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The South Alabamian from Jackson, Alabama • 6

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GATHERING AND MARKETING PECANS Th Juloe ol grapes, apples, and many -otnor trulta can be concentrated heat by means of the freezing; me-thod developed by the United States department of Agriculture Time Now To Clean Up Buy the. uenume Oliver Plow Parts Bow Raise Pigs Successfully With Little Money By George W. Carver, Tuskegee Institute' ttvi following out some of the aug-geatlons above and see how easy It la to raise a few hogs -with praotlo-ally no cash outlay. For th curing of meat making aau-sag-e, scrapel souse and other choice dishes from pork send to thla station' for Bulletin No. 24.

George WV Carver Director Dept. of Research' and' Ex. Station. The Oliver Chilled Plow Works will under no condition be responsible for the work of a plow equipped with imitation shares. This refers to plow points, mouldboards, landsides, standards, and other parts that go to make up an Oliver plow made by the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, South Bend, Indiana There is a vast difference between the genuine and imitation parts.

We cite plow points as one example. The reason why the Oliver Chilled Plow Works do not polish their plow points like a mirror is because the point does not need polishing. The rough surface is the hardest part of the point, making it wear longer jhan it would if this were polished away. Olivprs snend their monev to make the Doints do the busi ness and not for appearances. Bear in mind that you are getting better wear and more service for your money in genuine Oliver points.

i-Genuine Oliver repair parts fit better, wear longer, make the plow run easier and do a better job of plowing. 1 "Vie When you buy uuver repair parts, insist upon seeing the name "Oliver" and this trade mark cast in every piece you buy. We sel nothing but the genuine Oliver repair parts. (Ceadanad Vrm Pace On) salesman a pecans, and every jjrower that consigns his pecans to a com-mission man Is an enemy of the business. Wholesale firocer Uood.

Fourth -The 'Jobl er. By the Jobber I mean the wholesale merchant. The Only jobber that would handle peeans la the wholesale grocer. The wholesale grocer la the natural and legitimate big dealer In nuts. He It is that sells to retail grocers their good, and having an organisation he can naturally handle nuta at loss cost than anyone else, lie handles a large per cent of the walnut and other nuts crops.

Hut, the Jobber does not want to buy from the producer unless ho Is a very large producer and of unquestioned integrity and financial responsibility. Jobber want to deal with people from whom thny can secure all the nuta they want and when they want them, and they will deal only with people who will furnish them nuts that are absolutely up to grade. Th largo Job bers are already beginning to limit their buying to people who are delivering graded nuts and absolutely up to grade. It will only be a few year when the buyer of a wholesale grocery house will not consider pecans offered by a private party, for two reasons: first, the small supply, and second and chiefly the uncertainty as to the grades. The established principles of Jobbing in ell sorta of Roods handled by wholesale grocers, call for grades that aro always observed by the seller.

The Broker la Ilrat. Fifth The broker. In many lines of business the broker is being eHml nated: not so in eatables. Canned goods, dried and evaporated fruits ot all kind and nuts are today purchased by the wholesalers almost exclusively through brokers. The California Walnut Urowers Association has recently tried to sell direct to wholesalers.

The degree of their success, 1 do nil know. However, nearly half the walnut crop of California today is sold by brokers. A broket is distinguished from a commission man in that he sells only to Jobbers or wholqsalera, while the commission man Hells only retailers. There are brokers and brokers. In every city of consideral le size, however, there are responsible brokers.

For a good many years to come it Is my belief that the broker Is the man to sell our pecans. I do not mean by this that the individual small grower can sell throimh a broker, as a Tule ho cannot, for the reason that the desirable broker is just as particular about grades as anyone, and for the further reason that he does not want a multiplicity of accounts, but a few large accounts. Our National Pecan Exchange hen it once gets Into operation, will in my judgment, find the broker the best yelling agent available. As a matter of economy this uftll be true. To send out a salesman, or a lot of salesmen will, in my jjudgnvent, te altogether too expensive for years to come.

Then again, the reputable broker has access to the buyers. He not only gets a hearing every day. but the reputable broker will relieve the buyers anxiety as to grades and quality. He cannot sell ant-pecans that are not as represented, it may be that when the pecan crop runs into 500 or 1,000 cars per year the pecan Kxchangc can handle the crop less expensively by dealing direct with jobbers, but even then I doubt it. But for several years at least the responsible broker Is to my mind the logical and only available agency.

