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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1907)
Southern Agricultural Topics. Modem Methods That Are Helpful to Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman. Influence of Feed. Feed, more than any other thing, Influences the value of manure. We might call it the primary thing which Influences the value of barnyard ma nure. If the animal is fed rich feed It will void richer manure than the animal fed poor feed. The animal that is fed corn, clover hay and oil cake will void a much richer manure than the animal that gets nothing but musty straw and half-cured fod der. Some feed contains more of one plant food than another, and if that certain feed is fed the manure voided by the animal to which it is fed will be richer in that plant food than if some other food had been fed. Clover is rich in nitrogen, while straw is not. Every farmep knows that if clover is fed to the animals the manure will be richer in nitrogen' than it would be if straw had been fed. Bran is rich is phosphorus. If bran is fed to the stock the manure will be richer in phosphoric acid than it would be if corn-meal had been fed. A ton of clover contains forty pounds of nitrogen, eleven pounds of phosphoric acid and thirty-six pounds of potash. A ton of wheat straw contains about six pounds of nitro gen, five pounds of phosphoric acid and fifteen pounds of potash. It is reasonable to suppose that the ma nure of the clover-fed animal will be four or five times as rich in potash as the manure from straw-fed stock. j’A ton of wheat bran contains about forty-four pounds of nitrogen, sixty four pounds of phosphoric acid and twenty-eight pounds of potash. There is nearly as much phosphoric acid in bran as there is of both nitrogen and potash. A ton of linseed meal con tains 105 pounds of nitrogen, thirty two pounds of phosphoric acid and twenty-five pounds of potash. The phosphoric acid content of the lin seed meal is only about a fourth as much as the amount of nitrogen and potash. To build up the supply of phosphoric acid in the soil as com pared with the other plant foods, bran is nearly four times better than linseed meal when fed to stock. This shows us that some feeds have more nitrogen than others, some contain more phosphoric acid than others and ifiome feeds contain more potash than jothers. If the soil needs any one of jthese elements it can be seen that the isensible way to supply those needs |is to feed to the animals kept on the farm the feed that contains the most of the element needed by the soil. Of the nine principal feeds most fre quently used on the average farm, the station has figured out that for each ton of corn-meal there is $5.66 worth of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash combined; corn fodder, $1.24; clover hay, $8.95; gluten meal, $16.75; cottonseed-meal, near ly s2l; timothy bay, $4.80; wheat bran, $13.08; oats, $7.40, and wheat straw, $2.22. —Southern Cultivator. > How to Cure Your Meat. ■ Wr I am a subscriber to your valuable paper. I notice you want all who have had some experience in curing meat to write their experience and send it to you to be printed for the of others. lam always ready to help a brother farmer. & I have had some experience in han dling and curing meat in Kentucky and north and south Georgia. People told me before I came here that I could not have good meat but have had as good meat this year as I ever ate, in fact, never have lost any meat yet and this is my plan in brief: Kill on a reasonably cool and clear day, let your hogs hang and drip aw'hile after being cleaned, tajee down and cut up; lay out in as cool a place as you have handy, sprinkle salt on while warm, let lay over night and salt down. This is all right north of Atlanta, but here I did some extra .work. I unjointed every piece, took out loin bone and hock joint of hams. These are good while fresh but are rarely cooked if left on ham and it is the joints that spoil and it don’t dis figure your ham either. If done right it leaves a round ham, and I made a tongue and groove box and put quarter round in corners so flies could not get in, but left space at bottom the width of a knife blade so brine could leak out. Salt each piece to itself, rub rine well, place in box flesh side down so no water could stand in meat. After all my meat is placed in box 1 level with salt and put all bones in a separate box and don’t tear up this meat under four weeks. 