The Covington news. (Covington, Ga.) 1908-current, February 06, 1919, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Wise Advertiser Never Whispers— He Shouts. LUME 11, NUMBER 6 PERU FARM OF FERTILIZING luable Advice Given to on County Through The News Should be Adop¬ ted by Farmers. By C. K. McClelland, Agronomist n bulletin No. 78 of the Geor Experiment Station will be nd a detailed description Wiliamson method of corn. This method is es called the “stunting" hod since the idea involved 0 produce as little stalk as sible, allowing most of the t food in the soil to be used the production of the ear, eby obtaining a large pro ion of ear to stalk and a er yield. The principle he practice of the method is withholding of the fertilizer il the corn is knee-high or un ie second cultivation at least, gh there are some changes in the cultural practice. or several years, the Experiment Station tried the od as given by Mr. William and a similar method ms ticed by Mr. Gilmore, one of directors of the state, but in . years have tried simply the ind tice of putting the fertilizer 1 the corn as compared putting it under before ting. ie results of the earlier tests iken from the bulletins station show that in 1907, was a gain of 11.3 bushels ere for the Wiliamson compared with the Gilmore .od. (Mr. Williamson advis ws 6 feet apart, Mr. Gilmore t, while our ordinary of planting has been in rows.) In 1918, these meth gave 22.9 bushels, 29.6 rand 34.1 bushels respectively. L909 the Williamson 34.2 and the ordinary but in 1910, 40.8 against 42.2; L911, 14.7 bushels while nary gave 15.9. In 1913 iamson again loomed up with against 18.4 for the method. the later tests ields when putting the r under and around, we results to vary as follows: )14 putting it around le yield 7.2 per cent; in was a gain of 9 per cent; >16 a gain of 13.4 per >17 a loss of 1.6 per cent 118 a gain of 22 per cent, being an average gain five years of 7.7 per cenf putting the fertilizer jmpared with putting it the corn. Though there advantage in this putting it around there Klizer some objections to it. If is put down before is planted there is little of it leaching and at ie time the work is done re is no great rush, but if withheld until the corn is it often happens that rush on at that time — will be to work and the too, and the cotton will ie needing chopping at ie time, and there may be |work with sweet potatoes sr crops coming along also particular time, nil ssing and the busy not know which way to he labor on the farm is it the necessary quota, be well to delay the but if the labor is below it will hardly pay to d run the risk of jthe work and liability to the grass” should it turn The Amount to Use. some tests in which amounts of fertilizer without nitrate, the results for the years and 1917 were 20.2 ino a fertilizer; - 20.8 for inn o An * * or . * 1 F° U ?fe ^-6 f° H r cts, - 04 z4.8tor a 1,000 pounds bushels for 1,200 pounds ilizer per acre. This isistent grains for the HElje Comnaton SIARR MEL IS AT CAMP GORDON Covington Boy Is Rapidly Re¬ covering From Effects of Poison Vapors Receiv¬ ed in Battle. Camp Gordon, Ga., Feb. 4.— After seven months on active service with the American expe¬ ditionary forces, during which time he spent several weeks in a base hospital recovering from the effects of German gas, Pri¬ vate Star Moss, of Covington, Ga., is now at Camp Gordon j awa fting his discharge liom * ^ the ; ser 7lj e ' ^ on 0 r * ; an £ Mrs. J. f. Moss. i j W1 .|, ^ ri Y the ate 116th Engineer to 1 rauce regi P? ent ’ with that orgamza J. lon took pa it in some ol the fiercest lighting on record during late war. It was at Chateau 1111611 Recovering .V ^\ a t he from was the gassed, effects ot l the P°\ son vapors and fumes, Pri vate Moss was sent to Camp Gor¬ s^ 011 * n company with a large number cf other overseas men. iHe 58 now quartered on the 'grounds , formerly occupied by the 328th infantry regiment of the eighty-second division, which !» now on duty in France. In speaking of his experience ' overseas, Private Moss told a reporter at Camp Gordon of the pleasure he experienced by at tending the splendid entertain¬ ments that were continuously af¬ forded in the Y. M. C. A. huts in France. The ‘Y’ also kept us supplied a full line of writing mate ! rial,” he said, “and reminded us constantly of the good that came | from writing hoJhe regularly, can bet we did not fail to take advantage of the advice giv en us." Free distribution of tobacco, chocolate, cookies and other can¬ teen supplies by the Y. M. C. A overseas among our American soldiers and sailors to a value of $1,400,000 is reported by Wil Jiam Sloan, chairman of its Na Itional War Work Council. Loss {change operation of