Other Agencies. There are already a few pecan eales companiea and individuals who buy nuts by mail order. To my mind they are an aid to the business. They hold up prices and advertise the product. Everybody Stops at the Exchange Hotel Leslie D.

Fairchild, w. D. scon LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEER Saks Conducted Anywhere ARUNtjTOH.XM. We Buy Syrup and-Sorghum in Barrels. Samples solicited.

Southern Syrup Co. Montgomery, Ala. Call, Write, or Phone, Today About That VICTROLA For Christmas Dahlberg service goes with each purchase. 'Easiest terms largest stocks nnMkn Macnioe to. Montgomery, Ala.

Wanted Car Lot Shipment Sweet Potatoes Specially Porto Recoes Wire or Write Correspondence invited before you are ready to move your holdings. H. Culten Car Lot Distributor Birmingham, Ala. Loeb Hardware Company Novelty Printing That Will Help Your Business We can make cuts from photographs of your livestock and farm scenes. A trial order is all we ask, for we know we can please you.

The Paragon Press Montgome Ala, Vast Area In Alabama "Released total of 27,172 square milen, comprising the whole or parts of 45 counties in Alabama. Aikansas. Georgia. Mississippi and Texas, le released from quarantine on account of the cattle fe ver tick 11, a a result of an order recently signed by the secretary of agriculture. As a result of the new order the total urea of released territory will reach 309,186 square miles.

'The area originally quarantined in 1908 was 728,543 square miles The most notable gain In tick-free territory was made under the present relenue order by Alabama, where the quarantine is to be raised In 1.1 whole counties and 3 parts of counties, aggregating nearly 11,000 square miles, scattered throughout the state. Mississippi comeis second with 11 counties, amounting to 6,814 square miles released: and Texas Is third, with five complete counties and parts of two other counties released, amounting to 5,421 square miles. The territory released from quarantine on December 11 In Alabama Is as follows. iThe entire counties of Bullock, Colbert, Crenshaw, Elmore, Jefferson, I.e, Macon, Morgan, Pickens, Pike, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, and Walker; and the remainder of quarantined area in Henry, Jackson, and Sumter countle3. This frees these entire counties from federal quarantine restrictions.

The total, area released by this order in Alabama Is 10,976 square miles. Goodyear People to Wroiu Egyptian Cotton PHOENIX, Des. 9 In order to obtain a fixed supply of long staple Egyptian cotton, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has purchased 10,000 acres of land in the Salt River and will at once embark In the business of cotton raising on a large scale. The land was taken over either directly by the Goodyear company or through the medium of a subsidiary corporation, which is reported to be headed by J.M.

McDevitt, Pomona, Cal. The land purchased lies just outside the Salt River irrigation project, and will be Irrigated by pumping from wells, water being available at comparatively shallow depth, the tract of 10,000 acres lying 4 miles south of Chandler, on the south side of the Salt River valley. It is reported on authority that the Goodyear company Is also planning to Increase this acreage by leasing from 20,000 to 25,000 acres additional, leases to run for 5 years. Contracts to Bupply the Goodyear company with long staple cotton have been awarded the operating corporation, the contracts being for a long term of years. It Is estimated that oyer $500,000 will be expended In sinking wells, erecting cotton gins and a cottonseed oil mill for the new plantation.

Hudson, a long staple cotton expert, who was sent to the Salt River valley by the United States Department of Agriculture last year has resigned his position with that department and has been engaged to superintend the growing of long staple cotton on the Goodyear plantation. The average yield of long staple cotton in the Salt River valley Is about one bale an acre, three-quaters of a bale being regarded as conservative estimate. It is now selling at 40 cents a pound on the local exchange. SHE GOT IT. "NoWT Dorothy, you can't have any more turkey, but you may have tho wishbone." "Will what I wish for come true?" aked the little girl.

"Of course. "Then I wish for some more turkey." Resources Over Four Million Dollars The Orchard A little labor expended In a thorough cleaning of the orchard In the fall after the leaves have fallen and the farm work has become alack, will be unusually profitable. This cleaning of the removal and burning of all weeds, brush, dead limbs and leave By this simple process thousands and some onsen even millions of Insect eggs and fungous spore that have been produced during the past season will be destroyed. In no line of work la a little prevention more superior to remedy than It Is here. Each one of these eggs or npores la only waiting for a favorable opportunity to hatch or grow, and start its work upon the fruit crop of next season.

