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13 y the Eagle Publishing’ Company.
VOLUME XL.
1899.
lE. INDUE i CO.
START THE
New Y ear
BY GETTING IN
NEW GOODS.
This week we are opening up a large
shipment of
SHOES.
To all our customers we wish to say that
this year our stock of Clothing, Hats,
Shoes, and Fine Dry Goods will be
the largest we have ever shown.
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The season for sowing grain is now here, and it is to your interest
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Come and see us.
S. C. DINKINS & CO-
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
citizen of BFliiuont, died last Thurs
day at the ripe age of 87 years. His
remains were interred at Mountain
Scene church Saturday morning at
10 o’clock.
Mr. Fred A. Pfeffer of the Amer
ican Express Co., of Waukegan, 111,
who has been in the city visiting his
cousins Misses Louise and Fannie
Pfeffer left for his home last week.
While here Mr. Pftffer made friends
who will be glad to see him here
again.
Mr. Phelps of the St. Andrews
Brotherhood of Rochester, N. Y. war
in the city Monday on his way tc,
Jacksonville, Fla. The young me'
of Grace church are considering tb‘
advisability of organizing a chapte”
of the brotherhood in Gainesville. ®
W. W. Lumpkin, traveling freiglj
agent, for the Southern railroad, wM
has for the past year resided in th
city, has moved his family to Colun
bia S. C. However, his daughter
Miss Lizzie, will remain here to con
plete her education.
Judge J. B. Estes left Monday foi
Jefferson where Judge Russell i
holding court. He will preside i
all of Judge Russell’s disqualifie
eases.
As the weather prove’ 0 '’ 3 p
ular
PLANT LIFE, to be vig-‘
orous and healthy, must
have
Potash
Phosphoric Acid and Nitrogen.
These essential elements are
to plants, what bread, meat and
water are to man.
Crops flourish on soils well
supplied with Potash.
Our pamphlets tell how to buy and apply
fertilizers, and are free to all.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
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without them. I have used them for some time
for indigestion and biliousness and am nowcom
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tine, purities the blood, I k fi’EPTjwo.-
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makes you log
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book.s our own druggist, who
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will, patiently, persistently. One
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BCjKr* guaranteed to cure, or we refund money.
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Other so-called talking machines reproduce
only records of cut and dried subjects, specially
prepared in a laboratory; but the Graphophone is
not limited to such performances. On the Grapho
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records of the voice, or any sound Thus it con
stantly awakens new intcrcstand itscharm isever
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Good laboratories; healthful, in vigorating cli
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religious influences. Civ apest board in the
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control of the University. A college prepar
atoryclass. Co-education of sexes. The insti
tution founded specially for students of limited
means. Send for catalogue to the President.
Jos. S. Stewart, A.M.
The Supreme Court of the state
has issued a decree to the effect that
ifter the completion of the Macon
sircuit it will hear no more argument
luring the present term. This means
that after the circuit has been com
pleted argument will be postponed
until March 1.
Don’t wreck a life! From girlhood to
womanhood the monthly course should
be regulated with Simmons Squaw Vine
TTine or Tablets.
Established in
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1899.
WARNING TO FARMERS
AGRiCL’I/l UK AL COMMISSIONER
SI EVENS ON THE RECENT
KI'K IN COTTON.
ONLY DELUSION AND SNARE
Dawn of Better Times in Sight If
Farmers Will but Stand Firm
and Diversify Crops.
Atlanta, Feb. 1.
It is to be regretted that many of our
farmers are almost in despair at the
outlook ahead of them, and numbers of
them (particularly of the tenant class)
are talking of abandoning the farms
and seeking employment in the cities.
This would be a fatal move to the great
majority of those who might try it. The
eities are already overcrowded with peo
ple who cannot obtain regular work,
and additional numbers would only ag
gravate this already bad condition. Re
member how your fathers acted at the
close of the war, 34 years ago. Return
ing as they did to ruined homes, with
out money, without credit, many of
them broken down in health, they went
to work with the same resolution and
bravery that had enabled them for four
years to resist the overwhelming armies
of the north, and out of that ruin they
built up a great state, and in a measure
restored their shattered fortunes. Ton
are sons of those heroic sires, and should
not be daunted by difficulties no greater
than they met and overcame. Industry
and economy are bound to win now, as
they did after the war.
