The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, February 14, 1909, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14. THE FARMERS’ FORUM PJiea Hayne’s Journal By J. C. McAULIFFE “With laden arms she grasps the seeker's knees, In silence pointing back at deeds undone— , „ At gifts unseized and burst of song unsung, Till numbering grayjiess colors all he sees.” Eliminating the personal as far as possible, these notes from a personal journal covering a period of years, must necessarily incorporate some thing that savors of the nature back of them. But if I could emphasize the experiences which I have had down on the farm, out in the woods, down in the city, and everywhere nearl that men go. it would bring some farmer lad and country lass to a realization of the things right around them that are dearer far than the elusive treasures that are found in the distance, away from the old home, away from the loved ones, away from everything that is good. The other day a neighbor, a man who has made good, who has benefit fed his section and his fellowmen, said in a sort of humblb way that his wife was born in one of the rooms of the house where the home-folk reside and that he .was born only a couple of miles away and still lived in the same community, though his hair is tinged with gray, his face is showing marks of age, his form is not quite so erect as it once was, still he is a man for better, much more valuable to his country and his dis trict than many another fellow' who has gone away and caused the world to do honors to him by sheer deter mination. Staying right around the place where he was born, struggling on to make things better, to *do better work for his community, to aid a neighbor who needed help. It there anything very much better? Maybe going off, fighting against almost insurmount able obstacles, conquering in the bat tle, may all be pretty nice, but after the end of the road is reached, after the toil is ended, who will lie down to sleep the last sleep and draw the drapery around him as though to take ' a sweet sleep and pleasant dreams? On the Other hand think of the fail ures of the boys, and oh, of the girls, too, who leave the old home place and engage in the pitiless struggle for existence! What desperate depths are so often reached; how grim is the despair w'hich looms up with such fearful, spectral proportion as to THE POULTRY CORNER The Incubator and Brooder THE WOODEN WAY The best incubator is the one that is best understood and treated. What kind of machine you buy does not matter so much as how you handle and care for it. I cannot give any one incubator or brooder special rec ommendation. Our advertisers would not like this. However, I believe any of the machines or brooders advertis.- ed in these columns will do good work if properly managed. Because our neighbor’s incubator does not reach his expectations it does nos follow that the machine is to blame. Some folks will put all kinds of eggs long and short, rough and smooth, fresh and stale, in the Incubator, and run the machine in a haphazard way, paying little atten tion to the instructions given by the maker. Often the machine is attend ed to by first one, then another of the family, and too many hands spoil the hatch. While it is easier to care for an in cubator than a lot of broody hens, it takes effort and careful attention at the right time to make either “pan out.” Locate the incubator where it will be handy to look after and you will be more apt to get satisfactory re sults. An incubator up stairs or out! in the wood-house is very likely to be neglected. We don’t like the idea of running up and down stairs or out doors to look after an incubator when many other dutieß are pressing. Do not trust to the thermometer being right; better compare it with a phvsi- , cian’s thermometer to make surfe and mark any variation on the face. It is a mistake for the average farmer to buy too small a machine. A 50-egg machine requires as much attention as a larger size and one doesn’t get enough tw.ckens to pay for fooling with it. 100-egg machine is small enough. And with a 150 or 200-egg size the farmer's wife can soon hatch about all the chickens she will be able to take care of. Learning to run the wooden hen successfully is the same as learning anything else. One is very likely to make a few mistakes before they be come experts. However, the direc iiens are plain enough that little trou ble will be found by the careful per son in hatching most of ’the fertile eggs. It Is easier to hatch the early cloud with hazy coloring the bril liancy of the future, preventing one from taking new steps, often sending the weak down to oblivion. If you win success there is it worth the price? Is self-satisfaction a reward greatv enough to warrant such under takings? The man, or woman, the boy, or girl, who goes out to succeed must have another incentive, back of the work must stand the soul’s long ing to help the world,, there must be a determination to gw forward, the great truth that time, curcumstances, nor fate, cannot keep you from your own must be forever before you. And even then many a tiqie the