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Destroy Cotton Stalks Thor oughly and Clean the Fields Well. Clemson College, Nov. 6.-Clean ing cf the fields, the destruction of the stalks, and the planting of cover -crops constitute the most powerful weapons for weevil fighting now in the hands of the farmer, says Prof. A. F. Conradi, Entomologist, wno says that by efficient fall farm man agement the farmer can dictate to a great extent how many weevils shall pass the winter on the farm. Though much warning has already been given by the entomologists, ard though county agents are preaching stalk destruction right and left, many farmers are apparently not convinced of the need for immediate stalk de struction, says Prof. Conradi, and no not realize that this is practically the most important single step in any! system of fighting the weevil. Bool weevils multiply in cotton until frost kills it. Many thousands of weevils may^occur in each acre cf cotton. Weevils hibernate, that is that pass the winter, only in the full .grown stage. Hibernation usually be rgins with the coming of the first kill ing frost. They hibernate principally in cotton fields, and standing stalks make for them splendid winter lomes. The most favorable condition, j therefore, for the successful hiberna tion for boll weevils is found in fields wher ethe cotton stalks, grass, weeds, dead leaves, etc., are left dur ing the winter. Under such conditions . the farmers may expect the greatest number of weevils to survive the winter. There is little prospect for successful cotton growing under such conditions. ' Earlier cotton stalks are destroyed the fewer the weevils that, will sur vive the winter, and consequently the smaller the damage to the ne?xt crop. As far as possible the stalks should be destroyed two weeks be fore the first killing frost. ; In some sections the stalks are uprooted, piled and burned. This method is a very serious disadvan tage in destroying a large amount of vegetable matter which should be turned under. Whenever the farmer ls equipped with plows and mules so that the stalks may be turned under five to six inches after they have been cut down with the chopper, it is a very effective plan. A less effective method is to graze off all green cot ton within a period of a few days. I Whatever method one employs, the destruction of stalks must be thor ough. I The following are a fev/ of the many advantages secured from clean ing the fields and destroying the stalks: * ; 1. A'great many full grown wee vils are killed outright. 2. Many young stages in the plants are killed. 3. The full grown weevils not killed are weakened by starvation if the stalks are destroyed two to three weeks before the first frost and these will not have sufficient strength to pass the winter successfully. 4. The removal of the stalks fa cilitates fall plowing and the plant ing of cover crops. 5. This fall cleaning program ii .also of the greatest, benefit general ly in destroying the winter homes -and the winter food plants of other injurious pests of the farm. Dairy Cow Now Big Factor in Prosperity of Oklahoma. A recent map of Oklahoma indi cating by marks of various shapes the bcatiott of cream stations, ice cream factories, creameries, pasteur izing plants and combination plants, shows the dairy cow now as a big fac vtor in the prosperity of the state.? ^Formerly, on account of the cattle "tick, such a development of dairying was impossible, but the anti-tick ac tivities of the state and the United States Department of Agriculture for the past six or seven years have re sulted in the eradication of the pest from 43,255 square miles, or about 904 per cent of the infested territory. As a result of these strides in erad ication the figures on dairy produc tion show large totals, and in 1921 milk and butter were important prod ucts. During that year 9,939,895 pounds of butter fat in the form of sour cream was produced, selling for little more than $4,000,000, and 9, 529,722 pounds of ^butter, valued at $3,240,000". More than 10,000,000 pounds of sweet milk was bought for making ice cream. Pasteurizing plants r?poTted handling 62,261,983 pounds of milk. The figures are from reports received from twenty-six creameries, forty-four ice cream plants, and thirty combination plants operating in Oklahoma or just out side its borders and buying from Ok lahoma farmers.