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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1920.
UNION-RECORDER
MU' t'lv'
TIMM OF FULTON NO. 342825
SIRE: BIG TIMM 2nd NO. 340253
DAM: LONG BEAUTY No. 569602
At the head of our herd we have this OUTSTANDING BOAR. A CHAM
PION at both the 1919 Fairs. Atlanta he won the Ford Car and at Macon first
money in his class. \ '• i? St
If you are in the hog business why not get some real hogs. To help you
get them we offer you for a limited time the service of this GRAND BOAR for the
small fee of $5.00 cash. We do this to encourage the raising of more and bet
ter hogs. Our regular fee for this service would be $25.00, and it is well worth
it to you. Come and see him and some of his litters. You will surely want to
breed to him. Three sows just, farrowed thirty-five (35), almost an even dozen
each. Can you beat it ? Our average with this Wonderful Boar is 8.6 pigs per
sow. Do you want anything more prolific? We think not.
Let us show you what we are trying to do with the Big Type Polands. Only
a few minutes ff your time and you can see them all. We will be glad to hav*
you look them over. 1
We can offer you some choice bred Gilts and Pigs. If it is a young boar
that you need we have him for you.
You can beat the boll weevil with this arsenic. Just try it.
H PRODUCTS CO.
R?Y S. ALFORD, Manager
TRADE MARK
Farm Tractor
The Fordson cuts the cost of prepainng land almost to half of what it cost
with horses' But even more important is the fact that the Fordson saves front
thirty to fifty percent of the farmer's time. .And time saved—getting fields ih
shape to plant in the proper season; getting things done when theyshould be
done—mean, money to the farmer. Besides it helps greatly in solving the labor
problem. ~ / U ** 4
As evci- the machine way is proving more efficient, faster, easier than the
old hand way' In the factory, the machone increases production, saves labor—
produces more at less cost. And that is what the Fordsin does on the farm. The
Fordsin way is the machine way of farming. Besides it helps the labor problem.
The Fordson's first cost is low; and the after or operating cost is low. It
is a compact, easily handled tractor, backed by the greatest tractor service
organization in the world.
We are Fordsin dealers. Not only do we sell Fordson tractors, but we
carry a stock of Fordson parts and employ Fordson mechanics to* help the farm-
four own farm. 1 ?: ,
B. G. Glass Motor Co
milledgeville,
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GEORGIA
WOULD PROTECT
Audubon Society Urrjos Halt in
Destruction, Cue to 50-Cant
Bounty Law.
BinCS OF FREEDOM LIBELED
Official Cites Instances of Mistaken
Bird Campaign in Asking Suspen
sion of Bounty Law—12,000
Killed Since Law Enacted.
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New York.—Amerienn eagles In
Alaska frequently kill full-grown
deer, and are devastators of sheep and
other live stuck, fur-bearing animals,
domestic and wild fowl, salmon unit
other food fish, according to Alaskans
who have been writing on the sub-
Jeet to X. Gilbert Pearson, secretary
of the Audubon Societies National as
sociation.
Mr. Pearson lias been directing from
the New York offices of the associa
tion an agitation to save the American
cugics iu Alaska by removing the
price of 50 cents a head, which was
placed on their heads by tile Alas
kan legislature in 1017, which made
them outlaws because of their sup
posed destructiveness. The accusers
of the bird of freedom in Alaska have
made out a very black prium facie
case against him, but tlie bird experts
of the Audubon societies generally be
lieve that tiie eagle has been convicted
on hearsay evidence and without much
of n trial. I’y way of giving the bird
his day in court, the department of
agriculture lias sent a scientist to
Alaska to make a close study of ways
and habits of the defendant.
Tiie number of eagles killed in
Alaska since the bounty law went into
effect is not less than 12,000, accord
ing to estimates today. C. D. Unr-
field, secretary of the Alaska Fish and
Game club, in a letter to Mr. l’earson
iu August saiii:
"A vast difference is noted in the
numbers of these birds showing in
south-eastern and western Alaska, and
it is safe prediction that, if the
slaughter continues for a few years
longer, the species will become prac
tically extinct in this country.”
Asks Suspension of Bounty.
According to Mr. Pearson, one sec
tion or another of this country is al
ways working itself up into a witch
burning zeal against some particular
bird, which usually proves in time
to be not only innocent, but benefi
cial.
