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IIKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1013.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
—
LANDS FOR SALE BY
THOS. W. JACKSON,
Fourth Nat. Bank Bldg.
Bell Phone Main 5214.
728 ACRES.
RIVER plantation, 24 miles west
of Atlanta; 2S0 acres in culti
vation, of which 100 Is river bot
tom; 165 acres in pasture under
wire fence; about 350 acres in
timber; two 5-room houses and
four tenant houses, bams and oth
er outbuildings; two public roads.
Spectul price if sold at once, In
cluding all stock, Implements,
tools and feedstuff.
140 ACRES.
AN IDEAL colonial home: over
100 acres in high state of culti
vation, balance in pasture with
running water; 9-room colonial
home in beautiful oak grove front
ing graded road; 1 1-2 miles from
County Seat. This place would
have to be seen to be appreciated.
Owner is a non-resident and would
sell at a remarkably low price on
easy terms, or exchange for rent
ing property in Atlanta.
62 ACRES.
A BEAUTIFUL little North Ga.
home, in edge of good town, 40
acres in cultivation, balance in
pasture and timber; improve
ments cost $5,000 to build. Owner
will sacrifice price for quick sale.
185 ACRES.
ON CHERT road, beautiful build
ing sites, and near railroad sta
tion. This is one of the best buys
in Fulton County No Informa
tion over the phone.
1,430 ACRES.
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA cotton
plantation; 1,000 acres open, of
red pebbly land, with clay subsoil,
and lies almost perfectly level;
balance in pasture and timber; 26
houses, barns and other outbuild
ings. This place belongs to a non
resident whose business is such
that he can not devote any time
to its promotion, consequently It
is offered for sale or exchange for
Atlanta property.
DO ACRES.
ABOUT 18 miles north of Atlanta,
45 acres In cultivation, the bal
ance in pasture and timber; 5-
room residence, 4-room tenant
house, two barns and other out
buildings. Good orchard, watered
by creek and two fine springs.
Would make an ideal summer
place. Price. $40 per acre, or would
exchange a part for Atlanta prop
erty.
392 ACRES.
ON PIKE ROAD, a modern, well-
equipped dairy; 85 acres in rich
level bottom land; 5-room cottage,
beautiful oak grove, nice lawn, a
large barn that cost $1,600. This
property belongs to a non-resident,
and I am in position, to make you
a special price on easy terms.
28 ACRES.
CHERT road and railroad running
through the property. Fine for
dairy, truck or poultry farm. In
vestigate and make your offer.
61 ACRES.
SIX-ROOM bungalow, a little
beauty, barn, servant house and
other outhouses; 45 acres in-culti
vation, balance in pasture and tim
ber. 30 miles north of Atlanta, one
mile from depot, and near city
limits of good town. Owner must
sell. Take it for about what the
improvements cost. Would take
small cottage in Atlanta in part
payment.
TITOS. W. JACKSON,
Fourth Nat. Bank Bldg.
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICA-'
TION.
DON’T work for others. I started a
very small mail order business a few
years ago. Made 88.500 first year. To
day am one of the large mail order op
erators of the country. 1 want you to
co-operate with me. I will put you into
money-making business, supply you
with everything to start and the work
can be done at home in spare time. No
canvassing, no experience. Instructive
book free. Address Good Pay, Box 1026,
American. 279-5-25
LINOTYPE instruction, 166 «old last
month. Each week’s delay is expen
sive Address Linotype School, Box
1041, American 230-5-25
II
Bumper Crop Is Expected and
Labor Supply Is Scarce in
Sixty Counties,
TOPEKA, May 31.—There will be
no excuse for Idleness in Kansas dur
ing the approaching summer. Re
ports to the State Free Employment
Bureau from seventy counties, each
wJLi a large wheat acreage, indicate
that there will be an unprecedented
demand for help In harvesting the
wheat crop.
April 19 me State Board of Agri
culture estimated the total acreage
of wheat likely to be cut In the State
to be greater by 1,190,000 acres than
It was in 1912, with an average con
dition 3.38 points better than it was
at the same time last year. The
State Free Employment Bureau has
not received a report from a single
county with a large wheat acreage
where the condition Is below normal
at this reason. Rains since April 19
make the prospects even better than
they were at the time of Secretary
Coburn’s report, and if the conditions
continue as favorable as they are now
the 1918 wheat harvest will be one
of the greatest in the history of the
State.
