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Newspaper Page Textfour Friend in Or the Great West! WHO IS HE? There are hundreds of Georgians in ^ great and booming west who want juit such a paper as A WEEK’S DOINGS IN STATE. THE EMPIRE The following poem was written by j COMMISSIONER NESBITT. It jlres All the Local NewB 1 It gives All the Georgia News I It gives All the General News ! And a vast amount of information contained iu no other weekly pa per. The appointment of Sir. Bayard of, Delaware to a place in President Cleve- Mrs ' M ' H - Cleveland, of Greenville, Cream of the Kew,^aTef.aivCoii«*~i „ I laBd ’« cabinet may confer some dignity S - C ” an aunt of Mrs - Ben Herndon, coa* — ~ 1 body, bufcit will make the Work | of Dalton ' -- — of earrying the administration on his sturdy little shoulders all the harder new | for Col. Ban Lament.—Chicago Trib une, Rep. Mr. Kilgore, the Texan who prac tiees statesmanship by filibustering, in the house, is a candidate for the Mexi can mission. It might be to the ad vantage of this country if he were thereat the present time; but filibus tered axe not new popular in Mexico- New York World, Dem. And suppose the United States were m, . . , Permitted to annex the islands. They e ministers of Atlanta met one | would be exposed to naval attack, and would require more defense than our entire Western seacoast. Used ag gressively for commercial advantage they would require the adoption of a defensive policy that would compel the I ‘ y our «uie»Mi that they dread, TT jo/. / compel me Sharper and stronger every year, u nitea States to enter into the rivalry I Truly the birds have cause to fear, of arms and armament that is wrecking I Bat since with patience, ’tho much aggrieved, HIS MONTHLY TALK WITH THE FARM ERS OF GEORGIA. ' Condensed into Short Pa^m^'f Citizen Headers. for The people of MiHen, want _ county, with Milieu as the count^t, j the county to be called Millen. A cigar factory^ willl^on be estab lished in Perry. The stock and tools have been ordered. At Woodville, a station on the Ath ens branch of the Georgia road, the office of W. P. McWhorter was broken into, the safe prized open with bur glars’ tools and 3240 in money stolen. The ministers of Atl day last week and passed a resolution asking, the daily papers of the State to desist from publishing sensational sto ries and details of crimes. Mrs. Cleveland has writ ten many exqusite verses, a large num ber of which have been published: (There is a legend that St. Nicholas blessed tBe Holly with Bloom and berry as compensa tion for its prickly leaves.) “Faint and weary one stunmer’s day, St. Nicholas journeyed on bis way; His fast had both been strict and long, And he cheered the hoar with sacred song. Now, by the wayside, dark and green, A lovely holly tree was seen, So, stopping 'neath its shade to rest (For by the heat he was sore oppressed), He heard a voice come from the tree, Saying, ‘Good Saint, why should this be That ’tho I offer a safe retreat To the little birds that sing so sweet, Not one of them will ever come To find among my boughs a home? I try to bear it patiently, But when to other trees I see My feathered friends go every day To warble forth their roundelay, I feel that something most be wrong, Or me they’d sometimes cheer with song. 1 And in reply the good man said Department of Agriculture , Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 1, 1893. The Late Cold Spell, Perhaps the severest in ten years, has caused almost an entire paralysis of farm work, and it is only where a great deal of energy and determination have been brought to the front that anything has been accomplished in the field. A little cleaning np, repairs on fences, the cutting away of briars and bushes in the old fence rows, is, in most cases, all that has been attempted. The ther mometer registered as low as six degrees and never higher than fourteen for several days, and it was this uniform cold, with the snow which followed, that saved the oat crop. Had it alter nated between freezing and thawing for same period, the damage would have been irreparable. I am informed that in some localities, more especially lower Georgia, the oat crop has succumbed and where this ESt Ycc lieefr—before the neavy freezes began. If this has not been done, haul out your manure at once and broadcast. Plow and harrow until you have your soil in good tilth, and in planting the different vegetables try and supply as from each other, antT" so" placed that each must depend upon her own native resources for support and devel opment North Georgia* would lead them all. far as possible theplant food needed ! ® that special variety. Irish nntntn** fruit-growing section, but there will be special variety. Irish potatoes, the first garden #rop usually planted, re quire a good deal of potash and two suocessive crops in the same year, can ! be easily made." We are now, the first of February, eating potatoes dug out of the open ground, entirely uninjured by the severe cold, and as perfect and large as those of the usual spring crop. They were planted in August and heavilv mulched, Should it be necessary to re-seed the oats