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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
INSTITUTE BEST
EVER HELD IN
THIS COUNTS
The annual teachers’ institute fcr
Gwinnett county was held during the
first five days of last week under
the direction and instructorship of
Misses Lurline Parker, Sarah Mell
Duggan and Euri Belle Bolton, in
structor in the Georgia College fcr
Women at Milledgeville.
Most of the work done was by
way of demonstrating the teaching
of the various subjects with actual
work done with the pupils of the
Lawrenceville, Snellville and Nor
cross schools.
Miss Parker’s specialty was lectur
ing on athletics and health topics
and demonstrating recitations in sub
jects of the curriculum; that on
teaching a poem to fourth grade pu
pils was remarkably good.
Miss Duggan lectured and demon
strated subjects in Geography and
History. She emphasized the im
portance of the subject of geogra
phy and taught how it is related to
almost every other subject in the
• common branches of study. Among
other things she made an outline of
the essentials to be learned in Ge
ography—a most important thing
since the subject contains so much
that it is Impossible for any- child to
learn more than a small part of the
contents of the texts. Her demon
stration with a class of pupils on the
subject of lumbering and the con
servation of forests was highly en
joyed and praised.
Miss Bolton explained improved
methods of grading pupils on their
work in school and taught the latest
and best methods of testing pupils
on heir abilities and knowledge of
subject. A knowledge of these sub
jects are most important, since it
enables teachers to ascertain their
puplis deficiencies and to place
where they properly belong. Miss
Bolton’s work in demonstrating prac
tical methods in the teaching of sim
ple arithmetic was most excellent
indeed.
These ladies are teachers of long
experience both, Jjl£ _,cL§SS, room
and" as instructors in institutes and
have been highly trained for dem
onstration work in the leading teach
ers’ colleges in the United States.
Never has better institute work been
done in this county, ortunate are
those children whose teachers avail
ed themselves of the opportunities
afforded last week.
On Monday the institute was held
in the court room at Lawrenceville.
On Tuesday in the auditorium of the
ne wschool building at Snellville af
ter observing some class work and
inspecting the building and equip
ment.
Both teachers and instructors were
amazed at the wonderful granite
school building with ten up to date
class rooms and a large auditorium
besides room for library and labora
tory, etc; Not less amazing is the
equipment in the way of maps,
globes, books of refeerence and the
choicest literature, and apparatus
for the teaching of scientific sub
jects. The school has in addition a
piano. Pity that every school can
not have a piano mid someone capa
ble of playing it. This school has
one of the largest and widest awake
Parent-Teacher associations to be,
found in .any school. ‘ t employs a
vocational teacher in agriculture—
all fruits of consolidation.
On Wednesday the institute was
held in a large class room in the r.ew,
magnificent, up to date, admirably
equipped school building of Law
renceville, welcomed by the superin
tendent and faculty. In addition to
the work done here by the regular
workers, a most excellent demonstra
tion in teaching was given by Mrs.
Bagwell, primary teacher for the
Lawrenceville school and by the way,
one of the best primary teeahers of
the state.
The institute went to Norcross on
Thursday having been most cordially
invited by the faculty of the school
and the patrons. This school is one
of the best equipped schools in the
county in everything essential to
good teaching, both in the grammar
and the high school. /
Both Snellville and Norcross serv
ed most excellent dinners in great
abundance.
On Friday the institute met in a
class room in the Lawrenceville
school building in the morning and
in the large well seated auditorium
in the afternoon. Local school trus
tees, members of the parent-teacher
association and others had been in
vited to meet with the teachers and
members of hte board of education
on this day. There was a good at
tendance of :ach of these classes,
The News-Herald
J.H MCGEE OWNS
FINE JERSEY COW
of the
Jersey exhibit now on
display in the show window of Mr.
J. H. McGee.
Here you can get an idea of the
real Jersey type which is so essen
tia! to those who expect to engage in
dairying. On this point of the se
lection of the right type of cow that
has the ability to convert food into
mhk asd but.er fat cheaply depends
the success of the man who expects
to keep dairy cows.
