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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOITGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
Professional Column
DR. 0. HOUSEWORTH
Attention to Surgery
and Diseases of women and children
Office in Hutcheson Jluilding
Office Rhone No. 118-2
Residence Phone No. 118-3
D.' S. STRICKLAND
Attorney at.Law
Office In Hutcheson Building.
Cotton Grading School
The Department of Agriculture has
established grades for the yellow
tinged and-stained cottons, as well as
for the white and blue types. Com
plete sets of these standards are on
display at the College of Agriculture,
and will be used in connection with
the Cotton Grading School, July 2 to
August 4. Announcement upon re
quest.
P. H. Poole C. V. Vansanl
DRS. rOQf.E & VANSANT.
Surgery and Chrcnlc .Diseases of Women
and Children a Specialty.
Office over Sclmun’s Drug Store.
Phonr Nos. 24 , 02 and 85.
J. rt. HUTCHESON,
Attorncy-at-I.aw.
Office in Hutcheson Building.
JOHN H. HUDSON
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
VILLA RICA, Ga.
DR. R. E. HAMILTONJH
Physician aifd Surgeon
Office in Hutcheson Building
Office Phone 103; Residence, 44
Dll. F. M, STEWART,
Dentist
Office over Selman’s Drug Store.
ASrOR MERRITT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA.
J. M. BOYD
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Hut5he9on Building.
Phones—Residence No. 128-2; t ffice
No. 128-3.
DR. G. H. TURNER
Physician and Surgeon
f Special attention given to diseases
Kof the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Office over Philips’ Store.
FOR SALE—Organ at a bar
gain for cash. P. 0. Box 93 or
call No. 78.
Get Bed-bug Killer at J. L.
Selman & Son’s. It does the
word.
Go to Almand & McKoy for
Slot Scooters at 6 l-2c.
Vocational Training
In Agriculture
With the passage of the SMITH-
HUGHES bill providing for federal aid
In the establishment of vocational
schools in the various states, the
“trades school” movement In the Unit*
ed States will receive a great impe
tus. In Georgia alone hundreds of
teachers In agriculture will be requir
ed, for the near future will see voca
tional training offered in the schools
of every county. Now is the time
for teachers to prepare for the work.
The summer term at the College of
Agriculture open July 2. Announce
ment upon application.
Summer Short
Courses In Agriculture
As an outgrowth of the boys’ and
girls’ club work in Georgia, there has
been developed at the College of Agri
culture special short courses for club
winners and for any others who care
to attend. Expenses are yery low and'
a splendid opportunity is given the
boys and girls to gain specialized agri
cultural knowledge. For the boys
there is instruction in soils and fertil-
izers, seed selection, rotation of crops,
growing live stock, dairying, farm ma
chinery, poultry, orchard management
and gardening; for the girls, instruc
tion in home economics, cooking, sew
ing, canning, home gardening, home
sanitation and home nursing. The en
rollment for 1916 was 267; this year it
should exceed 400. A circular descrip
tive of the work may be had free upon
application to the College of Agricul
ture.
Save the Pullet
W. 8. Dllts, Prof, of Poultry Hush.,
Ga. Stats College of Agrl.
So many people, who grow chickens
In Georgia, sell or eat the pullets
(young females) as friers that Georgia
never makes large increases in the
number of chickens kept on the farm.
It Is of utmost importance that only the
cockerels be used this spring for fry
ing chickens and all the pullets be
kept for laying next winter. The
South will have need for all the eggs
that she can produce. Killing a pullet
now means that you are cutting your
food supply next'year from 50 to 160
eggs for each pullet killed. Kill the
young cockerels, but save the early
hatched pullets.'
A Telephone Saves Time
And Time Is Money.
It makes no difference whether vou live town or in the
country, a Telephone is a NECESSITY.
It is a pleasure to converse with vour friends an'
neighbors.
It is a convenience when vou want to speak to your
Lawyer, Doctor, or Merchant.
It is is protection to your famiiv in your absence.
