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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1891)
UTBE DEMOCRAT * rs THE \ Official Organ CF i Taliaferro® Comity. Dy Moore Bros. VOL. XV. ■ in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov t Report. ft "im. —- king m Ss ST& rowoer absolutely pure THE TOBACCO CULTURE. Hmtsto Those Who Want to Try it. HOW TOBACCO CAR BE RAISED. Selection of Seed, Soil. Manure and the Genera} Cultivation. Published by Bequest of B. T Nisbltt. Tobacco raising as a money crop has in the past claimed but little of the attention of the farmers of Geor¬ gia, and its successful cultivation has been considered a difficult undertak¬ ing, out of the ordinary line of agri¬ culture and requiring extraordinary skill. The primitive methods in vogue, the absence of fertilization, the utiliza¬ tion of virgin soil only, the want of method in marketing have all aided in limiting the production. The low price of cotton, pointedly bringing to mind the absolute necessity of a reduction in the acreage of that crop, has recently directed the minds of the farmers to tobacco growing, as its culture and manufacture occupies the sixty place in the great indus¬ tries of the United States, and a large portion of Georgia soil has us¬ ually been considered adapted to this plant. Under these circumstances, a short review of late and improved methods of raising and curing the plant may not be considered unin¬ teresting, and may furnish those who are seeking information on tins subject a snore detailed account th ift the Department would be able letter. s«»d jraav serve t.x IS ail in re in the culture of to' ’■‘■co, thus enabling us to increase the price of cotton, our money crop, by another money crop. SI. f. MOTION’ axd preparation of THE SOIL. The first step necessary to raising tobacco successfully is the selection and preparation of the soil. Tobac co thrives best in a deep, mellow soil, either naturally rich or made so by some good fertilizer. If old land is selected, it should be turned over in the fall if there is anything on the land to turn; if not, apply some coarse farm manure. There is notli ing better for this purpose than half rotted straw and lot manure. Fol¬ low your 'turning plow with a sub soiler, so that the land will be ren¬ dered sufficiently porous to permit the water to pass downward. Land treated in this manner in the fall or early winter will be pul¬ verized by the action of the frosts, and will be in excelleut condition for the jinal preparation for the plants in spring. After the frost is all out of the ground, a good coat¬ ing of compost should be spread broadcast and the land broken about half as deep as the first plowing, racing across the first. Just be¬ fore you are ready' to set out the plants, run a heavy harrow over the land and lay off the rows three feet apart, with a 1 hovel plow. In this furrow put some good fertilizer, at the rates 200 pounds per acre, or even move, run through if your it wuh land a is narrow thm.j plow, in order to mix the fertilizer w ith Use soil. I lien bed on j with a one-borse turning plow, an^ on this tied , nr: a roller, and .Y , ur , 1 md is ready t* r .-.etting out the ] plants, which c tr ould Ire about two! feet and a h""’f I a an old field that j ' has gro 5* .mi has l>een cui do wn, f i rested sen:ewhat 1 dilteic! been m in 1, cultivation, smooth land but j j that ha tii : »utrh breaking and clearing the mar-'! 4 \ of ti tuft- f: and If! and and roots roots is is all all * FRfcl’ARATlON AND CARE >f seed BEDS. !| is of ihe utmost importance to ^planter to; have an early and ■ l»nt supply -<f t-.bacco plant*, ■ l-cnre this the seed may be .-own He *«*"*"* emocrat. any time between the 15tli of De cember and the 15th of March- the earlier the better. The ground se¬ lected should be virgin soil of sandy texture, rich and moist, with full ex posuie to the sun, but sheltered to the north and west by rising ground or growing timber against the cold winds of early spring. The ground having been well chosen, clear it of rocks and weeds and rake it off well. Then burn it thoroughly by building a good tire of brush and wood on it, which should be kept burning until you are sure that all vegetation and germs of insects are killed. A good brisk fire kept up for about two hours will ac accomplish this. After the ground has cooled off it should be cleared of everything accept the ashes, and then dug up thoroughly and raked off nicely. The soil should not be inverted, however. Tobacco seed are very small and too much care cannot be taken in preparing a seed¬ bed for its reception. The bed is now ready for seed; the seed may be sown broadcast over it, or a better