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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
Fertilizing Growing Crops
DOES 1T PAY?
J. N. Harper,
j. N. Harper,
Soil Improvement Committee, Atlanta, Georgia.

Side applications Of fertilizers to
the growing crops as supplement to
q first application made at seeding
time is quite widely practiced in the
South
The writer recently obtained from
county agents the names of leading
farmers of North and South Carolina
who make bale or more of cotton
per acre. These farmers were ad-
dressed letter and asked, among
other things, to tell how they fertil-
tied their cotton. In these answers
large proportion report that they
make side applications OF fertilizer
A few of these reports that are typi-
cal Of the rest are given herewith:
MIR. Jno. c. Fletcher, Mccoll, S. C.
Kind Of soil: Light loan with clay
subsoil"
Fertilizer used and method OF ap-
plying: use about 1,4OO lbs. per
acre; half applied Just before planting,
and the other half about June 18TH"
Mr.. 3. D. Mann. Enfield, N. C.
Kind of soil: SANDY loan and
heavy loan to gray stiff soil"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying. From 500 to 1000 lbs per acre
of an. 1913. At time Of planting use
from 400 to 900 lbs, about June LIST
when cotton is chopped out make an
other application of 400 lbs"
Mr.. Fred II. Young, TimmonsviIle, 8. C.
Kind of soil: Sandy loan with
clay subsoil."
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 900 to 1000 lbs. OF fertilizer
used. April LIST apply 500 lbs. OF fer
tilizer, ridging on same and planting
about ten days later. Fertilizer ap-
Piled in three applications; 500 lbs.
, before planting; about May LIST, an
other application OF 500 lbs; and still
another application of 200 to $50 lbs.
June 1st"
Mr.. B. r. Shelton, Speed, N. C.
Kind Of soil: Norfolk loan, or
dark gray SOIL"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 300 lbs. of a 9-5-2 used per
acre during normal times an 8-4-4).
Hall of fertilizer applied in drill at
time Of planting; the other half when
cotton is to 6 inches high"
Mr.. A. @. cisrkson, Wateree, s. c.
Kind of soil: "RustOn loam."
Fertilizer used and method Of ap.
plying: 1900 lbs. of fertilizer an
alyzing 1920 phosphoric acid, 3qs
nitrogen, and no potash. Apply two.
thirds Of fertilizer at time Of prepar-
ing the land and one-third in May OF
June"
Mr.. 8. p. Winburne, Como, N. Q.
Kind of soil: Light loam."
Fertilizer used and method of ap'
slyinG; 200 lhs- nar AGRA of . 1860
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23

during normal times TOO lbs of an
$40 Apply fertilizer and stable
manure in drill before planting. Ap
ply one-third of fertilizer as a side
application when plants are about
knee high"
Mr.. II. A. Monroe, Cameron, NJ. C.
Kind of SOIL .'Grayelly sandy loan
with clay subsoil."
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 900 to 800 lbs of fertilizer
per acre used. Part applied at time
of preparing the land, and 200 to 300
lbs. applied as side dressing before
blooms appear"
Mr.. f. n. Waller, Kingston, NJ. c.
Kind of soil: Gray sandy soil"
Fertilizer used and method of ap
plying: 300 lbs. per acre of a 10-4-S
Apply fertilizer in drill about ten days
prior to planting. Side dress one or
two times about June 20 and July TO-"
Mr.. w. r. Peterson, Clinton, S. C.
Kind of SOIL Dark gray"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 400 lbs. when rows are
laid off; $50 lbs. as side application
at second blowing after chopping, and
$50 lbs. as another side application
when plants are knee high"
Side Applications to Cotton.
At the time the cotton plant is in
full bloom ample plant food must be
available or else a large percentage
OF the squares will shed While there
are other factors that cause shedding,
for example, lack Of a proper amount
of moisture; still. 1t has been proven
that even with the most favorable
moisture conditions, a lack of plant
food is the potent cause Of this
trouble.
Under boil weevil conditions, the
fertilizer used in side applications
should contain high percentage of
phosphoric acid and rather low per-
centage of nitrogen. This fertilizer
has the effect of forcing the young
bolls to quick growth and early mas
turity.
Side Applications to Corn.
While it usually pays to make
larger side application Of fertilizer for
cotton than for corn, still, many of
the best farmers in the Southeast
advocate liberal side applications for
corn.
The period of the growth Of corn is
much shorter than that of cotton; con-
seQuently, there must be present in
the soil large supplies Of available
plant food at the critical period Of its
growth, which is from the time 1t is
waist high to tassellinx time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
SALVATION ARMY
GETS HELP FROM
GRATEFUL father