place will be reached when one will doubt if the fight will be successful and even should it be would not it be better to give up all and realize the great dream of life—the one that every body dreams sooner or later, that of contentment where love is 8ond? “Though nature’s lonesome, leafless bowers, With winter’s awful snows are white, The tender smell of leaves and flow ers Makes May-time in my room to night.” For a number of years I’ve been thinking mat every succeeding win ter has been more glorious than its predecessor. This year it seems doubly true. On ahead there may be snows and cold wintry winds, hut up to now the farmers have been bus ily at work all the time, nothing has interrupted them, and still the sun shines brightly. If this could go on forever the south could feed the world, flocks would grace hillside and valley, fields of grain, truck and cot ton would greet the passer-by on every side. What glorious weather! But it can’t be this way much long er. The rain must come, the cold must follow, the beauty of earth must be marred, but after all just a month or two ahead there Is the glorious spring time with its grasses and flow ers more beautiful than ever and then conies again the summer time with lte propotious and wonderful crops.—lnland Farmer. The union in Arkansas has given out a series of appointments for far mers’ institutes at various places, and some of the ablest men of the state are on the list as speakers. This is in keeping with the principles of the union, as the work is all along edu cational lines, and -should De com mended. chickens with the incubator than it is to raise them, unless one has neces sary contrivances for handling young chicks successfully. I used to think if I had an incubator to hatch the early chicks I could raise them somehow, but I son found out one has to be prepared for rearing them as well as hatching to avoid loss and stunted chicks. If one has enough broody hens, the incubator chicks can he di vided among them, and they will do very well raising them if provided with comfortable homes. But the brooder method is the easiest. One can care for 50 chicks in a brooder as easily as they can look after an old hen and a dozen chickens. We like the incubator and brooder for hatching and rearing the early chicks especially. These machines never change their minds in regard to their duty if looked after, and the hens sometimes do no matter how well we -think we have them trained. Every year in December a goose fair is held in Warsaw on a gigantic scale. It is estimated that on an average no less than 5,000,000 geese are driven to the town and sold. These have to travel from forty to 150 miles on foot. Most of them come from the Vllna district, to the northeast of Poland. To enable the birds to stand these long tourneys the geese are shod. The method of shoeing them Is simple and Interest ing. They are made to walk to and fro for a time In melted tar, hot enough to stick, but not so hot as to burn. Then they are turned loose on a sandheap. The result is a pair of shoes durable enough to last on the Journey.—lnland Farmer. The world does move and the poul tryman must move with the rest. When eggs for market are the main object enough hens of the right sort must be kept the year around. Activity is the law sf nature. The hens work and dig for their living in warm weather and stay in prime con dition. To keep them healthy in winter we must feed in a way to in duce exercise. FARM PRICES MUST GO HIGHER SHORTLY Growth of Cities and De mand Makes it a Settled Fact. The price of farm products as steadily increasing. Although the yield is on the whole greater thaq ever before, there has been no cor responding decrease in value. It is reasonably certain that both yield and value will continue to increase regardless of any clamor for lower prices. And it is due largely to the rapid development of the city. Cities are growing as rapidly as food sup increase. All the time the price of farm products is increasing the ur ban population grows and consumes the excess. Nor will there be any abatement of urban growth. The re sult will be as now, only probably more conspicuously, that cities will keep on growing and the demand on the farm will grow with them. Faster, too, than the supply, owing to arti ficial requirements that will arise; al so to increasing waste and extrava gance. All of which will enhance the value of everything the farmers raise. Wheat will never be permanently cheaper than now; nor will meat, garden or dairy products. Some years will be unusual, of course, Just as they have in the past, producing dearth or bumper crops, hut the trend of prices is upward. How far the growth of cities will extend until the farm draws the city’s hosts It. is impossible to say. It may be that the urban population and the supply of food products will grow together, thus keeping things normal. One thing is certain, however, low prices for farm products have passed, never to return again.—American Agricul turist. 