While the results of last year’s opera
tions have in very many cases been dis
couraging, let us not lose heart, but
with redoubled energy and with re
newed hope let us strive for better re
sults this year. “Where there is a will,
there is away,” and if we earnestly de
sire to be rid of the despotic rule of
"king cotton," we can certainly find a
way to do so. I think I can see the
dawn of better times coming for our
farmers. With the reports of largely
increased seeding of small grain; of
many flour mills being erected in the
state (the largest in the south, now
about completed in Atlanta, which will
consume 5,000 bushels of wheat and
8,000 bushels of corn daily, and will fur
nish a cash market at railroad stations
for grain); of packing houses being es
tablished, that stand ready to purchase
every fat hog and beef that we will
raise, lam sure there is reason for the
“faith within me” that Georgia'has
reached the last milestone on the
downward road to poverty, and will frouu
this point, steadily, and I hope rapidly,
advance towards the goal of prosperity
and independence. Do not be deceived
if as planting time approaches the meet
who control the cotton, permit
it to advance a little in value. They
want a large crop planted and are even
now getting anxious, because of the
prospective decrease in acreage. You
have been caught by this attractive bait
in former years, and experience should
teach you to recognize and avoid it now.
Don’t forget the caution that I gave in the
January letter, viz: to repel the thought,
that because your neighbors will plant;
less cotton you will plant more In hope
of better prices. This is most danger
ous ground to take, for if generally
adopted, the logical result would be an
enormous crop, with still lower prices,.
I know that advice on this line is sel
dom appreciated, but being a farmer of
long experience, I deem it my duty to
put the matter plainly before my brother
farmers, hoping that good may result
from it. If my advice given last month
has been followed, the fences on our
farms have been repaired; new terraoes
run off and old ones mended where nec
essary; many compost heaps have been
made; as the weather permitted, much
grain has been seeded, and the prepara
tion of the ground for other crops is
fairly under way.
While the season for wheat sowing is
past, there is still time to plant oats,
this being probably the best spring
month for that purpose. As the period
for rooting and growth of the crop be
comes shorter as the the season advances,
it necessarily follows that the land
seeded to oats during this month should
be richer, and if possible better pre;
pared, than land seeded in the fait The
root growth of the spring sown oats will
not be as great as when seeded in the
fall, therefore if a good crop is expected
from the spring planting, there must be
more available plant food in the soil.’
You also need a variety of oats that will
mature quickly, and I known of none
better than the “Burt.” While they
do not yield as heavily as some other
varieties, they mature very early and
seldom rust. Do not fail to put in £
good acreage in oats while there is still
time to do so, for you are likely to need
them badly next summer, and you could
have no better feed for your work stock.
In the sontheru part of the state corn
planting should commence before this
month expires, particularly on the red
lands of that section. These lands warm
up earlier than do the gray lands, and
can therefore be planted from ten days
to two weeks sooner. Don’t make the
mistake (so common among negro ten
ants) of planting corn very close. I
prefer 7 feet rows and 8 feet in the drill,
with a row of ground peas or field peas
in the middles. By this plan as much
or more corn will be made than by closer
planting, and a crop of peas also. What
ever fertilizer is used for the corn should
be strewn along the planting furrow—
no fear but that the corn roots will find
it. In planting ground peas in the corn
middles, I advise the use of the whole
ground pea, dropping one every 15 to 18
ini has. Planted with the hull un
broken they will take longer to come
up, but in my experience you get a bet
ter stand. They should be planted in
this way immediately after planting
corn. Many, however, prefer shelling
the peas, and in that case the planting
should be done two to three weeks later.
Some good farmers will doubtless
differ with me in regard to such early
planting of the above mentioned crops,
but from long observation of results I
am saAfied that early planting ot any
crop dhes the heaviest yield. Great
care s®uid be used in the selection of
seed ®rn, as there is snch a large
amount of damaged corn this season,
much, of which is hard to detect with
out careful examination. Many perfect
looking ears have a rotten cob, with
the gqjrm of the grain discolored and
dead. You cannot be too careful in
this matter of selecting seed, as the en
tire Sftccess of your crop depends on it.
In th&middle and upper portions of tho
state.ylhe same general directions for
planting will apply, save that the time
gets later and later as we
go uuthe country, until there is fully a
motif’s difference between the two ex
tremes of the state. When the moun
tai“ section is reached ground peas
would hardly be a profitable crop, and
fiel<l peas should be substituted for
them- The advice as to 7 feet rows for
course, applies only to uplands.