In sixty of the wheat growing coun
ties farm help is now reported to be
scarce. In only nineteen counties is
it reported to be plentiful. It there-
iore tseerrs obvious that the harvest
will this year demand more men than
it did in 1M2, when the Employment
Bureau issued a call for approxi
mately 20,000 men It :s Impossible
at this time to fix the dates when
harvest will begin in the various sec
tions of the State. In a few reports
it Is juggested that It will begin from
June 15 to 18. Most of the reports
indicate t’»at r will begin a week
later in the big wheat counties. How
ever there will be a big demand for
extra hands, to help take core of al
falfa eariv in June and the advance
guard of the army of men that will
be needed to take care of the wheat
should nave litrle difficulty *u secur
ing employment at good wages.
“Trouble Spots” in Farming
That “Ground * ’ Farmers’Profits
—
Greatest Needs of Southern Farming Are to Feed the Soil What It Needs,
to Use More Machinery, to Grow Horse Power and More Cattle, to
Co-operate in Selling and Borrowing, to Supplant the Ignorance of I
the Tenant With Brains of the Landowner, to Educate Agricultural
Leaders for Every Community, to Instruct the Negro Farmer.
LANDOWNER IS
URGED TO GIVE
COW TO TENANT
J. D, Price, New Commissioner
of Agriculture, Thinks Gift
Can Be Investment.
Pmtlfru ■"Looking in on some of
1 UUlti y farmers’ poultry
houses: Why some of them succeed
while others do not.
By JUDGE F. J. MARSHALL
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
WARE & HARPER
BUSINESS BROKERS.
ROOMS 724 and 725.
ATLANTA NATIONAL BANK BLDG.
Phone: Bell Main 1705, Atlanta 1868.
djl QAA A well-equipped BOTTLING
q5I ,Ouv PLANT; the only one in one
of the best towns of Northeast Georgia
of 3,000 population; big territory In
every direction: lots of country stores.
This is actual Invoice cost for fixtures
and equipment, which are just as good
as new.
30EA WELL established BOARDING
tpOOU HOUSE; close to heart of City;
cheap rent; making good money; in
vestigate this.
d»i AAA BEAUTIFULLY equipped; es-
tablished and profitable high-
class DELICATESSEN and FANCY
GROCERY business In one of the very
best and most thickly populated resi
dence sections of the city, close In;
owner can not give business personal
attention.
700 and splendidly located
FANCY GROCERY and MARKET;
monthly business of $1,900; growing
daily; owner going into wholesale
brokerage business only cause of offer.
4s 1 OOO ESTABLISHED and splendid-
tp 1,\JW iy located on a prominent
corner, FANCY GROCERY and MAR
KET, with living rooms attached;
heap rent; a good opportunity In this
line.
$1
OKA GROCERY AND MARKET;
good location; North Side;
making money; well equipped. This Is
actual invoice of the stock of mer-
nandise on hand.
T
B y CHARLES A. WHITTLE
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
HE one biggest mistake of the
Southern farmer Is single crop-
$2,000;
WELL established and splen
didly located on a prominent
corner: fine business street; SODA
WATER, CIGAR, TOBACCO AND
DRUG business; soda business alone
averages $150 per month net; drug and
soda water together, $200 to $250 per
month net; one-half cash, balance easy.
WATCH!—These ads changed dally—•
WATCH!
ABOVE FOR SALE BY WARE &
HARPER.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
FOR SALE
JOHN J.
WOODSIDE
HOME, LUOKIE STREET.
(Near Pine.)
Has five rooms, three up* two down;
bath, water and basement. Price, $3,000.
THOS. R. FINNEY, Sales Mgr ,
12 "REAL ESTATE ROW.”
ANNOUNCEMENT.
ON ACCOUNT of a large increase in business I have moved my office to
717 EMPIRE BUILDING.
RANDOLPH B. RAILEY,
CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR
EXPERT SUBDIVISIONIST.
Phone Main 2200.
JL
Bargain News
P EOPLE read the Classified Section of
The Georgian with the intense inter
est that they read its news columns. The
bargain news is a vital factor in keeping
down living expenses. People who read
and use The Georgian Want Ads save per
haps as much money as they make in their
profession or trade.
Both Phones 8000
ping. When hie one crop re
quires clean cultivation, hie biggest
mistake is bigger still. For, be it
known, the soils of the South are get
ting desperately low in organic mat
ter. This plight Is chargeable to the
cotton growing habit—a crop that re
turns exceedingly little vegetable
matter to the soil. Corn Is no bet
ter. Nor are potatoes or any other
crop that requires clean cultivation.
The South Is awaking to the neces
sity of diversifying agriculture but
the soils will not be improved and the
adverse tide turned back until there
is an Intelligent system of crop rota
tion.
