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■ENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Entered at the postofflce at McDonr
as second class mail matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per InoU
par month. Reduction on standlnj
-#actracts by special agreement.
Railroads flatly refuse to haul chor
us girls any cheaper, protests the At
lanta Journal, than earthly beings.
Every man, woman and child In
France is trained, from the cradle to
the grave, to save money, says the
San Francisco News Letter.
If tlie inventor of the noiseless gun
will only perfect a harmless bullet the
world will rest a bit easier, suggests
the New York Herald. They would
form a beautiful combination in the
hands of the lawless.
According to a Berlin correspondent
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, when
the German emperor goes to a musi
cal comedy he usually composes three
jokes and hands them from the royal
box to the leading comedian. Has any
student of the drama ever heard of
so neat a manner of getting square
with the leading comedian in musical
comedy?
Says the New York Journal: A bit
ter pill for the enemies of the Ameri
can system of public education is this:
As the schools and population increase
in size, the jails fail to keep pace. As
the cost of education goes up, the cost
of the police force proportionately
goes down. In other words, the money
that the public spends on education Is
largely saved on police, poorhouses,
jails.
George Dewey was seventy not long
ago. He is an admiral, the third in
our history to bear the title. A sailor,
a fighter, a fine, bluff old Yankee, he
embodies in a personality attractive to
his fellow citizens a stirring and sig
nificant chapter of our time. In hon
oring him, argues the New York Mail
we shall but take proper note of a his
tory-making decade and the sort of
American apt at history making.
Commenting in the house of repre
sentatives at Washington, on the sup
ply of gold, Mr. Boutell of Illinois said
he had been informed by Treasurer
Treat that for the first time the gold
coin and bullion in the United States
had reached and passed the sum of
$1,000,000,000, “an event so extraor
dinary,” he said, "that it will be chron
icled and commented upon with sur
prise and amazement in every finan
cial centre in the world; an event
which all citizens of our republic,
without regard to party affiliation, may
well contemplate with satisfaction and
pride.”
Every railroad has the right to se
cure traffic in that way and give all
shippers the equal chance to enjoy the
cheap rates, pleads the Pittsburg Dis
patch. That is the method which the
law prescribes and which fair and im
partial railroad management can eas
ily adopt.
When a railroad refuses to take that
course, and instead secures traffic by
rebates of which the general shipping
public is not notified, the onus is on
it to explain whether it violates the
law at the dictate of a favored ship
per, or to conceal the reduction from
some of its partners in an illegal com
bination to suppress competition.
There are only two tests of a bank
er’s trustworthiness that are avail
able to ordinary people, one positive
and the other negative, asserts the
Christian Register. First, trust the
man who has a reputation for wisdom
and conservatism with a record of suc
cess behind it. Second, distrust the
banker who is brilliant, courageous,
and willing to take risks for large
profits, any a financial administrator
shows himself to be wise and capable
in his regular business because he ob
serves the rules and keeps within me
limits of safety. His own judgment
is not his sole guide; but such a man,
in making investments for himself
and his friends, seems often to lose
he judicial character which makes
aim a safe custodian of the wealth ot
ether men.
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
Call to State Labor Federation.
President O’Connell of the Georgia
State Federation of Labor has issued
a call for the assembling of that body
in regular annual session at Macon
on June 17.
* * •
Cooper Granted a Respite.
Porter Cooper, who was to have
been hanged in Sparta last Friday,
for wife murder, was respited until
May 15. A plea of lunacy will be in
terposed.
* * *
Won't Take Off Trains.
The Central of Georgia railway com
pany has agreed not to discontinue
two of its four daily passenger trains
between Columbus and Americus, as
has been contemplated. An official
statement to that effect has been giv
en out.
* * •
Death Claims Judge Wellborn.
Judge Carlton J. Wellborn, aged 72,
died at his home in Millen Sunday.
He had served many years as state
librarian, was a brigade quartermaster
In the confederate army, had been a
circuit judge of the state courts.
* « •
In Token of Girl’s Bravery.
Miss Ellen Quarter-man, 14 years
of age, who was attacked by a negro
recently, near Thomasville, and who
repulsed him with a pistol, has been
presented with a diamond-studded
watch and pearl-handled pistol by the
citizens of Thomasville in token of
their admiration of her bravery.
* * *
Responsibility with Initial Carrier.
Chairman S. G. McLendon of the
railroad commission of Georgia, has
issued a statement to the shippers of
the state calling especial attention to
a recent decision of the United States
circuit court for the western district
of Arkansas construing that section
of the Hepburn law governing inter
state shipments which makes the ini
tial carrier liable.
