Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, August 12, 1910, Page 5, Image 5
A / ■ AND SUCCESSFVLc 'An drew QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT Ths Journal fleet*** to lucrea* • the usefulness of its agricultural pages in every possible way. For this purpose, the department of inquiries *ad answers is to bo greatly enlarged. Any information pertaining to agriculture, the proper Ullage of the soil, the proper use of fertilisers, seeding for crops, stock and cattle breedlag, poultry raising and in fact, all subjects pertaining to the farm upon which information may bo sought or practical suggestions offered, will bo published in these oolumuk Wo request our readers to use those psgos freely. Wo will endeavor to furnish information, if the questions are asked. Letters addressed to Dr Andrew M Boule. President State Agricultural Co 11 ego, Athens, Ga., wiU receive prompt attention, and she replies will be published in The Semi-Weekly Journal. Cotton Seed Meal in its Relation to Ani mal Industries. We are the richest people on earth and the moat indifferent to rlchneaa. If medieval days still prevailed in Europe as they once did. we could make the ransoming of kings a specialty, paying the tribute out of what we now vute annual!)' and have a large surplus left. Statistics are the most useful and the most unreliable data with which we have to deal; but it is a fact that in the last 13 years the south has exported *,290.000 tons of cotton seed meal. This meal contained on a conservative esti mate. 830.g00.000 pounds of nitrogen, worth at IS cents a pound. 1153.508.000. 151 <OO.OOO pounds of phosphoric acid, worth at l«nt> a pound 810.004.000: and 251.800.000 pounds of potash, worth at 5 cents a pound. 812,580.000. This represents a permanent removal from the soils of America of 1.383.800.000 pounds of plant food, worth at the low figures utilized in the cultivation, 81‘L -152,000. There is not a man or corpor ation tn the civilized world who would undertake to return to our soils this vast and inconceivable amount of plant •food for anything like the figure quoted hbove. For this vast treasure of plant food we received for the sale price of cotton seed meal exported during the last II years. 8183,878,790. Therefore it brought 837.772.210 loss than the plant food it cotnained was worth. It will be demonstrated in this paper to the complete satisfaction of any roeirnnsbit person that cotton seed meal is worth 825 a ton as a foodstuff; that it outranks in feeding and fertilising value in its pure state any other known eoneentrate; and if this statement be true, there was an additional loss of 1157,250.000. which with the loss on fer tilisers. represents more than 8200.000,- 000 of s preventable loss to the south tn the last 13 years from the exportation of cotton seed meat This is a part of the tribute we are paying for not utilis ing the gifts of nature as God Almighty intended we should; for not developing our agricultural colleges, stimulating extension teaching, and thereby develop ing the only permanent type of ag ricultural practice which our civilization knows, namely, live stock husbandry. On account of neglecting this great in dustry we have reaped a harvest of tares and thorns, and the landscape, so beautifully carved by the Lands of the Creator, is being desecrated and de stroyed in a manner so wanton as to shock the sensibilities of the sge in which we live. •• e see in the old red hills, desolated by erosion and perma nently impoverished, the result of neg lecting animal husbandry. The little old log cabin, a fit home for the pioneer but not for the aggressive farmer of today, is but added evidence of the truth of this statement; and the general exhaustion of our soils, due to the neg lect of this primal industry, is bring ing in its wake an impoverishment and depression of the people; and thio in a territory favored with the most delight ful climate tn the world and with op portunities unsurpassed elsewhere Pes simism is to be abhorred and these statements hove not been made to dis courage, but to bring home the truth in a direct and forceful manner that we may all realise our responsibility and assist in tne rejuvenating process which alone will make it possible for us to reclaim our greatest asset —the soil, and through it build a permanent and progressive civilisation that will stand unimpaired through all the ages yet to come There are some who might suppose that these figures have been quoted for effect and that they represent the on ly source of loss. It is to be regretted that they do not, for of the 5,012,848 tons of seed produced tn 1807, only 2,- 841.881 tons were crushed. This repre sented less than two-thirds of the crop, la other words. 