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t We want you to use one of our BLACK DIAMOND Ranges. We guarantee every one of them. THOMSON HARDWARE CO. WILKESCOUNTY LEGION FAIR -AT- WASHINGTON, GEORGIA October 7th to 11th INCLUSIVE I Splendid Agricultur- > I: al, Poultry and Live- Stock Exhibits Assured. Largest and best MIDWAY ever seen in this section of the state. TWENTY-FIVE CAR LOADS OF AMUSEMENT. The BEST FAIR and the BEST CARNI VAL EVER SEEN IN WASHINGTON. , Admission—Children 15c; Adults 25c. Night Admission—10c to all. Wilkes County Legion Fair Association WASHINGTON, GEORGIA TUESDAY, OCT. 7th, TO SATURDAY, OCT. Uth, INCLUSIVE. Why Sell Your Cotton Below Cost WHEN YOU CAN STORE IT WITH The Standard Warehouse Company In Augusta, Ga., for less than you can insure it at home, and borrow money on the warehouse receipts at a low rate of interest? The STANDARD is bonded, licensed and operated under supervision of U. S. Government and has assets of more than $600,000.00 with no debts. Weight and grade of each bale cotton shown on warehouse receipt and issued to owner of cotton. Storage rates very reason able. Communicate with J. M. Lyle, Manager. The Standard Warehouse Company AUGUSTA, GA. TELEPHONE 3181. EAT AT 9? FREE PICTURES FOR McDUFFIE FARMERS. Starting Saturday a series of four good practical pictures will be pre sented at the Palace Theatre for the benefit of the farmers of McDuffie county. These pictures have been seared from the Department of Ag riculture by the County Agent, and will be shown absolutely free on the days set forth in this letter. Please keep the dates in mind and make it a part of your next month’s program to see these pictures one and all. Sept. 27th, a year with the sheep flock. Lambs from range to market. Oct. 4th, Control of hog cholera. Exit ascaris. Health for hogs. Oct. 11th, Where Uncle Sam raises poultry. Making poultry pay. Se lecting a laying hen. Oct. 18th, Sweet potatoes from seed to storage. Sweet potatoes from store house to market. The first picture, Sept. 27th, shows every step in the sheep game start ing in the fall by selecting good pure bred rams and grade ewes with which to start the flock. Winter manage ment, shepherds spring duties, dock ing, shearing, dipping, sheep on sum mer pasturage, also a picture of ewes and lambs grazing on national for est; lambs separated from ewes at end of the season and taken to feed ing yards for fattening; fattening of lambs on different feeds and loading lambs for market. Look for description of remaining pictures in' next issue of this paper. In addition to the above the Palace will offer some rip roaring pictures, among them are Hoot Gibson in Thrill Chasers and others which will i be announced later. The show starts promptly at 1 o’clock. You be there. PAUL GEER MAKES POULTRY PAY. Schneider’s Restaurant Regular Dinner 50c Plate Lunch 25c Short Orders served from 5 A. M. to 10 P. M. Too much credit cannot be given to McDuffie county’s pioneer poultry- men. They have come forward and showed the old neighborhood a thing or two in spite of prevailing preju dice against anything save cotton as a money crop. There are several of these producers who deserve credit. One of these is Mr. Paul .• Geer, the affable gentleman at the Ford plant. Several years ago Mr. Geer started wth only a few Anconas to demon strate to hmself the possibilities of profit from poultry. He gives as his reason for selecting Anconas the fact that when a boy his mother used to send him under the house to look for breakfast eggs and he declares that the little speckled hen always paid best for the search. He has spent much time studying the poul try business and is sure that a man never gets so wise on any line hut that he can learn more. The result is that he has not only profited by his own experience hut those of oth ers, too. There are at present 650 Anconas on the Geer farm. Of this number 150 are hens and 500 pullets. Mr. Geer has 250 pullets just coming in to lay at a time when eggs are high and going higher. This is due to his hatching chickens in March with incubators while the average farmer was waiting for the old hen to make up her mind to set. Here is another lesson we should learn: While the average farmer is getting 40c for eggs, and most of them have none for sale at any price, Mr. Geer is selling his eggs for 50c per dozen. Why? Simply because he selects his eggs and sells a stand ard dozen (24 oz.) and the purchaser knows they are guaranteed to be fresh. He also delivers them in doen cartons which cost him $13.50 per 1000. We’ will learn some day that the market doesn’t want field run stuff, whether it be eggs, potatoes, j melons, peaches or what not. Mr. Geer turned down orders for | baby