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THB NEWMAN HERALD, NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1921
FARM BUREAU DEPARTMENT.
M. DRAKE, Secretary.
Postofflee, Turin, On.
Residence phono 3623.
Office, Chamber of Commoree.
Office phone 45.
MISS LORINE COLLINS—
Home Demonstration Agent
Postofllco, Newnan, -Gn.
Residence phone 399-J.
Office, Chamber of Commerce.
SEED CORN SHOULD BE
SELECTED IN THE FIELD—
Seed corn should bo selected in the
Held and not from the eorn-erlb, ns no
improvement eon be made unless the
elinrncter of the stalk on which the corn
grow is known. There is n comniodiv
accepted iden that a variety will run
out if grown in the snmc locality for a
number of years. This idea is errone
ous, oh seed corn that has been Selected
from your own Holds from year to year
is better seed than can be bought from
some other section. It is of course nec
essary that the grower start with a good
variety, ami keep it so isolated that no
crossing with other varieties will take
place. The importance of using pure
seed corn of a variety adapted to the
conditions in the section in which it is
grown has never been fully realised by
many farmers. Thoso farmers, however,
who do not enro to select their own seed
corn in the field should secure fresh seed
every few yenrs from a reliable
plant-breeder, as coimtnut selection is
necessary in order to keep corn up to a
high standard. The fodder should never
bo pulled from corn intended for seed,
ns numerous tests have shown that corn
loses in weight from 10 to 30 per cent.,
and that Bend from stalks from which
fodder has been pulled do not give an
high yield as when it is allowed to re
main on the stalk. In a few hours a
grower can go through his fields and
select enough seed to plant Ids crop for
the next year. In tanking these selec
tions the following characteristics should
be watched for—
1. Two good-sized ears per stalk.
2. Tip of ear completely covered by
shuck to keep out grain wcovils.
3. Medium-nixed stalks in most vnri
ctios.
4. Ears low down on stalk to prevent
breaking over.
6. Ears with tip turned down, which
keeps nut moisture.
<1. Ears well filled out with butts and
tips. • i
7. Long eyimlrieal ear, with smnll cob
and deep grains.
5. Hard, flinty grains as a measure
in proventing injury from weevils.
This seed corn should be thoroughly
dried and placed in a barrel or tight box
to prevent injury from weevils and rats.
About (I or .3 ounces of carbon . bisul
phide placed in a shallow dish in the top
of ii barrel, and the barrel /covered
tight;, will kill all weevils.
The prolific corns have invariably giv
en the highest yields in variety tests,
and when good seed of a prolific variety
is secured to begin with they ciyi be
kept to a high standard /iy selecting in
the .field.
FARM PROGRAM FOR 1922,
ADOPTED BY WHITE OAK
F. B. COMMUNITY COUNCIL—
The White Oak Farm Bureau Ogmimi-,
idty Council mot Friday night, Sept, 30,
with a largo and representative attend
ance. The eliief f'eaturo of tlio business
mooting was tlio report of a committee
appointed at a former meeting to pre
sent a farm program for 1922. A sum
mary of the report, which follows, will
show Iiqw well this work was dono.
For n one-horse farm as a unit it is
recommended to plant i
Four acres of. wheat, S to 0 neres nf
outs, 3 to 10 neres of corn, (with pons
or velvet beans in corn and on stubble,)
1 or 2 acres of potatoes, 1 aero of sor
ghum, and such air amount of cotton ns
the farmer can hnndlo under boll weevil
conditions after taking care of the crops
named, Also, a good garden was stress
ed, and it was . recommended that each
farm Include the cows, hogs and poul
try to provide a surplus to bring in
money. This is safe and sane, and cer
tainly along the right line. We may dif
fer about details. Homo would no doubt
approve of a larger acreage of oats;
some might add peanuts or soy beans,
or increase the potato acreage, but it is
certainly a good program to study.
Think it over, and see bow it will suit
your conditions.
rocks or clods. I then planted the seed
and placed the box in a wnrm, dark
place for a few days; then out in the
worm sunshine, taking them in at night.
