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The pecan crop is also a profitable
one,
Now that we have the velvet bean,
let’s pull for a silk bean.
The Reed law has thrown a huge
bomb into the liquor camp.
“How dry I am” will be the dirge
soon to be heard in Georgia.
The city of Monroe has added free
mail delivery to its list of advantages.
The feminine gender is all aglow
over the approaching millinery show.
To say the best of it, you must hand
it to Zimmermann for nerve and au
dacity.
Wilson has taken oath of office for
four more years with the nation solid
behind him.
Ireland should feel proud of the
high stand in the United States of
Mr. irish Potato. g
No, sir, you need not think that
Miss Suffragette will allow anything
to crowd her off the front page.
The citizens of i}scombla county,
Florida, have formed an egg circle.
Quite a cackling affair, we imagine.
Perhaps just to see if it had for
gotten the trick, the mercury dropped
down below freezing point Monday.
And if China jumps on Germany's
back also we imagine the Kaiser, will
have heap much hellee on his r(ands
sure enough, :
Wars and rumors of wars do not
seem to frighten baseball magnates
who are making great preparations
for the national sport this summer.
" A headline states that early cotton
is factor in boll weevil fight. It may
be, but recent rains hereabout will
prevent early farming to a large ex
tent.
Monroe\coun-ty is planning to have
a fair this fall. They'll succeed be
cause they have started in time for
the farmers to make preparations ac
cordingly.
Sure enough, boys, who among you
will grow the largest quantity of pea
nuts in Jasper county this year? In
vestigate the peanut crop, there is
money in it.
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High cost of living manipulators in
New York are receiving black eyes at
the hands of the federal trade com
mission, a hundred or two indictments
having already been found.
It is our opinion that it would be no
violation of agricultural neutrality
for every farmer to arm himself with
anything which will aid him in re
pulsing the onslaught of Mr. B.
Weevil,
801 l weevils have been found, since
the severe cold weather, hiding in
well protected places. We suppose
any insect smart enough to navigate
the Mississippi river would know
how to come in out of the®*cold.
. THE POOR EDITOR. .
According to an Oklahoma paper,
an Indian walked into the office of a
country editor and paid his subsecrip
tion, insisting very emphatically that
he be given a receipt. Tke editor
was curious to know why he so much
desired a receipt and finally elicited
the following from the Indian:
“Indian some time die and go to
Heaven; Peter askem if payem
debts; Indian no gottem receipt;
have to huntem all over hell for edi
tor.”—Exchange.
CHAUTAUQUA OF THE SOUTH.
In co-operation with the Southern
Conference for Education and In
dustry, the Chautauqua Institution
will be held In Macon, March 18 to
April 7, 1917. This will be the first
annual session of the Chautauqua of
the South, and Georglans are most
fortunate to have it located in Macon.
Its purpose is to serve every com
munity in the State and in the South.
This united effort for Southern de
velopment is a forward movement
that will be of widespread benefit,
Grouping a series of some of the
world’'s greatest attractions, musical
and literary, into the three weeks’
}lmon. and presenting them as a
community movement, will afford a
wonderful opportunity for those with
‘in reach of the manifold benefits.
This is the first movement of this
nature in America, and will do more
to popularize artistic productions
than anything ever before attempted.
Other cities have held Chautauqua
engagements for a few days at a time,
but there has been nothing like the
gseason planned for Macon that will
consist of three weeks of the best
musical artists and leaders the coun
try has ever known.
Dr. A. P. Bourland, Macon, is di
rector of the Chautaugqua of the
South, and is ready to give all the in
formation asked.
There should be many who will at
tend from Monticello and this com
munity as this is a rare privilege,
GREAT IS GEORGIA!
Listen to the following splendid
tribute to the Empire State of the
South by Editor Charlie Benns, of the
Butler Herald:
“If all the cotton that Georgia
produces in one year were made
into one sheet, it would cover the
entire face of America and lap
over the toes of Europe. If all
the cattle she raises in one year
were one cow, that beast could
browse on the vegetation along
the equator, while her tail would
switch icicles off the North Pole.
Her milk would flcat a cargo of
her butter and cheése down the
Satilla and across the Atlantic to
Liverpool. If all the hogs she
produces were one hog, he could
root the Panama camal at three
roots and his grunt would jar the
cocoanuts off the trees in the
canal zone.”
