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IMPROVEMENT IN FINANCIAL
CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT
: THE ENTIRE SOUTH.
Atlanta, Feb. 15.—Financial condi
tions and business generally through
out the South are on the up grade.
Money is easier for investment of all
kinds, and that it will continue so is
the opinion of leading capitalists and
financiers here. .
FEven the European war is beginning
indirectly to help the south rather
than hold it back: ' A significant'
statement in that connection is made
by William Hurd Hillyer, investment
banker, secretary and treasurer oi
the Hillyer Mortgage company, and
representative of a number of east
ern insurance companies and other
large lenders. : _
“The embargo on southern loans,
if there was ever such a thing,” says
Mr. Hillyer, “has been definitely lift
ed. It has been lifted not only in the
field of real estate loans, but collat
eral loans secured by gilt edge local
bonds and stocks. 1 find that there
are now a better supply of funds than
at any time during the past three
yars,
“Rates are still a trifle firm on long
time first mortgages, but short time
loans are comparatively easy.
“The supply of farm loan money
is constantly :ncreasing and 1 do not
look for any material advance in farm
lcan interest rates for some time to
coine,
“My prediction of this time last
year, that the immediate effect of the
war would be to increase the supply
of money seeking investment instead
of to diminish it, has been abundantly
verified.
“Choice mortgage money rules at
from 5 to 7 per cent., and collateral
loans on good bonds and active local
stocks at 5 to 6 per cent. There is
also a considerable amount of local
money seeking investment belonging
to individuals.
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NOTICE.
All parties owning dog in the City
of Fitzgerald will be required to pay
$l.OO per head at once to the City
Treasurer or the dog catcher ‘and get
your tag for 1916. The dog catcher
will be looking for your dogs on the
21st day of February 1916. All dogs
caught without city tag will be im
pounded for 24 hours and if not re
deemed within the above stated time
will be shot at once.
B. T. STRICLAND,
Chief of Police.
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in ton lots or upwards, delivered Sav
annah ftcory, reply XYZ No. 1, this
office.”
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The Farmer’s Worth.
l (By Frank Weldon.)
What is the ‘average industrious
white farmer worth to his community?
One hundred dollars a year? F/ive
hundred? One thou and?
We often hear it said of a man that
“he is not worth his salt,” or “he ‘is
not worth the powder it would take
to blow him up.” )
| hatisn’t the «:1d cf mz we are
figuring on.
Former Secretary James Wilson, of
the United States Department of Ag
riculture, used to say that a good farm
er was worth £1,500 a year to his coun
ty or State. He basca that on the es
timated value of the average farm’s
annual products. The last census
did not even attempt to compute the
total value o 1 farm products, but the
Federal Government’s Department of
Agriculture calculated that the aver
age farm in the United States pro
duced crops—butter, milk, eggs, etc.—
to the value of $1,400 eacl. |
According to the best information
available, the average yield of all
Georgia farms was about $BOO in 1910.
There were two reason why this
State’s showing was so far below the
average. One was because forty
‘thrce out of every one hundred farm
ers in Georgia are negroes, and it is
a matter of common knqwledge that
their yield per acre is below that of
the white farmers.
Another reason was that Georgia’s
farms average twenty acres smaller
than the farms for the country as a
whole.
The census bureau did show that
there are 25 per cent more one-horse
negro farmers than one-horse white
farmers in Georgia but there are 50
per cent more whites running two
and three plows than there are neg
roes operating farms of that size,
The farms operated by white av
eraged 118 acres.
The farms operated by negroes av
craged 58 acres,
Speaking roughly, it would seem
that the whites averaged a yield
around $l,lOO each and the negroes
something like $5OO cach.
Georgia can easily accomodate 100,-
000 more farmers, allowing 118 acres
acres to each new one. That would
take 11,800,000 acres, and we would
still have as much more land that
has never known a plow or hoe.
