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THE MILLEEGEV!NEWS
milledqeville, oa.
The
MILLEDO.EVILLE NEWS
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J. C. C- H. E. MsAG Ur i-E, Owicrs
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H. E. McAidiffe, Editor and Mgr.
Growing Sweet Potatoes
Knowing quite well of the possihh
production in thi3 poetic n of swee
potatoes, The News lias felt a.!’, alun
that in this crop there ought to coini
about some development! that woul
open the eyes of many of us who
have kept our lids closed to the light
of prosperity.
Raising sweet potatoes is not so
different from many other commodi
ties that require storage room. The
west has grown rich from growing
stock, but before Ibis wealth could
be acy.iired som.rU j hai’i to '.oe
done to pave the way to easy living.
Intelligence had to be called into ac
tion and when this was done the west
soon saw going up large packing
houses for the storing of meats, grain
elevators for handling largo quanti
ties of grain and immense stock
yards for handling stock.
Down in Cclqult county, Georgia,
the farmers and business men are
getting behind the idea of raising
sweet potatoes on a largo scale. This
project has already proven so proa-
table to the farmers as to cause them
to become enthused over the crop.
Read what M. L. Lee, cashier of the
Mi-{trie Banking Company told the
di 1-. gates attending the Georgia Hank
ers convention held in Macon last
w cek:
“This is one of the most
profitable crops grown by our
j.Vuuiers the pad. year. Most
cf iho farmers planted only one
or two acro3 and many raised
ICO bu. or more of graded pota-
toe , sold at 75c per bu., besides
uvo.'slze potatoes, watch wore
soid to the canning plant at the
price cf 50c to COe per bu. Those
that were damaged or undersize
were fed to hogs so that there
v.as absolutely no waste. Many
tarmoia have contracted for
this year at price of GOc bu. 'or
the graded potatoes. The pul-
tic.-, b he, bought the green pota
toes last fall and cured them
in local curing houses, are now
finding a ready sale for thorn at
a satisfactory profit, after the
expense of curing and crating
are paid.
Our luring liousea are distri
buted along the lines of our lo
cal 11. R. and are built in a-nits
of about 10,000 t-.i. capacity.
?s of this size are
>r present conditions
bly *3,500.00. Plans
here houses can be secured
* front tho Department of Agricul
ture. Tho loss front spoiling
during tell three sensoua cur cur-
in- bousc-8 aVe been in opera
tion has been less than 2 per
unt. All potatoes ate stored
in bushel crates, so that they
arid receive), for mu:’,act with
out further handling, after be
ing curevf. Crates notv cost
about 20c, cost of curing is
about 15c and the small over
sea i charge added to those
items still loaveB a satisfactory
profit; r.t tin present time cur
ed potatoes arc bring $1.50 per
crate.
The fact that wo l'.r.vc heard migh
ty little criticism concerning the op
eration of tne sweet potato storage
horse that war, erected In MllledgO-
villo last year is evidence cf the fact
that this partie-elar feature of the
farming industry is attracting much
attention. This encourages us to be
Hove that production of this product
will to a conMdurable extent prove
to bo a money crop worthwhile and
will supplant the raising of cotton as
a medh'-ir of the sort.
Tho ho us
built ur.d
for prob;
for tin : e
,t rviu-1 be A i_ct,j i m.e bw-aio.
Easters In New York.
1.: New l'.n; ba. cjr > be.-n f.. ,
wed by a ci*m« carnival. Ho wove
,o noo "ill believe the uuyg.. :ia.. ,
aero made that New York criminal: j
era "scud” during the Faster goaso. |
—Augusta Chronicle.
c don't know just exactly wha
iiot ,- il.o Chronicle has reference t,
.at ,t mast ha'o been a long U:u,_
go, t j cay the leart. At any rati I
-1.D19 v ; ve has betn in progress
;t New York since long before cu
,me of recollecting.
Ec'itcr Harbor Must Have Come in
Contact With Some Stumbling Block
Hon. T. S. Johnson, whom we re.
