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THE NEWNAN HERALD, NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1921 CONSIDER THE POTATO. Commerce Nows. In trying to solve the problem con fronting nil tlie people on account of the npponrnnec of tho boll weevil wo have considered: First, the importance of t cash market, in Commerce for nil prod ucts. Second, the need of n farmers’ or ganisation at every school-house to die- cuss the problem and ngrcc on the pro duction of certain farm products, so that the farmers In the community may market those products togethor to ad vantage. Third, thnt one hundred hens to the farm house might help in (lulling n product that can be sold any day in almost any nmrkot for ready cash. Fourth, that farmers in every community put their heads together nnd plant mi or moro acres in cantaloupes, so they would hate a qunntlty sufficient to ship tfifecther to iplYfintligp. We come tow in a fifth suggestion, to consider tho potato. It Is not perishable property, tA* h food product, it is fine when load ed in ashes during the long winter nig its, It is elegant If linked and plnccil on tho table. It is delicious if fried for the morning meal. No pudding over was or ever will be superior to potato pit 111 nr. Thnt mnn or woman who has never had the good fortune to fonst on a sliced potato pie was unfortunate in his birth. The sugar in the potato furnishes nn clement of food thnt tho body uer.ds, and lessens the sugar bill uud the gjo eery hill. It hasn't n fault in nil its ninko-up. llnfortuiintoly, tlioro nro mil lions of people who have novor formed nn acquaintance with the sweet potnto. Discussing this feature we (lml the fol lowing in n recent issue of tho Potato Biillatin: “It is estimated that not olio person in ovovy ten in tho United States lias over seen, much less tasted, a sweet potato. Truly, tho gospel of happiness nnd wholesome living needs missionaries. Above the Mason nnd Dixon line nrc mil lions of our fellow-cltisons waiting to ho converted to tho wonders of our South ern yam, Unlimited markets are stand ing ready to release a river of dollars to those who will ponetrnte their possi bilities. ’ 1 If this is a fact, and if is, then why not try potatoes? Try them for home consumption and for shipment, it will be worse than folly to grow potatoes and depend on tile local market. The niip- jdy would ho out of proportion to ilie demand. Hut there in n market open for all the potatoes that can lie grown in this section, Heroin is the need of that school-house organisation. A com- mitiiily of farmers run got together, build a ciiriug-lionsc, cure together, and then ship together. Anil the lieaniy ef it is, the potato will unit until tho mar ket gets right. It will not perish like the pencil, the cantaloupe or the tomato. If cured, It will bo good nail sound the foil ..wing spring. It Is yot time to or- giirizo and build that curing-house for tie present crop. Such a house Is now being erected in Commerce, but it will n t flccoinmodntc the entire trade terri tory. Comimialt.v houses me needed, and v. ill suffice. So when considering the question ns to what can lie substituted for cotton as n money crop, tho Georgia yam looms up as one of tho safest, most dependable substitutes. If nothing hut cotton is grown and the boll weevil gets the most of thnt, what are we going to do when onr bills bucumo duo in the full? TREAT TO VOUR SEED GRAIN PREVENT SMUT. State Experiment Station Bulletin. • Tlic advent of tho cotton boll weevil in uOstrnftiYo numbers Is forcing tho far mers of Georgia to turn from cotton to n more gcnernllxed typo of farming. Jteportg indicate a further large ihcroase in tli# nereago to bo sown to email grnln tide fall. To gr5\V thoeo crops in com" IteUMcih with that of grain-growing sec tions of tho country tho farmers of Georgia" cannot afford to neglect nay factor or practice which will Increase tho yield. Smut is prncticnlly always present in oats and wheat from untreat ed seed, tho damage varying from 1 por coni, to ns high ns SO per cent., witli nn average of about 5 per cent. Since tills loss enn bo entirely eliminated by a sim ple method of seed treatment, no one can afford to nogleet this practice. The trentment in most common nso consists in dipping the seed for two hours in ii solution made ivy dissolving one pint of commercial formalin in 10 gnlhms of water. Remove tho grain from solution, drain, and keep covered five hours: then spread out and dry over night. In practice, the grain ji bags may be dipped into Iho solution uud removed, and, nfter draining, piled together for live hours; then poured out to dry. Recently more rapid nnd otherwise more satisfactory methods have been worked out nnd highly recommended where tried. In one of those, devised nnd tested at the Arlington Farm of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the grain is given n preliminary soaking. It is dipped in pure water toil minutes, piled ami kept moist for six hours; then flip- jmhI for 10 minutes in tho formalin solu tion, ns above; again piled and kept moist for six hours; and then spread out to dry over night. The pro-soaking allows more rapid use of n small amount of formalin solution, nnd greatly lessens the danger of injury to tho seed. In both of these methods the grain is swollen, and the