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FARM WORK THE
LATEST IN YEARS
CommissionerO. B. stevens Urges
a Reduction In Cotton Acreage
and fertilizers Used on Cot
ton of One-1 hird at Least
From That Used the
Past Two Years.
I! Alto Urges a Large Increase of
Food Supplies For Man an<l Beast
For Home Consumption, as Well as
of All the Products of th- Kurin (Ex
cept Cotton) That Will Bring Spot
Cash mid Large Profit* In the
Markets.
Atlanta, April 1, 1899.
The year 1899 is a memorable one in
the backwardness of all kiuds of farm
work, preparatory for the coming crop.
The mouths of January and February
were almost entirely lost, and the un
stable weather into March, has retarded
the usual progress made in this direction
during last month. Under these cir
cumstances it is a fixed fact that ail
crops of 1899 must bo planted much
later than usual.
Even with the corn crop in South and
Southwest Georgia, most of the usual
planting in February was extended to
March, while much of the March work
of the corn crop in Middle, North and
Northeast Georgia, will of necessity, be
carried into April this year. But late
planting with deep and thorough prepa
ration at the start, is much better than
slip-shod work and plautiug at an ear
lier period. Every intelligent farmer
knows that more than half the work
is done, in making, wheu a crop is put
in after this kind of preparation. But
there is one other reason why late plant
ing and deep and thorough preparation
of soil should go together this year,
which I submit to your reflection.
I refer to a fixed natural law that
regulates the labor of farmers through
out the world, and enables them to turn
♦he sunshine and rain God sends us to
their own profit.
It is this: That the mean annual rain
fall in any given locality, whether 10
inches or 110 inches a year, does not
vary much, either in any given year ci
series of years.
In most of the states east of the
Mississippi, wo have had an excess
of rainfall, commencing last August
and perhaps ending with February, for
this reason the possibility or perhaps
probability of a drouth more or less j
protracted during the growing season of
the coming crop would seem to he in
dicated; an additional reason why deep
and thorough preparation and late
planting should go together, both in
corn and cotton this year. Every weak
point in every terrace on the farm
should be looked after and repaired sa
that rains that do fall during the com
ing months of crop maturing will be
consumed and utilized by the growing
crop. With perfect terraces, deep prepa
ration and shallow culture afterwards,
growing crops will bo exempt from
drouths when compared to lands that
are uuterraced.
We have now arrived at the cotton
planting month of April, the most
critical in the history of the eutira
state, because on her agricultural pros
perity all other interests hinge or rest,
either languish or prosper, upon the
decision of the farmers of Georgia
during this month touching the re
duction in acreage as well as in fer
tilizers of at least one third front
that used the last two years, not only
in Georgia, but in all the other states
cast of the Mississippi, and as substan
tial a reduction in the acreage of the
cotton states west of it. The imperative
necessity for the reduction will be seen
by a short glance at the crops of 1898
and 1899.
The crop of 1897 was 8,750,000 bales,
and sold for from 7 to 8 cents. The
crop of 1898 was 11,200,000, and this dis
astrous crop brought less than $11,000,000
more than rhe crop of 1897. In other
words, 2,500,000 bales of the crop of the
1808 crop were sold at 4 50per bale, weigh
in g 507 pounds; so much for making more
cotr ’! than the world needs, and allow
ing the cotton spinners of Manchester
to set the price on the entire crop, and
the loss sustained on the present crop
is much greater than on that of 1898, as
many millions of it were sold at 8 cents,
and some of it even less than this.
There is now more than cotton enough
assured to supply the world’s needs the
present year, or until next September.
I know that the farmers of Georgia
have been surfeited with newspaper
advice in the management of their own
business for years, but in this instance
you are advised by one who will do
more than practice the precepts here in-
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culrated, both in the reduction of his
own acreage devoted to cotton, as well
as the quantity of fertilizers used by
him this year.
Georgia made more cotton than both
the Oarolinas in 1898 and manufactured
less of it than either, while the two
Carolinas united consumed the entire
crop of North Caroiina and reduced the
cotton crop of South Carolina 120,000
bales in 1898. Georgia uses one-fourth
of all the fertilizers used from Maryland
and Virginia to Louisiana, including
that used on tjie wheat of the first and
the sugar cane of the lastl She has
taken the lead in the “all cotton” craze
folly. For the past two years, until the
meshes of the spider web mortgages
woven around her hospitable homes by
the crop of 1898 that brought disaster
and ruin to very many, have redoubled
their meshes on very many more in
1899.
But Georgians have an almost infii
cite pof.ver of active potential endur
ance and energy, and their helpmeets
are in every wav worthy of them if
their work were shown to them
A farmer near Adanta brought 100
fine iurkeys here lately and sold them
for cash as quickly as cotton for $lO5 to
the retail trade, a sum equal to seven
bales of cotton at 3 cents! They cost
absolutely nothing but care and protec
tion while young. They live on insects,
bugs and plenty of corn, and corn never
ought to be sold off the farm in Georgia
until after it lias been fed to pigs and
turkeys, worth 6 and 12 cents a pound,
at least, dressed. The cotton bales cost
$8 a bale to pick and cover per bale after
it is made, leaving a net balance of $49.
