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South Georgia’s Claims.
Mr. Moran, of the Constitution, who
recently veiled ibw- section, ti*s this
to ear *b«ui the political out'-oob in
'-South Georgia:
Certain it is, from tny conversation
with leading men all ihrotfgh this
■90tion, that Colonel Mitchell baa a
firm place in the hearts of the people.
Not as a politician, ior be is far re
moved from that, though he has, on
oocaiion, rendered, effective service to
the people in the legislature.. Not as
a veteran of the confederacy, though
for four years he did a soldier’s duty
with rare courage and daring. Not
as a lawyer, though be has long stood
at the head of the bar. Not for any
of theae things, but for that all around
^character which makes him the peo
ple’s leader, equally in war and peace,
a wise counselor iu the halls of state,
and an upright citizen in the private
walks of life. There lives not a men
here whom Colonel Mitchell has ever
asked for office, neither Iive3 there
here a man who would not williogly
vote to place him in any c fflce the
world has to give.
And thus the peop!e of this section
talk. Attention has been drawn to
the fact that South Georgia has not
famished a governor to the state io
many years. So long has this been
the case, in fact, that a spirit of sore*
ness prevails that they are beiog
treated as an outlying province. To
one who has traveled over the rich
fields of this section of the state, and
looked into the eyes of its sturdy yeo
manry, it is patent that an injustice
has been done them, and that in the
making of a state ticket they should
Dot be ignored. In a spirit of scif-
assertion they are claiming the gover
norship this time, and the attention
which is being directed toward Colonel
Mitchell is a tribute to that gentle
man, and not at all of his seeking.
In fact, it is simply because he stands
as did Saul, high above the shoulders
of his brethren that he thus becomes
prominent.
Four Pulled Out.
Atlanta.'Oct* 13,—A b ambdtr 1 -as
thrown into the Southern Railroad aud
Ste^niblvp Association tovtay by the
amu u~>« ement of the withdrawal liom
the Association of the Norfolk ai d
Western Railroad, the Merchants and
Miners Transfer Ship Company, the
Savannah, Araericu? and Montgomery
and the Columbus Southern. It is
thought the Association will go to
pieces and that a general cut in rates
will occur. *
New Yoik, Oct 13 —R. G. Dunn’s
review of trid*, io be issued to-morrow
will say: “The country has bee n
waiting. Wnile uncertainty prevail*d
me-1 have not known what to do with
safety and scr have done as liule as
they could. InduS'ries cannot alwjys
wait and in an arrest or improvetnmt
generally means some reaction Mer
chants who have obligations to nmet
cannot Always wait and for some th«.re
has come misfortune.
‘•Cotton stands just where it d o a
year ago in spite of a report which
some interpreted as conclusive pr >of
of a yield far below that of last year,
but the enormous stock of o'd cotton
in sight here and abroad would explain
the great hesitation in the market if
the official « stuuales were ful’y cred
ited.”
All railway traveler* have, at one
time or another, experienced difficul
ty in opening and closing windows
care, and amoDg the ungodly classes
much profanity has thereby been pni
yoked. The Pennsylvania Railroad
company has adopted, in this connec
tion, a system of weights and pulleys,
operated by a very simple device, and
through the medium of which the
windows may be raised or lowered
without the slightets trouble. 1
passenger remarked on one of the
trains yesterday. “Why didu’t some
body think of this before ?”
This improvement, if generally in
troduced, will deprive the po'ite
drummer—and they are all po'ite—
of saying to the pre:ty girl in front cf
him who is trjiug to bids' or lower
sash: “Permit me to assist, you,” and
then the drummer, having broken the
ice, and at the same time sprained hi:
thumb and talf his fingers in wrench
ing at the window, entertain the
pretty girl until the place for parting
is reached.
Charleston, S. C. t Oct. 12.—The
West Indian cyclone is on here.
Wires are going down to the south
ward and are in troub'e to the north
ward. At this writing the win.l is
blowing iu great gusts at forty to
forty-five miles an hour. There is as
yet no damage except the wrecking of
telephone and electric light wires.
Tnree tides have been banked up,
and at midnight it is expected that
unless the wind shifts around to the
southwest, the eastern, southern
western portions of the city will be
under water.
