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F ARMERS!
For planting now until January 15th, buy
They will mature earlier and preduce more
grain than any other variety. ;
Why buy the so-called Western'Rust Proof Qats
and run the risk of getting Nut Grass, Johnscn
Grass and other pests on your farm?
I am offering Fulgham Qats grown on my own
farm, thoroughly recleaned and free from all light
oatis, chaff and foreign substances.
$l.OO a Bushel
E. K. FARMER
Feeding Silage To Beef Cattle
In fattening beef cattle economically it is not only necessary to have an
abundagce of concentrates which can be purchased at a reasonable cost, but
a plentiful supply of a desirable form of roughage. In no section of the
country is this problem of more importance than in the South. Hence,
eVel.'y man who expects to handle beef cattle must give attention to this
subject or else his feeding operations will prove unsatisfactory from a
financial point of view.
Of the various forms of roughage which can be used in the feeding of
beef cattle there is nothing more desirable than silage. If grain happens
to be fairly high in price, it is all the more important that the roughage
pPart of the ration be of the most satisfactory type and made available at a
reasonable eost to the land owner. Certain, there is no form of structure
w:hxch can be built on a farm at so low a cost, relatively speaking, as the
‘Sll_<_) ?.nd give such wonderful storage ecapacity. Some may object to the
building of a silo, believing that when the cost of the structure and the ma
chinery necessary to properly fill it are taken into comsideration that a dry
form of roughage will prove cheaper. In this they are very much mistaken,
for the harvesting, shocking, shredding and storing of corn stover or fodder,
as the ©case may be, will meke a tom ef feed of this character cost quite as
much, if net more than-a ton ef silage. There is no comparison as to the
palatability of the two. Moreover, the silage will be eaten up with praeti
'cz.a.lly no waste. Im addition, it furnishes a ration which temds to keep the
digestive system in good condition, a matter of the utmost importance where
cattle are te be carried threugh the wimter either as steckers or finished in
the stall for immediate glaughter.
Silage Valuable In Winter
‘Years of experience and observation tend to eonfirm the apimien that
silage is the most valuable form of roughage which the southern farmer
can utilize for winter feeding. Of course, if he can wpglement it with
other forms of dry roaughage, more or less of which are found on every farm,
there will be no objection -to their-use, but it can be depended on as the
sole roughage with the highest degree of satisfactiomn, provided, of course,
it is fed in & ratiomal manner.
When beef cattie are to be finished in the stall within a period of 120 to
150 days, they should be permitted a liberal ratiem of silage. A 1,000-pound
steer should bs given at least 25 pounds, and will sometimes consume as
much as 39 to 35 pounds for long periods of time. Of esurse, when animals
are taken off grass, they should be accustomed to the ration gradually. To
begin with they should receive, say 25 pounds of silege, & to 6 pounds of
dry roughage, such as hulls, cowpea hay, mixed hay or alfalfa, and about
two pounds of cotton seed meal. The meal should be increased one-quarter
1o one-half pound a week or every tem days until a ration of about seven
pounds is being fed. This mazimum ration of coneentrates may be con
tinued for from 30 to 60 days. In our experience this is about the largest
amount of cotton seed meal which can be fed with advantage and profit to
steers weighing 1,000 pounds. ‘
Cheap And Satisfactory
A ration such as the above will be found very satisfactory. The rough
age is provided out of silage and other cheap foods which either are or
should be available on every farm, and even though cciton seed meal may be
relatively high in price, it is still by far the cheapost concentrate available
for use on southern farms. In those sections of the country where corn
is the primary crop, the ration may properly consist ¢f equal parts of corn
and cotton seed meal, but with corn at $l.OO a bushel, the price prevailing
in most sections of the south, it will be more advantageous from a financial
point of view to depend on cotton seed meal as the primary concentrate.
The following rations should be found satisfactory for 1,000-pound cattle
of tair quality:
Silage 30 to 35 pounds; cowpea hay 6 pounds; cotton seed meal 7 pounds.
Silage 30 to 35 pounds; cotton seed hulls 10 to 12 pounds; cotton seed
meal 7 pounds.
Silage 30 to 35 pounds; stover 6 to 8 pounds; coiton seed meal 4 to 5
pounds; corn either shelled or fed as corn meal 6 to 8 pounds.
