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FARM EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
Oats Should be Tested Before
Seeding
T. L. P., Maysville, Ga„ writes:
Will oats harvested in the spring
of 1923 grow off all right and
ntike a good crop sown this fall?
"What is the best way to rid farm
lands of wild onions growing in
the fields?
The viability of the seed of all
grain crops tends to deteriorate on
standing. It is of course the best
practice, therefore, to use new or
tresh seed, provided it comes from
b crop properly ripened and cared
for after harvesting and the seed
are therefore clean and in a viable
condition.
•Since the granary weevil may have
attacked the oat seed in question, it
occurs to me that- it will be best for
you to test these seed before under
taking to plant them. This can
easily be done. Get a small, shallow
box and fill it with sand. Wet it
thoroughly. Place one hundred oat
seed therein. Set in the living room
ind keep moist. These seed should
germinate in a very short time. If
a large per cent of them germinate
in four or five days, say 90 per cent
and upward, then it will be all right
to use the seed in question for plant
ing this fall. If the number falls
flown to 80 per cent or below, how
ever, it will be better to use fresh
seed. Os course, where seed do not
show a high percentage of germina
tion, a. stand can sometimes be ob
tained by using a larger amount of
seed than is ordinarily planted.
Wild onions are exceedingly diffi
cult to destroy. Several methods
nay be followed. Plowing the land
shallow in August when there is
likely to be drouth is a desirable
practice. Raking the seed out and
Purning them is also an excellent
method. Plowing shallow in the win
ter is good practice. The freezes
which occur at that season will often
till out a considerable number of the
pulbs.
We have the best success in deal
ng with this pest through the use
)f smother crops. These produce an
exceedingly dense shade, and we
teep them growing on the land at
ill seasons, that is during both sum
mer and winter. During the sum
mer months, we rely on such crops
is cowpeas, soy beans, and velvet
jeans. In the winter, on crimson
'lover, hairy vetch, and oats. These
ire used as cover crops. We have
jeen able to greatly reduce the num
ber of wild onions on our farm by a
consistent growth of smother crops
Jf this character on the land for
leveral years in succession.
Information Relative to the Cul
ture of Hairy Vetch
G. C., Atlanta, Ga., writes:
Please send me literature on the
cultivation of vetch, or give me
information concerning its cul
tivation and handling.
No special bulletin on the cultiva
ion of Hairy vetch has been issued
ip to this time. Vetch, however, is
i winter-growing legume. There are
several varieties of it. The Hairy
fetch is a hardy variety and is well
tdapted for cultivation in the north
rn part of this state. This crop is
l legume and therefore tends to en
ich the soil under proper conditions
»f cultivation and management. It
nakes its principal growth during
he late fall and early spring.
It can be seeded by itself, or in
issociation with some of the winter
trowing cereals, such as wheat, oats,
>r rye. We have also sown it in
issociation with cereals and crimson
:lover. If seeded by itself, it can
>e grazed to some considerable ex
ent at certain seasons of the year,
t also makes a very excellent qual
ty of hay, or the crop may be sl
owed to mature and harvested for
train. The yield will vary from six
o ten bushels per acre. Vetch seed
ire high in price, and a very small
field will make you a relatively large
nonetary return per acre. 1 f it is not
trazed. too closely or too late in the
season, it will reseed itself ac
:eptably.
We prefer to grow vetch in com
jination with cereals. Our favorite
nethod is to sow a bushel of oats
vith twenty pounds of vetch. We
ike to get this combination crop in
he ground by October 15, though
leeding may be done as late as the
sth of November. The earlier plant
ng has always proven the most prof
table and desirable.
Early seeding seems to Insure a
arger yield of both hay and grain,
/etch and oats cut at the right time
nake a. wonderfully fine hay crop.
The yield will vary from one and
me-half to two and one-half tons
>er acre.
When seeding this crop, it is de
lirable to apply from 200 to 300
rounds of acid phosphate and 100
jounds of kainit. It seldom, if ever,
s necessary to inoculate the seed.
we do not think it advisable to
BA nitrogen in the fertilizer formu-
If you prefer, you may sow
BPch with crimson clover. If crim
on clover is used in combination
vith oats and vetch, use about five
O ten pounds of seed per acre.
Bees Benefit the Growth of
Farm Crops
C. L. P., Donalsonville. Ga.,
writes: Please tell me if honey
bees in great numbers will hurt
corn or other crops. Will they
cause corn to be scatter-grained?
Ffter baby
WAS BORN
Sack Weak and Painful.
Vlrs. Miller Benefited by
'aking Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound
Rotan. Tex. —“I am writing to let.
