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The Country Home
BY MRS. W. R. FELTON
An April Blizsard in 1849
After some tornado experiences
and flood experiencee in this early
springtime of 1920, we are now hav;
ing an April blizzard to make our
poor farmers very apprehensive as
to a wheat crop or a fruit crop in
Georgia latitudes. We surely are in
1920 going round in a circle, rather
than in a forward movement. We
had a small snowstorm in Carters
ville on Easter Monday. If the wind
abates tonight there will be a freeze
all over north Georgia. We shall
see what we will see and also be
obliged to put up with it, whether
“good, bad, or indifferent.”
Away back in the year 1849 I re
member a fatal April blizzard. Our
family spent the school months in
Decatur. The other months, in win
ter, we lived on the river plantation.
We were getting along bravely in the
spring of 1849. It was given up
that there was the finest wheat crop
of very many years. There was no
wheat shipped southward from the
great west in those early days.) We
had well-equipped grain mills and
people raised their own wheat and
corn, and these local mill owners
ground the grain into flour and meal.
My father owned such a mill and he
devoted his farming operations to
grain growing, and sold the grist to
near-by towns, the surplus that the
mill provided.
Decatur was the county site and
the courthouse and jail could be seen
from our town house door. One day
the word went around that smallpox
had broken out in Atlanta, and it
was also concluded that a bad dis
ease like smallpox was discovered in
the county jail of Decatur.
Panic prevailed. we nad read
about smallpox, but the fewest num
ber of the people had ever seen a
case of genuine smallpox—never in
that vicinity.
There was a great cry for vaccine
matter. I remember well the day
my arm was treated with some very
scarce vaccine matter, ®. trifle of a
scratch it was.
It was so warm out-of-doors that
fires were unnecessary in the house.
We were all wearing summer gar
ments. Garden peas were in full
bloom. The fruit trees were full of
tiny peaches and green leaves. It
was a beautiful season, the world
was beautiful.
, There was a rain one Saturday,
turned'cold in the night. Next morn
ing the clouds were “spitting snow.”
We returned to big log-heap fires.
The smallpox extended and we were
all bundled up to get away early in
the week. The South river home
found us glad to be there. And the
blackness of desolation was spread
over the wheatfields, the gardens,
and the big orchards, and all the
land. The wheat stalks turned yel
low, ditto the young corn, and both
drooped and died. , .
We» had one field of a hundred
acres in wheat that was in blossom—
it was in ruin. Within a w.eek’s
time, if a match had been applied,
the fire would have swept over it
like fire in d§ad grass, in late aut
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bread that pulled us through to an
other year. With so much corn (and
everybody had to raise corn), we had
no market for meal, and wheat
brought a fine price in 1849. Our
people concluded to raise a big hog
crop to use up the big surplus corn
crop. We had to build extra rail
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AUNT JULIAS!
LETTER BOX
Dear Children:
I wonder how you are enjoying these snappy days in April.
Have you ever heard the story that these cyold days make those lovely
blossoms, the “snowballs?’’ Os course, it is hard to believe that they
would bloom only in nipping weather like this, when we think of all
flowers being more beautiful for warm sunshine.
Lovingly. AUNT JULIA.
Rebecca, Ha.. February, 1920.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit another south Georgia girl into
you happy band? I sure do enjoy reading
the cousins' letters. I will describe my
self. I hair, brown eyes, medium
complexion, weight 105 pounds, height 5
feet and 2 inches and 14 years of age. I
live 4 miles east of Rbbecca. I am in the
Seventh grade. I go. to school at Emory
school. My teagher is Mr. C. T. Smith.
Sure hope Mr. W. B. is on the outside
now. If any of you girls and b'oys want
to correspond with a south Georgia girl, just
let the letters fly. Will answer all re
ceived. MATTIE PLAYER,
Rebecca, Ga., Route 2.
Ring, ring, ring. Here I come for ad
mittance again, auntie. I have made ap
pearance here before but suppose you don't
remember me. To locate myself, I live be
tween Jefferson Davis’ capture and DeSoto’s
supposed famous march through this county
(Irwin). I call my home “Exnesicity.”
