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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28
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Agents Meeting Closes

In the spirit of the meeting the con-
tents of the programme and the oppor-
tunity afforded for a wide interchange
of experience among the agents, this has
been the most successful meeting we
have ever held In these words Prof j
F. Duggar, director of extension work in
Alabama, summed up the results of the
weeks work by the farm demonstration
agents of the state who have been in at
tendance upon the annual conference
presided over by J. T. Watt, state agent
A special feature of the series of meet
inss was the participation in the pro-
sramme by nearly all of the agents, each
leading the discussion in some line of
work in which he had been especially
successful.
The discussion of THE Marketing of
Hogs and Crops was participated in by
Messrs. Wood. Guledge. Jamson, Saw
age, Murphy and Stripln. On the subject
of hog cholera and silos, Agents King,
Stripplin and Floyd spoke. Nearly every
agent took part in the discussion of Best
Nsth DIS of Conducting Boys Club
Work" and country organizations
I. number of specialists presented some
phase of their work, including the di-
rector and state agents on administra-
ton matters. d. J. Burleson on extern
sion schools, w. II. Eaton on organic
ing bull clubs for improving dairy stock
G. c. Starcher and j. c. c. Price on Il
horticultural programme, r. d. Briggs
on sweet potato storage houses, G. L.
Peltier on common plant diseases, X. G.
Baker on improving the size of beef cat
tie and G. s. Templeton on si.os Dr. W.
+. Kinds gave a field demonstration
showing the poisoning of boil weevil by
calcium arsenate.
Among the visiting speakers were
Messrs. bradford Knapp. II. E. Saverley
from the states relation service at Wash
ington, who spoke on administration mat
ters, and w. r. Beatty, who spoke on
peanuts J. j. Watson of Crenshaw
county spoke on equipment for market
ing: r. d. Quisenberry of Montgomery
or marketing requirements for shipping
sorghum and can syrup; A. Y Malone
of New Orleans and Dothan explained the
operation of the farm loan association.
The meeting was particularly fortunate
in its freedom from the past distractiins
of multitudinous war activities. leaving
the directing forces and the agents free
to devote their undivided attention to
planning and executing a definite long
time programme of agricultural pro-
eress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28
Blood for Alabama Herds

| D. r. Quinerly, dairy specialist of the
Alabama extension service at Auburn, re-
Gently returned from the east with a
carload of Jersey bulls selected from
the famous Hood farm at Lowell, Mass.
These bulls are out of dams averaging
a29 pounds of butter fat per year on Of
hclal test, and are sired by sons of
Pogis 49, whose daughter, Sophes Agnes,
was the first Jersey to produce over 1000
pounds of butter fat, and whose dam is
Sophie 18th of Hood farm champion pro
ducing COW of all breeds. The record of
the latter is 100,557 pounds of milk and
128 pounds of butter fat in eight years.
These bulls will be used by members
of the cooperative bull association re-
Gently organized in Dallas, Hale and
Lowndes counties through the efforts of
County Agents Blake Shealy, Jamison
and Parker, assisted by William Hardie
of Selma and Mr.. Quinerly from Au-
burn.
The cooperative bull association makes
it possible for dairymen to use co-opera-
lively a $500 or $500 bull with less expense
per cow than TO own a cheap one individ-
ually The plan provides for the pur-
chase of from three to five bulls of equal
value by as many communities, with the
agreement to exchange their bulls in reg
ular order every two years. Thus any
dairyman interested in a four-bull asso-
citation gets the use of four bulls for eight
years at the cost of one.
The Newbern Hale County Bull asso-
citation gets four of the bulls selected by
Mr.. Quinerly and the Dallas-Lowndes as
ISOLATION four others. The average cost
of these bulls was approximately $500
each after liberal discount allowed by
the Hood farm manager, in order to en-
courage the organization of bull associa-
tons rather than the individual purchase
of bulls by dairymen
In the shipment was a young grandson
OF Sophie 19thl and a 4-year-old bred
heifer for DR.. Goldsby King of Selma.
who will include them in a foundation
herd of high producing Jerseys. They
no doubt have as much production be-
hind them any Jersey cow or bull
ever brought to Alabama.
Enthusiasm for dairying continues to
increase in Selma territory. where the
farmers say dairy cows are the best
remedy they have found for boil weevils.
Dairy products are bringing good prices
and the demand for good cows cannot
be supplied. In the opinion of Mr.. Quin-
erly every community in the state should
organize and join bull association so
as to be sure of increasing the produce
ton OF future generations of cows and
creating greater supply of good cows.
Dairymen and farmers interested should
communicate with their county farm
demonstration agent or with the ex-
tension service at Auburn for advice and
assistance in organizing bull associa-
tons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28
First TB Election Ordered

