The courier-index., October 05, 1917, Image 8

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Demonstrations at any nine in out »u»c, «»i
approval in your own home. ;jj
We have Columbias to fit every variety of taste or !;
i| purse —ranging in price from $15 to $200. Only one |j
;! small payment puts one of these incomparable mstru- j
i! ments in your home, and the balance of purchase may ;j
!| be made at your convenience. jj
Dinning Furniture Co.
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Prizes For Corn, Pig and Can
ning Clubs.
List of premiums and cash given
by merchants, -ankers and business
men of Marianna for Lee County
Boys' and uirls* Clubs This club
contest will be held in Marianna on
the 24th of Octooer. when it will be
judged and the prizes awarded. The
premiums will be arranged in the
order in which they are to be given
and this will be puoiished in next
week's paper The judges will be
announced next week also. The list
follows;
PRIZES FOR BOYS
Grove-Reed Co . 1 pair \Yai* Over
Shoes, value *: E J Beazley Co.. 1
rifle. $5; Peoples Savings Bank cash
12.50; Mixon McClintock Co., cash
Sio.OO. Bank of Marianna cash $2 50;
Ijirimore Robinson. 1 pair Beacon
shoes, $8.50; Harris & Burke 1 har
row, *$50; Payne Bros.. 1 pair pants.
$o.i>0; Daggett’s Drug Store, cash
82,50; Davis & Sims. 1 hat. $3 IK); i
Griffis-Newbem Co.. 1 suit of clothes.
*10. Pur year & Anderson. 1 hat $3; 1
Word & McCleonejr. merchandise,
*2 50; Brian Frazier. 1 No Name Hat.
$3.50; Freeman & Co., cash $2 50;
Newbern Grocery Co., cash $•>; Kari
cofe & Co., cash $2.50; Courier-Index
cash $2 bo; J. R Roane, cash $1; V
T Ellis, alarm clock. $2.50: P R
Turner, merchandise. 2 50: Johnston
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Australia is equipped with 100 spe-'
cies of snakes, three-fourths of them
▼ernomous. The big pythons and rock
snakes of Australia are harmless.
The latest in submarines is said
to be a two-ton model, twenty-five
feet long and twenty-eight inches
wide, which is built for a crew o(
one man.
An anti-smoke campaign in Pitts
burg is reported to have reduced its
famous smoke by at least 75 per
cent, thereby saving on property
alone »7.500.t)00 annually.
Exp rimeuts on the Pacific coast
have demonstrated that creosote oils
are the st in u>.e for preventing
pi'ps which are driven in water from
being ruired by maiine borers
An English woman who recently
died left three hundred pounds each
to her coachmen and his wife, and
the former was also left her horses,
dors, parrots and other animals, to
gether with five pounds a week as
long as any of t’*e animals may be
living, and he shall humanely feed,
maintain and care for them.
Aiording to recent dispatches from
Berlin, German men both on and off
the firing line are wearing shirts
made of paper ami wood pulp, owing
to the scarcity of cloth This will
& Hope cash $2.50 Marianna Cot
ion Oil Co. cash $5: Lee County
National Bank, cash $2.50.
PRIZES FOR GIRLS
Grove-Reeil Co., 1 pair Walk Over
shoes. $5; E J Beazley to.. 1 pair
Queen Quality shoes. $5; Mixon-Mc
Clintock Col <*ash $10; I-arimore
Roltnson. 1 pair silk hose »; Harris
& Burke. 1 rocner. $5; Payne Bros.,
1 pair silk hose. $1; Daggett’s Drug
Store, cash $2.50; J E Mann. 1
lavalier, $4. Davis & Sims. 1 pair
sila hose. $1; Griffis-Newborn Co.. 1
set dinner plates; Puryear & Ander
son. 1 pair silk hose. $1.50; Word &
McClenney. merchandise. $2.50; Free
man & Co., 1 pair silk hose. $1;
New hern Grocery Co. cash $5;
Courier-Index, cash $2.50; G. F Gam
hrell & Co., merchandise. *o.~0: 1-ee
County National Bank, cash $2.50;
Karicofe & Co., cash $2.50: Peoples
Savings Bank, cash $2.50: Bank of
,iiarianna, cash y2.50; P R Turner
Drug Co., merchandise $2.50; Lewis'.
1 cap and scarf. $3; Marianna Cotton
oil Co., cash $5.
Look in next week's paper for ad
ditions to these lists and also for
arrangement of the prizes.
