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THE HOME JOURNAL
Price $1.50 A Year. In Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning
Official Organ of Houston County
JOHN H. & JOHN L. HODGES
Thursday, Auq. 30.
■•HIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
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GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
FARM DEVELOPMENT
POLLYANNA
INSPECTION OF PUNTS AND PLANT
PRODUCTS
The attention of all persons
sending plants by mail, is called
to the fact that Georgia now has
Federal Inspecting Points (points
at which plants sent by mail are
inspected by tbo Georgia State
Board of Entomology) at Macon
and Atlanta, Ga.
The following plants and plant
products ara subject to Terminal
Inspection;
All trees, plants, shrubs, vines,
cuttings, scions, grafts, buds,
leavos, roots, and all seeds of for
est, fruit or ornamental trees or
shrubs; all sweet potato draws and
slips and tomato plants and slips;
all greenhous 0 herbaceous and bed
ding plants and parts thereof; all
blossoms or flowers of orange, le
mon and other citrus plants; all
herbarium or dried specimens of
plants or parts thereof, and other
plants and plant products in the
raw or unmanufactured state, ex
cept vegetable and flower seed
with the exception of the three
proyitions noted below.
(1) Said plants and plant pro
ducts are not subject to Terminal
Inspection if shipped under cer
tificate of the Federal Horticul
tural Board of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
(2) Nor, are these same plants
and plant products subject to Ter
minal Inspection if thoy originate
SnGoorgia and are sent to places
in Georgia, provided the paokages
aro plainly marked to show the na
ture of the contents and are ac
companied by a certificate of the
Georgia State Board of Entomolo
gy-
(8) The following plants and
plant produets are not subject to
Terminal Inspection if the con
tainers are plainly marked to
show the nature- of the contents
and if both the office at which the
plant products are mailed and the
office to which they are addressed
are located in Georgia: Out flow
ers other than thoso of citrus
plants; field orop seeds; garden
and vegetable plants, other than
aweeb potato draws and slips, and
tomato plants and slips; grains,
grass soeds; vegetable 8 for table
use and peach pits.
The Federal law makes the fail
ure 1 o so murk su^h packages an
offense punishable by a flue of not
more than $100.00.
If plants and plant products are
subject to this* Terminal Tnspec'
tlon, it will be necessary for the
sender of the package to supply
ths extra postage to the point of
inspection in addition to the reg-
wlar postage to point of destina
tion. If said plants and plant
products are condemned by thej
The Macon Chamber of Com
merce has vigorously begun a
“Middle Georgia development
campaign” for the purpose of bet{
tering farm and market conditions
in that territory within a radius
of sixty miles of the Central City.
It has organized thoroughly lor
the campaign so that its results
results may be of a permanent and
practical nature.
The first step in the undertak
ing was a complete survey of the
territory so that afoimationmight
be established with a thorough
knowledge of tho ground beneath
it.
That survey has been completed
and the first and most important
fact developed is that the territory
in question does not produce food
crops sufficient to meet the re
quirements of tho resident popu
lation—and that, too, in a zone
that is particularly adapted lo
year-around food aud feed crops,
or to a succession of such crops
made possible by peculier climatic
and soil oonditions.
That fact is deplorable, bub it
is no particulUr reflection upon
this Middle Georgia section. It is
probably true that no zone of
equal area in Georgia, in the north
or in the coastal plains, actually
produces food aud feed, sufficient
to feed the resident population of
that zone. Certainly thoasawholl
does not do so. It ss getting nearer
and nearer to the “living at home”
basis, however, each year, and this
year—despite earlier reports lo
tho ooutrary—will perhaps make
mote progress in this direction
than in any preceding year.
The bare fact is, tho state of
Georgia at large spends $75,000,
000 a year for food apd foed
products which can and should bo
grown at home. With foreign
markets inactive to American farm
production, and the domestic
markets unable to consume the
gross, the easiest solution of such
a dilemma is to sell to One's self—
to raiso for home consumption and
for tho home markets certainly
those commodities that have here
tofore been bought and paid for
from the proceeds of other pro
duction. It is the eenuomicaliy
and safe and wise thing to do, and
in doing this, with the commodity
markets developing through the
co-operative campaigns, there can
bo no doubt about growing suffi
cient surplus money crops to
make the farm operations on the
whole satisfactory.
It is a basic fact that the farmer
who grows a single commodity and
who bends all energies to that
one end is no better off, if it takes
the proceeds from that ono com
modity to pay the cash costs of
operation supiies and food and
feed, than tho farmer who con
tents himself with growing only
what is consumpd on the farm,
without selling ono dollar’s worth
01 the production. Both processes
are fundamentally wrong. The one
is misguided activity the other
unwarraiitod iuactivity.
A balanced production—surplus
money crops, ineluding cotton
under intensive cultivation! culti
vation, and sufficient poultry pro
ducts and cream and meat and
meal and grain aud hay to feed all
members of tho family and the
stock, from harvesting season to
harvesting season—is the answer.
