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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
Peanuts And
Soft Pork
The use of peanuts as a feed
for hogs has been one of the
most interesting problems con
fronting southern swine growers
for many years. Considering
the economy of gains from the
use of this feed it has been very
promising but when the packers
object to handling peanut-fed
hogs except at heavy discounts
there is discouragement. There
has been such a variation in price
discrimination at ditferent mar
kets and on similar hogs -at the
same markets that much dis
satisfaction has been created.
Vigorous protest have been made
against such practices by the
swine growers affected.
" In this connection the Georgia
Experiment Station, in coopera
tion with other southern expern
ment stations and the Bureau of
Animal Industry of the U. 8.
Department of Agriculture, has,
undertaken an extensive study
of the relation of peanuts, when
fed to hogs, to softness and other
changes in the pork. Effort is
‘being made to find the funda
mental causes of soft pork and
‘methods by which the softness
may be avoided or overcome.
This work has leen underway
for some time but on account of
‘the nature of the investigation it
will be several months before
‘results can be published. How
‘ever, results already obtained
-show conclusively that when
‘hogs starting at a weight.of 100
pounds are fed on peanuts alone
in dry lots or graze peanuts in a
field for a period of 60 days or
“‘more a soft carcass is prodyced,
“and that it is impcssible to pro
duce a hard carcass by feeding
corn and tankage or corn and
cottonseed meal to these soft
hogs for a subsequent period of
60 days or less. Hogs are being
fed this year to determine’if the
effects of peanuts alone for only
one month can be overcome by a
finishing period of two months.
Additional hogs are being fed to
gee if a longer finishing period
will correct the effects of peanuts
for 60 days.
In an effort to determine the
justice of the penalizing markect
practices the Federal Bureau of
Markets has made an investiga
“tion of some of the leading live
gtock markets where southern
hogs are shipped. This worki
was done on a commercial scale
and results have been published
in Bulletin No. 1086 of the United
States Department of Agricul
ture. A part of the summary is.
as follows: ,
. “Investigation revealed that
discounts ranging from 11.2 to
7 cents per pound, live weight,!
were being made at the different
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R. H FORRESTER, Agent
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE GO,
} ASSETS $952,632,139.00
~ Protect Your Family
- WITH A GOOD INSURANCE
| . POLICY.
’Califomian Will Tell Of
| Benefits Derived From
Co-operative Plans
Aaron Sapiro, noted California
marketing expert, is to be at
Albany on February 9th and will
delived an address. The purpose
of Mr. Sapiro’s visit is to explain
to the peanut growers of this
section a method by which it is
possible to market their products
in a co-operative way. The state
bureau Of markets called the
meeling for the purpose of try
ing to organize co-operative asso
ciations for the marketing of |
' these produetsand have arranged
‘to bring Mr. Sapiro, the foremost
authority in the nation ou the
subject, to Albany.
Co-operative marketing in Cal
ifornia has reached a high state
of development and has helpea to
‘make that state one of the wealth
iest of the union. The market
ing plan used there was conceiyed
by Mr. Sapiro and he is being
brought to southwest Georgia in
the hopes that the establishment
of co-operative markets here for
peanuts and like products may be
developed.
Americus Aggies
Victor Over
Leesdurg Hi
The Leesburg High School
basket ball teamplayed in Ameri
cus on last Friday evening, their
opponents-being a quintet from
the Americus Aggies. wt
It was a good game from start
to finish, though its ending came
too soon and the players on both
sides showed good pep and ener
gy in their fight for victory.
The results of the game being
disastrous though not unexpected
nor disheartening to the locals.
The final results showed a score
of 27 for the Aggies and a measly
little *‘ll”’ for Leesburg.
Our boys are booked for another
game with them soon, though
the Aggies are recognized as
crack players, our boys are at
tuning themselves for the fray
and fully expeet to make the
seore board show entirely a diff
erent tally to what it did last
Friday.
Go out and see the boys play
these games; they should receive
the encouragement of the whole
town and community, they are
the boys of today but will be men
on the morrow, as parlance goes,
and their agility and athletic
development thus acquired will
better fit them for the sterner
duties to which they will fall
heir.
Go to Americus, boys, and
show them you can gain a victory
through merit and skill.
