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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10

each marlzing well from which the
floods pour forth to inundate the rice
fields at the proper season. Numerous
as they are, they represent only a de-
velopment OF comparatively small tracts
Land adjoining on all sides. only awaits
the coming of the men with foresight
and capital to improve them
While the prairie farmers are gathering
their golden harvest of rice from land
that was once too dry. the farmers OF the
st. Francis valley, to the east, have un-
dertaken an extensive drainage system. at
an estimated cost of s200oO.ooo. to reclaim
for rice cultivation over 0o0 acres OF
the richest land in the Mississippi valley
Ia scheme which. when completed, will
constitute the largest connected system
OF drainage bitches IN the world The
region Is being divided into drainage dis
tricts upon which bonds VIII be ISSUED.
The st. Francis valley was. formerly the
bed of the Mississippi river. geologists say.
It was filled with the topsoiL Of the whole
rich valley.
Some OF this land Is high enough TO be
cultivated. but much OF ii consists OF
swamps and 'snammocks.n covered With
as rank a growth OF yegetatfqn A. the
Everglades Of B,Sfs44. Ifannpock
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
POULTRY SHOW OPENS ON
TUESDAY AT AUDITORIUM
Over 1000 Birds Are Entered
From 400 Breeders of
Country

Beginning Tuesday, January 10. and con-
tinuing. until Saturday. the. elite OF poul-
trydom win have full sway at the audi
forum.
The past years work OF the. Georgia
Poultry association eliminates this week
IN the greatest. poultry show ever held In
the south. a show that viii rank up with
New York and Chicago. .fi
When the entries closed, Secretary Har-
well reported over. 1000 birds entered from
over 400. different breeders and fanciers
from all over the United States Many
birds from breeders of both national and
international reputation viii be on ex-
hibition this week and II win be well
worth while for every one interested in
poultry either from the viewpoint OF
breeder. fsncier or consumer. to visit the
show.
II is the object. Of the Georgia Poultry
association. TO encourage and promote
poultry raising in Georgia and the other
southern states until the drain OF millions
OF dollars. that annually goes to states
further north for poultry. and. eggs WIN
be stopped.
The Georgia Poultry association had its
start In Atlanta. but has niembershtp
covering the state II. G. Hastings 1s
president; G. o. Harwell, secretary; - M.
Karwisch. treasurer; VIII thinner. chair
man OF the executives committee. f-
The association is doing q great work
In promoting the poultry industry Of
Georgia and the entire south. ana these
annual shows are a poultry education IN
themselves. .Atpf 4f
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
FARMERS ARE WARNED
AGAINST POTASH RUSE
AShcraft Says Trust Is Try
ing to Drag President Taft
Into Complication

Lee Ashcraft, of Atlanta, sales man
ager Of the international Agricultural
corporation, which has its southern
headquarters in the Alfriend building.
81 IL Peachtree street, has given out an
interview warning the farmers OF Geor-
gia and the entire United States against
certain alleged unfair methods which
he declares the German Potash trust Is
now using In this country.
Mr.. Ashcraft's statement is Of peculiar
interest to the farmers of Georgia be-
cause this Is one of the largest fertil-
izer-using sections in the entire world.
Dealing first with the 100 per cent
penalty imposed on exporters by the
German government the Albanian says;
Some idea of the desperate attempt
being made by the German Potash trust
to justify the laws which they induced
the German government to pass on
May 10, 1910. for the purpose OF de-
stroying certain low-priced contracts for
potash salts that had ben made by
American buyers with the independent
German mines who broke the potash
monopoly through such sales. may be
gathered from the circular letters which
the officers of the potash trust are now
spreading broadcast among the farmers
of the United States and are endeavor-
ing to have signed by the farmers and
mailed to the president of the United
States. The potash trust are trying to
prove their friendship for the American
farmer by selling him potash slightly
cheaper than they sold it to him last
year before the law was passed and be-
low actual cost to American fertilizer
manufacturers after paying the 100 per
cent penalty tax levied against their
contracts by the ex post facto law.
There is little chance of their Do
ceiving the intelligent farmers. how
ever. II they are really sincere In their
friendship for the farmer, let them sell
the farmer potash salts at the same
prices at which the independent mines
sold their potash before the passage of
the law Under the laws the mines OF
the potash trust do not have to pay the
penalty tax assessed against the output
OF the independent mines, and the
American farmer has the right to ask
them why the prices which they are
now making to them net the mines Of
the potash trust prices 100 per cent
higher than the prices at which the in
dependent mines sold American buyers
before the passage of the law.
I'VE believe the American farmer, II
compelled to pay this extra 100 per
cent would prefer to pay II to the Ger
man government as a penalty tax. rath-
er than have 1t go to swell the earnings
of the mines comprising THE German
Potash trust, which induced the Ger
man government to pass the law
1--WE think the potash trust will have
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
American Potash Buyers
Protest to CONGRESS

