Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955, March 10, 1922, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPEARSON #TRIB ONE VOL. 7 —2 s O. 45 NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Gleanings from All Sections of South Georgia. ' South Georgia farmers are now selling their hogs and are getting a better price for them. There have been sales at Hahira, Jesup, Alma. Metter and other places this week. The Georgia Florida Fair will be held this year under the auspices of the city of Valdosta during the second week in November. It, is hoped the city has drawn a “fair” week as to the weather. The First District Press Associ ation will meet at Statesboro, March 20, and a profitable sessiou as well as a general good time is on the program. Statesboro is proverb ial for its excellent hospitality. Cook superior court has been in session Ibis week, and will continue through next week. This week has been devoted to civil business, with a long list of cases; next week will be given over to criminal busi ness of which there is also a large docket. lion. Burwell A. Atkinson has announced himself a candidate for ■Representative fforn Camden coun ty in the Georgia legislature, sub iect to the county primary. He is a young man, popular, well educat ed and would make Camden a most worthy representative. The farmers -of Candler county have tacitly agreed to add water melons and sweet potatoes as money crops for 1922. Sweet potatoes will prove profitable provided they will grow a variety the market wants and presented to the con sumer in an attractive shape. Editor Jenkins, of the Alma Times, has been ill with “Spanish Influenza,” He says he thought it was just a little spasm suitable for women and children but has changed his mind and now puts it down as “a full grown man’s” dis ease, and he does a big job to get well of it. The people of Alma and Bacon county held a meeting last Monday for the purpose of organizing a “Law and Order League” and also to discuss other questions of pub lie interest. Such a meeting will be helpful if all concerned will keep “in the middle of the road’-’ and avoid either extremes of the matters in hand. Cracksmen went through the Broxton postoffice early Thursday of last week. The swag captured was SIOO in stamps ancj money, one registered letter and $5 be longing to Postmaster Leggett, Isn’t it time for the government to get its sleuths after the scamps, who are visiting every third class postoftice in this section? Veggs attempted on Wednesday morning of last week, at the early hours jofl or 2 o'clock, to blow open the safe in the postoffice at Omega, Ga. They miscalculated the safe's resistaue’e to explosives and failed to accomplish their pur pose. Fearing the noise of the ex plosion had awakened the sleeping citizens they skedaddled without making the second effort —leaving the postoffice belongings practically intact. The churches of the Valdosta Baptist Association will ship to-day a carldad of provisions and cloth ing to their Orphan's Home at Hapeville, near Atlanta. This car will be contributed by the mem bers of Valdosta, Hahira. Cecil and Adel churches, and is the second car contributed by the churches of that association. The first car was contributed by Homerville, Milltowu. Stockton and other churches to the east and south of Valdosta. These things are ad mirable substitutes for money. Blue Springs, Brooks County. The Tliomasville Press, in a very pathetic article, tells of the passing iof this “Natural beauty spot," lo cated on the Brooks county side of the Witlilacoochee river, on the south side of the A. C. L. railroad, and about equi-distant between Valdosta and Quitman. He told how, when a boy, it was his privil ege and pleasure to spend the week end there during the summer months. He gives a detailed de script-ion of it in its natural beauty, and says the effort to "improve” it has ended in its destruction. He concludes: “A visit to it now makes the old-timer sick at heart.” The mention of Blue Springs re calls to the Tribune editor many sweet memories of the long ago. Many festive occasions has he at tended at this resort during his young manhood —picnics, bathing parties, etc. He attests the fact that it was one of nature’s beauty spots, just as Editor Davis de scribes it. He recalls au incident, which brought to him a measure of em barassment at the first term of Lowndes superior court after his admission to the bar. A party of colered people from Valdosta had spent the day at Blue Springs. Just as the train rolled up which was to bring them home in the evening a young man and a young woman quarreled, which continued for some minutes after the train had started. Arriving at Valdosta the woman swore out a warrant charging the man with an "Aseaultand battery.” The man employed the young law yer to defend him. At the com mittnent trial a hearing was waived and an indictment by the grand jui'V demanded. The indictment was found and the defendant put on trial. Judge Robert