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Published every Friday in the Year.
The Macon Telegraph printed the
charge of Judge Griggs in the case of
Hyatt vs. McAllister, in full. It is a
masterpiece of law and reason and is
an honor to its author.
“The democratic party is not dead.
It hits danced on the grave of many a
man who has said it was in the days
agone, and will cut the pigeon win;,
over many another. Notwithstanding
the shortcomings of men who havt
he *n chosen its servants and betray;
its purpos*s, it. is still alive, the vit
breath of lofty purpose still animat
it, pregnant with the pulsing powe
of patriotic principle it renews it
youth like the eagles and lives to d<
and dare in the interest of the p.*o
pie’s liberties.”—Georgia Cracker.
At the-Christian the in italic money
• atj -.uiiiuii empire amounted to $i,800,000,tor).
By the end of the fifteenth century it ha.
shrunk to $200,000,000. (Dr. Adam Smith in
forms us that in 1455 the price of wheat in Eng
land was two pence per bushel.) Populatioi
dwindled, and commerce, arts, wealth ant
freedom, all disappeared. The people wen
reduced by poverty and misery to the most di -
graded conditions of serfdom and slavery. Ti •
disintegration of society was almost comp!;*' .
1 • 1 j * ‘ ' *>‘-V ii .i oy uui'd*.
r-v-i.nvd tan volume of precious mela
brought with it rising prices, enabled societ
to recruit its shattered links, shake off tin
shackles of feudalism, and to relight and uplir.*
the almost extinguished torch of civilization.
—Report r. S. Monetary Com. 1878.
The above report comes from th
highest •Mlthorifv tho-o is o ’i thG s •
-s-c - *t->. j, ; uui as too old priimt..
preacher once said, “What is to In
shant he,” and the democratic part}
Uow says the people shall not grot
poor for the want of metalic mone\
until t'lo gold and silver mines are a“
exhausted.
One of the goldbug editors quotes
Mr. Cleveland as saying :
“People who have bought annuities, those
who have invested in life insurance, pension
ers and all persons paid in any way from t! <
Timed States treasury would have their i
- reduced one-half in value. Hundreds <f
thousands of dollars Invested in loan and tru
associations and savings banks, and which arc.
in turn, invested by these institutions in mort
gages a nd kindred securities, would be reduced
one half in value if the country should go on a
silver basis.
\es, if you are going to measure
th *m by the price of products, for all
products would double in value, and
the'money mongers above mentioned
would have to pay twice as much for
their idle bread and butter. Yes,
th"t is right. They would have no
fewer dollars than they now have, but
they would have to pay-out twice as
many of them for cotton, wheat, corn
and labor as they do now. This is a
fair and candid statement of the gold
monometalist, and we are willing to
mate the fight straight on this, the
only point in the discussion. Do you
want to act so as to protect hoarded
money? If so, stand on the gold
basis. But get on the bimetalist plat
form if you want to benefit Mary and
the children.
PASS HIM AROUND.
One B. Wilson, of Fleming, Texas,
is a dead beat in the first degree. He
advertises “Death to the desire for
Morphine and Tobacco Habits,” and
is a fraud of the deepest and most
malignant type. He has forged the
name of Mr. D. S. Hitt, postmaster
at Fleming, Texas, to a certificate in
order to defraud the public and to get
* newspapers to publish his nefarious
schemes on credit.
COM m I A IC A TI ON .
Editors Argus :
I noticed several weeks ago that
someone suggested putting some pro
tection around the ugly chasm on the
northeast corner of the public square,
that the citizens might be protected
and that the miserable hole might
not prove a death trap to someone
who would ask damages for any injury
from the tax payers of Jackson.
Now, since our city fathers seem to
pay no attention to the threatened
evil, but seem to be more interested
in a pig pen in some back alley, in
which there is no pig or danger, sup
pose we ask our city guardians to
erect a pavilion around the said hole,
and transplant the flowers on
court house square around the chasm
and invite the Jackson brass band
(that used to be) to discourse sweet
music while they eat the wild fruit—
such as peaches, blackberries, dog
fennel, etc.—that grow at will in the
crevices of said hole. 1
Good Wisher for Jackson.
