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■M Just Suppose. About Growing Sweet Potatoes All the meat and lard consumed; in the south, to say nothing of hay, j oats and flour, was raised at home, wouldn’t we have money to burn? That all the money that has been paid out for mules to, make cotton since the war had been raised in Georgia, the people would have money to throw at jay birds. That if till the greater portion of the cotton made in the south had been manufactured into the thous ands of things needed by the peo ple, not only of this country but for eign chuntries, we would be the richest people on earth. Suppose the thousands and tens of thousands of negroes and white people in Georgia and elsewhere in the south were at work instead of loafing around eating and doing nothing, wouldn’t the country fairly roll in wealth? We could suppose a column arti cle along this line. Isn’t it a won der that as a people we have any money at all?—Americus Herald. The above has been our idea of the situation and the cause of the cry of “hard times" that was heard from the lips of countless millions a few years ago, when the People’s party was at its be3t. When the farmers raise a sufficiency of the things they now have to buy there will be good times in store for them. No political party in the world will ever raise the necessaries of life for its people or cause them to receive better prices for produce. The law of supply and demand is the para mount controller of prices. What the people of the south need is to make a larger supply of the above articles.—Vienna News. Martin V. Calvin in Augusta Herald. “Fine words butter no parsnips," we are told, but it remains that in season, the Georgia yam heads the list of tubers. We raise a good many sv^eet po tatoes in Georgia; we ought to raise an extra large crop this year. There is no crop easier of cultivation or more profitable. I want to give an intimatipn of what has been accomplished along this line ia this state in the recent past. For this purpose, I shall use round numbers in giving the aggre gate of the crop. I give the names of a few counties with the number of bushels annually produoed and the average yield per acre, omitting those that, fell below 7,5,000 buehelB. Want Others to Know. “I have used DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for constipation and torpid liver and they are all right. I am glad to indorse them for I think when we find a good thing we ought to let others know it,” writes Alfred Heinze, Quinoy, 111. They never gripe or distress. Sure, safe pills. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. A H0ME-L1K& HOTEL. HAVING LEASED THE SMMId House Mulberry St., MAOON, GA., Next to Academy of Music, It is my purpose to oonduot a hotel that will be home-like and satisfying to all guests. It is specially suitable for ladies or others visiting Maoon for a day or longer. We Strive to Please. George S. Riley. The Post Check Proposal. Bushels. Average Per Acre, . 94,000 90 6 . 93,000 98.7 . 92,000 69.6 . 88,000 75.6 . 86,000 84.4 . 84,000 66.1 . 81,000 75.9 61.4 . 80,000 88.0 . 80,000 102.7 . 77,000 67.4 . 77,000 86.4 Counties. Monroe.... Fulton Washington Thomas Chatham .. Houston... Berrien Hancook... Sumter.... Laurens ... Burke Greene .... It will be seen that Laurens leads in the average yield per acre, with Fulton, Monroe and Sumter well up on the list. Unquestionably, the average yield per acre could be greatly increased and the flavor and size of the pota toes greatly improved by the use of the right kind of fertilizers in prop er quantity. There is no economy in “skimp ing" when you start out to feed the plants on which you expect to de pend to a certain extent for cash or its equivalent. If you look for good returns you must feed the plants generously. Chemists tell us that too much ni trogen makes the sweet potato plant run to vines at the expense of the roots. This means that while you have a small per centum of nitrogen you should have, must have, a liber al supply of phosphoric $cid and potash. Seven per cent available phos phoric acid, 2 per cent of nitrogen and 8 per cent of potash represent a good average of fertilizer for sweet potatoes. The sulphate of potash, 60 per cent actual, is preferred, be cause it affects favorably the saccha rine matter in the tuber. Tests made indioate that 300 pounds per acre, of the grade of fer tilizer mentioned, should be applied. Experience has shown that, in preparing for the plants, it is well to spread over the tract set apart for potatoes an abundance of \egetable mold or pine litter. Broadcast this litter till the piece is covered 4 to 6 inches deep, then plough under, lev el off, open the furrow for the fertil izer and complete the work by set ting the plants as soon as they are ready. Use the cultivator, follow with the hoe, finish with a sweep. Let the cultivation be largely level. By the by, has not the hoe, in the language of the old song, been hung up? The work of the hoe is attempt ed in too many instances to be done with the plough. Keep the hoe in action—it has a special mission. A liberal premium will be paid in cash at Augusta’s country fair, Oc tober 14-17, next, for the best dis play and greatest variety of sweet potatoes and for the best bushel of any variety. Macon Telegraph. Congress is being urged to con sider the adoption of a new kind of fractional money, called the “Post Oheok Fractional Currency,” that promises to be very useful when small amounts are to be remitted through the mails. The use of post age stamps for this purpose is troub lesome, both to the sender and re ceiver, and money orders are still more troublesome, besides being ex pensive. It is olaimed {bat the pro posed check fractional money will meet the difficulty, profiting the government as well as serving the public convenience. The plan is recommended for trial by Mr v E. O. Madden, third assist ant postmaster-general. The pend ing bill provides for printing one, two and five dollar notes, and suita ble denominations of fractional cur rency, with blank spaces in order that the holder may at once turn his money into a bheok or