The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-28
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All Working Together.-It is the hearty
and widespread cooperation of all that
brings Tuscaloosa to the front.-Tuscaloosa
| News
Season For Tree Growth-This is the
growing season for trees in this section, and
during this month more growth will be taken
on than all the rest of the year.-Dothan
Eagle.
Good Scouts Protect Birds.AOyerhea
two boys One of them was telling of kill
ing bird. You are no good Scout, then"
came the reply. He was right Good Scouts
will protect, rather than kill, the song birds.
Be a good Scout TaIladega Daily Home
Question OF Personal Rights Somebody
has told US that the dictionarians have con-
cinded at last that the word "ain't'li is good
Our daddy, our daddy's daddy, and our dad
dy's daddy's daddy used the word "ain't"
when in their judgment it expressed senti-
ment, and If the Ledger daddy's kids want
to use it they may do so, no matter what
the dictionarians say.-Enterprise Ledger.
Fighting The WeeviI-The great need this
year, as seen by leading agriculturists, is to
make war ON the boil weeviI and not have a
larger cotton acreage than last year. It
would be better if the acreage should be less
than last year, it generally is admitted, for
then the yield would not be SO great as to
dem0ralize prices and the weevn would have
less territory upon which to do its work Of
destruction.-Anniston Star.
The Rest OF The JOb.-And now that we
have finished the cleanup campaign, let's
proceed to the rest of the job. Poor BUSH
ness to take your bath and then slip into
your dirty clothes. Right while you're fresh
and clean is the time to six up" Make the
change as complete as possible-not forget,
ting to manicure and paint. -Florence. Daily
News.
Wide Range OF Achievement Limberger
cheese laid away in cupboards and refrigera-
tors will drive ants away. No doubt of it.
| 1t will drive hog out of lanyard; it will
| drive a spike in a brick: it will drive a
tramp away from a meal of victuals it will
drive a mule through n barbed wire fence
it viii drive negro away from a chicken
roost or a man to insanity who stays five
minutes within ten feet of its unsavory pres
ence. And yet some men will sit up and eat
the stuff and profess to like it.--Jasper
Mountain Eagle.
EBrAy lays VI NAObOEAuSs--A rev. years
ago, when autos were Just beginning to get
numerous, man. and his wife driving the
family mule to town had stopped at coun-
try store to make q small purchase, thevwife
sitting in the buggy to hold the lines. A
car drove up and the woman began to make
! preparations to jump out when the husband
came out of the store. The auto owner asked
the man if his mule was afraid Of car
The husband replied: "No but my wife is.p
Troy Messenger.
No Provision For Timber-Alabama makes
a very paltry expenditure in the work 81
retaining and rebuilding its timber re-
sources. In fact the small outlay provided
by the state and supplemented by the fed
eral government, does little more than nay
for limited inspection and fire prevention
service, leaving little available for replant
| ing and cultivation. 1t is said that % per
cent. of our forest fires are incendiary. IL
per cent. traceable to brush burning, fully
| 30 per cent to carelessness and premedita-
| tion and only 10 per cent. is from causes be-
yond human control. Yet the state govern
nent makes only pitiful provision to check
this wantOn Observation-Disclosures Times-Jour.
nal.
Diversity Steadily Gaining.-It is by this
time well known that the sure and safe way
to farm is to diversity. Any section that de-
pends on one crop is taking n long chance
! and loses more frequently than it wins. The
raising of ample food and feed for home
needs, the production of more dairy cows,
pigs and poultry will solve the problem in
a general way. The one other thing which
is constantly being urged upon farmers of
the South is the reduction of cotton acreage
per pillow and the increase of yield per acre
! A smaller acreage properly cared for will
bring greater sreturn as n rule than
| large acreage which must necessarily be
neglected to some extent. The number Of
farmers who carry out this sort of program
is becoming larger each year and the faster
the practice becomes universal the sooner
viii the farmer find independence and eco