amount sown par ncro must therefore be increased about ]ier cent, A method of “dry” treatment has re cently been recommended highly in cer tain grnin-growing regions. One pint of commercial formalin is mixed with one pint of water nnd put into an ordi nary small quart sprayer. This solu .on is sprayed onto the grain as it is shov eled over into n [die. The quart of solution iH sufficient for SO bushels' of grain. The sprayed pile is then cov ered for live hours, in order to hold the formaldehyde gas and allow it to act. Tho grain is dry nnd ready to sow at the end of the treatment, and is not swollen ns in the soak methods. The gas from the solution will irritate the nose and throat of the workmen unless tho treatment is done in the open air. Either of the three methods will give good results, nnd the individual may feel safe in choosing the method best suited to liis own conditions. olio of the sand companies out near Junction City this spring-summer, nnd a nogro employee who was being kept on the pay-roll, but who was not over burdened with work and had a good deal of spare time, decided to plant a little pntch of cotton, to see what It would do, No cotton had ever been planted m that particular locality, which was sandy and not so well adapted to staple crops. The nearest cotton field was full five miles nwny, nnd the negro figured thnt the boll weevils woiildn ’t find their way to his little patch. He fertilized tho ground and cultivated his four acres most in dustriously, hoping to get some cotton. At tho critical moment tho boll weevils appeared and they ran through thnt pntch of cotton oh rapidly ns the Boml- nolo Limited goes through CohiUce. There seemed to be millions of them, and tho cotton field wns fnirly working with weevils. “The very air seemed charged with weevils,” said » gentleman from Junction City, who was telling of this occurrence. “Remember, that tins ground had never been planted to cotton before, and was live miles from a cotton field.’’ A farmer from Meriwether county went down to extreme Southwest Georgia a year or two ago to personally investi gate boll weevil conditions, nnd nskcil a large farmer, a friend of his, to tell him just exactly wlmt Ids experience had been. That gentleman said: “For three vents 1 thought 1 could-bent the boll weevil. The cotton yield each fall would vory disappointing, and then and tlioro I would hold up my hand and declare that I would cut cotton next year and go in for diversified crops. But when the next spring rolled around, old habits asserted themselves and I found myself believing I could bent tho weevil tills year, and once more the cotton seed went in the ground. It took threo yeurs of this to break me of the cotton habit. Now ! plant no cotton at all. Others around me tried various dovicos. One of them wns to plant only small cotton patches nnd that in separated Holds, nnd cultivate those patchos intensively— working it along ns fast. as possible— nnd then, when the weevil began to np- pour, gathering and burning them — picking over the field daily to got tho woovils. Well, these smnll pntches of cotton turned out just like my - big fields, they were total failures. “You came down lioro for advice anil Information,” concluded tho big South west Georgia funner. 1 ‘ Do you kmov wlmt 1 have told you is worth?” “It is worth n grant deal,” slid Iho Meriwether planter. “It is worth absolutely nothing to you—that’s wlmt it’b worth,’’ said the South Georgian, emphatically. You'll go l ight back homo and plant cotton just oh before. You’ll bolievo that your spe cial section is exempt. Or, if your sec tion la hit, you’ll beliove that your farm, for one farm, will escape—you'll know how to ninnngc, you’ll tell yourself. No, my friend, you Imvo got to moot the boll weevil personally. Y’ou’vo got to try him oat on your own farm. You will bo convinced, not by whnt somebody else snyB, but only by your own expe rience, ’ ’ The gentleman returned to Moriwotlier county, much impressed. The next year ho planted cotton ns usual. Ho met and shook hands witli Mr. Boll Weevil two years in succession before lie decided to quit his company. His South Georgia friend Imd it down exactly right. Ben Franklin Task Poker Into Parle, In Paris pokor was first introduced Sta (m uliimi^ndcir, wno ffuglit mem bers of the court thfif pokor liail Join- tnoes beat a mile. To this day a group of wliUe-[inlred Frdjiobmen, descend ants of the club Franklin founded, meet every night at six o'clock oil the first floor of tho Tnvorn Roynle and piny poker, with ninny ejaculations nnii tli'e nTost absorbed seriousness mi- til It is time for dinner. They num ber among them two millionaires^ tho bead of a famous dressmaking firmTH senator and a famous Socialist author, and they play with sous ns chips and a limit of DO centimes—about 7 cents ill present rate of exchange—on the game. One of Franklin’s peculiarities wns a contention that a flush beat a full house, and even now the majority of Frenchmen play that way. ROBS OTHER BIRDS OF PREY CAN’T BEAT THE BOLL WEEVIL EXCEPT IN ONE WAY. W. G. Woodall in Columbus Enquirer Bun. Business was not overly-rushing witli "Frigate Pelican” Secure* Its Food Chiefly by Forcing Its Weaker Brethren to Dfegorge. The frlgnte bird, also called tile man- of-war liuwk and tile "frlguto pelican," Is a sen bird, so culled from its nttacks on other birds. This bird, very large and with black plumage, Is capable of very powerful nnd rapid flight It sometimes measures ten feet from tip to tip of Its extended wings. On ac count of Its Immense extent of wing and Its dashing liuhlts, It has been called the swiftest bird that sweeps ttie^sciis!'" “•""wistt-wiwBtt.