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VOLUME XXXVIII.
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ven by the crowds,which throng our
store from day to day.
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both right.
OUR GREAT
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NEW IMPORTED
Dress Patterns and all the latest Trimmings to match.
IMMENSE LINES
Os Laces, Embroideries and Ribbons.
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14 Main St.
Telephone S).
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’ AT" m Monumental Work of all Kinds for J
j Ir jjl the Trade. j
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Manufacturers of and Dealers in
VfWl/f harness, SADDLES ’ WHIPS ' ROBES ’
Blankets and Turf Goods.
Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly
done.
Thomas & Clark.
Next door below Post-office, - - - GAINESVILLE, GA.
S. C. DINKINS & CO.
*-b* This is the Place to Get 4-4-b
Blacksmith Tools,
Cuttaway and Tornado Harrows,
Turn Plows,
COMPOST DISTRIBUTORS.
Farming Implements
and
HARDWARE.
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Gainesville, G-el.
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
J. G, HYNDS MFG. CO.
Wholesalers ul War: 1
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We invite the Trading Pnblic to Inspect Our
ENORMOUS STOCK
of Spring Merchandise which has just Arrived!
We are Able to Show Some Special Bargains :
2,000 yards white Dimity Remnants, 1 to 10 yards lengths,
value 12 l-2c, 15c and 18c, _A.t, 1/2)0 yard
1 ,000 yards white Lace Striped Dimity. Value 25c,
- Sale 15c yard.
1,000 yards white Lace Striped Lawn. Value 15c.
A_t lOc ysirci
1,000 yards figured Lawn, latest styles and full line patterns,
10c quality, A-t 71-2 c VSird
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2,500 yards figured Organdies* more than 100 different pat
terns, elegant line colors, value 12 l-2cto 15c, A/t 100
2,000 yards Percale Remnants, 2 to 10 yards, the 10c grade,
A_t, 5c
,2,000 yards Shirting Prints, seconds, remnants, . A_t 2 l-2c
We are having large sales daily of our 4-4 Bleaching Rem
nants, best goods made, A/t & 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, A-t IOC
10-4 Sheeting, worth 15c, A-t IOC
Our line of Laces and Embroideries are said to be the Newest, Hand
somest and Cheapest ever shown in this City I
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. G. Hy mis Co’s Wholesale and Retail Stores,
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
A. K. HAWKES
RECEIVED
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B IMEBWs - - JI
Highest Award Diploma as Honor
■'or Superior T.cns Grinding and Excellency in
he Manufacture of Spectacles and Eye Glasses,
told in 11,000 Cities and Towns in the U. S. Most
?opular Glasses in the U. S.
, ESTABLISHED 1370.
fl ■||TE ft M These Famous Glasses
|j AU I IUR An'- 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.
PN. C. White & Son,
HDTOGRNPHERS!
Gainesville, Ga.
All work executed in the highest style
of the art, at reasonable prices. Make
a specialty of copying and enlarging, flallery
Northeast Bide Buuare.
Established in 1860.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1898.
' C ut a loaf of bread made of
Igleheart’s Swans Down Flour. You’ll
H®??' find it as white and as light as —swans Vj
Bi/vW down. Eat a slice of it and you’ll find its V®
voodness and sweetness equal its looks. 'ss®
I ISIEHMeT? 1
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EL h finest soil and climate can produce. Ask for
it at your grocer’s, if you want the best i®
bread an A pastry that flour will make. a®
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Saw Mills, Cotton Gins,
Cotton Presses,
Grain Separators, Chisel Tooth and Solid Saw,
Saw Teeth, Inspirators, Injectors,
Engine Repairs, A Full Line Brass Goods.
Send for Catalogue and Prices.
avery & McMillan,
Southern Agents,
Nos. 51 and 53 So. Forsyth St., ATLANTA, GA.
writing advertisers, mention this paper.
NESBITT SOUNDS
WARNING NOTE
Agricultural Commissioner on
Unwieldy Areas.
PLAN IS NOT PROFITABLE
The Danger of Plowing Over More
Land Than You Can Cultivate
Thoroughly—Deep Preparation Ena
bles Crops to Successfully Resist
Drouth.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, April 1, 1898.
don’t try to cultivate too much
LAND.
