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By the Eagle JPublishing- Company. VOLUME XXXVIII. SHOES! We have just received the largest shipment that ever came to Gainesville. Over one hundred caseses of the famous HAMILTON-BROWN SHOES! From a stock of over 6,000 PAIRS. We can fit any foot from A to E E, and any O£C $ k pocket book from AO to Any and every pair is FULLY GUARANTEED and will wear like FLINT. Men’s Shoes in Black and Chocolate, of Russian Calf, Box Calf, Harvard Calf, Cordovan, Kangaroo, Vici Kid, Patent Leather, etc, in all the latest toes, and any last from C to G. Women’s Shoes in Lace and Button, Chocolate and Black, wide and narrow, heel and spring heel, heavy and fine, cloth top and kid . top, in the newest toes, j widths from A to E E, any price from 75c to $3.50. Good line Ladies’ 1898 Bicycle Boots. Shoes for Boys and Girls : We have laced, buttoned, chocolate, and heel and spring heel, in the prettiest toes. A big line of Babies’ soft soled Shoes. Men’s and Ladies’ Rubbers and Over-gaiters. Nice and convenient places for trying and fitting shoes. Buttons fastened on our shoes free of charge. R. E. ANDOE & CO., 14 IMLain fSt. Telephone ■ W*- uWAIfS' I#/ Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly done. Thomas & Claris.. Next door below Post-office, - - - GAINESVILLE, GA. S. C. DINKINS & CO. s4s This is the Place to Get Blacksmith Tools, Cuttaway and Tornado Harrows, Turn Plows, COMPOST DISTRIBUTORS. i ’ I Farming Implements and HARDWARE. S.C bINKINS&CO. Gain.*s"vill®, d-*.. We call special attention to our is.T.i'ton.Brown Shoe Co. -CM flit HIRIISOI a HUIT, Marble Dealers. Monumental Work of all Kinds for the Trade. We want to estimate ) n IIIICC VIT T V PI all your work. | uAlflbO lILLt, UA. Thomas & Clark, Manufacturers of and Dealers in HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, Blankets and Turf Goods. THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. J. G. HfflDS MFC, CO, Wholesalers and Retailers 1 < J We invite the Trading Public to Inspect Our ENORMOUS STOCK of Spring Merchandise which has just Arrived I We are Able to Show Some Special Bargains : 2,000 yards white Dimity Remnants, 1 to 10 yards lengths, value 12 1-2 c, 15c and 18c, -AX lOc ySLZ?cL 1.000 yards white Lace Striped Dimity. Value 25c, Special Sale 15c yard 1,000 yards white Lace Striped Lawn. Value 15c. -AX lOc ysurcL 1,000 yards figured Lawn, latest styles and full line patterns, 10c quality, At 71-2 c VSircL 2,500 yards figured Organdies, more than 100 different pat terns, elegant line colors, value 12 l-2c to 15c, .Art lOc 2,000 yards Percale Remnants, 2 to 10 yards., the 10c grade, jAt So 2,000 yards Shirting Prints, seconds, remnants, ..._AX 2 l-2o We are having large qf our 4-4 Bleaching Rem nants. best goods made, ■ 4. 4L, ... -AX 6 l-2c 3,000 yards 36-inch Merrimack Percales, perfect goods and beautiful patterns, over 50 styles. Sold everywhere for 12 1-2 and 15c, At IOC ■ 10-4 Sheeting, worth 15c, At lOc Our line of Laces and Embroideries are said to be the Newest, Hand somest and Cheapest ever shown in this City! If you are not a customer of ours already you should be. We offer bargains daily, bought through our Wholesale Department, which are not obtainable by any retail merchant in North Georgia. J. fi. Hjimls Co’s Wholesale and Retail Stores, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA. A. K. HAWKES RECEIVED HOLO iEDAL Z A I I ..CLkSC" Highest Award Diploma as Honor for Superior T.cns Grinding and Excellency in he Manufacture of spectacles and Eye Glasses, jold in 11,000 Cities and Towns in the U. S. Most Popular Glasses in the U. S. . ESTABLISHED 1870. fl lIIT Ift S 3 These Famous Glasses I jA U I lUES Ar.s Never Peddled. Mr. Hawkes has ended his visit here, but has appointed M. C. BROWN & CO. as agents to tit and sell his celebrated Glasses. LIME! Cement, Plaster Paris. LARGE SUPPLY always on hand. Can fill orders at short notice. WILL OFFER Special induce ments to those preparing to build. Lime house and office No. 16 Grove St. C. L. DEAL. fl PN.C. White & Son, HBTO6RNPHERS! (■aißMville, (Sa. ▲ll w«rk executed in the highest style of the art, at reasonable prices. Make laaofi.wia"* *"•’ Established in 18(JO. GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1898. UIIC of is sufficient to make pastry for one pieX - Vjh KJ The pastry will look better, taste betterX / be better, when the flour is Igleheart’s\ / fe Swans Down. Every kind of food made\ J ti'-A of flour—pastry 7 , cake, bread—will be lighter,\ whiter, more nutritious, if made of \ IQLEHEART’S SWANS DOWNg Mi Flour. The king of patent flours, made from the