COIN’S tTAAfft'iAL SCHOOL..
From Atlanta Constitution.]
Read what the Rev. Dr. H. C. Mor
rison, the leading Methodist minister
of the South, says of Coin’s Financial
School:
“I desire to call public attention to
the little book recently written by
Mr. Harvey, of Chicago, with th*
above title. It is a book-of about 160
pages, good type. It is the most com
plete exposure of the infamous work
of the gold monopoly. It is the most
lucid presentation of the entire cur
rency question ever written. All
juestions connected with the subject
ire answered and authorities given.
The fallacies by which the common
people h ive been duped and well nigh
ruined, are all exposed and made so
plain a child can see them. The book
is a light to the poor man, whose,fam
ily has been brought to hunger and
he can’t tell why. This book shows
him who robbed him. The book if
roing broadcast through the land,
selling by thousands, on the trains
and everywhere. Mr. Harvey ha;
lone a work which will immortalizi
din, and bless his suffering people.
Let every man who can spare 25 cents
Auy the book. Let him read it and
1 >an it to his neighbor until it goc
• round. The common people, th
nasses, will see the light. Then wo
o the combination which has redue. <
.nocent thousands to beggary und
1 he cry of ‘sound money.’ Mr. Edito
.eep this boo . before your readers.
If. C. Morrison.”
Atlanta, Ga, March 28, 1895.
STARK ITEMS.
.Ye understand the revenue office
made the air hot last week, carry it i
off some fellows from near Barnett
nill who had been running a block
ide still up the creek. The office
lidn’t get the * still —it had disa] -
peared.
We. are sorry to learn that Mis.
arrie Moory of Barnett’s mill, who.
iness we announced in last week’
issue, is no better.
Mr. George White, of Macon, wa i
iding around the country abou
Turk and other places last wee!
- t ■ • ge, if some pco
.acts : o iuty won’t be law abiding
ten, why you just step up and tale
hem down a button-hole lower—
which is to Macon. Don’t show the
railty ones any mercy, for they don t
leserve any. D imoora .
A FLOWER,
[Written for the Argus.]
A flower blossomed on the earth,
And won its way into our hearts,
Filling us with pleasure from its very birth,
And to our souls a sweet perfume imparts
But God looked forth and saw
The flower blooming on the earth;
Its fragrance unto Him was pleasing,
And He saw the greatness of its worth.
With His hands He plucked and placed it
In His Heavenly garden above,
With angelic beauty graced it
In that land of joy and love.
Now our hearts are filled with sadness,
For the sweet little floweret’s gone,
And our grief almost is madness—
Though ’tis planted in God’s lawn.
—Berta.
TAX RECEIVER’S NOTICE,
FIHST ICOI'ND.
I will be at the following named places on
he date given opposite each place, for the pur
pose of receiving State and Covinty Taxßeturns
for the year 1895:
Stark—Saundor’s Store, April 9.
Worthville—Barnes’ Store, “ io.
Jenkinshnrg, - “ n.
Kinards—Stofe, “ 12.
Elgin, “ ia.
Dublin, “ is.
Flovilla, “ 19.
Jackson, . “ op
J. W. HAM,
nar29-tf Tax Receiver Buns co., u a
LETTERS OF DISMISSION.
GEORGIA—Butts County.
Whereas, J. H. Carmichael, administrator 0
E. S. Wynn, represents to the court in his pet*-
tion, duly filed and entered on record, that h
has fully administered E. S. Wynn’s estate
this is therefore to cite all persons concerned
heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any the
can, why said administrator should not he dis
charged from his administration and receiv*
letters of dismission, on the first Monday ii.
June next. This the 4th day of March, 1895.
J. F. CARMICHAEL,
ma rB-3m Ordinary.
'*
Be. Advertised.
SALE,
GEORGIA—Butts County.