the post ex or canteen in France i alone up to November 1, 1919, j amounted to $332,181. Hundreds of soldiers at Camp [Gordon are almost daily receiv ing their discharges, and Private Moss hopes that his time for leaving the service will come soon, though as yet he has no official information as to when he will be discharged. W. C. T. U. Notice. The W. C. T. U. will meea at the home of Mrs. S. L. Waites on Tuesday afternoon, Februa¬ ry 11th, at 3 o’clock. MRS. J. E. HUTCHINS, Rec. Sec’ty of the fertilizer as well as an un¬ economical use of much that was applied. The application of 400 pounds gave an increase of one bushel for each one hundred pounds of fertilizer — no other amount either above or below have a like benefit. In this con nection, we wish to call attention to the fact that given a good soil in fair tilth, water is the limiting faetor in corn production, rather than the kind or amount of fer¬ tilizer or the place of applying it. If moisture is wanting at the critical period, later rains will , not make up for the lack; the most critical time is just follow ing the ripening of the pollen, and if the tassels and pollen dry out before the com is pollinated a poor yield will necessarily fol low. All corn and cotton stalks and whatever vegetable matter the farmer has at hand should .be returned to the soil as such j material, aside from wdiat food it nmy contain, is of untold value in increasing the moisture capacity of the soil and helping com or other crops to tide over such critical periods. COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 7,1919 * NEWTON COUNTY LEADS THE STATE IH SAYIN G AND THRI FT STAMPS SALES Not Satisfied With Going “Over The Top," The Patriotic Citi¬ zens Oversubscribe The Quota of $393,980.00, And Thereby Hang Up An Unequaled Record. Not satisfied with ing its quota of $393,080.00, Newton county veent “over top" by purchasing $401,167.00 worth of War Saving and Thrift Stamps during 1918, scoring an unequaled record in the State by leading in sales per capita and ending in the fourth position in amount posed of. The Covington Post Office was the Central Accounting of¬ fice and Postmaster John L. Calaway and his able corps of Assistants are to be congratu¬ lated upon the efficient manner i which this extra volume of business was dispatched. It is extremely gatifying to know that the sales were gener¬ al throughout the county, both races responding liberally to the call of the Government in every district, being of one ac¬ cord during the war crisis. County Chairman G. C. Ad¬ ams, who is in charge of the public school system, contribu¬ ted materially to the success of the drive, not only in the rural districts, but in the city, his office being headquarters for the workers and the center infofmation. Fulton county, with a popula¬ tion of more than two hundred thousand people ,ead in sales, the amount being 879.00. Chatham county, Savannah is the business was second with $620,085.00. Richmond county, Augusta, the county site, was third with $416,124.50. Newton, Georgia’s best ty, came ourtfh, oversubscrib¬ ing its expected quota by $7,180.00, eclipsing Muscogee, Bibb, Clark, Floyd and many other larger and more densely populated counties. STATE WIDE MOVEMENT IN INTEREST OF Usual Attempt Will Be Made To Curtail Acreage in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4.—Georgia fanners, merchants, bankers and other prominent citizens, meet¬ ing in Macon on Thursday of this vyeek, will organize a state-wide movement to curtail cotton acre¬ age, which has the double pur¬ pose of protecting the hold-over portion of last year’s crop that is now stored in warehouses awaiting a better price and preventing an over-supply of cot¬ ton on the market next fall. movement is directly in line with urgent recommendations to the farmers by all who have studied the situation. Senator Hoke Smith in a statement addressed to the far¬ mers had this to say: “I feel constrained to the farmers against planting l«rge^ acreage this year. I the farmers to plant and prepare to raise meat. probabilities are that there be a big demand for next year." This was followed up by a ilar warning by the States department of ture ference and a big held all-southern New w'as in on Tuesday of this week to I ganize a general movement j curtailment of acreage. j —---“ Quarterly Meeting at The first Quarterly ence jof the Newborn — j Rev. J. F. Davis, pastor, w convene at Newborn on Februa ry 16th, atl w'hieh all officia members are urged to be ent. | BETWEEN THE DEVIL | AND BEEP BLUE SEA State and Federal Authorities Differ Over Burleson’s Crazy Telephone Rules. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4.