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6 DontMaPenny Jost send coupon stating size and width—that’s al!. We’ll send the shoes by mail. Wo want you to see these ehoes at our risk. Examine them, try them on—and then decide as to whether or not you lulb to keep them. Our special bargain Price fa <4 Qfi per pair while they WHfiaSk. only vv. w Q Ixnt. Season ’ e jrreat- »MSg£’A s . est We send them to ” y° u » Bo - a cent in advance, so that w u can compare them vtflh any s7or $S shoes. If you don’t l think this tho big-jrest shoe%jar v-L ’ train you can r-’t anywhere, send ays, I t h e shoes back at our expense. won t be out a cent. and Durable IK9K&&. Made ofeenulne leather in gun ^ n ? cta lu’’°P u * ar Broadway toe £.. ‘' 7>VjS7®L ,ast • Blucher style. Comfort- substantial, ionjr- •- '«MrSk*«Sk wear,n ir. Kenuine oak leather soles rein* Ire k \t^k^ shank and Wi * ca p. Low. broad •« - ' s If on Black only, vou don’t find them •.? Sizes 1 the arre<xtest shoe barA&Jt to rain of the yeer. ret and back sroe.i your tftfatJrr3k ey. No obligation .no risk to you. But you trust send \ '»<* •t once. A sale like thia Boon sells the stock. A only $3.98 for enoea when wi ><%, It they arrive. a Send Just the coupon. No money now. Wait Until they come. Pay when arrive. Keep them only if satisfactory •very way. Be sure to give sire. Order No. AXISIC6. LEONARD-MORTON & CO., Dept. 7599 Chicago I Send me Men’s Dress Shoes No. AX15106.1 will pay $3.98 foj shoes on arrival, and examine them carefully. If I am not sat isfied, will send them back and you will refund my money. NameSize....,< Address EASY NOW TO SAW W ANO CUT DOWN TREES Only one man, or gven a boy, with the improved Ottawa Engine Log Saw can easily cut twenty-five to forty cords a day, and at a cost of less than 2c per cord.. This machine, which outdoes all ' others, has a heavy, cross cut saw driven by a powerful especially designed 4-cycle gasoline engine. It’s a fast money maker for those using it, and does more than ten men could do, either Cutting down trees, sawing logs, or buzzing branches while you rest. When not sawing, the engine can be Used for other work requiring power. Beware of Imitations. The entire machine is mounted on truck wheels to make it easy to move to the trees or logs, and from cut to cut on a log without stopping the en gine. For moving on the road; the truck wheels are placed parallel with the skids and the rig hauled straight Ahead. The wheels turn on a two way You do ijbt have to take them off, but can change direction of wheel travel by merely taking out • pin. The Ottawa can be fitted for saw ing down trees. It cuts level with surface of ground, thereby getting all the timber and leaving no stumps •ticking up. An automatic friction chitch stops the saw in case of un due resistance. Two men can fell forty to fifty trees a day in ordinary timber. The whole outfit is compact, sim- Ele, durable against a lifetime of ard wear. It sells for a low price and is fully guaranteed for reliable operation in the hands of every one who has trees to cut down and logs to work up. Full information and low factory price to you can be had simply by addressing the Ottawa Mfg. Com pany, 854 Wood St., Ottawa, Kansas. —(Advt.) GUARANTEED j®§yL?ASend No Money /Vo //\ Positively greatest tire offer f // VEa \ ever made .' Sensational value t'.'-'C. ;/ 1 eweepsa.vayall competition V?S B —6,009 miles—or more—from i Sa 6 ourgpecjal reconstruction proc- SZ-A. I 1 ess couble tread standard tires Ks-.tA ’ g 1 I —practically puncture proof. g I J Blazing Low Prices OwaS feS.'ze Tires Tabes Size Tires Tubes I'&C \ E--~ 3 $5.95 $1.50134x4- $10.95 $2.85 B t4Jxß 625 1.7(833x41$ 11.15 2.55 L&?> '522 x3?4 655 1-95:34x45$ 11.45 8.10 KE/ I igS£x3ss 7.85 2.15.35x45$ 12.85 8.25 V&7> I 855 2.45 35x45$ 13.00 8.35 BJ&Z 11 AXe 82 * 4 9-95 2.65 35x5 13.45 8.45 KSS> ll Jgß33x4 10.45 2.75,37x5 13.65 8.65 W? / Reiner Ywr v Z 1 with each tire \x Jf Send your order today— sure >--7 ~whiletheße lowest prices last. Statesize, also whetherrtraight sideorclincher Remember,you MM Bend no money,, just your name and adaress, *na tire with free relmer. will be shipped same day. A RUBBER CO. *•01 Michlcan Av®., Dept. 471 Chicaee. IN, GENUINE &W ,UE BEST ' BOGGY e- ) MADE! Direct from largest and jgf best buggy factory in ||i South to you at lowest wholesale cost. The only W|. / buggy warranted on any road under anv load. We > Moe you 6ig money. “I have a buggy bought cf IW' Mmß you 19 or 20 years ago. It SK>. aRM been in pretty constant usb Kg all this time and the last three years I have used it on a mail y route.' J H MULLIS, SR., & Cochran. Georgia. j A Write for free catalog of , /;> Buggies and Harness / I / BARNESVILLE BUGGY CO. / / Box 200 I I y BARNESVILLL, QA. wsrafftfserf z/A Les* than Half Prlc® N 9 aOHEY 11 iHereia the absolute limit in tire I] loffers—never before such won- If t® derful vaiuos I Pay only when H convinced. Used standard if ■ makes rebuilt by our own ex -BE>/> 11 m ports to give G,OOO miles—-or PEfrX II Q more. No comparison with H double tread tirea which are jJjrfS I « sewed. HqH Lowest Prices Il M/’ I Qwlck Delivery ktrx./ 11 Size Tirza TubeslSize Tires Tubes Bk/S \\ /K7 28x 3 S 6.45 $1.60 34x4 $12.95 $2.66 VSZ -” 30x3K 7.95 1.70 34x41$ 13.95 2.95 V >32x315 855 1.95 35x41$ 14.50 3.10 '»OS V—/ 31x4 10 - 