If after looking at the exhibit you
want to see a*ure enough cow, go to
Mr. McGee’s home and look at a real
Josey money-maker. She is just
like the picture below. She has been
on register of merit test now for
nearly eight months, making a rec
ord that keeps her at the top. She
has given a daily average of forty
to fortp-three pounds of milk that
contained an average of about 5*2%
bulterfat. Now with a calf most
eight months old she is giving thirty
two to thirty-five pounds daily. Her
bull calt is good enough to show in
any fair.. In fact he looks better
than cne that McPherson, of Athens,
soli for sgoo last year at the South
easter" Fair about the same age.
It is hoped that Mr. McGee will
keep him in the county, for I am
sure it will mean a great deal to the
section where he is kept.
There is good money in dairying in-
Gwinne t county with cows of this
t: pe This week I went with a far
mer to buy eight “dairy” cows.
When we examined the' milk he had
milked we found that it took all eight
of them to give as much milk as Mc-
Gee’s one cow. He did not buy. We
must build up a dairy industry here,
and let’s get good cows or none.
Atlanta is crying for milk. It is
retailing at 72 cents per gallon, I
have been told, for sweet milk.
Yours very truly,
A. G.'ROBISON,
County Agent.
ROCK SPRINGS.
, September 23.—The county work
ed out our road through here last
week and we sure do appreciate it
as the road was in bad condition.
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Jordan and
son spent Sunday With the latter’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reed, of Lo
ganville.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis Woodward
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Harper.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ivey and
children, of Luxomni, spent Sunday
with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Davis,
and were accompanied home by Mrs.
Mandy Morgan and Mr. Fate Davis.
Several from here went to the par
ty Saturday night given by Miss
Mardel Martin, of Gwinnett Hall.
Mr. Fate Davis spent the week end
at home.
Mr. Gee Adams went to Buford
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl itarper spent
a while-Sunday night with Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Franklin.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenley Royles and
son, of Atlanta, have moved into
this community
Mrs. Jordan, who,is visiting at Lo
ganville, will return, home soon.
INQUEST FOR MONEY.
I
Birmingham, Eng—Twenty pounds
in gold, found by a boy, was the sub
ject for an inquest recently. The ju
ry learned that the boy gave it to the
police immediately and did not try to
hide it. As a result he may get 4 a
grant of 16 pounds by the govern
ment for his honesty.
specially in the afternoon.
In this meeting Miss Bolton made
an impressive address on the advan
tages of consolidated schools, Super
intendent Stubbs on the value of a
county library for children and Miss
Duggan, who assisted her father in
making a survey of the school sys
tem of the county last year, pointed
out some of the weak spots, explain
ed how to better conditions and ga-fe
considerable encouragement in that
she had noted marked improvements
since the survey was made.
The superintendent of the Gray
son school and the good people there
invited the teachers to meet with
them on Wednesday but circum
stances for which no one is responsi
ble prevented.
TJiis is the last teachers’ institute
to be held in the county as formerly.
The new administration has inaug
urated a change of policy in this res
pect. Next summer there will be
normal schools in about twenty or
twenty-five sections of the state and
all teachers who have not attained
a certain degree of scholarship and
had a certain amount of training,
will he required to attend. These
schools will continue probably for
one month. The day of the ineffic
ient, unprepared teacher is passing.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 27, 1923.
KING TUT SHADES
WOMEN CLOTHES
Atlanta, G«., September 21.—At
lanta Women will be privileged to
walk in “the valley of :he kings” this
fa!! so far as coloring is concerned,
io>' it seems dress material, milli
nery. shoes and hose are to have a
decided Egyptian trend. The
“shades” of King Tut and his fair
queen are to stalk anew.
