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The Jacksonian. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO. PuNiftKd €wry Triday. S. E. ANDREWS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Subscription SI,OO Per Yr. Advertising Rates Furnished On Application. CIRCULATION OUARANTEED All teopy for advertisements and all copy ihtended fofc pfcHMftlhfelOfl inuet be in the offeee hot later than Wednesday to insure insertion. Address all communications to The Jacksonian. Entered at the Jackson (Ga.) Post Office as secend class mail matter. HOW does electric lights sound for McDonough? Think about it.—Henry County Weekly. They sound louder hau they look here. ANYBODY that would complain at the weather we hare had since Christina* would grumble if fortune were to spill her treasures in his lap. THE biggest fool publication that eomes to The .Jacksonian office is a worthless sheet called “Our Dumb Animals,” published in Boston by one George T. Angell. WATCH the pagees of the Jackso nian for two months, and you will see by the advertisraents who are up-to date and progressive merchants, and don’t trade with any others. THERE are a lot of one horse politi cians battering their political brains out butting Theodore Roosevelt. Some people will never learn the diff erence betwmen a mountain and a molehill. Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington* The American people would be un willing to put the name of any man whomsoever before George Washing ton’s. “First in the hearts of his countrymen” was again verified when his name ranked first of all the names presented for a place in America’s Hall of Fame. On .Feb. 22nd 1782 Washington was born. Today, the one hundred and seventy third anni versary of his birth the Ja kson Record becomes Tho Jacksonian, How fitting it should be that alter one hundred and seventy three years the people of Butts County should have a paper worthy of thorn. By adding to our already superior circu lation that dignity, fearlessness, and regard for the truth that were so charateristic of the great George Washington, we mean to make The Jacksonian first in the minds and hearts of the people of Butts County and the city of Jackson, even though it may cause us to hack into some body’s petted cherry tree. Now let our people sleep soundly, for The Jacksonian means to watch over their public interests, and if anything goes wrong we will whisper it into your ears, The Jacksonian raises its hat to you. Let Us Pay Our Respects Where They Are Due. Not many days ago we were told by a meachant who wub using the superior circulation facil ities of this paper to adveitita his business, that he had been asked why he did not place his ad vertising elsewhere, We do not know who this gentleman (?) was, nor do we care to know, but we apprehend that this specimen of the animal, who knows bo well how to attend to other peoples business, has about a clear a conception between a good advertis ing medium and a sorrry one as a yellow hound puppy dog has between a sound egg and a rotten one. How ever this very cmart advice giver, de monstrates beyond a doubt that even those who do not likens, read the Jacksoian otherwise how did be knsw where our friend was advertising. In placing advertising a Business man Is not moved by a design to do char* ity, or a desire to patronize a friend, but he places it with a paper which Ine people real, aDd from the way the people have ealled at this office for a copy of the last issue, The People are sure reading the Jackson IAN. \ Perverse Human Nature, Some people are so given to grum bllng that hothing ever pleases them They grumble if it rains because they can’t plow and the grass will grow! They grumble if it is dry because the pastures dry up and the crops fall. They grumble if it is cold because it takes too much coal orgive9them rheumatism, They grumble because it is so warm they can’t kill hogs when they have just passed through a spell cold enough to freeze the whis kors off a billy goat. Why don’t peo pie look on the bright side of every thing: take everything as a blessing from providence specially to them U cheer them on their way. Why not see things like the contented old woman who, in giving her experience stated that “while she didn’t have as much to feel thankful for as some of the rest, she had two teeth and she tnanked God they nit. A CHANCE TO GO TO THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. For a Few Days Work The Record Will Present You With a Ticket Free. The Jamestown Exposition to be held in Norfolk Va., will open April 26th and close November 30th. This exposition is in commemoration of the first english settlement in Amer- ica, made at Jamestown in 1607 by Captain Johc SmiYh. l’repurations for the exposition have been in progress for a number .of years and strenuous efforts are be ing made to make this one ofthebtst ex positions that have been held in America up to this time. Every state. and most of the foreign nations wi.l have their exhibits. The Record offers any man or woman in Butts county a chance to