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Official Organ of Ben Hill Co.
Bankers, Merchants, And
Farmers.
We are printing for your con¬
sideration in this issue of The
Leader a copy of a Law covering
the essential features of the
TOKENS LAND TITLE REGIS¬
TRATION and bespeak for it
your careful consideration. As
owners of Land end the relation
the security in land titles bears
upon your business transactions,
the validity of ownership is of
such importance that if there is a
way to put it above possible dis¬
pute, that way should have your
unqualified support and co-opera -
4100. Your experience has ltd
you to realize in a measure, that
the system of CUMULATIVE
TITLE-RECORD as now prevail¬
ing is antiquated and cumbersome
and its continuance for another
GENERA HON, in this age of
frequent change of ownership,
will make it expensive and waste-
full to search the records, for de¬
fects, liens or mortgages. A new
aud better way must be found to
take the place of the old. A way
that is simple and in keeping with
the intelligence of the age in which
we live. The Law should provide
a means by w hich the owner of
lauds may know that his TITLE
thereto is good and indefeasable
not only against local claimants or
his GRANTOR, but also against
all claimants as in the case of the
no tor ious BRISBANE LAN1)
CLAIMS, so well known locally.
THOUSANDS of DOLLARS
were spent in defence of these
titles by their rightful owners and
they suffered great hardship thru
the inadequacy of our system of
TITLE RECORDS. THE TOR¬
RENS IT TLE w ould have made
that vast amount of litigation im¬
possible. The change is not radi¬
cal; even now, when occasion re¬
quires it, us in the case of the fail¬
ure of some claimant to record a
deed to property and subsequently
discovered, the claimant does go
into court and require by public
notice, all adverse claimants to
show cause why the court should
not require the title perfected to
the claimant in possession; this
transaction only takes one term
of court and perfects title.
The innovation should not deter
you from giving your children the
benefit of perfect titles to the land
you may leave them.
THIS EDITION OF THE
LEADER IS DEVOTED TO
LANDOWNERS AND FARM¬
ERS. WE ASK YOU TO CO¬
OPERATE WITH US TO SE¬
CURE IMUNITY FROM LAND
TH1EV ES AND TO ESTA BL1SH
OUR LAND TITLES UPON
SOLID GROUND.
We will send copies of this act
to each of our State Senators ami
Member of.the House. The Leader
is in earnest about this measure
and we will use every effort to get
the people interested in this ini- j
portant REFORM. We urge all'
landowners. Bankers, Merchants
and in fact every Citizen who ever
expects to own a foot of lend to
help us push this measure. 1’er-
feet confidence in land titles will
increase their value and decrease
the interest rate : Georg i".
THE FITZGERALD LEADER. SAT URDAY. FEBRUARY 11,1911
The Torrens Title is its own
ABSTRACT, no more large ab¬
stract fees, .Mr. Borrower, if you
apply for a loan. IS THIS
WORTH ANYTHING TO YOU?
Through the courtesy of Senator
R. R. Cotton of North Carolina
we are able to present to our
readers in to-days issue a copy of
a law embodying the main features
of the Torrens System of Land
Title Registration. A careful
reading of the same will disclose
to the intelligent reader its impor¬
tance to the security of land titles
and will enlist his co-operation for
the passage of such a law by
Georgia’s next Legislature.
A Torrence Title is as easy to
transfer as a Share of Bank stock.
A Torrens Title to Land is as
secure as a Government Bond; it
puts absolute ownership into the
possessor of same. No advers
claimants can attack your title, no
lawyer’s sharp practices can cause
you expense.
Timely Suggestions
From Col. Redding
The following article is from
the Atlanta Constitution, written
by Col. R. .J. Redding, of Griffin,
Ga.
FEBRUARY ON THE FARM.
On the whole, January condi¬
tions were quite favorable for all
farm operations, and the prelimi¬
nary work of cleaning up, ditching
and terracing, repairing fences has
doubtless been accomplished by
every pushing, wideawake, pro¬
gressive farmer. Also a large
part, if not all, of the plowing
that should have been done in No¬
vember and December. February,
tiie shortest (and rainest)
of the year, is perhaps the
most important in respect to prepa¬
ration work. It is the month in
which for the lag-behind farmer
to sow “spring” oats, having fail¬
ed to do so last fall, which is the
only proper time to sow that very
valuable crop. In the middle and
upper region it is not advisable to
sow before the middle of the month
unless the “open furrow” plan be
adopted. The hardest freezes re¬
corded for two generations past
have occurred between the 1st and
Loth of February. In fact very
little will be gained by sowing be¬
fore the last named date, i )on’t
fail to prepare the land well and
fertilize liberally with a mixture
that would analyze about 7 4-5
and I would supply the whole of
the 4 by means ot nitrate of soda,
applying about one-third or one-
lialf when sowing or within a
week or ten days, and the remain¬
der in one or two topdressings,
ll»e first about the middle of
March and the second about the
last. Don’t fail to treat the seed
with formalin, as previously direct-
ed.
