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Entered at too Post Office at Gray
Ga., us act ond-< lass mail nutter.
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Official Groan ok the County,
Pubushed Every Thursday.
Subscription Price. $1.
T. It. TURNER, Proprietor.
T. K. TURNER....... / Editors.
J. A. HENDERSON, . . . (
We need the new court bouse
and jail boys, noil tied it bad.
Dadguir them new year resolu¬
tions— just one little nip won’t
hurt nohow.
And its thirteen million bales.
Now aren’t v«u sorry you cliokbd
off the boll weevil?
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The United States has produc¬
ed mote corn—dry measnr**—
than in any one year in its his-
tory.
If the boll weevil has any self
respect a: all there won’t be any
Cotton burned in Georgia next
year.
Butting into a political I contro¬
versy these days is just as easy as
falling off of the water wagon on
January 2nd.
Its amusing r.uro to hear a
woman talk about what kind of
whiskers baby will have when lie
grows up to bo a man.
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Probably Boston thought it
would be cheaper to elect an ul-
darniiin in jail than toseud
there ufter the election.
The long distance political jiu-
jitsu contest between Morris and
Osborne is enough to drive u de¬
cent public to hari-kari.
An exchange gives this bit of
wholesome advice to its readers:
“It is good to marry and settle
down, but is better to stay single
and settle up.
What is the average life of a bee
anyhow? We just want to know il
the one Clark Howell lias in his
top knot will live until the next
gubernatorial election.
If somebody could run the
blockade ut Savannah with a bar¬
rel of ink Hilly Osborne would no
doubt hold out a while longer ev¬
en if the enemy bus capturee 208-
coluinn h.ll.
Grim visaged war still stalks
abroad. At last accounts Kuroki
Morris and Sboessul Osborne were
hurling w hole columns at each
other with a disregard for the feel¬
ings of humauity that is sicken¬
ing.
To curb bin wife's extravagant
propensities it is claimed that n
citizen of Budapest is in the hab¬
it of keeping li\*t locked up in a
room of their bouse except on
Sundays, when the shops are
shut.
We have but little advice to
offer the farmer as to what lie
should do about raising cotton.
Fact is we know just about as
much about farming is we sup-
puss the average farmer knows
about running a country news¬
paper.
A Newark woman tried to shoot
her husband Sunday, but before
firing yelled at hint to dodge,
which gyes to show there is no
telling whut would happen now
and then if a woman were us quick
on the trigger as she^ is on the
tongue.
The Editor’s Career.
The stork disappears and w-
look into the cradp- and behold u
male child. After running tin*
gauntlet of measles, mumps, and
chickenpox he enters school. At
the age of ten he is a red-headed,
freckled-laced hoy and the terror
of tho neighborhood. At twelt e
he is an apprentice in a printu g
office. At eighteen he has aequi r-
ed two cases of long primer and
an army press, and is tho editor
of n country news paper. At
twenty he is married. At thirty
he is bald-headed, stoop-shoulder¬
ed, and I he fat her of a largo fami¬
ly. At thirty-fivo he is a corpse
in a cheap pine coffin, and as 500
delinquent t-nhst^ribers file past
his bi n*d look tl ey art
heard 1 - say: “J!. a good
fbilo'V, hut he U1 jit nl sjuve ins
utoii“y. ”
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Our .tail.
\V« invite tho people of Jonne
county to inspect our jnil when-
pypf it is ceiiYcnient for there to
^ (Q We make this request
wR p 0 ij eve j( ier0 nr( . n good
n , (U) y j,, die county who
not know nhat kind of a build-
i using for , prison. 1 he
ing we are a
! News has uo disposition to ndvo-
eft to any proposition that would
entni! needles* expense upon ti e
tax payors of tho county, but m
this case ww believe ft thorough
knowledge of the condition of our
public buildings will convince
everyone, as we are convinced,
that tho time lias arrived when it
is necessary that we should
a hotter mil.
The building now in use is per¬
haps the worst in 1 he state. It is
a square rock pen sixty years old,
one half of which is divided into j
four rooms or cells with plank i
floor. Owing to this mode of eon-,
striclion a prisoner may not be
allowed lights, heat or vontila- 1
tion. In summer these cells are
stifling hot and almost intolerable
to one confined in them. There
is only one small opening about
10 x 12 inches to each cell. In
winter the punishment inflicted
on prisoners confined here is ten-
fold worse. In tln>so stone dun-
goons there is only one way to
keep from freezing and Unit is to
roll up in the blankets furnished
by the jailor and lie on the floor.
