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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
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WHY NOT BUY NATIVE HAY?

Editor of The Dawson News: Per-
vading human nature there is a dis
tinct principle voiced by the old saw,
tickle him who tickles you Ply
certain shipments of provender re-
Gently shipped into Dawson for mules
by stock dealers, and some others in
all probability, | am impressed by
the thought that these dealers have
not thought seriously of the above
referred to principle, or they would
be spending the money going North
and West for this provender right
here in Terrell county, where they
have been for years reaping harvests
from the farmers of the county by
sales of many mules and horses, and
where just now it happens that there
are tons of hay of an unusually fine
quality which can be had of these
same farmers who are expected to
buy of these dealers the mules which
are to be fed from those car loads OF
hay recently shipped here and at fam
cy prices.
Can there be any good reason WHY
we should not only send away our
money for the Western raised mule
but for the food he eats as we'll when
that food, or much of it, can be had
at home? Suppose, for the sake of
argument, that this foreign proven
der is superior-but this is very ques-
tionabale-to the excellent hay now
being made from pea vines and ma
tive grasses the fact still remains
that these dealers are asking our
farmers to buy their stock. If now
we should purchase is it not but nat
ural that we, the farmers, should ex-
pect the mule dealer in turn to aid
materially in furnishing us with a
market for our feed? I dare say
run no risk when I venture the sug-
gestion that the stock dealers of
Dawson, who nearly all come from
section not accustomed to depending
on cotton for the money crop" have
not infrequently been guilty of criti-
cising the farmers of this section for
their failure to diversity, and thus
free themselves from the thralldom
of treacherous cotton. Now, gentle
men, will you not stop bit and think
that if these farmers can not find a
market for their products convenient
they will naturally continue risking
the old habit of a little corn and
much cotton? This, I readily agree,
should not be, especially now that we
are confronted by the on-comfng boil
weevil. If you want our trade do not
forget that you owe to us the observ-
ance of the golden rule. If you con-
tinue to buy your feed elsewhere the
| farmers will ere long begin to do
some thinking and to realize that
they can easily raise every mule
needed right here, and thus they may
be able to put "weevfl into your
dumplin2." The farmer of this sec
ton who finds out the situation may
at least find the mules best suit I'd
to his minds eye" in the hands Of
that dealer who is willing at all
times to pay him the top of the mar
ket for his Georgia product.
No harm intended, gentlemen, by
this article; only hint that you are
being observed, and that you should
be fair. J. G. DEAN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
A Tribute to the Cow
From the Pacific Dairy Review.

Most potent of all influences in the
building of this the mightiest nation
in history is the COW. Her sons drew
the plows which first cultivated the
land of the New World, hauled to
market the products of the field and,
with slow energy, moved the chattels
and household goods beyond the
mountains to new homes in the far
thest Vest.
They supplied the beef which is
the food of the Anglo-SaXon, a race
that was never conquered since his
tory began. They furnished the
shoes of the pioneers who trod the
unknown wilds and made of them
the farmsteads and cities of our pres
ent enlightenment. They gave the
clothes and robes to protect the pio-
neer against the destroying blasts OF
winter and made commerce possible
before the railroad was. They COW
cred the chair upon which he sat,
filled the mattress upon which he
slept and glued the furniture which
he used.
The old cow is mother to the whole
bovine race and foster mother of half
the human race. From the roadside
weed she manufactures the most
nourishing of human foods. She is
the ready aid of the farmer, the
pet of the rich and the ever present
help of the poor. She is the econo-
mist of the people and the conserva-
tor of their resources. She partakes
of the grass of the field and leaves
the farm the richer for her presence.
AS she helped to develop the farm
from the wilderness and as she ate
of it's first fruits so she will renew
the life of the soil and make still
greater agriculture possible.
In all our history the COW has been
mans closest friend and benefactor
Upon her products are built the great
business interest which center in the
stock yards, the creameries, the shoe
factories, the harness shops and the
mills.
Take away the COW and our banks
would close, our graveyards yawn,
and the wheels of commerce would
cease to turn. Foster and care for
her and business 1ourishes, the fer
.ility of the soil is conserved and she
becomes the custodian of the nations
lrOsperitV.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
The SOuth'S Growth.

