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THE McDUFFIE-TROGRESS.
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Vol. VIA.
THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1909.
No. hb.
KEEPING VALUES UP AND PR
IS OUR CONSTANT WORK FROM SUN UP
SPECIAL FOR MONDAY ONLY.
25c and 50c Belts at 5c and 10c.
Tapestry Art Squares $9.98
Axminister Art Squares $22.50
Sholsten FeltMattress 12.75
Yard Wide Sheeting 4-l-2e
18x20 Hall and Dining Room Pictures 59c
Lot $1.00 and $1.50 Slippers at 50c
Ladies and Mens 25c Hose at 19c
O SUN DOWN.
THE DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Good Calico at 5c
Best Quality Pere&ls at ll-l-2c
Just received a large assortment towels, prices right.
Pretty Patterns in Silk Muls at 34c
We have Clothing to suit the Society Man, the Business
Man and the man of the world ..
Large Assortment of Fancy Vest
We are headquarters for Dress and Neglee Shirts, see
them before you buy. .. ..
Large Assortment Of Furniture And House Furnishings Always On Hand.
MCCOMMONS-BUSH-BOSWELL
Main Sired,
Thomson, Ga.
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G. \V. & G. F. Granade announce to the public
that they have opened a Grocery Store on Railroad
Street in the building recently occupied by J
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The following article published in
The Burlington Nows, of Darlington.
B. C., January :.!rd, l‘JU7, was written
by Mr, 10. Williamson, wlissc method
I of raisim; corn lias created great iuter-
I ext all over the .-onth :
, For a number of years after I began
to farm ! folio wed the old time meth
od of putting the fertilizers ell under
the corn, planting on u level or higher,
mx hv three feet, pushing the plant
from the start and inakir.g a big stalk,
___ •-! .t-i • w hut the ours were few and frequently
T aney and. Family Groceries. sinan. i plumed much com m the
yij j soring and bought much more com
a fair share of the patronage of the ^ ; mo next spring, until 11 naiiy- J was
* n (driven to the conclusion that com
guarantee lair prices, correct weights w| could not he made on uplands in this
\h I section, certainly not hy the old metli-
\b ! od, except at a loss,
d/ I did not give up, however,
ev will constantly keep on hand a
complete stock of
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Land slioulu he thoroughly and deep- , fu
Iv broken for com, and tills is the time ! th
in a system of rotation to
one-half of it now. Cover with one
rrow of turn plow, then sow peas in
this middle broadcast at the rate of at
deepen the ! least one bushel to the acre, and finish
They
public
solicit
and
soil. Cotton requires a more compact
soil than corn, and while a deep foil is
essential to its best development, it
will not produce ns veil on loose op-
;cn land, while corn does best on laid
thoroughly broken. A deep soil will
not only produce imre heavily than a
shallow soil with good seasons, but it
will stand more wet as well as more
dry weather.
1 In preparing for the corn crop land
should be broken broadcast during the
winter one-fourth deeper than it lias
to
and first-class goods.
G. W. & G. F. GRANADE.
Railroad Street,
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THOMSON, GA.^
S v cSr; isr sh sP- & S - €r- S-'Sr SixSE-Sr tirSc-Sr or & ?■' & §"■ ^'
Headquarters For
Building Materia!
Lime, Cement, Plaster,
Doors, Sash, Blinds,
Screen Doors, Screen
Sash and etc. ^Mantels,
Grates, Tile, Paints, Var
nish, Glass. Building
material of all kinds .. ..
for t
knew that a farmer who did not make
Ills own corn never had succeeded,
and never would, so I began to exper
iment. First I planted lower, and the
yield was better, but the stalk was
still too large, so I discontinued alto
gether the application of fertilizer be-
! fore planting, and knowing that till
, crops should be fertilized at some lime
i i used mixed as a side application,and
breaking out.
] n a few days side corn in other mid
dle with same sweep, put balance of
nitrate of soda in this furrow, if it lias
been divided, cover with turn plow,
sow peas and break out. This lay by
your crop with a good bed and plenty
of dirt around yourstalk. This should
be ftom .June 10th to 2ftl li, unless dho
season is very late, and corn should he
hardly bunching tor tassel.
Day by early. More com is ruined
by late plowing than by lack of plov
Thomson Mercantile Co.
1.
Ovr services are prompt.
Our material is the best.
fi. J. H0BNE & CO.
657 Broad St. Augusta, Ga.
Long Distance Phone 473.
Gov. Brown To Visit Warrenton.
