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The Needs of the Farmer.
The president this week transmitted to congress the re¬
port and recommendation of the country life commission, anc
in connection with the matter the Atlanta Journal says edi
torihlly: held thirty public hearings, in which
The commission represented,
the farmers from forty different states were and
one hundred and twenty thousand replies were received from
inquiries sent out by the department of agriculture.
The report brings home to us the importance of the
v farmer in our n. t'onal life.
Do we realize that there are only two classes of people in
the world: people who live on farms and people who live on
* farmers'* world’s history there have
Do we realize that ever in the
been more farmers than there have been of all other people
*
>. combined? mill, factory, shop, , theater
Think, then, that not a mine,
or railroad could exist were it not for the farmer.
He furnishes the raw material from which our food and
* our clothes are made. All our luxuries represent the profit
on the farmer’s produce. and the earth in all this great problem
There is just man yields living and his labor
of life. The earth a to man exacts
as her price. applies his labor to the earth and brings forth
The farmer
grain and timber and wool and leather and meat.
Then the rest of us take what the farmer has wrested
from nature’s storehouse and giving him as little as possible
in return, proceed to juggle with the fruit of the farmer's toil
in order that we may each have an excuse for eating three
meals, wearing clothes and sleeping sheltered.
The mines are needed to furnish materials for machinery
to work up the farm product; for railroads and ships to haul
Ht; for coin to measure it with; for wires with which to fence
the land or upon which to telegraph market quotations.
The brokers gamble in it; tne bankers loan on it; the law¬
yers argue about; the judges split hairs over it; the doctors
• care for the bodies of the farmers and the rest of the world
which is working over farm produce. for
The preachers are paid out of the crops to care our
souls. conceive of single human be¬
Stop aud think if you can a
ing-including hobos—whose very life does not depend daily
upon the skill and industry of the farmer. There is no one.
President Roosevelt did a really big thing when he ap
pointed his country-life commission—and all *;he funny men
hall-soled a lot of old jokes about it.
This commission has reported that there are really only
three £rave needs of the American farmer:
First—Co-operation or organization. schools for children;
Second—A new kind of country
schools that will prepare the pupils for country life rather
than for city life, and, .
Third_Better means of communication; especially good
roads Organization and parcels post. will when the farmer’s children take
come
«it their real worth —or worthlessness^ - our jokes about farm
life. When they see that we are only jealous. Whe n the
farmer realizes his dignity and his indepfend ence.
The schools can be improved so that they fit a boy to
judge rotation of crops as well as to keep a conductor’s cash
slip on a trolley will car. bloom, and flourish . . in the exact ra
America prosper of the soil. When
tio that the|[people become tillers we can
furnish the necessaries of life to half the world we can all have
more luxuries at home. When the fresh air of the fiields is
the breath of life to our children instead of the sickly vapor
of the tenements the health of the nation will be robust.
When the farmer’s boy ’and girl realize that in the city
awaits them the crush of industrial competition, the mockery
of artificial pleasure and the loss of human fellowship and
neighborly love, then the "jay joke will lose its power.
But the farmer is entitled to opportunity, to recreation,
to comfort. All these he will have, and he must also
force an end to the speculation ot holding land; to the steal¬
ing of water power; to the wasting of the forests.
In the meantime city people will come to know that they
have as much license to po)<e fun at the farmer as he has at
that other parasite, the flea; to jest at the good natured mas
tiff; on whose whose warm, Nutritious body he is a trespasser
without title.
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TUB BNTEWPRISB. COVlfcirON, <JA
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Historical and patriotic societies are today observing' with special
service the centinary of Abraham Lincoln’s nirth.
Iu what is now known as La Rue county, Kentucky ou February
12, 1809 was born Abraham Lincoln, considered by many the greatest
figure in American history.
Abraham Lincoln was really a great man and what is better still he
was a good man. He did things which no other man had done and
which perhaps no other man could have done. He was one of the
greatest presidents our country has had and the first of the martyr
presidents.
