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GEM CROP REPORT; As O-iven by Department of Agriculture. SHOWS SOME DETERIORATION. Report !s Eased orr Letters Received at Department From Roliable Per sons In Different Sections. September 24th, 1903. The crpj) report of the Georgia Le 'frartment of Agriculture, issued Sep- 24th, 1903, and based oa the answers to nearly 1,000 letters sent to reliable persons in different sections of every county in the state, shows the condition and. prospect of our principal crops up to the middle c thfj, current month. The report shows a deterioration la tjif) prospects of some of the crops, especially cotton. Everything was set back by the late Kring, and when the prospect seemed od for a rally from the early unfa- « r mditiori‘'-. a long-continued In, ewhieh was at last f hilling rains that did much specially to cotton, so has appeared in scsme sec in many instances, the boll j caterpillar have imade se rious inroads. f Hay and rice that had } not been housed suffered considerable damage. The present conditioln and prospect of the various eropsVas compared to last June, is as fo Jws: ry6tto "’ June 12, Sept. 24, 1903. 1903. Northern section... .86 p. c. 66 p. c. Middle section 82 p. c. 68 p. c. Southern section... .82 p. c. 72 p. c For entf’e state 83 p. c. 69 p. c. It is ettimated that the entire crop will b/ about 19 per cent less than last yiar’a crop. * Corn. ■ June 12, Sept. 24, , 1903. 1903. Nortiern section 95 p. c. 85 p. c. ifidlle section 82 p. c. 82 p. c. Soijhern section—.B4 p. c. 90 p. c. Foi entire state 87 p. c. 86 p. c. ! Rice. ' v ' 1903. 1903. Northern section... .70 p. c. No r’pt. Middle section 96 p. c. 95 p. c, Southern section... .91 p. c. 87 p. c. For entire state 85 p. c. 91 p. c. Rice shows a considerable in crease. Sugar Cane. June 12, Sept. 24, 1903. 1903. For entire state ....96 p. c. 85 p. c. The forage crops of the state shmv a condition and prospect of 85 per cent, as compared with 97 per cent on June 12th, 1903. The condition of live stock for the state shows 93 per cent, as compared with 94 per cent last June. 4 For sweet potatoes, tobacco, cow I’,;-as and ground peas there was no report last June. The condition and prospects of these crops on Septem ber 24th, 1903, are reported as follows: Sweet Potatoes. Northern section 75 per cent Middle section 80 per cent Sou hern section 82 per cent Entire state 79 per cent Tobacco. Northern section 84 per cent Middle section 96 per cent Southern section ~S 2 per cent Entire state 87 peT cent Cow Peas. Northern section 72 per cent Middle section 74 per cent Southern section 86 per cent Entire State 77 per ceni Ground Peas, Northern section 74 per cent Middjj section 83 per cent Southern section 88 per cent Entire state 82 per cent Cotton appears to he the greatest sufferer. There is a very slim chance for improvement in this crop. Corn is doing fairly well, and so is sugar car*-. Corn on bottom lands is good. InEsome sections poor on up lands. Rice seems to be holding its owe better than any other crop. 1 d Farm Labor. Many of our farmers fluid great dlf ficuty in securing hands to gathet their crops after they have been raised. One great trouble is that factories give much larger compensation tc their employees and require fewer hours of labor. It is therefore natural that an ablebcdled man should prefer U> go where he gets more pay for less work. Even the farmer boy* ars with difficulty kept upon the farm. They tire of the schedules run upor so many farms: getting up at 5 a. m.; working until 12 m.; going back te work at 1 u. m.; stopping when II gets too dark for any more work; feeding the stock or cleaning the sta ble after dark; eating supper betweec 7 and 8 p. m; then, totired for read ing or any of (he pl«*ure» of (hi family circle, going to o*4 4k awak« Douglas W eekly Breeze, November 28, 1903. next morning to rue suin' wenrv round ! of duties. Will not the use of up-to-date farm implements make it possible to do sc much more work in a day, that the hours for labor may be shortened and the farmer then stand a better chance to compete with the factories in hir ing competent hands? We throw this cut as a suggestion, which our farmers may think upon and