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Ar. Louisville 8:00 a. m. 9:35 p. m.
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48 North Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga.
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We also make all kinds of
MOULDINGS.
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FORT VALLEY, GA.
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Dining Cars.
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Ar. Lumber City 5:55 a. m. 0:40 am.
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Ar. Jacksonville 10:50 am 11:20 am.
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Atlanta-Brunswick Sleeping Car,
first class Day Coaches.
THE tEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
HANDLING AND GRADING
OF SWEET POTATOES
Losses of sweet potatoes in storage
are due to the attacks of paras'tic
fungi or molds. Diseases like black
rot, stem rot, scurf, etc., are trans¬
mitted to the potatoes from diseased
plants; while others, as soft rot are
carried by the plants.
Soft rot, caused by the black,
brepd mold, Rhizopus,‘is the most im¬
portant storage rot of sweet pota¬
toes. The spores or seeds of tn'.s mold
are found in the soil, on the tools and
containers used for harve ting, and
in rust floating about in the air.
These spores germinate and grow to
best advantage under moist condi¬
tions, and do not readily attack the
dry uninjured skin of a sweet pota¬
to. If Rhizopus spores lodge on a'cut
or bruised potato they readily genni
inate and grow on the moist surface
and soon turn the potato into a rot
ten mass. The mycelium or roots of
the fungous are ah e to grow from
a rotting potato into a” adjoining un¬
injured one, and thus the rot intro¬
duced on a cut potato may cause th<
loss of many uninjured ones.
Knowing that soft rot generally
starts in cut and bruised potatoes it
is important that 'tire be used to
grade so -as to •emove all cut and
bruised potatoes from tne one? in
tended for storage. It is preferable
to grade the potatoes n the field,
putting all the good ones in crates o.
other containers to be transferred lo
the storage house or hank. The cut
and bruised potatoes should teen be
gathered and sold for immediate use
or fed to stock.
When the potatoes are being gird
ed all which show black rot spots
should be sorted out and fed .<> stock,
as they are not suitable for human
food.
There is generally some loss from
rotting in storage even under the best
of conditions, but it is not advisable
to attempt to remove such potatoes
by sorting over all of those stored, as
by so doing the good potatoes are
more or less bruised and the spores
from the rotting ones are scattered
thruout the house. Tests along these
lines at the —Georgia Experiment
Station have proven that the fewer
times sweet potatoes are handled in
harvesting and storing the smallei
the loss will be from storage rots.
J. A. McCLINTOCK,
Plant Physiologist,
Georgia Experiment Station
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USES OF PEAT.
Devotees of the automobile and
motor boat will be glad to know that
successful experiments have been
made in Sweden in extracting wood
alcohol from peat. The process as
reported by the commercial attache
at Copenhagen, Denmark, is de¬
scribed in a report on peat in 1919
recently issued by the United States
Geological Survey, Department of
the Interior. Interesting instances of
the use of peat as a fuel are given
in this report. A coastwise steamship
company of Norway for example,
during the coal shortage, was enabled
by the use of peat fuel to keep up its
full sailing schedule.
Peat is used also in making up fer¬
tilizers and in preparing concentrat¬
ed food for stock. Last year (59,197
tons of peat, valued at $705,532, was
produced in the United States. This
was a decided decrease from the
production of 1918, although the
peat deposits in this country are ex¬
tensive.
This report may be obtained upon
application to the Director, United
States Geological Survey, Washing¬
ton, D. C.
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It is well to keep in mind that it
was not the fanatics, moralists and
meddlers who took away our darling
tipple. It was the cold-blooded scien¬
tists. It was the tousle-headed pro¬
fessors with their test tubes and
formulae in their laborities, it was
the life insurance actuaries with their
deadly array of figures and their
mysterious but unescapable law of
averages, it was the efficiency ex¬
perts in mill and factory—these are
they who snatched the bottle from
the banquet table and interfered with
the glorious personal libei'ty of the
son who chose as a free-born Ameri¬
can citizen to break his mother’s
heart, or the husband whose mode of
free self-expression was to break his
wife’s head.—Dr. Frank Crane.
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The Bureau of Entomology,
United States Department of Agri¬
culture, has been called upon for aid
in combating cable borers, which pen¬
etrate the lead-sheathed cables of
telephone companies in California
and elsewhere in the United States.
Some seasons the damage is quite
serious, moisture penetrating through
the holes made by the borer and caus¬
ing a short circuit in wet weather.
Various kinds of suspension rings,
lead alloys, and chemical repellanu
have been tried with little . success,
but the inroads of the borer have
been checked by treating the suspen¬
sion rings with soft tallow.
GEORGIA IRON ORE
HANDLED AT LOSS
STATE HAS RICH DEPOSITS,
BUT SUFFERS ANNUALLY
FROM LACK OF FURNACES
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
grief News Items Gathered Here and
There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanla.—Georgia has natural dfi
posits of Iron ore as bountiful as any
region in the world, and yet is losing
$00 a ton or 112,000,000 a year on
steel products, because it has no
plants to convert tbe raw material into
the finished articles.