25 2.20 36x45$ 15.25 3.25 V'AAVz 22x4 19.95 2.35 35x5 15.45 3.45 33x4 11.35 2.45|37x5 16.25 3.65 Send your order today while we have • big stock on hand and can ship same day order is received. Send no money with order, just vour name and address and size tire desired, whether ttmeher or straight side. MITCHELL TIRE & KUBBE" COMPANY 215 E. SSth S'.raet Dept, 270 Chisago Wrist Watch FREE This la the very design In a wrist watch and fa all the rage. The dial is very unique, by ng oblong in ahape. Itisjuattheeizeof a halfdollrf. The case la nickle with protruding eiucs ad illustrated, the at rap passing thro the heavy metal sides bo there is no chance of losing the watch. This is a watch you will be proud to wear ord yonr friendfl. will admire be cause few people, except in large cities, have them. SEBD WG or Irl locality I one of these beautiful watches FKEIi for just a little work, which you can do in an hour or two. If you want one wnte me today. A postal card will do, ,v. A. KEMPEB, 138 Frltrt Bldg. Haassa City, U<>4 THK ATLANTA T2U-UEEKLY JOURNAL. Amazing Era of Progress In Georgia Agriculture Described by Observers BY JOHN B. M’MAHOJiT (In “The Country Gentleman’’) With the largest area of any state east of the Mississippi, hard ly more than one-third of Georgia’s 34,000,000 tillable acres are being cultivated. A European nation could be installed on the vacant land. Talk about room for exijansiofi! Most of the surplus acreage is cut-over land that is adaptable both for pasture for crops. It sells for? 10 or 515 an acre, while the developed land is worth ten times as much, or better. There is no other southern state that has such range of cli mate and soil. There is the sandy coastal plain in the. sub-tropical belt south and east, and there is the hilly, clayey land of the Pied mont plateau that rises into the temperate zone up north. The latter soil is naturally richer than any oth* er southern variety except the al luvial. You can take your pick of climate, soil and also the color of your neigh bors. There are dark-and light coun ties, the latter chiefly toward the north. The inhabitants of the white belt have become noted for doing their own work. The colored broth ers have learned to put in licks of industry and to start bank accounts. Despite an increase in the number of cases of summary injustice the past year, the race problem has not been so acutely troublous here as 4 in other states, south and north. The Cattle Tick’s Impending' Doom In cotton Georgia is distanced only by Texas. In peaches the an nual output of her northeastern counties is round 6,000 carloads a year. Apples are following the lead of the Elberta land.ztThere are near ly 12,000,000 bushels of sweet pota toes produced yearly now compared with half the amount a dozen years ago. Where theweevil spread deso lation in the southern section a short while back and tobacco was unknown, there were 31,000 acres last year in bright-leaf tobacco. Fig ure out the value of this new crop at S2OO an acre and up. Georgia is just beginning to hit her stride in live stock with a beef cattle population of more than 750,- OQO and with a milk herd numbering The all-year climate ar- that this is just the beginning and so does the approach of the day when the last cattle tick will be denied and chased into the friendly neutrality of other states. An important part of live stock de velopment is the rapid increase in peanut and velvet bean acreage. The state produced more than 300,000 tons of velvet bean hay last year and more than 10,00-0,000 bushels of peanuts in 191 S, and is expected to go ahead of these figures the pres ent season. Figures are all right in away, but they do not tell enough. For example, it is important to know that Atlanta, Ga., admits that she is capita'D'and queen city of the south. It is also worth while to know that Savannah is a beautiful burg and a leading seaport. These things mean markets, railroads, fa cilities, civilization and what not. Roy Neal, editor of the Savannah Morning News, gave me a good snapshot of Georgia when he said: “Our greatest change in the last five years is psychological. The farmer in that time has been con verted from a strong individualist to a co-operator. He used to stand 4>at, while now he is progressive and willing to take up new ideas. He once considered tick dipping an in vasion of his personal rights. He fought compulsory dipping and was pleased when parties unkpown dynamited concrete dipping tanks. His conversion from this state ot mind was not due to the preaching of reformers. An economic jolt via Mr. 801 l Weevil did the trick. The pest knocked the props of livelihood and of habit from under the farm er and left him at first dazed and then mighty teachable. The decline of cotton made cattle important; cattle would bring no profit if tick laden, so the .epitaph of the tick was soo'h written in most counties of the state. The refugees who swarmed out of the weevil-desolated region in south Georgia were a chastened and teachable lot. They took advide, went back and found new prosperity in hogs, peanuts and tobacco. “Os course, the war also, with its semi-compulsory loans and things, was educative in team work, general enlightenment and progress. The people are now looking ahead, not back. 