The exceptionally dry and open win
ter has enabled industrious farmers in
all sections to be well advanced with
their work. For this reason, some may
have been tempted to plow over more
land than they will be able to thor
oughly cultivate during the coming sea
son. To these we would say, repair this
error right now—don’t wait until you
are overcropped and struggling vainly
against grass and accumulated work
and worry to find out your mistake. It
is better to abandon part of the land,
even after it is planted, and bring the
remainder to the highest point of culti
vation than to endanger the entire crop
by a too large area, which must be hur
riedly and imperfectly cultivated. A
farmer should . be able to get around his
crops at least every ten days or two
weeks, a longer interval than this means
risk and often irreparable injury. April
has become the great cotton planting
month in Georgia. Os late years, the
planting of this crop has been gradually
delayed from a later to a later date.
Farmers are beginning to more fully
realize the importance of thorough pre
paration, and that any reasonable delay
in planting is more than atoned for by
putting the land in firstclass condition
for the reception of the seed. Os two
crops, the one planted early and hur
riedly on imperfectly prepared land, and
the other later, on land more completely
and carefully plowed and fertized, it
will be found, as the season pro
gresses, that the crop on the well pre
pared land, other conditions being
equal, will attain to more satisfac
tory and perfect development and
also that it s proper cultivation is more
easily managed. On the land where the
farmer has trusted to subsequent culti
vation to correct th,e mistakes and short
comings of hasty preparation the condi
tions will be found far from satisfactory.
Os one fact the farmers should be thor
oughly convinced, and that is that no
amount of after cultivation will ever
atone for the planting of a crop on
rough, ill conditioned laqj. Our lands,
as a rule, do not receive the careful,
preparation whifih will insure their
greatest yield, and thi» neglect te»,thp
main cause of short crops, as well as* of
innumerable harrassing and retarding
experiences during the period of cul
tivation.
THE LACK OF THE USUAL RAINFALL
furnishes another argument for the
thorough preparation of the land. We
could rate innumerable instances coming
under our observation where thorough
and deep plowing and subsoiling, before
the crop was planted, have enabled it to
survive, and even develop during a pro
tracted drouth. There is now complaint
from almost all sections of lack of water.
Some farmers, even this early in the
season, are compelled to haul from some
distance nearly ail the water needed for
household and farm uses. Fortunate is
the man who has by deep and thorough
plowing formed a reservoir to catch and
hold sueli rains as have fallen, to be
ready for the demands of the crops
when the usual summer drouth comes
on. Not only does this careful prepara
tion enable him to lay up a supply of
moisture, but the condition of his land
is Shch that he can practice the level
surface, culture, which is conceded to be
the culmination of successful farm
ing. This shallow cultivation of well
prepared land, never allowing a
crust to remain long on the surface, not
only keeps down weeds and grass, but
prevents the unnecessary evaporation of
the moisture, which our deep plowing
has enabled us to store up in lower depths.
David Dickson, the most successful of
southern farmers, speaking from his
abundant experience, maintained that
ev<jrv inch added to the depth of ©rep
aration, largely increased the drouth re
sisting powers of the crops grown
on that land. Farmers who have
not exercised the precaution of thor
ough prep aration must now take the
chance of iniury from lack of necessary
moisture. They should counteract these
difficulties as far m possible and con
seriro their limited supply of moisture
by suek shallow cultivation as the o6n
ditieft tff their land will admit.
REDUCTION OF THE COTTON ACREAGE.
In another column we call attention
to a recent publication from Latham,
Aleaaadt l- & Do. on this subject, and
we Wvojd emphasize, with all tne force
at ottr command, what is there so plainly
stated. Under present conditions farm
ers have not the moral right to risk the
tolas of themselves, their families,
tiU wfieie south on an abnormally
large cotton crop and a correspondingly
skoN food apply.
