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By Moore Bros.
VOL. XV.
THE DELICIOUS GRAPE.
A Successful Crop for Georgia’s
Soil.
IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR GROWERS.
The Question of Raising Grapes in this
part of the State Getting Interest¬
ing, A Good Crop.
1. How far should grape vines be
set apart?
2. How far should post be set
Irom vines?
3. When and bow should vines be
manured ?
4. How and when should grape
vines be pruned?
5. Should any of the young
growth be pinched off in the spring
where in clusters, or next to ground
on the body vine ? Please answer
in full.
6. How should tobacco be manag¬
ed about pruning and topping, cut¬
ting and curing it? I have house
or shed shelter, but no house to fire
dry it. How can I get it cured or
dried, and colored in uniform?—T.
S. L., Buchanan, Ga.
Answer—1. Ten feet each way
is the usual distance adopted by vine¬
yards in Georgia, for large, free
growing varieties, such as Concord,
Ives, Norton’s; but Delaware may
be planted 8x9.
2. If trained to stakes the latter
may be set within a foot of the vine,
or even nearer, if done while the
vine is in its first year,
3. Acid phosphate and some form
of potash, say muriate of potash and
cottonseed meal, in equal propor
tions, make a good application; ap¬
plying two or three hundred pounds
per acre, and repeating the applica¬
tion every spring. Scatter the fer¬
tilizer on the surface around the
vines, and extending as far as the
roots extend; and -work it in with a
pronged hoe or other suitable imple¬
ment. Pure, ground, raw bone is
md excellent application for vines
5. The practice is very varied.—
Some of the books teach a very de¬
tailed method of pruning and pinch¬
ing; but we observe that large vfne
yardists give very little attention to
summer pruning. The usual rule is
to pinch off the end of the fruit
bearing shoots, leaving one or two
leaves beyond the. last bunch of
fruit. Then as the laterals push out
from the axils, pinch them off be¬
yond the first leaf.
6. Write to Hon. R. T. Nesbitt
Commissioner of Agriculture, for a
<uopy of “A Manual of Tobacco,”
published by the Department sever,
al years ago. Also get a good book
on grape culture, say “Fuller on the
Grape,” Orange Judd Co., New
York.
Jay Gould's Prayer.
A Newspaper publisher in tbc far
West says they get it from the very
best of authority that the “Wizard
of Wall street” prays, when he
prays at all, as follows:
“Our father who art in England,
Rothschild be thy name; thy finan¬
cial kingdom come to America; thy
will be done in the United States as
it is m England. Give us this day
our bonds in gold, but no silver;
give us plenty of men’s votes to
keep a monopoly in power and their
friends in office. We know, our
father, we have done wrong; we
have robbed the honest poor and
brought distress to many a door.
We know it was wrong to refund
the bonds and make them payable
in coin; we know that it was wrong
to water our railroad stock, but thou
knowest we make money by that.
Thou knowest, our father, that we
are above politics. It is the same to
us whether Democrats or Republi¬
cans rule, for thou knowest we are able
to sway all political jobs in our favor.
Lead us not in the way of strikers,
but deliver us from the hands of the
insane Knights of Labor and the
Farmers’ Alliance. Thus we shall
have the kingdom, bonds and inter¬
est, power and gold, until the Re¬
public shall end. Amen.”
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is a gurative *
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feperwho baT made hav during
sunshine of the last ten days , ha.
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What That Is.
The esteemed Augusta Herald
gets up the following pointed items:
The poet Tennyson can take a
worthless piece of paper and by wri
ing a poem on it make it worth a
small fortune. That’s genius.
Vanderbilt can write a few words
on a sheet of paper and make it
worth five million dollars. Thats
capital.
The United States can take an
ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp
upon it the physiognomy of liberty
and make it worth twenty dollars.
That’s Money.
A mechanic can take the material
worth five dollars and make : t into a
watch worth one hundred dollars. (?)
That’s skill
A lady can purchase a very pretty
bonnet for three dollars and seventy
five cents, but she prefers one that
costs twenty-seven dollars. That’s
foolishness.
The merchant can take an article
worth seventy-five cents and sell it
for one dollar. That’s business.
The ditch digger works ten hours
a day and shovels three or four tons
of dirt for two dollars. That’s la¬
bor.
The editor of this paper might
write a check for a million dollars,
but it wouldn’t be worth a cent.