The cost of this prevention Is small when compared to tho application of a remedy. One light 'spraying which will not destroy one-twentieth as many lrnects ior fungous growths will cost more than this cleaning. Kven these will not be destroyed until they have done at least a little damage. Some raise the objection that the removal of weeds and leaves deprives the soil of a large umount of fertilizer and Uu-mus. This undoubtedly is true but there is little doubt that one ran ap ply in much fertilizer as is removed In the weeds and Jeeves at a cos much less than the value of the fruit damaged by Insects and fungous diseases.

I ut they will handle only a email per rentage of the crop. There arc also the great nut houses who make a business of buying and cracking. They are not available for the reason that they cannot afford to pay prices much, if any, above the price of seedlings. No doubt there will develop a considerable business in shelled nuts, or nut meats. The small nuts should be put through the cracker from this day onward.

Rut that is only the disposal of what might be called byproducts. In Ibis review of possible selling agencies, therefore, we come hack to the broker as the most available agent. However, even In dealing through brokers great caution must be exercised. I am credibly informed that some grower In this region recently sent to a northern broker, and there the nuts were sold at Jhe following prices: Extra fancy srhleys (delivered) 17c Other varieties in A. I.

condition at same price and To per pound for mixed nuts. The informant In his letter concerning this sale makes this comment "Think of it perfectly redicul- Plan of Selling. I do not undertake to say that thej plan I am about to outline is the only way. but I do undertake to say that so far as my experience has pointed the way the following is the only promising program for the solution of the problem of selling pecans. First Nuts should be thoroughly cured.

Second Varieties should be kept separate. Third Nuts should be graded as to size and weight. Fourth Grades that have been, or may 1 established by the National Nut Growers Association in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture should he accepted by all growers and strictly observed. Fifth Nuts should be packed in new and attractive containers properly and neatly printed or stenciled. Sixth To accomplish the above local associations should be formed wherever pecan are grown In quantities to warrant grading machines and drying places Installed and all nuta from the adjacent territory prepared for market in these ware houses.

Seventh The National Pecan Exchange should be developed forthwith as a common selling agency, and un-take to market the crops for the present through brokers. That all this can be accomplished in a day or a year no one Imagines. Rut that the above program with modifications that may be indicated by further experience will either be set in operation now through the voluntary action of growers, actuated by some foresight, or that it will be put in operation a few years hence as the result of financial disaster in the pecan business I cannot and do not question. Why not be advised by, and profit ly the experience of apple and citrus growers and walnut growers, and take time by the forelock and "do it now?" Preparedness. Preparedness is familiar to every Intelligent citizen today.

It should be the slogan of every pecan grower. We are on the eve of a great annual pecan production, t'nless we prepare for the grading and selling of these nuts we will be in the trough of the sea of adversity, in place of on the crest of the wave of prosperity. Is King Of Rook dealers talk about the "best Among nuts the Pecan should be the best seller. For the life of me I can't see why anyone should ever eat any other kind of nuts while the Pecans last, and I prophesy the day will come when you can't go Into a nubile restaurant that prides in Its eats where pecans are not on the Half shell, or on the menu, whether that eating house is one where the plump German betakes himself and his educated appetite to feast on canvass backs and burgundy (or beer) or the restaurant where the Sons of Sunny Italy go to feed on broiled devil fish, pears preserved in mustard dressing and spaghetti done in olive oil all Irrigated with light wines from basket covered bottles or the place requente.lby the Greek to satisfy his appetite for lamb and heavy deserts and the favored compound of honey and nuts or the French cafe with Its multitudinous dishes flavored with chives or the Chinese restaurant with its carved teak wood and mother of pearl furniture, and innumerable varieties of chop sucy or the georgcous hotel with Its menu a yard long and a big check at the end of the meal or whether it Is the home of the millionaire or the capitalist, or the average American the time Is coining when wherever men and women congregate to eat, the pecan the best of domestic or Imported nuts, will be served and all will bow before his American Majesty the King of Nuts the paper shell pecan. Shelter and Paint Saves Buing a New Machinery "A nickel saved Is a nickel made." Many nlckolu and dollars too he saved in shop hills and the most of now farm machinery by hauling in all plows harrows, hay rakes and other Implement right now and atorlng them un.

