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fi’g—ultr}g Pigeons,Pets,
' LiveStock,Dairying
DEVOTED TO LAND AND AGRICULTURAL
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Waste Food Will Produce Billion
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Auxiliary Meat Supply.
By H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS.
The world's food supplies are low; in
sorme countries they are bordering on
famine. The stocks of wheat and meat
are ' especially low Meat is probably
the lowest, of the food reserves. And
beeauke It reguires the longest period
1o replenish, it is now a foremost con
sideration, -
For months the whole country has
bean. placarded with signs, that—Food
Will Win the War. The food adminis
tration has requestcd us to eat more
poultry, cggs, fish and cheese, and to
sauvethe red meat-beef, pork and mut
tome<for the fighters
IA responge to this appesl, we have
eat®n more poultry than was our cus
tori.s” In fact, we have drawn 8o heav
ily apon our poultry reserves that they,
too, ‘dre rapidly nearing exhaustion.
\V'lsn #8 how these stocks have dwin
dai n the last four months
In Fep(om{u‘r. 1017, the Bureau of
Markets of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture report an increased
in cold storage poultry of 2282 per cent
over o corresponding peried for 1016,
The supplies of poultry that went into
storage during thg summer and early
fall “wof} last yu‘r. were enormous
!-:vnry'wl‘vru farmers and poultrymen
killed off or reduced their flocks. It
“1'1“. aftimated that over B 0 per cent of
the ultry i@ the country was slaygh-
Qeroxodue to the high cost of feed. W
Despite this enormous supply, in Jan
gary, 1618, the Bureau dos Markets re
ror{ed a decrease in froezn poultry of
6.4 pér cent under the same pv!rlmf for
1917 Thesre reports are not guesswork;
they are based on the statements from
nlnxnn houses and packing plants all
over 6 States.
If -we are-~obliged to practice three
meatiess dnf'n a week it will not be
much of a discomfort, providing we can
always turn to \)‘uunry. Chickens. tur
keys, geeme, ducks, guineas and squabs
~-are these products not calculated to
tickle our palates quite as effectively as
red meat? In short, it is comfortlnr to
thln‘n that these dishes are available.
When Poultry Is Gone.
Sugpmw there 18 no poultry, what
then Suppose our reserve stocks are
exhausted, will the outlook for meatless
days be so cheerful as now? Will we
turn vegetarians wh the same grace
thfi we have turn from red meat to
poultry?
l‘; is hurd‘l,y Nkely.
eatless days, with poultry, 1s one
thing; meatleas days, without ?oultry
or . I 8 quite another, Without poul
m wo face a real lmrd:hlP, makc‘ no
stake on this point. Poultry has long
been ?ne of our -tuflle articles of diet,
more important, perhaps, than most of
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SUCCESH in poultry and pigeon raising depends to a great extent on proper housing and
‘ care o}ihe birds. The two views below give striking examples of well-constructed and
conveniently arranged.plants. The upper pieture shows a White Leghorn yard, with wire
screened house in the background. Below are the screened-in rogsts adjoining the lofts of a Pig
pigeon yard near Atlanta. Roomy areas and plenty of sunshine are outstanding features of
these yards, > .
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us have any ldea. It has. occupled a
prominent part in our menus. For Yroof
of this consult ngrloult.urlflqrcmt sticy
and you wil find that the value of the
poultry products in the United States
amounts to a billion dollags a year, or
about one-twelfth of the value of all
food products,
To avm# this hardship, to avert a
poultry shortage, similar to our meat
shortage, in 1918, we must have the
bigest crop of poultry :and eggs that
has ever been raised, positively we must
have this erop, and the start must be
made within the next three months,
We can not delay; we can not put it
off a week here and a month there,
thinking that we will start when the
emergency is here. The need has_ar
rived. The spring months constfute
the natural breeding and hatching sea
son for fowls. At no other time can
they be ralsed easily and profitably, To
fail In the spring means to fail for a
whole. year. To fail for a year mn¥
bring disaster. We must act and ac
now.
