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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06

sandy material. Stiff heavy clay lands
retentive of moisture are not we'll
adapted to it's cultivation. While very
valuable for grazing purposes on ac-
count Of it's earliness and the rapidity
of it's growth. it is not regarded in
.nany sections with favor as hay
making grass.
Land intended for this grass should
as rule be broken in the fall and re-
broken, thoroughly disced and harrow
ed in the early spring. Seeding should
tie done in March or April, depending on
locality. About bushels of seed
should be sown to the acre. 1t weighs
IA pounds to the bushel Rather ear
~ seeding is advised for the south. The
primary objection to this grass is it's
habit of growth. In other words It
produces stools or tussocks. leaving
large bare interspaces. This habit can
be corrected to some extent by har-
rowing every spring and reseeding va
cant spaces. A roller will also help to
reduce the tendency to form tussocks.
This grass will stand a great deal of
grazing and tramping does not affect it.
II is or course a perennial and will re-
main on the ground for a long period
Of years il the pasture receives any
sort of proper care and management.
There are records where it has been cut
for hay and pastured for IA period of
40 years in succession. IT should be
cut for hay just before il blooms and
on extra good soils will make about 2
tons per acre. II has the advantage of
being ready to cut and cure as hay be-
fore clover, Timothy or Herds grass
are ready to NOW. 1t produces a much
better aftermath than Timothy and also
makes a good winter pasture in the
southern states. 1t is the tendency of
orchard grass to produce seed in the
spring of the year. This Is an in.por-
tant fact to bear i'm mind. When grown
for the production of seed it should be
cut with a seffbinder and tied up in
bundles as wheat or oats. The bundles
may be put up in shocks without being
capped except in wet weather. Allow
to stand in the shock until dry enough
to thrash which will ordinarily be 3
oil weeks. The bundles should be
handled carefully to avoid the waste of
seed by shattering. On rich land about
Is bushels per acre is a good yield. 1t
is put up for market generally in s.
bushel sacks, the weight as already
stated, being IA pounds to the bushel.
This grass is capable of great improve
ment through selection and the strain
of grass seeded will have an influence
on the success attained with it.
In conclusion II is safe to say that
this grass does not impoverish soil ma
terially and it not hard to destroy 1t
has a very wide adaptability and grows
with greater rapidity than any other
grass, which makes it valuable for the
stock farmer 1t grows in the shade
ard is drought resister. 1t can be cut
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
BY BISHOP WARREN A. GAMBLER

There is manifested in some quarters
disposition to make the church of God
a sort of maid-of-all-wOrk in the social
system. Every lobbyist imaginable de-
mands that the church take up and adj
vocate his hobby. Preachers are calico
upon to observe certain days" in their
pulpit ministrations, and these demands
upon them are so numerous that they
would, if yielded to, exclude the preach
ing of the gospel from the churches in
order to make room for all sorts OF
schemes and programs more or less
worthy.
Demands are made that one Sunday
be devoted to the discussion of relief
from certain diseases. another for the
advocacy of international peace and uni
versal disarmament. another for the con-
sideration of the social evil and so
on ad infinitum
All this is i'm some sense a great
testimony to the power and purity
of the church. 1t. shows that
when men seek the amelioration of hui
man ills they look to the church of God
for first aid. But while it is a testimony
TO the church, it is becoming a peril TO
it.
Men are in danger of losing sight of
the supreme function of the church. Not
few preachers have succumbed to these
emptied of its evangelistic function and
their pulpits have become mere plat
forms for the advocacy of special en-
terprises.
The final outcome of this mistaken
policy will be hurtful to all these reform
schemes which seek to crowd out the
preaching of the Gospel from the church
es; for when faith grows feeble, as it
will when not fed constantly on the
bread of life. every humane movement
and reform scheme will suffer. Re-
ligian is the foundation of philanthropy
and spirituality is the support of all
moral reformations. Hence to divert the
preachers from the preaching of the word
and make them attorneys for all sorts
OF special interests will result disas-
| trously in the end to these special in
terests even.
A leading editor of one of the best
papers in the south has sounded recent
~ a note of warning upon this subject
He says:
Zone of the most foolish endeav-
ors of this time is the effort that is
being made to drag the church into
everything. There ought to be a
great deal of Christianity outside
the church. Governments ought to
be Christian but the church ought
not to operate them. Secular news
papers ought to be clean and stand
for Christian principles, but this
does not mean that the church
should take them over and run
them. Society ought TO be Chris
tian and it's entertainments pure
and wholesome. but it should not
be inferred from this that every
church needs to set up in the
amusement business. Politics should
be dominated by the ethics of
Christ, but the church ought not
to undertake to effect this result
by going into politics. When the
individuals composing society are
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
MAKING THE CHURCH A
MAID-OF-ALL-WORK