In giving it out for publication Chair
man McLendon calls attention to the
fact that Georgia has a similar law
protecting shippers in so far as intra
state shipments are 1 concerned, and
states that this interstate ruling wiil
prove of widespread interest.
* * *
Premiums on Choice Seeds.
Premiums for cotton and corn seed
culture at the state fair have been
decided upon, and they will be incor
porated in the list.
After a talk with G. M. Davis, prom
inent in the Farmers’ Union and con
nected with the department of agricul
ture in Washington, General Manager
Frank Weldon fully agreed that this
was an important feature of the pre
mium list, which should not be over
looked. As a result, premiums will be
offered for the best twelve ears of
corn and the best twelve stalks of cot
ton, both exhibits for seed purposes.
The government will have a booth
at the fair, in which samples will be
exhibited from the 250 experiment sta
tions oVer the state.
* * *
A Question of Road Duty.
The county commissioners of Ter
rell have submitted to Attorney Gen
eral Hart the question as to who are
subject to road duty in the county,
as there seems to a conflict in the
; laws on this subject, one statute fixing
I the age of persons liable to perform
j road duty at 21 vear s old, and not
over 50 years old, while another pro
, vision of the law fixes the ages at
1 16 up to 50 years. The commission
ers have been holding that all persons
are liable to road tax who are 16
years old and not over 50; but under
the act passed in 1907, amendment
to the road laws of the state, it may
be determined that only those who are
over 21 years old, and not over 50
years of age, are subject to road duty,
* * *
Record-Breaking Peach Crop.
The peach crop this season is the
heaviest and most perfect in ten years,
or since 1898. They went through the
blooming process under summer skies
and without any rain, and the weather
has been favorable for their develop
ment so far. The latest date for frost
of any consequence during the past
twenty-two years was on Anri! 28, 1888,
and unless some disaster overtakes
them, Georgia will have a fruit crop
this year that will contribute largely
to the wealth cf the state.
It is believed there is at least 7,000,-
000 peach trees in the market orchards
of the state that will qverage a crate
to the tree. This will make 14,000 cai
loads. They should bring 50 cents a
crate to the grower above all ex
penses, which will be $3,500,000.
* * *
Some Appropriations for Georgia.
A Washington dispatch says: In
the sundry civil appropriations bill re
ported to the house Saturday the At
lanta penitentiary gets a total of $134,-
180 for maintenance and to complete
the construction of the wall around
the prison.
Fort Screven gets $127,705 for bar
racks and auarte-rs for artillery, in
connection with adopted project for
sea coast defenses.
An appropriation is made for $350,-
000 for the completion of harbor work
at Brunswick, and a like amount for
completion of harbor work at Savan
nah.
At Fort Oglethorpe a cavalry drill
hall, costing $55,000, is provided for
and an appropriation of $20,000 is
made for maintenance and completing
the establishment of the park.
The sum of $55,000 is appropriated
1 for improving the road from Stevens
Gap by way of Davis’ Cross Roads to
, Crawfish Spring, in Walker county.
* * •
Seizures Under Pure Food Law.
The state department of agriculture
has discovered and seized in the name
of the state, 63 barrels of syrup, in
tended to be marketed under the
name of “Georgia Cane Compound,”
on the ground that a chemical exam
ination of the syrup shows that it
has been misbranded in violation of
law.
The syrup will be held by the de
partment and disposed of as the law
directs. It was shipped by a Colum
bus concern to Atlanta. Analysis
showed that the syrup contained about
49 per cent of glucose and only 21
per cent of sucrose. The former is
not a product of the Georgia cane,
while the latter is.
The department has also recently
seized about seven carloads of “Mixed
(bran) Feed,” manufactured by the
Capital Grain and Mill company of
Nashville, Tenn. The stuff was seized
in LaGrange, and Assistant Commis
sioner Wright stated that upon exam
ination it was found to consist princi
pally of corn cobs.
* * •
Plan to Improve Cotton Seed.
What is expected to make the state
experiment station, Experiment, Ga.,
more popular than ever with the far
mers of the state, is a bill proposed to
be enacted into a law at the next
session of the general assembly. The
bill will provide that the experiment
station take an experiment with and
bring out into the highest state of
perfection cotton which shall, after
wards, be turned over to the state
farm, there to be planted, grown into
fruition, replanted and a large crop
produced until sufficient number of
improved seed are thus secured as
to give a sta. _ to the farmers of
Georgia with the highly developed
seed.
This Is operating in the state, for
state consumption, just as the United
States government gives its garden
seed throughout the United States.