Th a ooua creation with one of the larg
est cotton planters in the Mississippi
valley X v as most forcibly impressed
wijth the felly of our past and present
policy. This man keeps an accu
rate account of all expenditures, uses
improved implements, pays cash for all
needed supplies, and though he makes a
bales of cotton to the acre, without any
fertilizer, his crop oojts him 5 cents a
pound—independent of the interest on
his largo r vestment. Ho makes about
2,M0 bites. At the small margin of
profit allowed by ruling prices he does
not elear enough to pay oven a moder
ate interest or his investment. The
same conditions apply with even greater
force to the small farmers. The man
in Georgia who plants 25 acres in cot
ton at a co* 8 of 5 cents a pound, though
' he should make a bale to each acre, wiH,
at the prtt 8 ruling during fte greater
part wthi season, scarcely clear enough
to pay for t *e fertiliser, which, under our
present system of fanning, has become
'an absolute necessity. Where thetote
OVE BOPS FOR BETTER CONDITIONS?
We repl. , in conceUtrating our forces
and thus reducing the cost of produc
tion, and in raising on each farm as far
as possible everything needed to carrv on
Biliousness
Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges
tion and permits food to ferment and putrlfy in
the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache,
Hood’s
insomina, nervousness, and. _
if int relieved, bilious fever B B
cr blood poisoning. Hood’s ■ B ■
Pills stimulate the stomach, “ ■■ ■ w
’•onse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, con
tp.at ion. etc. 25 cents. Sold by all druggists.
I ouiy Fills to take with Hood's sarsaparilla-
.OO Per Annum in Advance.
me operations or mar larm. vx nen
these two principles of leasonable and
successful agriculture obtain a general
recognition, and farmers everywhere
put them into energetic operation, a
reduction of the cotton area will be suc
cessfully accomplished and our farms
will become once more the bone and
sinew of our land, rather than the un
certain dependents of merchants and
money lenders.
We would
STRONGLY URGE
the making and utilizing of every pound
of farmyard manure which our sur
roundings make possible. Not only will
this year’s crops show the benfiit, but
our lands will be improved and future
crops will be increased. Plant every
acre possible in peas, using potash and
phosphoric acid to produce a more luxu
riant growth, and thus to increase
their nitrogen gathering power, as well
as to assure an abundant yield.
THE MINOR < KOPS
of sorghum, potatoes, ground peas, not
tomention melons,vegetables and fruits,
should all have their allotted space
and their full quota of attention. Com
fort, health, independence lie along
these lines and may be ours by proper
effort. In closing we would urge upon
every farmer to
WATCH THE WAR CLOUDS.
Should war with Spain become a cer
tainty, the probable effect on the price
of cotton would be most disastrous,
while provisions would take a corres
ponding rise.
FARMERS SHOULD STUDY CAREFULLY
the following facts presented by two of
the best informed cotton authorities in
America and England. They are con
tained in the latest report of Latham,
Alexander & Co. and are reproduced
here in order to give them the widest
circulation and to bring them more di
rectly to the attention of farmers
throughout the state:
LOSS FROM MAKING TOO MUCH COTTON.
“In our circular letters of Jan. 19
and Feb. 5 we endeavored to show the
undeniably enormous losses that the
south has invariably sustained when
more cotton was produced than neces
sary to supply the wants of the world.
“If we should bring the tabulated fig
ures made then, up to this date, the
losses to the farmers on this year’s crop
would appear still more startling; and,
with the condition of affairs now pre
vailing throughout the world, the ne
cessity for a reduction in acreage this
year should appeal to every farmer with
greater force and induce him to largely
increase the production of food crops.”
THREATENED WAR.
The threatened wars in the east and
between Spain and the United States
are a serious n nace to the cotton plant
ing interests of the south. On this sub
ject the report says:
“The planters of the south have no
encouragement to plant cotton largely
this year, with the Anglo-Russian-Chi
nese complications existing in the east,
which might before the new crop could
be marketed greatly induce the value of
cotton, and the strained relations of ouV
the face.
“Even with permanent peace existing
between all the nations of the globe, the
consumptive demand for cotton would
not be sufficient to warrant the produc
tion of another such large American
crop tus last year. An inevitable loss to
the whole south, in our opinion, would
surely follow.”
THE FUTURE PROSPECTS ©F COTTON.