made Christians, they will set in
motion many moral agencies that
can do their work best apart from
the church. To divert the energies
of the church from her one work
of ministering spiritually to the
souls of men will, in the long run,
weaken Christianity in the church
and in every other activity of hu-
man civilization into which it needs
to go"
When the church forgets its supreme
function of seeking and saving the lost
and bestows all its energies upon en-
deavoring to ameliorate circumstantial
conditions of society, it descends from
the high position assigned to it by God,
and becomes one of many earth-born
and earth-bound organizations among
men. In that field it finds. many COM
petitors which can rival its efforts and
divide with it the attention of men. But
when it abides faithfully by it's hisA
commission, it stands in companionless
majesty in the world speaking to man.
kind with the voice of unearthly author
ity.
Speaking to this view of the subject,
Dr.. ]. II. Jowett has spoken recently
with great clearness and cogency as fol-
lows:
In this glorious ministry the
church has no competitor. Nothing
else in the city shares her work. In
secondary ministries she has a hum
dred competitors who can meet her
on even terms. If We are out only
to give amusement, or if we are
only to superintend a peoples leis-
ure or if our highest mission is to
rearTange Uncommon circumstances.
then our garlands are shared in
deed. our triumphs may readily be
eclipsed. But if the church is set
for the rebirth of souls. for the re-
making of men. for the imparting of
divine capacity, for the revelation
of moral and spiritual dynamics; if
it is to lead men into a new and
blessed ancestry and to transfer
them from the servitude of old
Adam into the unspeakable liberty
of the new Adam, then who is it
shares her glory, and who is, and
what is it that can share her
radiant distinction -
There is a subtle woTldliness under
lying all this disposition to use the
church for everything else than making
men religious. 1t proceeds on the false
idea that there is something which men
need more than they need religion. and
that they can do without God if they can
in some way manage to get earthly good
"lInouI HILL his Is a cheap sort Ol
shallow atheism. 1t is the sinful folly
of the Drodigal son who desired to leave
his father and go to a far country, but
who desired also to get his fathers
goods before taking his departure.
Men cannot separate themselves from
God without at the same time separat-
inc themselves from all good An athe-
istic humanitarianism leads at last to
the whitening of all philanthropy. and L
prodigal race. If it follow such goddess
humanitarianism must find itself in th.,
end perishing with hunger because far
away from the Fathers house, where
there is always bread enough and to
spare.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
FOOD FOE THOUGHT F0G FARM
Frs WIVES,
Dear Mrs. FELTON,:

Dear Mrs. FELTON,:
There was a recent srricle in a prom
inent paper telling spout underground
meal. Ex-Governor Srown's enterprise,
a mill that was proving a benefit to the
surrounding country, grinding the farm
ers' corn into sweet wholesome corn
meal underground Iaeal, among the
best in the world.
There is a magnifcen, farmers wife
(now a widow In our section who has
owned and controlled a water grinding
mill for number Of years. 1t is located
down on Salacoa creek about | IL miles
of the pretty little town of Fairmont,
the mill of Mrs. Edna Ferguson Tate.
and the millrocks are considered the
best in the entire country. She has
flour mill, making the best of graham
flour, using a boiling cloth, and it is in
good demand all about. She has a shin
gle mill in connection with this mill
enterprise, and cutoff saw. She looks
after all these things and oversees her
various plantations. She is also president
Of the Fairmont bank and teaches a few
hours in the afternoon in the college
(where her own children attend), and
with all these duties, these innovations
in woman's work, she has time to be
an excellent neighbor and friend, and
is universally loved and praised. There
should be more demand for sheep culture
and l wish you might see the lovely
homemade blankets that went from our
county to the harvest festival last No
vember. 1 could tell you of another
woman who is making q success OF sheep
culture in our part of the country.
GORDON CO. FARMERS WIFE.
Allow me to add that English author
tiles are urgent that British women
should take the places of soldiers in
the trenches TO keep up the farming
operations in that country. Women's
activities are being greatly lauded in
those warning countries. The prepared
ness idea will certainly envelop woman's
work in this country whenever the ne
cessity is upon the women of the United
States. MRS. FELTON,.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06

Of course when We consider raw products we
must carry the subject further on into the
matter or the prices we get and the prices
we must pay for finished products We shall
connne our consideration, too. TO those products
which have their origin on the farm either in
the raw state or finished and manufactured
into edible or wesrable articles
Let us take wheat for example. We all
know that the war has put the price Of wheat
way up. Very well-this means that the
whole country city, town and rural population
as well are paying more for their four-tbere-
tore the wheat raiser should theoretically be
getting rich on a product which it costs him
no more to raise than formerly and for which
be gets more money.
But wait mnutc-there are other things
TO consider In this matter OF growing rich or
OF the war. Cotton and wool and meats and
farm machinery and sugar have gone IN too
This means that while the wheat raiser is
getting more for bis product, he is also having
some other agriculturist more for his product.
ms cuts down somewhat on the profits tho
war Is bringing TO the farmer Then it would
seem that the best way to keep ahead Of the
game is Tor the farmer 10 pay the farmer who
raises his necessities the increased prices thar
the war has brought about and when buvID-
MS Injuries or those things that are not bare
necessities OF life to pick and choose from |
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
S0NpOCTU YffRS EHTEl1ON.

France and Russia in lighting capacity.
The London Times mas declared edito-
rally that England may reasonably ex-
pect to see German troops landed on
her soil and admits that England's naval
forces can be easily hindered by skill
fully laid mines in the channel and
North sea. This statement has been
published broadcast in all the warning
countries and i'm the United States.
Germany has the strongest fortress
except Gibraltar in the world. 1t is
convenient and in striking distance of
the British Isles, while Gibraltar seems
to be inefficient as to keeping German
ships inactive in the Mediterranean sea.
England is now obliged to direct active
troops to hold the lid down on Ireland,
and France and Russia have TO look on,
and defend the allies, while England
sUrrenders an entire army of 10000 men
and officers to the "incorrigible Turk.
What's the matter anyhow, when Eng
land is preventing the United States
from selling goods on the eastern con-
tinent, by pronouncing our trade con-
traband?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
VACATION DAYS.

Inside of two weeks thousands upon
thousands of school children will be re-
leased from school and thousands upon
thousands of grown up girls and young
men will complete their final college
courses and the turning loose of such
great numbers will make an impetus
upon every community.
For three months these young ones
will be doing something worth while FOR
themselves or they will be idle and veX-
ing to those who must endure their idle
ness and righteousness; and Satan al
ways finds some mischief for idle hands
TO do"
Perhaps 1 am grown so old that | am
over cautious, but l should with my
present apprehension of the evils that
idleness brings plan for some other sort
of education for those in whom / am
interested, after they enter upon vaca-
tion days. If there is a nearby summer
school all who expect to pursue the pro-
fession of teaching would do we'll to at
tend. 1t is an opportunity too valuable
to be missed, If available.
Children who have vacation rest of
three months should certainly be en-
loyed at something useful for at least
one-half the day, during that time. II
there is a garden to be cleaned of weeds
this is good opportunity to teach the
young ones the science of gardening.
Girls should be taught to sew and
especially to put their underwear in
good repair.
| hope to impress upon mothers the
need of such discipline during the va
cation time. Otherwise the home will
be overrun with noisy young ones and
you will hear mothers saying: "I'll
surely be glad when school begins
am tired TO death of noise and rest
lessness"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
DEcADENcE OF ENGLAND.