Abraham Lincoln possessed a nature gentle and upright, sueny and
tolerant iu temper—a rude exterior covering an undaunted spirit, prov*
ing by his every act and word that
4 4 The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring.”
In nearly every city in the country today the centinary ot the birth
of Abraham Lincoln is being celebrated by some forma! ceremony,
but interest centers particularly around the ceremonies beiug held at
the Lincoln farm near Hodgenvilie. Ky., where the corner stoue of
the Lincoln memorial is being laid.
Among the interesting facts in the life of Abraham Lincoln was
his friendship for Alexander H. Stephens, which begau when the
two were in congress together and lasted through the war with one
as president ol the Union and the other a 9 vice president of the Con¬
federacy.
This man of Truth and Sorrow is worthy of all the honor that may
be accorded to his memory.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.
It sometimes happens that a
man is vain of his wife’s actions as
le is ashamed of his own.
The average man don t trace
much money unless be can induce
to make it tor him.
While a man is worrying abous
the problem of life, a woman is
figuring out a new way to arrange
her hair.
A man thinks he should be proud
of something, even if it is only the
tanging of his great grandfather for
iorse stealing.
A man has a well balanced mind
if he is able to mind his own bus¬
iness.
Some rae.i would rather own an
automobile than have uothing to
worry them.
There is a striking similarity be
twee i *ome monkeys, some mules
and some men,
If honesty was always the best
policy, some politicians who star¬
ted out with only a shirt would not
now be living iu brick houses. —
Celina Messenger.
Of course, it is too bad that fath¬
er has the grip so bad he has to
stay at home, but the family needs
your sympathy a great deal more
than he does. —Indianapolis News.
It has come to the point appar¬
ently, where one must specify in
this country whother he means
”Joe“ or ’’George,” when speak
ing of ’’Bailey,“ of Texas.
Soldier Balk# Death Plot.
It seemed to J.A.Stone, a civ¬
il war veteran, of Kemp,Texas.,
that a plot existed between a
desperate lung trouble and the
grave to cause his death, 4 ( I cou
traded a stubborn cold, > J he
writes, “that developed a cough
that stuck to me, in spite ot all
remedies, for years. My weight
ran down to 130 pounds. Theh I
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Mr. Ericsons old Ho use.
Go see it, it’s a beauty. It stands
out among all its neighbors, be
euuse the c n r mg is so bright aud
clear, air. Encson painted with
L. & M. Paint and sa_\s it cost 1-3
less than ever before. He bought
only 12 gallons ot L. & M. Paint
and 9 gallons of Linseed Oil to mix
with it. This made L'l gallons of
pure paint, and cost only $1 20
per gallon. It s as handsome as the
finest in town. Tha L. AM. is
sold by J. R. Stephenson.
President-elect Taft has been
elected at: honorary member of the
Beach Island Farmers’ Club of
.South Carolina, by which he was
entertained one day last week.
Guess he’s the biggest “pebble on
the Biach” roll. —Hartwell Sun.
President-elct Taft is certainly
having an enjoyable time in Geor
gia and his playing golf aud break¬
ing up the “solid south” is giving
him most healthful exercise.
He may be a good golf player,
but breaking up the Souths demo
racy is a task he will tire of before
he accomplishes it.—Lagrange Re
corter.
The Houston Post opines that
the question of prohibition will
split tbe Democratic party in both
Tennessee and Texas. But you do¬
n’t see it splitting the Republican
party, which plays Mr. Facingboth
wavs to a successful finish.—Col¬
umbus Pres Post.
The Washington Post states that
> } Governor-elect Brown, of Geor
g.a, has been kissed by a pretty
school teacher.“ We await further
confirmation. We have seen pic¬
tures of both Governor-elect Brown
aud Georgia school teachers. —
Charleston News aud Courier.
A man living near the Oconee
river has shot and killed a citi¬
zen of Georgia, thereby showing
the danger of giving such a name
to a stream even in a prohibition
state.—Jacksonville Times-Union
A Georgia couple elopedand
were married iu midstream by
a parson who was fording from
the opposite direction. Many times
elopers get iu deep water even
when they get the knot tied on
dry laud.—Houston Post.
