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TlEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. DA . SUNDAY. JUNE 1. 19tt.
“Trouble Spots” in Farming j
That “Ground ’ ’ F antlers’ Profits
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v k
Greatest Nof Southern Fannin# Are to Food thoSoil What It Needs, j
to Use More Machinery, to (Jrow Horse Power and More Cattle, to;
Co-operate in Selling and Borrowing, to Supplant the Ignoranre of]
the Tenant With Brains of the Landowner, to Edueate Agricultural
Leaders for Every <'onununitv, to Instruct the Negro Farmer.
By CHARLES A. WHITTLE
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
T HE one biggest mistake of the
Southern farmer la single crop
ping. When his one crop re
quires clean cultivation, his 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 ihat re
turns ex<eedlnglv little vegetable
matter tc the soil. Corn is no bet-
t«] Not are potatoes or any other
crop that require* clean cultivation
' The South Is awaking to the neces
sity of diversifying agriculture but
t.h* soils will not b# improved and th*
ad verse tide turned back until there
jfe an intelligent system <*f crop rota
tion.
• A shibboleth has been cried in the
South. “Raise on the farm what the
farmer needs ’* It is fine It 1* the
attempted, will be more than likely j wash. The brain® have moved in
attributable to a lack of the silo large flocculuent masses to adorn our
the greatest waste saver ever a*so- flourishing cities. The land of our
dated with cattle raising. The silo fathers has been too largely commit-
does not exist near as abundantly as led to the hired man. Ills one mule,
ill* number of tattle grown in the ten hounds anti denotation. Just
South would warrant. The South 191,000 of the 291.000 farms of Geor-
has not laken up the silo seriously for Instance, ate operated by
because It has not yet taken up cat- tenants. While the farm owners lit
tle raising very seriously. creased 10.000 during the last decade.
i ci- *r i ia the tenants swarmed 56.000 strong*
L.t. Somebody El.e T.k. Hi. Monty. . whoa ... lhi „ H|p[ , forw “,. d
Everybody make* more mone\ off isn't much when five are taken back-
of the farm than the farmer. Take ward.
a <arload of watermelons -Georgia 1 ° nj dderab'e <»eo gia cattle are af-
melons if you please. This Is who 1|, '^ ed v|th n k *- ° ur «b®ent
$52. 8.33 per
« av to unshackle. But while raisin* Ramo w hen the farm products a
what the farmer needs, tare must be
tlfken to raise what the soil needs
ejfe both may fail to be supplied.
Thus soil feeding is the big issue, Recelvedbv farmer $0,000,000,(100,
f<>r the Southern farmer. His fall- I 4B 1 per cent.
utp in this respect Is his worst
-No Economy Without Machinery.
The census says that the average
value of machinery on the Georgia
fa v m is $72. All that re*embles ma
chinery where the ignorant tenant
holds sw ay, is e 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 $f»oo. to get efficiency
and economy. The larger the farm
the more economical the use of farm
machinery becomes.
The increasing scarcity of labor
would make it necessary to purchase
labor saving farm machinery, even if
economy of production did not war
rant it.
When a cultivator or harrow will
<5o the work three or four times as
quickly, therefore more cheaply, and
do the work much better, why should
a farmer follow all dav long behind a
single plow stirring only a hit of a
furrow A$lth each passage across the
Legitimat
(KM).0OO. 9.2 pet-
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 corn. 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
somebody who is willing to get "on
the Job" with his brains.
Community Needs Educated Farmer.
Those who have been mixing most
•ost of selling, $1,200.- brains with Jlip soils of the South
have been doing best. In fact, are
gels the money
Received by farmer-
ten t.
Received by buyer. $240, 38.09 per
cent.
Received by railroad. $75. 11.91 per
cent.
< 'ommissiona of other agents. $263,
4107 per cent.
Paid by consumer, $030, 100 per
cent.
Rut it Is not quite such a skin
whole are considered. The distribu
tion of returns from the farm crops
• f 1911 was as follows:
cent.
