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WARNING ISSUED
TO DOG OWNERS
Owing to the prevalence of mad-
dogs in Thomson, Mayor McCom-
mnos has issued a circular warning
owners of dogs to muzzle their dogs
or keep them confined on their prem
ises.
It is reported that several people
were bitten Recently by dogs affected
with rabies and are now under the
care of doctors.
Dogs found roaming the streets
without muzzles are ordered to be
killed.
BOG SALE
Several have asked when we could
expect a cooperative hog sale here.
NOTES FROM THE
COUNTY AGENT
POULTRY SALE GOOD.
There were 91 people who contri
buted 3573 pounds of poultry at our
sale Wednesday, bringing into the
county approximately $700. A firm
from Philadelphia purchased these at
good prices. Our next sale will be
May 7th, instead of the 2nd, as pre
viously announced. Let’s raise 5000
pounds or more of broilers for this
sale.
TREATING POTATOES.
We are pleased to note that our
records show 25 farmers who axe
treating their potatoes for scurf and
black rot. If you havn’t bedded, re
member this formula: 1 ounce bi
chloride mercury to 8 gallons water.
The county agent talked with M l -!Soak potatoes 10 to 15 minutes and
Welchel Thursday who held four
sales over the state and he quotes
prices ranging from $7.15 to $7.50
per hundredweight for number ones.
We will conduct a sale next week if
we can list enough hogs for that
time. All who have hogs for sale
about April 14th or 15th please list
them with your agent at once so that
we can announce a sale date defi
nitely. It would be much easier to
market produce here if the farmers
would list same with the agent. We
can’t afford to have hogs brought in
and have to be returned. You run
such a risk if you fail to list your
produce. Get the habit of writing
to your agent. You will be notified
by letter if we get sufficient hogs.
G. C. DANIEL.
Sale of The Jeffersonian
Plant Called Off.
Sale of the old Jeffersonian print
ing plant that was to / have taken
place Tuesday, was called off on ac
count of a restraining order procured
by former stockholders or officials of
the Jeffersonian Publishing Co., who
gave bond to have the sale held up,
according to information by those
connected, with the sale.
It was generally understood that
Mrs. A. L. Lytle had acquired foil
ownership to the property, but the
proceeding in calling off the sale puts
a new phase on the matter. The
plant was levied on by the Messrs
Birchmore as the property of Mrs.
Lytle to satisfy certain claims they
had against the owner.
Whatever contentions there are in
the matter will be heard at the next
term of Superior Court in September
it is said.
bed. Do not use metal vessels nor
take this internally as it is a deadly
poison.
The DIGEST
Smiles & Curies.
THE CORN CLUB.
There are 29 Corn Club members
to date. Those who belong shoul 1
urge others to join. , Remember if
you don’t win a prize you help your
neighbor win and you and your coun
ty will be better off another year by
reason of more corn in the county
and in your cribs. You can’t lose—
you may win. Join the Corn Club
now.
Washington, D. C., April 2.
ESTIMATED WEALTH OF THE
UNITED STATES.
The Department of Commerce an
nounces, for the United States, its
preliminary estimate of the value,
December 31, 1922, of the principal
forms of wealth, the tatal amount
ing to $320,803,862,000, as compared
with $186,299,664,000 in 1912, an in
crease of 72.2 per cent. Per capita
values increased from $1,950 to $2,
918, or 49.6 per cent. The total
amount of the estimate for 1912 as
here shown is less than the amount
shown in the report for that year
by $1,439,407,000, due to a revision
now made for that year in the value
of taxed real property in the State
of Oklahoma.
A 11 classes of property increased
in value from 1912 to 1922, except
live stock, which decreased from $6,-
238,389,000 to $5,807,104,000 or 6.9
per cent.
lying between depths of 1,620 and
1,687 feet.
POTATO SI,IPS.
We are on our way to 100,000 po-
tatoe slip order and have 35,000 list
ed to date. Let me have your re
quirements and do not delay longer.
We should get an attractive price on
this amount. An eighth of an acre
will furnish cuttings enough to fin
ish’out an acre; 1000 slips will plant
the 1-8 acre if planted 30x30 inches.
Order now. Price $1.00 per 1000.
AMERICAN MAHOGANY.