see t. le Jamestown exposition fre*. Here Are Our Propositions. Contest No. 1. To the one who will get tiie most subscribers for ti e Record between February 15 and June 1 we will present absolutely free a round trip ticket, together with six days free entry into the exposition ; provided the total number sent in by all the contestants combined exceeds one hundred. Contest No 2. To the one who will get the most subscribers between February 15 and June 1, we well pre sent free one round trip ticket to the exposition ; provided the total num ter of subscriber sent in by all the contestants combined exceeds seventy five. Contest No. 8. The one who will get the most subscribers between February 15 and June Ist, we will pay for one half your ticket to the exposition, provided the total uum- her exceeds fifty. All subscriptions to be counted must be paid in advance at SI.OO per year, and must be new ones, • No one will be allowed to win in more than on contest, so state be fore you start which you want to enter, contest one, two, or three . Now get busy and seeure a trip to the exposition, and avail yourself of the opportunity to see aristocratic ole! Nirgiuia. historio Richmond and beautiful Nor. o k by the eea. EASTON’S PLANT WORN OUT. Rundown Machinery and Dark Street*. Appeal to Corporation*. Easton, Pa. f is one of the cities that, having tried municipal ownership of lighting plants, have found it wanting. In a recent message to the city coun cils Mayor March said that, although he Is a believer in the theory of city ownership, nevertheless he would “pre fer to hand over the city lighting to private corporations rather than see large districts in darkness, as has often been the case in the last six months,’’ Continuing, he characterized this as "dangerous from the police point of view” and unbearable from the citi zen’s, adding that if the city contin ues to operate the plant it “must be run as a private corporation would run it.” There should not only be econo my, but the machinery should be con stantly repaired and renewed, both for efficiency and “to keep up with mod ern progress in electric lighting.” Much of the machinery being almost worn out, he advises that arrange ments be made to borrow' current from a local company in case of breakdown that the city streets may not be kept in darkness while repairs are going on. He does not say what he would advise were' municipal ownership complete and there were no private companies. Built in 1886, the construction cost of Easton’s electric light plant to date has been about $70,000. In a summary of the situation the Sunday Call, which appears originally to have favored the enterprise, says the plant isn’t satis factory and the city hasn’t the money to renew it. The companies must now be asked to put in bids for city light ing. The Call thinks they can furnish it cheaper than the city can itself. Easton’s lighting experiment, the pa per adds, “has been costly and unsatis factory.” The city was bonded to es tablish the plant, and now that it is worn out and almost useless the debt remains. Notliing has ever been charged up for depreciation, but the people were told that this was unnecessary, as the plant was being kept in good repair. Fifty thousand dollars was spent in “patching up” the plant, but the state ment that it was kept in good order is now proved untrue, and so is the state ment that the cost was less than a private corporation would have charg ed for the same service, though many people believed both statements for a time. According to a special to the New York Times, women and children are not considered safe on Easton’s streets at night, and sixty firms and business men have petitioned that the street lighting be turned over to a private corporation at once. THE FUNNY SIDE OF M. 0. Politics In City Departments—A Queer Veto—City Poles Downed. Tublic Service is not a humorous publication, but there were some fun ny items in its December issue. Com menting on the proposition of the Business Men's club of Cincinnati that civil service rules should be introduced Uito the municipal department, air. Sliller, a member of the board of pub lic service, is quoted as saying, “I think the first requisite for a good oflicial is that he should be a good Democrat.” The mayor of Bluffton, Ind., Is more subtly humorous. lie advocates mu nicipal ownership as an antidote for monopoly and then vetoes a fran chise for a gas plant because it would compete with the municipal electric light works and “probably would re :luce the city's $40,000 plant to a mass of junk.” This is rather more than a tacit admission that the consumers are paying through the nose. But the funniest thing of all is that some of the citizens of Chicago had to go to law to compel the city electrical department to obey its own laws. Be cause such construction is much cheap er this department undertook to erect poles in a district where the ordinances require wires to be placed under ground. The citizens appealed to the department to protect them from what they assumed to be the intrusion of a private company. Instead of being al layed their indignation was rather in creased when they learned their mis take, and they did not stop until the city council passed an ordinance re quiring the removal of the poles. Tho Kaiser's Latest. The kaiser is breaking out in a new place. He is going into the china business. He has founded out of his private treasury a manu factory of majolica ware on his es tate at Cadinen. He himself laid down all the plans of the new man ufactory and follows its develop ment with the greatest interest. It is likely “kaiser ware’’ will be popu lar among china collectors. His majesty is doing his best to trans form his Cadinen estate into a mod el property, a kind of German Sand ringham.