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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1909)
SUNDAY, MAY 9. THE FARMERS’ FORUM GEORGIA’S GOOD ROADS By FRED L. WHITE Realizing that the farmers are the most in need of improved highways; owing to the great amount of travel that is required of them, in transporting their crops to market, as well as the supplies needed for consumption over the public road, it has been my desire as a leader in the Good Roads Movement to enlist the sympathy of the farmers and se cure their co-operation and support in united effort to secure additional legis lation as well as an up-to-date system of road working and road building. This systematic method of road work ing and road building can only be ac complished by a central supervisor or such as New York has established, a State Highway commission, .with a State Highway Engineer, who is to be vested with such authority, from time to time, as to place him in control ot the county road authorities. In this way the great est amount of road work can be accom plished with the expenditures at hand. Roads are expensive to build, and main tain. With Georgia’s 57,203 miles of public roads, 55,603 miles are unimprov ed. To make first-class roads out of the unimproved it would cost approxi mately $278,016,000. While years will come and go before all of Georgia s roads are improved, nevertheless, more and more money is being spent yearly to ex tend improvements. In 1904 Georgia ex pended $2,080,872.33 on her roads, a great deal more is being spent today. Ten per cent of this annual expenditure in FIGURES ON THE HEN According to those who compiled the last census, there are 283,598,005 hens in the United States. These are valued at $70,000,000, and the eggs they lay would, if divided, allow 203 eggs annually to every person—man, woman and child —in the United States. The value of all the fowls is $85,890,000. The Pene lope of the barnyard is entitled to con sideration. A writer in "The Technical World" gives some interesting figures concern ing the American hen and the egg in d ire try—figures that are so alluring that the city dweller is inspired for sooth to move to the' country and begin raising chickens. When one reads that more eggs are laid in lowa than in any other State in the Union, and that the hens in that State supply 100,000,000 dozen eggs every year, one is tempted to toss aside the pen and study the idiosyncras ies of poultry. When one reads that Chicago is the greatest egg center in the country, that seven hundred and twenty million eggs are stored in that city each year, that on an average, 2,000,000 cases of eggs are shipped into Chicago every year, one is tempted to invest his earn ings in American Hen, Unlimited. As suredly the figures furnished by the government are more alluring than min ing prospectuses or the advertisements of Thomas W. ‘Lawson. There is magic in the statistics of the agricultural de partment. For instance, the eggs pro duced in oneJ year are valued at $145,- 000.000. The mere statement of fact does not provoke more than passing interest; but when the figures are compared with other products one begins to think that the tales of the Arabian Nights are oom monplace afier all. Wool amounts to $45,750,000 annually. The poultry sold in a year goes ahead of that amount by $9t,000.000 and the eggs by $98,500,000. <%o* Ffnmc\ MV33; | AMt L-Jp&ml l>et HsOv3®fear ' u^/^aJ I -Jr JS3?-is#! [ ™MMwI / y' -*>' . /an# \f / idM ' stem \ r JT\\wE&fihw^ t ( ’ SB mzWk mmk / \M|Wlft l wMl>»’ ' wlsnw[/il #iv ,J|l / 1 5 .. / iitljl /if lawful 4U*m L / m-yj / t the way of a non-political State high way department composed of men of en gineering skill and experienced road builders would not only save the State thousands of dollars annually, but by es tablishing in connection therewith a bu reau of surveying, which shall lay out all public roads, avoiding hills, streams and shortening routes as much as pos sible, as well as to map out routes from county seat to county seat over the state, they wouui thus establish roads which as the wealth of the counties and state permit, improved roads could be built, and a definite object would !