der shelter. Still more nickels ran be saved If the old times and rainy dajndurlng the winter are used to overhaul and repaint these machines. J. R. Ricks of the Mississippi A.

and M. College Kxperlment Station, says, that the present cost of machinery mnkes It more than ever necea-nary that every tool be made to do Us maximum amount of service. Thousands of dollars that go North ench spring for farm machinery can be kept at home If Southern farmers will build Implement aheda Instead of making uae of convenient trees or leaving their tools to warp, crack and ruat out In the open fleldn. Paint, too, la a wonderful preserver of wood, and on the metal parts It prevents the formation of a coat of ruat, which not only looks bad, eata away practically rs much of the metal aa 1 Worn off by a eason of hard use. Grene or oil will pretierva the mold boards arid other bright wearing parte where paint cannot be uaed, CONVENIENCE COMFORT Prof Carve- presented theae facta on 'pig raising; at Uttle cost for the benefit of negro tenants and the small farmers.

Thus it will pay the landlords give this practical Information to Vhelr tenants. Monro of the thlnga brought out by' the thorobgh negro educator In better farming are already known In a general way to some tenants and, other facta shown are not known or taken advantage of. Jf you farmer you will take thta Information yourself and use. It for your own profit. If you are a landlord, then won't you give thla good Infctmatlon to your tenanta and thus help them to do the beat they can with plga Their success with pigs and chickens means your success every time.

Editor's note. Hut few people realize how much money there is in hogs, how quickly and easily they oan bo raised with but little or no cash outlay. Oun Advantage. First Nature has been lavish providing a number of superior food-tuffs aome one or more of whioh may be had simply for the gathering. Second Nearly every kind of temperate and sul -tropical foodstuffs can bo grown easily and some of them preserved for feeding the year around Third The cllmato Is practically perfect.

Fourth An abunaancc of clean, fresh, wholesome can ho had at all times. Fifth Much of the soil Is sandy, well-drained and ideal for hog raising. Sixth There Is always a good market for choice pork and pork products Seventh No farm animals multiply as fast as hogs except chickens. Kighth Hogs are great scavengers, converting into meat much of the waste from the kitchen farm, garden orchard, dairy, etc. Ninth The loses from cholora are not alarming and can lie reduced If the proper precautions are taken.

Tenth Hog raising is the most fitting complement to the boys' corn clubs and girls canning clubs as both of- thee movements should furnish large quantities of cheap pork-producing foods. How to llrgin. Choose first a good -breed. Select two female pigs of good breeding, if you are able to pay for them: if not, strong healthy ones mongrels or any sort obtainable. Dreed only to a good, wellrbred male never to a scrub These sows with proper care will give you two litters of pigs per year and at each farrowing time will drop from six to ten fine, healthy little porkers.

Housing. In a climate as wild as this, expensive "houses are unnecessary. A small lean-to (shed) house 6 by 6 feet or by 8 Just high enough in the back to clear the head and tall enough in front to form a good water shed is riuite sufficient. The top may be covered with loards, shingles straw grass or anything that is the cheapest and easiest to obtain. Feeding.

How to secure food for one, two or several hogs presents an unsur-mountable problem to many, when in truth and in Vct our lection as well as many other sections of the South is unusually blessed with an abundance of Just the kinds of foods for the production of the ohoicest pork and pork products In the worlu. For the sake of clearness I am dividing the foodstuffs into two divisions as follows: I fooda. Wild Primrose A plant bearing a alight resemblance to lettuce when young. It bears yellow flowers and forms an almost round mat on the ground from two to three feet In diameter in rich soil. An analysis' of this plant it to be high nutritious and hogs eat it greedily and thrieve oft it.

In this locality it is large enough to begin pulling and feeding the last of February. Smooth and Thorny Careless weeds (Pigweed) Come In abundance In April and May. These weeds are very rich In food material and hogs are very fond of them. Wild plums Are usually abundant from latter part of May to August Their value as a hog food is too well known to need discussion here. Acorns Of all kinds usually abun-ant in September October, November and Decemler are well known and recognized In the feed for choice pork lieech nutsAre often plentiful in October, November and lecember.

