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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1916
Page
5
At a Georgia College of Agriculture conference county agents learned to compute farm profits using blank data forms. Farm management workers will guide agents to help farmers identify revenue and losses for each crop and animal, aiming to create a profitable farming system statewide.
A College trial compared twenty nine cotton varieties with yields per acre. College No 1, Cleve land Big Boll, Dixie, Culpepper's and Caldwell's led, each making over a bale in five months. Early matur ing types like Trice, Cleveland Big Boll, Hooper's and Caldwell's also performed best under boll weevil pressure.
Georgia College of Agriculture experiments compare velvet bean varieties for Piedmont suitability. Seventeen varieties sown May 21 yielded 1,425 pounds per acre for Medium Early, with Jack bean as second-best. Palatability varies. Mexican Stock Bean produced 602 pounds per acre and matures earlier. Studies continue in north and south Georgia for another year.
Senior law class and faculty members meet for an annual banquet at the Georgian Hotel tomorrow evening with Dr Sylvanus Morris and Messrs T F Green and H A Nix as honorary members. Nix presides as toastmaster. Readers include Charlie W Johnson Prohibition Pro and Con M N Andrews The Law of Love Sam B Lippitt Better Babies L McLaws How to Accumulate a Good Working Law Library Rupert Brown Who is Who in the Senior Law Class P A Wilcox A Tribute to Our Departed Comrades.
Miss Mildred Rutherford, historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, will lecture on The Reconstruction Days in the South Monday at 8 pm in Seney-Stovall chapel, Lucy Cobb Institute. Free admission. lecture for the local Daughters of the Confederacy and for students entering the annual essay contest.
Two developments in the drug addict issue emerge in Atlanta reports. The state board of health reportedly approves an Athens physician’s plan to run a country sanitarium for addicts, while A Q Blalock the internal revenue collector says he will prosecute doctors who treat city addicts referred by city physicians. He argues treatment must occur away from city temptations and cites cases of doctors overprescribing. The city’s work is praised, but Blalock warns against undermining it with excess prescriptions.
Bell Overall Company in Winder has grown from a $5,000 annual business with 12 workers to employing over 100 and monthly sales of $25,000. A new line of machines is being installed as the plant, 249 by 80 feet on half an acre, expands to help reach a year total well above a quarter of a million dollars. The payroll is about $35,000 yearly and manager H M Rankin recently secured a $40,000 Mexican government order with $5,000 cash accompanying it.
Mr Tom Williams of the Levy Tog gery Shop was yesterday operated upon for trouble in both feet. The operation was successful and he will be unable to leave his room for several days. He rests well in No 6 Holland House and will be glad to see friends.
Mrs. M. C. Thomas of Watts, South Carolina, visiting her daughter Mrs. J. T. Dudley on the Boulevard, becomes suddenly ill for the first time in her eighty years.
W G Moore announces Kibla temple No 123 Dramatic Order Knights of Khorasan spring ceremonial for March 22 in Atlanta Georgia. A large initiatory class will be sworn in that night with world imperial head George Eubanks in attendance along with Attorney General Clifton Walker Mayor Woodward Rev Troy Beatty and other notables from Athens Cartersville Barnesville.
An advertisement urges housewives to use Little Wizard Labor Gaver with contact numbers 1052 1053 and 351 for order and inquiries.
For a long time Miss Lula Skelton of Churchville New York suffered biliousness headaches and dizzy spells. Chamberlain's Tablets provided permanent relief according to her experience.
The Georgia State College of Agriculture reports eight years of extension work reaching 1,282,088 people through 5,179 schools and dozens of field meetings. Attendance spans 1908 to 1915 with 869,362 total attendees and 188,666 miles traveled in educational trains and outreach. The effort claims about half the state's population connected to college agronomy.
The text explains how eggs fetch higher prices in late fall and early winter and urges hatching in February in Georgia for heavier breeds and March for lighter breeds. It stresses mating lead times, culling weak birds, and using vigorous parents to yield strong chicks for winter egg production.
Corn variety trials at the College plats span seven years in the piedmont north Georgia region. The data for 1915 shows yields in bushels per acre for each variety, with years tested and average yields: Whatley's Prolific 39.72 (seven years 54.33), Marlborough Prolific 42.10 (seven years 52.44), Hastings Prolific 38.38 (seven years 51.35), Cocke's Prolific 44.82 (seven years 46.65), Shaw's Improved 41.65 (seven years 43.70), Henry Grady 43.27 (seven years 41.17), Sanders Improved 43.48 (six years 46.34), Batt's Prolific 50.41 (five years 47.26), Spark's Prolific 43.65 (five years 38.68), Albermaine 48.55 (five years 38.28), Harley's Two-eared 46.41 (four years 43.92), Yate's Choice 40.20 (four years 40.08), Reid's Y-Dent 41.76 (three years 30.39), College Cross 52.65 (two years 42.62), South Georgia 38.41 (two years 33.63), Pat's Improved 49.79 (one year 33.48).
Washington warns southwest farmers to avoid planting cotton varieties that yield less than seven eighths inch staple. The Agriculture Department cites economic harm, market discrimination, and futures contracts as reasons to choose longer staple seed and maintain American cotton value.
A compact note about restorative remedies, urging vigor for a weak constitution. It emphasizes tonic qualities and cautions moderation in use, reflecting historical medical rhetoric and era language. It mentions plant-based preparations and domestic applications.
The court of the ordinary under Judge R. C. Orr adjourned to the first Monday in April after transacting routine business. Lula M. Moore’s will contest was continued to the next regular term. J. R. Williams appointed guardian for Rosa Lee and Juliette Williams. An advertisement notes a Little Wizard Labor Saver washing device with phone numbers.
The passage contrasts spiritual rebirth with ashes and notes weather changes causing illnesses. It cites Charles Fillmore and Unity ideas about the original Spirit renewing beyond the ashes. It also mentions coughs colds and Foley’s Heart medicine as a safe remedy.
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