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THE WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

THE WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
After twelve or fifteen years ex-
perience in raising nearly all kinds
of ''pure-bred' poultry, and having
had real practical experience, | am
impelled to speak largely in favor OF
White Rocks, writes E. r. Freeland
in Stockman and Farmer They
have several advantages over the
other branches of the Rock family,
of which might be mentioned. They
are easier to breed true to color
than the Barred or Buff Rocks. They
are easier to dress; being snow
white there are no black or dark
pin feathers to contend with. Take
a coop of White Rocks into market
and you have no trouble to lind
ready sale for them. The next time
you go back people are wanting to
know if you have any more of "ther
white chickens" for sale, or at least
this is my experience. Take a coop
of White Rocks, with snow white
plumage, yellow skin. shanks and
beak, with red or bay eyes, why
should they not be attractive to the
publics eye and appetite, too?
Speaking of yellow shanks and
beak, there is another advantage
over the Barred Rocks especially.
bred the Barred Rocks for years.
having had many different strains and
paying all kinds of prices, ana
they would invariably breed dark
legs and beaks, especially in fe-
males, and occasionally jet black
feathers in plumage.
The White Rocks have none OF
these Objectionable faults. They are
good sitters and mothers, though not
persistently broody, quick and hardy
growers, always plump and nice at
any age They are fine layers OF
large brown eggs, are fine winter
layers. My fcck furnishes me with
eggs in winter the same as summer.
If a hen doesn't lay eggs in winter
have no use for her. Feed IS too
high-priced to have her loaf all win
ter, when eggs are bringing high
prices. In conclusion, l say get
good laying strain of White Rocks.
and they will please you every day
in the year, both in beauty and as
money-makers. My stock is from one
of the most noted breeders of White
Rocks in the United States. They
cost good bit of money, but it pays
to start with good stock, and not
waste time and money on inferior
blood.
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Science VS.. Life.

An officer of the medical corps OF
the regular army has filed protest
against the reduction of the food OF
soldiers to what is termed scientific
basis. The figures as to starches and
proteids may work out in the labora-
tory, he says, but they fail to leave
a satisfying feeling in the stomachs
OF enlisted men.
The conflict between science and
life Is one Of the most interesting
phenomena of modern times. Things
have a trick Of doing just SO among
the test tubes and retorts. The chem
list makes q new steel that II harder
than any other ever discovered. The
assayer can save every trace Of gold
out of a sample Of ore. The food
specialist knows facts which are 30
tremendous he has to have . Ian
guage Of many jointed words to tell
about them. Yet the laboratory steel
and that produced BY the same for
mula in the mills are often two very
different materials. No stamp mill
cyanide or chloride process, or smell
tor, ever succeeded in taking all the
precious metal out Of ore. The hu.
man body, in some irritating way OF
other. insists upon having something
more than pure nourishmeAt II has
become used to getting waste materi-
al also apd won't be happy unless It
does.-Toledo Blade.
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WHERE IS THE MARKET.

Any man making an investment In
any manufacturing or producing busi-
ness first asks himself the most i'm
portant question-What market will
l have fer my products?
Can any one tell US Of business
that could have greater demand for
its products than an egg farm? Then
1t only stands to reason that 1t Is a
safe observation-disclosures Home
Journal.
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Gold as a Commodity
BY uitlian1 .Jamesbio

Nr1
the products o '0
s. s $; : i:
% who are required asTsr he goods
their daily subsistence. Gold money - eoni
modify governed by laws that commodities
absolutely evidence indicate
the law no
can be forced circulate beyond the quantity required
the compelled use QUIET
United states
certificates circulation meuu "
solely gold answer
gold under
conditions
There denying and luxurious are
in the OF high e The denial IS OF
the These conditions aen
gold production What that prosperity WIN ~
attending extravaganza and luxury?
The man fundamental broad economic sense OF the
condition affairs living be ouno IN
all this state
lead further increase quantity the OF
will tend multiply This quantity of meanc
smaller quahy
economic commodities
the supply
commodities decrease you
middle the discon
the to waking thoughts and dreams centre
ont the making
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CLEAN WINDOWS,

Dirty windows in the poultry house
prevent the fowls from getting the
full benefit of the suns rays and
make the house cheerless and un-
comfortable. 1t is a good plan to
place the dust-bath where the sun
can shine directly into it during
some part of the day. Clean the
windows and let little sunshine in.
Farmers Home Journal.
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There has been a big increase In
the production Of salt in the United
States in the last ten years. Close to
% million barrels were produced in
this country last year, which was in
excess OF any such period previous.
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Smoking In Church.

