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We have just received a Car load of Cook aud Heating Stoves and
are prepared to offer some very good Bargains. We carry the beat
line in town. We also handle a Compete lino of
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OP TURNING PLOWS, SUCH AS OLIVER,
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HARMONY GROVE, GEOEGIA.
ILL COTTON FALLACY
OLD BLUNDER THAT FARMERS
SHOULD AVOID IN THE
COMING YEAR.
RAISE SUPPLIES AT HOME
Time Has Arrived to Stop Relying on
• Crop Which Sells Below
Coat of Production.
JF Atlanta, Jan. 1, 1899.
The beginning of the new year is upon
?s and 1898, with all its hopes and dis
ppointments, is a thing of the past. It
Will be well for each of ns at this time,
before we commence onr work for the
year, to take a calm and thoughtful
view of the situation, and then to act as
become sensible men.
What, then, do we find to be the con
dition of the average Georgia farmer at
this time? After working 12 months to
make and gather a large cotton crop,
has he any money left from its sale? I
•ay emphatically no. Those farmers are
fortunate indeed who have been able to
pay the debts incurred by them in mak
ing the last cotton crop, the vast ma
jority having unpaid accounts against
them either for guano, meat, corn or
goods of other kinds.
Has the average Georgia farmer a
supply of corn, oats, hay and fodder,
with which to feed his stock of every
kind until he can make another crop?
Has he plenty of homemade meat and
flour and syrup, with which to feed all
hands on his farm for the next ten
months? Are his mules, and horses,
and cattle, and hogs, and sheep in good
order and well cared for, now in the
midst of a cold, long winter? Has he
an abundance of poultry of all kinds,
well housed and well fed? Has he
plenty of good milk and butter from
graded Jersey or Holstein cows? Has
he a rich garden from which he can
daily gather the winter vegetable to add
to his bill of fare? To all these ques
tions I must regretfully answer no. And
yet I assert positively that all these are
within easy reach of every land owner
in Georgia who will throw off the curse
of all cotton growing, and return to the
ways of our fathers.
Shall we continue to grow and sell
cotton below the cost of production (to
the great delight of the balance of man
kind, who nothing for onr suffer
ing!) until total ruin overtakes us, or
shall we make a united and determined
effort to raiae our own supplies in abun
dance. and thus make our cotton crop
an absolute surplus? I see no hope for
•ur fanners save to adopt the latter
plan and stick to it regardless of the
price of cotton. Don't delude yourself
With the idea that your neighbors will
diminish their eotton acreage and there
fore you will increase yours in the hope
of getting a good price. There could be
no greater mistake of judgment than
this, as the selfish farmer so acting will
find to his cost at the eud of the season.
If Georgia made no cotton thia year,
the loss would doubtless be made up by
the yearly increased acreage oi rich cot
ton lands brought into cultivation west
•f the Missieeippi river. We had better
C spare ourselves for a long period of
w-pnoed cotton, for the outlook prem
4ees nothing else, and being prepared,
We can better endure such a calamity.
88 yean we have relied on cotton
hlone with which to purchase every
•klnf else. During that time we have
*ed not leee than 20,000,000 of bales,
Worth at a moderate estimate, fully
•800,000,000. What has become of this
▼as| amount of money, which, if kept
%! home, would hart made us one of the
*• •' J — >jr
richest stares iu the Union? It has all
gone to pay the farmers and manufac
turers of the north and east for supplies
of various kinds, every item of which
we could aud should have produced
within our own borders. Suppose we
had made only 10,060,000 bales in the
past 83 years, and in addition
had produced all the supplies that
we have bought from other states,
is it not self evident that we would be
better off by 1400,000,000 than we are at
present? The entire property of the
state, cities included, is now bnt a little
over $400,000,000, and the farmers of
Georgia ought alone to have been richer
by this vast amount, had they not been
deluded by the all-cotton fallacy.
Look around yon in your different
commnnities and note the successful
farmers of your acquaintance; invaria
bly yon will find them to be the men
who have diversified their crops and
raised their own supplies. No state or
section can prosper that relies entirely
on one crop. Kansas tried it with wheat,
until most of her farms were mortgaged,
and Bhe was only saved from utter ruin,
it is said, by the “hen and the cow.”
Now, with diversified farming, she is
again on the road to prosperity.