'At this time if weather is suitable I take up, have some warm water, wash brine off, have some borac pul verized in pepper box, put this on rough places to keep skippers out. Then use some corn meal pretty black with ground black pepper and rub on meat while wet, lay out or hang up until dry, have some corn cobs and have a clean box. Put a layer Of cobs to a layer of meat, this holds meat apart so air can pas 3 through and dry in damp weather anl again, if your bones get too salty before the family can eat them, take some fresh water, salt until it will swim a fresh egg pretty high, place meat in it and it will keep fresh. Change water every five or six days as it w’ill sour by these methods. I have never lost any meat. —C. H. R., Tifton, Ga. f in the Southern Cultivator. '<* Effect of Trees and Grass. This fall we will have occasion to write several articles upon the im provement of our country communi ties and staying upon our farms in stead of renting them out and going to town. We will give some examples and illustrations that should be of interest to all, but just now at the opening of our fall season, we wish to say, there is nothing which adds so much to the attractiveness of a country home as shade trees and grass. We can not have great groves in front of our houses, but every one can have several trees and a spot of Bermuda or Blue grass to grace and to add comfort to their homes. If you have the trees get the grass, if the grass, set out the trees. A few trees well located, a small well souded and kept lawn, add from fifty to 100 per cent, to the appearance of your home. While over at Wedge field, S. C., we saw a beautiful home set back not more than 200 feet from the road, but with yard of grass and beautiful water oaks; on the left side up to the yard was a paddock of grass and trees upon which grazed two beautiful Jersey cows. No pearl had a better settling in its artistically wrought gold than this scene gave to this rural home. It .is not are you rich, but are you doing ail you can to make your home attractive?—* Southern Cultivator. Fertility We SelJ. Every time a farmer sells a ton of wheat he sells $11.62 in fertility; in a ton of clover he sells $8.62 in fer tility; in a ton of alfalfa hay he sells 55.63 in fertility; in a ton of oats he sells $7.81 in and in a ton of corn he sells $6.47 in fertility. If these products be fed on the farm under»proper conditions, and the re sulting manure be returned to the soil, there is a very slight loss of fer tility, for the following products may be sold instead: In selling a ton of finished beef on the hoof the farmer sells but $5.37 in fertility; in a ton of live hogs he sells hut $3.70 in fertility; in a ton of milk he sells but $1.48 in fer tility; in a ton of cheese he sells but sixty-nine cents in fertility, and in a ton of butter he sells but twenty-seven cents in fertility. The best policy for the farmer to adopt is that system of corn and crop rotation which will embrace not only the growing of grain, but the breeding and feeding of stock, either for sale in the form of beef or pork, or for the production, whether for milk, cheese or butter.— Prof. Holden, When a farmer sells a ton of lint cotton he sells only $4.68 worth of fertility; but when he sells a ton of cotton seed, he removes or sells $13.08 worth of fertility.—• Southern Cultivator. Profitable Age For Laying Hens. The age to which a hen may be kept and still be profitable as an egg producer is determined largely by the bird. I have owned hens that were not more than three or four years old that were by no means profitable eggs producers, while oth ers were good layers at five or six years of age. I especially noticed a Brown Leghorn hen which laid eggs from early spring till late fall the summer she was five years old. She did not stop laying more than a week at a time from early spring until fall and much of the time she laid every day. When considering the age to which a hen is to be kept, the cost of raising a hen up to the time she begins to lay should be considered. This cost is distributed over as many years as the hen is kept and it is evident that a hen kept three years the first cost will be only one-third of the hen kept only one year. Hens cannot be expected to produce eggs a whole year without stopping, and they eat the year round, but a grown hen does not require the careful at tention when not laying that a young chick does.—A. J. Legs, Albion, W. Va., in The Epitomist. Testing Freshness of Eggs. This process for testiug the age cf eggs is the standard: A new-laid egg if placed in a ves sel of brine made in the proportion of two ounces of salt to one pint of water will sink to the bottom at once. An egg one day old will sink below the surface, but not to the bottom, while one three days old wiii swim just immersed in the liquid. If more than three days old the egg will fica: on the surface, the amount of shell exposed increasing with lh» ■ ge of the egg. THE TULTIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. NEHEMIAH BOYNTON. Subject: The Will aud the Work. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, pastor of the Clinton Ave nue Congregational Church, having returned from his European trip, was in his pulpit Sunday. In the morn ing, greeted by a large audience, he preached on “The Will and the Work.” The text was from John 4:34: “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me and to finish His work.” Among other things. Dr. Boynton said: The very essence of a rational faith in Jesus is dependent upon His being permitted to make His own impres sion upon one’s soul as a being who met and mastered life in normal re lations. If you permit your fancy to dress Him in the light fluffy and ethereal garments of an airy mysticism you add to your imagination but subtract from His reality. If you array Him iu the blue and sometimes navy blue homespun of a provincial theology your philosophy aspiring to do the task of sympathy takes away halt' His birthright. He recedes from the heart and mind of the world! But if you allow Him to be an actual resi dent in life and to live in the world to which He came, to work, to won der, to minister, to suffer, to joy and to love, you restore Him to men. Again He lives in power, and by His very mastery of life indicates His claim to be the chiefest among ten thousand. The supreme divinity of Christ, His individual and unique relation to the Father are best apprehended by set ting His life in its ordinary and usual human relations, permitting it to tell its own story and make its own impression. Whether you compare Christ with the Samaritan woman or with the astonished disciples His own transcendant greatness is in distinct evidence. Here is a travel-stained, weary and thir3ty pilgrim sitting by a well; there a common water carrier comes to fill his pitcher. Their interview shows at once that they are not upon the same level; they do not see life from the same angle. The traveler is evidently in full possession of something for which the Samaritan woman has only heart hunger, some thing very high, noble, soul satisfj ing. The disciples who come as she leaves are not much above her level, so far as appreciating Christ is con cerned. They wonder that He is will ing to stoop to speak to such a per son! They offer Him food. Hospi tality is the only grace they can at present afford. “.Master, eat! ” How slight an appreciation they have of the really nutritive forces of life! “[ have eaten. I have been refreshed,” says Christ. “Can it he that anyone has offered Him lunch in our ab sence?” they inquire. “My meat,” says Christ, “is to do the will of Him that sent Me and to finish His work. Here is strong meat, indeed! Here is spiritual manna, indeed! The will and the work are the staples of that perpetual feast which alone will sat isfy the higher soul-life of mankind. A first great teaching of this incident is the personal nature of real religion. One of the pathetic visions of our own day is that of multitudes trying to find a place to trust their souls. Religions which the world has out grown are galvanized into life again and are made the depositories of rest less spirits. New forms of religion have for many mighty attractions and for a time seem to satisfy the soul de sire. There must be some one thing about the faith of Jeaus which gives it pre-eminence over all other forms of faith, however much of fragmen tary trust they embrace. And that one thing is the sense of personal re lation with Cod. “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me!” This is the great Christian contribution to religion. God is Father of all spir its. To connect with His will is to re late oneself with Him and satisfy the longings of one's deepest soul. “I know Je3us Christ,” said Bushueil, “better than I know any man in the city of Hartford, and if He should bo walking along the street and see me, He would say, ‘There goes a friend of Mine.’ ” The joy, the assurance, the cer tainty of a Christian faith, root them selves in the sense of personal rela tion between the soul and Cod, which affords the comfort, security and in spiration of living. Jesus again is insistent in His teaching that a loyal will always ex presses itself in work: “To finish His work.” A personal relation with God expresses itself through a social ap preciation and effort. Nobody ever travels to Heaven alone. Everybody must, help carry somebody else who would mount the shining pinnacles cf the city of our God. The greatest work in the world is to get one's will in play—to establish goodwill among men! There is the race question, for ex ample. How are men of different races to be treated in free America? It is no longer a question of the colored man alone, but of the Indian, the Japanese, the Chinese as well. Indeed, it is no longer a mere Amer ican question. It is an international question, hound to become more and more imperative and vital in coming days. What is the solution? Is it in in stitutions cf social sympathy like clubs and settlements? Is it in "laws drastic and enforced? These can do some thing, but the real solution waits upon the will of the people, upon dis position and attitude. The deeper recognitions are in order. “A man’s a man ror a - tnat: • me nomer iei lowships