Nothing produces liner bacon than such nuts. Nut grass This plant is the wild chufu, and has almost as hikh a feeding value as the cultivated chufa If you have a sufficient amount of nut-infested ground divide it up into plats and let the hogs root the nuts out: when one plat has been thoroughly rotted over turn them In upon another Purslane (Pusley) Appears In May June and July and Is among the best of the pigweeds for feeding swine. II Food that can be Cirown- Sweet potatoes Should head the list as they can be so easily grown and possess almost as high a fattening value as corn in the production of pork. The Cuban Queen, "Nigger Choker" and Red Nansemond should be grown for this purpose; these three are selected on account of their large yield, but any variety will do. Sorghum Millet Plant a few rows about the middle of March solely for the hogs.

Cut a little bunch and give them every day Just as soon as It is large enough. Corp Its feeding value is too well known to need any discussion here. Peanuts in this we have pracical-ly a perfect food Two crops per year of the Spanish variety can be grown. Plant the llrst crop by the 15th of Aoril thev will ftillv mgtnp.il fct, I nfri11o nf Tutv rtlo- nlnn, u- ground, and plant It again. Rape Collards, Cabbage Turnips Heels and all 'sorts of garden vegetal les hogs will eat with a relish.

They are especially fond of watermelons and canteloupes Pumpkins, either cooked or raw make a superior food for hogs. The same Is true of cushaws, squash etc. Cow peas Hogs are very fond of grazing on green "cow prjf.s and seem to thrieve almost If not as well as on clover pasture. Soja beans are also very line. Bermuda grass- A good Bermuda-grass pasture Is almost synonymous to an abaundanre of choloe, cheap pork If properly grazed by the hogs.

Wheat, rye and oats burr and crimson clover make an- excellent winter pasture If sown early. Thlnga to Hear In Mind. 1. That the health and success of pig raising depends largely upon keep. Ing the quarters where the pigs stay clean tho houtfea never Id allowed to become filthy Clean out eyery few daya and keep well white washed.

2, Keep the following mixture where they can get It at all times: To one peck of charcoal broken into small pieces mix one pint aalt, one pint flowers of sulphur (powdered aulphur) one pint copperas. This la a fine tonlo, aa well aa a cleanaer of Intestinal Impurities. 3. Feed llbetally, but' change the diet often. Cook the food at times.

Never -allow them to auffs for clean fresh water. 4. Remember It la dangnrous to feed swill that has lye, soap, washing powdera, glass, In It. K. Skim.

ml Ik of any kind la excellent for hogs ot all ages put aapao-ally fine for growing pigs. I truit every family will try a tew Is The Gay-league Hotel SERVICE PROOF) E. C. TAYLOR, Manager. Nitrogen creator.

Best soil inocu- lation known and used with continued success on thousands of Southern farms. (FIRE MONTGOMERY, ALA. Ira-Germ To Beat the Doll Weevil Plant Only North Carolina Grown Seed. We Offer Selected King's Early Simpkiris Prolific, Simpkiris Ideah Cook's Big Boll Pool's Big Boll We have all seed inspected before buying and we are confident no better stock can be had. Write us number of bushels you will need, prices advancing almost daily and the proper time to buy is, NOW.

NITRA-GERM SALES COMPANY 18 Commerce Montgomery, Ala CONSIDER Greil Bros. Co. Seedsman Montgomery, Ala. Before making your banking connections, the service possible to be rendered should be considered. Your bank's resources must be sufficient here you '11 find them so.

We make it our business to accord out-of-town depositors the service we would give them as residents of Montgomery. Our experience and advice are always yours for the asking. Let the "friendly bank" be YOUR friend. MONEY! By borrowing money from us on long time, with options to repay, you will save money. We have the cheapest money in the State and plenty of it, to lend on Improved Farm Lands Wo can lend it to you NOW.

No loans made for less than $1,000.00. If you want to borrow money on farm lands, and want the lowest rate of interest, and quickest service, come to see us. The State Abstract Co. Montgomery, Alabama The Fourth National Bank Montgomery, Ala. JACK TII0R1NGT0N, Vico-President J.

S. PINCKARD,.

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