Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

.T H o f 4 onr\; PnimtA/ WtjAHir JL UU 1. IVI 11 j Wv/Ui 11 V ¥¥ y VOL. XLIX HOME OEMOISTMTIOH WORK GORDEN PESTS M DISEASES Now is the time to keep on the look out for the ravages of the insects as well as the various plant diseases to safeguard our vege tables not onlv for use now but also for our winter supply. Satisfactory crops in tomatoes demand spraying. Some fruit spots or rots and some leaf dis eases are often troublesome, but are all controlled by spraying. Blight and wilt are not controlled with sprats, but make it ntcces sary to use rotation, not planting the same land in tomatoes more often than once in three or more years. The first application of Bordeaux mixture is made when the plants are eight to ten inches high, the second when fruit is set ting and t h " largest tomatoes are the size o( ,kory nuts, the third ten days later and the fourth two weeks later. A spraying in the seed bed is also advisable where leaf spots give serious trouble. Bordeaux Mixture: This spray is made as follows: In the even ing suspend three pounds of blue stone (copper sulphate) in a bar rel containing twenty-five gallons of water. Hang the bluestone in the top of the water in a coarse cloth. The material dissolves slowly and by this method will be ready to use the following morn ing. In making the spray slake six pounds of ERESH burned lime-stone. Strain to remove anv lumps of slaking. Add to this water sufficient to make twenty five gallons of lime water solu tion Now pour the lime and the blue stone solutions into the spray tank, or barrel at the same time through a fly screen or sieve, stir ring constantly. It is important to pour the two solutions in equal parts simultaneously. Otherwise a bad and possibly harmful mix ture results. It is advisable to put cne pound of soap in each fifty gallons of Bordeaux so that it will stick to the plants. To make twelve and one half gallons of spray use one fourth of the quan tities given above. The spray is applied with a pump. Plenty of pressure|against the nozzle is absolutely necessary in good spraying and the pump handle should be liberally work ed. Cover the foliage and the fruit well with the spray, but do not put on so much that drops collect and run off. Cut worms are frequently troublesome while plants are small. With small plantings pap er collars are practicable. These are made of heavy grade paper and and encircle the stem of the plant. They should set down in to the ground one half inch and extend two and one half inches above the ground. For insects and worms attack ing the foliage, add two pounds arsenate of lead paste or one pound of dry arsenate of lead to the Bordeaux spray as directed. Lice, small bodied insects found on rapidly growing tips, ane con trolled by spraying with soap solution made of one pound octa gon soap in six gallons of water. This solution must come in con tact with the lice to kill them. Again the thoroughness is th se cret of success. For beans spray with arsenate of lead as soon as injury in no ticed from bean beetles. Repeat the application when necessary. For mildews on the leayes, use Bordeaux mixture. A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County. WHERE DOES YOUR TEACHER LIKE The pioneer teacher “boarded around,” generally staving two weeks in a p’ <?. This was un satisfactory a teacher because he was always < the move, and unsatisfactory to the patron. When “boarding around” became impossible or undesirable teachers selected their own rooming and boarding places. Because there is no home for them in the dis trict where they are employed, many suffering the inconvenience of driving or walking miles to their schools and large numbers change from one district to a nother at the c'ose of each school year because of poor living con ditions. In 1905 a rural teacher in Walla Walla County, Washington, asked a school trustee to put an old cook wagon in her school yard so that she would have a Diace in which to live. Every home in the district had kindly but firmly told her that they could not give her room and board. This old cook wagon was the first teachers’ cottage in the State. Now there are nearly 400. Approximately 4,000 teachers’ homes in the United States are now occupied bv 12,000 teachers. Teachers’ homes have been acquired in dif ferent ways. Some have been do nated by public-spirited citizens. The Virginia community leagues last year built five for the schools of that State. Some are old school buildings