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PEARSON® TRiBUNE
vol. 7— vo. ao
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Members Farm Bureau Federa
tion March Through Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga„ November 29. —
Returning to Atlanta today from a
trip through the richest farming
section of South Georgia along the
line of the A., B. & A. Railway,
leading agriculturists of the nation
attending the American Farm Bu
reau Federation, declared that it
was "the garden spot of the world.’
The delegates saw' the most pro
ductive agricultural section of
Georgia, the fine live stock in the
best grazing section, the pecan
groves, the creameries, the potato
curing houses, the syrup factories,
the peach trees and a hundred and
one things which proved a revela
tion as to the possibilities ol Ihe
Empire State of the South.”
Accompanied by W. \V. (Toxton,
passenger traffic manager of the
road, the party of about 125 left
Atlanta over the Atlanta, Binning
bam and Atlantic railway for Mon
tczuma, Ga., and Thursday morn
ing they started on a two-day
automobile tour which carried
them first to the creamery city of
Ashburn. Hon. Joe Lawrence,
editor of the Ashburn Wiregrass
Farmer, together w ith leading eiti
zcns took charge of the party.
Plans were perfected and put
through without a hitch to give
the visitors a real Southern wel
come. A Thanksgiving dinner was
given at the Ashburn school Audi
torium. This was not the first
time that Ashburn has entertain
ed such a distinguished body.
Several years ago the National
Farm Congress held its annual con
vention in Georgia, the only one
ever held in the South, and they
too honored Ashburn with a visit.
The attraction then was the fertil
ity of the soil and the salubrious
ness of the climate, both of which
have made Ashburn famous. To
that now is added the development
of dairying in that section and the
establishment of a creamery at
Ashburn. The northern visitors
coming from forty-six states, in
many of which the itiiik industry is
the staple source of income, nalur
ally wanted to see the newly dub
bed "Cream City” and the country
where something can be growing
all the year round, winter as well
as summer, for cows to feed upon.
Another attraction at Ashburn
for the visitors was the strides
Ashburn is making in co operative
marketing, which is in line with
the activities of the State Bureau
of Markets. Co-operative sales
have been established for chickens,
turkeys, geese, hogs and produce.
It was announced that on January
11th and 12th next there will be
held possibly the largest two day
fat hog sale, including pure bred
swine, ever held in Georgia. The
show of the Georgia Swine Grow
ers will be held on the dates
named.
The trip) included a visit to the
prize-winning beef and dairy cattle
and hogs at Thoinasvilie, almost at
the Florida line, through the heart
i In-cane -yiup liu-im— 1
United States ai Cairo, ant h
world's greatest pecan on-hauls
bet ween Camilla and Aib.i -.>.
Hogs and alfalfa farms were show
along the route, which led throng
Georgia's great watermelon an
peanut sections.
E. E. Mack, owner of gratni
champion. Bonnie J. and prize win
ning Boland Chinas, and other
owners of world prize winners, at
Thomasville, showed their herds
and wonderful lespedeza carpet
grass and dallis grass pastures.
Fitzgerald also was visited and
the visitors were highly impressed
with the possibilities of Ben Hill
county which has shown remark
able grow th during the last few
years. Here are located the big
Salvation by Doing.
“It is not what y-ott believe, but
what y-ou do, that will entitle y r ou
to a residence in the New Jerusa
lem.”
The foregoing paragraph was
found in both the Willacoochee
and the Millwood papers.
Don’t know- where it originated
but no greater heresy or untruth
could be stated.
It is the saved person who is to
inherit the New Jerusalem, and
salvation comas by- Grace through
the exercise of Faith or Belief, and
is the Gift of God, not by w hat
you Do or Works lest there be
boasting.
Residence in the New Jerusalem
is the Gift of the Father. Condi
tioned on Belief and Trust in His
Son, and the committal of our all
into His bands for Time and Eter
nity.
When the Apostle Paul was
reaching out toward the end of his
glorious life he exulted in the
statement that he knew Christ, in
whom he had believed, and was
persuaded He was able to keep
that which he had committed into
His hands until that Great Day
when he should enter into his in
heritance or residence in the New
Jerusalem.
Reader, don’t be deceived, your
residence in the New Jerusalem is
based on your Faith and Trust in
Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of
God, and not on your good works
lest you should boast. God is go
ing to be glorified in your salva
tion. and you are to be glorified
through 11 is Son.
