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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, POUflLASVILLE, GEORGIA. THE SENTINEL WHAT SOME GEOR- . GIA AND ALABAMA LANDS DID IN 1916 Published Every Friday entered in the Postofflce at Dougias- arille G«t. . »s seiond-c'ass mail »iuiter. Z. T. DAKE, Editor and Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year - -- -- -- - $1.50 Six Months .76 Three Months .40 ADVERTISING RATES One page per issue $10.00 One-half page per issue.— $6.00 Small space per issue, per inchl21-2i Locals per line per Issue .OS | Office Phone... .1021 Residence Phone 67 BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES The farmer’s prospects are riot gloomy if he .vill raise his supplies. Every family should grow a supply of beans. They will be mighty good next winter. A little work in the garden would prove as good exercise for boys—and git Is too, as tennis, and lots more profitable. It takesTi Uncle Sam a long time to get started, but the old boy can raise heap of dust when he finally shakes his legs. Teddy and Jess Willard want to go to Europe and mix in tfe big scrap. Well, they’re both good ones. Every home and every school house in AmericaJ'should unfurl the stars and stripes. If you haven’t a flag |get one. today. Let’s not let another week go by without having “Old Glory” adorn every public building. If we are patriotic, let’s show our colors. Hon. John N. Holder, editor of the Jackson Herald. Jefferson, Ga., is a candidate for speaker of the next House, Col. Holder formerly filled this place with credit and we would very much like to see him elected. Liquor has been quitel con spicuous for its absence since the “Bone.Dry” law went into effect here. This law may interfere with some people’s "personal privileges” but in our judgement it will enable some homes to have moreitojeat and better clothes. M. C. Gay, Field Agent In Marketing, Ga. 8tate College Of Agriculture If the producers will look into the market for sweet potatoes thejr will be convinced of the necessity of a snore rational method of handling the crop than the one followed by the av erage grower. According to the government crop report, Georgia produced 7,520,000 bushels In 1916. The best authority on the subject estimates that 26 to 40 per cent of the sweet potato crop In the South spoils each year, and that the remainder Is badly damaged. Ex-" Iperlments with storage houses built According to the government plan show conclusively that sweet potatoes can tie kept any winter and till late in the spring with very little loss, thus enabling the producer to get a much greater return for his crop. . In our Investigations we have not found a sin gle Instance In which the potatoes stored in houses were being sold tor fess than $1 a bushel. In some in stances they have brought $1.26 f. o. b. shipping point. Just now yellow pota toes whleh have been kiln dried, grad ed and carefully packed are quoted as high as $2.26 on some of the larger markets. Bulletins and other information on thin subject may be had by writing the State College of Agriculture, Athens, By Andrew M. Soule, Pres. Ga. State College Of Agriculture Reference has been made to the work cf the test farms conducted co-oper atively by the Central of Georgia Rail way and the State Colleges of Agri culture at Athens, Ga., and Auburn, Alabama. This work has now been in progress live years, and In 1916 the area embraced was 992 acres. The ob ject of these test farms, briefly stated, Is to show that the application of kcU .entitle principles to the cultivation of the land In Georgia and Alabama would Increase the yields ordinarily obtained by the average farmer, and that It is possible through a rotation of crops to increase the fertility of these lands, secure a larger return per acre, reduce the amount of man labor and Increase the horse labor. # It appears that a net profit of $21.30 per aero was made on the total area cultivated last year. Man labor, horse labor, fertilizers, rent of land, cost of seed and all costs of making the crop were charged against it. It is noteworthy that the longer these farmB have been operated the greater has become the average In come and the loss the average coat of the crop per acre, Bhowlug that by following the system of farming out-" lined by the Colleges, the lands have boen built up. Some of tho test farms In 1916 show a loss, but every one Is familiar with the conditions which ob tained during that season. The exces sive floods were responsible. Credit for the large profit obtnlned last year is duo In part to the abnor mal price of cotton, which sold on an nverage for 17.7 cents par pound, and the seed for $56.00 per ton. However, even If cotton hnd been selling at prices which have ruled for aeveral years past, the profit per acre on the best managed test farms would still have been very substantial. Farmers who desire to study in detail the re sults here briefly summarized can easi ly secure a copy of the test farm report on application to the Agricultural De partment of the Central of Georgia Railway, at Savqpmfh. STEER FEEDING IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA By M. P. Jarnagln, Prof. Of An. Hus., Georgia State College Of Agri. That cattle feeding can profitably be dona in northeast Georgia is amply shewn by a demonstration just con cluded on the farm of Mr. J. E. Con- well In Hart county, Georgia. On November 8, 1916, he received 39 two year old steers from the moun tain sootion of north Georgia These 39 steers weighed 25,228 pounds and cost delivered on Mr. Conwell’s farm $1348.24 or an average cf $6.34 per 100 pounds. Thus it Is seen that the steers averaged approximately 647 pounds each at the beginning and cost $34.57 per head. Tho different