It has come at last, Smoking by
men Is to be allowed in a church at
Dayton, Ohio. Efforts to popularize
the church in these days are advanc-
Ing SO rapidly that the church may
soon become the most formidable
competitor OF the club as a place to
20 to have good time.-St. Louis
be-Democrat.
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Going to the Play.

II should think it would be a sim.
pie matter to induce a woman to get
ready in time to attend an evening
performance"
What's your scheme?"
ASK her to go to the Matinee
Louisville Courier Journal.
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st. Louis has concrete building
81 feet high. which is entirely with
out windows. The illumination is by
means Of skylights IN the roof.
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THE FEED AND CARE OF DUCK
IINGS.


For the first four days feed bread
and cracker dust moistened with wa
ter or sweet milk, with a little meal
stirred in, about Is per cent hard
boiled egg and per cent sand. Feed
four times day. Their drinking
vessels should be deep enough for
them to stick their heads under the
water, but they should not be allow
ed to play in the water. From i've
to twenty days old feed wheat bran,
two parts, corn meal, one part, rolled
oats, so per cent of this bulk. beef
scrap, per cent, sand. 5 per cent,
green food 10 per cent. Mix to
crrmbly state and feed four times a
day. Feed only what they will clean
up. Personally, whilst / prefer
ration such as the above, l have had
good results with young ducks on a
feed of corn meal alone. and if !
found they we're getting too fat, l
would add bran. Like most farmers.
have often been too busy or TO
Indifferent to feed properly, and haze
fed what was most convenient. VI
have had at times fairly good results
feeding laying ducks corn and oats,
but always found they responded to
a good soft food ration with beef
scrap added, and particularly so in
the fall, or in a dry season, when
they could not get insect life.
trust that others who have fairly
tried this duck will report their ex-
perience, for if they be as good as
think them to be, they will prove
most valuable addition to the aver
age poultry yard.-W. w. Henry, In
Southern Planter.
GREEN FOOD FOR POULTRY.
More. than half of the poultry OF
this country do not have green
thing to eat from December to May.
At Green's fruit farm we grow each
year several acres OF beets generally
known as Mangel WurtZel especially
for poultry. These beets are stored
so that they can be reached and
placed before the birds continuously.
A big beet or cabbage head hung up
in the hens house by stout cord Of
rope just high enough for the hens
to peck at will furnish both food
and exercise on winters day. Tur-
nips, carrots, onions, or clover hay
furnish a delightful change in food
for poultry during winter. The clov-
er hay should be cut up fine in a
cutting box mixed with little corn
meal or bran moistened. If your
birds are pulling out their feathers
or eating their eggs or doing other
strange stunts feed them green food
for a week or two and see the
change for the better.-Green's
Fruit Grower.
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In Liberia coffee trees attain a
height of more than twenty feet. The
price of the product is and cents
q pound at the plantation
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DOES FARM POULTRY PAY.

During January and February the
CITY prices of eggs ranged from 45
to 60 cents a dozen. Throughout
most of the winter they were sell
ing at 40 cents or higher. These
prices almost prohibited the general
use of eggs as an article of food,
and caused many consumers to jump
at the conclusion that there was easy
money in egg production.
Careful inquiry by the Ohio Agri-
cultural Experiment Station among
a number of farmers would seem to
indicate that not to exceed 5 per
cent of the hens were laying at all
during these months of high prices,
and that had the producer received
for his product the price paid by the
consumer, he would still, In many
cases, have been a loser. Certain
farms reporting to the Station show
an egg cost of from 7 to 13 cents
each for the month of January. Of
course the fellow who had things
fixed so that his hens did lay reap
ed a golden harvest.
BREEDS AND LAYING CAPACITY.
Laying capacity varies greatly
among individual hens. This has
been discovered by the use of trap
nests. Experiment station records
show that hens vary from $50 eggs
per year to no eggs. Frequently a
good-looking hen, in good health, will
rot pay for the food she eats, while
another hen of the same breed and
with the same care, will lay eggs
worth three or four times the cost
of the food.
The smaller breeds, such as Leg
horns, are usually the most profit
able for egg production. The Leg
horns should lay as many eggs as
the Plymouth Rocks and breeds Of
that kind, on one-fourth less food.
But the question of profit does not
hinge on cgg-yield alone. Large re-
turns will be secured from the sales
of the Plymouth Rocks for market,
which will about balance the differ
ence in the cost of feeding.-Weekly
Witness. ..t =.
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ignorant this precious bocm shacked
whist millions people honey millions
walk
acres OF land
coected they
most valuable
OF $4,000
one 430
clover to the
exclusive Of
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sDAe~AQNes
Fortunes in Honey
BY D! 5: Jon es