’ou know how I have been benefited
by taking your
medicine. After
my second baby
was born my back
was weak andhurt
| me continually, so
I I thought I’d try
R Lydia E. Pink-
I ham’s Vegetable
I Compound as I
l| had read so much
about where it had
helped so many
Jwoinen. I had
I* w
Ml
>een bothered with my back for over
i year, and it would hurt me until I
■ould not do my work, which is kfep
ng house for three and cooking and
washing dishes. I tell all my friends
f they nave anv kind of female trou
>les to give Lyaia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound a trial. You may use
this testimonial if it will help any
ane.”—Mrs. C. R. Miller. R. F.D.
No. 1, Box 76, Rotan, Texas.
In a recent country-W’ide canvass of
purchasers of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound over 121,000 re
plies were received, and 98 out of
every 100 reported they were bene
fited by its use. For sale by druggis'*
everywhere.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEE
Will a solution of kerosene and
water kill the boll weevil when
applied to the cotton plant?
As you doubtless know, each grain
of corn has to be fertilized in order
for it to develop and mature prop
erly. A silk grows out from the end
of the immature ear. A grain of
pollen, which has ripened and ma
tured. falls on it. Under normal con
ditions, the silk is fertilized, and a
perfect grain of corn ultimately de
velops. If the silk is not properly
fertilized, no grain will develop, and
this, no doubt, causes the condition
about which you inquire. The pol
len, as you doubtless know, is wind
carried. Sometimes the silk matures
before the tassel, and vice versa.
Sometimes, in a. very hot. dry spell,
the silk dries up before the pollen
is developed, or vice versa. In
either case, fertilization does not
take place, and hence, no grain of
corn is developed.
Bees will tend to increase the pro
ductiveness of the crops grown in
your section of the state rather than
damage them. They are great car
riers of pollen due to the fact that
thev work deep into the flowers
which bear nectar. Their coats be
come covered with pollen grains,
which they carry to the next plant
I visited. Bees should therefore be
: protected and safeguarded because
they render a most fundamental
service to mankind.
The mixture which has been sug
gested for you to use on your cotton
has absolutely no value for the pro
tection of the plant against boll
weevil damage. Kerosene of itself
would burn the foliage of cotton. The
only effective procedure developed
for the protection of this crop
against the boll weevil is what is
known as the dusting plan in which
calcium arsenate is used.
During the early stages of growth,
when the plants are small, one may
make a mixture of a pound of high
grade calcium arsenate, a gallon of
water, and a gallon of syrup. These
ingredients must be very thoroughly
mixed together and applied to the
buds of the young plants with a
mop. As this material deteriorates
on standing, it should only be used
in a fresh condition. When the cot
ton plants have developed to a con
siderable size, they should be dusted
with calcium arsenate. Bathing
them in an impalpable dust cloud is
the end to be sought. The boll wee
vil does not eat calcium arsenate, but
takes it in solution in the form of
dewdrops. Hence, the spraying must
be done when the cotton plant is
moist with dew. The calcium arse
nate must be applied in the form, of
a dust cloud, if it is really expected
to protect the cotton crop to any
appreciable extent against boll wee
vil damage. .
Mr. Leroy F. Patterson,
Ex-Georgia Lawmaker,
Is Dead m Washington
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Mr. Le
roy F. Patterson, formerly of Bain
bridge, Ga., and for many years an
influential figure in the political and
business life of southwest Georgia,
died here Tuesday afternoon at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Theodore
Tiller, of this city.
Funeral services for Mr. Patterson
will be conducted at his old home
in Bainbridge Saturday afternoon
and will be in charge of Masonic and
other fraternal organizations with
which he was affiliated.
For several years, Mr. Patterson
had made his home with Mr. and
Mrs. Tiller. During the past winter,
failing health overtook him but the
attack which suddenly caused his
death came upon him only 48 hours
before his demise. He died of sep
tic poisoning, despite the aid of the
best medical consultants in the na
tional capital.
Mr. Patterson was formerly a
state senator in Georgia, for several
years was city councilman in Bain
bridge and prior to that was for
twenty years the sheriff of Decatur
county, Georgia. Until his visit to
Washington at the home of his
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. Patter
son had spent practically his whole
life in Georgia.
He was born March 13, 1852, in
North Carolina, and shortly there
after his family moved to Eufaula,
Ala., where several years of his
young manhood were spent. Forty
five years ago. at Bainbridge, he
married Isabelle De Teel Gremmer.
Mrs. Patterson died five years ago,
and is buried in Bainbridge.
Surviving Mr. Patterson are three
other daughters, Mrs. Philip Clancy,
of Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Mrs. C.
Decker Tebo, of Atlanta, and Mrs.
Howell C. Erwin. Jr., of Atlanta.
British Airmen Wing
North Across Pacific
On World Flight Hop
TOKIO, July 23.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The MacLaren party
of British ’round-the-world aviators
is winging its way northward
through the Kuriles today.
