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Talks With Farmers ' Conducted By C. H. Jordan ♦♦♦♦»♦< II 11 »♦»« 1 11111 n i» u i *♦< •»* I♦»♦«♦I mi »»♦♦♦♦« :: The Semi-Weekly Journal the I I Official Organ of the Southern <» ’ • • • Cotton Growers’ Protective Ass’n 4. The Semi-Weekly Journal is the official organ of the Southern Cotton « > ♦ Growers’ Protective Association, the only official paper of that organization, + 4* and hereafter all official communications of the association’s officers, and all + ♦ matters pertaining to its affairs will appear in these columns. The Journal ♦ ♦ also invites members of the association and cotton growers and farmers gen- ♦ ♦ erally fc use its wlumns for the expression of such views and suggestions as + ♦ may be of interest and value to the agricultural interests of the south. + the Journal will devote each week two columns, as requested by the asso- ♦ + elation to a "Cotton Department.” m which will appear the official com- ♦ + munications of the association and such statistical and other information ♦ J as bears upon the work of the association and all matters of interest to ♦ 4> southern cotton growers. ♦ ♦ . r + Subscribers are requested to ad- + ♦ dress ail inquiries for information ♦ on. subjects relating to the farm. + ♦ field. garden and poultry to the + <• Agricultural Editor. All inquiries ♦ + will receive prompt and careful at- v ♦ tention. No inquiries answered by ♦ <• mail. Please address Harvie Jordan. ♦ <• Agricultural Editor. Monticello, Ga. •> ■> >♦»+♦♦ I I > » I i ! ♦< I I I ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ BARNriRD MANURE. This is the subject which has been many times discussed in the columns of thisj>a per during the past few years, bufi it is one which should never grow tiresome to the farmer who wants to make a success, of bis business. There is no surer indica tion of thrift and prosperity in farming than a well kept manure heap. Neglect of this important resource causes immense losses each year, though that fact may be but lightly appreciated. In many instances, unfortunately en tirely too numerous, the waste of manure on the farm goes on from month to month apparently without notice or any attempt the check it. In order to more fully ap preciate the value of the barn yard man ure in the whole country for one year, let us investigate the figures presented by carefully prepared statistics. According to recent statistics gathered by the United States census department, there are in round numbers. 16.000,000 horses. K. 000.000 cattle. 45.000.000 hogs, and 45.000.000 sheep. Careful experiments made show that if all these animals were kept in stalls or lots during the year and the manure carefully preserved, the average value of the fertilising constituents con tained in the manure produced by each horse annually, would be $27. by each head of cattle sl9. by each hog sl2 and by each sheep $2. This would give a gross fertil izing value of the manure produced by the different classes of farm animals as fol lows: Horses. $432,000,000; cattle, n. 007.000.- 000. hogs. JMO.OOO.W. and sheep. $90,000,000, making a grand total of $2.00.000.000. These estimates are based on the price usually assigned for phosphoric acid, potash and -anyponis in commercial fertilisers. Grant ed that only one-third of the value of our bgrnyard manure is annually lost by waste and neglect, we find that the total loss frem this source to the agricultural interests of the whole country foots up the enormous amount of 500.00.0p0, or about $83.00 for each farm. Comparative Values of Manure. There have been many experiments made to determine how many tons of manure can be saved from one horse each year by the use of straw as a bedding. One ton of straw properly used in the stall of one horse 'will result in the saving or making of five tons of good manure per annum. A steer or cow under like circumstances should produce about eighteen to twenty tons per annum. A sheep should produce about three-fourth of a ton and a hog about two* tons per annum. The following table will show the average value of manure produced per 1.000 pounds of live weight of different farm annimals an nually : Sheep.. $26.00 Calves.. .. .. .. 24.00 Cows.. 29.00 Horses *7.00 The value per ton of the manure of dif ferent farm animals, based upon the value of the phosphoric acid, potash and am* monia contained in each ton is presented in the following table: Per Ton Sheep $3.30 Calves 2.15 Pigr Cows.. .. 2.02 Horses 2-21 Poultry manure 7.07 These figures are based upon the actual fertilising value of each 2.W pounds of manure when carefully preserved, includ ing both the liquids and solids of properly fed animals. If the manure is not sheltered or cared for and allowed to lie out in the weather and be injured by sunshirte. rain and wind, the fertilising value would be of course greatly reduced. In all well kept barnyard manure there Is found about twice the percentage of nitrogen or ammonia that there is of phosphoric acid or potash. And It must be remembered also that nitrogen is about three times as valuable In dollars and cents as prosphoric acid or potash. It should also be borne in mind that the liquids are more valuable than the solids, because the fertilizing constituents of the liquids are more solu ble. Caring for the Manure. With these tables of estimates the fann er can readily determine the amount and fertilizing value of the manure which can be derived from each farm animal on his premises In the course of a year. Os codrse barnyard manure has an additional value per ton to that given in supplying humus to the soil and in improving the mechani cal condition of the land upon which it is used. These advantages are almost equal to the direct fertilizing value of the ma nure. . • Any resource from the farm which is as valuable as barnyard manure should receive better care and