R. Rockefellers nteEton believe to foster charity
but help those that willing and competent
others to make Of little things that will benefit mankind
in general he will help educate the country people
vate the bees and collect the hundreds of
pounds Of honey that to every year within
dius of fifty miles OF New York City
blessing
Sunlight glorious are DER the
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invisible
life? the
intellect mott
destuctib belief
advanced in all the characteristics Of the
brang
material
tu
and
conclusion let
a a
the intellect
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Science and Atter Life
Conservation of Energy Demands Continu'
0nce of Soul
BY Dr.: Guile, of Michigan University

UR life is constant growth of the human intellect closely
connected with the development Of the body But we kno"
that continuous interchange of cells decayng and
forming and though the living tissues in the course
OF time be entirely renewed, the individual continues 10
exist; it and the But the matter
and energy which have been given of from the living body
have disappeared they still in existence, though
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
"KNIGHT FOR A DAY" TONIGHT
WILL DELIGHT THE AUDIENCE
Most Interesting Play of the Season
at Opera House.

"A Knight for a Day" the bright and
breezy musical comedy to be presented
tonight at the opera house, will delight
an Americus audience as have few 9TH
er plays seen here this season. Herald
ed as it is by the most fiattering press
notices from the Atlanta, Macon Au-
gusta and Savannah papers, it can
not fail to delight it's audience here
as we'll. The plot has to do with a
female seminary, a carload of pretty
school girls, a real and bogus
knight" and a barrel of ludicious
complications that happen faster than
an Americas electric car happens TO
run. One Of the spectacular effects of
the production is an electric see-saw,
said to surpass for sensational effects
any prior device achieved through Ell
ectricity for the enchantment of stage
pictures. This giant see-saw of planks
carrying lot of romping college girls,
is covered with a thousand miniature
electric bulbs OF many colors, and as
the boards swing up and down to the
music of the song Life is a See-Saw,"
the effect is said to be revelation OF
the possibilities of electricity in mod
ern stage pictures.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
CHANGE OF AGENTS AT (.
EXPRESS CO. OFFICE
II. 6. Garner Will Succeed
Agent Mitchell.

Agent Thomas NJ. Mitchell, for two
years in charge of the Americus office
of the Southern Express Co, has been
transferred to the Albany agency OF
the company, and is succeeded here b j,
Mr.. H. G. Garner of Macon, who arriv-
ed yesterday morning and at once en-
tered upon his new duties as agent.
Mr. Mitchell likewise entered upon
his duties as agent at Albany upon the
arrival of Mr. Garner here
The change was in the nature of a
surprise to the business sAublic as 1t
was not generally known Fat the shift
would be made. 1t is in the nature Of
promotion for both.
Mr.. Mitchell, as stated, has had the
Americus agency for two years, and
by his uniform courtesy and assiduous
attention to his duties has won the
high esteem of the business public of
Americus. 1t is with sincere regret
that the city loses him as a resident
and as the company's representative
here.
Agent Garner has long been with the
Southern Express Co., and will quickly
win for himself the high regard Of its
patrons here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
TOM HUDSON IN WASHINGTON
IN REGARD TO FLOUI
Law Violated in Shipment of BIeache
Stuff to Georgia

Washington, Jan. Agricultural
Commissioner Thomas W. Hudson is
here to confer with Secretary Wilson
and Chief Wiley relative to the sale OF
bleached -four in Georgia. He expects
to see the federal officers and get a
line on the policy with reference tc
the government right to suppress the
sale of bleached flour
Under the ruling of the Georgia pure
food authorities, Georgia manufacture
ers are prohibited from manufacturing
and selling artifeially bleached -four
because the federal authorities have
also placed it on the black list.
However, the manufacturers gener
ally have enjoined the enforcement O
the federal inhibition, and manufac
turers are today shipping into Georgia
bleached flour and competing with 10
cal manufacturers who are prohibited
from making such an article.
1t is manifestly unfair to the Geor
gia manufacturers and Commissions
Hudson wants relief for the hom,
manufacturers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
Y. NJ. G. 4. CHOOSES
OFFICERS FOR 1910.
Those Who Guide Affairs
During This Year.