If loft out it is best to put an old sack
over them, to keep them from getting
hurt by the cold.
I hoed my patch at leimt once every
two weeks, and let it be plowed twice
a month. I did not prune or stake my
tomatoes this year, I had no trouble
with insects, but the tomatoes rotted.
When 1 gathered tomatoes I put them
carefully in a basket ami tried not to
bruise them. When I got to the house
1 would take out the tomatoes, place
them on a bench nnd select the best
ones for canning whole, nnd used the
others for making ketchup, soup mixture
nnd puree.
1 did all my canning by packing them
in jars and boiling thepi in a deep boiler
on the stove, ns I have no eaiiner.
We always have a good time at our
club meetings. We first got our work
finished up; then we sing, and give
yells, and plan the work, for the next
mooting. 1 think the best time wo had
this year was at our club camp, hold at
Sargent in July, when all of the club
girls ami teachers from all over the
county wore invited to camp. Wo slept
on wliout straw on the school-house
floor—that is, while we slept, as Jiore
was very little sleeping done. We had
to talk and laugh and listen for the
ghosts before wo went to sleep. I like
the idea of all of the girls getting to
gether once a yonr like wo did at the
camp. And, too, wo lonrned so many
things 1 urn hoping wo shnll go every
year.
Tlio club work has helped me more
than anything I have ever been in. I
intend to bo in it ngain next year, so I
can got my certificate.
ElBie Hicks,
Sargent Club.
Public Health Service
MISS ANNIE TRABER,
Rod Cross Public Health Nurao-
Chamber of Commerce- 'Phono 46-
FARMERS' BUSINESS CLUB
ORGANIZED AT SENOIA—
On the call of some of the leading
farmers and busiuuss men a meeting .was
held in Sciioin on Oct. .1 to discuss
farm plans for 1922. After discussion
of the form that (lie organisation shout
take, it was decided to form a local
Farmers’ Business Club. L. P. Bran-
denberg was elected presidentt, and R.
W. Freeman si>cretury. A committee
was appointed to prepare a farm pro
gram for 1922 nnd report at a meeting
ou Saturday, Oct. 3. Finns were nmdu
in regard to marketing tlio proaent or' p
of sorghum syrup, which will be report
ed later, A number of orders for erim-
sou clover and bur clover seed wore
taken by the secretary, and u number uf
thoso present will try to get seed patches
nf these valuable soil-improving crops
started. More titan thirty joiued the
club, and they plan to have weekly
meetings for the present at least.
B. M. Drnke. County Agent.
LEARN HEALTH LESSONS FOR
USE IN THE HOME—
Suppose the baby should wake in the
night with a violent nttnek of croup,
would anybody in the house know just
wlmt to do? Babies have strangled to
death, you know, for lack of this knowl
edge, instantly applied. ,
Suppose Jim or Mary should come
home front seltool one day ‘ ‘ feelin ’ just
awful siek, ’ ’ and with u 11 terrible pain ’ ’
in atonmeh or hand, could tlio inothor in
your home help reliove the pain until the
doctor canto f
Supposo grown daughter had typhoid,
fever nnd showed “strange symptoms’’
ono day—or, worse still, in the middle
of tlio night—would tlio homo nurse who
was taking care of Iter know ltow to take
temperature, nnd tell tlio doctor what
it was when lie came, or whoa she got
him over tlio pltonof Temperature, you
know, is the index to tlm putlnet’s real
condition.
Suppose some one in your home, old
or young, had broken a leg; has to be
kept la bed nnd cared for during several
wcokB, ih thoro somoone in your family
who would know how to givo the sufferer
a bath; how to change his bed linen and
Ids own clothes, and make tlio poor pa
tient 'comfortable oven during these pro
cesses?
Suppose baby’s-food just would not
“stay down,” nnd the precious little
one wus cross and in pniti must of the
time, would the mothor in your homo un
derstand the danger in such a condition ?