Forced down by fog a -week ago on
Uruppu Island, near the southern
end of the Kurile chain, and for a
time feared to have perished, the
fliers early today left Tokotan Bay,
on Uruppu, for Murakami Bay on
Paramashiru, the most northerly of
the larger Kuriles, and their last
stop in the Japanese empire.
Dispatches telling of the fliers’
take-off brought the first news of an
unsuspected reason for their delay
in starting on again from Uruppu,
the illness of Flying Officer W. N.
Plenderleith. Previously the delay
in resumption of the flight had been
attributed to alternate high winds
and heavy fogs, both common oc
currences in the Kuriles, but today
it developed that these had been
only contributory causes.
Agricultural Survey
In Central Georgia
MACON. Ga.. July 22. —H. T. Cros
by. representing the United Stated
department of agriculture, and a
corps of workers began work today
on the agricultural survey that is to
be made of a number of counties in
central Georgia. It is expected that
the corps of statisticians will be busy
for the next several months gather
ing data on every phase of agricul
tural productions, consummation,
distribution, present methods of
marketing, prices of products, etc.
The first counties to be surveyed
are Bibb. Houston. Jones. Baldwin.
Wilkinson, Twiggs. Crawford and
Monroe. After the survey is com
pleted in these counties, the work
will be extended into the counties of
Jasper. Putnam. Washington, Lau-.
rens. Rleekley. Dodge. Pulaski. Doo
ly, Macon, Taylor. Upson. Pike and
1 .a ma r.
ELY JOURNAL
AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Weekly Journal Readers
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
‘•Help for the Helpless—Kindness to
All Dumb Things”
Rules
No unsigned letter printed.
No letter written on both sides of
paper printed.
All letter not to exceed 150 to 200
words.
Dear Folks: 1 am giving you this
time a. delicious recipe for “Brown
Bread” anybody can make it and
everybody will enjoy it. Just follow
the rule carefully. Cordially yours,
AUNT JULIA.
Brown Bread
Three cups Graham flour; 1 cup
corn meal; 1 cup syrup, cane or black
molasses; 1 teaspoon soda; 1-2 tea
spoon salt; 1 cup of seedless or
seeded raisins; 1 cup buttermilk.
Sift your meal and flour, add salt.
Beat the soda into the syrup until
foamy and yellow, add buttermilk to
this, then flour, meal and raisins.
Grease three 1 pound baking pow
der cans, and divide mixture into
these, steam three hours.
Be sure that your cans do not
leak, as the water will get into your
bread if they do. If you have a can
with a top that these can be boiled
in so much the. better. If properly
made this bread is delicious, and
the most delicious sandwiches are
made by slicing and putting but
ter between.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: May I
join your happy band of boys and girls? I
am twelve years old, have auburn hair, fair
complexion and brown eyes. I finished the
sixth grade at school last year, and like
to go to school fine. I have been a reader
of the Letter Box for quite a while and
think it is fine. How many of you cousins
live in the country? I do, and like country
life fine. I enjoy such sports as fishing
and horseback riding. Who has my birth
day, December 10th? 1 niust go now as
I’m afraid I will break Auntie's rules.
Would like to hear from all the cousins, so
let your letters come to
LORENA KIRKSEY.
Dysortville, N. C. .
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Here comes a
jolly little Georgia girl knocking for ad
mittance into you: happy band of. writers,
and wondering if it will be granted. How
are all of you cousins enjoying this beau
tiful spring weather? I't is just wonderful
to me, for I like spring best, of all. I
like to see Mother Nature putting on her
dress of green. When spring comes it is
time to go fishing and do many other won
derful tilings. How many of you boys and
girls enjoy going to school? I just enjoy
going and hate for the time to come for
it to close, I have finished the fifth grade.
1 started when I was ten years of age.
The boys and girls of today that let the
opportunity cf getting an education pass
are letting the greatest opportunity of
their lives pass. It my desires are ful
filled, I shall have an education. Some
people even ask the question. "What is an
education for?” It. is to make better men
and women of tomorrow cut of boys and
girls of today. The young people hold in
their hand tlie rising men and women of
the future. Write me, all of you. I will
try and answer all.
(MISS) NOLA THOMAS.
Lumber City. Ga.. R. F. D. 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
be so kind as to admit two Alabama girls
into your happy band of boys and girls?