Salvation by Grace through
Faith.
Fertilizing Pecan Trees.
A widow- who lives in this section
of Georgia is the owner of an im
mouse pecan tree which has always
borne bountiful crops of nuts. She
decided to try an experiment of
fertilizing the roots of the tree to
see if it if on Id not do even better.
Four barrels were imbedded in the
ground within a circle twenty feet
from t he tree, filled with a mixture
of compost and commercial ferl iliz
eis and every day- when the weath
er was dry she would have buckets
of water poured into the holes
where the barrels were imbedded.
The result next year was astonish
ing. The tree doubled its yield
over previous years, and more nuts
were gathered from one year's crop
than she had ever gathered before
within two years. The experiment
proved to be a paying proposition.
Others can try it with equally sat
isfactory results. Let us put a lit
tle thought into our work and suc
cess is Assured. If you are the
owner of a pecan tree try the saute
experiment right now so the tree
can have the benefit of the ferti
lization in the production of next
year’s crop.—Sandersville Progress.
Brunswick can never hope to
grow and develop as long as she
has men in high public and private
staiion who live to knock every
progressive movement. It is a
oy mg shame that such men de
light to use influence in the wrong
direction and that an unkind and
unjust fate has given to them that
ii fluence! It is a distressing situ
ation and needs a drastic remedy!
—Brunswick News.
shops of the A., B. & A. railway,
which has been a big factor in de
veloping the rich agricultural sec
tion which the party visited.
Members of the party were enthu
siastic over Georgia’s soil and its
unlimited possibilities, and agri
cultural experts here say- that the
tour of the party will give Georgia
and the South probably the most
tremendous boost through the ag
rieuitural circles of the nation that
has ever been known.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DEC EMBER 2. 1921
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
Local commercial advertising
withers away when cotton goes
down and everybody locally gets
the blues. But the city stores and
mail-order houses never let up on
their publicity, and,in consequence
they enjoy- continual good business.
—Metier Advertiser.
As a high official pointed out,
there are too many fingers in the
public till everywhere. A great
many of them seem to think the
governments, large and small, are
for their especial benefit, which in
a large measure accounts for the
oppressive tax burdens now on the
people. Present conditions are
analogous with what Sherman call
ed war. —Dawson News.
The Georgia Court of Appeals
say-s that the man on the ground —
has ample grounds to remain t here.
In other words, a decision says
that the pedestrian has the right
of way ahead of the aiitomobilist.
The trouble is that the automobile
doesn't look at it in that way —and
frequently the man may stubborn
ly- stand on his rights a fraction of
a second too long. Savannah
News.
Gov. Hardwick has taken a hand
in the fight for a lower rate of
freight, for Georgia’s farm products.
The governor could not do a better
service than to help out in the re
adjustment of rates so that all of
Georgia’s industries, both agricul
tnral and industrial, may receive
freight rates that will enable them
to get their products to markets
without taking the whole cargo to
pay- transportation charges. —Val-
dosta 'l'imes.
The probabilities are that no
man now living will ever again see
more than 1,000,000 bales of cotton
produced in Georgia in a single
year. This means that all of the
energy, labor power, t ime and
money represented by the differ
ence between the former normal
cotton yield and that which may
be produced under the boll-weevil
conditions must be applied to the
production of other crops and to
other pursuits —or the state will
go backward! —Atlanta Constitu
tion.
It is now practically certain that
the Georgia Railway and Power
Company intend to take their fight
against the proposed Municipal
League legislation, direct to the
people. It certainly creates a very
important issue and once it is open
ed up, will enthuse an interest
that will bring on a big fight in
state politics. This business of is
suing state bonds that increase
taxes is no child’s play matter, es
pecially when the money is to be
used to create a lot of new offices
to run a wild cat,', unprecedented
business proposition. Then, again,
the government has no right to
engage in business in competition
with its people.—Thomasville
Press.
It is a fine tribute to the young
manhood of South Georgia and a
compliment to the Methodist peo
ple of this section of the state that
just now —when there is a general
lament all over the country to the
effect that few are entering the
ministry, that salaries are 100 low
to support ministers and all that
sort of thing —to learn that the
largest class in years is applying
for admittance on trial in the South
Georgia Methodist conference. The
young men are of heroic and con
secrated type and have faith to
tackle the work with the prospect
of small salaries or they kuow the
folks of South Georgia will be do
ing better by them than the con
gregations of other sections —or,
maybe, both. —Savannah News.
