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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
SOUTH NOW FEEDS
THE NATION
BALTIMORE, 'Md.—A symposiac
just concluded under auspices of the
Manufacturer’s Record discloses
that the southern states are annual
ly shipping 100,000 to 300,000 car
loads of foodstuffs to the north and
west and actually feeding the entire
American nation. Z
The extent to which these ship
ments are being made is indicated
in the fact that two counties in Vir
ginia are annually shipping nearly
3,000,000 barrels of potatoes mainly
to northern and western markets,
even as far north as Canada; and
and that one railroad operating be
tween the central south and the east
handled last year 95.000 carloads of
fruits and vegetabies destined for
northern and western consumption.
This industry has become of na
tional importance, It has changed
the whole character of the food sup
ply of the country. In former years
all classes, the rich and tke poor
alike, had but a limited supply of
winter vegetables and fruits, de
pending largely u éanned-goods,
or on such locallygiised vegetables
as could be stored through the win
ter. Today the cgadition is entirely
reversed. Tens=of thousahds of
carloads of winter raised végetables
produced in the south ,gre;disttibut
ed in nortern and western markets
to the great advantage of the health
of the people, for these vegetables
not only furnish substange to many
millions, but they givs “them the
kind of nourishing f&{s so much
needed, but which in former years
did not exist. i
Food Situation Reversed.
' The nation’s entire food situation
has been reversed, and the south to
its own great profit and to the bless
ing of millions of people in other
sections, is carrying on a food pro
duction campaign the magnitude of
which is presented, in this issue as
never before. This country will be
awakened by a study of the fact
_}iven by railroad__,e;cgcutives and
specizl correspondence as to the in
fluence of this industry upon the
agricultural products of the south,
upon the railroads which transport
this food, and upon the consuming
population in other sections of the
country. . .
_ To the south the development of
this -industry means an increase al
most without limit of agricultural
wealth. It means that as the na
tion’s population increases and the
¢onsumption. of winter vegetables
grows more rapidly than population
there will be room in the south for
a vast increase in the production of
foodstuffs for winter cohsumption,
and of potatoes, watermelons,
peaches, pears, . citrus and other
fruits for consumption in the early
gpring and summer before northern
products are ready for the market.
~ Amid the gloom which seems .to
settle over sqme parts of the wheat
growing regions of the west is here
shown by contrast the wonderful
prosperity which these. trucking and
fruit-growing regions are enjoying
to the good of this section and the
nation. > .
" FROM VACATION TO :SCHOOL
. Wken school opens in’ ihe fall,
rural children thta have been -play
ing or working out of doors should
be watched rather carefully. The
¢hange from a-day of physical ac
tivity to one of seven or more hours
-of confinement 'is great and may
bring on an illness unless a few
precautions are taken. For a short
tim aet least, the school day might
well be broken up into more than
" the usual number of periods and the
‘children given frequént- recesses.
They should be advised to eat less
heartily of strong foods during the
first two weeks of school so that
v"the physical machine, considerably
. slowed down as it is, may have a
" chance to adjust itself. b
Moreover, the first assembling of
large numbers of children from dif
‘ferent homes may mean bringing in
the germs of colds, measles, scarlet
" fever or other diseases. Proper fore
] sight on ,flle part of school authori
" ties can ne:fi-iy always keep these
from being epidemic. The school
should be the most healthful place
we have for children.
8081772 LBS.
TOBOCCO SOLD
FROM SOUTH GA.
Crop Sold Through Nine Ware
houses in State-—Most of
Weed “Good.”
" South Georgia farmers have sold
a’total of 8,081,772 pounds of to
bacco though nine of the 10 ware
houses in the state thus far dur
ing 1923, according to the report
of Statistician Peter V. Rice, filed
with the Commissioner of Agricul
ture Monday.
The only warehouse from which
no report has been received is that
approximately 100,000 pounds of
the leaf has been marketed.