Supposo tlio kettle turnod over nnd
Susie or Johnny got an “awful- scald,”
would someone near nt lmml understand
how to rare for this painful injury nt
keep yonr family woll 1” 11’s much easier
once/ Burns, yon know, ondnugor life
if they are had enough, but oven simple
burns lire terribly painful, and instant
attention is needed.
If you can answer “Yob” to all these
questions without n single crcoption, it
seems that your family is safe in illness
or emergency.
A bigger question even than any of
the others is, “Do you know how to
keep your family woll?” t.’s much easier
than helping them get well after they
urc Hick.
Nurses, trained to help in sickness,
arc fine; but to have a member of every
family fully informed about-health mat
ters is still finer. Hucli persons help the
muse nnd help the community.
The Red Cross understood the need for
itH women and girls to have practical,
simple, yot thorough training along the
lines of Home Hygiene and Care of tlio
Sick.' Classes for this purpose arc being
bold in hundreds of places. You can
join one here nnd now, if you will.
Apply to your local Public Health
Nurse for full details. More thnn 100,-
000 American women nlready hold cer
tificates of proficiency, showing they
have successfully completed these classes.
You may bold one, too, if you will. t
Aiinio Traber,
County Red Cross Public Health Nurse.
DAVIS, OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Toledo (O.) Blade.
On a memorial park laid out in the
county of Todd, in Kentucky, the gray
fragments of tlio Confederate Army will
rally on June 3, 1922, to Bee unveiled
the 175-foot obelisk which is the Inst
offering of the South to the memory of
Jefferson Davis. On this site, 114 years
Hgo, was born the Confederacy, for here
was born the man who for twenty-five
years before tlm Civil War and twenty-
live years after it maintained implacably
the doctrine of State’s rights, the prin
ciple of secession, tlio contention that the
Constitution is a volunary compact of
sovereign States.
It is a mystery of fate which brought
two Kentucky lads of similar age, born
140 miles apart, to the forefront in the
most dramatic of nil wars. It was a
double mystery that one courac of life
should lead Lincoln forward as an apos
tle of nationalism, and another course
of life made Dnvis the champion cf
State ’b rights. Yet from early manhood
Lincoln nlways saw the ’Union above all,
and from early manhood Davfo cherish
ed the State, He cherished it to the
point of sacrifice. When his wounds nnd
gallantry in the Mexican War brought
him an appointment from President Polk
as brigadier-general of volunteers, ho re
fused, declaring that only a State could
innke nn officer of State volunteers.
Wounds and gallantry in the Mexican
WnrJ Who remembers that Davis shed
War, or that ns Secrotary of War under
ids blood for the nation? Who remem
bers that lie served in the Black Hawk
President Pierce lie created a new ar
tillery and a now infantry? These were
national acts, aud Davis desired no fame
as a nationalist. Ho chose his own field
of service, for danger or rnowne. He
was of the Confederacy before it wns
born and after it wns dead, and ho would
now rather be dear to a remnant of gray
veterans than command tho world’s
Wo admire the man who admits that
there are smarter men than himself.
Some people are such inveterate liars
they are not believed even when they
tell the truth.
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MY WORK—
1 joined the Calming Club for tlio
purpose of learning how to can vegeta
bles nmt fruits, nnd tiow to sow nnd
cook. I found the club is tlio best place
1 know to learn. When 1 joined I knew
nothing about canning or sewing, but
now i can sew most iinythiiig 1 want to.
mid i-nu too.
My garden was a soft, black, loamy
soil, near n branch. 1 selected this place
because it was rich, and almost always
moist, being near water.
About the first of Marcli pupa broke
up my garden, then broudcasteil some
stable manure anil harrowed it, so there
would lie no clods. It rained before lie
luid off the rows, but ho put- some more
manure in the rows. I think this is a
very good way to prepare tlio soil for
tomatoes, ns it pulverizes the soil and
makes it easy to cultivate. I planted
my tomato seed in n large box about
the last of February. I prepared the
box by using a bucket of woods soil and
half a bucket of manure, and mixed
them well, making sure not to leave any
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Central of Georgia Holds Railroading is
as Attractive Now as Ever
Right now, when optimism in all branches of industry is needed more than ever before
we regret to note an unorganized but none the less effective effort to make railway work ap-
pen-r unattractive to our young men. Non-railway men have expressed discouraging views,
and even some railway officers have lent their opinione to this unprogreBsive effort. For the
most part, fortunately, these views are merely opinions without statistics in support.