G. Mitchell was Solicitor-General, and he proved by the prosecutor that the defend ant slapped her soon after the train had started, and rested. The young attorney for the defense proved that the man did not actu ally strike the woman and, if he had, the act occurred in Brooks county and without the jurisdic tion of the court. Judge Mitchell waived the opening address to the jury. The Y. A. then arose to make his maiden address to a jury. He made a fairly good start in dis cussing the evidence that his client was not actually guilty of slapping the woman. Just at this moment the thought came into his mind that such attorneys as A. T. Maclntyre, Sr., J. R. Alexander, W. M. Hammond, 11. G. Turner, W. B. Bennet and J. G. McCall, with state wide reputations, were sitting at his back listening at him making a fool of himself. His mouth became as dry as a powder house and his tongue nearly refused to articulate. He saw his predica ment and set about "sawing off” to end his confusion. In an inco herent way he told the jury that they had heard the evidence as to the jurisdiction of the court and he would leave that question with them under the charge of his honor, Judge Hansel). His face suffused with crimson he sat down near his old friend, Maclntyre, who undertook to com fort him and said in a low tone “What is the matter, my son, you did splendidly!” At the first opportunity Col. Maclntyre was told the reason of this confusion and he. after enjoy ing a hearty laugh, remarked: “You will never get too old to es cape such embarassments; we old lawyers have to watch for them.” Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and pain killer, for infected sores, tetter, sprains, neuralgia, rheu i matism. 28-43 Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10. 1922 AN IMPORTANT REVELATION. Are the Crop Yields of Atkin son County Profitable? By David D. Ixrng, Soil Specialist, Soil Im provement Committee, Atlanta. Oa. In this time of stress when all farmers are trying to work out of a depression, it is essential that farming as a business should be looked upon from a business basis. It is necessary to diversify, for diversification always has been a paying proposition even before the boll weevil came and especially so in relation to the production of home supplies. Diversification, however, is not the whole solution unless the yields of the crops are profitable. It cannot be expected that a farm operator can just diversify and ex pect to work out of this serious situation. It requires more than that. It requires that the yield shall be sufficiently high to pay costs of production and leave a profit. Low yields are very often the cause of complaint that prices do not pay costs pf production. Cost surveys as conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture show that with in creased yields the cost of produe tion per bushel, or pound of a pro duct decreases ancr that the profits per acre increase. It i$ necessary therefore to look well to your yields to determine whether or not they are profitable. Assuming that costs of produc tion for 1922 are about the same as for 1914, we can obtain from the Farm Management survey of Brooks county, Georgia, by the United States Department of Agriculture, cost records which are valuable in determining wheth er yields are profitable. COTTON. A yield under 200 lbs of lint cotton cost ll.fi cents a pound; from 200 to 300 lbs lint, 9.1 cents a pound; from 300 to 400 lbs lint, 7.8 cents a pound; and for 400 lbs and over, 7.5 cents a lb. The average costs per acre was $34.51. The boll weevil will, of course, in crease the cost even if the cotton is protected. The census returns of 1020 show that the average yield of Atkinson county was 75 lbs. of lint. OOKN. The same Govcrrnent investiga tion shows that the cost of produc ing corn was as follows: Yield Cost per bo. 9.3 bu. per acre I.2fi 13.4 bu. per acre 85 17.8 bu. per acre 73 24.2 bu. per acre f .fifi Av. 14.3 bu. per acre 89 Quoting from the above publica tion “The data presented also in dieate that under conditions found, with corn at an average price of 75c per bushel, it is necessary to secure a yield above 10 bushels per acre of corn planted in rows alternating with peanuts or about 18 bushels of corn planted “solid” if a profit is to be shown when figured by cost determination methods.” The average yield of corn for Atkinson county 1919 was 9.5 bushels according to the census of 1920. A comparison with the above figures reveals at a glance whether this average yield is prof itable. OATH. Again quoting from this survey, "Oats must yield about 15 bushels to show a profit at an average price of approximately 50 cents; but when the yield slightly exceeds 25 bushels, the cost is reduced to 36 cents per bushel. The latter yields a good margin of profit.” The average yield of oats for Atkinson county as reported by 666 is a prescription for Colds Fever and LaGrippe. It’s the most speedy remedy we know New Type of County Paper. A large number of county