Let cards and letters fly.
MOUNTAIN BILL.
(E. T. PAULK.)
Ocilla, Ga.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: I have read
many of the cousius’ letters and enjoy them
fine. Well, as most new cousins describe
themselves, I will do so, so here goes.
Black hair, blue eyes, fair complexion; my
age is between eight and fifteen. See if
you can guess it. Let your mail fly to a
new Georgia cousin,
(MISS) MARGUERITE DOUGLAS.
Nicholls, -Ga.
P. S. —Will answer all letters received.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes another
Georgia girl to join your happy band of
boys and girls. As all new cousins describe
themselves, I will do likewise. Now, cous
ins, stop laughing and be perfectly quiet;
so here I go: Black hair, dark, complexion,
brown eyes and my weight is eighty pounds.
My age is ten years. I go to school at the
Nicholls High school, and I am in the fifth
grade. We have seven teachers. My teach
er's name is Mrs. Clyde Kirkland. I like
her fine. Now, cousins, some of you all
please write me. Will ring off with a rid
dle: What is it that is big at each end.
little in the middle, flies in the air and
plays like a fiddle. By a new cousin.
DORIS ANDERSON.
Nicholls, Ga., Box 115.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here I come Again. I
guess old Mr. IV. B. was hungry and Aunt
Julia took my letter for food. Now, Aunt
Julia, please send Mr. W. B. off fishing
pens to hold the extra corn, and in
the coming spring were proud to get
fifty cents per bushel at the crib.
The young ones attended a country
school, until the summer term closed
in the town school. Then we went
back for the fall term to be told
that young Atlanta was going to cut
loose from us and in due course of
time, there was a Fulton county, and
it looked like poor, old Decatur had
gone back to a small one-horse town
and so it did.
I have seen some other late kill
ing frosts. On May 1, 1854, there
was a sweeping frost all over north
Georgia. Every cotton stalk above
the ground was killed, “as dead as
a door nail.” I saw another in the
early ’9o’s that also cleaned up the
growing crops. These April bliz
zards are exceedingly difficult things
to handle.
till I get through chatting. How many
of you cousins go to school? I do for one
and I sure do have some more jolly time.
Well, as I described myself before, I will
' not frighten you all again, for I bet some
of you all have not gyt over your fright yet,
so I won’t scare you all any more. Aunt
Julia, I will send my bit for the baby next
time. I am at school today and I haven't
got the change. Well, I will ring off with
a riddle: What is it that is alive at both
ends and dead in the middle, plows up dirt
and busts out the middle?
Your niece,
ALLIE WATERS.
Nicholls, Ga., R. F, D. 3.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you admit two
North Carolina girls Into your happy band?
We have been silent readers of the Letter
Box for quite a while, so decided to wake
up. As this is our first attempt to write
to you, we will describe ourselves and go:
I, Florence, am 5 feet 7 inches tall, weigh
113 pounds, have dark brown eyes, black
hair and fair complexion. I, Ora. am 5
feet 2 inches tall, gray eyes, light brown
hair and fair complexion, weigh 135
pounds, seventeen years old. With much
love to Aunt Julia and the cousins, we will
• ring off. t
FLORENCE JONES.
ORA SOUTHERLAND.
Kenansville, N. C., R. F. D. 2.
P. S,—As this is our first, we hope Mr.
Wastebasket will be gone.
Dear Aunt Julia: I am visiting my sis
ter in the country, in sight of the Yonah
mountain, Mrs. Allen. I live in Lanett,
Ala., but wish I lived in the country.
Hoping this will escape the waste basket.
I am MARY DYER.
p. s.—My brother-in-law don’t believe
this news is real. His name is Comer
Allen.
Dorothy Dix Talks on
Paying the Price
ONE of the greatest obstacles to
human happiness consists in
our unwillingness to recog
nize the fact that everything
in this world has a price tag on it,
and that we must pay cash over
the counter for everything we get.
