month following a diversified system of farming, why can not the Georgia or Alabama boy do the san?e thing?— W. L. W., in the Southern Cultivator. Fertilizing Wheat. The advisability of using commer cial fertilizers on wheat is borne out by the folloM’ing data obtained in ex periments made under the M’riter’s direction, and further illustrate the importance of supplying soils with vegetable matter on which complete fertilizers are used. On rather thin land on which cowpeas were plowed ; under and an application of nitrate of soda at the rate of seventy-five I pounds and muriate of potash at the rate of thirty-seven and one-half pounds were applied the cost of a bushel of increase was twenty-two cents. On the same land treated in like manner an application of 150 pounds of acid phosphate and thirty seven and one-half pounds of muriate , of potash gave a bushel of increase at 1 a cost of sixteen cents. In these two instances the increase from the use rf fertilizers was between ten 1 and eleven bushels per acre. Acid j phosphate alone applied at the rate ! of 500 pounds per acre gave a bushel ! of increase at a cost of twenty-seven ! cent?. We are of the opinion that I practically the same increase M r ould have been obtained from possibly half the application, M-'nich would have reduced the cost of a bushel of in crease quite materially. Where a complete fertilizer was used at the rate of 300 pounds per acre the cost of a bushel cf increase was twenty seven cents. These figures are quoted to show that fertilizers properly com pounded and used on wheat will in crease the yield quite markedly and at a cost that is profitable to tk« farmer. Besides that, ail the fer tilizer applied to the M’heat crop is not used by it, and there is a residue lefL in the soil which muII put it in better condition for succeeding crops. —Professor A. !\J. Soule, in Southern Farm Magazine, cf Baltimore. Lettuce Culture. Lettuce seed should be soM'n for raising plants to set out in beds and in frames. As scon as the plants are large enough to be handled those intended to be forced for the De cember market in frames should be drawn from the beds and be pricked out in rows four inches apart each way in the frames. The old 301 lin tho frames should he removed rnd new, sneet, friable soil be substi tuted. This should be made mod erately rich with stable manure and a good complete ferlilizer. A later planting in the beds should be made i:i November or December for the February or March markets. Give air freely tj the frames so long as the weather is mild but be ready to close up Mhenever frost is indi cated. Cultivate frequently and give further help Avith fertilizer contain ing nitrate of soua at intervals a 3 the plants seem to require it. The plan. 3 raised for outdoor planting in the spring should bo just kept grow ing an l means should be at xmiid to j protect them from severe weather j during tho vi-il.r. Southern Planter. EXPOSITION A LOSS. Jamostown Show Ha* Liabilities of $3 f -400,000, of Which $900,000 is Due the Government. At a meeting of the board of direc tors of the Jamestown Exposition com pany at Norfolk, Va., Wednesday night a financial statement was read showing the total liabilities to be $2,- 400,000, detailed as follows: Due the government on the $1,000,- 000 loan, $900,000. Due on the exposition first mortgage bonds, $400,000. Due on current liabilities, $668,000, Due on stock subscriptions to expo sition, $432,000. No statement M'as rendered as to the assets, but they include $600,000 esti mated value of the sewerage, etc., with $500,000 In unpaid stock subscriptions, collectible,which would leave a debit of something over $1,600,000 if the assets are realized upon as estimated. The committee will consider the feas ibility and practicability of reopening the exposition next year and will re port at a special meeting of the di rectors November 15. Federal Judge Waddill Thursday de nied the application for an injunction restraining the disposition except un der order of the court of the $200,000 unnegotiable bonds of the Jamestown Exposition company’s original $400,000 bond issue, on the ground that there was no necessity at this time for such an injunction. This leaves the bank ers' committee, In whose hands the $200,000 in bonds remain, to negotiate or dispose of them. The court held that the notice and process of this suit sufficiently protect ed John Monk, plaintiff, who, holding an alleged claim of $17,000 against the exposition on contract building work, sought to enjoin the disposition of th 6 $200,000 in bonds. STRIKERS BADLY DISAPPOINTED. Telegraphers Seek Old Positions But the Majority are Turned Down. Over 300 striking telegraphers who besieged the offices of the Western Un ion and Postal Telegraph companie* in New York Thursday seeking rein statement were refused employment. “All the vacancies have been filled,’’ the strikers were told,“and only a few of the best operators will be given em ployment.” It was stated positively that under no circumstances would any of the leaders In the strike be reinstated. Nei ther, it was understood, would any ol the men who acted as pickets be em ployed. The decision to suspend the strike M’as reached at a meeting of the local branch of the Commercial Telegraph ers’ Union in New York Wednesday night. SANTA FE ROAD HARD HIT. Company Assessed Fine of $330,000 by Federal Judge for Rebating. Judge Olfn Wellborn, in the district