We’ve been taking The Journal for n num
ber of years, and we always look for Aunt
Julia’s Letters first. We are sure we can
not write such an interesting letter as
some, but. hope we will be. welcome. Most
of the cousins take a subject, but we will
not take one. We will leave the space for
more gifted writers. Juanita has dark
curly hair (bobbed), blue eyes and fair com
plexion. Gladys lias dark hair, gray eves
and dark complexion. What do you cousins
do for pastitme? We read good books pi av
the victro a, and go kodaking. Juanita is
a tin s, Gladys. Her home is in Montgom
et.'. Ala. We both arc school girls. We
will gladly exchange photos with anyone.
iv e want all the cousins* to write. We as
sure you an answer. We would lik/ for
on to send our mail separately. both to
™S’ Wn - A,a ” -•
I w lev ’ ’Vr Axri A CR ’ WKO R D
(MISS) GLADYS DOGGETT.
np a r Aunt Julia nnd Cousins; Wil you
Please admit a South Carolina girl into vour
merry band of boyg Bni| have been
"a "‘imrdiT s,lpnt rea(l er of 'he council and
hl.t for Tl, « Journal to come,
hate ? K ,e ? p,t papPr we southerners
hate. What about it, cousins? Yes I knew
C We "* P "-'ni som’e
r . 1,1 hamden todny. Wish some
with me 'm" Were * ,ere to in bathing
yards fiom our home. I H ve six milos eagt
to the m eitv P ' Cfer tbp pountr y to live In
io ti e < it,. I S ee most of yon cousins take
1 7'l leave ,hftt « more
Dfted writer as I know Aunt Julia thinks
I Bin staying too long. Rut she is such a
fr7/ n< rs OU, 7 UI t i ? vrr Us ". I ,happp 10 R*ln P«n
.> . / ’ Aunt Julia, will you please print
Ins for tne and I II promise not to slav ns
uarViA i Wh ° l,Bs ,>IV birtM «.v. >an-
v ’ .. Jf 1 bave " twin, please write
with h°" °°" sins ' Tl, o want to corresnond
v.th a brunette O s twenty years, write to
C A e Bga,n ’ Mark Young, and Mrs
< hlorn Dunaway, your let fine
exchan“e nn "r^- e ’’ arkP r, "’rite me and Pii
tlone^’mCH 1 teet.” f A II , X" en
write and send photos if possible. Au rTvofc
r . (MISS) WILLIE MOORE
Camden, s. c„ R. F. D. 2, Box 54.
Au ? t J,,lia fln 'l Cousins: A, I don’t
dVs -iTsled IOVe farm Hfe ’ b,,t l,av ®
bon weevil’ Thl s ! nce ® . tl,e advent .of the
here in south Leo’rgia’' We fa . r "> i n- country
«O£ peanuts, cotton aJX
Ji?; mps"- 11 • of lb ® -uslns
iii A , iJii 1 ( 1 am h musician n] av
nv v ? anrt " uitar «"-! -io enjoy pi,, ’
guitar *t " Pa '. tiPS ' ,nd sin - with piano or
near Imm l "m P ar thf ‘ -Methodist church
two t • - da '’ nn ’ an orphan, have
of them / nK than mvself oue
weich tsq n ' Hrr '7’’ 1 a "’ finch tan
eves" po "" <ls - have dark hair, hazei
medium complexion and
im- P, tnv r"” ;"' r 7 of
N«’«’. gids 111 aend them a box of e«ndy.
■Xi'iVVdVe beP b r ~n You?b
0 bi ‘"’ 101 the
ceived. 1 lik 7 try 10 answer all re
dress k ,0 seft Pretty photos. Ad-
I eslio r- LEWIS b. law
Leslie, Ga., Route 2, Box 101.
po’X^orthTer'’ A ’ " ,e ‘”°°n ■’
welcome me in |' ar . p , op( ' ,, 10
since 1 have v-uue.U been d' lllo awhile
are manv new fa. ,'s VuLn’ 111 ' SeP ,bat: tbere
here = . ’ '""Ong us tonight. Whv
have
or^oid^H’S-- a ~ =
marriage soon.. Oh. girH don* H inR
«
eve? b
things in mv metnmw’f.,r ° re im P° r tant
I ever happen to need them I ?h? n k r M
been taking a course i' h „ thlnk 1 "e
spring. a s my mother has been Ih’ S
spring and I’ve bad ir sti ck , aH thls
about your flowers »’-s ’ H °' V
without flowers and I mt < ‘ nt > r e'.v
too, for I’m a lor"? of n ha,e R -
isn’t? There / "'’"ere, and who
adore them. q v is,," b " don’t
night you ever saw? 1 - ni ..'tJl ""
am not su<»ar for I , ,er tainly g<Hd I
ere this |?T £d bPa " V" 0 '
I'ke to g.> kodaking. I ~ 7 of • v ’' l '
often, and alums, alwnv, ti ': v
time it,, ’ h a delightful
book’ ii> ' ® memory cem”
ae‘ I ha not ’,- vo " mosl certainly 7 should
?opv an the‘lin« Se "° te bwk in wbiob
books, °VhL , r7 ? n l,at ? tin<l in
av. a ra ’ ; ' 17
prepared for them. I stili like to r?ld Is
b£k- a V' er ? 1 likp al! , ‘ lpan - iuteiestin;
books. Zane r.rcy and J. Oliver C :rwood re
main my favorite authors. Stories m
ype they write appe.c to mind mor?
