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HUNTERS MUST
OBEY GAM E LI
■RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF THE
STATE GAME LAWS BE-
ING MADE.
MISAPPREHENSION AS TO LAW
Commission Reports Convictions in
Fulton and Other Counties of
the State.
—Atlanta.
Vigorous enforcement of the game
Jaws of the state is being made by the
county game wardens, acting under
the instructions of State Game Com
missioner Charles L. Davis. Three ne
groes, prosecuted by Game Warden
Will Zimmer, were found guilty in
the city criminal court and fined $lO
-each by Judge Andy Calhoun. The
costs in each case, which were taxed
.against the defendants, brought the
total amounts paid to something over
thirty dollars.
At the same time Mr. Zimmer re
ported that he had two alleged viola
tors of the law bound over to the
superior court in DeKalb vounty. Mr.
Davis said that he had just received
reports of four convictions in Dough
erty county; also the report of a con
viction from Crisp county.
Commissioner Davis declares that
he still meets, with considerable mis
apprehension among hunters as to the
terms of the law. Some have the idea
that if they are going to hunt in only
one county they can take out a license
in a county other than that of their
residence for sl. The $1 charge is for
hunting solely in the county of the
hunter’s residence. If he goes into a
county other than that In which he
lives, he must secure a state license
paying $3 therefor.
Another false idea which many ap
pear to have is that rabbits, not being
protected by the game law, may be
hunted without a license. The only in
stances in which a man can hunt with
out a license, when he is hunting on
his own land, or when he is hunting on
land in the militia district of his resi
dence with the written permission of
the owner.
Some also imagine that there is no
protection afforded 'possums by the
law, because they are not mentioned
in the game act of 1911. 'Possums
were provided protection by a law
passed many years before the last
game act. The open season for hunt
ing them is from October 1 to March 1.
Commissioner Davis says that there
seems to be a genera) disposition on
the part of the people to observe the
■ law when they understand it. The
county wardens have been instructed
to keep constantly on the lookout for
law violations and to prosecute rigor
ously.
Inheritance Tax No Joke.
After sleeping over the fact for
wore than four months, Georgia has
waked up at last to the fact that the
inheritance tax, passed by the last
legislature, is not a joke.
Ordinaries and executors, under the
pain of SI,OOO fine, are now carefully
complying with the statute all over
the state, and tax collectors have been
informed as to the duties which they
have been neglecting.
The inheritance tax law has gone
through an experience without paral
lel in the history of Georgia. For four
months it has been a law on the stat
ute books, yet there hasn’t been a
single compliance with it—at least,
there hadn’t been up to the first of
last week. Executors and ordinaries,
each time they participated in a trans
fer of property to heirs, violated the
law and laid themselves open to a pos
Bible one thousand dollar fine.
It appears that all were blissfully
ignorant of the way the law was sup
posed to operate, and that now that
full information has been put in all
their hands, the inheritance tax will
begin to bring a steady stream of
gold into the state’s treasury.
Clubs Need Regulating.
The number of Christmas drunks
this year has convinced the police
not only that the locker clubs need
better regulating, but that the de
partment has by no means succeeded
in its efforts to -weed out the blind
tigers.
Though dozens of negro men and
women have been arrested for ped
dling whiskey, it still flow’s on De
catur street, and nine out of ten of
the negroes who have been arrested
for fighting or disorderly conduct, had
evidence on their breaths and in their
staggering legs that the jags they
had were not purchased at the beer
saloons.
AH in all, looking at it from the
worst side, it is probable that still
there is not as much drunkenness
among the poorer classes this Christ
mas as there used to be when whis
key saloons were open and in full
blast.
Don’t Care for Music.
Atlanta is the musical anomaly of
the world, the only American city that
has succeeded in bringing the Met
ropolitan Opera company out of New
York year after year, yet Atlanta now’
stands convicted as a community that
does not care for music!
Atlanta has performed marvels in
getting Caruso the biggest audience
he ever sang to; in making grand
opera pay here when it actually didn’t
pay in New York: in persuading im
mense audiences to applaud Wagneri
an music to the echo; a thing new
in the South; and yet Atlanta's popu
lation as a whole cares about as m-ucn
for the real music as the wild Indians
did when they used to roam these
hills.
It has taken some time to prove
this. Hundreds of dollars have been
lost in the last two or three years
on the false assumption that because
Atlanta performed a miracle with
grand Opel'S, it was a music-loving
community; impressarios have cursed
Atlanta: prima donnas have torn their
hair; one of the finest bands in the
world has played here to empty seats.
Gadski came and had to cancel her
engagement because It was impossi
ble to sell 200 tickets; Mary Garden
got the frost of her career; Tetra
zinni’s manager, aft^r he saw the
audience that greeted her, would have
got drunk if he hadn’t been a gen
tleman, and would have committed
suicide if he hadn't been a good sport.