And then, Charlie, if all the Geor
gia peaches were linked and stacked
together they would form a wall
around these United States which no
Jap nor Mexican could hope to se¢ale.
And, again, if all the watermelons
in “dear old Georgia"” were made into
one we'd bet our last penny no Ger
man fleet could even cross its Rhine.
WHAT ONE CENT WILL DO.
According to figures compiled by
engineers qt the General Electric
Company one .cent’'s worth of elec
tricity at the usual heating rate of
three cents per kilowatt-hour will
operate:
A radiant toaster long enough to
make five slices of toast every morn
ing for a week. \
An electric curling iron twice 4 day
for a month.
A radiant grill stove for half an
hour, :
An electric griddle for half an hour.
A heating pad all night for t/welve
hours. !
A foot warmer for an hour and a
half.
A chafing dish 50 minutes.
Bring three quarts of water to a
boil on a water heater.
An electric broiler half an hour,
An electric percolator long enough
to make three cups of coffee every
morning for three mornings.
An electric flatiron long enough to
press three suits.
A novel property lease made by
Evans Dick, broker, to Mrs. Gely
na Fitzgerald, wealthy widow,
has just been recorded in Put
nam county, New York, stating
the annual consideration to be 1
paid shall be ‘a red rose in June. ‘
—Exchange. |
We'll venture the assertion that!
this broker is a single man. |
Governor Nat Harris has issued al
call for an extra session of the Geor
gia legislature to convene Tuesday.‘
March 20th, for the purpose of con
sidering ‘“bone dry” prohibition for
this State. Old Man Booze will never
recover from the licks and jabs he
is receiving from both -national and!
state strong arms. / \
An institution . which will mean
much for the citizens of Georgia is
the Chautauqua of the South estab
lished in Macon. We hope citizens
of Monticello and Jasper county will
avail themselves of the splendid op
portunity to hear some of the world’s
best artists,
The least you can aid some peo
ple and the least favors you may
offer them, the better friends they
will be to you.-—Milledgeville
News,
What's the trouble, McAuliffe, has
gome one ‘“‘stung” you? <
The referendum and recall project
may be put into practie gince several
U. 8. Senators and Congressmen re
fused to sign the armed neutrality bill
before Congress last week. Their
action caused the bill to fail to pass
Congress adjourned, i :'R»g
w. c. To UO hé l |
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, Larget Dry City in America.
Petrogad, Russia, is of course the
largest dry city in the world, and To
ronto, Canada, with 400,000 popula
tion, becomes by the Ontario prohi
bition act the largest dry city in
America. hy this act the province
will be under absolute prohibition for
three years, then a plebiscite will be
taken on the question of its remaining
dry permanently, :
Ontario reverses the method of the
States in going dry. The provincial
legislature first enacts a prohibition
law, then submits it to a vote of the
people.
Liquor Men Against Votes for Women
By a vote of 72 to 68, the Connecti
cut Federation of Labor at its annual
convention re-announced its support
of woman suffrage. The opposition’
came from representatives of the
Brewers’ and Bartenders’ unions who
claimed that woman's vote would
work injury to the liquor trade. |
Northwest Germans Support the Drys.
The Northwest German M. E. Con
ference at its recent meeting in
lowa adopted resolutiong %ledglng
co-operation in the struggle for state
wide px:ohlbmon in South Dakota.”
Labor unions of California sent rep
resentatives to Seattle and Portland
to investigate conditions under pro
hibition. They returned enthusiastic
for a law that is doing so much to
improve the conditions of the work
ingman.
“The monstrous survival of a pre
neocene age of human thought.:
Thus a New York clergyman de
scribes the militarist. The phrase
might as fittingly be applied to the
present day defender of the liquor
traffic.
“The air is full of straws and they
are all of the same color,” says an
anti-liquor journal. They are all
blowing the same way, too.
“It is strange that we always find
whiskey and crooked politics hand in
hand.”—Theodore Roosevelt in Kan
sas City speech. ;
Daily newspapers reachl/n; more
than 5,500,000 readers are mow bar
ring liguor advertising.
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Twentieth century military tactics:
“Trust in God and keep your army
dry.” AW
They Now Have Bank Accounts and
Good Clothes.
“It's great!” said a longshoreman
of Seattle, speaking of prohibition.