I write as a farmer to farmers, know
ing and appreciating the difficulties in
the way, but I believe they can all be
overcome by a persistent and determined
effort in the rignt direction. I by no
means advise the abandonment of cot
ton culture, for we have no other money
crop upon which we can with absolute
certainty depend; but I do urge upon,
and plead with each and every farmer
in the state, to plant no seed of cotton,
until he has planted such an acreage of
each and every other crop that will
grow on his land, that, let the season be
dry or wet, he will be assured of abun
dant and varied provision crops. In ad
dition to this let proper attention be
given to the raising of stock of all kinds,
particularly cattle, hogs and poultry-
With proper management, it is easier
and cheaper to raise a pound of pork or
a pound of any kind of poultry, than it
is to raise a pound of cotton, and yet a
pound of pork is worth as much and a
pound of poultry from two to three
times as much as a pound of ootton.
The papers stated that Atlanta alone
used 10,900 turkeys on Thanksgiving
day, and I venture to say that nine
tenths of thsm cams from Tennessee
and Kentucky. What a commentary
•a our method of farming I
A good beginning has been mads in
the right direction in the sowing of the
largest wheat crop probably in ths late
history of the Mate. A fair crop of fell
oats has alto bees planted, but the acre
age should be deabled or trebled with
out delay. Prepare to plant a good oorn
crop, not leee than ten to IS aoree to the
plow; and be sure to either broadcast
field peae in year oorn at the leet plow
ing, or drop them an, or by the tide of the
oorn rowe at the eaooed plowing. Then
prepare not leee than five aoree to the
plow for each crops ae greundpeas, po
tatoes, eegaroeae, millet, etc. After
that, put ten acres, and no more, in
eotton, regardless of who may advise
you to the contrary. A crop like this
will give you 2d aoree to the plow, and
that is enough for North Georgia,
though in Middle and South Georgia, a
few more acres might be cultivated in
corn or groundpeas.
Buy as little guano as posable, but
use all the homemade fertilisers that
you can get together between this and
planting time.
Stop buying hoehandles, axhelves,
hemes and other things that yon can
and should make at home on rainy days.
Never go to town with an empty
wagon, but always carry acmetkiaf to
•ell, if only a load of wood.
Buy nothing on credit if you can poe
•ibly avoid it. Better suffer some pri
vations than go in debt.
If we would bp independent and pros
perous, we must farm on the lines sug
gested. No other road will lead ns ont
ef the woods in whigh we are now al
most hopelessly lost—bnt if ws will fel
low the course I have endeavored to
blaze out, we will in a short time be a
happy, prosperous and contented people.
In the laudable effort to become self
■uataining, all must lend a hand. The
merchants and the landlords can greatly
aid in the good work by not insisting
that their customers and tenants shall
plant a large cotton crop in order to get
supplies. This course, hitherto pur
sued. has resulted in greatly increasing
the cotton aoreage, to the serions in
jury—l may even Bay almost ruin—of
all hands concerned. If they would try
the opposite course, extending aid and
credit only to those who make their
food supplies, how different and how
gratifying would be the result. I ap
peal particularly to the merchants, who,
by their insistence on a large cotton
acreage before credit would be extended,
have practically “killed the goose that
laid the golden egg.” Let them “faoe
about” and refuse credit to their cus
tomers who may contemplate planting
a large cotton acreage. If such a course
should be adopted and carried out, it
needs no gift of prophecy to foretell
that a vast amount of poverty and suf
fering would be banished from our
state.
I am more than willing to help on this
good cause by every means in my power,
and the greatest reward that the con
duct of this department could offer me
would be the satisfaction of feeling that
I had aided, even though in a very small
degree, in restoring to the suffering
farmers of Georgia, that plenty and
prosperity which they once enjoyed.
O. B. Stevens, Commissioner.
PEAR BLIGHT.
Southern Treatment For L* Conte
and Kleffer Peer Tree*.
When a pear orchard is badly blight
ed, the owner writes to everybody who
claims to know anything on the subject,
and every one will write him to prune,
prune, prune, when really the truth is
that the more he prunes the worse will
be the blight. When an orohard is badly
blighted, the thing to do is to let it alone
as completely as possible. Don’t prone a
limb, don’t plow it or do anything else
to it that will stimulate the trees. The
trees are certainly in bad shape for two
years.
Let them alone till the trees make
but a small growth. Don’t cultivate the
laud. Then fertilize with phosphorio
acid and potash (no nitrogen). Kalnit
and acid are good forms. Apply broad
cast 600 pounds of each to the acre.