A shibboleth has been cried In the
South, “Raise on the farm what the
farmer needs.” It is fide. It is the
way to unshackle. But while raising
what the farmer needs, care must be
taken to raise what the soil needs
else both may fail to be supplied.
Thus soil feeding Is the big is«ue
for the Southern farmer. His fail
ure in this respect is his worst.
No Economy Without Machinery.
The census says that the average
value of machinery on the Georgia
farm is $72. All that resembles ma
chinery where the ignorant tenant
holds sway, Is a one-horse plow, a
one-horse wagon and a hoe or two.
Whereas, to till the average farm
which is 92 acres In Georgia, would
require about $500, to get efficiency
and economy. The larger the farm
the more economical the use of farm
machinery becomes.
The Increasing scarcity of labor
would make it necessary to purchase
labor saving farm machinery, even If
economy of production did not war
rant it.
When a cultivator or harrow will
do the work three or four times as
quickly, therefore more cheaply, and
do the work much better, why should
a farmer follow all day long behind a
single plow stirring only a bit of a
furrow with each passage across the
field of corn or cotton? What a de
pressing waste of human energy! And
it is a blushing shame that there are
great territories each as big as a
county; where one will not find a
cultivator or a harrow. Yet with
the awaking to new things, the Soutii
is rapidly becoming a fine market for
harrows, cultivators and other labor
saving and better cultivating machin
ery. Where one farmer ventures to
try a cultivator, a harrow, a weeder
or some such implement, the virus of
progress takes and as soon as the
surrounding farmers can rake togeth
er the price, they too become custo
mers of the machinery manufacturer.
A few million dollars invested in
farm machinery' would do wonders
for agriculture in the South.
Power in the South Too Expensive.
The cost of farm power in the
South is unnecessarily expensive by
reason of the fact that so very few
horses or mules are raised and prac
tically all that are needed are bought
at heavy expense from other section:!
of the country. The purchase cost
of horses and mules can be almost
completely eliminated from the
Southern farmers* expense account by
raising colts. It can be done. It
is being done. A grade Percheron
mare costing less than a mule, efin
do the work of the mule, foal a colt
that in 6 months will be worth $150
or more. It not only can be done
but has been done.
Thus instead of paying out large
sums of money for Western mules, the
Southern farmer can raise on his own
farm all of his work stock and some
to sell. The cost of farm power is
then reduced to a minimum and the
profit side of the farming account is'
increased.
In this respect, as in others, there
Is a breaking up of old-time ways,
and it is becoming quite the usual
thing in the South to hear talk of a
company of farmers banding together
to purchase a Percheron stallion to
breed with native mares and produce
good types of farm draught stock. It
can be easily’ predicted that within
the next five years there will be a
tremendous revolution in respect to
raising colts in the Southern States.
How much there is to be done be
fore the horse-pow r er revolution Is
complete can be gathered from the
recent census. Take Georgia for an
Instance. It has been figured oqt
from statistics on horses in Georgia
that only one farmer In every hun
dred Is averaging a colt. At this
rate every farmer that has a colt for
sale will have ninety-nine buyers
among his neighbors. At present,
according to census figures, Georgia
is spending right around $1,000,000 a
month, or $12,000,000 a year for
horses and mules, spending it with
the stock grower In other States,
Isn’t It a shame to throw away so
much good Georgia money when it Is
easy enough not to?
Live Stock the Soil Builders.
In view of the growing deficiency of
humus or organic matter in Southern
soils and the necessity for crop rota
tion, the question of how best to con
serve the vegetable matter of the soil
and return it to the land for fertility
is important. Here one confronts
another serious failure of the South
ern farmer and that is general neglect
of growing live stock. Via live stock
the soil can be most successfully and
economically’ enriched.
The one dictum of the modem
Southern farmer should be “Selling
nothing off of tho farm which can be
fed on it.” This is a sure policy of
keeping soil fertility close home and
in reach. If no real profit were
made in feeding cattle for the mar
ket, their contribution to soil fertil
ity, would make it well worth while
to feed them. But there is no rea
son why cattle w’hich can graze nine
months in the year, cannot be fed
with cotton seed meal, silage and pea-
vine hay and perhaps a little corn,
all raised on the home farm, and pro
duce beef in competition with any
part of the United States, consider
ing that the Southern farmer can
find his market close home.
But the silo is a rare piece of f.:-m
architecture on the Southern fa m,
and a part of the mistake of not r;
attempted, will be more than likely
attributable to a lack of the silo—
the greatest waste saver ever asso
ciated with cattle raising. The silo
does not exist near as abundantly as
the number of cattle grown in the
South would warrant. The South
has not taken up the silo seriously
because it has not yet taken up cat
tle raising very seriously.