choicest winter wheat; prepared with the greatest care by the best milling process known to man. See that the brand on the next flour you buy is •• Igleheart Bros. Swans Down.” nEwES IGLEHEART BROS., Evansville, Indiana. CATHARTIC : ,0 ♦ all ; 25♦ 50 ♦ NTfIITrInIT!DRUGGISTS ' i TTTFT V fITIHP BNTPPD t 0 CBrp an r case of constipation, fascarets are the Ideal Laxa- HDOULUI uL 1 UUHnan 1 DCiD tive. never srrip or srrine.hnt cause easy natural results. Sam ple and booklet free. Ad. STERLING REMEDY <().. Chicavo. Montreal. Can.. or New York. 817. BAGWELL 8 WWERT— Buggies, They are , THE BEST MADE. Carriages, the most durable. THE PRETTIEST. \7\f agO IIS, They are j -q. . GUARANTEED. ±-* n aeto n s. cheaper than ever. Big let es Harness es best stake. ffe«e anti exaitiee ear jeetis. FARMERS SHOULD NOT BE FOOLED Sudden Rise In Cotton Price Is Only a Snare. NESBITT’S WARNING NOTE Commissioner of Agriculture Exposes the Old Game That Is Being Played to Induce Planting of a Big Crop. An Appeal For Diversification and Smaller Area. Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, March, 1, IS9B. COTTON. It is to be hoped that no sensible farmer will lie misled into the oft re peated mistake of planting a ruinously heavy cotton crop, by the recent expected and predicted rise in the cotton market. Surely that game has been played often enough and we have learned its mean ing! Concentration should always be the watchword among farmers, that is, the aim should be to cultivate only so much land as we can thoroughly manage, and from which we can obtain the largest yield at the smallest cost. But just now, it is even more important than usual, that we do not waste our time and money and weaken our strength by spreading out our farm operations over a larger area than we can do justice to, or than will pay expenses. Cotton plant ing tune is fast approaching, and the price of cotton has advanced more than half a cent! This is the usual pro gram, and at this hopeful season of the year, many an otherwise sensible man, who has resolved on better plans, sees in this improved price reason for breaking his good resolutions. Instead of apportioning a fair amount of his land and time and labor to cotton and the re mainder to the comforts and indepen dences of farm life, he resolves to try the all cotton plan again another year and trust to luck, or his time accout with his merchant, for the balance. By ‘ ‘all cot ton” we do not mean that he will be so foolish as to actually plant his whole farm in cotton, but that he will give his main energies and his best lands to this crop. How many a man is now taking this step, thus preparing for a hand to hand strugge against desperate odds from start to finish? In his case the mi nor crops, w’hich mean so much to family comfort, as well as to family in come, must necessarily be reduced or al together abandoned. The vegetable gar den, the orchard, the dairy, the smoke house, the poultry yard, all must suffer, while the staple provision crops, corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, cane, all must, in a measure, give place to the predomi nating, all absorbing, daily struggle for an increased number of cotton bales. This course is simply playing into the hands of the spinners. The certainty of a big cotton crop will not only prevent any considerable rise in present prices,but will tend to keep the market depressed while any indication that the farmers are determined on a reduced area would at once send prices up. Cannot farmers realize that they hold the key to their own prosperity, and that success the coming year lies only in a smaller cotton crop ana ample provisions for man and beast? The little experience of the past year, and the alarms now being sounded from one end of the south to the other, should surely warn him of his danger. For his own sake, and for the prosperity of the country at large, we trust the warning will l>e heeded before it is too late. WHAT OUR CROPS NEED. Our crops need three main elements, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. Different crops take up these elements in different proportions, but there is no crop that we grow which does not re quire them in greater or less degree. WHAT OUR LANDS NEED. The crying need of most of our lands is humus, that is, decaying vegetable matter, by w’hich we enable the crops to appropriate the three needed chemical elements to the best advantage. HOW’ SHALL WE OBTAIN THESE? The all important humus must be sup plied from the farm itself in the form of stable manures, composts, by plowing under the various forms of vegetable and animal matter, which accumulate from year to