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THE JACKSON ECONOMIST.
VOL- VIII-
From Oregon.
nf , r Economist: — Having promised
of onr friend* in the old home
that we would write them coil
toB ” U r trip to, and our notions of
T great North West, we deem it more
Sent to b.giu a seriese of letters on
bv Riving a b-ief account or
‘journey from Atlanta as our party
did not get together until we reached
L print. Our little party of 23 were
•jlin a hustle until we boarded the W.
aA. railroad train aud it soon pulied
t of the Union depot and whirled
llong tbron: h rugged hills aud fertile
valleys passing through the beautiful
little city of Dalton, then Chattau >oga
ud on to Nashville, Tennessee. Here
vre changed cars and pul led out for St.
Louis. P as Bed through this city
during the night and reached Kansas
Jtyat 8-30 o’clock on Wednesday
rooming Here we stopped off and took
itwelve hours rest in the city on the
lulls. This is a pic uresque city divided
into two nearly tqual parts bv a steep
bluff from 60 to 100 feet high We ar
an_ed out women ns comfortably as we
could and set out for a walkover the
jj tr We had a good stiff wind blowing
oc 0:3 the snow clad fields of ' Miss >u."i
tocher us on our way and and hurried
out to see the stockyards which cover
135 acres. Wo saw a greater mas* of
cattle, sheep and hogs than our eyes
were ever permitted before to look upon
—Said to bo six thousand head.
After two or three hours spent at the
pens, we passed on to the Armour pack
ing plant and were furnished by the
Buperintende t with tickets and a guide
who took delight in showing us through
the plant and answering all questions
conr'.eonsly. A bit of informa’ion given
by the cltvtr boy who piloted us
through this immense establishment
may be interesting to those who use
Gold Brand bams and bacon. This
building has a ground floor covering 30
acres, and it is three stories high giving
them 90 acres of floor. It has sixteen
ice machines, producing a refrigeration
equal to the melting of 2,300 tons of ice
each 24 hours. Daily killing capacity—
hogs 12,000,cattle 4,000 aud sheep 5,000
—making a total of 21,000, but the boy
told ns their yearly average was about
14,000 perday. This gives employment
to 1,800 men aud 150 women Eigh
teen varieties of fertilizers are mauu
factnred here and the shipments of their
factory products arnouut n a year to
450,500,000 lbs. When our guide dis
missed us at the main entrauce, we
looked at our watch aud found we had
onj hour and a half to get to our train.
We hurried to the depot—got our women
and children ready fora 2.050 miles
nde of which I will tell you in my next
letter.
P. B.—l will also tell you some
about this country in my next.
Winchester, Douglas county, Oregon.
J. T. Lord.
A FRIGHTFUL BLUNDER
Win often cause a horrible Burn, Scald
*i, bruise, Bucilen’s Arnica Salve,
'fie be s t, c the world, will kill the pain
p heal it, Cures Old Sores,
all cn .- r t?’Ulcers,Boils, Felons, Corns,
aartK !n ® ra P t ' ODB, Uest pH® cure on
am s cs. a box. Cure guar
eed' Sold by Winder Drug Cos.
WILNER. '
jQr ‘derary school continues to take
r “ energy under the excellent
anaguuent of Mr. E. M. McDonald
rtr'f ocated the most central pait of
for * U and affords a good opportunity
cat - ' in?a good commoll school edu
by t) D WaS * ounde( l nine years ago
uin ■ F ro o r essive citizens of this com-
Ui. y who wished to encourage liter
WirM n aDd mak ® thiß ° f the
makr better by havin & lived in it and
bove c 'l’ Z9na °ut of our young
n jj nob^e women out of our girls,
able a^3 preached two very
Saa la rm ? n9 at Lebanon Saturday and
aSt- one on Sunday
gregation^ 3410 ® t 0 aay pulpit or con '
°fX a V . Aanie aud Susie Peterson, two
dies, snem ! q m ° st faci nating youngla
friends. tv, Uaday hero the guests of
i y a 80 atte nded services at
iir. W. a Ho ,
brmjjt T Bale, one of Winder’s
?w daV" ” luon ’ Was in our midst a
ua Js ago.