attention on the ■ part of our farmers. Good sheds should be specially constructed to preserve It under until such time as it can be removed to the field. Keep the stalls well litterd with pine, or wheat straw. Try to save five tons per head for each animal on the farm and begin to cut down the big fertilizer bills. The bank account will thereby be gin to increase and the store accounts -*rzw iess. HARVIE JORDAN. ~TxCH ANGES. To Determine Rich Milk- National Stockman. When there is a near prospect of a pret ty high standard for milk being estab lished. it is of some interest to learn the conclusions reached bearing on the ques tion as to some of the factors determining the richness of milk. 1. A cow yields as rich milk as a heifer as she will as a mature cow. 2. The milk is as rich in the first month of the period of lactation as It will be later, except perhaps during the last few weeks of the milk flow, when the cow is rapidly drying off. X There is little difference in seasons as to the quality of the milk. While the cows are at pasture the milk is neither richer nor poorer on the average, than the milk yielded when the cows are on winter feed. 4. The milk of a fair sized dairy herd varies little in composition from day to day. and radical variations in this re spect should be viewed with suspicion. ' Milk Rapidly. National Stockman. It is generally agreed among dairymen that a cow never does her best at the pail unless milked rapidly, and the more ‘rapdily the greater the quantity. There fore, not only should the milker be an ex pert, but the cow’s anatomy should be such as to cause her to relinquish the flu id with facility. The foregoing sentence is constructed in imitation of British journalism. Its equivalent in America would be, the cow should milk easily. Estimating Quality of Butter. National Land Journal. Most makers of butter on the farm would be offended If told that they did not know good butter or were not able to score their own butter. Yet such is the case: and it applies also to creamerymen who make a business of making butter. A man cannot judge of butter without comparing it with other butter. The com mission men who handle large quantities of butter are able to tell very closely, but even they are often thrown off the scent when they go to a creamery and try to form a correct opinion of butter without means for comparison. The maker of but ter on the farm need not. therefore, be surprised if he or she fails signally in forming a true estimate of their product. Surrounded by the aroma of the butter and the milk, as well as of the other odors in which the butter is made, it be comes difficult for the maker of the butter to -really form a correct opinion of its value. Just as a person coming out of the open air into a closed room can detect odors that the people who have been a long time in the room cannot detect, so the maker in the midst of the odors of butter making has a taste deadened to proper appreciation of true flavors. It therefore becomes necessary for all that wish to make the best commercial butter to submit their butter to the judgment of men who are free from all Influences likely to bias the taste. INQUIRY DEPARTMENT. . « G. W. S.. Yellow River, Ga.-We have seven or eight acres of fairly good bot tom land on Yellow river, that is subject to overflows in time of very high water. We want to sow or plant it in forage crops that will give us the largest amount of forage. Would you advise the planting of velvet beans, or jvould you sow it in stock peas? Answer—Velvet beans and cow peas would both do well on the land you men tion, and yield splendid forage crops. They would withstand temporary over flows, but there is no forage crops you could plant which would not suffer if in undated with an overflow lasting several days. Bermuda grass would stand it better than anything else. Early amber. cane would also make you a quick-maturing crop. Any of these forage crops would give you heavy yields on river bottom land. W. P. J., Alexander, Ga.—Where can I obtain the velvet bean, anu when should they be planted? Answer—Write to the Hastings Seed store, of Atlanta, or to any other large seed store near you. If they do not have the velvet beans in stock, they can easily get them for you through their connec tions. Plant the seed the latter part of April or in May. J. L., Eastman, Ga.—Please inform me in The Semi-Weekly Journal what to do for my mule. She gives out’a continuous noise in her side like a pot boiling. She eats heartily, but does not fatten. 1 also have a bad kicking mule, and she has been so for about four years. Please give me information how to stop the kicking: Answer—For the first mule, give a drench made of 1-2 pound of je-psom salts dissolved in a quart of water. Then feed for a few days on soft bran mash and oats, giving about 10 grains of nux vomica as a tonic. You might break a horse from kicking, but I am unable to suggest a rejn edy to induce a mule to keep his heels on the ground when he wants them in the air. By placing a strong strap across his hips and fastening it to the shafts of the buggy you might be able to hold his heels down while driving him. C. D. W., Elder. Ga.—l have three horses affected with sore throat, one coughing some. All seem to want to eat and drink, but can’t swallow, as the throat is swollen and inflamed. Some think it distemper, but I want your opinion and advice. You will greatly oblige me by answering at your earliest convenience. I shall eagerly await The Journal and hope to get advice which will prove helpful. , Answer—l should say from the descrip tion given that your horses had distemper. This is a form of sore throat characterized by swelling between thebones of the lower jaw. which often terminates in an abscess. Give soft feed and grass or hay. Apply warm poultices. There is no need of giv ing medicines, as the appetite will return as soon as the abscess breaks. J. A. M., Crosland, Ga.