than any other kind. I sls.> like -o ..I noetrv
Perhaps you ,1| «,q rall hrs-gi,,-
doubt it i«. h n t m> v 1 also ask at.,, ~r
i you: It isn’t so much after a" ins, ■,
' THE QUESTION BOX
FOR EVERYBODY
Rules
1 All questions must have full
names and addresses signed. If it
is desired that names do not appear
in the paper, add your initial or
some chosen name in adition to your
full name.
2. All questions must be written
on ONE SIDE of the paper only.
, 3. No legal or medical advice can
I be given, either tn the Question Box
or by personal letter.
4. All letters requiring personal re
p’y MUST inclose stamped, self-ad
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5. Letters for the Question Box
‘MUST NOT be included in letter for
Aunt Julia’s Letter Box. The ques
tions must be sent separately and
must be,addressed to Aunt Julia’s
Question Box. The Atlanta Tri-Week
ly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
John X: Sorry, but I cannot ex
press my personal political opinions
in this department. Gracious, I
might start a real argument.
Raymond Sanchez: Mighty sorry
not to be able to publish the picture
you sent. Send me another taken
near your home. Be sure that the
picture is sharp and clear.
Jeremiah: If they call you Jerry
I do not see how you can possibly
! feel old-fashioned. Use that name
if you wish in signing your letters.
It is a rather troublesome thing, I
imagine, to get a legislature to
change a name, and what’s the
use?
Mrs. T.: I believe that salt and
lemon juice put on an iron rust
stain on white goods. The article
stained should be put in the sun for
an hour or more, then washed thor
oughly, to remove the rust.
Mary: Net, marquisette or mad
ras, with valaces of sunfast voile
in a pretty shade of rose pink will
make lovely all-round the house cur
tains with your cream walls and
white wood work. I like all the
curtains of the same material.
I
i I have an album about half filled with
scenery pos tennis which I bave received
through my correspondence in differenat
parts of the U. S. A., also it few from other
places, and I would highly appreciate a post
card shower from the cousins, as I want to
fill up my album with scenery cards. Won’t
you please grant my request? I shall thank
you it you will. .Inst a pretty building or
any spot of interest is what I want, in short,
just something from other states and coun
tries to keep as kind of a souvenr. I have
several beautiful scenic folders which a dear
correspondent of mine sent, me from differ
ent parts of the states, which I prize very
highly. Now everyone this side of the moon
write me. I’m still studying up ou evolu
tion, but. haven't fully decided what my an
cestors were. and. continue to write interest
ing letters. The home little blue-eyed kid.
Lovingly, (MISS) ETHEL M’KAY.
Greenwood, Miss.. Route 4, Box 41-B.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
allow a girl of thirteen years, from Tennes
see. to join your happy circle, of boys and
girls? I have blue eyes, fair complexion
and light, curly hair. I live in town on
the Georgia and Tennessee line. It is beau
tifully situated. The Toccoa river divides
th? town. I am very fond of reading and
sewing, also cooking. We have an eight
months’ school.. I am in the sixth grade. I
Would like to correspond with some of you
boys and girls. Your new cousin.
(MISS) PEARL ROBINSON.
Copper Hill, Terin,, Box 5(52.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit, another Georgia girl into your happy
. band of J>oys and girls? I have been longing
! to write to tlie Letter Box for a long time,
■ but I was afraid I wouldn't be admitted.
My father has been taking the dear old
Journal for several years, and 1 always •n
--joy reading the cousins’ letters best of all.
I. like most of tlie cousins, live on a farm,
and wouldn’t exchange farm life for ci y
life. What do you cousins do for pastime?
I go wild flower bunting, read and go in
bathing, especially these hot summer days.
How many of you like music? Oh’ just
look at the hands! AVell, be quiet nnd lis
ten a mutilate nnd I'll play the prettiest
record we have on tlie Victroln. Who c.tn
guess my age? It. is between fourteen nnd
twenty. My birthday is May 8. If I have a
twin please let me hear from you. I woi.id
like to hear from tlie cousins. I wilt try
to answer all mail received. A new cousin,
(MISS) JANIE SANDERS.
Ochlocknee, Ga., Route 3.
