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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, FEBRUARY 1,1882.
Georgia’! Swiss Colony.
Golden Grain.
To.The Young Hen of the South.
$he £<mthqm ffaM
PUBLISHED TWICE EACH MONTH,
On the 1st nod 15th.
BY THX
SOUTHERN WOULD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Incorporated—Paid up Capital, 920,000.
D. C. BALENTINE, President and Manager.
J. B. CARTMELL, Secretary and Treasurer.
W. G. WHIDBY, Editor.
LR NEWMAN,’ } Contributing Editors.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.—It is our aim to make
the Southern World a medium for the dlOhslon of
practical Information upon alt Agricultural and
Mechanical subjects, and to this end we Invite com
munications upon all rural subjects, experimental
results, crop news, domestic economy, etc., and upon
topics of Interest to Mechanics, Manufacturers and
Miners. Address all letters to
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ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 1,1881.
EXPLANATORY.
The delay and unsatisfactory condition of
our printing arrangements compelled us to
make a change, and in the transfer we were
forced, by the necessities of the case, to omit
the issue of the Southern World for Janua
ry 15th. Our subscribers will not lose it,
however, as they will receive their full com
plement of the issues of the Southern
World. Our arrangements being now com
pleted, no more delays will occur, and the
Southern World will be issued promptly on
the 1st and 15th of each month.
CASH PREMIUMS.
To those who furnish us clubs of five or
more subscribers, we will allow a cask
premium of 20 cents for each subscriber.
That is, send us five names and $4, and keep
the remaining dollar for your trouble.
Alabama to I be Front t
A subscriber in Choctaw county, Alabama,
gives us the particulars concerning two
wonderful children in that county, brother
and sister. The parents are Thomas Lacey
and wife, hard-working people in straight
ened circumstances. The boy is 13 years
old and the girl 11. They are peculiar
children. The boy has 12 fingers and 13
toes; the girl 12 fingers and 11 toes. They
are not quite four feet high, and weigli 130
pounds each. Their photographs have never
been taken, and consequently their exist
ence is known only in that immediate
vicinity. What a chance is here offered for
F. T. Barnum or some other enterprising
mant These Alabama children will cer
tainly attract attention.
Raise Oats.
Georgia has a waggish farmer named James
Y. Carmichael, of Coweta county. He never
fails to “bring down the house.” One of
hie pithy sayings we publish for its practi
cal sense: “ If you want to save your dis
tance, raise your supplies at home. Rust
proof oats arc the best thing I know of.
They are good for chickens, hogs, cows,
sheep, and horses. If you get out of credit,
you can iive at home. Sow your lands in
rust-proof oats, and commence living at
home." __
The South has a capacity for growing two
food crops every year on each acre. It is
our duty to bring up her soil to its fullest
capacity of production.
The ladies will not be forgotten. The
editor of this paper is arranging a special
premium for them, to be announced soon.
Bermuda grass is estimated to be worth
$500 per acre, as a pasture. Some men are
wealthy, and don’t know it I
The editor of the Southern World, de
siring to stimulate the young men of the
South to a deeper interest in, and a more
practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits,
offers the following premiums, open, to any
young man under sixteen years of age, in
any of the Southern States: For the best
half acre in corn, oats, potatoes, peas, cane
or cotton, cultivated by the contestant, a
chest of tools, worth $20.00; for the second
best a chest at tools valued at $10.00; for the
third best a cbest of tools valued at $5.00. If
contestants so elect, the premiums will be
paid in gold, in lieu of the tools.
Those desirous of contesting for the pre
miums must send in their names to the ed
itor of the Southern World on or before
Marcli 20tli for registration.
Contestants will be required to give a con
cise statement of the character of the soil
and seed, mode of culture, amount and kind
of fertilizers (if any) used, cost of cultivat
ing and yield, and send per express, charges
paid, one peck of corn, oats, potatoes or
peas; five stalks of cane and sample of cot
ton, not less than five pounds, ail properly
labelled witli producer’s name, coun
ty and State, for exhibition at the office of
the Southern World.
Contestants will be required to have their
land accurately measured and the yield
properly certified to by neighbors before
the clerk 0/ any county court, and
sent to the editor of this paper for filing.
The reports from the several contestants
will be submitted to Hon. Thos. Hardeman,
President of the State Agricultural Society
of Georgia; Hon J. T. Henderson, Commis
sioner of Agriculture of Georgia; Hon. A.
H. Colquitt, Governor of Georgia; Hon. D.
N. Speer, State Treasurer of Georgia; Hon.
J. E. Brown, U. S. Senator; and Hon. D.
Wyatt Aiken, M. C., from South Carolina,
who will make the awards.