1 4 • VICTORY IN DEFEAT 4 ► 4 ► Defeat may serve as well as vie- 4 ’ tory 4 • To shake the soul and let the 4 ► glory out. 4 ► When the great oak is straining < ► in the wind, 4 ► The boughs drink in new beauty, < ► and the trunk < y Sends down a deeper root on < ► the windward side. < ► Only the soul that knowß the < ► mighty grief ► Can know the mighty rapture. < ► Sorrows come < ATo stretch out. spaces in the < ► heart for joy. < ► —Edwin Markham in Nautilus. < » i « THE CACKLING OF THE > HEN. > ► There’s music in the warble - ► Of the song bird’s merry trill, ► When lovely spring conies smll- - ► Ing, • Freeing every little rill; ► There’s muslo in the humming ► Of the bees in flowery glen, ► But sweeter is the music ► Of the cackling of the hen. ► ► When the crops are coming thin ► And the gude man’s tired and ► * blue, ► (For his pocketbook Is empty, ► And the taxes almost due), ► When he knows the golden - ► eagle ► Cannot he obtained from men, - ► Then his heart leaps up with - ► gladness ► At the cackling of the hen. ► ' ► When the dreaded vampire - ► mortgage, ► Growing bigger, day b'y day, ► Casts Its darkening shadow o’er ► him, ► And he knows not how to • ► pay; 1 When sugar's getting dearer ► And the cows are falling, ► then ► There’s nothing like the music ► Of the cackling of the hen. t < So far the winter here has been unusually mild. We have had so many sunshiny days that have been enjoyed beneficially by the hens, ca lims and late hatched chicks. We have a few fine thrifty December chicks. My neighbors made fun of me hatching chicks in this climate in December, but the chicks are doing so well I wish 1 bad more of them. When It Is too cold for them to be out doors they enjoy life with their Leg horn mother in a roomy coop scratch ing in dry chaff for their feed. They are great pets and I greatly enjoy taking care of them and watching them grow. If you are keeping hens for eggs it won’t pay to sell a lot of hens Just because they are a good price and thus reduce the size of your flock. Clean houses and clean drinking water insures against cholera. And a house built off the ground is the best roup preventive. THE AUGUSTA HERAI-D. Good Slock and Fences By B. J. WATERSTRIPE On every farm where stock are \ kept (and that should be on every farm in the country) we need to have good fences. We especially need to have good fences around where hogs are kept. 1 like to have fences well put up, so that when I put hogs or stock of any kind in a lot, I will know and can rest assured that they will be there when I return. Poor fences cause a lot of worrying and trouble j w-hich may be avoided if when.we are! building a fence we will take u little more care and time and have it put i up right. In keeping stock we need to have plenty of fences, and plenty of lots so we can handle stock to the best advantage. I know that the more fences we have the more expense it is, but we can handle and change the stock much better, and the changing of pastures is w-orth much to the stock; this is especially true of the hogs. We must in the future raise j our hogs more on pasture and forage I crops. The way to do this is to have | a number of lots and sow in them a i succession of forage crops in order, to have pasture the whole season, i The fence to put up today Is some of : the woven wire fencing on the mar-; ket in which there are many brands i and styles, and all must, choose which j they think is best. There is much i complaint that the fencing now on the market will not last as iong as the fencing that was bought years ago. Some claim their make of fence is better galvanized than others, but I would take the fence which I thought was best, and believe that one will last on the average as long as the other. I think as far as last- 1 ing and rusting Is concerned, we had about as well take one as the other, and, in buying a fence, I scarcely ever think of this. There is one brand of fence or the market that sells at a higher price than most oth er makes, the company claiming they make it better, and I have always thought that it was better, but since seeing that It will rust out as soon as any other, I would not give any more for it. I would select style of fence that, looks strongest and best, and never mind the lasting qualities, for as for me I would soon risk one as the other. The 2G-ihch woven wire and 3 barb wires on top makes a good fence for the farm, and 1 have put up _)! lot. of this kind. The first barb wire on top should he stretched quite close to the fencing about 3 inches, or the stock will learn to put their heads through here and stretch the fencing and make the opening greater. This style will make a good fence. 