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I desire to sincerely and heartily thank each and every one of my friends and customers or
the splendid patronage they have given me during the past year, and \ sincerely trust that this will
be the happiest Christmas you have ever spent in your lives. I assure you that 1 earnestly appre=
ciate every nickle’s worth of trade placed in my hands, and shall be ready at all times to favor you
with the very lowest possible prices. My stock has been more than doubled, and S can serve you |
better the coming year than ever before. When you want REAL BARGAINS come to my store, where
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TINWARE CHEAPER than the CHEAPEST.
GROCERIES 1 can save you money on Coffees, Rice, Sugar, Flour, Meal, Canned Goods, etc.
s ■ Long Horn Tobacco, 35 cents per pound. “Quick sales and small profits.
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Frco Government Seed.
Congressman W. G. Brantley
requests that all persons in the
ilth Congressional District desir¬
ing to be supplied this winter wit h
Government Vegetable Seed, for
,ward their names and post office
addresses to him at Washington,
D. C.
The seed will probably not be
ready for distribution earlier than
the middle of January, and it may
be later, but the names should be
sent forward at once in order that
proper labels may be addressed
and filed with the Agricultural
Department. useless for
It will be persons to
name any particular kind or quan¬
tity of seed wanted, as the Depart¬
ment selects the seed to be sent,
both as to variety and quantity,
prepares them for mailing and
sends them out to the addiesses
furnished. Due regard as to tin*
locality to which the seed are to
be sent is always had by the Do
partment. supply of seed that be
The can
furnished by the department is
limited, but; under this method of
distubunon. it IS mine than pi"-'
able that all persons desiimgsied
«au be supplied, as seed will not
be sent to those who do not want
them.
Leo XIII and the Methodist
Episcopal Church have agreed
upon next year (1000) as the be
ginning of the twentieth century,
while the astronomeis and math
ematicians claim that the year
1901 is the first year of the new
century. We hope they wont
compromise the matter and adopt
Caesar's plan, hut decide, t but
©ue or the other ts . wrong and * el
the passage of time pursue Us reg
ular course.
Ilisolution Notice.
owin- to the appointment of Mr, K.
P Milner to the office of Solieitor of the
Gitv court of Eastman, the law firm of
Roberts &Milner has this day dissolved
fcv mutual consent. All business now
represented by said firm will receive
the attention of both members thereof
«nttl final disposition. Mr. Milner s
store. Ea«n,,n. Gju.
>L B. Milner.
Crooked (.'reck items.
The little baby <>t Mr. I). T.
Dykes died on last Wednesday.
It was buried Thursday at the
Harrell cemetery.
Mrs. G. E. Print! and children
are visiting relatives in Wilkinson
countv this week.
Messrs. G. E. Pruitt, R. L. Pru¬
itt, S. A. Evans, I). T. Dykes and
G. J. Baker went over Gum Swamp
Sunday to see Mr. IT. M. Guldens,
who is very sick with Lagrippe.
We wish for him speedy recovery.
Saw Dust.
ideal I'fPtlci’.i.
It is something of a question as to
how fat the ideal feeder should be
when bought, says John G. Ickis in
The National Stockman—whether to
buy them fat and run them through
the winter on just sufficient grain to
keep them in order or to buy them thiu
ant j lrj . t0 f a jq cn through the winter,
Something will depend <>u the kind and
amount, of feed you have on hand,
With corn scarce and high, even
though liav he plentiful, you could not
expect to get sheep that were thin at
the beginning of winter ready tor an
a j at sheep through the cold weather,
To , nv milu1 at the present price of
W ool move money can be made out of a
given amount of feed by carrying fat
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when they g to the feed lots
! ideal feeder, however, is the sheep
that lacks the fat that can he put on
In the next'six wed This increase
can he made at . 11 cost, and your
sheep is ready to g < through the win
ter on the lightest possible ration of
grain,
cattle Dividends.
A Colorado cattle company reports
dividends of 123 per cent on its last
,
year’s business, says The National
Stockman. Yet this same company was
i only saved from bankruptcy 10 or 12
years ago by the fortunate
and sale of a big herd of cattle which
i made a P rofit aU(1 ?lav0(1 other ofr cattlemen the sher *
j iff- There are many
and cattle companies who can now
look back and see where a little lift at
| the right time would have saved them
i to make good profits later on.
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Sheep are not robust animals. On
the contrary they need every possible
attention and conformity with then
habits and constitution, says The Sheep
Breeder. This is most applicable to
their feeding. They are naturally
adapted, as to their teeth and digestive
organs, to short, fine food. To graze on
short herbage and to clip the tender
shoots of bushes is their vocation.
Hence the “roughness" of a farm is
not desirable or even suitable for them.