accept or reject, as in itheir judg ment seems best. GA. DEPT OF AGRICULTURE. LETTER OF STATE CHEMIST. Violent Reaction in the Mixer—The Nature of Acid Phosphate, We will now go back to the mix ture which we left in the iron-mixer and study it a little further. As we saw the chemical energy of the ac tion cf the sulphuric acid upon the phosphate meal w r as prodigious, steam and hot stifling gases are expelled from the mixture, and finally the semi-liquid mass is dumped into an iron car, run out upon a track, tqiilt far above a deep den or pit, the car is tilted and the mass precipitated to the bottom of the pit; this operation is repeated many times, until the den or pit contains hundreds (of tons of acid phosphate. The mass lying in the pit gradually becomes drier and drier, owing to the escape of steam, anu also to the absorption of some of the water in crystal form by the sulphate of lime or land-plaster which has been formed. This water which escapes as steam, and which is absorbed as crystal wa ter, came from the sulphuric acid with which it was mixed. The sul phuric acid used in the manufacture is usually what is known as (50) fifty acid, or fifty degree Beaume acid, and contains about fifty-five per cent of real sulphuric acid, the other forty-five per cent being water. After the semi-liquid mass ft s remained for a few days in the [rile it is dry enough to be handled, and on digging into it we find it to be of a porous honeycombed structure, crumbling easily between the fingers. If the acid phosphate is allowed to remain for a still longer time, still more wa ter dries out of it, and it becomes hard and lumpy, and requires to be broken up in a disintegrating ma chine, before it can be manipulated or sacked. But no matter how dry it becomes it readily dissolves when placed in water, the water at once acquiring an acid taste. This acid taste is due, not to the sulphuric acid from which it wttjj made, but to the mono-calcic phosphate of lime, which was pro duced by the splitting up of the phos phate rock by the sulphuric acid. This phosphoric acid is called the sol uble or water soluble phosphoric acid. In a well-made superphosphate there is no longer a particle of sulphuric acid running as such. Its powerful caustic and corrosive properties have been absolutely killed or neutralized by the lime of the phosphate rock. A wonderful transformation has been effected. We started with powdered rock and dilute sulphuric acid; in the material which we have produced from them there is neither phosphate rock nor sulphuric acid, but we have a mixture of a little free phosphoric acid, of mono-calcic phosphate, of sul phate cf lime or land-plaster, a little water and a little sand, and a few other impurities, such as were found in the phosphate rock to begin with. The phosphoric acid, the mono-cal cic phosphate and the sulphate of lime are now harmless, soluble in the soil waters and ready for appropriation as food by the rootlets of the plant. What Insoluble 'Phosphoric Acid Is. In practice the composition of the material will vary somewhat from what I have just described; for in stance, there will usually be present a small percentage of what is known as “insoluble phosphoric acid.” This expression refers to a little phosphate rock which escaped the action of the sulphuric acid, because it is safer to use a little less sulphuric acid than is required for all the phosphate rock, than to run the risk of getting too much of this caustic ai:d corrosive liquid, and thus spoil the mixture. Thus, if on studying the analysis of an acid phosphate or other fertilizer, you see that it contains one per cent of “insoluble phosphoric acid,” that means to say that the fertilizer con tains two and eighteen hundredths per cent of pure phosphate rock that the sulphuric acid never touched, be cause the manufacturer didn’t put enough sulphuric acid in the mixture to eat up this two per cent of phos phate rock, and convert it into super phosphate and land-plaster. This insoluble phosphoric acid, how ever, is not lost, because, while it is not soluble so that the plant may take it up at once, it still remains in the soil, and doubtless becomes acted on in the course of time by the soil wa ters, and