The first election in the United States
to decide whether or not county should
eradicate tuberculosis from its herds Of
Clay county, Mississippi. on September 2.
The election was ordered by the county
beard of supervisors after petition ask
ing for it had been presented by group
of citizens.
The results of this election will have
much more than local interest because
the election may be the forerunner of
hundreds or thousands of others in other
sections of the country.
Argentina is offering to Mexico at
very low prices 100000 kilos of wheat.
! 900, 900 kilos of oats and $4,000 barrels
of corn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28

| The State Fair!
| What does it mean to you?
| FAR is very old noun. With vari-
ations in spelling, it exists in many lam
guages.
Fair is kin to the ancient "fes-
tus and therefore cousin in some de-
gree of the more modern feast and
| festival and the like
| Always and everywhere it has carried
the away from-work idea 1t has always
| been pretty much what we mean nova
days by holiday" though not what that
word meant originally. Holiday was
holy day and sacred. Fair" has al
ways been secular-a wholly human sort
| of thing.
| Fair time is playtime That it always
was, that it always meant to most peo-
| pie, that it always will be. But for every
play there must be players, and two kinds
| OF them. too-players who play playfully
and players who play laboriously, more
/ or less. for the entertainment of the
others.
And the fair" has very different
meaning for the two classes The big
bunch goes to have a good time. to be
care free, to drink red lemonade and
| throw confetti and toot tinsel horns; to
get the CLINT of twinkling horse heels on
saffron track; to see the broad ba ok ed
| cattle, the prettily packed jellies and
jams, the big pumpkins. the intricate
! needlework, the FULFILLED ears of corn
and to mill around, going nowhere in
particular and not caring especially if
| they never get there.
But with it all, they are getting a
sugar-coated education. The fair is a
| university in which the festive students
| soak up science unawares.
| Then, there must be the other kind of
| players-the ones who put on the show
| the professors and instructors and
| tutors in this most accommodating of
academies And there has to be some
where sort of teachers college for those
peOple. There are. in fact. lots of mr.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28
Boil Weevil News

News of interest to all farmers in the
state comes in weekly reports of the farm
demonstration agents in every county
as received by ]. T. Watt, state agent at
Auburn of the Alabama extension service.
Walter G. Vail, agent in Mobile county,
advises that recent counts for boil weevil
in field Of young cotton shows less than
per cent infestation, and only per cent
in another field.
w. T. Coker, farm demonstration agent
in Talladega county, reports the farmers
in his county are not putting up much
Of fight against the boil weevil.
]. A Mcleod, demonstration agent of
Bullock county, advises that one demon
strator has been over his crop several
times for weevils and squares During
the first week he caught over 400 weevls
from four acres. but the last week he has
found scarcely any.
All county agents are actively advising
with the farmers as to the boil weevil
tight. giving specific recommendation in
Individual cases. The result of the dust
ing experiments for weevil control now
being carried on by the chronological de-
partment of the Alabama experiment sta
ton at Prattville, Dothan and Faunsdale
is being awaited with much interest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28
Wool Stocks In U. S.

Manufacturers and dealers held more
wool on June 30 than at any time since
quarterly wool stock reports have been
issued by the bureau of markets. Inc
report shows a total of 6'4,oOo.eo pouhas'
crease equivalent. on hand June go Com
nared with stocks on March 81 of this
wear dealers on June so held 100000,
pounds more grease WOOL 10000 pounds
more secured wool and 100000 pounds
more pulled wool On June 30 manufac-
turers held 100000 pounds more grease
wool. 100000 pounds more secured wool
and 100000 more pounds OF puiieo WOOL
than on March 81.
Total stocks on June 30, in pounds by
e,ass were. Grease wool. 455,SSi 1858;
secured 60 s26, 1928: pulled. S2.43s,945; tops,
"a s37. IA. and noils, 12.406,9le.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28
Are You Canning Pears?