How long it has been since England
began to decline from ner masterful &C
tivity and prowess, we are unable to say.
The line of demarcation between vigor
and decay is inGeterminate. Just as
the time between robust health and the
first inroad of disease is difficult to
place.
But England has now come to place
where the authorities are compelled to
force her men into the army and the
medical authorities are outspoken in
saying the men who have presented
themselves as volunteers are fearfully
defective, 80 per cent OF them, maybe
more. Except for her large Eavy, Eng
land would rank today below Germany,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
SHIP CITY OF SAVANNAH
BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE
by Associated Press. !

LOCRENZO. Marquee, East Africa.
June 1.-The steamer City of Savannah,
bound from Calcutta May 1 and Colon
DO for Boston and New York and which
put in here with fire in her forehold, has
been so badly damaged that all her car
go will have to be discharged. The fire
has been extinghished. The engine room
and forepart of the vessel are flooded
and the aft bulkhead is leaking badly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
u. s. Consulate =.
In Haiti Robbed

WASHINGTON. June 3. - United
States marines were landed yesterday
at Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, after
the United States consulate there had
been broken into and robbed. American
Minister Russell reported there had been
some disturbances in the city, but said
l. had quieted down.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06

Orchard grass is one of the most
widely disseminated of our cultivated
grasses. II is a favorite grass, not only
north but south of the Ohio river. II is
OF course a very old grass, having been
brought into Virginia I'm 1864 by the
Society of Arts. II is a hardy peren-
mia! grass, vigorous and fiourishes ad-
mirably in shade or sunshine. Its abil-
ity to grow under trees gave IL the
name of orchard grass in the United
States. In England il is known as
Cocks Foot.
This grass will grow on any soil not
saturated with water. Its preference.
is FOR alluvial land fairly dry and por-
Gus and containing a fair amount Of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
TWO MINERS KILLED AS
TUNNEL CAVES ON THEM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June 3.-Wil-
liam Jones and Logan Suffer, miners
were killed and three other men were
injured. one probably fatally, when the
roof OF a tunnel in the Morning Star
mine at Rush, near here. caved i'm to.
nay.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06


and all the green feed she needed so /
cannot understand why she should get sick.
would like TO know what to do for her.
Judging from what you say your sow
is confined and not allowed to have a
large range to travel over and exercise
in. a sow such as you describe must be
very literally fed, not only for herself,
but for the young pigs which she is
trying TO sustain.
L suspect the trouble YOU describe
is more likely due TO lack of a pro-
per ration than to any other cause.
Corn, as you know, is low in digestible
protein and ash matter and should new
er be depended on to provide more than
one-third to one-half of the ration need
ed by a SOW. Cotton seed meal should
not be fed to a SOW under the condi-
tions YOU describe. Also desist from US
ing bran and replace ii with shorts
Make your ration one-half corn meal
and one-half shorts and reduce to a thin
slop with sweet SKINNED milk. If
you have been feeding kitchen slops in
which soap powders have been used
cut them out Of the ration altogether.
This is a very important matter. Re
member that liberal feeding Of a well
balanced ration is of the utmost i'm
portance
Your sow should be induced TO take
all the exercise possible. She should
be supplied with a mixture of mineral
matter consisting of equal parts of
ground lime rock, salt, ashes and chaE-
coal. Provide as much green feed as
possible and turn the sow with the
young pigs out to range over a cereal
field if you have one available. If not,
a clover pasture will answer. Those
undertaking TO raise hogs should pro-
vide green feed for them and especially
is this an important and desirable thing
TO do at this season of the year.
If there are evidences Of constioa-
tion some laxative should be used and
of course you should see that the pens
are kept in a sanitary condition and
that an abundance of clean, pure wa
ter is provided. We feel that prompt
and careful attention to these sugges-
tions will relieve the trouble about
which you complain
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06