—London Mail. , A Don't neglect your cough. O Statistics show that in New York City ? alone over 200 people die every week from 4* consumption. And most of these consumptives might 41 be living now if they had not neglected the J®| warning cough. 4 ' Qt You know how quickly Scott*s Emulsion enables you to throw off a cough or cold. JhH AIL DRUGGISTS ; 50c. AND SI.OO. Legal Advertisments. Adininistrition. GEORGIA, Butts County. Notice is hereby given to all persons c on cerned, that Julia Readen of said County and State, departed this life intestate and no person has applied for Administration on the estate of said JuliaJßeaden, that Ad- | ministration will be vested in the Clerk of the Superior Court, or some other fit and proper person, after the publication of this Citation, unless valid objections are made to his appointment. Given under my hand and official Signa ture this 4th day of Februuary 1907. J. H. HAM, Ordinary. For Administration. GEORGIA, Butts County.— To All whom It May concern. W. A. White, Jr. having in proper form, applied to me for permanent Letters of Ad ministration on the estate of B. S. White late of said County, this is to cite all and singular! the creditors and next of kin of B. S. White, to he and appear at my office within the time allowed by law, and show cause if any they can, why permanent Ad ministration should not he granted to W, A. White Jr. on B. 8. White’s estate. Witness my hand and official signature this 4th day of Feb. 1907. J. H. HAM. Ordinary. WHEN FERTILIZERS SHOULD BE APPLIED. Asa general rule, which has but few exceptions, the greater part of the fer tilizer should be applied to the soil be fore planting the crop it is intended to benefit. This rule is not only in accord with theoretical considerations, but is also abundantly sustained in actual practice, as shown by carefully conducted field ex periments instituted for the express pur pose of ascertaining the truth, says Hon. R. J. Redding, Director Georgia Experi ment Station, Department of Agriculture, in Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer Almanac. The theory underlying the rule is the fact that most of the ingredients compos ing a commercial fertilizer are not im mediately soluble and availible, but must undergo certain chemical changes in the soil before the plant food will be in the proper condition to be taken up by the roots of the plants. This is particularly true in regard to salts of potash, and in less degree to acid phosphate. It is a fact, also, that some forms of potash, notably kainit, cause chemical changes in the condition of the plant food already present in a soil, whereby the before in soluble and non-available plant food al ready in the soil, becomes available. The organic substances which are large ly used in the make up of commercial fertilizers for the purpose of supplying nitrogen to the plants—such as cotton seed meal, dried blood, fish scrap, tank age, etc., also require time in which to undergo chemical decomposition and such change of form as will enable the roots to appropriate the nitrogen. Even sul phate of ammonia, a highly soluble chemi cal salt, which sometimes enters into the composition of a fertilizer in a very limited amount, must undergo a complete chemical decomposition in the soil before the plants can make any use of the nitro gen. which it contains in the form of ammonia sulphate. This must be con verted into nitrate, or nitrate of lime. Nitrate of soda is the one chemical fertilizer salt that is immediately avail able, producing a very prompt effect when applied to a growing crop (and it should be applied to none other). Acid phosphate and potash may be ap plied to the soil and bedded on from two to six weeks before planting time. It is claimed by some experts that potash salts may be applied with better results even several months before planting. A more practical and convenient rule, how ever, is to apply a complete fertilizer from one to three weeks before planting the crop, when the latter is a corn, cot ton, tobacco, or other summer-growing crop, always taking" care to mix the fer tiliser thoroughly with the soil of the open bedding furrow in which it shall be applied and then “listing,” or throwing two furrows on it. Experiments on the farm of the Georgia Experiment Station, projected for the purpose of comparing on the one hand the