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RAISING CORK IN BALDWIN COUNTY.
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The Williamson Plan
o( Growing Corn
J. C. McAULIFFE, Editor.
H. E. McAULIFFE, Associate.
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The future buccom of the south depends upon its ability to grow crops and
general supplies needed at home. Balowin county’s soil has been robbed by cot
ton for over a hundred years. Gullies have been washed through many of the
finest fields that ever oxisted. Barren spots greet the eye where once crops
abundant were produced. Hills once crowned with forests are now naked and — —-
bare. The thinking man of today knows that some important changes must be y 0T a number of years after I began
made. j to farm 1 followed the old-time method
Growing corn cowpeas, potatoes and othdr crops of like character make the of putting the fertilizer all under the
only solution there is to the problem. In this issue of The News the full detail- corn, planting on a level or [higher, six
ed method of the Williamson plan of growing com is outlined just as E Mclver three fcet - P a * hin 8 the D,ant
Williamson wrote it. The plan is in itself a great one. for it lias been proved thg earg were ftw an<J fluently
beyond measure of doubt that the average Georgia farmer can make good yields sma j(. j planted much corn in the spring
of corn by follow ing it up closely. j and nought much more com the next
We commend it to Baldwin county. We are farmers ourselves, we know the spring, until finally 1 was driven to the
conclusion that coin could not be made
on [uplands in this section, certainly,
not by the old method, except at a loss
I did not give up.howevcr, for I knew
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way to farm and will bo glad to see many Baldwin county farmers engage in the
work this season. We will be glad to go out and mix and mingle with the farm
ers, to witness their progress along this line, or any other line of farming. We
want to engage the attention of all thinking men in the city and in the country that the farmer wl o did noi make his
in this respect. The merchant is involved in the success of the farmer and he own com never had succeeded, and
will derive benefits from it as the farmer becomes successful. It is to his inter- j never would, so 1 began to experiment
„ I First, I planted lower, and the yield
est to advance the cause of agriculture. \ bul lhe , taJk lUU
The histoiv of the world is full of failures in goverment, and otherwise, where I ^ ] ar(;e . g0 [ ndiscontinued altogeth
nations have paid no heed to agriculture. Countries that where once world j er the application of fertilizer before
powers have dwindled down to oblivion while little kingdoms standing by the j planting, and, knowing that all crops
1 their most health-
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It is economy to use Royal Baking Powder.
It saves labor, health and money.
Where the best food is required no. other
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Everything is its own excuse for !>•_
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if you’ve got a “thinker” work it.
Don t stand sponsor for tho opinioni
of others.
Noone isgreul until ho fsels the pa'q
o( a crucifixion.
It Is dastardly to kill man just to gei
the spoils.
Don’t fawn-that’s dospisable.
Hatred is love at low tide.
Ninety-nine out of n hundred make
' atatements they would not dare say to
pas's face.
Bewares of congested canters where,
in unspeakable spualor und ignorance,
there hoaos the social dynamite!
One of the prime properties of trutii
is its resurroctive power, Crucli it and it
will rise again.
That height reach#i ut tha expense
of another's downfall can never be per
mfuient.
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We ourselves ate to oj measured by
tit* distance wo ii i/o gone into other
destinies.
Many men ought to bo taken into dry
dock ami havo toe oarnacies scraped
fk,
-Death has long since n»d tho majori
ty; Since, at beat, wo are soon to join
tits vast bivouac o ' tho dead, who could
find the single in 1 ni.it t> while away?
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How long will t is wu.-l.l continue to
sacrifice her suvi its?
Truth cannot be afraid of being
y -questioned.
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An untaught faculty is dormant now-
Someday, dead?
soil are yet regal in their standing. The News proposes to help push the cause
of corn along. We aro trying to get together plans for a corn show in Milledge-
ville this fail and we want the furmers and the children to show their best pro
ducts in this way. It will be made worth while to tho successful contestants
and wo ask co-operation now to start and before the year is out we will be ready
to show better things for Buldwin county than ever was known before. The
people cun do it and will do it if given to understand the great magnitude of the
question at issue. Read the Williamson method, plant corn, provide for home
and be happy while making the farm more fertile instead of letting it rash
away, robbing the generation of the days to be.