Mahogany lumber from America
is selling rapidly and firmly in Eng
land. American oak in the lower
grades is meeting with a good de
mand in England, and since recent
arrivals have been light, increased
prices are expected.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Farr and chil
dren were the guests of Mrs. Dee
Cason Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Langham
visited Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gunn
Sunday.
LOADING OF FREIGHT.
Loading of revenue freight for the
week which ended on March 15th
totalled 916,953 cars, the greatest
number for any corresponding week
on record.
STEEL PRODUCTION INCREAS
ED.
Production of steel sheets by in
dependent mills in February increas
ed over the proceeding month and a
year ago, according to reports to the
Bureau of the Census, Department
of Commerce.
FARMERS URGED TO BECOME
ENGINEERS.
A recent Government report shows
that among farm developments along
engineering lines that in 2,447 farm- T\ loxico in the year 1923 a
houses water systems Were installed 149,529,088 barrels com
Sewer disposal
Fish Traps In McDuffie
Streams Must Go.
PEANUT PRICES.
Just received peanut prices from
the Georgia Peanut Exchange as fol
lows :
Middle Georgia White Spanish, re
cleaned, 120 bags at 9 l-2c f. o. b.
Albany. Same stock not recleaned,
8 l-2c f. o. b. Greensboro. Fancy
grade Farmers stock in 100 lb. bags,
at 8c f. o. b. Washington. Ordinary
Farmers stock, 7 l-2c f. o..,b. Wash
ington.
Peanuts should be a good crop
this year; let’s plant a few acres. I
have names of nine farmers who will
plant in all 250 acres this year.
Won’t you join hands with these to
give peanuts the place it deserves as
a money crop in McDuffie?
Notice is hereby given that all
fish traps in the streams of McDuffie
county will be taken out. It is not
my intention of making cases against
parties for this offense, but hereafter
parties guilj:y of placing traps in any
stream in McDuffie county will be
prosecuted to the full extent of the
law. The State Fish and Game Com
mission is standing back of me and
my deputy is making a full survey
of the streams of the county. A
word to the wise is sufficient.
C. P. WATSON, Game Warden.
DEATH OF MR. JNO W. JOHNSON.
The death of Mr. John W. John
son occurred at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. James A. Johnson,
Sunday morning at 10 o’clock.
While Mr. Johnson had been sick
about three weeks, he was able to
sit up and join the family in conver
sation Sunday evening, only a few
hours before his death.
He was 67 years of age and is
survived by five sons and one daugh
ter.
Mr. Johnson was one of McDuffie
county’s substantial citizens, being
a prosperous farmer and a good cit
izen and highly esteemed by a,l who
knew him.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. C. C. Kiser aA the home at
10:30 Monday mroning, interment
being at Hunt’s grave yard south of
Thomson.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Dr. Trumbo, who has treated chol
era in this section, was in town Tues
day and tested 66 cattle for tuber
culosis. Farmers and dairymen who
want their cows tested for this dis
ease should list their names with the
county agnet.
About 10 per cent of the tubrecu-
losis in mankind, especially with
children, is contracted through drink
ing cow’s milk. It behooves every
just man to see that he is not feed
ing tuberculosis germs to his or his
neighbor’s children through the me
dium of milk from tubercular cows.
A cow’s plupical condition is no
indication of whether she is diseased
or not. Some of the best looking
cattle are infected.
Most towns have laws requiring
that those furnishing milk must have
cov/s tested. This is a great step
forward in the interest of saving
life. Let’s not let this opportunity
fail. Send in your name at once.
during the past year
plants were established on 2,107
farms. Lighting systems were in
stalled on 5,883 farms, while 3,618
farm dwellings were reconstructed
along modern lines. The report
says: “The field of the extension
rural engineer is to instruct the farm
er concerning the benefits to be de
rived from the application of engi
neering knowledge to agriculture.”
Emphasis is laid on the woi’k to be
accomplished by organizing communi
ty activities along lines of instruc
tion in engineering. Community
leaders, it is declared, may be de
veloped by careful selection whose
services will be of inestimable value
in spreading engineering knowledge
among the farmers.
THE MEXICAN OIL OUTPUT.
