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GOVERNMENT EXPERT
TELLSfSEEG CORN
HK SAYS PREPARE FOR PROFIT¬
ABLE CROP NEXT YEAR BY
CAREFUL SEED SELEC¬
TION NOW.
Autumn is the time to prepare for a
profitable corn crop the following sea¬
son. At corn-ripening time drop all
other business and select an abundance
of seed corn. The process in too impor¬
tant to be conducted incidentally while
husking. When selecting seed corn
give the process your entire attention.
• let the very best that is to be had and
preserve it well, and your increased
yields will return you more profit than
any other work you can do on your
farm.
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upon Scioto River bottom soil near
Piketon. Ohio, with Woodburn White
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than the amount of
your purchase.
The House of Bom
makes more clothes
to measure than any
other tailoring house
— seventy - five per
cent of our yearly
sales are made to sat¬
isfied customers —
their friends make up
the other twenty-five
per cent.
So we can’t afford to let
you pay for a Born gar¬
ment that does not please
you in every detail of the
style, fit, material and
needle work.
Resident Born Dealer
E. H. MOBLEY
Covington, Ga.
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COFFEE
T 7C TE flatly guarantee that Luzianne
VV goes £ twice as far as a cheaper
coffee. We flatly guarantee that it will
satisfy you in every way. If, after you
have used the entire contents of one can
according to directions, it has not made Hi
good on both these claims, throw away
the can and ask your grocer to refund
your money. He will do it without ar¬
gument. Write for premium catalog. *
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The Reily-Taylor Co. New Orleans !
Dent, U. S. Selection 77, the yield was
raised from an average of 63 bushels
of dry shelled corn from 1901 to 1907
to an average of 75 bushels from 1907
to 1913. The principal influence pro¬
ducing this increase in yield was the
selection and the care of seed corn.
The only proper way to select seed
corn is from the stalks standing where
they grew, as soon as ripe and before
the first hard freeze. As soon as the
crop ripens go through the field with
seed-picking bags and busk the ears
from the stalks that have produced the
most corn without having any special
advantages such as space, moisture, or
fertility. Avoid the large ears on
stalks standing singly with an unus¬
ual amount of space around them
Preference should be given the plants
that have produced most heavily in
in competition with a full stand of less
productive plants In all localities
the inherent tendency of the plant t<
produce heavily of sound, dry, shelled
corn is of most importance. Late-ma
taring plants with cars which are
heavy because of an excessive amount
of sap should be ignored. Sappiness
greatly increases the weight and is
likely to destroy the quality. In th<
Central and Southern States, all other
things being equal, short, thick stalks
are preferable. Short stalks are not
so easily blown down and permit thick
er planting. Thick stalks are not sc.
easily broken down, and in general arc
more productive than slender ones
The tendency for corn to produce suck¬
ers is hereditary. Other things be
ing equal, seed should be taken from
stalks that have no suckers.
The same day seed corn is gathered
the husked ears should be put in a dr>
place where there is free circulation
of air and placed in such a mannei
that the ears do not touch each other
This is the only safe procedure. Good
seed is repeatedly ruined because il
is thought to he already dry enough
when gathered and that the precaution
mentioned above is unnecessary. Manj
farmers believe that their autumns art
so dry that such care is superfluous
Seed corn in every locality gathered
at ripening time will be benefited b.c
drying as suggested. If left in the
husk long after ripening it may sprout
or mildew during warm, wet weathei
or become infested with weevils. The
vitality of seed is often reduced b>
leaving it in a sack or in a pile for even
a day after gathering. During warm
weather, with some moisture in the
cobs and kernels, the ears heat or mil¬
dew in a remarkably short time. The
best possible treatment immediately
after gathering is to sting the ears
Ordinarily the best place to hang
strings of ears is in an open shed or
loft. Wire racks are more convenient,
and in the end cheaper, than binder
twine. Such racks may be made from
electrically welded lawn fencing. The
cutting of the fencing into seed-corn
racks is done without any waste.
Only during unusually damp weath
er at seed-gathering time will fire be
necessary. If.heat is employed in a
poorly ventilated room it will do the
seed ears more injury than good. If
used, the fire should be slow, long, con¬
tinued, and situated below the seed
ears, with good ventilation above them.
After hanging in the shed or lying
on the racks for two months f he seed
ears should he as dry as a bone and
contain less than lrt per cent of mois
tore. They can remain, jvhere they
dried or he stored in mouse-proof bar¬
rels. boxes, or crates during the winter,
but. in either case they must not be ex¬
posed to a damp atmosphere, for they
will absorb moisture and be injured.
Some farmers place the thoroughly
dried seed ears in th v > center of a wheat
bin and fill the bin with loose, dry
\v heat.
