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Remember the weevil. 5|gKj
Live stock farming builds . soil
fertility.
Dip that tick. Cows with ticks
will never reach their best develop
ment.
Use the best bull available. Re
member that the bull is at least
half the head and you cannot af
ford to uso a scrub bull.
A word of friendly advice from
you may cause that skeptical neigh
bor of yours to try dipping his cat
tle. Once he has tried it and noted
tho benefit that comes to his cattlo.
the balance is easy.
Tho tick is costing Grady county
each year a great deal more than
it will cost to free tho county of
ticks in this good year of 1917.
Lots all together for a tick freo
county in 1917.
Make good pastures for your
hogs and keep them as much as
• possible from mixing with other
hogs. In the case of hog cholera
an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Serum is fine when
it has to bo used but it is- much
bettor to not have to use it at all.
When you do have hogs to die
from cholera it is your duty as
good citizen to see that they are
thoroughly burned at once. It is
neither good citizenship nor good
noighborliness to allow the dogs
and buzzards to drag them around
and scatter the disease broadcast.
BOLL WEEVIL ’LL GIT Y0H|
IF YOU DON’T WATCH OUT:
{Apologies to James Whitcomb Riley.)
NEGRO BEAtS THE
BOLL WEEVIL
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According to reports from Alabama
a negro of that state has discover
ed a method of combatting the boll-
weevil, and has succeeded in raising
cotton which is not bothered in the
slightest by the pest.
The Montgomery Advertiser des
cribed the method as follows:
“John McDuffie, a negro planter
six miles north of the city, has
worked out a novel and seemingly
certain means of eradicating the
boll weevil. He had 250 acres of
finest cotjton in the county and not
a single'weevil. has been found in
it. On being asked how he killed
he said he did not kill them,
■ but prevents their coming to his
cotton. McDuffie is an intelligent
man, and originated the method of
nning them away himself. If it
is a fact, as is claimed, ho has found
the long sought method of preven t-
ing the waste of millions of dollars
in the south through the ravages of
the pest.
“The method is simple. Mc
Duffie takes crude oil, tar and cam
phor gum. He puts these in c. pot
and boils them. With sufficient oil
in the mixture to make it liquid he,
wets common crokus sacks in the
mixture, then squeezes them as dry
as he thinks necessary. He says if
too much of the mixture is used it
will kill tho young cotton. The
wet sacks are fastened by a drag
stick attached to the plow beam.
Each week the crop is plowed and
dragged over with these saturated
sacks, both sides of the cotton get
ting a touch from the fumes of the
mixture. .On going down one side
the sack touches lightly and sido,
and when the plow returns it touch
es the other side.
“This method costs about 16
cents an acre, McDuffie says. He
says he used this method with suc-
ces in 1915, and that he got five
more bales per horse last year by
having the weevils out of the way.
If it is a success, and it seemingly
is, this negro has solved a problem
that hns confronted the best brains
in the south for the past ten years.”
Moultrie Observer.
Break your Cold or La
Grippe with a few dose Of
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Tho Demonstration Agent came to our house today, *
To tell my Daddy how to farm, raise dorn and poavino liny,
And goobers too, to feed tho hog3, alfalfa for the sheep,
And how to toll when soil is sour nnd how to mnko it sweet.
And ail ua children gathered round to lionr the agent’s chatter.
As ho told Daddy this was wrong nnd something else the matter,
And listened close to everything ho had to talk about,
And tho boll weevil that gits you if you don’t watch out.
Oneo thcro was a farmer didn't raise no hay,
Didn’t own n mower nnd thought it didn’t pay,
Pulled the fodder off tho corn, didn’t believe it kopt,
Tho grain from growin sound and good, rathor thought it he’pt.
Bought somo moldy hay from Kansas, twenty-five a ton,
Called tho doctor for his mule, brought him on tho run,
Doctor said, “your mulo is doad, ton dollars is my pay,
You’ll have less loas of mulo nnd hoss if you’ll feed homo grown hay.'
Then ho scooted down the rond in his old Ford runabout.
And tho boll weevil ’ll you if you.don’t watch out.
Onco thoro was a farmer kopt a brindlo oow, ,
Nearly coverod up with ticks, oouldn’t see as how
Tho pesky .things did any harm, he’d seed ’om all his life)
Tick eradication was a lot of useless strife.
Brindlc got tho 'hollow tail’ also lost her cud,
Split her tail and bored her horas and greased her backbone goad,
Brindlc soon gave .up the ghust, then this farnjor man
Bought milk for tho baby in a little old tin can.
Baby got the colio and mighty nigh past out,
And tho weevil suro will git you if you don’t watch out.
Onco thcro was a cotton planter wouldn’t rniso no feed,
Agent told him that ho ought, but he wouldn’t heed.
Run a credit at tho store, mortgage on tho crop,
Wouldn't let his tenants do a thing but plow nnd chop.
Weevil lit down-in tho Gold, middlo of July,
Court in session in the town, cotton all laid by.
All the hands gone fishing, or to barboouo,
No use hanging round tho place, nothing thcro to do.
Weevil kept n multiplyin happy ns you please,
Hatin'up tho tender squares, thick ns Rover’s fleas,
Pioking time came on nt last, planter suro was sore,
Couldn’t pay tho mortgage off nor settle at the store.
Had to sell the mules and lonvo, Wife was in a poub
And tho weevil suro will git you if you don’t watoh out.