According to the color forecast,
style experts in the Peachtree Ar
cade say, brown, syncopated in many
vaiiations, is to lead the way. Papy
rus, Cartaehe and Mummy are the
Egyptian brown, while Cigarette,
Havana and Tobacco perpetuate the
good old “weed.” Green assumes
second in command turquoise,
fieldspar green being the most prom
inent. Other Egyptian colors accu
rately reproduced are Carnelian and
Egyptian red, also the blues of Fai
ence, Luxor and blue Lotus.
The same shades that predominate
in dress material will also be ob
served, a trip through the arcade
fashionable millinery establishments
disclosed. There is no derided change
as yet noted in the height of crown
and width of brim of the new fall
“sky-piece”—and without doubt there
is no lack of color.
The early fall models now being
offered are the smaller type hats,
which of course are tight fitting,
the “poke-bonnet” shape is destined
to hold its spring and summer pop
ularity with slight variations.
“Chapeaux” are not elaborately
trimmed and vei’v “fussy,” but are
adorned with embroidery and ma
chine stitching of self tone or con
tra; ting shades. Coque feathers are
also being used to trim the small
perfectly round hats, which lends
them a distinction all their own.
Italian Renaissance.
Color of the Italian renaissance will
play no mean part on fashion’s s'.age
this fall. These will include flgm
bouyant orange named flountine,
two regal purples, old coral, and
wine-dipped red, called doge. Rare
old tapestry hues are likewise to de
light fashionists with soft Gobelin
and Flemmis blues and antique
bronze, which by the way, furnishes
' he' material for one of the loveliest
of the early fall hats at one oik.the
millinery establishments in the ar
cade.
Burnished gold and piquant rose
shades made famous by the master
painter Fragonard, deep reds and
spice-toned browns of India, grays,
sands and navy blues will a'so keep
step in fall’s color pageant w; h the
more daring and capricious shades
for evening wear.
Besides the sixty-six. colors por
trayed in silk, there are twelve
woolen colors, which include the ever
popular tans and browns—camel’s
hair well described by its name; Sak
kara, a desert sand shade; and Per
ique, a tobacco brow 4. London smoke
an-! p ban ton new grays, everglade
and pine tree, the latest shades in
green; Normandy—a true peasant
blue and Monterey a sporty
orange.
Shoes and hosiery are still coming
in for their share of pleasiftg va
riety. Reives and browns in a wide
range of light, medium and dark
shades are being, shown. Greys are
also shown and a delectable new
shade called log .cabin, a pleasing
rose tinted is one of the
mest striking pieces of “foot-wear”
for early fall.
PEACHTREE.
Several from this place attended
the singing at El Bethel last Sun
day afternoon.
• Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Davis have
been spending a few days with home
folk.
Mr. H. E. Holland and Mr. Harri
son Gresham made a business trip
to Lawrenceville Saturday.
Miss Beulah Davis spent Friday
night with Miss Blondean Jame ~
Rev. Claud Atha spent Sunday
with Mr. L. R. Ashworth.
Miss Delphia James spent Sunday
with Miss Vennus Howard.
Miss Verlyn Mauldin had as her
Sunday guest Miss Edith Clay and
Miss Frances Mauldin.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Harris, Mr. and
Mrs. Herschel Smith and Mr. Er
nest Sells spent a short while Sat
urday afternoon with Mr and Mrs.
L. R. Ashworth.
Several from this place attended
hte funeral of Mr. John Simpson
last Thursday at Union Grove.
Grandmother. Ashworth returned
home Saturday after spending two
weeks with her sons, Mr. S. L. and
A. B. Ashworth, of Tucker.
Miss Annie Lou Ashworth spent
Saturday ’evening with Miss Bion
dean James.
There will b ea singing next Sun
day evening the fifth Sunday at Ivy
Creek. Everybody especially invit
ed. Prof. Holland will be there.
! GREAT SURPRISE
PUNNED FOR
VISITORS HERE
Atlanta, Ga.—Ah effort is being
ma le to bring to Atlanta the great
exhibit of the Ford Motor Company
shown at the Michigan State Fair.