'You can go out now and sell them anything,’ said a traveling man. It is not merely that they nave money to buy, but a new spirit to try out new things—the receptive American idea which has developed here a little late.” > Mills B. Lane, president of the biggest bank' in Savannah, told me that white farmers were making good headway in paying out of the credit system and in lifting mort 'ages. One farmer was so anxious to be clear of a mortgage, said Mr. Lane, that he paid a local shylock two or three years’ advance interest, along with the principal, so as to get out of debt. A Valdosta bank, which is in the region lately devastated by the weevil, doubled its deposits last year, and had to send about 560,000 to Savannah for investment because the local farmers did not need the money. The country districts are now calling for general securities to in vest in, whereas they used to be shy of most everything financial. As for the colored man, he is much the same as ever, in the opinion of this banker. The colored tenant keeps moving round and he declines to live in a model tenant house with run ning water, f-ee rent and fuel, in order to live A his own mean shack and walk thz je miles to work; which sounds to me like a good tribute to the character of the ebony-tinted citizen. Mr. Coleman, who is per haps the largest, plantation owner in the state, says 100 negro tenants left him last fall, but he expects to have no trouble in getting as many new ones. Against the theory that the negro is naturally shiftless stands the well-attested fact that once he has made payment toward owning a farm, he will hang on to the land like grim death. He will go with out shoes, corn bread and bacon rather than lose his home place. When prosperity began to kiss* ‘he south four years ago. the negro’s share made him sort of light-headed. Now he is sobering down and mak ing better use of his money. Sav ings banks in Savannah operated by colored people have e more than doubled in the number’or depositors and amount deposited in the last three years. Colored labor on the farm now gets $2 to 53 a day com pared with 75 cents or 51 before the late war. And day laborers are scarce, since share cropping pays bet ter—and satisfies the instinct for. in dependence. / Thanks to labor shortage and the new spirit of progress, the tractor is making considerable headway in this state. The chief obstacles to the tractor are the stumps on cut-over land. These can be removed by dynamite or stump pullers. It does pain a traveler to see s® many fields K(lßdh Pair ~ OKLBt: HTTiI Beno- c" a ?3a ’ | Q| Maaliei I / Mil" proof, wet-proof, Thia Work Shoe—the beat tan, soft toe, double-strength. handaomeiymade. © ? f-esfg '-a J J IWg rot-proof. Full double-value for $2.34. Full leather. Sounds impossible, beßt workman- ! J S-W S leather Weil and yet we do it. and you don’t send one cent to prove w,de - coro * ■*. » U*’?': I J JSJS •ewed. Gsnrrine Thousands buying daily. fwtebtomwy U.L 5 ; • • g*3! Mrmson army last This Dress Shoe—genuine ealf. pm motal jna, hed - O'® ® gn" § t X ? S Good honest shots finish—think of it. for SS.S4. It price *5.64. Now w • » J Jra —fo!U6 value: our U the biggest bargain sold only under X f I XjE ■. ” and yet with every pair of thia 37 98 daohla Z *-w « " 3 •QI SK—glsLly I I 12 S2Z~-~ Dress Shoe you will here both psir «t ones. ?2 I O SEND ONE CENT—NOT ONE PENNY! 1 I |«g QB Just pay your postman $7.88. plus post age fee. when the big package comes. Open the package, see them (aS : t X E 2 a Tga and try them on. And if not satisfied, return them and we wul refund your money, including postage. h J M 3 I ■ XK H W« POSITIVELY CANNOT B*LL EITHER PAIR SEPARATELY. You can order different sisce It ywwbb. £ J ! £SI Rsfarwneat BROTHERB-LAW COMPANY z gSog?E«S | B Si MMMMMMMN Forsmsn Bros. BshMbc CB, Dwpt 204 . franklin tuMl &*rth Water Strata, CMmrs, ® £&<n.Ss 2 < O .FREE—With Evecr cluttered up with stumps that could be removed by the farmer in a few days’ time. One thing that is corij pelling a clean-up is the fact that on stump land only one-horse ma chinery can be used and the farmer knows it does not pay to work on a one-horse scale. Workers for Better Farming Last fall a stump Clearing train was run through south Georgia. It had an outfit of stump pullers and also a dynamite crew who showed the farmers how to do it. When the tractor salesmen heard of this they applied for space on the train, but were told they would not be al lowed to .mar the dignity of the pro ceedings. However, the tractor men chased after that . ‘train, one day later. At a single town one agent sold eight tractors. Generally speak ing, a light tractor serves the pur pose in Georgia, as the soil is mostly light. It is easier to clean up cut over land in the south -generally than in the northwest. There are millions in it for some one who will invent a portable pine stump distillery. As it is, land is sometimes cleared for nothing by stump distillers or enough is paid for stumps to defray the clearing cost with a little profit thrown in. The greatest event for Georgia in recent years is the winning of the grand championship at tx« Chicago international last fall by the Here ford bull. Bonny J., owned by E. E. Macks, of Thomasville. Not because of the honor, but because'it shows the world and Xleorgia where she is at. It means achievement and points to a new prosperity in a