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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
NATIONAL AID to EDUCATION

One of the principal addresses at
the coming meeting of the Georgia
Educational Association in Macon
on May 3, 4, S, will be on the i'm
portant subject of federal aid to ed
ucation.
This address will be delivered by
United States Senator Hoke Smith,
who is one of the joint authors Of the
bill, recently made law, which APP
propriates large sum from the nat
ional treasury for the purpose of en-
couraging and assisting the teaching
of agriculture, and training in domes-
tic economy and other vocational
studies.
The new law marks a decided de-
parturc in the policy of the national
government toward education in that
for the first time it seeks to render
direct aid to the schools Of the several
! states in the teaching of these par
ticular subjects. The appropriation
will mean much to the schools OF
Georgia, and especially to the rural
schools The address ought to be
heard by every progressive teacher in
rural school.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30

nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and po-
fash. If you grow velvet beans on
land the year before you will not
need to buy any of the costly nitro
gen. You will also get good per-
cent of potash in the velvet bean
vines turned under, and the only fer
tilizcrs you need to buy will be a
few hundred pounds of phosphoric
acid.
A good seed corn is essential to the
production of large yield of corn.
See that you get the very best for
your local conditions. A good pro-
life variety, Whatleys, Hastings, or
Riches, you will find to be good for
this latitude Py all means get your
seed as near home as possible, pro-
vided it has been grown to type and
we'll selected.
Begin civilizations before the corn
comes up by running weeder, or spike
tooth harrow over it. If heavy rains
follow planting, loosen the soil good
with the plow before the corn is IL
inches high. After this your cultiva-
ton should be very shallow and ev-
cry week. J. T. Pittman.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
TO THE CORN CLUB BOYS
HOW TO GROW CORN

No state in the United States has
averaged for any year over 81 bush
els to the acre, yet in almost every
section yields of more than 100 bush
els have been produced. The average
yield in Georgia is little above IL
bushels per acre, but in 90 counties we
have records of more than 100 bush
els being made You readily see that
more land and more labor is being
used in producing the corn crop than
IS necessary. The possibility of
doubling our acre yield is certain and
its Accomplishment is of tremendous
importance.
The most common need OF the
corn crop is more moisture at some
time in its development 1t is true
we have an annual rainfall of about
48 inches, but frequently we do not
get this when most needed. Prepare
your lands, therefore, so that it will
retain larger quantities of water for
longer periods. The capacity OF your
soil for moisture will depend much
upon the depth to which the land was
broken and the quantity Of hunus
incorporated with it.
Land should be broken to depth
of at least or 10 inches deep. 1t
IS much better TO have the land brok-
en- to this depth in the fall when the
soil IS not so wet. Increase the
depth, varying with the quantity of
vegetable matter in the soil You
need good, deep seed bed, free from
ciods. In order that the plows may
accomplish the greatest amount of
puiverizing, the work should be done
when the soil crumbles. If this is
not done a disc harrow should run
over to cut it up as soon as it is dry.
Nothing viii do more to economize
the labor of tilling the land and to
prolong the good effects Of tillage
than the presence of an ample guam
tity of humus in the soil The best
preparatory crops for corn are the ic-
gumes. some of which are cowpeas,
velvet beans, clovers, peanuts, etc.
These crops may be made to supply
much vegetable matter and, in addi-
ton, the necessary nitrogen. Barn
yard manure will aid you much in get
ting the necessary humus in the soil
and will be helpful in getting the soil
in good condition for corn crop.
used to supply such elements Of plant
Commercial fertilizers should be
food as cannot be supplied by the
soil and by cropping systems in suf-
aicient quantities for the greatest pro,
fat. Usually it is necessary to suppl,
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30

