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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1891)
*THE DEMOCRAT. « Wf Official Organ OF 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.” , , . . . .■ „ - c' 6 a '' injunction • •' 6 ,• . n is a gurative * dustnously the opportunity that , feperwho baT made hav during sunshine of the last ten days , ha. tho ?m‘ € '-I* t ; % SKo. |' ®h* t£ emodrat 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. . 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. •*TBE DEMOCRAT* /J THE 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. THE DEMOCRAT ft: FINK SHOW CkSES. «/)-A:,lc lor cntnlogue. TERRY M'F’U CO., Nashville. 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