*e at tained. As it is today some counties have very good systems of road working, while others proceed upon method of ante-bellum origin, simply patching the road once or fwtcfe a year, so people can travel once in a while. Every establish ment or business firm of large propor tions has a system of management which not only saves money but permits ex pansion. Why is it not more important that a State which annually spends mil lions for road work, should not have a system of highway management? Tho Good Roads Club of Georgia has been investigating the .subject thoroughly and has outlined a bill to establish such a State Highway commission, which it hopes to have before the public in a short time, and ask the consideration, and if possible, the support of the friends of this movement to improve' Georgia’s highways.—Union News. In view of these amazing figures it is noi surprising that nine city men out of ten dream of some day being able to own a bungalow in the country and raise poultry for a profit. But the experience of the amateur fanoier never equals the expectations aroused by the government statistics. He eventually discovers that each egg his hens lay costs him two or three times as muoh as the egg would coat in the city, and that the price he pays for his chick en dinner would be considered prohibi tive by the man who could not boast of more than a million dollar bank account. Of course, there is money in poultry. Tho Mystery is, who makes it? Theoretical ly, the amateur fancier should derive an independent income from his hens. Prac tically, the hens cost him more thcfn he makes out of them. This is one of life’s little ironies. DIDN’T KNOW MUCH BUT—HE SKINNED THE LEARNED PRO FESSOR IN A HOSS DEAL Mayor Reyburn, of Philadelphia, the owner of the record breaking trotter, Ed Bryan, told at a dinner a horse story. "A farmer visited a phrenologist," h e said. "He had hoard that the phren ologist thought of buying a horse. He had his head examined and his bu ps revealed surprising things. " ‘Your tastes are the simple, home ly and pure taste farmer,’ said the phrenologist, ‘and a farmer I take you to be. Am I not right? Aha, I thought so. You are unready and faltering in speech; you find it difficult to express the simplest ideas. You are sadly de ficient in judgment and have no knowl edge of human nature. Your innocent and tasteful disposition renders you an easy dupe to designing men, and your perfect honesty prevents you from elth- ■ yu» he Empire effects like the frock., /e*k No. 461, on the left hand figure are very youthful and becoming to almost all figures The girdle comes to the waist line in front and is raised a little in the back. The skirt seams are curved in just a little at the waist,which gives a slender effect beloiw the girdle. The pattern is cut iu 5 sizes, 32 to 40 bust measure. The two collars, No. 462, are very dainty and prettj . The one on the fig ure is made of white silk trimmed with narrow ecru lace beading and triangular motifs. The other collar has a band that turns up over the lower edge and holds the tie in place. The material is white linen with the band of pink pique. This pattern iscut in 3 sizes,small,medium and large,corresponding to 1214,13>a and 14 neck. One of the new front closing dresses for misses is shown in No. 456. The ma terial is blue galatea with a trimming band of white with black polkadots and braid. This pattern is cut in 3 sizes,l2,l4 and 16 yrs These patterns are 10 cents each. Send orders giving number and size to Sunday Pattern Dept, of this newspaper. GOOD FEED TO GIVE IN POULTRY FARMING There is no reason why the farmer should not have as good poultry as the fancier. He has every advantage of food and range and is in every way better situated for raising poultry. The waste of grain at the barn and in the hog pen will supply the food for a large flock, and if farmers would get rid of their mongrels and keep only one pure breed they would uuquestionr ably b e able to produce good and profit able poultry. During the fall months comfortable houses could be built at a very small cost with waste lumber from nearby mills. Sorghufn and broom-corn seed both make splendid poultry food and should be carefully stored away for use dur ing the winter* Straw is cheap, and this should be freely used for jthe scrt’gching shod. If the poultry house is near the barn, the hens will be about early eaoh morning gathering stray grains dropped by the horses and cattle. Watch the hens carefully and see that they do not steal nests in tne mang ers or lofts. Make their own house and nests so inviting that they will want to go