One hundred thousand new farmers,
each producing farm crops to the an
nual value of $l,lOO, would add $llO,-
000,000 of new wealth per year. They
would do more than that through the
enhancement in land values, an in
wrease, due to their labor, their im
provements, their development.
At a meeting held in Savannah last
week the Chicago representatives of
the Southern Settlement and Develop
mnt Organization stated that he is in
contact with numbers of farmers in
Towa and Illinois who want to come
South,
It is to get the people of this kind
on our untilled acres that the Georgia
branch is working and asking the co
operation of every Georgian who is in
terested in the development of the
land.—Macon Telegraph.
It PAYS
to Let Folks Know
Where Your
Store Is and What
You Have to Sell
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916, _
,IT HAS BEEN DEMOSTRATED
' THAT/SPRAYING IS ESSEN
’ TIAL TO SUCCESSFUL FRUIT
-~ GOWING.
It can be stated as a rule or law
of peach growing that the trees should
be sprayed or cut down. There is no
middle course. Nature has demanded
it and man has found no way of cir
cumventing it. Proper spraying makes
the tree live longer destroys insects,
prevents diseases and savs losses in
transit.
The San Jose scale has spread to all
sections of the state. If left unmoles
ted, in the course of a few years it
will either kill the trees outright or
make it worthless. The time to kill
the scale is during the dormant sea
son. If infestation is severe, two ap
plications are desirable. Even if no
scale is present an application is good
insurance. One of the best sprays to
use is the lime sulphur solution. In
addition to killing the scale it cuntmls‘
the leaf curl which is a fugour dis
ease.
When a small quantity is desired, it
'is usually more economical to buy it
l(m the market. The commercial lime
sulphur solution is put up in a con
}ccntratcd form and is ready for use
with the addition of the proper
amount of water.
A solution of lime sulphur, as good
as the commercial brands and in some
cases better can be made at home by
using th following formula:
Sulphur, flowers or flour 80 pounds
i.ime, fresh and unslacked 40 pounds
Water 50 gallons
Slack the lime, mix in the sulphur,
having all lumps pulverized, add re
quired amount of water, and boil from
50 to 60 minutes. Some of the water
will evaporate in boiling. This should
be replaced during the boiling. This
formula is for making 50 gallons of
the concentrated solution. When di
luted this will give about 300 gallons
of spray for use during dormant sea.
son or enough to spray 200 good
sized peach trees. The home made so..
lution varies somewhat in strcng‘th,’;
but genuerally it should be diluted
with 6 gallons to one gallon of the
solution. More accurate dilution can’
be made by the use of a hydrometer
for testing its strength and following
a dilution tabzle.
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py nicely furnished front room, ev
erything convenient, also board. Ap
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WAYCROSS BOOKS AUDITED
Actual Shortage of A. C. Lowther,
Former Clerk, $12,354.15 ("
Waycross, Feb. 14—According to
the report made today by W@
i_lames. auditor engaged to examine
city books for last year, the actual
shortage of former Clerk and Tax
Collector A. C. Lowther is $12,354.15,
'lt was distributed almost equally ove:
1914 and 1915.
No effort, says the aduitor was made
to cover $5,420 of the shortgae and the
report adds that had the clerk secured
the amount he was short he could not
have replaced it without making a
confession. The bonds carried on the
!clerk each year fully protect the city.
The former clerk wrote Mayor Bea
ton conféssing to a shortgae of $ll,-
000. He has not been located.
Let the Leader-Enterprise figure
with you on your next Job. [*--
WAR BREVITIES =
. The whole western fighting front
is the scene of heavy engagements.
At some points the big guns have
been roaring incessantly for days;
the infantry have been engaged in
hand-to-hand struggles; grenade
fighting and mining operations have
played a prominent part in the bat
tles, while airmen have fought each
other above lines and have been can
nonaded from below by the anti-air
craft guns.
The Germans followed up their
success in Champagne by the capture
of an additional half mile of French
trenches around Ta hure, in that dis
trict, and their artillery bombard
ments in the neighborhood of Massige
and the “Navarin have been answered
in kind by the French.