higher agri culture. Such is the view of J. F. Jackson, who is an institution in tne southeastern states and incidentally champion agricultural agent for the Central of Georgia railway. A Piece of blue ribbon ought to go to him and to some other men of the same sort who are doing similar work, whether in the employ of the state or federal government or of semi private interests. It does not mat ter who employs .them, thdy are all working for better agricultuie. Ana not' merely with words, but wiLi deeds, like bringing into the state thousands of purebred animals, tons of new or better seed, trainloads of machinery and what not. “Our farmers are learning how to combat fiog cholera, which is our only real', hardship in hog raising, said Mr. Jackson. “The increase in the number of pure-bred hogs raised in the last few years has been amazing. The day of the pinewoods razorback has passed You don’t the stories now about the fellow who tired ouTa pineywoods rooter and got pounds of lard and a couple gallons of turpentine. Nor do you hear of judging the fitness of a hog for kill n- bv lifting him by the ears and deciding whether the hind quartets Hit up or/down. The soft pork prob lem due to grazing on peanuts alone, ffi solve itself as our farmer ß . real ize that the demand for soft porit nas been supplied and that grazing on our many «ther forage crops will produce porl? acceptable to the north bit "hasbeen found that peanuts will make pork at a cost A r e n £rVd°S 3hlf U tU h i e last vear’s international. I . ner . age*‘h’X 1,... bought by CM member. sun. He has put out a - Georgians agrlcultu i ed S only Athens, ahhough e bccome a thirteen . a^ et Vr farming and vital power * OI other institutions living. Like most other of its kind, it ougnt work more money to ca • j president W .hS tK ‘o “>»“‘ the state and tts pim.prt ac hlev- “In spite of all Georg yO u i.-. f ' ffild Xrive “S B yt r «»X’ ■l.. „ b ““ mh You see in this college; There are 450 young men taking ao-rirultural courses. The graau ates are going back, to the farms; I haven't got the money to hire them here for teaching or experimental work Our seniors are not looking for jobs here or anywhere else. I could tell you story after story of men grauduating here without a cent ™nd in a few years owning their own farms This spring we are going to Jut™n something new. We are going to bring the bankers to school Mje are counting on an attendance of college exnects soon to estab lish tractor schools all over the state, tractor demonstration recently held on the college farm drew an audience of more than 5,000 farmers. More good roads are being bunt in Georgia. Bonds for proposed state and county roads amount to nearly 550.000.000, while one-third as much of county road bonds have already been authorized. There are twf> human pests through most of the south —hook- wor~ and malaria mosquito. The Georgia board of health, working with the federal public health service, found that the loss of time on farms by malaria meant a loss of sl3 an acre. In one place seventy eight per cent of the people had mal aria. The bright side of this picture is that these evils can be eradicated at small cost. Among those who have helped to vanquish these foes are (he progressive men of the Geor gia Land Owners’ association with its live secretary. F. H. Abbott. lowa Goat Sold for $750 SIOUX CITY, la.—What is believ ed to be a world’s record high price for a six months’ old-goat has just been by Dehaan & Co., of Sioux City, for a Shaanen buck bought by D. L. Bonham; of Los Angeles, I'?r $750. Education at akd successful farming Dr ANDREWM. AtOVLE Why Buy What We Should Grow? _jn spite of our vast undeveloped natural resources and the marvelous adaptability of oiur soil and climate to the production of every needful food crop, we are guilty of importing enormous amounts of. food into Georgia each year. The figures pre sented are thought -to be fairly rep resentative of the existing conditions in 1914. They indicate that we were bringing into each county in Georgia on the average meat and fats worth approximately $370,000; stock feeds such as hay, corn, oats and mill feed worth $125,000; canned goods to the value of $59,000; poultry and eggs to the extent of $15,000; fresh vege tables worth $125,000; flour worth $150,000, and butter and cheese worth SIO,OOO. We also were bringing in work animals to the value of $152,000 per county each year. These figures amount in the aggregate to $1,006,000 per county, $157,000,000 for the state, or between SSO and SBO per capita, depending on the estimate placed on the present population of Georgia. This seems incredible, and yet the figures are surely conservative, be cause values have advanced very materially all along the line since 1914. We must reduce the' vast volume of our agricultural wealth accord ing to these figures to about $600,- 000,00 0a year. In other words, we 000,000 a year. In other sections of $157,000,000 annually. One might suppose under the circumstances that we could not grow these food stuffs economically and in sufficient variety and abundance. Such a con clusion would be entirely “beside the mark.” Our failure in this di rection is due to not placing the fundamental facts more specifically before our people and giving our boys and girls a better insight into the possibilities