Received b\ farmer. $6,000,000,000. making good. it Is inspiring more
I 3.8 per cent
Dealers’ and retailers' profits.
($3,745,000,000, 28.9 per cent
Waste in selling S 1.500.000.000. I2
1 per cent.
Raid b\ consumer. $13,000,000,000,
j 100 per cent. ^
But even to this time .it will be ; requires information
seen that more than half of the profit awakening interest in
and rntet brain Investment on farm
'ande. It is the meaning of ihe thirst
for agricultural education and infor
mation. Farming in the South ha"?
had no other outlook than cotton,
but more anti mote the South is get -
ting other visions and each vision
Hence th.’
agricultural
fisld of tern or cotton? What a de
pressing waste of human energ\ ! Anti (sometimes.
if is a blushing shame that there are | The way the truckers tnanagt
great territories each as big a
of farming goes to the man outside education ,n the South,
of the plow handles When it comes] The big need of the rural eommun
to putting your fingers on the man q v H voung man with a diploma
who is most responsible for the “high f rom 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
state that fails to do everything ; n
its power to provide agricultural ed
ucation. w hich does not put forth
every effort to round up ihe country
*olleg r of Agricul
ture. is looking with too little pur
pose to the future upbuilding of the
( South.
With more concern should the
•L I South look to establishing a high b. -
ost." It will not rest heavily on th
fa rmcr.
True the farmer would not b
ashamed to take- the money if
could gel his hands on all the con
sumer pays. Some few truck far
mere' associations right here in Dixi
a«* beating the game considerabl;
by lobbing the middle man. for which youth in a St at
'et cotigratulaticms *>nl\ be extended
—not that the middleman is very cu)
pable but jusi too much of a luxury
a | is to have an agent in the big mar- I ( j p1 n f brain effleiencs to solve th-*
complexities of farming, even more
than to any other source of natural
wealth.
Neglecting the Negro Farmer.
A very considerable - part of the
county; where one will not And a 1 kets who sells for delivery day aft
cultivator <»r a harrow . Yet witli ( to-morrow, w he w em his ordei ; 1
the awaking to new things, the South Mr. President of the Truckers’ Asm-
le rapidly beco-fiing a flue market fori elation. Thereupon the telephon •
barrow*, cultivators and other labor (get* busy a few minutes and the
• aving and better cultivating machin- ! members arrange to have the tru
'where one farmer venture* to j oh the depot platform at the requited tenant class of the South is the ne-
-- In large areas and sprinkl-1
a cultivator.
harrow, a weeder
gro.
Away It goes direct to the re
or Bofttt Viich Implement; thCvlru* pH taller eluding some several hands liberally everywhere the black man
progress rakes ami as soon as the «hieh have been wont to dlgglnu into | :s (loin* all yhe fartnln* Tha pro*
surrounding farmers can lake togeth-
the proceeds of the farmer’s sweat.
1 pecta are that he will continue
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 linnet -warily expensive by
reason of the fact that so ver> few
horses nr mules are raised anti pra* -
thrift My all that are needed ar, bought
at neav.v « vpens* from other section!
of the country. The purchase coat
of hoi
But for the most part the Southern i do a vert large part of the farming
farmer dance* to the nine that elrtlli for years to come.
fiom the little end of the horn, pay- But this large mass of soil tillers
Ing for the horn, the wind anti the can be likened only to the “Man
no | Br With the Hoe His methods are as
Pay, Considerably For Loan, primitive- a, the Country Itself. Kor
tlie most part those among them wno
In another kind v\a\, "e farmeis have been raised up as leaders have
are benevolently doable, even more j *h 0 ( footed” to the cities. Only with
so than the Egyptian Arab, W c* jdig j great rarity and at vast interv al*
an there he found a negro farmer
down into our geans for $85 to pay
the Interest on $1,000- the Arab es
capes by paying only $80 out of his
spacious bloomers. in Prance the
com
•nase rust j »*» ,
and mules can be almost | farmers do not seem to be stock -
liminated from the (holders in the banks and refuse
ftouthein farmers expense account by l* ; *> ilmn $43 tor the use of a
•an be done.