court, at Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday, fined the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe company $330,000 for rebating. Tha fine is what the court denominated an “intermediate penalty,” the maximum of which might have been assessed, being $1,320,000, and the minimum $66,- 000. The Santa Fe company was convict ed on October 11 last by a jury la tin federal court of granting rebates to the Grand Canyon Lime and Cement com pany of Arizona. It was found guilty on all the sixty-five counts charged In the indictment, after but an hour’s de liberation. The rebates were given on shipments of lime and cement from Nelson, Ariz., to Los Angeles, ranging in amount from 35 cents to sls. PLANNING TO BAR NEGRO VOTE. Leading Maryland Democrats Will Move Toward Disfranchisement. Democratic party leaders in Mary land, realizing that their majority in the next legislature will enable them to do so, have taken definite steps j looking to the introduction of an! amendment to the state constitution which will disfranchise the ignorant negro vote in the state. FIRED PISTOL PROMISCUOUSLY. Music Teacher, on Drunken Spree, ia Land ed Behind Jail Bars. J. Lewis Browne, organist of tha Sacred Heart Church, in Atlanta, who , was arrested Wednesday night for pro miscuous shooting, while on a drunken j spree, on complaint of the rector oi the church, appeared before a justice of the peace and sent to the tower in default of $5,000 bond. TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE. I will be at the different precincts on the days mentioned for the • purpose of collecting the State and County Taxes for the year 1907. OCT. NOV. DEC. Hampton 2 -.-4 and 22 13 Sixth 3 6 “ 25 Flippen 4 j “ Stockbridge 7 8 “ 27 16 Shake Rag 8 11 “ 28 Brushy Knob 9 12 “ 29 Loves 10 13 2 McMullins 10 14 4 Beersheeba ..14 15 5 Sandy Ridge 15 18 9 Tussahaw 16 19 10 Locust Grove 17 20 11 and 17 Lowes 18 21 12 Snapping Shoals 10 o’clock A. M 6 Island Shoals I o’clock P. M 6 Woodstown 2 “ P. M 6 FOURTH ROUND. Hampton Friday December 13 Stockbridge Monday ‘ ( 16 Locust Grove Tuesday “ 17 McDonough, Court Week, First Tuesdays and Satur day until books are closed, Dec. 20th. SEAB HARKNESS, T. C. Henry Co., Ga, A Warning Against Hypnotism By Benjamin S. Dean. »M>.fYPNOTISM is a violation of a law of nature; it is a brain I- 4, paraiysis and the substitution of the mind of the op y _ J erator for that of the patient and even in those instances % ■ ■ | in which the mind of the operator is pure and M’holesomo t I a % there L s a breaking down of the barriers intended for thA X * A 4* protection of the individual’s own being and an exposing of y t his inmost self to the less scrupulous operator who may f ♦’H t’H,'M, t f come afterward. In other words, hypnotism is a destruc tive process; it obscures the individual, takes from him tho God given right to work out his own problems in life and places that power in the hands of another; and no mere temporary physical alleviation can posr sibly justify any man, woman or child surrendering to the hypnotic control of any other human being. That is a prostitution not of the body, but of tho soul, and the physician who encourages this practice is assuming a responsi bility which no man with a proper appreciation of the divine right of individ ual, responsible life wouid ever undertake. All constructive power is poten tial for good; all destructive power is dedicated to evil, and hypnotism does not build up the individual soul or body; it deadens the sensibilities of the indi vidual and gives place to the potent will of the operator. Every experiment simply weakens the victim’s power of resistance, leaving him opes to assaults upon his vital forces from every mountebank who may choose to experiment upon him. The physician who resorts to hypnotism may produce temporary results which are apparently beneficial, but he is laying ’he foundation for the disin tegration of the personal ego and Is working a wrong against himself and his victim. Every intelligent man, woman and child should refuse to sanction such practice; it Is deadly in its effects and can do no permanent good. The Art of Approach By O. S. Marden. HERE Is just as much of an art in approaching people prop- J , J* erly as in approaching a landscape to get the best possible X *a * < > effect. We are all more or less animals, and we do not x I < [ like to have the fur rubbed the wrong way. It is a great X A o art to know how to approach people so as td make the best ftHIHU » possible impression, and not arouse their antagonism, or i " < ► prejudice them against us at the very outset. One needs to J be a good judge of human nature, and to have a great deal of tact, in order to approach a person through the right avenue. One should cultivate the art of reading character at first sight. Some people know at a glance what road to take to get into a stranger’s confidence. They walk right in without hindrance, while others, without tact, art, or knowledge of human nature, cannot enter at all, or only with great difficulty. There Is nothing else which will create such a good impression upon a stranger, as a sunny face, a cheerful, gracious manner. All doors fly open, all barriers disappear before the sunny soul. He does not need to use a crowbar to make a way for himself. The doors open for him, and he is as welcome everywhere as the sunshine. He does not need an Introduction. 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