The Jones county jail is a vei-
tiblo black hole of Calcutta and
is a disgrace to a civilized com¬
munity. G<> down and take a look
when you are in Clinton.
A New Court lloust* Need-
Ni id
1
We do not think there is any
question in the mnids of the pei -
pie as to whether Jones county
uceds a now court house. The
fact that we need one is sell evi¬
dent. It stares us in the face every
time^we turn toward the building
wo now have. The old courthouse
has stood w here it now stands tor
sixty long years. Its walls are
weatherbeaten, cracked and
seamed. Ten years or more ago
it was pronounced unsafe. By the
liniency of Providence and the
elements it still stands, but its
crumbling walls daily menace the
lives of those who are compelled
to occupy it, and the safely of it.-
valuable records is envoi veil.
A prosperous, progressive
county like .Jonesdeserves a better
temple of justice. With money
in tho treasury and no bonded in¬
debtedness she is in us good con¬
dition as she will ever be to build
a new court house and jail, and
The News hopes to see the people
take hold of tho enterprise and
push it to this issue.
KiliglitiS of Hylhiiis Notfis
By a law passed at I In* last, ses¬
sion of the supreme convention
subordinate lodges are not com¬
pelled to suspend numbers for
nonpayment of duos, but Urn mat¬
ter is left wholly within tho dis¬
cretion of tho subordinate lodge.
—Supreme Chancellor Shively,
Richmond, 1ml.
W. T. Brinson of Wnycross, Ga.,
a prominent Knight of Pythias,
weighs 670 pounds, has a waist
measure of ninety-two inches a id
wears No, 11 shoes,
Illinois has followed tho rota¬
tion in office plan for several years
and, according to tho Pythian
Record, the members of that state
are well satisfied with tho cus¬
tom.
The Pythian lodges of St. Louis
are plauniiigjto initiate a class o’
2,500 cunidatos in the Spring o.‘
1905.
The salaries to he paid the offi¬
cers of the endowiimunt ranks are
as follows: President $4,200;
general counsel and secretary,
$4,200; medical examiner ineheif,
$2,600.
The first Pythian lodge in Mis¬
souri wus organized in Kansas C ty
with fifty members. There tire
now 252 subordinate lodg s in the
state.
Attention Veterans.
We have forwarded a Dumber
of applications for crosses of hon¬
or fur camp 1 IBS U. C. V, to the
custodian in Atlanta. They will
he presented to our camp January
19th by Sidney Lanier Chanter
U. I). C. of Macon Ga., Each v-t-
eran must he present and reeeiv
V* alxkr, Com.
R Chiles, Adjt.
About Cotton.
It has never been tho policy of
The Nkwm to lecture the farmers
concerning their business policy,
us to when the cotton should b«
hood and the corn ploughed. The
farmers themselves probably
know more about these things
than do. , Hut , .. it just .
no seeing
now when all things are conspir-
ing to demoralize the cotton mar-
kot and rattle the furmer that an
opinion or two would not be out
of place.
Tho burning of cotton is absurd
fanatical. It is not unreason-
able to believe that tho very men
who have destroyed their cotton
preparing to make another
and equally as large o crop as
they made last year. And right
here is the point we wish to stress,
If one lias cotton to burn or is
unwilling to accept present pric*
(;S > why not store it away until
l “’ x t f ' n . and in Hie meantime
Dine a rest?
There are numerous proposed
ways of relieving the situation,
but the most leasable appears to
be the plan to hold tho cotton
new in tjio hands of the farmers
and reduce tho acreage this your
so that, tho amount carried over
from 1004 and tho crop of 1005
combined will not exceed eleven
million bales. It is generally un¬
derstood that the farmers do not
int-nd to dispose of the cotton
they are holding unless there is
an advance in tho price. $ut sup¬
pose they hold three million bales
until next full, and that tho crop
of this year is ten million baler.
There you me again with thirte n
million bales—and six or seven
cents a pound.
There is but one sure way of
forcing cotton to a living price
and that is to reduce the acreage
one half, which will, if the year
bo a favorable one, produco sev¬
en million bales. This added to the
three million halo surplus of Iasi
year—in or out of the farmers’
hands it is yet a surplus, because
the world dops not need it—will
make a crop of ten million bales
and will bring a good price. Ilut
what if another crojo of thirteen
million bales is made?