Staff Captain Dfvid Main of Bir-
mingham tells story of the work OF
the Salvation Army that should have
a direct appeal to the fathers ami
mothers In the small towns and rural
districts.
i was attending one of our street
corner religious services In q certain
Southern city not long ago" said Staff
Captain Main, when noticed young
man come forward with tears stream
Ing down his face and asked that we
pray for him. Kneeling there In the
street, his body shaking with sobs,
while We prayed for him that young
man asked God to forgive his sins. I
had known that boy for long time.
knew him before he left the little coun-
try town In which he was born and
went to the city. For three or four
years he had been regarded as one Of
the widest young men In the city Of
which | am speaking. He never went
to church; he drank heavily; he gam
bled; his associates were of the worse
type. Today that young man Is serv-
ing God.
"A little while after this | was In
the little town where this boy was
born. His father Is the wealthiest and
most respected man in that town.
went to see him and asked him to help
US in our work. His answer was that
he couldn't see why he should be In
terested In the work of the Salvation
Army; that its work was In the cities
and did not affect the people of the
small town and country. Then I told
him the story of a young man being
converted at one of our meetings ON
the street. ! asked him II he could
guess who that boy was. He said no
I then told him that It was his own
son. He could scarcely believe me.
I'm voice trembling with emotion,
he told me that this was the first time
In his life that his boy had ever ex-
pressed desire to live right, and as
sured me that his time. his money, and
all his was at the service of the Sal
walton Army.
Now we are not asking the country
people for much, but what we are ask
ing for will be used to care for their
boys and girls who fall by the wayside.
The case have just mentioned is only
one of many thousands of cases that
the Salvation Army comes in contact
with all the time"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
Local Enthusiasm
Strong For Beall
The People OF Holmes County
Unreservedly Commend Geo.
S. Beall. IT,, to the Voters OF
Mississippi for State Revenue
Agent.


A large number of friends OF Geo
S. BeaIi, Jr., who is candidate for
State Revenue Agent, met at Lex
ington Wednesday for the purpose
OF completing the organization OF Mr..
Beal's home county forces. II was
the sense OF the meeting that Mr..
Beall was entitled to an introduction
to the people of the state by his
home people. The following memo
rial was adopted.
ITO the People Of the State OF
Mississippi:
Feeling that the people OF our
state are searching for those men
who can render them the best sei-
vice as public officials and feeling
that it is our duty to ourselves and
to the State of Mississippi to give
them our estimate of George 5. Beall
Jr., who is a candidate for State
Revenue Agent, We can say that as
man, he has lived among us an up
right Christian gentleman; as citi-
zen, be has always stood for progress
in, governmental affairs and has e.
ways stood ready, both with his
time and his money, to assist in any
matter of public interest and for
public good; as an officer. his adj
ministration of tue sheriff's office
has been above criticism He his
administered the affairs OF the peo-
pie with the same painstaking care
and efficeucv with which he attend
ed his own business before he b.
came public servant.
I'VE unreservedly commend him
TO the people of the state as man
we'll fitted to ill the office to which
he aspires. We know that If he is
elected be will give to that Office the
same attention and administrative
ability which has made hun sue
cessful business man in private lite
and faithful efficient public officer.
The Lexington Advertiser.
ADVERTISEMENT
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23