plan is to mark off drills with a sharp stick about one and a half or two inches apart, and into these little drills sprinkle the seed; they should not be raked in, but the bed should be trodden with the feet or rolled, or patted with the back of a hoe; a simple but very ef¬ fective method, is to take a piece of plank and lay it on the bed and tramp on it,'then take it up and place it down where-the first impres stops. and so o n imt^. the entire be am lias. t, (■ii* ing, as the soil and seed ar * not so apt to adhere to a smooth plank as they are to the feet. The bed should have a trench all around it so that it will be thoroughly drained; nothing drowns more easily than a tobacco plant. QUANTITY OF SEED. One and one-half tablespoonfuls of seed will sow 100 square yards or thirty by thirty feet of bed. The seed should be mixed with a conven¬ ient quantity of dry ashes before sowing, as there is great danger of sowing too thickly. If the ground on which you pre¬ pare your bed is not naturally rich it should be made so by applying fine, well rotted stable manure, which must be free from seeds of weeds grass. The bed should be thickly covered with fine brush, to prevent both dry¬ and freezing of the soil, by which the plants are either stunted or up¬ rooted. The tobacco bug generally makes its appearance about the first of An excellent preventive against this enemy of the young is to nail a twelve inch plank stakes driven in the ground at corner of the bed, and throw earth against the lower edge the planks, and then sow the out¬ edges of the bed with black mus¬ seed. The cold frame will serve additional purpose of keeping bed warm and moist, and should om ; tIe d; the mustard will ,, p , p b C kly, and upon it this loveg t0 feed) and w ip attac k ; t j e t the tobacco alone. The an t 8 will show UietiLselves fir-t of March, when an addition j r ri biespooRfal of .seed should be on the bed, after the plants are up, they should be pushed for as lapidiy as possible by top before each rain witjGsotpe fertilizer, at tbe rate /tf every square yards; the fertilizer oil* mid ^ a pr»i, e d while the plants ^ ... ... __^ . , , . I i ear 0 f scalduig them. Dry leaves young graes or weeds should be off the bed, but the cov of brush should not be remov permantly until the plants are large enough to set out. If plant" begin to parch from the bed should be well water- ‘■‘ZDox’-oted. to t!b-e IE? r le C3-en.exstll37 r CKAIVr<)KDV1LLE, GEORGIA, KMltiiK 27. lt»U. ed and covered with green houghs ! laid upon a scaffold several feet I ! above the plant#!’limy-should not be shaded too much, and indeed it is not necessary to shade at all, unless very concluded nkit week. LEARN TO CULTIVATE IT. The farmers of Georgia are very much interested in tobacco culture just now, and many will plant trial patches of it next year. It will be a g 00( j j,j ea t0 tr y j t) but the man who intends trying it should learn all he can first as to the best plans to culti vate it. It the farmer is not familiar with the nature ar.d the needs of the crop he is cultivating, success will he an accident if it happens to fall upon him. Knowing how to do a thing is a great factor when one attempts to do any thing. Failures are some times due to not knowing bow and some times to the fact that we do not do as much as we know how. Corn raising in this country has been a failure m many fields where the ground was not properly pre¬ pared and not cultivated in the right way and plowed at the right time. Tobacco planted in a cotton field with the land streaked off like it is some times done for eorn and the plants set out there and plowed and worked only when the corn gets a scratching, will surely be a fail¬ ure. ONLY ONE NATIONAL FLAG. It is one of the silliest ideas that we ever knew sensible men to be guilty of for the , Grand Army of the Republic to get so outraged about the Southern people carrying the old tattered and torn Confeder¬ ate flags in their parades on some occasions. There is no harm what. ever in the Confederate flag, but it just grinds the yankee to the bones to see our old soldiers love their tu , "SlI flag in this'countrx and the Con federate flag is only a relie of the lost cause and ati emblem of the hard fought battles by the comrades and they only love to use them on these occasions to distinguish them from the other marching bodies. The yankees will never be hurt again by this flag of terror. If they condemn it and order it crush¬ ed, we don’t know that any one in the South will cry because the G. A. 11. did so. It is not much of an or¬ ganization in the South. In the North, this is only an organization to keep fresh in the memories of those people the war and keep