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The Globe Store H' j| ni|(i mm put; : jHSM pill ||i| U|U |||l| I hm llii hlii, jw \ j -i A. A-A A-A-A-A A -A-A A Jth -*>-*>- *- * ~ ~ Hill mill, lllllllill! I ► II < Eli ill, in n, !i No matter how mnch your bale of cotton weighs, or how much you get for it, “remember =WE RAISE IT -25- CENTS PER BALE== HOW We WILL BO IT. Don’t make a mistake. Head every word We a.e not fully in the cotton business this season, as ve opened so late, strictly in it next season, and for this one week every one who sells a bale of co‘ton in Jackson, no matter to whom, can get a ticket fiom the waiehouseman whic store to apply on any cash purchase you may make amounting to $5.00. Take your ’pencil and figure how much raise this would be on a 500 pound ba.c whic. t/> c/be Store warehousemen will be kind enough to give you these tickets when you weigh your cotton. Just ask them to give you one ot those tickets v\hich is good foi -5 cents m & c 1 You get 1 Ticket For every bale you sell next week. We are ready to serve you with a full corps of competent salesmen, and at prices other merchants can’t meet. We have often been asked why so many mer chants fail. On read ng the statistics on business, the fact is learned that 98 per cent of merchants fail—WHY— “One cause of many failures (you need not look for more) is the low price in the windows and the high price in the store.” COMMISSIONBU’S TALK Mr. Nesbitt’s Remarks to the Farmers of Georgia. REVIEW or THE MONTH JUST PAST. Our Method* and Their Relation to the Present Agricultural Depression and tho Low Price of Cotton—The Improvement anil Building Up of Our Lamia the Question of Paramount Importance. Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, Nov. 1, 1894. In a recent investigation, which I have been conducting in "order to get at the average production of the staple crops throughout Georgia, I have become in terested also in ascertaining the average of commercial fertilizers used and their effeot on our crops. As germaine to these, proper fertilization, diversifica- tion, supplying our lauds with what they most need to feed our crops are naturally suggested, in all of which there is much food for serious thought. Indeed, from whatever standpoint we view the agricultural questions, sooner or later the 'rave need of patient, care ful, judicious improvement and build ing up of cur lands, forces itself upon our attention as one of paramount im portance. Though I have already spok en and written much on this subject, I feel bound to continue until our farm ers are thoroughly aroused to its de mands and fully realize its vital- influ ence on their industry. Iu conducting the investigation re ferred to above, I have had access to the very best authorities, and from the most careful estimates the somewhat, surprising and wholly lamentable con clusion is reached that, in spite of the large area of fresh land taken in and the almost fabulous consumption f commercial fertilizers, production in Georgia stands at about the same figure that it did 20 years ago. I don’t me; u that we have not raised bigger crops t cotton, but that, while we have helped to crowd th< markets of the world wit a the fleecy staple and each year has wit nessed a decline in the price, the aver age production per acre has not mate j-ially increased. And where is the Erofit for us if our lands are being ex austed, and it is becoming more diffi cult each year to wring from these long suffering, hard run fields, even with the powerful stimulus of expensive chemi cal compounds, the average bale to three acres ? Let me give the data that farmers may examine the figures and see for themselves to what end our pres ent policy will inevitably lead. With cotton at 10 cents, the result might ba deferred for perhaps a few years, but even that figure would cease to be re munerative, when our lands fail to re spond to heavy doses of commercial fertilizer, or when the usual summer drouth, sweeping across our shallow plowed fields, lays its fiery touch on our growing crops, which having no “depth Don’t Mean Us. Just to show that the moral of the above don’t apply to us, we will say—and our language is plain--that whenever you lind anything outside our place that we caunot duplicate inside, just take the store, we will nave no furthei use for it. T’his week we are offering the lar gest assortment of corsets in Jackson, 5 styles R & Q corsets, and the following styles /S’onnette, OB alaspirite, Cen tury, Popular, Vigilant, Broadway, Fifth Avenue, C, N. C, Nursing- UMOUO ff lOuDA MiffXJ . There is not, however, the remotest possibility of 10 cents cotton, and with a prospect of a long period of 6 or G cents for our staple crop, the necessity