Thenver and creek bottoms will bear
closer planting.
Sugar cane should also be planted the
lasjrof this month. The ground should
be deeply broken and well fertilized for
thia’ emp- If the stalks are long cut
them in several pieces, and in planting
let the pieces or the whole stalks lap,
foFonq-third of their length. By this
plain you will get a better stand.
Commercial fertilizers are best for
sugar cane, as stable manure heavily
applied gives the syrup a dark color and
an tin pleasant taste. There is very lit
tle„ profit in making syrup to sell
at 15 to 18 cents a gallon, as at
present; but if greater care were used,
resulting in a fine article of syrup, and
the Mime should be put up in half-gal
arifi gallon cans, attractively la
beled, I believe cane-growing could be
made very profitable. The maple syrup
from the north is put up in this way,
and readily sells for high prices, though
not a whit better than our best cane
syrup. There is great room for im
provement here. Irish potatoes should
be planted this month, also all hardy
garden vegetables. Should a cold snap
threaten after they are up, cover lightly
with straw or leaves, which will afford
ample protection. Don’t fail to make
every effort to have a good garden, for
no other ground on the farm will pay
one-fourth as muoh on the investmdnt as
wuJ a fertile and well-cultivated garden.
is to be hoped that you have given
ample oare to your stock of various
kinds during the severe weather through
Which we have passed. A good thick
Md of straw or leaves, under shelter, is
as mu* appreciated by your stock dur
ing colt! and wet winter nights, as your
own comfortable bed is bv yourself. “A
merciful man is merciful to his beast,”
and will provide for its wants, but many
of our improvident farmers will permit
their cows to stand all night in a wet lot,
drawn up in fence corners, shivering
With cold and hunger, while their hogs
run around squealing for warmth and
shelter, which they perhaps finally find
4n the dust under some old outhouse.
This picture is not overdrawn, but oan
be seen in every neighborhood in the
state. There is no profit In such treat-
Hment of stock, and if you can take no
better oare of your animals, you had
ill them to some neighbor who
re for them. This mistreatment
k is only one of the many curses
t upon us by the all-cotton craze,
111 quickly disappear, when our
learn that there are many farm
ts that pay better than cotton,
axcessive amount of wet weather
th J st wo have had during the past three
months has very much delayed the
wbrk of the plow, but we must not on
that account become impatient and
plow our lands when too wet. This
would be almost certainly fatal to the
crop that follows and might diminish
the productiveness of such land for sev
eral years. The energetic farmer will
always find plenty of Work on his place
requiring his attention, whether it be
wet or dry, and nothing is gained by
plowing the land when not in proper
condition.
This applies not only to the top soil,
but the subsoil as well. The passage of
the plow through either, when wet,
will simply puddie the clay and render
it, when dry, impervious to the roots of
tho growing crop. Q. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Rise of Foam la Churns.
Question. —Why is it that sometimes
in churning foam will rise in the chufh
and it will take hours for the butter to
"come?”
Answer.—One of the best authorities
on the subject gives the following rea
sons for the condition you mention:
1. The temperature is not right—us
ually the cream is too cold in the chum.
2. The cream may have been kept too
long.
8 The cream of a “farrow” or “strip
per” cow may be causing the trouble.
4 The cream may be too thin—get
rid of some of the skim-milk.
5, The cream may be too thick—add a
little skim-milk or water.
6. The churn is too full.
To make good butter the cream when
churned should have a temperature of
between 55 and 75 degrees. If the tem
perature is below 55 degrees the butter
will not “come” readily, and if above 75
degrees the product is apt to be a white,
spongy butter. Overchurning is also
to be guarded against, and care must be
taken to stop the churning at the point
where the butter separates itself from
the milk. Otherwise the granular ap
pearance and character of the butter
will be lost, and you will have a smooth,
fatty product.—State Agricultural De
p&rtment
The Leopard and the Pan.
One day a worthy Kulu housewife
came out from her cooking and, stand
ing on the ledge of rock at her door,
emptied a pan of boiling water into the
rank herbage growing below. It fell,
splash, on the back of a sleeping leo
pard, who jumped perpendicularly into
the air as high as the roof of the hut.
