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The Cartersville Courant-American. VOL- VIII. gStrOW LEAPS IS FARMING. What Has Been Accomplished by V The Pettit's Creek Club. T]n ot Co-Operation—Result of flie lru Diverslflort Crop*—lMvemlfled Farm lug tle Secret of Succes*. lljirt()W county is not only the richest minty in Georgia in mineral deposits, Co ',l tl'ie richest in agricultural advanta ,)Ut H he takes the lead in good farm f” l\, p Home time past the Constitu j|| < f M M m | l)lH been devoting especial attention t!) „ farmers and farming interests, and I,' I ,* broiißht out many interesting facta iii relation thereto. In last Sunday’a i y given a history of one of our f famous farmers’ clubs. Although f | |( , ( ockant-Ameiucan has from time to time given the main facts contained in j t WP are sure it will prow interesting to our home renders and profitable to many others. 'Hie Pettit’s Cn'ok Club was first heard of when Dr. Felton, who was one of the members, began to publish the monthly proceedings in the Cartersville Courant j^ r ,i the club was organized four years ■o' I-It is a s]lories of rural co-operation which in its local way has been more suc- L. srt f„| than the average local farmers’ alliance. It started in this way : A bout four years ago Mr. Hollingshed, \lr Zimri Jackson and*one or two other Lrmors living near Rogers’ station in lliirtow county, clubbed together and Ordered a carload of fertilizer. They L lV ed two dollars a ton, and that put them to thinking, if one or two could save two dollars a ton on a carload, why could not a dozen save a larger amount L six or seven carloads. They talked M, idea over among their neighbors, and [when fourteen had agreed to join together ibr having purposes, they met at one of ft In* farm houses and organized. The fourteen were all responsible men. They would not admit any one who was [not, for they were |p be all bound for the joint purchase and could not afford to [guarantee the payment of any man’s [share in the purchase money il he was jnot sure to pay the club. They were Ivorth My $200,000 and their credit Ivas too good to stake on Torn, Dick and ■lam 's promise to pay. I When the next order was made for fr pfcw/ers each man told the club how much mated, and the total was about fifty Kis. The presklent and secretary cor •esponded with manufacturers in Georgia and South Carolina, but as the club was new, it had to go through the usual in vestigiition as to responsibility. That ivas short work, however, and the man ufacturers soon informed the club that they would be pleased to sell them fertil izers on their joint note at a price several dollars less than usual. The president and secretary signed a dub note for the whole amount of the xirchase, and each farmer made a note lor his own share. These individual I notes, amounting to the same as the I flub ante, were placed in a Cartersville luank its collateral. Thus each man was I xnnul primarily for his own share and I i>y the terms of his membership and the I flub contract with the manufacturer, for ■'wv other man’s share. The notes were waivers of homesteads and the SI,OOO ■lab note was secured by $200,000 worth W property. It did not take a credit Burn long to decide on the advisability I selling such a concern, and the goods Were shipped. Ihe farmers saved about $250 on fer -lls that year. Year before last they avt d nearly S4OO. The same arrange was made in buying hardware, ana the like, except that all these ™des were bought for cash. They '°ught only fertilizers oil credit. kince we have been organized,” said F r * biekson, ‘‘the notes have always " !i raid promptly. Not a man has day behind, and l will venture the >Hert iori that not one of the fourteen " ! ‘d ten dollars last Christmas. I think 1,1 plan is better than thatof the Farm -1 8 Alliance. They are not particular A*out the men they take in; with them 1 N numbers rather than responsibility !I<l l don't see how they can combine ‘■' A' on that plan for buying goods. don't center on any particular ohant, but buy wherever we can do 'm | "T , ' 1 think there ought to be mer liUllls as well as farmers and I don’t Il!| k n ' s l ight to build one up and pull iiotlierdown. I think every one ought his share. 