The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, June 30, 1916, Image 7
Cotton Cultivation. (Loy E. Hast C irton I:ic2u-'ry Dept., Ga 8t \te Colley * rf Afr.cul u e.) Shallow cultivation of cotton is economical, it contributes most to the growth of the plant, it con serves the moisture of the soil better than deep cultivation. Deep cultivation with a plow com monly used throughout the cotton growing belt, means necessary loss of the maisture needed bv the plants; it means the disturb ance of rootlets through which the plant is feeding, thereby rob bing the plant of some of its food, and it means plowing one furrow at a time when ttie same energy might be used to three or four furrows at a time as deep as tliev ought to be plowed. Shallow cultivation not only means rapid and inexpensive cul tivation, but it means that the planter can cultivate more often. The oftener the cultivation—if it be shallow —the more the mois ture is held for the plants and the more they grow and the heavier the fruit. More frequent cultiva tions thus justify themselves with more profitable returns. During the past spring there was a drouth. Spring drouths are coming to be common. A .very harmful practice generally used in the cotton fields of Geor gia is to “bar” off the cotton be fore chopping it out. This means that the cotton is left on a ridge with a deep furrow on either side. It means that the ground under and around the cotton dries out in a drouth and leaves the young plant in a poor shape if it does not die outright. Had the soil been harrowed only, this heavy loss of moisture whould not have occurred, the plants would have continued to grow and so much Replanting would not have been necessary. Reviews of New Books. Mrs. R. H. Hankinson. CHASE, MARY ELLEN, “The Girl From the Big Horn Country.” Page, Baston. $i.25 net. “Six Star Ranch” is a bpok written especially for growing girls, but full of interest for grown folks as well. It sets forth in pleasing and attractive fashion the natural every-day life of a band of girls called “The Happy Hexagon Club.” Particularly in structive is the story of the visit of the Happy Hexons to a Texas ranch. One character, Genevieve, stands out as a fine example of usefulness and generosity. Her radiant life makes all happier with whom she comes in contact. On the whole, it is a book so full of sweetness that one cannot but be helped by reading it. PIPER, MARGARET REBECCA, “Sylvia of the Hilltop.” the Page Company, Boston. $1.25 net. “Sylvia of the Hilltop” is the story of a cheerful, radiant per sonality who loses no opportunity to shed joy and happiness in t;ie hearts of others. This same hap piness incidentally finds its way into the hearts of the readers who, in turn, set about making somebody else happy. So the world grows better because of the book and the simple, sweet, and generous girl it characterizes. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country t-han all other diseases put together, and for years it was sup posed to be incurable. Doctors pre scribed local remedies, and by constant ly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by con stitutional conditions and therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Hall s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J- Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is a consti tutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall's'Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Send for circulars andttestimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Flivver Spills Atlanta Par ty All Over l andscape The entire party ca ne back to Atlanta by train, all more or less damaged in a motor wreck near Tallulah Falls, except Harry Davis, who was driving. Julian Boehm is having his left shoulder X-rayed today, and Mrs. Boehm —but let Mr. Boehm tell how it all fell out, or, rather, how they all fell out. “It might have been a lot worse,” Mr. Boehm says, “but I must ad mit it seen? 1 bad enough at the time. Harry Davis and his wife, Mrs. Boehm, my small daughter, myself, were making a ‘flivver’ pilgrimage to Tallulah last Thuts day, to stay a week. “The flivver was running fine, and at the charming hour of 6:30 in the evening we were admiring the gorgeous sunset, just seven miles from our destination.” * About this time the universe disintegrated. Everything seem ed to come all apart. We found later that spindle or something in the steering gear of the flivver had broken, and the flivver, doing its little 18 or 20 an hour turned off at right angles and stuck its nose an amazing distance into a bank, which fortunately was soft.” “It must have looked like a Key stone comedy. We all came out of that flivver, end over end, and hit mostly wrong side up. My lit tle girl and I did the finest falls, but she was lucky and wasn’t hurt much. My left shoulder was bursted; Mrs. Davis’ left wrist was sprained, and Boehm was bruised until she savs looks like the tatoo ed woman in a side show, and her right knee is wrenched. Harry Davis —dog-gone his lucky time! — wasn’t hurt a bit. “Well, we all lay on the ground and groaned while Harry went . and telephoned for help, which i was two hours getting there. The soil was still setting,., but we had lost interest in it some way. It was about 9 o’clock when we got to Tallulah, and it was next morn ing before doctor came, and when he got there he was a veterinari an, and we were so disgusted we put ourselves on the train and came back to Atlanta.” Mr. Boehm says he is not sure what became of the flivver. The last time he saw it, it was still sticking in the bank. —Atlanta Georgian. Eight-Foot Negro Startks Forsyth He might have been a Brobin dagnian, stepped out of Gulliver’s travels, judging from the way his head towered towards the skies; but he was just a plain negro— that is, if a mass of flesh weigh ing 340 pounds and upstanding 7 feet, 11 inches could be called plain negro. Friday morning numbers of Forsyth people were startled by involuntary “Whoo-o-00-s” mid folks came out of the stores and offices to see what the trouble was. George Bel!, a negro, was striding down the street, followed by a curious crowd of folks, who marveled at his huge size. “It’s Jack Johnson,” the negroes cried; but not so; George is a Georgia product, born in Zebulon and was accompanying a salesman for cel luloid starch and was carrying the sack of sample pockages. It was an unique advertising scheme, for few folks failed to know that George and his huge size were in town. Forsyth boasts some fair ly sized men, but even Sheriff Holland appeared almost a pigmy beside George’s 7 feet, 11 inches. He wore a No. 23 shoe and had to duck his head when he entered some of the doors with his hat on. There was no sur plus flesh on him; he was just “nacherally big.” —Advertiser. \ ’My dealer was ri gkt „ ... '—tfcey do satisfy! There’s more to a cigarette than merely “pleasing your taste.” Other cigarettes, be sides Chesterfields, can do that J ! But Chesterfields do more they begin f m where the others stop! Because Chesterfields satisfy! —they give you the true meaning of smoking! Irk Hr il Yet they’re MILD! fH This new combination (“xalisfy,” yet mild) I i|j! can be had only in Chesterfields—because no | .§§ cigarette maker can copy the Chesterfield I "w ***** -IS blend! I Try Chesterfields today! 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