Who Shoul Ralse Poult7l
How is this _bumper crop of poultry
to be ralged? ™
Mr. Awerage Citizen probably thinks
that the commercigl foullry plants,
those that make a Epecialty of ralsing
fowls are equal to the task and tha(
they will be only too glagl to jump a
the opportunity, Mr. Citizen mnry 1180
comfort himself with the belles that
what the commercial poultry plants fail
to uuppa' the genoml farmers will fur
nigh. ut not so—most emphatically
not go.
The commercial plants are in no way
equal to th’t:m‘m the first place, and
in the secOnd ®place they could’ not
&ruw the crop so profitably as athers,
his mas sound strange to the unfa
millar mind, but it is a fact neverthe
less, The backyard fowl and the farm
er's fowl are the most profitable. This
trullsm hus been demonstrdted time and
again, N
Ir‘ the mn{orlt_v of cases the gpecialty
poultry plant must buy all the food and
supplies required, The havk‘mrd grower
and the farmer buy virtually nothing.
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The egg and meat from thelr flocks are
essentially byproducts. ~Their hens are
fed these things which would other
‘wise be wasted—thrown into the garb
age pall or left to rot in the flelds.
| To increase our poultry supplies at the
expense of our graln stock is like bor
rowing from Peter to pay Paul. Where
'uß to increase our poultry supplies by
means of the garbage can is genulne
conservation. Note what Mr. Hoover
hux! to say in this respect:
("“We are short of red meat. Our sol
dlers and our Allies require more meat
than ever before. We are advocating in
every household, every restau®nt and
hotel in the gountry the substitution of
poultry for red meat. Increased pro
duetion of poultry can be effected much
faster than beef, pork and mutton. We
must have a quick response. There {s
a great waste of polutry feeds from ev
ery household and every farm. To keep
a few chickens requires little labor.
Can not the E%ultry rnigera of the coun
try help us by providing the jncreased
supply we need?”’
Up to the Backyard Flocks.
Last spring we conceived it to bé an
act of patrictism—a duty—to start a
garden in every available plot of grqund.
We were told that producing foodstuffs
was as much a part of our task of wag
ing war as shouldering a rifle. We were
advised th&t if we raised beans, peas,
beets, pofhtoes and other things “at
home, to supply our own families, they
would release other foodstuffs gor ex
norsaflon to our armies and allles. The
doctrine was a worthy one and thous
ands responded.
The war garden movement last spring
recelved universal attention. Whether
or not it was a success depends’ upon
the point of view. At least {t demon
strated the spirit of the people and their
willingness to help in a crisis. The
greatest shortcoming of the average
war garden was that it did not raisp
‘the nonnerishable proflucts, ‘of whi:‘
we are in the greatest need. It aid no
raigse wheat' or meat, and these are the
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Make all the cotton possible
next season and get 25¢ to 35¢c
while you can.
Labor is scarce, so force your
acres to produce a maximum
vield—lt costs no more to culti
vate a two-bale acre than a half
bale acre,
Plant the variety that thou
sangds declare produces five bales
where others produce three-—the
two extra bales are extra profit.
Fight the weevil by planting
the earliest known \‘.n‘:otlx the
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King Cotton, the earliest and
most productive variety known.
For twenty 'years the leader.
LOVISBURG, N. C.
~ Partner In Larggst Farm Loan Business in South Georgia and Florida.
Direct Life Insurance and Savings Bank Connections.
Loaned More Than Half Million Dgl‘ars in 1917.
BUSINESS THOROUGHLY ESTABLISHED, ORGANIZED and EQUIPPED
Opiate Own Abstract Plants,
WANT TO ENLARGE BUSINESS.
GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR
Practical Farm Loan Man Who Can
Make Investment and Produce Resuits.
PREFER YOUNG LAWYER OR REAL ESTATE MAN.
