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PAGE 2 FARM NEWS OF COBB COBB COUNTY THE BANNER COUNTY OF THE EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH. INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT COBB COUNTY FARMS AND FARMERS A. F. Davenport and H. B. Cowan, farmers of Acworth, and the county agent found a small patch of bur clover near Powder Springs, on last Friday from which several bushels of seed were gathered. Seed patches and bur clover demonstrations will be started from these seed and a spe cial effort made to get this valuable winter grazing crop and soil builder started on a large number of farms in Cobb county. If you are inter ested in starting a bur clover dem onstration see the county agent at once. A. N. Mayes, a diversified farmer of Midway Community will continue to cultivate his cotton lightly through out August. He says that this meth od of cultivating cotton has paid him in recent years. Mr. Mayes says that laying by time never comes with him since he always has profitable farm work to do. He always has some farm products to sell when he goes to town. I suspect that upon inves tigation you would find that his farm is operated on a cash basis the year round. The cotton club boys are watching carefully for the new hatch of boll weevils this week, and will apply poison if necessary. Arch McCleskey, of near Wood stock reports that he has the boll weevils under control on his farm. He says that the new hatch of wee vils is just coming out and that one more application of poison may be necessary to kill them out. A picnic for all agricultural club members of Cobb County and their parents will be held in Marietta on Saturday August 9th, in Brown’s park on Polk St. An interesting pro gram is being planned for this occa sion which will be published in next week’s paper. In addition, a picnic dinner a melon cutting and the play ing of games, some interesting talks will be made by club members and visitors and a contest will be held to designate three boys for the weeks training in Agriculture at the State College of Agriculture in August. All members are urged to make their plans to attend this enjoyable meet ing. The agricultural club members of the Midway Community held a very profitable and enjoyable meeting of their club at the schoolhouse on Fri day afternoon. After short reports were made by the members the Coun ty Agent congratulated them upon the progress made in the work, and insisted upon all members complet ing their work successfully and mak ing exhibits at the fair this fall. The refreshments consisted of ice cream and lemonade which were en joyed by all present. Community Agriculture Club meet ings will be held this week asfollows: The Powder Spring Club will meet will meet at the Bank of Powder Springs on Friday August 1, at 4:00 P.M The Acworth Club will meet at the S. Lemon Banking Co.. on Thursday at 4:30 P. M. Contests will be held at these meet ings for the purpose of designating seven boys for a weeks training in Agriculture at the state College of Agriculture in August. All members of these clubs are requested to be present and participate in these con tests. For hogs and poultry there is no crop that will afford so much fall, winter, and spring grazing as rape. The land for the first sowing for fall grazing needs to be gotten ready by manuring, disking and plowing for the first planting which should be done the last of August or the first of September. Rape succeeds best when put in rows about two or two and one-half feet apart and cultivate once or twice, at the time of seed ing it should be fertilized with stable manure or a good application of com mercial fertilizer high in phosphoric acid and nitrogen. Rape should be allowed to make considerable growth before hogs are turned in for graz. AND SURROUNDING TERRITORY Tersely told by R. L. Vasa’/nt, County Demonstrator CAMP WILKINS NOW FILLED EVERY WEEK Camp Wilkins, the big boys’ and girls’ camp on the campus of the State College of Agriculture, is now complete and filled to capacity every week. It was opened on July 14 and since that time more than three hun dred girls have received training in cookery, needle work, basketry and many other phases of home econom ies. Club girls from the northeastern section of the state were encamped the first week, while those from the northwestern part were enrolled the second week. The two South Geor gia districts will have the privilege of the camp during the next two weeks, after which it will be turned over to the boys for four weeks. It is expected that almost two thousand farm boys and girls will be enrolled at Camp Wilkins during the summer. Besides following an out-' lined study course, they are allowed all the privileges of the beautiful campus of the Agricultural Cofllege,' Lake Kirota and other places of in terest about the city. Entertainment features are offered every day, andi every effort