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DEPARTMENT SAYS 10 ! BEGIN PREPARATION The following suggestions are from the Office of Extension Work in the South, United States Department of Agriculture: December ought to be a busy month for Southern farmers; it should see the finishing up of the year’s busine* for 1917 and the preparation for the year’s work of 1918. The marketing of live stock, corn, velvet beans, sirup, peanuts, and other food and feed crops is an important matter. County agents and market agents ought to be active in assisting farmers along these lines. This is a good time to organize co-operative as sociations among farmers for market ing purposes. In the slack time o winter perfect the county organization by communities so that effective or ganizations to assist in next year s work will be in existence in every com munity. ’ In boll weevil territory, clean up the , fields, ditch banks, and other hiding, places of the weevil so that the small est possible number of weevils will be wintered over. Look After Farm Drainage. December is a good month to olok after the drainage on the farm. Ditch ing, tiling, and terracing of land to prevent erosion are important matteis for this month. Clean the fields of stumps and rubbish and get the faim ready for the use of the best labor saving implements next yeai. See that the machinery, tools, etc., are housed and protected from the weather. Transportation will be seri ously disturbed ddiing the war and every economy in the use of tools should be exercised. During December repair machinery, tools, harness, am other equipment and put them in good shape for next year’s field work. Save the Manure^ Farmers who are just getting into live stock production should see that the stock is properly housed and should take steps to save all possible manure. Fertilizer is scarce, high in price, and hard to get for many rea sons. The more manure saved to ap ply to the land the less need for fer tilizer. , December is the month to finish hogs for market and for home killing and curing of the meat for use of the family. This important part of the work should be definitely planned so that wehn killing time comes every thing will be ready. If you are planning to use fertilizers or lime for next season, see that your orders have been made in order that ample time may be had for their trans portation to your station, and that a safe place is provided on the farm for its storage until needed. December is a good month also to cut posts and other timber for build ing fences, sheds, etc. Consult your county agent about the advantages of creosotjng all timber, especially fence posts, for preservation. , He Sure of Supply of (Jood Seed. Look to your supplies of planting seed for farm and garden in 1918. If you have seed on hand, examine it from time to time to see that it is not l>eing injured. If you do not have the seed on hand, try to locate a supply and arrange for delivery at a proper time. Begin planning your next year's op erations. Remember that what the country needs in the South, especially in cotton territory, is a normal acre age in cotton, well tended, that we may have an abundant crop which the nation needs, but likewise and equally as important, the production of this cotton should be supported by an am •pie supply of food and feed crops as heretofore. The disturbance of trans portation, the heavy burdens upon the railroad lines, and the needs of the nation as awhole should prompt Souths tun farmers to plan their next year's j operations not unlike the operations of 1917, which were intended to pro duce a normal crop of cotton and an abundance of food. The South has i wonderful prosperity in all sections not affected by the serious drought of 1917. A continuance of the policy of production of home supplies, keeping the cotton crop as a real money crop, will soon make the South rich and in fluential. < < nsider An Increase in Hog Produc tion. Head care,' ,!1y the government's re i lest to f;! : i met t - ir. reuse the p oduction ' nogs. \ . your county agent to ex? i; the r ‘ed of increase j oduction and the pt oportion allottee to your State. Plan yo ,h ■ ] to pro duce the in< e < ; -cd * .he gov < ament as a'-part of the war meas- In ail territory where’T iton and to -1 -o are not the main cash crop.-, lay ; ar plan- for next year for the mnv )• m pi oduction of food trip-. It ; a t ' . X.v "tioral need. o "111 I" U " G a I . p> May We Have the Pleasure Of Carrying You Over the N. C. & St. L. Ry. W.&A. R.R. # _ Excellent Trains and Good Ser vice to All Points. Let Us Figure Your Rates and Schedules and Give You Information. 0 J. H. WOFFORD, Agent Cartersville, Ga.