remodeled, and this is an excellent wav to dis pose of the old school buildings, after they are replaced hy modern buildings. Country Children Out Of School Thousands of country schools with six months terms or less closed in March, the seven months schools in April and the eight months schools are closing in May. The consolidated schools and schools in the country villages where nine months terms prevail form a comparatively small group. Many wide-awake teachers who are really interested in the pro gress of their pupils try to make up for the short terms by pro viding continuation work for the three to six months vacation. The wise teacher suggests a subject which will best connect up with the individual pupil’s home work. Useful to most of the boys will be problems in arithmetic relating to the farm, such as farm account ing, land measurement and the weighing and measuring of farm products. Household problems will be assigned to the girls. Two young women who teach in adjoining districts in a Virgin ia county have classes in elemen tary agriculture. They have or ganized in each school a Boys’ Corn Club and a Girls’ Poultry Glub. These clubs are in com petition and the results of this summer work will be made known at a public meeting at each school house after the schools open in the fall. Club exhibits at the county fair in October are planned and individual ex hibits are encouraged. McDonough, Georgia, Friday, May 25,1923. 1C DEMAND FDD ONE-TON TRUCKS DOUBLEFORD SALES Detroit, Mich. Motorization of delivery and hauling systems in the cities and through agricul tural sections where improved highways have greatly facilitated transportation continues to in crease at a rapid pace. One-ton trucks still laid in popularity by a wide margin. This is strikingly shown in the sales of Ford trucks, the demand for which has more than double the sales of a year age. Duting the first four months of this year, the Ford Notor Com-? panv delivered at retail in th United States of 59,978 trucks, 31,682 more than were sold dur ing the same period last year. The Ford Motor Company dur ing the week ending Tuesday, May 15, set up a new production record by turning out 39,302 Cars and Trucks for doir ; c use, it is announced by The * ord News. This exceeds by 250 the previous high weekly record of 39,053 established the week before. The highest day of the last week was May 9 when a new daily production mark of 6,615 cars and trucks was reached. At Rivor Rouge the Fordson Tractor plant’s production for the week was 2,940. The Lincoln division of the com pany produced 185 cars during the week ending Tuesday. The Secret of Our Failure The following significant pa ragraph is from “Objectives in Elementary Rural School Agri culture,” just published as Rural Schools Leaflet No. 11, by the U. S. Bureau of Education, Depart ment of the Interior, Washington: We have failed fo teach the es sential principles of cooperation and group action made necessary to our social organization. We have failed to teach group inter relationship, so that farmers have little ability to see the effect upon the farming group of other group programs. Those who have led in rural thought have failed to convince farmers in general that organization, as a means of econo my in distribution and self-pre servation in the struggle for ex istence against other organized groups bent upon their exploita tion, is a necessity. This explains why the farmer of the United States, although the most efficient agricultural worker of the world, has not bettered his lot even though he has bettered his prac tice. Uneconomical distribution and inability to compete against organizations have robbed him or a major portion of his profits. He has managed to live and to accumulate wealth. He has not been pauperized, but he has avoid ed it in too many cases only through drudgery, exploitation of his wife, and children, and adopt ing a standard of living such as is unjust. His lot is little better than in pioneering days. He is entitled to more of the rewards of his toil thau he has been able to get.” SIIIW SCHOOL JCHIC TB-OAY. The Sunday Schools of Mc- Donough are holding this an nual picnic at Davis Lake today. It has been the custom for a num ber of years for all the Sunday Schools in the citv, to unite to gether, in an annual picnic gahter ing, and is allways looked forward to with much pleasure by the people of the town, allot the bus iness closing each year for the seasion. All of the churches have good live Sunday Schools, and