-Farm and Ranch. An Excerpt From William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson in Christian Herald. About the middle of January, I was riding on the train from Augusta, Ga., to Columbia, S. C. As I stepped into the smoking compartment, a fat man apparently recognized me. He was one of those fat men whose head runs up to a point and who could take his shirt off without unbutton ing his collar. As I entered, he began to groan. "I don't know what this country is coming to. Since we got prohibition, everything has been go ing to the dogs. Everybody is drink ing. People who never did drink are drinking. The young people now are all drinking. I have two little girls and I don't know what is going to become of them," he moaned, rolling his eyes to Heaven like a sick chick en in a thunder storm. Just then the train conducter en tered. Recognizing me, he grasped my hand. "I want to say something to you," he said. "Before we had prohibition, it was my custom for twenty years to conjure up some ex cuse to get a ten-day layoff during Christmas holidays to avoid the drunken disorder and fighting that we used to have on the trains. Dur-, ing the past two years I have not done this and we have not had a bit of trouble. In that time, I have seen only one drunken man and that was at Columbia." As the conductor left the car, I turned to my fat friend and asked, "What do you think of what that man said?" "I have got to get out at this sta tion," he replied, as a look of anguish swept over his face. A few days later, I was riding on the train from Asheville, N. C., to Knoxville, Tenn. As we were going through the roughest part of the mountains, the train conductor came and sat down beside me. "Do you know where we are right now?" he asked. "No," was my reply. "Well, he said, "you are right in the middle of the worst moonshine district in the United States. I have been traveling on this run for fifteen years and know what I am talking about. But the conditions now are a prayer meeting as compared to what we had before we got prohibi tion. I just wanted to tell 5'ou that,' he concluded as he went tD another part of the train. Early in April, in the La Salle Ho tel, Chicago, as I was preparing to go to bed, one of the editors 0:: the Her ald Examiner called me ove r the tele phone to tell me of the bombie con- J ditions in Chicago and asked what I had to say about it. "Nothing, until I know that it is true. I am from Missouri; what have you got to show me," I replied. Promising to "show me:' he sent one of his reporters to my room with instructions to take me all over Chi cago and buy drinks in my presence so that I could see with my own eyes the condition of dry frightfulness. "There are a thousand places in Chicago where anybody can go in and buy all the liquor that he wants openly and without any questions be ing asked," l;egan the reporter, at once opening the attack. "In the old days, there were sev en thousand places-things seem to be improving, but I would like to take a look at a few of the thousand that you say are left," I replied. The reporter got a taxicab and drove through what used to be the slums for two and a half hours, seek ing some of the "thousand." In the two and a half hours of searching, he was able to fiqd only one place in all Chicago where even he could pur chase a drink of liquor!-William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson. The Road Hog. "Here," said an automobile driver this morning is a description of a road hog and I believe it will keep a lot of 'road pigs' in this neck of the woods from becoming 'hog's' if they were given the opportunity to read it : "What is a road hog? A road hog is a driver of an automobile who uses both sides and the middle of the public road in which to travel from place to place. His manners are bad and his regard for thc; rights of others is poor. He is hard to fatten and would make a mighty poor quali ty of pork, if he were sent out to the packing house. He lives and moves and has his being the same as other hogs, but he refuses to even grunt when you drive into a ditch and give him the entire road. He is a danger ous animal for he is calculated to hurt someone or kill his fool self. But what's the use of talking aboult road hogs? Why not elevate our minds with more desirable subjects such.as hookworm, small pox, 'flu,'! cabbage snakes and bool weevils-"- J Yorkville Enquirer. BED CROSS WINNING IN FIGHT FOR HEALTH Better, Stronger Citizenry Now Emerging Out of Work in United States. The America? Red Cross as an evangelist of better health has looked its problem square in the face. How it accepted the task revealed to lt in the nation's physical condition as brought out during the World War, and conscientiously applied Its activi ties to correction forms a vivid chap ter in the forthcoming annual report Historically and practically, nursing is a basic work for the Red Cross. In Its public health nursing service, in In struction in home hygiene and care of flie sick, nutrition classes, first aid and life saving courses and health cen ters, the American Red Cross is ap plying effectually the lessons learned during the war and making for a healthier, stronger and better nour ished