week lies have been coming into this office lately and it is gratifying.to see how many of them give liberal space to farm activities and show an intelligent interest in the prob lems of their farmer readers. This was not always so. Most county papers not so many years ago con fined themselves almost exclusive ly to politics and the doings of their towns. Perhaps farmers were as much to blame for this as were the publishers of the papers, and it seems to us that many farm ers fail even now to realize what effective co-workers they have in their local papers. It is the ex ceptional county paper these days that cannot be made to see the farmer’s side of t hings and that is not willing to help in any move ment that makes for progress and prosperity in the rural districts of its county. It would be nice to say t hat this is the exceptional farmer who does not value his local paper and work with it—read it carefully, send in the news it ought to have, advertise in it, help it to grow and prosper, but would it be quite true if we said ill You know best whether or not it jyould be for your county. At any rate, a live, progressive county paper is one of the most potent community builders there is. If you have such a paper, stick to it through thick and thin, make it a member of your family and partner in evqry undertaking for the public good. If your paper is not such a one, go see the editor, try to find out what the trouble is, offer him your co operation and see if you cannot, help I)iin to make a better paper. —Southern Agriculturist. the census of 1920 is 12.5 bushels per acre. From the above state ment is this yield profitable? PEANUTS. The average cost of producing peanuts as determined by this sur vey was $36.61 per acre. The aver age yield was 37 bushels per acre with a net cost of .99 cents per bushel. The average yield oi Atkinson county for 1919 as reported by the census was 15.5 bushels. Assum ing that the average cost of $36.61 to be the average cost under At kinson county conditions, the cost of production per bushel would be $2.36. By increasing the yield, the cost per bushel is automatically decreas ed as in other crops. SWEET POTATOES. The average yield of sweet pota toes for Atkinson county in 1919 as shown by the census report of 1920 was 94 bushels per acre. Of all crops this yield appears to be most profitable. The analysis of cost of production shows that the costs of production per bushel rapidly decreases as the yield in creased. The profits also increased with increased yields. Under 1914 conditions an avevage yield of 70 bushels per acre, cost per bushel to produce 36 cents and gave a profit of $14.18 per acre. With a yield of 100 bushels per acre ihe cost was reduced to 28 cents per bushel and the profit increased to $27.27 per acre. But when the average yield was 162 bushels, the cost per bushel was 22 cents and the profit per acre increased to $65.01. From the above figures it ap pears urgent that the acreage yield of all crops be increased to a prof itable point. The farmer well knows what it takes to make high er yields per acre. He knows the value of good seed, building up the soil with organic matter, the in telligent use of fertilizer, cultiva tion. etc., and now is a good time to practice these measures to put the farm on a profitable yield basis. Some reader has in his mind the question of markets. All EDITORIAL OPINIONS. The Brethren are Discussing a Number of Live Topics. A farmer carried a lot of home grown rice to the Way cross curb market and found such ready sale for it at profitable prices, that he went home for more. We would like to see more rice produced in Tift county and its use become general on Tifton tables. It should be a profitable crop, and the pro duct is much more palatable and wholesome than the Carolina and Louisiana article. —Tifton Gazette. There are some things that don't improve with the progressiveness of the age, but seem rather to de teriorate. For instance, as Johnny Spencer would say, there are some of us who are old enough to remem ber when hugging was done ou the sofa with the light turned low. Now it is done under bright lights to the accompaniment of music— jazz music at that. The old way was, and is yet, far and away the best. —Albany 1 ferald. The young man who looks for ward to a business career must make up his mind that success means hard and , persistent work, not eight hours a day, but eighteen if necessary. The man who works for his employer eight hours a day and then drops all care and goes home to his family knows litue or nothing of the cares of the business man; the manager of the company he may bh working for, or those wild lay out the work to be done. —Valdosta Times. College graduates of ten and fifteen years ago are looking with disfavor upon the tendency of col leges to devote too much attention to college athelctics. The thing is being carried too far, largely be cause of the prominence given athletics by the daily newspapers whose first interest is