—If the _ Railroad ( Commission of Georgia issues an order requiring the Southern Bell Telephone Compa¬ ny to restore the long distance rates it was charging before the Postmaster General’s new sched¬ ule of long distance rates went into effect on January 21, the managers of the company will be placed in a very interesting, not to say embarrassing, situation. If they disregard the order of the Railroad Commission and continue to charge the rates pre¬ scribed by the Postmaster Gen¬ eral, they will be prosecuted un¬ der the penalty clauses of the act creating the commission; while if they disregard the Postmas¬ ter General’s order and restore the rates ordered by the Railroad Commission, they will incur the displeasure of the federal gov¬ ernment. the Un<pr the opinion furnished Railroad Commission by their legal adviser. Judge James K. Hines, the Postmaster Gene¬ ral had no authority to change the long distance rates inside the boundaries of Georgia, and the Commission has ordered the Southern Bell to show cause on February 12 why the previous rates should not be restored. ROCKY HILL. Starrsville, Ga., Feb. 3, 1919. —Mrs. R. L. Ozburn and son, Morris, and Mrs. Dolph McCul¬ lough and daughter, Miss Ruth, spent Monday with Mrs. C. L. Hodge and Mrs. Emory Ozburn. Mrs. W. H. Parker and chil¬ dren spent Monday with Mrs. Al¬ bert Cook near Monticello. Mrs. J. D. Ozburn and children of old Rock Creek spent Friday here with relatives. Mrs. Floyd Layson and chil¬ dren of Eudora spent several days here with her mother, Mrs. Jack Cook. Mrs. T. W. Ozburn and chil¬ dren of near Monticello spent Saturday here with her mother, Mrs. Paul Aaron. Mr. Joseph McCullough and Mr. Grady Ozburn motored to Monroe Wednesday on business. Miss Lizzie Peal Layson of Eu¬ dora and Miss Nellie Mae Hick¬ man of old Rock Creek spent Tuesday here as the guests of Mrs. Homer Parker. Mrs. Willie Kelley spent last Wednesday at Mechanicsville ' V1 e, Sjr M k Mra. tebum peet spent Saturday here as the guest of Mrs. Darwin Redd Mrs. B. F. McCullough of old Rock Creek spent Friday here with her daughter, Mrs. Darwin Redd. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hodges spent Saturday near Monticello with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cook. Mrs. Homer Parker spent a short while Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Paul Aaron. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Parker and daughter. Eddie Maud, spent Sunday afternoon at old Rock Creek as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hickman. Mr. and. Mrs. R. L. Ozburn had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ozburn and chil¬ dren and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. j Kelley cf Prospect. Misses Annie Maud McCul¬ lough and Ina Mae Jones of old Rock Creek spent Saturday here as the guest of Mrs. Darwin Redd. An Ad in The News Is Worth Four On The Fence. DOTS ON, SPRAYING BT FARM DEMONSTRATOR Conditions Indicate That The Peach Crop of 1919 Will Be Attacked by Rot. You need a barrel sprayer. 3 hat is, if you wish to have fine quality fruit from your orchard free of worms, brown rot, bitter rot and various other diseases which usually make an orchard here unprofitable. All of the above diseases and others j ust as destructive can ab¬ solutely be controlled by spray¬ ing at the proper time. The rem¬ edies are positively and specific. Note, however, that you should spray at the right time. Do not think that going to the orchard and spraying at any time will control a disease. Spraying with lime-sulphur solution in the win¬ ter will not keep worms, brown rot, bitter rot and some other diseases out of your fruit. This winter spray controls some dis¬ eases, but not the ones just men¬ tioned. On the other hand, a Bor¬ deaux spray in the summer will not take the place of the winter spray. Both winter and summer sprays are necessary. 1 was in several orchards the past week, where scale had killed a large number of the trees. One man had cut down over fifty of his trees which had thus been kill¬ ed. Another had already lost twelve, and eight others were so badly covered with scale that un¬ less he sprays the trees wall be killed this year. One man saved his whole orchard from destruc tion by oyster shell scale by buy¬ ing him a barrel sprayer last year. A few trees were killed before he bought the spray. Conditions point to this year’s peach crop being largely destroy¬ ed by brown rot. Everything so favorable. You have noticed the black mummy peaches hang¬ ing on the trees this winter, with as many more on the ground un¬ der the trees. In the spring each of these old peaches form mil¬ lions of spores which are spread like dust by the wind. Wherever one of these tiny spores lights on a