At the annual meeting of the mem
bers of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation on Monday night the follow
ing directors were elected:
Messrs. w. E. Brown, ]. E. High
tower, A. G. Miller, Frank Sheffield
for full term Of three years; Messrs.
E, 7. Andrews and L. P. Gatner to
fill unexpired terms of Messrs. Hooper
and Hammond for one year.
The Directors elected the following
officers:
President w P. Wallis.
Vice-President, w e. Brown:
Treasurer, G. NJ Eldridge;
Recording Sect, A. G. Miller.
The reports presented were all of an
encouraging nature The new direc-
tors and officers enter upon the new
year with enthusiastic devotion to the
great work of the Association and un-
der such capable direction it is prob
able that the record for 1910 will be in
everywise satisfactory
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
CALLS FOR ALCOHOL
NUMBERED 2Ol.
Druggists Supplied That
Amount of Demand.
Some People Evidently
Don't Deal With the
Jacksonville
Houses.

The filing of prescriptions calling for
alcohol in the Office of the court of
ordinary, as required by the Georgia
law, demonstrated last year that there
Is still considerable use of pure alco-
hol in this way, despite the fact that
Jacksonville has been within easy
reach and every one, presumably, has
some friend who has a convenient bot
tie or demijohn for such emergencies
as illness calls forth.
1t had been surmised after connec-
tions were finally established with the
Florida depot for intoxicants that no
one would feel under any necessity for
securing alcohol, no matter what the
form, through the medium of a physic-
ian's prescription. This appears to
have been an erroneous view of the
matter. Doctors have found it neces-
sary In number of instances, it
seems, to order alcohol, the druggists
have filled the prescriptions, and they
have been filed with Judge Cobb as the
law requires.
Doubtless there are many absolutely
sincere and conscientious people who
would not avail themselves of what
might be termed contraband liquors
when illness comes into the family,
but prefer the direct method that the
law lays down, and live up entirely to
its strict requirements. But a small
army undoubtedly either have the
goods in the house or know where
they can be had without such formal
ity. Some people are averse to having
prescriptions of this sort made a mat
ter of public record and these un4
doubtedly would either call on friend
or wire Jacksonville for the goods.
In all last year there were two hun
dred and one prescriptions for alcohol
filled and filed in Americus. judge
Cobb's records show that they were
distributed among the months as fol-
lows
January 6. February 8, March -,
April "a, May 80, June 20, July %,
August 25, September 26, October IA,
November 9, December 9. Total POI.
If prohibition really prohibited, that
is, If there were not some point of
easy access from which wet goods can
be had within few hours, it is prob
able that the number of this class of
"a 4 pms would be several times
lSsed. But as long as Interstate
se5.sffers can bring in gallon package
on short notice the prescription clerks
at the drug stores are not apt to be
overworked filling recipes for snake
bites and bad colds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
SAYS SHE WILL
OFFEND THE WAITER
Quaker City HeireSS Is In
Hands Chicago Police.
Especial to Times-Recorder)