In making a resolution to cut
down the cotton acreage many
farmers go only half way and mis¬
led themselves with the belief
that all their neighbors will plant
short crops and therefore it is i,
good time to get ahead of the
game by putting the back yard
and the flower yard in cotton.
When harvest time rolls annum
there is mutual surprise and dis¬
gust—Smith has done exactly a.-
Jones did, and there is a bumper
cotton crop.
The present occasion demands
independent action on the part o!
tho individual farmer. It appears
to us to bo folly to make cotton
at a loss. If there are any farm¬
ers w ho cannot resist the tempta¬
tion to have some cotton around
they’ should go into the market
now and buy what thoyj need
while it can he had at les?
that the cost of production.
Two Lovers.
A dreamer am! a man of action
loved a woman.
The dreamer said: “I shall
write verces in her praise; they
will touch her vanity and she will
love me for them.
But the man of action said:
“IIow old-fashioned 1 1 shall cor¬
ner the stock market and thai
will bring her. t I
So the dreamer wrote verses,
and he induced a friend of Ins
who ran a lO-cent magazine, t<
print them. And the man of uc
tion cornered something or other,
and became a billionaire.
In the meantime, the girl mar¬
ried a man who inherited his
money, and they lived happy ever
after.
But the dreamer was so pior.d
<{ his verses that ho did’nt care;
and the man of action was sc busy
I hat he did’nt car- 1 .
Tho only one in suffer was the
man she married.—Smart Set.
WANTED—Men in this county
and adjoining counties to repre
lent,advertise and distribute sain
plea for and old established house
>f solid financial standing. Salarv
$8.50 per day, with expense ad
.'.•meed each Monday direct frott
headquarters. Horse and Lugg\
’nrtnshed when necessary; perma¬
nent position. Address, Blew
Bros. A Co., Dept. C, Monon
Bldg., Chicago, III.
Retire* From the Law.
Hon. Dupont Gaerry, president
of WVeleynn College, appeared in
the United States court on Wed-
nesday, nml in tho course of n
statment made in connection with
n case ho Itni boon employed in,
nimottnced that that would prob-
I.,. ably lw h;s last nppenranco there
1 ns n lawyer.
j For something more than a year |
Mr. Guerrv has been*nctivcl y en- (
gaged in educational work ns pres-
j idont of Wesleyan, and his success
in (ho now field lias bean so mark-
! c<1 that he has determined to eav
goodbye to the practice , of tho law
in which profession, however, he
ranked ns one of the strongest ad-!
voentes m tho state.
The law lias been termed “tlie,
noble profession,” hut there is I
none nobler tlinn tl.at of the edu-i
cator more pregnant with, , !
none
greater possibilities, , or wider
scope. Wesleyan is a great nisti-
tution, and Mr. Onerry’s direct¬
ing hand has added to its nseful-
ness, which is to say its great¬
ness.
The friends of Mr. Gnerry, the
friendsof Wesleyan and the
friends of education are pleased
at his success in his new field.—
Macon Telegraph.
It is slated that 10,000 bales of
aotton art used in ahsorbant oot-
toiytimualy by the surgeons of
the world.
LETTER ON FERTILIZERS
Description of Various Nitro¬
genous Materials Used.
PACKING HOUSE PRODUCES, ETC.
8tate Chemist John S. McCandless
Interestingly and instructively Upon
This Important and Much Discussed
Question.
Letter No. 5.
As you and others have written mo
to know what is the value of the dif¬
ferent materials used in the manufac¬
ture of commercial fertilizers, I will
jive you at this point a fairly coni-
ilete account of the substance? prin
:ipally te ed. First, we will consider
;u tho order of their value in dollars
md cents, and their agricultural im¬
portance, the nitrogeneous materials,
or those which yield nitrogen to the
plant. Such substances are also known
as ammoniates, because under certain
conditions the nitrogen which they con-
tain can he converted into ammonia.
Now nitrogen ar.d ammonia are not the
same thing by any means, but still
they are closely related, they are both
gases. Nitrogen, as I have described
to you before in another place, is a
colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, and
constitutes four-fifths of the air or at-
mospbere which envelops tho earth,
Ammonia is also a g~s and ls cololess,
but it has a pungent odor, the same
which you havo noticed in spirits of
hartshorn or spirits of ammonia bought
from the drug store, It also has a
caustic burning taste, and Is easily
dissolved in water, which nitrogen is
not.