By virtue of an order from the Court of Ord -
nary of Butts county, will be-sold on the firs:
Tuesday in May, 1895, at the court house doo
in said county, between the legal sale hour!
the tract of laud in said county belonging t
the estate of Mary J. Bearden, adjoining land
of Miss Mollie Bearden, C. A. Garr and Amo
estate lands, containing 50 acres; also 25 acre
adjoining Miss Mollie Bearden on the eas
north by lands of Catharine Amos, west by .
N. Brownlee and south by Amos place. Sold r
the property of Mary J. Bearden, deceased.!
pay the debts of said deceased and fordistrii -
ution. Teims cash. March 22.1895.
JOSEPH JOLLY,
marJ2-4t Adm’r of M. J. Bearden.
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mar2#-2t J. L. LYONS. C. T. <fc R. I
Relative Values of Home Ma
nures and Fertilizers.
BOTH AEE STRONGLY SUPPORTED.
The Insufflci* ncy of the Home Produot
Forces Many to Use the Other—Dairying
and the Importune* of Judicious Feed
ing The Very Best Plan for Saving and
Protecting the Manures.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, Jan. 1, 1895.
Question l.—Which.pays best fertil
izing with home manures or with com
mercial fertilizers?
Answer 1. —The advocates of both
systems bring forward very strong
reasons to support their respective
positions, but the deciding of
this question, like so many oth
ers in farming, depends in a large de
gree on individual conditions and envi
ronment. Undoubtedly where both
have to be bought, commercial fertili
zers yield a better return on the same
amount than the home manure, but if a
farmer is so situated that he can feed
his stock for milk, butter, cheese and
beef, he can, at the same time, produce
manures of the highest value, and thus
utilize every product of the farm to
the very best advantage. It is on the
same principle that the small merchant,
by selling on a strictly cash basis, is en
abled to turn his capital over and over,
and realize a larger interest on a small
er investment than his more wealthy
neighbor who takes the risks of long
time and doubtful collections. We have
always maintained that the use of farm
yard manure and fertilizers should go
baud in hand. In confirmation of this
position the following from Professor
Brooks, of Amhurst Agricultural col
lege, is pertinent and complete. The
whole question is most interesting, as
well as important, and farmers should
lose no opportunity of gaining informa
tion from every source which may shed
light upon it. Professor Brooks says:
We sometimes read or hear language
which would lead one to think that in
the minds of some there exists a notion
that there is something of a conflict be
tween manures and fertilizers. This is
far from my idea upon this question. It
is clearly the part of wisdom, first, to
make the utmost of home resources.
There may be crops or there may be
soils or fields for which, under certain
circumstances, it is preferable to use
fertilizers rather than manures; and, of
course, when one must purchase the
elements of fertility it is an important
question whether they can be more
cheaply obtained in manure or fertil
izer, and I believe the decision must be
in favor of the latter; but these facts
really indicate no necessary conflict be
tween the two classes of materials.
There is clearly room enough for both.
Upon most of our farms the supply of
manure is insufficient. The majority
of farmers use some fertilizer. It is
generally wise for the ordinary crop of
the farm to use these in connection
with each other, rather than separately.
The physical effect of the manure is
generally desirable, and cannot be ob
tained by the use of fertilizers. It pre
vents in a manure the cohesion of the
particles in heavy clay and thus lessens
the probability of bakings and cracking,
and it seems to increase the capacity of
the lighter soils for moisture. The con
stituents of manure are also in many
cases less promptly available than in
fertilizers. It is desirable to employ
the latter to give the crop a quick start.
And finally, the manure is more com
plete in its composition than the fertil
izer. The manure replaces, at least in
part, the soda, magnesia, silica, etc.,
removed in crops, while most fertilizers
do not. We may, it is true, raise crops
for many years by supplying the three
elements, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash (incidentally lime is applied with
the phosphate).
Lawes and Gilbert have raised wheat
60 consecutive years on the same land
on ammonia salts, superphosphate and
sulphate of potash; and at the present
time the yield is nearly as great on this
land as on that which has received 14
tons yearly of farmyard manure for the
same length of time; but the yield on
the fertilizers now begins to show a
tendency to fall off, and there can be
no doubt that the more complete com
position of the manure is proving an
advantage. Of course, in such mate
rials as common salt, sulphate of mag
nesia, etc., we may replace, if consid
ered desirable, the soda, magnesia, etc.,
carried off in the crops, but even such
replacement would leave ns without the
physical effect of manure—an effect
which we may, it is true, in part secure
6y turning in a green crop. Under
many systems of cropping, however,
green manuring is inexpedient.