The sales for last week through
the nine warehcuses making re
ports aggregated 1, 982,176 pounds;
and tlie average prices for all grades
of tobacco, paid to producers, were
as follows:
Farmers’ Warehouse, Nashviile,
25.41 cents; Farmers’ Warehouse,
Blackshesr, 28.79 Growers’ Ware
house, Douglas, 22.98 Fenner &
Smith, Hahira, 22.42 Big Tobacco
Warehouse Douglas, 24.46 Morgan’s
Warehouse, Blackshear, 28.82 J. R.
Hutchings & company, Vidalia, 19.-
21 Planters’ Warehouse, Nashville,
25.89, and Banner Warehouse,
Tifton, 22.46 cents per pounds.
Most of the tobacco was graded
“good with the amount of “medi
um” being far in excess of that
classified as “common.”
HUNTERS WARNED
OF GAME SEASON
Laws Were Not Changed by Legis
lature. State and Federal Scasons
i s
A'lgough a number of bills were
introcduced in the legislature for the
jprpose of amending the fish and
game laws of Georgia, no act of
general application was passed, so
Georgia hunters face the opening of
the game season under the same old
regulations, it is announced by J.
Frark Rhodes, state game and fish
coramissioner.
One of the bills that failed to get
through the legislature would have
prohibited the use of pump guns in
Georgia. This measure went over to
the next session as unfinished busi
ness. Another pending bill would
reduce the open season for quail.
Efforts for the past several years
to make the state and national open
season coincide have met with fail
ure, and the state game commis
sioner has issued a warning as to the
open seasons fixed by both the
United States and Georgia. The
seasons are as follows:
Quail, November 20 to March 1,
25 in one day; doves, August 1, to
31 -and November 20 to March 1, 25
in one day, (national law, November
20 and January 31, 25 in one day);
wild turkeys, November 20 to March
1, two in season; cat squirrels, Oc
tober 1 to March 1, 15 in one day;
deer either sex, November 1 to De
cember ‘3l, two in season, summer
or wood duck, September 1 to Jan
uary 1, 25 in one day, (national law,
November 1 to January 31, 25 in
one day). ,
Migratory duck September 1 to
April 20 50 in one day, (national
law, November 1 to January 31, 25
in one day); wood cock, September
1 to January 1, 25 in one day, na
tional law, November 1 to December
31, 60 in one day); plovers, Novem
ber 20 to March 1, 25 in one day,
(national law, November 20 to Jan
uary 31, 15 in one day); rail or
‘marsh hens, 25 in one day, (national
Tlaw September 1 to November 30);
‘fox, red and gray, September 1 to
February 1.
} Law Respect Grows.
O’possum, October 1 to February
1; skurk, muskrat, raccoon, beaver
mink, otter, bear, wild cat, Novem
ber 20 to March 1. Special act: On
Bt. Mary’s river only shad can be
taken January 1 to April 20. Sein
ing, trapping or using any device
other than hook and line to ecatch
fish is prohibited for five years if
two grand juries so recommend in
respective counties,
Leeshurg, Lee County Ga., Friday AUGUST 31, 1923
GEORGIA COUNCIL OF
CO-OPERATIVE BODIES
IS FORMED
At a meeting in Atlanta recently
of the managing heads representing
the five principal co-operative mar
keting associations in the Stale, the
Georgia Council of Co-opeartive
Marketing Associations was organ
ized with eleetion of J. E. Conwell,
of the Georgia Cotton Growers’
Association, as Chairman and Wil
liam P. Bullard, of the National
Pecan Growers, Exchange of Al
bany, Georgia, as Secretary.
~ Other officials attending the meet
ing in addition to Mr. Conwell and
‘Mr. Bullard were T. M. Chastain,
president of the Cane Growers’ Co
‘operative Association, Cairo, Ga.,
John D. Paulk, president of the
Southwest Georgia Watermelon
‘Growers, Association, Adel, Ga., and
Colonel R. E. L. Spence, president
of the Georgia Peanut Growers’ Co
operative Association, Albany, Ga.