Less will do good; more will do more
good. Flow it in lightly, say three or
fonr inches. This should be done in the
w.uter between Deg. 1 and Jan. 15. If
done earlier, vegetation is too mnoh in
the way. If done later, there will be
danger of causing the trees to bloom too
early.
In May give the orohard another
cultivation, most advantageously done
with a cutaway harrow, plowing abont
the same depth as before. The season
following give the same fertilizers and
the same plowings. If the trees srs
rather vigorous, leave off the May plow
ing.
When you have starved out ths Might
and have got the tree* to where they
make but a small growth annually,
which will be just before you oemmsnee
the fertilizing and plowing desorihed
above, than is ths time to proas, prune,
prune. Don’t prone with a half# or
shears, bat with a saw. Saw off the
worst blighted limbs, the straggling
the ohafing limbs and lbs very
tail limbs. Out them half in taro, re
ducing tbs tree neatly eae-half.
Apply kalnit and add anaaslly; give
the orchard tare plowing* i sever slut
psaa, beggar wests or tun under a
heavy crop at say vegetable growth.
Thea oouat Wight a Mesaiag, far yea
will have studied the rgauiveasenhs ef
pear trees sad supplied their needs, says
& W. Bfceae of Ossegia ia The Bun!
Mew Tor her.
KU la(M4Mt <• AatUsm.
Alf Clark of Hopkiueville was a local
wag who, when £ll Perkins visited that
town on one occasion, stood his sallies
all afternoon long. He wes to introduce
Eli that night to the audience to which
he was to lerttnrs. When the time ar
rived, it was found that but few were
present, owing to a heavy dash of rain
that oasne up just before the hour eet
for the leotore. Clerk took Eli by the
arm and walked him gently to the foot
lights. Making s bow, he said:
“Ladles and gentlemen, it is my
pleasant privilege te introduce to you
tonight the leoturer of the evening, Mr.
Eli Perkins. Judge Feland, this is Eli
Perkins. Mrs. Colonel Smith, this ia
Eli Perkins. Mr. Hnnter Wood, this is
my friend, Mr. Perkins. Colonel Camp
bell, allow me; this is Mr. Perkins.”
Thus he oootinned until he had made
the lectures personally acquainted with
each member of the audience. -—Bender
—To —
ATLANTA, CHARLOTTE, AU
GUBTA, ATHENS, WILMING.
TON, NEW ORLEANS,
CHATTANOOGA, |NASHVILLE
AND
NEW YORK, BOSTON,
PHILADELPHIA,
RICHMOND, WASHINGTON,
NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH.
Schedule in Effect May 8, 1898.
SOUTHBOUND.
No. 403. No. 41.
Lv. New York *ll 00am *9 00pm
“Philadelphia, 112 pm 12 05am
“ Baltimore, 315 pm 2 50am
“ Washington 4 40pm 4 30am
' * Riohmond 8 66pm 9 05am
“Norfolk *8 80pm *9 05am
“ Portsmouth 8 45pm 9 20am
Lv. Weldon *ll 28pm *ll 55am
Ar. Henderson *l2 56am *1 48pm
Ar. Durham £7 32am £4 16pm
Lv. Durham £7 00pm £lol9am
Ar. Raleigh *2 16am *3 40pm
“ San lord 333 am 5 05pm
“ Southern Pines 4 23am 5 58pm
“ Hamlett 5 07am 6 56pm
“ Wadssboro 5 53am 8 10pm
“ Monroe, 6 43am 9 12pm
“ Wilmington *l2 05 pm
Ar. Charlotte *7 50am *lO 25pm
Ar. Chester *8 03am *lO 56pm
Lv. Columbia, C. N. &. L. *6 00pm
Ar. Clinton, *9 45am. *l2 14am
“ Greenwood 10 35am jl 07am
“ Abbeville 11 03am £l3sam
“Elbertoc. 12 07pm 2 41am
“ Athens ;l 13pm 3 43 am
“ Winder 1 56 pm 4 28am
“ Atlanta (C. TANARUS.) 2 50pm 6 20am
NORTHBOUND.