put in an additional number of acres, rather than curtail those already sown. Should this grou fail, von have a well manured and nicely prepared seed bed for SPECIAL FEATURES. See the special features. AGRICULTURAL. I’ll try, at least to give ypu aid. Fll pray that you may surely be Above all others the Christinas Tree. Becord, Ind. It is perfectly true that the Sand- wich Islands: are unfit for self govern- I That In the spring, when all is bright, ment on the plan of universal suffrage, and that it would not do to admit Hawaii as a State, unless the character of the population underwent radical Bev. S. S. Sweet, Secretary of the Confederate Survivors Association in Macon, has forwarded to the treasurer of the Jefferson Davis monument fund $16,369, the proceeds of recent collec tions. The fact that a large cigar factory will soon be in operation at Thomas- ville, has stimulated tobacco growing in Thomas county. There will be a market for a great deal of the weed in Thomasville next year. Counterfeiters are getting in some of their sKek work around Athens. A few days since several peopla at Bo gart, on the Georgia, Carolina and Northern, were swindled by having counterfeit dollars passed on them, and j tion of tbe people of the United States the same thing happened in Athens | ^ as hitherto been against the annexa- also. • J tion of territory separated from us by A chicken coop manufactory has been /T Wgh 8633 aud wh ose people are not Tfi/l#) 4 111* V n 1 • , ! the -ati™, of Europe—Chicago Newel I You shall wear a robe of creamy white, And when the Autumn winds shall blow, With whisperings of Winter,s snow, Crimson berries, like rubies fine, Amid your rich, green leaves shall shine, L„t - _ . , , , | And the birds no more your thorns shaU dread, ® ’ . t IS not contemplated. I But come to partake of the feast you spread. The proposition to annex that group of j At Christmas, both in cot and hall, islands involves no obligation of State hood, but rather contemplates little more than a protectorate.—Chicago In ter Ocean, Bep. It cannot be denied, that the disposi- HOU8EHOLD. STORIES, ICIKXCE. SKETCHES. HUMOR. started at Athens. All kinds ofjchicken coops are manufactured with the latest improvements. The carpenter-* who has gone into this business, finds ready sale for all he makes, and will soon- put a drummer on the road to sell his coops. Brandon FASUIONS. ETIQUETTE. It is printed in clear, bold, type and ri cheerful, easy-reading family pa~ h. containing no sensations to cor- mpt the children of the household. ONLY 75 CENTS II CIS Of Fif! ' ,l ' e want one thousand new subscri pts within the next six mouths and Replaced the price of subscription J ‘ ^>93 within the reach of all. Everybody can afford to tako a pa- fer when it costs so little, and now is 146 l ‘ me f° r YOU and YCUR neighbor w subscribe. ITU THE m YEAR! Thompson, a white man who recently moved into Hall county from Gilmer county, committed suicide one day last week by hanging himself by means of a rope to a tree, near I priation for the year ending Juds* 30, us. But the geographical location of these islands, our business relations with them, and our ever increasing commerce on the Pacific ocean present these issues which may render it neces sary that these prejudices-give away to the exigencies of the situation that now exists.—Pittssburg Times. The pension appropriation bill, as agreed upon .by the appropriation com mittee, carries 3166,400,000, an in crease of 320,662,650 over the appro- Gifta yon shall bear for great and small; Then, too, with fir-tree, box and pine, Shall loving hands your boughs entwine, To beautify, as your best reward, The glorious temples of the Lord.’ And so it chanced on a Christmas day, When journeying once again that way, He there beheld a lovely sight— A tree all decked in wreaths of white, With berries red, gleaming between The light snow fiakes—a fairy scene— While birds had come from far and near, Glad to Cnjoy the Christmas cheer; Birds of all kinds on joyous wing Their Christmas carols came to sing. And so, if we with patience bear The daily trials we meet with here, Much fruit shaU crown us in the end, And we shall never want a friend. Natures prickly as hoUy-leaf Must surely bring us all to grief, Then fold Love's soft, bright mantle ronnd The thorns that might another, wound, And with Charity's veil, pure as snow, Cover the fanlts of friend and foe.” PRETTY AND PATHETIC. White Sulpher Springs. The deceased was fifty years of age, and is said to have left two wives behind him in .Gilmer cogntx. The cause, of his rash- act is assigned to tmSpdfary ’ insanityr The Hall brothers, who are the engi neers in charge of the drainage of Okqfenooke swamp, say that the work is progressing very satisfactory. The main canal, which is to carry the waters of the swamp into the St. Mary’s river, is well under way. The engineers ex pect to have the water out sufficiently this year to enable the saw mill men to get into the swamp with their plants. 1893. According to the report of As sistant Secretary Bussey for 1889, the combined pension rolls of Great Brit- ifc-F-rancev _ jary ancT Belgium coat annuallyomy 331,002,150.” And these are fighting countries which have had wars more recent than ours. Is there something wrong with our pension roll ?