—Will you please answer the following through The Semi- Weekly Journal, of which I am a sub scriber and enjoy your department very much. I wish to use phosphate, acid and kalnit and muriate of potash mixed. How should I mix it? Will that make a good cotton and potato fertilizer? Is acid alone a good cotton fertilizer, or for corn either? What good does kalnit do? I wish to know, as 1 have never used any. Can you inform me where I can get the velvet bean and at I about what price. I planted a small patch last year and want to plant some this year, if I can get seed. Answer—The only fertilizing element in either kalnit or muriate of potash is potash. Kainit analyses about 13 per cent potash and muriate about 50 per cent potash. You need a nitrogenous element in your mix ture to make a well balanced fertilizer for the crops named, unless the land you wish to plant is freshly cleared virgin forest. I would suggest that you buy the phosphoric acid. Kainit and cotton seed meal and mix them in the following pro portions: Phosphorit acid, 1,000 pundz; cot- THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1902 Dr. Solomon Strongly Endorses Proposed Inebriate Asylum Editor The Journal. ’< Some days ago I saw In your most ex cellent paper an article Jrorn Dr. Willis B. Park on a state inebriate home. I read it with great pleasure. I blessed God for a man who spoke so nobly for this class of our citizens. It marked him as a broad humanitarian with an active brain and a warm heart, as one who loves the poor drunkard and suffering humanity. In the same paper I read a magnificent edi torial on Dr. Park's contribution, which with pathos and burning eloquence plead ed the drunkard's cause. Then followed Rev. Dr. A. R. Holderby, of this city, and Dr. Eugene Elder, of Indian Spring and Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Cartersville, and Dr. T. H. Powell, president of the State Lunatic asylum in articles of fine merit, all breathing of love and true patriotism. Not one note of discord has yet been struck—naught but the heart of sympathy was manifest for our unfortunate brothers led captive by strong drink, but alas it was left for Dr. E. Park Gibson, of Mil ledgeville, to sound the first discordant note. He struck the man that was down and struck him hard. I have no heart to damn a man, and surely not that man that is already damned. The poor fellow who is down needs a helping hand. Let no one kick him like a dog if he himself would be re spected as a man. Dr. Gibson thinks the poor drunkard should go to our common jails or sweat out his crimes on the streets in ball and chains—just suffer like a vile criminal or vagabond. Well, this may be cold justice. This may be the remedy for the drunkard’s ills. Pos sibly it will cure him and set wrongs to right, but as sure as the sun shines and the white stars twinkle in the blue skies I can see no justice in such a course, and as for mercy, she is crucified most wan tonly. I make no defense of drunkards. God knows my heart I hate the bhr rooms 'and the dispensary. The liquor traffic is the curse of the church and state. It is the one foul blot on our American civilization, but let us remember that very many of the most generous and (of the noblest spirits on earth today are the victims of strong drink. Think, too, of the pale-faced wife and children and think of the broken hearted mother and think of the father who bemoans the fate of this boy. Think of the tragedies of these wasted lives. Then think of the hope that will bloom again under the beneficent touch of love and prayer. If ever a poor mortal in this world needs sympathy and real help to get on his feet again that man is the drunkard. Too often he is the slave of depraved appetites and passions. He is a creature of miserable heredity, comes into the world with a passion for drink born in his bones. Do not be too hard on him. He deserves more to be pitied than cen sured. Bless ’him, don’t curse him. Lift him up, don’t push him deeper down. Put your arms about him, don’t put your feet upon him. We may not have the drunkard's temptation; we may not know the drunkard s sin, but we are all tempt ed at some point and we are all sinners. We will remember his heredity and his wretched environments and the stumbling blocks this state has put in his way and we will, like true men. give him a chance for his life and help him to build his heme again. And whet) once more sunshine shall fall into the hearts of his loved ones and happy laughter shall burst forth from their lips who shall say a valuable con tribution is not made to society and the world is not better by the drunkard s re calamation. Again Dr. Gibson has a great eye for business. He is looking at both sides of the ledger. He is mortally -afaid the debits will be greater than the credits. He is a HOW DALLAS WILL ENTERTAIN THE VISITING CONFEDERATE VETERANS The twelfth annual reunion of the Uni ted Confederate veterans, which will be held in the city of Dallas, Tex., April 22, 23. 