is upon us to take our bearings and get back where we can at least keep our heads above water. From the following table will be seen the number of tons of fertilizers in spected in Georgia alone for each sea son for the past twenty years: 1874- 48,648.00 tons. 1875- 55,316.00 tons. 1876- 75,824.00 tons. 1877- 93,178.00 tons. 1878- 85,019.00 tons. 1879- 119,583.00 tons. 1880- 152.424.00 tons. 1881- 125,827.00 tons. I 1882-3 125,377.00 tons. 1883-4 151,849.00 tons. 1884- 170,153.00 tons. 1885- 160,705.00 tons. 1886- 166.078.08 tons. 1887- 208,007.39 tons. 1888- 202,869.36 tons. 1889- 288.112.30 tons. 1890- 306,734.00 tons. 1891- 296,352.00 tons. 1892- 307,5 9.30 tons. 1893- 315,6i2.00 tons. Total 3,454,707.43. From this it appears that in 20 years we have used nearly 3,500,000 tons, whioh at the moderate average of $25 a ton makes the total amount spent for commercial fertilizers alone reach very nearly $100,000,000! Or, looking at the subject from another standpoint, we have in that period used enough to put on each cotton acre in Georgia nearly one and a half tons! Let us look at the other side of the record. By this large investment aud crowding in every available acre, we have been enabled to raise phenomenal crops of cotton. But what have these been really worth to the state and o the south? At least one-fifth has gone for bacon alone; and when we add to this the immense sums spent for corn, flour, oats aud hay, we can readily see how these big cotton crops have been absorbed. And what have we to show for them? The fertilizers, by our mis mistaken methods of using them, have all, or nearly all, gone out in the cot ton, leaving our lands rather worse off each year; and the bacon, grain aud hay have all been consumed. How long can even the most prosper ous country stand such drains as these ? Fortunately, a clear comprehension of our position is forcing itself upon even the most thoughtless, and there is bt - ginning a gradual return to more con servative methods. The provision crop in Georgia this year, exceeds anything since the war, and were it not, to use a current expression, for “over lapse’’ in the form of old debts, in some cases of several years’ standing, we could al ready see daylight. But paying debts with 5 cents Gotton is a hopeless task, and farmers are discouraged and des- pondent. It is only the ample provision crop of corn, peas, potatoes, ground peas, sorghum, and hay which saves us from almost universal suffering. But discouraging as this outlook ap pears just n> w, if the present depressed prioe of cotton leads to thoroughly es tablished diversification of crops, a care ful system of renovation, intelligent methods of manuring and utilizing com mercial manures, it will yet be worth millions to the south. When we do not have to buy corn or bacon, and oar lands are once mor j filled with hum , we have learned to become iudepeud ■> of the price of this single crop, and w.ii be on a solid foundation. Ours is a Veilings. Double and single width Fish Net Veiling with Jet or Chenille dots; /Sewing Siln Veilings, all colors; all wool Berege Veiling 20 cents:yard wide cream silk Net .‘35 cents; two yards cream silk net only 75 cents' 7he latest 4-5 inch Chiffons for Veils or Evening Waists only $1 00. good, substantia* bound to revive. Let us see to it that we follow strictly business methods —put our lands in good condition, Taise our home supplies, aud by avoiding as far as possible the per nicious credit system, place ourselves in a position where we can enjoy the full return for our labor. The high prjpes, which ruled for a se ries of years, did not make our farmers, prosperous. On the contrary, the strug gle became harder and harder each year. In many cases farmers are now staggering under debts contracted when cottou was high aud credit easy, when we staked our all on oue crop and lost. With the slack season and the iong winter evenings the opportunity comes for him to look around and study the questions most nearly affecting his in terests. It is the interchange of thought and plan which promotes im provement, and the farmer who suc ceeds is the one who is willing and quick to receive as well as impart infor mation, who grasps the salient points in any well considered, progressive plan and lifts himself higher in the scale of agriculture. A farmer needs sharp wits as well as sharp plows, and if he would succeed, he must “feed the brain” as well as tue soil. Asa help to every inquiring farmer nothing is more valuable than a well es tablished and reliable agricultural jour nal. The cost of subscription, compared with the deas suggested, the train of thought awakened, the impetus given to improved and better paying methods, is scarcely )be considered. The usual