The population of the South has
increased IT'S per cent during the
last thirty years, and during that
same period the capital invested in
manufactures shows an increase of
$50 per cent, mineral products 1880
per cent, farm lands and farm build
ings 3O5 per cent, the output of coal
1900 per cent, and the resources of
the national banks S91 per cent.
These figures give some idea of the
tremendous increase in manufacto-
ries, in agriculture and in banking
capital, but the real story is told
when you compare the increase in
industries with the increase in pop
ulation.
A table of comparisons of the
South today with the entire United
States in 1880 will show some amaz-
ing figures-igures that seem in
credible.
For instance, the South has more
than 100000 more cotton spin
dies than the whole United States
had in 1880.
The value of the South's farm
products in 1880 was $756,O0O,-
600 and in 1900 the value of the
farm products of Dixie was $1,000
600, 900, which is three hundred mil
lions greater than the total value of
the farm products of the entire coun-
try as late as 1880.
So well has the South fought her
fight and forged to the front that
today a Southerner holds the highest
office in the gift of the country and
the policy of the nation is being
shaped and largely controlled by
Southern men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
Corn Is Really King.

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, a splendid farm paper pub
lished at Springfield. Ohio, it is stat
ed that the drouth of this year is
responsible for the fact that in some
localities corn is selling for more
than wheat.
Corn has for years been creep
ing up on wheat. We need not be
surprised if we live to see the time
when it will sell as high as wheat.
The following extract from the Farm
and Fireside gives more interesting
facts about corn:
1T is worth as much as a food
as wheat-judged in food units. 1t
is stronger in fat-making elements,
and not quite so strong in protein.
Under some conditions it is not as
valuable as wheat, but under 9TH
ers it is more so. And in digestibil-
ity and that mysterious quality
which makes thing agree with
the aanimal eating it has proven
better than wheat. Because up to
this time it has been more cheaply
grown and has not oeen so widely
used as human food. But it is
growing in popularity both at
home and abroad as food for men,
and will some time sell for its food
value.
Moreover, the adoption over
the corn belt of the wheat-corn-
clover rotation, or some similar
one with alfalfa as the legume, is
cutting down the acreage of corn
and increasing that of wheat. This
is a growing tendency. and a good
one. 1t is even necessary for the
maintenance of fertility. And it
seems sure to narrow the spread
between the prices of wheat and
corn. If the time comes when a
feeder will feed either wheat or
corn as his stock need it it will
not be a bad thing. Corn how
ever, is more than king
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
YOU KNOW HIM.

There is a man in our town,
And he is full of prunes;
He has a rusty monograph
And never changes tunes.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
There is a man in our town,
Our goat for sure he's got;
He dumps all sorts of rubbish or
His vacant corner lot.
Allentown Democrat.
There is a man in our town,
Who helps mosquitoes breed;
He owns a world Of vacant lots,
And never cuts a weed.
Houston Post.
There is a man in our town
Who's even worse than that;
He's teaching tango dancing on
The floor above our fat.
Chicago Record-Herald.
There is a man in our town
Who surely can't be beat;
He's always telling US Just how
To run our blooming sheet.
Tampa Tribune.
There is a man in our town
Who's worse than all of these;
He takes his carpets on the lawn
And beats them in the breeze.
Columbus EnQurer-Sun.
There Is a man in our town,
(Sorry we have such stock
The only thing he's good for
! Is to sit around and knock.
-Hawkinsville News.
! We have a man who sits about,
His town he always knocks;
He's worn his pants completely on
Right where they touch the box.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
All Should Do 1t

The Ashburn Farmer and Worth
County Local have adopted the cash
in advance system for subscriptions,
and sooner or later, all country
newspapers that stay in business will
be forced to do the same thing.
There are a large number of the
better country weeklies of the state
which have announced that the sub
scription price will be $3.50 per year
after January l. This is explained
by the rise in the price of print pa
per, materials, labor and everything
else that goes to the making of a
newspaper.
A good weekly is worth more than
$3.50 to anybody, and no one will
be justified in kicking when asked to
pay but little more than the cost of
blank paper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
MR.. TAFT is A BIG MAN.

