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Sweet Feed - . 1.50
O bushel Sack Qats - 2.85
Hay - - ¢1 to 1.20
Scratch Feed - . 2.10
Wheat for Chicken Feed 2.35
Seed Qats
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Fulghum QOats, per bu. 85S¢
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School News
STEWART F. GELDERS, Ebrror |
‘the program of the Literary
* society for this Friday will be
the best ever given both in the
variety of selections and the
quality of them. The question
for debate will be Resolved that
the U. S. should prepare for war,
_theaffirmative will be ably defend.
€ed by Miss Sarah McDonald and
&r. H. L. Gaskin, while Stewart
Gelders and Elbert Murray will
endeavor to show you why
America should not make the
same mistake that it seems all
the ,rest of the nations of the
Yearth have made. Besides this,
the main feature, there will be
Bix or seven other numbers in
cluding recitations essays current
events etc., Uncle Remus will be
featured. If any of the patrons
. Qf the school have been con
templating a visit' in the near
future they will make no mistake
if they come Friday afternoon
and stay for the society after
school. Everyone cordially in
vited. Officers will be elected
also.
" Prof. Mathews has succeeded
in obtaining a piano from Mr.
Jesse E. Mercer, a former resi
~ dent of our city. We are certain
ly glad to get it. The Piano has
been rented for the next five
months and if after that time the
Wpils and patrons of the school
will open up their hearts and
their pocket books the piano will
be purchased outright, the rent
money applying on the purchase,
we have simply got to have the
piano someway.
The chorus of girls which has
%een singing for us has been
greatly enlarged. The more the
merrier. There are any number
of good pianists in school and
some of them do the playing
"\ every morning. ;
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The Junior-Senior story has
been finished, and a revising
New Grist Mill
We have installed a New Grist Mill and will
buy your corn or grind it for you. Highest
prices paid. Best care of yonr corn.
UNION COTTON OIL COMPANY
committee appointed to polish
the story. Originally i: was in
tended for a short story of about
ten thousand words but it is far
larger than that and is certainly
good reading.
The Senior ciass held a ‘meet
ing this afternoon.
Thursday is Uncle Remus day.
A short ptogram will be given at
chapel.
The eighth grade stood, or
rather tried to stand, an%Algebra
test Tuesday.
The domestic art department}
has finished the study of thei
oyster, as to his life and habits
and to his food value. We only‘
hope they found that popular
bivalve as good as he tastes. I
They are taking up the study
of meat. The different cuts and
the food value of the different
cuts. They intead to visit a
meat market and watch a cow
sliced up, They will be able to
tell whether they get the Tender
loin steak they order or the round
steak which is frequently sent by
mistake.
The melancholy days have
come, the saddest of the year.
No baseball games to root at.
No football teams to cheer.
There will be one more foot
ball teamto cheer, as the
eighth and ninth will play some
time this week, probably to
morrow.
We will have a track meet
after Christmas—we hope.
News from either the First or
the Pine street school would be
very acceptable,
The eighth grade Latin classes
had their party Tuesday after
noon.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNESDAY. DEC. 8, 1915
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Woman’s Club Notice.
Since our State Federation has
urged an ‘observance of Uncle
Remus Day by the Woman’s
Clubs as well ag by the schools,
T would recommend that our
Club members at thjs time em
phssize its importance to their
owr and all children by making}
theday (tomorrow, Dee. 9) an,
ocesion for visiting the school, |
la duy already too long deferred.g
Thee will be story telling from
Une2Remus and Dr. Ford has
prenised to visit each room and
contibute a story also, So the
visites may have this diversion
in adition to the usual class
workwhich should not lack in
terasto a mother at ahy time, 1
Mrs. Gelders Pres. ‘
It ialso well to remember that
there: no spacial distinction in be
ing a ol
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Dita From The College Far
a Olm € Lo ge rarm
By Dr. A. M. Scule. .
Duig the past eight years the College farm at Athens has beem operated
princilly as a live stock farm, the idea being to secure data along this
line yich would be of special value to our farmers. For many years pre
viouslthe land had been cultivated in cotton. Crop rotations had not been
follow. and the crop-yielding capacity of the land on that account was
limite The process of reclaiming the soil and building up the farm has nec
essaribeen a slow and laborious undertaking, and the results accomplish
ed, aset forth below, are chiefly attributable to the enrichment of the
land tough the use of yard manure, the establishment of crop rotations,
and dy and thorough tillage.
Oaly limited amount of money has ever been available to expend in the
purch: of live stock; hence, the development of the herds and flocks to
their jsent proportions has been brought about chiefly through the nat
ural ilease, and the exercise of skill and care in the breeding, handling
and femg of the different classes of animals maintained on the farm.
Increase In Value $12,615.00
In 1! there were 42 heads of live stock, consisting of mules and grade
dairy cg containing a considerable dash of Jersey blocd and a tew hogs,
valued. $1,917.00. One year later there were 71 animals on the farm
valued §5,082.50. In 1910-11 there were 213 animals valued at $10,042.00
and inl4-1915 there were 163 animals valued at $14,532.00. During the
Collegear just closed 96 animals were sold off the farm worth $2,791.57.
The totincrease in the value of the herds in eight years is $12,615.00, and
the peritage of increase in value, G5B.
