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Of Interest to Farmers
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the <>■■
Win. J. Harris, Director,
Washington.
Cotton ginned prior to January 1,
crops of 1914 and 1913, in, Georgia.
Win. J. Harris, Director of the
Census, Department of Commerce,
announces the preliminary report of
cotton ginned by counties in Geor
gia for the crops of 1814 and 1913.
The report was made public for the
state at 10 a. m. on Saturday, Jan
uary 9. The amounts for the dif
ferent counties for the crops of 1914
and 1913 are furnished for publica
tion in the local papers.
(Quantities are in running bales,
counting round as half bales. Lint-
ers are not included).
County Crop
1914 1913
Total 2,548,831 2,293,976
Appling 10,277 7,825
Baker 11,129 7,877
Baldwin 13,841 11,574
Banks 9,798 11,342
Bartow 26,257 23,798
Ben Hill 13,621 10,201
Bejrien 19,960 18,015
Bibb 13,884 1 0,484 '
Bleckley' 14,065 12,863,
Brooks 18,579 14,426:
Bryan 3,911 3,343 !
Bulloch 45,211 40,385
Burke 55,621 51,684
Butts 15,905 14,613
Calhoun 19,181 17,793
Campbell 15,994 14,230
Carroll 41,282 39,240
Chattahoochee ... 8,345 6,132
Chattooga 13,423 13,456
Cherokee 12,549 12,406
Clarke 12,538 1 2,568
Clay 15,116 13,308
Clayton 14,063 12,091
Cobb 23,991 19,784
Coffee 24,793 19,059
Colquitt 26,609 22,290
Columbia 16,813 16,085
Coweta 36,684 29,364
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Crawford 8,137 6,000 j
Crisp 27,613 24,098
Decatur 19,185 14,626
DeKalb 15,652 12,109
Dodge 36,302 34,173
Dooly 42,479 18,957
Dougherty 21,749 16,9(8
Dougla# 11,774 19,14#
Early 26,840 19,147
Effingham 5,060 4JKI
Elbert 20,480 11,176
Emaaual 40,339 19,993
Fayette 17,151 11,964
Floyd 25.341 21,398
Forsyth 10,734 10,243 j
Franklin 19,750 23,965
Fulton 2,729 1,371 :
Glascock 4,527 3,795
Gordon 15,916 14,929
Grady 8.603 5,970
Greene 18,959 17,945
Gwinnett 32,562 28,984
Hall 16,315 16,057
Hancock 23.628 18,204
Haralsoa 13,260 11,338
Harris 28,773 24,269
Hart 16,771 21,753
Heard 15,595 13,529
Henry 30,188 27,337
Houston 25,855 22,297
Irwin 20,659 19,029
Jackson 35,899 42,107
j Jasper 26,930 25,434
Jeff Davis 4,994 4,238
Jefferson 31.119 27,821
Jenkins 20,784 20,666
Johnson 24,733 19,474
•Jones 16,324 13,723
Laurens 54,691 52,277
Lee 17,534 17,112
Lincoln 9.861 9,704
Lowndes 13,561 11,866
Lumpkin 681 681
McDuffie 10,908 9,950
Macon 21,506 17,771
Madison 21,527 25,737
Marion 10,577 9,705
Meriwether 17,383 32,667
Miller 7,179 6,189
Milton 8,196 7.861
Mitchell 36,129 32,360
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Postal
Brings
This
Book
THE BAJRTQW TRMMJ NE, JANUARY 1, 1813.
Monroe 24,374 24,101
Montgomery 17,334 15,763
Morgan ' 28,972 26,632
Murray 3,818 3,454
Muacogee 11,084 7,820
'Newto* 85,851 83,758
Ocoaee 17,575 17,394
Oglethorpa 13,218 25,143
Paulding 14,306 11,749
Piekeua 3,095 1,063
ftare* 7,055 4,813
Pika M.lli 18,887
Polk 21,114 17,614
Pulaski 19,374 16,775
Putnam 15,301 14,157
Quitman 4,987 5,260
Randolph. 26,946 28,097
Richmond 11,384 10,477
Rockdale 11,178 10,288
Schley 8,917 6,906
Screven 35,585 32,776
Spalding 19,800 17,415
Stephens 6,930 6,903
Stewart 18,343 15,943
Sumter 44,688 38,328
Talbot 13)545 11,361
Taliaferro 10,953 9,969!