—Balti • more Sun, Dem. TOBACCO CULTURE. Charles S. Conner, of Norfolk, Va., has opened business at Jamaica, Glynn county, for supplying ship masts, and has contracts for supplying the govern ment shipyard. He has just secured mast sticks for the United States steam ship Constitution, now loading in Egypt with articles for display at the World’s Fair. On her return she will go into dry dock at the Norfolk navy yard, for refitting, and Glynn county masts will grace her rigging. Result of an Experiment Made Near Dalton, Ga., Last Year. From the Chattanooga News. R, M, Herron writes Secretary Goad a lengthy letter giving a history of his ex perience in tobacco growing near Dalton last year. He had eight acres, planted. He has sold in Richmond, Va., the- sec ond and third grades at 20-and 10 cents, and has all the first grade on hand. It is worth 30 cents. Mr. Herron will plant twenty acres this year. He is much encouraged with, his success. Hb has already received a great er sum net for what he hassold than, the land would bring him in any other crop, and has a large amount of the choicest tobacco still on-hand. Stud - co l'.v of this paper to your 01 ‘ relative in Texas, or the West, be better than a letter from friend THE citizen Has been known Great Family Paper Cherokee Georgia. of ' le Past thirty-five years and has a 'veleonie visitor to many house- hld Si Ti . nn g Hie current year it will be 6TTEr than ever. Drj t miss a single issue. ^ubseriHe fins- Now. -$1.00 ^etUv-- per year in advance, i’-five cents to clubs ©f fiyq. Says the Herald and Advertiser: No town in Western Georgia receives more home raised supplies than Newnan. It is no uncommon sight to see load after load of corn and fodder being vended on our streets. The low price of cot ton for two years past has taught the farmers a lesson, and it is to be hoped that the recent advance in the price of the staple will not beguile them into returning to the ruinous plan of plant ing all cotton. Savannah’s fertilizer product for the current season is 60,000. The Morn ing News says: The fertilizer manu facturers are now, closing up Their con tracts for this season’s business. About half the product has been shippad out and the remainder is going out steadily. An Incredible JPropositiqn.. A Texas man proposes to send peo ple across the Atlantic ocean by means of a rubber tube like a cable. He will dash you across the broad ocean in three hours by a kind of pneumatic ar rangement. Mail and merchandise will be poured in the tubes on this side and will come out on the European continent. After the freight tubes are perfected then an immense one will be constructed for passengers. Think of going to Europe in a puff of air with electricity assistance. If mortal man brave a thousand miles an hour his breath will surely be blown away. It will be a novel sensation to be cabled across, if one survives the modus operandi. But he Didn’t DeHerve the Pardon. In his lecture on “The Fiddle and the Bow” ex-Governor “Bob”,Taylor always makes a hit with the audience and justifies his free exercise of the ft little package came to him from the State prison as he sat in the governor’s office. Opening he found a roughly carved fiddle and a note. The note was to the effect that knowing the gov ernor’s love for the fiddle, a convict, from his prison cell, sent this rude in strument with the request that he would play one tune on it and think of one who sat in loneliness while the in mates of an humble mountain cabin watched in vain for his coming. Affected by the note he investigated the case and finally pardoned the con vict, so that when Christmas came joy oncemore reigned in the mountain cabin and the governor sat on Christmas day with his own loved ones, happy in the consciousness that the sound of the fiddle, the happy laughter of children and the smiles of a loved wife lit up the once sad home, because the wan dering father had returned. The story never fails to be cheered to the echo. The pardon, however, it der velops was most unworthily bestowed. The man pardoned was George Mc- Cully, who was recently arrested at Bristol on a charge of bigamy and sent to jail without bail. McCully’s first wife was here and labored most earn estly for his pardon. When Taylor released him he left here without taking the trouble to look up his faith ful wife. He went to Greenville, Tenn., and there married again. In a short while he deserted the second wife and went to Bristol, where, about three months ago, he married a Miss Rosa Belle Ashley, who is now prose cuting him for bigamy. CROP HAS BERN KILLED. I would advise the re-seeding of the same land just as soon as the weather permits of out door work. It has been too much our practice in the past to put this land in cotton. don’t be tempted to do this. -If this land was fertilized in the fall, put on a little more plant food and put your oat seed in the first opportunity, and I don’t think you will have cause to regret your action. I have never seen a farmer who