Dear Auntie nnd Cousins; I thought that
| I would drop in for a little call. My! I
!am surprised at so many calling at one
j time. I called once before, hut I guess that
I Aunt .)ulia didn’t hear me knocking; hut I
i didn't give up, nnd I nm hoping that she
j will hear me this time. We take The At
lanta Tri-Weekly Journal, nnd 1 like to rend
it. I like the continued stories, also Dorothy
l Dix’s talks. I think the Letter Box gets
better every day. I believe that if. we keep
on we will soon have a whole page for Hie
■ Letter Box. Come on, Tennessee; Georgia is
getting ahead of us. I will tell a little
about, myself nnd where I live and then give
my place to a more gifted writer. .My age
is between twelve and twenty-four. My
birthday is November 29. Have I a twin?
If so. I wish to hear from you. I have n
beautiful heme: it is so shady and cool. We
i have a big walnut tree in our yard, nnd tha*
i makes it ecol. Hoping to hear from n lot of
i good-looking boys and girls, 1 remain a nie><
| and cousin,
(MISS) BERNICE DAKE.
Nioti, Tenn., Route 3. Box 75.
Hello. Cousins: I would like to join your
happy bunch of boys and girls this rainy
eve, and if you have no objections will take
a seat by Alonzo Webb. Cotne agaiu, your
letter was fine. I do enjoy reading the cous
ins’ letters and have often wanted to write
but could see so many interesting letters
each week was really afraid to try. for
fear my letter would be the first one thrown
lin the wastebasket. I live in a small town
i in the southern part of Mississippi, but
can’t say I like it. although I can be satis
fied anywhere. My father and brothers run
a garage here, so come on cousins an!
spend a while witli me. We have anything
to ride in from a Ford on up. and I will
assure you a good time. Ob. ns this is my
first visit, had better be going. If this is
printed, I will come again and tell you of
my trip to west Texas in a Dodge. My age
is between eighteen and twenty-One. The
one guessing correctly will receive my photo.
AH who care to write to a brown-eyed,
brown-hair bobbed head, jolly girl, just
let your letters come, will answer all. Lov
ingly, (MISS) VIRGIE SMITH.
Magnolia, Miss.. Box 371.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you please open
the door and let a little red, curly-beaded
girl in, for it’s getting very late nnd I'm
almost fraid to go back home tonight as it’s
very far back home? I’m visiting one of
my cousins today. I surely do have jolly
old times with her. Little cousins, what do
you all do for fun? I go to the field with
papa, nnd help him plow and. believe me.
my little sister, Florence nnd I. surely do
have lots of fun. We ride the mules to the
house and to the field. Relieve me I
wouldn’t exchange country life with any of
the city cousins, because out in the country
we can roam in the woods, gather flowers
and ob. have just nil kinds of sports. (Hi,
Aunt Julia. I'm about to forger and stav
too long. I’m a little girl, eight years old.
have blue eyes and fair complexion and 1
want all the little cousins to write to me.
With love to all and one big kiss for Aunt
Julia, I am a new cousin and niece.
IRENE TICKETT.
Dallas, Ga., R. F. D. 2.
Helio, Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit two Georgia girls into your happy
band of boys and girls? We have never
written before, hope to be admitted tins
time. Wonder if any of you cousins are
going to S'-liPoi ? Me are not, as our school
has been ont one month. We are in tlie sev
enth grade. Wonder what you all do for
pastime? We read, play ball, go fishing
and go in bathing. We both live on the
farm, don t like it very much. Our ages
are fourteen and fifteen. We must be going.
Me will try to answer all letters received.
M ith bushels of love and best wishes to ail.
Please send our mail separately. We are
your loving cousins
.MISS) RI’RY LYNN
i MISS) FLORRIE LYNN.
Collins. Ga., R, F. D. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will vou ad
mit another little Georgia girl to join your
happy band of boys and gitls? I have been
reading th- cousins’ letters for a long time
and certainly do enjoy them. Itn like most
of the cousins. I live in the country and en
joy country life fine. I have a grand time
feeding the chickens, watering the flowers
and working in the field. I enjoy going to
school and will be glad when school starts
again. I was pn mited to ti e firth grade. I
will be eleven yer.-- ci<l tite 22d of Septem
ber. Who ha- my ICrtbd ■ ■ W I<| be glad
to 'near froti, ti's co sn- v t '• •
my f’r-r artemm I •■-i’l not long. Y » r
ne-.v friend .tori • ■•c-i|>
I IREVE VA' I I' ’
I Marfin, Ct„ R, I’, n. 2.
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
How About Advertising for a Matri
monial Partner?—Can Yon Train a
Waster Husband to Be Money-
Wise? Hints on How to Choose
a Profession
DIAR MISS~DIxT_I ant a middle
aged man ami a widower. I
am very loneiy and I wish to
marry again, but I. am situated so 1
never meet any women. Go to work
eariy every morning’, back home ev
ery evening-, year in and year out.