“l know a lot of longshoremen that
used to spend every cent they could
get ‘hold of in the' saloons and that
now have S2OO or S3OO in the bank.”
Mr. James A. Duncan, secretary of
the Central Labor Council in that
city, bears out this testimony. “It is
indeed encouraging,” he says, “to see
men of such crafts as the longshore
men, who were content but a short
time ago to walk around during their
leisure in overalls, now dressed in
such manner as would do credit to
bankers.”
Bugaboos. |
In the Orggon campaign of 1914
the cry of the antis was, “Prohibi
tion will destroy .the hop industry.”
The fact is, never have hop-pickers.
been in such great demand and re
ceiving such good wages as now, as-j
ter nearly a year of prohibition.
Oregon papers are advertising for
pickers and tney are bid for as base-l‘
ball players. In California the ery
is, “Prohibition will destroy the grape
industry,” and the Grape Protectivei
Association is awarding cash prizes}
to pupils in the public schools for es
says against prohibition from the‘
viewpoint of the vineyard intereats.!
A false alarm no less than the Ore
gon argument! Dr. Ira Landtith
banishés the bugaboo and reauuresj
the terrified infant, industry. in the
lullaby: “Hush, little vineyard, don't
you cry; you'll make grape juice by
and by.” ; l
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“Blessed are they who have the
gift of making friends, for it is one
of God's best gifts. It involves many
things, .but above all the power ‘of
going Jout of one’s self, and appreci
ating what is noble and loving in
another.”-—Thomas Hughes. 1
Farmers are not lacking for infor
mation from every source as to how
to fight the boll weevil. 801 l weeyil
meetings are numerous and frequent
in Georgia as the weather will per
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~ Boys, we hope you will have : “hog
and hominy” time in Jasper county
{thla year.
Notify us when you have a visitor.
THE MONTICELLO NEWS
Use Of Patented Stock
Feeds Not Necessary
“CORN-CRIB” CROSS IS THE BEST
CONDITIONER — GOOD FEED*
AND 'ATTENTION WILL
WEEP LIVE STOCK
HEALTHY.
By DR. W. M. BURSON, Professor Of
Veterinary Medicine, Georgia State
College Of Agriculture
Condition powders and patented
stock feeds are sold in large quantities
by traveling salesmen and merchants.
They are widely advertised in most
farm papers. Extravagant claims are
often made for the powders, that they
will cure various diseases, regulate the
system, purify the blood, etc. Scien
tific analysis shows that these special
feeds for the main part consist of
various amounts of oil meal, grain,
meal, etc.,, with the addition of a few
tonic drugs, the use of which all live
stock owners should understand.
If the animals have good teeth, a
variety of grain and roughage in suffi
cient quantity, dccess to salt and a
plentiful supply of clean pure water
they will keep in good, condition. In
vestigations carried out at many of
the Experiment Stations in the United
States and foreign countries demon
strate the failure of the patented prep
arations to do all the manufacturers
claim for them.
In no case has th.elr use decreased
the cost of the ration, and in no case
has their use cheapened the cost of
the product, whether it be beef, pork,
mutton, wool, butter or eggs. In many
cases the use of condimental feeds has
proved detrimental, as they increased
the expense of feeding and lessened
the gains of animals receiving them
in the ration.
It may appear in some instances
that the use of stock foods or egg
producers are beneficial, as improved
condition of animals or poultry is fre
quently to be observed &fter the prep
arations have been faithfully used for
some length of time. It must be ob
served, however, that the directions
usually require the preparation to be
given “three times a day on grain or
chopped feed.” If just as much atten
tion is paid to the regular feeding of
the stock all the time, as when pro
prietary feeds and tonic powders are
being used, there will be little need
for worry on account of “run down con
dition,” “weak digestive powers,”
“bad blood” and other kindred ail
ments, -
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Preparation and Fertil
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T. H. McHATTON, Prof. Hofl!culh:n,
Ga. State College Of Agriculture
The man who has a cover ¢rop on
his orchard this year is lucky, for
s‘* s prevented a great deal of wash
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ing durfng she ramny season of “the
winter, and, when turned under, which
should be done in March, will add hu
mus and make a more friable and wa
ter-holding soils for the coming crop
season. The orchard should be plowed
during March. Where it has been
plowed from year to year, the plow
ing should be from 6 to 8 inches deep.