This is one of the outstanding
statements made in a report issued
by the Georgia School of Technology,
based on data gathered after exhaus¬
tive investigation and from unquestion¬
ed ole authorities.
The report has been issued here in
connection with plans for the indus¬
trial tour of the North, which one
hundred and fifty prominent Geor
gians will make from November 17
to November 23.
Tlie tour will include an inspection
ot steel plants at Cincinnati, Pitts¬
burg and other cities, which will re¬
veal to those in the party exactly
what Georgia can do with the nat
lira! resources she nas.
The possibilities of those resource j
are set forth vividly in the report on
iron deposits in Georgia, which says
in part:
"The four states in America pro
during (lie largest quantity of pig iron
mid steel are Pennsylvania, Ohio, In¬
diana and Illinois. Tbe state of
Georgia is producing almost as much
iron ore as these four states combin¬
'd. but where these four states have
blast furnaces in operation, turn
ing out 31,253.400 tons ol pig iron a
rear, Georgia produces none. This is
stated on authority of the United
States geological survey.
"Where does Georgia iron ore go?
Outside the state, to the steel plants
of Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. There it is turned into the
finished product and returned to Geor¬
gia to be sold. Let us see what Ibis
means to the state, what a terrific
expense it is, what a tremendous profit
Georgia is losing.
“The Pittsburg district at one time
had miough iron ore to supply all the
blastfurnaces in the North, but since
their local supply has been exhausted.
Pittsburg steel men have been forced
to haul their iron ore and limestone
more than one thousand miles and
their coal situation, according to the
iron Age, is almost as bad.
"This is what they do. Iron ore
and limestone from the upper lake
region must be loaded into railroad
cars at the mines unloaded and trans
terred to boatL at the upper lake port,
and upon reaching the lower lake
ports is unloaded again and transfer¬
red back to the railroads, to tie sent
in the furnace and unloaded before
its journey is finally over.
“Because of this excessive handling
and long and difficult hauling of raw
material, northwest Georgia in com¬
petition with Pittsburg, could, if it had
he furnaces, produce pig iron at from
f15 to $18 a ton less than Pittsburg.
\gain, the canals through which
Pittsburg's supply of iron ore and
limestone passes are frozen over four
rnd a half months of the winter, caus
ng them to haul enough ore during the
ither seven and a half months to sup
-jiy furnaces for (he entire year.
“idle money is tied up in reserve
stocks of ore. and the labor organi¬
sation must he built up every spring
it great expense. In addition, large
osses are suffered from boats and ele¬
ctors jammed with ice and weather
leaten. Georgia, on the other hand,
uis none of these serious handicaps
o face.”
lent To Chaing Gang: Owned Liquor
Atlanta.—J. B. Foster was sentenc
'd to twelve months on the chain gang
)y Judge John D. Humphries in the
■rimitlal division of the superior court
in .a charge of violating the state pro
libition law following his plea of
guilty to a charge of having from 12
o 14 gallons of liquor in his posses¬
sion. In pronouncing sentence Judge
Humphries said the man who buys
iquor is as guilty as the man who
sells it. and he said he was going to
ireak up the liquor traffic if he had
o send everybody engaged in it. white
>r black, to the chain gang.
Bank Robbed At Lawrenceville
Lawreueeville.—The Grayson bank
,vas entered recently by burglars. The
noney vault was blown open and sev¬
eral hundred dollars in cash and $600
n liberty bonds were carried away.
Sheriff Garner was summoned and is
issisting the local officers in search
ng toy the robbers.
Badges Civilian Policemen
Atlanta.—Badges for Atlanta's 100
•ivilian policemen have arrived and
ire now in the office of Chief Beavers
lending distribution. Chief Beavers
ias requested that all members of the
Hvilian force apply at his office as
soon as possible, and receive and sign
:or their badge. The badges are to
oe used by the civilian officers; they
ire considerably different from those
ised by the regular policemen. They
ire somewhat smaller and bear the
words “Atlanta Traffic Police."
NOVEMBER 18, 1920.
The Minstrels
are Coming
And if you dont, you II
miss the biggest night of
fun that’s been offered in
Fort Valley in many a moon.
Lots of People
Black Face Comedians,
Jokers, Monologists, Soloists, and
other Original Fun Makers.
Many Prominent and Talented
Local Artists on Program.
FRIDAY. NOV. 9
8 P. M.
Austin Theatre
FORT VALLEY
Prices: Adults 50c. Children 25c.
Auspices Civic Committees Fort
Valley History Club and Chamber
of Commerce.
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Direction: Miss Carolyn Vance.
Object: To clean up and Beautify
Fort Valley.
If your doctor said
you musn’t laugh,
don’t come.
BY USING THE PARCEL POST
You can bring the highest class Dry
Cleaning, Dyeing and Shoe Repairing Ser¬
vice in the South right to your door.
Our Service is an investment, not an
expense, it’s lihe finding a $20.00 bill in the
pocket of a discarded suit.
Make your garments wear longer
and look better by having them properly
Cleaned; you will appreciate our work.
TRIO LAUNDRY COMPANY
LAUNDERERS DRY-CLEANERS
SHOE REPAIRERS
100 Hilliard St. Atlanta, Ga.
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