L.eeshurg, Lee County Ga., Friday JANUARY 206, 1923
A Monument to
The “Lost Cause”
One of the gr atest memorials
the world has ever known-<a
tribute to the soldiers who fought
and died for the ‘‘Lost Cause’’- -
is being carved in the rock the
sheer side of Stone Mountain,
sixteen miles east of Atlanta.
For a mile across the smoothy
perpendicular face of this giant
monolith, all the pomp and cir
cumstance of a nation at war
will be etched, and at the head
!of his scldiers, leading them into
battle, will be General Robert E.
Lee, idol of the Confederacy and
one of the greatest military
leaders the world has ever known
Besides him in detail will be
shown General Stonewall Jack
son, John B. Gordon, J. E. B.
Stewart and Jefferson Davis.
Eight years will be required to
complete the project, which in
cludes, besides the carving of
the mountain side, a park of
several hundred acres at the
‘base, an open air theater pattern
ed after the coliseum of ancient
Rome and capable of seating
twenty thousand persons; a
museum hollowed out of the
mountain wherein will be de
posited treasures of the war tu
be dedicated to the Daughters
of the Confederacy.
The cost of the monument will
be borne by popular sucseripticn.
Gutzon Borglum, a noted sculp
tor, is in charge of the work.
Have We Any
City Ordinances?
What is the matter with our
town, can’t we enforce our city
ordiances, or have we ary such
thing? We understand there is
an ordiance prohibiting cows
and hogs from running at large
on the streets. and if there is
why can’t it be enforced, if we
have not an ordiance against
this, why not let them all run at
large? Have we, every time we
leave our office or home, have to
wait for a cow or hog to take a
notion to move? ‘
Recently we have had a city
election, we now have new mayor
and new aldermen, and hope to
see the town take on new life,
and we only trust that they will
do something to our streets, for
they are in an awful run-down
condition.
Come now, our new City Dads,
get your heads, your hands and
'some money together and make
an application of a little work
upon these streets that have be
come so bumpy that they can’t
get anyone for speeding, simply
be cause they ecan’t run that
fast over them. "
Mrs. J. H. Kirkpatrick
In Hospital
The Leesburg friends of Mrs.
J. H. Kirkpatrick, wife of Agent
J. H. Kirkpatrick, of the Central
of Georgia, will be gratified to
know that che is rapidly recover
ing from an operation, which
was ‘performed at the Plains
Hospital the early part of last
week. It will he some two or
three weeks before she will re
turn home. But we hope to see
her back home at an early date,
mingling with her friends again.
Clean-up Campaign
In Peach Orchards
Must Be Enforced Now If
Curculio Is To Be Suc
cessfully Handled.
The Goyernment and State Labor
atory at Ft. Valley has iscued the
following warnings to peach growers:
“The first step in controlling the
curculio in the 1923 peach crop
shouid be undertaken inmmediately
by mears of a thorough clean-up
and burning campaign todestroy the
adult beetles in hibernation. While
the curculio infestation 1 middle
(Georgia was not heavy last season a
sufficient number of adults are now
passing the winter in or uear
orchards to cause a heavy loss to the
perch crop this season, unless con
trol measures are timely and judi.‘
ciously enforced.
The favorite places of hibernation
for adult curculios are in woodlands
and wasetlands adjoining peach or
chards and in dense vegetation along
ditch banks, fence rows and terrace
rows in and near orchards. They also
frequently hibernate under pruning
piles, rubbish, ete. Aboutthe time
the peach blooms these adults start
eaving their hibernating quartersto
feed and deposit eggs in the small
fruits.
Peach growers are advised to un
dertake this clean-up, burning and
orchard sanitation campaign just as
soon as suitable weather permits.
Our exverimental data shows thal
the m:x.jnrity of the adults hibernate
within three hundred yards of the
orchard, and growers are urged to
restrict the burning in wooded areas
adjuining orchards to that distance.
This can be done by brushing back
the rubbish with a pronged stick and
lighting the ‘‘windroll,”” allowing
the fire to sweep towards the orchard.
In this way forest destruction will be
prevented. Select a dry period for
the burning, as a sweeping fire that
will burn the under growti close to
the ground is highly desirable. |
Special attention should be given
to the cleaning up of all ditch banks,
terrace rows and fence rows in the
orchards. The vegetation along these
cen often be burned, and this weuld
destroy many beetles. All pruning
piles or other rubbish in or near
peach orchards should be destr yyed
before the hlooming season. :
Experiments conducted to deter
mine the efficiency of burning over
woodlands or wastelands adjoining
peach orchards show conclusively
that many curculios are destroyed
by the hurning. In one case hurn
ing reduced the adult curculios in
hibernation over two hundred per
cent. The laboratory strongly reco
mends this work during the next
month or ¢ix weeks.
