THE HENRY
COUNTY WEEKLY
FRANK REAGAN, Editor.
Entered at the Dostoffice at McDonough
Ga.. as second-class rn.il matter.
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Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., Sept. 20, 1912.
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McDonough, Georgia.
Our County Fair.
Are you ready for it?
Harvest time is coming with
the farmers, and we wish again to
remind them to select their very
best specimen of corn and other
products, futten their prize poul
try and hogs and cattle and be
ready for the fair.
And the town people need also
to bestir themselves in doing
their part by providing premuims,
etc., and otherwise converting
their passive interest into an ac
tive enthusiasm.
We must have a fine county fair
this fall.
Let all push the ball along!
On Buying Land.
The Weekly has recently car
ried a number of advertisements
of Henry county men, olfering
their lands for sale.
We read very often news from
our neighbor counties of settlers
and families from other counties
buying land and moving into those
counties.
Cut we learn of almost mine’s
buying land and settling in Hen
ry county.
Some of those advertising their
lard in this county intend leaving
our county.
They wish to sell here, where
land is high, and buy elsewhere,
where land is i heap.
We all know that, as a rule, the
higher priced land is preferable,
because of advantages which
usually go along with it and are
the chief reason 10. the higher
price.
We know that the superior ad
vantages in Henry county make
our lai ds really worth every cent
they bring. We have the g. oi
roads, tine soil, churches, and
s tools and telephones and mail
facilities.
But the point is: we are doing
nothing to tell non-residents these
tacts. We are not even letting
them know that we have the lai ds
at all, but are allowing them to go
elsewhere through ignorance of
what we have for them.
And our prices for land of
$40.00 to $50.00 per acre and even
more are not high prices. In the
west the prices are in the hun
dreds ami, where irrigation is
necessary, m additional sum for
w iter must be paid which is nearly
; ways as . :uch as we ask for our
lamas alone.
Our tarn, trs here are progress
ing rapidly n modern methods cf
increasing heir soil’s yield. We
need more if them.
Whether we desire it or not,
in course of time we are destined
to receive mto our county many
people from elsewhere. It rests
with us whether they shall come
as colonies, to remain always ex
clusive and a community to them
selves or each a part and parcel
of us, having come as individuals
and so having been assimilated by
our citizenship and become a con
tribution to our up-building.
If now we begin to advertise to
ihe world what we have, we shall i
be a county of Americans one in
hope and purpose and patriotism,
instead of a county of many colo
nies of foreigners, as diverse in >
manners and purpose as the alien
shores which sent them thither.
If our city would but begin this (
work by forming a board of trade,
it would begin a work whose re
sults will never cease to grow.
7-) ocals.
Misses Alla B. Carmichael and
Helen Dunn were visitors to At
lanta Saturday.
*
Mr. Hendley Daniel made a
business trip to Atlanta Saturday.
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Miss lone Price, of Flippen, was
a visitor here Saturday.
Miss Lucy Reagan is the guest
of her aunt, Mrs. F. D. McMillan,
in Atlanta.
Miss Coulton, who lias been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. John
Ellerson, returned Tuesday to her
home in Rome.
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LOST—A Roman gold K. A. pin.
Finder return to The Weekly off
ice and get reward. Adv.
1 have opened a beef market
and restaurant. Can furnish fresh
meats at any time. Meals also at
all hours. Ed Goodwin, McDon
ough, Ga. —advertisement. tf.
» Miss Mary Barker, of Atlanta,
was the week end guest of Mrs. j
Annie Nolan.
Mrs. Emma Walker spent the
first of the week near Locust
Grove with her daughter, Mrs.
Woodfin Combs.
Mrs. I. D. Crawford, of Inman,
was the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Nolan, Monday.
Mr, B. B. Carmichael and daugh
ter, Miss Alia 8., left Wednesday
for a several days’ visit to relatives
in Atlanta. |
Miss Mamie Irby left Tuesday
for Laurens, S. C., for a several
day:.’ visit to her parents.
Mr. W. B J. Ingram wishes to
i inform his friends that he is again
in business at his old stand and is
oiling in his stock and preparing
a full line of dry goods, shoes,
j clothing, etc. He will appreciate
| tlic trade of his oid customers
land new ones also. —Advertise-
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j tnt nt.