of Georgia soils. We must train the rising generation to understand how to rotate crops and conduct a diversified and spe cialized agriculture. This is the only argument needed to show how dam aging the fetish of cotton may de come to a great commonwealth. If m ° ne y spent for foodstuffs out side the state were retained at V COU! u easil y ha ve schools; roads, farm homes, orderly towns u? c d t-4 V V lages and . & rea t educational hl St r« Utl 5 n ® superior to anything to nni«n Un< T ln any oth er state in the union, is an end so desirable not worth struggling to attain? The conditions Indicated exist in a state where the number of hogs has been increased in a decade by nearly 2,000,000 head, a tribute to the valuable and importance of the educational work promoted primarily dR-?s U ion th r e enc 7 of the extension ; the ., Georgia State Col s , A sriculture. We can raise hogs and all other animals needed as cheaply and of a satisfactory quality and grade as can be finished in any other section of the country. What we need in Georgia is another mil ni O rl Q a Og3 ; IVeJl Ve J? ave P acß ing plants already to handle them, and it is the surest means of lifting the mort gage off the farm, defeating “Billy” and Repins at home about $00,000,000 worth of money that we still send to the west for meat and rats. A silo on every farm and twenty-five acres in grain would wipe out our stock feed bills. If we marketed our surplus fruits and vegetables systematically and gave this industry just a little worth while encouragement, we would soon be growing and canning a surplus of these crops, and it is certain that every home in Georgia could be pro vided with locally packed foods of excellent quality. What reason is there that our poultry industry should not be increased to an unlim ited degree? Why should be import fresh vegetables in a state where there are square miles of undeveloped territory adapted to trucking? Geor gia now holds a leading position in supplying the nation with peaches, watermelons and muskmelons. Why should we not include tomatoes, greens, beans, cabbage, lettuce and apples? There is no reason why flour should be imported because every farm, If properly organized, would follow a diversified practice that would insure the planting of a sufficient area to wheat each year to supply the needs of the family and afford a desirable surplus for the residents, of our towns and cities. Butter and cheese of the first qual ity can be made in almost unlimited quantities. This has been demon strated so frequently that the reitera tion of this statement does not seem worth while. Already the Georgia State College of Agriculture has es tablished, through the agency of its extension division, five cheese fac tories in Georgia where an article of the choicest character Is now be ing made at a profit to the patrons. Certainly we can raise all of the work stock that is needed. The progeny of a pair of high grade Per cheron mares, which cost the Geor gia State College of Agriculture $470, were sold for $1,250. After ten years of service, these mares were sold for $250. They certainly earned their “board and keep,” for they did as much per head as any mule on the farm. There is left in the posses sion of the college at this time .-a pair of three-year-old fillies which are worth at least SSOO. All that we need is education the lines indicated so as to develop the knowledge and energy which will enable us to branch out in all these new lines of effort. If we handle the next crop of boys and girls properly, if we provide for them the right type of vocational instruc tion in relation to agricultural and home-making industries, they will solve this problem and make Geor gia self-sustaining in all respects. Is the prize worth striving to secure? Its attainment would place Georgia in the forefront of the sisterhood of states. A state that pays SIOO,- 000,000 income tax to the federal government should not balk at an en terprise of , this character. Wg_can no longer §ay we are too poOTTLet us give the boys and girls the priv ileges and opportunities to which they are entitled. Let us stop the leaks once and for all by learning to live at home. ; Classifying Hogs for Exhibition The leading shows -usually classify the hogs for show in the following manner; this classification is com piled so as to fit conditions for the shows of 1920: Aged Boar—Two years old or over. Senior Yearling Boar —Must have been farrowed v.. 2-r September 1, 1918 and before March I, isrii. Junior Yearling Boar—Must have been farrowed or or after March 1. 