It
thousand dollars worth of franc
A *:adc Perch*rO!i|.ve« r 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- , ve , a w |^ p part of the foundation on
sion men and how they manage *0 w hieh a very great part of the com*
hu> from the manufacture! direct merclal success of the South must
in other words, how the farmer and r ^ Ht
have short circuited—I** 1 '
raising colts. It
1= being clone,
mare costing less than a mule, can
do th* vveyk of the mule, foal a colt
that in tV months will be worth $15b
or more. It not only can be done
lu' has been done.
Thus instead of paving out large
sums of money for Western mules, the
Southern farmer <an raise on his own
firm all of his work stink anil >onw
to «♦!!. The cost of farm power is
th<n reduced to a minimum and the
profit side of the farming account is
increased.
In this respect, as in others, there
rs a breaking un of o'd-time ways,
and it is becoming quite the .usual
who is keeping step with farm pro
gress.
The agricultural revolution lias
largely revoluted around and on past
the negro farmer, who in ills lon<=*!v
cabin neither read® nor dreams .»f
what is taking place in the world
of agriculture.
But the South cannot afford t<* be
indifferent to the negro farmer, who.
though an humble, ignoiant man
consume
the meaning of that large and pre
tentious commission now prying
about Europe under the title of “Ru
ral (’redit Commission of the I'nited
States."
(if course, everybody knows the
why already. It is organization
among farmers But there are lots i f
interesting and profitable tilings 10
‘\
thing in the South to heai talk "f a learned in Europe especially ov
(ompanv of farmer* banding togethei ; ono u ho ^ nol bothered with footing
to purchase a Pert heron stallion t° ‘ tlie bills
";'r V " " IH " S a , nd V""l IU SL Restorat'on of Br.m. Noodert.
good t> ; - of farm draught stock It
.an be tasih predicted that within Southern soils have been satiiv
Ik, next Av. veals there will he a drained of theii fertility and In tins,
tremendous revolution in respect to The soil has slipped away with th>-
r«i*ing colts in the Southern States j
How much there is i«> be done be
fore the hor*e-powcr revolution i
complete can be gathered from th
recent census. Take Georgia for an
lweianoe. It h-.s been figured out
fiY*m statistics on horses in Georgia
that only one fanner in every bun
dteri is averaging » colt. At this
rate every- farmei that has a colt for
aale will have ninety-nine buyers
among his neighbor-. At present,
recording to census ftgmres. Georgia
is^ spending t igh: around $1.000.oou .•
jiiontn. or $12.hho.ooo a yeai fori
horses and mules, spending it with*
tf>e *toc k grower in other Stales,
Igp t it a shame to throw away so
much good Georgia money when it i*
easy enough noi to?
L»vs Stock the Soil Builders.
"In view of the growing deflt ien* \ of
humus or organic matter in Southern
s-blJs and the necetsitv foi » rop rota
tion. the question ot how liest to « on
5t#rve the vegetable matter of the sol 1
gnd return it to the land for fertility
Is Important. Here ttn* i-onfrontR
e/i<Hher r-erious failure of ihe South-
;rn ftfmei and lliat i- general negb-tq
«f growing live st>»*k. \'ia live stock
the soil can i>e most sue* t ssfull.v atul
economica I iv euricln-ti
The one dictum of the niode.n
Southern farmer sliould be 'Selling
nothing eff of the farm vvhicii an be
fed on it.’’ This »s a sure poliev of
keeping sol! fertility close home and
in reach. If n® real profit were
/Wade in feeding c-aitle for ihe mar
ket. their contribution to soil ferti’-
!t). Would make it well worth v\hi!e
rn feed thepi. Rut there is no rea
son why cattle which can graze pin*’
months in the year, cannot be fed
with cotton seed meal, silage anti pea
vine hay and perhaps a little corn,
a!' raised on the home farm, and prn-
d he"? in competition with any
per’ of the i'nited Statue, consider
ng that the Southern farmer can I -hipp’ng pom
'ad his market close home {has boon •• n- with heroes. whi*-D
Fur the silo is a rare piece of farm { dragged :h^m ov er the .«now. Th
rcr.itectur* on the Southern farm j hardest part was rolling them up th*-
if. a p&rt of the mistake of not rais- j skids onto th*^ < ara. This operati *.
