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DECATUR COUNTY
and bainbridqe.
Hon, Guytc McLendon of Thom
asu.'le has entered the. race for
representative from Thomas coun
ty-
Propie who attend to other peo
ple's business usually get mad
when suggestion.-, ate made about
their own.
The antiquated ox-cart and the
automobile--resemble the Hearst
and l’arker booms. Is it necessa
ry to say which is which ?
Women should make good law
yers, because they argue well; but
the fact that the jury has the last
say would be extremely humili
ating to them,
The fellow who handles the
fountain pen and the paste pot for
the~Thomasville Times Enter
prise’s editorial squib column, is
one of the brightest paragraphers
in this part of the state.
Alabama chose Bankhead which
was not Hobson’s choice,—Rich
mond Times-Dispatch.
We expected it. Election or de
feat the Hobson pun had to get in
its work.
It now appears that Bibb coun
ty is to have two candidates for
the speakership of the next House
of Representatives. With the
counties counting candidates by
"twos” there is sure to be lively
times ahead.
New York has set the example
and now will the anti-Parkerites
give up their ‘ghost’ and like good
loyal democrats get onto the Par
ker band wagon, or will they con
tinue to prefer a ride on their old
slow coach ? Asks an exchange.
The prophecy that the Russo-
Jap war will last twenty five years
will hardly come true if the Rus
sians happen to many more acci
dents. It will almost be a case of
self destruction.
T’ds is a day of unions We
wouid suggest that the husbands
form a union to protect their vest
ed rights from the encroachments
of the too enterprising wives. The
Anti-Hcnpeck League of Amen
ca—how would that sound ?
Roosevelt’s fondness for Afri
cans as growing as distasteful to
his republican constituents as it
has always been to the democrats
■Recently several of his strongest
supporters were detained in the an
teroom for some time while he gave
audience to a tribe of negroes. His
anxiety to gain the colored votes
will in all probability cost him
-many others W'e hope so.
The sta istician of the census-
bureau at Washington has com
pleted and filed his report on cot
ton ginning during 1903. The re
port shows the number of bales
ginned in each cousty. In Deca
tur county there were ginned last
year 10.413 bales. Burke is the
largest cotton producing county
in the state, having ginned 31,622
bales last year, Terrell ginned 26,-
123; Early, 11,770; Miller, 1,960;
Baker, 4,944; Dougherty, 12,444;
Mitchell, 11,850; Thomas, 13,394.
While our tarmers raise a goed
deal ot cotton they are turning
their attention more and more
every year to diversified crops and i
cotton. They very wisely sec
more wealth in other things than
cotton.
Baildiat Up Decatur Couety.
We are so much impressed with
the following fy-om the Savannah
News that^jve copy it as applicable
to Bainbridge and Decatur county.
The Search Light has taken.occa
sion several times to refer to im
migration as one method of build
ing up and improving the thou
sands of acres of idle lands in the
county.
The News editorial, is right in
line with us and supplements well
the position we have taken on
this subject, as well as that ot
diversified farming. We commend
it to the careful consideration of
our people, the same condition
prevailing here as at Savannah.
"The enormous truck farming
industry of the South, how worth
millions of dollars, is almost wholly
the growth of the last eighteen
years,” says a writer in the New
York Evening Post of recent date.
While that is true it is further
more a fact that the industry is so
far from being fully developed
that in many sections of the South
the people do not raise enough
truck and vegetables to supply
their local markets the year round.
Only a few days ago we published
several interviews and our com
ments on the tact that Irish potas
toes were being imported to Sa
vannah from Ireland and Scot
land, notwithstanding we have
here in Chatham county every
thing needful to the growing of
potatoes in greatest abundance,
tor our own consumption and to
ship to less favored sections. Not
only do we buy potatoes from the
North and abroad, but season after
season we bring in thousands of
dollars worth of turnips, cabbages,
onions, beets, canned corn, peas,
beans, tomatoes and similar truck.