1,1 social feature of the club is very AVe meet once a month at the ■ Osos °f the members, taking them in ■LI * in each month, and BMj-'ote the whole of the afternoon to £ , " UK of farming methods. It is 1 ‘Of the president to appoint for a subject suitable to the time ' ' u ’ u,| d then we have an experience jf any man makes a test crop , !l l>x P a rimental acre he is required to ' a detailed report to the club. One year, for instance, we took an acre apiece to see how much cotton we could make. One man blade 1.000 pounds of seed cotton, and I came second with 1,560. “I had six acres of clover last year and hauled eighteen of the largest loads I ever saw and sold them for five dollars each. I cut the second crop and threshed out nine bushels of seed that sold for $5 a bushel. Altogether the six acres brought me $lO5, and I did not put more than five dollars’ worth of work on them.” Mr. George Jackson, a son of the gen tleman just quoted, raised four bales of cotton on four acres in 1887. He kept account, day by day, of every cent's worth of work, plowing and fertilizer put on the land. lie gave me the account as follows, from his farm journal: 1,000 pounds of acid $ 0 35 100 bushels cotton seed 10 00 Work in making the crop 12 7714 IMckhiK 25 07 Olnxilmtr, bagging and ties 10 50 Sundries 1 20 $ 09 5514 Proceeds of 4 bales $193 50 Net profit on 4 acres $124 COVfc “That includes every day’s work from the beginning,” said he, “even picking up tin* stalks off the land.” In this crop iK) stable manure was used, but the usual method of fertilizing here is to make a compost with barnyard manure, cotton seed and acid. “I bought two tons of acid this year,” said Mr. Zimri Jackson, “and it cost me SJB. I have just put up my compost heap and I am satisfied that it will make me twelve tons of fertilizer every whit as good ns guano. In fact I like it better. I would not even use the acid but for the fact that it makes fhecotton ripen earlier. When the compost is put on the land two months from now it will be as fine as the acid. I put it on with this simple distributer, which cost eleven dollars. With a mule I can distribute the compost ns fast as a plow can lay off the laud.” Mr. George Jackson described the planting of corn as follows: “We open a furrow with an Oliver chilled plow and then follow in it with a scooter as deep as two mules can pull it —sometimes fifteen inches deep. That is a great pro tection against drouth and it is given up that you must subsoil where you fertilize. The dirt falls back and partially fills the furrow. Then we drill in the compost with the distributer and afterwards run a turn plow on each side of the furrow covering it up and leaving a furrow on each side. Then we put compost in these other furrows just as we did in the first. We plant the corn on these furrows five feet apart and thin it out to thirty inches 1n the row.” “We raise all we use on the farm,” said Mr. Jackson, the elder, “except our groceries. We raise our corn and wheat and our own bacon. I don't think there is a farmer in our club who has bought any corn in the last four years.” “Dr. Felton bought some corn the first year,” said Mr. George Jackson, “but we can’t count that on him, for he had been renting his place and had to start anew. He has never bought any since. He seems to enjoy the meetings very much, and I think the club has done him a great deal of good; he watches things very closely.” The inspection of crops is an impor tant feature of the club. “In August committees are appoin ted to inspect the crops of the different members,” said Mr. Jackson. “They usually go three together and take a day to look at crops. Some other members of the club may be appointed to inspect my crop and I might be on a committee to inspect some of their crops. At the next meeting the committees report and if there is anything especially good it is mentioned as worthy of example; if there is any evidence of carelessness or any tools lying about they touch the owner up a little. “At the monthly meetings the owner of the farm tries to have his crop in good shape when we get there, and that has a good effect. I am satisfied that we have had far better results by going from one house to another than we could have had by meeting at one place all the time. We could not have done so well by meeting in town. We have found the club profitable to all of us. I have been asked to join the alliance, and some of thorn think a little hard of me for not doing so, but I don’t think I shall join them ; I think this is better.” “They say farming don’t pay,” con tinued Mr. Jackson, “but it does pay; it pays us. It is a slow way of making money, but it is sure, and it is the most independent life on earth. I think this section is more prosperous than it was before the war. Then we had some very rich people —worth two or three hundred thousand dollars—and some very poor people, worth nothing at all. Now our wealth is diffused. The wealthiest man in the county pays tax on $75,000, but there are more men worth from ten to twenty thousand. I think the people, as a whole, are more prosperous now than they were then.” MR, ROGER’S VIEW OF FARMING. At the station I met Mr. Rogers, a CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1889. substantial farmer, for whom the place was named. “I have read the articles on farming with a great deal of interest,” said In*, “but the secret of the trouble has not been touched on, It is the control of labor. * “Before the war the negroes were ac customed to be shown how to do every thing. Asa consequence, when they tried to farm after the war, they did not know anything about it. He was rented land and furnished stock, but how was the poor negro, who had never been taught, to succeed with farming when he didn’t know how to go about it? That has been the great cause of failure;a great many of them don’t know yet. “Now r they say it don’t pay to farm. Farming does pay. I believe in cotton as a money crop, but the farmer must raise everything he uses. Those men who raise their corn and oats and hay and hogs, and raise cotton as a money cron are prosperous. “Mr. Blaine in a speech at a fair in Maine four years ago, complimented those people on the wonderful develop ments with which they had subdued that rugged country, and then spoke of the great grain crops of the Vest. Then he paused and said: “But where do you suppose the money ot the country comes from? It comes from the cotton raised in the Southern States. Four milion, five hundred thousand bales are shipped to Europe every year and money comes back into this country from Europe to pay for it. The wheat crop brings some money, but the great bulk of it comes over to pay for cotton. But, my friends, when it comes back to the South they send it up here to us forgoods.” That is the truth; the farmers send off their cot ton money to pay for goods and provis ions. That is the reason it don't pay.” Sam Jones in California. We have before us the Los Angeles (Cal.) Christian Advocate, which devotes several columns to Rev. Sam Jones and his meetings. After giving a graphic pen picture of the evangelist, the editor says: Bro. Jones uses the Southern vernacu lar, with the addition ot some slang phrases which are not sectional. His quaint sayings, odd in verbiage, yet each one loaded with a precious gospel truth, sticks in a man’s memory, far above or dinary sermons. A man, listening to Jones’ sermon, can easily repeat whole sentences, while if he were attending the ordinary service of the gospel, he could recall only a faint outline of what was said. Another remarkable thing about Jones is his droll humor. He is perhaps the most witty man in the American pulpit, and has been much criticised for preach ing a gospel that makes people laugh. At one of his meetings, a preacher sitting beside him was red in the face from laugh ing for nearly an hour, while Jones was pursuing his discourse. He doti’u believe in solemn preaching according to his own words. “If you people could have been saved by solemn preaching.you would all have your wings now." “If you want to laugh in these meetings and have sense enough to know when to laugh, do so. Fun is the next best tiling to religion, and money is the next best thing to fun. If you’ve got all three you’re fixed for two worlds.” His manner of speaking is deliberate. He utters one of his terse meaty sentences then pauses seemingly to give you time to digest it. Occasionally he stops a mo ment, passing his hand over his face as if to collect his thoughts. His smile is pe culiar —we have never seen a smile just like his when he gets off a good thing on the preachers, and turns ’round to see how they take their medicine. His eyes are keen and piercing when fully aroused with some great subject, when his whole face assumes an expression fit for the study of an artist. As our readers are aware, Sam Jones has held successful meetings throughout thirty States and in many large cities, Chicago, Kansas City, Nashville, St. Louis, etc. His methods are peculiar and different from any other evangelist. But shall we criticise and find fault when God owns and blesses his work with mul titudes of converts? If God’s Holy Spirit attends his rude and uncouth words that offend our polite ears, can we not bear with them—yes rejoice in them because of their wonderful power? We apply the Saviour’s test to him, “By their fruits ye shall know them,” and Sam Jones comes from the erucible, pure gold. The meetings of the week have been thronged, the evening meetings usually being packed so close that it is estimated that some thousand people were standing. The way the evangelist sways this vast audience of 5000 people is something wonderful. They laugh and applaud un til the very rafters ring, and again, un bidden tears well up from many eyes when touching pathetic incidents fall from the lips of the evangelist. May God grant Los Angeles a gracious revival through His honored