subscription price of SI.OO is return l many time over before the year is o . Amid the gloom of general depression and low priced cotton, there is oue spot to which we can turn with thank fulness, and that is our BIG CORN CROP. The corn crop of the south is esti mated at 200,000,000 bushels more this year than irom the same states in 1893, which will run the yield up to about one-third the entire corn product of tile whole country. This fact taken in con nection with the almost total failure >r the crop in the corn producing states or the west and the probable high prices in the spring, point to the importance of care, not only in gathering aud ho •- ing, but in using in such manner as j avoid waste of that which will bring a good cash price later on. Already corn has sold at . higher figure than wheat, and the price is now much above the average for several years. The south has had the good fortune to produce a large crop at a period when the general market is short, and for the first time since the war, conditions are reversed, and we will help to supp v our western neighbors. Let us not lose this advantage by a too prodigal use or waste in feeding. To make this com li tion yield its full value to us, we shou -d plant such fall crops as will enable us ro hold a large part of our corn for a re munerative price, or, if we have t ;o stock and necessary arrangements >r feeding and for saving the manure, i us manufacture our raw product into the higher and better paying forms of milk, butter and cheese, always remem bering that the mere feeding of stock on barely sufficient to carry them through the winter, is a wasteful policy. Whi e it is not necessary to build expensi a stables, it is very important to affo 1 our stock ample protection against w and and weather, and if the stables are w 11 try oLcorb all the liquid as w il h Lite tf Elding, Shoes & Hots JUST ARRIVED ! WE ALSO CARRY II LINE OF GROCERIES, HARDWARE, TIJiWARE.&c AT PRICES THAT WILL SELL THEM VERY TRULY YOUR FRIENDS, THE GLOBE STORE, t. 6. MW 4 MM, Prop'rs, os solid droppings, we have laid the foundation for utilizing to the best ad vantage the food given to our live stock, and the profit will make an ample re turn for the labor of feeding and atte i tion. Quoting from the North Carolina ex periment station: “The dairy industry means a very great deal for the stale, in the improvement of lands and u producing a safe money crop, that do3S not exhaust, and in the saving of fertil izer biil3.” NOW IS THE TIME for making ready all buildings intend ed for this purpose. See that they are weather proof, and having given them a thorough cleaning, see that the stalls are well bedded with straw, leaves, or any other convenient absorbent. At odd times, and during wet weather, lay in a supply of these, to have on hand as needed. Provide a place for securely storing the manure during the winter. Lack ing this, haul at once and spread on the fields. This secures cleanliness and health, and we thus get its first value, which is often wasted by leaving ex posed to the weather, or by poorly con structed compost heaps. The site for THE COMPOST HEAPS should be selected on level ground, and in such a position that the water from the buildings will not fall on them. Take off the surface soil, say to the depth of a foot, or until we come to the firm clay subsoil, give a little fall to wards the center, and put in the ma nure, packing firmly, and then finish off the heap with the top soil previously taken out, packing on carefully and leaving the heap a little higher in the center than at the sides. In the ab- sence of sh' ter this is the best plan; but if oue can afford it, even a rough shelter will secure the mass from all loss by leaching, and is a good invest ment where lumber is cheap. FALL PLOWING, effectually accomplished, is of untold value in the successful management of another year’s operations. Land, both heavy and light, so broken, absorbs tho heavy winter rain, and forms a res ervoir on which our crops can draw dr. r ing the inevitable summer drouth. An other reason in its favor is that the un available potash and phosphoric acid i which most of our subsoils abound, a e exposed to the action of theatmospher- , and the disintegrating effects of any freezes wh h we may have, and a- 3 thus put in favorable condition to ) absorbed by our growing crops. I r plowing under the stubble of cow pea. , weeds, crab grass, or any other veget >- ble matter, we add the humus, which besides giving nitrogen, by its decompo sition sets free stores of plant food, oth erwise locked up in the soil. OUR INDUSTRY MUST NOT LANGUISH. We are justly proud of the pluck which has t labled us to push our stare into the front rank of impi’ovemeut a. and