Neither of the Clyde steamers duo
to-day has arrived.
At 7 o’clock to-night it looks like a
repetition of the cyclone of August
last.
The Griffin News says of The C
stitutioo's Mitchell interview:
•*Hon. Robt.G. Mitchell, of Thom
as county, ex-president of the &u
senate, is the latest gentle nr an broug;
before the public as a probable cai
didate for the governorship. Mr.
Mitchell stands high iu the estee
Georgians. His record has beet
that commends him to a>l. A fine
soldier, a true Christian, a wise legis
lator and a warm friend to the people,
he would make a formiable oppo >ent
to those now supposed to be in lb
field.
'•In a long interview in The Consti
tution of Sunday Mr. Mi’chell 1
full expression to his views or
questions of the hour. His remarks
are characterized by the candor that
has marked his e a tire political life.
He calls for tar if reform, tl e free
coinage of silver, the repeal of the
10 per cent tax on state banks and
the establishment of an income tax
In national legi>laion.”
Thn half rate to the World’s fair
has worked wonders Trains are
crowded as they have not been crowd*
ed since the fair opened last May,
And now, in the light of the ex
perience of a half rate the roads are
talking about a one cent rate. Had
these rates been inaugurated months
ago, as was urged by the press of ike
country, the roads would have reaped
A golden harvest, and tens of thousands
wound have attended the fair who
have been compelled, by the short*
sighted policy of the roads, to stay at
home. In this instance, as on many
former occasions, the newspapers have
shown their ability to run the rail
roads of the country.
The senate, after a contiuous ses
sion of 38 hoars and 40 minutes, ad
journed yesterday morning at
o’clock. After it was demonstrated
that the repealers could not muster a
quorum, Mr. Vooihees rose and said:
"Mr. President, I feel that I have
done my dnty in this matter, and
without comment I now move that
the senate adjourn.” The body ad
journed immediately.
lanta’s 50th anniversary, the “old
‘ Pwneers’JwiJi wear gold badges. Why,
that’s rank tressm against silver! It
Is, no doubt, a. trick of gold bogs,
and was probably suggested by Mr.
Cleveland in orderio humiliate silver.
A Meeting of Colo ed Men.
o the col r d fcuttvn* of the Sta’e
ln.v.ew o* the fact that the crim? of
lynchtrg has increased to such an
enormous ex'enf; and is alleged to be
the outgrowth of the crime of rape,
said to be committed by the lower
class of our people, we, the colored
citizens of the nth congressional dis-
tr»c\ derm it of sufficient im portance
to invite the leading men of the State
toassemb'e thtmaclves together in
the city of Macou, Ga., on the 25th
day tif October, 1893, to take >uch
action as they deem best to remedy
there evils tf possible. -White the
crime of rape is sa*d to bs commitied
by the lower class of our people, the
sttgma is nevertheless cast upai the
whole-race, her.ee all are held respon
sible. We da not hold that the crime
nf rape jusbfi rs lynching, still we feel
it cur duty to institute a remedy to
prevent the evil said to be committed
upon our par*, and .hereby laying the
foundation upon which the white race
may build »o prevent the crime of
ynching. We respectfully request
that you smd. twice the number ot
delegates from each county as it has
in the lower house of the legislature.
Rev, John Watt*. Chapman; T. J.
While, Prof. Fioyd Soelson, G. H.
Lennon, Rev. A. Samuel, Rev. McD.
Spencer, R T. Andtrson, S. M. Scare
lett, G. H Biwen, S;ci*y.
Reduced rates will be givan dele*
gates to return home Pr< cure cer-
uficate of your railroad agent betoie
leaving home.
One Receiver for Both.
Mr. M. R. Marietta, of BnCuii, is
iw K«*c i*«*r for both-ih** B «tuu &
Albany rai ri»e«l and the Quitman
Lumber Co. He has beeu receiver
all along for the Lumber Co , and
was rtciidy appointed by Judge
Hanseil as receiver for the twi'road,
all costs in the U. 8 Courts lnving
been paid, aud Receiver Leverett
havt'jr tqrned the road oyer to the
State Courts. The ; railroad has been
rnuning along as usual an ! has beef
doing a good business, evpecU ly in
its freight department The saw tr.fl
started op list Monday and wil ran
on alniut one-haif lime till the mid*
die of November when it is expected
that it wil ooxnmeuoe running 00 full
time It has nut been decided yet
whether the |»mperty will be leased
or sold. Mr. Charley Pidcock in
formed the Free Press this week that
it was probable that the entire proper
ty would, be advertised and sold at
early date — Quitman Press.