year, and last but not least, by leguminous crops. These, when prop erly managed, perform three important offices. They gather the unused nitro gen from the air, deposit it in the soil, and also help to unlock the stores of potash and phosphoric acid lying dor mant in most subsoils. They furnish a crop rich in food constituents. When this is taken off the land, what is left of stubble and roots lays a foundation for the humus, which every experienced farmer knows, is the factor above ail others which makes successful farming possible. Having by such means ob tained the necessary humus and nitro gen it remains for us to secure needed potash and phosphoric acid. These may be supplied in part by deep fall plowing, bringing up a little of the subsoil, going deeper each year, and by the frequent and fine pulverization of the soil during cultivation, both of which enable it to hold moisture and thus convert its .ele ments to the use of growing crops. If when the leguminous crops are planted they are given the necessary amount of phosphoric acid and potash for their best development, say 200 to 400 pounds to the acre, not only ■will their nitrogen powers be increased, but when the stub ble and roots are plowed in, much of these mineral elements will remain and t 3 just in right condition to be taken up by the following crop. This is the most economical and at the same time the most profitable plan for our worn soils. Commercial fertilizers, when used alone on such lands, act only as a temporary stimulous. The rotation, which legu minous crops require, will gradually lead to the diversified farming so much to be desired. Diversified, intensive, rotating and economical farming is what Geor gia and the south so sorely need. R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner. Senator Turpie speaks, writes and reads seven languages. Much in Little Is especially true of Hood’s Pills, for no medi cine ever contained so great curative power in so small space. They are a whole medicine Hood’s chest, always ready, al- ■ ■ ■ ways efficient, always sat- ■ I I isffietory; prevent a cold 111 or fever, cure all liver ills, sick headache, jaundice, constipation, etc. 25c. The oalv pins to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. sl*oo Per A-nnum in Advance. INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. State Agricultural Department Fur nishes Information. Question.—l notice what you say in the February report about making use of the corn stalks, which have been wasted heretofore. Please give us a lit tle more information on this subject. After the stalks are shredded how is the fodder kept, and what is its feeding value? Can it be fed to farm stock any other “roughage,” and is there any trouble in getting them to eat it? Answer.—After the stalks are shred ded the fodder may be kept in the barn or any dry place, until needed for use, taking care not to disturb the mass, for no matter how dry it may seem, there is at first sufficient moisture to cause a slight fermentation, and if the fodder is disturbed during this fer mentation mould is apt to appear. The feeding value of this fodder has been shown by analysis to be greater than cottonseed hulls and nearly equal to the best quality of timothy hay. At the Experiment Station farm in this state this forage has been thoroughly tested. It has been used there for weeks at a time as the only “roughage” to the manifest benefit of the farm animals, and they eat it readily. On the subject of “Corn Stalk Hay,” we copy the fol lowing from Bulletin No. 3(5 of the Geor gia Experiment Station. These bul letins are sent free to every farmer who applies for them, and we would advise you to address a card to Director R. J. Redding, Experiment, Ga., requesting that your name be put on their mailing list. You will then receive all the lit erature of the station, as it is issued. Bulletin No. 34 says: In Bulletin No. 30, containing the re sults of Experiments in Corn Culture made in 1895, the attention of farmers was espacially called to the advantages of the method of utilizing the corn stalks for stock food. It is the almost uni ver sol practice in the south to gather and cure the blades, and harvest the ears of corn, leaving the entire stalks in the field to prove an almost unmitigated nuisance and obstruction in the prepara tion and cultivation of the land in the succeeding crop; and winter homes and hibernating retreats for insects that will be ready to attack such crops, especially if it shall be another crop of corn. Fann ers have habitually considered this large part of the crop as of no practical val- Indeed, corn stalks, especially of