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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. ECZEMA the treatment ofltch, Eczema, RInBrworm,TetUrorotherltch. in* akin diBeaaea. Try tbie treatment at our riik. For Sale by John R. Cates Drug Co. WINTER EXCURSION FAR E V S ' ~" ! . via WEST POINT ROUTE / * • - / To destinations in Alabama, Arizona, Cuba, Florida,. Georgia, Louisiana, Mis- issippi, Now Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Tickets good for stop-over. Tickets on sale daily .October 1 to April 30. For further information apply to West Point Route ticket agents, or the 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 dress to mi j (The REGENERATOR CL JJ: • Box 684, Atlanta) Gn. ! And you will receive by i return mall a free copy of < the book entitled "The i Story of the Cells,” and i directions for' using Your i Own Mind with Regener-1 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. Better Than Pills For Laver Ills. Get a 25 e Box JOHN R. 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