That’s tough.
She Carried on the Courting.
The News and advertiser, Albany,
is responsible for the following:
“The Kentucky girl is famous for
her beauty and the irresistable bland¬
ishment of her sex. But it was nev¬
er known that she could be irresisti¬
ble in the male role until recently,
Agnes Rankin, a young Kentucky
belle, decided to see how many
hearts she could crush among her
own sex by appearing a male. Put¬
ting on male attire, she secured
work as a hired man on a farm, and
began at once to court all the at¬
tractive young women the neigh¬
borhood, escorting then ’>. oVuji/h -Ji
to places! of amusethem, aiAt
a local reputation as a beau.
her sex was discovered it was
that she had become egaged
marry three fanners’ daughters.”
A man’s financial condition de¬
not so much on what he
makes as what he spends. If he
big money and gratifies cor¬
wants, he is much worse
off than the man whose wants are
few and simple and who saves some¬
thing out of small earnings.—The
spendthrift is a doubleWoser. Spend¬
ing is more consuming to a man’s
vitality than accumulating and is a
greater factor in the formation of
character. It is not so much what a
man makes as what he spends that
wears his life away and piles up
Peace of mind is best se¬
by spending less than you
faith in your preaching will
grow stronger as we see you putting
your sermons in practice.—Bear in
mind ye, whom we heard preaching
on this text, that we have not told
your names: but we shall watch how
you practice, and if we find you
delinquent in that, we may “tell a
tale out of school,” when we see
your corn cribs, graineries and barns
empty in December, the sheriff di¬
viding your last dollar among mort¬
gagees, and you begging some mer
chant to supply you during the next
year.—Forsyth Advertisers.
a
Samson, is astonishing Sa¬
people with exhibitions of
his marvelous strength. His thighs
and forearms are as hard as iron,
and he is capable of performing
wonderful feats. With his neck
alone Skiff claims to have lifted 1580
pounds. lie can break bars of steel
with bis teeth. Mr. Skiff would
never be taken, from bis appearance,
to be ar.ytliing more than an ordinary
man, but he is a veritable Samson,
being able to strike a blow equal to
480 pounds. He said he was born
with the phenomenal strength which
he possesses and never did anything
to develope it.
There, pherhaps, never was a
time that more forcibly demonstra¬
ted the dependence of every other
v .cation upon that of the producer.
All other classes arc- anxiously awai¬
ting the moving of the crops with
the hope that a relief from the terri¬
ble pressure, that is forcing so many
into bankruptcy, may be left. It
must be acknowledged no class of
people upon whom so much depends
has had so little to say in govern
mental affairs as the farmers. That
they should rise up and ask to be
heard is not to be wondered, and the
democrat party will hear their ap
, al)(1 „t their right—Enter
Purifies thTblood, increase the circula
expels poisonous humors and builds
^ ^ gj . stem Wh , t more , t0 J(ju waDt
“IDeTroted. to tli© 3P© I 3-©ri.exa,ll3^-”
CRAWFORD VILLE, GEORGIA, 3FR , SEPTEMBER 18,1891.
WHEN WILL IT BEGIN.
The Great Need of Diversifying
Crops.
"BY THEIR FRUITS WE KNOW, ETC.”
The Farmers Should Change the Mode
of al’ Cotton Farming and Diversify
their Crops at Once,
We have heard a number of farm¬
ers say recently, that they were de¬
termined to change their mode of
farming, that they intend to cultivate
less cotton and give more of their
time and attention to the culture
and producing of food crops. We
hope this is the “little heaven” that
has been sprinkled among the farm¬
ers generally.
But, brother, when will you begin
this change? Fruits are the best
evidence of a genuine conversion.
‘By their fruits ye shall know them.’
When you are seen preparing
your broad acres for, and casting
small grain over them during the
next few weeks, then will your
neighbors have the evidence of your
genuine conversion to a better mode
of farming. And when you do
make the change and turn your time,
talents and energies to the produc¬
tion of grains, grasses, corn, meat,
peas, &e., am:l besides these, of all
the cotton you can, your example
will be such a sermon as will con¬
vert your neighbors, and the leaven
of the change will spread.
Yes, brother, continue to preach
long and often on the hill tops, in
the valleys, along the high ways and
among the hedges, from the text,
‘less acres in cotton and more acres,
in food crops,” and be certain to
practice what you preach, and then
conversions will follow. And
be certain to remember that can not
lead sinners to repentence by preach¬
ing Christ crucified in the pulpit,
and serving the devil out of it.