This exhibit is of historical interest,
showing the complete history of the
improvements of ■ farm machinery
from ho earliest oflplows to the most
modern cultivators. The exhib’t al
so includes all of the Ford products,
from the rough fSiiber and the
minerals in their natural state to the
finished automotive products, and
the numerous mineral and chemical
I>V products. Thfere were also ex
hibits by the Henry Ford Hospital
and the Henry Fonl Trade School.
An additional part j of the exhibit,
which is of interests to the majority
of the public, is tha Ford Industrial
Map of the United States, showing
divisions according to sales territo
ries of its many branches; their an
nual sales for the year to Septem
ber Ist; the detailail map of each
of its assembly branches and manu
facturing plants, ani the number of
retail dealers opemted by each
branch. There ai*e {twenty-nine as
sembly branches *id five sales
branches now in operation in the
United States; therri are ten foreign
assembly branches and nine foreign
sales—branches. Th| compilation of
the annual sales shows domestic bus
iness in Ford cars'dhd trucks to be
1,558,239 for the; year to Septem
ber Ist, and business, 126,-
751.
YELLOW VS. WHITE CORN FOR
PIGS.
A superstitious belief which has
long been held by* famers is that
yellow corn is “stronger” op more
effective as a feed than is white corn.
As has been the case with many su
perstitions of the kind, recent in
vestigations have shown that there
is a scientific basis for this belief.
The explanation now given is that
white corn is poor (along with oa;s,
rye, wheat, and barley) in the fat
soluble vitajni::. ,jj^i;<
is ‘"rTeKP? i' tfi?se aeressory food" fa<*•-
toir.
Pasture crops are rich in fat
soluble vitamines and when pigs
have access to plenty of green feed
there is "net much difference between
the gains obtained on white com and
on yellow corn. It is when the green
plants are not available to the ani
mals that the advantages of yellow
corn feeding are greatest. For Idte
fall and winder feeding, even with
such excellent supplementary feeds
as tankage, the white corn rations
have given decidedly lower gains than
the yellow corn combination. At the
Wisconsin station it has recently been
found that it required 424 pounds of
ye'low corn and forty-five pounds of
tankage to produce 100 pounds gain
(at a daily rate of 1.04 pounds a
head), starting with sixty-five-pound
pigs. It required 473 pounds whit
corn eand forty-eight pounds of
tankage to produce a 100-pound gain
(-•ind at the rate of 0.77 potind
daily.)
The superiority of yellow corn has
been shown in trials with skim milk
similar to these with tankage. In
the case of skim milk the white corn
ration not only gave poor gains but
the pigs were more susceptible to
rheumatism, pneumonia, etc. Y" low
corn and skim milk gave satisfactory
gains and the animals remained
healthy. Yellow corn may be deficient
in mineral matter, as some experi
ments have indicated, and this should
be applied in the form of a salt mix
ture.
Legume hay (chopped alfa'T) fed
with white corn supplied the dili
cieit food factor and the comb na
tion proved about as satisfacto* - a.
when yellow corn was fed. The an
imals were healthy arid gave good
gains. By feeding with a small
amount of alfalfa (choppped in the
silage cutter) the feeder having no
yellow corn will increase *his gains
from his white corn. While there
are no experiments yet to report, it
reasons that chopped peavine, peanut
vi 'p, or clover, etc., would serve to
improve the ration which contains
the white corn.
F. H. SMITH, Chemist.
SEABOARD IMPROVES
SERVICE
Effective Sept. 30th, from
New York, and October 2nd,
from Columbus, Ga., present
Washington-Columbus sleeper
on trains 5 and 6 will be operated
between New York City and Col
umbus, on same trains.
Fred Geissler,
Ais't. Pa»s’r. Traffic Manager
i SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
PRESBYTERIAN
RALLY DAY
What is Ra !y Day for? Rally
Day is appointed to be held .he first
Sunday in October every year. Its
puipose is fourfold:
1. T« assemble the membership bf
the Sunday school after the vacation
season and to recruit new members.
