Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-31
Making Forage.

Slale the OuAOh.
Making Forage.
E. H. c.. Albany, Ga:
I have Just read your article in The
Journal entitled "A Short Corn Crop. IL
fits exactly my case and that Of almost
every one else around here, 1 believe.
had decided to SOW peas to supplement
the corn but felt that something else
was needed too, ana sorghum and peas,
as you advise. will, I believe, fully meet
that need. AS 1 am a beginner in agrt-
culture, simply planting for my own
stock mostly as yet, would like to ask you
few questions.
First. What kind of sorghum must I
SOW with the peas. and where can buy
It?
Second. A Deering or Mccormick reap
er I believe to be used in cuttingG
Third. Ny barn is small and I expect
to store my hay in the upper part next TO
the roof which IN this weather is a hot
place. Could / pack IT in tight enough
to keep it well. without baling?
Fourth. Can / plant Pearl millet now
and make anything much on ordinary
ground?
Answer through the columns Of The
Journal.
Answer: Early Amber or Early Orange
sorghum are the two quickest maturing
varieties and the best for making forage
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any large seed store or get your merchant
to order 1t for you.
Either Deering, Mccormick, Woods, or
any other up-to-date mower will satisrac-
torily cut the forage when ready, provided
the land after planting has been narrowed
and smoothed down level
You will not likely cut your forage of
peas and sorghum before the middle or
latter part Of October.
The weather will be cool and dry by
that he and the forage when tightly
packed in your barn will keep all right.
After moving allow the forage to lay in
the sun two days before raking up and
packing away.
II is rather late to plant Pearl millet
If you want 1t to mature before cutting,
especially on ordinary land. You might
make some green forage, but as between
the two the sorghum Is much more de-
sirable and valuable as a feed.
Georgia Monument to jefferson Davis.
II is nearly forty years since the sur
render took place at Appomattox. Monu-
ments are scattered thickly over the land,
and more are being erected in sundry
towns and divers places all the time.
Has not the time come in Georgia to
erect shaft In bronze or marble to the
president of the Southern Confederacy
in token of his loyalty to the people he
served, and his vicarious suffering for the
cause that was lost? Do we not owe it TO
him?
can any southern state remain content
while such honorable tributes are paid TO
lesser men and the leader is not in evil
dence?
I know there are those who differed with
Mr.. Davis as TO his war policy, and whose
influence is still felt in negative opposition
to recognizing the overwhelming claims of
the chief executive Of the seeding states
20 the chief place in the memory of the
people he served. The Hottest monument
that can ever be raised to any who have
laid life and happiness on the altar of
their country belong to him by reason Of
his sacrifices.
When we recollect Mr.. Davis in Fortress
Monroe, guarded like a condemned felon
without liberty to pray unless a soldier
with bayOnet stood at his back with in
dignities beyond measure heaped upon his
frail frame, tortured with neuralgia and
general debility without clean cup to drink
from or clean bed to lie upon, with a
glaring light kept all night before his
nearly blind eyes for months at time,
/ with inhuman treatment in many other
respects. / feel as II I could never con-
tribute a nickel to any other monument
until one IS erected on Georgia soil to
Hon. Jefferson Davis, who never compro-
missed with the enemy or failed to give the
south the best efforts of his mind and
heart during four long bloody years of
service.
Perhaps many believe honestly we might
have won If he had given place to anoth-
er leader. The conditions that pre-
vailed and the hopelessness of a
struggle against the sentiment of
the civilized world as opposed to
slavery forbids a reasonable claim of
ultimate success. 1t was a vain struggle.
We see IT now. Like Lord Cardigan. the
leader of the Light Brigade at Balaklava,
Mr.. Davis led the Confederacy up the
slope when ordered to go and like the six
hundred that never came down the slope,
save as bloody corpses, he stood in front
and took the blows, aye to the very end.
without fiinching and died as he lived, the