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Official Organ of Franklin County.
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C'-VUNKSVIU.K, VIA., MARCH 2J, tS'.K).
EDITORIALLY I*A BAG RADII El).
Florida oranges and vegetables
were slightly injured hy tile recent
cold weather.
Indications point to Georgia ns fa¬
vorable for tobacco culture on a large
scale in the near future.
The respectable lfepublicans of
Georgia are disgusted with the ad¬
ministration in this State.
The Chamber of Commerce of New
Or|eans has invited Postmaster-Gen¬
eral Wauamaker to visit that city.
Prohibition is making a fine show¬
ing this year. It is gaining every¬
where nearly that elections are being
held.
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Tfie National Alliance is opposed
to the compound lard bill now before
Congress, and condemn jt as unwise,
special and class legislation.
Tariff reform is gaining ground ev¬
ery day, and the Republicans un¬
making a dying fight to continue in
control of government affairs.
Tf is thought by President Folk, of
the National Alliance, that Liverpool
will not accept a reasonable proper
silion in regard (o the tare on cotton.
Mr. E. YV. Blue, the famous “one
dollar a week" jeweler, credits much
of his success to the encouragement
of his wife in the dark days of mis¬
fortune.
There is a deep conviction among
many of the thinking people nil over
the country that State sovereignty
will and ought to again become the
popular idea of government.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin
has decided (hat the reading of the
Bible in public sehoojs is unconstitu¬
tional. This is a victory for the Cath¬
olics, as they objected to the reading.
The Alliance is considering smaller
bales of cotton, One hundred pounds
to the bale is the desired size. They
say the cotton bales must be of uni¬
form size, as they can better settle
the tare question.
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Mr. F. L. Stanton, of the.. Oonsti-
tution, is doing q work that the weekly
press of the State very much appro-
Qafe. Such work tends to bring the
people closer together ;md makes us
feel like we all lived in one big eottn-
ty—so to speak.
Judge Billings, Federal district
Judge of Louisiana, a carpet-bagger
of the. vecops*ruction period, reduced
a few days ago a verdict of $10,000
to $5,000 found by two democratic
juries in favor of a blind negro, This
shows whether the Republicans love
the negro as dearly as they pretend,
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Lodge's bill to regulate Congres¬
sional elections by Federal laws,
should h pass, wi’J cause pc. little
trouble in the South. The people
in this section will not tolerate out¬
side interference in their focal mat¬
ters if they can help tlienisch es, and
they will be most certain to. make an
yfftoit to help themselves.
The Atlanta Evening Journal does
not want anofher prohibition election
in Atlanta. That brilliant journal
thinks the agitation would result in
much hargt to the city. If strikes us
that if the Journal would strike a few
black-eye licks against anti-prohibi¬
tion and let the railroads rest awhile
that its course would be tgore com¬
mendable than a, v>resent.
i he. March number of the Georgia
I earlier prints a call for a Southern
'lookers Association to Ve. held in
Mov^gotapry Juna 2<<Ui. The califs
Viade by l*ou. Sofoutou Palmer. State
t’cuool ( otnmisMouer of Alabama,
and is signed by a large number of
leading educators throughout the
- outfc. i he object of the Ahwcra-
Yion is to discuss those measures, that
lelate exclusively to the solution of
(he educational prodem of the.South-
"Surface Washing ami Gullying,”
rip; Southern Cultivator contains
an interesting and valuable* contribu¬
tion under the above heading from
John M.Sthul, of Quincy, 111. .Mr.
Sthal points out many errors that are
made by our fanners in impoverish¬
ing their lands hy allowing surface
washing and gullies by continued cul¬
tivation, instead of putting out* junds
in grasses or other crops that do not
need cultivation. He speaks espe¬
cially for the hilly lands. Every man
with any observation in this section
knows that there must h<* somethitig
done to preserve our lands, both low
and uplands.
Our high lands are being damaged
more or less every year from wash¬
outs, gullies, etc., and the low lands
are being overflowed by water be¬
cause the Uplands are not better look-
; ed after. .Mr. Sthal, in the course of
his ideas, says this: “Our keeping
such lands," refering to the hilly or
light sandy, loamy lands, “in culti¬
vated crops would not be so remark¬
able where such lands are unprofita¬
ble in grass or other crops not re¬
quiring cultivation. Put. such is not
the ease. Usually such lands will
give as large an income in grass or
uiiciihi vated crops as cultivated crops;
and ii the well-being of the land, its
productiveness js kept in view, the
lijst mentioned crops w ill be far more
profitable. In fact, lands miteli in¬
clined to wash are by cultivated crops
so rapidly reduced m productiveness
that they soon become unprofitable,
I while if put in grass and grazed their
productiveness and profitableness are
more than maintained. Such lands
are ,always splendidly adapted to
grazing, for they are dry, and cattle,
horses, sheep, and even swine do bet¬
ter mi dry ground.” These arc
many farmers in this section that
seem to have the cotton and corn dry
rot. They are cultivating the same
Held in cotton that they did fifteen
years ago without ever changing the
crop, and the same way with corn,
while the land is getting poorer ev¬
ery year. Put they seem to think
it is bad seasons, high prices paid for
goods, and hard times generally, not
realizing that they are to blame for
their lack of success.