for hay or seed each year and still
provide an abundance of pasturage. 1t
may be sown in the spring or the fall
in southern ATTITUDES. 1t should not
be sown with a nurse crop as a rule.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06

low their vocations in the field and in
the home. Funds appropriated to aid
H. the maintenance of a county agent
from whatever source derived would
seem to constitute a just and legitimate
expenditure of any public money avail
able for education or for the promotion
of any public service work performed
iE the interest of all the people of the
county.
observe that section provided that
extension work shall be carried on i'm
such manner as my be mutually agreed
upon by the secretary OF agriculture
and the state agricultural college re-
ceiving the benefits of this act" 1t is
important to remember this phrase for
il instantly appears that the trustees
of a state institution do not have the di-
rection of the Smith-Lever funds solely
i'm their hands. but must give consider
alton in the expenditure of the same to
the wishes of the United States depart
ment of agriculture as expressed
through the secretary. This statement
will no doubt be of interest to many,
and at the same time will inform them
definitely of the many safeguards
thrown around the expenditures of the
funds available under this act. In this
connection il should be remembered
that congress passed the Smith-Lever
fering under it's terms and provisions
many advantages and opportunities to
the several states to secure liberal n
nancial aid for the promotion OF eX-
tension work. The states in accepting
this act. which is voluntary on their
part, are required to conform entirely
to it's provisions, and the secretary OF
agriculture is thus authorized and IN
structed to see that the work is wisely
organized and carried out along thor
oughly constructive and definite lines.
There can be no objection to such an
arrangement, which is both wise and
logical
This statement of the case should
make clear to many that this act is not
subject to local Interpretation, and that
the funds can not be spent according
to the within or fancy of any Individual
who may have some pet scheme In view
and thinks that a portion of the tunos
should be set aside to make what ex-
perienced educators frequently know to
be useless experiments.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06

large part Of Coca Cola syrup. As you
| KNOW sugar has gone way up--so every glass
Of Coca-Cola you drink makes some farmers
/ heart glsdder.
So il is with the pure fruit Juices that
combined, produce the iniDitable favor OF
Coca-Cola. Not so much in quantity seemingly
when you consider single glass OF this
delicious beverage. hut enormous when the en-
tire Coea-Cola output is considered.
Yet this product OF nature-of the farm
increased in cost though It has been TO the
makers. has not been raised one pennv in
price to dcsler-Or to you. The price .at the
soda fountain and in the bottle has not risen
one iota.
Now lnasmuch as The rural population alone
or America consumes millions of bottles and
glasses or Coca-Col every year, you and the
other agriculturists Of this country will not
only be able TO continue 10 please your palates
and get delicious refreshment with this bev
erage at no increased cost, but you will be
sending BACK TO the farm bigger profits and
more money at no greater expense to yourself.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
ESTABLISHING AN ORCHARD
GRASS MEADOW.

n. l.. s., nt'ord. Ca. writes: | would
like all the intorna ton you can give me
growing orchard grass for seed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
IMPORTANCE OF PROVIDING MOST
MINERAL MATTER

L. d., Thomaston, Ga, writes: | have a
SOW which brought pigs in March which are
dOCg fine, but the SOW is about 20 get
down for some cause. The trouble seems
to be in her fore feet and shoulders and
il is very difficult for her 10 walk. | have
been giving her all sorts of mixed feeds
and all the green feed she needed, so /
cannot understand why she should get sick.
] would like to know what TO do for her.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
G47ZzERYa S0zze czH

amongst them those that have
not gone up in price in spite
Of the war.
For example, here is a
peculiar situation in regard 10
a beverage which is so uni
versally liked that it has be-
come almost a staple. The
name Of that beverage is
Coca-Cola.
Now Cocs-Cola, as ron
know, is really an agricultural
product-a product Of the
soil. Cane sugsr-the very
pureSt and finest-constitutes