Pears which are ripe but not yet soft
are best for canning. Peel ard with
large pears, halve and remove core.
Small ones can be packed whole with
stem on Blanch by lowering for 10 sec
onds in boiling water and then put for
an instant in cold bath. Drain and place
one layer with stems up and the second
layer with stems down in jars which
have been boiled for Is minutes. Space
is saved BY this method of packing.
When the jars have been packed with
fruit, fill to overlooking with syrup
made to suit the individual taste. An eX-
cellent one is made of I cups of sugar
to 4 quarts of water. Boil and skim.
Put in place rubber which .<s been
cleansed in a hot soda solution Il tea
spoon baking soda in quart of water.
and boiled cover. Tighten cover about
half way.
Place jars on false boisom in water
bath Gamer with water sufficient to
cover them Process for % minutes after
the water starts to boil vigorously. Re
move, tighten top, test for leaks and
store in cool. dark, dry place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28

Usually the laying hen shows a greater
extension of the abdomen, which may be
measured by placing the fingers between
the pelvic bones and the end of the keel.
In the case of the smaller birds, such as
the White Leghorns, the spread of abdo-
men is usually three fingers or more,
while with the larger birds, such as the
Plymouth Rock or the Rhode Island Red,
the spread is four fingers or more. The
laying hen usually has abdomen
which is softer and more flexible, and
feels like the partly milked-out udder
of a COW. When the hen is not laying
the abdomen is harder and more con-
tracted.
CONSIDER ALL FACTORS
Any hen that shows signs of sickness.
or generally debilitated condition, should
be culled from the flock. In forming an
opinion as to whether or not the hen is
laying sufficiently we'll to favor her re-
tention in the flock for another season
or so. it is not advisable to place too
much Importance on any one of the fac
tors discussed above, but rather to sum-
Marie the appearance and production
qualities Of each bird rather than to rely
on any one symptom a cause of Gull
ing certain birds from the flock
Generally it is desirable for the owner
to practice continual culling in the case
of the young stock; that is, to dispense
with the undesirable fowl as often as
they are discovered during the frequent
and regular handling of the birds. All
pullets which are unthrifty, sickly or
not doing we'll, should be culled from
the flock. The same methods can also
be practiced in the selection of the flock
for breeding purposes. only the pick of
the best fowl being retained in the breed
ing flock.
HOW MANY HENS?
The size of the flock which can be most
efficiently kept will depend first of all
upon the space available. and, secondly.
upon the amount of table scraps or other
waste which is available for feed. 1t is
a mistake to try to overstock the avail
able space. Better results will be OBJ
tanned from a few hens in small yard
than from a larger number. The back
yard poultry flock rarely will consist of
over 20 or % hens, and in many cases
of not more than or 10, or occasionally
of only three or four. For flock of
20 to % hens space of not less than 25x
80 feet should be available for a yard.
Where less space is available, the size
of the flock should be reduced. allowing
on the average 20 to 30 square feet per
bird. A few hens are sometimes kept
successfully with a smaller yard allow
ance than this, but if the space is avail
able a yard of the size indicated should
be used.
POULTRY BILL OF FARE
A good mixture for laying hens is 4
parts of cracked corn and oats and l part
barley or wheat, if available, which
should be scattered in the litter. Provide
or inches of good. clean litter.
dry mash composed of equal parts
of cornmeal, bran. middlings, ground
oats and beef scraps should be kept in
hoppers to which the fowls have access
at all times.
Plenty of exercise and green stuff in
creases the egg yield.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-28