No. 402. No. 38
Lv. Atlanta (C. TANARUS.) *l2 OOu’n *7 sUpm
“Winder * 2 40pm 10 40pm
“Athens 313 pm 1119 pm
* Elberton 4 15pm 12 31am
“ Abbeville 5 15pm 135 am
“ Greenwood 5 41pm 2 03am
“ Clinton *6 30pm *2 55am
Ar. Colombia, C. N. &L. *7 45am
LvChester *Bl3pm *4 25am
Ar. Charlotte *lO 25pm *7 50am
Lv. Monroe *9 40pm *6 05am
“Hamlet *ll 15pm 8 OOam
Ar. Wilmington, *l2 05pm
Lv. Southern Pines 12 OOam *9 OOam
“ Raleigh *2 16am 11 25am
Ar. Henderson, 8 28am *l2 57pm
Ar. Durham £7 32am £4 16pm
Lv. Durham £7 00pm £lO 19am
Az. Weldon *4 55am *2 45pm
“‘ Richmond |8 2oam 7 35pm
“ Wash’ton P.R. R. 12 31pm 11 30pm
“ Baltimore ** 146 pm 1 08am
“ Philadelphia “ 350 pm 350 am
“ NewYork “ *6 23pm *6 53am
Ar. Portsmouth 7 25am 5 20pm
Ar. Norfolk *7 35am 5 35pm
♦Daily. £Daily Except Sun.
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T. P. A| G. P.A
AUGUSTA, GA.
8. W. WILKES, H. K. NICHOLSON.
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MILLBDGBYILUL S AUGUSTA.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
L C. RUSSELL. B. C. ARMISTEAD ,
RUSSELL & ARMISTEAD,
Attorneys at Law.
Winder, Ga. Jefferson. Ga.
W. EL QUARTERMAN,
i Attorney at Law,
Winder, Ga
Prompt attention given to a 1 legal
matters. Insurance and Real Estate
agent.
JOHN H. SIKES,
Attorney at Law.
Winder, Ga.
Office over Harness factory.
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY,
Attorney at Law,
Jefferson, Ga.
Silman's old office.
Winder Furniture Cos.
UNDERTAKERS AND—
—FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
C. M. FERGUSON, M’g’r.
WINDER, GEORGIA.
A. HAMILTON,
Undertaker and Funeral
Director,
Winder,
EMBALMING
By a Professional Einbalmer. Hearse
and attendance free. Ware rooms, cor
ner Broad & Candler sts.
DR. W. L. DkLaPERRIERE,
DENTAL PARLORS.
In the J. C. DeLaPerriere building,
over Winder Furniture Cos. Call and
gee me when iu need of anything in
the line of Dentistry. Work guaran
teed.
Honey to Lend,
We have made arrangements with
brokers in New York City through
whom we are able to place loans on
improved farms for five years time,
payable in installments. If you want
cheap monev come in and see ns at
once Shackei,ford & Cos
100 Broad St., Athens, Ga.
LOUIS SMITH,
The oldest‘Blacksmith &
Horse Shoer in Winder.
I will appreciate your patronage and
give yon good work at reasonable prioee.
4MB2DBMBOU
883, (Winuer)
J. Kelly, W. M.; J. J. Kilgore. S. W.;
AS. Adams, J. W.; J. H. Kilgore,
Seo’ty. Meets every 2d Friday evening
at 7 o’clock.
S. T. Rosa, Secretary; H. S. Segars,
Treasurer. Meets every Ist and 8d
Monday nights.
RUSSELL LODGE No. 99.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Meets every Ist. and 3d. Thursday
vening in each month. R. B. Russell,
P. C. *ad Rep., C. B. Almond, CL C., H.
C. Poole. V. C., A. A Camp, K. of R.
and A. S., W. B. Dillard, P. e W. H.
Toole, M. of E., T. A Maynard, M. of
F. J. J. Smith. M. of A.. F. L. Hol
land, L G., O. Li, Dabney, O. G.
ROYAL ARCANUM..
Meets every 4th Monday nightT"~s.
TANARUS, Strange, R.; J. H, Sikes, V. R.; J.
J Kilgore, Secretary.
(COLORED).
WINDER ENTERPRISE LODGE,
No. 4282. G. U. O. of O. F.
Meets every Ist and 3d Friday night
In each month. Dudley George, N. G.
G. W. Moore V. G.; L. H. Hinton.
Secretary.
Honey to Loan.
We now have plenty of money to
loan on improved farm property in
Jackson and Bunks oonnties. Term*
and interest liberal. Call and see on.
Dunlap e Plenum* ,T
Gainesville, G*