Located at Leakes Vile. in the County OF
Greene State OF Mississippi at the close of
business March T. 1919. made to the Board of
Bank Examiners.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts s2ol 1875. IS
Overdrafts. sec lred $50 70
unsecured 1851 10
United States Bonds. Certificates OF
Indebtedness War Saving Stamps 22500o
Bonds. securities. etc. 1892 so
Warrants. Estate. County. MunicipaD 709.2 %
Guaranty FUND with State Treasurer 10000
Banking house and lot 10000
Other real estate owned 2l707
Furniture and fixtures 100000
Due from other Bapks-commercal
or reserve funds l5s.7se 81
Other cash items 2,2eo92
Currency 755i.C)
Gold Coin 5000
Silver coin nickels and cents $50
Claims 23s5O
TOTAL Os77s
Capital stock 100000
Surplus Fund $4,000
Undivided profits, less amount paid for
interest taxes and current expenses 627 10
Dividends $1,000
Individual deposits. subject to check a3s 523.04
Time certificates of deposit ll0S6i.s2
Cashiers checks 1895. 76
TOTAL e3s7G37 ~
/. B. w. Mcleod. Cashier do solemnly swear
that the above is true statement OF the f.
nancal condition OF Bank of Leak .syille To-
cated nj Iloakesville ia the Count OF Greene,
State OF Mississippi, at the close OF business
on the 4th dav of Mare. 1919 to the best OF my
knowledge and belief
coRREc 7 ATTEST b. w MCLEOD, Cashier.
VIM H. Louisell
Hugh Mclnnls Directors
State OF Mississippi
County OF Greene
Sworn to and subscribed before me by B ".
| Mcleod. Cashier. this 18th day of March 1919
j. w. BAcKsTuoM. Notar, Public
My commission evpres Oct.l7 1919
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
THE PARENTS OF SOLDIERS
ARE GRATEFUL TO WORK
OF the SALVATION ARMY

Some of the boys of this county are
already back from France; others will
be home soon. But some will never
come back. Those are the ones who
are today sleeping meath French soil
with the grass and flowers growing
over them. Some day their bones will
be brought home for burial In the fam
lily burial grounds. but the boys them.
selves will not be in those caskets that
come from overseas. You can't do
much now for those boys who gave
their lives for this country-your coun.
try, but you can do something to help
a body OF men and women who did
so much for the boys over there
those who are already home those
who are coming. and those who will
never come The Salvation Army. And
the Army doesn't want the money for
itself either; 1t wants it in order that
good may be accomplished among sui.
fering humanity.
ASK your boy or your neighbours boy
when he gets home what you should
do and remember the Salvation Army
Home Service Fund, May 1925.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
erun for correction.l
STATEMENT
or the Financial Condition Of the
Bank of Leakesville

Located at Leakesylle. in the County OF
Greene State of Mississippi at the close of
business March I, 1919 made to the Board of
Bank Examiners
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
MISS BOOTH, IN RAGS,
AIDED LONDON POOR
salvation Army Commander, Dis
guised, Roamed Through Sums
to Study Intimate Problems OF
East End Unfortunates.

Miss Evangeline Booth, daughter OF
he, late General William Booth,
.ounder of the Salvation Army, has
riven her life to the service of the
DOOR and the unfortunate. Few per-
.ons, IL any, know she went about In
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23

The country boy or girl who leaves
home and goes to the city finds temp
tations on every hand. The Salvation
Army is first to find the erring one,
first to lend its beneficient influence
In bringing the hayward one back to
right thinking and right living. This
fact should appeal to those who live in
the rural districts and should be i'm.
petus enough to make them help in the
Salvation Army Home Service Fund
Campaign that win run from May 18th
tn 26th.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
TOTAL
s3s7.08772

good account OF themselves for at
least one month In the positions found
for them by the Salvation Army after
their release from a hospital or home
These girls pledge themselves to keep
alive the spirit of friendliness and
home which the Salvation Army has
spread among them. The girls are
expected to dress In plain. simple
way, and avoid In any sense of the
word gaudy or tawdry clothing.
Gossiping or tale bearing is tabooed.
II members of the club transgress this
rule they are liable to suspension for
q month or longer The "Out of Love
Club is one Of the many activities that
will benefit by the success Of the Saliva
ton Army House Service Fund Cam
paign for $13,OO0OQO May 1925.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-05-23
For Circuit Clerk
JOHN w. COLBERT
TUK 0VdVo xSCVtuuC A6cHt
STOKES v. ROBERTSON
For District Atty. doth Dist
MARTIN MILLER

The Herald is authorized to announce
p. L. MILLS
as candidate to the ONCE OF Constable OF
Beat OF Greene County. subject to the action
OF the democratic party in the August prima-
ries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16
# * k Lighting the Path of Sky Pilots

