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MOVE THE CORN BELT TO GEORGIA
DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
Ultimate Outcome of the Operation of the State Food Coun
cil and the State Market Bureau will be Entire
Reorganization of Agricultural
Endeavor in Georgia
Atlanta, GaT—“In the course of the next one or two yenrs general adop
tion of the plan we are now working out, and co-operation by community
Interests, will almost certainly mean that Georgia is going to be exporting
millions of dollars worth of food stuffs, which, ill past yeurs, we have been
importing. Already there is a tendency in that direction, which means we
lire ultimately going to ‘move the corn belt to Georgia,’ aild^just how soon
that move will be actually made depends now only on how general the com-
, inunity interest becomes and how much interest each community manifests
in itself.” So says Lem B. Jackson, director of the Market Bureau of the
State Department of Agriculture, and secretary of the Stu.te Food Council.
When Commissioner J. J. Brown engaged Director Jackson to organize
and get in working order the new branch of the agricultural department, first
attention turned to evolving some method which would be pructicul in its
operu # Uon by which the several counties in Georgia could be brought actively
into the Work in a way'that would -be benetieial to the local communities,
and, through the state bureau, the products of all the counties would find the
channels lending directly to the centers of greatest demand tor. each of the
varied products.
The European war conditions brought forth the demand for a state coun
cil on production uhd conservation of food and feed stuffs, and out of that
came the call upon the Georgia farmer for a greater activity in his fields, and
a larger responsibility than ha^l ever before confronted him. The state and
federal governments co-ordinated that work with the duties already rest
ing on the agricultural department and through this co ordination and the
ceaseless activities, of the Market Bureau, Georgia today has more acres iu
growing crops to meet the food supply demands which are coming than she
ever has had. Corn, velvet beans, soy Leans, potatoes and peanuts have
been planted in the stute as they never were before. Unused ground has
been turned into market gardens and the home-grown meat supply of U19
year will reduce the imported quantity this fall and winter very considerably.
The handling of these products nt and after harvest time presented
the second problem, and yet the most important, to the Market Bureau and
the State Food Council, and It Is in the direction of Bulging that problem and
being prepared to meet the market demand that the Market. Bureau branch of
the Department of Agriculture is now working, with a very high degree of
success in the territory thus far covered. , This work is two fold in the plan
being carried out by Director Jackson and his field assistants. Cue, the
community handling and collection of produce from all the farmers; the
other, creation of a home market among the dealers which will have demand
for and thereby absorb the snlenble surplus products of the farms when they
are ready for the market.
In the operation of this plan every business house, banker and eomtuer-
cial enterprise In every county in Georgia Is being offered—and very largely
they are accepting—an opportunity to throw himself and s'oim of his re
sources into local community development and protection of home farms
and farmers against loss.
10 ,he * Stato Food. Council, local councils are being formed
cuun-ty in the state, subjecj; to service throughout the period of the
worK ‘ 1,1 conjunction with and through the slate council, the
amzaiion being In the nature of the hub.and the county
or a groat business wheel, the rim of which' is the outside
t Georgia. “We expect from these county or com-
says Mr. Jackson, “whole-hearted co-operation in
ganizution of county agricultural clearing houses where the farm
MS* U \ Uy be 10 winch the State Bureau may
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■J™ , " ‘ ; 1 ' ‘V tlll -' sc councils, the state council as well,
f ro healKie d us a measure to meet war conditions'. Necessarily they will
though, lj> successful ojfcratlbii during the period of war, become of such vast
importance to the farmers and the business enterprises of the state that (hey
will, much of their own weight, live on after the war has ended. .Inst at Ibi-
time, lu the working out of the general plan, what the farmer needs niosl Is
more help and less advice—help by the organization of local market bureaus
01 warehouse companies where be Is sure of being able to place his produce
when it lias m*een grown and prepared for market.”
in the pasl few weeks some 12 or 14 of these county market bureaus
have beeen organized, financed by locul men of business, professional and
agricultural calling, and are getting themselves in shape to handle the form
Blufl 1 when it Is offered to them in whatever quantity. Field agents of the
(State Market Bureau are still aetlvelymt work in the counties furthering these
local organizations and getting them In line will) the state bureau
The follow-up for that, which also has been started,' is the offer of a
pledge that will go to qyery wholesale house In the state to buy and sell
Georgia-grown farm products in preference to any other." One city iu the
•tate has been “felt out" among the wholesalers along that line and nrae
Heady every dealer approached with It signed the pledge without hesitancy.
^They aro for it. Tbo sawb pledge will he sent to every community in the
•tate in the next few days. J
The State Market Bureau asks that any county in Georgia which has not
»et been organized write at once for information and, In the Interest of the
County itself, the work of perfecting a local organization be taken up and
put. through without delay. Every possible assistance will be accorded by
-*“• state department In the work, and correspondence Is solicited.