Farmers generally, if not uni¬
versally, know wlmt ought to be
done in February, and need to be
urged to do it. As far a practica¬
ble use two-horse plows, or three-
horse disc, plows. In some places
the go-ahead farmers are using
traction gasoline engines to pull
their gang plows. That’s all right
and very encouraging—tending to
solve the perennial “labor pro¬
blem.”
Down-the-country farmers will
commence to plant corn toward
the last of the month. My only
suggestion is to fertilize and plant
only such land as will produce a
profitable yield per acre, surely
not loss than 20 to 25 bushels.
Don’t use cotton seed for manure.
You might as well use wheat bran.
Both are rich iu plant food, but
too valuable for other purposes.
FEBRUARY IN THE GARDEN.
February is a great time for
Some “early birds"
have already planted peas and
Irish potatoes, turnips and radish-
and such. That's all right if
wants to have the earliest re-
but very little is usually
by very early planting,
potatoes will not come q
-til t-hoy " e: ready," and ti
who \\ait u; d ■ iie 1st to the H
will be only a few days behind
the earliest, while the “early birds’
may have had the experience of
the “early worm.”
All the hardy vegetables may
be planted now, such as radish,
peas, turnips, mustard, onion sets,
cabbage celery carrots, beets and
others. Fix the asparagus beds.
Cover the whole surface
rotted stable manure and plow it
in; not too deep near the
or fork it in if the plants were
put in close beds. Also apply (500
to 1,000 pounds per acre, or 100
150 pounds per square rod of 10-4
or 8-4. Rake the surface
and level. If the plants are in
rows you may sow early radish,
lettuce, cabbage (for plants) in the
middle v
Whatever of stable manure that
may be applied to early vegetables
should be in well-rotted condition
and applied broadcast, putting in
acid phosphate and potash, 10-4 or
8-4, or the highest grade, 13 6. I
believe the fertilizer men don’t
make such a high-grade acid and
potash as 13-6, but they may just
as easily do it and not sell you any
“idler,” if you will insist on it
I still approve the practice of
applying only stable manure and
acid potash before planting and all
nitrogen in the form of nitrate of
soda at and after planting, as the
plants themselves mutely ask for
it. Stable manure is chiefly bene
ticial by supplying vegetable
matter and soil ferments. Little
or no need for nitroculture, or
soil inoculation, if a liberal amount
of rotted stable manure be lirst
well worked into the soil, Even
rank, unrotted stable manure is all
right, in fact more effective than
the rotted, provided it be plowed
in several months in advance of
planting the crop—as has been
often said before.
It is a good plan to provide
some mellow top soil, mixed with
line rotted manure, some time in
advance, to be used solely for
covering tine seeds, including
garden peas. I have a pile of it
from the decayed vegetable tops
and general debris of 1909, and
it’s the “very thing” to insure
good germination, and "coming
through” of peas, beans, melons,
cucumbers—everything. It never
puddles, never cakes, never crusts.
Muck from a muck bed makes a
similar and very effective covering
material if limed and sweetened
and then mixed half-and-half with
line stable manure. Better still if
run through a screen.
Strawberry plants may be put
Out if not done in November, but
no crop may be expected the com¬
ing spring. Old beds should be
severely thinned out, or destroyed
and new plantings be made. A
good way to thin out a matted
strawberry bed is to stretch two
garden lines along the bed, 12
inches apart. Then cut thiough
the mass of plants to these lines.
Leave a 18 or 24-inch space and
line and cut again using a sharp
spade. Then dig out the plants
from between the 12-inch strips,
work out the dirt and throw the
plants on the compost pile, or
give them away. Then till in the
alleys thus made with good manure
(rotted) and 5 to 8 pounds to the
square rod of 8-6. or 10-8, acid and
potash. Apply, scattering it along
the strip of plants when the leaves
are dry—one pound of nitrate of
soda per square rod (161x164 feet)
when the first blooms appear, and
repeat in 3 or 4 weeks.
FEBRUARY IN THE ORCHARD.
All fruit trees, grape vines,
raspberries, blackberries, etc., not
pruned heretofore should be at-
t e n d e d to at once—especially
grapes. Too late to prune scup-
pernong grape vines—that should
have been done in November, im¬
mediately after the fall of the
leaves. February is the time to
plant out trees of all kinds. I
should have said that such £plant-
mg may be done now, or even in
early March, as a sort of "last
chance,” ter it should have been
in Decernoer or January.
Commercial orchardists ave pre-
to know about spraying
1 especially a ! out the latest
'giei v m su p a and
A Letter of Appreciation from Empire Mercantile Company.