From a recent circular of Messrs. Elli
son & 00., Liverpool, the highest au
thority on cotton consumption in the
world, we make the following extract as
to future prospects:
“In our annual report issued in Jan
uary we showed that With an American
crop of 10,750,000 bales, and a consump
tion of about 9,650,000 bales, the stock
of American cotton in the ports of the
United States, Europe and the surplus
stocks at the American and European
mills would be about 1,900,000 bales,
against only 800,000 last year, and we
remarked that in regard to the future of
prices everything would depend upon
the prospects of the new crop.
“With as great a reduction in acreage
as took place in the spring of 1895, we
should see a repetition of the upward
movement in values witnessed in that
year; but, if planters are satisfied with
present prices and do not reduce the
area planted, then cotton will become a
greater drug than it ever has been in the
history of the trace, ana planters will
not get anything like present prices.”
In their report Messrs. Ellison & Co.
ba«ed their calculations upon a crop of
only 10,750,000 bales, when 9,975,418
bales have already been received, and
the indications favor 11,000,000 bales or
more.
MERCHANTS SHOULD USE THEIR INFLU
ENCE FOR REDUCTION OF COTTON AREA.
The present unfavorable outlook for
prices of next year’s crop should induce
every merchant in the south to use his
influence with the planters to cause a
narked in acreage, which
would be surtly followed by better
prices and greater confidence In general
businete operations throughout the
south. R. T. Nesbitt,
Comtn isssioner.
QUESTION BOX FOR MONTH.
Information Given by the State Agri
cultural Department.
Question.—l am a new comer to
1 Georgia and write for information in
regard to watermelons. Having never
engaged in their culture, I would like
to know tl soil and exposure best suited
to them, a *o the various details of plant-
I ing and cultivating. I would like also
to be advised as to the best fertilizer to
use. Should the land be made very
rich?
Answer. —Replying to your last ques
tion first, we would state that to raise
the best melons, it is not necessary to
have a very rich soil, indeed a large
amount of humus is a positive disad
vantage, but it is important that the top
soil be well drained and that it be un
derlaid by a clay subsoil. The warm, light
grey soils of the “wire grass” region of
Georgia are peculiarly suited to the
seeds of the watermelon, and from this
section coate the finest melons in the
world. The land should be preferably
dry. but not too dry, and the exposure
should be toward the south, as the
melon 18 a typical plant. The prepara
tion need not be deep, but the surface
soil should be reduced to as fine a tilth
as possible by repeated harrowings and
then checked off 10 feet away. This last
will render it easy to cultivate the patch
both ways.
If you have the choice of selection,
land which was planted in field peas
last year, and on which no succeeding
crop was grown, will furnish best con
ditions for proper fertilization. Stable
manure is also a fine fertilizer, but
should be applied the previous fall to
obtain the best results. After the land
CURE rheumatism by taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla,which by neu
tralizing the acid in the blood perma
nently relieve* ache* aid PAINS.
NUMBER 14.
is checked off, run a wide shovel plow
in one set of the checking lines, all in
the same direction; the opposite lines
only serve to mark the places where the
seeds are to be planted. Into the shovel
furrow put the fertilizer, well decom
posed stable manure or compost, or lack
this, a commercial fertilizer in the fol
lowing proportions: One part muriate or
sulphate potash, two jiarts nitrate soda,
four parts high grade acid phos
phate, and at the rate of about
700 pounds to the acre. Bed up
on this with a turn plow two
furrows on each side, four furrows in
all, and leave until planting time. When
the ground has warmed up sufficiently
and all danger of frost has passed, put
in the seeds—the cross furrows will in
dicate the proper places. Allow about
20 Seeds to the hill, and don’t plant
deeper than 1 inch, nor in a bunch, but
put in each seed separately, which can
be easily done by spreading the seed on
the surface and pushing in with the
finger. When the seed come up, thin
down gradually to one plant in the hill,
and after the first rain break out the
“middles” with a turn plow, throwing
the furrows towards the bed, and finish
ing up with a “water furrow,” which
will serve to drain the beds.
Two plowings will generally suffice,
the first at right angles, or acrons the
beds, and the second parallel with them,
and both should lx* very shallow, using
a cultivator or scrape. At the second or
last plowing broadcast about a peek of
W’hipporwill or New Era pea* to each
acre. These will serve to keep down the
weeds, shade the melons from the
scorching sun and put the land in flue
condition for any succeeding crop. The
above is a summary from a very inter
esting bulletin published by the Georgia
Experiment Station. In this bulletin.