Yes, brother, wejwere glad when
vauttmuf '
iq.
A successful fartnc Taliaferro
who has spent number of
cosn y tobacco,
years raising and g
that the idea b V'siml. He
says in cot
thinks there is move
ton, he quit the tow 0 ' business
as
years ago and began I*®' m cotton,
and after many year# ierienee at
raising cotton ho » r ie tobacco
plant in Georgia tv a failure,
He also the toU •'bolters of
says oney out
Virginia are not mak»
of the weed, and it strange
to us that people *> f i’gut many
„ if’ irn n— accwda-i
mil
» of it.
cess
It reads very wen pa/ter, but
when the worms get o|i the tobacco
plant and ruin the C’ Ops^Jt will not
set well with the cbtto.. planter.
There is enough monies in cotton in
the South, if our people will make
their corn and meat at home. It is
easier to raise corn and meat in
Georgia than it is tobacco. There is
no < doubt that the sod w'/l produce it
we 11 enough but as id making it a
money crop for Georgia, it will nev¬
er materialize.
An Accomplished Liar From
Texas.
A Mississippian, a Georgian, and
a Texan were together yesterday in
the rotunda of an uptown hotel,
says the Memphis Commercial, and
each one was boasting of the great¬
ness and excellence of his own state.
Said the Mississippian: “My state
is the greatest cotton state in the
world.” Then up spoke the Geor¬
gian: “I beg to differ with you
there for we raise a gieat deal of
cotton ourselves; and my state is the
greatest watermelon state in the
world. “But.” said the Texan, “gen¬
tleman I think the honor of being the
greatess state belongs to Texas.
We have the greatest variety of
crops and wc have the richest soil in
the world. We can raise anything
m Texas except watermelons.”
“Ah,” said the Georgian with a
triumphant look. “And why can’t
you raise watermelons ?”
“Because,” said the Texan sadly,
“the vine grows so fast and runs
over the ground so fast that it wears
the little melons out dragging them
along on the ground. There never
was but one watermelon raised in
Texas and the man that raised it put
it on a sled and hired two negroes
with teams of oxen to stay in the
field day and night and pull the mel
on along as fast as the vine grew.”
“And what did he do with it?”
asked the Mississppian.
“He cut a door in the side of it
and drove all his hogs in it, and
when they eat their way out of it in
the fall they were seal fat.
“Gentlemen,” said the Georgian
meekly, “let’s go.” And this wound
up the tri-state controversy.
H you want to find the
| erable man in the world find the
raost elfish one.
Xdvertiw. in the
This will fully offset the low price of
cotton, ami if cotton should advance
would be a clear gain to the South¬
ern farming interests,
Yields of wheat, rice and tobac
eo promise to exceed the crop of
1890, and so add largely to the gen
eral prosperity of the South.
Bankers in all sections of the
South report that, with business on
a solid basis, with less indebtedness
on the part of the farmers and mer
chants than for many years, and
with good crops assured, the pros
poets for the fall and winter have
never been move favorable. A peri
od of geat activity and solid de¬
velopment is universally predicted.
Tiik war is over in Chili and Bal
maceda is in hot water.
---—
Avoir sta will get a rate of one
cent per mile to her great exposi¬
tion.
If the present road laws of Geor¬
gia were carried out we could have
good highways.
Tiik Yankee papers say it is not
extvavigant to give the indigent
Confederate soldiers #100 per year.
Tim G. C. A N. R. R- is now
running trains regularly into Athens.
There have been several excursions
run from east Georgia and west,
Carolina.
IT WILL N
| The big hurrah tk eor- go*
ing the rounds of tin
gia and the South c< bae
co culture in tl/is sec een
much ado about a has
been fully discuss* of
brains who know not the
culture of the weed, , and
their advice and writ been
of little importance ts ers.
