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THE NEWNAN HERALD, NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1921 FARM BUREAU DEPARTMENT. M, DRAKE, Secretary. PostolHeo, Turin, Ga, Residence phone 3523. Office, Chamber of Commerce. Office phono 45. , MISS LORINE COLLINS— Home Demonstration Agent Postofflee, Ncwnan, Ga. Residence phono 399-J. Office, Chamber of Commerce. ONE WAY OUT; FACTORS IN THE PROBLEM— The boll weevil has bo reduced the cotton crop that It will not pay our present obligations, ami will not consti tute a dependable source of cash or credit In the future. Under those cir cumstances wo have to fnco the problem of making n crap in 1922 which will af ford us a living nod the cash necessary for operation, to say nothing of meet ing our past obligations. Wo have therefore to consider what sources of income we have whioh will give us tlio earliest possible relief, with the minimum requiromunts of cash and credit. This involves the condition that tho products which furnish this income shall bo such ns wu know reasonably well how to handle, and for which wo nro reasonably sure of n market. Wo must use tho resources within our roach, with a minimum expenditure for equipment,' etc. Tho following suggestions for 1922 cropping plans are made with due con sideration of those requirements: It is conceded that no general plan can moot' the individual requirements of every farm, and nlso that for tile farmer who has not provided considerable food and feed from this year's crop there is little hope that this or any other plan can lie put into operation successfully; but for tho nvorage farmor who has pro duced tho feed and food which he ought this year, this plan is workable. The cropping unit used hero is 47 acres to tho plow, of which 10 acres is supposed to bo in permanent pasture arid 8 acres in temporary pasture or; soiling e.ropB. Of tho 27 acres in crops, 10 lire supposed to lie double-cropped, making 38 acras of crops and 9 to produce onu crop par ’ year—In all 47 acres of crops. Seven teen acres are in cultivated crops and the other 80 acres nro sowed down. Details nro as follows: Throe acres In cotton, Two acres in oats and votcli for hay followed by sweet potatoes. Six uercs ill early corn, with pons or velvet, beans. Five acres in oats and votclj liny, fol lowed by corn, Two acres in wheat, followed by mum or soy beans. Tea acres in ontH, followed by peas or soy beans. One aero in truck, sorghum, ote. Four milk cows, six lingfl, lll'ty hens and one mule, to cuiihuiiiu grain and liny produced. The products for sale would bo— Cotton, .') bides or less. Sweet potatoes, 2(H) bushels. J’ens or soy bonus, 199 bushels. Six hogs, 1,200 -pounds. Cream from 20,000 pounds of milk. Three hundred dozen eggs, and 50 brpilors or bakoi's. In addition, practically 1 nil feed for tho family' and stock of the farm would hnvo been produced. To put this program Into operation would require to be planted tills fnll the 8, acres in temporary pastures, 2 nccos iri wheat, 7 acres in onts and vetch for Way, nnd 10 acres in outs for grain. In ordor to make a biiccobs of this tho work should I*o commenced at onco. Furthor dotnils with reference to tho individual projects proposed will be con sidered In Hopnrnto articles. .. t! ■ DAIRY PRODUCTS— Tho availability of dairy products ob a source of income on our farms and tho market for same— ■ A great ninny of our, farmers nro al ready producing some surplus of milk, mul tho surplus could and would lie * • n- siderably increased with proper ninrcet- ing facilities. The market for Bweot milk is out of tho question for the aver age farmer, and tho siiine can bo said of tho market for sweet cream. The market for fancy butter is limited, and requires skill ami favorable conditions ns well ns considerable labor, while the price for ordinary farm butter is always low. On tlie other hand, wherever creameries will buy sour lorenm in large quuntity wo have a dependable market for the blitter fat in our milk at a min imum of expense and labor. Tills condi tion has lately developed for us in tho fnot that; the Purity leo Cream Co., of .Rome, On,, (and perhaps others will soon be doing tho snmo tiling) is now offering to buy all the Hour cream we will ship at tho Chicago market price for tlio butter fat, nnir it is now possible for any community that can arrange to ship not less than five; gallons of cream twice ft week to take advautago of this market for tlioir surplus dairy products, In this way no initial investment is re quired, and wo hnvo tho opportunity to market a surplus or waste product Wo can start with tho eqws we have, and in c.rcaso our herd as wo find that tho prof lt» ami our home supply of feed will warrant. This utilization of cows on onf farms is suggested ns part of our farm program for 1922, because— 1. It will turn into profit wbnt has been wnsted or partially used. 2. Tho cows will consume and pay for fowl crops .which wo will have to siib- tfiituto for part, of our cotton, and which it will probably bo increasingly hard to mnrket directly. 