Keep Manger Clean
Alfalfa hay can, of course, be substituted for cowpea ‘hay, and prairie,
mixed or wild hay may be fed in the place of corn stover or hulls. It is
important to remember that the manger should be kept clean and in a sweet
condition at all times; that any surplus food should be removed; and that
the ration should be increased or decreased in proportion to the appetite
of the animal. An abundance of pure water and salt should also be pro
vided. Silage can be used with advantage for the breeding herd. It
should be fed ad libitum, but with a small quantity of scme of the dry
roughages already mentioned. It wiil seldom be necessary to feed more
than two pounds of cotton seed meal per head per day to stock of this
class. Cattle fed on a ration such as this will go through the winter or
will carry their young to the time of parturition in better condition than in
the absence of silage. The only precaution which is necessary to observe
in this matter is to prevent the catitle receiving silage which is either moldy
or rotten, but this is seldom met with where the crop has been properly put
up in a suitable structure.
Sir Knights Attention
. Gethsemny
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5 - J. B. Seanor, E. C.
140-3 t. J. D. Dorminey, Recorder.
W. B. Stone of Nichols is in
the city in the interest of the
Tobacco growers.
It is a waste of time, energy and money to cultivate it until
this need is supplied; the economic use of every cther fertilizing
material, including manure, depends upon the lime supply.
Write us for full particulars concerning our
OYSTER SHELL AGRICULTURAL LIME.
TR Phn e B eeBlC RS S el L L
Fretwell Commission Company
Manufacturers’ Agents.
Phone 12. Over Post Office. Fitzgerald. Ga.
A 4 horse farm for rent at Sib
bie; Ga. for 5 bales cotton. Plenty
house room. Apply at this office,
140 3t.
HEREAFTER 1 shall deposit my
money in The Exchange National
Bank. I see in recent sworn state
ments published in Fitzgeraid papers
that it BEARS EAR-MARKS of
GREAT STRENGTH. I understand,
also, it is an HONOR ROLL BANK.
I don’t know exactly what that
means, but evidently it has done
something EXTRAORDINARY for
the benefit and protection of the pub
lic, or else it would not have AT
TAINED THIS HONOR.—Mr.
‘Reasoning Mind.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, FRIDAY, NOV. 26. 1015
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Post Master Adams
Made Custodian
Postmaster Adams has been
advised by the department of his
appointment as custodian of the
site of th: new postoffice vice
late postmaster Ricker, relieved.
Any business concerning the
said site will hereafter be trans
acted with Mr. Adams.
MAKE EXERCISE PLAY.
To Get the Best Resuits It Must Be
Thoroughly Enjoysd.
When you exercise, play. That is
one of the points most strongly urged
to the attention of the pullic in re
cently published public heal{n reports.
No matter whether you are walking,
gardening, exercising in a gymnasium
or playing golf, keep your e¥orcise free
from the spirit of drudgery and make
it all recreation. Make it as enjoyable
as anything you may do throughout
the entire day. If you don’t mueh of
the good that it might do you is lost.
“The very-best thing a man can do,”
says the report, “is to make a hobby
of his exercise. No matter how poor
the hobby, if it induces outdoor exer
cise it is perfectly justifiable.”
The woman who i 3 obliged to take
her baby out for a two hours’ airing
every day is far more fortunate than
she often realizes.
The only advice the repotrt effers the
man who is going to take up a hobby
for the benefit of the resulting exer
cise is to choose one that permits of
its being followed the year round rath
er than one that depends upon seasons
of the year. For that remsen the ama
teur gardemer or chicken fancier is far
more fortunate in his choice than the
amateur geologist, botanist or ornithol
ogist. The latter must wait on the
seasons and must find favorable loca
tions for indulging their hobbies, while
the former have year round pastimes.
OUR IHSNAMED RUINS.
The Meea Vearde Ciiff Dwellings Are
Really Gemplete Towns.
Many visitors to the prehissoric cliff
dwellings of the Mesa Verdes National
park, in southwestern Colorade, says a
government publication, are astonished
to find that what s commonly de
scribed as a dwelling 8 not properly
a dwelling at all, but a village or city.
The celebrated CUff Palace 88 not a
palace. Ncither is Bpruce Tree House
a howse, nor Baloony House a house.
Bach of these i 8 a complete town
which once, in the dim ages before the
earliest Indian tradition, was an or
ganised community, often of consider
able size.
The arrangement of houses in a cliff
dwelling of the sime of ClHf Palace, for
example, is characteristic and inti
mately associated with the distribution
of the social divisions of the inhab
itants. The population was composed
of a number of units, possibly clans,
each of which had its own social or
ganization more or less distinct from
others, a condition that appears in the
arrangement of rooms. The rooms oc
cupied by a clan were not necessarily
connected, although generally nelgh
boring rooms were distinguished from
one ancther by their uses.