permitted the land on which cotton had been killed to go unplanted, and I have yet to see the man who replanted it in any crop but cotton. The plows must now be moving every favorable moment, but don’t plow your land when it is TOO WET. The little time gained by this plan is far outbalanced by the injury to the land, for if there is much clay this becomes mortar, and so compacted that it requires years of subsequent intelli gent work to counteract the injury. Too many tenants and hired men are ignorant of or indifferent to the harm done, - and hence this mistaken plan is often followed. The heavy freezes have destroyed much insect life, and will render our land more pliable and easily broken by the plow. THE COMPOST HEAPS should be pushed forward with vigor. Try a compost of stable manure, acid phosphate and potash. This puts yonr land in fine mechanical condition and gives plant food well adapted to our soils and standard crops. For this pur pose there is nothing better than the formula prepared by the late Mr. Tur man, which I give iu full elsewhere in this report. In planning for yonr crops don’t go on the idea that it is the number of acres rather than the preparation and condition of the land which marks the successful farmer. With our cheap and abundant lands it seems almost natural that we have fallen into this error. But let ns realize that it is an error and resolve to follow better methods. Iff the last fifty years agriculture has made vast strides and it is m those-older countries, where practiced that a marked degree has been attained, and our own state, com paratively .young and fresh, has to depend to a large extent on outside assistance for the food to support our FIELD PEAS, from which crop yon can gain a fine supply of feed and yonr land he left in improved condition. Keep a large slice of yonr farm for CORN AND SORGHUM, planting several varieties ,of the latter with a view to succession of crops. There is nothing better’for hogs, and if planted convenient to the hog p isture can be handled without much expense. Leave a good patch for potatoes and ground peas. Remember that THE HOG CROP 13 SHORT, and the price of meat is advancing. Look well to the hogs. Give them care ful attention. I have a neighbor who always raises an abundant supply of meat, He has never lost a hog from cholera. He gives them the same at tention that he gives his plow animals, the same regular daily feeding and wa tering, and at one year of age his pork ers average 200 .pounds. This result is not so much from the quantity of food, as from the regularity with which it is given. In all these monthly talks I have en deavored to show that we should aban don methods, which' must result in ab solute stagnation of our energies. Our agricultural misfortunes appeal directly to the business interests of the -whole country, and our towns and cities will not continue to thrive anu grow wltifin agriculture, their dependence, is in an unhealthy condition. Build np our ag riculture and every industry through out our commonwealth will be re-vital- ized. Everj r effort of our government, our agricultural societies, and our pub lic men, should be directed to this great work. I cannot close this “talk,” with out again appealing to our farmers to avoid the “broad acre” and the “cotton” craze. R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner. It is learned that at an early. date, Taken altogether it has been a very I lar g e spinning mill will be erected at good season with the manufacturers. In fact they are now confronted with | an unusual state of affairs; the demand is greater than the., supply. The dis covery of this fact has advanced prices considerably since the beginning of j the .year. Juliette, on the East Tennessee rail road, about forty miles from Macon. The mill will run about 5,000 spindles and will cost in the neighborhood, of 375,000. Dr,. Gloyer, of Macon, is Why do we Die ? Vital statistics classified shows the respiratory organs to be the feeble point in man. Diseases of the lungs are out of all proportion in fatality* Take Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein for cougks, colds and consump tion. Lady Florence Dixie makes a sug gestion to women suffragists. She ad vocates a bit of deception on the part one of -the chief promoters of the en- I of women who yearn to vote. It is to terprise. The,work of paying off the widows j their annual pensions contipues to en gage tfie attention of the treasurer aq<l his assistant. An Old. Field Weed. Many seeing that old field .weed,,the mullein stalk, never consider the good it , is accomplishing in curing lung About five hundred of, troubles. It presents in TaylorVChero- ' oc - 5 - 1 kee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein don the masculine garb at the time of registering, to register as a male citizen, and then, on the day of voting, to “impersonate” again one of the sterner j these pensions have been checked off- gn™ s t known remedy for coughs, up to date, and the work, goes on fropi colds and consumption. early morn, till the lights flicker on late, at night. It is a great task for the There is a woman in Kansas