The Macon Chamber/ of Com
merce is going after the situation
with a determination to conquer
it, and to make rural life in the
great and resourceful middle
section 6f Georgia not only pro/-
COLYUM-
“Government is
a very simple
thing,” said Presi
dent Harding once
and then pitched
in and killed him
self trying to get it
to function. i
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ADVERTISEMENT
OF
W. B. SIMS
New shipment or Art Squares and small Rugs.
Some very beautiful eesigns.
New line of grass rugs “Art Supreme” best
quality ever handled.
at this
It is possible, thinks
Bill that those who o
set the lawn sprinklers §
too close to the,side- § Wood finished iron beds, very popular
walk, overestimate the jf .
time, Good line of Mattresses that will please
merits
bath.
of the shower
will be returned to the sender at
the expense of said sender, other
wise they will be turned over to
the Georgia State Board for pro
per destruction.
State Board of Entomology, they per A ous ’ b “ b more socially inviting.
Aroused community ppmt and
closer co operation between ihe
town and the rural people are com-
binded doing a great deal toward
improving and heartening rural
life. It is such efforts as are being
so commendably made by the
Macon chamber that are adding
f to a marked degree in these ob-
A gross profit of $379,000 wasi jectives.—From the Atlanta Con-
Made by the Leviathan on her stitution.
jaaiden trip, according to figures
issued at Washington. Receipts
en the outward voyage from New
York toJEurope were $4U,000 and
those on the return trip $368,000.
The actual operatidg expenditures
-<®ofc including capital coat and
.-ether overhead, for the round trip
^totaled $400,000.
PIANO FOR SALE
•
A high grade piano near Perry
to sell at less than half original
price. We will sell this piano for
just what is .due on this account-
For further information write the
Williams-Guttenborger alusic Co ,
Mason, Ga.
A young town man with a
pretty but notorously flirtatious
linauce wrote to a supposed rival.
“I’ve been told that yon have
been seen kissing my girl. Como
to ray office at 11 on Friday. I
want, to have this matter out,”
The Rival answered, “I’vereceived
a copy of your circular letter and
will be present at the meeting.”
A Perry man was heard „to
calculate the other evening thp
reason why swimming pools are so
clear is caused by the face rouge
had settled to the bottom over
night.
President Coolidge is said to be
poor but proud. Too poor to buy
an automobile and too proud to
ride in a flivvvor.
Oddfellow: An Alabamian op
posed to Oscar Underwood for
president.
Roger Babson says hard work is
the greatest need of Americans.
Not with the mercury hovering
around 100 degrees, Mr. Babson,
says Bill.
Every dog has his day. Mr. Ford
calls history bunkr.ow, but history
will have the last word.
As we understaud the anthricite
miners, the laborer is worthy of
his higher.
The chigger
1 Agger
Is bigger
This year.
Now, honestly, inquires Bill,
which would you rather have for
President II chi y Ford or tho itch?
Blit not the least among file
Coolidge assets is the calm view
he takes on life. He comes of
calm Puritan stuck and from a
section of tho country where they
are. cultivated calm Why. in Bos
ton the other day a man fell asleep
in a dentist's chair.
Happiness isn’t scarce, asserts
Bill, it just isn’t being used much.
IT’S VERAH SIMPLE
Lives of profiteers remind us,
If we’ve only got theerust.
Each of us may leave behind us
Heaps of tainted golden dust,
If the thermometer were a
phonograph, it would sound terri
bly monotonous these days.
The price of coal is still soaring—
So is the Operator’s Bank account.
A Minneapolis man claims to have
a straw hat 50yearsold.Wesympa-
thize with him—our’s looks it
too.
Won’t it be great when we can
operate the lawn-mower by radio?
Ability creates responsibility.
.We’re not just positive which is
correct, further or farther, but
there is one thing certain, they
both mean the same thing to a
tired man with six or eight miles
to go on foot.
Fortunately, limitation of arma
ment, came just, in time to give
tho nations sufficient spare money
to build air fleets.
Two is matrimony but three is
alimony.
8 everyone.
| You are invited to look over these goods.
1 W. B. SIM S,
| GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING.
| Night Phone No. 22. Day Phone No. 8,
| Pebrt Ga-
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“Canning Season.”
We have a full line of Fruit Jars, Cans, Rubbers,
Jelly Glasses, Alluminum and Enamel Preserving
Kettles at lowest prices.
Our stock of Hardware, Crockery, EnamelMare, Glass-'
ware, Tubs, Buckets, etc., is complete.
We also carry a full line Groceries and Feed Stuff. Our
prices aae'the lowest.
We have the biggest trade in town—there is a reason.
J. W. BLOODWORTH
“THE FARMERS FRIEND.”
PERRY, - GEORGIA.
Perry Public High School
Opens September 10th, 1923
for Fall Term Session.
We have a full corps of Competent Teach
ers Grammer School and High School.
All scholars are requested to begin on the first day.
Incidental fees payable in advance are $2.25 tor
Grammer School and $4.00 for High School.
J. W. BLOODWORTH, Chairman of
Board of Education,
H. P. HOUSlER, Secretary, Board of
Education.
J. M. GOODEN, Supt of School.
NOW
IS THE TIME
1 yard wide sheeting. 10c
yard at H. P. Houser’s.
per
FOR SAL E — One seven
room house. Well adapted for
two families. Apply at this office.
TO PAY
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.