What might have happened next? Who
can say? But the astonished woman
dropped the pan with a clang upon the
rock, and the leopard took one leap
down hill. The pan followed, and the
leopard’s downward leaps became lon
ger and swifter as the pan bounded aft
er it from rock to rock.
When last seen the leopard had just
achieved a leap of about 350 feet to the
very bottom of the ravins, thousands of
feet below, and the pan had whirled
about 500 feet over it on to the opposite
side. The leopard would have eaten the
old woman with pleasure, but a pan
which first scalded half the hide off
him and then bounded clanging in his
wake from the top of the Himalayas to
the plains below was something which
he could not face. —Good Words.
The Conyers Banner-Weekly hits
McDonough, Ga., (one of Conyers’
business rivals), this unique dig:
‘"Bob Burdette went to McDon
ough to rest. Bob could have done
no better outside of a cemetery.”—
Echo.
BOARDOFENTOMOLOGY
RULES GOVERNING THIS BODY
» ITS EFFORT TO STAMP
OUT INSECT PESTS.
NEW REQUIREMENTS IN FULL
Laws and Regulations That Are of
Supreme Importance to Every
Fruit Sian In Georgia.
Rules and Regulations For the Govern
ment of the State Entomologist In
the Enforcement of the Act of the
General Assembly of Georgia Provid
ing for the Control and Eradication
of Insect Pests and Fungous Diseases
Which Threaten the Fruit and Other
Agricultural Interests of the State,
and For the Prevention of the Intro
duction of Dangerously Injurious
Crop Pests From Without the State.
Adopted Jan. 18, 1899.
In pursuance of an act of the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, ap
proved Dec. 20, 1898, amendatory to an
act of Assembly approved Dec. 21, 1897,
creating a Board of Entomology, and au
thorizing and directing the same to take
action for the suppression of certain
hereinafter defined injurious insects and
fungous diseases, and for the prevention
of the further introduction, increase and
dissemination of the same; the follow
ing rules and regulations are hereby
enacted and promulgated:
1. In accordance with section 11 of
said act, the following insects, fungous
diseases aud parasitic plauts are hereby
declared individually and severally, to
constitute infestation in trees and plants;
this list to be revised at the will of the
Board of Entomology:
List of dangerously injurious insects,
fungous diseases and parasitic plant:
The San Jose Scale (Aspidiotus per
niciosus).
The New Peach Scale (Diaspis amyg
dali).
The Cabbage Web Worm (Hellula
undalis).
Black Knot (Plowrightia
Peach Yellows.
Peach and Plum Rosette.
Mistletoe (Phorodendron flavescens) —
parasite.
2. The State Entomologist is hereby
charged with the enforcement of the
said act, aud as Inspector is directed to lo
cate by personal investigation, corres
pondence and in such other manner as he
may deem best, the above named pests
so far as they exist in this state, and
give proper directions, and take such
steps in accordance with the above cited
act as he may deem necessary to con
trol or eradicate the same.
3. In accordance with section 5 of the
above cited act, the State Entomologist is
hereby endowed with power to condemn
and destroy any infested trees, shrubs
or other plants that in his judgment are
not worthy of remedial treatment, when
such infestation is, or is likely to become'
a menace to the agricultural interests of
any section of the state, or when the
owner or owners of infested premises
shall refuse or neglect to properly exe
cute the treatment prescribed by him.
4. Any trees, shrubs or other plants,
commonly known as nursery stock,
shipped within the State of Georgia,'
without each box, bundle or package in
every car load, or less than car load lot,
being plainly labeled with an Official
Entomologist’s certificate, to the effect
that the contents of the same hive been
inspected and found to meet the require
ments of the Board of Entomology, in
accordance with section 10 of the act
cited above, shall be liable to confisca
tion upon the order of the Inspector.
5. Each and every box, bundle or
package of trees, shrubs and other
plants commonly known as nursery
stock, shipped in car load lots, or less
than car load lots, into the State of
Georgia from any other state or coun
try, shall be plainly labeled with a cer
tificate of inspection furnished by the
Entomologist, Fruit Inspector, or other
duly authorized official in the state or
country in which said stock was grown,
and also with the official tag of the Geor
gia State Board of Entomology, herein
after provided for; said certificate and tag
to be valid for only 12 months frojp the
date they bear, in accordance with sec
tions 9 and 13 of the act cited above.