steers showed an evidence of Red Poll Shorthorn and Hereford blood. The total gains pro duced showed that they were capable of making economical use of the feeds consumed. They were fed 91 days and sold February 9tb, at which time they weighed 37,297 pounds, showing a to tal gain of 12,009 pounds or 309.46 pounds per steer for the feeding period. This Is 3.4 pounds per head per day. For tho first 16 days the cattle were allowed to clean up corn fields in which velvet beans had been sown. After that they were fod cottonseed meal, silage and corn stover. For the first feeding period from November 8th to December 6th the ration waB 20 pounds of silage, 3-4 of a pound of cottonseed meal, and 5 pounds of stover. For the second period from December 6th to January 3rd they were fed 30 pounds of silage, 6 pounds of cottonseed meal and five pounds of stover. From January 3rd to January 3lBt they were fed 33 1-4 pounds of silage, 6 1-4 pounds of cot tonseed meal, and 2 1-2 pounds of stover per head per day. During the last period from January 31st to Feb. 7th they were ted the same ration. During the entire period of 91 days the 39 steers consumed 99,986 pounds of silage which was charged at $4.00 per ton. 14,810 pounds Of cottonseed meal at $36.00 per ton and 14,882 pounds of stover at $6.00 per ton, making a total feed cost of $609.54 plus $16.00, allow ing for the 16 days the cattle ran on stalk fields or a total feed cost of $525.64. The following condensed financial statement is Interesting: Cost of cattle $1348.24 Labor 91 dayB at $1.00 per day 91.00 Cost of feed r . 626.64 Interest on money invested In cattle, 91 days, at 8 p. c. 27.2$ Rent for buildings and interest on equipment , . , 60.00 March Honor Roll Doug- lasville High School 1st GRADE Frank Holiaway Elizabeth Baggett Elizabeth Rudd 2nd GRADE Walter Joe Abercrombie Robert Groodzinsky i'beima Moody Louise Patterson 3rd GRADE Grt ce Baggett Willie Davis Mauritie Enterkin Sarah Lee Groodzinsky Carolyn Hutcheson Lutie Mason Dorothy Selman Louise Feely Maurice Abercrombie Steve Herren Bomar Hoke Feely 4th GRADE Florence Boyd Opal Baldwin Mary Burton Ruth Davis Neil Heuse Mary Smith Lois Jackson Estelle Yancey Frank McLarty 5th GRADE Lucile Dodson Ralph Smiih Sara Selman Wade Yancey Ena Williamson Mary Vansant Faye Hudson Blanche Edwards Pauline Styles Blanche- Wallace 6th GRADE Carolyn Upshaw Agnes Baldwin Thad Yancey Henry Abercrombie 7th GRADE Irene Daniels Estelle Dodson Louise Edwards Blanche Feely Elma Hudson Florence Hutcheson Bessie Irwin 8th GRADE Emma Burnett 11th GRADE Clotilde Banks -• CITATION-YEAS’S support. GEORGIA—Douglas r^uuty. The return of the appraisers setting apart twelve months’ support to Mrs. Alma Pilgrim, widotf of, and the mi- norchildrenof H. fyl. Pilgrim,deceased, having been filed in my office, all per sons concerned are cited to show cause by theJ7th day of May, 1917, why said application for twelve months’ support should not be granted. This April 2nd, 1917. J. H. McLarty, Ordinary. Money to Lend We make loans on improved real estate for terms of five r sev- en or ten years, at 51-2% interest and up. Payments made to suit borrower. Hutcheson & Merritt. Office in Hutcheson Building. Total coat .$3042.04 Th» batter cattle wen Bold at 8c APPLICATION FOR LETTERS OF DISMISSION FROM ADMINIS TRATION GEORGIA—Douglas County. Whereas E. Henderson, Admisistra- tor of Jack Henderson, represents to the Court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully administered Jack Henderson’s estate: ThiB is, therefore, to cite all persona concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any the; can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administration, and receive Letters of DiSmission on the first Mon day in May, 1917. TM« 2nd day of April, 1917, J. H. MoLarty, Ordinary. ! What Under the Sun Could You Do That Would Make You Better Satisfied With Yourself I Or Better Off Financially Than To Start a Savings Account With This Bank? RIGG S DISEASE Runs down the System and causu^dtomache and many- other troubles. R I Q Q S - I N E effects a Cure. For sale by J. L. SELMAN & SON APPLICATION FOR LETTERS OF DISMISSION FROM ADMINIS TRATION Georgia, Douglas County. “Vm.r-as, J. W. Read, Administra tor of W. L. Reed, represents to the Court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully administered W. L. Reed’s estate: This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administration and receive Letters of Dismission ofl the first Mon day iD May. 19l7. This 2nd day of April, 1917. 3. H. McLarty- Ordinary. Child’s Hotel!Cafe Cut the high cost of living by getting a "Man’s Lunch at a Child’s price.” No better place in Atlanta to get a good meal. Nice Rooms at Reasonable Prices 8-10 So. Broad St., Atlanta. Buy These For Spring Garden Trowels Ice Picks Garden Seeds “Magic Clean” Neck wear White Shoe Polish Fly Paper Fly Traps' Kodaks and Film Bon Ami Scrub Brushes Window Scrim Varnish Brushes Marbles 10c Paints and Varnishes Belts and Caps McCarley Ten Cent Store DiteouraotaQ' The woman who marries a man tp reform him must be discouraged IB see how much work ono small speci men requires when an evangelist can arlso and have them hitting the trail by the hundreds. FOR SALE—A good seven room house and one acre lot, well located in Douglasville. Dake & McLarty. 66 acres, new 4-room house, 25 acres in cultivation, balance good timber, Easy terms. Dake & McLarty. Pare a Larga Tarrttnry. Para la the sUa of Spain, ffcanca, Oarmaar and Italy pal together. Aluminum Ware We have just received a. full line of pure Illinois 1892 Alumi num—the original. Carrying a 20 year guarantee. One qt Sauce pan 29c, 4 qt Stew Kettle 98c, while they last. Regular 60c and $1.50 valued. Smith-Harding Supply Co.