1919, and before September 1, 1919. Senior Boar Pig—Must have been farrowed on or after March 1, 1920, 1919 and before March 1, 1920. Junior Boar Pig—Must have been farrowed on or after March 1, 1920 and before September ~ 1920. Aged Sow —Two years old or over. Senfbr Yearling Sow—Must have been farrowed on or before Septem ber 1, 1918 and before March 1, 1919. Junior Yearling Sow —Must have been farrowed on or after March 1, 1919, and before September 1, 1919. Senior Pig—Must have been far rowed on or after September 1, 1919, and before March 1, 1920. Junior Sow Pig—Must have been farrowed on or after March 1, 1920, and before September 1, 1920. Champions Senior Champion Boar —The first prize winners in the aged -boar class, the senior yearling boar class and the junior yearling boar class are brought together to compete for senior champion boar prize. Junior Champion Boar—The first prize winners in the senior boar pig class and in the junior boar pig class are brought together to compete for champion boar prize. Senior Champion Sow —The first prize winners in the aged sow class and senior sow class and the junior yearling sow class are brouglTt together to compete efor senior champion sow prize. Junior Champion Sow —The first prize winners in the senior sow pig class and in the junior sow pig class are brought together to compete for the jiinior champion sow prize. Grand Champion# Grand Champion Boar—The senior and junior champiqn boars are brought together to compete for the grand champion board prize. x Grand Champion Sow —The senior and junior champion sows are brought together to compete for the grand champion sow prize. Herds Old Herd—Old herds consist of one boar and three sows farrowed prior to September 1, 1919. Young Herd—Young herds consist of one and three sows farrow ed on or after September 1, 1919. Groups Get of Sire—This class consists of four animals, any age, either sex, all sired by the same boar. Produce of Dam—This class con sists of four animals, any age, either sex, all farrowed by the same sow. ' Baising- Figs After the Farrow ing Period W. D., Americus, Ga., writes: I wish to get all the information I can on raising pigs from the time they are farrowed, how they should be handled and the ration best suited for them. When pigs are farrowed, they should be fed for six weeks to two months through the dam. This re quires the most liberal nourishment of the mother animal. There is nothing better to give the brood sow at this time than shorts made into a slop with skim-milk. If skim-milk is lacking, water may be used. Corn should only be fed in limited quan tities and, when used, should be mixed with digester tankage in the proportion of ninety parts of corn to ten parts of digester tankage. The sow should be given the run of a small pasture; preferably one which will provide her with some green feed. In the winter, cereals may be used for this purpose, and in the spring and summer, Bermuda grass and various clovers. The lot should be laid off so that cowpeas, soy beans, velvet beans, corn and peanuts may be to provide a succession of food throughout the entire growing season. The pigs should be taught to eat as soon as possible. They wiP soon learn to gather some food 4>»errt selves. They may receive whatever the dam eats. If fed for six weeks to two months through the dam, they should be healthier and strong er at weaning time than if taken away from her at an earlier date. If pastures of the character sug gested can be provided the pigs will get plenty of exercise and will gath er a considerable part of the mineral matter so essential to their welfare. By following the methods suggested, you should be able to grow out a bunch of young pigs successfully and at a fairly reasonable cost. Destroying Johnson Grass H. L„ Abbeville, Ga., writes: I have a littje Johnson grass on my farm that I would like to get rid of. I have been informed that there is a certain cattle dip that will kill it. What do you think of this or Is there a bet ter method? Johnson grass is very difficult to eradicate. . This is due to the char acter of the rhizome, or root stalk which is developed under the ground. Cultivation causes this root stalk to sprout from a large number of the sections into which it may be divided by the- plow or other imple ment used to destroy it. On this ac count, the best method of destroy ing it has been found to be through the use of smother crons which keep from developing. A Jgood crop to use for this purpose in your section of the state would be velvet beans. Cowpeas could, of course, be used if you prefer. Planting should be done as early in the season as weather conditions will permit. Break the land thoroughly before planting these crops, turning the Johnson grass roots under- to the greatest depth possible. You may have to continue the use'of smother crops for several years, but we know that this method of practice will enable you to'destroy Johnson grass be pause we have had to overcome the very difficulty by which you are now faced. It is true that white arsenic will destroy Johnson grass, 'but if used in sufficient quantity to attain the end desired, it will poison the land so that it will be of no value for agricultural purposes for some considerable time to come. The spraying of white arsenic one-plants or on the ground is also a dangerous practice. You cannot poison John son grass effectively because of its fleshy roots and the fact that they are so well protected by a good cov ering of soil. Other methods of practice advocat ed for the destruction or Johnson grass is to break up the land with a shallow plow, rake out the roots with a harrow and then destroy them by burning. Another method is to plow all land shallow at this season of the year so that the freezes may help to destroy the roots. We have not found any of these methods as ef fective. however, as the plan we have suggested. A Good Bation for a Mule W. G. K., Gainesville, Ga., writes: Please tell me how to mix sl|elled corn, oats and cot ton seed meal by measure to make a balanced ration for a farm mule. Under