Ammonia ls made by causing nitro¬
gen to combine with hydrogen. Four¬
teen pounds of nitrogen combine with
three pounds of hydrogen to make sev¬
enteen pounds of ammonia, so that
ammonia always contains a large
amount of nitrogen, but nitrogen never
contains any ammonia. And right
here it is well for you to understand,
that we have all fallen into a very un-
wise and erroneous habit of speaking
about a fertilizer as containing such
a per cent of amxtonia. As a matter
of fact, it is rarely if ever the case
that a fertilizer contains any ammo¬
nia, as such at all, but it dees contain
nitrogen combined in various forms.
As you know, it is customary, in
the careless way of talking obtaining
among us all, to speak of cottonseed-
meal as containing eight per cent, am-
ntonia. That is wrong, it does not
contain any ammonia, but it docs con¬
tain six and sixtenths per cent, cf n.-
trogen in the form of albuminoids of
protein, of which I wrote you =o much
in my letters o:i feeding, and this six
and six-tenth per cent, of nitrogen can
under certain chemical conditions ba
converted into 8 per cent, of ammonia.
l hope, then, I have made this plain,
and when you buy n fertilizer in the
future don’t imagine Ixecause you smell
certain peculiar odors about it that
you smell ammonia: thai is rarely if
ever the case; the odors you smell are
usually due to animal matters, fish-
scrap. etc., and indicate no greater
value in the fertilizer than one which
has no odor at all.
In the same way a dark or black
color is no indication of value in the
fertilizer. In point of fact, the high-
est grade fertilzer which could possibly
be compounded by the art of man
would be snow white in color. The
materials used for compounding
a fertilizer would be nitrate of am-
monia and phosphate of potash, and
these salts when chemically pure are
snow white salts. To return now to
our description of the various nitro¬
genous materials. Cottonseed-meal.
with which you are Only familiar.:
stands first in imijortance in Southern |
agriculture. quality j
An average meal of good
will contain six an-1 six-tenths per
cent, of nitrogen, which, if converted
into ammonia, would be equal to eight :
per cent.
It also contains an average of t* T i
per cent, ol phosphoric acid and r 8
per cent, potash, It is a very vain
able fertilizer, and constitutes the ni
trogen base of the greater portion o.
commercial fertilizers manufactured In
the South.
Next to cottonseed-meal the mate
•pals used most largely In the manu
facture of commercial fertilizers arc
the
“Packing House Product*.”
As little is generally known of these
and the manner of their production. I
wlll g, ve you a br | e f account of tholr
manufacture.
The great packing-houses are locat-
* d chiefly In Chicago, Kansas C.ty and
cattle are s i au ghtere(l, and the various
parts of the body are put to some spe.
dal use. Apart from the production
° f dressed beef, muttonor pork, theie
Is, of course, a large quantity of wasto
t0 be utilized, but the materia! most
interesting to us is that which is used
f° r fertilizers; this consists of blood,
meat, skin, bones and blood.
Dried Blood,
The material known as "dried blood”
ls tiie raost valualj!e fertilizing prod-
net, and the richest in mtrogeu. In
preparing this mate rial, the liquid
blood is collected in vats, where it Is
cooked; this process causes the sepa¬
ration of the protein of the blood from
much of the water; It i, then put into
presses where about one-half of the
water is pressed out. After pressing
it is still damp, and in the form of
cakes; these cakes are next broken up
8nd dried by passing them through a
mechanical drier heated by steam.
The damp cakes go in at one end of
the machine and dry cakes come out
at the other, when they are ground
to a powder and sacked ready for mar¬
ket. This blood will usually contain
about thirteen per cent, of nitrogen,
which, is the equivalent of about six¬
teen per cent, of ammonia, but as in
the case of the cottonseed-ineal, thcro
ls actually no ammonia in it.
Tankage.
Tho next Important product of tho
slaughter-house fs what is known to
the fertilizer trade at “Tankage.” This
is a mixture of blood, bones, waste
scraps of meat, etc. This material
gets its name from the fact that it is
cooked in huge tanks in the first stage
of its preparation. It is cooked un¬
der steam pressure at a high tempera¬
ture for several hours. As a result,
most of the fat in the mass is melted
and rises to the top of the tanks, where
it Is skimmed off and utilized for soap¬
making and other purposes. The
bones and the cooked meat, etc., now
lie at the bottom of the tank, and the
tank water is dark and highly colored
—is in fact a sort of soup, containing
nitrogenous matter in solution. The
solid matter, bones etc., are removed,
dried and crushed or ground in the
same way as was done with the dried
blood product.
Bone Meal.
