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Friday, May 8, 1914
AGRICULTURAL BILL MEANS
MUCH FOR STATE OF GEORGIA
washington, May 6th. The Agri
cultural bill, which contains the ap
propriation for the National Depari
ment of Agriculture, carries this year
€16,500,000 and the provisions for
expending this vast sum mean much
to the State of Georgia. The bill
will be passed by the Senate in a few
days.
gepator Hoke Smith, who is a
member of the Commitwee on Agri
culture, is greatly pleased with those
features of the bill which will be of
gpecial benefit to the State. He hae
gpent much time and labor on meas
ures for the betterment of farm life
in the way of development of the
parcel Post, road improvement, farm
demonstration work, etc., and is
thoroughly familiar with the pur
poses of the appropriation just made
for agriculture, amounting to nearly
twenty million dollars.
The Bill Explained.
Commenting on the bill and its
pearing on Georgia Senator Smith
explained its provisions today as fol
lows:
“It is conservative to say that
Georgia’s agriculture and industries
will benefit directly from nearly one
fourth of the total appropriation, or
nearly $5,000,000, which will be ex
pended for the advancement of the
Middle and South Atlantic and the
Southern States. The reason for this
is that Georgia’s wide range of cli
mate and elevation makes her a pos
sible producer of all crops grown in
this wide regior with the exception
of those calling for actual tropical
conditions or peculiarities of soil
such as are needed to raise cranber
ries or hops or similar highly local
ized crops.
“On the southeast, especially in
the sheltered islands and coast coun
try, Georgia has almost an orange
climate, and from this we pass
through the coastal plain and the
Piedmont plateau up into the moun
tainous northeastern section where
conditions similar to those in the
apple and tree-fruit regions of New
York and the Lake District prevail.
Practically all money expended for
the promotion of general crops
throughout tlis region, therefore,
vield to Georgia at least a by-product
for the advancement of her own aeri
cultural interests.
Georgia's Specific Benefits:
“However, even if this were not
the case, Georgia apparently has
been generously treated through th»
insertion of specific projects in the
act which will deal with actual con
ditions in this State. Some of the
more important work to be done in
and for Georgia during the next fis
cal year I will explain.”
“Ten thousand dollars has been
set aside for investigations and ex
periments in producing cane syrup
in Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
This problem is to be attacked from
three different points.
“The Bureau of Plant Industry
will investigate varieties of cane and
cultivation methods that will yield
4 cane speciaily suited to produce
a 4 standard grade of cane syrup that
Will keep well without crystalliz
ling.
“The Bureau of Chemistry will
give attention to methods of manu
facturing this syrup so as to make it
uniform in quality and free from
‘rystallization. The Bureau of Mar
kets will consider the ways and
means of marketing such a syrup
satisfactorily. The endeavor will be
L 0 enable the Georgia cane growers
and the millg to produce syrup of
definite quality that will compete
for table popularity with the maple
®¥rup of the North.
Cotton and 801 l Weevil:
“The work of developing wilt-re
sisting varieties of cotton, which has
already resulted in the ““Dixie” and
“Dillon,” will pe carried on with
the view to developing varieties that
Will resist wilt and at the same time
have desirable fiber and mature early
S 0 as to be less subject to boll wee-
Vil ravages, :
"The demonstration work in meth
ods of combating the boll weevil by
Cultural methods to induce earlier
Maturity will pe extended. This work
is barticularly important because
Georgia is now the boll-weevil fron
lier. At the same time, in connection
With this work efforts will be made
1o show the value of diversification
of broduction—the growing of cow
beas, soy beans, corn and other crops
in rotation with cotton,—as another
means of lessening boll-weevil losses.
The Bureay of Entomology also will
Eive special attention to the combat
ing of boll-weevil and discovering
Means of éradicating the cotton red
Spider,
Cotton Spinning Tests:
ke appropriation for conduct
g cotton spinning tests it is believ
€d will pe particularly helpful to
Georgia with itg crop of South Atlan-
Y upland cotton, The purposes of
these tegty are to demonstrate the
Tal spinning valye of various grades
with the object of getting for the
producer a price based upon the ac
tual spinning value of the cotton to
the mill. It is believed, also, that
these investigations will be of great
value to American spinners,, who
have been somewhat behind the Ger
mans in realizing the spinning value
of certain of the lower grades.