th large types of coni planted in the south, are of little available food value because of the mechanical condition. Even in the north the old method of feeding the ■talks (“stover”) without any mechani cal preparation was but little less waste ful and slovenly than leaving them in the fields. But the use of machinery for preparing the the corn stalks, shred ding them into a coarse hay, is rapidly extending. A number of very effective machines may now be had at moderate prices, that will convert the hard, flinty stalks into a soft, easily masticated sub stance, very similar in mechanical con dition to coarse hay, that is readily— even greedily—eaten by horses, mules and cattie. In Bulletin No. 30, already referred to, the whole subject was discussed at some length, showing bv experiments made, and by analysis that the value of the naked stalks that are generally left in the field, after harvesting the ears, shucks and blades, amounts to fully one sixth of total value of the crop. Bulletin No. 36, published last fall, says further on this subject: The station has just finished shred ding the corn stalks from five acres of corn. The crop was very much injured by the extreme heat and drouth, and the yield of grain was cut off at least 25 per cent. The corn was cut down just above the surface of the grou id Aug. 23, and immediately shocked, placing about 150 stalks in each shuck, and tying the top of each shock with twine. No rain fell on the shocks and the ears were husked out Oct. 3, and the stalks immediately run through the shredding machine, being apparently perfectly dry. The yield of the five acres was as follows: Shelled corn 155 bushels. Shredded stalks, or stover. 14,000 pounds. This represents a yield per acre of 31 bushels of shelled corn and 2,800 pounds of dry corn hay, which is believed to be very nearly equal in feeding value to good timothy hay. In the above total yield of com hay is included the blades and shucks, which are almost univer sally saved and utilized by Georgia farmers. But there are also included in the 2,800 pounds of com hay about 1,300 pounds of the stalks, which are usually permitted to remain on the ground and nonutilized as food. This 1,300 pounds represents the food loss for every 31 bushels of shelled com. The com crop of Georgia, for convenience, may be stated at 31,(XX),C00 bushels—sometimes less, often more. Then, at 1,300 pounds of com hay, heretofore not saved, for every 31 bushels of com, the total loss in the state W’ould be 1,300 pounds by 1,- 000,000 = 1,300 million pounds, or 650,- 000 tons of com hay, a very good food, and worth at least $lO a ton, or a total of $6,500,000. or about enough to pay for all the commercial fertilizers used in Georgia in one year! This may be con sidered a remarkable statement, and it will no doubt surprise many a farmer who has not thought about it. I have replied to your question thus at lenghth, because there is scarcely a subject of more importance to the farm ers just now. The universal practice of shredding the com stalks means a sav ing of millions of dollars.—State Agri cultural Department. Fertilizer For Corn. Question.—What are the best propor tions in a commercial fertilizer for corn, and how, at what time, and what amount would you apply it? Answer.—All things considered the best fertilizer on our ordinary lands for VOU MUST have pure blood for ■ good health. Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. Take Hood’s Sar saparilla if yon would BE WELL. NUMBER 10. corn snouia be in about the following proportion. Cottonseed meal 1,000 lbs., acid phosphate 1,000 lbs. muriate pot ash 50 lbs., or 200 lbs, of kainit may bo substituted for the muriate of potash. On lands almost destitute of humus, that is, w’hich have cultivated and re cultivated in clean crops, we would not venture to use more than two or, three hundred pounds to the acre, applied just before or at planting time. The corn crop, more perhaps than any other, is dependent on a supply of moisture for its best development, and it has been found that the direct application of com mercial fertilizers does not result as well as where these have been applied to a previous crop, and provided the applica tion be sufficiently heavy. If the ferti lizer has been broadcast, as for oats or peas, the succeeding corn crop is usually very satisfactory, although fine crops of corn are often made after a heavily fer tilized cotton crop. As a rale, auy for mula, which will analyze 7.00 per cent phosphoric acid 1.30 jier cent potash and 3.40 per cent nitrogen, is suited to com.