Let th8 Issues bs Met.
Refining to the state o! affiimn
:he Scnaie.ffhe Ec.quuir-Sun, Colum
bus, tersely say*: “It the session ends
without 'he pas ige ot the repeal bul
•he result iua« be d sas'rou* to the
country, and it cannot fail to woik
great damage to the democratic party,
The responsibility hr the failure will
be saddled oo the democratic party
d there will be no way to escape
Montgomery, Ala , O.t. 12—The
democratic executive committee met
here to-day to consider the secor.d
proposition for amalgamation made
by the Cobb committee. It was
unanimously rejected and a reply
framtd a atirg that ocly those who
voted the national democratic ticket
last November would be admitted to
democratic primaries next year. AH
who strayed from the party told, how
ever, are cordially invited 10 vote ft r
the nominees of the party.
New Orleans, Oct. 15.—Dispa'ches
received lrom Grenada, Greenwood
and Canton, Mississippi,report a heavy
frost last night with thin sheets ot ice
xposed places. Conaderab'e
damage will result to late cotton, much
ol it bemg unmatured, la several
counties surrounding Grenada, the
cotton crop will be about 25 per cent
below the average. A 1 tile frost wa
reported as fit south as Pa’quemine,
La.
Paris, Oct. 12.—W. F. Cody, famil
iarly known to the o'd and ne»- world
as “Buffalo Bill,” challenged M. Ter-
ront, the byciclist, who yesterday
completed his trip across Europe,
to a two hours’ race, Cody to ride a
horse and Tcrront a wheel. Ic is de
signed to test ihe merits ot the two
mount?, each rider being allowed a
change if desired. The challenger
p'accs the stakes at from 10,000 to
20,000 francs, as the op 1 ion of the
bicyclist.
Knoxv. lj, Teno., Oct. 12.—Will
iam Harris, an eccentr c resident of
Hawkins county, has just celebiated
his 107th binhday Harris lived
ninety years where he now resides and
has ret need good hea th. During the
past two years he refused to May in
the house at night, but sleeps in a big
hollow elm tree, exposing hitnstlf to
all kirds of weather.
“Thanks” is a miserable expression,
commonly used by persons who have
not hal the advantages of good breed
ing. Every favor received and civili
ty shown deserves to be recogn : zed
and the smallest acknowledgement
the rec’pient can make is to say cr
write ‘ Thank you.” The vu’ganty of
“thaDks” is 01 a par with postal card
correspondence.—Detroit Free Pres*.
New York, Oct. 12.—The Valkyrie,
after finishing with the Vigilant, will
return to England snd will not race
with the Colina. Lord Dunraven says,
however, that another challenge for
the cup will, he believes, be received
by the New York Yacht Club by the
first of January, but does not know or
will not tell the name of the challenge
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 12.—Marsh
Walker, the negro who assaulted Miss
Young, the nineteen-yeareold mute
girl, Saturday night, was shot and
killed this, morniog at Ways station,
by Lieutenant Reilly, of the Savannah
police force. Walker resisted arrest.
Springfield, Mass., Oct. 13.—Win-
die made a new bicycle record, a
flying start for two-thirds of a mile, at
Hampden park, yesrerday, covering
the distance in x:i6 1 5. The record
was be!d before by Jobsonat 1:24 2-5.
It is rumored tbit both Atkinson
and Clay will ret're from the guberna
torial contest and leave the field to
Evans and Mitchell.—Macon Evening
News.