Something for something. Noth
ing for nothing. Pinchbeck cheap.
Fine gold, high. It is the immuta
ble law of nature that never changes.
We admit the truth of this so far
as other people are concerned, but
when it comes to ourselves we cher
ish the fallacious hope that we shall
escape the common facts. We think
that, somehow, we are going to be
able to graft our way through Hfe,
that some miracle will happen to us
so that we will get the sweet without
the bitter, and gather where we have
not sown, and reap where we have
not planted.
It is a fool’s dream. It never hap
pened. For value received we pay,
pay, pay. > And this is true equally
of spiritual and material things.
Do you want love? You must pay
for it with your heart’s blood. You
must pay for it with a million sacri
fices, with a million anxieties; with
a million fears. And after you have
bought love you must keep on paying
for it by cherishing it, and protect
ing it, and nursing and fostering it,
and preferring it before yourself.
The people who never have love are
those who are too stingy and selfish
to buy it. They are too selfc-center
ed and egotistical to pay the price
that love demands. Those who lose
love are those who grow tired of
continually paying in little atten
tions, and little considerations, in
little kisses and caresses, on a debt
that is never paid in full this side
of the grave.
And those who refuse to buy love
because it lays upon one burdens and
calls for self-sacrifice, they also pay
for what they get. They escape the
agony that tears at one’s heart
strings when a beloved one stands in
the shadow of death. They escape
the slavery of toiling for a family
whose needs suck up a man’s income
as a sponge does water.
But they pay in loneliness, in the
silence of rooms in which no wom
en’s laugh is ever heard, or where
/’ ere comes the patter of little feet.
iey pay in a desolate old age, bar
ren of interest and lacking all hu
manities.
Do you wish health? You fnust
pay for it with abstinence, with self
control, with intelligent care of the
body and by doing a thousand things
you don’t want to do, and doing
without a thousand things you great
ly desire to do. Sometimes nature
runs a long health credit account
with a man or woman, but in the
end she admits her accounts, and for
every broken law of hygiene the
offender must pay with compound in
terest.
The young man who drinks too
much, the young man who burns the
candle at both ends, the young man
who is a roue, thinks that he can
have his fling and sow his wild oats
and get off scott free. But he doesn’t.
He pays the price in shattered
nerves; in premature senility, and
insanity. There is no hospital, ho
insane asylum in which they will not
tell you that three-fourths of the
men patients brought their fate upon
themselves.
The woman who lives on candy
and sweets, who takes no exercise,
who wears clothes that are first aid
to pneumonia, who lives on hetv
nerves and in a perpetual strain of
gadding from party to party, thinks
that she can likewise sin against
nature and escape the penalty, but
the price she pays enriches sanita- 1
riums, and puts nerve and lung
specialists in the millionaire class.
Do you wish success? The price
of that is all that you have got.
To buy success you must give ev
ery ounce of strength in you—and
then some more. You must give
every thought of your head, and
every aspiration of your soul. You
must count neither sickness, nor
weariness, nor discouragement in
paying your bill.
You must work while others play.
You must save while others spend.
You must take the hard road when
the easy one lies invitingly before
you. You must crucify your vanity
and think only of your object, not
yourself. You must stand the gaff,
take criticism gratefully; endure
insolence patiently; deny yourself
the pleasures of both love and hat
red.
Perpetual sacrifice on the altar
of one’s desire. Self immolation to
one purpose. Ceaseless striving. Un
ending labor. Dauntless courage and
endurance. These are the coins with
which one buys success, and it is
because so few are willing to pay
the price that there are so many
failures in life.
Men and women believe that there
is some royal road to fame and
fortune in which they can joy ride
in a limousine, or that there is
some magic carpet that will waft
them to success without an effort
on their own part.
It never happens. There is no easy
way to the heights. Every step of
it must be taken with blood and
tears, and faint hearts are not
strong enough to pay so great a
price. So many get weary and lay
down their tools. They get fagged
and drop out of the race. They d'>
not like L*he company they are forced '
to keep on part of the journey and ;
they turn aside to where the so- j
ciety is more elegant and agreeable, j
or they argue with themselves that
after all success isn’t worth what i
life asks for it,, and they content !
themselves with some cheaper bar
gain.