As to whether this ■bated
question will be e: h! in
the Southern fields Jo nt
we do not know, but ;pe
farmer assures us thi quire
too much work to m p of
tobacco. That he h, few
stalks this year and meed
».
that it will not work id.
farmer ,
Ife says that an oi
can cultivate an-MMS oil well
while he is fooling couple
dozen stalks of tobs ( o work
of cultivating the lam lich the
tobacco grows is not reat, but
to keep it free from worms is
where the time and 1 is taken
lb making . tnbaMjgl jjjggS
up sriment
It will require to
ing and loss of time i noney
prepare a Georgia fa’ o raise to
banco, and after he earned to
raise it, the profit if ;ether as
small as that of raisiip *tton, and
we are convinced I the latter
crop at the present / is a t'ail
urc.
farmers less in debt.
There is good news being spread
over the country that we feel
is true to a great extent, It is fo
the effect that fa.mers of the South
in a better fix than they have
been for years and that the past
stringency of the times has been a
blessing in disguise, that the South¬
ern banks saw the trouble in money
matters of the country and they re¬
fused to borrow money and with the
Southern merchants curtailed opera¬
tions, thereby giving the farmers
and people generally little opportun¬
ity to go into debt.
Upon this fine, it is said, that the
effect of this, while lessening the
volume of trade, has been a reduc¬
tion of indebtedness, and the placing
of all business and banking interests
on a very solid financial basis. It
also resulted in the borrowing of
less advances of money by cotton plant
era than for many years, and hence
the present crop has less indebted
ness against it than crops of former
yearn. In all parts of the .South
farmers are reported as less in debt
than for years, many reports “aying
that their indebtedness is smaller
than at any time since the war, due
in part to enforced economy on ac
c mnt of the monetary strincen cy
since last fall, and in part to the
large crops of the last few years.
The low prices of cotton in the
spring caused planter* to pay more
attention to raising there own food
supplies, and the South will proba¬
bly be less dependent upon other
sections for corn and wheat than
ever before, it is estimated that
g, a i n crops of the South this
year will aggregate rn arly 100,000,
000 bushels more than in 1890, and
th^ ^dedU. large yields o f f nuts
.
[ an d vegetables, will keep at home a
I** / esust *7 >,000,000 that last year went
- lor 1«K —•
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Rojt A, j©assssf? rOwflCl “g
ABSOLUTELY PUSS
A 17-year-old negro youth in
Florida killed the notorious Many,
an out-law, for which the hoy has
received about #1,:»00 in rewards.
An exchange speaks of Col. Purse,
of Savr inah, as a success in bust
ness transactions. It usually takes a
“good purse” to make a success of
business.
Home Council.
We take pleasure In culling tlw nttrn
lion of mo tlicrs to * home cum for all
diseases of the Stomach nnil lhiwola, a
Biedlciuft RO Iona needed to carry 1
|*fe!y thvough tno critical sUrc of Teeth
”*
PITTS’ CARMINATIVE
I* on Incalculable blessing to innthci anti
child It Is an Instant relief to colic <>1
Infants, a diseases with which Infants
suffer aa much the first four months ul
their life It elves sweet rest to the si h
and fretful child, ft strengthens nml
builds up the Weak gives aupctttc and
flesh to the puny, corrects, drain limn tin
bowels, cures Dlnrihonn and Dvseuteiy
A bottle. panacea for the children Try one
It costs only
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A BOTTL?
, , / __________
M ri
I b days. Guaranteed not to
■ M "stricture. If used In time is
■ \ A I preventive size other 7fl eta SI. a bottle,
same as the EH
t.lons. Prepared na, by For side
cluo Co., Wanliluaton, Gvawtm'itvllU', G*.
tlamnmok & Ulri’,
Wk hope the road congress
which is to meet in Atlanta on Oc¬
29th will “do more good for
order” than the one which met
once before.
Tuk great shortage in European
crops will bring more money
this country. It will not aid the
raisers much however, in the
of their product.
OiiSoon and South Dakota are
only Republican states that have
their Alliance to declare for the
Wo fear that this
broken solid South.
T’iikh. Livi.viston has refused to
, tion. ffwk. K. -Watson in - a
upon the railroad question
Georg? ^ Tommie is a good talk¬
and Mr.' Livingston knows it.
Tiik gentleman in the legislature
introduced the bill to pension
old wqldiqrs who really need
is on the right track. His head
level and when the vote is taken
will find that the legislators
not exactly traitors after all.
Tiik excitement has been high in
money markets for a week.
“bears” of Wall street have
floored and the “bulls” are
things a little their way.
We hope the price of cotton will
rise to within reason and profit—to
the farmers.