Question 2.—ln view of the present
interest in dairying, I would like to ask
how much manure can be expected
from each cow? From careful reading
on this subject, I conclude that the main
profit is in the manure, which if prop
erly handled, goes to increase the fer
tility of the farm.
Answer 2 —Recent experiments have
shown that a medium sized, well fed
cow will produce 14,431 pounds of solid
and 6.434 pounds liquid manure in a
year, or about 12 1-2 tons. This does
not include the weight of any absor
bant which may be used to better pre
serve the manure. When the farmer
realizes that this 12 1-2 tons contains 80
per cent, of the fertilizing value of the
food consumed, the importance of judi
cious feeding and of saving this ma
nure so as to put back on his land as
much as possible of this 80 per cent, o#
plant food, is clearly seen.
Question 3. —What is the very best
plan for saving and protecting manure?
Answer 3. —In general terms a rain
proof shelter with a perfectly tight floor
is the host. The utmost care should
govern the selection of a site for the
manure pue. A‘ne oowtoni suoinu Do so
arranged that the liquid can neither
leach nor drain away, and if the whole
is covered, we have as perfect a recep
tacle as can be made and such an in
vestment pays for its cost several times
over in the saving of elements other
wise wasted. In our own experience
we have found that a pit, which we
have had dug just at the back of the
stabL', the clay floor made perfectly
hard:and sheltered by a close roof, an
swers every purpose. Into this pit the
manure is easily thrown through the
back stable door, and if carefully and
closelv packed and on each layer a lit
tle kaiuit, phosphate or plaster be
sprinkled, a comparatively small
amount, certainly not more than 5 to 10
per cent of the fertilizing properties,
will escape.
Question 4. —What of our farmers’
institutes, and do you think they have
have done any good or will be of any
benefit to farmers?
Answer 4. —The question of farmers’
institutes does not seem to hav taken
very firm hold on the agricultural mind
in Georgia. If properly conducted there
cau be no doubt of their benefit. In
some of the older states they have be
come powerful factors for adorning
knowledge and for a general improve
ment of agricultural methods. The
Farm and Home says:
Now that the harvest season is over
and state and county fairs have been
held, our readers should get in readi
ness to attend in larger numbers, farm
ers’ institutes and all meetings of so
cial and educational interest. It is true
that in many sections crops or prices,
perhaps in a few places both, have been
unsatisfactory. No good can follow
mourning and bewailing. The merch
ant who does not keep steadily pushing
ahead soon finds himself in the rear of
the procession. Just so with the farm
er. Now is the time to instill a little
ginger into farm operations by a broad
ening of the intellect. Study the coin--
mercial features of your business as
well as the cultural. Having determined
what crops to raise, plan to raise them
most economically, yet by modern, im
proved methods, as such are invariably
cheaper in the end. y ‘
In many states, an elaborate system
of institute work is laid out and the
most successful farmers describe their
methods. In nearly all states the pro
fessors of the agricultural college at
tend and talk from the scientific stand
point. Thus the practical and scientific
are offered at the same meetings. Fre
quent hot discussions follow wjiich are
invaluable to attendants. These meet
ings, we to say, are not always
looked at in the right light. They are
not held for money (making, but for the
good that can be done agriculture, that
the methods may be improved and the
work simplified in the section where
the institute is held and that the indi
vidual farmer may benefit by the expe
rience of those more successful than,
himself. We hope readers will shake
off feelings of indifference, attend these
meetings, inquire concerning points of
interest not clearly understood and en
thuse some of the dull minds into a
reality as to the pleasures, beauties and
profits of the noblest occupation of
man.