From the Columbus Ledger
In a recent address former Presi-
dent William H. Taft is quoted as
saying in part:
I'VE are republicans, but we
are democrats. We are possibili-
ties and we are impossibilities, but
| trust there is no one who doesn't
wish the success of the present
administration of the United
States for all the people. When
the people declare in favor of a
platform / want to see it carried
out and tried. don't mind see
ing congress brought under a rule
that carries through what that
platform said. I believe in a re-
sponsible leadership. If party in
power makes mistakes or the peo-
pie don't approve of it my expert
ence has been that the remedy is
easy. Until we have an opportu-
nifty to discuss the issues I am for
the administration.
How is this for a big republican?
1t reads like the expressions of a real
big man. This is such a departure
from the usual course in politics as
to have caught the attention of the
country.
1t not only again discloses the
great breadth of Mr.. Taft, but
shows spirit of liberality among
the public men of today that is be-
coming characteristic of modern
times, but which was not known in
the former history of the country.
We cannot recall a similar express
sion by a former president discussing
the administration of an incumbent
president of a different political
faith.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

A few centuries ago it was reason
ably certain that a pestilence would
come every so often and reduce
greatly the number of mouths to be
fed. The BLACK plague" for in
stance, during the twenty-year visit
to Europe, swept away a fourth of
all the population in the area over
which it swept.
Today the plaques are being, tam
ed. Folks live longer and there are
more of them. Which means, of
course, greater strain upon the soil
to grow humanity's food. But if we
let much of our best soil wash away
what's left won't always be able to
carry this growing strain. AS the
food supply becomes scarcer and the
demand for it greater prices will go
up until, as in India, famine must
follow and the world be brought face
to face with the possibility of starva-
tion-such is the inevitable alterna-
tive to conserving the soil and i'm
proving its use.
When enough of us see this the
danger will be met Fortunately
more are seeing it every day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
Game Is Abundant,

From all over Georgia game is
reported to be abundant, and in
many places cartridges, which have
heretofore been scarce and wild, have
become so numerous and tame that
they have actually invaded the
towns.
Local sportsmen are counting the
days until November goth, the date
upon which the powder-burning in
Georgia can be started legally. They
are chatting under the enforced mac
tion of days wasted, more particular
Iy as the birds in the fields of Terrell
county were never so plentiful as
now.
Not only are cartridges, doves and
ducks plentiful but wild turkeys are
seen in large focks in the swamps
of this section.
That the state game law has oper-
ated to increase various kinds of
game birds in this section has been
made evident, but in no more strik-
ing manner than the killig Of four
wild turkeys by Central of Georgia
passenger train near Walker Station
in Dougherty county, a few days
Aga
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

The fertilizer values which are
wasted around barns with uncovered
manure heaps through which rains
drain will one day be so highly priz-
ed that it may be made a INSIDE
meanor not to spread them scientif1-
cally upon the hungry soil.
1t has been suggested that time
may come when the owner of a field
will not be permitted to let muddy
water run away after a storm, but
will be required to filter the drainage
as carefully as manufacturers will
soon be required to filter the drain
age from their poison watts.
For we are just beginning to per-
ceive the seriousness of this soil
waste. Throughout the United
States in one Year 1t amounts to
dumping into the sea as many team
loads of earth as would make a sin
gle file of dump carts reaching sew
enty-six times around the globe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, the national farm paper
published at Springfield, Ohio, Jud-
son C. Welliver, Washington CORES
pondent of that publication, writes an
interesting article reporting some OF
the efforts of the department of agri-
culture, through its bureau of chem
istry, to control, through the insecti-
eide law, the sale of dangerous pois-
ons used in destroying insects and
other pests on farms. The following
is an extract from the article:
THE comonest ingredients in in
,secticides and fungicides are paris
green and lead arsenate. The chem
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
WHEN UNCLE SAM BOUGHT
BEDBUGS AT TWO CENTS EACH