Every day of your life you see
lonely, loveless, friendless people,
-ick people, failures, who rail ■at
the injustice of fate, but the fault i
is their own, not fate’s. They could
have had the thing they desired if
they would have paid the price, but
they would not.
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At this season of the year, num
bers of inquiries are being received
relative to which is the best variety
of corn to plant and how seed corn
should be selected. For a long time
we have centered our attention on
the improvement of our animals
through selection and Intensive
breeding. At first it did not occur
to us that these same methods, if
applied to farm crops, would show
highly beneficial results. Recently,
we have come to realize that plants
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Hence, the choice of seed for plant
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cloth and place in a room with a
temperature between 50 and 60 de
grees. Keep there for six or seven
days. The cloth should be kept
moist but not wet. The germination
test may then be read. Those ears
that do not show strong germination
should be discarded. For instance,
if two of the six kernels of any par
ticular ear do not show strong germ
ination, I would discard that ear. Get
perfect germination and that will
meair a perfect stand. A perfect
stand of corn, with other conditions
being right, means large yields and
large yields mean more profit.
There are a great many unnamed
varieties in most communities that
are good. The following varieties
are well known and can be recom
mended: Whatley’s Prolific, Hast
ings’ Prolific, Marlboro, Cocke’s Pi
lific, Shaw’s Improved, Batt’s Pro
lific, Albermarle, Sparks, Yates’
Choices, College Cross and others.
The first step to take in planting
corn is to prepare a deep, well-pul
verized seed bed. Good seed and
proper cultivation cannot make up
for the lack of a well-prepared seed
bed. If the seed, bed is properly pre
pared, the corn crop is at least half
made when the corn is planted.
Corn may be planted in checks or
in the drill, but the drill method is
most commenly practical, and is
recommended.
Whether you plant on a small
ridge or the level, or in a “water
furrow,” depends upon the drainage
of your land. If well drained it
should be nearly level, but if water
is inclined to stand on the land,
planting should be made on ridges
just high enough to carry off the
surplus water. If planted on land
where damage is likely to occur
from drouth, it is well to plant in a
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do not run up and down the hill. As
a general rule, it is recommended
that corn be planted as nearly on
the level as possible in order that
labor saving Implements should be
used and by the use of which more
Make*Short Work<of
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moisture may be retained in the
.soil.
The spacing of the rows and the
distance the corn is planted in the
rows must be determined by the
strength of the soil. A distance of
three and one-half feet apart for the
rows and from 15 to 24 inches apart
in the drill is recommended for bot
tom land. Corn planted at this dis
tance, three and one-half by two
feet, should contain 6,222 stalks per
acre. If each stalk produces one
pound of grain, which it should do,
a yield of 88 bushels will be ob
tained. On thinner soils the rows
should be about five feet apart, and
the corn about 15 to 20 inches apart
in the drill. A row of cowpeas or
peanuts may be planted in between
the rows about the second cultiva
tion of corn, which may be harvested
or turned under for fertilizing value.
No one can say just what date is
best to plant in any locality. Do not
plant, however, until your seed bed
is in good condition and the ground
is warm. A safe way is to watch
the best corn growers of your com
munity and plant when they begin
to plant. 1
See that your planter is well ad
justed so that it will drop the corn
regularly. Remove a few kernels
from the butt and tip of the ear
in order that all kernels may be
nearly of the same size. Plant more
than is needed, because it is better
to thin your corn than to have to re
plant. Remember the old saying
“■One for the blackbird, one for the
crow, one for the cutworm, hnd three
for to grow.” Work to get a perfect
stand. Know the number of stalks
on your acre and help each stalk
produce at least one good ear.