We know it is easier to talk and
point out than it is to do and carry
out, but at the same time the man
who ii e.s his head in farming instead
of following an old-time, worn out
pattern will be much more successful.
The Alliance Protests.
We had occasion not long since to
call onr readers attention to the fight
being made against the railroads in
Georgia, stating at the time that those
who were the leaders in this fight
were not sincere, but were making it
for sinister purposes, it. now turns
out that the Atlanta Evening Journal
and it’s brilliant president, Hon. Hoke
Smith, have been called to taw for
their cheeky and selfish stand by
President Livingston and the Soutli-
cm Alliance Farmer. The Journal
and .Mr. Smith have persistently in-
listed that the farmers of the State
were being oppressed by the rail-
toads, and unless something was
promptly done that the railroads
would soon usurp the entire fftate,
and in this eoursg they have used
every effort to drag the fanners’ Al¬
liance to their support. In this effort
they have to some extent been suc¬
cessful. But from the turn things
have taken we believe their selfish
amis have been thwarted. Such
barefaced efforts for individual honors
should be frowned down.
How Hot to Build Up a Town.
Horace Greek-v is said to have
written the following truths:
I If you want to keep a town from
thriving, don't build any more house's
than you can conveniently occupy
yourseif.
If you should accidentally have an
empty building and anvo.ne wants to
l ent it, ask them three times its
value.
Demand a Shyloek price for every
foot of land (lod has given you stew-
ard.diij) oyer.
Turn a cold shoulder to every me-
chanie who seeks (a make a home
with you.
Look at every now coiner with a
scowl.
Fail to advertise in or support ypur
newspaper, that people abo-ad may
not know whether business U going
yn or not.
Wrap vonrsyli' up in a coat of hn-
pervious selfishness.
| There is no more effectual way to
retard the growth of g town than ac-
!tioys like these enumerated.
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j The j refined ExTKUi»ui lard 3 Ein its opinion should
t boycott,-. K , ,L packers be
... V . couth.
THE DAIRY BUSHIESS OF THE
SOUTH DEVELOPING.
The Great Change Which Has Come
Over Putnam County-Good Cows
Pay, and There is Always a
Good Market for Batter.
l-'rimi the Atlanta ('um-titutiop,
Eatovj'dv, Ga., March 12. In
these days of low prices and small
profits, while the farmer is trying to
lind something that will increase the
revenue from his farm, lie would do
well to consider butter-making, which
offers a most inviting field, not only
as being profitable but aii being a
light and interesting business in which
his wife, or daughter may engage with
much pleasure.
Twelve years ago Putnam comity
did not ship a pound of butter and
there was not enough made in the
county to supply the home demand.
Now the county ships over a hundred
t housand pounds per annum, yielding
her a net revenue of nearly thirty
thousand dollars from this one item
alone, besides giving a light and lu¬
crative employment to many too del¬
icate to labor in the fields. This rev¬
enue is not like the cotton crop, con¬
fined to the fall and winter, but keeps
right on through the spring and sum¬
mer, when the pressure for a little
eash is felt by most farmers the most.
If the northern farmers can make
.t living on higher priced lands and
higher juiced labor, to say nothing of
having to feed twice as long in the
winter as we do, receiving for his
milk less titan a dollar a hundred, we
ought to do a little better than that,
with an almost unlimited demand at
present and not likely to be supplied
for years to come, for good whole¬
some butter at 25 cents and over. I
do not mean the while, sticky, puffy
mass, the product of poor cows, hot
water and ignorance. I refer to the
l icit golden granular mass, made only
from fat cows, good feed, with care
and intelligence exercised in the pro¬
duction of it. Such butter will make
a market for itself.
That dairying In the South has un¬
dergone a great change for the bet¬
ter, is apparent to the most careless
observer. That there is still greater
room for improvement in the quality
of butter sent to market, is realized
by all dairymen. The business will
pay in proportion to the amount of
intelligence and care displayed in its
management. The production of
butter begins, as do a great many
other useful things, with the cow.
l)i<l you ever think about the value
of the cow to the human family ? She
furnishes beef, butter, milk, cheese,
shoes, buttons, and the
her hair was the basis for most our
Sunday clothes, and don’t you re¬
member what splendid lights we used
to make during the war, dipping a
cotton string in a pot of hot tallow
and holding it in the wind to cod,
repeating the operation until we got
a fair sized candle that was used bv
upper tendom to illuminate the par¬
lor on Sunday evenings? The pine
knot was used in the other rooms.