If institutes are not held in the coun
ty, we earnestly recommend each reader
to write to the director of the state ag
ricultural experiment station of his
state and secure free the annual reports
and bulletins of the station. These are
sent free, when applied for, to each
resident of the state where the station
is located. With fewer hours of labor
during the winter season, no better use
can be made of mind, body and time
than to make oneself better informed
as to the needs and requirements of his
chosen occupation.
PATENT FORMULA.
In the last report an inquiry relative
to a patent formula being sold over the
state was announced, in which the
farmers were advised not to purchase
such formulas, but to apply to the de
partments instituted for the purpose of
furnishing such information on agri
culture and fertilization. The follow
ing, by the state chemist, in reply to a
similar query, corroborates what we
have previously Spd on the subject,and
in this connection will be found* espe
cially interesting:
S. C. H., Vistory, Ga.:
Dear Sir —Yours of Dec. 14 at hand.
The formula you send reads as follows:
“Formula for Home Made Guano, 1894. ”
Ammonia 5 pounds.
Phosphoric acid 2 “
Nitrate potassium.: 5 “
Saltpetre 10 “
Sulphur 5 “
Potash 10
Lime ? 50 “
Ashes 100 “
Dirt 1,800 “
DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING.
Mix all the ingredients thoroughly,
then mix with the dirt. Moisten with
water lightly and mix thoroughly. Put
in a heap in a dry place. Three weeks
before needed pulverize thoroughly and
scatter in a guano distributor. Good
muck is best lor the body of the guano,
but any earth that is free from gravel
will answer.
The above is a very high grade fertil
izer. Lessen the quantity if you wish
a lower grade. This formula will cost
less than $5.00.”
This is evidently gotten up by some
one ignorant of the laws of chemistry,
and not familiar with the materials
named in the formula. To explain this
a short description may be necessary.
Ammonia is a gas, and if put into a
fertilizer without an acid to fix it, only
a small portion of it will remain. If
sulphate of ammonia is intended, the
lime will take up the sulphuric anhyd
ride of the sulphate and drive out the
ammonia. Pure phosphoric acid is too
expensive an article to use in a fertili
zer. This is probably intended for acid
phosphate of lime, or “acid phosphate”
as it is usually called.
Nitrate of potassium and salt petre
are the same thing. Sulphur is not a
plane loud, it may do a ided as an in
secticide. Potash, like phosphoric acid,
is too expensive and also too caustic to
use in an uncombined form. Kainit or
muriate of potash was probably intend
ed. If in every ton the constructor of
the fqjmula wished to secure: 5 pounds
ammonia, you could use 20 pounds sul
phate of ammonia; 2 pounds phosphoric
acid, yon could use 2U pounds phosphate
acid; 15 pounds nitrate of potassium,
you could-use 15 pounds nitrate- of po
tassium: 10 pounds potash, you could
use 80 pounds kainit; 50 pounds lime,
you could use 100 pounds carbonate of
lime; 100 pounds ashes, you could use
100 pounds ashes; dirt q. s. to make a
ton, you could use 1,665 pounds dirt
(enough to make a ton).
The forum a is cheap simply because
it is so weak. Put up as suggested, so
that you will not lo -e the virtues of part
of it, the formula will only give you
goods with:
Ammonia, 1 2 of 1 percent.
Phosphoric acid. Y 8 of 1 per cent.
Potash, 2 per cent.
Lime, 2 1-2 per cyut.
It is incorrectly called a guano and
high grade fertilizer by the seller of the
formula. It is simply a compost.
The suggestion to use good muck in
place of the dirt is a good one. If you
will write what material you have ac
cessible or wish to use, a formula can
be readily constructed for their success
ful use.
To purchase such .formula as the one
you send is waste of money. The de
partment of agritulture is always glad
to furnish formulas free of cost for any
intelligent line of fertilization. There
are a number of ammoniates which can
be used, and their selection depends
both upon the ease of securing them
and the crop for which they are in
tended. The following are the most
frequently used: Cottonseed meal,
blood, tankage, sulphate of ammonia,
nitrate of soda and fishscrap. Phos
phoric acid is usually furnished by acid
phosphate, and potash by kainit or mu
riate of potash.