Reports must be sent in by November 15.
The co-operation of county and State Agri
cultural organizations are earnestly invoked
to accomplish the beneficial result
sought to be brought about by the offer of
these premiums.
Will our brethren of the Press give currency
to our proposition by publishing it in their
columns?
A Hopeful View.
Our excellent confrere, the Monroe (Ga.)
Advertiser, indulges in the following hope
ful view of the situation:
“The people of our section are despond
ent; there is no use of denying the fact.
Last year’s business placed scores, if not
hundreds of them, in debt. Not only farm
ers, but merchants and tradesmen, have
suffered. Short crops and the heavy pur
chase of supplies last spring and summer
have thrown the commercial world out of
gear, and long faces are too common. We
heard a gentlemen say^ a few days ago, that
the 1 wolf was at the door' of many people.
But good will come out of this. Economy
in living will be practiced this year more
rigidly than ever before, and next fall will
witness a wonderful improvement in the
condition of the people. Said a merchant
to us, last week, ' not a single wagon load
of goods on time has left Forsyth thus far.’
If economy is thus practiced, we may look
for the most favorable results. We believe
there is a more general disposition to work
than we ever saw manifested before. There
is a vast demand for more money, at reason
able rates, and scores of applications are
going forward to the loan agencies that have
been established in Georgia. We do not
know that any good will come out of these
companies. We trust there may. No one,
so far as we have heard, has yet secured any
money from them. Their conditions are
very binding and tight, but they can be
complied with. It is evident that relief
must come from some source, and at present
this is the only one that holds out any
hope."
At the request of a number of agricultural
ists, we add Broom-corn to the list of articles
to be cultivated for the special premiums
offered to young men in the South under
sixteen years of age.
The best way to save upland, is to plow
deep and sow it every year in oats.
The Swiss colony, located in Habersham
county, Georgia, 82>4 miles from Atlanta,
is in a flourishing condition and constant
ly receiving additions from the “old coun
try." A town called “New Switzerland"
has been laid out, the Atlanta & Charlotte
Air Line Railroad running through the
center of the town. A very handsome
“Immigrant’s House” (serving also as a
station house) hss been erected there, and a
church, school house, and large hotels, are
projected. The head of the colony, C. A.
Beidermann, is now in Switzerland arrang
ing for bringing out a large number of
Swiss farmers. Mrs. Beidermann is the life,
the moving spirit and the good genius of the
colony, looking with sleepless vigilance
after its i nterests. Having visi ted the colony
and enjoyed the hospitalities of Mrs. Beider
mann, we are prepared to state advisedly
that the Swiss are temperate, thrifty and
industrious, and that the fame of Mrs. B.’s
cuisine is not only well deserved, but really
does not award to her its full meed of praise.
These colonists are adding to the material
wealth of that section, (having purchased
farms and improved them,) and reflect
credit on the foresight and patriotism of
Col. G. J - . Foreacre and Maj. W. J. Houston,
of the Air Line railroad, who, if not the
fathers, arc the god-fathers of the colony.
Cols. T. M. R. Talcott and A. Pope, of the
Richmond & Danville it. R., are using every
effort to build up this colony. There are
about 140 persons in it, and dairy farms,
vineyards, stock farms and truck farms will
dot the hillsides and add to the industrial
and material growth of that section. Mrs.
Mary E. Bryan, of the Sunny South, speak
ing of a visit to it, says:
“I carried with me the impression that
the Swiss colony in North Georgia is a suc
cessful experiment, and that the people who
will mostspeedily and substantially improve
our undeveloped lands, and who will most
readily assimilate our customs and institu
tions, are the hardy, cheerful, industrious,
free-born race who come to us from the
shadow of the Alps.”
Diversity or Pursuit.
Diversified industries are not necessarily
antagonistic. They are but the opposing
forces that hold in proper check every ma
terial interest of society. Diversity is
written upon the face of nuturc. Mountain
und valley, land nnd sea, the spring-time
green, the summer fruit, the autumn leaf,
the winter’s blight, are but the evidences of
different sentiments nnd promptings in the
Divine mind at Earth’s creation. Change
and variety are stamped upon the earth
below, while above we realize the fact, there
is “one glory of the stars—for one star
differeth from another star in glory." As
in the natural so in the physical world,
different conformations, different tastes and
natural promptings, direct to different pur
suits, into which men gravitate as naturally
as did the planets to their respective orbits.
And how wisely are these different pursuits
adapted to the growtli of society and the
permanent welfare of the people ?