RICHMOND. Va, Jan. IA long pro-
test against the United States govern
ment permitting the German potash
syndicate to impose under imperial pro-
lection the new potash law. has been
sent to congress by a committee of FIVE,
representing the Associated American
Potash Buyers.
The committee describes the act az
the retroactive German potash law
which imposes upon American manufac-
turers and farmers penalty taxes aggre-
eating about $4,000, co., They term this
sum as millions in tribute to the Ger
man kali barons." They demand that
this country shall enter into a tariff war
with Germany, II the faw 10 not so
changed as to permit old contracts to
be made good.
James A. Moncure, OF Richmond. who
represents three independent fertilizer
concerns In virginia. il one Of the sign-
ers OF the protest
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u

the local name for an impenetrable jun
gle.
Before the building Of the st. Francis
levee on the west bank OF the Mississippi
from a point above this city south 70
Helena, the ST. Francis valley overfiowed
In times OF high water. This levee now
keeps out the Mississippi river and the
drainage system already begun will make
the whole eastern part of the state avail
able for cultivation.
While all this work Is developing new
and untold riches for Arkansas II is well
for any prospective investor to bear in
mind that the marvellous growth OF the
rice industry has been attended by the
inevitable landsharks who sell a man the
TOP Of mountain for. a, rice field, II he
does not know the difference. No investor
should buy rice land In Arkansas until
he has Investigated its location and prox-
unity to market.
For sl1s careful. wise investor there can
be little doubt that rice culture is q
profitable investment. There Is danger,
Of course, that enthusiasm may result In
producing more rice than the market can
absorb with consequent slump IN price
But steps are now being taken to form an
- - idle The crop.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
BIZ r. b. YOUNG.
ditor Of the Memphis Press.

buAtUir OF TIE 1ucAA4pHIc GAOSS.
OSCEOLA, Ark Jan. o.--Ffve million
dollars worth OF the rice-the largest
crop Of this staple America ever pro-
duced--has been harvested and turned
into cash.
Pretty good returns for, an industry
just five years old, which has turned
some of the cheapest and most unpro-
ductive land In the United STATES into
highly rernunsratlvh farmsl About To-
900 acres were under rice cultivation this
year. More than twice as much win be
so applied NEXT season.
Ten sample crops. raised by Grand
Prairie farmers on acreages ranging in
size from % TO 1856 this year yielded an
average OF a little over "a bushels to
the acre, and the average price they
received was little over 81 per bushei
These figures hold good for the entire
yield. and the preponderance of small
farms seems to prove that rice farm
Ing in Arkansas is the small farmers
opportunity.
The arid Arkansas prairie. with Wei
ner at its northern edge. shows thou
sands of derricks scattered over its
broad eapansc Of h1lf asniilI6h acres
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10