To the north of Soissons, around
Terney and along the river Aisne the
Germans started an infantry attack,
but the French put it down with their
guns and rifles,
- To the south of the Somme the
‘Germans endeavored to surround out
posts trenches, but desisted under
heavy fire of the French.
In the Upper Alsace the Germans
turned loose their guns on trenches
the French had recaptured from them,
but the French during the night had
evacuated them and the shelling did
no other damage than to shatter the
emplacements.
Seventeen fights in the air is the
record of Sunday reported officially
by the British along these lines in
Flanders. In addition there has been
great activity south of Laßassee ca
nal, where the Germans exploded sev
en mines. Heavy bombardments and
an infantry attack in that section are
also reported, the Germans succeed
ing in reaching a British trench.
They were diiven out almost immed- |
iately. “
In Albania the Arsen river whi:h
runs v eseweard across Central Albhan
-12 and emj ties into the Bay of Dus
razzo, has teen reached by the Aus
tro-Hune: vian vanguards, acconding
to Vienna. The Bulgarians have oc
cupied Elbassan, an important town in
Central Albania:
There have been no important
events on the eastern fromt, but the
Russians in the Caucasus have occu
pied one of the Erzerum forts and
have taken large numbers of Turkish
prisoners. Several Turkish batteries
on the Trebizoud coast of the Black
Sea have been silenced by the Russian
warships. :
KNing Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Vienna
reports, has arrived there to visit Em
peror Francis Joseph. This would
seem to set at nought recent unofficial
reports that Bulgaria had asked the en
tente allies for a separate peace.
Another British ceuiser has met dis
aster. The Arethusa, noted for her
fighting qualities, struck a mine and
is believed to have been totally wreck
ed. Ten men lost their lives. :
Let the Leader-Enterprise figure
with you on your next Job. They
are equipped to do any kind of work.
- Chautauqua program is ar
ranged to please little, big, young
and old. But very high toned is
}every feature.
WAGONS
BUGGIES
CARTS
WHEELBARROWS
MANURE SPREADERS
MOWERS ‘
BINDERS ‘
HAY RAKES
HAY PRESSES
HAY TEDDERS
SEED DRILLS 4
CORN PLANTERS i
POTATO DIGGERS
PULVERIZERS
WIRE FENCING
Profit-sharing Coupons given on cash purchases.
Call for Premiym list at our store. |
Good - Prices
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P Arbuckles Coffee; -
Pound .. 3% .8, . 220"
oPomndg: > . -
e eT S s
25 Pounds SUGAR ........ $1.70
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15c ROLLED OATS .... 10c¢c
R e e S R RS GY P
2—loc Macarroni .. .. .... C
Spaghetes .. . . 15
Noodles .. i .. ...
el A BT B TP G e L L eeSSSR IR TR
4—loc Pie Peaches’or .. 25
Apples ... .. ..k c
G) R P T 0 SRS TSRWS VL T S R O T (AL
Good SELF-RISING Flour "
Sack ol ooi. i i 900
Barrel . (o
50c Caris Pie Peaches ...... 25¢
25¢c Van Camps KETCHUP 17¢
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10 Pounds SNOWDRIFT.. $1.20
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10 Pounds PURE LARD ..'§1.35
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3 1-21 b California Black Eye 25
Peag . ri. o 0 0 c
B e R T S T
Bran 100 pounds ..5 ... ... .. %1560
shorts 100 pounds ... ... ... $l.BO
Sweet Feed 100 pounds ... ... .$1.65
Peavine Hay 100 pounds .. .. $1.05
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Seed Peanuts.
Davis Brothers Co.
Farmers Warned---Soda
Lye Is Not Potash
W. A. Worsham, Jr.,, Professor Agr.
Chemistry Ga. College Of Agri.