And the demonstration agent said he’d show Daddy how
To set tho cultivator and run the two-liorse plow,
Ho’d help him build a silo and tell him what to grow
To fill it with, and feed tho cows and make the sweet milk flow,
And he’d show him how to build a vat to kill the ticks and liee,
And keep tho cows and pigjio; tei all 1 joking fino and nice.
He’d show him how to spray the trees and kill tho ’culco’,
And help him get the best of stUi, and tell him when to sow
His oats, so ho’d have some to sail noxt summer, don't you know,
And' keep tho niggers busy and not let them roanj about,
And the weevils wouldn’t get him if ho’d just watch out.
each 5100.00 ho wishes to borrow.
fho only limit to tho numbor of
farmers who may apply for
charter for their national farm
loan association is that thoy shall
bo ton or moro. Other things bo-
ing equal, tho larger the number of
farmers who join in making tho
application, tho bettor it will be.
The application is to be accoin
plished by an affidavit “stating
that each of the subscribers is tho
owner, or is about to become tho
owner, of farm land qualified und
cr section twelve of this not ns the
, , basis of a mortgage loan; that tho
Wf. M. .lhursoiK j oan desired by each person is not
'css thnn 8100 nor moro than
810.000, and that ■ the aggregate
of the desired loanh if not less than
320.000. ”
The Application for Charter is
accompnined by a subscription at
par to stock in tho federal land
bank by the would-be } national
farm loan association equal to fivo
per cent of the total sum desired
on mortgage loans. In other words
each national farm loan association
agrees to invest in land bank
shares all the money it gets from
its own members for shires in its
own association.
“Upon receipt of tho necessary
papers, tho directors of tho federal
land bank shall send an appraiser
to investigate the solvency and
character of tho applicants and
tho value of their lands, v and shall
then determine whether in their
judgment a charter should be
granted to suoh association.”
Their recommendation and the
papers are then sent to tho federal
farm loan board at Washington.
“Is said recommendation h un
favorable, the charter can bo re
fused,” but if it is favorable the
board “shall thoroupon grant a
charter to the applicants therefor,
designating tho territory in which
such an association may make
loans, and shall forward said
charter to saio applicants through
said foderal land bank.” How
ever, tho board “may for good
cause shown any case refuse to
grant a charter.”
THE FEDERAL FARM
LOAN SYSTEM.
Elsewhere in this issue we pub
lish a call looking to the formation
of a National Farm Loan Associa
tion under the Federal Farm Loan
System. This loan system is full
of great posibilities for the Ameri
can people and its benefits arc not
to be confined to those vo whom
loans will bo directly made but will
extend with real force to all those
various interest whose welfare is
dependent upon the prosperity of
the agricultural interest of our
country.
One of the basic principles of
this new loan system is that of co
operation and if no --other result
was accomplished thnn to teach
our American farmers the advan
tage. of cooperation it would have
served a good purpose.
We print herewith a few para
graphs from Hon. Herbert Mynck
on National Farm Loan Associa
tions:—
National Farm Loan
Next to the individual farm and
farmer, the federal farm loan sys
tem is based fundamentally upon
locnl units composed of ten or
more farmer borrowers. The act
authorizes such farmers to organ-
tficir own club through which
to borrow money nt reasonable
rates on long-time and easy terms
of repayment upon the security of
first farm mortgages.
Such a club the act denominates
a “national farm loan association.”.
In common language, it will be
called a “local association,” or
still more briefly, a “local” of the
federal land bank of which it is a
member. •. N
How Composed. Any farm
loan association, to quote the
statute,, “may be organized by
persons desiring to borrow money
on farm mortgage security under
the terms of this act.” 1
“Ten or more natural persons
who are the owners, x or are about
to become owners, of farm land
qualified ns security for mortgage
loan under section 12 of this act
may unite to form a national farm
loan association.”
The qualifications refered to in
section 12 pertain to the purposes
for which loans may be made, pay,
ment of interest and principal etc.,
as fully detailed in Chapter Ten.
, “No persons other than borrow
ers on farm land mortgages shall
be members or share-holders of
national farm loan associations.”
“No such loan shall bo made to
any person who is not at the tirao
or shortly to become, engaged in
tho cultivation of the farm mort
gaged.”
How Organized: Each feder
al land bank doubtless will furnish
a blank form to be signed by the
farmers who wish to form n nat
ional farm loan association-.
“Any person desiring to borrow
on farm land mortgage through a
national farm loan association,
shall subscribe for shares of stock
in such farm land association to an
amount equal to five per centum
of the-face of the desired loan,
said subscription to bo paid in cash
upon the granting of the loan.”
This means that each would-be
member must pay 85.00 for one
share of the par value of
Authority of Associations.
Upon receipt of its charter, such
national farni loan association
shall bo authorized and empowered
to receivo from the federal land
bank of the district sums to be
loaned.to its members . under the
terms and conditions of this act.”
The formers cpmprising the as
sociation chooso a board of not
less than five directors, which shall
eleot a president, vice-president,
secretary-treasurer, and a loan
committee of three members.
“All officers and directors, except
tho secretary-treasurer, shall during
their term of office, be bona fide
residents within, the territory
where the association is authorized
to do business, and shall be share
holders of the association,”
We are still buying and paying the highest
Price for it.
But the time is getting shorter, so you
better bring it as soon as you can.
Be Sure to Bring to Right Place. Do not Sell Without
Seeing Me.
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Rear of Hutto’s Blaoksmith Shop.
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I make farm loans at 5 1-2 per cent interest and give the
borrower tho privilege of paying part of the principal at the
end of any year; Btoppin interest on amont paid, but no an
nual payment of principal required, Come to to see me, or
Write me stating your needs; and I will save you money.
