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Farm and Home Demonstration
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O. L. Johnson, County Agent.
Miss Ella Foy, Home Economic Agent
COUNTY AGENT WORK
APPRECIATED.
“Legislation establishing county ex¬
tension work was aimed to foisting
upon the people of each of the sever¬
al counties of the United States a
young chap, wearing a white collar
and kid gloves, who would be engag¬
ed in telling successful farmers how
to farm. It required the better part
of a decade to overcome this erron¬
eous idea, and, in fact, is not yet en¬
tirely buried, as may be learned by
reading the eo’u.nns of the Gazette
in recent months. This idea, so wide
ly prevalent in early days of exten
smn work, was prejudicial in the ex
treme, and was so far from the bas.c
reasons of extension work that
rapid spread and quick acceptance
wereun ortunatc.
The average agricultural county
produces several million dollars
agricultural products annually. Farm
land and farm equipment have an as
sessed valuation of some million of
dollars. . This .
enormous
and , _ large annual , ,
revenue
that it » good business to employ one
person ,n the county to safeguard it
from pests, diseases and other con¬
trollable factors, which may, without
attention, easily run into losses of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. The
owners of „ , business , of , like magnitude ,
pay taxes . for . fire , and , police protec¬
tion,
With an industry of such magni
tude there is but little possibility
that the vast information reservoirs
of our several state experiment sta¬
tions of the United States Depart¬
ment of Agriculture do not have some
facts which can be applied to that
county with resultant profit to the
land owners. Not all the farmers
can attend the winter short courses
at the agricultural colleges; not all
can visit the experiment stations.
But from 50 to 200 demonstrations of
improved practice advocated by the
experiment station may be observed
in the county annually by one-third
to two-thirds of the farm population,
and some real advantage obtained.
“Of less importance, as viewed from
the standpoint of broad public ser¬
vice, but of great practical value no
less, is the office consultation. Agri
tufal counties can well afford to have
in their midst a branch office of the
state agricultural college and the
Federal department of agriculture,
which is in effect, what the county
agent’s local office constitutes. Per¬
haps we should not say “in effect,” it
really is such a branch office, except
in one percent or less of the counties.
Approximately 3,500 office callers per
county on the average in Illinois last
year, and 1,800 office callers in more
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The “wolf at the door” is not merely a figure of
speech. This wolf is very real, and he comes Snap¬
ping and snarling at the doors of many who never an¬
ticipated being annoyed by him.
You know that kind—the ones who make good
money, and spend it. They either think it will be al¬
ways thus, or else they do not think at all. Then comes
sickness, ill luck, hard times, or something else that
unleashes the snarling wolf.
An account in our bank, carefully tended, is the
best insurance against the visits of this ravenous wolf.
Pill & CITIZENS BANK
CAMILLA, GEORGIA
sparsely-populated Oregon, each of
these calls being for the purpose of
specific information, indicate the vol¬
ume that this service may attain. In
Oregon in April of this year the ste¬
nographers in the county agents’ of¬
fices listed the name of each caller
and the purpose of each call. Read¬
ing abstracts of,, these 24 lists indi¬
cates a wide range of services sought.
(Second of a series of articles taken
from The Breeders’ Gazette.)
WELL HOUSED HENS LAY.
ft u a well known fact among suc
cfcssful ltrv producers that pr0 per
h()Usim , . g a paramount issue at this
tjme of the yeai . if any consideration
tQ be given winter egg production .
R ^ without saying . that feeding
Us important, yet if we expect to at
^ any d of efficiency from a
met hod of feeding, it is
| necesa , to give housing a thorough
> consideration. *
; One of the + v most „ . common _____ mistakes . , , _
i made , by > poultry , , producers ,
is over
tTOWdi This condition lowers vi _
; taHty jn the stock and makes them
SU8ceptiblc to disease. Tehere has
yet to be built a poultry house that
does not have a maximum capacity
for the number of birds it will hold.
Even the most thoughtful producers
will ,, overcrowd , and , then ,, regret , the ..
action later. Every house should
have a system of ventilation whereby
the maximum number of birds that it
should hold will receive the benefit of
the fresh air that must come into the
house.
Poultry thrives best where it is
dry. A poultry house that is dry
will reduce the chances for colds and
other conditions which are responsi¬
ble for the outbreak of disease.
Frost in a hen house in the winter
times, denotes dampness and this will
reduce egg production from the very
first indication of its presence in the
house. Some common rules to re¬
member in poultry housing are:
1. One bird for every four square
feet of floor space for the American
and English breeds. The smaller
birds, such as leghorns, require but
three square feet.
2. For every ten feet of
space have one foot of opening in the
front part of the house.
3. Never build a poultry house
higher than ten feet, better yet, nine
feet. Build it high enough to be con¬
venient when walking around in the
house and also arrange the windows
and openings to attain a maximum of
light.
The floor in any poultry house of¬
fers many problems. A large percen¬
tage of the moisture in a poultry
house comes through the door. The
THE MOST POWERFUL
LEVER
with which to easily move business
burdens, is that of commercial train¬
ing, which is acquired readily by the
pupils of our school. They are effi¬
ciently taught all modern office meth¬
ods and usual business routine, be¬
sides the special lines of accounting,
expert bookkeeping, stenography,
correspondence and typewriting.
Moultrie Business College
An Accredited School
MOULTRIE, GEORGIA
Noted Gambler And
Fighter, Aged, Broken
Begs For Food To Eat
SAN FRANCISCO.—Tom Regan,
the man who scattered $90,000 among
the poor of New York after a spec¬
tacular career as Indian fighter, gam¬
bler and curb broker, wandered into
the Salvation Army Industrial home
here on Thanksgiving day, and asked
for food.