Lets Somebody Else Take His Money.
Everybody -makes more money otY
of the farm than the farmer. Take
a carload of watermelons—Georgia
melons if you please.* This is who
gets the money:
Received by farmer, $52, 8.33 per
cent.
Received by buyer, $240, 38.09 per
cent.
Received by railroad, $75, 11.91 per
cent.
Commissions of other agents, $263,
41.67 per cent.
Paid by consumer, $630, 100 per
cent.
But 1t is not quite such a skin
game when the farm products as a
whole are considered. The distrlbu-
wash. The brains have moved in
large fioceuluent masses to adorn oar
flourishing cities. The land of our
fathers has been too largely commit
ted to the hired man, his one mule,
ten hounds and deeolation. Just
191,000 of the 291,000 farms of Geor
gia, for instance, are operated by
tenants. While the farm ow-ners in
creased 10,000 during the last decade,
the tenants swarmed 56,000 stronger.
“Whoa!" to this. One step forward
isn’t much when five are taken back
ward.
Considerable Georgia cattle are af
flicted with ticks. Our absent land
lords are elegant people but they are
afflicting agriculture in the same
way. They suck but give nothing
back. Oh, yes, there is a sentiment
evolved. The land has been in the
family since the days of the crown,
but sentiment don’t fertilize cotton
and com, it does not build terraces,
rotate crops, raise cattle and restore
lost strength to the soil.
Our sentimental absent landlords
should either restore the lost brains
to the soil and give them place along
with their affections or else sell to
tion of returns from the farm crops somebody who Is willing to get ”on
of 1911 was as follows: Uv, “ V1 " v '~ ; ~
the Job” with his brains
$6,000,000,000, i Community Needs Educated Farmer.
Those who have been mixing most
brains with the soils of the South
have been doing best, In fact, are
making good. It is inspiring more
and more brain investment on farm
lands. It is the meaning of the thirst
for agricultural education and infor
mation. Farming in the South has
had no other outlook than cotton,
but more and more the South Is get
ting other visions and each vision
requires information. Hence tho
awakening interest In agricultural
education in the South.
The big need of the rural commun
ity is a young man with a diploma
from an Agricultural College, whose
information, inspiration, broad out
look, leadership, success, will open
the eyes of the farm youth to their
homemade opportunities. A southern
9tate that fails to do everything In
its power to provide agricultural ed
ucation. which does not put forth
every effort to round up the country
youth in a State College of Agricul
ture, Is looking with too little pur
pose to the future upbuilding of the
South.
With more concern should the
South look to establishing a. high or
der of brain efficiency to solve the
complexities of farming, even more
than to any other source of natural
wealth.
Neglecting the Negro Farmer.
A very considerable part of the
tenant class of the South is the ne
gro. In large areas and sprinkled
liberally everywhere, the black man
is doing all the farming. The pros
pects are that he will continue to
do a very large part of thf farming
for years to come.
But this large mass of soil tillers
can be likened only to the "Man
With the Hoe.” His methods are as
primitive as the country itself. For
the most part those among them who
have been raised up as leaders have
“hot footed” to the cities. Only with
great rarity and at vast intervals
can there be found a negro farmer
who is keeping step with farm pro
gress.
The agricultural revolution has
largely revoluted around and on past
the negro farmer, who in his lonely
cabin neither read's nor dreams of
w’hat is taking place in the world
of agriculture.
But the South cannot afford to be
indifferent to the negro farmer, who,
though an humble, ignorant man, »s
yet a wide part of the foundation on
which a very great part of the com
mercial success of the South must
rest.
Build him up in agricultural faith
tentlous r: l» r now p~.ni So°ut,l tT^Jer^rnVr"
?al°Cre5lt Commission of tho Unttad | ^“cce.. on his good broad shonl-
... It is a serious failure of tho South
Of course eierybody + SJ® i that the gospel of improved ngricul-
why already. It Is organization j tliro hoo nnt th£k
Receivedby farmer,
46.1 per cent.
Legitimate cost of selling, $1,200.-
000,000, 9.2 per cent.
Received by farmer, $6,000,000,000,
3.8 per cent.
Dealers’ and retailers’ profits.
$3,746,000,000, 28.9 per cent.
Waste in selling, $1,500,000,000, 12
per cent.
Paid by consumer, $13,000,000,000,
100 per cent.
But even to this time it will be
seen that more than half of the profit
of farming goes to the man outside
of the plow handles. When it comes
to putting your fingers on the man
who is most responsible for the “high
cost,” it will not rest heavily on the
farmer.