2.088.885 tons were re tained on the farms to be used as seed, feed or fertilizer. Tet there was contain ed la this seed fully 1i7.285.870 worth of oil that has no conceivable use in the nutrition of planta and makes the stock, and can only be regarded there fore in the light of an additional waste. It has been clearly established that 800 pounds of high grade meal are equiva lent in fertilizing value to one ton of seed, and since the seed retained on the farms would have produced about 840,- 812 tons of meal. It would have had on this basis the fertilising equivalent of 1,858.593 tons of seed. As a matter of fact, the farmer can obtain from the oil mills from 1.200 to 1,600 pounds of meal in exchange for a ton of seed, so that it would seem dearly to his ad vantage. where -aeee conditions prevail, to exchange the seed and turn into the channels of commerce the 83.080,535 gal lons of oil tn question. Besides, if the farmer would take the meal and feed it, there is certainly every reason to believe that it would be worth to him as feed and fertilizer approximately 842.044.800. which would insure him. on the basis of an exchange of one ton of seed for 800 pounds of meal, a price of better than 820 a ton for his seed. In some states statistics indicate that only 10 per cent of the seed is crushed. There is certainly something wrong, and It is very evident that there is a need of co-operation between the farmer and the erusher which does not see to ex ist in many instances at the present time. It would probably be difficult for the layman to suggest a remedy for these conditions, real or imaginary, on the part of both farmer and crusher, but why not form a co-partnership; why not explain to the farmer what is in the seed and what comes out of it. We believe that if he understood the situation he would be willing to allow @BEAR BRAND ’ Painless Eye Water and Salve FOff ALL DI3EAM J COKDITIOKS OF THE ETES If you suffer with Wash. Watery. Sore or Ir.fiatnad Eyes, Grannlatad Lids. FDd Hair*. Er* UAoera cr even temporary BLINDNESS re*v’>ting from either theM. BEAR BRAND EYE WATER and SALVE wfflgiv* yvo INSTANT RELIEF, rad year dealer I* authorized to refund your mosey if you are not cured or ?atisfactor:iy benefited. SOOTHJNO, HEALING, PLEASANT. EASY to APPLY. HARMLIX3 EVEN TO TflE YOUNGEoi BABE. Price. IzxJ-J. ng bv::’* of *y* water, box of aalv* and glaze pipette with rubbar bu.o for dropping «r* water into th* W**. 25 cents st beat stores, or by mail. r*pr*a*nti ng a caab eaXs* to gou, with oocrv botiis. l THE LEWIE BEAR DRUG OOM PA NY, Por.aaooia, Fla. J the crusher a fair profit. On*the other hand, we think the crusher should al ways be willing to pay the farmer the highest price he possibly can for his seed. This has not always been done and has tended to create a part of the prejudice which now exists. The oil mill man can also Improve his status with the farmer if he handles only a high grade product. Many do not seem to believe this, but an extended experi ence in talking to farmers and in work ing with them, but confirms the advis ability of such a practice. What is needed above every thing!* ed ucation. Nothing will break down preju dice more quickly and more complete ly on the part of all concerned than to feel they understand the true status of the question and are able to deal with the situation so as to fully pro tect their interests A considerable sum of money is being appropriated to extend th* markets of cotton seed products in foreign coun tries. This Is an excellent idea, pro vided we are not taking too much from our own country in exchange for what we receive. No effort. comparatively speaking, has been made to educate th* people of the south with reference to cot ton seed and its by-products. There is a market here at home for more than we produce today or ever will produce. "Why not engage in a campaign of edu cation that will enlighten our people with reference to all phases of this in dustry? This can only redound to the everlasting benefit and credit of the cotton seed crushers of the south, and no man can correctly portray the bene fits it will confer upon our farming in terests. There is an agricultural college in every state ready to lead the vanguard in an extension movement which will result in scattering broadcast the length and breadth of the south vital informa tion with reference to this Important subject. . If the crushers’ association in each state will co-operate with its tural college, will get touch with We educational leaders, will assist institutions in securing from their res pective legislatures th* funds needed for their proper maintenance, for the development of extension teaching, and for the fostering of research workjhey will have made the greatest forward movement in the history of the sation and will have done more to ad vance the permanent welfare of _th« south than can be done in any other SUGGE6TION CONCERNING ALFAL FA CULTIVATION. W. T< 8.. Mount Airy, Ga., writes: I wish some information in regard to al falfa growing. The soil here is only about ten Inches deep *nd is a red clay with red subsoil and has plenty of drain age. capable of producing 25 to 80 bushels of corn per acre. Would plowing under a crop of cowpeas and applying three to four tons of lime, and 400 pounds of a fertiliser put it in shape for alfal fa* What about Inoculating the soil? The rich red soils of north Georgia are among the most fertile in the state, aud W hsre they have sufficient depth and are properly prepared may be made to grow alfalfa