This sectiln
1 was well represented at
WINDER, JACKSON COUNTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 55, igoo.
the dance on Monday night of last week
at the home of Mr. L O. Martin, near
Clarksboro.
Mies Launa Reeves, of Monroe, who
has been spending a few days with re
latives here, has returned home
The attraction for Mr. J. R. Alexan
der must be very great near Gallilee as
he calls quite often.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fulcher have
moved to their new home formerly
owned here by Mr W. C. Wills.
A MONSTER DEVIL FISH
D istroying its victim, is a type of
Constipation, The power of this mur
derous malady is felt on organs and
nerves and musclee and brain. There’s
no health till it’s overcome. But Dr.
King’s New Life Pills are a safe and
certain cure. Best in the world for
Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels,
Only 25 cents at Winder Drug Cos.
The Old and New year.
By Carl P Norris, 18 rears of age
and publicised bj’ request.
Fare-w 11 old year.
With temptations untold,
We’ome new year,
As your joys wo uufo and.
We should not lament
Over the y< ar that is past.
Rut, should sot right to work
To perform our task.
Never givo it up
lu sorrow and fear,
For the old year is past
And the new yer is here.
We view the past year
With an eye of fright,
When we see our failures
To do what was right.
As we enter upon
The new year’s duties,
Lot us keep in n membranes,
Last, year’s blessings and beauties.
God being our helper,
In whatever we do,
Let us battle for ttie right
The whole year through.
By divine presanation
We have lived to see,
The closiug year
Of the nine teenth contury.
“One Minute Cough Cure is the best
remedy I ever used for coughs and colds.
It is unequalled tor whooping cough.
Children all like it,” writes H, N. Wil
Hants, Gentryville, lud. Never fails. It
is the only harmless remedy that gives
immediate results. Cures coughs, colds,
hoarseness,croup, pneumonia, bronchit
is and all throat and lung troubles. Its
early use prevents eansumption. G. W.
DdLaPerrier*.
Don’t Have to Think.
By E. J. Nash.
Returning from the evil war,
I made a fine selection
Of womankind; then run in.debt
And bought a quarter section
Five years and Jack and Ji ” had come,
Besides two little daughters;
Two dollar wheat had paid onr debt,
And bought three other quarters.
But then our luck began to change,
Hard times were drawing near;
We found the price when selling wheat,
Grew less and less each year.
The years roll on; the dear old farm
Is mortgaged once again;
I struggled hard to keep it clear.
But struggled all in vain.
The boys ere raving Socialists;
They've watched our fortunes sinkin)
And ask me every day or two,
“Why don’t yon do some thinking?
“We pay onr congressmen to think,”
Says I; bat Jack, says he,
“The bankers pay them not to think
And pay them more than we.”
“Our congress represents the few
Whose wealth its truth cemented,
While out of all the workingmen
Not one is represented.
And that’s the reason, father dear,
The farm has ceased to pay;
The gang have made the laws to gi’ *,
Or steal your toil away.”
With silly talk like this, the boys
Expect to conquer me;
But I’m firm as solid rock
And trust the G. O. P.
Last year our wheat brought 60 i te,
This fall ’tis less, I found;
But I tell the jeering boys,
The cash I get is sound.
I bought a keg of nails last year,
At Brain's hardware store;
Ho only asked two dollars then,
Today he charged me four.
I bought some zinc, some tin, some oi
Some glass and bolts and w : re;
At every one O’Brian, he.
Would smile and say ’twas highe*.
‘Must stop and think,” says Jack to me
i ‘‘How yur sound money fai’s;
: ’1 was sound euough when selling
wheat
1 But. tor when buy ir.g nails.
! For all the farmer sells, this gold
Dot,:: much too sound appear ;
But when he buys these trust-made
goods,
’Tis cheap; the goods are dear.”
Confound the boys! Their idle talk
Will drive me crazy yet;
Besides, my interest-, ueurly due,
Is mighty hard to get.
But nothing this side of death shed
part,
Or cause my faith to shrink;
I'll trust but thee, dear Q. O. p, (
And I don’t have to think.