•i cattle, or failure when it is also is dangerous to man and beast.
| Build him up in agricultural far. h
and good works and the negro will
heave the South to greater commer
cial success on his good broad shoul
ders.
It is a serious failure of the South
that the gospel of improved agricul
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 io see to it. that the negro
knows how to raise more cotton,
more corn, more potatoes, more pea*,
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 X. Y.. Mav St.—An
other ta'I buildi.tg will he added t•»
the skyscrapers of this city, accord
ing to plans fi'e-1 with the Building
Department. It will be the Profes
sional Building, at the southeast cor
ner of Seventy-second Street and
West End Avenue. It will rise 46.*.
feci from the curb, and will rank
sixth in the list of New York's tali
buildings. They arc a,s follows
Tow t
Building
’Pile Wool worth
Metropolitan Idf
Singer Tower
New Municipal
Bankers’ Trusi
Professional
The building is intend
tile metis of physicians, d
collects, artists, and oil
sional workers
STEAM SUCCEEDS HORSE
IN NORTHWESTERN WOODS
REMIDJ1 MINN . Mav ot Steam
bidders have ended the days of tiie
horse in the lumber woods. The new
machine is more powerful, more
tractable, its feed i* the v^aste of the
land, there is less danger, and It can
work summer as well as winter
Skidding" is taking the logs from
the place wh-?re thev are cut to »h<*
For rr»an\ rears fids
ies
H eight.
( Feet.»
50
TOO
4 1
HI 2
2 4
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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 <»ne of
the largest real estate deals ever pull
ed off in McDuffie J'ounty 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 75 acres, at public auction. Mr.
Knox will still have left as much
land as he is selling, but realizes
tbai smaller farm* and more land
owners are needed in this county
und tak> * this step to bring it about.
LANDOWNER IS
URGED TO GIVE
COW TO TENANT
J. D, Price, New Commissioner
of Agriculture, Thinks Gift
Can Be Investment.
By Charles ‘A. Whittle.
"Makp a present of a cow
to every farm tenant.”
I hns J. (). I’rice. the incom
ing Commissioner „f Agricul
ture. would have it.
The landowner is io do the
present ini? as an investment, if
presents can he called invest
ments.
The new Commissioner of
Agriculture for Ceorffia. who
steps into office June 1. is like
ly to he dubbed “The Cow
Man.'' because of his faith in
a tenant plus a cow.
It is a money-makin<; propo
sition in present cows to ten
ants in two ways, according to
Mr. Price. One is that a $•(•>
jfift cow will pay each year
about HO per cent on thp in
vestment by contributing fer
tility to the soil. TIip other is
that which is derived from
better health, more labor and
•treater efficiency of a tenant
who has added butter and but
termilk to his diet.
The conditions of a srift 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 he 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 1(H) per cent
annually in the hands of a ten
ant. which is pretty good for
cows and tenants.
Pflfflfrv ■■■L°°ki n g in on some of
1 UU1U y farmers’ poultry
houses: Why some of them succeed
while others do not.
By JUDGE F J. MARSHALL
It i.« not my intention to belitfn
the farmer in any way, for he has*
Always been Homed th** backbone of
the country, but at timer this back
bone need? stiffening in places. VVc
frequently sec places where we think
it might be bettered to advantage
without injuring the structure as a
whole. A farmer is one of those in-
diviouals who gets into a rut where
it «eems so much easier to pull along
in the ru» than to make the extra
effort, to pull ou: of it. This is tin
case with o many farmers in regard
to their poultry, and other things, too,
but the poultry is the one we have
our eyes upon at this time.