The farmer fancies that the bagging
pays for itself, but there is a tare of 22
pounds deducted on all cotton exported
•—deducted from the price of every bale
of cotton, w hether consumed at home
or in Europe.
A half million turkeys raised by the
farmers’ wives will be a labor of pleas
ure, leaving three fifths for home con
sumption and two fifths for the market.
Dressed turkeys can be sold in the
cities at from 10 to 15 cents per pound
through the winter and early spring
months, and paid for on delivery, by
using systematic business methods. Ev-
city, town and village will furnish
a market for them.
The freight on such products would
be from 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds
from any county to any city in Georgia.
Why shol.d Georgia depend upon
Tennessee for her dairy and poultry
products, and on the west for nearly all
of her mutton, beef and pork supplies?
The only answer to this is that the cot
ton producers of Georgia have been ex
pending their entire energies ou cotton
for two years past, much to their own
SOMETIMES when you have
lame back and feel poorly,
you stop working for the day.
But all you do is take the rest
and go right to work again when
the symptoms quiet down. That
is no way to head off a terrible
disease that is fastening its grip
upon you. Stop the first leak or
you lose the ship.
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quickly cures those first irregu
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Disease, Diabetes, Rheumatism,
Jaundice and Female Troubles.
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What kind?
Cat as follows:
SEA-BIRD 9 2 2 second to none gives universal satisfaction
wherever used,
COLUMBIA SOLUBLE 8 2-2 most costly and only first class
goods sold in this state.
FURMAN’S EXTRA HIGH GRADE 10-2 2 not only in name
but reality, it needs no introduction., it speaks for itself.
PLANTER’S SOLUBLE 8-2 2 a high grade that is used ex
tensively, this brand we are making as a leader, money or cotten prices
lowest in town.
SOLID SOUTH 8-2-2 runs high in Anaemia and Potash, just th
guano for old lands, builds them up.
BEEF BLOOD and BONE 9 2-1 has always given satisfaction,
best Blood and Bone goods on the market.
EDISTO SOLUBLE 9-2-1 always runs above Analysis, insure ß
a good crop and we make the price to suit you.
FURMAN’S SOLUBLE BONE with AMONIA and POTASH
10 1-1 just .he Guano for fresh lands, a big bargain at the price.
DURHAMS AMONIATED 9 2-1 this is the Durham Bull that
runs our competitors in their holes. A good seller try it.
Potash and Acid. Acids
Cotton 4 per cent Potash analy- _ , _ , , _ , ,
Durham Double Bone Phosohate
Bis 8-4 goods just what you want, X3 t 0 15 per cent.
well proportioned. We .reselling Edi9to Dlsßolved Bolle 12 t 0 15
it fast, see it and you Will buy it. per cent.
We have all the above goods on hand and
will make it to your interest to see us be=
fore buying.
Call at our office between Graham & Cos. and
McElhannon.
DUNN & LYLE.
sorrow, and have liad no energies to ex
pend on any other product of the soil.
A half million bushels of sweet potatoes
can be disposed of in the same way at a
stipulated price before shipment, and
spot cash ou delivery, and millions more
for home consumption, as well as to fat
ten pork and poultry. They retail today
at $1 a bushel in Atlanta, and in almost
every other large city in the state, and
never sell below 50 cents, and farmers
would not be compelled to market them
at the lowest price, as they always aro
with cotton.
It has been the custom for many years
for farmers’ wives to have a “cotton
patch” to supply them with Christmas
cash for family necessities or luxuries,
but alas, like the large body of labor
who “work on shares,” nothing or next
to nothing has been left of their
•'patches” after the picking and bag
ging were paid for. This year let her
“cotton patch” be substituted with a
flock of 100 turkeys. She will find
pleasure in rats’ug them and seeing
them grow up. At an avei’age weight
of 10 pounds dressed they will net in
I spot cash over SIOO, equal to four bales
lof middling cotton at 5 cents ou the
I plantation, besides helping in a small
way to reduce the volume of Georgia
I cotton that has well nigh ruined Geor
gia the past two years. By the end of
this month an approximate estimate of
the coming crop will bo arrived at and
by the last of May the statisticians will
be able to give the exact acreage in oot
ton planted, the amount of fertilizers
used, and ou these two as basis give
their estimate of the coming crop in
bales for 1899 and 1900; the Neils
among them giving a large margin to
’their guess work, in the interest of the
cotton manufacturers of the world, and
by this means robbing the cotton pro
ducers of the south, as they have done
iu the crop of 1599. Already they are
boasting and assuming that the small
grain crops destroyed by the severe win
ter in Arkansas, west of the Mississippi,
as well as in Georgia and states east,
will now undoubtedly be planted or re
planted in cotton. If these predictions
come true in Georgia or Arkansas it
will be hailed as a sure omen for another
large 4-cent cotton crop, and irretrieva
ble ruin to the cotton producers. But
we have an abiding faith in the cotton
producers of Georgia and we shall con
tiuue to cherish it for one or two months
longer. Georgia farmers learn nothing
from didactic instruction, like school
children. The intelligence of the aver
age agriculturist is as broad and his
mind as clear as his city merchant
cousin. What he wants are cold facts
in plain language, and these he can deal
with and master as easily as they are
presented to him. Debt, debt, for many
years has put him in the position of the
most stubborn criminals a century
ago. When they were enclosed in a
tank, chained to a pump, and water ad
mitted at a ratio faster than he could
pump it out, unless he worked with all
his might, with no volition of his own, he
was left for a given time to make his
choice between pumping and drowning,
the guards alike indifferent which he
preferred.