24 and 25, promises to be a much larger affair than the people of Dalias and of Texas at first contemplated. The visitors will include, not only the old Confederate veterans, but their sons and daughters and grandchildren, and many others who will take advantage of cheap rates to see Texas. It being deemed advisable, committee appointed organized a joint stock com pany and secured a charter from the state, with 25 charter members and 13 directors. The directors immediately organized un der this charter by electing Colonel C. C. Slaughter president; K. M. Van Zandt, of Fort Worth, first vice president; J. E. Farnsworth, second vice president; W. H. Gaston, treasurer, and Charles L. Mar tin. secretary. B. N. Boren, Ben E. Cabell, William Cleveland, of Houston, Tex.; Roy al A. Ferris, D. C. Giddings, of Brenham, Tex.: H. W. Graham. W. C. Padgitt, Alex Sanger and Charles Stelnmann, all of Dallas, Tex., save the two otherwise men tioned. The name of the organization is “The Texas Reunion association,” the life of the body being 50 years, and its objects to entertain the Confederate reunion in question and to erect in the city of Aus tin. the capital of Texas, a statue of General Robert E. Lee. Chairmen of 22 committees to do the detail Work necessa ry were chosen, by-laws written, and the association entered actively upon the work about the middle of September, 1901. The first work undertaken was to raise money for the necessary expenses of the reunion, and Charles Stelnmann, president of the Commercial club of Dallas, as chair man of the finance committee, and A. H. Hardee and J. E. Farnsworth as vice chairmen, entered upon this arduous work. Some 33 subcommittees were appointed, and the labor of canvassing the city be gan in the campaign for funds. It was a difficult matter at first to awaken the people to a full realization of the stupen dousness of the undertaking of properly caring and preparing for this reunion. Still, by the end of December a sufficient sum had been subscribed to make it look bright overhead for the reunion associa tion, and plans then slowly developing began to be matured and the active work of preparation began. The campaign for money, however, ceased for a while, until about the middle of January, indeed, when Mr. Stelnmann. because of urgent busi ness duties, resigning the chairmanship of the finance committee, Frank L. Irvine, who had previously been a very active worker, was appointed in his stead. Mr Irvine took the field and has very mate rially augmented the sum before raised and will continue the work until all i» over. \ In the meantime the railroads had granted very reasonable and satisfactory rates, the dates for holding the reunion fixed for April 22, 23, 24 and ffi, the dates being fixed this early because on May 7 the general conference of the Methodist church south meets in Dallas, with an at tendance of 8,000 to 10,000, for a three ton seed meal. 500 pounds; kalnit, 500 pounds. This will give you a fertilizer which should furnish fairly good results If you will use it liberally under the crops named. Write to Hastings Seed Store, Atlanta, Ga., (or velvet bean seed. There Are Some Simple Remedies indispensable in any family. Among these, the experience of years assures us. should be recorded Painkiller. For both Internal and external applications we have found it of great value; especially can we recommend it for colds, rheumatism, or fresh wounds and bruises.—Christian Era. Avoid substi tutes, there is but one Painkiller, Perry Davis*. Price 25c. and 50c. splendid economist, leans heavily toward the state and la a most loyal supporter of her financial reputation, but while he Is looking after the dollars and cents of this commonwealth the souls of our drunkards are going to the devil. But who cares? What is the soul of a drunkard worth? More than the wealth of Croesus. Were it necessary and I had it In my power to save one dear man I would bran'krupt the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia. Yet some dare to weigh men with dollars and think the practice a foolish one because men are so light. No expense can be too great for the state to establish a home for the unfortu nate. Particularly so, as she has with her own hands pushed these men into the stream. She sells licenses to bar rooms, goes into partnership with dispensaries, sells the souls of our fathers and sons and brothers, makes widows and orphans, turns home into hell; then how can the state, who, in cold blood for a few paltry dollars has bartered off these noble fel lows and made such sad shipwreck both here and hereafter, refuse to build a home for the inebriates within her borders. Common decency demands such a home. Common fairness cannot be done short of a home. Justice cries out from the house tops and mercy broken hearted and tear ful goes wailing through the state plead ing for this home. Let who will oppose the building of this home, but when the people shall have spoken on this question, as speak they will, there will be such an avalanche of senti ment and votes against the opposition as to carry it down ingloriously and for ever. Let us have the home. At all cost let the home be built. We have heaped indig nities and inhumanities and crimes enough on these unfortunates. The barroom Is here to our everlasting shame. The state for all these years has fostered this in iquitous traffic on the people. Now let the state make haste to redeem herself and lift the odium that rests upon her and give these wretched, pitiful/ neglected, struggling men a home under God shall be to them a very benediction and a stepping stone to manhood and to heaven. Very cordially, J. C. SOLOMON. ANOTHER GEORGIA DOCTOR OPPOSES CARE OF DRUNKARDS This discussion of a state Inebriate asyl um is a generation or two ahead of time. This state is not yet caring for half its Insane, hardly any of its epileptics, but very few of its idiots, perhaps none of its imbeciles, and not one of its physi cally helpless paupers. And yet, a few misinformed and misguided people would have the public taxed to support in idle ness and luxury the drunkards while they are renovated after debauches, getting ready to be turned loose again on a confid ing public. For everyone who has ever had any institutional experience knows that the Inebriate is by tar the hardest semi-responsible individual to hold under restraint. Habeas corpus proceedings al ways come with soberness. Massachusetts is tne only state that has seriously attempted such an asylum and finds that it costs nearly seven dollars a week per capita to maintain it; and rarely even regularly convicted and committed dipsomaniacs are held six months; they are then returned renovated