Official Organ Butts County and City of Jackson
A broad notice from the Official Organ Butts County and City of Jackson discusses advertising rates and encourages industry and cooperation. It praises the Jackson Ice Corporation and a sweet potato storage house, critiques big city papers, and urges debt payment and boll weevil resistance while warning about Ku Klux Klan exposure and historical fraternal tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butts County
City OF
Jackson
Jackson Ice Corporation
Daily Press
Weekly
Foolish Remedy for Boll Weevil Promoted by Chickens
A Savannah man claims chickens turned loose in his cotton patch devoured boll weevils and saved his crop, using forty to fifty birds per acre. The Progress-Argus doubts the method, noting guineas failed this year, and warns there is no sure remedy. It advocates broader farming changes including hogs, grains, and dairying to whip the pest.
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Savannah
Rome Tribune-Herald
Argus
Butt
The Way of the Mountains in Rabun County
The piece argues Georgia farmers should diversify from cotton. Citing W L Williamson and the Bank of Clayton in Rabun county, it contrasts cotton farming with mountain living and cites Tennessee and Kentucky as prospering without cotton. It criticizes all cotton credit and tenant practices as harmful to the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Williamson
Mountain City
Bank of
Clayton
Rabun County
Mountain County
Commerce Observer
Georgia
South
Tennessee
Kentucky
Blue Grass
Two-Horse Farmer Profits From Hog Raising
An August 1918 to May 1921 account shows a two-horse farmer turning $2,150 from hogs without buying feed or planting cotton. He bought a boar, gilt pigs, a bred gilt, and sold multiple lots for meat and cash, estimating 1500 pounds of meat and various hog assets. The record emphasizes selecting the right hogs, growing feed, and diligent care for success.
Georgia's educational institutions in Georgia compare with others
The Rome Tribune-Herald cites James A. Hollomon's statistics showing Georgia spends far less on higher education than Florida Tennessee Alabama North Carolina and Virginia. The piece questions whether Georgia will boost funding to keep pace with other states or fall behind in progress and civilization.
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Rome
James A. Hollomon
Atlanta Constitution
Mr. Hollomon
South
Georgia
Florida
University and Agricultural College
Tennessee
Alabama
North Carolina
Virginia
Tift County Tales of Revenue From Crops
This year Tift County raised and sold nearly one hundred thousand dollars in tobacco and shipped over nine hundred carloads of watermelons. Farmers have formed a potato growers association to cure and market thousands of dollars worth of yams. Five years ago boll weevils were feared. now the pest is framed as a lessons in profitability.
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Tift County
Revise Our Way of Living Says William Southern
The speaker laments changing American habits from frugal family meals to indulgent consumption. He argues that families now pursue amusement and possessions, abandoning simple diets and producer mindsets in favor of luxuries. He critiques views on work savings and homeownership versus autos.
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Wm. Southern
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The piece extols the Woman's Club of Jackson as a force for good and questions men to unite for similar constructive work. It notes the boll weevil defeats cotton growers, and warns experience is a costly but eventual teacher.
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Jackson
Woman's Club
Woman’s Club
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J. Doyle Jones
Butts
Ku Klux Klan
University of Georgia
School of Technology
Texas
Masons
THE
Jackson and
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Henry County
RB. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Viestes
Salem
N.C
Dulate
Ativi
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