•'Of course, human beings are more
Important than birds,” lie said, “and
their concerns are entitled to first con
sideration. If the charges against tiie
American eagle were all proved, the
bounty law would be Justified. Hut
there have been so many mistaken
slaughtering campaigns against valu
able or harmless birds that we are ask
ing in this case a suspension of tin
bounty law until the study of the hab
its of the eagle, which have been un
dertaken, show whether he really de
serves slaughter or not.
”A few years ago there was an anti-
tneadow-lark campaign in California.
Speeches were made in the legislature
to the effect that they were ruining
the grape crop in some sections. For
a time it seemed as if the meadow
lark was doomed, but a careful Inves
tigation of tiie origin of tiie outcry
against the lark showed that it all
started with r, statement of a farmer
that lie had seen a lark sitting on the
grapes.
"New Jersey bad a similar period
of hysteria against the robin, which
was alleged to lie destroying tiie
cherry crop. There was a great propa
ganda in Arkansas and Texas for a
time because of the untrue charge
that they were destroying rice fields.
‘‘One of the most exciting cam
paigns of persecution against a lib
eral bird started along the gulf coast
In 1918, when it was alleged that the
brown pelican was destroying food fish
at tiie rate of nearly a million dollars
u day, and as it was put in one in
dictment—‘every day they consumed
more food fish titan the people of
Texas got in a year.
Mistakes Campaign Against Gulls.
“The assailants of the birds placed
their numbers at a million and started
the slogan: ‘Kill the pelican or the
j kaiser will get you.’ They appealed
to tiie federal food administration to
aid in destroying the bird to save the
fish. Hy co-operation between the
federal and state authorities I under
took an investigation of the habits
of the bird and made a cruise with a
party visiting all but one of the is
lands ou which they were supposed to
breed. This showed that, instead of
numbering a million, their number
could not exceed 05,000. It also
showed that they lived exclusively on
menhaden, a fish not eaten by hu
mans.
“One of these periodic flare-ups
against birds ai'tunlly left a deep mark
on the development of the country and
Is truly an historic episode. It is ro-
j counted by K. 11. Furlmsh. spile
ornithologist of Massachusetts, that
the inhabitant* of Southern Harbor a
gloat many years ago became alarmed
Ht the great flocks of gulls which con
gregated there to eat the heads >*ud
remains of the fish which were thrown
Into the water. It is a frequent charge
against Hie gulls that they destroy
food fish, .but the fact is that they are
almost exclusively scavengers. The
inti bird fever spread over this eom-
11 inanity anti gulls were slaughtered tin
lil they were exterminated. Then
wlmt happened? The tons of flshhead
and refuse thrown into the water was
washed up along the beaches, causing
stench ami sickness and making the
place uninhabitable. It ended with
the Southwest Harbor pie leaving
the region almost in a body ami found
ing Bar Ilarbe:', Me.
I Hie of the few eotltltUltlitles, ot.
the other hand, to appreciate and
I'emeinlicr benefits they have received
from birds ate the Salt Lake City
Mormons.
“When they first settled the vicinity
of Salt l.nke, grasshoppers came on
them, like the plagues of locusts, set
tling mi the ground in myriads ami I
threatening the complete destruction
of tlifir crops. Then the seagulls eiiine
out of the lake, eating the insects by
tiie millions, even lighting in the
yards and making their way into
buildings to catch them. They ex
terminated the grasshoppers and saved
the colony from famine. And very
recently there was unveiled In Stilt
Lake t'ity a beautiful statue in honor
of the seagulls.
"With the history before us of so
many mistaken crusades against birds
we feel that we ought to make sure
that we are right before attempting
to ex term itia te the bird which Is the
emblem of our freedom.”
Letter Upholds Bounty Law.
One of the letters upholding the
bounty law of Alaska is front Wright
Weil rich "f .luttenit. who said;
“Strange as it tatty seem to you,
most of us here shoot the American
eagles whenever we can, whether a
bounty exists or not, feeling that every
eagle killed means the annual saving
of ninny, many valuable, or at least
harmless, birds, beasts and fishes. We
feel ns a man has a rlglt* to feel when
a public service has been performed.
At least the lives of many innocent
creatures has been spared.
“Ilow many eagles exist in this ter
ritory, comprising an area equal to a
fifth of the United States, I would
not venture to estimate. On August
2 I was discussing the salmon propa
gation situation with the man in
charge of the territorial fish commis
sion’s work at Ketchikan, Alaska.
Among other things he told me of see
ing eagles in flocks numbering 500
along tiie salmon spawning streams.