progress at the south. Our section is rapidly developing in other enterprises and agriculture must take her rightful place among the first. Let us summon ail our fortitude to meet the present heavy strain on our energies and re sources, and let U3 courageously renew the battle, being convinced of a success ful issue, if we but take heed to the ex periencs of the past, and to the beacon lights which are in such plain view,and which warn us against falling into the oft repeated error of too much coiton and too little of diversified agriculture. Carpets. Three Special Bargains: Ist, 1 piece ex super wool carpet oO cents pei yard. 2nd. 1 piece 2 ply ex super all wool carpet 65 cents, others get 75 cents 3d, 1 piece 3 ply ex super all wool car pet 75 cents, others get 85 and SI.OO. A large lot of all wool /Smyrna Rugs way down* one crop system implies. R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner. GENERAL REMARKS. Our Clay Soils Susceptible to a Hi'n State of Cultivation. The weathe.i during the month has been very propitious for gathering crops and the work has progressed rapidly. COTTON. Notwithstanding the low price of our staple money crop, there has been no tendency to hold for a better market, and the bale, as soon as it comes from the press, has almost in every instance been offered for sale, i The discouraging effect of low prices is particularly felt when W 8 consider the fact that in our section there has been little, if any, increase in the gen eral yield compared to last year. | The reports of correspondents of the department will, in our opinion, be ver ified. These reports have at no time in dicated a much greater yield for this year than last. That they are correct are shown by the receipts at our interior towns, which, notwithstanding the un usually fair weather, are little, if any, in excess of last year. In regard to our yield, it is to be regretted that even though we have no increase the present year that our increase in the past has been due to an increase of acreage and not to an increase in the yield per acre, so essential to our success. The commissioner says in his report on this subject: Recently, the department has had un der investigation the yield and acreage of staple crops in the state with a view of ascertaining whether the progress made towar Is developing the varied re sources of c lT soil has been accompanied by an increased yield of staple products per acre. We regret to say that the re sults of this investigation have not been satisfactory, and that, beginning with 1850, and up to the present time, no im- i provement in yield has taken place. Ex ceptioual years have occurred in which the yield has exceeded that of several years previous, but this has not been followed by a gain in the succeeding year, and shows an increase from a fa vorable season rather than permanent improvement of the soil. When we consider the immense sum of money expended annually for fert li zers, this is far from an eneouragi g statement, and clearly demonstra ;3 that our expenditures do not accomplish the proper purpose, i. e., the enhance ment of the value of our lands by in creasing their yielding capacity. In the distributed literature of the depart ment, both through the press and n pamphlet form, we have endeavored to impress the necessity of upbuilding our soil; and, a> before stated, we feel is sured from he interest and inquiries as to fertilization, and the use of legumin tViQf trlio* Uon Loaw aoirl •> Dress Goods. 40 in. h all wool hop sacking worth 6-ic to go this week a£ 45c. Double width changeable wool dress goods, 25 cents per yard. Double width wool cashmere black and colors 12 1 2c per yard, Extra'wide and heavy check and plaid flannels for children’s cloaks this week at 65 cents der yard. this subject has not been lost, and that the coming /ear will find more farms ti Georgia conducted with the end in view of securing . better yield the following year than hitherto in the history of the state. We have frequently referred to the susceptibility of our clay soils to a high state of cultivation, and Georgia, like France and Germany, should wit ness a gradually improved condition and increased yield through a series of years. CORN. The yield of this crop is gratifying, and from the reports at hand will equal or exceed 40,000,000 bushels for tne 6tate. In view of the failure of the crop in the zest and the low price >f cotton, our farmers are fortunate o have a supply of food on hand with out being dependent on the crops of too west. It is well also to note in this con nection the increase in hog products is evidencing i hat our efforts towards a '■ ricultural independence is being accom plished. This increase appears in this re port under