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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. e e ] 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. NMdigbes 14 v, =,";fi