.poet anj admire in some ways,
.arils t.s to urge farmers to at-
uJ a mooting lu Jc-fferosn to bo
eld for the purpose of electing dele
gates to the Atlanta meeting whit..
to be be’.J on April j2 to discuss
t-opsartlve marketing. The Obser-
er is nit strong for urging farmers
j do or not to do certain things,
fitly have been dictated to and ad-
.i3ed too much for their own good,
farmers don't pay any attention to
he advice of newspapers no way, sc
.1 wouldn't do any good. We be-
ieve In orderly marketing of prcl-
s and are against disorderly mar-
. such as J. J. Brown advocates.
So far as we know the California oi
Sapiro plan of marketing is a gaod
:iting. It will bo ton years or longei
oefore it can be put in operation in
Georgia.-—Commerce Observer.
Editor Harbor doesn't take up
much space to tell a whole lot, re.
gardless of the particular flock ol
jirds he is shooting at. Our Com
•lerce contemporary doosn't say whe
ther conditions or a lack of progress
s L'he cause, but he is quite free to
iay that some Georgians are slow foi
.Dim; reason or other.
SO ARE VVE
"New that the Chautauqua has
orne and gone, and some of us, the
verse off, and none of us are very
much better off and as we hail to
ay for what we got we fed free it
aying what we yiinit of tho whole
.ffair.'
To begin with we lave alway ■; be
ieveil in (lie Chautauqua movement
ind have always supported it with
ur means and presence, out if this
me is a fair sample of what they are
•xpecting to hand out to us in the
utuve, we are "ag'in 'em, hereafter.’
-Moultrie Observer.
We can almost read between the
lincj and finish l le story l'.ditoi
Allen started. We ermember .'.11111
ids day when we had to dig fawn
md fork up about fifty dollars for
having signed papers, along with a
■.umber of other local citizens, gua-
anteeing a number of eliauta.iiua-
ites several hundred dollars as com
pensation for spending three days in
•ur midst. At the end of these three
ays wo wore thoroughly in sympa-
liy with the chuutauqua movement
lea; as a matter of fact we felt like
naming ourselves chairman of a local
committee to get behin.1 such a
nun ement.
Wittv And Wise
1
It i; s-til! lawful for the prune to
j got stewed. Fit rida Times-Fnion.
(Jncksc li ville.)
home men tii
tin. m i ) do, in
muriieit. Roch
what their wives tell
d some men are not
tor (Minn.) Sentinel
We are not worrying so much now
about tho fool killer as we are tho
i 1 f lier. Florida Times-Nnion.
Some people cast their bread upon
the waters and expect it to come back
buttered. Brookfield (Mo.) Budget.
Talking about epidemics', the most
prevalent one in America today
seems to be the bid disease. Burling
ton News.
The skeleton rider of the pale grey
hers appears to have a. nnw steed—
the white mule. -Arcolatlll) Arcolian
The ceek-to-t heek dancers natural
ly have to have their weak heads
propped" up Flint (Mich.) Journal.
Henry Ford says that cows are su
pervious and that a machine can
take their place. It is a safe bet that
iis flivver has already weaned more
boys from milking t'aan any other
modern invention.—Hot Sulpher
(Colo.) Journal.
| The Story of j
• Our States :
* *
} By JONATHAN BRACE J
J III—NEW JERSEY \
V E W J F R- 5
it! SEY be- J
c a me the t
third state J
I Just six days *
alter Fellnay 1- J
vuniu hud for- *
limlly adopted J
the Constitution. This territory, *
which covers 8,22-1 square miles, t
originally was a part of the J
province of New Netherlands, «
In IGiM, after the English con- J
quest of New Netherlands, the *
duke of York sold the southern J
portion to Lord Berkeley and Sir #
George Carteret. The lutter had J
won some distinction us gover- *
nor of the little island of Jersey t
In the English channel, und it J
was In Ills honor that the new t
province came to be culled New {
Jersey. The eastern portion, *
that about Newark, was settled J
by Carteret and the territory to *
the southwest, where Burlington \
and Trenton now stund, fell to J
Berkeley. After a few yeurs <
Berkeley sold his share to a J
party of Quakers and two dls- f
tlnct provinces were formed, *
called East and West Jersey. J
They were reunited, however, in J
1702, and become a single prov- #
lnce under the direct rule of the J
English crown. *
New Jersey casts fourteen {
electoral votes for president. *
IV.—GEORGIA ]
O N JANU- *
ARY 2, !