These are r.ot only true, but they
re t nr. nous words. • Toe democrats
re tn power ai-d they cannot, if they
ould, escape the responsibility. With
power has come resj^insib.lity. The
people, ihe voters, the men who put
the democratic parey ;n power expect—
and thty hate a rght to expect tt-
that the parey will redeem its pledge:
Tne party cannot afford to fail in
ting the just expectations of the
people. We have tauh that the party
will not tail in this crisis. It is
ground ho* case. The issues must
be me:. And they wiil be. There'
uo way of dodging. And there should
be no dodging.
The approaching session of the leg
Ulature will be a busy oLe. Among
the most important matters that
sbou'd receive its attention is the
revision of the penal statutes of the
state. Daily the courts are con
tronted with difficulties, arising from
the absurdities and. often grave in
justice of some of the existing crimi
nal law. Under the present law pun
ishing a larceny after trust, the little
darkey who steals 10 cents which you
have entrusted him with to make
some email purchase, stands in the
same category as the man who em-
btzzles his employer's thousands.
Legislation should be enacted looking
to a correction ot the law’s delay in
criminal cases—the flimsy excuse
now given lor the violent taking ot
the law iuto the hands ol the mob
and lynching some perperators of
grave crime without wailing the ac
tion of judge or jury.—Clarkoeville
Advertiser.
Uuless some steps are taken, and
taken very soon, to clear up the un
certainty hanging about financial
legislation in Washington, it would
not be surprising to see a renewal of
the late panic. Legislators are tread
ing on treacherous and dangerous
ground, when they put off a solution
of the financial question, and continue
to talk for buncombe. Prompt, sen
sible and conservative action
what’s wauted. This should
thundered in the ears of the law
makers until they are forced to act
HIS MONTHLY TALK WITH THE
GEORGIA FARMERS
On Subjects, of General Interest Per
taining to the Farm and.
Garden—Good Advice.
Men kick out of the democratic
party and still claim to be dem
ocrats, better democrats, iu
fact, ihau the men who always
stand by party organization and loy
ally support the nominees of the party.
The Kolbitts in Alabama, calling
them-.elves “Jeflersouian democrats.”
c airn to be better democrats than the
organized democrats iu that state. It
will be remembered that wheu our
own peerless Ben Hill unmasked
Mahone in—the Senate, tbs Utter iu
reply claimed he to be a'better demo
crat than Mr. Hill. Mahone ha^
since headed every organization in
Virginia to defeat the democrats, but
he has, in every instance, utterly
failed. A man will bear watching
who ia kicking on account of party
methods and discipline, and claiming
to be a better democrat than the
scarred veterans .in the party.
Department of Agiucultuk”,
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 1; 1893.
Cotton picking is now the all-absorb
ing work, but there are other duties be
longing to this season, which, if a differ
ent system were -adopted, would be con
sidered as important and command an
equal share of attention. On most Geor
gia farms this dnty of saving iite cotton
takee precedence of and overshadows
every other because of the large area de
voted to this crop; because it is regarded
as the only money crop of the south; be
cause the farmer must hurry to get out
enough to meet his obligations, now ma
turing, and because, if left standing in
the fields beyond a certain period, it sus
tains irreparable injury from, wind and
weather. It ia not, therefore, to be won
dered at that other duties must lie in
abeyance; that the fall preparation and
fall crops are generally neglected, and
also that mnch cotton is forced on tho
market which could otherwise quietly
await favorable prices.
LET US CONSIDER
this question. Bupposo overy Georgia
T5 aivissri Oorcre, oven m tnuso
f where wheat is not a paying
crop, each fanner sltould sow
to supply his family, and. this
with the -improvement to his land. yriU
reconcile him to the work. The follow
ing on. wheat, - which I quote from a
valued exchange, so clearly and forcibly
treats of. this subject that I feel it can
not lio improved upon: -
‘•\Vfiafc fanners need to learn in wheat
growing districts is the great value of a
regular rotation in which a leguminous
crop immediately precedes tho wheat.
