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VOLUME 11.
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 WILL BE A SEASON OF LEARNING FOR THE EN
TIRE FAMILY. THE CHILDREN WILL SEE MUCH
THAT WILL BE OF INTEREST TO THEM. THE GOOD
WIFE WILL LEARN MANY THINGS THAT WILL BEN
EFIT HER AT HOME.
MAKE I*UINS TO COME
$15,090 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 Big 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; SORCHO’S
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.
NUMBER 40.
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1913.
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FOWLS SUITABLE FOR FARM
Old Farmer Says He Has Never Seen
Anything Better Than Plymouth
Rocks and Wyandottes.
Many farmers have hobbles and pet
theories which sometimes bring them
plenty of “experience,” but as a rule
they look at everything along utility
lines, says Farm News. Some farm
ers have been looking for the best
farmer’s fowl, have bred almost all
breeds In existence, and yet have to
confess to failure along these lines.
At times he thinks that he has the
best bird cornered only to find that
it is stih at large. A buzz-saw is all
right for the purpose for which it was
intended, but it can’t be used for
shaving a man’s beard. All these
things are very practical in their way,
but making them answer for all pur
poses is very much like corralling a
cyclone, something no man has suc
ceeded in doing.
One person wants fowls for the pro
duction of eggs, and, therefore, will
want the breed whose hens prove to
be the best layers. Another wants
the best table fowl, and an entirely
different breed will be selected. The
third man wants a fowl with a cer
tain fancy feather and pays a fancy
price for it. A farmer living several
miles from town cares very little for
fowls of any particular kind, yet he
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Columbian Wyandotte Pullet.
will admit that they are an unfailing
source of supply In case of emergen
cy in supplying the table, buying the
groceries and keeping him out of
debt for long intervals.
The farmer’s flock should be pro
lific without sacrificing other quali
ties. They should be good table fowls.
To satisfy ..his requirement they must
be of good size, plump and of good ap
pearance when dressed. They must
be hardy and good foragers, as there
Is much waste food on the farm that
can be converted into cash returns
by the fowls. The hens must be good
sitters and mothers, as many farmers
are not ready to buy incubators —al-
though they should do so at once.
These are questions that are being
studied by the careful, and each in
dividual will have to determine the
matter for himself. An old farmer
who is now off the active list, but still
lives on the farm and raises poultry
as a diversion says he visited many
poultry shows just to inspect some
of the best birds of the new varieties,
and he says that he has never seen
anything better than the Plymouth
Rock and Wyandotte varieties for real
business stock. He said: “You can
tell inquirers that these two breeds
are still at the top, and there are
enough varieties of them to please
any sensible person. As to individual
tastt, the old Indian said if men were
all alike they would all want his
squaw.”
So many varieties of chickens have
been evolved that It seems as if there
should be nothing left to be sought
or desired in the way of beauty or
utility.
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Sell all the roosters not neded for
breeding.
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Don’t buy breeding stock that lacks
in strength and vigor.
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Keep everlastingly and eternally
after the lice and mites.
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A box of crushed oyster shells
should always be kept in reach.
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Keep ‘he coops for the small chicks
at a distance from the hen house.
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Low perches will induce young stock
to roost in the poultry house early in
life.
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The color of the egg shells has noth
ing to do with the food value of the
eggs.
The W. S.
Myrick Co.
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. MELL,
HERE’S THE STORE.
THE MYRICK IDEA OF DOING BUSINESS IS NOT THE
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OLD WAY.>
GRANDMOTHER’S DRESS, IN ITS DAY, MAS ALL
RIGHT, BUT IF SHE WERE HERE, SHE’D NOT BE WEAR
ING THE SAME KIND OF FROCK. BECAUSE SHE MOULD
HAV E THE MYRICK STORE TO SHOP AT. SHE COULD
SEE THE NEW’ YORK AND PARIS STYLES, LESS THE NEW
YORK PRICE, BECAUSE WE DON’T M ANT IT ALL.
THIS STORE IS NOT THE SAME IT MAS LAST YEAR;
IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME NEXT YEAR.
OUR NEW MOTTO: “GROWING BETTER EVERY'
DAY.”
WE ARE PLANNING TO SUPPLY YOUR WANTS THE
COMING FALL AND WINTER.
ME WILL 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 WILL 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 ENTT
TLED TO THE PREMIUM.
COME IN AND SEE US.
YOUR FRIENDS,
TheW. S. Myrick Co.
Milledgeville’s Only Department Store
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