instrument- —Sam J ones. COMING SOUTH. Horace Oreeley’s Famous Advice Now Changed. St. Loots Lumberman. Some years ago there was heard in all parts of the North winch talk about “going AYr,i. Jyu *ome sections the panacea for jtll financial ills to men not past two s(i#re was, in common parlance, to “go West, and grow up with the coun try.” Everybody has heard of Horace Greeley’s repeated advice of “Go West, young man, go West.” New England was too much overpopulated to give profitable employment or favorable chances for fin uncial success to the hosts of young men just ready to begin the battle of life. Visions ot immense plains that might be transformed into pro ductive fields floated before the eyes of very many ambitious youths. There were new, grow in g cities on theboundary line between established States and civil ization and the boundless prairies abound ing with which gave assurance of freedom to adventurers, and was pecu liarly fascinating to thousands who were restless underdose, exacting laws, and wished to sniff theair of absolute liberty, Mm, Through thiputho West has been popu late*! ; wilds have been turned into gar dens, large cities have sprung and pros pered, railroads have been built, and now the East can not boast of a better civili zation than the West. From the crest of the wave of adventure a light appeared, whose rays shone back upon the rugged and austere civilization of the old Puri tanic school, that has had a mellowing influence. Compare the old blue laws that banished people who dared to utter a word of difference in theological belief to the sublime, whole-souled utterance of that giant of the prairies, the martyred Lincoln, who can never be forgotten: “With charity for all and malice toward none.” During the favorable development of the great West, no tide turned toward the South. Everyone knows why. True, there were isolated cases, but no general move was made in a Southerly direction. Tt was acknowledged to be a sunny land, replete with richness, and. 111 the lan guage of old, “flowing with milk and honey.” The least said about the reasons why men did not move in that direction the better, but everyone can now see that a wonderful change has taken place, and that migration from the North to the South, if it has not been as large as it was formerly to the West, has been considerable, and is productive of some startling results. The emigrant does not meet with ferocious animals and hostile Indians, but. with friendly men, who will clasp hands and join in every good enterprise for mutual benefit. The soil is now cultivated so that the product is greater than ever before. The precious are being taken irom their long hiumg places in the rocks and mountains, and the forests are rapidly swaying before the manufacturers who have es tablished large saw mills in different parts of the country. And development is only yet in its infancy. The possibil ities of the future no one can doubt, and the probabilities are that the new coining years will see all sorts of improvements pushed to the fullest extent. To a well-meaning man with ordinary capital the South is a good place for all kinds of business. If some object to yel low fever, which will sometimes appear, they must remember that catastrophes equally disastrous to human life occur in the North. The tide, mountain torrent, inundation, cyclone and cholera have fully equaled the devastations of the dreadful scourge of the South. Men of enterprise and tact have gone from the North to the South, and, enter ing into the manufacture of lumber, have been very successful. With the aid of the South the ventures have proved very profitable to all parties. There is room for more, and the condition of the whole sale markets generally shows that there is as yet no danger of the business being overdone. The demand for consumption will increase and more Southern woods will be used in the North. All invest ments promise well. The investor will not have to glean from harvested fields, but there are mines, fields and forests in all their primitive richness, from which the skilled and willing hand can gather a golden harvest. To honest enterprise the South is ever ready to extend the hand of friendship and welcome with a cordial greeting, but some pranks have from time to time been played by sharpers from the North, which have been discouraging, and the effects of which make it sometimes a little more difficult for truly worthy men to find the advantages which they honestly seek. Northern men have visited the South looking tor a site for a saw mill when they had but little or no cash, expecting to get a foothold and start by gaining the sympathy and aid of the real inhabi tants, which would enable them to pro cure mnehinery