1 thought that it was not so hard on the corner The Farm and Poultry Home and Farm To couple the names of farmers, Borne years ago, with that of poultry growing only meant to insult him. To make mention of the fact that he was a stock grower just suited his fancy, but the poultry business, in his eyes, was exceedingly small fry. If any poultry were kept on his farm they were referred to as the property of "the old woman.” He was perfectly free to let his wife’s name be connect ed with the poultry business, selling the eggs, and she could even trade the butter for some things they had to have, provided some tobacco was among the things traded for. If there is one thing more than another for which a farmer is proverbially noted it is a good share of practical common sense. Some of them have hobbles and pet theories, which sometimes bring them a great deal of ‘experience’ but as a rule he lookß at alipost every thing along utility lines. Some farmers have been looking for the best farmer’s fowl; have bred almost all the breeds in existence, and yet have to confess that the real util ity fowl for all farmers is as evasive as quicksilver. At times he thinks he has this much-desired bird cornered, only to find that It Is still at large. The practical qualities of his wife's Sunday bonnet are well exemplified as a receptacle for gathering eggs, but. a basket or a t.ln pan may he better. A buzz-saw is all right for the purpose for which it was Intended hut It can’t, be used for shaving a man's heard. All these things are very practical in their way, but making these things answer for all purposes Is very much like carrolling a cyclone—something no man has succeeded in doing. It is the way with fowls. One person wants fowls for the production of eggs, and therefore will want the breed whose hens prove to be the best lay ers/ Another wants the best table fowls, and an entirely different breed will be selected. The third man wants fowls with a certain fancy feath er, and pays a fancy price for them. Here is a farmer who lives several miles from the nearest town, whose time Is devoted to other pursuits, who cares very little for fowls of any par ticular kind. He recognizes the fact., however, that they are an unfailing source of supply, in case of emergency Conducted By J. C. McAULIFFE posts as where we used the 54-inch fencing. The end and corner posts must be sol firm in the ground, and the more solid you can get. them, the bettor fence you will have. We cannot get them too solid, for they will almost spring at best, what extra time we can spend in making those posts solid will be well spent. In stretching up the fencing I want it tight, and close to the ground to prevent, pigs from learning to crawl under; for if we do not have it tight there the pigs will soon learn to slip under and put more stretch in the fencing all the time. Some stretch a barb wire close to the ground first, which is also a good plan. In order to put up the fencing right we must, have it tight, and have the corner posts so set that we can stretch It tight. There is nothing which pays like good fences, and in building fences and other improvements, I have found that it pays well to take a lit tle more time and money and make thorn right. Tho cheap improvements look well for a tlmo, but in a fe\4 years we can see the difference. Good fences save you lots of time and trouble; time that you cannot, afford to lose. It may save you trouble with your neighbor which you cannot afford to have. DIVERSIFIED CROPS MEAN SUCCESS Cotton has for too long a time hold sway in the south land. No one questions the greatness of the crop, hut it is too fickle to continue as master. Many men are making money out of cotton alone, but they are favored in special ways. The average southern farmer will he most successful by attaching himself to other crops as well as to cotton. If the money that is sent out of the cotton land each year for grain, hay and fertilizers could be kept, at home, the condition of farmers would be castly different from what It now Is. Your plan ought to be to grow your own supplies of corn and hay, and not to put all profits into fertilizers and home supplies. My experience Is, that the man who grows tobacco and cotton Is simply working for the other follow; and he works for low wages at that. By growing corn, forage crops, vegetables, potntoos, peanuts and other products that have a constantly ready sale, the southern farmer cap pocket, bis profits that ho gets from cotton, and not hand it over to some foreign manufacturer or trust. FOR PROFIT AND PLEASURE in furnishing the table, buying the gro. ceries and keeping him out of the dobt for long intervals. We would Infer, then, that the far mer's fowls essentially should be prollf. ic layers without sacrificing other qualities. They should be good table fowls, They should sell well in the market, and to satisfy this require ment they must be of good size, easi ly fattened, plump and of good ap pearance when dressed. They must be hardy and good foragers, and If the farmer is not ready to buy an in cubator the hens must me good sitters and mothers. If one breed of fowls having the re. qntrements named cannot be found it may be well to build separate yards and keep two kinds, and thus both de mands will be filled. One breed may be laying in winter while the other Is getting ready to roll out the eggs at some other season of the year. These are questions that are being studied by the careful, and each individual will have to determine the matter for himself. The blood of poultry is five degrees warmer than that of human beings. This why they eat more according jto their weight than wo do. More fuel is needed to keep up the heat. The