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PEACH ORCHARD CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN WILL SORGHUM POSION UVESTOCK?
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Price, $1.50 A -Year, In Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning.
Official Organ of Houston County,
JOHN H. & JOHN L, HODGES.
PRI&Yi THURSDAY, Jan. 18,
y 1513 PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
GENERAL. OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
INCREASE IN FREIGHT TRAFFIC
EXPECTED.
Discussing the outlook for 1923,
W. A. Winbnrn. president of the
Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany, announces his belief that the
railways will he called upon to
handle a freight traffic for heavier
than has ever been known. He
says that this situation places re
sponsibilities both upon the mil"
ways and upon the public; that
the railways must bend theirei.or
gies to make tho best possible use
of existing facilities and foonlurgc
and improve those abilities ns
rapidly as can be done, while (he
pu.blie should adopt a policy
towa.d the railroad companies
which will permit then to attract
new capital to provide for improve
ment and expansion. \
The tofjflj “car shortage” does
not merely imply lack of sufficient
number of freight cars, according
to Mr. Win burn. lie says if that
wore all the remedy would be eom*
paratively easy; but that the na
tions business lias outgrown the
nation’s transportation plant.
There is need for increased motive
power, enlarged terminals, new
lines and improved tracks which
can bo supplied only by the ex
penditure of huge sums of new
capital. He points out that there
are certain simple and effective
methods by which shippers and
receivers may assist in relieving
the car shortage, sink us loading
ears to maximum capacity, prompt,
loading and unloading of ears.
As to' tho general situation the
railway president is optimistic.
I-Ie says thWfc agrioulturo is in bet
tor state than at any t ime since tho
war, that; a long dolayed* building
program is in full swing, textile
looms are busy and Southern mines
nro making production records.
In closing he nlerlges tho best en
deavor* of the Central of Ga.toward
a creditable and efficient record
during the coming year and thank
the public for an intjolligent inter
est and helpful spirit of co-opera
tion. „
The first step in controlling the A reader askes: “Will orange
curculio in the 1923 peach crop cane or sorghum kill or injure
j should be undertaken immediate- horses or cattle in any way?”
j ly by mears of a thorough clean- Under certain conditions the
* up and burning campaign to de- sorghums sometimes develop a
stroy the ad nit beetles in liiber- deadly poison (prussic acid) in
' nation. While the curculio infesta- sfficient quantities to livestock
! t.ion in Mfdtljc Georgia was not that eat.oven a small quantity of
heavy last season, a sufficient tlie plants. It is also claimed that
number of aduli < are now passing Sudan grass and Johnson grass,
ll,o winter in an I near orchards to which are non-sac-cliarine (not
cause a heavy loss to tile peach sweet) sorghums, also sometimes
erop this season, unless control develop this poison, but it is pvob-
' measures are timelj and judicious- ably safe to state that the sweet
ly enforced. * j sorghums more frequently develop
The faVoratc pine s of hiber- the poison than do the non-sac-
' nation for the ad nil o roulios are charine sorghums, although it is
in woo Hands and wasii lands ad- comparetivel * rare that any of
joining peach orchards and in them poison livestock,
dense vegetation along ditch banks T.lie poison seems more likely to
fence rows and Ierracc row in and develop in the second growth,
near the orchards. They also fre- especially if this second growth is
qucntly hibernate under pruning stunted by dry weather or other
piles, rubbish, etc. About the.causes. In fact, a stunted ■ growth,
time the peach blooms these or injury of the grow th from any
adultsstart leaving their hil.er- cause seems to favor the deveiop-
POSTAL EMPLOYEES MEETING IN
ATLANTA.
Postmaster General Work and
Assistant Postmaster General Bart
lett will attend the conference-con
vention of postnl employees of the
state 1 of Georgia scheduled to as
semble a fc Atla n ta on Ja a u a ry 201 li.
According to the program made
public today, Governor Thomas
W. Hardwick of Georgia and May
or Walton Sims of Atlanta will
welcome these Washington postal
officials with short addresses The
principal speech will bo delivered
by ?ostmaster General Work, who
will bo followed by Assistant Post
master General Bartlett. Tho pro
gram also calls for an “open fo
rum” at which the workers coming
to the meeting from every pott-
offlee in the state of Georgia will
be given an opportunity of taking
the floor and presenting their pos
tal problems. At tho conclusion
of the session the Postmastor will
hold an informal reception.
A special conference for the
benefit of the large users of mail
of Georgia, who have been invited
to send representatives to. Atlanta
on this date, will be arranged at
which their particular mailing
problems will bo discussed with the
post office Department executives.
Postmaster E. K. Large of Atlanta
Will preside at the session.
eating quarters to feed and ue-
posit eggs in tho small fruits.
Peach growers are advised to
undertake this clean-up burning
add orchard sanitation campaign
just as soon as suitable weather
permits. Our experimental data
shows that the majority of the
adults hibernate n il bin three
hundred yards of tho orchard,'land
growers are urged to restrict the
burning in wooded areas adjoin
ing orchards to that distance.
ment of the poison. It is rare, if it
ever occurs, that there is any
poison in sorghum when it makes
a free, or rapid, or natural growth.
There is no record, so far as wo
cue find, of sorghum made into
hay or silage injuring livestock in
this w r ny.
Ibis so rare that poison de
velops in sorghums that it is
doubtful if this should lessen the
growth or use of this excellent
forage crop' for the South. But
This can be done by brushing j when t he growth is stunted and
back the rubbish with a pronged'especially when t he second grow h
slick and lighting tho “windroll”
allowing the fire to sweep towards
tho orchard. In this way forest
destruction will be prevented.