The conference followed a call
by Mr. Conwell, of the cotton asso
ciation, a few days ago, at which
time he suggested the advisability
for representatives of the co-opera
tives to meet from time to time to
advise with each other, not only for
mutual benefit, but for carrying
forward the movement of organiz
ing marketing associations for all
farm products.
As described in the rules of or
ganization, the Council will be pure
ly a voluntary association of the
managing heads of the various co
opcrative marketing associations in
the state. _
Membership in the council will be
limited to the managing head of
each of the co-operatives chartered
under the co-operative marketing
acts of Georgia of 1920 and 1921.
In speaking of the first meeting
Mr. Conwell stated: “I can see very
clearly that the managers of the
different associations for marketing
farm products can, by meeting to
gether and exchanging ideas, be
able to render a better service, not
only for the co-operative marketing
movement, but for the members of
the associations already organized.
This will be a great benefit in itself,
but in addition to that, the council
expects to help the growers of the
farm products that are not organized
at this time on the co-operative plan,
to form associations for marketing
their products co-operatively.” All
members of the council were unanim
ous in their expression that to solve
this problem would mean that far
mers would then be able to solve our
problems -of diversification inasmuch
as growers wlil then be assured of
fair prices for their products once
they are organized on the co-opera
tive plan. -
The council will meet from time
to time and the next meeting will
be called by the chairman.
BOBBED HAIR, LIP ‘
STICK, SHORT SKIRTS
SOMERSET, Pa.—This little city
has been somersaulted into a style
class war with the bobbed haired,
lip stick-waving flappers arrayed on
one side and her more timid sisters
of long tresses and silkless stockings
on the other.
The first clash occurred yesterday
when the Parent-Teacher Associa
tion formally endorsed the “‘old
fashioned girl” and took steps to
petition the school board to adopt
a uniform style of dress for all
school girls. The rules would bar
her silk hose, short skirts, bobbed
hair and low neck, sleeveless dresses.
- But the flapper contingent, hear
%ing of the meeting, stormed it. Their
verbal protest, delivered in rhyme,
iwas as short and snappy as the dress
and manner of the flapperette who
!deliveréd i
“I can show my shoulders,
I can show my knees;
I am a free-born American
- And can show what I please.”
With that the flappers withdrew,
while the Parent-Teacher session
was turned- into an indignation
meeting. .
Action on the dress question will
be demanded of the school board,
the parents and teachers decided.
CAUSE OF DEATH
IN GEORGIA IS GIVEN
Brights Disease Leads and Tubercu
losis Is Second. Cancer Kills Many.
In 1922 Bright' s discase was the
chief cause of deaths in Georgia,
causing 2,908, or 9% per cent of all
deaths and showing a rate of 100
deaths per 100,000 population, ac
cording to a report by the bureau of
vital statistics. While almost one
desth in ten was due to Bright's
discase tuberculosis came second as
an individual cause with 2,642 deaths
or 8.8. per cent of tfne total death
records. Pneumonia was given as the
cause of 1,778, organic heart disease
1,708, apoplexy 1,663, cancer 1,212
and diarrhoea in children under 2
‘years of age 1,175. There wer2 1,483
‘\ascribed to diseases and conditions
‘peculinr to infancy, making a total
of 18,351, or 60 per cent of all
ideaflxs in Georgia due to these ten
chief causes of death,
~ In the white race Bright’s disease
led, with a rate of 94.2; tuberculo
!sis was second, 8.8. per cent of all
deaths and a rate of 59.6 deaths per
100,000 white population.
; Among the negroes tuberculosis
was the chief cause, claiming 11.7
Iper cent and a rate of 140; Bright’s
disease came second with 9 per cent
of all negro deaths and a rate of
108.6 deaths per 100,000 negro pop
ulation.