The compost heap becomes more and
more valuable and profitable as acces
sible fertilizing material is best taken
advantage of. This will vary upon
each farm according to the conditions
surrounding it, and convenient local
material which can be rendered avail
able as plant food.
It is well to remember that a cheap
fertilizer may prove to be a very profit
able experiment or a very unprofitable
one, depending largely upon whether
you have obtained a lot of actual plant
food cheaply Or whether you have se
cured a material which seems low priced
when its weight is considered, but is
yet very high priced when its small con
tent of plant food is estimated.
Respectfully,
George F. Payne,
State Chemist.
(MISS10I!
NESBITT'S TALK.
Kis Regular Monthly Letter to
the Farmers of Georgia.
ENOOURAGEM.NT OFFERED ALL.
Suggestions Cone *ruing the Crops of This
Y:ir That Shout<l He Weil Considered
and Carefully Digested —The Founda
tion For Successful Fanning—lnterest,
iug topic > Discus leil.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, April 1, 1895.
At this writing, March 20, the pros
pect for the preparation and planting
of the crop of 1895 seems most dis
couraging. The few bright days dur
ing the first part of the month have
beeu succeeded by almost uninter
rupted rain, and farmers who were
beginning to see light ahead are again
overtaken by despondency and gloom.
The cases are exceptional where any
material progress has been made in
farm work. But, with a few bright
days, hope, that blasted boon to strug
gling humanity, will spring into life
again, and all through the state will be
heard the cheerful hum of busy prepa
ration, the lajid will once more respond
to the invigorating touch of the plow
and hoe and all nature will awake to
life under the influence of the warm
spring sunshine. Incredible as it may
seem, there have been spring seasons
just as disappointing as this, perhaps
more so. At any rate, bemoaning our
sad condition will not mead mattei-3.
The only remedy is contained in the
aphorism, which applies with force to
farm as well as other matters. “Turn
to the right—then go forward.” How
ever inuch we may differ as regards
what is the “right,” each individual
has, let ns hope, decided conscientiously,
and it is useless now to speculate as to
the probable effect of this decision on
our future. We have chosen our path,
and from this time until our crops are
all gathered, we must go “forward.”
Whether wa have planted much cotton
or little the duty is the same. We
must steadily press on to the comple
tion of the year’s work.
It is now too late to sow oats, which
fact falls with heavy force on the man
who is short of corn, and who has been
prevented by all these drawbacks from
getting the oat crop under way. But
there are other early maturing crops
which can, in a measure, be made to
do duty in this important matter of
stock feed.
SORGHUM, MILLET, PEAS, FORAGE CORN
and other forage crops, if planted
early, the ground tfeing thoroughly
prepared and highly manured, in order
to increase the yield and hasten matu
rity, will be round a wonderful help in
the late spring and summer when feed
runs short.
On this subject the Louisiana expe
riment station has the foliowing:
Pearl, or “cattail” mihet, as it is
sometimes called, is used as a “soiling”
crop. A few rows planted in rich soil
wiil afford sufficient green feed in the
spring for several head of horses. It
grows rapidiy after being cut and is
one of the best early green feeds of its
kind. |
The non-saccharine sorghums make I
excellent lorage, anu may ue useu as
soil crops or cured as hay. The bush
els of grain they yield per acre make
them valuable adjuncts to the grain
producing crops.
Jerusalem c >rn has large, compact,
drooping heads of white grain. The
stalk is low, stout and stocky, and not
so good as the four following.**
Yellow and white millo maize grow
large and tall, making large tonnage of
forage, large, straight heads of yellow
and white grain, yielding in favorable
years many bushels per acre.
Large African millet is very much
like the white millo maize, except it
grows much larger both in stalk and
seed heads. It is equally as valuable
for forage and soiling, possessing the
advantage over all of greater tonnage,
and more bushels of grain per acre. It
will certainly produce more forage per
acre than any forage crop ever grown
at the station.
The Kaffir corn is low growing, but
produces to any heads of white grain,
as well as a fair tonnage of forage. The
seeds are excellent poultry feed.