The ry herd has also made a remarkable record. In 1907, 13 cows
were gig milk. The gross return per cow at that time was $86.49, the
total rvipts from the dairy herd for the College year 1907-1908 heing
§51,124.4The dairy herd now numbers 34 cows and the average gross
return cow for the year was $193.01. The gross income from ihe
herd w 56,562.60. The total increase in receipts for eight years was
theref015,438.16, while the increase returns per cow amounted to $106.52.
The s of live stock have also shown a steady increase. For the Col
lege y€ 4907-1908, $72.29 worth of live stock was sold; in 1914-1915, $2,-
791.57. s represented the value of 96 animals and consisted of 25 dairy
animals, which ten were pure-bred, 35 beef animals and 38 hogs. Some
cotton hof course, been grown on the farm from year to year. In 1907%-
1908 thee of cotton and cotton seed amounted to $469.62; in 1910-1911 to
$1,779.95. 1913-1914 to $1,623.28. In 1914-1915 the sales were greatly re
duced byason of the cut in acreage, and also the relatively low price
which ca brought.
Increase in Receipts $8,374.23 .
The toreceipts of the farm for the year 1907-1908 were $1,799.37; for
1913-1914),335.46; and in 1914-1915, $10,173.60. There was an increase for
this year he returns from the dairy herd and from the sales of live stock.
As a ma of fact, the farm receipts should have totaled $11,000.00, and
would halone so but for the lower price which cotton brought. There
has been increase in the past eight years in farm receipts of $8,374.23,
equivalenig percentage increase of 409.8. The per cent of total receipts
in eight ¥ ran from 625 to 64.5 for the dairy; from 4 to 26.4 per cent
for the littock, and from 25.5 down to 6.7 per cent for the cotton. In
other worthe farm has made a steady growth and development in in
come and)urces from year to year, while the production of cotton has
been minig, In the meantime, much land has been reclaimed and its
fertility gy increased. Alfalfa has been established on some nine
acres, and elding abundantly. The soils have been improved through crop
rotation inch the cow-peas and winter growing legumes have predominat
ed. The rq of the yard manure to the land has enlivened and enriched it.
The roug: needed to maintain all the herds and flocks has been produc
ed without ple, It has, of course, been necessary to buy large quantities
of cotton sgmeal from vear to year to supplement the roughage grown on
the farm. ct, without its use the records obtained could not have been
made, and ; it furnished protein in a cheaper form than it could have
been obtainlsewhere and constitutes the basis of the concentrates fed
to the dairrd, its value in the maintenance of the farm and in the
soil-buildingrations has been a very essential matter.
Bl ol eet o s et -
Fed Cotton Seed Meal
It has bepgsible to feed the cotton seed meal with advantage on
grass, and' most wholesome results in the stall during the winter
when combilpgt only with dry forms of roughage, but especially with
silage. The \tenance of such a large number of live stock has been
made practiQrough the use of silage and cotton seed meal, thereby
insuring a chgtion during the winter months, and the best possible sub
stitute for g
There are rhree large silos on the farm, and the policy of the man
agement is t 0: gnother as soon as practicable, since the silo enables the
storage and DPyation of the choicest quality of roughage in the cheapest
form. ]
These facts yngtrate that live stock farming is not only practicable
but profitable § gouth, ang that if every farm had a reasonable number
of live stock Oyt preeds well adapted to the section that cotton could
then indeed be, 5 strictly money crop and not the dominating factor in |
our agriculturet the present time. ‘
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Oppos AJB. & A Depot
See Usor Job Work?
Judge McClelland to
be Re-appointed
Atlanta, Dec. The suécess of
Atlanta’s municipal court which
took the place of the old J. P,
system in this city has been at.
tested by the reccommendation‘
of the superior court to th e
governor for the reappointment
or Judge L. F. McClelland of
the municipal court for a period
of four years.
l Governor Harris is expected to
sign the order shcrtly. Judge
McClelland has brought to the
administration of his judicial of
‘fice the sanie brilliant legal abil'-
ty and conscientious character
'that made him a successful state
‘wide figure in the practice of
law prior to his appointn ent,
and the proposed reappointment
meets with general approval in
Atlanta.
We Can Fix It
Fitzgerald Bicycle & Repair Shop
Keys Made to Order
Bicycles to Rent at Reasonahle Prices
218 S. Grant S¢_
The Wesley Adult Bible class
’of the Central Methodist church
will hold an informal reception
at the Carnegie Auditorium
Thursday night at 8:00 o’clock in
honor of the incoming Pastor,
Rev. L. A. Hill, all members of
the Wesloy Adult Bible c'ass and
all members of the church are
cordially nvited and requested
o avail themselves of this oppor
tunity of meeting and weleoming
their new pastor.
It is a waste of timo, enerdy aad money to caltivae it [until
this need is supplied: the econo: ic use of every other fertilizing
; waterial, including manure, depends uyon the lime supply.
H Write us for full particulars concerning our
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Ocilla Southern Railroad Company
Schedules---Effective Friday, October 1, 1915
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ticket reading to a point north of Hawkinsville,
Close connection is made with trains of the G.& F,A.C.L, A, B.
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. A bad break is often followed by,
;a flood of lears :
| HEREAFTER 1 shall deposit my
money in The Exchange' National
;Bank. I see in recent sworn state
| ments published in Fitzgeraid papers
ithat it BEARS EAR-MARKS of
iLGREAT STRENGTH.‘ I understand,
ialso, it is an HONQR ROLL BANK.
II 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.