True the farmer would not be
ashamed to take the money if he
could get his hands on all the con
sumer pays. Some few truck far
mers' associations right here in Dixie
are beating the game considerably
by robbing the middle man, for which
let congratulations only be extended
—not that the middleman is very cul
pable but just too much of a luxury
sometimes.
The way the truckers manage d,
is to have an agent in the big mar
kets who sells for delivery day after
to-morrow, who wires his order id
Mr. President of the Truckers’ Asso
ciation. Thereupon the telephone
gets busy a few minutes and the
members arranee to have the truek
on the depot platform at the required
tour. Aw’ay it goes direct to the re
tailer eluding some several hands
which have been wont to digging into
the proceeds of the farmer’s sweat.
But for the most part the Southern
farmer dances to the tune that emits
from the little end of the horn, pay
ing for the horn, the wind and the
noise.
Pays Considerably For Loans.
In another kind way, we farmers
are benevolently doable, even more
so than the Egyptian Arab. We dig
dow’n intb oQr geans for $85 to pay
the interest on $1,000—the Arab es
capes by paving only $80 out of his
capacious bloomers. In France the
farmers do not seem to be stock
holders in the banks and refuse to
pay more than $43 for the use of a
thousand dollars worth of francs a
year. In Germany they consent to
pay $44.
To get a close scrutiny of how
European farmers manage the bank
ers, how they blackball the commis
sion men and how they manage to
buy from, the manufacturer direct—
in other words, how’ the farmer and
consumer have short circuited—is
the meaning of that large and pre
now
By Charles A. Whittle.
“Make a present of a cow
to every farm tenant.”
Thus J. D. Price, the incom
ing Commissioner of Agricul
ture, would have it.
The landowner is to do the
presenting as an investment, if
presents can be called invest
ments.
The new Commissioner of
Agriculture for Georgia, who
steps into office June 1, is like
ly to be dubbed “The Cow
Man,” because of his faith in
a tenant plus a cow.
It is a money-making propo
sition to present cows to ten
ants in two w^ys. according to
Mr. Price. One is that a $35
gift cow will pay each year
about fiO per cent on the in
vestment by contributing fer
tility to the soil. The other is
that which is derived from
better health, more labor and
greater efficiency of a tenant
who has added butter and bub
termilk to his diet.
The conditions of a gift cow,
the new commissioner would
have, are that the tenant
should return to the farm all
the fertilizing matter which
she produces.
Scientific analysis has re
vealed that a cow’s contribu
tion of fertilizing material is
not less than $20 per year. No
scientific data is available as
to how much more and better
labor would be obtained from
a better nourished and more
contented and interested ten
ant, but it would not be a wild
guess to say that, it would
amount to more each year than
the cost of the cow.
Figured conservatively, a
cow would yield 100 per cent
annually in the hands of a ten
ant, which is pretty good for
cows and tenants.
among farmers. But there are lots of
interesting and profitable things to
be learned In Europe especially by
one who is not bothered with footing
the bills.
Restoration of Brains Needed.
Southern soils have been sadly
drained of their fertility and brains.
ture has not been preached to the
negro. Too much potential wealth
is embodied in the negro farmers
and too little efficiency is manifested
in developing it, to leave any other
than a serious obligation upon the
white race to see to it, that the negro
knows how to raise more cotton,
more com, more potatoes, more peas,
The soil has slipped away with the beans, clovers and grass, more cattle.
Latest Skyscraper
Is 32 Stories High
Professional Building Rises In Man
hattan—Twice as High as At
lanta's Tallest Structure.
NEW YORK, N. Y. t May 31.—An
other ta'l building will be added to
the skyscrapers of this city, accord
ing to plans filed with the Building
Department. It will be the Proies-
sional Building, at the southeast cor
ner of Seventy-second Street and
West End Avenue. It will rise 465
feet from the curb, and will rank
sixth in the list of New York's tali
building3. They are as follows;
Height,
Building. Stories. (Feet.)
The Woolworth 51 760
Metropolitan Life Tower .50 700
Singer Tower 41 612
New Municipal 24 560
Bankers’ Trust 39 539
Professional 32 465
The building is Intended to meet
the needs of physicians, dentists, ar
chitects, artists, and other profes
sional workers.
STEAM SUCCEEDS HORSE
IN NORTHWESTERN WOODS
REMIDJI. MINX.. May 31 -Steam
‘•kidders have ended the days of the
horse in the lumber woods. The new
machine is more* powerful, more
tractable, its feed is the waste of the
land, there is less danger, and it can
work summer as well 'as winter.