In a letter received iiere this week,
G^v-elect Joseph M. Brown has an
nounced his purpose to visit Wsrrtn-
ton on Thursday, April29th. lie will
roceive a courteous tand cordial wel
come fjom every one regardless of how
their votes were in *he Tecent
primary. The Smith and Brown Sup
porters* will unite in extending to
him tiie hospitality and cordiality for * cifpfwr
which the jieople of Warren county
are rioted. In coming to Warrenton
the governor-elect is only carrying
out his announced purpose of visiting
as many counties in the state as he
can prior to his inauguration, in or
der that he may become acquainted
with the people.
ft is not a: all improbable that Mr.
Brown will address the people of
WBareli county on the date above and
should lit do so he will have a large
udtefice to hear huh.— Warrenton
applied Die more.':soluble nitratg of j ei , um | er withoul
soda later, being guided in this hy the i jn ))L , a vines
| excellent results obtained from its us?
us a top dressing for oats, fc'till the
yield, though regular, was not large,
: and the smallness of the stalks now
1 suggested that they should bo planted
thicker in the drill. This was done
1 the next year with results so satisfac-
itorythat I continued from year to
| year to increase the number of stalks
I and the fertilizer, with which to sus-
! tain them, also to apply nitrate of soda
! at last plowing, and to lay by enriy,
l so\v'ng»peas broadcast. This method
! steadily increased the yield, until the
! year before last (1904) with com 11 in-
[ dies apart in G foot rews mid 11 dollars
I wortli of fertilizer to the acre, 1 made ^
i 48 bushels average to" the acre, several'
of my best acres making us much as
125 bushels.
Last year (1905; I followed the same
method, planting the lirst week in
April 70 acres which had produced the
year before 1,000 puinds seed cotton
per acre. Uhls land is sandy upland,
somewhat rolling. Seasons were very
unfavorable owing to the tremendous
rains in May rnd the extreme
ly hot weather Inter. From Jir.-.e 12
to July 12, the time when it most need
ed moisture, there was only five-eights
of an inch rainfall here ; yet with
$7.91 cost of fertilizer, my yield was
52 buihels per acre. Rows were 0 feet
and corn 16 inches in drill. With this
method, on land that will ordinarily
produce 1,000 lbs. of seed cotton with
800 tbs. of fertilize, 50 bushels of corn
per acre should lie made by using 200
lbs. cotton seed meal, 200 lbs. acid
phospate and 400 lbs. kainit mixed
or their equivalent in other fertilizers,
and 125 lbs. of nit'aTeof soda, all to lie
used as side application as directed
below.
On land that will make a bale and a
half of cotton per acre when well fer
tilized, 100 bushels of com should be
produced by doubling the amount of
the fertilizer above, except that 500 lbs.
of nitrate of soda sh-uld be used.
In each case there should be left on
the land in com stalks, peas, vines and
roots, from $12 In $16 worth of fertili
zer material iwr acre, besides the great
benefit to the hum from so large, an
amount of vegetable matter. The
place of this in the permanent improve
ment of land can never be taken by
commercial fertilizer, for iuis absolute
ly impossible to make lands rich as
long f) they are lacking in vegetable
been plowed before, or iT much vege-jmg.
table matter is being turned under, it
may be broken one-third deeper.
This is as much deepening us land will
usually stand in one year and produce
well, though it may be continued each
year, so long as inueli dead vegetable
matter is being tumedunder. It may,
however, be subsoiled to any depth by
following in bottom of turn plow far
row, provided no more of the subsoil
than has been directed is turned up.
Break with a two horse plow if possi
ble, or better, wit h disc plow. With
the latter, cotton stalks or com stalks
us large as we ever make can be turn-
having been chopped,
it will not choke or
drag. Never plow iand when it is wet
if you expect ever to have any use for
it again.
l’ed with turn plow in G-l'oot rows,
I saving 5 inch bank, i Whin ready to
plant, break this ouL with scooter, fol- j cannot stand a lack of moisture,
lowing in bottom of this furrow deep
with Dixie plow, wing taken < if. Ridge
then on this furrow with same plow
still going deep. Run com planter on
this ridge, dropping the grain every 5
or 6 inches' Plant eaily, as soon as
frost, danger is past, say lirst seasona
ble spell after March Jlotli, in this sec
tion. Especially is early planting nec
essary on very rich land- where stalks
cannot otherwise be prevented from
growing too large. Give first working
with harrow on any plow that will not
cover the plant. For second working
use 10 or 12 inch sweep <>■ both sides
of corn, which should now be about 8
inches high. Thin after this working.
It is not necessary that the plants
should he left all the same distance
apart, if the right number remain to
each yard of row.
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Thi,s >s When theear i , hurt. Two
good mins after laying byshould make
you a good crop of com, and it should
make with much less rain that if push-1
ed and fertilized in the old way.
The Malks thus raised are very small
and do not require anything like the
moisture even in proportion to size,
that is necessary for large sappy stalks.