! 64,. ,moer from gLvsri.
lands In W. S,~-n Arkansas through
rious methe is, including the furnishing
of homeste. Nders with funds 10 secure
an allotment in exchange for the right
to the timber. Rulings OF the court Is
expected to establish presidents with
regard to the construction to be placed
on the homestead laws
BY four and a half inches. ]. H. An
drews, councilman from the Seventh
ward and ecretary-treasurer OF the
Georgia division, T. p. A., missed death,
Monday morning.
A heavy iron bolt. red-hot, fell from
one of the. top stories of the new build
ing being erected at the corner OF Mari
eta and Broad streets, and hit him on
the shoulder. Had it veered the frac-
ton OF an inch at the beginning OF its
long flight downward. the bolt would
have been driven through the head OF
Mr.. Andrews by it's own terrific momen-
tum, and would have killed him on the
spot.
NEW YORK, Jan. s.-The twin babies
OF Mrs. Raphael Stase, an italian woman
went to sleep last night contentedly
nursing at milk bottles IN which poppy
seed had been placed as a soothing DO
IL.
within few hours and autopsies will be
held to determine the cause Of death.
Mrs. Stase told the police that she use
Of the poppy seed for the purpose was
customary among the italian mothers
and that she could ascribe no reason for
the death Of her babies A portion oil
the seed used had beeh turned over to
the board Of health for analysis.
GREENvIILE. 8. c., Jan. TAT a
meeting held here today the executivs
committee of the South Carolina Cotton
Manufacturers association, 1t was, decid-
ed to call meeting OF the general as
ISOLATION at Spartanburg on January II
to consider further curtailment acting
In conjunction with New England man.
ufacturers and others in the south.
An address was made by Mr.. Edward
Ayers, of New York representing the
China and Japan Exporting company.
WASHINGTON, Jan. For the pur-
pose OF protecting American trade and
shipping from foreign monopolies. bill
was introduced today in the house by
Representative Humphrey, OF Washing
ton, which would bar from the Ameri-
can ports the vessels OF lines forming
a foreign shipping pool. Mr.. Humphrey
said there Is no competitor between any
of the foreign steamships running from
this country on either ocean.
KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Jan. mrs W.
T. Duggan. Of Straw Plains. was able
today to show her grandchildren Curl
osfty which she has preserved. against
her will. for 40 years. This curiosity
" "a wheat bug which dropped into her
sar ear exactly 40 years ago when she
was a little girl OF "A and which she
extracted yesterday.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.-BilIs TO put
most OF the necessities OF rife upon the
free list we're offered in the house to-
day by Representative Mann. OF Illi-
nois. There were Is Of the measures,
covering leather. cotton goods, furnber,
cereals. vegetables. meat products and
the like.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
DA|RYM|EN
To MEET IN ATHENS
JANUARY II To 10
State Dairy and Live Stock
Breeders Association Will
Discuss Vital Problems in
Many Interesting Addresses


ATHENS. Ca. January San interest.
ing program has been arranged for the
sixteenth annual meeting Of the Georgis
Dairy anu Live Stock Breeders associa.
ton which win be held January II and
Is. The sessions win be held IN the au.
ditorium Of the agricultural building.
Many prominent agricultural leaders
win speak The program FOLLOWS:
Call to order. Hon. J. ID. Price. Farm
ington. Ca
invocation. Rev. Z. L Hill. Athens
Ga
Address OF welcome on behalf OF the
city Of Athens. Mai II. ]. Rowe.
Address Of welcome on behalf of the
University OF Georgia. Chancellor D. G
Barrow.
Response. Col T. c. Hudson. Atlanta
Ga
Annual address Of the president. Hon
]. d. Price. Pennington. Ca
Tick Eradica tson," DR.. Z. NJ. Neigh
bert, in cht.-ge tick eradication in Geor-
gia ana South Carolina
Organization Of farmers to assist In
cleaning I'D Georgia. Hon B. W. Hunt
Eatonton. Ga.
Community Improvement Of Beef Cat
Acs Ao-s OAAf~A =. ~NR~A~&~'
Bovine Tubsrculosis," DR.. W. n. Bur
son. State College OF Agriculture.
THE Georgia Farmers Need In Live
Stock Hon. r +. Duckworth. Union
City. Ca
DAIRY Problems" Hon. B. H. Rawl
United States Bureau OF Animal Indus
try.
Raising the Dairy calfs Milton p
Jarnagtn. State College OF Agriculture.
"Udder Troubles" DR.. Peter + Balm
sen, state veterinarian. Americas, Ga
Money Making Cows l Have Known,
Ion. c. L. Willoughby. Sandersville, Ga
Hon W. c. HHIhouse. Waynesboro. Ga
Making the Dairy Herd Pay" Hon
W. S. Brooks, Macon, Ca.
NIGHT SESSION.
illustrated lecture. DR.. Andrew NJ
Soule. president state College OF AEri'
culture
Lecture. Prof. ]. W. Hart, state Col.
lege Of Agriculture, Athens. Ca
MORNING SESSION, JANUARY Is.
Cali TO oroer. q. m.
Invocation. DR.. NJ. L TroutmaR. Ath-
ems. Ga
Horse Breeding" DR.. TAFT Butler
cl4fhNAAos MISS
Cooperative Horse Breeding," Hon
O. III. Morgan, Columbus, s. G.
.Hog cholera. e DR.. ~. Dorset. Rurear
Of kninai EH6usfY. Wa1hinsf3n. D. c.
Hog Breeding. Hon. q. IT. Hunni-
cutt editor Southern Cultivator. Atlanta
Grazing ana Feeding Hogs" ]. p
Hite, director extension department
State College OF Agriculture. Athens, Ca
Establishing a Pure Bred Herd Of
Hogs" Hon. VIII v. thinner. Atlanta.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Relationship Between Live stool
and the Prosperity Of the Country,
Hon. II, z. stockbridge.. editor Southern
Rurallst.
Buying and Selling Registered Liv,
Stock" Hon. Loring Brown, smyrna
Ca
The Benefits TO Be Derived From tn.
Association" Hon. ]. L Brown, Greens
boro. Ga
Live Stock Possibilities in Georgia, ,
Col I. c. wade, Cornelia, Ga.
How the Veterinarian Can Benefit the
Live Stock Man" DIR. L. j. Herring
veterinarian Georgia experiment. sta.
ton. Experiment, Ga.
Dairy Machinery and Equipment. >
Prof. II. P. Lykes. Georgia experiment
station. Experiment, Ca.
Election Of officers.
Adjournment
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
BIB FAR MERS WILL
HAVE BIG CORN CONTEST