NAL schools for fair professors, but the
United States department of agriculture
! is the graduate college. And one of the
queer things is that any boy or girl
still in the grammar grades of the pub
lie school may be doing postgraduate
work in getting things ready for the
| fair.
MUCH IN GETTING READY
Too many people. department experts
say, do not know how much depends on
preparing exhibits in the right way. on
getting the pig or calf or corn or canned
| stuff in just the right shape to show
TO the best advantage. One of the boys
club workers tells a story in point.
'One of our club boys in Mississippi, y
he says, grew an acre of mighty good
corn and entered an exhibit in the coun-
ty fair. There were four prizes, but he
couldn't even get the fourth one The
judge simply tied on the ribbons and
made no explanations. The boy was dis
appointed-not rebelious, but he wanted
to know why his good corn couldn't get
a prize 1 went over it with him, showed
him that some the biggest ears had
crooked rows and how others had other
defects. Picking out the best ear,
said, IF you had 10 like this you could
win a prize
':Well, that boy went back home and
carefully examined every ear of his corn
He found only nine that he thought were
as good as the one I had pointed out
He went back through the whole pile
again and finally found the tenth ear
He sent those 10 ears to the State Fair
and won first prize. Do you see? Know
ing little of how to prepare the exhibit
made a state winner out of corn crop
that was an also ran at the county
fair"
MANICURING THE PIG
Now, the boy who is preparing pig
or calf for the fair has a more COM
plicated task than the one who enters
some corn. With the corn boy, the whole
problem is selecting the right ears. With
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
"A BOND ISSUE OF
$l5O,OOO FOR ROADS
APPROVED BY MASS MEETING
COMMISSIONERS HAVE OR
DERED AN ELECTION.

A mass meeting of Terrell citizens
held at the court house Tuesday af-
ternoon unanimously voted their ap-
proval of a proposed bond issue of
$4,000 to be used, with a like sum
from the government, for building
100 miles of sand-clay-gravel roads
In the county, and erecting concrete
or iron bridges over all the streams
crossed by such highways. The county
commissioners were asked to call
an election, and at their meeting this
morning it was ordered for
The mass meeting was for the pur-
pose of considering the question of
paved highways in the county. Some
weeks ago a petition, signed by sew
eral hundred voters, was submitted
TO the county commissioners, asking
them to order a bond election to de-
termine the issuance of 100000 of
bonds to pave the main highways of
Terrell. The commissioners were I'M
willing to do this until the people of
the county could discuss the matter
further, and be fully informed on the
subject of the cost of such improve
ments. The mass meeting was there
fore called.
At the meeting Mr.. J. C. Holdings
worth, chairman of the county com
missioners, presided and there was a
free discussion of the whole road i'm
provement question. Figures were
submitted showing the cost of con-
crete or brick roads to be about
$4,000 a mile, and other hard-sur-
faced roads at from ten to twenty
thousand dollars mile The opinion
was expressed by several at the meet
ing that the voters of the county
would not give their approval to q
bond issue looking to the paving OF
only one or two roads through the
county, and after some argument il
was finally decided that a sand-clay.
gravel road, properly constructed
would meet the needs of travel, anC
that much smaller issue of bonds
than originally contemplated would
take care Of the building and main.
tenance of at least a hundred miles
of such roadways. At the same time
it was urged that permanent bridges
ought to be erected.
All present at the meeting, repre-.
senting every section of the county
expressed the view that there would
be practically no opposition to the
plan approved by the gathering.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
CUPID HAS ARRANGED FOR
3 HYMENIAL CELEBRATIONS
One Event Will Be a Double We'd
ding in Church. Army Captain
Wins Dawson Bride.

Cupid has been very busy in Daw-
son, and as a result several weddings
of widespread interest are announced
to take place in June.
On the 10th of the month will oc-
cur the double wedding of Miss Alice
Mae Perry and Mr.. James Homer
Collier, whose engagement was an
nounced recently, and Miss Lillian
Chester and Mr.. Earl Adams Gober.
The ceremony will take place at high
noon at the Methodist church, both
couples leaving Immediately for a
wedding trip. Miss Chester, the sec
ond daughter of Rev. and Mrs. O..
B. Chester, is one of the most ad-
mired young women of the city and
Mr. Gober is a popular young bust
ness man, holding an important posi-
ton with the Dawson Grocery Co.
Another announcement of special
interest is the engagement of Miss
Sarah McLain to Capt. Clarence
Richard Bush, infantry United States
army. The date of the marriage has
not been definitely determined, but
it will be an evening wedding at the
Methodist church, beautifully plann-
ed and marked by elegance in every
detail. Miss McLain has those sterl-
ing traits of character and charm
of manner that have made her a
favorite in a wide circle of friends.
Capt. Bush is a university man from
a splendid Kentucky family, though
he will take his bride to Virginia,
where he is stationed at Camp Lee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
BOOKS OF TAX RECEIVER
WERE CLOSED THURSDAY
Mr.. Baldwin Says Returns Are Prac-
ticaIy the Same as Last Year.