Tuk Atlanta papers should feel
responsible for the uncalled-for cen¬
sure that is being heaped upon the
South by the Northern press on ac¬
count of the action of the Legisla¬
ture towards the Soldiers’ home.
They made such ado over it that the
papers up North felt that it was all
over Georgia and that it would be a
good time for them to strike with
their bloody shirt boomerang.
<■. ii. now Aim. 1>, VVKlHHlKi:.
C. H. HOWARD & CO.,
i Commission* Merchants,
No 20 McIntosh,,,. (Neuntl. Strict.)
UnOrdeu for Bagging tun! Augusta, Ga.
And <'onslgnitien s of
—I
ordLati & Smith.,
* Factors,
Au gusta, Gra.
Liberal advances nmdo on Cotton In store.
Bagging ami Ties, at lowosi. ma.bot prlcos. the o-ilest
We guaTanteo sads'oeuon In uvevy vospcc. Ouv Salesman is one of
and best cotton moo In Augusta. Brush l.iii', wit
ii'-o Agents for the CnUon l'doom and l iullo-t Elloot i
Feeder, and Condensers. Those G'ns have no superiors.
Aug. U(S, 1001.
.1. IIAXU’KU DAVISON. I'UAKI.KH T. KAROO.
0AVISON 8l F ARGO |
COTTON hih FACTORS
A Sit
GO/nmiSSION # MERCHANTS.
739 Reynolds Street, ( Next door Gotten Exchange.)
Augusta, Georgia.
* if- Consignments soliolto<l. .JDi
\\r,. I'm/ Ntrid Personal Attention to Our Ituxi.um.
Ci. T. HlHhKY. I Ii. NIXO-V, h. ii. i.Axnr.L'M.
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SIBLEY, NIXON & CO.,
(HtwcaHHO 'H to G. T. iS/HLiSY.)
©0TT0N + FACTORS,
GUAM) DEALERS &, (OWHSSION MERCHANTS,
731 and 733 Reynolds St. U GTSTA, GA.
nrm— Liberal advances made on aM ..■'men. market price* —JSZ,
Bagging ami Te urnlsHed at
Sibley’s Ammoniated Dissolved Bone.
Hi K h and S unpling Gorton.
STONE & GAVARAtlGH,
eOTTON + FA6T0RS
— -ajstd
MACHINERY + AGENSS.
No. 101 Jackson Street, Opposite Cotton K;;change AUGUSTA,
O. M. STONE, Salesman,
, it>era) ^/vances made on consignments. Commissions oO cents. Storage 25
Ik the South has eleven of the
thirteen states that have declared
for the Ocala platform, it seems to
us that these facts ought to convince
a Democratic Alliance that we are
uined if the measu re entire is forc¬
ed upon the Democrats. For only
13 states of the Union to fight for
any one measure is assured defeat,.
Split up eleven Democratic states in
the solid South and you will see 011(1
of the most over-whelming victories
for the Republicans that was ever
hea-d of before. It will Ik; the best
for tbc Alliance demands and Dem¬
ocratic demand to Ik: /moled and a
general compromise made for tbc
present.
A l.mieCJirl’Blvipeiienee In u M(kt
bouse.
Mr. and Mrs. I/iren Trescott are keepers
of the Gov. LI«'ithouse at Band Bench,
Mich., and are blessed with a daughter,
four years old. bast April she was taken
down with Measles, followed with a
dreadful Gough and turning into a Fever.
Doctors at home and at Detroit treated
her, hut In vain, she grew worse rapidly,
until she was a mere “handful of bones,”
—Then she tried Dr. King’s New Dis¬
covery and after the use of two aud a half
bottles, was completely cured. They say
Dr. King’s New Discovery Ls worth i's
weight in gold, yet you may get a trial
bottle free at
Dr. R. 1. Reid Drug Store.
It Is quite the fashion now to take De
Witt’s Little Early Risers for liver.
atomach and bowel disorder*. They are
small pills, but mighty good ones. D r. U
J. Reid sells them.
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Best Ad’vt Medium
IN
Middle Georgia.
$1,25 Per Year
NO. 38.
Tiik Third Georgia Regiment re¬
union will be belli at Covington,
Wednesday, Sept. 30th, and Thurs¬
day. Oct. I st.
Tiik people of Geoigia want oiriy
a t’ eo-spoken press and the Georgia
weekly editor generally opens out
upon things that are wrong.
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