“The work of developing wilt-re
sistant cowpeas will be continnued
during the coming year, This pro-
Ject is of especial importance to Geor
gia, because in many of her wilt-in
fected soils it has been impossible
heretofore to raise the varieties of
cowpeas best adapted for green man
uring and forage.
Small Grain Experiments: '
“The act makes provision for spe
cial experiments into varieties of
small grains suitable for the South,
and methods of making them success
ful in Southern soils. These experi
ments probably will be carried on in
four different Southern states, one
of which will be Georgia. The Pied
mont section and the higher eleva
tions of Georgia it is believed will
be found well adapted to raising
wheat, oats and barley. These small
grains have been neglected in the
South since the great western re
gions were opened. I believe, how
ever, that there is no reason why
Georgia and similar States should
not raise these grains to supply local
consumption.
“With the idea of benefitting gen
eral agriculture in Georgia, special
studies in Farm economics and farm
maenagement will be undertaken The
rurpose of these studies is to work
out combinations of crops and pro
rourtions of erops on farm which wil}
vield the maximum profit to the far
mer. This work is largely centared
at Macon, and will concern itself
with operctions as conducted on uc
tual farms in the State. One purpose
of these studies ig to determine Sys
tems of raising crops which will call
for no more mules or work horses
than can be profitably f=d through
out the year.
“The bureau of Entomology also
is to give special consideration to
methods of dealing with cereal and
forage insects of Georgia, such as
the fall army worm, wire worm and
the cornstalk borer.
Corn and Canning Clubs.
The office of Farmers Coopera
tive Demonstration Work, in Co
operation with the Georgia State
College of Agriculture, also con
tinued the effort/made to increase
the membership of the Boys’ Corn
Clubs and the Girls’ Canning Clubs.
Last year there were over 11,000
boys and girls enrolled in these clubs.
Of the boys, 90 grew over 100 bu
shels of corn to the acre, and
Ernest J. Wellborn, of Calhoun Coun
ty, the State champion, grew
181.72 bushels on his acre. Of the
Girls’ canning club members, Miss
Clyde Sullivan, of Ousley, Ga., led
not only the State but the country,
by raising 5230 pounds of ripe to
matoes in her one-tenth acre garden.
She also put up 1,200 twenty-five
ounce cans of tomatoes, and made a
clear profit of $141.00.
In connection with the club work
the Bureau of Animal Industry
will make a special effort to encou
rage pig growing clubs among the
boys in Georgia. The county agents
will cooperate in encouraging
pig clubs, and have also worked
out a plan for rotatiom of crops by
the boys, under which they will
plant one acre to corn and the other
acre to peanuts or a forage crop
adapted to pigs.
The act provides for investiga
tion into the diseases of pecans and
this will be of especial interest to
Georgia, which now has the largest
acreage of planted pecan orchards.
Naval Stores Industry.
There will be experiments looking
to the wider introduction in south
ern Georgia of the citrage, a
hybrid of the sweet orange and the
Japanese hardy orange. While the
citranze is not of commercial impor
tance, its tree is ornamental and de
sirable for garden uses. Its fruit is
well adapted for making an acid
drink and also for marmalades, and
therefore will find favor with the
Georgia housewife.
“The Bureau of Chemistry, under
an appropriation of $5,000, will give
special attention to establishing
grades of naval stores. This work is
designed to establish definite stand
ards for turpentine and rosin, 30
that producers of these stores can
obtain the full price for their pro
ducts.
“The Forest Service and this bu
reau also are to give special consid
eration to wood distillation with the
obiect of devising commercial meth
ods for obtaining turpentine, rosin,
wood alcohol, pitch, and tar as by
products from stumps and dry wood.
Similarly the Forest Service will con
duct special experiments into the use
of Southern pine and other trees to
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determine their value for box mak
ing and also their usefulness as a
possible source for paper pulp. The
Forest Service also will give special
attention to the development of the
Georgian portion of the Appalachian
National Forests, especially in the
direction of planting and the con
struction of roads and trails. It will
also co-operate with the State, dollar
for dellar, in preventing forest fires
and depredations of forest insects.
Boils and Road Building:
“The Bureau of Chemistry also
will continue its investigations into
the spoilage of corn meal and its
possible connection with pellagra.