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H. JEROME CARTY COMPANY, Valdosta, Ga.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1918
orops we need above everything else,
It is impracticable, of course, to raise
wheat or other cereals in a small plot.
of ground. It is also impracticable to
atfempt potatoes or similar crops. Con
dittons are selddom favorable for this
sort of farming.
It is not impracticable, however, to
grow meat in a limited amim In faet,
the small plot of ground is far more
suitable for the production of meat, in
the form of pmdtry than amy other
crop, all arguments to the contragy not
withstanding. A dozen hens ‘in the
backyard will produfe more food in res
lation to the amount of labor and space
required than any other form of gus
bandry. Furthermore, the flock of hens
produce a nonperishable article of the
hlihnnt nutritive value, an article that
will+ solve the red meat shortage as
nothing else can, and one that ean be
produced at the least possible drain on
Our resources.
Gardens and Hens.
The war garden idea is a splendid
th|n§: lettuce, radishes, a few tomatoes,
parsley, beets and peas, all have their
merits; but can they be compared to
eggs and .meat? One thing certain,
vegetables car\xanot be grown so easily
as eggs and_ méat, and after you have
grown the vegetables they are not
worth' in dollars and cents but about
onc-tenth the value of eggs.
It Is hard{y likely that we will be
confronted with hardship through lack
of fresh vegetables, because they are
always {;roduced in abundance by pro
fessional farmers who cam not profitably
produce any other kind of crops.
Why not grow poultr{vh\ connection
with a war garden? hy not grow
greenstuffs in the war garden and feed
them to the poultry? If you have a
hundred war gardens you are still going
to throw away valuable food nutriments
into the sznrhuie pail. The garbage pail
is the real waste. Fle -
A very wmall percentage of the garb
age ig actual! refuse, and this is easily
kept separate. {he greater part of the
kitchen waste ¢ consists of \'Pgemblz
parings and vegetable tops, odds and
‘ends of meat, stale bread, left-overs o
cercals, sour milk and so on, all of
which are greatly relished by poultr{.
Table scraps are none the less edible
to fowl, and they have lost none of
their feeding value because we discard
them. As a matter of fact, there is no
better food for a flock of aens than
table seraps. The fact that they are a
mixture of odds and ends gives them
thélr chief virtue, which is variety in a
balanced ration, Fowls fed on table
scraps Invariably do better than birds
kept on a strlct‘ grain diet.
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“r CLEANSE SEPARATORS.
he cream _separator should be
thoroughly washed and sterilized each
time it is used. Particles of milk or
cream left in the separator act as a
“starter” to hasten the souring of the
cream. .
WANNAMAKER
Earliest,. most proiific and
highest per cent lint.
First at Mississippl Experi
ment Station past six years,
First Georgia Station 1916-1917.
We grow our own seed, gin on
our private gin. They are sound,
pure and true to name. Price
$2.50 bushel.
FAIR VIEW FARM,
PALMETTO, GA.
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High Prices Teach Chicken Rais
ers to Consider Food Values
as Never Before.
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The old saylng, “No loss without
some galn,” applies to the poultry
feed situation. High prices of feeds
have made poultry keepers consider
values of feeds as never beforp, and
they are rapidly learning how to buy
more economically.
While farmers have, as a rule, fed
their poultry the grain that was
cheapest on the farm, many poultry
specialists and most small poultry
keepers ha\'e‘)een accustomed to use
their favorite poultry feeds without
considering either the quality of the
supply or the possjbility of buying
cheaper substitutes, This attitude of
the buyers of poultry feeds has made
it easy for feed dealers to sell low-
grade and damaged grain at much
higher prices than could bhave been
obtained if poultry keepers everyi\
where were studying and practicing
economy in buying feeds. When buy
ers of poultry feeds buy with refer
ence to %ugllity and price as,k com
pared with the cheapest grain on the
market, the price of that grain will
control the prices of all other grains
for poultry feed.