- n The frigate bird Is a tropical sea bird of two species. Tim larger ranges the smaller is found only near the eastern seas from Madagascar to Mo luccas and southward to Australia. Both species breed In large colonies, building their nests on rocks, high cliffs or lofty trees on uninhabited Islands. The birds often lly far out to sen, but most of the time they re main neur shore. The frlgnte bird’s nerinl evolutions are extremely graceful nnd It sours to great heights. It Is.said never to dive for Its prey, but to seize Ashes only when they appear at the surface or above it. Flying fishes form a great part of Its food. This bird of prey also pursues gulls and terns und eats the fish It forces them to disgorge. The male acquires under its bill a bright scarlet pouch which is capable of in flation. HOUSED IN OLD BUILDINGS Financial Institutions of Yorktown, Virginia, Do Business Among His toric Surroundings. Within 20 miles of where the first English settlement In America was made at Jamestown Is the scene where Cnpt. John Smith records the story of Ills rescue by Poculiontas, the daughter of the Indlnn chief, Powha tan. Within a circle of 20 miles is to be found the oldest Protestant church in America; the kitchen where Martha Washington cooked In good coloulnl style; the college which has graduated threo presidents; Bruton church, in which more men of his torical importance huve worshiped thnn in any other church in America —and Yorktown, where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington. Although Yorktown has a popula tion of less than two hundred, it has two banks, botli of which are working In whnt are probably the two oldest buildings used for banks In America. One of these banks, operating under state mid trust company laws, is housed In the historic oldest custom house built In America—erected in 1715. Here tile ships for Philadelphia were once compelled to enter and clear. Here nt one time wns the gath ering plnce of the financiers of the early colonists. Wall street: has tok en away the financiers, but fens left the same old building with its same old walls of English brick, some 24 by feet square and two stories high. Wood That Does Not Rot. . Tho wood of tho mangrove tree, which Is found In French Guiana, is considered liy the French ns a wood thnt will not rot. All exposure nnd efforts to break "down Its fiber In four years’ experiments by the French rail way service have been useless. The grain of tile wood Is so close as practically to exclude all moisture. Its density is placed nt HO. as against 40 for fir uud 70 for oak. In addition to tltls closeness of fiber the man grove lutB n large amount of tanning in Us composition. Tills protects it from Insects and such blights ns mold and damp. While not as brittle ns oak, it lias twice the resistance to flexion nnd has about tho same po tency against crusMng and twisting. MICKIE SAYS— P AWLMKSVAWAWUObOESVtT MWERTtSE ATTRACTS ABOUT AS MUCM KTTCWTIOU AROUND TCNJtt AS A CUURCU BBU. VWOOV-D VJHWOUT A CUARRER \ \ , Dream Lore. To dream you ore nt the equator signifies an abundance of the neces sities of life. To farmers tt Is a good omen, ns It promises good weather and fine crops. To merchants It foretells a decrease In business. To cross the equator In a ship, riches If the ship Is North bound; poverty If South bound. To see a Hue where the equa tor Is denotes good business qualifi cations, success tn commercial life. o Racing Monkeys. It Is true thnt uu active boy could easily outrun most monkeys “on the flat." But there Is one species, known as the Potos monkey, which is very swift. Built somewhat like a grey hound, It can gallop at a speed of 18 miles an hour, nnd outdistance a good pony. .Notice to Debtors nnd Creditors. GEORGIA—Coweta County: _ All creditors of tho estate of Thomas H. Herring, late of Coweta county, Ga., deceased, are hereby notified to render tn their demands to the undersigned according to law; and all persons In debted to said estate are required to make Immediate payment to the un dersigned, This Sept. 0. 1921. GENEVA J. HERRING, Administrator. R. F. D. 8, Newnan, Oa. Herald Want Ads. Pay. Notice to Debtors nnd Creditors. GEORGIA—Coweta County; All creditors of the estate of Claudw C. Culbroath, late of said State and- county, deceased, who traded under the name of Culbreath's Pharmacy, are- liercby notified to render In their de mands agalnBt him individually, or against Culbreath's Pharmacy, to the undersigned according to law; and all persona Indebted to satd estate, or to Culbreath's Pharmacy, are required to make Immediate payment to me. Thin August 1st. 1921. inm MRS. LETA A. CULBREATH, Admr; P. O. Address—Palmetto, Ga. Most People Friendly. Nobody will do ns much for yon as you will do yourself, but lots of pen pie will do more to you If vqii tat them Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA—Coweta County: All creditors of the estate of Merritls Chandler, late of Coweta