Were all men merchants, commerce—that
great refiner and stimulator—would soon
furl her sails and leave the ocean to tempest
and to storm.
Were we all mechanics, the fields would
ripen no harvest, and the hammer and the
saw would be heard only “ upon the works
of our own hands."
Were we all manufacturers, the spindle
and the loom would quickly stop, and the
wheel would no longer move to the power
of the stream, for want of the raw material
upon which to operate.
So, were we all agriculturalists, labor
would confine itself to the production alone
of the necessaries of life. Energies would
languish and die, for there would be no re
muneration for toil. Society would retro
grade as the people became idle and listless,
while progress, with no good in view and no
motive power to propel, would leave the
world to abject necessity and slothful in
difference.
How essential, then, to growth, prosperity
and happiness is diversified industry, and
how wisely was it ordained that so large a
majority of earth’s laborers should be en
gaged in that occupation upon the success
of which that of every other one so eminent
ly depends. It antagonizes none, for on it
all lean for permanent prosperity. Mutually
dependent, they should move in sweetest
harmony, each guarding, with sacred
fidelity, the best interest of the other. The
plow, the loom and the anvil are the grand
rounds in the ladder of advancement. One
broken, and the ascent is slow and unsatis
factory.—[Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia.
B. S. T., Verona, Miss: “I think the
Southern World is the cleanest, nicest and
best paper in the United States.”
L. R. C., Clarksville, Tenn: “If you have
not the back numbers commencing with
No. I, you can make the subscriptions for
the club sent for 1832, but as I expect to
take the Southern World forever and keep
a file, would prefer to commence with the
first issue.”
Rev. A. Means, D. D., L. L. D., Oxford,
Ga.: “May your beautifully executed semi
monthly prosper."
J. B. R., Carter Depot, E. Tenn.: “I
think so much of the Southern Word I
want to give it a “boom” in our county."
The liveliest and brighest exchange we
get from the South is the Southern World,
published at Atlanta, Georgia, by the
Southern World Publishing Company. It
deserves succes. — [Plaindealer, Hastings,
Iowa.
Wc take special pleasure in commending
the Southern World to such of our readers
as are interested in the industrial future of
Georgia and the South. It is full of infor
mation of vast importance to farmers. We
have received and examined three copies
of this journal, and we unhesitatingly pro
nounce it the best publi cation, in its line,
that lias ever come to this office. The far
mer of the present day cannot keep abreast
of the times without careful reading
and close study; and he will not find a bet
ter aid to success than the Southern
World.—[Sparta, Ga., Ishmaelite.
The Southern World, published at At
lanta, Georgia, is an attractive periodical.
It is devoted to agriculture and is a medi
um for the diffusion of practical informa
tion generally and is handsomely illus
trated.
The Southern' World proposes, while
discussing the elements cf industrial and
commercial achievements, not to forget to
cultivate the beauty of home and home re
lations. In the farm and at the fireside and
in the workshop it will scatter informa
tion and lead to a higher development of
the intellectual and morul fucultics, by the
elevated tone of its teachings.
Mr. W. G. Whidby is the editor. He was
formerly the editor of the Headlight and
made it one of the most useful and readable
papers of the kind in the country.
The terms are $1 per annum, and taking
it all in all the Southern World is one of
the best publications of the many that grace
our table.—[Kcowee, S. C., Courier.
The Southern World.—The above is
a sixteen page journal, devoted to the farm,
home and the workshop, published semi
monthly at Atlanta, Ga., at $1 a year. We
have received several copies of this paper,
and must say that after a careful perusal of
the same we regard it as the very best pub
lication of its character in the country. Its
agricultural department is one of its most
attractive features, containing much infor
mation and advice that will prove of prac
tical advantage to the farmers of this sec
tion. We especially commend it to our
planters as a journal that will meet all their
demands. Address the Southern World
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lanta, Georgia, at $1 per annum. This is
an excellent paper. Its several departments
are ably conducted, giving instruction,
miscellany, variety, spice and interest
adapted to all classes of readers. Every
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ished twice a month by the Southern
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The Southern World will be sent as a
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subscriber enclosing our regular subscrip
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ord.
Many good people calling themselves tem
perance men and women never make the
least personal effort or sacrifice for the
cause. They meet men every day who are
drifting into bad company; viho frequent
saloons; who go reeling through the streets
drunken, yet they never try to rescue or
save these unfortunate ones. They read of
the horrors of intemperance, as they are
chronicled day by day in the papers, but
never think of giving their time or their
money to further the good cause of its abo
lition. Brethren, these things ought not to
be so; sometime you will awake to the aw-
ful fact that God has made you “your
brother’skeeper."