Plow it in the opposite direction this
year from that plowed last year. This,
of course, has reference to level orch
ards. Where the trees are set on ter
races, the plowing, of course, is done
in the same direction each year. Disc
with a two-horse disc as soon after
plowing as convenient. Fertilizer
should then be applied.
With potash costing as much as it
does, the orchard fertilizer should
be 100 pounds of cottonseed meal, or
some other nitrogen carrier as sul
phate of ammonia, or nitrate of soda.
Mix the 100 pounds of cottonseed meal
with 200 pounds of aeid phosphate.
Where nitrate of soda or sdlphate of
ammonia is used, mix with 400 pounds
of acid phosphate, and from 500 to 700
potmds of this mixture should be ap
plied broadcast per acre and disced in
as soon after as possible. The orchard
should then be kept in shape by going
ovgr it with a spring tooth or spike
tooth harrow every ten days or two
weeks. The time to sow the cover crop
is in the late summer,
Bot Fly Of The Horse
By Dr. W. M. BURSON, Professor of
Veterinary Medicine, Georgia
State College Of Agricul
ture, Athens, Ga.
The mature bot fly of the horse
closely resembles a honey bee. During
hot weather the female fly deposits
eggs on the hairs of the neck, breast
and legs of horses and mules. The eggs
are cemented tightly and are quite
difficult to remove. The eggs hatch,
and the larvae crawl on the surface
of the skin causing a tickling sensa
tion. The horse or mule licks itself,
and the larvae are trangferred to the
mouth and are then swallowed with
food. Upon reaching the stomach,
they attach themselves to the mucous
membrane lining by means pt hooklets
with which the heads are armed. They
remain in this location for about 10
months and gradually reach their
maxium growth. Having attained full
growth they release their hold and
pass through the intestines to the
ground with the manure. An earthy
coccoon forms ground)them and they
lie dormant for a time, finally emerg:-
ing from the coccoon as fully develop
ed adult flies. If horses and mules are
constantly supplied with salt the in.
festation of the stomach is kept at a
minimum.
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FRIDAY. MARCH 9, 1917.
Varieties Of Veivet Beans
JOHN R. FAIN, Prof. Of Agronomy,
Ga. State College Of Agriculture
The variety of velvet beans to plant
depends upen the length of the grow
ing season. It should utilize all of the
growing season to make the largest
yielh; hence in southern Georgia it
is better to have a late variety,
In morg northern parts of Georgia,
however, beans with shorter growing
seadon, or shorter period between ger
mination and maturity, should be se
lected.
There are three general groups of
velvet beans, the early, medium early
and late. The late and medium are
adapted to south Georgia, medium to
middle Georgia /pnd early to north
Georgia.
The trade hears of Ninety Day and
One Hundred Day Velvet beans. As
a matter of fact, there are none such.
No velvet bean matures in ninety days
and we have discovered none that ma
tures in one hundred days. In fact,
it may be reckoned that early velvet
beans will not mature under 120 days
and the medium not under‘l6o/days.
No one, therefore, should be misguided
by these misleading names in deter
mining when to plant to obtain ma
turity before the growing season
closes. ‘
Seed, like animals, can be bred up.
Use good seed and larger yields will
be the result.
MANY BIRDS UNABLE TO FLY
Having No Necessity to Use Wings
to Escape Enemies, Those Mem.-
bers Ceased to Develop.
Of the 70 kinds of birds existing in
New Zealand, 30 are found nowhere
else, and of this number by far the
larger portion is flightless; this, no
doubt, owing to the fact that for ages,
ever, since the sea swallowed up a con
tinent, leaving only the islands coms
prising the present Dominlon of New
Zeuland, there have been no destrue
tive carnivora in the land, except those
small ones imported recently to aid in
abating the rabbit pest, and, having no
enemies, the birds alsq had no use for"
wings, which ceased to develop, and as
years rolied by left many spectes with
only little nubbins for wings and ab
solutely, without power of flight. :
Centuries ago there were in exist
ence at least three varietles, of gigan
tic birds, two of which were as large
in body as the fabled roc, the rescuer
of Sinbad the sallor. These included
the Hapagornis, the Dinornis or Moa
and the Cnemiornis, which was a gi
gantic goose. The Moa became ex
tinct some 500 years ago. It was a
flightless bird, said by tradition to
have been a hunter of humans, a man
eater, was of varying size and ex
tremely plentitul, v