tables. This spider Injuries the plant
by sucking the juice from the leaves
and tender portions. All plants fur
nisnlng food for them through the win
ter, should be destroyed. Where infes.
tation is found in the spring it is con-
troiied by a spraying of one part of
lime sulphur to fifty or one hundred
parts of water
Use Of Trap Plants
The harlequin cabbage bug, a black
beetle with orange markings which
reeds on collards, cabbage, mustard,
radishes, turn!ps, lettuce, ETC., is con.
trolled only by contact poisons. Thor
orgh cleaning up and burning OF trash
IN and about the garden or field dur
ing the winter will destroy many hiber-
mating adults. Mustard is frequently
used with good effect as a trap plant.
II the bugs are found in numbers on
growing crops, spray of a Is pei
cent Kerosene emulsion can be applied
with success.
The squash bug, dark brown bug
little over half an inch long, should
De picked off by hand when first seen.
Spraying with ten per cent kerosene
emulsion or black leaf forty" one
part to 800 parts water, will kill the
young bugs. Clean culture should be
practiced.
There are several varieties of plant
lice, or aphids, which attack cucum.
Ders, cantaloupes and cabbages. Spray.
ing with black leaf forty,' a nicotine
TOBACCO product, has been found the
best remedy.
The mole cricket, which is preva.
lent in the southeastern section of the
state, particularly on the coast, where
II does extensive damage to tomatoes,
peppers, turnips. potatoes and other
growing plants, is best controlled by
plowing the breeding areas two or
three times during April. Nav and
june, thus exposing many of the eggs
TO the sun which kills them. Poison
bats OF cotton seed meal with arse.
nate OF lead or Paris green, have prov.
en- very beneficial.
Few gardens escape the destructive
activities Of the cut worm. The best
method Of getting rid of it is through
placing about the garden poison bats
made of corn meal, Paris green and
sweetened with molasses.
Arsenate Of Lead Useful
The pickle worm, the melon borer,
and the squash vine borer which at.
tack cucumbers, melons, squashes and
similar plants, are largely controlled
by using trap crops and busting both
the main and trap crops with arsenate
OF lead mixed with air slaked lime
at the rate of one pound to five. The
green horn worm which attacks the
tomato plant is also controlled by
busting with the arsenate of lead and
lime mixture.
The same femedy-one pound of ar.
senate of lead TO five pounds of air
slaked lime-is most effective against
the common Colorado potato beetle,
and is used with success against the
various varieties OF cabbage worm.
The bulletin prepared by the board
not only describes the method of con.
trolling these various insects which at
tack garden vegetables, but tells how
to make the various mixtures that are
used TO eliminate them.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30

The crowds of sorrow few;
How every hope / cherished fed
AS leaves forsake the tree.
Think how my heart in anguish bled
When you remember me!
Oppression passes at the grave
And malice turns aside;
AS calmly rests the fettered slave.
AS sleeps the gentle bride;
And those who most condemn m,
now
Redeeming traits may see
And thus my memory endow
When they remember me.
The deep soul-hunger that feel
They cannot understand,
Such lives attract the needles heel
And not the helpful hand.
Because to Mammon's gilded shrine
They will not bend the knee.
But for that God-like gift divine.
Oh, love remember me!
Montgomery NJ Folsom.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
REMEMBER ME

When these tired hands are stilled a,
last,
And when these lips are dumb,
Think kindly of the life that's past.
In beauteous years to come.
Not what / am, but that I'm not.
And all I long to be,
With faults and failings all forgot,
| pray, remember me!
Consider gently each mistake
And error if you can,
This heart that fated seems to acb,
With all the woes of man;
30 wronged without, so weak within
Yet striving to be free,
And how suffered for each sin
Q, thus remember me!
how much involved in pains ALLOW
Each pleasure that l knew
How quickly Ger each beam of iov
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
ST. MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL
CHURCH

West Pine Street.
Palm Sunday.
Sunday School 10 A. M.
Holy Communion and Sermon IL
o'clock.
Subject: Christ's Trlumphal Entry
into Jerusalem"
Evening Prayer and Sermon, 7:3O
o'clock.
Subject: The Falling of the Walls
of Jericho"
During Holy week services will be
held on Monday and Wednesday at
4 p. m. Tuesday at 7;30 p. m. Thurs
day Holy Communion 1890 a. m. No
services on Saturday. Brief address
on Tuesday night Good Friday 1890
a. m. service and address.
Next Sunday morning, April LIST.
we begin on Pilgrimage of Prayer.
Taking the name and idea from our
mother church in England, the Wo-
mans Auxiliary in our land have been
and are now conducting Pilgrimage
OF Prayer. 1t simply means that a
special week is assigned to each Do
cese or group of Dioceses, during
which as much time as possible shall
be devoted to prayer and intercession
for the objects for which we are all
laboring.
Public invited to all services.
]. w. BLEKER.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
HOW TO COMBAT GARDEN PESTS
IS TOLD BY ENTOMOLOGY BOARD