HERL’d TO THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Cim
Few women in tho state take rank ahead of Mrs. Walter B. Hill when it
comes to advancing tho cause of education. Last Friday she visited Baldwin
county, talked to the teachers and patrons of Baldwin county schools at the
meeting out at Midway. The gathering was a credit to the county, would have
been a credit to a.iy section. It shows the spirit of progress and illustrates tha
factthutmonwholiavobcrnullicdui.il the work for years ore right abreast
the times.
Supt. Lamar is working to advance the interest of the schools and there never
wus a time when tho country needed education worse. When the land was full
of unlimited resoercos and the virgin forest* were untouched there was no
causo to worry. Due times ure clmngc.l. Wo want to know how to check the
ravages of time, to thwart the advance of ruin as it now faces many of the sec
Uous wnuru uneducated people dwell.
To this end the school improvement clubs advocated by Mrs. Hill will work
It will teach children anJ parents the importance of manv matters now consider
ed trifling. Tne Millndgevito Nows is going to quit* an expense to keep the
people of this section advised concerning these questions of paramount impoij-
tunce. Wo aro doing it because we believe the people will appreciate ft. Wh
are willing to send The News to any toacner who will place it in the hanifs of
tho children who want to road the county paper. We are willing to send ah
elegant book to every school if we can secure a little co-operation in the way of
obtaining subscribers for The News. If any teacher will start the work we ar$
right here to help out and will bo only too glad to more than meet them on half
way grounds. So, again hore’s to the school improvement clubs of Baldwin
county and long may they prosper.
iitain OF MISS
MNllAlK CASON
Sermon bv Mr. Sims
p/tv'n ►ripi upji iia pvrji hfteli.
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To cod Jem 1th » tnJ.vsJ with jut a
tieXfing is never honorable.
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Existence is one great drama; but
you have the choice to see what you
3Y —
’ The moat gnoble cbivacter 4a the
*, wofk is the mere money getting Ameri
can.
“And ho showed me a river of water
of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out
of tho throne of God and of tne Lamb,
in the midst of tho street thereof, and
on this side of the rivor and that was
tho troe of life, bearing twelve manner
of fruits, yielding its fruits every
month, and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of tho nations, and there
shall bo no curse any more; and the
throne of God and tho Lamb shall be
therein; and His servants shall do him
service.’’—Rev. 22.
I have read for ©or comfort this sad
morning John’s version of the New
.leru uilem. Heaven t3 pictured here as
a city of God prepared for us to live in,
1 do net hesitate to my that in deep
grief, we are facing this morning, any
reference to the world to come must be
j more than visionary, and the achlr.g
j heait is not satisfied with a vague in
definite statement. Heaven must beE‘:
j real to us,and I believe aVJohn.thst the
I New Jerusalem hr « real place, and no
revelation is adequate and true that
does not accept Christ’a werds, “In my
! Father’s house aiv many Mansions.'* I
I These rooms are pivpured for those who
l die in Christ, a; d our loved ones are
: living again, all the references to Hea-
nnt dead hut alive and have entered jnt
to a larger life. Death is simply a tran
sition; u crossing over from one state
into another. It is a moving out of this
ca’ thly tenement of clay and giving
freedom to the spirit; it’s a change ol!
our habitation from earth to Heaven—
tho Father's house; it is the life of
flesh ceasing to be, and the spirit com
ing into its own. Th : s transition
sweeos us into an existence that is as
real as if we maved into another coun
try. Heaven pictured in the scriptures
is not poetry, nor are the words of
Christ simpiy comforting phrases spok
en for tho hour. But our loved ones
die and live again, richer and fuller
in all their powers. This 1 believe with
my heart and I bring it to you for com-!
fort.