Instead of putting wheat in roughly on
corn ground with a sprinkling of fertil
izer to make a crop and leave the land
worse off, bow much better it would be
to sov/ tho annual winter-growing crim
son clover, with tho same amount of fer
tilizer, among- the corn in August or
September; let it be pastured whenever
fit to l>e trodden in winter, and in May
plow it under and sow the land in cow
peas broadcast. The .result would be a
“free silver” convention is to be
held in At’aota in December. The
following Associated Press Dispatch
outlines its obiect:
St. Louis, October 8.—The Post
dispatch to day gives the oulliues of
plau for a new national patty, the
outgrowth of the Pan-American Bi
metallic convention recently held
h-ire. Free silver is to be the issue,
aud it is hoped to draw all the free
coinage supporters flora tbe old
parties. A convention is to be held
io Atlanta, Ga., in December, it ii
said, when a permanent organization
will be effected.
Georgia democrat! will not bite at
this bait. They will stand in the
next campaign where they have stoqd
s nee 1865, solidly for the regular
nominees ot the democratic party.
At tbe opening ot the all night
8 *wtnn in the Senate on Wednesday
night Mr. Voorhees said:
‘Sir. I would rather be canit-d
from this desk leet foremost and put
t sieep at ray home in Terre Haute
forever than to yield the principle
that the majority has the right t<
govern.' I stand here for the purest
principle of free government known
to hi-iory. If I go down I will g«
d -wo with ray flag nailed to the must
head. It a compromise is to take
p ace on the pnncip'e that tho minnri
ty nas the right to dictate, it will be
by others, not hy me—not in the
slightest.”
The third and last race between
the Vigilant and Valkyrie, f*»i
cap, took place on Friday. And
tbe American yacht won, us it did in
the two previous contests The last
race was run in a driving wind, which
swept along at the rate of 30 mike an
hour. It was the c'osest of the series
of races, the American yacht only
crossing the line 40 seconds in ad
vance of the British yacht. That
was a close race tor a thirty mile
course.
The Savannah News of yesterday
sad:
According to the local forecast ol
tbe weather observer Savannah and
vicinity will have light Croat this morn
ing in exposed places. If the weather
co>ninues to grow cooler it will mean
a general frost and early death to
yellow jack.
Secretary of the Interior Hoke
Smith has pruned the fradulent pen
sion roll until its estimates for the
p- niions to be paid for the next fiscal
year will be 83,000 000 lets than the
sum asked for last year. Economy
has bten enforced iu every depart
ment of the Government since the
Democratic party has had charge of
affaire at Washington, but in no de
partment has there been better work
done on this line than in that over
which Secretary Smith rules—Al
bany Herald.
Bishop Potter’s bunal reform asso
ciation thinks that “earth to earth”
style ot interment, which forms the
basis of its creed, could be the better
carried out by the use ot wicker burial
cases. In the absence of such cases
the society advises the use ol soft pine,
which furthers rapid decomposition.
The innovation agitated by the society
may be in the line of advanced sanitary
science, but it wUl be a long time
before they are accepted by the masses.
Yesterday’s dispatches from Wash
ington looked like some compromise
on the silver question wou’d be the
oat come of the fight ever the ques
tion. The people are growing restive
under the.delay.
Here is an item from the Albany
Herald:
It has been discovered that liquor
was sent to South Carolina in coffins.
Gov. Tillman’s spies regard this as a
grave offense and will prosecute the
perpetrators.
Savannah took in her sails and
prepared for the storm on Thursday
night The storm spent, itself along
the Florida coast before reaching
Georgia. The blow was pretty heavy
at Savannah but no damage was done.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct 15.—A kill
ing frost in this section last night did
injury to crops and vegetation. The
cotton crop will be cat short to per
cent, and in low lands the top crop
will be a failure.
The printer who made an item
read, “The Senate contains more
distinguished jawyers” may not hare
meant it, but he came nearer the truth
than the editor, who intended the last
word to read “lawyers.”
The trains continue to run behind
time. Under Jhe present arrangement
and irregularities of the trams it re
quires about two days to go from here
to Savannah.
big crop of pea vine hay for stock and
mannro making, and a preparation for a
wheat crop far more certain than the
notoriously uncertain corn-ground-
wheat. And - if you find it difficult to
cure the pea-vines as hay, run thorn
through the cutter when in full pod, and
make the best ensilage that can he mode
for cows.' With plenty of ensilage,
clover hay and wheat straw, and plenty
of good stock to eat them, the road to
big wheat crops, rich land and indepen
dence is open, and a farm enriched will
always enrich the farmer as fast as a
run-down farm will run him down.”