Atlanta, Ga. March.--(S Especial. in
It's recent campaigns designed to pre-
pare Georgia farmers for the fight they
must make against the Mexican cot
Son DOLL Weevil, the State Board of
entomology and its representatives
nave urged as one OF the important
factors. the planting of home gardens
Ahe value of the home garden was
urged In every one of the fifty or more
MeeunSs held in various south Geor
9as counties this year The campaign
mas been taken up in almost every
town and city in the state; back wards
and vacant lots, wherever thew ara
available. are being converted into
nome gardens in the effort to lower
tne ever increasing cost OF living. The
nome garden is recognized as indis.
pensabie on the farm, and along with
truck farming as business is re-
celving more and more attention and
growing In importance throughout the
state every year. Georgians. particu
larly in the middle and southern sec.
lions OF the state, should have home
gardens all the year around. There
are several vegetables which will stand
the winter climate and which can he
grown in the open during the winter
months.
To Control Garden Pests
Recognizing the growing value both
OF the home garden and the truck farm.
ing industry, the State Board of Ento-
mology has made special study of
insects and diseases which attack
truck crops and has prepared bulle.
Tin describing these and the best
methods for their control. The infor.
nation contained in this bulletin will
be found valuable to practically every
gardener in Georgia, A copy OF ii will
be sent upon request addressed to the
State Board of Entomology, State Cap,
itol. Atlanta, Ga.
Many truck crops are susceptible to
attack by nematode worms which
cause the formation of knots on the
roots OF the plant. Among the plants
most severely injured by this worm
are beans. beets, cantaloupes, celery,
clover. cucumbers. egg plant, lettuce,
okra, potato, satisfy, squash, tomatoes,
watermelon and others. On the other
hand. there are many varieties which
are immune to attack. The nematode
can be eradicated only by cultural
methods or proper rotation of crops.
BY planting immune crops in infested
areas tor few years, the nematodes
viii die of starvation. There are va.
rious ways of treating seed beds to
destroy the nematode. and the pur.
chaser of plants such as tomatoes,
cabbage. egg plant, etc, should be sure
they are grown In a soil which is free
from this worm.
AT times the red spider is particu,
larry Injurious to certain garden vege-
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
PIT MET YESTERDAY,

The PARENT Teachers Association,
met yesterday afternoon and perfect
ed-their arrangements for managing
the publicity and financial features
connected with the w. J. Bryan lee
ture of April 9TH, at the Courthouse.
Postmaster Adams, who secured
the appointment with Mr.. Bryan, was
present to confer with the ladies and
then the following committees were
named to attend to various details:
Mesdames G. A. Heide, Sam Abb
ram, Will Adams, L. Keim, J. L. Nc
Carly, D. P. Adams, C. A. Fretwell,
Geo. Martin, Ed Hussey, l. Golden
burg, ]. P. Manning, J. E. Ricketson,
Medlock and E. P. Keefer.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
CHURCH

Corner Palm and Johnson SITS.
Meetings every first and third Sun.
days.
Hours-Song service, 1890 A. M.
Preaching II A. M. and 7:30 P. M.
Everybody invited.
The Spirit and the Bride Say
Come" Walter NJ. Blackwell,
Pastor.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Corner Grant & Palm SITS.

Services second and fourth sab
baths at II A. M. and 7:3O p. M.
Sunday School, GAS A. M.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesdays al
100 p. M.
Christian Endeavor Sundays 6:3C
T. NJ.
You are cordially invited to all SER
vices,
r. M. MANN,
Pastor.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
KENNEDY MEMORIAL
BAPTIST CHURCH

Corner Gordon and Altamaha Street
Rev. c. A. CHM, Pastor
Sabbath School, $50 A. M.
Preaching at 1880 A. M. and 7:3O
P. M.
Midweek Prayer Service Wednes-
day at 730 P. M.
Good Sunday School, Good prayer
meetings, good music, simple gospel
preaching. A growing church. You
are invited to all these services.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
NOTICE

The w. NJ. S. of the First Baptist
church will meet Monday, April End,
at p. m. This is the regular month
ly business meeting.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Sunday School, $50 A. MT.
Griffin, Superintendent.
Hours of Worship:
HOO A. NJ. and ZOO P. M.
The public is cordially invited.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30