The branch laboratory of the Bureau
of Chemistry at Savannah will be
maintained and will continue to do
active work in preventing ‘interstate
commerce in adulterated and mis
branded foods and drugs and those
which have deteriorated or become
unfit for human consumption.
“The Bureau of Soils, in co-oper
ation with the State, will continue
its soil surveys in Clay, Colquitt,
Tattrall and Terrell Counties.
“In road building matters, the De
partment will maintain a road build
ing engineer in Georgia to co-oper
ate with the county and other au
thorities in the development and
maintenance of the line of good high
way running from Atlanta to Wash
ington, and giving the territory
through which it passes good market
roads to shipping and selling centers
The department will also co-operate
with some of the counties such as
Glynn in helping them devise and
develop logical systems of market
roads.
Animal Production:
“The appropriation for the eradi
cation of cattle ticks has been in
creased from $325,000 to $400,000
Provision is made that $50,000 of
the new appropriation shall be used
for live stock demonstration work
in areas free of ticks. Fifteen coun
ties in Georgia are now free of ticks
as a result of work already done, and
with the special appropriation the
Department will be able to assist the
farmers in these counties in raising
more and better cattle.
The new item in the b of
$lOO,OOO for experiments and dem
onstration in live stock production
in the cane sugar and cotton dis
tricts also will provide some means
for promoting cattle raising in this
State, provided the State authori
ties enter ilnto the necessary co-op
erative arrangements. The Dairy Di
vision of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry has had one of its men work
ing in connection with the State au
thorities in assisting farmers to
build silos, milk houses and barns,
and in encouraging them to test their
herds, keep milk records and elimi
nate unprofitable cows. This work
will be continued under the new ap
propriation.
Fruit Production in Georgia:
“Georgia is rapidly coming to the
front as one of the leading fruit
producing States in the South. There
are excellent opportunities for pro
duction of fruits in the northern
part of the State and these are be
ing taken advantage of in a num
ber of ways. In connection with the
pomological and horticultural work
of the Department, various prelim
inary surveys have been made with
the object of indicating the regions
where certain types of fruit and cer
tain varieties are more likely to suc
ceed,
“Special studies will be made of
the apple and peach with particu
lar reference to improving methods
of handling, transportation and mar
keting. Efforts will also be made to
locate somewhere in the higher por
tions of north Georgia important
work having to do with the improv
ment of the potato crop.
“The Department is now engaged
in an effort to find more desirable
varieties of potatoes, and promising
sorts introduced from the mountain
regions of South America need to be
thoroughly tested out. They need to
be tested out furthermore under clim
atic conditions more nearly approach
ing the subtropical than can be
found in the North, but the work
must be done at considerable eleva
tion. It is planned to carry on con
siderable of this work in the North
ern part of the State.”
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WANTED—An industrious man who
can earn $l5O per month and ex
penses selling Rawleigh products to
farmers. Address C. T. Hannah, So
licitor, Lawrenceville, Ga., giving
age, occupation and references,
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His Record, Public Achievements. Experience and
Ability to Fill the Office, Bring
Statewide Support.
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John M. Slaton
—Has performed every promise and obligation.
—Belleves in state and national economy.
—Has reduced Georgia's expenditures.
—Cast deciding vote for income tax.
—Belleves states are sovereign.
i —Urges not too many laws, but wise ones.
| —Demands recognition for Georgia in national affairs.
| —Opposes national extravagances.
| —ls against Federal pension increase.
| —Stands for development of Georgia’s resources.
—Urges laws to stimulate agricultural growth.
—Stands for advancement of education.
—Urges laws for the benefit of labor.
—Opposes indiscriminate immigration.
—Has never played to the galleries.
—Was elected eight terms to the general assembly practi
cally without opposition.
—Was elected twice as speaker and twice as president of
senate, each time by unanimous vote.
—Never had a ruling reversed as presiding officer.
—Has the experience and the ability ably to represent
Georgia in the United States senate.
ANNOUNCEMENT of his candidacy for the United States Senate by John
M. Slaton, of Atlanta, to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator A.
O. Bacon, has met with widespread approval all over Georgia.
Letters of endorsement and promises of support have come to him from
thousands of people in all sections of the state. He and his friends have
heard from every county in Georgia, and these reports all indicate that his
election is absolutely certain.