Time after time Atlantians have
been given the opportunity to hear
good music—the best music—but with
out the splurge and glitter and spec
tacular, and they have taken about
as much interest in it as a mole
would.
This coming spring they will put
grand opera over again in a blaze of
glory. They will make it a three
ringed circus and a championship ball
game combined. They will pile up
the gate receipts and shout themselves
hoarse over Wagner. But for music
as music they don’t give a tinker's
dam.
In all Atlanta there are possibly
three hundred people of whom noth
ing of the above is true. It yet re
mains to be seen whether they will
be the little leaven that will lift the
lump.
Difficult to Deal With Thieves.
The difficulty the local police have
in dealing with auto thieves has been
; complicated by the fact, proven re
cently, that when a thief gets out of
Atlanta and is arrested in some oth
er town, there is no way to bring him
back unless the owner of the stolen
auto chooses to dig down into his
own pocket and pay the expenses of
sending an officer.
It isn't the fault of the police. It
is the fault of the law. No funds are
provided to bring back a thief who
gets out of Atlanta, after committing
petty larceny. The case which brought
these facts to light was that of Jo
seph W. Hill, whose car was stolen
and taken to Valdosta. He had to
pay the expenses of sending a private
detective to get the thief and nrmg
him back.
Evils of Modern Dances.
The evils of modern dances, sex
' dramas and slit skirts are vigorously
■ treated in a leading editorial In me
! current issue of Frost’s Magazine,
"The Call of the South.”
"We commend the action of the
churches and women's clubs of Geor
gia," the editor says, and goes on to
; comment on the tendency which has
! its outward manifestation In such
, I fancies.
"We must grapple with our Impuls
.' es and control these grotesque ten
' dencies. It is a kind of Hallowe'en
: madness from which we must awake
ourselves and get properly on our
; feet amid the new forces we are un
der; we must regain our seriousness
' and self-poise."
"Should we fail to do this individ
ually and socially, we either shall be
carried deeper and deeper into nerv
, ous and erratic excesses, or heaven
will become hopeless, and the hand
of divine helpfulness will be with
drawn.”
The first nervous tension of mod
, I era existence is held principally to
blame for the change in moral condi
tions.
Former Atlantan Honored.
William Hurd Hillyer and Alfred C.
Newell, who were Atlanta’s represen
. tatives at the dinner given Hon. Rob
ert Adamson in New York, have re
turned to this city, and give giow
ing accounts of the honors which were
heaped upon the Atlantan and South
. erner who in the past ten years has
become one of the big figures iu New
' York’s municipal affairs.
| Mr. Hillyer declared that the din
! I ner, in his estimation, was the most
■ | remarkable honor ever paid in the
> North to a native Georgian at the
; metropolis, and in some respects the
most remarkable ever received by any
। ’ New York citizen. The dinner, lie said,
| was the outgrowth of the spontaneous
I enthusiasm of the whole of New
York’s better element, for a man
whose brilliant and unselfish efforts
had resulted in the triumph of the
Fusion ticket at the recent election
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
DIVERSIFICATION ON
SOUTHERN FARMS
More Money Spent for Pork Than
for Religion and Education.
FACTORIES OF GREAT NEED
Hogs Are Essential to Manufacture
Cheap Leguminous Crops That We
Must Grow to Increase Pro
ductiveness of Our Soils.
(By O. 11. ALFORD.)
We spend more money for pork
than we do for education and religion.
We send millions of dollars to the
north and west for pork and pork
productions. We are paying 15 cents
a pound for pork, and the records of
the experiment stations and the actual
experience of hundreds of farmers
show that pork can easily be produced
In this territory for three' cents a
pound.
We urge capitalists to build fac
tories and encourage the building of
factories by exempting them from tax
ation for a period of years. We ex
empt factories from taxation, and at
the same time send money out to pay
for pork manufactured elsewhere. We
certainly need factories of all kinds
in all towns and cities, and especially
do we need hogs to manufacture the
cheap leguminous crops that we must
grow to Increase the productiveness
of our soils, the grasses, peanuts, peas,
potatoes and the like into pork and
pork products. The hogs to manu
facture grasses and grains into pork
will declare by far the larger divi
dends. It is not necessary for the'
farmer to take stock in cotton factories
in order to be a manufacturer. Let
him keep plenty of good hogs on his
farm and he will be one of the most;
prosperous manufacturers of useful
products.
On a farm where good pastures can
be had and corn produced in abun
dance, the hog will be found to be a
sure profit producer one year with an
other. Good pastures, peanuts, peas
in corn, potatoes, chut’as, rape, sor
ghum and peas and corn means plenty
of cheap pork.
