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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7.
Daughters Aid the Southern
Farmers to Diversify Crops
Conference of Fifteen Women Agents From Fifteen South
ern States Show Increased Interest of Southern Young
Women in Department of Agriculture’s Garden, Can
ning and Poultry Clubs.
Washington, D. C.—Daughters of
southern farmers, who have seenf een
members of the United States 'De
partment of Agriculture's garden and
canning club* have been able to give
their fathers practical demonstrations
of the value of crop diversification
during the present bad cotton year.
The actual products which the girls
have put up are proving an invaluable
asset in n .ny farm houses where the
cotton crop has not brought the cus
tomary returns and many farmers are
now substituting whole acres of
onions and tomatoes in place of cot
ton after seeing the success which the
young women have made with these
crops.
A conference of the women agents
from fifteen southern states is in
progress in the United States De
partment of Agriculture's office of
Farmers’ o-operative Demonstration
Work in the South. Fifteen women
agents are present, each representing
a state in addition to the members of
the office who have charge of the
work. These agents supervise the
work of 369 county agents who direct
the work of 33,420 girls. Data of some
of the state reports given here is
merely an indication of the general
interest that is being taken more and
more throughout the whole South in
the club movement work.
Tennessee Girl Diversifies Crops.
Madge Farrar has proved the pos
sibilities of growing crops ail the year
round in her state. By raising and
selling vegetables throughout the year
she made a net profit of $131.62, while
the second best girl, who also did
good work but did not diversify, made
$96.20 profit. The girl with the second
average grew only beans and tomatoes
during the fall and summer. Miss
Farrar, however, having grown these
crops put in onions during the winter
which she sold at a good prifit early
in February. She then proceeded to
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It was a wise and
experienced woman
who declared that
she always sought
the advertising col
umns of her newspa
per before she set
out on a shopping
tour.
The advertisements
gave her definite in
formation as to the
various attractions;
they told her about
the goods, they told
her of the prices.
And so when she
set out she went
forth with a fixed
idea of what she
wanted and where
she wanted to go.
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WISE WOMAN S
WAY
Thus advertising to
her was a guide post.
It enabled her to go
in the easiest and
quickest direction. It
led her straight to
wise economies.
And that is one of
the functions of ad
vertising—to tell you
where to go to buy to
best advantage.
The merchant long
years ago learned
this, and today, more
than ever, does he
seek to make his ad
vertisements thor
oughly valuable and
helpful by crowding
into them in attrac
tive form everything
bearing upon the sub
ject article, price
and service.
plant cabbage which brought her an
income during April and May, while
peas were her main crop in June. This
brought her back to the tomato and
bean season and rounded out a year
of profitable vegetable frowing.
Another young woman found a
peach orchard into which hogs had
been turned. She took her canner
with her and established herself in
the orchard to save what was left from
the hogs and made S6O in one week
from her work. Similar instances
have een demonstrated the possibili
ties of saving waste in that section
and there has been a more general in
terest exhibited not only by the farm
ers’ daughters, but by many of their
wives.
Fig Possibilities in Southern
Mississippi.
Although the area where figs will
grow in this country is extremely lim
ited, in certain sections of Southern
Mississippi this fruit grows so plenti
fully that its value is not appreciated
and barrels of figs go to waste every
year. Under the conditions that exist
in dooryards and gardens the trees
require little or no cultivation and the
majority of owners eat a few, can a
few for home use, and permit the rest
to go to waste, except in localities
where comemrcial canners are pre
pared to buy the fruit from day to
day as it ripens.
During the past year two counties
of Southern Mississippi decided to
specialize in canning figs. One girl
packed 500 pints which she sold from
35 cents to 40 cents a pint. The
girls in these sections are now leav
ing tomatoes for other less fortunate
districts, where figs will not grow and
are planting six fig trees on their
tenth acre, formerly planted to the
other crop. The demand for this pro
duct from figless sections is far be
yond the supply.
Four years ago there were but two
counties in Mississippi where organiz
ed garden and canning club work was
carried on for the girls; the next year
there were twelve counties; the next
twenty-three, and during the past
year there were thirty-five counties
organized.
In South Carolina.
Pimentoes have proven a particular
boon to certain counties in South Car
olina as have figs in Mississippi. Cer
tain clubs which had been specializing
on tomatoes decided that there was
a possibility in pimentoes, which are
not so generally grown and which are
canned in practically no other parts
ot this country, the main canned pro
duct here being imported from Spain
and Mexico. Since the product of
these young women has been put on
the market, requests have come from
forty-five states for information re
garding the canning and culture of
this valuable food product which the
American people in general do not yet
understand.
The total profit of all the South
Carolina club girls for the past year
was over $28,000. Every agent who
assists the girls is a college graduate
who has received special domestic
science training. Home demonstra
tion work is a feature, the motto be-
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ing, “Do one thing at a time.” There
was, for instance, a home-made fire
b ss cooker campaign which lasted for
three days in one section, and result
ed in a hundred home-made cookers
being put into, use. A fly-trap cam
paign is to be next in order, and after
that a butter-making campaign.
