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THE NEWNAN HERALD. NEWNAN. OA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921.
FARM BUREAU DEPARTMENT.
M. DRAKE, Secretary.
Postofllce, Turin, On.
Residence phono 3623.
Office, Chamber of Commerce.
Office phone 45.
MISS LORINE COLLINS—
Home Demonstration Agent
Postoffico, Ncwnan, Ga.
Residence phone 3B0-J.
Office, Chamber of Commerco.
THE FIRST STEP—
1 think everybody is ngroed Hint the
first step toward prosperity for the far
mcr, and therefore everybody else, is
to moke our farms self-sustaining. In
order to help ns to check up and sen
just how far wo fall short of this, 1
have gotten together the following fig
ures: The figures for production, except
for cotton, arc taken from the cepsus
returns for IlllO, and the requirement
estimates are based on the figures given
by tlnuBfato College of Agriculture, ns
the remit of an investigation of the ac
tual requirements of 250 families in
North Carolina. .Of course, your form
may differ from the average fnjni in
Coweta county, and I therefore suggest
that you take the actual returns of you:'
Tiwn farm and check then: by the require
ments hero laid down. Tho requirements
per plow a no "based upon the requirements
of four persons, one mule, one cow, and
two hogs to be grown out so as to not
45S lbs, of pork and lard, and 26 hens,
Requirements Per Plow For Family.—
Vegetables, (Including sweot and Irish
potatoes,) 04 bushels, Fruit, 14 bushes.
Corn monl, (numbor bushols corn,) 13
bushels. Flour, (30 llm. flour por bush
el wkoat,) wheat, 24 bushelB. Syrup,
32 gallons. Poultry, 230 lbs. Hatter,
.182 lbs. Buttermilk, 388 gallons. Sweot
milk, 08 gallons. Bcof, 48 IbB. Pork and
lard, 450 lbs. Eggs, 114 dozen.
For Livestock.—Corn, 92% * bushols.
Oats, 75 bushols. Hay, 4.15 tons. Straw,
etc,, 1.76 tons. Cotton seed or cotton
seed meal, 25 bushels.
Counting 5,000 plows for the county
tho average production por plow is: Cot
ton, (1021 figures,) 1.5 bales. Cotton
seed, 46 bushels. Corn, 110% bushels.
Wheat, 2.6(1 bushels, Oats, 3.28 blishcls.
Peas and peanuts, 1.07 bushels. Sor
ghum and sugar cane, 8.’ gallons, oil
hay, .03 toils. Sweat mid Irish potatoes,
10.8 bushels. Orchard, 5.0 bushels.
County,
3,500
Per Plow.
.7
202 gnl.
.2
1
I
Dairy cows,
Milk,
Stock hogs, 003
Pigs, 5,285
Shunts, 4,070
Beef cattle, 1,352
Eggs, 42 doz.
This shows a big shortage of outs,
wheat, milk, eggs, and a small snrpluti
of corn and cotton seed, but not enough
to balance the shortage in other feed
s' "„'V.
A about present rates of production
it will require to furnish the food and
feed necessary for the farm: Cera and
velvet, beaus, (I acres. Oats, followed by
peas, I acres. Wheat, followed by pots,
2K> acres. Orchard, .2 acres. Garden
and potatoes, 1 acre. Syrup, .3 acres.
Total, 14 acres.
In another issue wo will discuss wllllt
money crops can be added.
'It. M. Crake, County Agent.
SUMMARY OF COUNTY DEM
ONSTRATION WORK, 1921—
'\tfumber of girls enrolled in Cunning
Club, (1021,) ill: number of girls en
rolled In Canning Club, (1020,) II.
Number completing work, (1021,) 54:
number completing work, (1020,) 37.
BUSINESS MUST BACK AGRICUL
TURE,
Atlanta Constitution.
Referring to your editorial in today’s
issue regarding "Cotton Review,’’ by a
Nnw York broker, lot us "face tho mu
sic’’ and admit the truth.
As you sny, Home of our lands are fer
tile and me Huseeptihlo of rapid improve
ment by crop rotation—planting leg
umes, etc.
However, the fact remains tl.iut much of
our soil Is impoverished and practically
all our lands, rich nml poor, Imvp proven
to be a liability instead of an asset for
the past two years,
It is positively true Mint our farmers
pro discouraged.
Their lands /uni their labor have not
earned taxes for the past two years,
Our best farmers have been penalized
by ujmiorclful losses.
They wore told to diversify; they have
done so, and now find no market for their
produets.
Thoy are offered only 25 cents per
biiHhol for eon: and 2 cents per pound
for fat cattle, 14 emits per gallon for
good syrup. 5 coats per pound for fat
hogs, and linve no market for hides.
Hboas are too high for them to buy,
nnd there is no market for surplus mules
nnd horses, which they cun up longer af
ford to employ labor to plow.