Production of crude petroleum in
amounted to
compared to a
production of 182,278,457 barrels in
1922, according to a report recently
issued by the Mexican Department
of Petroleum. Heavy oil production
amounted to 88,529,448 barrels, and
light oil production to 60,999,940 bar
rels. Up to recent years heavy oil
had been surpassed by the light oil
production.
EAST THOMSON AND
LULLWATER MILLS
Mrs. J. D. Marshall and little
daughter left Sunday for Anniston?
Ala., where she will spend a few day*
with her mother.
Mr. T. J. Story, of Harlem, spent
Mrs. Cleve Hammock spent Friday 1 Sunday with relatives here.
afternoon with Mrs. Olin Hinton.
Mrs. George Story and daughter
spent a while with Mrs. Lem Math
ews Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. Herman Montgomery- and
Hardwick Cason made a business
trip to Augusta Saturday in Mr.
Montgomery’s new Ford.
Sorry to report that Thelma Mead
ows is absent from school on account
of sickness.
THE POWER THAT PROVIDES
ELECTRICITY.
While the total output of electrical
energy by the public utility power
plants of the United States in 1923
increased 17 per cent over the 1922
figures—a high record of nearly 65,-
000,060,000 kilowatt hours—the pro
portion of this enormous flow of
power produced by hydro-electric
stations continued a decrease that
has appeared for each of the last
five years ,according to figures made
public by the United States Geolog
ical Survey. The Illinoise Commit
tee on Public Utility Information
says: “The more rapid increase in
the production of power by steam
plants as compared to hydro-electric
central stations is due to the greater
ease in locating a steam plant, where
as a hydro-electric power site is of
ten a long distance away from its
market of power.”
The demands for electrical energy
are growing at such a rate that, ac
cording to a statement made by the
director of the Geological Survey,
even if all the water power sites
PERSONAL.
I have a chock for Mr. W. B. Wil
liamson for potatoes which I am
unable to deliver. Wish he would
call for same at the office. W. B.
Moi-ris has SI.00 coming to him from
poultry sale. Call at First National
Bank.
G. C. DANIEL, Co. Agt.
east of the Mississippi River were
developed, they could not supply the
energy required. Water power de
velopment is of the greatest econo
mic importance as every horse power
so generated saves at least four tons
of coal a year. But almost every
hydro-electric plant is subject to
drought and low water, ice and other
interferences, and must have steam-
power to fall back upon in emer
gencies. The steam plant rims year
in and year out, when and as it is
needed.
EVIDENCE OF POTASH IN TEXAS
The discovery of fairly rich pot
ash salts in drill cuttings taken from
two new wells in southwestern Texas,
just announced by the Department
of the Interior, has revided interest
in the search for potash in western
PAYING FOR EDUCATION.
The United States Department of
the Interior, in a recent bulletin says:
“A high school in a community in a
western Slate supported almost en
tirely by agriculture is giving only
eight-tenths of one per cent of its
teaching effort to agriculture. It is
giving 14 times as much ot its teach
ing effort to foreign languages as to
agriculture. Yet this community will
rise or fall according to the degree of
intelligence brought to bear upori
agricultural problems. (
Among those attending the con
vention at Pleasant Grove last Sun
day were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ivey,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farr and children
and Mr. Newt Cason.
Miss Willie Mae Brooks visited
Miss Katie Lou Lamb last Sunday.
We are glad to report that Mrs.
J. J. Mathews is rapidly improving.
Mr. and Mrs. George Colvin and
little son and Mrs. Nannie Harville
visited Mrs. Tom Montgomery Sun
day.
Mr. Charlie Langham and family
visited Mr. and Mrs. George Story
one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brooks vis
ited Mrs. Deo Cason Sunday.
Misses Katie Lou and Bessie Jones
spent Saturday afternoon in town.
A few of the Central pupils have
joined the poultry, corn and cotton
clubs.
Mrs. Newt Cason and little son
Robert Willie spent Wednesday with
Mrs. Lem Mathews.
Miss Katie Lou Lamb visited Miss
Willie Mae Brooks last week.
Mr. Bill Connell made a busine**
trip to Augusta Monday.
Misses Maude and Lovie McGahe*?
Ruby Huff, Beulah Harrison alid Mr#
Claude Scoggins spent Sunday after
noon with friends in Dearing.