Marketable Sweet Potatoes.
Large sweet potatoes have no
market value, according to the
statements of sweet potato grow
ers, and must not be mixed with
those of marketable size. Instead
of adding to the commercial value
of the potatoes they are a detri
ment, it is stated —making it diffi
cult to sell those of marketable
grade and quality. It is pointed
out that they are not only laekiug
in value themselves but lessen the
value of the medium sized potatoes
which have a place on (lie markets.
Market men say there is a mar
ket for sweet potatoes not over
three and a half inches in diameter
and ten inches in length. Any
sweet potato larger than this, it is
stated, should not be placed in the
same package or ear with market
able sweet potatoes —the specifica
tions for which are the greatest
dimensions, as shown, and the
smallest dimensions one and three
quarters inches in diameter and
four inches long.
In view of the present effort be
ing make by many agencies to in
troduce the Georgia sweet potatoes
into the markets of the North and
East, it is advisable, state experts
declare, for growers to recognize
the limitations as to sizes.
Love Father and Love Mother.
He may wear a last year’s straw
hat, his finger nails may need mani
curing; his vest may hang a little
loose, and his pants may bag at
the knees; his face may show signs
of a second day’s growth, and the
tin dinner bucket he carries may
be full of dents and doughnuts;
but don’t you call him the "old
man.” He's your father.
For years and years he has been
rustling around to get things to
gether. Never once has he failed
to do the right thing by you. He
thinks you are the greatest boy
bar none, even though you plaster
your hair back, wear smart clothes,
smoke cigarettes, and fail to bring
a cent. He is the man who won
the love and life partnership of the
greatest woman on earth —your
mot her.
He is “some man” and not the
“old man.” If you win as good a
wife as lie did, you will have to go
some, boy.—The Silent Partner.
The Circulating Goilar.
Now is a good time to payoff
some debts and clean the slate, if
possible, and then profit by recent
sad experiences by using more econ
omy and sanity in expenditures.
The endless chain of debt must
be broken before business can be
come as good as it ought to be.
When you owe a debt, pay it, or
all of it that you can. The money
will get into circulation anil find
its way to the man who owes you,
and then come back home again.
When you pay the man who you
are indebted to he passes the money
on to the man he owes, and so on
down the line.
A single dollar will pay hund
reds of dollars worth of debts, if
it is kept in circulation. —Mcßae
Enterprise.
We need a higher conception of
their duties among jurors in Geor
gia. There are too many bad
crimes against society and against
the innocent which are going un
punished. People who are un
doubtedly guilty are being acquit
ted, some jurors seeming to be glad
to acquit people rather than up
hold the law and protect the weak
and helpless. We need a good
more moral stamina, if our state is
to be a safe place for those who
believe in law and order. —Adel
News.
666 is a prescription for Colds
Fever and LaGrippe. It’s the
most speedy remedy we know-
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and
pain killer, for infected sores,
tetter, sprains, neuralgia, rheu
matism. 28-43
The Brantley county folks, in
the vicinity of Hoboken, seem de
termined to build a big tobacco
warehouse. Unless they have a
big tobacco crop in sight, tobacco
of the best quality, a tobacco
warehouse would lie a “White
elephant”on their hands. But the
projectors may have already
considered this matter.
Nicholls, over in Coffee county,
has had two disastrous tires recent
ly. First the storage Warehouse
of Tavlor & Baulerson, November
17th, with a loss of SIO,OOO. The
second occurred two days later,
when the brick store of Win. Rab
iuowitz was the victim, occupied
by various business interests, and
entailing a very heavy loss. The
Rabinowilz store is to be rebuilt,
at once.
The farmers of Berrien county
will make tobacco a money crop in
1922, and a large area will be
planted to the weed. The mer
chants of Nashville are encourag
ing the movement by supplying
two expert growers to superintend
the growing, harvesting and curing
for market. They are going to
make tobacco culture a success in
Berrien county if such a thing is
possible.
As a result of rigid enforcement
of the Tick eradication law in the
neighboring counties of Goffee,
Cook, Irwin, Jeff Davis and Worth,
they have been released front
quarantine. This is a Itenefit that
will be worth many thousands of
dollars to the stock raisers in this
territory. It should encourage
farmers in the other counties to
hasten the lifting the quarantine
as to them.
