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YOL. 1. LARGEST STORE in NORTH GEORGIA 11(11!L 111, Aiheiiw, iia. WHOLESALE DHV GOODS NOTIONS SHOES HITS. Merchants will do \v*.ll to L..*t ca prices before buy in MICHAEL BROS- Athens, Ga. BEPLIES TO INQUIRIES Information Furnished by the Agricultural Department. MANY QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED Bent V*riitiH of Cow I’eftH For Huy—Meet ►ngur Cultivation—Mie rropagation of I’vnoh fro®*—Cu~e <f llH<*uao iu Clilok euii—Keriiuier< lfr I’otatuM and t'ab tusfli, Kio. Question. — Please gives me some itleft tuf the advantages of siiage over other food for stock. Is it 6uiteli to horses mnd mutes? I have never had any expe rience in making or using it, but if what I bear of it is tfue, I woutd like to try some another year. Piease give mo some directions as to the best way of putting it. up, and the best crops to plant for it. Do you think it pays for the trouble and expense? Answer.—Silage is eaten by all farm .animals, but' is peculiarly for milk cows. It pays, because it enables us to put up a green summer crop and keep it iu condition for feeding ull win ter, and it producosMiearly equal resuits as if feii gi'eeu. Animal' led dy si 1 ago * not only relish it, but it will produce as much milk and butter, or even more, than the same kind of fodder in the dry Stage, because the stock will have bet ter appetites than if fed entire y on the dry food, aud are consequently more thrifty. One acre iu corn will produce ms much nutritious food as several acres in hay. Thus it is cheaper than hay mud has besides the following advanfc- ago: It is a practically certain crop, ■while hay is uncertain. As the proper time to harvest auy greet! crop for en silage is at maturity, before the leaves turn brown, just when the water con teuts of the plant begin to dimin ish, it follows that there is very little loss of quantity in preserving it as silage, while the best part of our dried fodder is often destroyed by unfavorable weather before we can get it uuder shelter. Any o' the following crops may be used: Corn, red clover, rye, oats, wheat, sorghum, the millets, soja beaus and cow peas, indeed almost any green Crop may be utilised, but all things con sidered corn pays the best. It should be planted very thick and cut when the ears are we.l formed. The whole plant is then out up into short lengths ami packed in the silo, tramping dow:. evenly and firmly. Unless this precau tion is observed, that is, should the leaves and bits of stalk be unevenly dis tributed. the silage will become mouldy and unfit for uso. If there should be lack of moisture when packing the whole mass will become dry and mouldy. This should he remedied by pounug water over the mass during the process of packing. Of course tire silo must bo absolutely water and air tight, and the contents, after btiag cured, bear some what the same relation to our dry hays and fodders, as canned fruit does to dried fruit. The daily ration is about 1 cubic too • of srlage. An experienced dairyman Says he gives his cows all they will eat, from 30 to &0 pounds to each cow, and has never experienced any bad results from if. A small, deep silo is to be pre ferred. Small because a greater depth of silage can bo removed each day, which is an advantage in both warm and cold weather. In warm weather there is less loss from spoiliug, and in cold weather less injury from freezing. The silo should bo deep, because the greater depth gives more weight, and it is less lfcibie to uiouid. At least 3 inches should be removed for the daily feeding in order to keep the mass in good con dition. On the whole we think the fol lowing directions cover the ground for building a well constructed silo, and they are the only kind that pay. A carelessly built silo is an extravagance; a well made one is an economy. 1. The inside walls should be smooth ami as nearly vertical as possible, there should be no uneven edges to prevent the uniform settling of the contents. We have already mentioned that the silo should be narrow and deep, rather than wide and shallow. 2. As the moisture from the silage is acid and tends to decay the wood, the inside of the silo should be well pro tected hr a coat of coal tor aunlJsd hot. Ban ks C( > unt y Jc > urn al. Corn responds readily to proper fer tilization. Larger crops, fuller ears and larger grain are sure to result from a liberal use of fertilizers containing at least 7 % actual Potash Our books are free to farmers. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Si., Ns* Yasjfc The inside of the sifo should be two lay ers of boards, the first horizontal and placed against the studs. Over this place a layer of the tarred paper, which can be bought ready prepared, and last, a layer of smooth dressed boards placed vertically on elose edges. 