3. It will give us increasing quantities of manure for our farms. 4. It will leave us the skim milk for feeding calves and hogs. 5. It will begin to bring in money im mediately, mid help to carry us over the very difficult months which will inter vene before we can harvest another crop. In order to begin operating you Will have to co-operate with your neighbors in establish)) 1 !' a ereart station within reach of j">n. If you-desire to do this, begin to talk it among your neighbors nnd get in touch with t lie county agent, who can give you furthor details. B. M. Drake, County Agent. won another scholarship to Carrollton. Last year, after lmnl work nil tho 'year, 1 won first prize, which wps a scholar ship to tho State College of Agriculture, On Monday, Aug. 8, I arose at 4 o’clock to got ready for my day’s journey. 1 nrl-lvcd ill Newnan at 6 o’clock, nail had to wait until 10 before I left Newnan. Martha Fincher mul tins Hnynio, who were also going to Athens, joined me at Newnan. Mrs. Sibley and Miss Shan non met us in Atlanta nnd stayed with us until our train loft for Athens. Girls and boys coining from nil parts of the State' met in Atlanta, and wo had a Jolly time from there to Athens. ’ We were mot at tho station in AtlionH by Miss Anderson, and had to walk two blocks to catch a' car out to the college. As wo piiHHcd along folks would stop and look, nnd some would say, “Won der where those girl* nfo going!’’ 1 was very hot and thirsty when we ar rived at the college, lint it did not take long for me to get cool—it ih such n nice, clean place. Oirln, that is the col lege to go to. Tho girls nil arrived that night, so iih to begin work next day. The following program was carried oat each day: At 7 o’clock rising boll; breakfast at 9:15; chapel at 9; cookery at 0:80; basketry at .11:30; at 12:30 wo saw moving pictures of things rein ting to club Work; dinner at 1:15. Wu rested from 2 to 3 eacli day; 3 tq, 1 reading; 4 to 5, home iiiuiingcment; I to (1, a study of clothing; swimming at 0; supper at 0:41; mul movies (of the snmo type as mentioned) at 7:30. Wo wont, to our rooms oaoli evening at 0. Friday afternoon they had throe spe cial ears and carried nil of the Ijo.vh and girls over town. Not many of ns had ovor boon in AtlienB before. Saturday afternoon they gave us a party. Wo playoil games, and evorybody had a good time. Sunday morning nil of tho boys and girls wont to church, Sunday after noon supper was served us on the lawn, and after supper we cut watermelons. Wo were all surprised when the week was gone, for it scorned such a short time, I wish ovory hoy uml girl in the State could go; it would moan so much to them. There wore boys ami girls from dif ferent pnrts of the Stnto, mul you would bo surprised to know how many of them woro making money for themselves.. Homo are saving to send themselves to school, mul others have bought useful things with money they hnvo made. 1 liopu that ovory club hoy and girl will got tho opportunity to attend a short course at tho State College of Agriculture some time. This whb my first, trip there, and I hope to got to go attain, Clarice Bridges. HOW TO CAN SOUP MIXTURE— To ninko whut the club girls call standard soup mirtore, first wo select good, sound, ripe tpnmtoes; out them up in smnll pieces, leaving out the core.- They may be pooled by scalding. Put them on to cook, and wlion thoy are tel)- 1 dor put them through a solve to got tho seed mul hard parts out. Cook this tomato pulp or pureo until about ftB thick us catsup. Use very toiulor corn, shuck it, silk, njid blanch it by. putting it in boiling water'a few soconds until the milk is sob Cut, it off, and remem ber not to scrape tin? cob. Got young, tender pods of okra, wash, blanch nnd cut up in thin rings. Uso to ovory cup of tomato pulp one-hnif clip coni and olio-half cup okra. To each quart of tiiis mixture use two teaspoons of n sugar and salt mixture, which is two parts sugar mul ono part salt.' Cook tho mixture ton minutes, put in sterilized jars and cook one hour. Annie Dalton, Huggins Club. GARDEN NOTES— . - •' The following vegetables can bo planted now for the full garden; Beets, enblmgo,’ celery mid cullnrd plant's, let tuce, nujstnrd, onion, rape, spinach and turnip seed. Celery plants may be set out tho last, of August, Plants should be stocky, six inches tali, and leaves removed down to the bud or heart. Set deeply, but get no dirt in the . Heart, and water plants if dry. Asparagus is about the most profitable crop in Georgia. In preparation, broad cast mature thick and plow under deep. Lny off rows eight foot apart and apply mmiuro again in rows, with acid phos phate. Throw in dirt ami mix manure, odd aud dirt well, mid thou set out roots two feet apart in rows of six inches be low level of ground. Every gnrdon should have a ,fe\t hun dred strawberry plants, and a good num ber of dewberries mul