the head of statistics. ORCHARD, ETC. As now is the season of the year to set out orchard, we call attention to what the co nnissiouer has said as to this adjunct to our agriculture, which is becoming one of our large sources of revenue. It would seem from the foregoing, that is. fron the fact that we show no gain in gen Tal yield of staple crops, that it won be found difficult to find any eucour. cement in the outlook. It must be ren imbered, however, that our improvemei ; has been in the direction of the smal r, and what has hitherto been consul red the non-essentials, of our agriculture. Thus, while the cot ton crop from 1850 to the present dare Bhows no increase in yield except fro u the increase l acreage from a total value of about SOO,OOO, for orchard and oth r fruits we have increased to several m ’- lion dollars; from gardening for hou >• hold use alone we have progressed un< il Savannah i now the center of one >f the truckin: districts of the south. We have illustrated that fruits of all clast -s and of the finest flavor can be grown with profit for the northern marki t, and that a few acres in vegetables c: n be made more profitable than a farm > u staple crops. It is pleasing to note also that the ab stract of the recent census of Unit l States shows that Georgia produc i more peache - than any other state m the Union. SOME STATISTICS. Georgia Will Soon Be at the Front in the Production of Ma,it. We give the following as statistics of value to our farmers and illustrative of what should be our policy: HOGS. There were in Georgia.in 1860, 2,038,- 116 hogs. Owing to the devastations of the war and the inducements of the single crop system, this number had de creased until in 1870 we find only 988,- 666 hogs in the state. From that time on it is gratifying to say that there has been a rapid increase, 1880 showing 1 - 471,003; 1890, 1,627,008, with a value of • $5,879,540, and this year 1,791,567. with Gloves. Etc. Ivid 75c to $1.50 per pair. Cashmere 20c to 50 cents pr pair Taffeta 25 to 05c pr pair. Lace curtains only $1 00 pr pair Gent’s heavy all wool natural colored un dershirts wor£li $1.50 for SI.OO. Ladies’ whiae all wool vests cheap at $1.25, only SI.OO. a varne ox .7,7,40-1, u0'4. we note tne val uation of the last- two years given as showing not only an increase in market value during that period as afforded hv the price of meat, but also as showing an improvement in the stock or breed in Georgia. We again call attention to the shipments of hogs from Georgia to Chicago during the last few years. The inditations are from the general increase that Georgia will soon be at the front in the production of meat, at least to the extent of a home supply. It must be remembered, however, that in 1860 the state had a population of 1,- 057,286, and that in IS9O the population was 1,837,853, and at this time must he near, if not quite, 2,000,000, or almost double, and thus to have the same num ber ef hogs in proportion to the popula tion it would require us to have 4,000,- 000. The south is naturally the home of the hog in the United States, as it is a native of the tropics, and therefore fat tens and thrives better in a mild cli mate. Prior to the war the south pro duced the meat supply of the United States; and in 1860, embracing as the southern states the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississip pi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, there were 20,238,887 hogs, while in the other states and territories there were only 13,273,980. cows, ETC. In 1880 there were in Georgia 299,688 milch co vs, 706,194 oxen and other cat tle. In 1170 there were 23J ,310 milch cows and 466,593 oxen. 111 1880 there were 315,073 milch cows, 594,838 oxen and other cattle. 111 1890 there were 354,613 milch cows, valued at $6,113,614; 580,816 oxen and other cattle valued at $0,408,205. Thus while there has been a slight increase in the number of milch cows in the state since 1860, the increase is not in proportion to the increase in pop ulation; also there has been a decrease the total number of cattle of all kind. In 1860 there were in the state about one head for each inhabitant, whereas now there is only one head to two in habitants. The recent interest mani fested in dairying and cheese making will, we trust, rapidly develop this es sential to agricultural prosperity. HORSES AND MULES. In 1860 there were in Georgia 130,771 I horses and 101,069 mules. In 1870 there were 81,777 horses and 87,426 mules. In 1880 98,520 horses and 132,780 mules. In 1890 115,629 horses and 155,700 mules. The value of the horses was $9,582,- 125. Of the mules, $15,119,264. The best compilation for 1894 shows a decrease from 1890 of 10,000 horses, with an increase of 6,000 mules.