In additon to all these the cow is
thc best guano factory, cotton seed
crusher, oil extractor and manure dis¬
tributor in existence. While the
Jersey and the Guernsey stand at the
head of the dairy breed, yet butter
equally as good can be made from
any other breed, though the quantity
will be less. I would not disparage
tlu- Jerseys, for I consider they wii!
make more pounds of butter from a
given amount of food than any other
breed, and as a cow is nearly a fac-
tory for the conversion of food into
butter, it is evident that the ope that
produces the largest quantity of
manufactured goods from the small-
est quantity of raw materials at the
least expense, is the best, whether it
be a Jersey, short hovu, polled angus,
or common scrub.
The food occupies a most intpor-
taut position. If Denmark can make
butter that will keep sweet and sound
a year in a hot climate-, and we can-
make it to keep three weeks, it is
evident that the Dane knows more,
than ryo do about butter-making,
therefore a Jack of knowledge is re-
sponsible for our failure. One reason
of this is that most dairy works are
written by northern writers, and are
totally unfit for our conditions, and
" ill not do at all, Due fact I will
mention: The northern temperature
af which milk ought to bo, churned is
put at sixty degrees; the. southern
dairvynan would have to vhunt about
live hours, and would then fail to get
all the butter o.ut of the milk.
dairyman will have (o learn a
dgal from experience. While the old
lady’s tuition is quite high, her
' the learning. The
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northern makers cf daily rations say
feed so much corn, so much hay, so
much bran, etc. The average farmer
don’t know mnch about a balanced
ration, so I wont trouble lib mind to
tell him how much protien, bow much
carbo-hydrates, how much fat-form-
or ami how nmol) flesh-former to
feed. I feed a ration of ten pounds
bran aitd five pounds boiled cotton
seed, and the cow (and right here
understand that the word “cow”
means, in dairy nomenclature, one
that has had two or more calves; a
COW that has had one calf only is a
heifer) that does not in three mouths
produce a pound of butter or over on
this ration ought to be carried to the
butcher, if she lias the combined bjopd
of all the Jerseys brought to America.
1 use cotton seed in preference to
the meal because the oil in the seed
is exactly what the cow extracts, and
the manure that is left is better than
the whole seed, or, if not better, will,
when dry, he in better mechanical
condition find be more available as
plant food. I am well aware that ex¬
perts in cattle-feeding will differ
with me and say I ought to put more
of this and less of that. I am well
jileased with this, a.; it is the cheap¬
est and most available to me. I feed
it, winter and summer; in winter with
ten pounds cured fodder corn, in sum-
user vvitlt pasture. Now let’s see the
cost: The bran is worth seventeen
dollars a ton and the seed about ten
cents a bushel on the farm for ma-
nitre. The cost ought not to exceed,
including everything, fifteen cents
per day per cow, and the return
would be a pound of butter, worth
twenty-five cents, besides buttermilk,
manure and the increase of the herd,
which last is no mean item. Agri¬
cultural chemists say that the manure
from a ton of cotton seed fed to cat¬
tle is worth twenty dollars. If this
is so the cow will pay more for the
seed than the oil mill. . It is true that
the handling and hauling is a disa¬
greeable job, but not half as disa¬
greeable as having to meet a good
sized guano note with a small cotton
crop. You can hire a negro to come
and do a quarter’s worth of work five
days in the week, killing grass, while
a cow will pay you fifteen cents a day
for the privilege for eight months in
the year, besides putting in seven days
in the week. Quite a difference, as
you will find out at the end of the
year.