A hundred-bushel corn crop will
require from 1,950 to 2,600 tons of
water to mature it. This amount
would cover an acre of ground to a
depth of 16 to 22 inches. The great
est need for water by the corn crop
is in May, June and July, and as the
average rainfall for these months is
only 12 to 15 inches, it is readily
seen that every care should be used
to cultivate the com well and save
as much of the soil moisture as pos
sible. Cultivation forms a “blanket,”
or mulch, on the surface that pre
vents rapid evaporation of moisture
ifroin the soil. This mulch should
be stirred eve’.y week or ten days
through the growing period.
Cultivation should begin soon after
planting even before the corn is up.
The objects of cultivation are: first,
to conserve moisture; second, to kill
weeds; and third, to keep the soil
friable. Moisture, plant food and a
good mechanical condition of the soil
are important factors in making the
crop. Weeds consume food and mois
ture that should be saved for the
corn and it is important that cultiva
tion should begin early. The adjust
able harrow is a good implement for
the first cultivation, especially on
the heavy types of soil. It breaks
the crust and kills the young weeds
and saves moisture by forming a
shallow miilcn. It can be followed
by the weeder as the corn begins to
come up without fear of hurting the
young plants. These implements,
when used in this way, save much
hand labor with the hoe and conserve
the soil mois ure in the early part
of the growing season.
As stated above, the corn should
be cultivated from the time it is
planted until the growing stage is
well passed, or until the ear is well
made. An extremely heavy yield of
corn requires large amounts of food
and moisture, and every effort should
be made to keep the soil in such con
dition that the corn roots will have
no difficulty in obtaining this food
and moisture.
After the corn has reached a height
of three or four inches, larger imple
jments should be used. These imple
ments should not be fitted with larg
er shovels. They should have a large
number of small shovels in order
that the soil may be completely
stirred and yet no dirt thrown to the
corn. The first cultivation should
be deepest and, nearest to the corn
plants. During early growth of the
corn, roots do not approach the sur
face of the soil, nor do they extend
to the middles, and cultivation, can,
therefore, be carried on close to the
plants without injury. Later, the fine
feeder roots spread to the “middles”
and approach the surface, and will be
injured if cultivated deeply. The last
cultivation made should stir just the
surface soil in the middles for the
purpose of saving moisture and kill
ing weeds.
The old practice of “laying by”
corn by digging out the middles and
throwing the soil up in ridges around
the corn with a “middle buster” does
,more harm than good. It breaks
many of the feeder roots and causes
a greater loss of soil moisture by
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1920.
evaporation. The soil should be level
at the time of last cultivation.
The kind of cultivator to use will
depend largely on the choice of the
one that is to use it and the supply
one has to choose from. There is per
haps no “best.” though some are bet
ter than others. A cultivator should
have more than one shovel. It should
have many. They should be small.
A “Planet, Jr., type, or a spring
tooth, is a good one-horse cultivator,
and wherever practical a two-horse
cultivator of a reliable make should
be used. It saves much time and
does excellent work when properly
handled.
Cultivate with the idea of (a) kill
ing weeds, (b) saving moisture for
the corn and (c) keeping the soil
'mellow and friable.
Procedure Relative to Fertilizers
F. C. D., Savannah, Ga.,
writes: As some farmers will
be unable to secure their fer
tilizer promptly, would you ad
vise planting the cotton without
the fertilizer and applying as
soon as possible as a side dress
ing, or wait for the fertilizer
as late as April 10th and put
under the crop?
We believe it desirable to put the
fertilizer under the drill row, for
cotton which is planted in boll
weevil infested territory. If side
applications are used, the/ should
be put on as soon as the cotton
comes out of the ground and is
chopped to a stand. Even then, we
do not believe you will find ah de
sirable results from the use of fer
tilizer as if it had been placed un
der the drill row when %the cotton
was planted or a few days pre
vious to the time it was seeded.
In some sections of the state the
best time for planting cotton may
be from April 10-20. We realize, of
course, that this will be very late
for south Georgia and undesirable
on that account. We simply mention
this fact to let you see that in a
state as large as ours, planting
time for cotton will vary materially
according to seasonal, soil and cli
matic conditions.
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