The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-05-21
GA. NEEDS VITAL
STATISTICS LAW
FARM DEMONSTRATIONS HAS
PROVEN POPULAR IN
GEORGIA.
APPLY SCIENTIFIC METHODS
Farmers co-operated With Georgia
state College Of Asri-
culture.
Atlanta.

Atlanta.
Memphis. Tenn.-Dr Cessy L. viii
bur. chief satistician Of the bureau o.
the census at Washington, speaking
before the American Association Of
Societies for Organized Charities
urged the need of birth registrations
Describing its present status as shame
fully neglected, he declared adequate
laws and thorough enforcement OF
such laws, compelling registration OF
births, were sorely needed in this
country. He showed that the record
ing of deaths was much more com
plete in all states gathering vital sta
tistics than the registration OF births
the latter Of which should mean the
practical application Of the most ap.
proved agencies for the protection OF
the infants life and health.
Farm Demonstration.
During the year 1913 more than 10 :
900 Georgia farmers co-operated win
the Georgia state college OF agricul-
ture and the department OF farm dem
onstration work of the United States
bureau of agriculture. OF this num-
her 600 were enrolled as demon
stration farmers and 5,236 as. coop
Grating farmers. These farmers who
had $4,000 acres of corn planted and
handled under the direction Of super
vising agents produced an average
Of 1868 bushels per acre. They had
$4,000 acres planted to cotton which
made an average yield Of 1903 pounds
of seed cotton per acre. The 4,O55
acres of oats produced an average
yield of 43 bushels per acre. No bet
ter arguments need be made in favor
of farming according to the improved
methods recommended by the agencies
Among these farmers, 27,600 acres
were sown to winter cover crops to
be plowed under in spring. This in it.
self is so vital to the upbuilding OF
Georgia soils that if nothing else were
accomplished it would amply justify
the outlay for demonstration work.
OF course, demonstration work is car
ried on in cowpeas, velvet beans, po-
tatoes, sugar cane, sorghum and win
ter legumese; likewise in live stock,
improved machinery and in various
branches of farm work.
Respite Is Asked For.
Atlanta. Unless Governor Slaton
grants them respites, Jim Cantrell Of
Gainesville, Hall county, and Nick vii
burn Of Grays, Jones county, will be
hanged on May 20.
Both are asking the governor for q
respite in order that their attorneys
may have an opportunity to appear be
fore the state prison commission at its
June term and argue for communications
to life Imprisonment.
Inasmuch as the prison commission
does not hold another meeting until
the second week in June the governor
will probably grant the respites, al
though as a general proposition he op
poses respites. The prison commission
has recommended that Cantrell be re
spited so that his petition for clemen
cy may be argued at the same time
as that of his brother, Bart, who is
also under sentence Of death.
state Must Borrow.
Atlanta Governor Slaton has sign
ed warrants for approximately $25,O0(
to pay the running expenses Of the
state institutions. This leaves in the
state treasury something like $150,00(
to run the state until next September
The actual running expenses of the
state which must be met amount tC
something like 100000 a month, Sc
it will be necessary for Governor Sla
ton to borrow approximately $900,00(
to meet these fixed expenses.
Georgia Peach Crop.
Atlanta. The peach crop in Georgie
for this year will amount to approx
mately 4,S40 carloads, according to the
latest estimate of the Georgia Fruit
Exchange. Manager H. D. Marks an
nounces that through the efforts of the
fruit exchange reduction on the
freight charges Of SIS per car shipped
from Georgia to New England points
has been secured from the railroads
This, he says, will amount to saving
Of $4,000 to the peach growers of the
state this year.
Negroes Must Hang.
Atlanta. Robert Paschal and WI
liam and George Hart, the three ne
groes convicted of assaulting anC
numbering Mrs. Seth Irby, wife Of {
prominent Jefferson county farmer
have lost their appeal to the state
supreme court. The state supreme
court handed down a decision affirm
ing the judgment Of the Fulton supe
rior court, in which the negroes were
tried and convicted. after obtaining {
change Of venue from Jefferson county
Decision In Will Case.
Atlanta.-Judge George L. Bell o
the superior court has handed dowI
his decision, sustaining the Findings
OF Auditor James L. Anderson in til,
Crawford will case. While this means
that another important step in th'
long legal battle has been won by Mrs
Mary Belle Crawford, attorneys 70
forty or more claimants who are seek
ing to west from her the S25O,e00 es
tate left her by the late Joshua B