effectiveness of a complete fertilizer applied two weeks before planting, and on the other hand, the effectiveness of the same quantity of the same fertilizer applied in the furrows with the seed, were followed by an unexpected and sur prising result—viz., the cotton seeds plant ed on the plats in which the fertilizer had been applied and bedded on two weeks before, came up quicker and gave a more uniform stand of more vigorous plants than resulted on the plats in which Subscribe lor The Jacksonian, $1 For titles to he made. S. O. Ham. transferee, haring made ap plication for titles to he executed to him. to certain lands described in the bond for title .thereto attached, purporting to be signed by Mrs. Julia]Andrews late of Butts County deceased • The said application alleging that said land ha* been fully paid for, all parties concerned are hereby notified that said ap plication will be heard before.the Court of Ordinrry at the March term of said Court. This Febuary 4th 1907. J. H. HAM, Ordinary. For titles to he made, W. B. Cochran, transferee, having made application for titles to be executed to him to certain lands described in the bond for title thereto attached, purporting to be ! signed by S. A. Biles, late of Butts County ! deceased. The said application alleging that said ! land has been fully paid for, all parties con j cerned are hereby notified that said appli cation will he heard before the Court of Ordinary at the March term of said Court. This Feb. 4tli 1907. J ■ H ■ HAM, Ordinary, OASTORTA. Bear* the The Kind You Have AlwajfS Bought the fertilizer was applied In the furrows with the seeds. While this result was not contemplated, it was quickly explained by the fact that the fertilizer that had been in the ground two weeks had under gone the chemical changes already allud ed to, and its plant food was ready fo* the immediate wants of the young plants. This result suggests that it may be ex pedient, in any case, to apply a small quantity—say 20 to 25 pounds—of nitrate of soda in the same furrow with the cot ton or corn seeds, which may be done with perfect safety with cotton seeds, and without danger to corn if not placed in immediate contact with the seed. APPLYING FERTILIZER AT THE TIME OF PLANTING. This may be understood to mean either applying the fertilizer, bedding on it and immediately planting the seed; or it may refer to the practice of putting the fer tilizer in the furrow with the seed. In the latter case, there is always a mani fest danger that the coming growing sea son may be unusually dry, in which event the fertilizer, being so lightly covered, may not be dissolved and properly dis seminated through the soil. It may also follow that the fertilizer being so concen trated—en masse, as it were—around the tender rootlets of the young plants that the latter may he injured, or “burned”— a not inconsiderable danger. The plan is not advisable except when a very light application is to be made per acre. This caution is especially applicable to seeds that are planted in very shallow furrows and bfit lightly covered, such as cotton, and it is generally safer to inter pose some soil, or, better, deposit the fer tilizer in one furrow and plant the seeds in a furrow immediately beside; or, vice versa, plant the seeds first in the furrow, and then the fertilizer in a furrow close beside it. But the preferred plan is to bed on the fertilizer, and then plant the seeds, after harrowing down the beds. I have often applied 50 to 100 pounds of a “complete” fertilizer per acre in the furrow with the cotton seeds; but it was “away back” in the late sixties and early seventies when fertilizers sold at S4O to S6O a ton, and very light applications were supposed to be in the interest of a wise economy. We did not know much about fertilizers in those days, and were afraid to “put too much guano on the cotton.” That time has passed and gone, and the up-to-date farmer has found that 500 and 600 pounds of fertilizer for cotton, a properly balanced high-grade fertilizer, to each acre of cotton is not dangerous or excessive, but simply liberal and judi cious. Indeed, it is a question of simple arithmetic. If 100 pounds per acre is profitable, and it costs no more labor to cultivate an acre with 500 pounds of ap plied fertilizer, then why not increase the amount invested in fertilizers, and, if thought advisable, reduce the area and the labor account? Now, the well-informed farmer only wants to know if the fertilizer be proper ly balanced for the crop he wishes to grow, and is sold at a fair price, and he invests liberally, just as he would do in buying anything at suen a price that he may sell at a profit of from 50 to 100 pec centum and upward. A high-grade, hon est fertilizer will meet this requirement. There is another justification for the practice of applying fertilizers at the time of planting—viz., when the farmer, has failed to put in his order at the prop er time. He may then, according t© th§ proverb—"better late than not at all’ — put In the fertilizer with the seed, or all the time of planting.