chcicks last spring and disposed of hatching eggs at $1.50 per setting. As soon as the hatching season opens his March pullets will be sufficiently mature to use their eggs for hatch ing. Commercial feeds are good and can be had from local grocerymen, but are usually pretty expensive. The following mixture is g : ving good re sults on the Geer farm: 100 lbs. cox*n meal; 100 lbs. beef scrap; 150 lbs. bran; 50 lbs. cheap flour; 100 lbs. shorts; 4 lbs. salt; 10 lbs. charcoal; 15 lbs. fine oyster shell. Next spring will witness the in stallation of a 3000 egg machine, which will about take care of the hatching. If your are interested in profit from your poultry, talk to Mr. Geer and follow his practice, es pecially in regard to early hatching if you want eggs when they bring good prices. The old saying “Thars mo’ in the man than thar is in the land,” applies in the chicken business as well as elsewhere. There are other breeds as good as Anconas. Why not have your eggs hatched in March and April so as to insure success. A trip Give Next Year’s Crops A Good Start Let the Fordson Tractor help you to give next year’s crops a good start. Let this dependable power plant do your Fall plowing. With it you can plow as deep as desired and as fast as necessary. Besides getting the work done on time—when conditions are most satisfactory—you make a substantial saving which helps pay for your Fordson. Save Time and Money on Winter Belt Work! When Fordson is through plowing it is ready to excavate, pull stumps, grind feed, shell com, pump water, haul heavy loads,’ cut timber, saw wood— in fact, do any power job on the farm at a saving in time, labor and money. Let your nearest Authorized Ford dealer give you a practical demon stration. This does not obligate you —it gives you the opportunity to see how Fordson can reduce fanning costs for you! For lion trrovidts amfU power for ■ :tio belt u*rrk of all kinds ATLANTA, OCTOBER 4 TO 1 1 19 2 4 GREATEST AMUSEMENT PROGRAM AND UN- rivalled educational features THE ATLANTA PASSING REVUE Featuring the Famous All Georgia Beauty Ballet every night In front of the Grandstand CHAMPIONSHIP AUTO RACE8 OCT. 4 AND I I Two days of Auto Racing in which the contestants will Include some of the most fearless Drivers of Inter national fame HARNESS RACES OCT. 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Five days of great racing participated In by many of the finest Pacers and Trotters ever appearing on Southern tracks FIREWORKS, MIDWAY AND CARNIVAL 8HOW8 Every night a grand Fireworks Display, the cele brated Rubin & Cherry Shows perform each day of the fair, and the Lakewood Midway open daily THE NATIONAL HOG AND CATTLE SHOW Officially a part of the fair, bringing together the largest and finest assemblage of Pure Bred Live Stock to be seen in the South AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DISPLAY Surpassing in magnitude and interest all former atteYnpts. Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work will feature In thevarious departments Reduced Rates on all Railroads. Write for a Free Premium List The Southeastern Fair Association OSCAR MILLS, President R. M. STRIPLIN, Secretary ATLANTA-OCTOBER 4 to 11 i to the Geer farm will do you good. Mr. Geer extends a cordial invitation. G. C. DANIEL. Steel Ranges, Cast Ranges & Cook Stoves. iAlso Oil Heaters and Cook Stoves, at Thom son Hardware Co. TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. S From time to time, as The Youth’s Companion Historic Milestone Covers have appeared, the publishers have dedicated them, each to the particular state with which the subject of the cover was most closely associated. But now and then there has been a subject of such general interest— Washington’s Inauguration, for ex ample—that the only fitting thing to do was to dedicate it, not to a single state, but • to the Nation. Such a Milestone Cover is to appear upon the issue of October 9th. “Franklin at the Court of Louis XVI” was painted expressly for The Companion by Andre Castaign, dean of the world’s illustrators. The text that accompanies the unusually im portant picture reads as follows: Franklin in France, wearing his plain homespun suit with quiet dig nity in the presence of an elegant and luxury-loving Court is more than a figure in diplomatic history; he is the embodiment of a great national ideal—that wisdom, integrity and self-respect shall stand unabashed eve* in the presence of kings. Since both the interest of the sub ject and the political faith that the painting so strikingly expresses are not local or sectional, but belong alike to the whole Nation, the Pub lishers of The Compaion have most happily dedicated this outstanding Milestone Cover to the American People.