P F NEWELL. County Agent.
MiriS GRACE EVANS.
Home riemonstratlon Agent.
probably be hailed a* something new,
,md as further showing the ingenuity
of the Germans under stress of ne
cessity. But, as in many other in
stances. the yankee inventor was
first in the field Thomas A Edison
thought of the paper shirt about 25
vears ago and put it on the market.
It failed to become popular and soon
nassed out of use There is one dif
ference between the American and
German p'-oduct. The American pa
per shirt was intended to be worn
until it become soiled and then
thrown a war The German sends
his to the laundry, and though it
generally returns to him in a shape
less sodden mass, he must don it
again, for “shirt cards” are extremely
scarce.
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VICE COMMISSION NAMED
Little Rock Oct. 1. -Dr Sterling
P. Bond and Dr. A C. Shipp of Lit
tle Rock have been appointed by
Governor Brough as members of the
State Vice Commission, and will pre
pare moving picture films showing
effects of disease. It is planned to
exhibit the films throughout the
1 state.
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With soldering iron, candle flame
or blow torch, heat the head of the
rusted nail or screw which you wish
to remove and it will come out
easily. j „ *j
THE EARMARKS OF
SUCCESSFUL FARMS
GOVERN MT EXPERT WHO MADE
SOIL SURVEY IN LEE COUNTY
STILL TALKING ABOUT CON
DITIONs HERE.
i By A. D. McNair)
t S. Office of Farm Management:
There are always reasons why
some farmers are successful and
others are not. and it is the busi
ness of investigators connected with
the United States Office of Farm
Management to find them. In this
article the earmarks of ten success
ful farmers are pointed out in con
nection with the economic survey
recently made near Marianna and
Marveli, .ark , w hich survey covered
the raroi uusiness for 1916.
On that survey 50 farms were
studied and the econnomic data
averaged and then the ten most suc
cessful farms were selected from the
50 and comparisons made between
the best farms and the average of
all farms, and in this comparison it
is shown that the superiority of the
most successful farms was not mere
ly in one thing, but in a variety of
things
In the matter of size, the most suc
cessful farms contained an average
of 166 acres, of which 129 acres were
in crops, whereas the average farm
of those studied contained 104 acres,
of which 78 acres were in crops
Expressed in another way we may
say that the former were seven
mule farms, whereas the latter were
five mule farms. Large plantations,
however, were ruled out of this in-'
vestigation, so that no farms or plan
tations were studied which had more
than 200 acres of crops.
With regard to cotton yield there
was practically no difference between
the average farm^ and the n ost suc
cessful ones, but the yield was high
anvw-av for the 1916 crons, being 319
pounds of lint per acre for the whole
50 farms. The yield of corn, how- ;
ever, was 27 bushels per acre on the
best farms compared with 25 bushels !
on all farms, or a difference of two
bushels per acre
Efficiency of Labe.'
In the efficiency of labor of men
and mules the successlul farms stood
well ahead of :he ave-ag’. Fch
family tended an average of 32.1
ac.es of crops -a ’hj f>uii*e< and 1
27.8 acres on the latter, or a diTer-1
ence of 4.3 acres per family. Each
mule. also, tended 18 acies of er >ps
of the most successful farms and j
only 15.8 acres on the average farms,
or a difference of 2.2 acres of crops
per mule.
Another way of showing the dif
ference between the best and the
average farms is to state the pro
duction of bales of cotton and bush
els of corn per family and per mule
tor this production is more signifi
cant and more important than the
1 production per acre. The cotton pro
duction for the 10 best farms was
10.33 bales per family against 8.46
per family for the entire 50 farms,
or an excess of 1 7-8 bales per family
on the better farms. Likewise the
production per mule was 5.77 bales
on the better farms, compared with
4.93 on the better farms.
tan Kiifr-essfiil farms were also
ahead in the production of corn. It
may be inferred by some people that
these farms which had a high pro
duction of cotton per family and per
mule were short on corn prpduetion.
but such was not the case as may
be seen from the fact that the ten
most successful farms made 252
bushels of corn per family against
228 bushels for the average farms.
Also the production per mule was
139 bushels’ for the ten farms com
pared with 128 bushels for the aver
age farm, or a difference of 11 bush
els.
Financial Results
All of the foregoing factors of pro
duction had their influence on the
financial results which differed more
widely than did any of the single
factors The income from labor and
management on the ten best farms
averaged $2.bo7. but on the average
farm it was but little more than
half as much, being $1,372 per farm.