MACON. Ca, Jan, s.-one hundred
farmers OF Bfbb county WIN enter a
special corn contest Saturday afternoon
under the auspices OF tho Bibb County
Agricultural society.
The corn must have been grown this
past season. The entries from exactly
100 farmers are now on exhibit at the
chamber OF commerce. where the ex-
hibits and awards win be made.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
ALABAMA COUNTIES
WANT LIQUOR BACK

MONTGOMERY. Ala. Jan. 7.-sNelve
counties out of 81 in Alabama want
liquor back, according to bills that have
been advertised for Introduction into
the legislature which convenes next
Tuesday. Six want the open saloon and
six wish the dispensary.
Those asking for the saloon are:
Montgomery. Mobile, Jefferson. Dallas,
Morgan and Russell
The jispensary is wanted by Lime
stone. Colbert, Madison Tuscaloosa
Barbour ana Elmore. -
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field will deliver an address on the same
subject In the afternoon.
Friday. Feb. 10--"Co-o operation Between
Producer and Consumer. will be the top
ic Prominent economists and represent
atives from the cooperative organiza-
lions OF all sections Of the country will
join in the discussions.
Saturday, Feb 11-States' day-Program
OF interest to representatives of every
state and every country Exhibits VIII
remain intact until midnight.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
LIVENEWS

was accepted a. d Mrs. tS<sfn was ~
manded for sent snce Saturday.
The case of Mrs. Mary w. Snead, the
other defendant, was not taken up to-
day. The Indictment against her may be
nolle. pressed.
WASHINGTON d. c., Jan s-Con-
gressmen BrantleH. OF the 18th and
Hardwick, of the Tenth district, were
this morning unanimously Endorsed by
the members OF the Georgia delegation
in the next congress for assignment to
the ways and means, and the rules COM
mittees respectively. The action Of the
delegation will be submitted to the gen.
eral Democratic caucus on January 10,
and every effort viii be made to have
Messrs. Brantley and Hardwlck elected
to the respective committee.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9--The financial
horizon was decidedly clearer today az
result of conferences held last night
to provide against any unsettling Of tho
stability of financial examinations allied
to the Carnegie Trust company. Action
by superintendent Cheney. j. p. Morgan
and associate bankers has brought add
ed stability to the banking situation, it
was generally agreed
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.-PopulatIon sta
tistics Of the 18th census made public to-
day by the director of the census includ-
ed. in South Carolina:
CITY 1910. 1909.
Greenville.... -. -. -. 1874 1850
Spartanburg... :. :. ....... 17,bll n,SS0
WASHINGTON. IAN. Eff the senti-
ment OF the people of Georgia Is. as I
have been informed 1t Is, viii be q
candidate for United States senator. TO
succeed to the vacancy caused by the
death Of the late Senator Clay" said
Congressman L. +. Livingston this
morning.
ernor Glascock last night announced that
he would appoint Davis Elkins to sue
coed the late Senator Elkins, his father.
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to devise some better method than this
IL they hope TO deceive the American
farmer or the president of the United
States as to their real position toward
American consumers OF potash
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cilt8enIly conducted, is simply beyond
fcomputation- A few years back eight
to ten bushels OF corn per acre was con-
sidered a good crop while fifteen lush
els as a thing to be wondered at. A
bale Of cotton to every two acres a
couple of decades ago was entirely sat
isfactory to the most progressive farm
er. AS to oats and whea the average
farmer was satisfied with whatever his
careless sand unintelligent methods, low
ever well aided by generous nature. may
have yielded him. Whatever was the
result. he accepted 1t without question
as thing for granted. and placed the
blame for failure to produce more on the
broad shoulders of the poor seasons"
1t never occurred to him that ne was
an important factor in the makins of
the crop and certainly more or less re-
sponsIble for the results II never en-
tered his mind that his failure to pro-
duce greater results was due soIehr to
the fact that nature cannot cooperate
with ignorance.
FARMERS ARE AMAZING.
But, at last we are fast waking up,
and the startling possibilities Of intel
ligent farming are causing the world
to "sit UP and take notice. And what
the future will reveal in this dIrect1rn'
is more than we can tell A proefes-
sive farmer from an adjoining county
told the writer last summer that for
years he farmed the way of his fore
fathers, without once questioning tnelr
methods as to the possibility Of 59ing
better, until his eyes were opened by
reading from what others were ,ing.
Reasoning that under similar cor5t-
tons he could do as we'll. he charged
his methods. with the result that IN a
field of two hundred acres Of corn at
the time he related his experience. lle
did not think that he had single acre
that would produce less than 25 bash
els of corn Fifty bushels OF corn per
acre is now not considered wonderful.
while 100 is an achieVement not at all
impossible. Two bales of cotton per
acre is no more wonderful than one
few years ago. Four bales are a EOS
sibiiity, and six have been reached.
What next?
The II district agricultural schools
Of the state were primarily establish
ed for the boys and girls Of the farm-
ers, and their purpose is to teach The
boys the methods that wifi yIeId sucn
returns. and make the farm life at
tractive and remunerative, and the
girls how to keep house and make
home-life happy. Surely the farmers
do not understand the object of these
schools. and DO not appreciate the Inn
portance of the training they are Civ
ing, else they would be crowded be-
yond their uttermost capacity.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10
EDUCATION WILL
. BRING THE GREATEST
GOOD To FARMERS
President Dennis of District
Agricultural School Shows
the Unfailing Value of
Schools for Aid of Farmers