Mr. R. W. Crawford, Misses Ruby
and Sallie Crawford, Mr. and Mrs#
R. D. Crawford and children and Mrs.
J. T. Scoggins spent a short while
in Boneville Sunday afternoon.
Mr.Jimmie Ansley spent the week
end with his parents in Boneville,
Mrs. B. L .Lazenby and children
were the spend-the-day guests of
Mrs. R. W. ’ Robinson Sunday.
Mr. Clifford Baker, of Tennille, Ga.?
is spending a few days with his par
ents, Mr. ajd Mrs. W. L. Baker,
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Widener and
children spent Sunday with relatives
near Dearing.
Mr. C. E. Willis returned Friday
from Roanoke, Ala., where he was
called to the bedside of Mrs. Willis
who has been seriously ill, but is im
proving at this time.
Mrs. W. J. Sils and children, Mrs.
Mollie Mathews and Miss Sibby Peek
were guests at the home of Mr. W•
A. Tyer near Boneville Wednesday,
Miss Eula Hogan, of Augusta?
spent the week-end with Misses Ocie
and Maude Adams.
Mr. D. T. Paul, of Augusta, spent
the week-end with his family here.
Mr. ar.d Mrs. J. G. Sills and chil
dren and Mrs. P .B. Hodo visited
Harlem Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Sills and chil
dren spent Sunday at Stephens Creek,
THE “L’s” IN LUMBERING.
In an endeavor to adjust the prob
lems of industrial relations, the West
Coast lumber industry has undertak
en a most important experiment in
industrial democracy—the Loyal
Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen.
This organization grew out of a strike
which was in many ways unique in
American industrial history. The
United States Department of Labor
has made and published a study of
the conditions out of which it arose
and of the problems it is attempting
to solve.
The chief cause of unrest and con
flict have been with regard to hours
of work and, especially in the logging
camps, to the living conditions. In
nearly every instance each side could
make out an extremely good case for
itself. The employes demanded liv
ing conditions in the logging camps
more nearly approaching (those of
the men who lived in townc. The
employers agreed to the justice of the
demands in principle, but argued that
it would mean financial fuin to spend
anything more on the camps which,
at best, were only temporary, and,
also, that the men would not keep a
camp decent no matter how well it
had been prepared for them. In or
der to get behind these seemingly
irreconcilable differences, the Federal
Government found it necessary to
examine the industry itself, particu-
uarly the financial conditions and the
kind of work the men do. The meth
od of presentation of the matter in
a booklet just issued has been deter
mined by this consideration.
HELIUM RESERVE.
Through an executive order issued
by the President, the Nation’s first
helium reserve has been created in
Hearing Postponed.
Texas. Chemical tests made by the 1 Emery county Utah. The resei’ve
United States Geological Survey of j consists of 7,100 acres of land in
cuttings from these wells show that 1 which the greater part of the mineral
“PAY NO MORE.”
County School Superintendent, was
postponed on account of inability of
Attention is called to the adver- t attorneys represented in the case to
tisement of the Economy Store on p reseri t it -will come up at some
the drill penetrated beds containing
The hearing that was to have been potash at depths between 1,181 and
given Mr. B. F. Fuller Tuesday in < i. 68 ? feet - Bed « ‘ that are P 0SSlbly
his contest of the recent vote for relatively thin or of low grade were
found at depths between 1,181 and
the last page. Mr. Antopolsky says f uture date, which has not yet been
he has some saving prices for his j determined opon
customers and is anxious foi them
to take advantage of same.
White Spruce Valuable.
The most valuable of Alaskan trees
Small Phonograph.
A phonograph small enough to go
In a . waistcoat pocket has been de
signed by a Hungarian engineer
1,219 feet. Thicker or richer -tepos-
its were found somevwherc etween
depths of 1,275 and 1,325 feet. Con
siderable percentages of potash were
found in cuttings taken between
1,393 and 1,445 feet, and as much
as 3 1-2 per cent was found in ma
teria 1 brought up from depths be-
twe- '■ 1,430 and 1,560 feet.
title is vested in the United States.
THE TIME HAS COME FOR FARMERS TO
STAND BY THEIR ECONOMIC RIGHTS
The fight of the producers of farm
crops for a larger share of what the
consumers pay is on in earnest. The
middleman is a necessity, but there
have been too many of them and
their methods have, been inefficient.