blackberries. The best varieties of strawberries aro Aurora, Lady Thompson, Klondike and Mission ary. Dewberries (Lucretia.) and black berries, (Eldorado). Lorine Collins, Home Demonstration Agent. o : remember that the cffoetivuie-ss of smallpox is not n matter of faith, blit positively n matter of fact. A huridred years ago ime-teath of I* 11 the deaths m tlie world was caused by smallpox—to day tills number has been reduced to less th/in one-half of one per cent. Again, you may be “afraid of. vaccination,’’ but that fear is surely not well founded, because in the past two years 3,000,000 persons linvc been vaccinated in this country without a single death-. In fact, the actual process is no more painful than a slight pin scratch, and tho effect, even in the most aggravated caBos, is not nearly ns uncomfortable as a eolil in tlie hood. A slight fover mny rosult, mul possibly n headache for a day or two, after it begins to take. Maybe you think the vaccine virus mny “not bo pure.” This, too, « al most. impossible, ns strict laws surround the manufacture of vaccine, and the U. S. Government protects tho people by enforcing these laws, while much of tlie vaccine is prepared in Government lab oratories! The best time for vaccination to. as sure immunity from smallpox is during the child’s first yenr of life, or before it is 10 vears old. For that ronson Beliool authorities insist on all children being vaccinated before entering school. If two successful vaccinations nre hail, pro tection usually insts a lifetime. It is important for' nduts ns well ns for children to be vaccinated; but a child is so totally dependent upon the under standing of its parents to protect it from disonsc that it is highly important that nil parents understand tho value of vaccination—the proven effectiveness of it nnd tlm absence of nil danger in tho process. Therefore, have your child vac cinated now; not. only so it may outer school, but because it is ft duty ofooil to tho child by tho parent. Investigation of vaccination will convince anyone of tho simplicity of tho practice, as well as of tlie importance of it in protecting it from smallpox, and also from typhoid fever. Don’t delay vaccination; do it? now. Annie Traber, Red CrosB Public Henlth Nurse. . o — WHERE THE AVERAGE FARM IS 42 ACRES. Angimto Chronicle. The county which produced the larg est number of bales of cotton in 1920 in tho entire State of South Carolina was Anderson—that great section whicti stretches along tho Savannah river for 40 miles or more, and which is 40 miles wide. A total of 90,000 bales was made in* tlmt county, which, like Burke coun ty, Georgia, is an ompire within itself, This snmo county of Andcraoh faces a curtailment of yield of something like 40,000 bales this your, it being predict ed that only 50,000 [bales will_.be made. Dccrcnso in the use of fertilizer, reduc tion in acreage and tlio weathrir aro contributing causes to tlio reduction in yield, nml it- is strange to visit any community where tlie boll weevil is not on a 'rampage/ and whore rain h’nsn’t fallen almost every day for two months. We find that thoro nro valuable lessons to be learned from Anderson county—los- Hons which we should apply to our im mediate section. In Anderson: county, according to Farm Agent S. M. Byers, the averago farm consists of 42 acres, of which 32 are in cultivation. There are few land owners ■-( and fewer still are the iariil- ownyrs who live in the large towns and cities) that draw two .bales rent por plow, Them are a much greater number of white people who live on the farm, own the farm and do the greater port'im of their own work. ■ Twenty years ago Anderson county consisted largely of large farms with gulleys across tlie fields big and deep enough to hide a two-room house. The land, was impoverished, and so were tlie people. That was before the era of modern farming,, good roads, tel ephones, otc., ami when (he roadB wore so bad in winter that it was an effort for two nudes to pull an empty wagon. J^ILLS RATS and mice—that's RAT-SNAP, the old reliable rodent destroyer. Comes In cakes—no mixing with other food, Your money back if it falls. 35c. Nine (t cake) enough for Pantry, Kitchen or Collar. OBe. kI«o (a cukes) for..Chlcken House, coops, or small buddings, ai.no sl/.e (0 cakes) enough for all farm and out-bulldtngs, storage build ings, or factory buildings, old and Guaranteed by I.REl-KING IlnilQ COMPANY. COWETA UUUG « BOOK COMPANY. Public Health Service MISS ANNIE TRABER, Red Cross Public Henlth Nurse- Chamber of Conunerde- ’Phone 45- PROTECT YOUR CHILD FROM GRAVE DISEASES BY VACCINATION— - N Is it time for your child to elites school, either for u first term or for an other session i If it is, you have of course made every plnn for it—you know it is old enough, that it lias the proper 'clothes, that you will give it the lunches it needs, will be interested in the grades it makes, hi its teacher and its books. But what aliout its health i After all, that