Chicago, Jan. 1I-Roberta de Janon
in the Philadelphia Press said today
that if court proceedings were begun
against Frederick Cohen, the waite
with whom she eloped, she would la
his chief defender.
Living as father and daughter, the
de Janon girl, II years old, PhiIadel-
phia heiress to a fortune said to be
$10,000,000, and Cohen, former waiter
at the Bellevue -Stratford Hotel, VINO
eloped Dec. 29 from Philadelphia were
found and arrested late Monday in this
city. They were discovered by detec-
tives in rooming house. When police
men entered the house, Miss de Janon
was playing with pet dog, which she
took with her when she disappeared
with Cohen, who is 43 years old and
married Cohen was reading in an
adjoining room.
They were taken to the Chicago ave-
nue. police station. Cohen at first pro-
ICotSu dodIISC arrest. lie soon aC-
mitted his identity, however, and Miss
de Janon, sobbing bitterly, pleaded
with the police to restore her to her
parents. Miss de Janon and her dog
were taken to the woman's department
of the Harrison street station.
Cohen veheminently denied that any
harm had come to Miss de Janon since
she fed with him from her home.
Miss de Janon cried bitterly and said
between her sobs: 81 want to 20 10
New York to live with papa, or back
to my grandfather in Philadelphia. /
will go to the school at Bryn Mawr or
any other place they want me to. On
I am so glad you have found me- l
am so glad, l can't tell you how glad
am. l don't want to be a runaway any
more"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
PRICE OF OUR DAILY BREAD
SCARS WITH THE FLOUR
An Advance of Dollar Barrel With.
in Short While.

The Americus biscuit must be made
smaller, or else taken at longer inter-
walls, unless one has the price that
keeps pace with the price of -four Like
the price of meat, flour has gone bal
looming again and it now takes $1.75
to 1925 to secure title to fifty pound
sack. The finer grades flour are retail
ing in Americus at $3.50 to SO per
barrel, which is an increase of 81 per
barrel within the past two weeks. And
the end is not yet in sight, as the i'm
preston prevails that it will go higher
still ere the blackberry crop is avail
able. Meat-the "sow bacon" variety,
costs about as much per pound now as
chicken and turkeys; really more.
while hams can only be reached with a
step ladder.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-12
ONLY ONE DIVORCE
TO 65 MARRIAGES.
Among WhiteS-.- 1909 Av-
erdge Larger.
Sumter Maintains Posi-
ton as County of -
Clean and High 1sor
Standards. 345y'


AS in everything else that is good
and wholesome, and of credit to a
community, Americus probably leads
the state in the matter of divorces In
comparison yt2n it's marriage record
AmeeiSa9s 4fas always been a clean
city, WITH little of the scandalous or
sensational to mar its history. The
Scl9 time institutions, such as marriage
continue to be revered here, and the
ties that bind men and women in we'd
lock are not looked upon as in some
communities, as something to be light
ly made and lightly broken. AS a re-
suit there are years when the divorce
docket is the slimmest feature of the
court business, when but a single
white divorce is recorded If term
of years were taken it would doubtless
be found that the average here is not
over one divorce among the whites to
every twenty-five marriages. Last
year was an exception in the fact that
there was one white divorce to every
fifteen marriages among the whites, a
record that may not be reached again
in several years.
Even among the negroes there is less
of the divorce business here than in
most counties. Last year the proper
ton of divorces to marriages among
the negroes was but one to 65, some
thing unique, indeed
The records of the Superior court
show that in 1909 there were four to-
tai divorces granted to whites in the
Superior court. During the same year
Judge Cobb issued 81 licenses to white
couples to marry. Among the negroes
there were five verdicts granting total
divorces and that race took out 325 IL
censes to marry.
Nine divorces to a total of 1856 mar
riages would mean but one divorce to
43 marriages. If there is any county
in Georgia that can beat this it has not
yet made itself known.
Fourteen divorce proceedings were
begun in the court. Those at the No
vember term, of course, went over 10
1910, just as those at the fall term of
1908 went over to 1909. Under the
Georgia divorce law the first term In
such cases is the appearance term,
when the libel Is filed. The second
term is the trial term when the first
verdict is secured, and the third term
brings the second trial and final YER
dict, as a rule. A divorce cannot be
obtained in less than years time.
On filing libel in divorce the plain
tiff must make Sc deposit to cover
costs. In addition there are court
costs aggregating Sc to 81 which are
collected if the party is solvent, which
is generally not the case. The lawyers
are supposed to secure a fee of not less
than $25. A divorce accordingly should
cost between $31 and $38, although
doubtless in white cases the lawyers
fee may at times be larger.
Augusta this past year had record
of one divorce to every seven we'd
dings, 81 divorces to 600 marriages
Savannah came up with one to eleven.
Many cities range from one to ten 10
one to thirteen. AS stated, in most
years Americus, which means Sumter
county, has an average of probably one
white divorce to 25 marriages, and in
1909 the average was exceptionally
large in one to fifteen.