The Value of a Name in North
Carolina.
Two sisters in North Carolina have
established such a reputation for their
canned fruits and vegetable* than they
cannot fill the, demand. The rules of
the agent in charge of the North Car
olina work make it necessary that the
name and address of every club mem
ber on every can she puts on the
markt. “Give me a can of Mabel Nor
ris’ tomatoes,” or “Give me a can of
Agnes Norris’ peaches," requests the
housewife of the grocer in the section
where these two sisters sell their pro
ducts. These young women no longer
put up their product in glass, but in
tins, their name on the outside be
ing sufficient guarantee for the ap
pearance of the product.
The North Carfolina girls are being
taught to be business women as well
as to put up superior products. The
state leaders, when they first inter
ested the girls in the work, attempted
to find markets for them, but as more
girls join the clubs this Is impossible,
and each girl is taught to get out
among the housewives and dealers of
her neighborhood and make her iwn
market. Similarly in Mississippi “mar
keting committees’ are organized by
the girls themselves and club mem
bers in one section put those of an
other section in touch with possible
markets for tb< ir goods.
Texas Girl Helps Father Who Cannot
Sell Cotton.
Annie Davis, who was last year the
grand champion girl of Texas and
came to Washington with the other
champions, has this year come to the
aid of her father, who raised a cotton
crop and couldn’t sell it. She had
saved up her money to take a course
at an industrial school, but the cotton
crisis came along and her money was
given to help the family. This young
woman from the funds which she
earned last year has purchased her
father a team of horses and a wagon.
The Texas girls have shown an un
usual interest in poultry in addition
to their canning and garden work.
This is only the first year of the poul
try work, but already 250 young wo
men have accomplished actual results,
and in not a single case did the "girls
fail to make a profit. The result has
been that in many cases the whole
flock of poultry on a farm has been
turned over to the daughter. The
marketable value of infertile eggs has
been emphasized, for in the past great
quantities of eggs were sent to the
market when they were beyond the
point of using.
One girl cleared last year SIBO from
her turkeys and $338 from her
chickens. In addition, being an all
round farmer, she has made a profit
from her garden and canning work.
This young woman’s success has evi
dently made an impression on her
father, for during the past year he
has reduced his cotton acreage one
half and has put in vegetables pro
ducts. These are not for home use
alone, for he has installed a small
home canner and the whole family are
going to help in canning the stuff for
markt.
ST. GEORGE’S DAY, GREAT
RUSSIAN FESTIVAL, HELD
Petrograd.—St. George’s Day, a
great popular Russian festival, was
celebrated as usual on December Bth.
Collections In the streets and In the
restaurants for various war funds
yielded Immense sums. The restau
rants for this one day were allowed to
dispense alcoholic drinks, and elab
orate theatrical program were given,
most of the numbers being cheerful
references to the progress of the war.
Holders of the Ht. George Cross for
valor received special honors In con
nection with the celebration. Even
wounded heroes on stretchers attended
the banquet of the qrder, three of the
conspicuous wearers of the cross be
ing hoys of fifteen. All three were
runaways to the war. The youngest
of the three ran off with the Foot
Guards Regiment, and he received his
decoration for leading the regiment In
a desperate bayonet charge, ft Is said
that the men when ordered to charge
were reluctant to obey owing to the
apparent hopelessness of the out
look. The hoy thereupon climbed out
of the trench with a few unpremedi
tated remarks which stung the men
Into following him up the hill against
the enemy. The boy was badly wound
ed, but has since recovered
GIVE MONEY~FOR SALE OF
2 GERMAN SHIPS TO MEN
WHO MADE THEIR CAPTURE
London—The men of the warships
which captured the German barques
Goldbek and Perkeo will have about
nineteen thousand pounds of 1115.000
to divide among them from the sale
of these vessels which were recently
put up at auction. The Berkeo went
to a .Vorwegaln bidder at SOI,OOO.
The Goldbek passed to another Nor
wegaln firm at the price of SO4 000.
The sale of the Perkeo aroused In
terest because she Is the largest sail
ing ■ eyse] afloat Hhe <sn load nearly
6,000 tons of ovrgo. Hue w as launch
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
ed under a British registry on the
Clyde in 1901, and was first known
as the Briliant. Shortly before the
outbreak of the war she was sold to
the "P” line of rlippers of Hamburg,
and Captain Nissen was placed in com
mand.
Captain Nissen was skipper of the
famous five-mastered barque Preussen,
which was recked in a storm off
Dover three years ago, when the offi
cers and crew acted with such gal
lantry that the Kaiser sent a congrat
ulatory telegram.
The Perkeo was despatched by her
new German owners to New York on
her first trip, but was intercepted off
Dover on August 5, by H. M. St. Zulu.
Captain Nissen, in sight of the spot
where his old charge, the Preussen.
left her bones, endeavored to escape
by hoisting the Union Jack. But be
ran up the true colors when a shot
pierced her foresail.