who is. I n ln the treasurer’s office to dish out not only supporting her husband, he men m the treasur ^ bein <r too busy with politics to work, the money.to t e m are d j g _ but who is also paying, in installments, demands. coipc i , Wondrous the bill for his first wife’s fuperal. patching the business with wondrous j — rapidity. Many of the state. house .of-, fleers have been given power of attor- The snow and the freezes mellowed the ground for the spring crops, and it killed out the germs of. fever and mala ria and we have reason to be thankful. The year promises to he a healthy one for people and a good one for crops. The latest sensational, in New York . is an evangelist, who was a gypsy until ney for the widows, and are busy wit I CO nyergjj on< He has left-his pepr ~ c —nut the money to | ^ and is now drawing crowded houses. “I have been using Salvation Oil for a lame back, and think it is, the best,] remedy I have ever used. C. E, Duriing,^| 15 Ceatial.axe.,Ljnn,.Maos.” the work of sending out the money them through, the mails ..and by ex-, press! ‘ Nqxt wpi come theveferap# who received wounds or injuries in the war. They will be paid off next month. A petite miss has been elected State Librarian of Tennessee. Gradually the fair ones seem to be extending their j domain,' while the sterner Bex are not learning to be . cooks and housekeepers- with, proportionate alacrity. Both houses of congress are unan imously against foreign control of the Hawaiian islands. population. our chief crop all goes to swell the profits of other in dustries, leaving ns nothing but a hard living. The consequent dissatisfaction is causing many farmers to seek em ployment in other lines of business. To trace the evils of such a state of feeling we need only study agricultural his tory in England. Her farming popula tion is 33 per cent, of the whole, and in 1890 she imported four hundred millions of hreadstuffs. Her laboring popula tion is poorly housed, underpaid, discon tented. The average farm is 390 acres, and in the last sixty years she has lost 8,500,000 of her population by migra tion. In France, on the contrary, yon find an energetic, painstaking, frugal peo ple cultivating and owning their small farms. Her rural population is 75 per cent, of the whole. In 1890 she exported one hundred and thirty-five millions of food products, and in sixty years she has lost only 500,000 people by migra tion. Her farms average ten acres, but there are four millions of farmers who make an independent living on farms of two acres each. Her people are inde pendent and hopeful for the future. In England the farmers have, in the last century, lost by the enclosure acts 8,000,000 acres of land, while in France nearly the same number of acres have been gained by the working people. In our own state we see our people bur dened with a superabundance of land and undivided as to the best method for managing it in order to make it pay even a moderate interest. I under stand and appreciate the difficulties, which this condition brings—and I, in common with many others, know that the man who expects to realize a profit or to pay off debts, by stretching his credit to make a few more hales of cot ton, literally “futures” to be dug out of the ground, these to be exchanged for meat and meal and fertilizers to “run” a few more shiftless laborers, is making a grave mistake. We admit that this “old beaten track” has landed ns any where but in prosperity. We know that the financial policy of the government has discriminated against the farmers, but we must also acknowl edge that after seeing our carefully ma tured plans end in ignominious failure, or like Dead Sea fruit turn to ashes on our lips—it is the part of wisdom to try different methods. We have watched these fruitless efforts year after year, and it is folly to go on compounding our mistakes. Let ns direct our atten tion chiefly to such AN APPORTIONMENT OF OUR CROPS as will secure our home supplies, and then make such money crops as our cir cumstances will admit. One man can control labor with apparent ease, and the labor is near him, this man can af ford to take some risk in planting crops, which require rapid and clean cultiva tion. On the other hand, I would ad- vine any man, who knows he will have difficulty in obtaining labor, to direct his work on the line of grasses and •took. Begin on a small scale and build up gradually. The owner should be the head—4o him should he left the di rection of control of the farm economy, which he Bhonld study to conform to the most enlightened methods. Let him plant such creps as have best suc ceeded in his vicinity, work within his means and don’t undertake more than he can handle intelligently and with the amount of labor at his command. The Garden. An abundant supply of fresh vege tables is undoubtedly one of the luxu ries of the farm, and to produce these requires good management. The gar den should have been deeply covered riTrarft ft’ 1 ' 1 fhiH welLnlfy f y 9fl i°- Fruit Culture In North Georgia. BY J. O. MILLER, OF ROME. From the proceedings of the Horticultu ral Society, published by the Society and tne Department of