the conditions described in your letter we would mix together four hundred pounds of shelled corn, two hundred and ( fifty pounds of oats and one hundred pounds of cottonseed meal. You can measure these materials with i sufficient ac csracy in sacks or in bushel meas ures. It is not desirable under any circums-tancea to undertake to feed more than one and one-half to two pounds of cottonseed meal per day to an average sized mule weighing between one thousand and twelve hundred pounds. The reason for “this lies in the fact that cottonseed meal is a ery concentrated food It is especially rich in nitrogen. Horses and mules nped a ration con taining a considerable amount of proteins and nitrogen; but they do not require any excessive amount of this material and hence a ration should be adjusted to their needs in this particular. For instance, when overfeeding of nitrogenous food is indulged in, azoturia is pro duced in both horses and mules and TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1920. Georgia Shows Splendid Headway Against Tick, Federal Report Proves The cattle industry in Georgia is being reclaimed from the dominion of the tick. Federal reports show that during July 888,219 dippings of cattle were supervised by federal, state and county employes. This fig ure is one of the largest recorded in a, state east of the Mississippi river since systematic tick eradication be gan in 1906. Georgia is using 3,700 dipping vats to combat the parasite which for years has stunted the cattle and caused heavy mortality. The dipping is done in arsenical solutions ap proved. by the United States depart ment of agriculture for the eradica tion of cattle ticks. Already 36,674 square miles in the state of Georgia have been released from federal quarantine, and cattb from the released districts may now be moved interstate without the former rstrictions. With a continua tion of the extensive dipping pro gram, .federal officials expect that large additional areas in Georgia will be ready to be released from quar antine in December, when the work for 1920 is completed. Live Stock Exhibition As evidence of interest in im proved live stock an Internationa’ live stock exhibition will be held ih Atlanta this fall, and it is ex pected that ma-ijy pure-bred anima's brought from other states for ex hibition will remain in Georgia a; foundation stock for an extensive and profitable cattle industry. Re ports from federal tick eradication supervisors indicate that the intro duction of fine live stock In Georgia is following very closely on the trail Heavy Loss in bruit age Noted in Cotton Belt by American Cotton Body At this date reports coming into the headquarters of the •American Cotton association irom all sections of the cotton belt, indicate an unusu ally heavy loss in the fruitage of the crop. The semi-monthly crop condi tion issued by this association on the 15th instant indicates a loss c 10 per cent since August 25th. Other private semi-monthly reports show estimated losses of from 6 to 10 per cent since the last of Augus Not only has the weather coiulitions caused heavy dropping of young bolls, but the boll weevil is destroy ing a percentage of the matured bolls in many sections of the belt. Numbers of farmers who have been Cotton Has Other Enemies Besides Deadly 801 l Weevil Popular opinion to the contrary, the boll weevil must yield place to the weather by a larger margin as a destructive factor in reducing the production of cotton lint. Destruc tion by the boll iveevil is apprecia bly less than that by deficient mois ture alone, according to the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture. Its conclusions are supported by an nual investigations made "by the bu reau during the last eleven years. Damage Record During this period the normal pro duction of lint was reduced per cent by all causes of damage. The boll weevil, one of these, according to the estimate, was responsible for 7.3 per cent, or about one-fifth of the total damage to the cotton crop for the eleven years. The onset of the weevil in Geor gia, Florida, and Alabama, in the years 1916-1919 has made a reduc tion of the crop in all states d> this cause alone 10 4 per cent below a normal crop, while the raductior due to all causes in these years is 41,1 per cent. Comparing deficient moisture with cattle. Cases of this character fre quently occur at this season of the year. Corn, as you doubtless know, weighs sixty pounds to the bushel, oats thirty-two pounds and as cot tonseed meal comes 'already sacked and tagged for the most part, you should have no difficulty in deter mining its exxact weight And so mixing the materials in the proper proportion. We would feed the above ration at the rate of ten to fifteen pounds per day, depending on /the size of the mule and the na ture of the work performed. A good roughage ration should also be provided. About twelve to fifteen pounds of mixed hay, shred ded corn stover or bright peavine or sorghunj hay may be used tor this purpose. Treating a Case of Lumpy Jaw J. L. C., Laurens, S. C., writes: I would like to know the treat ment for lumpy jaw. I saw it in the Journal a few weeks ago but have lost the copy, and would appreciate it if you would repeat the remedy. There are various ways, no doubt, of treating this trouble, but I think the pursuit of the