The bridge hearings at St. Mai \ <
last week before the government
Engineer, Col. F. W. Alstaeter,
brought a temporary pause in the
proceedings, caused by a desired
change in the plans and specifica
tions in the St. Marys bridge and
objections made to the proposed
location of the Kingsland bridge,
A second hearing will be held be
fore work can be commenced on
either of the two bridges.
Mr. T. Jeff Darling, a former con
fractor and builder of Way cross,
has given up that vocation and be
come an extensive and intensive
farmer, truck and nut grower. His
crop of pecans for this season was
around five thousand pounds, and
he says they are no drug on the
market at a fair price. Jeff Darl
ing is a hustler at whatever he
undertakes. It takes vim to suc
ceed at any undertaking.
The meat curing plant at Metter
is receiving a large patronage from
not only Candler but contiguous
counties. The plant is prepared to
cure and smoke all meats entrust
ed to it, and is a guarantee to its
patrons that their pork will be
saved from spoilage and waste, and
make them independent of high
priced packinghouse meats. Every
community in South Georgia
should have such an institution.
The county board of education
of Candler county, accompanied by
the superintendent, have made a
complete visitation to every school
in Candler county. In this way
they have secured information, as
to the work and condition of the
schools, of great value to them in
the future conduct of the schools;
they secured personal knowledge of
these things and know just where
corrective methods should be ap
plied. They say the pleasure of
the trip was also worth while.
$1.50 A YEAR
Sweet Potato Storage Houses.
The curing and storing of sweet
potatoes in specially constructed
storage houses so that they “will
remain in first class condition
throughout the winter, has long
since passed the experimental
stage. If the grower will do his
part in the way of growing well
matured, disease free potatoes and
handle them with care in harvest
ing, he may feel a certain sense
of security that his potatoes will
keep through the winter when
placed in a modern sweet potato
storage house.
There are a number of types of
sweet potato storage houses now
in use that are giving satisfactory
service. They all, however ad
here strictly to a few and very es
sent ia 1 underlying principles.
These are provisions for heat, ven
tilation and the prevention of cer
tain liuctations in temperatures
after the close of the curing period.
The ordinary coal stove is one
of the common devices for heating
sweet potato storage houses. How
ever, oil stoves and steam pipes
are also used for Ibis purpose. The
heat is started as the potatoes are
brought in and the temperature of
the storage room is maintained at<
a temperature of from 85 to 90
degrees, for Bor 10 days or until
the potatoes show siight signs of
sprouting.
Houses built following the plans
of the IT. S. Dept, of Agricultural
are generally most satisfactory.
Where one of these houses is to
serve a community of growers, it
should be divided into several
sections, which may be filled with
potatoes and cured separately from
the other sections. This makes it
possible to receive the potatoes
and cure them as they are brought
iu over a period of several days el
even weeks without subjecting any
one lot to a long period of heat.
'lhe common method is to store
the potatoes in bushel crates and
separate the tiers of crates with
> h slats so as to provide air cir
culation. The owners of the
storage house charge the growers
from 15 to 20 cents per bushel for
curing and storing the potatoes.
The bushel crates this season are
costing from 12 to 18 cents apiece
and the grower is required to pay
for these extra if he takes them
from the storage house. Some
times the storage charges on the
potatoes are fixed to include the
crates. The grower is allowed to
take opt any number of bushels
from time to time as he finds sale
for them. However, it is neces
sary to regrade and repack the
potatoes in the crates as they are
taken from the storage to make a
salable pack even though no rot is
present, as the shrinkage must be
provided for.
H. P. Stuckey,
Director.
Learning to Learn.
“There is something I have
found out since leaving school that
may surprise you; you will not
have so much use for the things
you are learning now as you think
you will have,” writes the Cave
Scout iu Boys’ Life for September.
“As a matter of fact you will for
get nine tenths of the things you
learn in school, after you graduate..
"The most important thing in
school is not the information you
acquire but the habit of learning
that you establish. Here is a man
with no education. He has never
learned how to solve problems.
Some trouble comes up iu his life
—it may be a comparatively sim
ple matter —but he is helpless,
can’t see any way out of his diffi
culties. The same situation con
fronts a man with an education —
a trained mind —and he begins to
put things together, and figure and
scheme and soon has a solution to
the problem, because he has learn
ed how to solve problems by going
I to school,”