A grout many small farmers will be
compelled to stick to tho soil in order to
produce for their fnmilies the necessa
ries of life. As a Imsinoss proposition,
many of the big farmers have had onougli
nml are making no pinna to operate their
farms next year. Growing surplus food
crops 1ms been seriously discouraged and
this fact will lie rebooted by a scarcity
iu urban communities before or soon
nftor another tlrno of harvest.
Big business, in pined of expending all
tlicir talent ill efforts to sell something,
and then trying, often in vain, to collect,
should use some of its energy and gray
mutter in a combined effort to assist tho
farmers in some sinio system of market
ing the raw materials grown on the
fnrniH, and thereby insure somo measure'
of prosperity to tho producing elnsH of
our citizenship.
Otherwise lack of or curtailed produc
tion will soon bring trouble and hardship
on tho consuming class, even greatov than
the farmers are now 'linvlng to endure.
Allow me to suggest that you write Mr.
.Hurry Cnlluwoy, of Lad range, to mail
you the plan in detail ro'contly adopted
by the hunkers, business men nnd far
mers of Troup county, for publication.'
The movement, wo believe, is fraught
with great promise and it' duplicated by
many counties and States will insure a
permanent prosperity to farmer, mer
chant, banker and nil other classes.
W, A. Brannon.
Moreland, Gn,, Bee. 8, 1021.
WHITE OAK.
Tho farmers are very enthusiastic over
the Inst meeting of tho advisory board
of the Farm Bureau. They wore plan
ning a variety of new crops, such us
Limn beaus, Bermuda onions, and black-
eyed pens. Now, we know tho onions
should bring lino prices, but commission
merchants do not pay the farmers those
prices, saying they have loaded up on
them. Wo think the farmers, to be on
n safer basis, had bettor plant things
that ii n imu Ih und chickens can eat, and
not onions and peppers. Tuxes pile up
on farmers, and the question is asked
dally, Where will we get money to pay
on/taxes? But the real iwme is, Where
will wo dump our tenants or laborers?
They got houses, wood anil pasturage
free froin landowners; but Is it right
for the poor fnrmer to bear tho bur
den of wintering and feeding labor that
lie cannot uso without loss? Why arc
people of tho United States in such
djrp straits for money, and Undo Sam
playing Inqiefnc.for to Europe? There is
something radically wrong with our Gov
ernment. Wp run change Presidents, nnd
Still the same conditions exist.
Miss Mnrtlte Mattox is visiting her
sister, M''S, Frail Strickland, near Gaines-
vllio.'
Mrs. R. L, Bowers spent the week-end
with Mrs. Walter McWnters, in Ncwnan.
The Missionary Union will meet with
Mrs. T. H. (Mattox Wednesday after
noon. /
Our school is busy preparing for ex
aminations ami getting up a program for
Friduy evening boforo Christmas. They
proctlco at tho noon hour every day.
Tills lmautiful weather and good health,
and the sound of wedding bolls, are the
happy notes around old White Oak at
present.
Way down South in tho land of cotton,
tho price is good but the freight rates
rotten,—Tom Sims.
Way down South wo sit and wait, bo-
cause few of us enn pay tjje freight.—
Dalton Citizen.
Way down Soutli wo fuss and fr,ot, be
cause d—u fow of ub me out of debt.—
Madison Madisonian.
Way down South things are brightonin ’
up; soon we’ll bo out of tho goldarncd
rut.—Dalton Citizen.
Way down South we still complain,
'cause forty-eont cotton don’t come
again.—Walton Tribune.
Way down South wo lienr ’em ci'y, the
Federal officers linve made it dry.
The Gossip—"I hear your store wns
robbed last night. Lore much?”
The Optimist— 1 ’ Some. But it would
linve been worse if the yeggs lind got in
tlie night boforo. You soe, yesterday I
just finishd marking down everything 20
per cent, ’ ’
Paul "At the party 1 thought your
costume wbs ripping. ”
Pauline—"Well, if you wore a gentle-
man,-you would linve told me about it.”
Pull for Newnan.
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Tickets on sale daily .October 1 to
April 30.
For further information apply to
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undersigned.
J. P. Billups,
General Passenger Agent,
Atlanta, Georgia.
TroubI
One chilly evening in the early pert of
March the sheriff entered tho county jail
und addressing the colored person who
occupied the strongest cell, said:
“ Gnlie, yon know that under the law
my duty requires me to take you out of
„ -. .... .hero tomorrow anil linng you. So I’ve
Number of meetings held, (girls,) 1(111; como to tell you that I want to make
tendance, I .Soli; average per meeting, yr.ur final hours on earth as oasy ns possi-
1 lfie. For your last breakfast you can
Send your name and ai-'t
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And you will receive by i
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Story of the Cells,” and i
directions for' using Your i
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ator • for all Stomach ]
Troubles.
attendance
17.
Demonstrations given, (girls,) 100,
Number of meetings held, (women,)
4(1; attendance, 0(14; average por meet
ing. 10.