SERIOUS SICICNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
Thedford’s Black-Draught.
McDuff, Va.—*l suffered for several
z'ears," says Mrs. 1. B. Whittaker, of
his place, ‘‘with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to t?
Thedford’s Black-Drau%ht, which I did,
and I found it to be the best family medi
cine for young and old.
I keep Black-Draught on hand all the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for a dose, and it
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught.”
Thedford’s Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found fo regu
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re
lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
headache, sick stomach, and similar
symptoms. ,
It has been in constant use for more
than 70 years, and has benefited more
than a million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
‘Black-Drauggt. Price only 25c. Geta
‘Backage to-day. N.C. 123
We Can Fix It
Fitzgerald Bicycle & Repair Shop
Keys Made to Order
Bicycles to Rent at Reasonable Prices
218 S. Grant St.
Fitzgerald hants’
"Trade Weels
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Rousseau’s (reater Shows
Nowv.29 to Dec. 4, Inc.
Combining business with pleasure. Ten Great
Shows and Riding Devices. Moral, Educational,
Entertaining. FREE ATTRACTIONS EACH DAY.
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‘Wonderful Fireworks Display!
Reproducing the European War, A magnificent, gorgeous, pyrotecnical
display of fireworks evrey night. Destructjon of forts, battle in the clouds,
airships attacking forts, and hundreds of other things worth your time to
come and see. R
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Rousseaw’s Famous Greater Shows
Attractions from the State Fair and all the principal fesitivals in
the South. A ONE RING CIRCUS, Capt. Bernard and 5 performers,
late with Ringling Bros’. Circus; The Georgia Minstrels (old Planta-
Show); Agquatic Show, the wonderful Waterman and Deep Sea
Diver, Capt. Dollenburg; Zoological Collections of great variety; Mu
seum of Freaks; ‘Auto-Drome, late with the State Fair; Athletic
Shows; Ostrich Farm; The Great Mystery, puzzling to all examing -
physicians, neither dead or alive. STRICTLY MORAL.
. o 'VO iy . . .
The Festivities Will be Opened by Firing a Salute
«ni -.of 21 Guns.
REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS
Strawberry Plants
for Sale -
Tm-roved Lady Thompson’s
Thrifty plants. $250 per
thousand. e
Geo Drexler,R. F. D. 121-tf.l
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Bankrupt Sale,
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Will be sold before the Court
House door of Ben Hill County
between the légal hours of sale
on the 11th day of December,
1915, lot number 102 in the4th,
fand district of lrwin County.
Sold under an order from: the
Honorable Jas. F. McCreakin,
Referee in Bankruptey as ‘the
property of H. B. Harper, Bank
rupt. Ten per cent of the pur
chase price must be paid at the
time of the sale and the balance
upon the confirmation of the sale
by the Referee. :
D. B. Nicholson, Jr..
e-i-to-d-11 Trustee.
- Notice to Farmers, *
Wanted 5000 bushels good
corn. Must be shucked.
133-tf. Union Cotton Qil Co.
Wood Wanted ke
We want 1000 cords good pine
wood at the Power Plant, to be
settled for each week.
Fitzgerald Water Light & Bond
Commission. 132 tf,
WANTED —Work by a com
petent stenographer for all or
half day. References furnished.
Address—Box 803,
tf Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Call or phone The Leader-Enter
prise office the looal news of Fitz
gerald and Ben Hill county; the com
ing or departure of friends or rela
ltives; weddings, deaths, births, etc.
\Such favors will be appreciated by
‘the Editor tf
R o Ty T R R——” ————-—1
! NEW RICE MILL ..
at Dickson’s Mill
Rice Polished and Cleaned. Will Open for Business
Friday, October 15th and be open for the ac- |
' commodation of the public every Friday
and Saturday during the season,
Bring your Ricejand have it polished and cleaned.
[ M. Dickson, Proprietor i
Coal! Coal! Coal!
Extra fine quality Coal for domestic use.
Delivered anywhere in the City $5.50 per ton cash.
E. S. BILL
Phone 145 or 407-L.
Coal Yard corner Central Ave, and Thomas St.
Special Bargain
A Good family mare, a
mare colt and buggy for
sale at a rare bargain. W.
J. Jewell. 708 W. Alapaha
138-2 w.
We Are Ready for Business
Casper Hide & Skin Co.
| Is in position to pay
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HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
[ For Hides, Skins, Tal
low, Wax, Wool, Raw
} Furs, Etc., Ete,
'J. CASPER, Mgr.
| Fitzgerald, Ga,