3. The floor may be of stiff olay tramped hard, and to make it smooth, Close and rat proof a layer of cement is highly recommended. For ventillatiou there should be auger holes bored be tween the studs and openings should be left at the top of t.he wall. These should be covered with screou wire to kaop out rats and mice. 4. The studs should be very strong to resist the great pressure to which they are subjected, the foundation should extend below the first hue and should be 18 inches thick, the evils should be well tarred and should.rest on a good foundation, bedded in cement or mortar. The roof should be olose and should have a dormer window through which to fill the silo. 5. The silo should be so constructed an.! situated as that no water will fail or drain into it at auy time. These art) ..fhe. World Aiiaffac* ; Eicffitopcia F °r liSI IVill Answer Question 4fljl|ll|m You may EucyclopeSla Vsk It. Standard American Annual. Ready Jan. I, 1898, On All News Stands . Larger, Better, More Complete Than Ever. o f>Tbe most widely sold Annual Refer* itice Book and Political Manual published . THE WORLD, ‘ Pulitzer Building, New York. This is the Man s^ E |i; E p £opi£ in % $ sgi* ML d* . •! ItlmF' Sjs|* I ? . ynT rf ii'' sft -hv and £ JllleS M#/1 m TXM km pssi ' <{£3 111# fen Bfs-3 <BO in rjjs-M H mm sals? W m : liJSSo JvSy N&<sgs, b HOMER, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1808. the main points, but wo would advise that if you are not acquainted with the principles or practical workings of a silo, you examine one which is prop erly constructed before attempting to build for your own use.— Sta.e Agricul tural Department. CniiMfl of In Clilol<n*. Question. —For several years I have raised comparatively few chickens, though I once prided myself on my suc cess in this line. I urn careful as to food and water, and my coops are kept clean, hut from the several hundred chickens annually hatched out very lew come to maturity, most of them dying iii the first few weeks. My neigh bors are disposed to think that some disease germ has gained a foothold here, aud that it is useless for me to gttempt to raise poultry. Do you think such can be the case, aud if so, is there any remedy which I can use to eradicate it? Answer. —Without a full knowledge of your surroundings and methods it Is difficult to answer your question ex cept ou general principles. It is true that disease germs may lurk in poultry houses from year to year aud that thou sands of chickens are oarrie.i off an nually by those unsuspected agents. Iu such cases the best plan is to tear dowu the fowlhousa and build in ail entirely differeut location, as far removed from the first as possible—then give the house a thorough whitewashing with lime, Inside aud out, in which a con siderable quantity of crude carbolic acid has been mixed—say a teacup of the acid to each gallon of liuiawash. Put in new roosts and nests, and arrange them so that they can be taken out and cleaned every few weeks. Iu cleaning them a good plan is to carry them a safe aistauce from the house, brush i them over with kerosene and then apply a lighted match. Tire fire will run over without injuring them, and will | destroy any lice or mites _ which may be in hiding. From au expo i rieuce of several years we have coma ! to the conclusion that these destructive 1 pests carry off a greater number of chickens than actual disease. By hav ing movable uests and roosts which can t bo taken out in a fe ,v moments it is much easier to give the house a thor i ough cleaning and cue cannot be too careful to go into every crack and cor ner. A few of these vermin safely lodged iu an unnoticed craok/will lay the foundation for millions of others in a very short time. We have found kerosene a splendid agent for checking them, and a common watering pot fpr sprinkling Into the otherwise inaccessi ble crevices answers every purpose. The droppings should not be allowed to accumulate aud beoouie a harbor for these myriads of insects, which, being almost invisible to tho naked eye, will accumulate alarmingly before their presence is even suspected. Tho drop pings should be removed each day aud the houses kept scrupulously clean, not Only to prevent vermin, but as a sani tary measure. Where the droppings are allowed to accumulate from week to week, they give off unwholesome gases aud odors, which, being inhaled, causes many of the diseases from which our chickens suffer. It a layer of plas ter or dry earth is spread on the floor of the coop all the fertilizing properties of the manure ate at-s irbed and fixed, aud if care is taken to remove and store it under shelter, v,-e have a fertilizer ap proaching in composition to guano, though not so rich. Such manure com posted with eight or ten times its buik of rich earth, will make a fertilizer of great value for either field or garden crops. Another prolific cause of the fatality among young chickens is tho wide spread custom of feeding them on raw cormneal tiough. It shorn-' always be cooked. Where miik is plentiful we have found it a good plan to scald the piilk and stir into it sufficient meal to make a soft