are due. The will of God is waiting for a larger expression over against passion, pride and prejudice! If Jesus could find in an ordinary Samaritan water carrier a soul worthy of His kindly disposition, His sympathy, His solicitude, then His followers are bound to find in every human being a spiritual relative and maintain toward all made in the Im age of God a brother’s regard and care. Doing the will of God will always express Itself in some form of social service. You will solve social problems only by kneading Into them the leaven of the Christian spirit, and there will be a rise in every social scale as the will of Christ is by His disciples given adequate expression. A third and final teaching of the Master In this incident concerns spir itual accomplishments. What we want, says the impatient disciple. Is results! Indeed, here is a great truth, but what kind of results, pray? Are apparent returns always the indices of a true Christian pro gress? Is it not possible “to make a showing” which by its very luridness Is only a blind to a really deplorable state of affairs? Cheap method, superficial endeavor and questionable procedure are, to he sure, dazzling temptations. Ap parently they take the kingdom of Heaven by violence and bring it in. Really they are sorry apologies for a true accomplishment, which is, first of all, in the implanting of a will, a disposition. He that believeth shall not make haste! “The sower and the reaper shall rejoice together." The man who sows a spirit and the man who reaps a harvest are fellow sharers in a common .iov! If Jesus is judged by the harvest ing of His life. He has small tally! Two hundred souls, only, embraced His faith when ITe gave His life for the world. But if anv true measure ment attempts to estimate the real ization of His life, and He is judged by the sowing of His life, then, in deed. does He appear as a master workman. He buried a snirit In the heart of the world which has been in the world ever since, with its ever recurring seedtime and harvest. He is known among men by the splendor of His will, which abides, rather than by the incidents of His work, which are glorious memories of the past. The will and the work, these two;* but the greatest, the most harvesting of these is will, for, after all, “it is not what a man does, but would do. which exalts him;” and mighty are th 9 spiritual accomplishments of those, no matter for apparent figures, whose hearts are stayed on Him and through Him reach loving arms to the world. COMER SIGNS ANTI-BOOZE BILL. Measure Barring Liquir in Alabama in 1909 Now a Statute. The signing of the general prohibi tion act by Governor Comer of Alaba ma Saturday afternoon was made an imposing event, several of the leading temperance workers of the state being present fer the ceremony. The pen useu was a new gold point, purchased for the purpose, a special blotter was used and also a silk pen wiper, all of which were kept by the ladies who were pres ent. The bill provides that the sale of all iiquors save as used for medicinal purposes, shall cea e in Alabama on January 1, 1909, that the act shall not prevent the social serving of liquors in private residences in ordinary so cial intercourse. Alcohol may be sold for the use of the arts, and the bill does not aply to wood or denatured alcohol. A druggist can sell only one half pint a day to any one man on prescription of a doctor and that must be on the same day the prescription is dated. In all counties which have become prohibition by the local act or by general laws the act is effective on January 1, 1908, in others the same date in 1909. TOOK SWEETHEART BY FORCE. Jilted Lovor Shoots Rival While on Way to Be Married. When John Hall of Camden, S. C., was half way between South Mills Jrom Elizabeth City, N. C., with Miss Maggie Sawyer, of the former place, in a buggy Wednesday morning, on their way to be married, they were held up by Edmund Daily of South Mills, a rival for the young woman’s hand, and when Hall refused to halt he was shot but not seriously wound ed. Daily then took the struggling woman into his own buggy and disap peared. METHODISTS OF NORTH GEORGIA Assemble in Forty-First Annual Confer ence in City of Cartersville. Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock Bishop Seth Ward of Texas, called to jrder the forty-first session of the North Georgia Conference in the new Sam Jones Memorial Methodist church it Cartersville. A large number of ministers and delegates were present, besides a host sf visitors. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR DEC. 1 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject : Tlie Death of Samson, Juilgea 10:21-31—Golden Text, Eph. 0: 10—Memory Verses, 28-30 Head Judges 13-10. Samson is a warning to humanity of the consequences that inevitably follow the misuse of God-given capac ities. His life is a tragedy. His death la a result of the life he lived. In his commentary on the death of Samson the Rev. R. A. Watson. D. D., says: The last scene of Samson’s history awaits us—the gigantic effort, the awful revenge In which the Hebrew champion ended his days. In one sense It aptly crowns the man’s ca reer. The sacred historian is not composing a romance, yet the end could not have been more fit. Strange ly enough it has given occasion for preaching the doctrine of self-sacri fice as the only means of highest achievement, and we are asked to see here an example of tbe finest heroism, the most sublime devotion. Samson dying for his country is lik ened to Christ dying for His people. It Is impossible to allow this for a moment. Not Milton’s apology for Samson, not the authority of ail the Illustrious men who have drawn the parallel can keep us from deciding that this was a case of vengeance and self-murder, not of noble devotion. If this was truly a fine act of self sacrifice what good came of it? The sacrifice that is to bo praised does distinct and clearly purposed service to some worthy cause or high moral end. We do not find that this dread ful deed reconciled the Philistines to Israel or moved them to belief in Jehovah. We observe, on the con trary, that it went to increase the hatred between race and race, so that when Canaanites, Moabites, Ammon ites, Midlanit.es no longer vex Israel these Philistines show more deadly antagonism—antagonism of which Is rael knew the heat when on the red field of Gilboa the kingly Saul and the well-beloved Jonathan were to gether stricken down in death. Tf there was in Samson’s mind anv though of vindicating a principle It was that of Israel’s dignity as the people of Jehovah. But here his tes timony was worthless. Much is written about self-sacrifice which Is sheer mockery of truth, most falsely sentimental. Men and women are urged to the notion that if they can only find some pretext, for re nouncing freedom, for curbing and endangering life, for stepping aside from the way of common service that they may give up something in an un-. common way for the sake of any per son or cause, good will come of it. The doctrine is a lie. The sacrifice of Christ was not of that kind. It was under the influence of no blind desire to give up His life, but first under the pressure of a supreme pro vidential necessity, then in renuncia tion of the earthly life for a clearly seen and personally embraced divine end, the reconciliation of man to God, the setting forth of a propitia tion for the sin of the world—for this it was He died. He willed to be our Saviour; having so chosen He bowed to the burden that was laid upon Him. “It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief.” To the end He foresaw and desired there was but one way—and the way was that of death because of man’s Wickedness and ruin. Suffering for itself Is no end and never can be to God or to Christ or to a good man. It Is a necessity on the way to the ends of righteousness and love. If personality is not a de lusion and salvation a dream there must be in every case of Christian renunciation some distinct moral aim in view for every one concerned, and there must be at each step, as in the action of our Lord, the most distinct and unwavering sincerity, the most direct truthfulness. Any thing else is a sin against God and humanity. We entreat would-be moralists of the day to comprehend before they write of “self-sacrifice.” The sacrifice of the moral judgment is always a crime, and to preach needless suffering for the sake of covering up sin or as a means of atoning for past* defects is to utter most unchristian falsehood. Samson threw away a life of which he was weary and ashamed. He threw it away in avenging a cruelty; hut it w«s a cruelty he had no reason to call a wrong. “O God, that I might be avenged!”—that was no prayer of a faithful heart. It was the prayer of envenomed hatred, of a soul still unregenerate after trial. His death was indeed self-sacrifice —• the sacrifice of the higher self, the true self, to the lower. Samson should have endured patiently, mag nifying God. Or we can imagine something not perfect yet heroic. Had he said to those Philistines, My peo ple and you have been too long at enmity. Let there be au end of it. Avenge yourselves on me, then cease from harassing Israel —that would have been like a brave man. But it is not this we find. And we close, the story of Samson more sad than ever that Israel’s history has not taught a great man to be a good man, that the hero has not achieved the moraliy heroic, that adversity has not begotten in him a wise patience and magnanimity. Yet he had a place under Divine Providence. The dim troubled faith that was in his soul was not altogether fruitless. No Je hovah-worshiper would ever think of bowing before that god whose temple fell in ruins on the captive Israelite and his thousand victims. To withhold from God is to cheat vourself.