Tattnall 22,916 80,623
Taylor 15,463 12,419
Telfair 19,904 15,416
Terrell 37.832 38,441 '
Thomas 25,728 22,543
Tift 21,696 16,257
Toombs 14,084 13,132
Troup 31,810 24,638
Turner 26,231 22,059
Twiggs 13,393 12,498
Upson 16,127 15,133
Walker 9,888 7,846
Walton 43,734 44,640
Ware 2,080 1,573
Warren 14,401 12,221
Washington 33,510 28,538
Wayne 6,623 4,965
Webster 6,001 5,383
Wheeler 8,443 7,889
Whitfield 7,472 6,205
Wilcox 30,130 25,987
Wilkes 29,001 26,575
Wilkinson 10,412 8,613
Worth 31,599 28,462
All other 11,610 9,324
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C.UNTELOUPE GROWING
C*u* Lot Shippers To Out Of State
Markets.
Local Geography of the Fields.
Your field should be as near a
railroad shipping point as possibl**,
not over three miles on ordmary
roads, nor four miles on extra good
roads. More expense is incurred
hauling crop to packing shed than
any other item getting canteloup**
ready for shipment. The field plant
ed in canteloupes should have an
altitude equal to any in that imme
diate locality, except in mountain
ous sections.
Varieties and Strains.
The two varieties of canteloupes
are green meat and pink meat. The
pink meat canteloupes is much pre
ferred by the northern markets, but
it seems that the Rockyford, which
is a green meat, is the most favored
in Georgia. Probably the most pop
ular strain of the pink meat is what
is known as the pink queen. This
eanteloupp was grown for three
years as Stone Mountain, Ga. When
found to be a complete success, 400
ac es were planted near Fitzgerald,
Ga.. in 1914, for which the farmers
received a gross income of $52,000
on canteloupes alone. After the can
teloupes were harvested they grew
about 2,000 pounds of hay on each
acre. This hay was a mixture of
peavines and peanuts. After the hay
was off, about SIO.OO worth of hog
feed was grazed by pigs, growing
for home consumption and the
Moultrie Packing House.
Soils and Fertilizers.
Tost? have shown that eante
loupes grow best on grey or sandy
soils with a clay subsoil from eigth
to ten inches below the top soil. AI- '
so red pebbly soils are good, but the |
stiff red clay soil found in middle i
and north Georgia is undersirable.
Two grades of fertilizers are need
ed. About three weeks before plant-j
mg a 10-3-6 should be applied in
the drill and bedded on. At time of j
planting e 9-2-5 should be put in
with the seed.
FarTlnraa and Its Importance.
Tn the extreme southern port'**
of Georgia eanteloupes can be so
planted that Florida will be at fli*
close of her harvest about the t*m* i
th* Georgia harvest taerins. Th"** .
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mean and ill-tempered. Your system
is full of bile not properly pas-ed
off, aud what you need is a clean
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a bilious jiuisance to yourself and
those who love you, and don’t re
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ami injure. Remember that most
disorders of the stomach, liver and
bowels are cured by morning with
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work while you sleep. A 10-cent box
from your druggist will keep your
liver and bowels clean, stomach
sweet, and your head clear for
months. Children love to take Cas
carets because they taste good and
never gripe or sicken.
the 15th of February to the Ist of;
March. In central south Georgia the
eanteloupes should be planted fif
teen days later, and north Georgia
eanteloupes should be planted as
early as danger from frost is ovor,
iu order that the bloom may have
passed into the melon stage by the
time the fly (laying the egg for the
worm) reaches that section. They
should never be planted in low damp
places, or near woods or hedges
where insects may breed. Another
preventative for the worm is the
squash. Every eighth or tenth row
should be squash instead of cante
loupes. These squash should be
gathered daily as the worms show
up in them. There are other insects
that eat the foliage, w#jib are easi
ly killed by sprays.
PiaAtiag ami Cultivation.