~ Cancer produced 782 deaths in
the white race and 429 in the negro
‘with a white rate of 46.2 and a ne
!gro rate of 35.6 per 100,000.
Of the deaths due to accidents
}833 were white and 649 negro, show
ing a rate of 49 deaths in the white
race and 53 in the negro race per
}lOO,OOO population.
FERTILIZERS NOT RE
SPONSIBLE FOR WHITE
HEART IN WATERMELONS
For some years watermelon grow
ers, and more especially water melon
buyers, in some of the watermelon
shippipg districts have thought that
certain kinds of nitrogenous ferti
lizers used had a very direct bearing
on the degree of white-heart found
in the ripe melons.
(The term “white-heart” is used
to denote an unripe or white streak
in the heart of the melon after it
ripens.)
The Georgia Experiment Station
has been maiking some investiga
tions to determine the cause of
white-heart.
One set of field plats were located
at the Experiment Station, Experi
ment, Ga., while the others were lo
cated at Brooklet, Ga. In addition
to the use of several brands or kinds
of fertilizers, singly and in combina
tion, careful records of rainfall,
atmospheric and soil temperatures,
etc.,, were kept.
The work has not been completed,
but some results from the use of
fertilizers have been secured that
may be of general interest to water
melon growers.
The fertilizer mixtures used con
tained nitrogen from several
sources, including nitrate of soda,
dried blood, sulphate of ammonia,
and nitrate of lime. These nitro
genous fertilizers were used in the
different mixtures applied before the
seeds were planted. In addition
some of the plats received a side
application of these ingredients sep
arately after the vines had begun to
run.
- When the crop ripened at Brook
let, the melons from each plate were
counted and weighed. Average
'specimen melons from these were
selected and cut. A committee of
'judges and about 25 local citizens
sampled the melons and came to a
has been making some investiga
fertilizer used had no important
bearing on the amount of white
heart or the quality. White heart
and quality of watermelons seem to
be determined largely by weather
conditions and by variety. :
TWENTY-ONE CHILDREN IN
THAT MANY YEARS; WHEE!
On the day they celebrated their
twenty-first wedding anniversary
baby No. 21 was born to Mr. and
Mrs. John Toman, of Johnstown, Pa.
Mr. Toman is 51 and his wife 38.
Their eldest son has been mairried
five years. There are five children
in his family.
ALBANL, Ga.,, Aug. 27.--With
the harvest season for peanuts al
most at hand, and actually in pro
gress in some sections of the belt,
the Georgia Peanut Growers Co
operative Association has about
completed plans for marketing
this important crop. With more
than 100,000 of the 142,000 acres
of commercial Spanish peanuts
planted in Georgia this year under
contract to the new co-operative
marketing organization, the associa
tion will easily be the largest single
factor in the world in the market
‘for white Spanish peanuts. Due to
‘the fact that the association has
‘probably the bulk of the choice
peanuts of the state under contract
in its total of more than 100,000
\lncres, it is estimated that fully 80
‘per cent of the state’s total output
'of white Spanish, which is the larg
est of any state’s will pass through
the co-operative association.
i At a bankers’ meeting held in Al
‘bany Wednesday, attended by some
of the foremost financial experts of
the state, arrangements were made
for all of the short-term credit re
quirements of the Association.
Longer-term credits will be handled
through the Untied States interme
diate credit banks.
While gathering season for the
bulk of the state’s peanuts in not
yet at hand, there are forward pea
‘nuts in many sections that are ready
for harvesting and are actually be
ing harvested in many cases. Of
ficers of the association this week
again emphasized their warnings
against digging peanuts too soon;
against curing them in windrows, in
stead of shock curing them, and
against threshing them instead of
picking them with a regular peanut
picker. “These warnings were not
issued idly or for the sake off hav
ing something to say,” Colonel
Robert E. L. Spence, president and
General manager of the Peanut As
sociation, declared. “They repre
sent the mature judgment and
careful investigation of all the ex
perts we have consulted, and rest on
reliable human experience. If we
expect our peanuts to bring higher
prices than ordinary peanuts—and
that is one of our firm expectations
—we must use care in gathering and
preparing ‘them for the market as
well as in growing them. Peanuts
gathered too soon will certainly
grade as inferior peanuts, and I
hope our members will realize this.