1788, Georgia J
accepted the s
C o nstitution J
and became *
the fourth \
state lu the j
Union. The settlement of Geor-, *
giu was conceived ns a buffer \
ngulnst the depredations of the *
Spaniards and Indians, whose *
Invasions of South Curollua had J
reached a climax In 1715 with a t
raid iu which four or live liun- *
dred settlers had been massu- * j
cred. To protect South Caro- J i
linn from future Inroads James J
Oglethorpe planned a colony to t \
the south, and In 1732 ho ob- J |
tulned from George II u grunt of t ,
land. The new territory was J !
consequently named Georgia, t I
after the king. The deed stated *
that the land was granted “in *
trust for the poor.” This referred t
to Oglethorpe’s plan to have us J
the settlers the insolvent debt- t
ors who, according to the laws J
of that time in England, were t
east into prison. Many of these J
were released from prisons and, t
re-enforced by some Germans J
and Scotch Highlanders, found- *
ed the town of Savannah in 173.'! \
and rapidly spread up and down *
the coast, where successful ,
plantations of rice and indigo J
soon became established. Goor- t
gin continued to prosper until J
the ii o p u 1 a t i o n of its 3!),2(15 I
square miles entitles it to a rep- J
resentaticn of 11 presidential *
electors. -
V —MASSACHUSETTS J
M assacuu- J
S E T T s ;
was an Indian <
word, massu- J
w a thus e t, t
which means J
“at the great *
hill.” It was \
used by the Algonqulns to desig- J
mile the tribe living near Blue ,
llill in Milton, now u state reser- J
vatiou near Boston and the high- t
est hill iii the eastern part of the J
state. This name was later ap- *
plied to the great buy which J
Blue liill overlooks. It was from *
this bay that tlie state was J
named. In fact, until 1032 the J
colony was called the Massucliu- >
setts Bay colony, and after that J
the 1'rovlnce of Massachusetts t
Bay until the Revolution made J
it a commonwealth. Even today «
It is often called the Bay state. J
It was Capt. John Smith who 1
lirst made a map of the -N< ,v ,
England coast and named the J
('buries river In honor of “Baby <
Charles,” who ufterwurd bet J
King Charles I. Other captains *
visited the coast from lime to i
time, but it was not until the J
fall of 1(120 that the Mayllower *
brought the lirst permanent set- J
tiers to tlie Massachusetts shore. >
The landing of the Pilgrims at \
I’rovincefown and Plymouth *
three hundred years ago was re- ,
cently celebrated. Of the origi- J
mil one hundred passengers on t
the Mayflower more than half J
died during the lirst winter. But »
the sturdy survivors, with in- J
doubtable courage, soon became *
llrmly established and from J
their beginning, augmented by *
the Puritan settlements of Salem ,
and the towns nrouud Boston, *
grew tlie state of Massachusetts, J
which now extends over 8,288 *
square miles. In proportion to {
its area Massachusetts is second *
only to Rhode Island lu popula- *
tlon and has eighteen preslden- *
ttal electoral votes. Tills makes S
Massachusetts one of the six J
most important states from a po- t
litlcal polDt view. . J
l.crvnf art made greener and more vel
vets tritk a thick even |carpet oj gran
ichen V C Plant Food is broadcasted at
intervals during the Season.
The Simple Inexpensive Way
to Have a Productive Garden
I
T’S really surprising how much you can grow, even in a small
backyard, if you prepare the soil well and fertilize it with
V-C Plant Food.
To gel dark green foliage—
an abundance of vigorous
flowering plants—spade up
the earth, pulverize the soil,
then add V-C Plant Food and
work it thoroughly into the
earth before planting, or
around, but not touching the
roots of the growing plants.
The use of manure alone does not usually result in a good
garden. But, if you apply V-C Plant Food you give your crops
all three kinds of food in the proportions needed to make stalk and
leaves or tubers and fruit.
You can buy it in small cans and bags—easy to apply. Don’t
you feel like digging in the garden and raising your own crisp,
tender, fresh vegetables? Get your V-C Plant Food now. Spring
time is flower and garden time.
Manufactured by
VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CO.
INCORPORATED
ATLANTA, GA.
- .PRICES IN CANS
No. i Can
No. a Can
■% •»$
•. 45
PRICES IN COTTON
SACKS
Small Size Bag $ .75
Medium Size Bag .... i.aj
Large Size Bag 2.50
\r p PLANT
V"v FOOD
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