In localities where weevils and grain
moths injure stored grain,the thorough¬
ly dry seed ears should be stored in
fityVifttiiNlAi folwR. TRt’RSljAY, OCTOBER 1*. IS 16.
very tight ihotise-proof receptacles
with 1 pound of moth ball3 or naph¬
thalene inclosed for each bushel of
corn. This quautiy tightly inclosed
with the corn will prevent damage
from these insects and will not injure
the seed. If at any time signs of wee¬
vils or grain moths show on the corn,
It should be inclosed with carbon bisul
phid in practically airtight rooms, bins,
•oxes, or barrels for 48 hours. The
bisulphid should be placed in shallow
dishes or pans on top of the seed. One
lelf pint is sufficient for a box or bar
el holding 10 bushels or less. One
>ound is sufficient for a room or bin
10 feet each way. After fumigation
he ears must be thoroughly aired,
a king care that no fire is present when
the fumigation box opened.—Weekly
News letter, U. S. Department of Ag¬
riculture.
WOODMAN CAMP AT LEGLIN.
A camp of the Woodman of the
World is to be organized at Leguin
Friday night (13th). The meeting will
be held in the Odd fellows hall at that
place. District Deputy Luther C.
Jones has been at work in the vicin¬
ity of Leguin for some time and has
secured about 40 members for this
popular order.
The W. O. W. is a fraternal insur
tnce order boasting of a membership
of 800,000 and a surplus fund of $30.-
100.000 safely invested in Government
ind State bonds, the only way that
unds of this order can be invested In
is provided for by the laws of the
>rder. While the order is of an insur
tnee nature, the fraternal feature Is
tfrongly stressed and fully exemplified
in the beautiful burial and unveiling
•eremonies. One of the features of the
order which is original with the W.
D. W. is that of placing a monument
>ver the grave of all its deceased mem
Iters, More than 50,000 monuments
lave been erected in the 26 years exig¬
ence of the order.
There are 30,000 members of the W.
■ >. W. in the state of Georgia and they
ire looking forward to the meeting of
the Soverign Camp convention in At¬
lanta July, 1917, where it is expected
to have at this time a groat demonstra¬
tion of the Woodman from the sur¬
rounding states.
The meeting at Leguin Friday night
is to be a public one, and every one is
invited to attend.
LOST —One black and tan hound
with nip in one ear. Covington Dog
Tax Collar. Reward. Notify Lester
Lee, Covington, Ga.—Adv.
BUYING AS WE DO
Mostly from the Manufacturers, we are certainly in
a position to give you the best prices.
We have the best line of Ladies and Childrens Hats
50c to $2.25
Ready to Wear Dresses 75c to $1.25
Middy Blouses and Middy Coats 50c to $1.25
Ready to Wear Skirts .. .. 75c to $1.25
Shirt Waits, 40 to 65c and $1.00. Best 50 cent Corset.
Ladies,’ Children’s and Men’s Hosiery,—10, 1 5 and 25c
Men’s Dress Hats, ... $1,00 to $2.75
All sorts of Men’s, Women’s&ChildrensSIlOfiS, from 10c toS2.98
Best line oi 5 10, 25, 50c Merchandise. Best 50g OfBSS Shirts.
No better line of medium priced goods were over offered
in Covington than we have.
Gold Band Cups, Saucers, and Plates, 75c per set.
Come to See Us
Pennington’s 5 & 10c Department Store
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA—Newton County:
Will be sold before the court bouse
door in said county on the first Tues¬
day in November, 1916, within the le¬
gal hours of sale, to the highest bid¬
der for cash, the following described
property to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land sit¬
uated, lying and being in the town of
Mansfield, Ga., being lots Nos. 1. 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, LI, 12, 13, and 14 in
Block “F” of the plat of said town,
each of said lots fronting 25 feet on
First Avenue and running back even
FREE DELIVERY
ANYWHERE IN NEWTON COUNTY
On Purchases Amounting to $25. or More
For the convenience of
our customers we have
installed an auto truck
which enables us to make
FREE DELIVERY of any
Furniture Bought of Us.
K. E. EVERITT
Furniture and Undertaking
Covington, Georgia
width 110 feet to alley, except lot No.
1, which fronts on First Avenue 40 feet
and runs back along Poplar street 113
feet and along alley 13 1-2 feet, upon
which said property is the home place
of W. B. Beckwith. Deed for the pur¬
pose of levy and sale having been exe¬
cuted and recorded as required by law.
Levied on and to be sold as the proper¬
ty of W. B. Beckwith, defendant in
execution in favor of S. C. Steadman
for the use of the Bank of Covington,
issued from the Superior Court of New¬
ton County. Defendant In possession
notified in terms of the law.
This October 10, 1916.
11-2, 4. S. M. HAY. Sheriff.
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ronize those, who make the suc¬
cess of your county paper possi¬
ble. While trading with our
customers, don’t forget to say,
“I SAW IT IN THE NEWS.