ist finds out what elements are used,
then the entomologist tries the thing
out on living insects; flies, bedbugs,
reaches, caterpillars, lice, or what
ever it may be intended to extermi-
nate. You will be interested to know
that at the big experiment farm at
Vienna, Virginia, where this work is
done, the government raises feas,
mosquitoes and all manner of unde-
sirables just to experiment on. Not
long ago the farm authorities had a
big run of business in bedbug pois-
ons, and, not having any supply OF
bedbugs on hand, hung out notice
offering two cents each for good
thrifty bugsI"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
An Official Change.

Saturday ]. e. Mercer retired from
the Office of state game commission
err. and was succeeded by c. L. Da-
Wis. Mr.. Mercer made a splendid
record during his incumbency of two
years, and that the game law has been
a success is largely due to his efforts
and activities That Mr.. Davis will
also make an excellent official and
serve the state well there is nc
doubt. He is a most capable gen.
tIeman and experienced in public af-
fairs, and may be expected to con
duct the office in a most creditablt
manner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

So acute has become the pressure
from the high cost of living that it is
driving people crazy. In its report
to Governor Cox recently the Ohio
State Board for the Insane showed
that of the 2,939 persons admitted
to the institutions for the feeble
minded the past year more than 10
per cent were started on the road to
an unbalanced mentality by worry
over the high cost of living. With
this was combined overwork, nervous
exhaustion and the other ills that fol-
low financial trouble.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
THE THIRD DISTRICT SCHOOL.

From the Home and Homestead.
The agricultural school at Amer
icus is demonstrating to the South
Georgia people that hay and forage
are a money making crop. 1t is a
good lesson to learn in view of the
approaching boil weevil
The experiments of the school in
fertilizers and top-dressing show val
liable results which the people OF
South Georgia ought to know about.
The English farmers have demon
strated the value of phosphates for
top-dressing, and they consider 1t
the most important result in English
farming in the last twenty years.
1t looks like the agricultural
school at Americas is going at real
problems hammer and tongs. Hur-
rah!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

The commission which undertook
to ascertain what the brutalities and
barbarities of the Balkan war mad
been. and where the responsibility
Law. found Servia obdurate and de-
termined to prevent any disclosures,
Bulgaria hurt by her undue promi-
nence in the international abuse
Greece embarrassingly confronted
bv evidence of military ferocity, and
the unspeakable Turk the mildest OF
all the clawing nations and races.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
A Dog'sssVigiI.

Did you read the little story OF the
dog out in the Montana
CITY that waited outside of the bank
one day for master who never came
out? 1t was told by the Milwaukee
Journal. The master was stricken
with apoplexy, was brought out on
a stretcher, taken to a hospital and
thence to his grave. To the dog it
seemed he had never come out. and
day after day he waited at the door
of the bank, scanning every person
who passed, looking for his master.
Years went by, and he did not give
ND until the other day. Grown old
and stiff, he was run over.
1t is just one more story of ami
NAL devotion. Not of reasoning;
reasoning animal would not have
waited through the years, but o.
faith and loyalty so answering thai
they might we'll be an example FOL
men in their friendships. This ii
the quality we find in the dog, a1ec
ton and constancy; faithful DESPITE
mistreatment, he is the follower o
the fortunes of his master, good o
ill. Does not this one trait fount
in our animal friend merit bette
treatment than we often think need
full? Has not this one dog earne
the right to a fair show for all hi
race?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

The rich old maid is no more ex-
empt from the new national income
tax than the rich bachelor, according
to the Interpretation put on the law
by Interanl Revenue Collector A. o.
Blalock of Georgia. In fact, women
are not exempt at all; they must
swear to their incomes just as the
men will be required to do. Unless
single man has more than $4,000
yearly he need not pay any income
tax. He is entirely exempt. If mar
ried he is exempt unless he has more
than $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
Frost comes little early this year,
but the damage is negligible.
More Machine Government.