Mr. Joel Bankston i; the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bankston* at
East Point.
Mr. Joel Bankston attended
the Dunnaway meeting at Stock
bridge Sunday.
Mr. Otis Love is visiting his
parents at Conyeis this week.
Mr. Rov Manley spent Saturday
in Atlanta.
Minn Jettie Bunn, of East Point,
spent the week end with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Bunn.
Messrs R. L. Turner, Harry
Dunn, and E. L. Reagan, made an
automobile trip to Covington Sun
day.
Mr. W. J. Elliott spent the week
end here with Mr. H. S. Elliott, Jr-.
Miss Donia Bankston spen t
several days last week with Mr.'
and Mrs. Ben Bankston at East
Point.
Mr. Jim Carmichael was a visit- 1
or to Atlanta Saturday. l
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McDonough, Georgia.
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SELECTINGJEED CORN
Matter of Great Importance to
the Farmer
Field Selection of Seed Corn Is the
Keynote to Successful Corn Breed
Ing—Select the Ears in the Fielo
(Reply to Jacob H. Marshfcurn, Cath
erine Lake, North Carolina.)
We are delighted to know that you
are interested in the breeding of good
reed corn. Next to the better and
more thorough preparation of the soil,
the proper selection and product on of
seed corn is the work most needed in
the south. The variety tests at the
Experiment Stations show that ct
twelve of the leading varieties of cor
tested, the difference between tlv
Ingest and lowest yield per acre on
the same kind of soil with identical fer
tilization and cultivation was 15.2 bu.
We fully believe that tne average yield
of corn in the south can be increased
more than twenty-five per cent by
planting prolific seed instead of seed
that has run out. “Like produces
like ”
It will probably be best for you to
buy the best seed from some reput
able breeder in you*- section and then
barn the best scientific methods to
further improve the seed. The buy
ing of the best seed from some reput
able breeder in your section will save
you several years of labor and expense
in breeding up the seed. However,
you can, by following instructions,
rapidly breed up your own corn.
First, select stalks that bear the
ears at a moderate he’'ght on the
stalks for the reasons that it is diffi
cult to gather ears too high and the
stalk is apt to be top heavy and easily
blown down by winds.
Second, select stalks of medium
size, gradually tapering from base to
tassel.
Third, wfth large eared varieties
no stalks that have more than two
ears should be selected, and an effou
should he made to select some stalk.;
that have two ears and some that havr
one.
Fourth, the leaves should be broad
and strong, from twelve to sixteen in
number, and well distributed off the
stalk.
F’fth, the stalks should be well
anchored by numerous strong bas*
roots from one to two joints above
the ground to enable to withstand
winds. Stalks free from suckers
should be selected as far as possible.
Sixth, detassel all weak stalks and
stalks growing only nubbins or no
ears at all just before the silks begin
to show in good number. This will
prevent fertilization by Inferior stalks.
Seventh, the ear should be cylindri
cal or nearly so. Tt should he f P
and strong ?n the middle portmn ami
the circumference should be approxi
matelv three-quarters of its length
The shuck should he heavy and well
e'-tended ever the end of the ear and
closely gathered about the silk. The
sV~n'- that hears the ear should he
long enough to permit the ear to drooi
at maturity.
Eighth, from ten to thirty tines pa
many ears should he selected as w ll
be necessary to plant next year’s
crops.
N’inth, it fs best to select and mck
the seed corn in the field before the
f” f frost. The seed ears shniOd ’re
Tiered where they will be kei f dr-.-
find where they will be protected from
dam; ge by weevils, rats, rtr
Tenth during the winter remove
the shncKs from the ears of corn *>w]
select the necessary number of the
best ears r 0 plant in thp spring. T>*e
rows of kernels should be sirai: 1 *
and not less than sixteen nor m-me
than twenty-two in number. The ear
sbould be from eight to ten and a iiaU
lnehes lone. The -clor of grain
should he true to variety. White corn
should have white cobs and yellow
corn red cobs The tip should not be
too tapering. It should be well covered
with straight rows of regular kernels
of uniform size and shape. The rows
of kernels should extend in regular
order over the butt end of the cob.
leaving a depression where the shank
Is removed. The tips of the kernels
should be full and strong, leaving no
space between them near the cob
The kernels should be about five
sixteenths of an inch wide by five
eighths of an inch long, and about six
to the inch In the row.