eventually appropriated a i XHrt into* wmkm cow stltuent acid phosphate whicH I did not mention during the first de< scripticn of the process of manufac ture. so as to avoid confusing you by crowding too many names and facts together, and that is that in most acid phosphates there are present small percentages of what is known as “re verted phosphoric acid.” What Reverted Phosphoric Acid Is Reverted phosphoric acid is that phosphoric acid which has reverted ot gone back from a condition soluble in water to one which is insoluble in water. For instance, an acid phos phate may he analyzed shortly after making and found to contain say four teen per cent of water-soluble phos phoric acid; after standing few a month it might be analyzed again and found to contain only twelve per cent of water-soluble phosphoric acid, hav ing lost two per cent of the phosphoric acid soluble in water. On examina tion it is found that this two per cent has reverted or changed from a con ditlcn soluble in pure cold water tc a condition in which it will not dis solve In water, but will dissolve In a solution made to imitate the water of the soli. It is, therefore, regarded as being available for the use and growth of the plant. What Available Phosphoric Acid is. When, therefore, you see in our analysis of a commercial fertilizer the expression “available phosphoric acid” used, you may know that it means the percentages of water-solu ble phosphoric acid and inverted phosphoric acid added together, and their sum is called the “available phosphoric acid.” Usually the per centage of reverted phosphoric acid is sn: 11, ranging generally from one to three per cent. I have now de scribed to you in a brief way the principal materials which enter into the manufacture of commercial fer tfc |rs. *: JNO. M. McCANDLESS, State Chemist. BRUTAL COLT TRAINING. ilow Farmer I’prkins Vhim! Strategy and a Bull Whip. There is a right wpy and a wrong way of breaking a colt to halter. The latter method is described by Sewell Ford in “Horses Nine.” Blue Blazes, the colt in the story, was owned by a Michigan farmer. He had been fright ened by the first attempt to bridle him and had broken away. He was prompt ly declared to be a various colt. “We'll tame him!” said Farmer Per-- kins. Under his coat lie hid a stout halter and a heavy bull whip. Then, holding a grain measure temptingly be fore him, he climbed the pasture fence. In the measure were oats, which he rattled seductively. Also he called mildly and persuasively. Blue Blazes was suspicious. Four times he allowed the farmer to come almost within reaching distance, only to turn and bolt with a snort of alarm just at the cru cial moment. At last he concluded that he must have just one taste of those oats. “Come, eoltio! Nice eoltie!” cooed the man In a strained but conciliating voice. Blue Blazes planted himself for a sudden whirl, stretched his neck as far as possible and worked his upper lip inquiringly. The smell of the oats lured him on. Hardly had he touched his nose to the grain before ihe meas ure was dropped, and he found himself roughly grabbed by tlie forelock. In y moment he saw the hated straps and ropes. Before be could break away the halter was around his neck and buckled firmly. Farmer Perkins changed his tone. “Now, you ugly little brute, J’ve got you! [Jerk.] Blast your wicked hide! [Slash.] You will, will you? [Yank.] I’ll l’arn you!” [Slash.] Man and colt were almost exhausted when the “lesson” was finished. It left Blue Blazes ridged with welts, trembling, fright sickened. Never again would he trust himself within reach of those men; no, not if they of fered him a whole bushel of oats. How to Sell Goods. “‘You must know how to talk with a customer so that she will buy,’ is one of the things the buyer says over and over again in his lectures down in the basement. Even when the girl is be hind the counter at work the buyer will often step up and give her a hint. For Instance, he will give a new name to an old piece of goods. There is ev erything in a name. lie came up to me one day and said, ‘Call that line of goods the Marlborough,’ and it was not long before I had sold the entire stock. The sweller a name is the better, of course. Cumberland pins