Another subject very little understood
and therefore very little practiced at the
south is .
FALL PLOWING.
It is contended by many southern ag
riculturists that the advantages to be
gained by deep plowing of land are not
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section. Their idea is that as
do not have the heavy freezes of more
northern latitudes, which were to disin
i norvuuru luuiuura. wrnoi were iu uuiu-
farmer had, m tho past, made it a part tegrnte tho land> tho benefits to us are
of his farm economy to sow largely in no ^ commensurate with the labor, and
the fall of oats, rye and barley, with that from tho packing heavy winter
enough wheat, where it can bo raised, | rains much of our work has to be gone
for home‘consumption; had, each spring, j £££“**Jg^dnSgJatiSn^ew
put in full crops of corn, peas, sorghum, j the on i y advantage their position would
potatoes, ground peas, and by this policy
and by concentration in work and fertili
zation, had not only reduced tho area,
hut also the cost of cotton production!
We would now witness, in 0110 state at
least, agricultural independence. For,
although the unequal pressuro of our
national legislation might fall most
heavily on the business of the farmer ho
could bear up against tho unjust load,
and while other men and other avoca^
tions might be swept away in the gen
eral destruction, he, being grounded on
the rock of home supplies, could weather
the storm and emerge, if not unharmed,
at least with life and limb and strength
to begin the struggle anew.
Because I am more aud more im
pressed with the importance of this
bo well taken. But there are other and
equally strong reasons for deep fall plow
ing, more especially on our stiff red
lands, which are only in rare instances
thoroughly worked. Among these rea
sons in favor of deep fall plowing are
the following: Tho loosening, turning
and airation of the subsoil; the preven
tion of washing; the storing of moisture
from tho winter rains, whieh, falling on
unplowed laud, pass off, carrying with
them much of the top soil; tho bringing
to tho surface of the mineral elements,
which are stored in sufficient quantities
in all our lands, and for which, in the
form of commercial phosphates and pot
ash, we each year pay out large Bums.
These locked up stores, to become avail
able, must be brought to the surface
and there combined with vegetable mat
ter and fall under tbe direct action of
the rains, the frosts and the atmosphere.
By this 'deep fall plowing wo open tho
door through which nature yields up
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mentous question I wonld again urge its; ’ these treasures. Jeff Wilborn, high
careful study. No ono lmows bett.-r thority in such matters, says that by
.... , deep plowing of rod clay lands as early
than I the difficulties in tho way of M ppssiblo in fall and winter and then
* the land improved each year.
has “proved his faith by his works” and
versified crops. No one uioro fully un
derstands the feeling of uncertainty with
which a man embarks into a new and cer tainly his eminent success should en-
untried system after following its oppo- I courage others to try the same plan, be-
site all his life. To ono who has been ing assured that it is not au empty
accustomed to scUing a hundred hales it . ,h “‘7 m(i urge this plan npon tUe atten _
like starvation to be reduced to a ^; on 0 f oar fanners. Let each one try a
half or a fourth of that amount, and yet, small area as an experiment, doing the
paradoxical as it may seem, the smaller work thoroughly, and, haying once satis-
.mount may bs made to represent more « “ j»
nrf-nnl rflftn tnAn the lnru-cr. Riil tliis .i.—^:n i.i., n,wi iimo n..o,.1 fUim.
actual cash than the larger. But this dormant in liis soil and thus avoid these
much-to-be-desired result cannot l>e heavy obligations for fertilizers, which
vuiwui Biuuy ujuai. ou S .,c- vujj * no not mean mat no can
the plants, their habits and needs, but to penS0 altogether with tho use of <
soils and soil conditions; to fertilizers merc ial fertilizers, for in conjunt
, , . mercial fertilizers, for in conjunction
and their properties; to tlieir elements with green crops they are an important
available and suited to the lands and the adjunct in this work of renovation, brt
crops under cultivation; to the system of j do sa y that the man who is able to do
plowing, which will best bring to the thig faU plowing, following it with le-
surface the elements existing even in onr enuninons crops, will attain to surpris-
poorest lands; and last, but not least, tho in „ reS ults and at far less cost,
best and cheapest plan of restoring fer- ° cn- the grass
tility to lands worn by years and years . which all over tho state now covers tbe
com fields and which, where peas
thinly sown, has sprung up, offering the
fanner a beautiful crop of the very best
bay, far superior to that imported from
of successive cotton and corn culture.