successfully. These lands, as a rule, are very heavy, however, and should be broken thoroughly and deeply, for in most Instances they have been plowed very shallow in the past. They should have good depth, for alfalfa is a deep rooted plant and will strike into the soil to a depth of two or three feet on our red clay lands and much deeper in those of a more porous texture. Cow peas will be an excellent crop to use for increasing the store of vegetable matter in the soil. They should be sown as soon as possible either broadcast or in drills We prefer to drill in rows about eight Inches apart. By drilling the peas are covered more uniformly and a better stand is secured, and this' is a very important matter. It will certain ly be good practice to use at least 800 pounds of a 10-4 mixture under the peas. The peas should be plowed under in the fall, great care being taken to cover them completely. The plowing is best done about the Ist to 15th of September. The land should then be thoroughly fined with surface-working Implements and the alfalfa sown not later than the first of October It may either be broadcasted or sown in drills 8 to 18 inches apart. Before seeding the alfalfa apply a 2-10-5 fertiliser at the rate of at least 500 to 1000 pounds per sore. Lime should be put on previously, not less than one ton of caustic lime or five tons of finely ground limestone rock of good quality being used. We would inoculate the soil by all means, and our experience indicates that It is better to use soil from a field where alfalfa has been grown previously and scatter over the ground at the rate of 300 pounds per acre. SELECTING A GOOD VARIETY OF WHEAT. R. P.. Ragland, Ala., writes: I inclose two heads of volunteer wheat. Please give me the name, where I can get seed, and all the Information you can. It is impossible to identify varieties cf wheat with any degree of accuracy from a mere examination of the heads. The heads of a given variety vary mark edly, depndlng on the character of soil they have grown on, the size of stool from which they develop and the season. We have made quite an elaborate study of varieties of wheat at different times, and after trying to standardise varieties which we knew to be pure for several years, it was still possible to go into SOUTH CAROLINA PLINS TEN NEW COTTON PLANTS Combined Capitalization of In dustries Will Amount to $3,000,000 CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 9—ln spite of the unfavorableness of the cotton goods markets, new mills continue to be organized, and there are at present at least ten new mill projects being en gineered in this immediate section. Here is a list in the Carolinas, re cently announced, which are assured: At Chesnee, 8. C.. a new 8400,000 mill. At Laurens, 8. C., a new 8400,000 mill. At Newberry, 8. C., a new 8400,000 mill. At Gray Court. 8. C., a new 8300.000 mill. At Florence, 8. C.. a new 8&00jb00 mill. At Prosperity, 8. C., a new '8200,000 mill. At Clinton, 8. C„ a new 8300,000 mill. At Fountain Inn. 8. C., a new 8300.000 mill. At Williamston, 8. C.. a newß 3,000,000 mill. At Greenville. 8. C„ a new 8200,000 mill. These mills alone represent a capital ization of 83.000,000. On several of these mills work has actually begun. Four have been Incorporated. It is ex pected to have all the plants ready for operation within six months. In North Carolina, also, numerous big mill projects are underway, including a large new mill at Winston-Salem, N. C., and one in Moore county. the field and find several distinct types of heads. You will see from this, there fore, that it would be impossible to determine the variety of the samples of heads sent with any degree of accuracy. Os course, we can tell that the glooms are more or less velvety, the heads are beardless and the straw somewhat whit ish in color, but these are minor points that are not of material Importance in determining the real value of a given variety. The best advice we can give you along this line is to choose that variety of wheat which has given the best success 4n your community, select ing it with care, choosing the heads for reproduction from only the most perfect plants, and grow these 'on an especially well prepared piece of ground and rese lect the next year. This will involve some labor, but if you persist in the wor» your reward is certain. Among the best varieties of wheat that we have tested for growth in the south are the Fulcaster, Mediterranean and Poole. These are standard aorta and you should have no difficulty in securing seed of these strains. Os course, you should remember that the source of the seed, the conditions under which it has been grown and the attention given to its selection are matters of grave importance and determine very material ly what the value of the variety may be for your conditions. • • • MANAGEMENT OF BREEDING ANI MALS. R- D. M., Baldwin, Ga., writes: I am preparing to go into the hog business, and wish to know how to manage the boar and brood sow for beet results. You know corn is high. I wish to secure as many as ten pigs from each Jitter. I have been selling pigs at some profit, but I wish to raise better ones