TIT was recently announced ln dis Il patch from Washington that flares would be used by airmen who will try to fly across the Atlantic. Adventuresome aviators on both sides of the water are but waiting favor able moment for the "big hop"
 These flares were developed during the war and have been improved by chemists. In the shape of bombs, they can be dropped at intervals on the ocean, where they will give off flames and smoke, the former to be seen at night and the latter by day. As they are expected to remain al m ost stationary on the water, the flares will show the air pilots the drift of their planes in cross winds.
 This announcement brings up an- other problem that will have to be solved to make air travel safe in the future, and that is a system of illumi- nation which will pierce the heaviest cloud banks, enabling shippers of the skies" to follow well mapped out air lanes and find their haven without diff ficulty. These lights will probably be vertical shafts of various colors and stationary
 In Kipling's extraordinarily vivid and prophetic story, "With the Night Mail," one is given an idea of what air traffic may become when freight CTS, mail boats and liners speed over land and sea. In Kipling's story air signals play an important part. ln- cidentally the modern airplane is held lightly, as nothing more than clumsy toy of other days by the bold sky sailors who navigate the heavens in giant dirigibles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16
ONE BY ONE THEY GO

New York Correspondence in Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 Another of New Yorks famous res- taurants will put up its shutters and go out of business the end of this month. It is Mouquin's restaurant, for two dec ades one of the best known eating places in the old Tenderloin district. Mon deu," sadly remarked the proprietor, yesterday; life is just one d. funeral announcement after another The pie turesuue old wooden structure on Sixth avenue, near Twenty eighth street. which is one of New York's oldest landmarks, will be razed for skyscraper. It was built more than 100 years ago by Isaac Varian and stood in the center of Varian farm, whose rambling fields and pastures stretched west to the river and to the east as far as Lexington avenue. Through this pastoral landscape wound a couple of COW paths. These paths are there yet One is known as Broadway and the other as Sixth avenue. When Isaac varian died the farm was sold. A public road was cut through the place and it passed directly in front of the old house. line of stage coaches op- erated over this road, and what is now Mououins restaurant used 10 be the first stop after leaving Bowling Green.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16
Will Resume His
 Literary Career

0NHOMAS NELSON PAGE of Vir-
 J ginia, United States ambassa- dor to Italy since 1913, has rendered valuable service to his country, but the war being over, he has expressed his intention of resigning and returning home in order to resume his literary activities.
 A lawyer by profession, he has de- voted the greater part of his life to letters and has long been recognized as one of the foremost of American authors. He has contributed much of permanent value to southern history, but he will always be best known by his short stories of "Ole" Virginia "Marse Chan," "Unc Edinburg," i" "Mah Lady" and many others. No one has depicted social conditions of ante-bellum days with greater fidelity to truth; no one has been quite so moving in the portrayal of the women and the men who made up the flower and chivalry of an earlier generation Tor so tender in picturing the old-time negro as Tom Page. Had he written
 
 only "Marse Chan"-his first story he would have been entitled to endur- ling fame. It plays upon the heart strings and it is not easy to imagine anyone reading it without feeling its fine humanizing effect.
 While MT. Page is well past the meridian he is yet strong and avid. 1 He has doubtless gathered material
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16
U- BOATS BUILT TO BE LOST

C. H. Glaudy, in the Scientific American.
 I had the pleasure of going all over the surrendered submarine U C-95 with her British commander and seeing for myself how the Hun arranges his sub surface pirates One fact which sticks out like sore thumb is that she was evidently built to be lost, not to last. There has been no such thing as accessi- bility considered in her fittings. For in- stance, the ventilating fan-the captain called my attention to it's hum, and said that, of course, they could stop and start it. But they couldn't locate it ex- actly and then if it broke down and had to be repaired, it would apparently be dry dock job. Nothing in her has been planned with the idea of easy ac- cess on repair-very evidently she was put together with the belief that long before she would need an overhaul she would be captured or destroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16
Illuminate Birmingham
 For Returning Heroes