will sell much better than plain pins even if they are the same thing. French names are much in vogue, too. and they are some times coined. Names taken from swell sports are also very good sellers. An other thing, of course, which helps a girl sell the goods is genuine knowl edge of them.” —Leslie's Monthly. To Cure A Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinin Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grore’s signa ture is on each box. 25c. Store. ! Save Money and Get Pure WhisKey. There is a two fold reason for the phenomenal upbuilding of our Liquor Department: highest qualities, lowest prices. When you send your whiskey order to us you get it filled direct from the barrel in the original from the distillery. Rvory Jacobs’ Brand is a standard of excellence in Itself. Then, too. buying direct from the distillers, and in quantities that mean dozens to smaller dealers, enables us to quote always a lower price on the same article, or give you a better article for the same money. Write for our liquor cata logue. it lists both domestic and foreign brands—it’s free for tiro asking. RYE WHISKIES. H. O. Wisn Private Stock Rtjc, a pure Pennsylvania whiskey, aged# in wood for six years, especially recommended as a stimulant for medical and family use. Quarts sl.U<>. gallon jugs $3.50. Jacobs’ Monogram Rye Whiskey, a very superior, double copper distilled , whiskey, from selected home grown rye with mountain spring water, and is distinguished for its absolute purity. Eight years old. Quarts $1.35, gallon jugs $4.1)0. Roh Roy Rye. This whiskey is pure, copper distilled, four years old, ab solutely pure and well adapted for general use where an absolutely pure article is desired. Quarts 75c, gallon jugs $3.50. Jacobs' Velvet, Rye No. 6, three years old. aged in wood, and is a very good whiskey for t he price. Quarts 60c, gallon jugs $3.35, “XXXX” Moiiomjehela Rye, two years old, and is without doubt the best whiskey to be obtained for the price. Quarts 50c, gallon jugs $3.00. “AA" Rye. This whiskey is one yearold. and while pure, Is of a low proof. The same goods sold by many for $3.00 per gallon, Gallons $1 50. Not less than half gallon sold- 7 CORN WHISKIES. | Jar,oils' Private Stock (lorn Whiskey. This we believe to he the Whiskey sold in this market. Six years old and absolutely pure, good old fasldon way. Quarts SI.OO, gallon Jugs $3.50. Uncle Remus Corn Whiskey, a splendid sliimihmt and especially for medical use. Pour years old. Quarts 7,>r, g.ilhm jugs $3.50. Golden Shucks f#orn Whiskey, three years old, yellow corn, 'dEßfsfl pure; quarts 05c. gallon jugs $3.35. Hickory Not Mountain Corn Whiskey, pun- white corn, mad I ■ le,-teil grain in the old fashion way. two years old. Qmin s i#"c, ‘ ‘ , II Jar,oils’Sweet Mash Corn Whiskeg. ir are pariial * 1 I Ins whiskey, one 11 75c. gallon jugs $3.75. I Rabbit Foot Corn Whiskeu, two-.vear >• I sell-i-i I- 1 1 gram ovi r op, n won,! fires. ;i;;od mu, <■ i. uii.in I Jar,olis’ Hand Made Corn Whiskey, <>m- old. pure Inn I hm jugs si.s". Not less I han half gallon sold. I Virginia Apple Brandy, a very exeellent iiriiele 1 j Georgia Apple Brandy, a good, pure anicle; uu-.ri • : -‘{-'T? 5 ' Maryland Peach Brandy, eight years old ,:.i. vnn line I iM-'ii.’liia I value; qnarl-.-l.Pu, .a I lon »n Wrjm I Georgia Peach Brandy, I Oil! Holland Gin, done-stir qnari - i' /Old loin Gin, ' loin Gat. Gin, quarts sl.ihi, gallon p, Old Boston Molasses Rum, ‘ Old Medford Rum, I'lnu-. quarts , ju Superior Quality Jamaica Rum, California Our IJoimsi hare Pun-liasrri^^WPiß>rß^B( direct from the California wine Growers* Association. J and on account of the large jimchases we are able to secure the lowest price roiieessious aud gel tin- very best I (gtfck quality of wines. The ones quod-il below areof a supe If>3% rlor quality, two years old fine llnvo; and well adapted f. c for medicinal, table and family use ynKft £s% p s,!«•*"»*■• •* m. 4 .4 fe X C|| Jacobs’ pO|I|!ll LIQUOR OEPARTMEir^H HUNTER. PEftRGE k I Cotton Facfoij’s^^H Over 30 Years L\ per’- 11 and Sea Island As Well up^m I I C.I- V.!^^ Oil d!l(t i2b hast Ba\ S:rJ ... Thorn WHEN YOU Gol be sure to stop at the Bay street. A Nice, Cle;M and good service at 2sc all MRS. H. M\ G/fiP A