and more of them. Can we afford to pay 81 a bushel for corn to feed to hogs with a good Ber muda pasture and running water? In this climate sows that are kept in good condition may be bred twice a year. It is best to have one litter of pigs come in the early spring and the other as early in the autumn as possible, so as to get considerable growth on them before cold weather when grain feed which la ex pensive becomes necessary. Breeding an imals should be k«ut in good condition, but never too fat. Brood sowns are more likely to come In heat if penned and fed grain. The ration should not contain too much corn, however. You will find a mixture of one-third corn and two-thirds middlings with a little digester tankage a good ration to use. This may be fed as a thin slop. All the waste from the kitchen can also be utilised. After the animals are bred they may. be turned on grazing crops. Both the malea and fe males may be maintained very largely on gracing crops in this climate. You can have a succession of these crops very well adapted to the needs of hogs, and you can reduce the amount of corn or dinarily fed to a marked degree. One dollar corn is a high-priced grain to feed to hogs that can be maintained and made to grow and thrive on a succession of such erops as crimson clover, oats or wheat, cowpeas, soy beans, peanuts and artichokes. Develop a system of fenced paddocks as quickly as you can, and sow each down to a crop which will fit into a rotation, and enable you to produce two growths on the same land in a year. By this means you will have plenty of green feed at all seasons and a large per cent of the crops may be made to produce the greater part of the grain needed for the maintenance of the animals. You should have a Bermuda pasture by all means as a paPt of your permanent system of graz ing lots. • • • PREPARING LAND FOR FALL WHEAT. J .R. M., Wolf Creek, N. C., writes: I have an acre of light red gravelly clay that I want td sow in wheat this fall and wish to know how much fertilizer I should put on. I also have about one fourth of an acre of ground that is too open or puffy. It is dark red with little fine gravel. Would like to know what to do to make the ground firmer. I have put several loads of manure on it. I have also used guano. I have it in sweet po tatoes this year. Do you think lime would help it and how much should I use? The best results in wheat production are secured on lands that contain a con siderable amount of vegetable matter. The great wheat-producing section of the Canadian northwest consists of a soil which has been formed largely through the decay of vegetable matter. It is a rich black land, sometimes showing as much as 6 per cent of nitrogen on analy sis. When you consider that much of our soil does not show over 2 per cent of ni trogen, you ean see what a wonderful difference In quantity and availability of plant food exists between these two types of soils. One desiring to grow wheat on land such as you have described should pre pare to apply vegetable matter in consid erable quantities either in the form of farmyard manure or green crops plowed under. It is not too late to sow peas or velvet beans yet, and it would be advis able to seed them on this land as soon as possible. Tn addition you Should use a fertilizer containing a fair amount of phosphoric acid and potash. We would say not less than 200 pounds of the former and 50 pounds of the latter. The peas should be ployed under and the land al lowed to firm and compact at least two weeks before planting the wheat. Choose a good variety of wheat and seed at the rate of one bushel and a peck per acre. The land that you describe as puffy should be benefited by an application of lime, using at least one ton per acre- Purchase It in the caustic form and put In piles in the fields such distances as will insure the application of a ton per 0. B. Stevens Is Handed Hot Stuff by G. N. Bagwell, of Winder. Corroborated by W. D. Branan Editor Journal: I notice in your issue of the 6th an effort at a denial on the part of O. B- Stevens of the truth of an affidavit by me that during the year 1902 a guano company for which I was at work sent 8500 into this state to be used as a part of a campaign fund for Mr. Ste vens during said year, while he was Commissioner of Agriculture. You will notice that Mr. Stevens only says that no such fund or any other amount was ever contributed by any company for a campaign fund for himself. He does not deny that money was given him by a guano company. I didn’t swear, nor do I say now, that he used the money for campaign purposes, but that it was sent for this purpose, and repeat now that a check was sent into this state for 3500 for such purpose. Os course, he could have used the money for other purposes. The Hon. M. J. Yeomans, son-in-law of Mr. Stevens, spent the day here last Thursday seeking certain information concerning my affidavit. I told him then to go back to Atlanta and tell Mr. Stevens to deny the truth of my affidavit and I would then give it. But you see Mr. Stevens doesn’t do this in full; and I ask you now, Mr. Ste vens, did you receive certain sums of money