Agriculture. Georgia has come to be recognizpd as one of the leading states, if not the leading state of the south, so far as the culture of fruit is concerned. This prominence is justly accorded, we fully believe, still her capabilities in thi3 respect are but partially known or ap preciated. Aside from her soil and climate influences, Georgia’s geographi cal position gives her a decided advan tage over the adjoining southern’states, ftrates to Tne grearaistn Outing markets of the north. ’ Her fruit-growing inter est is yet in its infancy, hut what a wonderful stir the infant is making in the great fruit markets. Already Georgia peaches, pears and grapes are quoted at the very top. They are now taken as the criterion of excellence by the very best trade, this being the reception given our in fant, what may we expect when it is grown. When I think of this I trem ble for the future of many other fruit sections. We are beginning to realize that we have a great state, especially in the field of horticulture. Commercial fruit growers from Dela ware, western New York, Michigan and Missouri (the old established centers of frnit growing of the United States), who were in attendance at the nursery men’s convention in Atlanta in June, after one week’s sojourn within our borders acknowledged that Georgia has the brightest outlook of any section in our republic. They, after a few day's travel and observation, grasped the sit uation with greater zeal and brighter predictions as to our future than many a Georgia horticulturist. The peach interest of Georgia is now becoming a big industry. Can she hold the place already gained' and is there danger of it being overdone ? Let us note for a moment her place in comparison with other noted peach sec tions. California lands suited for the peach are extremely high, irrigation is absolutely necessary, the alkali in the soil is no advantage; then the eastern insect foes are making their appearance in spite of her quarantine against ns. The distance they must ship her prod ucts to find a market is a great hardship on the California grower which they can’t overcome. The great peach region of South Jersey, Delaware and Eastern Maryland is practically out of the race, as the yellows have brought desolation and waste to that beautiful and once profitable fruit region. In the Michigan fruit belt it is true they have to some extent checked the ravages of the yel lows, but not until the industry was crippled and the confidence of pros pective planters shaken. Even grant them the recovery of all lost ground in the Michigan field or any other peach region north they would not visibly affect ns, from the fact that Georgia will lead the market with better peaches than they could offer. When they mar ket Alexanders and others of that type, Georgia will give the market Elbertas, Crawfords, etc., so yon see Georgia is in the field with hardly enough competi tion to incite her growers to cultivate and handle as they should for their own best interest. Where else in the peach world will yon hear commercial growers say, as some of our largest Georgia growers have, that it does not pay to fool with the borer or trouble about thinning the fruit. They reason from actual experi ence that the trees can be brought into bearing so cheaply and the fruit, with out any trouble of thinning, brings such very satisfactory prices that we will not bother with any of its usual fancy touches. What is true of the peach is relatively true of many other fruits, we take the peach as an example simply because there has been more attention given to that fruit as yet than others. We have now come to speak more directly as regarding North Georgia in terests! North Georgia needs not fur ther advertising of her capabilities abroad as much as she needs advertising among her own people. We do not (in many sections at least) appear to have awakened to the proper realization of what can be done in the line of frnit growing. Our own people must acquaint themselves in the line of horticulture with the elements of prosperity about them, and undeveloped resources in their midst, which await intelligent action, rather than attracting strangers with stories of what can be done. It has been often stated, and it is a truthful statement, that if the various sections of onr country ware set ,epar£ many failures and disappointments. There are many obstacles yet to over come. This is not the Garden of Eden. But we accept the spirit of Whittier’s hymn: “Why search the wide world everywhere For Eden’s unknown ground t That garden of the primal pair May never now be found. ” If all frnit growers would either ac cept this, or conclude they had found the garden, how much better it would be for them. How often yon hear them say, if we could only grow frnit like California or Western New York we would be perfectly satisfied, or if peaches would hit like they did thirty years ago it would be profitable. The front rank fellows, we acknowledge, do not talk in this strain. North Georgia is fast leading into a nicely adjusted diversity Of products with a great variety of industries, which will render ns capable of maintaining a large