“Skidding” is taking the logs from
the place where they are cut to the
shipping point. For many years this
has been done with hor >••.■ , which
dragged them over the .snow The
hardest part was rolling them up th<
skids onto the cars. This operation
ing beef cattle, or failure when it is also is dangerous to man and beast.
Record Realty Deal
In McDuffie County
P. S. Knox's 4,000-Acre Farm to Be
Subdivided Into Tracts—Settlers
Are Invited.
THOMSON, GA.. May 31.—One of
the largest real estate deals ever pull
ed ofT in McDuffie County is being
arranged and contemplates the sale
of the magnificent 4,000-acre farm of
P. S. Knox, in small tracts of from
50 to 76 acres, at public auction. Mr.
Knox, will still have left as much
land as he Is selling, but realizes
that smaller farms and more land
owners are needed in this county,
and takes this step to bring It about.
$200,000 in Realty
Is Held by Hermit
Samuel E. Haslett, of Brooklyn,
Saved and Bought Land—Estate
Worth $1,000,000.
BROOKLYN. N. Y , May 31—Samuel
E. Haslett. the Remsen Street recluse,
who a little more than a year ago was
declared incompetent after a series of
sensational developments resulting in
the indictments of former Senator Frank
Gardner and George Decker, a male
nurse. Is possessed of an estate worth
considerably more than $1,000,000, ac
cording to the accounting filed by the
Brooklyn Trust Company and. Lawyer
John T. Bladen, loint committee in
charge of the estate.
The total value of the personal prop
arty that was found In Air. Haaletts
possession a year ago was $919,766.64,
and the ten pieces of real estate that he
owned in Brooklyn and Manhattan have
an assessed valuation of more than
$§00,000 The market value rnay be
larger than that.
LARGE CONTRACT MADE
BY FULLER BUILDERS
The George A. Fuller Company,
contractors on the Ponce DeLeon
Apartments and Winecoff Hotel Jobs
in Atlanta is making a record in |
building construction over the coun
try. This concern is also building
rious kinds of structures in Boston,
Buffalo. Chattanooga, Chicago, De
troit, Hot Springs, Kansas City. Lex
ington. Knoxville. Milwaukee. Minne
apolis. Mobile. New York. Philadel
phia, Somerville, Spartanburg, Wash
ington, White Sulphur Springs, Mon
treal. Toronto and Winnipeg.
In addition to the business of the
George A. Fuller Company, if is stated
the company during rhe venr has
taken quite a substantial Interest in
two large railroad construction con
tracts, and work on both is now well
under way. The amount of work in
volved in these contracts will aggre
gate about $5,744,125.
Courthouse Sales to
Draw Big Crowds
A great deal of interest always
centers around the monthly court-
hou* sales, and Tuesday, June 3,
proposes to be no exception.
J. D. Brad well, administrator for
the late Ermie Pope, will sell 14 and
16 Ponders Avenue, 60x100. The at
torneys are Hendrix & Holomon.
Dot 16 of the Porter subdivision on
the northeast side of Stonewall Street,
near Chapel Street, 50x200 feet, will
be sold for the estate of the late
Mrs. Lena Rosenthal. Eugene M and
G. E. Mitchell are the attorneys.
The estate of the late J. H. Ben
nett will sell through N. M. Cameron,
administrator, a lot on the west side
of Hurt Street, Inman Park, 197 feet
southwest of Euclid Avenue. A. A.
and E. L. Meyer are the attorneys.
Ex-Mayor Courtland S. Winn will
sell for the estate of James R. As 7
kew one share of stock in the Grlffiii
Hotel & Realty Company. W. W.
Vlsanska is the attorney.
Net Land Earnings
$3,559,302 in Year
NEW YORK, N. Y, May 31.—The
ninth annual report of the United
States Realty cod Improvement Com
pany shows that the gross earnings
of the post year were $3,569,302.96.
This included $2,202,144.10 from in
vestments and $1,357,158.86 from
building contracts. Deducting inter
est, depreciation, etc., the net earn
ings com” to $2,078,062. Of this
amount $808,140 was paid out in divi
dends, leaving $673,422 as surplus for
the year. The assets of the company
are placed at $33,281,490.12. of which
real estate and building^ are repre
sented by $19,489,343.y4.