There are also three kinds of bone
meal produced: raw bone meal, reg¬
ular bone meal, and steamed bona
meal. The first is, as its name indi¬
cates, produced by the crushing and
grinding of raw bones, after remov¬
ing any adhering fat or moat. This
t;a terial contains about four per cent,
0 f nitrogen, twenty-three per cent, of
t 0 tal phosphoric acid, and eight anu
one-half per cent, of available phos-
phoric acid. The regular bone meal
j s cooked under pressure for a few
hours in the tanks; this removes fat
an( i a ]go causes some loss of nitrogen,
make tho product grind easier and
g n er. This grade of bone meal con-
ta j I13 about three per cent, nitrogen,
twenty-seven and one-half per cent,
total phosphoric acid twelve and one-
half per cent, available phosphoric
acid. Steamed bone-meal is the prod-
net of the g’.ue works, and is mads
by grinding the bone left after boiling
ail the fat and glue out of them thai
can be obtained. This process reduces
the percentage of nitrogen, so thai
steamed bone meal will hardly average
more than two per cent, of nitrogen,
but has about the same amount cl
pbosphoic acid as the ordinary bone
meal.
^ orn anc j Hoqf Moal, Misconceptionl
About,
Horn and hoof meal is another prod-
uct of the slaughter house, Imper
feet horns and dark-colored hoofs arl
first thoroughly steamed, then dried
and ground into meal, The better
quality of horns and hoofs command
very high prices, even as $200 a ton,
for other purposes, in the manulac-
ture of buttons and novelties; hence
the quanitv of this material cominj
on the market is limited. There was
formerly a great prejudice against it,
and it used to be considered fraudulent
to use it in fertilizers. Even in stand-
ar( j worbs on agricultural chemistry
0 £ q Ujte rec ent date the material it
S pok en c f ^ being only very slowly
ava jj a t)i e as plant-food. This, how-
ever b as in the past two or threa
y ears been shown to be an error, and
^ he ma terial is now regarded by those
best informed as a rich and highly
ava |] a bie source of nitrogen. It con-
f a j ns about fifteen per cent, of nitro-
g en The quantity of it on the market
| g com p ara t,j V ely small. There aro
many other products of the packing¬
house, but these are the chief ones of
interest to the fertilizer trade, and to
the farmer.
In the next letter I will finish de¬
scribing the nitrogenous fertilizer raa.
terlals, and write you something about
phosphates.
Yours truly,
,-i..^ A* JOHN M. McCANDLPSS,
, YState Chemist,
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For Sale.
One twenty-horse engine and
boiler, one No. ] saw mill with!
48-inch inserted tooth saw, and
-me yoke of oxen. The mill i>!
practically only new, having been used
to gaw S0.000 feet of lumber
W j„ ^ cheap Cood fm
somebody. R. L. Gordon,
Wayside, Ga.
Benson & Moore»s
Suck Suits
Tlin success of (lie season. Some Now
Nobby ISrowns m Cheviots and Werstcada
at $12 50 to $£>’5
Everybody who has seen these st’ l-s
the verdict is identical. These are tlie
most artistio clothes of the century. You
should see them, Prices not low but
moderate.
Benson <k Moore )
THE UP TO DATE CLOTHIERS,
4-20 Third St.
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$ The largest and choicest assortment of Furniture, 'Carpets.
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; Rugs, Etc., shown anywhere in the state and at prices
ever
f; that please the buyer.
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No poor-stnek-tngether, knotty cord-wood kind of Fnr-
8 nitnre, but artistic designs at the price other dealers have
I been charging you for the inferior kind.
Give us a look and you will be convinced.
3$L3Ka.5E. Wood-Pea yy Furniture Co,
„ Cherry St , Macon, Ga.
A. S. J. TAYLOR BENT. RAY WALTER F. CLARK
TAYLOR SHOE
COMPANY
We I mve just re-
eeived a complete as¬
sort meat of Ladies’, T
Men’s, Children’s and
Misses’ winter shoes.
All goods, all sizes,
all styles, which ayiII
give von value reeeiv
ed for your money, or
your money will be refunded
519 CHERRY ST., MACON, GA-
Phone (>(>.
FRESH MEAL
You can find fresh ground
meal always on hand, for
sale and exchange.
C. E. CLARK,
Fortville, Ga
BUGGIES, BUGGIES.
One of the largest and best
lines in the South at reason-
_ "PPiCGS.
Ol© *
W. H. ASHWORTH
220 Third St Macon G a