2. To inspire and organize forces
for the work of the fa l and winter.
3. To teach a definite lesson by a
well rendered rally day program.
4. To make an offering for Sun
dae School Extension worthy of tha:
great missionary age icy of the
church.
Ii is tune for taking stock, organ
ize for bet er work, announcing plans
for improvement and starting a gen
eral advance movement in the Sun
day school.
The progressive Sunday school
will take all necessary steps to make
a great success of Rally Day, and
then go forward with the momentum
.bus gained.
This is the eventful day in the cal
endar of the Southern Presbyterian
church for increasing enrollment and
stimulating interest in all depart
ments of Sunday school work.
Rally Day is something more :han
a one-day program and a one-day
bulging of Sunday school attendance.
It io a day’ of enlarged Ivision and in
spiiation, a day that marks the bc
gi ’ning of a sustained enlistment
and interest for the entire year.
Rally Day is placed, and rightly so,
in the realm of the most vital and
essential department of the -ogram
of the church —that of spiritual life.
There are, at a conservative esti
mate, 4,000,000 neglected children
within the bounds of our assembly.
The assembly asks a special Rally
Day offering in all Sunday schools for
Sunday school extension.
Rally Day, October 7th, will be a
great day for the Lawrenceville Pres
byterian Sunday school. We have set
a GOAL of one hundred and fifty
prisent at Sunday school October 7th,
at 10:30 a. m„ when the Rally Day
program begins. Committees are
working out the details, and every
thing will be ready. All are cor
dially invited to come and be with us.
WWMWS?
The Junior Missionary Society
held a mite box opening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McElroy Tues
day evening. Iced chocolate cakes
and fruit were served by Mrs. Fax
Medlock and Mrs. Eh McE'roy, while
Mrs. Homer Crisler directed the va
rious amusement games on the spa
cious front yard under the big oak
trees, where Pullman Conductor De
partment Store Proprietor Cain’s ti
ny granddaughter, Janice, was
awarded praise on most excellent
manners -and behavior for one so
young. Those present were: Klise
Lane, Margaret and Evelyn Myers,
Tom and Marion McKinnon, Fran
cis Hunnicutt, Dorothy Johnson,
Frank Davenport, Curti3 and Mar
garet Nesbit, Mary Garner, Alice de
Jarnette, Eleanor Maxwell, Nina Es
tes, Bruce Robinson, Pat and Tom
mie Summerour, John and Rebecca
Medlock, Jack Reynolds, Howard
Leitch, Howard and Janice Verner,
Carolyn Campbell, William and John
Hogsed.
Monday a homing pigeon was seen
in rear of the Martin Hardware
store here. The bird seemed hun
gry and rather tame and while eat
ing was ‘caught and a band marked
A J 23—32 on left leg while right
leg erried a copper and celluloid
bracelet . Evidently one of a bunch
of young homing pigeons released
here .some time ago that failed to
home; still here Wednesday. Dick
Nesbit from over the river, Milton
county ( reports one marked very
much the same way up at Newtown;
most likely from the same bunch.
SOUTH BEND.
The singing at Mr. W. L. Davis’
Sunday night was enjoyed by a
large crowd.
Mrs. Caiiie Smith and family, of
this'place, attended services at Pros
pect Sunday.
Mr* and Mrfs. Bob Bishop, of
Cumming, visited Mr. and Mrs. G.
T. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin White spent
Sunday with the latter’s brother and
wife, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Fowler.
Mrs. Jennie Kerlin visited Mrs.
Emma Deaton Sunday
Mr. W. L. and G. T. Davis attend
ed services at El Bethel Sunday af
ternoon.
Messrs. Fred Gresham, Lester Ker
lin, and James Eavis, of near El
Bethel, attended the singing at Mr.