No. 38, Horticulturist Starnes has given
much more full and explicit directions
than can be attempted in our limited
space. We would advise you to send
for it. Addies* Director R. J. Rodding,
Experiment, Ga. The bulletins are
sent to all farmers who apply for them.
State Agricultural Department.
Harlequin Bug.
Question. —Please find enclosed some
bugs, which are eating up every green
thing that they can find. There Wore a
few on my cabbages last fall, and now
there are thousands of them on nay
turnip greens and they are snaking and
killing the «alad. If we don't get rid of
them we cannot have any vegetable*
this year in our neighborhood. There
is great complaint of their destructive
ness from all sides.
A^iswHßs —The bug sent is the much
“Harlaqnin Bug.” the worst
I'knojpi Jnseet en'gfc? .of
plants. They live through
hidden under leaves or trash of any
kind. All rubbish, under which the
bugs can take refuge during the winter,
should be carefully burned, and infected
fields or gardens should have clean cul
ture. These bugs are very difficult to
deal with, as they cannot be reached
by any of the arsenical poisons.
When the bugs are young Persian
insect powder in decoction, or dry,
will often prove effectual. Hand
picking is often resorted to, throwing
the bugs as picked into pans or cup*
containing kerosene. Cabbage grower*
plant mustard between the rows of cab
bages. The bugs prefer the mustard
and it attracts them in large number*.
They can then be destroyed with pure
kerosene. Rather than let them live
and multiply, if nothing else can bo
done, apply kerosene. This will, of
course, ruin the turnip salad, but better
that than to allow them to continue
their ravages.—State Agricultural Do
pa rtinent.
Grain Louse.
Question. —We have a small patch of
oats in Griffin that is being ruined by a
small green insect; we enclose sample of
them in letter. We called on Mr. Kim
brough at the Experiment Station and
he asked us to write you in refhK>nce to
the matter and to send your man down
to investigate same. Any information
you can give ns will be highly ap
preciated.
Answer. The insect sent is the
“Grain Louse.” It lives by sucking the
sap of wheat, rats, etc., and thus in
juring and frequently killing the plant.
It appears that all the individuals of
this family are females, and they pro
duce living young, tieginning as soon as
adult, and continuing during life. No
male or egg-laying female of the “Grain
Louse” has ever been found. They
multiply with great rapidity and fre
quently do much damage. From ex
periments that have made It h:
been found that this post ean be kept
under control by spraying the oats whan
young with a strong decoction of tobacco
stems, or with kerosene etnnltion and
water. Use about 100 gallon* to the
acre, with a spraying outfit It bM also
lieen recommended to use freshly Naked
lime with a little carbolic add, town
broadcast on the infested oats Or wheat
Generally this insect pest is worae ou
the field where oats or follow
oats. —State Agricultural Department.
Easter Leaders’ Home Journal.
The April Ladies’ Home Journal opens
with a drawing by Alice Barber Stephens
of an Easter morning in a church choir.
A feature of novel interest is the illus
trated anecdotal biography of Thomas
A. Edison, in which the characteristic
traits of the great inventor are told in a
series of anecdotes. Joseph Bonaparte’s
flight to America and sojourn here is re
called in an article, “When the King of
Spain Lived on the Banks of the
Schuylkill.” Miss Lilian Bell writes
from Berlin her impression of the Ger
mans and the Fatherland.
Robert J. Burdette’s “Mending-
Basket” is filled with the spirit of bis
homely philosophy, and, “Why the White
Farm Failed” is quite as humorous in
another vein. “A Cabinet Member’s
Wife’s” letters are continued, and
another view of “Inside of a Hundred
Homes” is given. Edward W. Bok
writes of the sacredness of the betrothal,
and the lessons of the flowers: Barton
Cheyney on “Buying a House Without
Cash,” and Mrs. Borer on food and cook
ing for children. Published by The
Curtis Publishing Company, Philadel
phia. One dollar per year; ten cents per
copy.