circulation. Athletes do not love athletics as much as they love newspaper pub licity. This very fact has encour aged an evil. The general public is getting fed up on college-ath letics. There is a limit but it seems to have been passed and this is where the public comes in. — Commerce < Ibservcr. The establishment of a five thousand acre farm in the neigh boring county of Calhoun by the Armour fertilizer works, of Chicago, for the purpose of demonstrating the best methods of combatting the boll weevil will no doubt prove to be of great benefit to Georgia and to the south. The farmers of this section, upon the first appearance of the pest, adopted methods that have proved more or less successful in growing cotton, and here in southwest Georgia the crop has never been a failure. There is, however, much yet to be learned iu combatting the boll weevil and increasing the greatly reduced cot ton yield,, and the experiment farm in Calhoun county, with unlimited means behind it, should render a valuable service. — Dawson News. marketing associations well man aged will certainly help iu the matter of distribution and prices. However, no marketing association will be able to turn high costs per bushel or pound on account of low aeerage yields into a profit. Mar keting is no substitute for low aeerage yields and high costs, nor is it a substitute for good seed, good fertilizer or good farming. But above ail, consider carefully if your average yields are profita ble! If not, plan to make them profitable. It they*are, plant to keep them profitable or to increase the profits per acre. Fight the boll weevil. We may get our credit for win ning the vo.ld war, but Europe has our cash. —Quitman Free Press, $1.50 A YEAR Pigs and Prices. From the Atlanta Constitution. W. W. Webb, of the state bureau of markets, gives the farmers of this state some mighty good ad vice when he admonishes them against selling their pigs. Tie pointed out that a 60-pound pig would have brought $3 last December, whereas, that same pig, “fed ou cheap corn" —of which the cash market value is extremely low —would today weigh 240 pounds and be worth not less than s2l on the hoof, at prevailing market prices. “Every farmer,” he says “who sold a 60 pound pig last December lost $lB in the transaction. By selling pigs| instead of hogs, said Mr. Webb, “the farmers of Georgia are giving away between two and two and a half million dol lars a year!” An investigation recently con ducted by the federal department of agriculture at the instigation of Senator Harris, uncovered the fact that hog-raisers of the west net thousands of dollars each year in buying Georgia pigs and fattening them on corn for market. The investigation was instituted in response to complaints of dis crimination by northern packers against Georgia poflt. The investigation showed that this alleged “discrimination” is due to the fact that Georgia hogs are fattened largely on peanuts, and, according to the northern packers, peanut-fed pork is “soft and oily” and commands a lower price per pound than corn-fed pork. Therefore, northern buyers buy Georgia pigs and hogs, ship them north, feed them for a few weeks on corn, and sell them at a profit of several cents a pound even after paying all transaction charges. If peanut-fed pork is “soft and oily" there is no reason why the farmers of Georgia cannot harden their hogs on Georgia grown corn just as well, and as profitably, as western farmers can harden them on western corn ! Georgia last year produced around 90,000,000 bushels of corn; and it is capable of producing three or four times that amount and equally as good corn as can be grown in any state in the union. But instead of Georgia feeding its corn to Georgia-bred pigs, and marketing it iu the form of prime pork and at a handsome profit to the grower, it sells many of its pigs for western growers to fatten ou coru, this state producing net even enough pork to meet the re quirements of its own population! There is money to be made in corn-growing in Georgia, and lots of it; and in order to get the greatest possible value out of it, most of it should be marketed iu the form of Georgia corn-fed pork. It is pointed out that though there has been a scarcity of dwell ings in the country for several years past, there having been at no time sufficient construction to keep up with the demand, there has al ways been an ample supply of garages, the construction of which has been permitted to languish under no circumstances. —Albany Herald. Mr. T. R. Fluker, of Griffin, has been elected City Manager of Quit man, and will assume the duties of the position by April Ist. He is said to be a very competent man. Friday morning of last week a mad hog ran amuck on the streets of Millwobd, Mr. B. A, Bennett discovered the condition of the an imal and started on a chase with his gun, shooting at it. Other cit izens joined in the chase and. after fifteen minutes, Mr. Win. Bennett fired the shot that killed it. Only a calf and pig had been bitten.