W. L. Davis’ Sunday night.
Mrs. R. A. Smith and children, of
Prospect, visited relatives of this
place recently.
iS.G. BROWN TELLS
[OF WESKRN TRIP
Mi. Sam G. Brown has just
returned from an extended trip
through the nor.h and middle west,
where he went to attend a meeting of
The Farm Mortgage Bankers A -men
tion, which convened at We t Eadhi
Springs, Indiana. In discussing the
meeting Mr. Brown said: The four
main topics discussed for ;he solu
tion of the farmers needs were:
Diversification of crops; co-operation
in the marketing of crops; how to
fill labor shortage in the south; and
pass a law to quit issuing non-tax
able securities.
The farmers will have to diversify
their crops, and not depend on any
one crop for money. The first thing
they have to do is to make their liv
ing at home for their families and
stock, or both will suffer "or the
actual necessities of life, he murt
make his money crop his surplus.
One of the key notes of the con
vention was co-operative marketing
for the products raised on the farm.
Tins point was brought and stressed
by Mr. Saphiro, of California, who
stated .hat the present prosperity of
the farmers of his scats was brought
about by co-operative marketing,
whereby, they received the very best
piices for California grown products,
not dumping all their products on the
msike t at one time. There is only one
way to bring about better condition
on the farm, and that is by diversifi
cation, and marketing them gradully:
this is what the southern farmer
must do before he can succeed.
Mr. Woodruff, vice president and
manager of the farm mortgage de
partment of the Prudential Life In
surance Co., spoke of the seriousness
of the labor shortage and of the land:
Ping idle jn the south. Make farm
iifj more attractive for the southern
white man, by the use of modern
farm machinery; having access to the
automobile, thereby bringing bis
neighbors in closer con act with each
other; the telephone, good roads and
other modern improvemen (3 will dr
this, he said. 1 ' 1
Ho also spoke of a wave of law
lessness and crime that has covered
the country, but said that all the bes
people of the country were u. Jr,/
thv.'. test
Unless the farmer Be .fins fj prnriu
diversification, co-i/crat've market
ing and intensive fanning, * e be
hind hjs day. Fe paid 'i’.-s resps
to the public roads in certain sections
and stated that some sections are
far behind in roads and road
building. If the farmer would on!
follow ideals sfet by the best busincs.
men of the country they would he' f
better schools, churches and road
and where their lands are no-v sell
ing from $lO to sls per acre, that
some land would bring from S2OO to
sSofl per acre, like the land of ill
north and west.
The convention went on record a
being opposed to Aon taxable .- h ui'
ties, and pledged their bes: effort t
have the senate pass a law prrrddi
ing such securities being issue 1
sold. The fact was shown that !h/
late William Rockefollow, who died r
short time ago, left an es'.ate wort!
$105,000,000, $43,000 000 of this vvr.
in non taxable bonds. The 1
house of congress has already p*v-:sed
such, a law and it i ; hoped that the
senate will pass it.
3be voters nn make, their v
heard through (he ballot box and dur
the issuance of non taxeb’e bond
by a constitutional amendment. Then
are said to be twenty billion do!:"."-
worth of these bonds in the Un ; tc, i
Slates today. This throws the bur
den of taxes on the poorer cla:- cs,
the rich not paying any tax what
ever on these non-taxable securi'ie:.
It was discussed as to the alvi
nr.,,i( or letMn » more ' >•’ •
in the United States under certair
restrictions and regulations, getting
only the best class of people.
EATS A LOT, BUT BALKS AT
BILL AND LANDS IN CELL
*
New York.—Frederick S. Mayer
walked into a Broa Iway restaurant
looked at the menu and said: “Brin;-
me some of that,” This is what he
ate: Tv/o portions of roast chicken,
roast pork, two portions of roast
veal, five frankfurters, four dishes
of peach ice cream, two dishes of
spumoni, five pieces of pie, two
pieces of cake, five cups of coffe
and two orders of cheese. Then he
declared the bill was too large, re
fused to pay, and was afrested.
SEED COTTON
We pay the highest cash prit l for
white Peas and Remnants of Seed
Cotton. We will have a car or two
bf loose Hulls here this weekj also
good 7 per cent Cotton Seed Meal.