money order by writing the payee’s name and ad dress in the blank spaces. A fee is paid to the government by affixing and canceling a two-cent stamp on the large bills and a one-cent stamp on the fractional pieoes. These fees “will pay for reprinting the bills and yield the government a larger ag gregate income than the present money order system, it is estimated, and the oontinual fresh issue to re place the canoeled bills will insure the long-desired clean-currency." The modus operand! is described as follows; “When one wishes to send money by mail, say 60 cents or he will take from his pocket the proper post check, write on its face the name of the person, or firm, to whom it is to go, the city and state, affix a one-cent stamp (a two-cent stamp for $1 and over), and sign his name on the baok. The stamp will, of course, be canceled by writing on it one’s initials and the date. The bill, which previously was negotia ble money, is instantly transformed into a personal cheok on . the United States government for $2, as safe for transmission as any bank oheok. This is inolosed in a letter to the person or firm desired, and can be collected by the receiver upon iden tification at the postoffioe named." If some such plan were put into effective operation the public would be saved much inconvenience and the opportunities of robbing the mails would be greatly reduced. GILBERT imnu n Mncg bin j Hardware, - Harness, - Saddlery. • , - i&l 'ill Full line Agricultural Implements. BEST GOODS. CLOSEST PRICE. Harness Repairs a speciality. 463-465 Third St, MACON, CFCRO Now that Mr. Bryan has announc ed that he will under no circum stances be a presidential candidate again, it is to be hoped that some of our esteemed contemporaries will oease having nightmares and agon izing conniption fits over the bare mention of his name. However, Bryan is one of the biggest men the Uuited States has ever known, and will continue to be a leader in the councils of his party. He oan’t be kioked aside by a few soreheads and past papsuckers.—Dawson News. Like a Drowning Man. “Five years ago a disease the doctors called dyspepsia took such hold of me that I could scarcely go,” writes Geo. S, Marsh, well- known attorney of Nocona, Tex. “I took quantities of pepsin and other medicines but nothing help ed me. As a drowning man grabs at a straw I grabbed at Kodol. I felt an improvement at once and after a few bottles am sound and well.” Kodol is the only prepa ration which exactly reproduces the natural digestive juices and .consequently is the only one which digests any good food and cures any form of stomach trouble. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. The silver bullion in an American dollar at the present time is worth nhout 37 cents, the lowest price it has ever touched. If You Can’t Sleep At Night use Smith’s Nerve Restorer. It is a true Nerve Tonic. Will cure any case of Ner vous Prostration ;does not contain opium in any form. Sold by Dr. R. L. Cater. Whooping Congli. A woman who has had experi ence with this disease, tells how to prevent any dangerous conse quences from it. She says: Our three children took whooping cough last summer, our baby boy being only three months old, and owing to our giving them Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy, they lost none of their plumpness and came out in much better health than other children whose parents did not use this remedy. ( Our old est little girl would call lu.stily for cough syrup between whoops—i Jessie Pinkey Hall, Springville, Ala. This Remedy is for sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. A North Carolina paper, the Gas tonia Gazette, says that cotton seed meal is an effective remedy for pota to bugs. The Gazette tells of a far mer who put some meal on his vines and in two hours the bugs had dis 1 appeared—they did not die, but left the vines. This farmer, says the Gafl zette, is firmly convinced of tho vir tues of meal as an anti-potato bug powder, which is much cheaper and safer than Paris green. Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cures a cold in one day. No cure, No pay. Price, 25 cents. Pianos At Greatly ■Reduced Prices. Fifty new Upright Pianos will oiose ont at grently reduced prices within the next fbW weeks. Among them suoh oelebrated makes as Steinway, Solinier & Co., Kranich & Bacli, Stultz & Bauer, Bush & Gents, Letter and Royal, Call at once and secure one of these bargains F. A. GUTTENGERGER & CO,, 452 Second st., Macon, Ga. The Ga. PoiiHrv Herald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION. Subscription Price 50c. a Yea* -ADDREBS- GA. POULTRY HERALD, PERRY GEORGIA. The Herald FREE one year to every Home Journal subscriber who pays/ &1.50 strictly in advance. ZE3Z. ZLi- J&jtr ‘XZEjUjIED, GROCERIES 1A3ND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Cor. Second and Poplar Sts., MACON, CA< AGENCY FOR TH£f Alt •TEEl WOVEN WIRE is put on it. Does not mutilate, but does eflicionlly turn attic, horses, frags and pigs. Made of largo, strong wires, heavily galvanized. Amply provides for expansion and contrac tion. Only Best Bessemer steel wires used, always of uniform quality. Never goes wrong no matter bow great a strain EVERV ROD OF AMERICAN FENGS', GUARANTEED by the manufacturers. Call and see it. Can show you how it will{ save yoh money and fence your fields so they will stay fenced. C. H'UHN, DEALER IN SPOUTING GOODS.: Bicycles, Baseball Goods, Fishir.g Tackle, Guns, Pistols, etc! Hand some Specialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Mechanics’ Tools, •> Repairing of Guns. 520 MULBERRY ST. Bicycles, Etc. MACON, GEORGIA It factory loaded SHOfGUN shells New 0 Rival" "Leader” "Repeater” The highest glory in any world is the glory of service,—Ladies’ Home Journal 1 ' F you are looking for reliable shotgun am-i munition, the kind that shoots where you * point your gun, buy Winchester Factory I Loaded Shotgun Shells: “New Rival,” loaded withf Black, powder; “Leader” and “Repeater,” loaded with Smokeless. Insist upon having Winchester Factory Loaded Shells, and accept no other;*. . 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