Let l/i’ Install One For You To-Dc j>
Gainesboro Telephone & Telegraph Co
L. K. SMITH, Gen. Mcrr.J. M. MONTGOMERY Local Mgr.
Carrollton, Ga. Douglasviile, Ga.
Save The Difference
O UR BUSINESS is selling shoes at less than
their market value. A positive saving
of 25 percent to 50 per cent. Our specialties, Sam
ple Shoes and manufacturers canceled orders. We
are receiving spring stock every week. We fit the
whole family.
THE TUGGLE SHOE CO,
41 South Broad Street,
Atlanta, Georgia
Big A.
Crops are doing very well at
present, yet it is time of year for
;otton to begin blooming,and ii
n II be two weeks before tin
;arliest cotton will begin tr,
iloom and five or six until the
latest begins.
We notice that ur Representa
tive is going to offer an amend
ment to district our county so
that each section or district will
be represented. A good idea.
We hope he will help us find obr
lost land by soma amendment.
Our former Representative, Mr.
W.| I. Dorris, in a two column
statement on March 3rd, headed,
“WhoTied.The Hands Of The
Tax Equalizers,” said much
about-the power vested in their
hands. Near the close of that
article he says: ‘‘The tax as
sessors have unlimited'power to
find and tax land if they follow
the law. They can take the map
of the county and compare it
with the digest, and if they- find
one single acre in any lot that
has not been returned they have
a rivht to assess it and place it
the digest as unreturned
property.” This statement Was
made in March. In June he goes
before the board of assessors and
tells them their hands are tied
and they cannot do anything.
The first of March it was a very
strong law and the equalizers
had unlimited power; three
months later—no legislature hav
ing met—this same board i? a
helpless set of men. We hope
Mr. Duncan will strengthen the
weak places in this law that Mr.'
Dorris has found at last.
B. A. Hudson hkid another cow
to fall in a ditch last week. In
the sune ditch that one killed
herself by falling into since
Christmas. Luckily, this one
only bruised herself up.
L. S. Lambert lost a milch
cow last week.
Joe Miller (colored) killed a
very large rattlesnake on his
farm last week, having fourteen
rattles.
Little Addie Mae, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Lambert,
who "has been very sick, we are
glad to report better.
Mrs. Alice Smith is sick at
this time,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wedding-
ton of Douglasviile spent the
week end with the latter’s par
ents, Mr, and Mrs. R. M. Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hudson
spent Sunday with L. S. Lam
bert and family. We went
“huckleberry grazing” about
dinner time. "’•*■-»
Masters Barney Owens of
Ebenezer, and Elmer Hudson
spent Sunday with Glynn Lam
bert.
Mrs. T. J. Lambert and daugh
ter spent Sunday with relatives
in our burg.
Mias Francis Hudson of Eber-
nezer is spending this week with
relatiyss here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bearden,
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Steed and
Lambert, Ma and Mrs. Willie
Grey, Mr. and Mrs. Lone Butler
and Mrs. Alice Smith spent Sun
day evening with L. S. Lambert
and family.
Miss Ivor Moore entertained
the girls of her class at a spend-
the-day party at her home at
The Mill last Saturday. Those
enjoying the occosion were:
Misses Francis and Evelyn Aber
crombie, Ida McKinley, Nell
Gilland, Detta Mason, Nettie
and Bessie Moody:
L. K. W.
Better Farming in the South
WHAT THE CROPS ARE ASKING FOR
Feed the Plants Properly and the Soil Can Be Built Up Instead of Run Down
While Increasing Crop Yields
Staple crops
take out large
amounts of plant
food from the soil.
For example: A
cotton crop of one
bale per acre will
remove from the
land in seed,
'leaves, stalks and
bolls, about 77
pounds of nitro
gen 54 pounds of
potash and 28
pounds of phos-
40 bushel crop
J. N. HARPER
Agronomist,
phoric acid. A
of corn will remove in the grain, stalk
and fodder about 64 pounds of nitro
gen, 54 pounds of potash and 34 pounds
of phosphoric acid. A 40 bushel crop
of oats will remove in the grain and
straw about 36 'pounds of nitrogen,
41 pounds of potash and 16 pounds of
phosphoric acid. If, however, stalks,
bolls, straw, etc., are plowed under,
some of the plant food will be return
ed to the soil..