Regan is 96 years old. He came to
the United States in 1844, arriving
as captain of the schooner Fidela,
which he had boarded as a passenger.
The master of the old sailing vessel
had been lost overboard in a storm
and Regan fought his way into lead¬
ership of a mutinous crew.
A few years later, when a member
of a tunneling “outfit” as railroads
pushed their way westward, Regan
won the sobriquet, “Fancy Tom,” be¬
cause of the dexterity and readiness
of his fists.
“They called me Foreman McMas
ter’s ‘Fancy Man' when I licked every¬
one in the division,” Regan said be¬
tween gulps at the coffee he was con¬
suming at the Salvation Army home.
“Because I did his fighting for him,
McMasters had made me on the pay¬
roll twice. We talked with our hands,
plenty, in those days.”
Regan, white-haired, and still dress¬
ed in the modes of decades ago, is
getting a small pension, for his part
in the Sioux Indian war in Minnesota.
He was foreman of a crew which
helped build the Erie canal. Later he
played the curb market in New York.
Money came easily, and Regan, in
a gesture of philanthropy, gave away
$90,000 to needy families.
“After that I came west in a spe¬
cial car,” the old man continued.
“My fair weather days were over,
though. 1 had been lucky at gam¬
bling, but I was wiped out in a stock
swindle.”
Regan says he expects to live un¬
til he is 105 years old, and his am¬
bition is to get back to County Cork
so that he may die there.
"1 want to take a long sleep be¬
side my father and grandfather,” he
said.
Desert That Baffled
Cortez Conquered
By U. S.
MEXICALA, Lower Cal. —
hundred years after the desert south
of here and surrounding the head
Gulf of California had defeated the
undaunted Hernando Cortez, an Am¬
erican railroad is being built across
those sands that promises to wrest
unestimated wealth from the waste
which balked the Spanish conquista¬
dor.
The line, 170 miles long, which will
connect this town on the California
Mexico border with San Felipe, the
nearest point on the Gulf of Califor¬
nia where a deep water harbor is
available, must be completed, accord¬
ing to contract, in 1927.
Residents of the desert domain
look to the railroad to spin the wheel
of progress with three great chang¬
es:
Connect the lower Colorado river
basin with tidewater.
Provide a new system of defense,
through levees on which the road
will travel, against the floods of the
Colorado.
Open the way for reclamation of
250,000 acres of fertile delta land.
Cortez, the daring Spaniard who
brought. Mexico under the heel of
Aragon and Castile, sent expedition
after expedition into this waste be¬
tween the years 1527 and 1541. He
wished to discover a northern route
around what he called the “island of
California," and he deserved above
all else to locate and loot the fabled
rich “Seven Cities of Cibola.”
He failed in both his quests, but
where the Spanish adventurer with
his sword went down to defeat, the
moisture rises to the surface of the
ground and evaporates, in many in¬
stances causing a disagreeable condi¬
tion for the birds. The best floor in
a poultry house is built, first with a
layer of gravel or cinders or any open
material that has large air spaces,
then a layer of hollow block tile,
next a very thin layer of cement. A
good practical floor can be construct¬
ed as follows: Six to eight inches
crushed rock, then a layer of tar pa¬
per and follow that with about three
inches of cement.
Always keep a dry clean litter on
the floor during the winter months.
Avoid drafts in the poultry house
in the winter and summer. A direct
draft in a poultry house may cause
an outbreak of disease, primarily
roup. It will effect egg production.
You also will find that more food is
necessary for the individual hen to
maintain her body temperature. A
good hen house is as fundamental in
the production of poultry on a suc¬
cessful basis as any one particular
phase of poultry management.— W.
H. Lapp.
American engineer with his theodol
yte is registering victory.
The railroad originally was started
by the Mexican government in 1923,
but after ten miles of roadbed had
been graded the De la Huerta revolu¬
tion broke out and construction stop¬
ped.
In 1924 Harry Chandler, of Los
Angeles, and a group of associates
obtained a contract from the ^Mexi¬
can government under which they
were given a 99-year lease, and al¬
lowed three and one-half years to
complete the line. It will be known
as the Mexicali and Gulf Railway.
The builders’ concession includes
the right to construct wharves, cotton
gins, compresses and oil mills at San
Felipe, which will become a shipping
outlet to the Eastern United States
via Panama, and also to Europe and
Asia.
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So Weak
Couldn’t Stand
“My wife’s health broke
down and for years she was
just a physical wreck,” says
Mr. Thomas Glynn, of Gib¬
son, La. “We did everything
we knew, yet she seemed to
get worse and worse. She
was so weak till she couldn’t
stand, and had to he carried
like a baby. It looked like
nothing would save her that
had been done.
For Femaie Miss
"I began looking around. I
knew that Cardul was for wo¬
men. I decided to try It fer
her as all else had failed.
She couldn’t eat, she couldn’t
sleep, and I was desperate.
“After taking a few doses
of Cardui, we were so glad
to note that she wanted some¬
thing to eat, and with each
bit of nourishment, and each
day’s doses of Cardul, she
grew stronger and got up out
of bed. She is now able to
cook, and stronger than in a
long time.”
Cardui has been in success¬
ful use for nearly SO years
in the treatment of many com¬
mon female troubles.
All Druggists’
It Pays to Buy EF 53 :
the Best
Received another car Hackney Wagons with plenty £§ S=
of^extra beds. Norman Buggies, the better
kindfat reasonable prices. Harness,
the kind that you would like.
Received this week another shipment of extra
choice Mules and Horses. We can please you
both in quality and price.
Metcalf Live Stock Company
CAMILLA PELHAM
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men's hats that are most becoming.
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line of hats before you buy your fall
millinery. We have the identical hat
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Camilla, Ga.