and prosperous population. It will depeifd very largely on the growth of horticulture as to the degree of development of these conditions, for instance, bonanza farming would add but little, to onr prosperity; but small farms converted into homes, bringing about them the attractions of horticul ture, will be the foundation of onr fu ture prosperity. We have a ommtry in which capital and work are the price of success. But we now wish to notice what a judicious expenditure of money and labor, under intelligent guidance, will bring. Accurate statistics from onr own state and section will ever be ready to prove what has already been done. I? cultivated products of horticulture, the range of species is noticeably wider than most s otions of our country. In the same county which ripens the fig and beautiful Japan plums and develops the most perfect peacHes and pears, we find the apple in its perfection. This is a wonderful attractive possession as it makes secure, the highest satisfaction of living. This diversity of fruits that can be easily grown with slight expense will he the best returns horticulture can promise our people. * This, with the dgfi^htful climate and multitude of other godd things be stowed upon ns, contains profits that cannot be indicated by dollars. The North Georgian should never ask the question what are we living for? Look ing at the frnit interest from the stand point of a commercial grower, is there room mid hope for North Georgia? That tins section will produce the fruit has been fully demons tra%d, we have it from eastern commission merchants that North Georgia peaches were lar ger, finer and of better quality than any arrivals during the season. Pears do well, especially is this true of the Keif- fer. The grape succeeds admirably. Japan plums promise to more than ful fill the most sanguine expectations. Some few of the Europeans succeed nicely. Duke and Morello cherries are a success on nearly all soils. Apple growing, which is yet almost entirely undeveloped is most promising especially in the territory north of us. If .you have ever seen Baldwin’s golden, Kinnards choice and erven native seed- cu ^n^i^ture^^ apple cuTtMeT^ With the entire southland for 3. market this is one fruit that no grower could rea sonably fear.of overproduction. In fact the question of overproduction need not engage the attention of onr fruit grow ers; hut these are questions that must have careful, intelligent consideration or failure will he the result. If we make commercial growing a success, varieties must be grown that are adopted to our soil, climate, and elevation, proper cultivation must be given, remedies for insect depredations must be properly and timely applied, the frnit must have proper handling. The markets to be supplied must he carefully studied, and then cater to the best trade. Neglect of any one of these points will most likely in time bring disaster Upon the grower. His returns will be in exact propor tion to his knowledge and the practical business like application of it, to the work. The great question remains to he solved will our people with the position, the climate, and possibilities of the fu ture of fruit growing in plain view, give North Georgia, the great prominence as a source from which to supply-a large territory with the most luscious fruits, which she should justly receive. A Fortune in Cotton Seed. The farming community is enthu siastic over the high price of cotton seed. This seed, which fifteen years ago was hardly worth saving, now brings nine dollars a bale, or about fifty three million dollars for the en tire crop. The Augusta Chronicle says: “There is a bonanza in cotton seed. The Southern Cotton Oil Company of Columbia announces that cotton seed has advanced to such a good value that it offers to exchange fertilizers for cot ton seed. For every twenty bushels of cotton seed they offer five hundred pounds of standard guano. “The Columbia State calls attention to the startling fact that ‘the price now paid for cotton seed at the rail road stations in South Carolina is within five cents a bushel of the price paid for oats in the Chicago markets.’ “Cotton seed hulls are used as a food for cattle. The South Carolina Cotton Oil Company have found a more profit able use for their hulls than burning. They have been successful in intro ducing them as a valuable and econom ical food for cattle. The home com - pany is shipping its entire product, three hundred tons a week, and wes tern oil mills are shipping hundreds of tons weekly to the cattle pens of Cin cinnati, Chicago and St. Louis.” This wonderful plant seems more wonderful every year, but what would it amount to if manufactured in the South ? Our whole cotton crop brings 3300,000,000 to 3350,000,000, as raw- material, while the little State of Massa chusetts, using raw materials for which it pays, little or nothing, sells manufac tured goods to the amount of over S600,000,000. What an object lesson to the South I Every pound of cotton should be manufactured here. Typhoid fever is epidemic at Clarks burg, West Virginia.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, February 16, 1893, Image 1