Leghorns occupy the same place in the poultry world that, the Jersey cow does In the cattle world. One Is a great butter producer and | the other great egg producers. If it ! is eggs you want try a flock of Leg j horns. The high prices for eggs , which have prevailed over the whole country ought to encourage more I farmers to go into the business solely or eggs and the money there Is In thbrjl- Go into the hen-house at night and you can soon discover the birds that are threatened with roup, by the man rier of breathing. If you desire early sitters while the winds yet blow cold, you must get the hens to laying and keep them at It. And make no changes at this season. Moving any portion of the flock means fewer eggs and fewer early clucking hens. NOT A SAINT, YET NOT MUCH OF A SINNER, SAYS SCRWARZWEISS Candidate For . Waynes boro Postinastership was in the City Saturday and Talked Interestingly of the Fight on Him. i Mr. Seigfried • Schvra rzweiss. who has been appointed postmaster at Waynesboro, and upon whom such a spirited fight is being made to pre vent the confirmation of the nomina tion when the senate committee meets early next week, was in the city Saturday, and talked to a re porter of The Herald about the con test. Mr. Schwarzweiss says he is not much worried over the affair and be lievps tho senate committee will con firm his appointment when it. meets Mr. Schwairzweiss says that objec tions were made to his appointment by his political foes with the charge that he was an immoral man. He dismisses that with the statement that he is not. a saint, but is on tho other hand not so much a sinner as he Is painted. He says that at his request, the postoffiee department sent an inspector to Waynesboro to in vestigate the charges against him and tile report of the inspector ex onerated him, Mr. Schwarzweiss says that his visit to Augusta had nothing to do with the postinastership. Contrary to tho stories sent out from Wash ington to the effect, that the repub lican factions in the state are divided over the appointment, Mr. Schwarz weiss says that he has the Indorse ment of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Harry Still well Edwards, Mr. Clark (ireer and Mr. Harry Blun. Thus having all the leading powers that be in the republican fold in the state with him, Mr. Schwarzweiss believes the con firmation of his appointment Is hut a matter of time. Mr. Schwarzweiss says that If Ills appointment was left to a vote of the people of Waynesboro, men, women and children, ho would come out with flying colors. MR. DANNENBERG RETURNS. MACON, Oa.—Mr. Walter Dnnnenberg, of Macon, haa Just returned fr*>ni New York, where he weal to visit hie father, Mr. Joseph Dannenberg, who wne very 111. Want to Contract -For -1,000 tons of Tomatoes 100 tons of Sweet Pota toes. 100 tons of Beans. 100 tons of Peaches. Augusta Canning Co. FRANK ROUSE Pres, and Treas. ’Phone 477. Baths Turkish SI.OO Russian 76c Shampoo 60c TURKISH BATH HOTEL, HARISON BUILDING. $17.00 Washington and Return, ATLANTIC COAST LINE. Acconnt Inaugural Ceremonies President-Elect Taft. TICKETS ON SALE ftBRUARY 28th. to March 3rd, inclusive, final limit leaving Washington not later than midnight March 8. $ 11.95 For Parties 25 or More on I Ticket. GREAT MILITARY PARADE. For full information,reservations, etc., call on Ticket Agents or L. D. McCULLUM, Commercial Agent. M. C. JONES, City Ticket Agent. W. A. GIBBS, Depot Ticket Agent, Augusta, Georgia. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14. SPARTANBURG DOES IT LIRE FAIR • DATES Special to The Herald. SPARTANBURG, S. C.—The direct ors of the Spartanburg Fair Associa tion have entered a protest against the dates fixed for the Spartanburg lair and race meeting, at a recent meeting of representatives of south ern fair associations held in Greens boro, N. C. November IG-19 was fixed for the Spartanburg lair. These dales, it is claimed, are too late for a successful fair and it is understood that an other meeting will be held next week to arrange another schedule. It is also learned that complaint is made because of the dates for Augusta, Co lumbia and Charlotte fairs. LADIES’ ATTENTION! The Augusta Trunk Factory has just received from New York a hand some iine of the latest in hand bags and shopping bags. See the latest hit in the Alligator Claw hags, tho Squaw Drawstring hags. This pro gressive trunk and leather goods house guarantees to save you money on these goods. Just cross tin street and take a look, 851 Broad wrong side of streel, but right side of prices. Jiisf the Thing YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. Stork Folding Grib Tho most convenient r article in the form of a crib ever put on the market. Made all steel, white enameled with brass vases. When folded it is only 4 inches wide and weighs but 18 pounds; can be adjust ed to lit any lied, wood or iron; can be opened or closed in a moment and when not in nse may be folded and put under the bed or any small space. Light, clean and san itary, while the price is within easy reach of every one. Georgia Carolina Furniture % Co. 904 Broad Street, Formerly J. L. Bowles Fur. Co.