AMERICAN WEDDINGSIN
LONDON NOW VERY RARE
..London.—American weddings In Lon
don are now very rare and the usual
number of weddings among Americans
traveling In England will be lacking.
There are few Americans In England
now outside of the regular colony arid
furthermore the chureh of England has
ehown a disposition to discourage the
issuance of lleepsoH to non-residents
wlm desire to waive the formality of
church regulations and have a license
granted without the reading of bans and
other preliminaries which consume at
least two weeks.
At one time Americans were much
given to seeking these special licenses
and arranging weddings In greal haste.
The Bishop of Canterbury grants such
licenses to Englishmen only when there
are urgent reasons, such ns illness or
unexpected military naval orders
which would make it Impossible to com
ply with the church's regular rculre
ments.
In the case of Americans or other for
eigners desiring to marry In England the
same consideration will he shown In an
extreme emergency that Is shown to
Englishmen, hut the church has made
very clear Its unwillingness to Issue
special licenses simply because the par
ties to the marriage do not want to com
ply with the regular requirements.
Within the last twelve months only
one special license has been granted to
Americans.
SMASHED PRICES!
Now for some “Smash' d Shoe Prices.” Tt’s time
for our regular Clearance Sale, and so here goes!
Shoes for Men, Women, Boys and Childrmi all
go at “Smashed Prices.” Drop in to see what a
little money will do—you’ll he surprised.
1 '
Purple Stamps Given and Redeemed
R. L. GARRETT, Manager.
TWO IMPORTANT JANUARY SALES at WHITE'S
Annual January Sale of White
Annual January Clearance Sale of Furniture
THE FIRST INCLUDES:
A Special Sale of Muslin Underwear, A Special Sale of W. B. Corsets
SPECIAL PRICES ON
White Dress Goods, Silks and Linings, White Linens and Cotton Goods,
White Hosiery, Gloves and Neckwear, Laces and Embroideries
And Specially Priced Coat Suits and Coats.
THE SECOND INCLUDES:
A general reduction on every piece of Furniture in our $40,000 stock from 10 to 50 per
, cent.
N. B. —Mr. Richard Kadray and his stock of genuine Oriental Rugs, for a short time,
are in our Carpet Department on the Third floor. Thousands and thousands of dol
lars are represented in these exquisite rugs. Mr. Kadray will be glad to see his friends
at any time.
Terrific Effect of
Shells Shown by
Invalid Soldiers
London, —The terrific effect of the
powerfful shells used by all combat
ants in the European war Is shown
by the increasing number of Invalid
ed sholilicrs who aro not wounded hut
ane simply stunned by shock. One
of the most peculiar cases Is that of
Meutcntaut Denys Cooke, son of the
Itev. Cannon Cooke of Pitlochry who
has no recollection of being In action
His mind has been complete blank for
over a week, and the last thing ho re
members Is sitting down to lunch in
the supporting trenches before ho
wa« under fire.
Lieutenant Cooke Is an officer In
the Black Watch, hut attached to the
Cordons. lie does not remember
anything about the fighting, though
he. has a dlrp recollection of being
placed In an hospital train, hut It Is
only a dim memory. It Is assumed by
the doctors who have studied hts and
other similar cases that, a shell must
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have burst close to him and the effect
lias been to leave his brain In a state
of 'clouded consciousness' from which
he will recover In time.
finite a number of eases have been
reported where men have lost the pow
er of speech. One man In a London
hospital has had to be taught how to
write again. He had lost all memory
of the education he had received in
his youth. Another is still unable to
recognize his relations, and Is as help
less In elementary knowledge as a
child of two years, having lost nil
power of expressing himself.
POWERS AT ENGLISH WAR
OFFICE MEAN BUSINESS
London.—Every day brings fresh
evidence that the ruling powers at the
War Office mean business and will not
tolerate anything like picnics at the
front.
Five prominent society women who
ASK YOUR FRIENDS
ABOUT SPETH’S SALE
Many of your friends, hundreds of the best
buyers and bargain hunters in Augusta, have
already taken advantage of the big Cash Clear
ance Side that is going on at Speth’s. Ask
them about it. Better eoine tomorrow and in
vestigate these bargains for yourself.
A Sale That Appeals
To the Pocket Book
You Are Cordially Invited
To a sale of useful, dependable, house
hold things, things you need in your home
now, at prices actually less than cost and
cheaper than they have ever before been of
fered in Augusta. This is a clearance sale
for cash, and some of your dimes here tomor
row will make a 50 cent piece look sick in
some of the other stores in Augusta.
T mean exactly what T say. I ask a per
sonal and searching investigation and com
parison of prices and values in this sale. ;
L. P. SPETH
864 Broad St. Augusta, Ga.
wont .iff to the front on errands of
mercy have quite suddenly and un
expectedly returned and their explana
tions have been works of art. The real
fact Is however, that while good work
ers meet with ready appreciation the
least attempt at flirtation entails In
slurit dismissal and return to England,
as the War Office authorities have no
intention of allowing a, repetition of
certain irregularities which occurred
in South Africa.
For Dandruff, we recommend
“93” HalrTonlc
T. G. Howard.
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