this will be an enjoyable day with them. The following business houses have agreed to close for the Sunday School Picnic for the en tire day. Friday May 25th. at Davis Lake. Henry County Supply Co. McDonough Moter Co. McDonough Trading Co. B. B. Carmichael & Sons. Horton Drug Co. McGaritv & Rodgers. J. G. Austin. Bank of Henrv County. T. A. Sloan & Co. First National Bank. Tolleson Turner Co. W. B. J. Ingrain. Ellis-Setzer Co. R. H. Daniel. Farmers & Merchants Bank. T. J. Patterson. Green & Tarpley. Planters Warehouse & Lumber Co. J. P. Austin HK Store. A. V. Hopkins. Calis Abraham. D. T. Carmichael. J. L. Atkicson. Copeland Turner Mer. Co. Stansell & Rape. G. W. Cathey. J. S. Rodgers. H. S. Elliott. J. G. Smith. Hand Barber Shop. Mosley Barber Shop. MISS LOUISE ROWAN DELIGHTFULLY ENTERTAINS Miss Louise Rowan enteriained most delightfully at her home Tuesday night with a prom party party in honor of Miss Agnes Townsend and her house guest Misses Daisy Moore and Florence Chambers, of Macon. At a late hour an ice course was served. Those present were: Misses Daisy Moore, Florence Chambers, Agnes Townsend, Lillian Carmichael, Ruth Culpepper, Mary Alice Car michael, Ruby Culpepper, and Louise Rowan. Messrs. Rube Rodgers James King, L. D. Forbes, Thornton Farrar, Parker Bank ston, Wheeler Upchurch, Clevis Mason and Billie Elliott. Glass-W illiams. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Glass of Sun ny Side announce the engagement of their daughter Vallie Irene to Mr. Emmett R. Williams of Atlanta. The marriage to be solemized in June. The many friends of Miss Glass look foward with interest the marriage as she has scores of friends in Henry, Monroe, and also Spaulding Counties. Mr. Wil liams is prominently connected with the G» Railway and Power Co. Atlanta Journal. $1.50 A YEAR TWO BEAUTIFUL PIPES i Miss Rebecca Smith Entertains On last Friday evening Miss Rebecca Smith entertained a number of her young friends at an informal party at her home on Macon street. 1 he spacious rooms were decorat ed throughout with handsome not plants and exquisite cut flow ers, making a gay and charming setting for the lovely belles and gallant beaux of the young society set. The evening was spent in bright games and the merriment of the occasion fully attested the success ot the delightful evening. Delicious ices were served later in the evening. Miss Mary Weems Enter tains Graduating Class. Oo Monday evening at close of the Graduating Exercises Miss Mary Weems entertained most delightfully the members of the graduating class. The handsome home was re splendent in its artistic display of early summer blossoms pink and white which were used in profu sion throughout the lious *, trying in beauty and sweetness with the lovely girl graduates. Foe dinning room was a veri table bovver of. blossoms and the exquisitely appointed table with its rich lace cover was notably beautiful. Here were the favors which dainty little Miss Leonora Townsend dispensed with an ap propriate little speech. An interesting contest was pre pared, the questions being an swered by names of graduating class and suitable prizes were a warded to the fortunate and the unfortunate contestants. The gracious and charming hostess was the recipient of many lovely gifts which will serve as mementos of this happy and aus picious occasion. At the close of the delightful evening delicious ices were served. CARD OF THANKS. Words cannot express our ap preciation of those friends who have shared with us the lonely virgils by the bedside of our loved one. No sweeter memory can live in any heart than the memory of their untiring devotion to the one who has just left us. The waves of sorrow break upon every shore and we can but hope that friends as true may gather around each one of them should sorrow invade their home. Especially do we wish to thank Dr. Ellis for his kind and tender ser vice rendered. Mrs. J. M. Rivers and family. Miss Mary Gardner Gives Birthday Party. Miss Mary Gardner delightfully entertained her friends with a Birthday Party Saturday evening May the 19, at the home of Mrs. S. K. Austin. On the porch the punch bowl was beautifully decorated with honeysuckle vines and rose buds. Punch was served as the guest arrived. The reception hall and dinning room were very attractive in the decorations, the color scheme be ing pink and white rose buds which added a touch of lovliness to the rooms. After the games and proms de licious refreshments were served. All who were present enjoyed it very much.