mentally and physically, to society, having been warm ed back to life in the state’s charitable bosom, are now ready to begin anew their depredations on the decency of the com munity. Georgia has only fairly begun to dig in the peat bogs of ibsolutely necessary charity; has turned but few furrows in the broad furtile fields of practical benefac- weeks’ session, and the meetings could not be held at the same time. To accommodate and care for the Con federates properly tho Texas State Fair grounds in the eastern portion of the city was chosen as the place where the reunion will be held, and where an encampment will be established, into which every Con federate is invited to go as the guest of the people of Dallas and of Texas. Tents will be erected, cots, blankets and pillows have been purchased and all Confederates, rich or poor, who will go into the encampment, will be lodged and fed free of any change. The Texas State Fair grounds, where the reunion will be held, embraces 120 acres, containing five miles of gravel and drives, with foliage and flowers that bloom during the entire year, making a very at tractive spot for the old veterans to pitch their tents. There is a complete system of waterworks on the ground, and every fa cility offered to make the old heroes com fortable, which is a very necessary pro vision, as the ranks are becoming thinner and more feeble with each succeeeding re union. Ample opportunity, at a moderate cost, will be afforded to visitors to the reunion to make excursions over the state to visit various points of interest, which are rich in historical lore and to view the vast do main of the Lone Star State. The chairman of the commissary com mittee. with his helpers, is busily engaged making preparation to feed 10,000 Confed erates. The contract for barbecuing the fresh meats has been let. Many firms and manufactories have made liberal donations Value of Cotton Seed to the South Over $40,000,000 Some facts and figures compiled ify the Boston News Bureau concerning the value of the cotton seed product of the south and the uses to whhlch it is now put are of considerable interest. Formerly cotton seed was thrown away. Stringestnt laws were in force in most cotton producing states requiding its de struction to avoid the poisoning of streams, or the destruction of cattle or of agricultural lands. In 1870 practically all the cotton seed oil that was made was exported, and its total value was under 115,000. In 1880 there were forty-five mills, exporting nearly 7,000,000 gallons of oil. valued at $3,225,000. In 1890 there were 357 mills, crushing 2.- 479,386 tons of seed, producnig 93.325,729 gallons, valued at $21,390,674, besides by products, that brought up the value to $42,411,835. These are the value at point of production. Os the above, the exports of oil alone were 49,356,741 gallons, valued at $16,541,321. The amount of seed crushed was barely one-half of the available sup ply and in a “short crop” year. The vat increase of the business has not kept pace with the increase in the demand for this pure vegetable oil, which Is rapidly becoming as important to man kind as has become the lint or “cotton,” and there seems to be almost no limit to the uses of and needs for it. So, too, with the ever increasing by-products. Some figures will illustrate this. One ton (2,000 pounds) of cotton seed resluts X Pounds. P. C. Cotton seed oil (37 6-10 gal).. 282 14 Cake (and meal) 713 36 Hulls M 3 47 Linters 1 23 1 Waste 39 2 Total 2,000 100 The 93,000,000 gallons of oil are utilized tion; and is fMr, very far from ready to lose herself in the jungle of the purely ornamental socialistic ventures. It passes me how* any right thinking citizen -would will to take the school money—their only hope of worldly ad vancement—from the drunkard’s little pit iful, worse than orphans in order to main tain a warm, cozy, comfortable asylum for the brutal fathers. What thought could be njore cruel heartedly unjust. If there is yet hope for the drunkard let him work and sweat himself sober in prison or on tie public roads—the state paying his family an allowance for him. If he be beyond redemption and is unable to work send him to the state asylum at Milledgeville. That is already much over erwded, but it does not matter for the state will very soon have to build a new hospital for the acute and curable in sane. The state ought rather than build an inebriate asylum, add to let normal, in dustrial and technical schools; provide training schools for its feeble-minded; plant a colony for its epileptics, increase the work on the roads. At least fifty years of necessary and practical charity before reaching the ornamental. Better restrict the sale of liquor than encourage its consunmption by providing a comfortable retreat for its devotees. Give a law of compuisory divorce against the dipsomaniac, thus producing fewer drunkards’ children. E. J. SPRATLING, M.D. Forsyth, Ga. ANOTHER DOCTOR OPPOSES AN INEBRIATE ASYLUM FORT VALLEY, Ga., March 20, 1902. To the Editor of The Journal: Dear Sir—l see that the question of hav ing a state inebriate hospital is being ag itated through the medium of The Journal by some phj’siclans in Georgia. I beg you to please alloW me a little space in which to raise my voice in strong objection to the hospital. These physicians will agree with me that in treating a disease they first try to remove the cause of same disease, and work faithfully to that end. "What good will an inebriate hospital accomplish when barrooms are springing, mushroom-like, over the state. But, unlike mushrooms, they are, rooted deeply in Georgia soil, sending wickedness, misery, poison and death to thousands of Georgia homes, and seldom It is that a hand is found with power sufficient to uproot and utterly de stroy the vile blot on Georgia’s civiliza tion and Christianity—the barroom! It re minds me of the boy who tried