Wedding ard party invitations.
Style and quality the best
Prompt service. Leader-Enter-
prise. TT
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
CENTRAL METHODIST
CHURCH
L. A. HILL, Pastor

Services II A. NJ. and 7:30 P. NJ.
Good music at all services.
Junior League 2::30 P. M.
Senior League GAS P M.
Sunday School 9::30 A. M.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-30
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH

40e W. oconee St.
Rev. ]. c. Humphrey. Pastor
Preaching at l0:45 a. m. and
7:l5 p. m.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. M.
Junior Society, 3 p. IN.
Prayer meeting Wednesday,
7:30 p. IN.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06
.REENAWALT-
FOLGER co.
Phone IT

cultures reach the farmer. All that
is necessary for use is to mix the
moist sand with the seed and to SOW
in the usual manner. BY this meth
cd both the seed and the soil are
inoculated. Since sunlight soon
kills the bacteria they should not be
exposed any longer than necessary
while the seed is being sown.
In order that the Experiment Sta
ton may render its best service to
the farmers, and in order that farm
ers may experience a minimum OF
difficulty in obtaining cultures, and
at the same time. information and
advice upon matters pertaining to
crops, the Bacteriology and Agron-
omy Divisions cooperate in the mat
ter, and the cultures may be OBJ
tanned by application to the Ag-
economist. The charge is 25 cents for
each acre treated, this amount mere
ly covering the cost of preparation.
1t is very essential that cultures
used be fresh and for this reason it
is necessary that they be freshly pre-
pared in each individual case. This
means that orders must be submit
ted as early as possible and should
reach the Experiment Station at
least two weeks before the cultures
are needed for use. The approx
mate date of sowing should be desig-
mated in each order. This co-opera-
ton on the part of the farmers will
be repaid by more prompt service.
and with more satisfactory results
in the field.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06
GRAIN ON FARMS

The crop reporting board of the
bureau of crop estimates, from re-
ports of correspondents and agents,
estimates that the amount of corn on
farms March /, 1917, was about
789, 416,0O0 bushels or 30.6 per cent
of the 1916 crop, against 1,116,559,-
600 bushels or 37.3 per cent of the
1915 crop on farms March |, 1916.
and 910,S94,000 bushels or 34.1 per
cent of the 1914 crop on farms
March l, 1915. About 17.6 per cent
of the crop will be shipped out of the
counties where grown, against 1877
per cent of the 1915 crop and 1876
per cent of the 1914 crop so shipped.
The proportion OF the 1916 crop
which is merchantable is about S4
per cent equivalent TO 2,1G9,725,-
600 bushels), against III per cent
f2,127,965,00O bushels) of the 1915
crop and S4.5 per cent (2.259,755.-
900 bushels OF the 1914 crop.
The amount OF wheat on farms
March /, 1917 was about 1O1,365.-
900 bushels or 1873 per cent of the
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06
\ NOTE TO LEGUME GROWERS

Experience in the growing of
leguminous crops,-peas, alfalfa,
clover, ETC., shows that these crops
make far better returns when the
soil contains the bacteria which
cause nodule formation upon the
roots of the plants. These bacteria
living in the nodules take the free
nitrogen from the air, which as such
cannot be assimilated by the plants,
and combine it into such a form that
it can be utilized. In this way mi
trogen, which is so essential for crop
production, and yet is so expensive
to purchase in the form of fertilizer,
is obtained in very appreciate guam
titles from the air without cost.
Progressive farmers are becomins
to realize the Importance of these
facts. 1t is we'll worth while to see
to it that the land upon which these
crops are to be grown contains these
bacteria, and unless these crops have
been grown successfully, soil inoc-
ulation should always be practiced
This may be done in several ways
One method is to take the soil from
fields where the particular legumes
have been successfully grown and
distribute it over the field to be
treated. If this method is used the
soil should be worked in immediate
ly since if exposed to the sun the
bacteria will be weakened. Owing
to the fact that weed seeds and var
ious plant diseases are readily spread
in this way, the method should be
practiced with caution. BY far the
best way to get the desired results
is by the use of pure cultures.
There are to be had upon the
market various comm ercial products
which are advertised to contain the
notwithstanding bacteria, but the use
of these preparations is frequently
unsatisfactory, for the reason that
the bacteria are often no longer liv-
ing, or at least are not vigorous
enough to bring about the desired
effect. To meet the needs of Wash
ington farmers, in this respect, the
Experiment Station has undertaken
to supply them with pure cultures
of the legume bacteria in such
condition as to assure the maximum
results.
The preparation and shipment OF
these cultures is carried on by the
Division of Bacteriology. The organ
isms are cultivated in the bacter-
biological laboratories upon suitable
nutrient substances, and when ready
for shipment are transferred TO cans
of sterile sand In this form the
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06

