The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-12-03
MI. Kent Gives
Work Done in Nov.
Brentwood. Ca, l2-l-'14

OAAWNOAf 1852 -
MY dear sir:
4 This marks the close Of the De-
mbhstration Work in your county
for the month for November, and |
take great pleasure in submitting to
You as Chairman Of the Agricultnr-
al Committee the following sum-
mary Of the work done
! During the month, | have visited
lSl demonstrators, wrote 81 letters,
inoculated II hogs. and travelled 29s
J miles Ill interest Of the work.
/ Considerable time has been given
! TO Dat planting. The acreage is, no
| doubt, the largest in the history Of
] your county and / dare say thatthe
general. preparation is better than
lin previous years. These two facts
mean that a goodly portion OF the
1889, 000,O00.00 spent annually in
THE state for oats. will be kept at
home. Idon't know when | have
seen as good breaking and harrow
fling for oats. The disk and section
! harrows have played great part in
planting this crop.
! With about 200 acres Of the oats
PLANTED, yetch was sown. This v as
beyond my expectations, on account
Eofshe financial situation, but ! feel
! sure insaying these acres will be the
cause Of as many more being plant
ed next fall. The quality as well
las quantity Of this yetch as hay IS
Iunexcelled, and Of equal Importance
| is Its soil building qualities. ] re-
greet that It is now too late to plant,
but not too late to watch your
neighbors coin money for him. He
will take great pleasure in letting
you see it and you should not miss
the opportunity.
During the month | have visited
the gardens Of so, towns and coun-
try, and am very sorry that they
were not what they should have
! been. I saw few that were excel
lent and looked more like spring
time than fall. This proves what
others can do If they will just take
little time. It does not take but
few square yards to raise enough
vegetables to do the family the year
round, and if every family in the
county will try to raise their own
vegetables and see how it cuts down
the grocery bill, the number Of good
gardens will be greatly increased.
Let US quit living out of a canned
garden Canned elsewhere) and
milking tin COW. / sometimes
think that it is with us as a certain
editor once said. I'VE build school
houses and send our children off to
school, let our gardens grow up in
weeds and live out OF tin cans, buy
our boys a $4,000 gun and $4,000
dog to shoot 10 cent game and sit
hack and curse the government for
| hard times. " There is at least more
truth than poetry in the statement.
The thing for US to deisto make our
gardens as rich as possible with
stable manure and plant one OF
more vegetables every month in the
year. Because you live in town is
NJ excuse for not having~a garden.
One Of the best gardens / know Of is
in the city Of Dawson and still it is
only about SO feet square. There
are more vegetables to the square
yard in this garden than on many
of the square miles Of the county
Strawberries, collards, onions, cab
bage, lettuce, English peas, Cana
dian peas, and turnips are few Of
the things that you can see grow
ing on this garden today. 1t is
hoped that every family in the
county will resolve to have = better
garden next year and make pre-.
parations for it now.
The fact that our farmers are
making the greatest preparations to
raise meat for home and market a
mother year is very gratifying. The
Ionly trouble that they are expert
encing is the scarcity of brood sowi