to dip the water out of the ocean with a sifter; as Vast as it comes in it goes out. So with the hospital. As fast as you could dismiss your patients, supposedly "cured,” or even retain them for safe keeping, the barrooms are manufacturing inebriates faster than you could ever make room for them. I say "supposedly cured,” for several years ago inebriates were received into the state sanitarium for treatment, were dismissed as cured, but a large per cent relapsed. Suppose we should have the hospital. The people ,of our state are already groaning under the heavy weight of taxation; and when I say "people” I mean the honest, poor, hard-working in dividual, .from whom is exacted the last penny to pay his taxes, and not the big corporations, who somehow manage to escape paying their full quota of taxes. Let us not add to the people’s burden by taxing them to support an inebriate hos pital until something further is done to stop the cause of drunkenness. Let us vote for Dupont Guerry for governor, do all we can to abolish barrooms; then we will not have so much need for Inebriate hospitals. Very truly, J. R. KINNEY, M. D. to the commissary department. For a suitable hall in which to hold the meetings for business there is an auditor ium that will seat 8,500 people. A mess hall has been constructed where all meals will be served free to veterans. The con tract for badges, to cost $2,000, has been let, and they will be the handsomest ever seen at any reunion. Eight bands will be employed to furnish music. The information committee has arranged for lodging and boarding place for the multitude. Various entertainments have been pro vided for everybody, the old and the young, interesting and amusing, that will make the hours pleasant by day and by night—enjoyable diversions from the rou tine of business, the reminiscent chats of “war times” and rejuvenescence of the memories of the olden, golden days of youth. Among these will be a parade by the Kallphs, a most resplendent pageant, a scene rivaling in brilliancy and beauty even that of “The Field of the Cloth of Gold,” or the mighty' gathering in the chivalrlc age of armored knights for the tournament, where lances were shivered and blows of sword and mace fell heavily in the fray, and all for a fah- woman's smile. This will be on the night of the 23d. The next night the Kaliphs will give a magnificent ball, clad in the wondrous costumes glistening with the sheen of gold and gems, and crown the Queen of the Kaliphate. The Sons of Confederate Vet erans will also give a grand ball. To all entertainments the Confederate soldier has the entre. as follows: Exported, 49,000,000 gallons: To France, 300,000 barreds, for making soap and olive oil; Netherlands, 200,000 barrels, for mak ing butter; Belgium, 45,000 barrels: Great Britain, 65,000 barrels; Austria, 75.000 bar rels; Germany, 55,000 barrels; Italy, 60,000 barrels; Mexico, 40,000 barrels; South America 30,000 barrels; South Africa, West Indies, etc., 100,000 barrels. The balance is consumed in the United States in the form of lard compound, soap, oleomargarine, salad oil, cooking oil, burning oil and sardine packing. Four hundred pounds of the cotton seed meal added to one ton of the hulls makes an ideal cattle food. Some hundreds of thousands of cattle are so fattened for the market and at increase of value. Over 57.000,000 pounds of linters (the short lint) recovered are used as filling for cheap cotton fabrics and carpets, for wad ding or batting, twines and mattress making. A United States Agricultural Bureau publication says that the meal and hulls, after the extraction of the oil, contain 100 per cent, of all the original value of the seed as either a fertilizer or a cattle food; while if fed to cattle, the ground receives from 80 to 95 per cent, of all the original value as a fertilizer. The claim is often made that cotton is the most useful to man of all the plants that nature produces. The United States produces two-thirds of all the worlds supply of cotton. HON. DUPOnFgUERRY” SPEAKS AT HOSCHTON HOSCHTON. Ga., March 28 Hon. DuPont Guerry spoke to a large crowd here Wednesday night, considering inclement weather and only a few hours' notice. Mr. Guerry's speech was very excellent and was received with applause. This section seems to be for Mr. Guerry. SUGGESTIONS FROM I OUR CORRESPONDENTS - ■ -.-r.’sgp ; I 111111— Fl LET THERE BE JUSTICE AS WELL AS PEACE To the Editor of The Journal:— In answer t® a letter of the 20th. signed W. R. 8., in which he calls attention to the sympathies shown by the American people and press (I am glad to note that the Journal is among their number) to the Boers. He also asks in the name of St. Patrick let there be peace. Amen. But also let there be justice and mercy. He says that the deeds of the English are be littled and the deeds of the Boers are magnified. Let Mr. W. R. B. remember that we have never received any thing but the English side of the story, and they are very meagre. Surely there is another side to it. I will not answer the many ques tions asked by Mr. English Sympathize!, but will merely ask the gentleman to fol low me back as history tells us to the days of England’s foundation, and then up to the present war with the Boers and let’s see where the magnanimity of our British cousins come in. Did they show It in conquering Scot land? No. Did they show any of it in the enslaving of Ireland? The Irish say no. If Mr. W. R. B. is an Englishman I sin cerely beg pardon.. If he is not I will ask him to get a good history of the colonies and study carefully the policy of our mother, not cousins, country towards us when we were struggling for a God given right, and see if England showed any of her good qualities and mercies in dealing with us as the gentleman predicts she will show to the Boers. So far the English seem to have had about all they can do to keep her