—From The R -presentative.
Mrs. R. Churchill, Berlin, Vr., says,
‘‘Our baby was covered with running
sores. DeWtu’s V\ rich Huzd Saivo
cured h -r ” A specific for piles aud skin
diseases Beware of worthless counter
feits. G. W. DeLaFerriere.
OF INTEREST TO FRUIT MEN.
Present Condition of the Orchard*
In Georgia.
Last year the writer visited most of
the commercial orchards of the state,
once in the early spring, just after the
February freeze, and again in the late
(all. The effect of the ;reeze, combined
with the exhanstiou caused by the
tnormous crop of the preoeding year,
was very trying on bearing peaches and
plums; and indeed, at one time it was
thought that a large per cent would
perish. The wideawake growers, how
ever, at first excited and discouraged,
went to work to give the trees every
possible assistance to recover. 4i e
work of pruning was the first step
Weak branches were taken out, aud a
a rule about one-third of the top.* u.
away. Then the cultivators were 1.
work and kept at it throughout tu
summer season. In some cases, e-p
dally when the condition of the iuuu
demanded it, fertilizer* were used The
effect was wonderful. The trees came
out and made a luxuriant growth amt
were snabl* and to withstand the drouiii
to which many tree* not so treated hart
to succumb.
Many orchards, howevsr, were neg
lected, in part if not wholly. Some
pruned but did not cultivate. Others
did neither. Such neglected orchards
sustained heavy leases and thousands of
trees died.
The orohards that have been properly
oared for are in excellent condition.
The treeß are full of fruit buds and if
one-tenth of these buds reach maturity
we may expect a good crop of fruit.
The San Jose scale that esoaped last
winter’s treatment took advantage of
the summer season and multiplied very
rapidly. Trees that were nearly clean
in the spring were badly onornsted in
the fall. But the work of treating in
fested orchard# is being vigorously
pushed this winter and the scale is
fairly well under control. The scale
situation is not so serious as it was a
year ago.
SOME WOKE FOB WINTER AND SPRING.
An orchard requires attention in win
ter as well as summer. It is well that
the work is so divided that the nnm
will have something to do in winter
“while they rest.”
PRUNING.
All the pruning can be done during
the winter. Specific direction cannot be
given for prtading. Every man must
study the charac.er of the growth of
his trees and prune according to his
judgment and common sense. The
early pruning should be doue with a
view to shape the tree, establishing a
well formed, low, open head. Thin out
the tangling breaches and shorten in
those that have a tendeney to shoe* up
too high. Some pruning should be
don# every year, but when the tree
comes into bearing less pruning is nec
essary and the principal aim shoo id be
to prune for fruit of the highest perfec
tion. If the fruit buds are plentiful
prune regardless of them, but if they are
•oarce avoid cutting any away. At all
times dead or dying limbs, and dead
trees, should be taken out and burned.
A frnit grower should always carry
with him a sharp knife and apply it
whenever he sees a “water spront” or
other shoot that should be taken out, in
summer and winter.
f-PRAYING.
For scale insects and certain fungous
diseases winter and spring treatment
is necessary. The work against the
San Jose scale should now te well un
der wav. One treatment should have
Unadulterated Facts.
BCTBRraEETi■. ij!gacr;: ,T i i sar i
The Winder Hardware Cos.
Buys all its Goods for the
SPOT CASH and gets the
benefit of all Discounts.
We are in a position to Sell you any*
thing in the Hardware line at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
Our Stock is New, Attractive, First-
Class and Up-To-Date and bought so as
to meet ALL Competion at Athens,
Gainesville and other places.
These are PL,A. LIST FACT.I S we can
prove to any one who wants to buy.
Store on Candler St. next door to Winder Furni
ture Cos. Ask for any one of the Sheats brothers who
are always in the store and they will take pleasure in
waiting on you.
been applied before Christmas. The
second application may be made at any
time before the frnit buds open.
For general work we are using the 510
per cent mechanical mixturo of kero
sene and water. In special oases and
where only a few trees are involved
even as high as 50 per cent kerosene is
used. This latter strength, however,
is too severe on the trees and is not
recommended for general use. If no
treatment has yet been applied, two ap
plications should be made as soon as
possible with an interval of two weeks.