We, of the Central of Georgia Railway, do not subscribe to thdse pessimistic opinions in
any single particular. We believe—indeed, we know—that the present-day complexity of
railway organization demands men better trained and more resourceful than ever before, and
that opportunities for advancement, to the right men, are as good as they ever were.
There is danger, however, that, although unfavorable opinions of railway work are false,
constant reiteration may result in tlioir acceptance as fact, and (some promising young railway
men may be side-tracked into other missions of less benefit to themselves and to the public.
Any business is largely what you make it. Railway men should point out how attractive their
business really is.
Wlmt other preent-day businesses have greatei romance, better compensation and swifter
chances for advancement than railroading? The three factors—opportunity, compensation,
adventure—are the lodestones that draw young men today as truly as they did their fathers
twenty, thirty or forty yenrs ago. What has railroading lost in these respects that other
businesses have gamed?
As construction of new lines, with consequent opening of new territory, has almost ceased,
perhaps some of the romance lias faded out of railroading. The day of the empire builder
is past. But have other businesses fared better? What competing industry has more adven
ture, even today? Only on, the frontiers of civilization, which have crept far outside our
immediate problem, will you find the great adventures again—and out there, the chances are,
you will find the railroader, ritext to the soldier, perhaps, the envied man.
In place of the old frontiers we have something far more productive of opportunities
for service—a large population busy in the- further development of our country. In this
development the railroads play a part of tremendous importance., for business of every kind
is dependent upon adequate transportation. In providing that transportation at minimum cost
and at the Baine time improving and enlarging the transportation plant, to keep it abreast
with the country’s growth, the present-day railway man has a problem bigger than his graml-
fn tlier and his father faced in the days of pioneei railroading, and he is better paid.
But how about advancement? Has a young man in railway work a chance as good as
those in other lines? Will merit find itB own place at the top? We believe no other business
offers better opportunity for advancement to the young man who insists upon advancement.
Inertia won’t push him to the top any more today than it would forty years ago, but his bass’
job is always in front of him, and the pursuit is the rsaifie old game.
The young men who are now coming along iu railway service don’t know much about
the conditions that prevailed- a generation ago, and we doubt that many of them care. All
that a young man who has the right kind of stuff in him is Concerned about is the problem
of tackling the task confronting him today, and he doesn^t care a rap about how somebody
did the job before. He has bis own future to carve—and many young railway men are carv
ing theirs rapidly today.
For example; some of the official positions of tbe Central of Georgia Railway are held
by men less thnn thirty years of age. A greater number are held by men between thirty and
forty. Several of the men holding executive positions attained them before they were forty
years of age. Almost nil of the officers, the executives included, won their way up from the
ranks, after starting ns station clerks, rodmen, ticket sellers or stenographers. This proves
that opportunity still exists in the railway business. The best man will seize it, as he always
did and always will. The same effort wins in railway work as in other lines, and the final
rewards compare favorably with those in most competing industries.
The editor of nn important newspaper wrote the other day: “There is no more inter
esting calling than that of railroading. It’s a man’s game, and next to our own we esteem
it as a vocation of less monotony nnd more adventure than any other.” This $3 a complete
outsider’s opinion of the railway business. While we do not agree with the exception lie
made, we believe it is otherwise a correct opinion.
Moreover, we believe it would be conducive to the good of the railroads if similar opin
ions were adopted and expressed more frequently. We believe the contrary viewpoint is
erroneous, and its adoption by many of our citizens would be detrimental to railroads as well
as to the public welfare.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
W. A. WINBURN,
President, Central of Georgia Railway Company.