Lawrenceville Cotton Co.,
W. O. Cooper, Mpr.
RS/tD THE ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE NEWS.HERALD,
TWICE-A-WEEK
1 GWINNETT MEN
MAKE TRIP TO
TURNERCOHNTY
So much has been said lately
about the progress that, is heiit-r
made by the Turner county faxmers
until Messrs. T. L. Harris, Frank
Reid, Thomas and myself decided to
drive down last Saturday to look the
situation over.
I wish every farmer in Gwiinett
county could have made the trip. I
am sure it would have been worth a
great deal to each of them to have
seen the many natural advantages
we have over them.
Those farmers are making a won
derful fight with the aid of the Sow,
Cow and Hen. Their cotton fields
are bare. Only a few places where
poison was used will there he cotton
to pick. Hundreds of acres I am
sure will not be gone into to pick at
all because the boll weevils have
completely eaten it up. It is just
like going into a field of weeds for
cotton. A Mr. Evans whose farm
we visited had 400 acres of cotton
he had poisoned some and would get
100 bales.
They ar e forced to rely upon the
Cow, Sow and Hen and here is where
we have the advantage of them.
Their best pasture seems to be Les
pedeza or wild clover when it is
seeded. This grows wild here in
abundance, and makes a much heav
ier grazingfi than on their light routs.
Bermuda grass makes poor growth,
so does bur clover, white and cweec
clovers, Dallas grass and alfalfa.
Here a combination of Bermuda
grass, bur, white and sweet clover,
Dallas and orchard grass, will keep
grazing for cows every month of the
year. It is being done. Their pas
ture possibilities* do not compare
with ours. They do not produce
near the yield of corn we do per
acre, and the same is true of oats.
As to grazing crops for hogs they
have the peanut, but we can produce
twice the hog feed in beans per acre
as peanuts with them. They do not'
grow alfalfa, and an acre of alfalfa
will carry 600 pounds of hogs: most
of the'year. If fo* iThmit f.W»
it. They can produce a great hay
crop so can we in this county. I
have been near the line of Canada in '
the northwest and to Turner county
in the south and I have never seen
a section that could produce more
hay per acre than Gwinnett county.
We get two crops where the north
west gets one, and as much per acre
as any southern section.
As to poultry the grazing crops as
well as grain crops that they must
have for feed will thrive much bet
ter here than t here, and the cli
mate here is equal to any for poul
try.
As to marketing htey have devel
oped good cooperative markets. They
meet once monthly with their hogs
and sell them in car lots. Here you
can find a market any day by carry
ing a hog to Atlanta, and many are
now selling them in sausage and cur
ed meats at a better price. They
sell poultry in car lots; but here the
poultry is hauled to Atlanta iri a
short while and sold at a murh bet
ter price to the consumer without
freight to pay. Their creamery
gives them a market for all their
cream; hut in Atlanta you get the
same price per pound, and it is eas
ier to dispose of. Besides many are
selling butter at fifty cents per
pound or whole milk at a better
price. In all we have a market for
our surplus vegetables that they do
not, and when hauled to the Atlanta
market as a rule good price; etc re
ceived.
Lets consider these conditions. I
have tried to make a reasonable
comparison and I am tare any farm
er will agree with rr.e if they will
visit Turner county and think of the
possibilities or what Is bei \g done
here. Then if those people are mak
ing a success, and they are, under
the conditions they are is it not reas
onable that the farmers of this coun
ty can take the Cow, Sow and Hen,
and with our ability to produce some
cotton, make a wonderful success?
Yours very truly,
A. G. ROBISON.
SCHOOL BOY HIT IN EYE BY
PAPER WAD MAY LOSE SIGHT
Master William Potts had his eye
badly hurt at school Wednesday, one
of the boys hitting him with a paper
wad. He was given medical aid here
and later carried to Atlanta by h s
father to consult a specialist.
Such things should be prohibited
and the parents should cooperate
j with the teach,er in stamping 01,1
such practices.
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