is -the chief thing to bo considered, and maybe all your other plans wilt prove useless when you try to I enroll your child and are asked, ‘ ‘ Hn I the little one been vac- muted?” And Even since the ndvent of automobiles tho ■ people used to put their ears into garages for three months in the winter. Now nil of this is ehnnged. The lands have been cut no into small fnrms, which aro cultivate-] along intensive lines. A farmer cuts off a 50-aere tract or n 100- ncro tract and gives It to n son or daughter, and under modern methods of farming these lands bocome rieher and richer. Some formers have nlso come in from other sections of the State and bought lands, which have been devel oped to a high degree of fertility. It is quite true that they have been plant ing, and nre still planting, too much cotton; but thoy can change ovor much better now to new methods than wo can, since methods of farming in many sec tions around Augusta are to rent thou sands of acres to negroes at two bales per plow dnd never see these farms, un less the renter falls to bring in the cot ton by the 1st or 15th of October, and thou there is a hurried trip to see what is the trouble.' As tlie editor of The Chronicle has pointed out time and again, tho day of tlie largo landowner absenting himeself from his land is over. The boll weevil hns made it impossible for the renter to give two bales rent per plow, and no banker, cotton factor or merchant will furnish a tenant unlei|i the landlord waives the rent, and even then no one is angious to furnish him. There must lie a general carving up of large planta tions and the land sold to small fanners in 50 to 100-acre tracts. Of course, where the farmer who owns* tho land lives on it ho can, perhaps, manage to get along, if he forces every tenant to make enough corn, wheat, syrup,. pota toes, etc,', ami raise enough hogs to feed himself. Then, and not until then, will cotton be a surplus crop; and if the tenant rimkes two bales or five bales par plow he will be able to live. Thoughtful farmers will concede the truth of This statement, and we feel that rill of them are now convinced that cotton is a haz ardous proposition under boll weevil con ditions. In other words, if there is a dry year you can make some cotton, but if thero 1b a -wet year you catfnot. That is the history of the weevil, from the Rio Graude to the Atlantic. Speaking of Anderson county and the lessons wo can learn from it, the recla mation of waste land, the splendid cul tivation given tlie crops and the elabo rate system of terracing, are some - of them. Every galled spot is sowed in cowpeas, and it seems that every avail able bit of lahd is in cultivation except that used for pastures. Some of the farms are on the side of a hill bo steep that we would hesitate to cultivate 'them nt all, yet by the proper running of rows and by terracing there are splendid crops growing. ■ Tho farmers take a l)i’i(le_in thoir__ fiirma_j)ocanno__tliey live on their farms, and it is self-evident' tlmt where tlie family moves off to tlie city and leaves tlie old homestead in tlio hands of tenants dilapidation is sure to follow. How many old family home steads are there in our section of Geor gia nail South Carolina tlmt are not being used ns rookeries by tlie birds, or that n?e not tenanted by negroes, with the blinds fallen off, tlie house uunaintcil mid steps fnllen down i “What are you laughing at, Henry?” asked Mrs. Peck of her husband 'who was chuckling over his evening paper. “Something I ?:nv here,’ 1 he replied “but it’s hardly funny enough for two. ’ ■’ Get Rid of That Grouch A grouchy person Ib the most uncomfortable and disagreeable human In the world. Dyspepsia and those suffering from Indi gestion are most often grouchy. Nothing goes right, nothing seems right, when one is affllcated w^tli a grouch. And It's the easiest thing In the world to get rid of a grouch, even if It 1b chronic. For In nearly every Instance the grouch Is brought on by some physical ailment. It may be that the liver needs toning up, or the digestive system 1b all wrong. HOW'S YOUR LIVER? 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We are lower in prices than the mills that make the flour. Our buyer is on the job. We know that the flour offered by our firm is better than you can get elsewhere. Do not take our 'word for - this—compare the flour yourself. It does not take an expert to tell. ' We are not looking for Low Grade Flour to sell at high prices. We buy High Grade Flour ,and sell at low prices. Get your flour from us. > We offer for one week the Highest Grades of Pure and Compound Lard at Car Prices. PURE LARD 45 lb. can.. .$6.00 No. 10 buckets— 1.28 No. 5 bucket .64 Put in your bucket, (perlb.)_ .14 60 lb. tub._^..„_ $6.60 45 lb. can 5.18 No, 10 bucket____ 1.05 No. 10 bucket u .57 Put in your bucket, (per lb,)_ .12 B3 BEST GRADE MEAT, (per pound) 13 1-2 cents. SEE US BEFORE BUYING ANYTHING H. C. ARNALL MERCHANDISE CO. PHONE 342 WE DELIVER PHONE 58