They may therefore, be left much
thiospr in the row. This is no new
process, it has long been a custom to
back vines and trees in order to ■ in
crease the yield and quality of fruit,
and so. long as you do not hold back
yaur earn, it will go, like mine so long
wont, all to stalk.
J)o not be discouraged by the
of your com during the process of cul
tivalion. It will yield out of all pro-1
portion to its appearance. Large stalks
cannot make large yields, except with!
extremely favorable seasons, for they!
Ea r-!
ly applications of manure go to make!
large stalks, which you do not want;
and the plant food is all thus used up'
before the ear, which you do want, is
made. Tall stalks, not only will nol.J
produce well themselves, but will riot !
allow you to make the pea vines, so i
necessary to improvement of land, j
Con; raised by this method should nev-1
er grow over seven and a half feet high
and the car should lie near to t Site |
ground.
1 consider the final application of ni-l
Irate of soda an essential point in this
ear nuking process, it should always
be applied at lust plowing and umixeo
with other fertilizers.
lam satisfied witti one ear to
stalk, unless a prolific variety is plant
led, and leaves 100
Announce to the people of McDuffie and adjoining
counties that they have recently greatly enlarged their
business and are now better prepared than, ever before
to furnish their customers, friends . and the public
generally with every article usually kept in a Grocery
Store. At our store on Railroad Street vou cun al
ways lind a large stock of
Flour, Meal, Meat, Lard, Sugar,
Molasses, Salt, Tobacco, Bag
ging and Tie
£?.
And many other 1 arm Supplies< The buantities in
which we will purchase these goods will make us buy
and sell at the LOWEST market prices. We solicit
the patronage pf the trading public.
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Thomson Mercantile Co.
f The. Crow Of
The Game Cock
Is permissible because he has spurs to back
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| bushel 1 expect to m
Corn should not be worked again un-1 font row easiest to
till the growth lias l>cen so retarded,
and the stalk so hardened that it wid
never grow too lurge. This is the most
difficult point in the whole procoss.
Experience and judgement are requir
ed to knowjust liow much the stalk
should be stunted, and plenty of nerve
is required to hold hack your corn
when your neighbors, who fertilized at
planting time aud cultivated rapidly,
have corn twice the size of yours.
(They are having their fun now, Yours
will come at harvest time.) The richer
the land toe more necessary it is that
the stunting process should be thor
oughly done.
When you are convinced that your
com lias been sufficiently humiliated,
you may begin t) make the car. It
should now be from 12 to is inches
high, and look worse than you have
ever hud any com to look before.
Put half your fertilizer (this being
the lirst used at all) in the old sweep
furrow on both sides of eveijr other
middle, and cover by breakurg-oyt. this
‘middle wi(H~lum' plow. About*'one
week later treat the other middle the
same way. Within a few days side
com in first middle with 16 Inch sweep.
Pal all your nitrate of zodajin this fur
row. if less than 150 lbs. If more, use
us t
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injuring the com. For 50 bushels
the acre, J leave it 1G isches apart
75 bushels, 12 inches apart, and for 100
bushels 8 inches apart. Corn should
be planted from 4 to 6 inches ire low the
level, and laid by from 1 to 6 inches
above. No hoeing should lie necessary
and middles should be kept clean until
time to break out, by using harrow or
by running on shovel furrow in center
of middle and bedding on that, with
one or more rounds of turn plow.
1 would advise only a few acres tried
by this method the first year, cr until
you are familiar with its application.
Especially Hit hard at first -, .o fully
carry out the stunting process where a
whole crop is involved, and this is the
absolutely essential part of the proces:
Ibis method l have applied or seen
applied, successfully, to all kinds of
land in this seetlon exeept wet lands
and moist bottoms, and 1 am confident
it can he made of great benefit through
out the entire riouth.
pin the Middle \Vest,iwhrjscorn is so
prolific and pr ditable, and. where, un
fortunately t'dr us, so much of.ours ljas
been produced, the stalk does not nat
urally grow large. As we come tsoiith
its size increases, at the expense of ihe
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it up wjili; and for quantity ask the man
We mean the Tax Collector. The records j
show who carries the stock and pays the taxes. L
It is alright to make a noise about quanti-
ty, quality aud durability provided your jobs 5
hack it up—clear to the end of the shafts— £
Why not have style and etc, combining all j
these with comfort and a durable finish. S
Babcocks carry quality to the fullest require
ments.
I I. IT COBKERY,
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Cj T+-) Broad Street,
Augusta,
S 1 9 0 8 BANNER YEAR. ^
ie ; ^ Not-withstandkig the panic and other business
£ drawbacks, our sales were larger than any previous
^ year. We are better prepared than ever to serve you
i and can give you your money’s worth every time.
^ Agents ior Sucrene Food.
< Arrington Bros. &■ Compan.
J LEADING GROCERS,
1 863 BROAD, ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
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