Let us tel! you at the start, how
ever. that our picture does not cover
the whole farm landscape, for there
are a lot t.f farmers who have not
been In these ruts for years but arc
making good money out of pouitrv
and give it due credit for it has
lias brought to them. For we notice
in getting around over the country
that there are farmers who have good
poultry houses and fixture. 1 ', as good
as any one need want. Thfcn we
find a whole lot of places where the
chicken has not a place it can set its
foot and not he 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 i" 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 this class of chicken
owners to w hich we want to talk.
Now, dear reader, you may not be
the one to whom we should talk, if
not, w ill .vou; please lo§n your paper
to your neighbor w ho* really n< ed*
advice. We have talked to them
time and again face to face, and we
think we k/iow about the pitch «-f
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
irn in something, without tinkering
with any pesky chickens that ate
more bother than they arc worth, and
always hungry and under foot to he
kicked a w av before 1 can take a step.
I know l would pot keep.a chicken
bn the place if the old woman didn’t
want a few for eggs and the table.”
• Does not tha* sound about like the
tune man\ of them give you when
you mention chickens to them as be
ing a profitable adjunct to other farm
products? Of cours*e. we know that
none of your readers ever talk that
way but «'oii may have heard it from
! fisted cotton dollars in building a
I cheap but comfortable roosting blouse,
! and let the henw pay you back ten -
! fold later on, us they will do. Build I
J some colony houses for those young-
1 sters to be reared it. letting them oc
cupy it through the winter as a lay
ing house Get an Incubators for
I your wife if she thinks she wants one,
| and we will predict that It will not
• be many years until you will be tel 1 -
j ing your neighbors about your chick-
I ene and how much money WE are
! making out of them.
1 We know a lot of farmers who are
some of y vir neighbors. No doubt | making money out of chickens. They
the- thought thev were honest in I ', hfi converted kind. I he kind
hat thev were saving; Hi leas; they that know a good thing when they
see It 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 tim** ago that the young
man should take up poultry raising.
' f.
wanted to believe that it was true.
Why? Simply because they did not
want to invest in a single dollar in
anything for the car* of the chickens.
Would Pay for House.
They did not want to believe that
a good but inexpensive roosting
hou.-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 thicks so early in the spring
as to make a fine lot of early fall
laying pullets, to say nothing of the
returns from the cockerel.*’ 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 chjekens. 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 the household and should
not be forced to submit to any ftx>!
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. Bin' 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 out large cities,
and besides seems destined to move
the whole world. Friction produces
the 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 t hickens:
more eggs at less expense. Who is
it that should not be willing to forego
the added friction to both mind and
body necessary to effect the change?
Farmer®, 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 a better class
of poultry to tare for and which
will in turn give us results that
we mav well be proud of.
Let us spend a few of those tight-
A Farmer’s Advice.
“It is a mighty gt»od thing to turn
to." said he. ’I would rather have
1,000 good strain White Leghorn hens
than almost anything that I know of.
I can take 500 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 mv.
self to death, either.” Hr s-aid he
would do it selling his eggs for mar
ket purposes, furnished in the finest
possible *-hape 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 tel] 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.
He 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 Are Getting Rich.
Many farmers are making good liv
ings out of their poultry. Other*
are putting money in the bank be
side. Then there are the really lucky
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*e see great big farms
out West covered with fine bronze
turkeys. They are money maker.-.
We have seen them raise 500 of these
turkeys, getting $1,500 for them,
clearing $1,000. Some run to tur
keys and ducks. Wake up. look around
you and see what you anti your farm
and surroundings are best suited for
and make up your mind to get it be
fore another .year rolls around.
ALTERATIONS COST $21,000
IN CARNEGIE RESIDENCE
NEW YORK, May 3L—Henry D.
Whitfield, architect, has filed plans
for enlarging the music room in the
residence of Andrew Carnegie at 2
East 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 be $21.(too.
