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VOLUME 11. NUMBER 38.
The W. S.
Myrick Co.
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The Myrick Store
Os Milledgeville, Georgia
NEXT TO A GOOD CORN CROP, A LARGE COTTON
CROP (AND HERE’S HOPING FOR A FIFTEEN CENTS
ONE), YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A GOOD STORE. WELL,
HERE’S THE STORE.
THE MYRICK IDEA OF DOING BUSINESS IS NOT THE
OLD WAY.
GRANDMOTHER’S DRESS, IN ITS DAY, WAS ALL
RIGHT, BUT IF SHE WERE HERE, SHE’D NOT BE WEAR
ING THE SAME KIND OF FROCK, BECAUSE SHE WOULD
HAVE THE MYRICK STORE TO SHOP AT. SHE COULD
SEE THE NEW YORK AND PARIS STYLES, LESS THE NEW
YORK PRICE, BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT IT ALL.
THIS STORE IS NOT THE SAME IT WAS LAST YEAR; I
IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME NEXT YEAR.
OUR NEW MOTTO: “GROM ING BETTER EVERY.
DAY.”
WE ARE PLANNING TO SUPPLY YOUR WANTS THE
COMING FALL AND WINTER.
WE MILL HAVE THE GREATEST LINES OF MER
CHANDISE BROUGHT TO THIS SECTION.
WE ,ARE GETTING TOGETHER TO PLEASE
YOU.
WE NOW GIVE BEAUTIFUL PREMIUMS FOR CASH
PURCHASES.
IT WILL NOT COST YOU ONE CENT, EITHER; OUR
INCREASED BUSINESS MILL PAY SAME.
CHINA, CUT GLASS, SILVERWARE (TO ARRIVE),
BRASSWARE.
WITH EACH PURCHASE YOU GET A CASH DISCOUNT
COUPON; EACH PREMIUM IS MARKED IN PLAIN FIG
URES.
WHEN YOU SPEND THAT AMOUNT, YOU ARE ENTI
TLED TO THE PREMIUM.
COME IN AND SEE US.
YOUR FRIENDS,
TheW. S. Myrick Co.
Milledgeville’s Only Department Store
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913.
SIER MD WORM
INJURING OOTTON
Where Pests Are on the Plant,
Poison Must Be Used, Says
State Entomologist Worsham,
But, Preventative Measures
Are the Best.
Atlanta, Ga. —Many complaints of
damage to cotton by the red cotton
spider and the cotton boll worm are
coming to tlie state department of en
tomology now at a time when it look
ed as if Georgia was just about to
make one of the largest crops in the
state’s history. In the aggregate it
is said there is no doubt these pests
wall materially cut down the yield.
Os course the best remedy in both
instances is prevention, says State
Entomologist E. Lee Worsham; but
where the pest is already on the cot
ton plant just approaching maturity,
there is but one thing to do and that
is to kill it with some effective poi
son.
The red cotton spider is exceedingly
small and its prevailing color is red.
It feeds on the under side of the cot
ton leaf. The female lays anywhere
from 50 to 80 eggs, which hatch' in
about four days, and there may be
as many as 16 or 17 generations dur
ing one year. The spiders suck the
juice from the leaves, causing red
dish spots to appear, later turning to
dark brown. The leaves drop one
by one until usually the plant dies.
The pest increases most rapidly during
hot dry weather until, toward the end
of August, several acres of a field
may become badly damaged.
May Survive the Winter.
The cotton red spider often survives
the winter, if he can find green food.
As a rule, they prefer the cultivated
violet, common goldenrod or the poke
wded, but will attack other plants if
these cannot be found.
Where the red cotton spider is now
prevalent in cotton fields, the only
way to stop its ravages, Entomologist
Worsham points out, is to spray the
infected fields with some good insect
icide known to kill this particular pest.
Work of the 801 l Worm.
The moth of the boll worm, Mr.
W'^ham points out, generally has a
wing expanse of about one and one
half inches, and may be easily distin
guished from the cotton leaf worm
or caterpillar moth by the fact that,
when at rest, it holds its wings slight
ly raised and parted, while the ciitton
caterpillar moth always rests with
the wings tightly closed.
Corn planted as a trap in rows from
200 to 300 feet through the entire
field, so as to be in prime silking con
dition about August 1, will attract the
pest away from cotton. The eggs are
deposited on the corn which can be
cut and fed to stock when the worms
are partly grown.
When the worm is on the plant the
only thing to do, of course, is to kill
it by poison. Paris green may be
used in the proportion of one pound of
Paris green to two pounds of flour.
MUST QUIT SELLING CALVES
Expert Sounds Warning Against the
Selling of Female and Imma
ture Stock.
Atlanta, Ga. —If the Southeast is to
become the great cattle growing sec
tion that it should in view of its nat
ural advantages and the present and
growing demand for cattle with com
mensurate prices, farmers must quit
selling their female and immature
stock, declares Dr. C. M. Morgan, dai
ry agent of the Southern railway, who
sounds a warning against a continu
ation of the wholesale deportation of
cattle from the South.