The first investment is small and
he is the quickest money maker of all.
He will live and grow fat on the waste
products of the farm that other stock]
will not eat. He is ready for market'
almost any time and will bring the top
price if fat. He multiplies rapidly,
and if we only give him good pastures,
pure Water and a little corn. He will
do the rest.
Bermuda grass alone will keep a
hog in good growing condition all the
summer. Excellent winter and early
spring pastures can be obtained by
sowing hairy vetch, white, red, or burt
clover seed broadcast on the Bermuda
or carpet grass sod early In the fall.
Oats, rye, rape or orchard grass plant
ed early In October furnish good win
ter pasture for hogs. Peanuts and
sweet potatoes, chufas and artichokes
planted in April make excellent feed
for hogs in the fall and winter. Two
plantings of peas can be made, one of
an early variety and one of a late va
riety, In April. Two varieties can be
planted at the same time again in
Juns or July. Very little corn is nec
essary.
We can no longer raise cotton to
buy pork. We must raise cheap crops
of peanuts, cow peas, sorghum, arti
chokes, red clover, rape and so on for
hogs to graze. No man has ever been
able to give a sensible reason for
growing cotton to pay for bacon and
lard Instead of growing cheap legumin
ous crops to raise hogs. No man has
ever been able to give a sensible rea
son for feeding corn from weaning
time to killing time instead of raising
hogs on pasture grasses and cheap
Amounts of Manure from
Different Stock
1000 Lbs. Live Weight of Animals
Tons Per
Gows UniMiZZi 13 5
124
8 . 9
6.2
leguminous crops. If we wish to
make the greatest success raising
hogs, we must grow cheap crops for
the hogs to graze.
The following is taken from bulletin
No. 107, by Prof. J. W. Fox, from the
Mississippi delta station: “We wish
to call particular attention to the im
portance of a pea field, planted in corn
at the last working, as a factor in
cheap pork production. We made an
experiment last fall to determine the
value of such a pasture, the result
of which should be very gratifying to
the southern farmers, who have a mo
nopoly on such a pasture, the result
ern farmer cannot grow peas planted
in corn, but must give them the use
of the land during the entire growing
season.”
After the corn was gathered, 51
spring pigs were turned into the pea
field of 17 acres. They had no addi
tional feed. The gain made from the
peas was 2,893 pounds, or 170 pounds
per acre. At six cents per pound, this
gives a value for the peas of $10.20 per
acre. And this is net, as the hogs
did their own harvesting. Also tho
manure and humus from the stalks,
vines and seeds were left on the land.
By tests made at the station for two
years to determine the value of the
peas grown in the corn as a fertilizer,
it has been found that they increase
the succeeding cotton crop by 110
pounds of lint per acre.”
The following succession of crops
is recommended by the Louisiana ex
periment station: "Sow oats the latter
part of September for fall and winter
grazing, counting about 15 or 20 head
of hogs per acre. Sow red clover or
crimson clover in October to be pas
tured after the oats, late in January,
and through February and March and
April. Sow sorghum early in March
to which transfer hogs from clover.
After harvesting oats, plant Mexican
June corn and cow peas in a portion
of the land, and peanuts and sweet
potatoes on the remainder. Use corn
and a portion in peanuts for finishing
off the hogs for the market, or slaugh
ter at home."
Professor Lloyd, one of the best
posted agriculturists in the south, sug
gests the following plan for a hog
Forage Crops Make
Cheap Pork
_ . Value ftf Returns
One Acre fork v b 9. 1 n ußh el
Pork Corn
H^lllllll ». MS
.«
Corn Hogged]24
Off ■— 400 —
Rape, Oats, I 24
Clover 400 .89
^rghum 37S M
Blue Grass
; ST 150 -
Cowpeas L“,
Soybeans n 5 ?5
Pork at 6 cents
pasture: "Oats and vetch planted in
September will furnish grazing Decem
ber, January, February, March and
part of April. Cow peas and peanuts
planted In April and May will furnish
grazing for July, August and Septem
ber, October and November. Arti
chokes planted in April and May will
furnish grazing December and Janu
ary. Dwarf essex rape planted In Febru
ary and March will furnish grazing in
May and June. Dwarf essex rape plant
ed In August and September will fur
nish grazing in December and Jan
uary. Bermuda grass, with white or
burr clover, will serve as a permanent
pasture and furnish grazing a greater
part of the spring, winter and sum
mer.”
Cow peas without grain have so far
given better results at our experiment
stations than any other crop tested.
One season the peas were grown on
very poor hill land and produced 350
pounds of pork per acre. The next
season the crop was grown on bottom
land and produced 483 pounds of pork
per acre. The hogs were turned in
when the first pods began to ripen.
