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A New Cotton Disease.
Correspondence Atlanta Constitution.
Iii the face of the fact that we
have the brightest prospect for a
bountiful cotton crop this county
has had in-years is the further
fact of impending disaster. The
fields of waving, loading cotton
present a spectacle cheering and
hopeful. Suggestions of peace
and plenty come sweeping over
the minds of the weary toilers as
they look out upon the scene. But
the spell cannot la9t. A close in*
tolligent inspection of the hang
ing fruit brings to lignfc the silent
but threatening approach of death
and destruction. May the ad
vance of the monster in some way
he averted, is the prayer of hun
dreds of anxious tillers of the soil
in Putnam county.
Anthracnose, that most destruc
tive enemy of the cotton plant, is
abroad iu the land. It will be
remonibered that last year it ap
peared in many localities of the
state, and that great damage was
sustained wherever it wss found.
While it is a new disease and but
little understood, it has been no
ticed to a limited extent by one
o? two observant farmers in Put
nam co.iuty fortlie past ten years.
While some years it would be
very noticeable, in others it would
apparently disappear. Until last
year it has been very limited i
scope and mild in character.
Last year, however, it presented a
most formidable front and was
quite widely scattered. Iu .several
instances ' great damage was
\Vrought. Iu one. particular, es
pecially, that your correspondent
recalls,’ the crops of cottbn, that
promised well, was cut to two
bales to the plow.
In consequence of its destructive
nature the farmers are watching
its reappearance and development
with considerable interest and
dread. In several important res
pects the malady is more serious
than ever.
1, It has made its appearance
the present year fully one month
in advance of its arrival last year.
2. Its appearance is decidedly
more general than ever before.
Last year the eastern and central
portions of the county seemed to
have monopolized the unwelcome
visitor. This year it is devel
oping in almost every part of the
county.
8. Its advent this year dates
back but a short while, and so
far its damage has been slight,
but it spreads and develops rap
idly and does its deadly work well
and quickly. The malady has re
ceived at the hands of experts
much investigation, and no little
speculation, too, has been expend
ed, but as yet it seems to be but
little understood. It has been
oalled a kind of fungus growth—
a disease that resembles the
brown rot or blight common to
fruit trees. It is said to be the
work of no insect. The conditions
that are favorable to its develop
ment are practically unknon, for
it has been known not to thrive
one season under conditions that
apparently favored it another
year. Fertilizers seem to have
nothing to do with it, pro nor con.
Damp, low plaoes that produce
rank growth in cotton are no
more subject to the malady than
up lands. The character of the
laud plays no part. The different
varieties of cotton, according to
last year’s experience, seem to be
affected differently. The “New
Era,’’ a variety considerably used
in this county, seems to stand the
ravages of the trouble better than
other kinds.
The agricultural department
last year advised the farmers to
secure their planting seed from
remote localities where the dis
ease was unknown. This several
parties iu the county did, but
without success.
The first appearance of the
malady is exactly as if the green
boll had been stung by an insect.
A small puncture (bo it looks to
the eye) in the outside hull of the
boll is visible. Surrounding this
is a small purple circle, resemb
ling a bruised spot. It might nat
urally seem that the outer cover
ing of the cotton boll would first
be attacked and consumed, but
not so. From this small, bruised
looking 0pot the deadly poison
seems, to enter the interior and
to attack the lint, and praotioally
to destroy it before the hull is
even blackened to any considera
ble extent. Its work is usually
complete.
What will be the outcome of the
appearance of the disease in this
couuty cannot be told as yet. If
it continues to develop, and its
ravages are in proportion to its
widened scope and increased ac
tivity much damage may be surely
expected. No little anxiety pre
vails among the farming popula
tion iu consequence of this terri
ble disease, against which they are
powerless to fight.
Productive Education.
The social, commercial and in
dustrial state of the Common
wealth has almost wholly changed
in the last thirty-five years, says
Governor Montague of Virginia.
These changes have imposed new
conditions that must be met with
courage, energy and intelligence,
or we must fatally lag behind in
the march of progress and civili
zation. Education'for speculative
thinkers and professions will not
save the people. But few of the
many who ever enter public
schools make their living other
than by the use of their hands
and eyes. Why not, therefore,
educate those faculties and mem
bers which produce the substance
anul comforts of life? Such edu
cation is not merely material.
Upon labor till civilization prima
rily rests, and the education of
this labor will teach knowing by
doing, and blend science with art.
It will beget habits of order, accu
racy, industry and intelligence;
it will produce contentment and
develop skill and productive pow
er; it will dignify labor and ener
gize the creative forces of society.
These momentous needs can be
greatly facilitated, if not accom
plished, by some forms of indus
trial education. Ample experi
ence affords indisputable proof of
the practical and ethical value of
this form of education, which in
some branches may be introduced
into many of our public schon' >
with little, if any, additional c -t :
and in a few years we shall hr-
a system of teaohing that v i
popularize the free schools ilid
powerfully advance the State.
You find here and there individ
ual men who talk against educa
tion for one class of people or on-
other, but when you get down to
the facts of the case, says Edgar
Garner Murphy, you usually find
that these men are objecting, not
to education in itself, but to some
specious and unpractical form of
miseducation. For all olasses of
our people, there has been too
much of the education that looks
toward vanity, and not enough of
that education which looks to
ward a common sense, practical
equipment for the actual opportu
nities of life. This is the form of
education in which we are espe
cially interested.
Summer complaint is unusually
prevalent among children this
season. A well developed case in
the writer’s family was oured last
week by the timely use of Cham
berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy—one of the best
patent medicines manufactured
and which is always kept on hand
at the home of ye scribe. This is
not intended as a free puff for the
company, who do not advertise
with us, but to benefit little suf
ferers who may not be within easy
access of a physician. No family
should be without a bottle of this
medicine in the house, especially
in summer-time.—Lansing, Iowa,
Journal. For sale by all dealers
in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
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The Scientist’s Right.
The members of a certain learn
ed society had been indulging in
birthday festivities, and when
dinner and tho subsequent enjoy
ments were over, Prof. Jones start
ed off to trudge the half mile or
so to his home, says the Pittsburg
Bulletin. The professor is a very
clever man, and noted for the
keenness of his intellect.
The excitement and the unu
sually hearty dinner, followed by
the abstruse discussion in which
he had been engaged, had given
him a headache; so, approaching
an electrio light post, he pressed
his throbbing brow against the
cool iron. Thus he stood for a
few minutes. Then, feeling a lit
tle chilly, .he buttoned his over
coat preparatory to proceeding on
his way home, but, to his horror,
when he attempted to leave the
post he found himself unable to
move.
A brain such as the professor’s
works quickly, and the reason for
his detention soon seemed clear.
Evidently the current which fed
the lamp above had become divert
ed from its course and was pass
ing through his body, binding
him to the post in the process.
Death, ghastly and horrible, star
ed him in the face. Gradually
his backbone would become dis
solved to a jelly, and while the
awful process was going on he
must stand there as helpless as a
butterfly pinned to a cork.
In his terror he gave vent to his
feelings in a mighty yell. This
attracted the attention of a po
liceman, who hurried up, and then
shaking with laughter, listened to
the professor’s ' explanation.
When he had finished, the police
man unfastened the professor’s
overcoat from the post, around
which he had inadvertently but
toned it.
Out this out and take it to your
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Too much housework wrecks wo
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woman. A haggard face tells the
story of the overworked housewife
and mother. Deranged menses,
leuoorrhoea and falling of the
womb result from overwork.
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the day. Mbs. Richard Jokes.
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