The land should be plowed as
deeply as possible early in the fall,
and a ton of ground limestone to
the acre applied. Sow this land in
some winter cover crop, preferrably
one that will gather nitrogen from
th# air. Thrwe weak* hofora plant
ing field to canteloupes turn under
this cover crop and lay off rows
with “Hiddle Buster” about five and
one-half feet wide. Put 200 pounds
of a fertilizer that will analyze 10
per cent acid phosphate, 3 per cent
ammonia and 6 per cent potash, into
this furrow. Bed on fertilizer by
using a reversible disc harrow or a
one-horse turning plow. At time of
planting use a canteloupe planter
with fertilizer attachment, putting
in 200 pounds of a 9-2-5 fertilizer
with seed which should he planted
42 inches in the drill. First culti
vation should he to side canteloupes
with Gee-Whiz Harrow. A week
later a furrow should be opened in
the middle and peanuts planted.
Side canteloupes with scooter and
scrape, covering peanuts at saint
time. Third cultivation should be
with scrape and scooter and cow
peas should be sown ahead of plow.
The scrape should ho so- set that
the ends will extend under the can
teloupe vines, which should never
be turned.
Harvesting ami Marketing.
Canteloupes should he harvested
at a stage that will carry them to
the market just as they get ripe.
Thp proper stage for harvesting
will depend on the distance cante
lonpes are to h° shipped. Each can
teloupe should be nicely wrapped in
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a tissue paper that should show tha
name of the grower. Each crate,
should hold from twelve to eighteen
cante’oupes, instead of 45, which has
for sometime been the custom. Each
canteloupe should be the same size,
shape, and degree of ripeness. They
should be marketed through an ex
pert market man, either working on
a co-operative plan or employed at
a straight salary and expenses. Each
crate should be* stamped by the
grower, and a record kept of just
how many cratea each man had in
the car. The car should be consign
ed by the men at home as agents for
the market man. They should be
• hipped to some central point, and
the man iu the market will divert
each car to the best market, after
it is started on the road. This mar
ket man should be required to send
the original check received from
the purchaser together with a state
ment of what each growers’ cante
loupes brought. This money should
be sent to the home bank, and the
bank cashier should keep a record
of each man’s receipts. A eo-bpera
tive association could be formed
with the farmers and all the canta
loupes going .from one station could
be pooled and the money from re
turns stay in the home bank until
shipments were over. Then each
man would receive his average
share of the receipts. Where this is
done only one grade of canteloupes
can be shipped, which is better than
several grades.
For further information, apply to
D. L. Campbell, Farmers’ Co-opera
tive Agent, A. B. & A. Railroad, Alma,
Ga., and W. R. Tucker, Farmers’
Co-operative Agent, A. B. & A.
Railroad, Moultrie, Georgia.
A NEW USE FOflt COTTON.
By Joseph Beifield, President
Hotel Sherman, Chicago.
Save a* a geographical division,
there is no north or south in this
'country. Sectionalism has been wip
ed out. This never was more clearly
brought home to us than it has been
in the past few mouths, or since the
European war involved the might
iest nations of Europe in the blood
iest conflict the world ever has wit
nessed.
The old north and the old south
are gone forever. While each geo
graphical section is engaged in ac
tivities of its own, the result of such
■ activities are vital to every division.
! The principle “One for all and all
! for one” is permanently establish
j ed among all the states.
How strongly was the .fact that
| old barriers are broken down
brought to our understanding with
the opening of the European con
| flic-t. Immediately on the beginning
I of hostilities there arose the sAagger
| ing cotton problem. When this staple
|of the south—its chief source of
! ’ cvenue—was affected, when the
i market for the great bulk of it was
| closed, it was not the south alone
I 'which was injured. The great north.
! from Portland, Maine, to Portland,
I Oregon, felt it almost as much as
. did the people of Vicksburg, Missis
sippi.
Paralyzed by the closing of the
markets in Europe, the cotton in
dustry’s affliction reached out and
devitalized the activities in finance
and commerce in the north. New
York and Chicago, the great finan
cial centers felt it. St. Louis was in
jured. The balance of trade swung
against us within a few days.