treasury filled much less furnish the English sol diers with supplies to say nothing of what they furnish the Boers. Brother, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Respectfully yours, george mcfadden. Atlanta, March 20. SAYS NORTH GEORGIA . CROP IS NOT INJURED To the Editor of The Journal: / In Wednesday evening’s Journal I no tice a report from Commissioner O. B. Stevens, that in his opinion the recent “cold snap” had materially damaged the fruit crop, "especially la North Georgia.” He-further says that “the trees that were already in bloom would not be injured to any great extent because they were bet ter prepared to stand the cold weather than those which were just budding out.” Now I would like to know upon what “theory” he bases that assertion, because practical experience and facts will not bear him out in that last remark. It is an indisputable fact among prac tical fruit growers that a peach is easier killed when in full Dioom than at any other stage of its growth. And while the buds in North Georgia are considerably smaller , the crop owes its escape from the recent cold snap to the fact that it was not in full bloom. After a very thorough examination I find only about one-tenth of the buds injured in this section, and predict a good crop if we do not have a cold spell later on. I notice in a dispatch from Griffin, Ga.. that they do not think the fruit injured there and believe the freeze will do the fruit good as it will keep the sap back until al] danger of frost is over. There never was a more erroneous idea in vented by man. After a fruit bud attains the stage of development sufficient to show the petal of the flower, a cold snap (if not severe enough to destroy it) has no effect whatever upon the process of development, only while it lasts. Peaches have been known to open in 48 hours after passing through a temperature' of 24 degrees first night and 28 degrees the second night, with not a single bloom open before the freeze, and trees bore a good crop. Respectfully, GEORGE B. NIGH. Marietta, March 25. AGREES WITH MRS. FELTON AND BISHOP WARREN CANDLER To the Editor of The Journal. Now that Mrs. Felton has had her say on the fawning and flunkeyism incident to Prince Henry's visit, when one recalls an article from her pen in Mayt 1901, en titled, “Do We Hanker for a King,” the wonder is, how she held back and didn't, like Bill Arp, “say something” be fore. But like the talented and cultured lady that she is, she has politely waited until the prince has received the fawning of a republican people, and gone home, purchance, laughing in his sleeve, and thinking “what fools these mortals be.” Wheeler was covered up under an ava lanche of abuse for saying things in ad vance of the visit, and some very few may think Mrs. Felton discourteous in saying what she does, after the visit—“before faking and after.” But her short and pointed articles. “Do We Hanker for a •Klng.”the ones in toadying and flunkeyism and Raney Sniffle in the United States seem worthy of a place in a scrapbook, to be read and re-read and as we, the de scendants of revolutionary sires, Think of our grandfathers, and Lexington and Bunker Hill and Valley Forge our repub lican eyes ought to "burst forth with pen etential tears.” Shades of Andrew Jackson arise ’ Again, if our grand old state reaps a rev enue from liquor to run her schools, etc.. Dr. Parks ought to be encouraged in getting an inebriate asylum for those who fall into temptation. Then Bishop Candler in "Publlco-Mania” gives us soirfe “mighty good readin’ ”. The Saturday night's edition of The Journal is a feast. In ancient times one old philosopher laughed- at the follies of mankind—the other wept. “About as well laugh as cry” is more modern, perhaps best. A. G. BEAZLEY. THE BOOKER WASHINGTON / ISSUE AGAIN TURNS UP To the Editor of The Journal: In your issue of the 25th instant. Com missioner Glenn makes reply td certain statements made in my card to The Jour nal of Monday last. I did not call the name of Commissioner Glenn in my allu sion to the Booker Washington reception in this city, but it seems that he “knows his number.” z Mr. Glenn seeks to evade some of the opprobrium which southern people attach to negrophilism, by stating that the occa sion at which he was present was not a banquet. Mr. Webster gives us one of the definitions of a banquet, "an entertain ment.” and it makes no difference so far as the commissioner is concerned wheth er the guests w’ere entertained with wine or gush, the facts remain that he was present, and did eulogize Booker Wash ington in “complimentary terms.” I charged that Commissioner Glenn did then and there extol Booker T. Washing ton ip words of glowing etriegy. Governor Candler says: “My recollection is that you spoke in complimentary terms of Washington.” 1 have the word of two as responsible men as there are in Atlan ta that the commissioner did eulogize Washington in glowing language, "paying him such a tribute as he has not paid to any white man in this country.” Commissioner Glenn’s official conduct and public utterances are legitimate mat ters of criticism, but under no circum stances will I lug before the people his private business affairs. I have no sym pathy with such methods of controversy. MARK JOHNSTON. AGREES WITH MRS. FELTON ON SCHOOL TAX QUESTION To the Editor of The Journal: Through your colunms permit an hum- ble taxpayer to congratulate Mrs. W. H. Felton’s writings on public schools, dis bursement of funds, etc. Her statement in your issue of the 2?d in stant seems to me sufficient explanation to W. P. Burt. D. D. S., of Atlanta, or any one else to see there is a loose screw somewhere. Would it not be more satis factory to ask our legislature to pass an act requiring state and county school com missioners to make an itemized state ment for the benefit of the public, of ail , funds received and disbursed