—State Agricultural Department. Late Spring Oats. Question. —I have a piece of land which I think will make a gcxxi crop of oats, but I am in doubt about planting it so late. Would the first of March lx» too late to sow it down? And what kind of seed would yon advise me to use? Answer.-—ln southern Georgia the first of March is rather late to sow oats, but in your section, North Georgia, if a quickly maturing variety, like the Burt, w planted on rich or well fertilized land, the chances for a satisfactory crop are good. The great drawback to our oat crop is want of care in preparation and seeding, coupled with the fact that we generally plant our oats on our poorest land. In sowing oats at thia season, our object should be to force the crop forward to a quick maturity. To do this plant the “Ninety Day” or “Burt” seed, on land naturally rich, or made so by rotation and manure. If the land has been previously w’ell broken and the oats are harrowed in, so much the better. But if time is too pressing for this, then clear off the land, sow the oats, al)out a bushel to the acre, and plow the seed in, running the furrows close and deep.—State Agricultural De partment. Fertilizing Cotton. Question. —Please tell me how the elements in a commercial fertilizer af fect cotton ? I mean w hat influence do the separate elements, nitrogen, phos phoric acid and potash, have on the growth of the plant. Os course every man who plants cotton would rather have bolls than stalks or leaves. I know the probable effects of certain qualities of soil on the cotton plant. What I want to know is the separate effect of each ingredient in the fertilizer, so that I may* more clearly understand how to apportion my fertilizer to suit my differ ent kinds of land—in other words to in duce the development of w’ell formed and well filled bolls. Answer.—Nitrogen makes weed of stalk, it also has a tendency to prolong the period of grow’th. If there is an ex cess of nitrogen it often causes the plant to form stalk and leaves late in the sea son, w’hen it should be developing fruit. Phosporic acid tends to force maturity and develop fruit. Potash will give strength and vigor to the stalk. It en ters largely into the lint, and if in the form of kainit, tends to lessen liability to rust. The fruit forming element is phosphoric acid. Nitrogen makes stalk and foliage. Potash gives strength to the plant and develops the lint.—State Agricultural Department. Proper Distance For Planting Corn. Question. —Would not a larger yield be realized from the same land if the corn crop was planted in double rows on wide beds, instead of single rows on nar row beds? Answer. Experiments have been carefully’ conducted to settle this ques tion, and the conclusion arrived at is, that the more nearly each plant occu pies the center of a square area of soil, the greater the yield—that is, all condi tions being equal, single rows 4x3, will yield more than double rows, 2 x 6. One plant in each hill, the hills equidistant, gave better results than two planted to the hill separated by longer distances.— State Agricultural Department. Bens Laying Soft or Thin Shelled Eggs. Question. —Some of my hens are lay ing eggs with soft or very thin shells. I cannot account for this, as they have plenty of lime and grit in reach and are in splendid condition. Please tell me if there is any remedy for this. Answer.—Perhaps the trouble is that your hens are in too fine condition. Hens, w’hich are too fat, often lay such eggs. Try shorter rations and a little Epsom salts every other day. This may be given in the drinking water. Let them have green food, and plenty of lime. —State Agricultural Department. Garibaldi's Star. Turr gave me a most character istic touch of Garibaldi's singularly sentimental character. “I remem ber,” he said, “that during one of our silent night marches I was rid ing by the side of the general, when presently* he looked up with infinite calmness and serenity at the vault of heaven. It was a brilliant moon light night. He said with that sweet smile of his: "It is strange, when 1 was quite a lad I said to myself, every man has his star, and I chose mine. Look, do you see yonder star in the direction of the great bears That is mine. It is called Arcturus.’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘shine out Arcturus; it is a sign that we shall enter Paler mo!’ ‘Undoubtedly,’said the gen eral, w’ith one of those emphatic in flections expressing a deep and abso lute confidence which admitted of no doubt about bis destiny.”—Con temnorarv Review’. “Papa, didn t the baron call on you at the office today ?” “Yes, dear; he was examining my books to figure out whether he loved you or not " —Fli»gende Blatter.