there to roost and lay. There i 3 no better place during the day for hens than the stables where horses have been stabled and fed. They will work over the beading and gather up every waste gram that has been dropped. CO-OPERATIVE POULTRY WORK NOW ADVOCATED A Co-operative Poultry and Egg socie ty should have fifty or more members, who agree to sell only through the so-' ciety, to gather their eggs daily out of the regular nests only, and deliver or send them twice a week to the packing station and to fatten their poultry -when to be sold. They organize, adopt their rules, elect officers and engage a suit able person in a convenient town to re ceive, sort, pack, ship and sell the eggs and poultry. He sorts the eggs to size and colors, makes sure that they rre strictly fresh, dates them and district utes the proceeds less the expenses. There Is a fine for any egg sent In con trary to the rules and expulsion for the second offense. A much higher price is obtained for these strictly fresh and uniform eggs and they can h« sold to hotels, restau rant and families at the retail price with no middl'/nan’s expense. The society encourages tho farm wife to keep more hess and give them better care, to keep better breeds and feed better. It pays.—N. O. Nelson. TIRESOME TABK. Hungry Higgins— "A woman gimme a handout dis mornin,’ den had de nerve t’ ask me t’ beat a carpet fer her." Dusty Doolittle—" Wot did yous say?" Hungry Higgins—"l tole her dat I wuz orful sorry, but I wuz all tired out from heatin' a railroad."—Exchange. er suspecting or defrauding anyone.* "The phrenologist the following week bought a horse from the farmer. The horse was knock-kneed, it was 26 years old, it had a bad temper, and it balked. Though the farmer had only paid sls for th© animal, he secured without dif ficulty $1!>0 from the phrenologist for it. " ‘lt is wonderful,’ said the fanner to himself, as he hastened towsrd a bank to deposit the money—it's Jest wonder ful that a man should know so much about men and not know a thing about hosses!’ " —Detroit Free Press. THE AUGUSTA HERALD. SOME CANNING NOTES G. W. Scoggins, before Horticultural association at Stillwater, OkUv. The iirst record of canning appeared in a paper submitted to the English so ciety of Art in 1807, by Saddington M. Appert put the principles to \>vork on a large soale in 1809, and has generally. Tnis was just 100 years ago, so you see that this industry is now In its infancy. Canning in its present form dates from a patent granted to Angilbert in 1823, just 86 years ago. Scientifically speaking, canning is kil ling bacteria, a small plant which the most powerful microscope makes appear as only little dots and rods. It is the action of this plant life that causes fer mentation or putrefaction. Growth of plants depends upon three things; light, heat and moisture, in proper proportion. An excessive amount or deficiency of either will prevent them from thriving. Fruit stored in a. dark place will keep longer than in the light, for the plant causing fermentation will not flourish in the dark. Dried fruit will keep indeflite ly, because plant life Is dormant, for lack of moisture. Fruits in cold storage will keep longer than in warm storage, because of lack of heat to give life to bacteria. Fruits and vegetables intend ed for shipment should be gathered dry and as cool as possible, so they will SOME POULTRY POINTERS By FANNIE M. WOOD There are some people who just keep chickens. Their chickens do little toward keeping them. Eggs should be allowed a twenty-four hour rest after shipping. It is a good plan for neighbors who de sire the samo breed to order eggs to gether and divide express charges. Better apply moisture In some way if the nest of the sitting hen is in an ex tremely dry place. An incubator is no more dangerous about the house than an oil lamp. Eith er must be carefully handled, then there is no danger. Fill a shallow pan with pebbles about the size of walnuts, then fill with water and the chicks can drink between the pebbles and not get wet. When cleaning up give the water ves sels their share of cleaning. Give fresh water in dirty vessels is poor practice. Give the chicks a fair ohanoe on rainy days. Coops must bo dry and comfort able. See the broodies are off long enough to get all they want of everything oven if there are pipped eggs in the nest. Look out for tho big head vermin. They sap the chick’s