Those who die in the Lord love His
presence as they cross orr. Yester
day morning when this sweet little
girl slipped out into the other world
she did not go alone. There may have
been a cohort of angels by that bedside.
I am confident that those pure
white-robed messengers came to see
her enter, and to my mind, God help
me, 1 can but believe it, there is no
chilly waters for Christians to pass
through; neither do they have to take
some old ship of Zion to reach Heaven!
They are there at home- with the Sa
viour the moment the Ixvafh leaves the
holy an i * ime is free. At suntide
there shall be light and at death life
begins.
This little daurhier, a eCtss mate of
{you who staid in vuw, has not ceased
to study. Heav.-u j s not so much a
rest. It U a continued activity of
i things beg-m Ii -re. Christ taught thi.-
i ven to coni: emphasizes life, Christ ;. , „ . .. . ... ,
• jin the compi an lata n to the faithfu
said. ’ because I live ye shall live also” . n k 1
* I servant, tool has been faithlul overa
and in tha'. lender message to sorrowing
Martha at the funeral 0/ La* .rus, Hu
said, “he that believeth on me, though
he die, yet shkll ho live.” Beloved, in
year grief this day accept the Scrip
tures, that our loved ones in Christ ar ' >nt' ujJ oa ptge live.)
jfo.v things, I w l make you ruler over
m my things.” Hut van seen by Jo'n.
was a place where God’s servants do
ILni service. And to change from
should be fertilized at some time, I
used mixed fertilizer as a side applica
tion, and applied the more soluble
nitrate of soda later, being guided in
this by the excellent results obtained
from its use as a top dressing for oat3.
Still, the yield, though regular, was
not large, and the amalless of the stalk
itself now suggesed that thej should be
planted thicker in the drill. This was
done the next year, with results so
satisfactory that I continued from year
to year to increase the number of stalks,
and the fertilizer with which to sustain
them; also to apply nitrate of soda at
last plowing, and to lay bv early, sow
ing peas broadcast. This method stead
ily increased the yield, until year before
last (1904), with corn eleven inches
apart in six-foot rows, and $11 worth of
fertilizer to the acre, 1 made eighty-
feur buseeis average to the acre,several
of my best acres making as much as 125
bushels.
Last year (1905), I followed the same
method, planting tho first week in
April, 70 acres which had produced the
year before 1,000 pounds seed cotton
per acre. This land is sandy upland,
somewhat ro’ling. Seasons were very
unfavorable owing to the tremendous
rains in Msy.and the dry "xtremely ho’
weather later. From June 12ui t> J y
12th, the time when it inos- needed
moisture, was only tive-eighta of an
inch of rainfall here; yet with $( Jl.
cost of fertilizer, my yielJ was 5.
bushels per acre, Rows were six lout
and corn sixtoen inches in drill.
jVitji this method, on laud that will
ordinarily prooucc 1,000 pounda of seed
cotton with 800 pounds of fertilizer, 50
bushels of corn per acre ahould ho made
byusing 200 pounds of cottonseed meal,
200 pourds of uciJ pnoapnate, and 400
pounds of Kainit mixed, or their equiva
lent in other fertilizer, and 12 • pounds
of nitrate of soda, all to be used as side
appli :ation as directed below.
On land that will make a bale and one
half of cotton per aero wnen well lei-
tilized, a hun lred o *..eia of corn sliouio
be produced by doub.i.g the amount ot
fertilizer above, except that 40J pounds
of nitrate of soda should be used.
In such case there should be left
the land in corn stalks, peas, vines and
roots, from to $16 worth of fertiliz
ing material per acre, beside the groat
cenefit to the land from s > large an
amount of vegetable matter. The place
of this in the permanent improvement
of Und can never be taken by coin
mercial fertilizer, for it is aosoluteL
impossible to make lands ricn as Ion.,
as they are lacking in Vegetable mattei.
Land should bo thoroughly and deeply
broken for corn, and this is tlie time .
a system of rotation to deepen the so> .
