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VOL. XIV—NO. 39.
& BRO..
DEALERS IN
Clothing.
. _ Shoes^
Dry Goods,
Hats,
Notions,
GrocErieS.
(BARGAIN STOREJ
[Anderson
& Jones
CLOTHING,
Shoes, Hats,!
Furnishings,
Dry Ms, Notions, Guns, Machines, Groceries.
Clothing a specialty.;
They wilfsell yon clothing for cash;
at Gainesville or Atlanta prices. aI
nice line of samples and will tafcef
your order for tailor made goods. <
—WIIM — IIWII Ill III 11 III Hill Ill III! Hill IIIMI'lliHH 11 1111
DAHLONEGa
Livery Stable,
Moor© Bro-, Propr’s.
0t lew Me on College 81.
RUN a DAILY H AC K LINE
to and. from G ainesyille.
FARE, $1,50
C. W. SATTERFIELD,
Dealer in
FAMILY
GROCERIES
AND
General Merchandise.
Alfalfa, or Lucern.
(Coatiuued.)
SOWING TUB SEED.
I think alfalfa should be sown in
-the fall in Northern Georgia. As
tthe young plants are ycry tendoi;,.
seeding should lie done early
.enough, so that these plants may
got a good start before cold wcath
or begins. 4 think it should be
sown here not Liter than the 16lh
of .September. At the Tennessee
Exp. Station two years ago goo 1
results were obtained by seed
ing on the :20th of October.
On the College Farm of the
N. G. A. C., wo seeded one
acre to alfalfa on tho 23rd of (3c
to her and almost every plant was
killed by the cold weather. Th.;
delay in seeding was caused by the
dry weather. Jf there had have
been a good rain Immediately after
the sowing, so that the plauts
would .have grown rapidly, wo
very .probably would have succeed
ed in getting e, good,catch anyway.
This same land will he seeded in
the spring, about the first of April.
The objection to spring sowing is
that it would be more liable to be
choked out by obnoxious weeds.
If sown broadcast, from 15 to
25 lbs. of seed per acre may be
used. Coyer the seed very lighly;
a brush or light harrow is suf
ficient. If convenient roll the
land after harrowing. It is a
waste of time and money to sow
alfalfa on weedy land. Remember
you must inoculate the -soil with
bacteria in order to snocccd. If
you doubt this woman furnish you
an object lesson here at the college,
so that you may see for yourself.
Inoculation may be done in two
ways: 1. By taking the soil from
land where alfalfa is grown and
scattering it broadcast over your
ground just before, or at the time
you sow the seed. First examine
the roots of the alfalfa frdTta where
you expect to got your soil; if tho
roots have a number of little no
dules, the soil may be used for in
oculation. Scatter at least 24)0
pounds of inoculated soil per acre.
2. The 'United ^Slates Departs
ment of Agriculture will furnish
you inoculating material ou ap
plication. These dried “cultures’'
arc put up in small boxes with an*
ootnpanying.chemicals and direc
tions. These “cultures” ace dis
solved in water and sprinkled ovor
soil or manure, which is then scats
itered ovor .the field.
The bacteria which feeds upon
rod clover, peafc, beans, .&c\, do
.not feed upon alfalfa. This is
why inoculation is necessary, ex
cept in some parts of the West
whore bacteria is naturally lu the
soil.
ALFALFA 11 AY.
To make the best hay, it should
be .out about the time the first flow
ers appear. tf 'left longer the
stems‘become woody, and are un
fit to be eaten by stock. As soon
as the leaves are wilted (not dry
and brittle) it should be raked into
windrows and left for a while,
then removed to tho stack or barn.
It should be handled as little as pos
sible. After the first year from two
trtfive cuttings can be made and
-the yield is usually from two to
fivetons per acre.
It is the best hay that can be fed
to horses, and with its uso the
grain ration can bo cut down one-
half. It is rich m nutritive prop
erties. The dry hay contains 12
to H per cent of digestible pro
tein, and 12 per cent of fat. This
is almost a complete food for au ; y
class of live s'oek. Even hege
will eat the hay.