It h> a good plan to have a special
seed patch and plant say twenty-five
of the best ears in this patch. Each
ear should be planted in a row without
mixing with any qthe.r ear. Twenty-
me rows planted ffi nils way will re
sufficient for ike average farmer,
maturity, harvest each row separate!:
and weigh the yields. Select the can
tor next year’s from tl
rows that give the highest yields, an
the remaining portion of the rows o
highest yield are used for plantin'
the field crop. And so the wor
should be continued from year to year
Yours very truly.
I H C SERVICE BUREAU.
FEEDING CORN FCDDE3
Exps' ime (its Show that Corn Stover
Is Valuable in Brcf Production
Corn Stover Is Cne of the Many
By-Froducts of the Farm.
(By J. E. Waggoner of the 1 H C Se r
vice Bureau)
Profit Is a stimulus which causes
;.o engage in some one or more oi
the many phases of business. It may
be commerce, the industries, banking.
Terming or some other activity, yet
when all is said, the profit trom that
particular line of work is usually the
attractive feature. Competition has
become so strong that profit in many
undertakings is made only by practis
ini the strictest principles of economv
pn.i exercising unusual care in looking
alter the small things apd what might
be termed “by-products.” For in
stance, one of the sources of the bark
er's income is the small increase in
the rate of interest on money loaned
over what it cost him. The same is
true of the farmer. The increase i
the value of land has necessitated
putting farming on more of a business
basis in order to realize a profit on the
investment.
Much has been said and written re
garding saving and utilizing the waste
products of the farm, and it is en
couraging to note that more farmer?
are making better use of all the prod
ucts of their farms than ever before.
One of the most serious wastes has
been the neglect to save and utilize
the entire ccrn crop. The principal
market demand has been fo; the
grain. This, combined with an abun
dance of hay, has net been conducive
to the use of corn fodder as a rough
forage. Conditions have changed the
past few years; among other things,
hay has advanced in price to such an
extent that it is only good business
practice for a farmer to supply his
rough forage in the form of corn fod
der and put his hay on the market.
Every grower of an acre of corn
should know the feeding value of the
entire crop. It is quite generall;
known what returns can be expected
from the grain, but few farmers know
the feeding value of the corn stover
(stalks without the ears). Report,
from the Nebraska Experiment Sta
tion on experiments made comparing
combinations of shelled corn, snapped
corn, alfalfa and corn stover show,
that when stover is used as half
of the roughage it reduces the cost of
gains on two-year-cld steer;- ircm 4
to 4S cent 3 per. hundred. The stover
was found to be actually worth kS.oi
per ton as.compared with alfalfa
alone at $6.00 per ton. The farm vein
of alfalfa and other hay crops reached
a mark of more than twice this amount
the past year, thus increasing t.. 0
value of corn stover from SB.OO to
$12.00 per ton.
With these figures before us, it is
r’am to see that the corn belt farmer
is neglecting one of his important
sources of income by letting his cor?
stalks stand in the field. Considering
the small yield of only one ton of
stever to the acre, the returns of the
American farmer would have been
ircreased millions of dollars last year
if this what might be called by-produe
bad been saved. Coming back to the
individual farmer, he would have
realized his proportion of this profit
During this summer is the time to
plan on cutting th° ccrn for fodder
this fall and utilizing to the best ad
vantage the entire corn crop. We find
that the Nebraska bulletin No. 100
says: “By feeding ccrn fodder, we
utilize the stalk and yet are put to no
extra labor husking it. In fact, corn
can be cut with a harve' ter and put in
the shock cheaper tr an it ern be
picked and cribbed, mas-much as three
men with a team and harvester can
cut and shock sevtn acres per day.
Records from the farm department
of this experiment station show that
it costs sl.lß per acre to cut and
6hoek coT-n. which figure does not
allow for the wear and tear on the
machine. Three cents per bushel
should co\ er the cost of harvesting i
corn with a machine and putting it!