Is there any good reason why this
should be so? It there is, we have
never heard of it.
Soil, climate and season in the
neighborhood of Savannah are all
that could be desired for the truck
growing industry; and there are
tens of thousands of acres ot good
lands that are available for that in
dustry. Within fifty miles of Sa
vannah there are hundreds of
thousands of acres of fine farming
lands awaiting development by
thrifty, energetic farmers. And
the market for the products of
these lands is ready-mad^ and
waiting. There is a large market
right here at home, in addition to
which the best of transportation
facilities are available for ship
ments to Northern markets.
What is wanted is some agency,
some means, by which the vacant
and idle lands in Chatham county
and in the other counties adjacent
to Chatham can be settled up by
desirable white truck farmers and
other agriculturalists. During re
cent years there’ has been a grati
fying movement of Northern and
Western farmers into colonies in
the South. Such colonies have
been plarted in the Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas. So far as
our information goes, not. one of
them that has been managed on
business principles has met with
other than success. In many in
stances the colonies have proved
piosperous from the first, and the
settlers could not be induced to
leave their Southern homes and
return to the land of long and
hard winters. Why can we not
do some colonizing in Chatham
and adjoining counties ? We have
as much to offer in the way of pro
ductive lands, good water, fine cli
mate and healthful surroundings
as any other section, and .note in
the way of markets and • transpor
tation facilities than many other
sections that have attracted col
onists. A syndicate, or syndicates,
to buy up vacant and in large
quantities, sub-divide it into small
farms and sell it on reasonable
terms, might do much towards
bringing in the desired immigra
tion. The matter is deserving the
attention of progressive, public
spirited people. The development
of the back country will build up
Savannah.
Farmers Column.
By W. B. Roddenberry, of Cairo.
It is folly to plant a this weeder you will have little
crop and then let the grasB! or no hoeing to do on any crop,
eat it up; it is also very I Now is the time tq buy while
foolish to expend more money! I have a good stock on hand,
and labor in cultivating a crop 1 Every two-horse farmer should
than the crop will Bell for after | use the Moline Walking Culti-
it is made. Profit is what up vator No. 226 Southern, with
to date farmers are striving af-; adjustable arch, double evener
ter, and the best way to increase parellei beams, adjustable
the profit is to decrease the cost spring trip shanks. No other
of production and at the same: cultivator is as good. With
time increase the yield. i this implement you straddle
Under present conditions in j the row and work both sides at
this Section this can be done ini one through, running either
no other way thafl by the use 1 one or iwo furrows on each side
of modern impioved labor-sav-i of the row as you prefer. You
ing implements. You can’t re- can use scooters, shovels, turn
duce the cost of land, mules,
wngons, tools or fertilize's; you
can’t cut down the wages of
fa in hands, but you can make
one man do the work of two to
four by using the right tool at
the right time, thus cutting
down the cost of cultivation
fifty to seventy-five per cent.
When a merchant invests in a
stock of merchandise he figures
the percent of profit he can
make and it is high time
farmers were figuring percent
age some too.
Now let’s figure a little: The
best way to kill grass is to do
it before it comes up and gets
well rooted; this can be done
easiest and cheapest with the
Hallock weeder. Every one-
lioise farmer as well as big
farmer-should use this tool; run
it broadcast over corn, cane,
pinders and other crops just be
fore they come up, thereby
keeping down grass and weeds
over the entire surface of the
field and helping to secure a
good stand and at the same
time thoroughly pulverizing
the surface soil. Continue to
run the weeder over the land
after each rain as soon as a
crust is formed until the cane
and corn is knee high or high
er, you wont injure the crop
but will destroy the grass and
weeds in their infancy and
keep the entire surface of the
field middles and all soft and
well mulched with dust; grass
cannot sprout in dust. A 12-
year-old boy can easily go over
12 to 15 acres per day as the
weeder cuts Beven and a half
feet at each through. Stumps
are not a bar to the use of this
tool; simply go round the
stumps. Run the weeder over
oats and thereby increase the
yield, also run it crossways
over cotton before chopping.