Such shipments not so labeled shall be
liable to confiscation upon the order of
the Inspector.
6. Upon the filing of the proper certi
ficate as above prescribed in accordant
with section 13 of said act, and upon re
quest of any person or persons residing
in states or countries outside of the
State of Georgia, dealing ip or handling
trees, shrubs or other plants in this
state, the certificate of the State Board
of Entomology will be issued to the
same without charge, and official tags
bearing a sac simile copy of such certifi
cate, and the seal of the said Board, will
be furnished such applicants at cost,
viz: 60 cents for the first 100 or part
thereof and 25 cents for each additional
100.
7. No transportation company or com
mon carrier, shall deliver any box, bur •
die or package of trees, shrubs or other
plants commonly known as nursery
stock, shipped from any other state or
country to any consignee at aay Station
in the State of Georgia, unless eaeh such
box, bundle or package is plainly la
beled with a certificate of inspection
furnished by the Official Entomologist* f
the state or country in which said rtOOk
was grown, and also with the official
tag of the Georgia State Board of Ento
mology, hereintofore provided for. Such
shipments of the nature designated
above originating in the State of Geor
gia, need only have the certificate of the
State Entomologist, arid unless his cer
tificate is attached to every box, bundle
or package, of trees, etc., they shall not
be accepted for transportation.
8. Transportation companies shall im
mediately notify the State Entomologist
(Atlanta, Ga.), when by oversight, neg
ligence or otherwise, any shipment of
uncertified nursery stock is received at
any station or wharf in the state, and
it shall be his duty to proceed as speed-
i ily as possible to investigate and dispose
.OO Per Annum in Advance.
or sncn stock as provided tor iu the act ■
cited above.
9. The State Entomologist shall have '
power to require any nurseryman of the J
state to fumigate his stock with hydro- I
cyanic acid gas, when in his judgment, !
the presence of any pest in the nursery
or in the neighborhood of the nursery
warrants such treatment for the better
protection of the agricultural interests
of the state. Upon the failure of any
individual, firm, or corporation to com
ply with this requirement, the State En
tomologist is hereby authorized to with
hold his cirtificate from the same.
10. The State Entomologist is hereby
authorized to publish in the form of
bulletins, reuorts, or through the press
of the state, any matter pertaining to
the distribution, life-history, habits,
and treatment of insect pests and fun
gous diseases, or other matter that may
be instructive, or aid in the suppression
of such pests.
11. The Board of Entomology may ap
point temporary deputy inspectors
when it appears to be necessary to as
sist the Entomologist in the enforcement
of the act cited above, and such deputy
inspectors shall have full power to enter
on premises and inspect and report to
the State Entomologist.
12. Appeals from the decision of the
Entomologist should be addressed to the
Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta,
Ga., who shall notify the appellant of
the time and place of hearing such ap
peal.
13. All inquiries relative to the pro
visions of the above cited act and the
subject matter of the same, should be
addressed to the State Entomologist,
Capitol building, Atlanta, Ga.
O. B. Stevens, Commissioner of Agri
culture, Chairman.
P. J. Berckmans, President of State
Horticultural Society.
J. Pope Brown, President of State
Agricultural Society.
Board of Entomology.
In order to bring the requirements of
the law and these rules and regulations
before interested parties, the following
circulars were issued and sent out:
Circular No. 1. Jan. 18th, *99.
To Nurserymen and Florists of the
State of Georgia:
Your attention is sailed to sections 12
and 10 of the Act of the General Assem
bly of Georgia, creating a Board of En
tomology, approved Dec 20, 1898, which
sections read as follows:
Section 12. Be it further enacted that
any person or persons residing in the
State of Georgia, dealing in or handling
trees, etc., shall be compelled to have
his or her stock inspected annually, on
or before Nov. lof each year. If upon
such inspection, such stock is found to
conform to the requirements of the
Board of Control, the Inspector shall fur
nish a certificate to that effect, and any
such person or persons making a ship
ment before the filing of such certificate
with the Chairman of the Board of Con
trol, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 10. It shall be unlawful for
any grower, nurseryman, or corporation,
to ship within the State of Georgia any
trees, shrubs, cuttings, vines, bulbs or
roots, without having been previously
inspected by either a State or Experi
ment Station Entomologist, or Govern
ment Officer, within 12 months of the
date of said shipment, and certificate of
inspection to accompany each box or
package. Violation of this clause will,
be considered as a misdemeanor and
punished as such.