is made to make the stay pleasant as well as instructive. ' Camp Wilkins was constructed’ through the generosity of John J.. Wilkins, Athens banker, other Ath ens citizens, and the Clarke County; Board of Commissioners. So far as| is known it is the only permanent camp for farm boys and girls in the: United States. | Waste is Sinful The dying man shook his head, tearfully, and maintained, “I won’t take it; no Ikey; it tastes awful ” “But, mine dear fren’,” groaned Ikey, “you wcan’'t die and leave all these expensive medicines wasted.” Almost every man seems to think that he is warranted in doing unwar rented things. ing. The tender rape leaves can be cut and fed to chickens throughout the fall and winter months, which will increase egg production a great deal. The variety best adopted to our conditions is the Dwarf Essex Plant rape on good land if you ex pect good feed. Poor land will not produce it. C. W. Fowler planted about one sixteenth of an acre in rape last Sep tember. He began feeding his flock of 500 chickens on the rape from this small patch and continued the feeding until it was killed by the hard freeze in January. Mr. Fowler states that green feed is very essen tial for poultry and that rape is one of the cheapest green feeds that he can grow. He has been growing the crop for years and this vear was the first time it has been killed by winter,. Home Aids For ” TN G : Quick ~——~_ R l. i 3 \ \ ele & %‘ \\ / f So many times a mi- \ X : 11\&‘ ‘ nor acecident, o even K 1) 7, a serious one, oceurs | B ¥ | for which you need i 1L A ‘ a home aid for im- 'n - mediate use. You I\l will find the best ap- ‘ proved Home First i Aids as well as all — other lines of high N ‘ grade items carried \‘\ T in a First Class drug \\ -~ store here, \,F" @‘L«W’,’m il i / | L Hodges Drug Company A Good Drug Store Phones 44 and 45 Marietta, Ga. ARE YOUR HENS LAY- j | By J. H. Wood ! Egg production has dropped co' siderably in most farm flocks and W| continue to drop until early wint, when the young stock commence la ing. This decrease is natural and : be expected every year. Best Layers will Continue Layin —The good layers are still laying a 1 the best layers will continue to 1l: until late fall or early winter. Ti longer a bird continues to lay wit out moulting the better record ar the more profit she will make. Poor Layers are ‘“Laying By.” Hens that stop laying during the es ly summer months are poor prod cers and should be marketed. Thr have stopped laying, are laying ¥ and will continue to loaf until la winter or early spring. The reasc some hens have stopped is becaus they have not inherited the ability t lay longer or have not the vitalit and stamina to continue productiol If a bird is not capable of laying large number of eggs this year sh will not be capabl enext year. Gool flock averages can only be obtaine in flocks where systematic culling i practiced. Economic Value of Culling. — / hen that lays only six months in th vear will not be profitable if she mus be fed for 12 months. If, however we will market these short time lay ers as soon as they stop, a small pre fit will be realized. Fifty per ceit of the average flock should be culld out each year. By culling out now layers at this season the feed cot will be reduced considerably and te remaining birds will have more rooy, | more attention and will give befirl results. Probably the greatest I vantage of culling will be foundin the increased egg production of u ture generations. By culling outhe poorest producers each year we em inate the chance of breeding fronhe poorest laying individuals. By bed- l ing from the better producerstch vear the offspring are bound » be better producers than the p'entl stock. | How Many Should Be Culled)ut? —An average flock of hens th re ceives fair attention and care iould be laying 40 per cent in July In other words 100 hens should blay ing 40 eggs a day. If 100 hens should lay 40 eggs we shouldhave 2 1-2 hens to each egg laid. W will fsay we are only getting 30 ers a day. Then we have 30 x 2 1-2¢ 75 hens laying. The 25 non-yers should be culled out. If we aronly getting 26 eggs a day we have 6 x 2 1-2 or 65 hens laying and :ould cull out the 35 non-layers. The Bird to Cull.