Taft ate 4 4 possum and taters”
aut * drank persimmon beer with
with the boys in Atlanta, aud de¬
clared the next day that no un
pleasant results had been ex¬
perienced. He’s all right.—Albany
Herald.
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Am I the Man You are Looking For?
Oxiqrd, Ga., J»n. 10fto
Everybody's looking tor the man that can help him Car Ih
Let’s see ? Yon are a cotton grower. For tbe same amotint P W
and labor you wish to pot the dollars °r , ^
most in yonr pocket
ing to try to ahow you how yon ean, with the * go.
same work and*?
little additional expense, increase your number of bales
fifty to seventy-fire pounds to the bales you make. Thi« I h ^
be belp. For this, must have t ' Dk wilt
a you a good variety
GEORGIA'S BEST is the cotton that will fill ° D ’ ***
the bill.
1st. It has a good strong stalk, but does not run to weed
’ « ° it
can be planted safely on rich land.
2nd. It is very prolific, making squares at every joint on limh
makes a big yield of seed cotton per acre. Prof. Jacobs II
Agronomist for Arkansas, writes that a S *' Statlt
that in hi# variety GEORGIA’S me at Danville, in t h
test BEST yielded 2832 lbs
ton per acre. It is an early cotton, being nearly ’ <0 !;. Cot
'
BUT WITH THIS ADVANTAGE, as earlv " ,l|,s
1» doo'l .11 0 p.„ „ on With '
many of the early varieties, if the cotton is not picked immediately
it will fall out, so that one wiud and rain atorm can make
large part of ’98, I you jo s . a
your crop. was planting KIdr’s cotton a d
lost about thirty bales, oy rotting on the ground before I could
you, picked. is point Sometimes worth pickers considering. are acarce, I have and known that a cotton will w *f BE? *
a GEORGIA’S
to stay iu the field more than two i“onths, without ^
it is cotton picked. IN FACT EASIEST wasting BOLiVat and
a very easy BIG
TON I EVER SAW. All the cotton in the boll seems to star
that the picker gets it without •nagging, to t,
er, ao thus saving
waste. The bolls large, from sixty a
are to seventy, making a pound I
need cotton. Seed medium size. But the principal °
after in is lint. We used thing that *«ari
cotton, to think that if cotton thirded itself
we wers doing well. But I am offering you * cotton that will beat
that six pounds in a hundred. None of my crop this year yielded I J
than forty cent lint. Some high forty-two e
per as as per cent. cu ro[ I
Jacobs says that m the Arkansas experiment it liuted FORTY o vp
per cent.
Bat let’s see what some other people say about it. Prof. J H D
gar from experiment station in Alabama, writes:
Dec. 11th, 1908
“We did not have room iu our variety test to include the Pimp JJ
GIA’S BEST cotton from yon,however we used it to plant a sing).
that In productiveness is an area too small impresses for making determinations being of yisld per acrs’l 1
it me as above the averaj*.” Mr.
W. J. Burtou, Collins, Texas, savs : .4 The seed I got of you, ill
0. K. As yield were
to per acre, it made almost a bale to the acre, I find
that the lint ia far ahead of anything that I have ever tried. 1400
lbs. seed cotton made me a bale that weighed 556 lbs., ginned at tin
Fayburgh gin in this county. As the name GEORGIA’S BEST sun
gests, it is a TEXAS BEST, too. The bolls are very large aud open
well, easy to pick, does not string out, as other kinds do. I wish you
well. I am, yours truly. \v. j. Burton.
Next, I’ll give you what one of my neighbors say:
Mr. E. R. Gunn, Oxford, Ga.— Last January 20th, 1909.
year I planted five acres n
your GEORGIA’S BEST cotton. The ~ year was . a bad one with us.
too much . May and June, scotching winds
ram in in July and August
but ia spite of adverse coi.dirions I unde 2015 of lint cotton
opened early; the bolls are large and easily picked, linted about forty
per cent. Had it been a good year I believe I would have made %
percent more cotton.