peach, that peach will rot, un¬ less sprayed. Fully one-third of the peaches in this county rotted this wuy last year. One man de¬ clared that more than this rot¬ ted in his orchard. Under one tree at another place I counted more than tw r o hundred rotten peaches on the ground last week. This disease can be controlled easily. There will be one orchard in each militia district in the coun¬ ty sprayed five times with a bar¬ rel of sprayer this year. A pub¬ lic demonstration will be made at each spraying. Every interested person is asked to witness these sprayings. The purpose of the demonstrations will be to learn the exact time and reason for each spray to be made. Unless they are made at the proper time, they are useless. You should buy you a barrel sprayer and spray your orchard just as these are going to be sprayed. You can witness the demonstration and go back home and easily spray your orchard P r0 P ellv - You '"«*». h ««; a bar If you are interested see me m my office at the court house at once. H. W. BIGHAM. County Agent. Lewis-Heath. Miss Mary Will Lewis and Mr. Arthur E. Heath, who has charge of the Western Union 'Telegraph office, and is a re¬ turned over-seas man, were quietly married Sunday after¬ noon, Feb’y., 2nd, at 3 o’clock, at the home of the bride, on Emory street, Rev. J. L. Ram¬ sey officiating. Notice D. A. R’s. The Sergeant Newton Chap¬ ter of the D. A. R’s., will meet on Wednesday, February 12th, at the home of Mrs. J. E. Phil¬ ips, on Church street. Per Year in Advance ROYSTER ADVOCATES A DOABDOF TRADE In Letter to The News Griffin Secretary Discusses Im¬ portant Issue, With Which He is Familiar. Hon. W. B. Royter, secretary manager of the Griffin-Spalding county board of trade, generally regarded as one of the most ef¬ ficient and popular secretaries in the state, hearing of the propos¬ ed organization of a New County board of trade, addressed the subjoined letter to the editor of The News: Griffin, Ga., Jan. 31, 1918. Dear Mr. Patterson : What your town and county needs if it has not got it, what every town and county needs if it has not got it, is organization. It does not signify what you call it, or how little it is, provided it is on the job continuously with •oncerted movement. Individual effort succeeds in the long run, )ut it is necessarily slow and nust be in a great measure self sh; selfish measures never get a community anywhere. Spald ng county tried for five years to get along without the Griffin .nd Spalding county board of rade—our organization—but it was not possible; they saw the ack of organization and they came infi or took the organiza¬ tion in and the results are be¬ yond their expectations. We now have the best organized, and one of the most progressive and prosperous ww" counties in L the state. y ‘ c u we . ’ orgam_ zation, - devote a great deal of ,ime and intelligent thought to he needs of our county, it is our msiness, we do nothing else and we are not influenced by politics, eligion, caste, friendship or re¬ lations. The town of Griffin has lad the benefit of this careful, ystematic, intelligent work for over five years, and it has be¬ come second nature for Griffin to move and act in an organized way. Should the city or county desire to promote a public propo¬ sition it would at once appeal to this organization to take charge of it. We can reach 400 members within an hour and w’hen the proposition has the approval of the organization it becomes a fact — its success is assured. Every public, beneficial move¬ ment in your county can be as¬ sisted by organization, and few can be realized without it. Or¬ ganize, this one w T ord, put into ef¬ fect, will bring your county to the front, without organization you can do nothing. J. T. BANKS APPOINTED TELEPHONE^ MANAGER Griffin Man Succeeds P. W. Godfrey, Who Has Seen Southern Bell Grow For Twenty Years. John T. Banks, until recently manager of the Southern Bell Telephone exchange at Fair buro, Palmetto and Union City, has succeeded P. W. Godfrey as manager of the Covington ex¬ change, of which duties he as¬ sumed last w r eek. Mr. Banks was for eleven years bookkeeper and assistant manager of the Groff in Ex¬ change, from which city he w’ent to Fairburn last May. He is an experienced man and will dubtless beeme prominently and influentially identified with the various interests of Newton couunty. Mr. Godfrey, the retiring manager, was in charge for about twenty years and had the pleasure of seeing the number of stations increased from a few' to nearly four hundred. He leaves the employ of the tele¬ phone company in order that he may devote his entire time and attention to his wholesale gro¬ cery business and other enter¬ prises with which he is con¬ nected.