In the history of our agricultural
country there have been three periods:
First, the strictly pastoral 6tage, with
only a sufficient area under cultivation ;
to afford bread, the inhabitants depend
ing on flocks and herds for sources of
supply. As the population increased
ana a more urgent necessity aroso for
larger bread supplies the forests were
felled, and, tho lands being fresh and
filled with humus, a moderate applica
tion of eneTgv caused tho yields from all
crops to be abundant. The bams
filled, cotton was king, tho farmers
independent, and contentment marked
the second era. But population has
wonderfully increased, cultivated lands,
after a long series of years in which
everything has been done to deplete,
belled, and wo find ourselves struj.. .
against the third and perhaps most diffi
cult era, in which our lands do not
respond as formerly, and we aro com
pelled, if we would realizo remunerative
returns, to resort to some system of
renovation and rotation. Even in the
growing middle and eastern states
the lands show such a marked declino
that the farmers have been compelled to
substitute other crops and turn their at
tention to more careful systems of rota
tion and cultivation. In many instances
the framers, becoming discohragcd, have
emigrated to the newer and more fertile
the forests or bring under “cultivation
the rolling prairies. In our own section,
comparatively new, there are thousand*
of acres once covered with magnificent
forest growth, which from our prodigal
use of their resources, and our want of
care in preserving them against destruc
tion, are practically abandoned, the gul
lies widening and growing deeper witl
every shower, and nearly every atom of
available plant food either leached ont
by winter rains or burnt out by our long
summer suns. These bare lands are
“wasting lands.” It has been proven in
England by careful experiment that
even a poor soil “without vegetation
* annually by drainage nitrates
mum nitrate.”
left^bare, wastes by natural drainage
that amount of this fertilizer per acre.
What a powerful argument in favor of
Covering these lands with some croi.
peas, clover, rye, that will arrest this
Waste, make some return for the labor
WHBiiCi uuuw bumu iciuiu iui luo iooui
and at the same time accumulate a sup
ply of nitrogen for future crops.
if you are unable to do thts at least
cover it with Japan clover, that is in lo-
S ties suited to clover, which will de
ft nitrogen in the soil and hold it
e for future) use. This plant will
grow easily without care or attention,
and, besides benefiting tho land, will
furnish pasture for stock.
I am aware this
UPBUILDING
is slow and tedious work, and that wo
can only work on a limited area each
year, but the era of exhaustion is upon
us and we must meet it successfully or
S to tho wall. A beginning has already
in made. On many farms tho fields
of cow peas, that hope of Georgia farm-
attest the effort „
turn to the soil some of the fertility that
wo have so ruthlessly destroyed. But
we must broaden the foundation, and
there is much work that can be done on
a southern farm at this season, not so
much with a view to present returns as
* ' a solid basis for future opera
te oat crop throughout the
state ought to be in the ground by the
middle of this month, as later sowings
axe always liable to winter killing. Rye
and barley can be sown mnch later, and,
wherever possible, heavy seedings of
these should be put in. These green
crops not only contribute a largo quota
to the food supply for man and beast,
but feed the land also and put it in bet
ter condition, for the coming summer's
crops. ThoTmlk of the
so® mlLbp s9mft.tfc8.BSrt fegmsia.
other states. We not only need it
our farms,* hut there is a ready market
in the towns for a good article, well
cured. The farmer who allows this to
waste may yet have to lmy tho imported
fer tide with’ - <»me of his hard-earned ar '
not too abundant eotton money.
II. T. Nesbitt, Com.
Raw egg
young stoc
dose. Giv<
Give fattening cnttl
;o cure scours
g makes a good
i lx- led milk,
i a~ much
s they
will eat, and often— five
Never give rapid change of food, bij
change often. A gv<od .tide for a saf-
quantity of grain per day to maturing
cattle is cue pound to every hundred of
their own weight. Thus an animal
Weighing 1,000 may receive 10 pounds.
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