Cotton requires a more compact s..
than corn, and while a deep soil is e.
sential to its best development, it will
not produce as well on loom open Ian..,
while corn does best on land thorough!;,
broken. A deep sod will not only pro
duce more heavily than a shadow «oi.
with good seasons, but it will stand
more wet as well as more dry weather
In preparing for the com crop, land
should be broken broadcast during the
winter one-forth deeper than it has
been plowed before, or if much vege
table matter is being turned under, it
may be broken one-third deeper. This
is as much deepening as land wdl usual
ly stand in one year and produce well,
though it may be continued each ve&r,
so long a* much doal vegatable matter
is being turned under. It may, how
ever, bo sub-soiled to any depth by fol
lowing in bottom of turn plow furrow,
provided nu more of tho- sub-soil* than
pus been directed is turned up. Break
with two heavy plows', it possible or
corn stalks as large as we ever make
.an be turned under without having
been chopped, and in pea vines it will
uot choke or drag.
Neser plow land when it is wet, ii
you expect ever to have any use for it
again.
Bod with turn plow in tix-foot rows,
leaving five-inch balk. . When ready to
pla it, break this out with scooter, fol
lowing in bottom of this furrow deep
with Dixie plow, wing taken off. Ridge
then on this furrow with same plow,
•■fill going*deep Ku:i corn planter on
his. tidg#, .drajp’ug .one grain every
Misses Lollie Smith and Annie Ennis,
of Haddock, spent the week end with
the latter’s mother, Elizabeth
Hardy.
Mr. H. H. Bass, of Griffin, one of the
mo3t prominent merchants of that place
and uncle of E. E. Bass, of Miiledge-
ville, was in the cityijThursday.
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WE WANT GOOD AGENTS IN la COUNTIES.
five or six inches. Plant early, as soon | When you are convinced that your
is frost danger is past, say first sea- j corn has been sufficiently humiliated,
uan&ble spell after March I5th, in this y°u may begin to make the oar. It
section. Especially is early planting ! should now be from twelve to eighteen
iscessury on very rich lands where stalks 1 inches high, and lo6k wor„e than you
cannot otherwise be prevented from j have ever had any com to look before,
growing too large. Give first working [ Put half of your mixed fertilizer (this
with harrow or any plow that will not j ,>e > n 8 the first used at all) in
I cover the plant. For second working i the old sweep furrow on both sides of
use ten or twelve-inch sweep on both '■ every other middle, and cover by break-
sides of cron,which should now be about 1 out this middle with plow. About
sight inches high. Then after this work- ! . week later treat the other middle
ng. It is not necessary that the plants j the same way. Within a few days side
should be left all the same distance j Corr - In first middle with sixteen-inch
ipartif the right number remain to sweep. Pp* aUyour.nitrate pf sodain this
sach yard row. j furrow.if.less thanlSO poonds. If more.
Com should not be worked again pn- one-half of it now. * Cover with
til the growth has been so retarded, and j one furrow of turn plow,
die stalk so hardened that it will never 1 then sow peas in the middle broadcast
grow too large. This is the mostiMthe rate of at least one. bushel to the
iiffieult point the whole process. Ex- acre, and fnUsh breaking out.
lerience and judgement are required to I in a few days side corn in other mid-
mow just how much stalk should be die with same sweep, put balance of
.tunted. and plenty ot nerve is required [ nitrate of soda in this furrow if it has
.0 hold buck your com when vour neigh-1 been divided, I coyer with turn plow,
hors, who fertilized at ptantmg time , sow psas, and break out. This lays by
snd cultivated rapidly, have corn twice >° ur «*op with a good bed and plenty of
the size of yours. (They are having. Girt around your stalk, TFis should be
their fun now. Yours will come at! fr «>ni June 10th tq 20th, unlew seasm
oarvest tune.) The richer the land.the] j* very late, and corn should be hardly
nor j necessary should it be thoroughly inching for tassel.
I (Coa*:uv<c! cn Lag; pr” c.)