I'D BIRMINGHAM should not only put 1O on gala attire to welcome the 167th regiment. When night falls every light should blaze forth to make the city scene of beauty.
 With commendable enterprise the business men of Birmingham oo-op- erated in creating a Great White Way" in the downtown district. With a few exceptions, these lights are no longer used. The ornamental posts and globes present dreary enough appearance at night, suggesting to the passer-by a lack of interest on, the part of merchants or rigid ideas of economy.
 Nothing so comments a city to vis- itors as brilliantly lighted streets not so much a multiplicity of illumi- mated signs, of which we have an abundance, but some attem ot to com bine utility and art. Our "Great White Way" waitsyto be restored. The posts and lamps are in position. Perhaps some repair work may be needed, but it is chiefly matter of simply turn ing on the electric current to make the business district brilliantly illumi- hated.
 The business men of Birmingham should act upon this suggestion with out delay. The expense would be a tri1tle. Turn on all the "white way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. ID oss1PLY the desire to avoid
 tS boasting and to be impartial.
 if not International. is respon- sible for a certain attitude of self depreciation as to what we really did in the war. This is shown in many ways and crops up again and again in connection with discussion of English literature and the war. Re- gently at the Contemporary club here. at night given over to discussing war poetry" scarcely a single Amer ican poet of any em;nence was mem toned, one speaker casually referring to the work of an unknown 17-year- old as Indicating promise" while all the honors went to the poetry that appeared in the London Punch (fa- varied by two speakers), the coup de grace to American poetry being given by the blithe British guest, Nichols, who knew nothing of American war verse of his friends, Jimmy This and Robbie That and Freddy So-and-So. And now, if the conspiracy of silence was to be more or less continuous. the Atlantic Monthly prints an ar- ticle in it's current issue the writer of which again seems to be familiar only with the Oxford brand.
 With this situation thus developed. it might be we'll for poets, like Mrs. Florence Earle Coates and for the Wig iIantes that body Of American writers which banded together during the war to put their talents at the command of patriotism, to set out just what the American poets as a group did. since their output was not inconsider- able. While the names of Seeger and Kilmer who are the martyred two who fought the good fight to the end, will occur to any one, there are oth- CTS certainly known to Robert Cn-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
DETHRONED

Time was the foaming flagon
 Was deemed a thing of joy; The ancient water wagon
 Seemed helpless to annoy. Men gaily watched it passing
 Without the least dismay, While subtle "drys" were massinE Their forces for the fray. All needless of their power.
 The vets were not alarmed: They felt, though storms might lower, They never could be harmed. But now with lamentation,
 In attitude forlorn, They mourn the abditation
 Of old John Barleycorn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16
GEE-UP OAR, MULES
Edwin Ford Piper, Contemporary Verse
 He stood up n khaki wi tn the poise
 Of perfect soldiership beneath the praise

Ford Piper Contemporary Verse He stood in our khaki wi LII. tn the he poise nri.s Of the French officer. We caught the words, "Conspicuous courage bringing wounded iu, decorated with the Cross or war Wal ... .... Black-faced? Yes, just ngger Nine months s'nce He drove a of bony cotton mules And never out of Jasper county " They drafted m Shipped him barracks. broke him into drih It was changeling's life. saw the lad After his first three days Tn cantonmen., He had just finished Do fishing his teeth Novel achievement, and he swung the brush With beat chanting joyousy:
 "I1ordy ordy. got toothbresh.
 Iordy, lordy got toothbresh.
 Lordy, lordy got toothbresh,
 And I'll go o a7high' Perhans he sings now of the servce-medal or of some other meager badge or symbol Ont of that rich and sha ttering experience Hurled his simple soul Life sweeps loadad vivlfylng hush Over old dull past
 And Like To think he will back to Jasper county; I picture him in patched nd faded denims; over the wagon wheel he mounts the seat. Evens the lines lead team won't jerk Then all together the four nervous mules Will straighten dig in their toes. and pull She shakes, creaks. she rolls!l
 .Gee-up dar mu es" "(1eneral Foch fine old French. He puts niggers in front-lne trench; The barb-wire down. and the barrage begun Boche see a ngger. and the Boche he
 po mourner
 You free When the good I'd sets you free "Ob I hitched up the mules, the mules worked fine; hitched that Hinnenburg line drawed her back--till snagged her the Rhine, An boss come along, nd he giye me my time
 
 You shall be free muesr"
 When good Lord
 Gwan-n, mules! Gee-ur dar, mules!