’Demonstrations given, (women,) 33,
Meetings, (miscellaneous, school fairs,
class in nutrition, demonstrations for
colored, etc.,) 28 ; attendance, 2,832.
• A number of girls nml women urn mak
ing HontV saving from HI to 30 cents
per week.
A large per cent, of Ihe club mem
bers are making the bread nt homo.
There were canned products sold from
tiie girls’ exhibit amounting to $50.00.
(Tins docs not include some orders taken
by the girls Individually, nor- tho pro
ducts sold nt the Southeastern and State
Fairs.)
Number of prizes won by Coweta
county ut Southeastern Fair, three—one
first, one second, nnd ono t]iird.
Number of prizes won by Coweta lit
State I'Viir, three—all first prizes.
Lorhie Collins,
County Homo Demonstration Agent.
HOG-KILLING TIME.
Telfair Enterprise.
Now that. Jack Frost lias given the air
a snnppy tang, that the leaves have fall
en nnd overcoats been hauled down from
their place in the attic, merchants are
having calls for salt, popper, sage mid
lard cans, nt special prices and in large
quantities.
To the man or woman reared in our
largo cities, nml who seldom leave there,
this mentis little or nothing. But to ,-es-
idonts of towns like McRae it means ono
of tlie most interesting seasons of tho
year—“hog-killing time.” Almost jury
dhy now tlie kettles are being brought
out, fires built, knives sharpened, oinl
all tiio men and women folk turn out for
"slaughter.” It is an event, n sort of
institution, in most rural sections, and
while there is much work connected with
it, there is also considerable sport, since
it serves to bring together tho men and
women, (especially the young'men and
young women,) of the neighborhood, and
tl oy lighten tlie work by their laughter,
their joking and fun.
There are a. good many tilings city-
born and city-bred people never Imve an
opportunity to enjoy—and hog-killing
time is to lie numbered among them.
They do not realize that hog-killing time
menus a time of stocking up the larder
for the cold whiter months, nnd n certain
protection against, hunger and worry
over n sudden jump in (lie price of pork
• nnd lard.
Imve anything to ent. that you want and
ns much of it ns you want. What do you
think you’d like to linvo'f”
Tho coiulmned man studied for a min
ute,
“Mr, Lukins,” ho said, "I believes
I’d Ink to have a, nice wortormolon,”
' ‘ But watermelons won’t. be ripe for
four or live months yet,” said tho sheriff.
• ‘ Well, sir, ’ ’ said Gnlie, ‘' 1 kin wait. ’ ’
Back—"Oh! She’s a terror! I can hoar
her giving him tho vory doufeo every night
when lie gets homo from tlie office.
And they sny ho married her for Hot*
money. ’' ,
Fence—"Well, money talks, doesn’t
it?”
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY CO.
Effective May 29, 1921.
ARRIVE FIIOM
Codartown . . 6.45 a. in.
Columbus... 0.20 a. m. 6.25 p. m,
Ohattnnoogn . 1.00 p. m,
Carrollton.. 4.38 p. m.
Raymond .. . 5.22 p. m.
Griffin .... 11.18 a. m. 6.52 p. m.
DEPART FOR
Griffin 6.45 a. m. 1.00 p. m.
Columbus... .030 a. in. 5.17 p. m.
Chattanooga il.18 a, m.
Raymond... 4.38 p. m.
Carrollton . . 5.25 p. m.
Cedartown . . 6.52 p. m.
“I haven't seen Mabel on the tenuis
courts lately. Is she ill?”
"Haven’t, you beiml? The poor girl
sprained her wrist showing off her now
engagement ring.' ’
"John, why do you object, to onr
daughter marrying a title?”
"It isn’t the title I object to; it’s the
thing that goes with it.”
Special' Tax Notice!
By request I am publishing some of the Special Taxes
due the first day of January, 1922, for that year—
Auto dealer $ 55.00
Garage 7.50
Cars for hire 15.00
Barber shops, one or two chairs 10M0
Barber shops, three chairs or over, each 5.00
Playing card dealers 10.00
Cigar dealers * 20.00
Cigarettes or Cigarette paper, kept in places of
business 25.00
Cigarette papers must be destroyed unless tax is paid.
Dry cleaning ....: 25.00
Pressing clubs 5.00
Electrical contractors 10.00
Insurance solicitors 10.00
Junk dealers 25.00
Live stock dealers 10.00
Bicycle dealers 10.00
Musical instruments 10.00
Peddlers . 50.00
Monument dealers 10.00
Fire arms 35.00
Soda founts ... „. 5.00
Hotels, for each sleeping room 50
Cafes and i’estaurants 15.00
Warehouses for cotton from $10.00 to 50.00
Undertakers . 50.00
Swimming pools 10.00
Corporations, chargel according to size...
Any defaulter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
J. A. STEPHENS,
Tax Collector.
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