As a member of the general assembly in both branches for a period of 16
years, during eight of which he served as presiding officer, Mr. Slaton has
performed every promise made and met every obligation assumed. When
he aids the legislature to make provision for refunding maturing state bonds,
which will be done at the coming session, the entire platform on which he
was elected governor will have been enacted into law. Thus he feels free
to submit his senatorial candidacy to the people.
In his formal announcement Mr. Slaton states that he is first a Georgian,
and points out the splendid opportunity for the states of the South to regain
and re-establish the recognition to which they are entitled in national af
fairs. He stands for community government and the preservation of the
political rights of even the smallest community.
His position for economical administration of government is reinforced
by his successful efforts as governor in the reduction of the expenditures of
the state.
He opposes needless extravagance in national administration and the
further extension of the Federal pension system. Regarding a senator as
an ambassador from the state to the national council, he believes
in making the interests, rights and prosperity of Georgia his first consider
ation. He holds that Georgia should receive her due proportion of ma
terial benefit from what the state gives to the volume of American exports
and that legislation should aim to further the interests of the farmer and
the producer. He urges laws which will advance the interests of labor and
asserts that he will use every effort toward the development of the material
and educational interests of Georgia.
POINTED EXTRACTS FROM
SLATON'S ANNOUNCEMENT.
The following are some pertinent extracts from Governor Slaton's for
mal announcement of his candidacy:
“While holding the nation in reverent regard, 1 cannot forget that I am
first a Georgian, and 1 believe that each state and community should govern
itself so far as is compatible with the public interests.
“This prirciple of general government I have endeavored to illustrate in
both official and political capacity, and only recently urged upon the State
Executive Committee of our party the primary importance of preserving
the full political rights of even the smallest county. And I am pleased to
note that in the rules adopted for determining the contest in which I shall
be engaged, such is done in conformity to the platform upon which I was
nominated for Governor.
“The products of Georgia soil, as the products of all American soil and in
dustry, should find easier access to the markets of the world, and enlight
ened statesmanghip should contribute to that end.
“My creed rests in the established principles of democracy.
“I have, both as legislator and executive, especially stressed the practical
wisdom of an economical administration of government and am gratified
by the reflection that during my administration for the first time in many
years, the expenditures of the state of Georgia have been reduced.
“Inducement to extravagance in the administration of public fundg is
subtle and often, apparently, compelling, and the tendency to extravagance
in the administration of national affairs has been appalling.
“As senator, particularly shall 1 be opposed to the further extension of
the Federal pension system to meet an appetite which can not be satiated
and whose greed now threatens to include as wards of the government even
the descendants of original pensioners.
“I shall favor all measures tending to improve our greatest industrty —
agriculture. And the farmers need nothing more than the privilege, right
fully theirs, to obtain money at the interest rates allowed other industries;
and I shall favor such rural credit systems as will enable them to do this.
“If it shall be the will of the people of my state that I become one of
their representatives in the United States Senate, I shall diligently strive
to avail myself of every opportunity to develop every interst of Georgia.
“Until the election I shall be occupied in caring for the public interests
entrusted to me as Governor. Being thus prevented from engaging in an
active personal canvass, I submit my candidacy, in all confidence, to the
people of Georgia.”
SOMETHING ABOUT
JOHN M. SLATON’S RECORD.
Governor Slaton’s public record is fresh in the minds of Georgians.
Elected to the house of regresentatives in 1896, he served continuously in
the general assembly for sixteen years. He was speaker of the house
and president of the state senate continuously for eight years, having been
elected to both positions without opposition, a record not achieved by any
other Georgian. As president of the senate, he became governor ad interim
between the retirement of Senator Hoke Smith and the second installation
of Governor Brown. Thus he has been governor twice,
As president of the senate he cast the deciding vote in that body for the
income tax amendment which has since become a part of the Federal Con
stitution.
He was calied to the governor’s office in the summer of 1912 by a vote
of the people so overwhelming that it might be said to have been unanimous.
If there is one thing he may be said to have stood for more than another, it
is the prompt payment by the state of its obligations; and his chief work
as governor ha:s been in rehabilitating the state’s finances. Measures urged
by him and already adopted by the legislature, it is believed, will accom
plish this.
