The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
lIIT MILKING TIN COWS
LIVING OUT OF CANNED
.onENS. SAYS MIR. KENT.

of DAWSON UStANcn'
ling the month l visited "a
anstrators, wrote So letters, in
,otod II hogs, and Travelled 29S
e u in the interest of the work.
Considerable time has been given
PLANTING. The acreage is no
IN the largest in the history of
w. county. and l dare say that the
g aoral preparation is better than in
,rious years. These two facts
,on that a goodly portion of the
.oo OOO0OO spent annually in the
.o for oats will be kept at home.
Cont know when I have seen as
.od breaking and narrowing for
-, The disc and section harrows
,~o nlaved a great part in planting
this crop.
with about 200 acres of the oats
,.,+od yetch was sown. This was
t.rond my expectations, on account
= tho financial situation, but l feel
..o in saving these acres will be the
snso Of as many more being planted
S.vt fall. The quality as we'll as
,rortitv of this vetch as hay is unex-
soned and of equal importance is its
nil building qualities. 1 regret that
:. &c now too late to plant, but not
IN late to watch your neighbor's
,otn money for him. He will take
GREAT pleasure in letting you see it,
snd YOU should not miss the oppor-
unity.
Dnring the month l have visited
,bo gardens of fifty, in towns and
.ountrv. and am very sorry they were
rot what they should have been. L
,,u few that were excellent and
Looked more like spring than fall
fine This proves what others can
ao if thew will just take little time.
# does not take but few square
Yards to raise enough vegetables to
do the family the year round, and II
every family in the county will try
IN raise their own vegetables and see
how it cuts down the grocery bill the
nmber of good gardens will be
greatly increased. Let us quit living
mt of q canned garden (canned else
vbere) and milking a tin COW. l
sometimes think that it is with us
as 2 certain editor once said I'VE
bniId 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 $50 gun and a
$40 dog to shoot ten-cent game, and
sit back and curse the government
for hard times" There is at least
more truth than poetry in the state
ment. The thing for us to do is to
make our garden as rich as possible
with stable manure and plant one or
more vegetables every month in the
year Because you live in town is
no excuse for not having a garden.
One of the best gardens,I 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.
collards, onions, cab
bage, lettuce, English peas, cana
dian peas and turnips are a few or
the things that you can see growing
on this garden today. 1t is hoped
that every family in the county Will
resolve to have a better garden next
year and make preparations for it
now,
The fact that our farmers are MAX
ing the greatest preparations to raise
meat for home and market another
year is very gratifying. The only
trouble that they are experiencing is
the scarcity of brood sows and mon
ey to buy fencing. Several have man
aged to get both and are starting out
on one of the most profitable lines
Of farming. Sixty thousand hogs
will be needed from this section next
year to supply the MOultrie Packing
Plant. We can no longer say that
We haven't got a place to market our
hogs There are two more items to
consider in hog raising. One is past
Ire crops and the other is pure-bred
ires. You will make a failure with
)ut both. Our farmers will be able
o realize more profit next year from
logs than they will from their whole
otton crop this year if they nave
tarted and started right.
This report would not be complete
Without making mention of the Cen
raj of Georgia railroads offer OF a
]ure-bred shorthorn bull to our
county. To get this bull we will
lave to get 25 boys between the ages
If ten and 21 years to join the four
.roD club, plant an acre of oats now
ollowed with an acre of peas for hay
n May or June, and plant an acre
u corn and cotton next spring. This
'ure-bred bull will mean much 10