Why not grow this interesting
plane? Try it on a small scale at
first. You will not only provide
an excellent quality, as well as a
large <111111115 °f forage for your'
stock, hut ul tin; same time you
.will be enriching your -fields, and.
doi ug it with a fertilizer which
would cost a good deal of money!
if purchased in the murkot. One'
of tho beauties qf alfalfa growing'
lies in the fact,that when once es
tablished it requires no cultivation.
Ciias. W. Davis,
N. G. A. 0,
*A iLetter From Mr. J. H. Ab-
citj orobie.
Barnaul, Kwm., Dec. .‘10, 1903.
: iD.l vr NuGGKjg:
j I would like>to know how all my
i old friends atic getting along back
; there, i wish they all were here
to enjjoy this lino weather. Wo
haven't had any snow or cold
wontlior this winter. Wo husk
corn in our shirt sleeves all the
time. Coru is good, making an
average of 40 bushels per acre all
over the county.
1 We have a telephone ifrom oui’t
.town. Every farmer ‘bos one iu his’
•house—stays at home and talks to 1
his townsman. Also have free dos
Every. Get our mail at the door
| every day until it seems that we
have all the advantages. Tho city
i fellows land has doubled in price
in the last few years.
I I have beeu to Canada since 1
• saw you all. I bought a section of
1 land there. It is a fine country,
l but 1 won’t take up space to tell
I about it now.
j But my name on the list for the
1’Nugget for a year. 1 will send
j the amount when I get the paper
' and know how much to send.
Ycurs truly,
J. M. Auerokomiul.
Yours For Trade
Dealer tin
General Merchandise
v
UAI-ILOJSLEGEA, GEA„
What a Boy Did.
Earl Burchfield, a fourteen-years
j old boy of Attalla county, Missis
sippi, made last year, unaided,
four bales of cotton and ono hun -
dred bushels of corn, besides a
bank of potatoes and other vegetas
ble found about a well-regulated
farm, worth on the market about
$600. That boy is to be com
mended Although but fourteen
years of age, he seems to have been
pretty well educated, and if ho
sticks to the school he is now at
tending he is likely in a few .years
to become one of the best educa
ted men that the South coiJld have.
But he had better be on his guard;
before he knows it he will have a
lot of social reform ore of vagrant
minds on his trail with a child-
labor law. Ju an adjoining stato
they tried to pass a'law laying tho
foundation for the prevention of
anyone becoming of value to ithe
cohimunity as a producer before
tho age of sixteen. But they fail
ed, though they have been having
a grand hurrah ever since ovor a j
skeleton-like compromise. It will j
be a sad day for the farmers of i
the South and for their sons when !
the agitator attempts legislation to |
limit labor on the farm.—South- j
orn Farm Magazine.
Hicks’ almanacs are nearly all I
gone. Thirty cents a piece gets
them. They tell you all about tho
storms and cyclones that are to
come.
On Christmas day a certain mar
ried man, after getting on a few
drinks, offered a girl fifty cents to
kiss him. She declined, which :
shows that money is not as scarce ;
and needed as badly us some peo- ■
pie claim that it is.
The price for announcements of
county candiduts in the Nugget
will be $2.50 up to the demo- !
cratic primary, and 50 ceuts from
then till tho election. Indepen
dents $8.00, and the money must
come in advance, be it friend or .
fuc.
il'unn.essee :to be Sued.
It is stated that in a short while
papers will tie filed with the clerk
of the United States Supreme
court at Washington seeking to
enjoin the state of Tennessee from
allowing the operation of the
Ducktown copper mines, which,
are located in Tennessee, it being,
alleged that tho fumes (from the|
mines are injjunions to the prop-1
erty of Georgia.