from guano companies in 1902, and especially the 8600, regardless of whether you used it for campaign pur poses or not? That there wag such a sum sent for your use there is no ques tion, so what did you do with it? As to the connection your son-in-law puts J. A. Perry’s nams with this con troversy, I desire to say that I told him what I knew about this, volunta rily, and made th* affidavit in the same manner, and he is in no way responsi ble for my action in this matter. I have no interest in your defeat, other than I know you to be a man who ought not to be in a position of trust in this or any other state. And since you insinuate that but for certain reasons you would not have noticed what I swore to, I ask any on* who would question the truth of my affidavit, believes that I would b« a acre and cover lightly with earth and allow to slake. Then spread uniformly over the ground. Be sure to remove the earth to the depth of two or three Inches where the lime waa pilad, so as not to leave a non-productive spot in the field. This is probably th* best way to han dle lime on a small scale. While 11m* may be applied at variou* seasons, it is probably best to put It on in the fall of the year. It should be applied two or three weekq before a crop is put on th* land. Borne crops like cotton do not seem to be benefited by liming, but It is help ful to all leguminous crops, and seems to give good results with corn. We hav* found on the college farm this year that where lime wag us*d the rate of one ton per acre the southern corn root worm has not damaged our corn anything like as badly as where lime was not used. In other words, the destruction of plants where no lime was used amounted to 6.1 per cent; where lime was used this loss waa reduced to 1.75 per cent. Should this ratio of benefit be maintained in future experiments, it would indicate that lime could be used with advantage and profit on many of our soils. • • • DESTROYING WEEVILS IN CORN. W. N. Y., Hazlehurst, Ga, writes: Will you advlss me the names of the drugs to kill weevils in oom. I have some old corn and want to kill the weevils so as to keep them out of my new corn. Weevils may be destroyed in com and in other grain by dissulphide of carbon. The grain to be treated should first be placed in a tight bin or box as the case may be. If It is lined with tin so much the better, though it is not necessary. For every thousand cubic feet of space or one ton of grain use one pound of carbon bisulphide. The bisulphide should be placed in a dish on top of the grain. It is heavier than the air and will sink to the bottom, destroying all life exls tanent in the grain at the time. A second treatment in a few days Is sometimes de sirable as some of the eggs may have es caped injury. Carbon bisulphide is very Inflammable, and on that account the treatment should be given in the day time and matches or lights of any de scription should not be brought in the vi cinity of the fluid. When placed on top of the grain some heavy material should be thrown over the receptacle. ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK AT CONSERVATION MEETING Gifford Pinchot has written to E. L. Worsham, state entomologist, that he will see Theodore Roosevelt this week and that he is sure h* will be able to Induce Mr. Roosevelt to speak at the conservation meeting that will be held in Atlanta October 8 and 9 for the organ ization of a conservation association for Georgia. A meeting of the conservation commit tee of the chamber of commerce was held Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock and two committees were appointed to pre pare for the meeting in October. On* of these committees will look after the financial end of the meeting and the other will prepare a program. The committee on finance consists of V. H. Krelgshaber, chairman; Charles J. Haden, Paul Norcross, B. L. Willing ham, Walter G. Cooper and Dr Joe Ja cobs. The committee on program consists of Dr. 8. W. McCallie, chairman; Thomas Hudson, Alfred Akerman, Paul Norcross and Wilmer L. Moore. FARMERS TO ATTEND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY MACON, Ga., Aug. 9.—The Bibb Coun ty Farmers' Institute will send an enthus iastic delegation to th* annual meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural society in Athens tomorrow. In the party from this city will be Messrs. W. G. Middlebrooks, Hugh V. Washington, W. T. Hill, L. M. Solomon, R. B. Hall, B. D. Lumsden, R. H. Plant, T. H. Ayres, J. A. Flournoy and R. H. Bowman. GOLD WATCH SWIPED / BY PASSING AUTO NEW YORK, Ang. 9.