following plan as advised bv Dr. Mayo, a veteri narian of national reputation, might prove as practicable as any you could follow. “If the tumor is free from the bone, the best treatment i» to re move it with the knife, and treat the part as a simple wound. If it cannot be removed, in many cases it can be cured by giving iodide of potash internally in doses of one to three drams once daily, dissolved in a half pint of water. In about a week, a condition known as ’lodism* is set up. This is shown by a dis charge of mucus from the nose and eyes, and a scurfy condition of the skin, especially of the neck, as if bran were scattered at the roots of the hair. When lodism is noticed the mediejne should be stopped. The. tumor in most cases gradually dis appears. and the animal makes a good recovery. If one treatment is not sufficient, it may be repeated in two wteks. An animal with a tumor thlit is discharging should not be allowed to run wl.n other cattle, as the pus scattered on the food may carry the disease. In most cases, It is. thought that the fungus grows outside the animal body on mdte?ial that may be taken as food, and, entering a wound, is capable of growing and causing the disease. “If the tumor is not large or is not discharging so as to affect the general health, the flesh of the ani mal is not considered to be danger ous for food." Colored Cotton Grown Bv Carolina Farmer COLUMBIA, S C. —A. W. Brab ham, of Olar, S. C., has finally sup cecded in his efforts of several year to produce cotton of a colafc- othe than white. He has- exhibited sou samples of cottons of color which sustain his assertions tftiat he ha 1 ’ successfully produced these cotton of extremely fine fiber. The sample shade from light brown to dart b'-own and from light green to dark green. Imther Burbank once wrote Mr Brabham that he would undertake the job of producing a black cotton for $1.0( 0,000 Brabham replied tha a glance at his own samples tol-’ him that he was in a fairway t r produce it at a much lower cost tha’ just a mere million. As for growing absolutely Ailac’ cotton this year, Mr. BrabharrSsay he is sure he would have produce it had not a package c/f blue-tinte-’ or linted cotton imported from Indi' gone astray. He has a Hindu botan Ist of Delhi gathering specimens o f cottons in color in India, and this botanist has localed blue, gray and a light pink. of the departing tick. Competition i at the live stock exhibition, it n ' stated, will be as keen as shows oj ' similar character in northern stater i and in regions of the south now free from ticks. Florida the East Stronghold From present indications Georgia ■ .will be one of the next states to be entirely freed from ticks. The prog ress is due largely to the energy of cattle owners in supporting tlcl eradication work and foresight in realizing that' livenstocK cannot be grown profitably until the tick menace is removed. | Florida, the sister State of Georgia lying to the south, continues to be heavily infested with cattle ticks ayd is expected to be the last strong hold of that parasite in the south. The department of agriculture points out, however, that by dipping 2.000,- 000 cattle per hjonth cattlemen in Florida could make rapid progress toward removing that state from federa] quarantine. In fact, with the larger tick-infested area of Florida the dipping of 2,000,000 cattle per month would be no greater under taking than the extent of systematic dipping now in progress In Georgia The fact that a larger per cent of cattle are owned in Florida by per sons having little or no land makes the problem somewhat more difficult, but not seriously so. Notwithstand ing these problems, the detailed fed eral records prepared each month for all regions in which ticks occur show systematic “mopping up” ot this pest, and the final extinction of ticks in the United States is a matter merely of a few years. examining: the grown bolls In weevil infested districts assert that from 10 to 25 per cent of the matured bolls have been punctured and the larvae of the weevil ruing the lint cotton. This. infection is also damaging the grades of the lint cotton where only one or two of the sections of the bolls are infected. That the loss in fruitage during the past few weeks has ben heavy in ail the states, including Texas, there is now no question of doubt. The Texas crop will be much smaller than anticipate ! one month ago. The same is equally true of South Carolina and Georgia, the next two largest cotton growing states. I . all insect pests as a cause of cotton crop damage in pounds of lint that failed to be produced shows that in the eleven years deficient moisture caused a loss of 38.2 pounds of lint per acre on the average and all in sect pests 29.3 pounds. In the total damage to these ten crops of cotton, amounting to 113.4 pounds of lint i’ the average of the years, all climatic causes account for 71.6 pounds, or almost 2 1-2 times the loss due to al insects. The average of the last five years gives a damage of 40.1 pounds to all insects and 73.3 pounds to all climatic causes, or less than twice as much. Yearly Doss Enormous It is indicated that the boll weevil costs the cotton crop approximately 2,000,000 bales, one year with an other, since this pest has invaded Georgia and Florida. 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