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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
3
The author notes cotton presents severe challenges in boll weevil conditions. Keeping fields weed free is manageable, but repeated boll weevil removal every few days makes cotton farming notably difficult.
An old advertisement touts GROVE'S TASTeless Chill TONIC as a blood purifying and iron enriching remedy. It claims to restore energy, improve color and appetite, and is marketed as a safe iron and quinine syrup suitable for children. The note highlights a 60 cent bottle price and a long history of use.
Georgia yams tested in 1917 show higher sugar content than northern varieties. The State College of Agriculture experimented by including old fashioned recipes in potato packages to aid marketing and educate housewives in other states.
Georgia State College of Agriculture reports 13 686 09 dollars in milk sales from 40 cows yielded an average gross of 342 15 per cow for the year. Demonstrations of milking machines show potential benefits with proper operator skill and strict cleanliness, offering higher efficiency and lower cost than hand milking, with twenty cows cited as a practical threshold.
In 1917 fourteen grade pigs were raised by students from Worth County country schools using lunch waste and home grown corn. The 1918 auction raised 1485 dollars, funds used to improve school buildings, with 292.50 borrowed from the school board and the rest reinvested.
Professor T.G. Yaxis from Georgia State College of Agriculture recommends a balanced ration combining dry feeds and bulky feeds for dairy cows. Maintain the right bulk ratio, limit dry roughage to about one pound per 100 pounds of live weight, and feed about one pound of grain per three to three and a half pounds of milk produced.
The passage argues cows digestibility and diet variety impact milk output, recommending succulent feeds, multiple grain varieties, balanced ration of digestible protein to carbohydrates and fat, and cost considerations. It then critiques politicians seeking higher taxes in Georgia and calls for plain economy, ending with a classifieds note.
A promotional notice touts S. S. S. as a blood remedy for eczema and skin disorders. It claims the disease stems from blood imbalance and offers thirty years of expert advice from Swift Specific Co. Atlanta.
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