MAKING r.UTTKTL
To make first-class butter you must
have some means, either natural or
artificial, to control the temperature
of the milk before it turns and dur-
mg churning. Most farms have a
spring near the house than can be
utilized; if not a wooden trough,
lined with tin or galvanized iron,
witli double cover with air space be¬
tween, placed near the well and the
water changed three times a day,
will do. Never use a dry well unless
there are ample means to thoroughly
ventilate it, as the air will quickly
become foul. After tlie milk has
been drawn from the can it should
be_ Cooled to about sixty-eight de¬
grees. When* turned it is ready to
churn, and the temperature to churn
at in Georgia is about seventy-two
degrees. Get the temperature right
before starting to churn; if too high
reduce with offld water, if too low
raise with warm milk. Don’t jab
your finger in it and say it is just
right, use a dairy thermometer. There
isn't one man in a hundred that can
come in Yen degrees of heat or cold
by the touch. Success depends much
on the temperature during churning,
Now, as to the churn, all dairymen
agree that no churn is fit for use that
has paddles or floats inside, as they
crash the grain of the butter. I pre-
fer the swing churn to any other, on
account of the ease with which it can
he cleaned. Scald the churn with
hot water and rinse with cold and
pour in your milk; if you have gotten
the temperature right the butter will
come in fifteen minutes. It will come
in beautiful grannels about the size of
a Mo. 2 shot. The color will he all
that the maker could desire if the
cows are well fed. I can’t encourage
the use of coloring matter, but if you
will use it, or your trade demands a
rich golden color, use about a drop
and a half to the gallon. But in the
milk before, churning,
Yt’hen the butter milk is drawn off,
put iu cold water and wash the but-
ter, repeating the operation until the
water runs perfectly clear from the
butter. This will get rid of all the
eussien which if’ allowed to remain
will cause the butter in a few days to
(aste and smell strong enough to>pull
a plow. Remember you are nof to
make a mule. 1 have seen people
to work it out with the public
whereby the grain is utterly ywinod,
the butler too. After the butter
been washed salt with about an
outjwe of salt to the pound, with some
good brand of dairy salt. Uogronnd
.Liverpool &alt is ma It to salt meat,
not butter- After salting pet in a
cool place until it has become firm,
Next day use a butter-worker and
work every particle of water out of
it as the presence of water in it will
cause it to sour, After the butter
has been worked it is ready for ship-
meat. Press into oflo.pound cakes
with a butter press, with some plain
stamp on it, and wrap each cake sep-
.irately in parchment paper, place it
in a tin can and send to market. In
shipping from April to November use
a can that has an ice box in it- that it
may reach the consumer in the best
possible condition.
M. If, Hudson.
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ANYTHING YOU WANT IN
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At the lowest possible prices.
ROOFING AND GUTTERING
Done anywhere promptly by best
skilled workman. Call on or write
for prices. J. H. Maxwell,
4-29. Elberton, Ga.
To One and All
Of my old friends who want either
Saddles, Bridles or Harness made or
repaired will find'the old saddler,
D. M. LOONEY,
at Oarnesville to do their work, at the
Col. Tims. .Morris office, where he
will he glad to see von all and work
for all once more in life.
Yours, as ever, D.M. Loonky.
r.-i7.
Coffins aal Fnrnitnro!
T carry a complete line of Coffins
in all sizes.
Furniture consisting of Bedsteads,
Bureaus, Chairs, Safes, etc.
A1NTS AND 1 L S!
I carry a full line of Paints and
Oils. Prices guaranteed satisfactory.
T. H. ROBERTS,
4-29. Lavonia, Ga.
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MONUMENTS!
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Cheapest * ‘[(T^T^T{Jest^
I will be glad to furnish the public
with anything in my line. Prices
guaranteed satisfactory.
8-34 P. J. Puckett, Elberton, (fa.
THE
Reolalors ol Low Prices
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS, HATS,
SHOES, BOOTS,
HARNESS,
SADDLES, GROCERIES.
Lawrence’s Liver Stimulator a Specialty?
Give me a call. Respectfully,
PIERCE & DOWNS,
3-8. Royston, Ga.
Fancy Grocery
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Nige Goods
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Low Prices.
1 carry a complete stock in my
fine, including drugs, show ease no¬
tions, and all kinds of canned goods,
Tobacco and Cigars, a Specialty,
(QS^Next door to P. II. Bowers.
B. CURRY, P.eycien, Ga,
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ALL OF FRANKLIN’S
ENTERPRISING CITIZENS
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YVe venture to say there is not a citizen In the county who does not
want a good County* Paper, and we further venture to say that “THE
ENTERPRISE” is, and will continue to be, the best paper ever pub¬
lished in Franklin County.
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ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY i
Ncither will “THE ENTERPRISE” attain its height of success in
so short a time, but if the citizens of Franklin County will give us
their patronage we will build up a circulation to almost equal Romes
population, and give them a paper that every one will he proud of.
We don’t. - propose to pander to any sect, society, or organization,
hut will publish a straight-forward, Democratic, conservative news-.
paper that will tend to build up and further the progress of Franklin
County.
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Carnesville will have her railroad completed in a short time, and
already she is awaking from her Kip Van Winkle slumber, and will he
ranked among the thriving, live towns of North-East Georgia, and
with the beginning of her second growth THE ENTERPRISE first
sees the light of day.
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To getting out a newsy, five, enterprising and progressive paper we
will devote all of our energy and time, and build up a newspaper that
will be looked for with eager anticipation.
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The sections of the whole country which are the most prosperous
are the sections that have advantage of progressive newspapers. The
newspapers are »ot only expected to give the news, but it ijs a, part of
tlu-ir mission to develop the territory into which they go. It shall ho
our highest ambit ion to do service for oar- section, and hope we will
have the friendship of the people for our efforts.
THE ENTERP ISE It
Carnesville, Ga,
81 A YEAR!