Miss Mary Schenck Woolman, for
many years head of the department
of Domestic Art at Teachers College.
Columbia University, and Director OF
the Women's Industrial League of
Boston. Mass, also founder of the
New York Trade School for Woman
will be the guest of Professor Agnes
Houston Craig, head of the dep art
ment of Home Economics at the
State College of Washington during
the latter part of May. Professor
Woolman will speak on some appro-
pirate vocational subject to the SIT
dent body of the College and will also
lecture before the departments Of
Home Economics and Economic Sci
ence and History.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06

1916 crop, against 244,448,0OO
bushels or 1913 per cent of the 1915
crop on farms March /, 1916, and
1872, 100000 bushels or 17.2 per cent
of the 1914 crop on farms March l,
1915. About 56.6 per cent of the
crop will be shipped out of the coun-
ties where grown, against Gil per
cent of the 1915 crop and 60.7 per
cent of the 1914 crop so shipped
The amount of oats on farms
March l, 1917. was about $685.
900 busiest. or 31.5 per cent of the
1916 crop, against 598,148,00O
bushels or 1876 per cent of the 1915
crop on farms March /, 1916, and
379, $4,000 bushels or 33.2 per
cent of the 1914 crop on farms
March l, 1915. About 1913 per cent
of the crop will be shipped out of
the counties where grown, against
30.1 per cent of the 1915 crop and
29.4 per cent of the 1914 crop so
shipped.
The amount of barley on farms
March /, 1917, was about 32,S41, 900
bushels or 1872 per cent of the 1915
crop, against 58,301 900 bushels or
25.5 per cent of the 1915 crop on
farms March 1, 1915, and 42,889,-
900 busiest of % per cent of the
1914 crop on farms March /, 1915.
About 43.4 per cent of the crop will
be shipped out of the counties where
grown, against 1872 per cent of the
1915 crop and 45.1 per cent of the
1914 crop so shipped.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06

Is permisslye in its character and
may be established upon petition of
maJirlty of the teachers of the dis
tr'et And when established. all
teachers in the district are obliged
10 become members thereof The
entire expense of such fund shall be
oorne by the members of the teach
ing corps,$12 90 per year to be paid
INTO the fund by each teacher dur
ing the first ten years of service,
$1,000 per year is to be paid into
the fund for the next ten years. and
$500 per year thereafter until the
total sum of $4,000 shall have been
paid in. The age of retirement is
80 years of service.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06

A new course in English will be
offered at the State College of Wash
ington next fall for college students
who need special training in the
basic principles of language and COM
position. Grammar, the funda-
mentals of rhetoric, etymology, spell
ing, and such other elements as are
necessary TO supplement the work OF
the high schools, win be included.
za..-t :. :. -. Y
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06
House Bill No. y
Normal EXtensionl

This act provides for the division
OF the state into districts in which
the various State Normal Schools
are to conduct extension courses for
teachers in service. The State
Board of Education is to make rules
and fix generally the policy to be
pursued in all matters pertaining to
such extension work.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06
Senate Bill No. 100
kindergarten Bill)

This act provides for apportion-
ment of state current school fund
for kindergarten attendance. 1t ar
lows one-half credit for kindergarten
attendance based upon three hour
day, and an attendance of two hours
is to be considered as half days
attendance for the purpose of this
act. 1t also makes provision for in
GLIDING in the school census all chill
dren between 4 and 81 years of age.
The legislature of 1911 fixed the age
limit for kindergarten attendance at
from 4 TO years.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-06
Senate Bill No. 1913
Retirement Fund Bid

This act authorizes the establish
ment of a Teachers Retirement
Fund in districts of the first class. It