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I3y the Eag-le I’ublishing- Company. VOLUME XXXVIII. AKDOE S CO'S, The Stronghold o! Styles The features of our business are correct styles and good values, and this is pro ven by the crowds,which throng our store from day to day. DON’T MISS OUR SPECIAL EASTER SALES. < NEW SHOES All shapes and sizes. Our new Hats for men and boys are beauties. EASTER CLOTHING Eor n en, boys and children—the styles and prices are both right. OUR GREAT Wash Goods Department a pronounced success. NEW IMPORTED Dress Patterns and all the latest Trimmings to match. IMMENSE LINES Os Laces, Embroideries and Ribbons. ■ Come and see them. We can show them better than we can describe them. *R; E. ANDOE & CO.. 14 Main St. Telephone S). HIM 8 HIT i < Jfe Marble Dealers. ’ AT" m Monumental Work of all Kinds for J j Ir jjl the Trade. j < We want to estimate 1 f XTHDQVIT T D Fl < all your work, I ufilfluu iILLIj, tin. Thomas & Clark, 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. S.C. DINKINS & CO. Gainesville, G-el. THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. J. G, HYNDS MFG. CO. Wholesalers ul War: 1 i 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 f * 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 GOLD MEDAL 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 1 f»SDOWR floor I ii‘|. is milled from the best winter wheat that the $■ 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® IC-LEIIEART BROS., EVANSVILLE, IND. FRICK COMPIIT. Eclipse Engines, Boilers, 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.