Mr.. Baldwin Says Returns Are Prac-
tically the Same as Last Year.
Under the law the books of Tax
Receiver Baldwin were closed on
May 1st. Mr.. Baldwin says the val
ues are practically the same as last
year, and the total returns will vary
but little from the amount of year
ago, when it was approximately $5,-
100000. Returns under the head of
money, notes and accounts will show
some decrease, due to the fact that
in the past year a considerable part
of the money that was returned for
taxation has been invested in gov
eminent bonds, which are non-taxa-
BILE.
AS soon as Receiver Baldwin can
prepare digest the county tax board
will review the returns for the pur-
pose of equalizing them. This board
is composed of ]. H. Pritchard, 7. B.
Raines and C. c. Brim.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
FOR STUBBORN
COUGHS AND COLDS
DR.. Kings New Discovery
has a fifty year record
behind it

Il built its reputation on its produc-
zion of positive results, on its sureness
in relieving the throat irritation of
colds, coughs, grippe and bronchial
attacks.
"Dr. Kings New Discovery? Why,
my folks wouldn't use anything else!"
That's the general nationwide esteem
in which this well-known remedy is
held. Its action is prompt, its taste
pleasant, its relief gratifying.
Half a century of cold and cough
checking. Sold by druggists everywhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
BOUGHT HIS own CORN FROM
NEGRO WHO HAD STOLEN IT
Thief Arrested and Is Held Under
$500 Bond for Burglary. Two
Others Are Implicated.

Babe Warren, a negro, is held I'M
der a $500 bond on the charge of
burglarizing the mill of Mr.. Carey C.
Brim, at Sasser, Thursday night and
stealing bushels of corn valued at
$1,000. The negro sold the corn to
Mr.. Brim the next day, thus adding
insult to injury.
After his capture by Sheriff Tur-
ner, who tracked him with his dogs,
Warren confessed the crime and i'm
plicated two other negroes-Jake
Hall and Abe Salisbury. At a com
mitment trial they were placed I'M
der bond of 500 each, which they
gave and were released.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
DR.. JONES WILL SPEAK
FOR PROHIBITION TONIGHT
Head of the Anti-SaIoon League in
Georgia Comes to Dawson.


DR.. c. o. Jones, who will deliver
his famous lecture, ga New Morning
in a New World" this evening at
IS o'clock at the court house, is
too we'll known to need introduction
to Dawson people. The Texarkana
News says of his appearance in that
city:
CDR. Jones' lecture was the most
brilliant, humorous, pathetic and elo-
quent discourse to which we have
listened in many years. A vein of
refined pleasantly relieved the lee
ture from the ordinary weight of
discourse, while at times he would
draw so pathetic and touching a pict-
ure as to moisten many an eye. He
was frequently eloquent and always
interesting, brilliant and instructive. !"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
METHODIST MISSIONARY
CIRCLES WILL MEET MONDAY

Circles Nos. 1 and of the Meth
odist Missionary Society will meet
next Monday afternoon at 4:30
o'clock, with Mrs. E. B. Durham
No. 8 with Mrs. G. S. Crowell and
Miss Matte Sims; No. 4 with Mrs.
Rogers Carver. The president, Mrs.
j. H. Lewis, requests full attend
ance at each of these meetings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
MRS. H. o. THORNTON WILL
MAKE HOME IN CALHOUN

Mrs. H. o. Thornton will leave to-
day for Calhoun, Ga, where she will
make her home. AS a resident of
Dawson for a number of years Mrs.
Thonton has made many friends who
regret her departure, and she will
carry to her new home the good
wishes of every one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
TAKEN ILL WHILE IN
DAWSON VISITING RELATIVES
Mrs. r. C. Bishop Is Removed to
Sanitarium at cambridge.

Mr.. R. G. Bishop, of Quincy, Fla,
was called to Dawson Sunday by the
illness of his wife, who has been Wis
iting at the home of their aunt, Mrs.
w. N. Kenny. Mrs. Bishop was
stricken with appendicitis and as
soon as possible after her husbands
arrival she was taken to a sanitarium
at cambridge. The friends of the
family are anxiously hoping that the
patient may be permanently relieved.
Mr.. Bishop was reared in Dawson,
and has many friends here who were
glad to see him again.