life blood, weak ening them and causing them to suc cumb to most any allhient. HEALTH IN POULTRY WORK Here Is a true poultry experience no fairy tale. A few years ago I was a miserable dyspeptic, unable to eat or sleep. The doctors told me I needed The plain nets in coarse mesh weaves make up prettily in separate waists and V will be extensively worn. No 459is\ery | suitable for this material as the upper I sleeve and waist is cut in -ne piece with / a cuff added at the elbow to make a full length sleeve. This pattern ,459 and 457 are both cut in 5 sizes,32 to 40 bust mea sure White d:mity,trimtned with German val. lace ruffles on the center tucks,is tha material used for the other waist,No. \437. The closing is made with fancy V pearl buttons set closely in the upper i naif of the waist and below the button* k\ are under a fold in the waist. Conducted By i. C. McAULIFFE bear shopping. If gathered wet and warm, decomposition will begin at once. The principle underlying the process of canning is generally misunderstood. Successful canning by many people ’s supposed to depend on the expulsion of the air, but the air can not be expelled by heating. It is the killing of the bacteria which cause fermentation or putrefaction. The best way to kill bactc.ia is by heating. Experiment has proven that bacteria will all die at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and tho spores (seeds) will die %t boiling point if al lowed to boil long enough. The can may be hermetically sealed at tho boil ing point, bi t it is best to f seal and heat after sealing. 'Tho latter way is tho one in jse as all canning factories. Af ter the cans are sealed and the bacteria killed the light should be cut off. If you use gUee pais, wrap them In brown or black paper when you store them away, as the light through the glass will arouse the bacteria if not thoroughly killed. The quickest and most eoonomioal way to pare peaches is to Immerse them in boiling water for one or two minutes, .on drop them in cold water, when the skins will slofigh off. If the skins do not come off, add a little concentrated lye to the water. Feed young turkeys sparingly. Over feeding means a complication of trouble to deai with. Stale hroac* crumbs moist ened in milk and squeezed dry Is a good feed for very young turkeys. Keep th© chicks growing right along, if they ar G allowed to stop it will take thorn a long time to get started again. When the chicks begin to ha toll leave the hen entirely alone. A hen knows a thing or two. It doesn’t take long for brooder chicks to learn to scamper to the brood er when anything goes wrong outside. Neglecting to shut in the hen and her brood at night is the cause of many chicks being lost. Don’t forget little turkeys as well as old er ones need plenty of grit and clean fresh drinking water. The chicken hen would make a better not her for little turkeys if she did not wean them so early, thus leaving them without a protector. There nro several good points !n favor <»f buying eggs whether one wishes frosh blood or a start of pure bred poultry And there u|e many reliable breeders who value their reputation enough to look carefully after their customers wel fare. There are of course a few excep tions, as rogues are found in all walks of life.—lnland Farmer. some work within my strength to keep me out of doors and give mo something to think about besides myself. I turn ed to chickens. Now I was, am yet an old maid school-teacher, know very little about the feathered tribe, and the first thing I did after obtaining a small flook of healthy oommon hens was to sub scribe for a poultry and form paper. I studied chickens and talked chickens. The neighbors called me a chicken crank, hut I didn't, mind that, for I had been celled a cranky old maid no long. I even succeeded In getting iny childish old uncle, who made his homo with mo lnterented In my plans about the chick ens. When hatching season came I fairly lived with the hens and chlokena. Never were broody hens and baby chicks more closely watched and tended. I loved them; my heart was with them, and the downy babies and fussy oid hens seemed to know it. While I enjoyed ihe work it was no snap lighting lice, keeping the houses, nests and coops clean, and patching up old coops in stead of buying new ones, for I was determined my poultry venture shouldn't cost me much. When night came after the first, hard days work