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THE BUSINESS MAN’S “BIT" Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture. The business man is, and has al ways been, an important and construc tive factor in the life of the commun ity. Never before in the history of the South is he destined to play so essentially a leading part, provided he rises to the opportunity and discharges the duties, responsibilities and obli gations resting upon him as a citizen and patriot. First, he should take a prominent part in the solution of the situation now confronting us; to insure the farmer a market, lie must also un dertake the financing of diversified production, since the change to diver sification of crops means the purchase of new- and varied implements, in creased applications of fertilizers, and credit for the jiurcha.se of seeds and machinery. Hitherto credit has been based upon cotton production to the exclusion of diversified crops. There must he a modification of rent notes and rent contracts; not that the cul tivation of cotton should be eliminated or unduly restricted, hut that, addition al channels of credit should be provid ed and varied crop production pro moted and stimulated. Second, it is the part of the business man to provide the necessary ma chinery, sueh as feed mills, corn grind ers and store houses for the preserv ing of potatoes and other perishable crops. At present there Is every fa cility for warehousing cotton, hut no means for holding and marketing food crops. Whenever business men will provide the proper facilities, diversi fication of crops will proceed by leaps and bounds. Third, the business man must per form the duty of food assembler. The problem of food distribution cannot be left to the individual farmer, since his production of a certain crop is often so small as to preclude the possibility of marketing at a profit. On the other hand, business men are able to as semble tiie crojis In small amounts and provide for general distribution, since they have the economy of large shipments. This work is patriotic and should also lie profitable. Cotton Grading School Tiie Department of Agriculture lias established grades for tlie yellow tinged and stained cottons, as well as tor the white and blue types. Com plete sets of these standards are on display at the College of Agriculture, and will be used in connection with the Cotton Grading School, July 2 to August 4. Announcement upon re quest. Vocational Training In Agriculture With the passage of the SMITTI IIUOHES Dill providing for federal aid In the establishment of vocational schools in the various states, the "trades school” movement in the Unit ed States will receive a great impe tus. In Georgia alone hundreds of teachers in agriculture will be requir ed, for the near future will see voca tlonal training offered in the schools of every county. Now is the time for teachers to prepare for tlie work. The summer term at the College of Agriculture open July 2. Announce ment upon application. Summer Short Courses In Agriculture As an outgrowth of the hoys’ and girls' club work in Georgia, there has been developed at the College of Agri culture special short courses for club winners and for any others who care to attend. Expenses are very ldw and a splendid opportunity is given the hoys and girls to gain specialized agri cultural knowledge. For the boys there is instruction in soils and fertil izers. seed selection, rotation of crops, growing live stock, dairying, farm ma chinery, poultry, orchard management and gardening; for the girls, instruc tion in home economics, cooking, sew ing, canning, home gardening, home sanitation and horn* nursing. The en rollment for 1316 was 267; this year it should exceed 400. A circular descrip tive of the work may be had free upon application to the College of Agricul ture. Save the Pullet W. S. Dilts. Prof, of Poultry Husb., Ga. State College of Agri. So many people, who grow chickens in Georgia, sell or eat the pullets (young females) as friers that Georgia never makes large increases in the number of chickens kept on the farm. It is of utmost importance that only the cockerels be used this spring for fry ing chickens and ail the pullets be kept for laying next winter. The South will have need for all the eggs that she can produce. Killing a pullet now means that you are cutting your food supply next year from 50 to 160 eggs for each pullet killed. Kill the young cockerels, but save the early hatched pullets. Conserve Life By Conserving Food Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture. During the coming year, and per haps for several years, the United States will be called upon to supply the food requirements of her allies as well as her own civilian popula tion. Above all it is imperative that the armies have sufficient supplies, even though the folks at home suffer hunger. Only by each person doing his share can the war be brought to a successful conclusion. The soldier boys do their part in fighting a ruth less foe; your part is to produce and conserve the food supplies. Your duty is; 1. To grow staple fruit, garden and farm crops. Let new and untried crops alone. 