and an equipment on trust. These cases are followed by a total failure; and the start made is a total loss. It takes heat to make a pot boil, no matter whether it is North or South, and trying to run a saw mill without financial fuel is as foolish as trying to broil a beefsteak on a Canadian snowbank. The South is not responsible for such failures, neither is it amenable for the crimes of the swindlers who hang around some good timber locality, for a while representing themselves os a factor in some solid concern North, merely to gain enough confidence to allow them to obtain a few dollars and then vanish from sight, leaving unpaid board bills and perhaps heavy uncanceled obliga tions to manufacturers of machinery in the North. It is impossible to avoid duplicity alto gether, and people anywhere may be de ceived. but all this does not hide the fact that there is an excellent, chance for honest men to go South and do business. tleorgia. Morris (Minnesota) Tribune. We consider the great State of Geor gia as the foremost commonwealth of all the States of the South. Since the close of the terrible war she has made gigantic stride* in everything tending to develop her immense resources. Where at tin* termination of tin!, war .were de *v{tsted and ruined villages, now may be seen populous cities, teeming with manu factures and busy, industrious, go-ahead people; and the sparsely settled country at the outbreak of the war, is now thickly occupied by industrious and prosperous planters and farmers. New life and new blood seem to have been infused into the people of that State, and with her great water-power, mineral deposits, cotton factories, foundries, machine shops and other manufactures, at Augusta, Atlanta, Cartersville, and at numerous other places scattered over the State, we can see no reason why Georgia is not bound to become at no distant day one of the great manufac turing States of the Union. But in no part of the State have more marked changes taken place than along the his toric route of the Western &* Atlantic Railroad, extending from Chattanooga to Atlanta. All along this line are some of the most beautiful and thriving towns and villages to be seen on any route. Some of these villages are delightful re sorts, blessed as they are with pure cold water, refreshing shade and beautiful scenery. Cartersville, we remember when we passed through it during the war, was mere nothing, is now a very pros perous manufacturing town, we are told by those who have been there; and Mari- etta, delightful Marietta, situated almost in the shadow of old Kennesaw, from whose summit a view of unsurpassed beauty is had, is now one of the most charming pleasure resorts in the South. We have a strong liking for Georgia, and it is our intention to visit the places along the line of the above named rail road, and also Augusta, if possible, next season. All Important New Fnterprlsp. Among Cartersville's new enterprises few stand higher in importance than the oil refinery of the Kennesaw Refining Company. ThU company is headed as president by that sagacious citizen of Bartow, Hon. C. H. Smith. Mr. W. S. Crosby, the urbane manager, showed us through the place the other day. “We are not fairly started yet,” said he, “have been getting our stock tooperateon, and we have to take pains to get only the best. These barrels here contain ingre dients for our various products*” and he showed us about fifty. “ What are to be your products?” we ventured. “Well, railroad and mill lubricating oils and greases, signal and coach oils are our prominent specialties, but we will under take to make some other goods, too; in fact, we could with ease put up bear's oi and pomade or ‘logmoetum or what else,’ for the hair, insect exterminators or soaps, lip salves, or eve# itch remedies, Our field is broad,” said he, with mock serious ness. Mr. Crosby’s celebrated Cylinder Oil will run on locomotives 150 miles to the pint, when other greases tun only about 50 miles. Their goods, while they are to be 3o]d cheap, will be put upon the market abso lutely on their merits. The refinery is now in the old mill building last used by Mr. Hackctt, but a new building in a more eligible place, will likely soon be erected. An Apt Illustration. Rev, W. A. Dodge preached to good congregations last Sunday notwith standing the inclement weather. In the morning sermon he dwelt mainly upon the importance of the Christian’s perfect submission to the will ol God. He de monstrated the manner of some in pray ing for the aid of the Lor.d tolie done with the following timely anecdote: An almost despairing bachelor prayed for a wife: “Good Lord, give me a wife—let her be such an one as pleases Thee—but Lord, do let it be Susan,” The idea is, we