Under normal conditions corn is in
nearly all parts of.the United States
the cheapest poultry feed. At the
present time oats are nearly every
where cheaper than corn, and in some
parts of the country barley is cheap
er than oats. When corn gets down
to $1.560 a bushel, oats should be 75
cents and barley $1.20 a bushel to
give the same value for the money
when fed to poultry.
The relative commercial feeding
valueg of the grains are most readily
computed by using the price per 100
pounds, taking cern as the standard
and determining the relative value of
any other grain by a rough compari
son of its feeding value with that of
corn. It is not practicable to make
accurate calculations for this pur
pose, but a calculation which assumes
that, except for indigestible matter
and deterioration, the common grains
are, .pound for pound, of the same
feeding -value, a&d rates them ac
cordingly, will meet the requirements
of the case.
Judging Quality of Feed.
The common characters and condl
tions of grains which roughly deter
mine their values as poultry feeds are
easily estimated by the eye or by
weight or bulk in measures or con
tainers of known ecapacity.
Good cracked corn in hard. bright,
clean, and freec from soft and chaffy
partictes. Corn that is crushed (not
eracked), and shows much soft, chaf
fy and scaly matter, should be.rated
proportionately below good cracked
corn in feeding value. Cracked corn
in which any considerable amount of,
greenlsh discoloration appears should
e rejected as unfit for poultry.
Oats and barley with the hulls on
are at once seen t 6 contain more in
digestible matter than corn and
wheat. Again, the indigestible hulls
covering oats and barley make these
grains less palatable to poultry, and
their feeding value must be dis
counted for that. An average sam
ple of oats should be valued about
12 to 15 per cent less than a good
sample of cracked cgrn; an average
sample of barley from 3 to 5 per_gcent
less than good cracked corn.
. Oats weighing less thadn the United
States standard of 82 pounds so the
‘bushel and barley under the United
States standard of 48 pounds to the
bushel should be discounted in price
according to the shortage in weight,
660 ACRES Near Ocala, Fla.
All cross-fenced;
370 acres in cultivation” and stumped,
balance timber; well watered 23 acres
peas and cabbage: on twe hard roads|
near town and station; six-room house,
barns, other buildings, windgrill, gas
engine. Owner lives too far away to
manage; son who did, in France. Price
$25 per acre. Part vash; good terms. L.
M. Murray, Ocala, Fla.
THE LAND OF SUNSHINE AND
FLOWERS.
1,500 acres-of fine truck and
grove land in wonderful Manatee
County, two miles south of Bra
dentown. For sale in small tracts
on easy terms.
Apply to owner on premises, or
write
R. C. RICKER,
Box 151, Bradentown, Florida.
“INTERESTS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES
}Co-operative Stock
Sales Bring Profit
Georgia Farmers Demonstrate Suc
cess of Plan\ in Joint Market
ing of Hogs.
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The first co-operative llve stock sale
held in Georgia was in every way a suc
cess, says M. C. Gay, field agent in
‘marketing, Georgla State Cpllege of Ag
- riculture.
‘f The hogs marketed brought from
one-half to 1 cent more per pound than
local buyers had been able to give.
Within a short time there Wo a reg
ular circuit worked out embracing the
leading Jog producing sections of Geor
gla. -
For some time the agriculturists con
‘nected with the railroads, the State
College of Agriculture, the United States
Department and other organizations
have made a study of the plans for
selling lve stockco-operatively. Geor
gla is rapldly developing into one of
the legding Ilva stock States of the
cogntry. and it is realized by those who
ar‘nkeeping abreast of the developmei
that adequate facilities must be pro
vided for the handling of the rapidly
increasing volume of live stock on the
market,
How to Form Club.