Sun-cured peanuts will suffer in
comparison with shdck-cured ones
and the man who delivers shock
cured peanuts will receive his re
ward in better prices, just as will
the man who picks his peanuts with
a picking machine, instead of thresh
ing them. Don’t let anybody tell
you otherwise.”
ot et @ A e —eenc
We want to tell all the children between the ages of
six and ninety-six about the little fairy we have in our
bank.
Her name is “Interest,” and every time you put a
dollar in our bank on savings account or on time certifi
cate, she waives her magic wand and 5 cents jumps right
up by the side of it, then you have a dollar and 5 cents
where you only had a dollar before.
If you keep on adding to your account, she keeps on
rolling nickels up to your dollars and before you harldy
realize it you have a snug bank account.
In later years she guards your welfare and keeps
poverty and want from attacking you, makes you enjoy
life in pleasure and comfort, where otherwise you might
have led a life of drudgery, misery and want in your old
age, besides being dependent on relatives or charity.
'lfigoait your dollars in our bank where our little
fairy “Interest” will add to them regularly and make
you independent.
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BANK OF LEESBURG,
G A.NEsBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM,{VICE-PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
DEVIL RSE EATS
ulltbe ount r
Recommends New Destroyer of
Pest.
If you think it is a joke about the
“devil horse” which goes after boll
weevils, see what the Bulloch Times,
at Statesboro, says about it:
“Colonel Woodecock, a farmer liv
ing six or eight miles north of
Statesboro, was displaying in the
city on Wednesday a new weevil
destroyer which promiscs to do more
than anything that has yet been dis
covered to combat the weevil
“This new destroyer is nothing
I\lesss than an insect itself which lives
upon the cotton stalk and devours
}the weevils as fast as it can catch
them. In other words the new de
stroyer works for nothing and feeds
himself on the waste product. Could
}anything be fairer than this?
~ “Mr. Woodcock was displaying in
a small bottle three of the weevil de
stroying insects which he had taken
while they were at work among the
weevils. These new insects seemed
to be a eross between a spider and a
bug. The body of the largest one
‘was as large as a Yankee bean. The
legs were as long as a spider’s and
it had a snout like an enlarged boll
weevil, Mr. Woodcock declared
that he first discovered Saturday
that the new insect was feasting
upon the weevils. To prove it he
took one and placed it in a fruit jar
over night with thirteen weevils.
The next morning the weevils had
disappeared and the devourer had
grown proportionately in size. He
‘seemcd to be a regular cannibal for
weevils. Mr. Woodcock stated that
the new destroyer was almost as
| prolific as the weevils. From the
ifirst discovery of the insect Satur
day the number had grown till there
were two hundred or more in the
field eating weevils.
“No, he hadn’t offered any of
them for sale. He said he wouldn’t
gell them at any price, R
“So there you are now with some
thing in the weevil line. It has been
generally recognized that no evil ex
isted for which there wag not a rem
edy. Mr. Woodcock believes he has
found the most effective remedy for
the boll weevil.”
Praise of the Pitiful,
There 18 no surer way of steadfast
peace in this world than the activa
exercige of pity; no happler temper of
mind and work than the lowly watch
ing. to see If we can lessen any misery
that is around us.—Francis Paget,
Preparations are now being made
by the field service of the Peanut
Association to see that there is a
100 per cent delivery of peanuts
signed by members of the associa
tion. Practically no difficulty is ex
pected along this line, officers of the
association stated.
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