It is proposed that the perfected
cotton seed from the state farm be
turned over to the department of agri
culture for state distribution.
* • *
Compositions Are Called For.
State School Commissioner Pound
has sent to each of the county school
commissioners a letter informing them
that the one best composition frem
their respective counties on the sub
ject of “The Value and Uses of Cot
ton Seed Products,” should be in his
office by the first of May, in order
to compete for the SIOO in gold offered
for the four best compositions, on
this subject, by the Cotton Seed Crush
ers’ Association of Georgia.
Several weeks ago this association
announced the four prizes of SSO, $25,
sls and $lO to be given out among
the school children of Georgia for the
four best compositions on the subject
named, no composition to contain over
750 words. Each teacher was to se
lect the best three in that school and
send them to the county school com
missioner. He was to select the beat
one from all those received in the
county and forward it to the chair
man of the state judges, Commission
er Pound, on or before May first.
The winners will ba announced by
President Harper of the Cotton Seed
Crushers’ Association on Monday, June
first.
COTTON REPORT IS CALLED FOR.
House, by Big Vote, Demands Findings of
the Bureau of Corporations.
The house Saturday adopted. 217 to
18, the Burleson resolution requiring
the secretary of commerce and labor
to transmit to the house the report
to the commissioner of corporations on
the causes of fluctuations in the price
of cotton.
Modern Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
Notes of Interest to Planter,
Pruit Grower and Stockman
/ Feeding Your Milk Cow.
It is strange that many go on from
year to year feeding milch cows ra
tions that they might reasonably give
to hogs that were being fattened,
yet this'is the case. If they have a
good crop of corn, they feed corn,
which is a fat-maker, not a milk
maker. This subject has been brought
up before, but it is evident there is
good reason for its being brought up
many times yet. A little corn is all
right, but when a large part of the
ration is corn fed in connection with
corn blades, it is about as poor a
dairy feed as a farmer could find.
No effort will be made at this time
to cover the whole ground of dairy
feeding, only those points being
touched ou that seem to cry out for
attention.
When a cow is expected to calve
soon, her feed should be such as will
keep the bowels open. This grain
portion of the feed should not be very
large just before or just after calv
ing. If one has silage, it will be
found excellent; but very few South
ern farmers have silos yet, but may
be they can substitute roots, which,
like silage, is a succulent feed, and
will have a good influence on the
bowels. Bran, or linseed meal, with
a little oats, will he good. Bran mash
and warm drinking water—not hot
water —will be good for a few days
aftercalving.
At this period a blanket will not
be amiss in cold weather. Do not be
afraid to treat valuable cows with
kindness and consideration. A man
who has ah his life negrudged stock
all the attention he gave them is
likely to squirm and say he is not
going to become a wet nurse for a
calf or an old cow; but the man who
will care for his stock well will find
it is not as tedious as he might think
and that it is so gainful he will be
pretty well satisfied with his work. —
Progressive Farmer.
’Sh
earing For the New Calf.
Some think that a calf should
never be allowed to suck the cow,
on the theory that the cow will re
sent having the calf taken away later
if it ever begins sucking. Others
think the best plan is to let the calf
suck for forty-eight hours. Then it
is give nits mother’s milk in a pail
about two weeks. The temperature
of the milk will have much to do with
the health of the calf. Cold milk is
not best for it; and if the milk is
sometimes warm and sometimes cold,
the result will be still worse. About
three quarts of milk twice a day for
the first two weeks will be the right
amount. After that reduce the miik
by-the addition of skim milk or warm
water. Make the change gradually,
so that by the end of tha fourth week
the calf will be getting half whole
milk and half water, or nothing but
skim milk.
The stock foods on the market put
up in small packages and claimed to
have as much nutrition as several
bushels of grain, are mostly fakes as
far as their claim is concerned, but
some good stock tonic to aid the di
gestion of the calf at this time will be
helpful. Its digestion will be its
weakest point. If the milk is not
the proper temperature, or fed in
a vessel that is not clean, sco-urs may
appear. Prevention is much better
than a cure here.
Keep the calf supplied with good
clover or alfalfa hay or fine pea vine
hay, and give it some ground oats
with which a small quantity of lin
seed meal has been mixed. As soon
as it eats the ground feed readily,
gradually get it to eating whole oats.
If the calf is to be developed into
something fine, oats will be found an
excellent food up to six months of
age.—Progressive Farmer.
Plant Pumpkins in Corn Fields.