From the Savannah News.
There is a report that West Vir-
ginia school has installed a spanking
machine. Thus does labor saving ma
chinery take the place of men. No
doubt the professor now is able to
polish off ten times as many boys as
he used to with the birchen rod in
the same length of time. The boy
who is whipped last can rejoice no
longer because the teachers switch
ing arm is tired. For the spanking
machine will administer punishment
as effectively upon the tenth boy as
upon the first.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
French Market Coffee
is Southern Through
and Through!

Brought in ships from the coffee
countries through warm summer
seas to the southern port of New
Orleans, no cold climates affect, in
juriously, the delicate coffee beans.
Roasted and blended by Southern
ers, it is best adapted for use in the
Southern climate-no Northern roast
coffee can compete with it.
Sold to Southern merchants for
Southern trade blended, roasted,
packed and shipped in the South
Southern through and through. No
wonder it outsells all other brands
in the South.
Endorsed by the best judges in
New Orleans a hundred years ago,
and by coffee drinkers daily Through
out the South. No wonder it has
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
An EDITORS Savings.

From the Utica Saturday Globe.
An editor who started about 20
years ago with only SIS cents is now
worth 100000. His accumulation
of wealth is owing to his frugality,
good habits, strict attention to bust
ness and the fact that an uncle died
and left him $99,999.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

The Macon fair has closed. 1t has
been of almost inestimable value and
credit to Macon and Georgia; and
how the people did appreciate it.
Some days more than 10000 persons
went through the gates, and all have
enthusiastic and friendly words
about the fair. 1t is good to have
such events. Congratulations on the
success and on the good that was
wrought.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
THINGS WE CAN'T AFFORD.
rom the Wichita Beacon.

From the Wichita Beacon.
The black walnut which our grand
parents burned as firewood is now
almost too precious to be used in
framing the most value pictures.
The Cleveland millionaire who want
ed his skyscraper trimmed in that
wood had hard work to find enough
in the whole country to fill his curl
Gus order.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

No doubt the disagreement be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain over Mexico will minimize
itself, but it contains all the ele-
ments of the most serious and mis-
chieyous misunderstanding which
has arisen between the two govern
ments since the Venezuelan contro-
versy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

The Valdosta Times comes for
ward with the champion tomato rails
er this year. That paper says Miss
Clyde Sullivan made a net profit of
1892 on a plot of land measuring
one-tenth of an acre, which she
planted in tomatoes, canning the
fruit and selling it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

been called the National Drink of
the South.
There is a real treat in store for
those who have not yet tried French
Market Coffee. Buy a can todav
Try it. Be convinced of the ex.
cellence and quality of this brand.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

They are right at hand-the Ter
rell County Fair days. Tomorrow
will see the gates swing wide open
Everything is ready.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

Turn back over a hundred wears
to the days of Andrew Jackson
French Market Coffee was even ther
the most famous drink in America.
Its history entwines itself with the
history of the old aristocracy of the
South. The Bellies and Beaux Of
New Orleans slipped it at midnight
for generations. To them no Mardi
Gras Ball was complete without a
cup of French Market Coffee. Think
what it means to you to be able to
serve this identical blend on your
table daily - for your own grocer
now sells tin air-tight cans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

To the mind of the Alpharetta
Free Press the best people on earth
are the farmers who own their little
farms and work and live and pay.
They are the salt of the earth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

Adolph Busch, the st. Louis brew
er. has died and left an estate of
100000. In his will charitable
requests amounting to $4,000 are
made.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04
American and BOwker Fertilizers

Formulas are devised to meet the
requirements Of every crop and the
peculiarities Of every soil. See C. NJ.
Harris before placing your order.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-04

The editor of the Madisonian is a
good judge of human nature. He
says eff the Lord answered all pray
ers most people would quit work"