It is not my Intention to belittle
the furmer in any way, for he has
I always been termed the backbone of
the country, but at times this back
bone needs stiffening in places. We
frequently see places where we think
it might be bettered to advantage
without injuring the structure as a
whole. A farmer is one of those in
dividuals who gets into a rut where
it seems so much easier to pull along
in the rut than to make the extra
effort to pull out of It. This is the
case with many farmers in regard
to their poultry, and other things, too,
but the poultry is the one we have
our eyes upon at this timq,
Let us tell you at the start, how
ever. that our picture does not cover
the whole farm landscape, for there
are a lot of farmers who have not
been in these ruts for years but are
making good money out of poultry
and give it due credit for It has
has brought to them. For we notice
in getting around over the country
that there are farmers who have good
poultry houses and fixtures, as good
as any one need want. Then we
find a whole lot of places where the
chicken has not a place It can set its
foot and not be considered a nui
sance. We might say they have not
a place to lay their eggs, but they
are not bothered much along that
line, for it is a matter of getting
enough to eat to sustain life, without
being clubbed upon all sides.
Roosting Places Scarce.
It is also a matter of where to
find a roosting place out of the rain,
without roosting on the young man’s
buggy top or the old man’s wagon
seat. It is to thla class of chicken
owners to which we want to talk.
Now, dear reader, you may not be
the one to whom we should talk, If
not, will you please loan your paper
to your neighbor who really needs
advice. We have talked to them
time and again face to face, and we
think we know about the pitch of
their tune. It sounds something like
this:
"No, we don’t take stock In the
chickens; the old woman fusses with
them some, but I have all I can do
to look after the work that brings
me in something, without tinkering
with any pesky chickens that are
more bother than they are worth, and
always hungry and under foot to be
kicked away before I can take a step.
I know I would not keep a chicken
on the place if the old woman didn’t
want a few for eggs and the table.”
Does not that sound about like the
tune many of them give you when
you mention chickens to them as be
ing a profitable adjunct to other farm*
products? Of course, we know that
none of your readers ever talk that
way but you may have heard it from
some of your neighbors. No doubt
they thought they were honest in
what they were saying; at least they
wanted to believe that it was true.
Why? Simply because they did not
want to invest in a single dollar in
anything for the care of the chickens.
Would Pay for House.
They did not want to believe that
a good but inexpensive roosting
hous'e would go a long way toward
doubling the egg yield during the
winter. They did not want to be
lieve that by so housing the hens
the manure could be easily saved and
In three or four years pay for the
house, and at the same time save
the boy’s buggy top. temper and a
whole lot of other things equally im
portant. They did not want to be
lieve that the incubator would hatch
the chicks so early in the spring
as to make a fine lot of early fall
laying pullets, to say nothing of the
returns from the cockerels marketed
as broilers.
These things all cost money, there’s
the rub! The farmers of this class
are all opposed to any new-fangled
way of managing the chickens, just
as they were opposed to the mowing
machine and wheat binder before
they were obliged to become acquaint
ed with them.
They do not like to give up to the
ideas which their wives have been
advancing about better chickens, bet
ter methods, more eggs and better
eggs. They are the acknowledged
heads of tho household and should
not be forced to mibmit to any fool
notions that the women folks might
study up. Keep up the good work,
wives; it may soak in after a while
and do some good. But you say it
causes more or less friction in the ■
household. Friction because it means
more thought and more worry.
But what of that. Friction is what
has made this old world what it is
to-day. Friction produces the elec
tric current which causes the hun
dreds of electric cars to pass from
point to point in all our large cities,
and besides seems destined to move
the whole world. Friction produces
tho fine polish upon all kinds of met
al; upon fine woodwork. What does
it not produce?
Some Friction Needed.
So it takes a certain amount of
friction to get right in the line of
producing more and better chickens;
more eggs at less expense. Who is
it that should not be willing to forego
the added friction to both mind and
body necessary ta effect the change?
Farmers, let us listen to our wives
Just this one time if at no other on
the matter of taking care of our
chickens and getting & better class
of poultry to care for and which
will in turn give us result* that
we may well be proud of.
Let us spend a few of those tight-
fisted cotton dollars in building &
cheap but comfortable roosting house,
and let the hens pay you back ten
fold later on, as they will do. Build
some colony houses for those young
sters to be reared it, letting them oc
cupy it through the winter as a lay
ing house Get an Incubators for
your wife if she thinks she wants one,
and we will predict that it will not
be many years until you will be tell
ing your neighbors about your chick
ens and how much money WE are
making out of them.
We know a lot of farmers who are
making money out of chickens. They
are the converted kind. The kind
that know a good thing when they
see 1t coming down the road. In
speaking of the young man's prospect
for moneymaking on the farm one
of these prosperous chicken farmers
told me some time ago that the young
man should take up poultry raising.
A Farmer's Advice.
“It is a mighty good thing to torn
to,” said he. “I would rather have
1,000 good strain White Leghorn henir
than almost anything that I know of.
I can take 600 of those hens on five
acres and make a living off of them.