“Farmers should keep their heifers
and build up the quality of their stock
by the use of pure bred bulls of dairy
or beef type as desired,” says Doctor
Morgan. “This is the only way to in
crease the number or the quality of
cattle in the Southeast. The scarcity
of cattle is world-wide and it will
never be possible to secure enough
pure-bred cattle to develop the indus
try in the Southeast.
“Farmers wlio sell calves are sim
ply giving the dealer a good part of
the profit they should have them
selves. If calves were fattened on
the farm, using cotton seed meal as
a concentrate, a higher price per
pound would be received, and the
farmer would not only profit by this
and the additional weight, but would
have in the manure 85 per cent, of
the fertilizing value of the cotton seed
meal.
“With the good gracing furnished
by Bermuda grass and Burr clover and
the abundance of forage crops that
yield bountifully in the Southeast,
this section should be the great source
of tlie country’s beef and dairy prod
ucts supply. The dairy division of
the Southern railway will send a man
to help build a dipping vat or silo and
to co-operate with persons in the dairy
business or desiring to enter it. The
United States department of agricul
ture has offered to co-operate with
farmers who have eradicated ticks
and will send an expert to aid farm
ers in choosing desirable bulls of eith
er dairy of beef type."
GREATEST PROSPECTS
IN THE WORLD
FOR GREATER GEORGIA
EVERY FARMER IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA
SHOULD TAKE A WELL-EARNED VACATION AFTER
THE WORK ON THE FARM HAS BEEN FINISHED. NO
BETTER PLACE TO TAKE THIS VACATION THAN ON
THE GROUNDS OF THE STATE FAIR AT MACON. NOT
ONLY WILL YOUR VACATION BE A PLEASURE, BUT
IT MILL BE A SEASON OF LEARNING FOR THE EN
TIRE FAMILY. THE CHILDREN WILL SEE MUCH
THAT MILL BE OF INTEREST TO THEM. THE GOOD
WIFE WILL LEARN MANY THINGS THAT MILL BEN
EFIT HER AT HOME.
MAKE YOUR PLANS TO COME
$15,000 in Cash Premiums
$5,000 IN CASH PREMIUMS FOR AGRICULTURE.
$5-800 IN CASH PURSES FOR 6 DAYS’ RACING.
$1,300 CASH PREMIUMS FOR POULTRY.
SI,OOO CASH PREMIUMS, HORSES AND MULES.
SI,OOO SPECIAL CORN PREMIUMS.
SI,OOO CASH PREMIUMS FOR SWINE.
$1,750 PREMIUMS FOR CATTLE.
$125 CASH PREMIUMS FOR SHEEP.
S7OO PREMIUMS, BOYS’ CORN CLUB.
$275 PREMIUMS, GIRLS’ CANNING CLUB.
REMEMBER THE DATES
Ten Dig Days-October 21st to 31st
AMONG THE GREAT SPECIAL FEATURES I N
THE AMUSEMENT LINE ARE THE SINGING OF
4,000 GEORGIA SINGERS ON SATURDAY. OCTO
BER 25. THE REPLICA OF THE GREAT PANA
MA CANAL. SHOWING THE SHIPS ENTERING
AND LEAVING THIS GREAT CANAL — ALL IN
MOTION.
THE MIDWAY WILL BE ONE BLAZE OF GLORY.
FOR THERE WILL BE AN ARRAY OF THE BEST
SHOWS THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE BROUGHT
TOGETHER ON AN OCCASION LIKE THIS. HAN
AFOURD’S SHADOW OF THE CROSS; MAZEPA,
THE GREAT EDUCATED HORSE; SORCHOS
GREAT DEEP SEA DIVERS; BUCKSKIN BEN’S FA
MOUS WILD WEST SHOW; BUCKSKIN BEN’S DOG
AND PONY SHOW; DREAMLAND—CIRCUS SIDE
SHOW; EBERT’S TRIP TO THE UNDERWORLD ;
COLLIER’S OLD PLANTATION SHOW; PEKIN-PE
KIN SHOW; HATCHER’S MOTORDROME; TRIP TO
MARS; MITCHELL’S MERRY-GO-ROUND.
SARACINO'S GREAT CONCERT BAND HAS
BEEN SECURED FOR THE ENTIRE TIME OF THE
STATE FAIR. EACH MEMBER OF THIS GREAT
BAND IS A SOLO ARTIST OF GREAT RENOWN.
THERE WILL BE THREE OTHER BRASS BANDS
WITH THE MIDWAY.
Greatest Georgia State Fair
Auspices Georgia State Agricultural Society
MACON, CA., OCT. 21-31
JULIUS H. OTTO, HARRY C. ROBERT,
President. Sec’y and Gen’l Manager.
SI.OO A YEAR