II SAVE WHEAT
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 approa hlng summer. Re
ports to the State Free Employment
Bureau from seventy counties, each
with a large wheat acreage, indicate
that there will be an unprecedented
demand for help in harvesting the
wheat crop.
April 19 the State Board of Agri
culture estimated the total acreage
of wheat likely to he 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 tit? condition is btiow normal
at this -tason. Rains since April 19
make the prospects even better than
they were at the time of Secretary
Coburn’s report, and if tht- conditions
continue as favorable as they are now
the 1913 wheat harvest will be one
of the greatest in the history of the
State.
In sixty <>f th** wheat growing coun
ties farm help is now reported : .o be
scarce. In only nineteen counties is
it reported to bv plentiful. J,t there-
lore seeirs 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 2‘t.rno m n n It .s impossible
at this time to fix the dates when
harvest wiil begin in the various sec
tions of the Stalt;. In a few reports
it is uggestet that It will begin from
.June 15 to IS Most of the reports
indicate I’ve will begin a week
later in the big wheat’countics. How
ever there will be a big demand for
extra hands to help take care of al
falfa eari.v in ,1un< and the advance
guard of the army of m* n that w.ll
be reeded to take care of the wheat
should nave lit.le difficulty Li secur
ing employment at good wages.
Wage*; for haivest hands will he at
ic;i»st as high as last year. The Em
ployment Buttau will oe glad to hear
.rom farmers .anywhere in :ho Stut<;
w ho will need extra help or from men
anywhere J r the country who desire
t" find work in the harvest fields.
Farmer Gives Away
$20,000, All He Has
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Feels Better After Disposing of Es i
tate Left by Wife—Her Spirit
Told Him To.
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HAMMOND, IXD.. May 31. -Leburn !
Moyer, of Oicheas. a middle-aged
farmei. 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. Hi? j
conscience began to trouble him a
year ago. until he told his lawyer
that he believed his wife's spirit wat
urging him to deed the property to
her sister. Mary .1. Porter.
Since the deed was turned over
Moyer has experienced i happinesv
he had not felt in years.
LARGE CONTRACT MADE
BY FULLER BUILDERS
V Fuller ('mnpan>
lh* Ponce DeLeon
WineetuT IL»u i >•:•*
aking a record u
The George
* on tractors on
At art merits an
oi Atlanta is makhq
building * oust; action o\cr tne coun
try. This concerq is also building
rious kinds of strut, t ures i 41 Boston.
Buffa v ('iiHl*Hiu>oga. ('hicago. De
troit Hot Sprints. Kansas Oii>. Lex
ington. Knoxville, Milwaukee. Minin
apois. Mobile. New York Philade! -
ohia. Somervi’> Spartanburg. Wash
ington. White Sulphur Springs. Mon
iresl. Toronto and Winnipeg.
Jn addition to ihe business of the
I George A Fuller Company, i* s stated
hr compan> during the vec nas
, 'ak**n quite a substantia! interest in
jtwo large railroad con.eTru.tton cot -
i r rafts. -»rd work u both is not weF
j under way. Th*-,amount of work o-
j'o.ved in the*-^ 'onrracts will aggre-
* gate about So,744 125.
SAYS COTTON WOULD DROP
2 CENTS UNDER NEW TARIFF
Al'STIN. TEXAS. May 31. Gov- I
ernor Colquitt is In receipt of a let- I
ter from Governor Hall, of Louisiana, j
asking for the Texas Executive's opin- j
ion to thf* advisability of holding a
conference of Southern Crovernors in
Washington in the near future to pro
test against those provisions of the
I’nderwood tariff bill which might be
regarded as influencing a downward
price in cotton.
Governor Colquitt has not replied,
because he has been unable as yet to
secure a copy of the I’nderwood bill
as it passed the House, though he has
written for it. Governor Hall sug
gests that cotton would lose 2 cents
a pound or more and that it might
be well to hold such a conference,
though he candidly writes ihe meet
ing has been urged by sugar growers
in his State.