It will not do to throw a bunch of
stalks of corn to sheep, as it may do
for cattle or horses. The blades of
corn even are too rough fodder for
them. The best possible dry feeding of
she ‘p is early cut. tender clover hay,
with Tie addition of sliced roots. This
is the best possible dry, coarse feeding
for the winter. Ewes may be kept in
the best condition on this feed without
grain. The addition of some grain lat
j er when thp t auibs are to be thought
; ()f will bc uece ssary. but ouly a moder
at0 ra ^ on nee ^ bo gj von
i suitable oulv
digestive apparatus ,s n r
herbaceous fodder. Gtain eating a i
mals do not need a large stomach nor
a series of them for the gradual redae
tion ol the nan am (.onam.ia ei -n...
to sou. i.i 0 J'' 1 ..-,Yi
ty of sheep lost during tue \ i ti - ' -
mg season die on aceotmt o, . s .
derst a tiding of this t.a at.nl ct - *«
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nni it qu.it uu nt. >u k\ ch i i ' t r i
j tial to a herbivorousi and ruminating
j animal. Sometimes, lor mstance. cow s
have been fed a whole winter on finely
ground cornmeal without any eoarse
food whatever, even bu\ 1 lie result
has been that rumination not being re
^ u, ^ ed [ h ° dlH> mj,cor atioii: of the
food this fun.-tio:! w„s whoffj sus
pended. The size of the stomach even
decreased, snrinkiug. as Die common
■ adage goes, “to the size or the ration.
Life was preserved doubtless, and this
have been useful in times of
| shortage of coarse fodder, but we nev
, |H . who ,„ 0
This is a typical instance of natural re
quirements of herbivorous animals.
Nature has been an exemplary pro
vider for her own needs, and the natn
ral habit of feeding of any race cf ani
!na j s -v\'IiitTi has been in existence for
we know' not how many thousands of
years cannot well be set aside or dls
turbed by modern invention. The
shepherd must take his (lock as they
were made and now exist. And the
closer he can imitate the natural meth
ods and habits of the race the better
success lie will meet with in rearing
the flock. Hence the winter feeding
should be spare of grain except for the
fattening flock, and fattening any ani
mal is only a method disturbing the
balance of nature, and excessive fat¬
ness is a true disease, so that the saf¬
est kind of feeding will be that which
most nearly approaches the natural
habits of the sheep. Fine, tender,
sweet, nutritious fodder, with a inoder
ate proportion of coarser stuff, as roots
or straw, to distend the bowels and
help their most effective mechanical
(the vermiform) motion of them, by
which the eaten food is gradually pass¬
ed along the digestive channel, will be
far more congenial and healthful than
overcrowding them with unnatural ra¬
tions of grain. Of course it is under¬
stood that this applies to the flock in
its ordinary condition, as ewes kept for
the increase of the (lock and not for
fattening for the market.
jt . p ^ ^
^ . q th<? shock flt loast ten tla s
duri v , hicb time it „ oes thro £ h \ ts
^ gwpat „ gllonId be handU like
wheat during this time if not thrashed
tR en - D should be stacked to protect
it from bad weather, but not before
| the straw* is perfectly dry, as otherwise
i j t will stack burn. There is also dan
gcr of shock burning if shocks are
made too large while straw is green,
liice paddy, or rough rice, weighs 44
j ponnds to tllP bushel. It requires spe
cial modifications in the mechanism of
thrashing machines in the way of
i g 1)eet B jr ra i n riddles, etc. The separa
top has to run at a higher speed and
the engine at a lower one than for
wheat. A sack of rice, standard weight,
ls 1S0 pounds, which millers claim will
mill a barrel of 1G2 pounds weight of
clean rice. Various species of rice dif
fer in regard to the quantity of head
rice they mill out to the sack, as Hon
pounds , 0 .^“acb of VS Ss 110
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Iln.sslv ibis' l'l» Orange Trees.
i In Florida many experiments have
been made with a view to adopting de¬
vices which will protect orange trees
from injury during the periods of se
vere cold which at times visit that sec
tiou. The fact that these periods of
cold are infrequent does not relieve the
grower from the necessity of providing
for their occurrence. The most eco¬
nomic of the devices tested appears to
be the banking up of trees with dirt or
sand. In Florida, as in Louisiana, this
has been found to be a very effective
means of protection. The trunks of
the older trees can be banked, and the
younger trees can be almost entirely
covered without necessarily causing
any damage to the trees.
j Store Sliepp Low.
The small yield of turnips is given
j as a reason for low prices of store
sheep in Scotland this year. Many are
reducing their (locks by fattening or
selling as feeders to others who are
more fortunate in having food sup¬
ply. High priced pedigree rams are
lower, though the decline in them is
not as great as in the poorer sheep.
Black faced ewe lambs also hold ap
well in value, as they are being put
in the place of docks of wethers by
some and in the place of deer by oth¬
! ers. The wether sheep are not as
profitable as they have been w hen wool
sold better, and American lambs are
becoming in better demand for meat
: than the heavy H-yoar-oid mutton that
the English people once thought was
the only thing fit for table use in the
way of sheep product. American Cul¬
j tivator
Germnny find A Wefit.
i The department <u agriculture is still
j working cn the problem of German re
! strictions on our e: port meats, says
The Breeder’s Gazette. It presents a
case very difficult of solution, because
the restrictions are allegedly rested on
hygienic grounds, whereas there is
i ample reason to believe that a desire
to protect the German producer lies at
! the bottom of the embargo. Notwith
j standing this, our government officials
are determined to make out a good
; case for the purity and wholesomeness
of our meats, and .as one step in that
plan it has been decided to send to
Germany a practical working exhibit
of our methods of meat inspection, in
eluding the instruments used in micro
sconical examination of pork for
triehinm It is believed that an ex
Libit of this kint will , a-rv some
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