To form a marketing association a
meeting is called, plans are explained
and officers elected. Such a constitu
tion and by-laws as to fix rcsponsibll;ty
©f organization are drawn up. Usually
the board of directors elects a sales
manager, who arranges for sales day\
engages the services of a competen
grader and does the accounting‘ The
sales manager is usually bonded for a
sum sufficient to tover any losses that
might occur through improper conduct
of the sale.
Wherever possible it {s desirable that
several local organizations be formed
in a section, and when this is practica
ble their constitution and by-laws should
be practically the same except for min-
Qar changes to ‘meet local conditions, It
has been found that many advantages
are enjoyved by groups of associations
when buyvers representing the best mar,
kets are induced to attend sales on con
s;culive dates held by local assocla
tions. ’
A membership fee is usually charged
to defray incidental expenses and pay
for material “used in construction of
pens. One dollar a year is the amount
usually charged by most local associa
tions. Each member in good standing
kas the right to vote in all meetings.
Fees Charged.
Standard scales are provided and in
some cases scales are furnished by the
town and a bonded weigher is employed
to weigh. A fee of 10 cents per weigh
is’ usually charged. Sale dates are fix
ed In some cases once a month, or oft.
ener, as may be necessary to meet the
requirements of each local association.
The sales manager arranges with
buyvers to be present, notifies farmers
and determines in advance as nearly as
possib}g the number of hogs that will
be sold* on the sale day. He arranges
for cars to handle hogs and prepares
pens, etc., for receiving them. ‘
~ Hogs are unloaded into the recelvlu‘
pens and graded according t% size a
finish. Each grade is welg ed seg
arately and those who place hogs in the
sale are credited with the number and\
weight of their hogs according to grade.
while for weights above the stand
ards the usual discount in price may
be reduced. ©Oats and barley that are
much below standard weight usually
contain a,large proportion of grains
that are nearly all hull. , These poul
try will not eat unless starved into it.
Value of Poor Wheat. |
Wheat of good milling quality is!
not sold for poultry feed except in
sections t’hat grow much wheat and
little corn, and occasioially from
small local supplies. The best wheat
usually available for poultry is not
actually worth more as a poultry
feed than good cracked corn, but a
poultry keeper can sometimes afforq
to pay a little more for it because
it can be kept longer without de
terioration, and under some condi
tions it is fed with I€ss waste. |
Wheat that has been perceptibly
damaged by fire, water or feost has
less value as poultry feed than good
cracked corn. T?ere is no advan
tage or economy in buying damaged!
wheat for poultry except as its ac
tual value in comparison with the,
corn, oats and barley available. i
T.ow-grade and damaged grins re;
suitable for poultry feed if birds in|
good condition will eat them readily.
They~can be fed profitably if they
have been bought at prices represent
ing their actual values for poultry
feeding, as compared with that of
other available feeds. ' Better buying
by poultry keeper® will not immedi
ately sfpp the selling of poor feeds
at high price, but eventually it will
establish prices for them on the ba
sis of the price of the cheapest feed
on the market, and not, as now, at
a small reduction from the prices of
good grades of the same gralins. |
Duval County offers every induce
ment and advantage for the man
who wishes to follow farming,stock
raising, -poultry raising or kindred
lines. Cheap lands, hard-surfacea
roads, excellent transportation,
steamship and railway lines, larg
est creamery and largest packing
house in the South, Fine schools.
Healthful climate.
Write for official booklet,
PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT,
Duval County Commissioners,
Jackspnville, Fia
o st D S SRR S
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Self-Supporting
Florida Home
You will be sutprised to know how little you
can buy a Florida home from which you can make
a living and lay by mosey,
Here cotton matures early, avoiding boll wee.
vil. Yea:r-round grazing nu‘u live stock profie.
able; fruits and vegetabics are quick money crepg,
Lands Now Lower
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Than Ever Again
WMuch good Florida land can be bought now
below real value, on reasenable terms. Find out
about some of this property before all of it is taken
Write for particulars of Dixie Estates, Silver
Lake Estates and other good investments. Don't
delay--Florida land was mever so in demand.