citizenry. The task of the Red Cross Public Health nurse in the 1,240 nursing serv ices now operating throughout the country instructing their communities In health essentials and disease pre vention is demonstrating the possibili ties of human betterment and the great benefits of enlightenment. During the last year 313 new public health nursing services were establish ed by Red Cross Chapters, and several hundred services so convincingly prov ed their effectiveness that they were taken over by public authorities. In order to promote this work $30,000 was allotted to provide women to prepare themselves for public nursing. The home visits made by the 1,240 nurses aggregated nearly 1,500,000, visits to schools numbered 140,000, and In six months 1,250,000 school children were Inspected by these nurses and where defects were found advised examina tion by physicians. In rural commu nities this service has made a very marked advance and has won thou sands {jf converts to approved methods of disease prevention. In home hygiene and care of the sick Instruction, which fits the student In methods of proper care where illness Is not so serious as to require profes-1 slonal service, the Red Cross conduct ed 3,884 classes during the last year, enrolled 2,858 Instructors, 93,448 stu dents and Issued 42,656 certificates. On June 30, 1922, nutrition service embraced 1,199 classes, with a total of 27,523 children and 2,589 enrolled dieti tians. Seventy-eight food selection classes graduated 733 who received Red Cross certificates. In general health activities Red Cross Chapters maintained 377 health centers, serving as many communities, provided 38,751 health lectures for large audiences ev erywhere, while clinics numbered over 10,000. Red Cross Gains Strength in All Foreign Fields In Insular possessions of the United 1 States and in foreign lands the Amerl- > can Red Cross scored heavy gains dur ing the last year, passing the pre- ? vious membership high mark of 1918 by 4,261 and advancing the figure to 150,408. The Philippines take the ; lead, gaining nearly 100 per cent, now having 115,917 members. In Europe! the 1921 Roll Call enrolled 11,125, with the Constantinople Chapter re- ; porting 665, a gain of 33 members. ; China was 1,782 members, a gain of 1 596; the little Virgin Islands have ' 1,000, while the Dominican Republic with 2,927 advanced from Its previous .' high mark by 1,423 new members, j Haiti, organized In 1920, now has ] nearly 1,000 enrolled. Mexico reports 354, a gain of 327 In one year. The ] American Red Cross has spread Its membership over some 70 foreign ! lands and its Junior membership out- ' side of the United States ls close to ' 700,000. . i Red Cross Water . First Aid Makes \ Life-Saving Gain 1 More than 325 Chapters engaged tn life saving or water first aid last year with the result that the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps has set a new high mark for enrollment and the number -of qualified life savers de? veloped. The influence of "learn to swim week" In many loc?lltles ls re ducing the water fatalities through In struction and the wider dissemination of resuscitation methods demonstrated by the Red Cross representatives. Ex? cellent work has been done In teaching a large part of the American popula* tlon how to take care of Itself In the water. Growing appreciation for thia Red Cross Life-Saving Service la shown by the compulsory Instruction adopted In many cities for members ol the police and fire departments In the prone pressure method of resuscita tion. Help te Help Others Ton can't "give until It hurts"--foi .giving an American dollar ttl Join th? American Red Cross helps you to heir, other-} who are hurt and who need re lint Hymns Taken From Rev. A. T Allen's Calendar of Last Sundayfl Evening Verse-Hymn 583 What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear; What a privilege to carry, Everything to God in prayer. Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! Hymn 718 My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine! Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away, Oh, let me from this day Be wholly Thine! May Thy rich grace impart, Strength to my fainting heart, My zeal inspire! As Thou hast died for me, Oh, may my love to Thee, Pure ,warm and changeless be A living fire ! While Life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my guide! Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside. Hymn 581 Simply trusting every day, Trusting thru' a stormy way, Even when my faith is small, Trusting Jesus, that is all. (Chorus) Trusting as the moments fly, Trusting as the days go by, Trusting Him whate'er befall, Trusting Jesus, that is all. Brightly doth His Spirit shine, Into this poor heart of mine; While He leads I cannot fall, Trusting Jesus, that is all. Trusting Him while life shall last, Trusting His till earth is past; Till within the jasper wall, Trusting Jesus, that is all. Hymn 564 Down in the valley with-my Sa viour I would go, Where the flow'rs are blooming and the dark waters flow, Ev'rywhere He leads me I would follow, follow on, Walking in His footsteps. till the crown be won. (Chorus) Follow, follow, I would follow Je sus, Anywhere, ev'rywhere, I would fol low on! + i Follow! follow, I would follow Je sus, Ev'rywhere He leads me I would follow on. Down in the valley with my Sa viour I would go, Where the storms are sweeping and the dark waetrs flow, With His hand to lead me I will never, never fear, Dangers cannot fright me if my Lord is near. Hymn 688 I love Thy kingdom, Lord, The house of Thine abode, The church our blest Redeemer, bought, With His own precious blood. I love Thy church 0 God, Her walls before Thee stand, Dear as the apple of Thine eye, And graven on Thy hand. For her my tears shall fall, For her my prayers ascend, To her my cares- and toils be given Till toils and cares shall end. ^ Beyond my highest joys, [ prize her heavenly ways, Her sweet communion, solemn vows, v Her hymns of love and praise. Sure as Thy truth shall last, To Zion shall be given, The highest glories earth can yield, knd brighter bliss of heaven. Hymn 698 [n the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time, Ml the light of sacred story, bathers round its head sublime. When the woes of life o'ertake me, Hopes deceive and fears annoy, . Never shall the cross forsake me; Lo ! is grows with peace and joy. Bane and blessing, pain and pleas ure, . By the cross are sanctified, Peace is there, there knows no measure, Joys that through all time abide. Hymn 680 Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace ap pear, x The hour I first believed. Thro' many dangers, toils and . snares, I have already come; 'Tis. grace that brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. ; Woodward Lumb?r Co. QUALITY-SERVICE Corner Roberts and Dugas Sta., Augusta, Ga, t '? Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Roofing Metal or Composition Mantels, Tiling, Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Doors, Sash, etc. FROM Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telephone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Pure Drugs ' We carry a large stock of drugs that are pure and fresh, from which we compound prescriptions with the utmost care. We are constantly replenishing our stock and can compound your prescrip tions without delay. We respectfully solicit a share of your prescription business. . Mitchell & Cantelou PHARMACY Lombard Foundry, Machine? Boiler Works and Mill Supply House AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Grate Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing Hose, etc Cast every day. GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES Pumping, Wood Sawing and Feed Grinding Outfit? GUNS, PISTOLS, FISHING TACKLE, SAFES AND VAULT DOORS HEMSTREET & ALEXANDER 617 Broad St. FIRST-CLASS REPAIRING Telephone 679 Augusta, Ga. Notice. All persons indebted to the estate of J. M. Gay, deceased, are hereby requested to make payment of same to the undersigned, administratrix, and all persons holding claims against his estate will present same to me properly sworn to. SALLIE GAY, Administratrix. LOW INSURANCE RATES. Low insurance rates for farm buddings, if taken for five years. Premium 10 per cent less, and payable in five annual installments without interest. In Old Hartford. 112 years old, with the strength of Gibraltar. E. J. NORRIS, Agent. J. S. BYRD Dental Surgeon Office Over Store of Queries & Timraerman Office Phone No. 3 Residence Phone 87 Administratrix' Notice. All persons holding claims against the estate of W. R. E. Winn, deceas ed, are requested to present the same duly attested, to the under signed; and all persons indebted to the said estate are urged to make payment to SUSAN L. WINN. Administratrix. Plum Branch, S. C., R. F. D. SEED OATS AND WHEAT. We want the farmers to know that we can supply them with seed, oats, seed rye and wheat. Let us have your orders. We also carry a complete stock of Heavy and Fancy Groceries. We can make you very close prices. Come in to see us. J. D. KEMP & CO. Trespass Notice. All hunters are warned not to hunt on land owned or controlled by us. If you don't want to be asked off, stay olf.. G. T. SWEARINGEN, B. R. TILLMAN, J" F. CARSWELL. FOR SALE: 100,000 Charleston Wakefield cabbage plants grown from certified seed. Prices: 1,000 @ $1.50; 5,000 @ $1.25 per thousand; ! 10,000 @ $1.00 per thousand. G. W. M. TAYLOR. FOR RENT: Three desirable rooms in residence near high school, elec tric lights, windows screened, privi leges of bath room. Apply' to - J. L. MIMS.