If he owed his creditors SI,OOO they
never offered to take 1,000 turkeys for
the debt, nor 2,000 bushels of sweet po
tatoes; if they had selected the potatoes
he would have taken 20 acres of his best
laud, planted it with this “apple of the
earth,” worked at it with the irresist
ible and untiring energy of a Georgian,
shipped the 2,000 bushels promptly on
time to lift the mortgage, and bank the
other 2,000 carefully for the spring
market, at 75 cents per bushel.
But his creditors accept cotton only
on all debts due them. All other agri
cultural products are valueless. Cotton
alone brings spot cash, say they, and
yet the south in past years has paid out
millions annually for sun cured grass
to feed the stock engaged in making
cotton to glut the cotton markets of the
world with. We have already shown
the utter impossibility of the farmer
ever being able to cancel that SI,OOO
mortgage with cotton, by the actual
sale of seven bales at 8 cents per pound,
counting only the actual cost of Hacking
and covering it, if to this were added
the cost of picking, chopping, hoeing
and cultivating, we leave others to com
pute how much of the net proceeds of
that seven bales would be left to credit
that SI,OOO mortgage with.
Let those who blame even the all cot
ton farmer put themselves in his place.
All cotton producers in Georgia and in
all the other old cotton state* east of
the Mississiuui have been too much on
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the “all cotton”, plan in the past years,
with Georgia far iu the lead. We have
tried faithfully to make this matter
plain in cold facts and figures, and the
necessity of raising not only an opuwat
abundance but a superabundance of all
food supplies for man and beast, not
merely for home consumption on the
farm, but for every product of the farm
that will find a spot cash market in
every village, town and city in the state,
and at more remunerative prices than
cotton ever brought. A few only of
these have been indicated by us, because
every farmer can supply many addi
tional products that will bring them the
hard cash for himself.
The farmers of Georgia are the poor
est people in the state, I mean the cot
ton raising farmer. A woman cotton
mill hand can make S3O to S4O pet
month, and has more money than the
average farmer has seen the past two
years. He has been trying to clothe
the world at his own private expense,
lie sold in 1897 and 1898, 2,500,001) bales
of his best cotton at less than 1 cent a
pound. He has been doing even more
charitable deeds than this in 1898 and
1899, but at heavy cost to himself and
family.
The facts are before you; the remedy
is in your hands.- If you heed them
now the wrecks of the past cwo years
may stili be repaired. But if the farm
ers of Georgia are saved from hopeless
bankruptcy and ruin it can only come
to them by a reduction of the acrege in
cotton and in fertilizers devoted to the
production of cotton this year of at
Last one third of each.
O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
WOMAN DEAD IN A BARN.
Series of Mysterious Family TrageditS
Near .Jackson, Tenn.
Jac’isox, Tenn., April 4. —News has
been received here from Chester county
that Mrs. J. A. Stewart was found mur
dered in her barnyard a few days ago.
Several weeks ago her husband was
found in his field murdered. One of
his sons was arrested at the instance of
his brother-in-law, Dan Foster, charged
with the murder of the father.
While young Stewart was in jail Fos
ter committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head. The boy was
afterward released. Now comes the
third in this chain of mysterious family
tragedies. The matter will be sifted by
the authorities.
ATLANTA DRUMMER KILLED.
William Bell Clubbed to Death by a
Habersham County Man.
/ •’Lanta, April B.—News has reached
this city of a tragedy in Habersham
county in which William B. Bell, a
traveling salesman for an Atlanta drug
store, was beaten to death with a stick
in the hands of J. S. Smith.
The killing occurred near a small til
lage called Soque postoffice, and tb e
man who wielded the c ub of death had
been the host of the victim but a fe ir
hours before.
Smith is said to have been intoxicates
at the time of the killing. He claim’
the killing was to avenge an insu* 1
which Bell had offered a lady membe r
of his family.
Beil traveled for the wholesale house
of John B. Daniel of Atlanta. He wa
on the road selling drugs when the
killing occurred. ...
The sheriff has gone from ClarkesT il3
to arrest Smith.
matism and Sores. Price, 25 ceDt3,
G. W. DeLaPerriere, Winder, Lli ’