GAINESVILLE, Ca. Jan. s.--The
value of an agricultural education was
the theme OF an interesting address de-
llivered by President NJ. B. Dennis, Of. the
sixth District Agricultural and Mechanic
cal school His address was as followss
HAS HAPPY LIFE
Looking at life from a viewpoint OF
eontentment and happiness, independ-
ence and wealth, privileges and possbili
ties, there is no calling under the sun
IN which these blessings are more surely.
more abundantIy guaranteed than in
that of farming. Farming, 1t is true.
has it's troubles and disappolntmentss
its burdens and failures. but what bush
ness is free from these? No life is freer
from petty vexations and harassing
perplextties than that of the farmer.
living IN his quiet, peaceful home re-
moved from the cares and confusions OF
the city, and lord of all he surveys"
1t is a business practically without
lcompetition, and where properly and in<
ltelligently conducted win yield more
clear profit than any other vocation OF
| life. Its success, however, depends Upon
the degree of intelligence underlying; its
MANAGEMENT. An intelligent farmer,
living not many miles from where now
sit, bought a tract OF land for so or
$15 an acre and raised on It enough oats
| the first year, at the market price to
pay for the land. Have you ever hsard
OF the bank or mercantile business doing
half so well? 1 read of a farmer In
North Carolina (and the story was vouch-
ed for by affidavits from q number OF
reputable business and professional men
OF his county, who made on farm OF
200 acres $50 to $40 worth Of products
per acre in a single year: at least aaree
times as much as he gave for the firm.
Have you ever read OF any other legit-
innate business that could equal this1
Now, what these two farmers accom-
pIished others can do, IL they win meet
lintelligently the conditions
FARMERS NEED EDUCATION
To say that the farmer needs no edu-
cation, to say nothing of special training
dependent connections. is nothing more
nor less than declaration that the rnore
ignorant man is the better farmer he
will make. Such doctrine places q
premium on ignorance. and debases the
great fundamental vocation OF farming
to the level of siavish drudgery. Igno-
rance never has been, never can be, and
never will be the basis OF success. ad-
vancement, or development in any de-
lpartment of human endeavor II the
banking business requires intelligent
Enanagemenf, that Of farming demands
more II sthe active. underlying pri1 ztsfsf
| Of the mercantile business should b8 In
telligence, that of farming should be-
notfin less. If to operate a sysfem
J OF raj pads requires business sense. why
ths successful manipulation OF
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and intricate forces OF a farm
nything less? A successful
ould be all this and more. He
v and understand the laws OF
I the relation existing between
> and the said laws. He must
law of cause and effect. and
ulate the underlying principles
life agriculture as to produce
est result at the least possible
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.-Biils to put
most Of the necessities OF rife upon the
free list we're offered in the house to-
day by Representative Mann, OF Illi-
nois. There were Is OF the measures
covering leather. cotton goods, furnber,
cereals. vegetables, meat products and
the like.