county, Ga., deceased, are hereby notified to render In their demands to the undersigned according to law; and all persons In debted to said estate are required to make Immediate payment to the un dersigned. This Sept. 9, 1921. LUNIE S. SHROPSHIRE, Administrator. R. F. D. 1, Palmetto, Ga. A Market for Peas We will buy one thousand bushels of field peas, paying market price, either cash, on account, or in mer chandise. Let us have your surplus. SEED 04IS-- We offer the famous Texas Rust- Proof Seed Oats, selling at market price. The price this week is 8oc. Get your supply and provide your own feed for stock. FRICTION TOP SYRUP PAILS, WITH BAILS We received a car this week, and have another car due to arrive next Wednesday, and will have an ample supply for your needs, IF YOU BUY NOW. This is a standard pail and gives universal satisfaction. No. io size, 11C each, in lots of ioo No. 5 'size, 8C each, in lots of ioo Johnson Hardware Co. “LOYALTY” No Exchange. "There's «no thing about selling postage stamps," said the tired druggist “What Is It'i" asked the customer. “There’s no profit In the deni, of course, but It's one thing I sell that my customers dou’t bring back nud want to exchange for something else." —Detroit Free Press. Panama Canal Looks. There are few things more Interest ing to the Average traveler than to pastj through th? great locks of the Panama canal. The vessel enters very slowly and as she does lines are taken aboard lending to electric motors or “niules," which keep her in the center of the lock. Then the great gates at the renr swing together and the wnter is turtle^ into the enclosure thus JorinoiT. Looting over tile side of the steamer one sees a great bubble of wnter rise from the bottom, then a second nnd third appear until finally tho whole surface of the lqck Is boil ing. The pressure is so groat Hint often fish sucked Into the drains that lend from the (fhtmn lake, nro drawn In and thrown several feet Into the air. When the proper level Is finally reached the gale abend of the vessel opens and the “mules start forward, dragging the vessel free from the lock before she moves ahead under her own power. Carnival Festivities. Carnival festivities originated In the Roman Catholic countries of Europe, where they were celebrated, especial ly in Rome and Naples, with great mirth nnd freedom during the week before the beginning of Lent. Mardl Gras (literally “Fat Tuesday," so called for the French practice of pa rading a fnt ox, “boeuf gras," during the celebration of the day), or Shrove Tuesday, is the last day of the car nival. The festivities were first In troduced Into New Orleans In 1833, by one of Its French citizens. Mr. Mnrlg- ny, and for many years they consisted of promiscuous maskers roaming through the streets of the city, indulg ing In various kinds of amusements, fun and folly. Embarrassment "Of course," remarked Senator Sor ghum, "I wns proud to huve a vote so overwhelmingly in my favor. And yet It has its disadvantages." “In whnt way?" "I am compelled to feel n sense of obligation toward everybody who votes for me; and a landslide makes the number so great thut I can scarce ly keep up with the responsibilities." Pull for Newnan. Oldest Crown Jewel a Sapphire. Only a few of the early British royal jewels survive In the present regalia. The oldest of these is the sapphire of Edward the Confessor, which was originally set in his coro nation ring. It was buried with him tn his shrine in Westminster Abbey, but in 1101 the shrine wits broken open and this nnd other Jewels re moved. The sapphire Is in the cross on the top of the king's state crown. Legend lias It thnt St John once ap peared before the Confessor ns a pil grim, and that the monarch gave him the ring, which was returned later. The stone Is reputed to have the pow er of curing scintica and rheumatism, but has not been used for this pur pose recently. “Are You Loyal to Your City?” The above questions and MORE were published in last Sunday’s paper in the largest city in Georgia—and it struck us very forcibly when we read it. For if it is good for that city, why is it not good sound advice for a city like Newnan? Patronize your own home merchants, Go into your own home stores—see what they have—get their prices—and you will be surprised to find many things that you did not ex pect and at less price than you thought. “Well! If you are part of our city and spend your mon ey to help lurther the city’s growth why don’t you do it all over instead of half way?” Look around you and see what we have and then spend all you can at home. If you need anything for some worthy cause, aren’t the merchants in your home town the most liberal contributors? Don’t they put their money in the home banks, help you pay your taxes, assist in keeping up your schools, churches and public institutions? Every dollar you send out of- your city makes your own town poorer and the other city richer- Give your own home merchant a chance. “Try it, if you are not already a convert, and see if the investment don’t bring fine results—to yourself as well as your town.” We don’t say trade WITH US, but we do sa^ TRADE AT HOME, and we believe that every merchant in Newnan will be more appreciative, and thank you for every dollar that you spend at home, for we need it and will thank you, also. Glover-Jones Company T