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Good Advertising Medium 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.