Now we adver
tise for every
thing else that
we want in our
local papers.
Why shouldn’t
people be able to
advertise for a
husband or wife,
stating just what,
they wish? I be
lieve that thou
sands of people
could get good
i husbands and
I wives that way.
DONEsoME
WIDOWER.
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Answer: Perhaps i’ou are right.
Certainly middle-aged people who do
not go around very much, and have
few acquaintances, have small chance
to meet the kind of men and women;
that would make them good husbands
and wives.
Married people who do not go much I
in society are apt to narrow their cir
cle down to a very few intimate
Jriends, and so when either a hus
band or a wife dies, the widow or the
widower finds that he or she knows
virtually no one but married couples,
and that their chances of remarrying
are very small since they have no
wav of breaking out of their little
group.
Undoubtedly an attractively word
ed advertisement would bring to any
man or woman many seekers after
soft matrimonial jobs, but the scheme
is fraught with danger. The chances
are that most of the applicants would i
be frauds —men and women who were!
lazy, and who prefer to marry for a
living rather than work for one—
men and women who are so undesir
able that no one wanted them where
they are known.
Besides, the applicant who might
fill the bill and come up to all out
ward requirements might yet lack
every inward quality that would
make him or her a good husband or
wife. A man might be honest, indus
trious and sober, and yet be cru»»
and brutal in his nature. A woman
might be virtuous and thrifty and a
good housekeeper, yet have the tem
per of a virago. Every character ref
erence that a man and woman might
give might be O. K., and yet their
dispositions be so mean and cantan
kerous that they would make miser
able whoever had to live with them.
It is never safe to marry any one
who is a stranger to you. You have
to know an individual long and well
before you can form any idea as to!
whether he or she would prove a
good yokemate. And even then you I
often guess wrong. So the idea of I
getting a husband or wife by ad- !
vertising for one is a risky experi- !
ment that 1 do not advise you to try. !
Dear Dorothy Dix: I am married
to a man whom I love very dearly
and who is everything that is good
and kind to me, but he has no money
sense. He is clever and popular and
makes a fine income, which he
throws away in foolish extravagance.
We are always in debt and never
have anything worthwhile. My hus
band will blow in money on utter
foolishness when we are being J
hounded to pay our bills. I was
raised to be careful of money, and !
to pay as I went, and it mortifies !
nie to death to owe shopkeepers, |
What "an I do about it? How can
I make my husband see as I do '
that we are not only living foolishly !
but dishonestly?
MRS. A. B. C. |
Answer:
There isn't very much that you
can do with a waster, my dear. ;
There is something wrong with a
man's brain when he can't see the
true relation of money to life, and
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realize that the spendthrift is just
as much a thief as the pickpocket.
For the man who buys things from
a shop, and fails to pay for them,
has robbed the merchant just as
much as if he had pilfered the goods
from the shelves.
As long as you owe another man
a dollar the money is his, and you
have no right to use it for your own
pleasure. Moreover, sooner or later,
the rainy day comes to every one
and the man who has made no pro
vision for it becomes a burden upon
the thrifty. Often little chilldren
and old people are deprived of the
very necessities of life because some
extravagant man or woman who has
wasted his or her substance in
riotous living, has to be taken
care of.
Therefore, it becomes our duty
not to earn money, but to use it
wisely and well, and to take care of
it in order that we may not defraud
others. No man is really honest
who doesn’t do this. Being generous
doesn't compensate for being just. It
is a poor and cheap vanity that
makes a man spend money like a
prince and put off paying the wash
erwoman.
The position of the wife of the
spender is a difficult one because
she is always the one who has to
stand off the bill collector. She has
the humiliation of asking for credit
She has the fear of the future al
ways before her, and she can rare
ly make her husband listen to rea
son. He ridicules her efforts To
save as miserliness. He calls her
a tightwad when she wants to Uve
within their income. He resents her
warnings as preaching and if she
will not let him spend money on
her he spends it on the women who
will praise him for his generosity
instead of lecturing him for his ex
travagance.
About the only thing the wife of
a spender can do is to try to in
fluence her husband to spend on
something of real value because
money- will always burn in his
pocket. He can’t keep it, but some
times he can be induced to put it. in
something that will be a good invest
ment later on.
• • ♦
Dear Dorothy Dix: I am a girl
who must make my living, and I am.
wondering what kind of a business
course 1 had best take. I like to sew
and at school T did better in arith
metic than anything else. What
should I study? R. E. K.
Answer:
If you like to sew. why do you
not take a course in millinery or
dressmaking? We do best the
things for which we have a natural
aptitude and that x : <—joy doing.
In selecting our lifework we should
always pick out a trade or profes
sion that we find pleasure in doing
for its own sake.