In eve
war.
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councils the spoKt
expanse or the state
munity organizations, 1
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CALOMEL DYNAMITES YOUR LIVER!
MAKES YOU SICK AND SALIVATES
“Dodson’s Liver Tone" Starts Your Liver
Better Than Calomel and You Don’t
Lose a Day's Work
Liven up your-sluggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work a
pleasure; ire vigorous and full of ambi
tion. But take no nasty, dangerous
calomel because it makes you sick and
you may lose a day’s work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones*
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That’s when
you feel that awfubnausea and cramping.
Listen to me!. If you want to enjoy
the #> nicest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced just take
a spoonful of harmless Dodson’s Liver
Tone tonight. .Your druggist or dealer
sella you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson’s
Liver Tone under my personal money-
back guarantee that each spoonful will
clean your sluggish liver better than a
dose of nasty calomel and that it won’t
make you sick.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is .real liver
medicine. You’ll know it next morning
because you will wake up feeling fine,
your liver will be working; headache
and dizziness gone; stomach will be
sweet and bowels regular.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely vege
table, therefore harmless and can not
salivate. Give it to your children.
Millions of people are using Dodson’s
Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomel
now. Your druggist will tell you that
the sale of Calomel is almost stopped
entirely hero.
STOP IN ATLANTA
AT HOTEL EMPIRE
Opposite Union Depot on Pryor
St. Renovated and refurnished
throughout. Reservations made
on application. * Hot and cold
water, private baths, electric
lights and elevator. First class
accommodations at moderate
prices.
Rooms 50c AN R D n up
JOHN £,. KDM0ND8ON, Prop.
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Seed Sown Here
Falls In Fertile
Soil, Insuring a
Bountiful Harvest
Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union
Mrs..Alice Roberts was joint;
hostess with Mrs. T, R. Whitley
at a meeting of the W. C, T. U.
in Mrs. Whitley’s lovely home
on West Broad street 1 ues lay
afternoon, July 3rd.
Mrs. Z. T. Lake, with a very
fine and well arranged program,
filled every minute of the lime
with profit ana instructiyeness
on vital questions of the day,
bringing out clearly, points
where our union could help-in
the nation’s crisis by doing its
“bit” promptly.
Sveral dollais were given fer
the White Ribbon motor Ambu
lance the W. C. T. U. is arrang-
to send to France.
The comfort bags for our own
soldier boys was brought before
the union and met a ready re
sponse from all present. There
are about 30 of these bags not
yet filled out, and any mother
who wil, and wishes to do some
thing for our soldiers, can get
one of these useful and much
appreciated (by soldier?) articles
and fill it out andjwith her own
hi me in a. [motherly letter help
that much those who have gone,
and will go from Douglas county
to help and do more than their
part in our nation's cause, for
friends, is there anything more
precious than these young lives,
even though they are some other
mother’s boy.
The W. G. T. U. will gladly
share with anyone these Soldier
com fort bags, which can be se
cured fiom Mesdames F. M.
Stewart, J. .1.Kirby, L. C. Up
shaw, J. E. Phillips, A W. Mc-
Larty, J. C. Wright orD. House-
worth.
STOCK FEED OF ALL
KINDS
We handle sweet feed, hay, Ked Gravy, Velvet Bean
meal, bran, shorts, oats, beet pulp, cotton seed meal and
flaked hulls. We buy in car load lots and can save you*
money. We sell for’eash oniy.
W. C. ABERCROMBIE
Eat With Us
No better medium priced cafe in the city. Stop and try?
a meal and you’ll come again. * We serve only the best of
everything.
" 55 WJi Mitchell St.
Half-block of jTer-
minal Station Atl’a
every tiling.
Albion Cafe-
No Service Too Exacting
to demand our closest attention. Your wants aie studied, your
needs considered and the resulting glasses are the best, most com
fortably servicable possible.
Price- Our low rent enables us to of
fer ycu a material saving:.
Silvios Optical Co.
WHo. Broad St. Near Alabama.
Walk a block and save a dollar.
Atlanta,-
SUMMER GOODS
Our line is complete in up-to-the=minute
summer goods, and now is the time to
make your selections and owing to the fact
that we bought early and prices are ad-
vancingrapidly, we are offering BARGAINS
in every department.
TY T71V /rmv /TT?TTD WE are headquarters for Men’:
KiWliAlVl Jji^tV Boys’ Clothing—Palm Beach
Cool Cloth—in great varieties, Shoes Shirts, Ties, Un
derwear, and everything for your'complete sat
isfaction and comfort, at lowest prices.
’s and
and
ALSO
everything new and pretty in
Ladies’ goods and some
thing new coming in
all the time.
Agents for McCall and Pictorial Pat
terns and Royal WorChester Corsets.
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