The birds were busily engaged in pick
ing out the eyes first, and then flesh
ing the hones of the salmon so killed.
Nor were these spent salmon, for they
had not recently entered the streams.
1 do not doubt his story. Then* too,
many other men have estimated the
number "f eagles seen in favorable lo
calities along the salmon streams at
even greater numbers.
“Another phase of the situation was
brought to my attention by a carefully
observing forest ranger, who has
been in this section many years—that
the eagles are becoming gnnwise and
gunshy. Others have observed this
fact. So have I.
“A second phase seems to be de
veloping—that the eagles seem to be
congregating in mit-of-the-way places,
where they are not so apt to be dis
turbed. The pluees where they go.
and where man never goes, are cer
tainly numerous enough In Alaska.
“It Is because we know them to be
so numerous and to be taking such
heavy toll of ducks, grouse nnd other
birds, fur-bearers, fish and even full-
grown deer, that we feel they should
be reduced in number until the ltariu
they do is negligible.
“As I write I have before me notes
of ten instances, where eagles have
killed, not only fawn, but full-grown
deer. Should the occasion require it,
I do not doubt I could secure hun
dreds of affidavits to the effect that
eagles have been observed killing deer,
How many deer they kill out of sight
of human witnesses can only be sur
mised hy those who are in a position
to comprehend tiie vast unsettled areas
in Alaska.”
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laming
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2 mtM te’iiftl
He competed his ..j u ' „ 1
3 Prominent part |j e J
and athletics. He he
Structor and toured the ft
t he head of his own drama]
l.< fore becoming a ser "
rector.
HIGH PLAY AT MONT
Tables Always Full and I
Well, Says Londoner wj
Back Some MonJ
'Valter Martin, 8 Pi«
denier, has the disrlnctli
broken the bank ut MooJ
times in an hour reeeniln
returned to his home i
money in his pocket, arc]
London cmrespnndenceofl
New York Herald. Tot
who have heard ivonderfu
winnings—and losses—at 1
“to break Hie hank," looJ
ever, Mr. Martin’s wltul
one hour of play netted hil
frnnes, today worth abf
American gold.
Mr. Martin admits that
luck." He said that hi
“a defensive system" ofl|
Two “sittings” stood oi
ory. One of tlieai wasv
the bank as related nhor]
wns when he lost 500,i»]
played roulette.
"I was able to pny I
penses of myself and
friends off the tables, an]
home ‘in pocket' as # f
two months’ visit," he s
"In the whole of my I
Monte Carlo, and I
I do not remember theti
ed. It Is difficult to gftl
and French are at MoJ
about equal numbers,
that struck me was t!|
women players
there are three of them J
“I saw several welki
who were having bad l<
n lot, but one young Fl
done amazing well audit
had won £250.000. Ail
man, he hud packed
with It.
"The tables, however,I
greatly, owing to the f
experienced and rert c
An Obligation.
“Do you intend to vote at the coin
ing election?"
“Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “And
I shall wear my handsomest costume.
Having secured the right to vote,
every woman should feel it her patri
otic duty to make it fashionable to
do so.”
Jamaican Womtn C
Under .i in'"' l:l "' '
Jamaica, lirliisli West
have a vote in 11)11
parochial lionnls ' |l ' 1
Every woman Is pnl T
she Is twenty live
cm read and .
nnilm.nlby. but sbeinusl
tain salary or I'W^L
The salary fh^iumiMi
she must pay £1(,lD Jl
on hoii-e, land* " r| T
THE "OLD RELIABLE'
THEDFORD’S BLACK-3
White Haired Alabama Lady Says She Has Seen
and Go But The “Old Reliable’' Thedford’s Blac
Came and Stayed.
Dutton, Ala.—In recommending Thed-
ford’s Black-Draught to her friends and
neighbors here, Mrs. T. F. Parks, a well-
known Jackson County lady, said: “I ant
getting up in years; my head is pretty
white. I have seen medicines and reme
dies come and go but the old reliable
came and stayed. I am talking of Black-
Draught, a liver medicine we have used
for years—one that can be depended up
on and one that will do the work.
"Black-Draught will relieve indigestion
and constipation if taken right, and 1 know
for 1 tried it. It is the best thing I have
ever found for the full, uncomfortable
feeling after meals-
sick headache can M
Black-Draught- 11
ssisls the lh' er in *
ties. I am g lad 10 "
Draught, and do, j
neighbors-
Thedford’s LTlack-
ard household re^l
over seventy ! e ' irS J
Every one occasion J
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