That is, I could make $1,000 as easy
as falling off a log, and not work my
self to death, either.” He said he
would do It selling his eggs for mar
ket purposes, furnished in the finest
possible rhape so as to command an
advance over the regular market
price.
But It would not be done with any
kind of old hens by any means, for
you can never tell what they are
going to do for you like you can the
flock of thoroughbreds. A real live
farmer should take as much Interest
in poultry as he does in his cotton.
Ho should read as much about poul
try as he does about cotton. If he
did the latter he would soon be mak
ing more out of the poultry than he
would from the cotton.
Many farmers are making good liv
ings out of their poultry. Others
are putting money in the bank be
side. Then there are the really luoky
ones, as people are wont to call them,
who are really getting rich at the
business. The way Is open. What
has been done can be done again.
Some of them run their place for eggs
alone; others for stock and eggs com
bined. Then w r e see great big farms
out West covered with fine bronze
turkeys. They are money makers.
Wo have seen them raise 500 of these
turkeys, getting $1,600 for them,
charing $1,000. Some run to tur
keys and ducks. Wake up, look around
you and see what you and your farm
and surroundings are best suited foF*
and make up your mind to get it be
fore another year rolls around.
Capitalists Busy
Improving Fronts
Of Big Buildings
Clean up your skyscraper, Mr. Bond
Holder—spring is here. That’s the
sort of tune that is being hummed
around Atlanta streets these buBy
days. The Piedmont Hotel officials
originated it. They began scraping
on the stone front of the Piedmont, to
remove some of the smoke and dirt
that had gathered there these many
years. The work has gone along
nicely and the Piedmont looks much
better in its new dress.
The Candler Building was next to
feel the influence of clean-up days.
Workmen started scouring the marble
at the base of the building and to
work upward. They haven’t finished
yet.
The Equitable Building was next,
with a scaffolding where busy scrub
bers might stand and remove some
evidences of soft-coal consumption
in Atlanta.
Who’s next?
Owners of buildings are angry with
a certain type of citizen which in
fests these parts. Explaining his at
titude, one of the owners said:
“I think people who chew tobacco
shouldn’t be allowed in town. They
don’t deserve to stand in the shadow
of a decent office building.”
Side Street Work
With Peachtree Job
During the time that Peachtree re
paving has been in progress from
Sixth to Fifteenth Street several in
tersecting streets along the route
have been vastly iinnroved. Sixth
Street, for instance, which has never
had a good paving between the
Peachtrees, is now a thoroughly pass
able highway, and the same is true of
several other intersecting streets.
Used a Billion Bricks.
Building operations in New York
City in 1912 required a total of 1,019,-
250.000 pricks, valued at $5,858,770, or
$5.74 per thousand, as compared with
926.072,000 bricks in 1911, valued at
$4,717,633, or $5.09 per thousand. This
was an Increase of 93,187,000 bricks
and of $1,133,137 in value in one year.
Farmer Gives Away
$20,000, An He Has
Feels Better After Disposing of Es
tate Left by Wife—Her Spirit
Told Him To.
HAMMOND, IND., May 31.—-Leburn
Moyer, of Olchess, a middle-asred
farmer, to-day gave away all his
property, amounting to $20,000, and
started to work for a livelihood.
Two years ago Moyer’s wife died,
leaving the property to him. His
conscience began to trouble him a
year ago. until he told his lawyer
that he believed his wife's spirit was
urging him to deed the property to
her sister, Mary J. Porter.
Since the deed was turned over
Moyer has experienced a hapriness
he had not felt in years.
CHICKENS RECRUITED TO
SAVE FRUIT FROM FROST
FINDLAY, OHIO, May 81.—A few
more than 200 chickens last night
saved tho fruit crop of a farmer of
Blanchard Township. Learning from
the 'Weather Bureau that frosts might
be expected, and knowing that his
800 cherry and apple trees were just
far enough along to freeze, the hen
nery was ransacked. The fowls were
carried to a tree, some of the large
trees containing six or eight chick
ens.
When the trees w’ere examined this
morning it was found that the frost
had not touched any of the blossoms. *
The warmth of the chickens had
saved them. Other trees in the neigh
borhood were frozen.
ALTERATIONS COST $21,000
IN CARNEGIE RESIDENCE
NEW YORK, May 31.—Henry D.
Whitfield, architect, has filed plans
for enlarging the music room in the
residence of Andrew Carnegie at 2
Easi Ninety-first Street, corner of
Fifth Avenue, by building a one-story
extension 30 feet wide and 7.2 feet
deep and also putting in a new mar
ble base in the vestibule. The cost
will bo $21,000.