dough, letting it stand on the fire long enough for the meal to be come cooked, but not scorched. If wheat bran is convenient it adds very much to the nutriment of the mixture, and this makes a splendid warm feed for the cool spring mornings, when the iittle chicks often become chilled. Besides this they should be given any table scraps, meat, fruit or vegetable trim mings, and if sweet milk and clubber can be spared for them they are of iu* i calculable worth in giving them a vig orous and early growth. A flock of weii kept poultry can be made the source of a steady income, and should only enough be raised for home use the investment pays better than anything e se which requires the same outlay of time aud money. Stato Agricultural Depart ment. Treatment of I'enoli Orchard, Whore Last V<tiir’ Kail Mil* Question. —I gave my peach orchard a moderate fertilizing last year, but the crop was almost a complete failure. I have almost determined to leave it alone, that is without anything further than keeping down the wt-eds, until I get some return from the fertilizer put on last year. Do you think this would be a good plan? Asswer. —The care of a peacli orchard lequires the exercise of a good deal of common sense, as well as the judgment gained from experience aud observa tion, and in answering a question like I the foregoing much depends on the con dition of the laud on which the trees stand, as well as on the age and condi tion of tlie trees themselves. If the trees are thrifty aud the soil in good condition perhaps you may another year reap some return from vour invest ment of fertilizer, but the general mis take in fertilizing an orchard is to make Vie allowance too sm all lather than too THE femCOF THggjh V~^^VLes^C\.AKErail COPYRIGHT. 1597 BY. R l ' -- The Crime of the Boulevard SITUATION I ■ k cM*. tU A •J. •-* "You arc an white as your handkerchief, Monlche,” he said. This is the first dramatic situation in our New Detective Story It is only a hint of what follows.. There will be ' * more men'turning white before We get to the end. Watch our columns for The First Instalinsent The Author is Jules ClaretF You ought by all means, to start at the beginning of litis very interesting, long continued Detective Story. It will be run in this paper for sev eral weeks, and perhaps mouths; The filrst chapter of tins splendid story is to apnenr ; n The Journal on Jan 20, and will continually keep you wonder ing what wil 1 appear the next issue. Subscribe at once and start with the first chapter and you will surely not regret having done so. This story consists of Eighteen very interesting Chapters, and will occ. py about Sixty coitims, and will be given to our readers in medium length in stallments. We will now give a Synopsis of the Crime of the Bottle vad. CHAPTER I.—M. Rovere is discovered dead, with bis throat cut 11, 111 and IV.—Bernardet, a detec tive, is introduced. M. Rovere has been visited li a woman i. G'-ek aid a man who is designated the “individ ual,” V.—if is suggested that the murderer's image, the last object seen, is imprinted en the retina of the mur dered matt's eye. VI. and Nil- — Bernardet experiments on the retina and is seized with acm ition. VIII At the funeral of M. Revere a man with a pointed beard. Jaques Dantin, appears and is recognized as the “in dividual” who has visited M. Rovere, and M. Barnardet recog izcs him as corresponding with a uhotograph ta ken from 31 R v ore’s eye. IX ami X.—Daptin is cited ppear be tor e j-jdge, is evatni.i- an<l arrested.- x , and XII Bcrnnrdet finds a por trait of Uanlin in a op wimlo , which he purchases, and Dantin, being confronted with it, declares that at la. longid to 31. Rovere. XIII. Ber nards discovers the seller of ihe por rait, Charles Rrades, and picks a quar. rel with hiiv, making a pretext for his at rest. XIV. XV, XVI, X\ II and XVlll.—Dantin tells the story ol his connection with M. Rovere. Frades is the murderer. M. R->v<-> looked upon Hie p>n • -f D m n . before lie died. If ■, , i] ore not a subscriber don’t de lav; but come or send your name to ge re: a doliar lor a year’s uh script ion for The Banes County Jour.tiAL and get the general news and this splendid story f r only' $l.OO. A Wonderful Discovery. 'file last quarter of a century records man- wonderful discoveries in medicine, br. none that have accomplished more for humanity limn that sterling old household remedy, Browns’ Iron Hitters. It seems to contain the very elements of pood neali' , nnd neither man, woman or child can Bum it williout deriving the greatest bcmlu. Browns’lron Bitters is sold by all dealers. The Crime of the Boulevard “Ye#,” added Monlche. “A/. Bernardei needs a magistrate.” Magistrates and detect ives too were needed to Unravel the My sic* y of this murder. You may solve it yourself before you get to the end if you are lngenious Enough Don’t miss the first chapters. The author is Jules -Claretie. TwO FOB ONE. 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