This unique case .is sure to at-,
tract widespread attention for it
will bo the first instance where 1
one stato has sought to enjoin
another -state from allowing the
operation of an industry.
The injunction will be sought
on the ground provided for in the
United States constitution which
provides for such an emergency
when the property or dominion of
one state is injured from causes
emanating in another state.
Tho suit grows out of the fact
that the-sulpuroue fumes from .the
Ducktown copper mines has killed
vegetation in Georgia for a radius
of one mile from (lie mines, which
are located ycry nearly on the
stato line.—Atlanta News.
All merchants mi l businessmen
living in Lumpkin should have 1
pride enough in their homo county
to give its printers their letter
heads ami other ijob work, matters
not whether they live in Dahlones
ga or not, especially when it can
be done just as nice and cheap as
in Gainesville or elsewhere.
Pensioners of Lumpkin county
will bear in mind that theirs will
be paid to Judge Huff' on the S3
of February. We know of some
good old needy soldiers in this
county who ought to have a share
of the pension money, but they
have failed up to this time to
mako the required proof.
Last week we noticed two chim
neys blaze out the same day here.
People should not forget to burn
their chimneys out wbeu it rains.
You must remember that many of
tho wells in Dahlonega are per
fectly dry and it looks liiko we are
going to have a water famine, and
if a blaze was to get a good start
there would lie no chance >to ex
tinguish it.
The other day Mr. W. H, Reid,
the Yahoola mail carrier, came to
town with his horse and cart. The
animal was hitched to a post on
the east side of the court house.
The old gentleman went in to de
liver his mail and when tho time
came, picked the sack up on 11 is
arm and walked out and off to
wards home, forgetting his horse
until we called hi u back.
Col. Cusick
Col. Cornelius C. Cusick, well
known in Niagara Falls, New
York, died January 2nd, at his
apartments at Ferry Avenue and
Sixth Street. IJo has been gratU
nully failing for some time and
his death .was .not unexpected.
Complete aurungementr, have not
yet been made for the funeral but
it is announced that the interment
will take place at Fort Niagara and
that tho luoeral services will be
attended with full military honors.
Col. Cusick was born in Le»vfis-
ton, years ago. He was not a
full blooded Tiuiciirorn Indian as
has beer, generally supposed, Hi*
father was iTumes'Cusiok, a white
man. Ilis Indian blood came from
his mother’s side, but even sho
was not a fulKbloodod Indian.
Col. Cusick entered the army in
18(52 as a lieutenant iu the 132d
New York Volunteer Infantry and
served with distinction (through
out the Civil war. In the year
1 ICG he leccivcd an appointment
as a lieutenant in the regular EL
S. army and was asaigued -to the
18th Infantry., thou stationed (in
Dakota. He was retired with the
rank of captain in 11892 on account
of disabilities received in the In
dian war of 1984, Ho served iu
the Indian war of 1894. Ho serv
ed in all the Indian wars of the
Northwest from 186C to 1884 and
won many words of praise for his
heroic conduct.
Me-is survived by a wife and oue
son, Alton B., who have been mak
ing their homo with him in ibis
city.—Niagara Falls Gazette.
The Blue Ridge mountains seem
to be full of ’possums and coons,
as we understand .that Mr. Casper
Self-said he went out one night
and caught a wagon load include
a dozen or more coons. It can’t
be a mistake tfor Mr. Self is a
deacon of the<<tburch.
It is said that lwo<er three mem
bers of Phi lap pi .church, an this
county, got a little “boozy”'Christ -
mas. Onu getting so full that he
lost some meat and a gun he was
carrying, on his way home. The
meat was found the next morning,
but at last accounts tho gun had
not been discovered. It is beliov*.
ed by some that he dropped it into
the river the unfortunate man ‘had
to cross.
The names and dates on all the
Nuggets are printed on the mar
gin of (he papers except those
distributed at the Dahlonega post-
office. So examine the date and
see when your time expire. The
date appearing gives up to the
lime you have paid.