There is no doubt, in the think
ing mind, that the cotton situation,
created by the war, is one of the
chief causes of the present depress
ed business condition.
So thoroughly was the public con
vinced of this fact'that many move
ments for the relief of the cotton
situation were begun. There was the
“Buy a Bale of Cotton” plan, which,
at best, could have only a compara
tively small effect. There w r ere var
ious schemes for having people use
cotton. And then came the plan for
a cotton loan pool of $135,000,000,
supported and aided by the federal
reserve board, and now just being
placed in operation.
The war may last for years. No
one can tell when it will end; but
even when it is terminated it will
be many no oath*, tad fer Hups yea
before (the industrial conditions
Europe assume normal atupe *ga
! The problem of finding new m
for American eotton, and of pi
ting these uses into effect, is o
which the American people mi
solve, if we would have substanti
prosperity in this country. ;
About eighteen months ago, win
I was buying .furnishings and equip
ment for the Fort Dearborn Hot*
my attention was brought do somt
thing I never had seen nor heard *
before—cotton napkins and tabli
.cloths of a high quality, and usuab
j in an up-to-date hotel and restaut
i ant. These goods were made in Auf
tria.
After aonsidermf the matter,
placed my order for the entir
equipment of table napery for thi
hotel. The cost was about 35 pe
cent, or about one-third the cost o
linen napery. My saving on the firs
purchase was very nearly $4,000.
I had forgotten all about my pur
chase until my return from Europe
where I passed last summer. As sooi
as I reached home, I found tht
country greatly agitated over thi
cotton situation. On every side
heard the cry, “The cotton croj
must be financed! New uses must hi .
ifound for cotton!”
In a flash there came to me thi
thought of my cotton napery at Ihi
Fort Dearborn Hotel.
I found, on investigation, to m\
great delighit and satisfaction, tha.
the innovation was a gerat success
My housekeeper showed me cloths
that had been wahsed every day foi
four months and which looked as
good to me as linen after being in
use for the same length of time. Thf
restaurant manager informed me
that he never would have known
that the napery was cotton if I had
not so informed him.
1 At a meeting of Chicago hotel men,
I called the attention of my col
leagues to these goods and they were
all surprised and pleased. Many of
them decided then and there to sub
stitute cotton for linen as soon as
their existing stock was exhausted.
I I announced that I should continue
to use cotton cloth ait the Fort Dear
born Hotel, and I shall adopt its use
at the Hotel Sherman as soon as
practicable.
1 *arlv this month, my old friend,
Ft. D. Bow*m. of Paris, Texas, called
oa me to get from me such informa
tion as I had on the subject. The re
sult of the interview was that I
agreed to go 'to Houston and G; Ivcs
jton, Texks, and address the Texas
j and Southern Interstate Hotel Asso
ciations, and to give them my ex
perience with cotton napery.
| On Dec. 9th, I addressed the hotel
•men in convention, at the Hotel
Galvez, Galvpston. I showed them
i the samples of cotton cloths that
had been in use nearly eight months,
some that had been used four
months, and others that had been
I used only two months. They were
surprised and of course were de
lighted to find that not only could
they save about two-thirds of the
| old cosit of the table napery, but that
they also could help he cotton indus
try very materially.
I Since I have taken up this mat
ter, I have discovered that the goods,
i such as I have been using, are being
made in this country, in a large mill
in North Carolina, and sold through
: a prominent commission house in
New York. I have corresponded with
, the owner of the mill, and am as
: sured 'that he can reproduce the
; foreign article exactly, and in large
. quantities, and can increase the pr''-
I duction i.f there is a demand for it.
That cotton napery can be substi
tuted for the linen heretofore usd
4 is, to my mind, beyond question.
What we want now is concerted
action and co-operation.
If every hotel, restaurant, dining
car system, hospital, boarding house
and private famiiy in the United
States from now on will purchase
cotton tablecloths and napkins, and
also towels and all other household
articles that have heretofore been
made of linen, it is my judgment
that from 400,000 to 500.000 bales of
cotton will fere used up annually, and
thus anew and enlarged outlet be
furnished for tthe raw cotton.