Os course, sewing in its lower
grades is a very ill-paid profession,
but for those who raise it to the
level of a fjne art it is one of the
most lucrative occupations, and
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ANSWERS TO ENQUIRERS
This is the time of year that many
people think that they can pay less
attention to their poultry than they
did earlier in the year. The many
years that I have “fooled” with
chickens and turkeys has taught me
that there must be as much atten
tion given them in July as in Jan
uary, but of a different sort. Now
we must see that they do not have
heating feed, must have green feed,
be free from vermin and have plenty
of water and shade.
Right here let me advise those who
have never tried them, there is noth
ing better on a poultry plant than
a clump of palrna Christa, castor
bean. They make a dense shade of
planted thick. In our back yard,
about two feet from the garden
fence, there is about ten feet devot
ed to them. They are in rows or
clusters, just as the seed fell last
year, and extend at least ten feet. I
empty ashes there in the winter;
sometimes sweep the trash there so
as to keep a good loam for the hens
to wallow in. Now the trees are
higher than a man’s head, and the
under leaves have dropped, but if
you could see the flock come there
as they finish their roaming for the
morning you would be sure to plant
some this fall. Then, if you’re trou
bled with moles there is nothing bet
ter to poison them. Just get the husk
off the ripe seed and put several in
a run. That will be the last of that
mole.
But to return to the poultry, I
have several times given you the for
mula for Douglas mixture, but as it
is time to use it, I will again put
it before you.
Douglas mixture: Almost fill a
gallon glass jug, the sort you buy
with vinegar, with soft water, either
rain or cistern, and into that put
half a pound of copperas, shake it
well and let it stand twenty-four
hours, then add half an ounce of
sulphuric acid. After shaking well
it is- ready to use. Put three table
spoonfuls of this (Douglas mixture)
to a gallon of drinking water. It is
a fine tonic to give the molting flock.
After they have it for a week skip
several days and begin again, and
let them have it at least three times
during the molting season.
All this month my hens have a
very light diet, they are looking fad
ed, and some are ragged, but I shall
gradually go back to the laying ra
tion. They have done splendidly as
it is, but I want them to be all dress
ed up by the middle of October. If
whether you get sls or $l5O for mak
ing a gown depends altogether upon
the skill you put into the job. If
y-• have r nd and eye of an
artist; if you master the subtleties
of line and color, you can ask what
you will for a gown or a hat, and
women will break their necks to
Pay it.
But it doesn’t make any difference
what you cL, < what y-u choose
for a profession. It is the way you
dj it tint co-.mts.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright, 1924.)
you think they are full of vermin
get sodium flouride or any reliable
insect powder and dust them freely.
Be sure that where they roost is
free from mites, and lice or you need
not expect to get eggs now or to
have your hens molt in time for
Christmas eggs. Cholera seems to
be more prevalent this year than for
a Jong time. I believe that if we
keep the place free from lice and
mites the fowls will not get so run
down that disease will do them any
serious damage. But if you do not
burn the dead creatures you will ei
ther have limber-neck or cholera.
If you have no true and tried green
stuff in mind for this winter, why
not plant some rape when you plant
your winter turnips? It is less like
ly to be winter killed. You can cut
it many times, after you thin it, and
then when spring comes those stems
will be the first greens you can get.
Three rows, on good rich land, if
they are thirty feet long, and plant,
ed “as thick as hairs on a dog’s
back,” will furnish thirty hens and
three hogs. By the time you thin
the first time it will be ready again,
and again. Then begin to take otf
the leaves, and if it gets spindling,
top it. Mixed with mustard or tur»
nip salad it improves the taste, but
we don’t care for it alone. It’s ton
much like rutabaga salad.
Get some epsom salts, and use It
once a weelc in a rather dry mash
of meal (or bran) and water, a heaj).
ing teaspoonful of salts for sous
hens, or youngsters, and also ones
a week, if it is not rainy, give the
same proportion of sulphur. This is
my preventive for sorehead. Keetf
your eyes on your flock and the first
pimple or scab you see rub the head
with vaseline and sulphur. I keep
the sulphur and vaseline mixed all
the time, as much sulphur’ as the
grease will take up. It’s good sos
roup, and for the white scales that
sometimes come on a chicken’s head.
And for scaly leg. use crude oil
(blade oil) by putting it well on the
feet and legs and rubbing it in with
a toothbrush. Then paint the roosts
with a mixture of stock dip, one pin:;
coal oil, half a pint, and a gallon o'
water. Use this in your nests, too,
and if you take out the dropping*
even once a month you will keep
free of mites.
But, remember, you can’t be fres
of anything by half doing. I’ve seers
people make daubs, and skip a placfl
that could infest the whole house of
nest. Thoroughness pays.
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