2. To organize community farm la bor so as to utilize farm machinery to the best advantage. A traction en gine in a community should be kept busy. Business men should club to gether to furnish machinery to fann ers who cannot, afford to purchase at present. 3. To assist the Demonstration and Canning Club Agents in their work. Every family should can or evaporate sufficient vegetables and fruits for their own needs. In addition a hand some profit may be derived from the surplus. 4. Each community should take stock of Us resources and require ments. Strive to make your commun ity independent. Organize a local de fense league. Chicken Makes Remarkable Record What is believed to be a World’s Record has been made by a Barred Plymouth Rock pullet hatched January Ist. This pullet began laying April 25th, 3 months and 25 days after hatching. Another pullet began lay ing at 4 months of age. These birds were bred, hatched and fed to lay al the Poultry Division of the Georgia State College of Agriculture. Future Prosperity and Diversification of Crops Georgia stands second in the pro duction of cotton. Siie can hold her place in the total value of farm crops if her people profit by the opportun ities she offers. Though her planters may suffer temporary loss by diversi fication they will more than balance the account in the increased produc tion of dairy jiroducts, beef and pork, poultry, peanuts, velvet beans, pota toes, fruits, vegetables and cereals. Evaporated Fruits and Vegetables —'•— Miss Lois Dowdle, Assistant State Su pervisor Home Economics. The can shortage this year threat ens to be acute, large manufacturers claiming a shortage of 100,000,000. Un der ordinary circumstances it would be possible for a family to can suf clent fruits and vegetables for their own use, thus liberating the supjilv from the packers for shipment to the allies. Home canning now' seems to be out of the question and the prole iem is how r to best preserve foods for winter use. The solution is the home evaporator. All kinds of vegetables, in cluding potatoes, beans, corn, peas, pumpkin and the more delicate root crops may be dried, in which condi tion this material will keep indefinite ly. Evaporated vegetables and fruits, when properly prepared, are more pal atable and nutritious than canned goods. In addition there is tiie lower cost of preparation and the ease of storing over winter. A home evapora tor may be made by any one who knows how to handle carpenter tools and at a very low first cost. Plans for construction and directions for evaporation may be had from your Canning Club Agent. Make it a i>oint to see her at once. Fearful Destruction of Property J. B. Berry, Professor of Forestry, Ga. State College of Agriculture. Every year there Is a loss to the state of between one and two millions of dollars as a result of forest fires, three-quarters of which are the re sult of carelessness and could be easily prevented. Over half the fires were started with the object of im proving grazing conditions, and yet the best information available proves conclusively that annual surface fires decrease the grazing capacity of the range, since the valuable grasses are totally destroyed and only the more worthless grasses and weeds develop. About thirty per cent of the fires orig inated in the clearing of farm land, running beyond control because start ed at the wrong season of the year, or because no preventative precautions were takn either in the breaking of a fire line or in arranging for a force of fire fighters, if these fires could have been eliminated the people of the state would be over a million dol lars richer in standing timber, lumber, cross-ties, fences, mills and farm buildings. Never use fire with the ob ject of improving the range, never burn over brush I and during the dry Season; always provide fire lines and “w atchers” when necessary to use fire. PEARSON TRIBUNE, JULY 20,1917 SANDWICH COLUMN. This is Awful.—Wife— “Oh, hubby, 1 bought a waist for a dol lar ninety nine and 1 gave the clerk a two dollar bill. I just no tieed : hat she gave me two cents change. Oh, dear —Oh, dear, am I guilty of theft?” fi ÜBBY - —“Calm yourself, you arc inacent.” —Penn State Froth. Doing hard work in a bent or stooping position puts a stitch in tlie back that is painful. If the muscles have become strained, you can’t get rid of it without help. The great penetrating power of rallard’h snow liniment will appeal io you most strongly at such times, because it is the very thing you need. Price 25c, 50c and SI.OO per bottle. Sold by Morris Drug Co. As Ever. —“Since the war began tiie women have been taking the place of the men on the Paris street cars.” “Well, they’d do it here, but the men are too ill mannered to get up.” —B uffa 1 o Ex press. W hen the baby is suffering the double, affliction of hot weather and bowel disorders, the remedy needed is Mcgee's baby elixir. It reduces the feverish condition, corrects the stomach and checks the looseness of the bowels. Price 25c and 50c per bottle. Sold by Morris I b ug Co. Helping Him. —“Does your father object to kissing?" I don't know. Shall 1 tell him i hat you would like to kiss him?" Houston I ’ost. A bad taste in the mouth comes from a disordered stomach, and