NEW STORE
FOR LEESBURG
A new store, another sign of
growth and progress for Leesburg,
was opened up on January 18th.
This new commercial enterprize is
fostered and operated by Mr. J. M.
Cannon, splendid business man of
this town who will no doubt get a
good and deserving patronage from
his friends. ,
He will handle a complete line of
general merchandise, he having
opened up in the building formerly
occupied by Heath & Tjler.
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LOST
Somewhere between the printing
ofiic and Court House a Masonic
pen. Finder return to Journal
Office for reward |
Increase of Deaths
From Cancer in ’2l
Official Figures Report
That 93,000 Were
Killed by Malady in One
Year.
| The American Society for the
Control of Cancer have made
public a statement by Dr. How
ard G. Taylor, chairman of its
executive committee, and Dr.
Francis Carter Wood, of its ad
'yisory council, touching upon a
recent report of the department
of commerce, based on returns
compiled by the bureau of census,
which shows that the total deaths
from cancer in the United States
during 1921 was 93,000, or 4,000
more than in 1920, They consid
ered the report not at all discour
aging. |
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" To Subscribers
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paring to make our new schserip
tion book for the year 1923 and
want to keep everyone on the
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in your name—put the home
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Services at Methodist
Church Last Sunday
On last Sunday morning and
evening, the pulpit at the Metho
dist church was filled by Rev. J.
D. Snyder, pastor of this church,
and this was his regular preach-
Ing day.
Rev. Snyder preached two
splendid sermons that were well
received by a good congregation
and made an impression with
people that elicited Kkindliest
words of praise for his genial
and christian hearing.
P inati
rocrastination -
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow’s sun to thee may never rize.”’
—(Congreve
You have many times determinedjto prepare your
self for future opportunities. Probably you {have as
many times put off taking the necessary steps.
~ Some folks say that opportunity knocks but once;
others say that it knocks more than once; however that
may be, it.is surely inability to take advantage of oppor
tunity knocks all the time
Opportunity is knocking at your door now. It points
the way for you to take advantage of taking a fresh
start in life by opening a bank account, accummulating
money with which to take advantage of the next good
investment that comes alorg.
There never was a truer saying than the old adage
“it takes money to make money.” How many times in
your life have you said to yourself “if I only had the
money, I could make some money out of that proposi=
tion?”
Every day you are putting off opening a bank ac
aceount and accumenulating something puts you just that
much further from taking advantage of opportunity.
Make the start today even if it be smaii. We will help
and give you every encouragement possible.
BANK OF LEESBURG,
G:A.NEsBIT, PRESIDENT | O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
Here’s a Local End to
Wallace Reid’s Death
Hero, However, Is Not
Actor, But--- Read it
Yourself.
First of all let it be said the
hero of this story is a great big,
black and white cat.
It happened like this. Several
months ago some one gave little
Rachel Kvans a little black and
white kitten and on. that very
same day Mrs. George W. Evans,
her mother, took Rachel to see.
““T'o Much Speed,”” starring Wal
lace Reid. After returning home
little Miss Evans decided to name
her kitty after the greal screen
star. Mother Evans remenstrated
of course, saying name it Bob or
Jack, Wallace Reid is too long a
pname for a Kkitty. Little Miss
Evans did not think so, and so
that is how Wallace Reid was in
stalled in the Evans home.
Now it happened that little
Rachel knew nothing of the death
of Wallace Reid until Friday eve
ning. She went to a nearby
drug store for some mints and
some said *‘Wallace Reid is dead”’
Rachel rushed home just as
fast as she could and bounding
into the room with tears in her
eyes she asked her mother,,
““when did it happen? Who
killed him mother?’ Mrs. Evans
of course, was surprised at Ra
chel’s questions but after a few
minutes found out the real cause
for Rachels tears. and taking her
little girl in her armsshe told her
it was not her Wallace Reid that
had died but the Wallace Reid
her kitty was named for. Rachel
dried hertears and said.** Oh, I
am so sorry that he is dead butl
am awful glad it isn’t my Kitty
Wallace Reid :
—Macon Telegraph.
Always.
A little learning is a dangerous
thing when the man who has none
tries to beat it
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