Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-12
To Tell the Story Forcefully and Graphically

The Forward Edition of the Tmes-Recorder
advertising issue Nothing further from the thought in promo
ing than make compendium OF advertisements AdVe
temens it will contain of advertisements representing the
progressive industries financial institutions and commercial houses OF
the city and section but they will be but minor part OF the great
picture that will be spread before its many thousands OF readers
complete force and graphic picture of the pusang lite OF the
Americas of to-day and the life Of its surrounding country
To begin with agricultural articles will not be state
men of what has been be done the of producing
crops They will go far beyond that They will deal with the soils
with the fertilizers with the methods of cultivation hey will be
illustrated with crop pictures that will tell vivid fashion the results
of the farmers work Each article that deals with important crop
such cotton and hav intended to be thoroughly ed
ucaona its scope Prepared these main articles have been
by Prof c. v Cunningham late of the Third District Agricultural
College, United States Corn Club promoter they will into
details They will be verabe of condensed information fo
the practical farmer at home away from here.
The article for instance will occupy the greater part OF
page The article will also take pthe greater part of
page Cats and hay will each have several columns devoted
them The article SOILS prepared by United States Soil Expert
Bton who prepared the soil map of Sumter county, will take
full page. Climate will be dealt with the extent of half
Various other crops will attention and occupy from
three columns Of space Pecan culture, for instance with its four
illustrations will require four columns of space Poultry culture
with illustrations three four columns The county schools
with their illustrations. dealing full with the county educational
system, will take the part of The good roads will
need page with fine Illustrations convey outsiders
definite impression of what has been done along that line And then
canaoupes fruits peanuts sugar tobacco etc. will
the agricultural section by several pages Never before
confidently believe has there been special edition issued
agricultural county that will compare with this broad compre
henve and effective handling of these and other subjects The sub
ec that will be illustrated practically the entire field of agr
culture in this section.
In dealing with the city the liberal course has been pu
sued The articles dealing with the phases of city life will be
made attractive possible and will be pofusey illustrated The
whole design of this special issue make exceedingly arac
i've and popular and yet educational the highest sense of thai
word The response from enepsng business has been quite
liberal Those who may desire space requested
act promptly Part of the special issue he's already gone press
and every week will find forms printed The special ISSUE
rely separate from the usual daily paper will be forty
size Its distribution will be thorough haphazad Every
subscriber OF the lmesRecorder daily weekly, will
copy The Board Of Trade will twenty-five hundred copies
wrapped for mailing These will be used by for purposes for
year two The Third District Agricultural College will
receive five hundred copies Advertisements will be placed by the
mes2ecoder number of leading farm papers, asking all farm
interested this section send postcard for copy which will
be sent tree through these channels considerable number Of
prospective immigrants will be reached prominent real estate
will take thousand copies and personally distribute them in
South Carolina Another we'll known realty dealer will take FIVE
hundred copies and place them among Western farmers conem
plates organizing for homeeekers trip to this section. There will
be wasted copies Every copy will do the work that designed
tor it.