no poppy pil low was need * to bring sleep and In ;t little while my digestion was better. Those ohlskens—the care of them re lieved my tired nerves from the strain of being pulled ell the time In one di rection. They kept rue thinking and busy all summer long and I returned to my work In the school-room healthy and happy, no longer a nervous wreck, flat ting close to nature with my flock of chickens brought me some money that summer, eggs and fowls for home use, an - best of all health when drugs and sanitariums had failed. I still have a small flock of hens, enough to keep rne employed during my vacations, end that dear old uncle of min#, may be found out In the chick en yard this rnlrnAe busy as a bee fix ing up hens nect.s. At first he merely tolerated the chickens, but now he crj joys poultry work rind gives them very careful attention while I am away. Mary O'Bryant, In “Inland Parmer.'' If you get u poor hatch from shipped eggs be not too ready to lay all the blame on the person of whom the *»ggs were purchased. Sometimes shifted "gg* are damaged by n severe Jar on the road, as express matter is not always carefully hand. d. A good hatch depends upon so many things besides the eggs. Bii /lx SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Efficient Service Beasosable Rates Or. Wm.H. Doughty, Sr,, Wrote ot Harris Littiia Water: “I think it conserves the general health in a variety of ways, while medicinally it corrects indigestion in many forms; relieves genito urinary diseases; neutralizes an excess of uric acid in the blood and secretions; and is of value in the treatment of rheumatic and gouty diseases. I prescribe it freely in these disorders, and drink it freely when occasion demands." Very truly, (Signed) W. TT. DOUGHTY, M. D. $1.50 for 5 gallon demi john delivered at your residence - C. T. PUND & CO. ..DISTRIBUTORS.. Phone No. 269 or Any Druggist Roofings! Roofings!! Roofings!!! Roofing f1n—(2.25 per roll and up. Painted tin .hlngle., (4.00 p.r square. Paper and Rubber roofing*. Painted and Galvanized Corru gated Iron, at close prices. Mantel*, tiling, gntet, paint*, etc. I buy In carloads, at carload rate* and sell accordingly. Bee me before placing your order. DAVID SLUSKY 1009 Broad St. (-3 D I IfC Red an( * Buff, Dry Pressed DnlviX an d Common Building LARGEST STOCK. PROMPT SHIPMENT. Georgia-Carolina Brick Gor.pany Write for Prices. AUGUSTA, GA. Howard H. Stafford, President. Save Some of the Money That You “Save!” If you could place a speclil purse, or deposit In a special fund, all of the moneys saved In the course of a year because of your reading and answering uds., you'd he surprised at the sum total. The pennies and dimes on groceries, table supplies; the dollars saved on clothes, furniture, furnishings, objects of art, china, silverware —all, In a year s course, would mount to a tidy sum, indeed. Why don’t you try the experiment—for a few weeks—of AC TUALLY SETTING ASIDE the amounts saved In your purchases on account of your study of the ads? Then Invest In something you have long needed and say: "Here Is something I’ve boupght with money ACTUADI.T, not. theoretically, SAVLL!" You will find that all of this advice we have been giving you about reading and an swe rein g Herald ads. has been sound, business-like advice. And you will let the Herald ads. take a real part In your buying and your selling hereafter —which will be a fortunate circum stance for you, and for Augusta In which you live. WELL RECOMMENDED. Recruiting Sergeant -I’m afraid you are not heavy enough for a cavalry man. Wo want men who can ride atralght over anything, If necessary. Applicant—That’s all right, air; I've boon a motor car driver lor lour years. —Human Life. PAGE FIVE UUALKING up and down ~ ’ stairs is hard work for a woman. It requires seventeen times more labor than walking the rame distance on a level. A Wall Set Extension to your Bell Telephone, located on the other floor in your home, will, save your wife useless steps. 81.00 PER MONTH IN RESIDENCES Call Contract Department ifHk% Putting your money in Heath and Milligan Best Prepared Paints, is like de positing it in the Bank. It is sure to draw a good rate of interest. Augusta Builders Supply Co. DIFFERENT. Belle —Well, ,-ou < -lit to be happy, Nell—Why? Belle—You’ married a rich hu» hand. Nelle —No, I haven’t; I’ve- married a rich man hut bos a mighty pool husband. —Cleveland Leader.