J. B. Ransom, Vice-President
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Agricultural Program Must Be‘
Along Possible, Practical and
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‘ Patriotic Lines. t
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| The following suggestions® are from'
the office of extension work in the!
South, United States Department of‘
'Agriculture:
' Thris is not only the most Im*:rtan‘.
but the most critical year in the hlsto
of agriculture in the Sout};zrn State;
‘H is necessary that the plan adoPtp
should meet the approval of all patriotia
men and women, that it should sustain
our agriculture, sustain our people and
sustain our nation. It must be a possi.
ble, a practical and a patriotic pro-’
gram,
During the year 1917 the farmers of
the South did a wonderful piece of work. |
In the face of an increasing price~for |
cotton they responded to the call of the |
President of the United States and in- |
creased their production of food and feed
crops and also their production of livel
stock. In some of the States the in
crease in corn production ran more than
50 per cent and the increase in the fif
teen Soufhern States was 13 Per cent,
in spite of the great decrease in Texas, ]
Oklahoma and Louisiara, due to ex- |
cessive drought. The increases in vel- |
vet beans, peanuts, soy beans, hay, for
age crops, gardens, sugar, syrup, etc.,
have been phenomenal, but not more
than our people needed. For the first
year in recent history or the South, the
Bureau of Markets has been able tol
report that the local demands for corn
have been met bi; the local supply inl
n:any sections. The South has been al
most a national asset and not a liabil- i
ity as to food. Another year let us have |
no liabilities. We must prove our |
worth. }
Under the present ecircumstances tho§
needs of the nation are best met by pur.
suing a safe farming program, improv
ing egch year on what we have dogo
heretofore. By doing so we place the
least possible burden upon the transpor- ’
tation facilities of the country, we keep |
our cotton as a real cash crop, and we |
support our people and our growing live '
stock industry by producing high-priced
food and feed products and marketing!
them to ourselves at the cost of pro- |
duction. A taste of prosperity during |
the past year, due to a better balancea I
husbandry as well as high prices, should
encourage us to continue the ;reat safe |
farming program of food, feed and cot- |
ton. :
_ Let us go over the items of a sare{
farming program, elaborating them in
the light of present conditions: 1
Garden for Every Family. |
(1) Also a backyard garden for every‘
town family, Feed the people with
fresh vegetables from an all-season gar
den &s many days in the year as possi
ble. Grow the home gsupplies of sweet
potatoes and Irish p&atoes. Continue
the sorghum and -stgar cane for the
[symp supply.
, Beware, however, of going into the
' production of perishable products on an
!extenslv(} scale without knowing thart
| there is a marke‘tdgor them, a system of
' marketing already established, and
| transportation facilities to get them to
ithe market. This applies to the unde
weloped trucking ares. All well-estab
lished trucking areas where farmers
have had experience in the business
will continus their operations with cau- |
tious regard to the needs of their es
tablished markets. |
(2) There is grave danger this year'
lof a reduced production of corn, This
would be unwise. Many States in the
| South have gone into live stock quite
‘etenslvely. It would be a disaster for
us to have live stock without the corn
|to feed it next year! If you have gone
|imto the live stock industry remember
that you must.maintain the corn pro
duction. It {8 your only defense. There
is no profit in live stock unless the
farmer produces his own feed. }
(3) The small grains as supplement‘
to_the corn and for food and feed were
| taken care of by {our fall plans. !
‘ (4) Produce the hay and forage crops
necessary to supply amply the live stock |
'on the farm for one year, w-l‘th an ex- |
cess for sake of safety, anfl for, city
and town consumption. This is neces
sary for the same reasons mentioged
under corn production. Veivet bea‘%firl
soy beas, peanuts, cowpeas and other
forage crops should by all means he
maintained and inerensed this year. Re- |
member especially the value_ of these
crops as actual cash crops of the farm.
| Peanuts and oy beans furhish the oil
' much needed in these war times. They
'nation’s nead, our 6wn food needs, and
'the need for feed for your growing live
stgek industry makes this impm'ative-.l
Use these other supplemental ecash
erops, especailly in boll weevil territory..