Attention is also directed to rule 4
of the rules and regulations adopted by
the Board of Entomology, Jan. 18, 1899,
which rule reads as follows:
Rule 4. Any trees, shrubs, or other
plants commonly known as nursery
stock, shipped within the State of Geor
gia, without each box, bundle or package
in each oar load or less than car load lot,
being plainly labeled with an Official
Entomologist’s certificate to the effect
that the contents of the same have teen
inspected and found to iqeet with th©
requirements of the Board of Entomol
ogy, in accordance with section 10 of the
act cited above, shall be liable to confis
cation upon he order of the inspector.
Immediat' compliance with these re
quirements must be enforced, and we
trust that we shall have your hearty
co operation. O. B. Stevens,
Chairman of the Board.
Circular No. 2. Jan. 18th, ’99.
To Nurserymen and Florists who are
shipping or may ship trees, shrubs
and other plants into the State of
Georgia:
Your attention is called to section 13
of the Aet >f the General Assembly of
Georgia, approved Dec. 20, 1898, en
titled “an act to require the Commis-.
sioner of Agriculture to establish a
special department of Horticulture and
Pomology, to employ Entofiaolegists,
etc., etc.,’’approved Dec. 21, 1897, wflich
section reads as follows:
“Section 13. Each and every person
residing in states or countries outside of
the State of Georgia, dealing in cm
handling mants, cuttings, trees, vines,
shrubs, bulbs and roots in this state,
shall register his name or firm, and file
a copy of his or its certificate of inspec
tion, furnished by the Entomologist,
Fruit Inspector, or duly authorized Gov
ernment Official of his state or country,
with the Chairman of the Board of Con
trol (Commissioner of Agriculture, At
lanta, Ga.). Upon fai lure so to do, said
stock shall be liable to confiscation upon
order of the Inspector.”
Attention is also directed to rules 5
and 6 of the rules and regulations
adopted by the Georgia State Board of
Entomology Jan. IS, 1899, acting in ac
cordance with the above cited act,
which sections read as follows:
Rule 5. Each and every box, bundle
or package of trees, shrubs or other
plants commonly known as nursery
stock, shipped in carload lots, or less
than carload lots, into the State of Geor
gia from any other state or country,
shall be plainly labeled with a certifi
cate of inspection furnished by the En
tomologist, Fruit Inspector, or other duly
authorized official in the state or coun
try, in which said stock was grown, and
also with the official tag of the Georgia
State Board of Entomology, hereinafter
provided for, said certificate and tag to
be valid for only 12 months from the
date they bear, in accordance with tac
tions 9 and 13 of the act cited abpve.
Such shipments not so labeled, shall be
liable to confiscation upon the order of
the Inspector.
Rule 6. Upon the filing of the proper
certificate as above prescribed in accord
ance with section 12 of said act, and
upon request of any person or persons
residing ip states or countries outside of
NUMBER 6.
the state ot Georgia, aeanligin or nana
ling trees, shrubs, or other plants in this
state, the certificate of the State Board
of Entomology will be issued to the same
without charge, and official tags bearing
a sac simile copy of such certificate, and
the seal of the said Board will be furnish
ed such applicant at cost, viz: 60 cents
for the first 100 or part thereof and 25
cents for each aditional 100.
It is not the purpose of the Board to
interfere in any way with the sale of
healthy, uninfected plants in this state,
but it is insisted that these require
ments must be complied with, and it is
hoped that we will receive your hearty
co-operation. O. B. Stevens,
Chairman of the Board.
Circular No. 3. Jan. 18th, ’99.
To Railroad, Express and Steamship
Companies and Common Carriers do
ing business in the State of Georgia:
By virtue of an act of the General As
sembly of Georgia, approved Dec. 20,
1898, creating a Board of Entomology
and authorizing and directing the same
to enact rules and regulations for the
prevention of the further introduction,
increase and dissemination of insects
and fungous diseases injurious to plants,
and for the government of common
carriers in the transportation of plants
liable to harbor such pests, your atten
tion is called to rules 7 and 8 of the
rules and regulations adopted by said
Board Jan. 18, 1899.