This average labor income was ex
cellent. but it was so far below the
10 best that it looks small in com
parison.
What is the Labor Income
By income from labor and manage
ment. or. more briefly, the labor in
come, is meant the amount the farm
er makes net, by means from his
labor and management as distin
guished from his investment. The
farmer is charged with all farm ex
penses and he is given, on paper,
a fair interest on his investment or
the value or his property and then if
' there is anything left it is called the
labor income and this income is set
as a measure of a farmer’s success.
In other words, the farmers who
have the largest labor incomes are
A Few Reminders!!
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Tips! There I
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If you are in the market to buy or sell any kind of real 1 B
estate, we wish to offer you a few reminders— B
FIRST_We are exclusive dealers in real estate, do noth- I
ing else, hence can give our undivided attention to your wants. K
SECOND—We have unusual facilities for interesting B
prospective customers, hence can get their attention where B
vou would nrobablv fail. B
THIRD—Handling property of every description, we are
constantly in touch with buyers and sellers of all kinds of
property.
lake a chance. Come and see us, and see if we have not
a customer for the very piece of property you wish to sell, or
a piece of property that is just what you are looking for.
Johnston & Hope
Marianna Hotel Building Ph°ne 244
called the most successful farmers
Summary.
The results of the foregoing com
parisons may be summed up in a
few words as follows: The 10 most
successful farms, as measured by the
labor income, were 59 per cent larger
than the average farm, they had 65
per cent more crop acres, yielded
three-tenths of one per cent more
cotton per acre and eight per cent
more corn per acre; had 15 per cent
more acres of crops per family and
14 per cent more acres of crops per
mule: produced 22 per cent more
cotton per family and 17 per cent
more cotton per mule; made 10 per
cent more corn per family and per
mule and made a labor income which
was 93 per cent larger or. expressed
in dollars it was $1,285 larger per
farm.
The foregoing information was
gathered in co-operation with the
Extension Divison of the University
of Arkansas.
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a specialty of lending anthem mu
sic to churches is made by the public
library of Oakland. Cal.
Concrete may be made to re
semble granite so closely as almost
to deceive experts by the addition
of powdered mica.
Elagabalus Is said to have yoked
tigers to his car in imitation of
Bacchus, who is represented in art
1 riding in a chariot drawn by tigers.
Five hundred million dollars is
said to be the yearly expenditures for
drugs in the United States. Since
1880, the expenditure per capita for
patent medicines consumed in the
United States has risen from 33
cents to $1.54.
Tigers abound in India to this day.
In some parts of that land the na
tives, especially the Hindoos, regard
the tiger with such superstitious awe
that they will not kill one. Some
think it is tenanted by a spirit which
makes it immortal.
Armed with a hooked bill resem
bling a hawk, with a spread of wings
as large as a good sized eagle and
equipped with long legs, which he
carries straight behind him, a bird
which Allan Irish, of Sabino, Me.,
says Is a zyphunkquilipherz and is
rare in that vicinity, has been seen
frequently near Sabino. ,
Near Otis Hill, in Hingham. Mass.,
where once stood the target and rifle
range, the highway road excavator
has scooped from the hilly ground
several hundred pounds of lead from
bullets fired there, and one young
man is credited with having obtained
enough lead to fill an ash sifter, his
first hour’s work netting him $1.50.
Le .vlehnager. a wealthy resident of
Los Angeles, Cal., who has fought for
three years in the present European
war. is said to be the oldest man in
the ranks of the French army. Al
though he was sixty-four years old
and a resident of this country when
the war broke out, I^e Mehnager. who
is a veteran of the Franco-Prussian
war. went to France and enlisted.
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On the first cast in bait, in casting
for black bass, the angler should
reel in slowly for about five feet,
then fast.
Lazy tongs extend and brace the
supports of a new folding ironing
board so that it forms a substantial
table.
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Of course you are going to eat
dinner at the city hall on Tuesday
October 9. On that date the ladies
of the Cemetery Association will
THAT PUZ71E
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About how to reduce your
living expenses will not seri- f
otisly trouble you if you buy
vour groceries from ' LK
! NON. We shave the price
and give you the benefit of
the savings Get the \ KR
NON habit. Try us out.
Give us a chance to make
good with you. We are anxi
ous to prove every claim we
make.
VERNONS
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