HOW GEORGIA NEWSPAPERS
VIEW HIS CANDIDACY.
Out of twenty-three daily papers in the state, not half a dozen have de
clared against Mr. Slaton. Two of these are the home papers, respect.
ively, of his opponents. More than one-half of the daily papers are for him,
A large proportion-—perhaps two-thirds—of the weekly newspapers which
have declared themselves, are supporting Mr. Slaton. ”
adv.
Drumtochty.
Logiealmond, lan Maclaren’s “Drum
tochty,” is neither a village nor a par
ish but an estate about eight miles by
four in extent, and situated some
twelve miles north of Perth, and lying
at the foot of the Grampian Hills. The
only semblance of a village in the
entire Logiealmond district is the
little hamlet of Harrietsfield, where
Mr. Watson lived.
No Arbitrary Weight.
In Great Britain the ton is 20 hun
dred weight of 112 pounds, that is
2240 pounds avoirdupois. In the
United States and Canada the corm
mon ton is 2000 pounds, the hundred
weight being reckoned at 100 pounds.
Stone and rock, like coal, are often
calculated in “long ton” terms (2240
pounds).
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
D. W. BLAIR.
LAWYEBR,
North Side Public Square
MARVETTA, GA.
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B. T. FREY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
MARIETTA, GA. Office H. A. Wards
glz, Fabiie Sasare.” Gollickions &sk
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CLAY & MORRIS.
LAWYERS,
Office over Sams Drug Store.
M
GORDON B. GANN,
Attorney at Law and
Real Estate Agent.
Marietta, ! : : Georga.
Office up stars over Sams Drug Store.
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C. M. DOBBS,
Attorney at Law.
Marietta, - - - Georgia
Office over W. A, Sam’s.
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JNO T. DORSEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Marietta, - - - Georgia.
Office over Marietta Book Store
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J. GLENN GILES
ATTORNEY AT LAW
MARIETTA, : : GEORGIA
Office over Marietta Restaurant,
in building next to Court House.
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WARREN E. BEN'SON, M. D.
OFFICE NOLAN BUILDING
Church Street
Office hours: 8 o’clock to 10 a. m. 3
3 to 6 p. m.
‘Phone: Office 248; Residence 263.
b i s e
T. J. VANSANT, M. D,,
OFFICE OVER T. L. WALLACE’S
STORE.
Office Phone No. 164,
Residence Phone No. 351-J.
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Dr. C. DURHAM ELDER,
GENERAL PRACTICE AND SUR
GERY.
Office over Store of Dupre & Wallace
Phone 181.
Residence: Miss Towers’, Lawrence
Street, phone 128,
DR. W. M. KEMP,
GENERAL PRACTITIONER
MARIETTA. GA, Office, in Gober butid
ing over Ward Bios. store. Residence allep Winn
place, Lawrence street
Residence phone 78. Office phone 9,
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DR. 8. GROOVER
DENTIST
Marietia Georgla
Office front rooms
over Wikle Butler Drug Store
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DRS. J. D. & W. H. MALONE.
—PHYSICIANS—
Gffices over Fowler Bro‘hers' Store,
Office Hours:
70 to 12 a. m. and 3 tc 5 p. m.
Office Phone 93. Residence Phoiie 73
North Sde Public Square,
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W. H. Perkinson L. L. Blair.
Res. Phone 191 Res. Phone
DRS. PERKINSON & BLAIR.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Office Over Book Store.
Office Telephone 23.
JOHN R, GREER. ¥.0..D.D. §
SURGEON DENTIST
Office south side public square. Over;Mayes
Bros. store,
MARIRTYA, GRORGIA
JOHN H. BOSTON, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Real Estate, Loans and Title Work
Handled Especially.
MARIETTA, : 2 GEORGIA
Office with D. W. Blair.
OWENS JOHNSON,
LAWYER
Offices, Gober Building, Atlan
to Street,
MARIETTA, : GEORGIA
LINDLEY W. CAMP,
- LAWYER.
Office over Wikle-Butler Drug
Company.
MARIETTA, - GEORGIA.
HUGH HO NELL
LAWYER
Second Floor, Kiser Building
ATLANTA GEORGIA.
—WITH—
Dorsey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman
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