Don’t use the weeder while the
ground is very wet, but use it
continuously during drouth as
it will conserve the moisture
and keep the crop growing. The
poorest and most expensive
way to kill grass is with a hoe.
By rapid and constant use of
plows, sweeps or scrapes on this
tool and do just as good work
as with a single stock.
One man with two horses can
do the work of four men and
four horses a great portion of
the time and do the work of
two all the time. You can use
the same plows you now have
on hand on the “Moline South
ern.” Use four scooters or
shovels and you can four-fur-
row both sides of the row at one
trip. Use two sweeps and two
turn plows and side both sides
of the row and also burst the
middles out at the same trip.
Use two large sweeps and side
both sides of the row lapping
in the middles at one trip. The
Moline Southern is not a one
crop machine but works equally
well for corn, cotton, cane, pin
ders, tobacco and other crops
Remember the name “Moline
Southern.” Some other culti
vators claim to be as good but
the test in the field won’t sus
tain the claim. The Moline has
been fully tested in this section
and is suited to our conditions,
so don’t be deceived by oily
tongued agents, but buy the
best, for the best is none too
good for south Georgia farmers.
The Moline is very simple and
easy to operate, but I will send
a man to your field to set you
right if you should have any
trouble operating it.
1 am proving my faith in
these implements by using five
Molines and four Hallock
Weeders on my own farm. I
don’t hesitate to recommend
these two implements farmers,
for I have tested them fully for
several years and I feel that I
am putting money into the
pocket of every farmer to whom
I sell one.
I buy them in car lots
and ray prices are right. I now
have on hand a good supply
ready for delivery and earnestly
solicit your patronage.
Yours for bigger profits in
farming,
W. B. Roddknbery,
Cairo, Ga.
Roofing a specialty.
All calls given prompt attention.
F. A. Preston,
Tinning, Plumbing and Gas Fitting
Gunsmithing and Sheet Meta! Work
of all kinds.
Old roofs repaired and repainted.
Orders solicited.
F. A. Preston,
Troupe Street Bainbridge, Ga.
PANACEA MINERAL SPRINGS,
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forms o f indigestion and stomach
affections. Situated among the
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lightful place for bodily and men
tal rest.
Salt and fresh water ffshing-crabs,
oysters, fish, etc. Pleasant] and
splendid accommodations at rea
sonable rate.
Address, Mrs. K. McFarland
Panacea, Fla.
broad street
The most up-to-date pl ace j n lhe
mixed
The only place where you can get a
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The Best Whiskey on Earth. '
W E. PlumerlStein, Proprietor,
I Bainbrk
| Wilson’s Whiskey $1
T. I.-THOMASON &
Have just receive a
Large Shipment of
ONE AND TWO HOR|
FARM WAGONS
and
which they are selling
at exceeding ....
TJDTtT PEI(
EASY TERMS MADE TO GOOD
AND RESPONSIBLE PARTIES.
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WE DON'T HESITATl
to say that our line of MILLINERY
for Ladies rnd Misses cannot be ex
celled in
QUALITY. STYLE. PRICt
Our stock is largee, our assortment bet
ter, our prices lower. We show the
best ideas of the best milliners of the
country.
We invite inspection.
We request comparison.
Mrs. M. J. Reynolds,
BOI}H MB
Cliett Hardware Coffli
Bainbridge, Ga.
Hardware, Stoves, Mill Supplies, Tinware^
Patton’s Ready Mixed Sunproof ?*
and White Lead. Wagon and M\
Material, Cotton Planters and ^ eiie ^
_Line of Farm Machinery, Etc.,
TX7"a/ter Street.
The best native HAY
ever put on the
market. Write for
prices and sam-
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ALBANY, Ga.
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For the naxt tO
we offer common
and Ceiling at
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at our mill*
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