—The moscon spicuous non-layers at this sease are those which are moulting. Arood producer will rarely ever moultarly JOURNAL THE MARIET in the summer. A bird rarely ever lays while moulting. Records show that the average bird that stops lay ing by July 1 kas only produced be tween 100 to 120 eggs. Records show further that she will only lay about 16 eggs between now and the first of February and will only lay about 100 eggs next year. Most of these eggs will be laid during the low priced season. A hen that stops laying by August 1 has laid about 130 eggs, will lay about 19 eggs between moulting time and February 1 and will lay about 114 next year. A hen that stops laying by Septem ber 1 has produced 140 eggs, will lay 21 eggs between moulting time and February 1 and around 120 next year. A bird that does not stop ]ayingl until October 1 has produced 150 ‘eggs, will lay over 20 eggs between]‘ lmoulting‘ time and February 10 and will profuce 135 eggs next year. A bixd that does not stop laying until ajter November has produced close t} or over 200 eggs and will producf more winter eggs than the early poulters and will lay 150 or more @gs the following year. Mawy breeders have the idea that early houlters will come back into layinglquicker than the late moult ers, records show this not to be true i most cases. The late moulter moul§ in a much shorter time than the drly moulter and does not lay off s{long. @ ‘/;// ; 6 ) 1 ay ' Bayer’’ - Insist! For Pain Headache Neuralgia Rheumatism Lumbago Colds V, Accept only a &f Bayer package whichcontains proven directions Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manu facture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid THE ALL-PURPOSE TRUCK ; s ey e\ B B DGO Bony |RN Al ?(F )PP et - it “4,‘_ i \“:.. i".,_jf‘“.-l,i Q-g/é:&;yd; <\ (% '—!’\i 7:.7;: - ; ' 'f:“u" :"" :-—?“'; 28 '“T’ = { AT 30 1 "f-‘;’.i \ &*"; Se, T | e -;:’. - ‘E F\\‘:{’;‘\ —= e —— . i Tk - = ..\s'.‘:_u_:“’f/_.j Preference - el Based o Performance ONE-TONTRUCK Complete as Illastrated Free from Excise Tax L a. b. Detroit Youcan buy thechassis slone, cwth::'wM cab and body (with or without canopy, screen wdes mnd -afi..). Sak yous nearest anthorized Foed desler for prices. SEE THS NEAARST AUTHORIZED PORD DERALEA A farmer who was too close-fisted to feed his stock well had a span of mules he was anxious to sell, but they looked rather gaunt for lack of feed. On meeting an acquaintance he asked: “Don’t you want to buy a good pair of mules?” “No, but I know a man who would give $BOO to see those mules.” Startled by such unexpected pros pect of luck Farmer Tightwad asked excitedly: “Who is he?” His acquaintance replied, with a chuckle, “He’s a blind man.” TR BN, LERER ? r EROW ( : Bes ¥, . BB SEED | : MO eil 4SI ) SO SR (R BAN S el 1i e Z " BEEEREER N\3.HIO-cn ® u mescsesmsessioocai bl B \ RORRRI S e SN RAo AR : PR i ‘—T" \ .A1:':1:1:?3‘:1:?3_'::-':-'::;:. dSR N eS 00 :2-',",‘,‘.“‘ SRR ¥ , TR St o BEaRb Rl vt | ’ SILIE | wEaed £ IR T 2 o lnatd e o = I B B T | ,! % i G . ey 1 [y the Railvoads every . Bomnwll ¢ time the Clock Ticks- SRR Bl ‘] 988 Just a fow years ago, the expression, “A R pRAREis® billion dollar Congress”, startled the people B el ey of this Nation. It seemed beyond the bounds o sgl ¥ % ofreason that this staggering sum of money S a4l ¥ % would be required to run our Government. e | ¥ 7 Compare this figure with the fact that in R 1923 the railroads of America distributed i By six billion dollars -~ a sum nearly twice as N e v great as the entire expenditures of the { ‘A National Government during that year. it \¢%E Of this sum more than one billion dollars, ! T representing new capital, practically all of }_ ' which was borrowed, was invested in new ‘ equipment, new tracks, and added facilities. _ Out of the earnings of the railroads, approx } imately two billion dollars were expended g for fuel, steel, lumber and other supplies. More than three billion dollars went for wages; and approximately $336,000,000 was paidintaxes. Brought down tothe smallest fraction of time, this staggering sum of six billion dollars represents an expenditure on the part of the railroads in your pro%?erity, and in the general prosperity of the Nation, of ia‘pproximately $l9O every time the clock ticks. \ Reduced to the same unit of time, the Q ' Louisville & Nashville Railroad, in 1923, spent in the operation of its properties $3.67 per second, or a total of $317,000 per day— which figure includes labor, taxes, fuel and supplies, but does not include the $31,600,000 invested last year in new equipment and f improvements to L. & N. property. [y, T . Remember that the railroads put more money /‘é TR ' iratiirion. and that in et famenican /— / /S s \ ®.w of 'ez;e;)" fif'teen the bread-winneryia a / Q%’ IVY /A, railroad employee. g D) T\/ \____/ LE 10 Dependable, Light, Speedy Trucking on a Profitable Operating Basis The thoroughly dependable qualities of Ford trucking units are reflected in their universal acceptance for light, speedy delivery. Ford one-ton trucks cost less to buy and less to maintain, They are the most economical trucks on the market, Michigan Thursday, July 31, 1924, COME TO THE PIEDMONT SEC.- TION OF GEORGIA, WHERE THE LATCH-STRING HANGS QUTSIDE. “Have you shades?” asked the cus tomer. “All sorts of shades,” was the re ply. “I need some for summer.” “Shades do create a grateful shade in summer. Now how do you like this shade of shades?” “This shade of shades will shade the room nicely. But I don’t like the price. Show me a shade a shade lower.” While the sun is shining lay aside a little of your enthusiasm for a rainy day.