by them? While this is- commonly expected of grand jurors they have not the time for thorough inspection. I have some littlo experience as an ex-member of the county board of education, served twelve years without compensation, while the county commissioners were receiving four to six hundred dollars for about two months’ work. « I know of the plans of State School Commissioner Glenn, assisted by county commissioners, to break up rural schools, » drive them to town, or force them to con solidate at such long distance apart that it is utterly impracticable and unsafe for small children and grown up girls to at tend school. I have had some experience in teaching, but before the present sys tem was put in operation; then the parents paid the teachers and we had good coun try schools for eight or ten months in tho year, from thirty to th|rty-five scholars, enough for any one teacher, and schools conveniently, near by fqr all. I have thought that children advanced faster in small schools than larger ones, where several teachers were employed. I am so far behind the present times, and for feJTr of being termed an old fogy, I will close, but will continue to hollow hurrah for Mrs. Felton, lower taxes and a more economical disbursement of all public funds. Respectfully, J. M. GRESHAM, Social Circle, Ga. A TEACHER ENDORSES MRS. FELTON’S REMARKS To the Editor of The Journal: I read Mrs. Felton’s piece in The Jour nal and was really pleased to see the way she handled the question of "The Public School Money.” She certainly struck a note to please the people generally, and particularly the public school teachers. Now, we in the country believe that either the town teachers get the money or the officers of the state. Why should the school commissioners (state and county) • have their pay before the teachers of the poop z country schools are paid? Why should parties who draw large salaries ~ from the state, be paid before those who draw small salaries? Why should a state house official be paid before a little school teacher who, with his family, de pends upon what can be made out of teaching school? A teacher teaching in Georgia has no idea of when he will be paid for his teaching. Is such the case with the big salaried officials? Certainly not. All the lords have to do is to walk up to the captain’s office and call for what is due him. Now these are some of the things that country people talk about and would like to understand. The candidates for the next school com missioner would do a big thing for them selves if they can convince the people that their plan for remedying these things will remedy them. Respectfully, J. S. EDMUNDSON. Spann, Ga. SAYS THAT CANCER COMES FROM EATING HOG MEAT To the Editor of The Journal: I was somewhat surprised sometime ago to read where some learned men had decided to investigate the cause of cancer, and think ing salt was one cause. If these same learned men will take a microscope and a hog, espe cially a fat one, they need not search any further to find the cause of cancer. They will find all through a hog's body small hol low pipes, like sewer pipes, through which , corruption is always flowing, finding an out let in two openings which appear In the legs, and if they become closed and the matter cannot run out, that hog dies. Jf they will search further they will find trichorrlsis, tuberculosis, scrofula and cholera germs in that same hog. If they will examine a hog s liver they will not longer wonder where tape worms come from. I am not a Jew, but know God’s command regarding the unclean swine. He meant that command for his peo ple everywhere. If a Jew has cancer it is .because he has broken the laws of God and eaten swine's flesh or the cooked corruption lard. L K. H. MISSISSiPPTCfIOPS IN GOOD CONDITION RECENT HEAVY RAINS, HOWEVER, HAVE DONE SOME DAMAGE. STRAWBERRY PROSPECTS GRATIFYING. JACKSON. Miss., "March 27.—The re ports from the truck farming sections of the state, from Crystal Springs, Madleon Station, and other parts of Mississippi, are to the effect that the crops aretdn fairly good condition, though the recent heavy rains did damage the crops some, however, not as much as was first ex pected. The prospects for an unprecedented yield in strawberries is very flattering, as the strawberry fields are now bouquets of white blooms, and all of the plants are in good healthy condition, giving promise of a good crop in the near future. In general the condition of the tomato crop is reported not as good as usual at this time of the year, because of the rains this season, but the farmers from the truck farming sections are of the opinion that this crop will improve. The tomato plants are just emerging from the "blues.” The peach crop is large and in the finest possible condition, giving every indica tion of a large yield. There will be an output this year that well Informed peo pie predict will break all past records. All of the reports are to the effect that the truck acreage in all of the truck farming sections has-been considerably increased, and that the crop this year will be much larger than last. Fruit Not Injured. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., March 27. Manager Kent, of the Chattanooga South ern railway, which reaches the greatest peach growing section of the south, yes terday stated that the fruit along his road had not been injured by the cold weather, and that there would be an un usually large crop this year. BOSTROM'S IMPROVED FARM LEVEL Is not a makeshift, but the best one made for Ter racing. Ditching and Drain as?r - Pricc including ‘nS&Sp Tripod and Sliding Target Roa. Send for descriptive XjA circular and Illustrated* ’JS*. Treatise on Terracing, free. J. M. ALEXANDER &, CO., 56 A 5S S. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. BRANCH’S GENUINE Rattlesnake Watermelon Seed! 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