Professor Duggar, at the Alabama
station, found an acre of Spanish pea
nuts on poor, gravelly land produced
600 pounds of live weight of hogs, and
an acre of cow peas about 400 pounds.
No country on earth has such advan
tages for raising clteap pork, and yet
no country raises so little of it.
We are told by a bulletin issued by
the Louisiana station that one acre of
Spanish peanuts grown on poor land
at Calhoun contained 192 pounds of
nitrogen, worth at commercial fertil
izers’ value at least $23. An acre of
velvet beans contained 191 pounds,
and an acre of cow peas 108 pounds.
These crops made from two to three
tons of feed stuffs richer in food ele
ments than, wheat bran. When such
feed stuffs can be harvested by hogs
without serious loss of fertilizing
value, is there any excuse for poor
land and the shipping of pork and lard
into the south?
Benefit of Tile.
A string of tile may be the means
of producing 90-bushel corn on that
old wet spot in the field.
Mineral for. Pigs.
See that your young pigs have ac
cess to sufficient mineral matter.
Their growing bones need it.
BANKSWILLCOMEIN
NATIONAL BANKS WILL ACCEPT
NEW MONEY MEASURE
OF CONGRESS.
MANY APPLICATIONS MADE
Likely to Be Rush to Enter the New
Currency System—Many Applica
tions Received.
Washington.—What treasury offi
cials regarded as an indication of how
financial circles will receive the new
federal currency system came from
Boston in a message to Secretary Mc-
Adoo from the National Shawmut
bank, one of the largest institutions
in New England. The message de
clared that the executive committee of
the bank had voted unanimously to ad
vise its directors to accept the new
law and enter the system.
Receipt at the treasury of scores
of informal applications from all parts
of the country has led Mr. McAdoo
to believe there can be no question
now that a large proportion of the
national banks Intend to come into
the system. There are about 7,500
national banks in the United States,
and not more than a few hundred
have wired their intention to apply
for membership in the federal sys
tem, but a rush of applications is
expected soon.
Many of the banks, realizing that
they cannot get in the first application
and not caring particularly about the
relative position they may obtain, are
understood to be awaiting.
Applications included those from
the following cities: Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Lynchburg, Va.; Columbia and
Sedalia, Mo.; Topeka and Parsons,
Kans.
REBUKE FOR THE CARABAOS
President Tells Garrison and Dan
iels to Reprimand Officers.
Washington.—President Wilson has
made public a letter addressed to Sec
retaries Garrison and Daniels, respect
ively, requesting that "a very serious
reprimand” be administered to those
army and navy officers who partici
pated in the recent dinner of the mil
itary order of the Carabao, at which
the administration’s Philippine and
other policies were satirized.
The letter follows:
“The officers who were responsible
for the program of the evening are
certainly deserving of a very serious
reprimand, which I hereby request be
administered, and I cannot rid myself
of a feeling of great disappointment
that the general body of officers as
sembled at the dinner should have
greeted the carrying out of such a pro
gram with apparent indifference to the
fact that it violated some of the most
dignified and sacred traditions of the
service.
"I am told that the songs and other
amusements of the evening were in
tended and regarded as ‘fun.’ What
are we to think of officers of the army
and navy of the United States who
think it 'fun' to bring their official
superiors into ridicule and the policies
of the government which they are
sworn to serve with unquestioning loy
alty into contempt? If this is their
idea of fun, what is their ideal of
duty? If they do not hold their loy-,
alty above all silly effervescence of
childish wit, what about their profes
sion they hold sacred?
“My purpose, therefore, in adminis
tering this reprimand is to recall the
men who are responsible for this low
erming of standards to their Ideals; to
remind them of the high conscience
with which they ought to put duty
above personal indulgence and to think
of themselves as responsible men and
trusted soldiers, even while they are
amusing themselves as diners out.
“Sincerely yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.”
20 Persons Are Killed in Fire.
Georgetown, British Guiana. — A
large section of the business quarter
of Georgetown, which is known also
as Demerara, was destroyed by fire.
Twenty persons were killed and many
injured. Scores were rendered home
less. A vast amount of sugar for ex
portation was burned and a ware
house and many other buildings were
destroyed. Georgetown is the capi
tal of British Guiana.
Jaws of Americans Great Consumers
New York. —The jaws of the Amer
ican nation show away every year in
gum the price of three dreadnaughts,
according to Hudson Maxim, in an
address delivered by Dr. Madison C.
Peters. From the profits of “John
Barleycorn,” the inventor said two
hundred battleships a year could be
built, while tobacco woul dcontribute
almost as heavily to the national arm
ament. The speaker said he was a
peace man, but that he believed in
being prepared. Modern weapons con
tributed to p^ace, he declared.