Cotton Fertilizer Problem
With the present price of cotton and
other farm products, it will pay the
farmer to give more attention this
Spring to the problems of qoll build
ing and to the intelligent use of fer
tilizers than ‘ever before. Some of
the best farmers of the South have
adopted the plan of returning to the
soil in fertilizers, the money received
from all or part of their cottonseed.
This is a good plan and should be
more generally adopted.
Enough Plant Food for Best Yields
It takes from 300 pounds to 400
pounds of fertilizer to make a good
weed in cotton, or a good stalk In
corn, and unless amounts above these
are used, full returns cannot be ex
pected because large amounts must be
applied to produce the fruit and the
grain. -
The amount of fertilizer that can
be used profitably will vary with the
different soil types, seasons and with
the different crops grown. The most
important factor, however, governing
the amount of fertilizer that can be
used with profit is the price of the
article produced. At the present price
of cottdh, it will pay to use on moat
of the soil types of the South larger
amounts of fertilizer than heretofore.
To Meet Boll Weevil Situation
When grown under boll weevil con
ditions, cotton should be liberally fer
tilized and this fertilizer should con
tain a large percentage of- phosphoric
acid, which ingredient hastens its ma
turity. A fertilizer containing an am
ple supply of ammonia should also be
used to start the plant off quickly in
iU growth. The farmer must ever
bear in mind that the best way he can
fight the boll weevil is to force his
cotton to a ffuiclc growth and to an
early maturity. Many farmers In the
boll weevil district, are finding that
peanuts and spy beans are splendid
substitutes for cotton. Unless these
crop^are well fertilized, however, with
the fertilizer carrying high percentage
of phosphate, good yields cannot be
expected.
How to Tell What Ii Jefessary
The farmer* can aft Imes deter
mine the element most Beded'in his
fertilizer by noting v-2 manner of
growth of cotton on his different soil
types. * When the growth is slow and
the plants have a yellow, unhealthy
look, nitrogen (or ammonia) should be
applied in rather large amounts. If,
however, the plants look vigorous, but
are not fruiting well, phosphoric acid
should be used liberally.
Generally speaking, for poor soils, the
most important element of a fertilizer
is nitrogen, and the next most import
ant is phosphorous. Therefore, for
poor soils we would recommend under
present war conditions, which makef
potash scarce, a fertilizer for cotton
anjl corn analyzing about 9 per cent
available phosphoric acid and 3 per
cent ammonia and 2 per cent potash.
For peanuts 12 per cent phosphoric
acid, 2 per cent ammonia and 2 per
cent potash. For fertile soils we would
recommend for cotton and corn, a fer
tilizer analyzing 12 per cent available
phosphoric acid, 2 per dnt ammonia
and 2 per cent potash, and for peanuts,,
a fertilizer analyzing 12 per cent phos
phoric acid, 1 1-2 per cent ammonia
and 2 per cent potash. For the sandy
loam soils of the coastal plaip, pot
ash is the most essential and for to
bacco and truck crops must be applied
in liberal amounts.
The reason that nitrogen or ammo
nia is so necessary an element for prac
tically all soils is because the nitrates
are soluble in water, and are, there
fore, constantly leaching out of the
land. The farmers should try to store
up as much nitrogen in the soil as
possible by growing such crops as
beans, peas, clover, vetches, etc.', which,
plants add nitrogen to the soil from
the atmosphere. Practically all soils
of the South are well adapted to the
growing of these legumes.
If, howevef, crops are grown in ro
tation with legumes, it will still be
necessary to use coaunereial forms of
nitrogen to obtain the best results.
While nitrogen is the main element of
a fertilizer, on poor land phosphoric
acid is the most essential and in prac
tically all of the tests that have been
made in the South, better results have
been obtained with soluble phosphoric
acid than with finely ground phosphate
rocks or floats.
Kirby i
Several second hand sewing
machines. Singers, Domestics
and other standard makes, in
good condition. Will sell cheap
and on easy payments.
Banks Bros.
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