Infested trees that are left untreated
this winter will be almost beyond re
covery by another year.
Trees that are infested with the
cherry scale, peach bark louse and
other native stales should be sprayed or
washed with a solution of whale oil
soap at tbe rate of 1 pound to the gal
lon of water. It is a good practice to
wash the tres with this soap solution,
even thouga they be not infested with
scales. It cleans off the bark, dislodge*
spores of fnngi and invigorates the
trees.
For peach leaf cure, which is quite
prevalent In North Georgia, Bordeaux
should be used. The first application
of Bordeaux (4 pounds copper sulphate
and 5 pounds of lime to 80 gallons of
water) should ba made just before the
fruit buds open. A second applica
tion should be made after the leaves
have expanded. A weaker mixture (3
pounds copper sulphate and 6 pounds of
lime to 50 gallons) must be used for
the second application, as the stronger
mixture often burns the foliage.
This same treatment oau be used to
prevent brown rot of the peaoh and
plum. Both diseases can be treated
for at the same time with the same
fungicide. For brown rot, however, a
third and perhaps a fourth application
may be neoessary. These should follow
the seoond application in tea day* with
ten days’ interval.
Notes on tha cultivation and fertilizing
of orchards will be given la the Febru
ary talks ef the department.
W. M. Scott, State Entomologist,
Agricultural Department.
A GREAT CROP OF WHEAT.
State Agricultural i>rpxrtincut Hears
Kroin Clrorgla Kaiincrs.
From all indications Georgia will this
year make a record as a wheat growing
state, that her people will be proud of.
For several weeks past information has
been coming to the agricultural depart
ment from almost every section of the
state going to show that the people
have determined to raise more wheat
than ever, and have planted accord
ingly.
Colonel R. F. Wright of the agricult
ural department, in an interview in the
Macon Telegraph, says the whole state
becoming stirred up on the subject of
small grain crons, and that ha affric-
ates tiie increasing Interest in this
branch of agricnlturs to the constant
and persistant efforts to Bbow the farm
ers the necessity of raising more wheat,
oats and other fall crops. ,
Articles urging the planting of more
wheat, which have from time to time
appeared in publications sent ont from
the department of agriculture, have been
reprinted in many agriouitoral publica
tions and some of these publication*
have been reprinted in agricultural
monthlies which have extensive circu
lations in Georgia and adjoining states
Tue increase in the acreage of wheat
and the fact that the farmers have se
lected some of their best land for wheat
and oats this year, has a significance
which is of interest at this time. It
points to the fact that as the acreage ol
wheat has been increased on lands here
totoro planted in cotton, the acreage of
cotton will bo decreased this year, ow
ing to the fact that this very land ia
growing wheat and oat crops, which ia
many instances will not be gathered in
time for the same land to be used for
cotton.
Should it happen that the winter sea
son should kill these crops, then these
lands will no doubt be plowed up and
put in cotton. But this is believed te
be hardly probable, as the indication*
are at present and the chances are that
the state of Georgia will gather an us
usually large crop of wheat next spring
Miss Annie E. Gunning, Tyre, Mich.,
says, “I suffered a long time from dys
pepsia; lost fl-sh aid became very weak.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure completely cured
me.” It digests what you eat and onres
all forms of stomach trouble. It never
falls to give immediate relief in the
worst cases. G. W. DeLaPerriere.
Notice.
The Winder House is now open to the
Public. The cooking will be done and
table furnished on Hygienic principles
as far as practical, and with as good as
the Market Affords. Board as reasona
ble as can bo afforded by a first class
house. A liberal patronage will be ap
preciated by the Proprietor. Special
rates to the people of the three adjoin
ing counties. James J. GreeD, Propri
etor. Wind r, Ga.
J. H. & Bro. have jast received
five barrels of the finest Syrup on earth
DeWit’s Little Early Risers purify
the blood, clean the liver, iuvigo? ate th
system. Famous little pills for consti
pation and liver troubles. G. W DeLfr-
Pc-rriere.
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