—Henry Yastow. a New York produce merchant, aaserta that an auto mobile stole his gold watch and chain and he wants the machine or aomebody connected with It arrested. Yastow waa crossing an uptown street when a machine whiazed by. He had a heavy bundle on his shoulder and did not see the automobile until it was too late to get out of the way. It jpst grazed him. without doing him any serioua Injury. But a projecting belt or screen caught his watch and chain and his 515 gold timepiece disappear*' -’-m3 -» 4aat with the au- tomobile. party to such a base act of political trickery, were it not the truth, to write either of the following gentlemen who have known me most of my life: W. H. Toole, Resident, First National Bank. R. L. Carithers, President, Smith A Carithers, Bankers. T. A. Maynard, President, Winder Banking Company. Rev. J. H. Wood, pastor of Christian church. Rev. L A. Brown, pastor of Baptist church. Rev. W. T. Hunnicut, pastor of Meth odist church, all of Winder. Mr. W. D. Branan was the sales agent I referred to, of Atlanta. Ga., and in him there isn’t a more honorable or upright citizen of our state, and I ask you to note what he says about this ’’farmers' friend.” G. N. BAGWELL Winder, Ga., Aug. 8, 1810. August 4, 1910. To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that I was a travel ing sales agent for a certain guano company in Georgia during the year 1902 and during said year I was given a certain amount of money by the man agement of the company for which I was at work to be delivered to the president of a guano company in Geor gia, which I did so deliver, and said amount was in payment of the assess ment of said company for which I was at work for a campaign fund for O. B. Stevens, who was then commissioner of agriculture. While said O. B. Stevens was com missioner of agriculture he wrote said company asking for prices qn fertilizers in small quantities and said company, acting under the Impression that he ex pected said fertilisers without charge, shipped him five tons complimentary to Cornelia, Ga., and it later developed that he had received numbers of such ship ments. all of which was put on the market, at out prices, resulting in the cancellation of the contract which I had made for the company for which I was at work at said point. W. D. COPELAND REPLIES TO LETTER WRITEEN 81SHILN President of Floyd Smith Club Answers President Shaw of Brown Club ROME, Ga., Aug. B.—F. W. Copeland, president of the Hoke Smith club of Floyd county, has Issued the following statement in answer to a letter written by President Walter Shaw, of the Brown club of Floyd county: COPELAND’S STATEMENT. "Hon. Walter Shaw, president of th* Floyd County Governor Brown club, has written a letter, a wonderful letter, and has mailed a eopy of it to practically •very voter in the county. “This remarkable letter tells the people that th* country prospers under Governor Brown, regardless of an unfriendly leg islature, a legislature that just won’t at tend to its business, that will not do as Governor Brown says, but persists in I standing for th* principles favored by Hoke Smith and which have be*n partly enacted into law and the remainder will Ibo after Governor Brown has been dis posed of. I "This is an astounding statement of Brother Shaw, that the country prospers ! since the negro has been disfranchised, it prospers since the convict lease sys tem ha* been forever abolished, it pros pers with the registration law requiring I registration to be made six months b*- I fore the election, it prospers with free passes abolished, it prospers with passen ger rates reduced, it prospers with a railroad commission of five members. In fact, Brother Shaw should hav* told the people that his governor had been sit ting there with his hands tied by an un friendly legislature that persisted in rep resenting the people of Georgia and not the special interests, and that they with their immediate predecessors acting in conjunction with Governor Smith had laid a permanent and broad foundation for th* state's prosperity, and that upon that foundation the state was prospering, not under Governor Brown, but in spite of him. The dog tax law is one new law signed by Governor Brown. "But there is a Uttle more prosperity that the people want, and that they are going to get. They are still insisting that the lobbyist be banished or at least tag ged. How do*s Governor Brown stand on this? H* has written two annual messages to the legislature and several special ones and has never mentioned it. Does he believe in letting well enough alone? Or has h* any convictions on th* question? PEOPLE WANT PROSPERITY. "Th* people want passenger rat«s to remain reduced. How is Governor Brown on this? Has he experienced any change of heart since, when as rail road commissioner he opposed any re duction and voted against reduction? “They want freight rates adjusted so as to prevent discrimination and re duced to a fair basis. How is Governor Brown on tbis? "They want the Louisville and Nash ville railroad to either quit using’ the Western and Atlantic railroad from Car tersville to Atlanta or that it be com pelled to pay the people, the owners of the property for the use thereof. How is Governor Brown on this question? Speak up, Brother Shaw, and tell the people of Floyd county, when will Gov ernor Brown undertake to put the Louisville and Nashville off the state’s railroad? “When will h« indorse low freight and passenger rates? Brother Shaw says every manufacturing plant is busy. What about the Floyd cotton mills. Brother Shaw? Tell the people how many days in the last 12 months the operatives at the Aragon mills have had no work? How long did it run four days only in the week? How long, that