In the shocks.”
DISK HARROW; BERMUDA BRASS
The Disk Harrow Is Indispensable and
Should Be on Every Southern Farm
(Reply to F. L. Webb, Lee Hall, Va.)
You can not invest the same amount
of money to better advantage than by
purchasing a good disk harrow.
The difference in the working of a
cutaway and a solid disk is that the
cutaway penetrates the ground much
deeper and throws it up in a much
coarser condition than the solid disk.
The solid disk pulverizes the soil
much better.
The double disk harrow is desirable
for farmers who wish to do two disk
ings at the same time. The front
harrow can be set to out-throw and
the rear harrow 7 to in-throw. This
will thoroughly pulverize the soil and
leave the field level. The main ad
vantage of the double disk harrow is
that if you desire to use the regular
disk, you can remove the rear attach
ment very quickly and easily.
This will depend on the nature of
the soil, the angle given the disks,
and the weight of the man on the
harrow. As a rule, it is not advisable
to purchase a disk harrow 7 with more
than eight 16-inch disks for use on a
three-horse farm.
Bermuda grass will probably make
a good pasture on your lard. The
Rhode Island bent (Agrostis Canina),
creeping bent (Agrostis Stcianiferal,
and common redtop (Agrostis Vulga
ris), form one of the most dense sods
known. The chief value of these
grasses is for pasture. They are
especially valuable for making pas
tures in sandy, moist places. The
following mixtures are frequently
used in your section of the country:
(1) Timothy, 16 pounds; redtop, 16
pounds; red clover, 4 pounds—per acre
(2) Redtop, 13 pounds; orchard grass,
18 pounds; meadow fescue, 9 pounds:
and red clover, 4 pounds—per acre. (3)
Tall oat grass, 28 pounds; and red
clover, 8 pounds—per acre.
The arsenical solution is used by the
United States DepaUrrect of Agri
culture and is probably the best solu
tion to use. Write Dr. A. J. Kiernan,
Federal Building. N-'-fivnie, Term.,
for bulletins on the eradication of the
cattle tick, the extermination of
fleas, lice, etc.
The men" ]g -'fir-rid v 75 pulled before
heavy f oats, the leaves cut off to with
in an ir."lt of the crowns and the roots
stored in a cool cell, r or in pits in the
grr?”nd. and covered pvpr with straw
and earth deep tr.crgb to prevent
freezing. It is not advisable to feed
your stock on frozen m . nvr Is.
I H U FERVIfE BUREAU.
SQUARE Slf.OS.
Tra V,*rre"’er, fp r-u-re, y irsW”ri
writes as follows: “1 wish to bui’,l a
square silo in one confer cf my barn,
but do not know the best way to - ; ro
ceed. Anv information you can give
w ill be -appreciated.”
The square silo is fast "cmg out of
use. because of the difficulty in con
structing same in such a way as to
make it profitable p<->vprs»t "ear? a«ro.
or. ir. other words, when silo building
was in its infancy, a good many square
sEos were constructed, but they were
soon abandoned for several rpasons.
mainly because It wa? impossible to
prevent leaking at the sides, and sec
ond, the silage spoiled in the confers.
The next step of advancement was to
hoard up the corners, which made the
silo more of a round structure, and
the latest development has been the
round silo, which is considered far
superior to the square tyne of con
struction.
We are sending you under separate
cover our farm barn plans, and vnu
will note that there is a plan for a silo.
This is a concrete silo, which is sim
ilar to many that are being built in
various sections of the corn belt
V hen properly constructed, the con
crete silo is more permanent than the
wooden silos, and preserves the silane
equally as we,l as the other types.
The first cost may be a little bit more,
hut the permuaenev offsets this ch-
Ject’on. There is another type of s : lo
which is beinr built very extensively
throughout lowa, which is kn-wp -g
the lowa silo, and n built of hollow
tile or hollow building blocks. For
further inform on this silo, ve
sugnest that v.,, wr = tp tQ Professcr
M. L. King, Ames, lowa.
Miss Annie Spence spent the
week end at her home in At
lanta.