They have consequently had to take
too large a toll for the services ren
dered. A smaller number could have
rendered the same service, even a
better service, and would have had
to take less total toll for their sup
port.
The best thought of the world to
day is, seeking a method of getting
the products of the farms to the con
sumers at less cost. The efforts thus
far begun seek a more direct road
from the producer to the consumer;
the lessening of the number of mid
dlemen and their profits and more
efficient marketing, thereby reducing
costs and increasing returns to the
producers, while lessening the Costs
to the consumers.
In the South most attention has
been given to the better marketing
of cotton because it is our most im
portant sales crop. The progress
made in organizing a better method
ordinary business judgment. In fact?
the sort of fight the cotton middle
men are now waging against the co
operatives can and will serve no other'
purpose than to stimulate farmers
to greater efforts, to unite # them in
purpose and effort and to arouse in
them all the fight of which honest?
free men are capable. If there ever
was a time when farmers should join
in a solid body to fight for their
economic rights, it is now. If there
ever was a campaign against their
interests put on and conducted by
unfair methods it is the campaign of
abuse and misrepresentation now be
ing put on by the cotton middlemen
to smash the farmers cooperative
marketing of cotton.
The policy of the cooperative mar
keting associations has been to at
tack no one, to engage in nothing ex
cept clean high-class business com
petition and to recognize the right
of the middleman to fair pay for a
service rendered. But this does not
suit the cotton speculators and bro
kers. The success of the coopera
tive shows plainly that the cotton
middleman has been taking a toll too
large for the service rendered and the
of selling the producer s cotton has middlemen already see the handwrit-
been rapid and it has now developed j n g. on th e vva ]p But unfair tactics
to such dimensions that it is attract
ing the attention of cotton brokers
and speculators, of the vast numbers
of cotton middlemen.
Naturally, but unwisely, these mid
dlemen have become alarmed at the
dangers of losing some of their past
privileges and profits, and have be
gun a concerted, unfair campaign to
block and destroy the farmers co
operative marketing of cotton. They
overlook the fact that economic laws
are forcing a better marketing of
cotton and foolishly think they can
scotch the wheels of progress for
their own selfish gain. Fair busi
ness competition is the only method
they can effectively use to check the
growth and success of the coopera-
and misrepresentation never perman
ently won any fight for special priv
ileges. ' <
We miss our guess very much if
the sort of fight the cotton middlemen
are putting on does not arouse the
farmers of the South to a point where
'they will unite in one solid body to
fight and fight hard and effectively
for the right to market their own
cotton. Only a lack of knowledge of
all the facts prevents 90 per cent of
the farmers of the South putting
their cotton in the hands of their co
operative marketing associations.
Such action should prevent manipu
lation of the markets by speculators
and stabilize the market under the
law of supply and demand to the
I benefit of the producers, spinners
tive marketing of cotton. If the
The extent and value of the deposits present cooperative methods of mar- md consumers. The wonder is that
of helium is not definitely ascertained |']_ e ti n g- cotton are economically sound t least the producers and spinners
and the lands are still subiect to
various prospecting permits, but in
order to conserve the helium for Gov
ernment needs, the Secretary of the
Interior recommended to the Presi
dent that a reserve be established.
Kipling’s Schoolboy Lyrics.
At Sotheby's, in London, a copy of
Kipling’s schoolboy lyrics printed In
r.dica- 1881 fetched $1,100 and a first edl-
a‘h »vere found in i.eds tion of “Plain Tales," nearly $500.
they will succeed in spite of the ef
forts of speculators and middlemen,
f they are not sound they will fail
without the unfair fight which is
Deing waged against them.
No combination of selfish interests,
to amount of falsehood and misrep-
’•esentation or manipulation of the
markets, can kill the cooperative
marketing of cotton if the principles
do not see this and realize that no
ower on earth can destroy the co
operatives, because they are funda
mentally sound in economics.
The time has come for every farm
er to show on which side he stands,
f under present conditions he will
not join the fight for his economic
rights he does not deserve economic
freedom.—Editorial from The Pro
sound and are followed with gressive Farmer.
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