The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-26
GIVES AWAY MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS WORTH EVERY YEAR,
Variety of Ways in Which He serves
the People. Even Furnishes Ar
tifcinI Arms and Legs.

NY for them, anu II "IIllo''
though one could get anything OH
wants simply by writing to Washing
ton and asking for it.
Last year the forest service CAV
away 175.O 100000 board feet OF lun
her cut in the national forest re
serves-mostly to settlers for home
building purposes. 1t will distribute
an equal quantity this year. and s.
on right along in the future. Ihl
is one purpose for which the natioha
forests are set aside and malntalleu
Rut the service does great dea
more than that for people. If you
own = tract of naked hillsides OF
covered with sand dunes, it will hell
Won to clothe it with trees. Or II
Won possess TIMBER lands it will looB
them over and give you detailed
plans for their economical manage
ment.
If is much the same way if you
harmon to have on your land a
stream or big pond. The govern
ment will stock it for you without
charging you a cent, forwarding the
little fishes, 1000 or so in batch'
nv rail. expressage paid. You are at
liberty to choose the kind of fish you
want. so long as they are of species
appropriate to the locality.
Will Kill Your Grasshoppers.
If YOU are a farmer and are
troubled with grasshoppers the Du-
reau of animal industry will furnish
Won with some very deadly microbes,
mt ND in bottles, with instructions
how to utilize them for the purpose
of introducing a destructive plague
among the insects. Indeed, no mat
fer what kind of bug is bothering
YOU the government will at least sug-
gest a remedy, and it may be able
To provide you with some of it's in
sect enemies. 1t was in this way
that the orange industry of Callfor-
MIA was saved a few years ago by
the help of a small beetle Imported
from Australia; and at the present
time the bureau of entomology is
hunting all over the world for para
sites of the gypsy moth, the San Jose
scale and other pests with view
TO distributing them in infested To-
calities.
Again, if you grow peas and beans
or clover for market you can greatly
your stock by sowing the
land with a special breed of MI
crobes, which form colonies on the
roots of the plant and enable the
later to absorb nitrogen from the ar.
The plant bureau will send you
package of these microbes
if YOU choose to ask for them, ana
viii tell you how to breed them FOR
Yourself, so that from the small
quantity provided you can propagate
them in any quantity desired. HaV-
ing done so all you have to do is
snrinIxIe the water containing the
germs over your fields, or else soak
in it the seed you are going TO plant
Likewise, without charge. the de-
partment of agriculture sends out
through the mails little bottles OF
"antitoxins, with which to inocu-
late cattle and other domestic ami
mails for the prevention and cure OF
certain diseases. But the most re-
markable of the giving done by TINS
branch of the government has to 90
with new varieties of fruits, grains
and vegetables, which, as fast as
through
instrumentation, are put first in the
hands of a few selected farmers lot
practical trial, and finally placed al
the disposal of everybody. A single
new variety of wheat, exceptionally
productive, has been made in TINS
way to add millions of bushels &c
the output of that cereal in one state
Furnishes Arms and Legs.
If YOU have lost an arm or leg
in the service of the country, wheth
or fighting for it or in civil life, the
government will make you present
of an artificial substitute. Not only
that, but it will give you a new one
every three years. And if you woul(
rather have the money you are d
liberty to accept $75 in place or
leg. or $50 instead OF an arm. =
lost hand or foot, likewise, is wortl
$50 to you every three years if tn
injury was received while workln;
for Uncle Sam. Over 5000 person
lacking a leg and $500 lacking al
arm draw their limbs regularly, o
the cash equivalent, from the wa
department. Most of them prete
the cash, especially where arms ar
concerned, because, though false
legs are quite serviceable, artificial
arms are of small use except for OF
nament.
Furthermore, it should be men
toned that when a recipient OF TIN
kind of bounty wants to get a ne'
arm or leg he can go to any city !
the Union for it, the government pay
ing his fare both ways, includln
massage on a Pullman.
In case you are making Yoyag
at sea and your ship is wrecked an
vessel of the United States navy thu
happens to come along will provid
YOU with a fresh outfit of clothin
and free board and passage to Tn
nearest convenient seaport. Suppo