Select a dry period'for tho burn
ing as a sweeping fire t hat will
burn the undergrowth close to the
ground is highly desirable.
Special attention should be
givon to tho cleaning up of all
ditch banks, terrace rows and
fence rows in tho orchards. The
vegetation along those can often
lie burned, and this would destroy
many booties. All pruning piles or
ot.fr rubbish in or near peach
orchards should be destroyed be
fore the blooming season.
Experiments conducted to de
termine the efficiency of burning
over woodlands or wastelands ad
joining pencil orchards show con
clusively that many eurulios arc
destroyed by the,burning. In one.
case burning roducod the adult,
ciireuiios in hi herniation oyer two
hundred percent. The laboratory
strongly recommends this work
during the- next month or six
weeks.—Government, and Stale
Laboratory, Fort Valley, G.a.
which comes on after it has been
cut onoe is stunted in any way
care should be exercised in grazing
such stunted growth while it is
green. It should not be grazed
under such conditions unless first
tried out with an animal of little
value. Possibly the best plan is not
to pasture a stunted growth of
sorghum, but to wait until itstarfs
growing freely again or to make it
into hay.—The Progressive Farme.
WINTERKILLING OF GRAINS DEPENDS
ON MANY FACTORS
STOCKS OF SWEET POTATOES
IN STORAGE
Storage stock of 2,895,000
bushels of sweet potatoes on De
cember 15, 1922, are imported le
the United .States Department of
Agi ieulture by 1,272 sweet potato
storage-houses iu 22 stales. Stor
age stocks December 15, 1921. in
the bouses reporting wore 2,985,000
bushels. The bulk of the potatoes
reported in most ef Ihe Stau-s are
in o muiorcial warehouses but in
a few States a number of reports
from farm storage-hoi,ses aie in
cluded.
Increased storago stocks are
shown in New Jersey, D.ieware,
Maryland. Virginia, North Caro
lina, and South Carolina. Deeicrs-
ed stocks are shown 1 in Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana. Tennessee, Arkansas,
Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, In
dinna, Illinois, and New Mexico.
Tho storago capacity of the houses
reporting was G,490,000 bushels in
1922 compared with 6.179,000
bushels in 1921, an increase of
about one-half tho total storage
capacity of the country.
This is the first sweet-potato
storage report in a new service
established by the United States
department of Agriculture with a
view to giving producers a more
comprehensive idea ef tho market
ing situation- The next report will
bo issued as vf March 1, when an
effort will be made to obtain re
turns from a larger number of
houses. Thereafter it is contemp
While unfavorable winter weath
er occasionaly damages fall-sown
grains to a considerable extent,
statistical studies indicate that
conditions during the fall /do not
bear, in general, any material rela
tion to tho yield of wheat the
following summer, but that the
weather during the winter, spring
and early summer months, especial
ly from March to June, has a much
greater influence on the final.,out
put.. Consequently, the Weather
Bureau, United States Department
of Agriculture, points out, wheat
may be in poor, condition at,” the
beginning of the winter, and with
favorable waath.er later tho im
provement may be such as to pro
duce satisfactoiy yields.
Wheu .tfho weather, is favorable
during the fall months, grains
usually establish a good root
system and are less liable to
winter injury than when fall
weather is unfavorable. Winter
damage to grains is usually group
ed under four main heads: Heav*
ing, smothering, direct effect of
Idw ternperattires, and drought?
Heaving occurs usually on poor-
iy drained soil in the spring,'and
is dne to alternate freezing and
thaaying, which breaks the roots
o" lifts the plants from the soil
and leaves the routs exposed to
the air.
Smothering occurs when the
ground is covered with an ice
shoot, as when melting snow
freezes. It is sometimescaused by
by a glaze covering lbe plants.
When snow protection is absent,
are sometimes killed by the direct
effect of cold on the tissues. This
kind of injury usually increases
with t he degree and duration of
the cold, but a sudden freeze may
do a great deal of harm, especially
in the spring. Winter drought
may also cause injury, though it
is less frequent than other causes
U. S. Bulletin.
More than 25,000 farmers
adopted the use of self-feeders for
hogs in 1921, following demon
strations by extension workers,
according to reports to the Unit-
[Misfed Depart of Agricul-
i ture.
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Just a Word Why
Churches Should Advertise
The writer was in Syracuse, N. Y., one Sunday last August.
He was detained because of an accident to his car. He wanted
to go to church that night, but he didn’t know where to go.
He picked up the Syracuse Sunday paper and looked through
it from the front page to the back, but there wasn’t a word
about the church or the church services. As far as the papers
were concerned that city might have been churchless.
But it wasn’t so with the movies and other houses of
entertainment. Oh, no! Their invitations were spread in large
advertisements all over the page. There were a dozen or so
invitations to go out on Sunday night for amusement, but
not one to go to the House of God.
Possibly the church notices appeared in the Saturday
issue. They generally do, but this was Sunday and the
Sunday paper was the one available. The amusement
places do not overtook the Sunday papers.
There may have been many more in the city with the
same thoughts and desire as the writer. He happened to
remember that sometimes the churches have bulletins in the
Hotel corridors, so he took the trouble to go downstairs.
Being a Methodist, he looked for the Methodist churches.
There were two on the hoard, so he picked out one and
took a chance.
We suppose that some will say that a man or woman
' wHp wants to go to church will find a way. That’s true,
but
church
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why permit the theatres to have the monopoly? Isn’t the
irch a business ? If it isn’t, it’s time it was. Think it over.
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