CHICKENS RECRUITED TO
SAVE FRUIT FROM FROST
FINDLAY. OHIO. May 31—A few
more than 200 chickens last night
saved the fruit crop of a farmer of
Blanchard Township. I,earning from
the Weather Bureau that frosts might
b** expected, and knowing that his
,8oo cherry anti apple tree* were just
far enough aiong to freeze, the hen
nery was ransacked. The fowls were
tarried tt « tree, some of the large
trees containing six or eight chick
ens.
When the tree® "ere examined this
morning t was found tha* th® frost
had no' touch* any of th*- blossom 1
Th® «armth , ’*f ? i* hi kens had
saved them Other frees in the neigh
borhood were frozen.
Nervous Debility
its Symptoms and the Errors in Methods of Treatment
By DR. WM. M. BAIRD
W
HEN I began the practice of medicine, these
cases were entirely treated from the sympto
matic outlook rather
than from any real
knowledge of the causes
that were underlying
the peculiar symptoms
from which they suf
fered.
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DR. WM. M. BAIRD.
Brown-Randolph Building.
56 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga.
The consequence was
that men would consult
a physician for some
lowering of nervous vi
tality, elderly men find
ing their vital powers
slackening perhaps, and
the doctor would sim
ply prescribe for them
from that point of view
without ever looking in-
t o the causes that
brought on the symp
toms from which they
suffered.
The laymen little ap
preciate the intricacies
of the nervous system,
the peculiarities of the
nerve elements them
selves and indeed it is only during the last ten years
that we have had a proper conception of these ele
ments, or the minute anatomy of the nervous sys
tem. A better knowledge of it has entirely revolu
tionized our ideas on the subject, and that during the
last couple decades.
When I pointed out some two or three years ago
in one of my Sunday talks the peculiar pain and dis
tress that occurred around the base of the brain, run
ning down the neck, due to trouble originating in the
prostate glands and its annexes, I was laughed at
by some doctors. One gentleman met me on the
street and said that my idea on the subject was all
nonsense, and yet in the last year I have noticed sev
eral articles in medical journals that point out the
truth of the idea that I then stated.
No one realizes excepting he who has been delving
in these subjects for years how much an irritated or
congested prostate gland, or a chronic seminal vesi
culitis due perhaps to some errors in earlier years
will keep up the distressing nervous symptoms.
that he that understands his business to-day
will treat every one of these cases alike. One case
may need treatment for the prostate, another case
may need treatment for the kidneys or some other
trouble. The same way in women. In one case it
may be due to ovarian trouble, and in another some
other condition, each of which will need separate
and distinct treatment, for he who follows out a rou
tine treatment or attempts to treat each case alike
will certainly meet with failure.
The reader will remember that some time ago I
published a letter from a gentleman from Stone
Mountain who was very materially benefited by
treatment by me for bladder trouble, and a little
later a gentleman called on me, holding this write
up in his hands, saying that his symptoms were
identically the same, and he wanted the same treat
ment.
Now, when I came to go into his case carefully
and thoroughly, I found that he needed an entirely
different treatment, but while his symptoms were
practically the same, yet the causes and the under-
lying pathological condition were entirelv different.
So we get back again to the old subject of diagno
sis, which after all is the important thing.
A new edition of my work on Nerve and Brain ex
haustion will soon be out, and I will be pleased to
send it to any one who will request it.
Those who appreciate honest, conscientious ad
vice and counsel, the outcome of over 35 years hard
work and steady experience in practice, I will be
pleased to see them any time at my office or to hear
from them by letter, and if it is anything I can advise
through the mail, I will be glad to do so.
Office hours, from 9 to 6:30 daily. & ,jg|
Sundays and holidays, from 10 to 12.
Dr. Wm. M. Baird.
Brown-Randolph Bidg.,
56 Marietta St.,
Atlanta. Ga.
Please send me your booklet on Specific Blood Poison. Also
one on Health, and as soon as it comes from the press, your re
vised article on Brain and Nerve Exhaustion, and other articles
you may publish from time to time.
Name
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