is how many days has the Lindale mills been shut down during Governor Brown's administration, and this mill is recognized everywhere in the south as being one of the strongest and best ad ministered mills in the south? “Tell the farmers why the mills say ! they can’t run on full time? Give them the answer that the mills will give you, ' that is that the price of cotton is too high. And tell them the truth that the mills all over the country from the north to the south are curtailing their outpu. and shutting down in an effort on their part to force down the price of the farmers' cotton. i "Don't generalize so much, get int* James a. perky, oe imitai hum, DEPRECATES 0. B. STEVENS MIXING BIS NAME WITH STEVENS-BAGWELL CON TROVERSY. IL Bhk J®! JAMES A. PTkkT. Candid at* for railroad oonunissionsr against O. B. Stevens. Editor Journal: There was no occasion for Col O. B. Stevens and the Hon. M. J. Yeomans, Mr. Stevens' son-in-law, mixing my name with their controversy between Mr. G. N. Bagwell and themselves. Mr. Stevens, you refused to discuss certain questions with me two weeks ago and I am glad that you have found in Mr. Bagwell a man worthy of your at tention. But since you have forced me to say something I hope you will excuse me for reminding you again: The peoole, and especially the farmers of Georgia, are anxiously waiting for your reply to the charge against you in 1905 by Hon. Harvie Jordan (just before you quit the farming business; we put you in. you know, in 1904) that you were at that time working in the interest of the guano trusts instead of the farm ers in an effort to break the price of cotton. Awful times then, you know. Cotton down, organizations going on trying to check the price; a system of warehouses was being formed, but you couldn’t see why the guano trusts were sending out thousands of guano tags In unbroken packages in cars of guano, never to be used, as many as seven tags on one bag oftentimes, farmers paying for this waste of tags, too. but you just couldn't stand to bear a man charge the guano trusts with doing this to break the price of cotton so that they might get cotton notes for their goods, then let it > found that less fertiliser, compar atively, waa used and cotton goes up. you see the point? Pitiful weaklings they were, just had to have the commissioner of agriculture of a big state like Georgia to defend them. Not one of them uttered a word of defense, but you were good enough to do so for them. And again, since you would have me say something, tell them also how you details a little and see where the pros perity comes in with the cost of living so high that only millionaires like you and Governor Brown can eat meat. "If Brown has forced prosperity in the face of that horrible legislature, then why don’t you turn him loos* on th* trusts and see if he can 'bust a few? "Lastly he tells the people that Gov ernor Brown attends strictly.to the du ties of office. Let the president of the Brown club write once more and tell the people what he has don*. Maybe, he can tell why the average man has to wait from two to six months to get his commission as justice of the peace from the office of Governor Brown. "Will he also undertake to say what Governor Brown will do in reference to the freight and passenger rates in the event that circumstances should be such that he had to appoint a few railroad commissioners? "Will he undertake to say what Gov ernor Brown would do if the Georgia railroad had anomer strike because of its attitude towards negro firemen, should the said railroad call on Gov ernor Brown to send out troops to awe white men into submission to the de mands of the railroad? Would he send them, or would he not? "F. W. COPELAND. "President Hoke Smith Club of Floyd County.” GEORGIA BAPTISTS MEET AT BLUE RIDGE BLUE RIDGE, Ga., Aug. 9.—The sec ond annual session of the Georgia Baptist assembly convened in their auditorium Monday. A large crowd was in attend ance. A great umber of the leading Baptists of Georgia ar* in attendance. Dr. Daniels, of the First Baptist church of Atlanta, addressed the assem bly at 11 o’clock today. ALABAMA” COTTON IS ESTIMATED AT 72 MONTGOMERY, AlaT Aug. 9—Com missioner of Agriculture Wilkerson, in an interview today, asserts that the Alabama cotton crop is at best not over 70 to 72 per cent of normal and tne prospect is not good for as good an output as last year. Its easy to reach TexasQ, The Cotton Belt is the quick and direct line OH to Texas, through Arkansas. It runs two trains, daily, Memphis to Texas, with through sleepers, chair cars and parlor case cars. Trains from all parts of the Southeast connect in Memphis with these '--• Cotton Bek trains to the Southwest Low Fares Southwest 9 fare W TT VOL tickets will be sold t^,e Cotton Belt to poin ts in Arkansas, Loum- w oEttiir i*na, Texas and Oklahoma. 