German millet is too well known to
mention any of its characteristics. It
is a valuable forago and soiling crop,
and should be more extensively planted.
French millet bears a long, drooping
heifd of red grain and bids fair to out
rival the Gorman variety in produc
tion.
Soja bean is a leguminous plant, and
aside from its qualities as a forage
plant, like others of the leguminous
family, it renovates worn land. It re
sembles the bean, grows treelike, 18
inches 2 feet high, and bears a heavy
crop of short pods, well filled with
small, round, white berries, resembling
very much the sweet pea of the garden.
If cut just as the pods begin to ripen it
cures readily into a good hay.
These crops or whatever are necessa
ry to supplement the shortage in feed
stuffs, being arranged for, we must
turn our attention to the principal crops
of the farm. Perhaps we have never had
more forcibly illustrated the impor
tance of fall plowing than is just now
being brought home to our understand
ing. The almost unprecedented cold,
the long continued rains, the late sea
son, all combine to crowd into one
month the work of two or more, and
on the fall plowed lands, particularly
if subsoiled, even where it has been
packed by the winter rains, the work
is found lighter, more rapid and more
satisfactory than in the fields, which
have remained uuplowed since the
crops were gathered, and which have
been in many cases beaten hard by the
tramping of cattle.
This question of proper and well di
rected plowing lies at the very founda
tion of our success in farming, yet how
few farmers study it beyond the mere
breaking and bedding, absolutely nec
essary in the ordinary preparation for
planting a crop. For some crops it is
important to plow much deeper than
for others, but on how many farms do
we see any variation in the depth of
plowing, all crops being prepared for
alike, An ignorant or indifferent plow
man has no idea of the importance of
his work. Crooked or uneven furrows,
varying as to the width and depth,
mane the work hard on the man and
hard on the mule, while a failure to as
certain on this point the requirements
of the different crops to be planted of
ten entails muoh unnecessary work,
with painfully inadequate returns.
Gvod plowing not only requires prac
tice but observation as well, the close
Bcrutiny, wiiich will enable the farmer
to profit by error as well as by success.
In their eagerness to push on the
work, farmers often under present ur
gent conditions, are tempted to plow
the land when too wet. No greater
mistake was ever made, for while some
thing may be gained in present speed,
the end is no amount of bother and
worry. Land once plowed too wet
does not recover during that crop sea
son, and often its disastrous effects ex
tend into the following year. A mis
take of almost equal gmv ;y is to aliow
the uuplowed field- to stand after a
rain until a hard crust is formed. If
possible run a heavy harrow over the
surface before it becomes too dry. This
wul prevent the crust from forming,
prevents evaporation and keeps the
laud in good condition until the regu
lar plow comes along.
Another "important point is to re
member that at this season it is ot‘ no
benefit to turn any quantity of the
6ubsoll to the surface, that should have
beeu done in the fall. It is too late
now for it to be acted upon by sun and
air and rain, that it may furnish addi
tional plant food for this year’s crop
For corn, plow deep, but instead of
bringing the subsoil to the surface, use
a subsoil plow, or follow the ordinary
turning plow with a long scooter in
the same furrow, thus leaving the
subsoil broken, but in the bottom
of the furrow. This may seem slow
work when one is pressed for time, but
thorough work in preparation pays tne
biggest returns. It has beeu repeated
ly demonstrated that half the area,
with proper and careful attention to de
tails, yields a greater profit and with
less hard work, than twice the numoer
of aores poorly prepared, insufficiently
manured and hastily and caretessly
cultivated. With the low prices which
now prevail for all varieties of farm
produce, we should direct our energies
more than ever to increasing the yield
of each acre, for the cost of production
can be decreased more effectually in
this w y than in any other.
Let us glance for a moment at some
of the advantages of this p an. First,
less horse power and consequently a
smaller plow and blacksmith bill. Sec
ond, the improvement to the land,
wiiich instead of becoming poorer and
poorer each year, is steadily building
up under the heavier application of
manure and the more judicious man
agement Again, a smaller outlay in
the matte? of labor, just now a very
heavy and risky item, also, th 9 ability
to select better land and better labor,
having the privilege of choice. In the
substitution of manure and improved
maehinery and implements for labor
much can also be done. In other words,
the true policy on the ordinary farm
lands of Georgia is to select the best
and concentrate on them the effort and
the manure which we hare been in the
habit of spreading over twice the area.