Information has ecome to the Col
lepe of Agriculture indicating that in
several sections of Georgia there has
been an ceffort to sellicaustic soda
as a substitute for potash for mixing
fertilizers. Caustie soda preparations
de not eontain any potash whatever.
The only effeect of an application to
the soil” would be towtonsume the
humus, the one thing in which the
soils of the south are most deficient.
Caustic soda has been mistakenly eall
ed “potash.” It has been used for
soap making just as balls of potash
were formerly used for that purpose,
but soda has eome to supplant potash,
pecause ¥t is far cheaper and makes
a firmer soap.
The similarity of the two may feol
the farmer into thinking that the soda
preparation’ i 8 potash, but the plant
cennot be fooled. It requires potash
as a part of its food, and will not
take up soda as a substitute. The
praetice of: selling caustic soda as a
substitute for potash cannot be too
strongly condemned, and farmers
should beware of any substitute for
potash until he has received the ad
viee of disinterested experts.
WALKING PLOWS
SULKY PLOWS
DOUBLE PLOWS
BRUSH PLOWS .. .
GANG PLOWS
I *}'il fopt, e POAIE BN
A R EETE G R
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there is some implement or piece of farm machinery
in this list that you will need this season in extracting
A O i greater wealth from the soil. And just as surely we
RN -are able to sell it to you on-very advantageous terms,
It‘makcs no difference what you want, we never
&,;f'fé{fg‘.fluffga_.t off to any house in the natter of quality,
price or terms. We are here to cater to your wants
L and we do it in a manner that is decidedly to your ad
vantage, whether those wants be large or small We
would like to talk it over with you the first time
you are in town, and the sooner you come the better
. for both of us.
TOOTH HARROWS
DISC HARROWS
CULTIVATORS
PUMPS
GAS ENGINES
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WHITE HOUSE COFFEE
Round i: S..daii. v 390,
3 Pounds. ./ . .o
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10 Pounds good RICE .. .. §s¢
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4—loc Cans Corn Flakes .. 2§¢
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3—2oc Extra Good Yellow 40
Desert Peaches.. .. .. .... c
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-3—loc Van Camp’s Soup or 2 5
Pork and Beansi.. .. .. so c
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' DAINTY and PILLSBURY 1 10
iFLOUR, gack .. i .. eNG
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3 tbs Dried Peaches .. .. .. 28¢
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' 12—5 c Pet Milk.. .. . .. Boe
FRRER L DePRR TR £ T S STR SR € RS R SRR I
- 20 ibs Net Weight Moultriez 40
ARD: i aiai i s oiis s B ®
‘GI'W
50ibs Moultrie PURE LARD 5 75
Cotton Bloom .. .. .. .z .. %6
R T 3o T T TR SIS TS S ST A EINE 61 S NS A MRS |
3lbs Lima Beans.. .. .. .. 25¢
C. S. Meal, 100 Pounds .. .. ..$1.85
Beet Pulp 100 Pounds .. .. .. $1.75
BHulls. .0 s e L iBS
Timothy Hay 100 Pounds .. ..$1.25
GARDEN SEEDS ALL KINDS
JUDGE PATE DEAD
AT HAWKINSVILLE.
Death Followed Short Illness With
Pneumonia
Hawkinsville, Ga., Feb. 14.—Judge
A. C. Pate 80 year old and one of
Hawkinsville most highly esteemed
citizens, died at the home af his- son
in-law, J. P. Watson, last night. He
had been in bad health for a number
of years, but the immediate cause of
his death was pneumonia, which de
veloped a day or two ago.
Judge Pate was for many years
judge of the Superior court of the
Oconee circuit and was well known
all over South Georgia, where he had
many friends. He is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. J. P. Watson and Mrs.
N. P Jelks of this city,-a number of
grand-children and other relatives.
The funeral will be at 10 o’clock to
morrow morning and the interment
will be in Orange Hill Cemetery.
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will greatly oblige the management if
they will only write on one side of
their manuscripts.
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