are too prone to lav out our own plans, and rray the Loid to suit His will o ours. HsSi MISSiNG LINKS. The Railroad '* > ♦ rri. lug I p Augusta Chronicle. The proposition to link together the scattered lines of railroad into ft new sys tem stretching from Chattanooga to the sea and reaching most of the cities in the State, is attracting considerable atten tion. There is a road finished from Chattanooga through Home to Carroll ton, and which is to be extended to Grif fin, Albany and Atlanta. It is said that the .owners of this line are interested in the Cincinnati Southern, and that they are in fair way to secure connection with the Plant system of roads to Florida and the sea. This system, it is said, will connect at Montieello wit h the now Macon & Athens railroad, and at Sandersville with the narrow gauge, which they pro pose to broaden to Augusta. In fact, by building three hundred miles of connect ing links here and there it is designed to patch up anew Georgia system which, shall in some way compete at the main business points with the Georgia Central system. There is another line now seeking de velopment which is not mentioned in the system above outlined by the Atlanta Constitution. We refer to the Augusta & Chattanooga. Grading on this road Imd commenced * when work was stopped a year ago, and it is now understood that anew company controls the enterprise, which is likely in a short time to commence work on differ ent points of the road between Gaines ville and Augusta. This is by all odds the most important railroad enterprise projected in Oooilor twenty years. It opens the richest and commands the most varied section in the South. At Gainesville, too, the Augusta & Chatta nooga railroad wiii be tapped by anew and ambitious enterprise seeking its way from Cartersville through the iron, 11*111- ganese and talc beds of Bartow and HaU counties. This road would*connect at Cartersviiie with the Last A West road now running from Cartersville to Birm ingham. Those who think the railroad map in Georgia is complete* fail to take in the independent links in'Georgia, already fighting for freight and new feeders, and fail to appreciate tlifi growing greatness of the State. A Pitiful Case. A negro tramp giving his name as Ed. Clark, from Chattanooga, was put off the South-bound W. A A. accommoda tion, which he had boarded at Cass Sta tion, Monday. Mayor Wofford, who is also agent of the W. & A. Railroad, says, from all he could learn, the unfortunate negro had been put on a train above Cass Station somewhere, and sent to that place, and reshipped to this point, He thinks he was dying when he got here, as he had evidently been suffering from fever, and had lain out without attention during Sunday night, which was very cold. After some effort, the mayor succeeded in inducing Pritchett A Robinson, color* ed men, to take him into their store, and he also secured clean clothing for him, but the poor negro died before he could be properly cared for. He was reeking with filth, and literally covered with lice It is a remarkable fact that the colored people generally hold themselves aloof from the suffering and needy of their own race, and unless the whites cared for them, many more would die for want of attention. Lee Durham’s Death. Jt is our sad duty to record the death, last Friday night of Lee Durham, son of Mr. F. M. Durham, of this city. He had contracted disease while attending school in Kentucky, which necessitated his re turn home, and had been in fjeble health ever since, until, after a long season of confinement, liis spirit departed at the time named. He was a bright, promising boy of some seventeen years—noted for bis generous impulses and manly traits. The funeral was conducted by Rev. W. H. Cooper, and there were not many dry eyes in tlie large assembly, as the preacher told of his happy conversion shortly be fore liis death. While all hearts go out in sympathy to the bereaved family, there is the sweetest assurance that all is well with our noble beorted young friend. Death of Miss Evvie Loveless. For a long-time the relatives and friends of this sweet-spirited lady had watched by her bedside, as she approached nearer and nearer to rbe unknown shore. On the 2?th, herspiiit winged its flight to the realms of bliss. For many days she seemed to know that her end was nigh, and it was com forting, indeed, to witness the calm resig nation with which she awaited the great change. The deceased w T as a daughter of the late Milton Loveless, one of the best men who ever lived in our community. To turn gray hair to its natural color and beauty, use Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Ren ewer, the best and most reliable 1 reparation science has given us. NO. 34.