. (5) Produce the necessarymeat, eggs
VETERINARY COURSE at HOME
RO evtne DS rhe
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- ~ g 'lnz y correspondence tweaty
oY ' vears. Graduates assisted in many
] ways, Every person faoterested in
otock .hnu:iyun it. Write for
S g| S M FREE
T ‘fl;’ hnnnv.té(c::n:lnpondom.
Vi Dest, 4 Loadon, Ontario, Can
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itable Potiltry |
Profitable Poultry §
A—See that housing con
ditions are right.
B—Make sure you feed a.
good ration. :
C—And ALWAYS mix
Pratts Poultry Regula
1\ tor with the ration.
i Note:—lf you don't negiect “‘C,” M
we guaranfee that you will -
‘“‘see’’ more eggs—or you S
B get your ndbney back. :
PRATT FOOD CO. 4§ ;
o Philadelphia ;
= Chieago ? .3 ;
TOM WATSON MELON SEED. ~
‘I have a limited quantity of Genuine Tom Watson Melon Seed for e
They were gathered from 1917 crop. The vroducer of these seed has for %
past five years marketed first car of Watson Melons in Georgia. The product
of these seed received last season 40 per cent more for his melons than ¥
Rflighbors on account of their large size and early mawrlty. Wwill se
ng as they last at 75¢ per pound.
Reference: First National Ba.n,k, Quitman, Ga.
. A, B. WILLIAMS, Quitman, Ga,
On South's Farm
SBheep, in proportion to the valu. o
their products, are produced more «-
nomiecally on the' far inthan any o).
live stock; the feed and labor reauir
ments are less.
Thef' fit in with feneul farming, e:
geclaly in the hilly sections of 1)
outh, and get much of their subsis
ence Trom forage, from grazing wew
and grass that would not support ot)e
stock. They eat little feed that has ,
value as human food, and need les;
grain than other @animals,
They add materially to the farm rev
enue, but add very little, relatively,
the farm expense. That is why thg
University of Florida extension fi“\'imw
recommends that more of them De ¢,
says a university buletin.
Since 1914 wool and mutton pric
have doubled and some grades of w.
have trebled. Those who are im cic
toueh with the sheep industry beliey
that attractive prieces will continue
During the war overproduction secer
impossible. That is another reason 1
advoating a greater production. E
BUY PROLIFIC STOCK.
‘When starting in the hog business
set animals from herds that are pro
ific. Some families of hogs do not av
erage more than four pigs to a litter
others eight and ten. The cost of pig
at birth in large litters is half that .’
the small litters.
and milk for the family and an excess
10 supply the cities and towns. An in
creased production of poultry and hog
can and is being brought about rapidly
‘l'ne nation needs pork, and the Souil
is establishing markels and the €O-0}
erative shipping of hogs to meet this
need. Increase this product this year
The milch cows for every family ought
to be maintained because of the grea:
value of milk’' as human food; all of it
can be utiiized. Pasturage and uncul
tivated land can be used for producing
beef cattle, which will consume als)
the excess or otherwise waste forags
and feed products of the farm. All of
these plans fit in with the nationa)
needs, J
(6) 'When the living has been amp./
provided for, grow as much cotton as
You can handle, but keep your cotio
as a cash crop. The country necd:
cotton as welhas food and feed.” Neilhe
should be saecriticed for the other.
(7) Plan to save all possible wasty
products of the farm. Prevent all vwast,
in the planting and harvesting. .
the excess products of the farm ung
pay living expenses. Have a surplus
hogs, eggs, poultry, soy beans, peanuts
corn, or such other tarm proaucis .3
are adapted to &our locality for sals
besides cotton. eep the credit necus
for living expenses down to tl}g mini
mum and invest your savings in thesy
times of good prices in Liberty bonds
and other Government securities, su
that you may become financially inde
pendent.