Since no penalty is prescribed for vio
lation of rules 7 and 8. it would be diffi
cult to enforce them without your co
operation, and inasmuch as the general
interest and prosperity of the state in
volves your interest, and since it is one
of the objects of the Board to protect
and build up the plants and other agri
cultural interests along your lines of
road, we request that you faithfully
observe these rules, and we hope and
believe that you will heartily co-operate
with this Board in the discharge of the
duties devolving upon them in the en
forcement of the above cited act. These
rules follow:
Rule 7. No transportation company
or common carrier shall deliver any box,
bundle or package of trees, shrubs or
other plants commonly known as nurs
ery stock, shipped from any other state
or country to any consignee at any sta
tion in the State of Georgia, unless each
such box, bundle or package is plainly
labeled with a certificate of inspection
furnished by the official Entomologist of
the state or country in which said stock
was grown, and also with the official
tag of this Board hereiutofore provided
for. Such shipments of the nature
designated above originating in the
State of Georgia, need only bear the cer
tificate of the State Entomologist (At
lanta, Ga.). When by oversight, negli
gence or otherwise, any shipment of un
certified nursery stock is received at
any station or wharf in this state, it
shall be his duty to proceed at once to
investigate and dispose of such stock as
provided for in the act cited above.
Very truly yours,
O. B. Stevens,
Chairman of the Board.
Ground Cobi as a Food.
Question. —Are corncobs, ground into
meal, or crushed into small pieces, of
any value as a feed stuff for horses or
cattie ?
Answer. —Ground cobs are valuable
as food, particularly for cattle, as the
following table will show:
Per Cent
Digestible
Matter.
•E S I o
a*M
Cforn c0b...1 1.6 43.91 .3
Cottonseed hulls 1.0 26.2 1.8
Rice hulls 1.644.5' ,<J
Sweat potatoes..-9 16.1: .1
Turnips 6 5.5 .3
Sugar beets 1.1
Oat straw 1.641.41 1.0
Wheat strawß37.9 .5
Corn silage.■ 1.3 14.0 .7
Corn and cob meal 6.5 ~>6.8 2.9
You will see from the above table that
ground cobs are more valuable than a
number of ether feed stuffs that are in
common use.
The protein substances in the above
table supply the material for the mak
ing of lean meat, tendons, ligaments,
horns, hair, etc., and also the casein of
milk.
The carbohydrates, commonly called
heat producing substances, include
starch, sugar, gums, eta.
The ether extract is the crude fat or
ojl dissolved out by ether iin the analy
sis of foods. —State Agricultural De
fartinent.
Hla Mongoose experience.
“Although I sold tickets in a red cir
cus wagon lor years,” continued the
dime museum man, “I was badly fooled
once in an animal deal. I mean by this
that I fooled myself. I got. a letter from
a collector, who wanted to know if I
would bay a mongoose. I wrote back to
have it shipped at once, and it was to
be in the museum ready for exhibition
one Monday morning I had a rather
hazy idea of what the Least looked like,
but I was sure that it was something
big, with tusks, and I told our artist to
go ahead on that idea and spread him
self.
“He did. The picture ho evolved
would catch any one’s eye at any range.
He took a whole frame of canvas and
painted for a background a tropical is
land, with the mongoose chewing up
sailors on the shore
“The picture was finished Sunday,
and I couldn’t help but rub my hands
when I looked at it The moment it
: was hung cut people flocked around it,
1 and the early morning attendance Mon
] day was remarkable. The doors were
opened before I got down, and as I went
up stairs I could hear a subdued growl.
“ ‘That’s the mongoose,’ I said to
myself. ‘The idiots haven’t fed it.’
“It wasn’t the mongoose. It was the
crowd growling like a Roman mob be
hind the scenes. They had been lured
by the picture, and when they got to
the cage labeled ‘Mongoose’ they conld
not see the beast at all. It bad buried
itself in the straw.”—Chicago Tribune
«.
Trox Bankston of the Ringgold
New South is evidently jealous of
Atlanta and doesn’t want it to out
shine Ringgold. He says it is under
stood that a party of Atlanlians
headed by W. A. Hemphill will visit
Washington with a petition to have
the Philippine islands annexed as a
part of the city they represent.
Nerves must be fed on pure, rich
blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the
best nerve tonic. By enriching the
blood it makes tha nerves STRONG.