The tim9 for planting all crops has
been of course greatly delayed, but af
ter our experience of last spring, we
should not be discouraged. In many
seotions of the state the corn is not yet
planted; ip others, this work is finished
and the cotton land now claims atten-
tion.
SWEET POTATOES
should not be set out too early, though
the slips may be ready the latter part
of this month, It is batter to put out
the main-crop in May and June. The
labor of cultivation is less, the yield is
equally as good, aud the tubers keep
better, We con ho-dly over estimate the
value of this crop, md even with the risk
from loss in keeping, we would advise a
heavy orop. Hogs will gather aud fat
ten on them, and there 13 nothing that
makes oaeapef or sweeter pork than
sweet potatoes.
Again, I would call attention to bul
letin No. 2d, on ‘‘Sweet Potatoes,”
from the Q-sorgia experiment station,
which can b3 secure 1 on apolication to
Director R. J. Redding, Experiment,
Ga.
ORANGE BLOSSOM.
(s the famous remedy of Dr. Jr.o ad
McGill, for all diseases peculiar ti 1
ladies: It is the one natural cure for 1
female troubles because it is a; oiy 1
right to the diseased parts.
It is as safe and harmless as a
flax seed poultice, the first applicat
ion drawing out fever and soreness
and stopping at once those distress
ing pains from which so many women
suffer.
Don’t take internal remedies for
female weakness! Common sense re
quires a direct application to cure
leucorrhcea, ulceration, profuse and
difficult menstruation, inflammation
congestion, falling and dropsy of the
womb, ovarian and fibroid tumors
laceration of cervix, and all diseases
of these organs.
Every 1 rdy can treat herself with
Orange Blossom. Send your r hires*
to Dr. j. A. McGill Te (.' . 2A 4
Hubbard Court, Chicago, Ills. f ur
a free sample, and a book giving fun
directions for home treatment.
SCIATICA CVhJ.P.
Wlll. i'rlc-, Luttsvillo, Mo., writ v
iifflictod with Sc-iatic- Rheumatism, j, ,j j u|ii
lost the use of one arm and one l, e j-,,, Mj
years. I went to Hot Springs, and als.. i
different doctors, but found 11 - euro 1 mi! 1
tried Botanic Blood Balm. It made n,. >., U nd
and well. lam well known in this eomnui.
nity.” See adr ertisement elsewhere.
Just Tale a Tift
ACCIDENTS
will happen in tire best regulated
families.
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they do do!”
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COMBINATION POLICY
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OF HARTFORD, CONN.
COSTS $20.00 PER YEAR.
And pays for ordinary accidents:
Death by Accident. .?■■>.go
Loss of Hand and Foot, S.cno
Loss of Both Hands, f> oh.
Loss of Both Feet, 5.000'
Loss of Both Eyes, 5.000
Loss of Right Hand. 2.-V o
Loss of Either I.f-g, 2.5;;0
Li ss of One Foot, i
Lossrof Left Hand, i.noo
Loss of One Eye. (wti
I*e r lira nr-nt Total Disability, 2 .">< h
Weekly Indemnity (52 weeks), •_5
Or, if the accident occurs while a passenger mi
conveyance moved by steam, cable or electric
ity, each one of above hem-fits will be doubled,
as in following table:
Death, by Accident, if hr 000
Loss of Hand and Foot, KM 00
Loss of Both Hands,' hr 000
Loss of Both Feet, 50,000
Loss of Both Eyes. 50.000
Loss of Right Hand, -5,G00
Loss of Hither Leg, 5,000
Loss of One Font , - 2,<100
Loss of Left Hand, 2.nod
Loss of One Hye, j.ijno
Permanent Total Disability, 5,0< >
Weekly Indemnity <52 week-) -■ i
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