A common way of growing pump
kins is to plant them in the corn
when the corn is planted, planting in
every fourth row of corn, and ten to
twelve feet apart in the row, letting
a hill of pumpkins take the place of a
hill of corn. Eight to ten seeds
should be put in each hill. After
danger from the cucumber beetle and
the squash bug is past, all the plants
except the strongest one in each hill
should be destroyed. While the care
given to pumpkins under this method
of producing them gives good returns,
it will pay to set apart an area to be
devoted to pumpkins entirely. If the
pumpkins are to have the entire use
of land, the hills should be twelve
feet apart each way, and two or three
of the strongest plants should be left
in the hill.
Pumpkins will produce well on
an} class of soil that is reasonably
fertile. An old pasture or clover
field, or land on which cov.-peas have
been laised, is a good place to grow
them. Good compost of well-rotted
manure will increase the crop con
siderably, and when manure or fer
tilizer is used, it is best to apply in
the bill, mixing it with the soil the
same as for watermelons.
Every farmer should grow a lib
eral supply of pumpkins, as they
make a most desirable, healthy and
nutritious food for winter feeding,
giviifl a juicy and nutritious food
to take the place of green food during
the winter. —Wood’s Crop Special.
True Economy.
The depressed times naturally
make us plan how we may economize;;
we do not advise wasteful or unneces
sary expenditure. But it is a truth,,
you can make more money only by
an expenditure of labor or money.
Often true economy lies in a wise ex
penditure. The season is short, much
must be done —the better the work is
done the more it pays. The farmer
is practicing false economy who fails
to buy good seeds—and good tools.
Take for example the manure spread
er. Over large farmers will annually
spend thousands for commercial fer
tilizers; but will not build a manure
pit. Save all the manure made upon
the farm, then put it out properly,
upon the grain with a manure spread
er. One hundred dollars spent here
would give returns of fifty to 100 per
cent. Take the weeder and cultiva
tor—two tools so essential to early
and rapid cultivation of the young
crops. Often they would pay for
themselves ten times over in a single
year. Take, for instance, good seeds ;|
who know a party who actually made
one-half bale of cotton more per acre,
with some manure and cultivation, by,
getting improved cotton seed. We
could go on and on, but we only want
to call our farmers’ attention to this
matter. We want you to be prudent
—buy as little on “credit” as possible
—but do not begin your economy by;
failure to put out a little money,
where the returns will double the ex
penditure.—The Southern Cultivator.
Cut Down the Cotton Crop.
The time is drawing near when an
other crop will be planted by the
farmers of the country. A very large
percentage of the cotton crop of 1907,
has not yet been marketed, and wo
believe for this reason that a small
acreage will be planted to that prod
uct this year. Growers are deter
mined to have what their cotton is
worth, and it looks reasonable that
they will cut down the supply this
year by cutting down the acreage.
There are other things that will bring
money to the farmer, and we believe
that we will raise the other things
this year. For instance, there is
good money in raising good mules,
horses, cows, hogs, sheep and goats,
provided you raise the feed for them,
which the farmer can do in this
country. There is no longer any
money in Texas long-horn cattle,
Spanish ponies or mules, razor-back
hogs, etc., but there is money in
other kinds of stock. Get the best
stock and raise the feed for them
and you will solve the cotton market
problem.—Florence Vidette.
A New Leguminous Plant.
A new plant has just been intro
duced that it is believed will take
the pleace of the cowpea crop of the
South. It is called the Gramma bean,
and is smaller in size than the cow
pea, making an abundant yield of
hay of finer texture. I have obtained
four varieties to test, and it is claimed
that at least two should prove very
profitable in the South.
Anything to equal or in a measure
come up to the standard of the cow
pea should appeal to the farmers now
adays when seed is so high. It will
probably be some years yet before the
new plant is given to the public. I
will be glad to see more leguminous
crops introduced. Thgy are the sav
ing grace of the Southern farm and
the Gramma bean promises to be
one of the best summer legumes yet
introduced.—J. C. McAuliffe.
Cut Worms. ' '
Prof. L. H. Bailey offers the follow
ing remedies for the cut worm: “En
circle the stem of the plant with
heavy paper or tin. Arsenites sprink
led upon small bunches of fresh grass
or clover, which are scattered at short
intervals about the garden towards
evening. They will often collect un
der boards or blocks.
“Arsenites mixed with shorts or
bran, and placed about the plants.
Make two or three deep holes by the
side of the plant with a pointed
stick; the worms will fall in and
cannot escape. Dig them out. Plow
infested land in fall to give birds a
chance to find the worms. Kainit or
muriate of poiash applied liberally
as a fertilizer has been advised,”