~ (8) This is the time for everybody ':
‘use the best labor-saving modern farm
Jimplements in order that each man and
each team may do the largest Posisbie
amount of werk in a day. During the
past year the farmers of the South
‘have ‘carnfed (on an average) a larger
acreage than ever before. This las
been possible for two reasons: First,
under diversificatfon each laborer ¥
lable to handle a larger acreage; sec
ond, the patriotic call has prompted
'men to work h&{v*der. The same two
reasons, coupled with the use of mod
ern implements, will again produce
large and profitable crops on Southerv
farms.
( Follow Well-Balanced Husbandry.
' High prices of any one farm product
in this plan should not tempt furmers
merchants, or bankers to depari U
practice or in credit influence from @
- safe and well-balanced husbandry. oo
for ourselves and feed for our i
'stock; food and clothing for the arn
and navy of the United States and w
her asosciates in the KEuropean w:u
' with the products of the South going
out to the nation and to the worid, an
[the minimum of imports of food 10
;surport the South, make a safe, profit
able, and patriotic program. :
' Yhe agricultural colleges of the South
ern States, in co-operation with (e
lUnited States Department of Agricul
tuer, have county agents in the vast
' majority of all agricuitural counties
’every State. Campaigns to sustain (1
production of ofod and feed wil be ¢
ducted' in the South during the ear
‘months of the year. These agents a!
part of the wark work of the counti
They will be much help to farmers an
'acquaint them with the full agricultura
‘needs of the nation in time of war.
| The strength of a nation is measurc!
by “the strength of its weakest par!
Let us keep the South strong for ths
‘sake of the natfon in its hour of great
need by making her self-sustaining and
~self-reliant, an agricultural asest ablo
te honor drafts for food and clothing
for the nation.: It is a patriotic service
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- batching, rearing, feeding snd disesse Informatio
Describes busy Poultry Farm bandling 68 pure bre
varioties. Teils how to chooss fowls, exgs. Incubaior
'y sprouters. This book worth dolis~- matled for 10 con
| Borry's Poultry Farm, Box 067. Clarinda,lows
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| RAISE 90 9% TO 100 .
& OF YOUR CHICKS
i OTHERS ARE DOING IT; SO CAN YOU
| Don’t let the chicks die with white diarrhoes
| gapes, going light, weak legs, stunted, not develo
{ing; give them Wacker's Chick Tablets in the wa e
| from the start, then watch ‘em ‘r&th;‘ MA‘X -l‘u"‘;
| 20Q Tablets, 50c; money returne not_satisfle
soa nowhere else. WACKER REM. CO
Box 157, Newark, N. J.
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| BB strengthens and tones up \'g o
| ¥R the sensitive dl%eltlve organs s i
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| B 8 rhea. The mixture of clean, 78
| B 4 balanced-grains starts chicks y
| B growing. ot "
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| #4 and watch the chicks grow. Con- £ o
¢ E¥ key'sis different from all imita- ~wr’]
! tions. Builds strong, sturdy /7
chicks that grow into good breeders and ¢ L
! B heavy layers. S
| BB LA TR TVORT ogt
i Makes Chicks oroy.
| R v ';.'_§
: Coste only 2¢ to feed a chick eight
ki weeks—buy a bag—ask your dealer.
B Conkey’s Poultry Tonic keeps
| hens laying. 30c and 60c. ¥
Conkey's Roup Remedy prevents rovp. o
: Just pnt?t in the drinking v’upm. 8
| DAIRY AND FARM SUPPLY GA.
{ 17 Trinity Ave.
. EVERETT SEED CO.,
29-31 West Alabama St
{ H. G. HASTINGS CO.,
{ 16 West Mltchell St.
LETTON-DEFOOR SEED CO.
i 12 Seuth Broad St.