6 Stop-overs are allowed and the 25 st j ** return limit gives you plenty of I to l°°k around. Take advantage these low fares and investigate th* Iffy A? J\>l wonderful opportunities open to you in Southwest W Don't wait until the big opportunities are gone. I write today and tell me where you want to go. I will 1 wßsßtoMgigaaz sen<! y° u a complete schedule and tell you the cheapest “ ei?L cost O’ a ticket. I will also send you tree, our books ™ Texas and Arkansas, with county maps in colors, to&jlljcjy L. P. SMITH, Traveling Passenger Agent Terminal Hotel Building, OHB Birmingham. Ale. came to be engaged in the guano busi ness while commissioner of agriculture at Cornelia, Ga., and how it was that you could sell it for less than other dealers could buy it. You are the only ’farmer” (?) in Georgia who has ever been able to do this. Were you able to buy (?) it this way before you became commissioner of agriculture? Mr. Bran an gives an explanation of this. And by the way, while It's on my mind, I would like to inform you that Messrs. Bagwell and Branan are two of our best citizens. No two men are held in jylyher esteem by the best people of their ac quaintance. No, Mr. Stevens, I could have been asking embarrassing questions before now, and wouldn’t do so now but. for your giving me the dare. So tell «s why it was that you discharged Hope Irwin, one of your oil inspectors, if it was for telling his acquaintances to buy 15-<:ent oil when he found that the 15 and 20- <ent oil were of precisely the same qual ity. He says you wouldn't give him any explanation why you discharged him, and that he presented *you wt’fii A petition signed by every business maq of Marietta, save one. asking that you retain him, and you ignored that as well as to refuse tdl return his petition, and that you have it jet. There are many things you and I don't agree about. I don’t think it is right for Georgia consumers to be dis criminated against in favor of Tennes see; you do. I would have voted for railroads to pay tax ir. each county through which they run, just like farm ers and other people, but you didn't think it was right and voted against | such st bill. And if your position in 1885, while a member of the legislature, has been successful until today, the farmers would have had a hard time 'pay ing the millions and millions of dollars of taxes the railroads began paying aft er you got out of the legislature. You know, "Uncle Obe,” the more we think of the fact that the only thing your friends ean think of, worth saying about you, is. as they claim, you are a ‘‘farmer'’ (?), the mor| laughable their position becomes. Why don’t they talk about your record as commissioner of agriculture and railroad commissioner? You have been there long enough to have made one, and maybe you have. As to your friendly feeling toward the Standard Oil company and your cut prices on fertilizers, I have an affidavit from Hope Irwin, of Marietta, Ga, and Mr. J. T. King, of Cornelia Ga„ besides the explanation of Mr. Branan gives us about it. You or any one else can see the original affidavits by calling on me. No, the tax payers of this state have made you a wealthy man and you would be better off looking after your large property accumulations. Continue to spend the summer at you summer home ’mid the rippling waters and gentle breezes of north Georgia and when tired of this you can find pleasurs viewing your large estates in the mild climate of south Georgia during the winter. Th* splendid real estate men of Atlanta will look after your large holdings tiers while you are away during the summer and winter. J. A. PERRY. ••• • SENATE ADOPTS HOPKINS CODE ADD HOUSE BILLS The two-hour debate oh the anti-lobby bill fight having ended, the senate os Tuesday resumed the special order Re ported by the rules committee. First rame the bill to have printed T-’ 000 copies of the new Hopkins code. Sen stor McCurry proposed to amend by giving it to the state printer instead of having it done by contract. This wai voted down; and the bIU was then adopt ed just as passed by the house. Next came the house bill by Ar. Hall, of Bibb, providing succession to the gov ernor in case of death. It was passed. Other house bills passed without discus sion were: The bill reducing the punishment for \ larceny after trust. The bill regulating publication of cer tain volumes of Georgia reports. The bill raising the road age from 18 to 21 years and changing the road tax from 50 cents to 81.00 per day for 10 days in each year was opposed by Sen ator Burwell on the ground that each county should be allowed to regulate its own road affairs. Senator Slater contended it is wrong to make 10-year oid boys work the road, and he favored the bill. The bill was passed with amendments. The bill regulating removal of cer tain personal property from the bounds of the state was passed with sight amendments. OTHER BILLS CONSIDERED. The bill to provide elections for local taxation was passed without opposition. Next came the "clean sheet ’ bill, re quiring sanitary conditions in hotels in this state. It was passed by a vote of 31 to 0. The bill by Representative Alexan der of Fulton, to protect persons fur nishing labor or material for publie works was passed. The bill giving the United states government land in Walker county for a public road was passed. Also the bill to amend the chartet of Hapeville; resolution requiring stats librarian to furnish law books to cer tain judges. 5