Mr. A. J. Henson, Star, Oklahoma, says : “The cotton seed
from you did excellently well considering the lateness of planting. I
am well pleased with it. I feel confident that under ordinary circum
stances that it will do a great deal better.”
Let’s suppose you have been making 15000 lbs. of seed cotton out
of which you have been making ten bales. From the above facts you
can easily see that 15000 lbs. of GEORGIA’S BEST will make about
eleven ginning bales and a half, a profit of a bale and a half for which thel
has been tbe only increased expense, on tbe idea it will
the samo number of pounds per acre. But all the witnesses
agree that GEORGIA S BEST is a heavy yielder and two of
Prof. Duggar and Prof. Jacob# are government officials. It seems
me therefore that I have proved my case, by putting more dollars
your pocket without any additional expense. Not only that, but
mentmn three ways in which you wilt save by using
BESi. As it requires two hundred pounds less of seed cottoui
to make a bale. 2nd. You will lessen the dange V-, of #nag*
ging. 3rd. You stop wasting on the ground, OD o that you
will not only make more cottoa but you save better wkit
you make. For these reasons, I c*- hink that I am the man.
that you are looking for. Price of GEORGIA’S BEST Cotton seed,!
t Lots ’ * of f -r«*...............$1.50 TEN bushels, 10 cent per discount. bushel, F. Remember O. B. Covington, the freight Gq
is per seedij
rate same on any amount up to 100 pounds. In ordering
shipment write your name plainly, giving Post Office and depot and wheth
i 9 to be made by freight or express. As to who I am, Bf|
reliability etc., I refer you to any of the following geutlemen:
Bishop W. A. Candler, Atlanta, Georgia.
R. E. Park, State Treasurer, Atlanta, Georgia.
R. F. Atlant*,! .
Goorg.a. Wright, Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture,
Hon, Martin V. Calvin, Director Experiment Station, Experiment
Georgia.
Dr. James E. Dickey, President of Emory College, Oxford, Gb.
Hon. F. S. Johnson. Franklin, North Carolina.
Dr. D A. Dupree, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Hon. V\ . N. Sheats, State School Superintendent, Tallahassee,
Dr. R. S. Hyer and Dr. C. C. Codv, South Western University,
Georgetown, Texas.
Bishop J. S. Key and Hon. C. H. Smith, Sherman, Texas.
Dr. J. A. Stafford, Wichita Fall, Texas.
Hon. R. N. Stafford, Mineral Wells, Texas.
Dr. C. E. Pattillo, Kansas City, Mo.
Col. L. D. Palmer, Nashville, Tenn.
Hoping that I may help you to a life of prosperity and usefif u8 n
I am, yours very truly, j
George W. W. Stone, Oxford, Ga. 1
Stone s Flint Corn
OXFORD. GA., January 1909. 1901
n the corn variety . test at the Georgia Experiment Station,
oLme 8 Flint Corn took first prize, yielding bushels shelled,
Per cent grain, 83.0.
f ei(!I ,
o W ’ (1 °k second place, but heat its former record, V
oi.oO bushels per acre—per cent of grain, 80.0. 5r
At the, Alabama Experiment station 1908, Stone’s Flint? 00 *
p , ace, leading by passed it 1!1
Georgia Experiment several bushels the variety which
Station test, yielding 32.1 bushels per a° re
<9 o per cent grain.
The ears are medium size in' ood bottom land sc S
tirii.g tout teen inches. Small having from ten to tj ro*s
smooth co ,
white hard sound gram. Stalks are good, though B
growth Can be planted thick good land. Has from t * 0 K
on 0*ving tJ
t'i Liie stalk, though 1 have seen as many as ten.
soundness it is especially adapted to low lands.
nri su PHy pf!(i d is small this Price $3.00 p' 1
*1 com yeai.
$1 U) per peck, 20 cents per lb. by mail. -£ f
In the variety test the different kinds of corn which b# ve
fteme years back were all represented.