hack of that is usually a torpid liver: —A condition which invites disease. Aekhink is the remedy needed. It corrects the stomach and make the liver active and regular. Price 50c. Sold by Morris I b ug < 'o. Incidental Case. —Dr. Bubo 1 inker was a qualified M. I)., but settling in a cattle country and finding the demand strong, he had added veterinary work to his other practice'. "Nothing serious.” announced the doctor, after examining a valuable bull which he had been summond post haste to t real, “(live him one of these powders in a quart of bran mash three times a day." The rancher heaved a sigh of relief. "Wait,” he said, as the M. D., A. K„ was about to leave. "I reckon, as long as you're' here, you might as well have a look at the old woman. She’s been ailin’ for a month or two.” —Judge. EXCURSION FARES VIA. G. S. & F. Ry. To Atlantic Beach, Pablo Beach, Jacksonville and White Springs, Fla. Tickets at following round trip Excursion Part s; can be purchased from Tifton, (la,, via. (I. S. & F. By. , SEASON TICKETS Sold Dailj Atlantic Beach $7.30 I’m bio Beach ..$7,25 White Springs $4-75 WEEK-END TICKETS: Sold for Saturday trains and train No. 3, Sunday's limited Tuesday following date of sale. Atlantic Beach or Pablo Beat'll $4.(10 White Springs $3.30 FIFTEEN DAY TICKETS: Sold daily, limited 15-days from date of sale. White Springs $3.80 SUNDAY ONLY TICKETS: Sold for <l. S. A F. By. train No. 3. each Sunday morning, limited to return on train No. 4. date of sale. Jacksonville 83.00 White Springs $1.50 For full details as to schedules etc., call on W. E. Dodge, ticket agent. Tifton. Ga., or address J. W. JAMISON, T. P. A. or C. B. RHOEES G. P. A. MACON, GEORCIA Minute Details. —A young man who needed false teeth wrote to a dentist ordering a set as fol lows: “My mouth is three inches aerost, five-eights inches threw the jaw. Some hummocky on the edge. Shaped like a hoss shew, toe forward. If you want me to be more particular, 1 shall have to come tbar.” Sacred Heart Review. Surgeons agree that in eases of Cuts, Bums Bruises and Wounds, the first treatment is most im portant. When an efficient an tiseptic is applied promptly, there is no danger of infection and the r'r“* begins to heal at once. For use on man or beast, bokozone is the ideal antiseptic and heal ing agent. Buy it now and be really for an emergency. Price 25c, 50c, SI.OO and $1.50. Sold l.y | Morris Drug < '<>. Coining Words. —The esteem ed Weather Bureau hassrpung a new one. It is the word “smog," and it means smoke and fog. The | bureau explain that very frequent ly there are times when this mix ture is apparent in the at mosphere and it considers the new word a great little idea. Very well, "smog" let it be. But whj end there? Let's call a mixture of snow and mud "smud." A mixture of snow and soot "snoot " and a mixture of snow and hail "snail." Thus we might have a weal her forecast: “Snail to-day, turning to snoot tonight; tomorrow smoggy with smud..” —Kokomo Tribune. When you feel lazy, out of sorts and yawn a good deal in the day time, you can charge it to a torpid liver w hich has allowed the system to get full of imparties. Hekbinf. cures all disorders produced by an inactive liver. It strengthens that organ, clauses the bowels and puls the system in good health) condition. Price 50c. Sold by Morris I b ug ('o. Tin: < art Befoul Thk I Ini g Margaret Tuttle, the authoress, is very fond of the Scottish dialect says the New York Sun. A favorite story of hers concerns an old Scottish shepherd, who, fail h ful to the traditions tif his elan, still wore the Highland kilt. One cold raw day, he was sit ling on the hillside, tending his sheep. II is plaid was w rapped closely about him. but his teeth chattered and his bare legs were bine with cold. A fellow clansman, who had been away from his native hills, come by, wearing an English over coat. Observing the shivering shepherd, he asked: "Sandy, arc you no* eauld wi' the kilt?” "Na, na," replied the loyal Sandy, "but I’m near kclt wi‘ the eauld!" Hat and Ccid title Caarttws Treatment ' ANTISEPTIC shaving parlor ROBERTS 4. STARLING Prop*. r ; We also open up a Pressing * tub. Your patronage will be appreciated til Wsrk Guaranteed H » t!! Ba! °* N£ FACTS IN A NUT-SHELL THESE art* days of co-operation, oiganizal ion, team-work. MAN can no longer succeed ail alone, uuhelp and unhelping —nor does he w ish to. BEAL SLUUKSS now means IN ('LEASED USEFULNESS. A BANK At < < <>l NT will make you MOKE USEFUL. Pearson Banking Company A. R. Harrelsqn HORSESHOEING t BLACKSMITH SPtCItlTr AND GUARANTEED WHEELRIGHT * _T SHOP STAYS OPEN THE YEAR ROUND 1 1 r i'f ; yT-'l. ' i H Cj LA S S yPv ' ■ ~f* 1 <y •• '\ V /-«* v -5 « „ i\ i G -,c\ r gnu, an ’• Filled Our Store, : TODAY Such are the groceries sold at this 'store. The delicate aroma of the coffee, the de licious taste of the butter— all the appetizing points of good sweet—clean food are carefully preserved at this store. Give us a trial. THE PEARSON GROCERY COMPANY Patterson’s Pharmacy Headquarters For Fancy Toilet Articles and Fancy Stationery Select Stock of Jewelry Our Soda Fountain Products are the Best Call and Inspect our Stock We will Receive a Nice Line of Stationery Next Week