To Our Many Customers;
We have completed our Inventory and figured the final re-
suits of our business for the year 1910. We find we have
sold more merchandise than any previous year of our history,
viewing our business from this standpoint it has therefore
been the most successful since we have been in business.
We desire to thank: each and all of our many customers and
friends for their liberal and appreciative patronage, for
we recognize that you have enabled us to make the statement
above, as to 1910 being our most successful business year,
through your patronage and influence.
We shall endeavor in the future to keep our business up
to its past standard, and add improvements which we deem
desirable and important to make it to your and our mutual
interest.
We appreciate your past favors, and solicit a continua¬
tion of Your future business.
We wish for you a prosperous and good year for 1911.
EMPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY.
lime mixtures, said to be much
superior to the older “Iime-sul-
pher” mixture, which was made
by boiling the ingredients in water.
The addition of some form of
arsenic makes it also an .insectide.
The recipe is as follows: Put into
a tight barrel 8 pounds of quick¬
lime and enough water to cover it.
When the water commences to
slake, add 8 pounds of Howers of
sulphur, stirring constantly, pour¬
ing iu enough water to complete
the slaking, then immediately add
enough water to fill the barrel
(50 gallons.) This coats the mix¬
ture and stops the boiling. Before
using it for spraying it should be
strained to remove coarse particles
of lime, but the sulphur should
be worked through. This is for
all kinds of fungous diseases on
plants addition and San Jose scale, and the
of 2 pounds of arsenate
of lead to the 50 gallons makes
effective against both peach
and the curculio worms.
R. -J. Redding, Griffin, Ga.
Public Sale of Land.
Georgia—Ben Hill County.
Will be sold, on the first Tues¬
day in March, 1911, at public out¬
cry at the Court-house in said
county, within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder for cash,
certain property of which the fol¬
lowing is a full and complete de¬
scription:
The 60-100 undivided interest in
One Hundred, acres of lot of laud
Number Two Hundred Fifty-two,
in the Third Land District of Ben
Hill County, lying and being in
the North West corner of said lot.
being One Hundred acres of land
on the North side of that certain
tract in the North West corner of
said lot, consisting of One Hun¬
dred Fourty-five acres, more or
less, and conveyed by C. M. Wil¬
liamson to C. 8. Williamson by
deed, dated April 13th, 1906 and
recorded in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Wilcox
County, Georgia, in deed book F,
page 459, and more particularly
described as follows: Beginning
at the North West corner of said
lot and running East along the
Original North line of said lot to
the land of A. L. Williamson;
thence South along the West line
of the land of A.L. Williamson far
enough to make One Hundred (100)
acres in the North West corner of
said lot; thence West to the Orig¬
inal West line of said lot, thence;
North to the starting point: said
property levied on as the property
of Nancy J. Minshew to satisfy an
execution issued from the City
Court of Fitzgerald, of said coun¬
ty in favor of L. Y. Gibbs’ Sors &
Co., against said Nancy J. Min-
slnve and J. C. Menshew, and be¬
ing in possession of Nancy J. Min¬
shew.
This 9th day of February, 1911,
J. W v Norris, Sheriff.
.
12-4w.
Mr. P.F. Clark, cashier of the
American State Bank, was the
recipient of a telegram yesterday,
announcing the arrival of a son,
Robert Trenholm Clark, to the
family of his brother, the Rev. R,
C. Clak, of Mayesville, Ky.
Mrs. Wash Smith returned Fri¬
day night from Massachusetts,
where the remains of her mother
were earned last week for burial.
Baker Supply Co.
Formerly
Central Warehouse & Supply Co.
Located in Opera House Building
Cor. East Central Ave. and Thomas St.
We handle the Famous Oxford Buggies,
and all kinds of Farm Implements, Farm¬
ers’ Supplies. Grain and Feed Stuffs.
We are the Local Representatives of the
Savannah Chemical Company’s Famous
8 Fertilizers, and we would be pleased to quote
you prices on same.
o See Us Before You Bviy
8 Buggies, Harness, implements,
§ Supplies and Fertilizers,
8 Or We Both Will Lose Money.
8 “We Sell Ready Mixed FERTILIZERS,”
O
o o Not Mixed With SHOVEL and HOE.
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§ E. BAKER,
Manager.
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FOR SALE
Two Mules. Gall and see them.
One 10-Horse Engine and Boiler,
mounted.
Entire stock lumber being sold at
manufacturers’ cost to close up
the business of Booker & Rodwell,
on account of death of Mr. Rodwell.
Also 3 cars of best brick, $7.50
per M. f.o.b. yard. These brick are
first-class.
Booker (Et R-odwell’s
Lumber Y^rd.
RHODE ISLAND RED CHICKENS
I have 3 pens of the prettiest Red Chickens in
the South, and for utility purposes, as well as
show, they are the best in the world.
i Eggs $1.50, $2 50 and $3.50 Setting.
SAM WILCOX, ; : : OCILLA, GA.