them hating the South. It is no worse for the South to remember those things than it is for the yankees. Let the Southern people use their old flag if they want to and let the Northern people use the Federal flag if they want to. When it is necessary, our people will march bravely under and defend the Union flag. A WRONG IDEA. The editor of the Montezuma Rec¬ ord complains that we copied an ar¬ ticle from his paper and did not credit him with same and also inti¬ mates that we abused him. It was an oversight that the article was not credited to the Record, but as to the abuse we were not aware that we were abusing because we did not ganclion brother Christopher’s third party belief. He is a good fellow an< j a first-class newspaper man and W e are sorry to see him so far off the trac k aH be seems to have drifted, We are friends to tbe people of Georgia, but we would consider OHrBe i veH doing our friends an injn.s t ; ce if we urged them to go into third party just at this time. To cause tbem to be led off into a party that we know would ruin all our chances in the n -xt riational election, would be setting as back from the very objects that we have been pnll ing for the last few years, namely, tariff reform, free silver and a al increase of the circulation, aboli tion of national banks and «OCh iui rwovements as we most heed now. Following tne course tliat Chiistopher has fallen into woolfl make Georgia a Republican Ute in than two years if all the papers m the State would advocatx: third per ty. As to bow this would make the State Republican it is easy to see that it would split the solid South and c#(V and his j eat j. *>rs would get, the o! U that art now Oiled flv fieri fc. Think well of the ninttur «. j Bth.; and yon will see tlfnt. we'-; Bright am) that you are doing th. Hry worse thing you can for yog i Hutu people when you urge tluflfl into a party. It takes two yenp ft a bot¬ tie of champagne b.ii net take a toper two mi nut make it move. The many friends* H. Potil lo, over the State, wV gj jfh glad to know that he has bet fgKuitted by the of courts Hudson of Augusta, in that gg^ shooi¬ of ng last [• in August year. The tobacco farmer [ Tennessc are having trouble wit Ik i r crop of the weed from . the I L that the weather has been so <1 Pfhat they cannot handle the loos: obacoo nor tell what class each p' :el belongs to. The Cuthbert Litre' Enterprise thinks that tf the ali-ca system is adopted in this state til p’c editors will starve. Let us g<> will do the state good in] ; any 1 toring a cash „ystem—we are \tj ied almost to death as it is. It is strange to DemV see JgjjJ t , ar 0 f a man abusing the ~h c party one of which he lias 11-ggfgl, bfcU>|for t jj 0 last 2c years. It is t man abuses himsef but w1k\ lo says the Democratic party is eoFoG j u , says he himself is corrupt. ’ e is of the I )cmocratio party. Atlanta is getting i » ( p ot over her officers, prohibition which means contest hi, f| r municipal r-rooms or no liar-rooms and the m{ is li;lVU )ia<) Yellowstone.Kit, the lrav(1 ], ing medicine quack, to ! defend them as ho did 1 ago, Atlanta is hard up A now trial lias El - isha ed A. Atlanta I nder" .H«U^^^«r m dl■ at fs 1 charging the jury tBelow 1-pP.I of sell on defense when the pi isontl made that plea. d ' -■ » - - Above all things, education fits a man or woman for the battle of this life more than any other accom plisliment, and yet Rome people are indifferent as to their; children’s schooling. No pains should bo spared, but every effort i should be to make our school a suejeess. •4 b The more you see of the fine work that can be made of the Georgia pine toe more we are convinced that we have one of the greatest States in the world. Any thing like furni¬ ture or building finishings looks can he made of the pine and better than walnut or the more costly woods. - All our citizens should be inter¬ ested in making the World’s Fair exhibit from this State a success. It will be of great benefit to the gener¬ al welfaro of the Empire of the South. There arc people id the United States, who will attend the great fair, and don’t know there is such a place on the globe as our great State. *;uara uteed Cure tor La crippe We authorize our advertised druggist to sell you Dr. King's New Discovery for Consuption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with I*a Grippe and will use this remedy accord Ing to directions, giving it a fair trial, and experience no benefit, you may return the bottle and have your money refunded We make this offer, because of the won¬ derful success of Dr. King’s New Dis¬ covery during last season’s epidemic, Have heard of no case in which It failed. Try it. Large size 80c. and $1 00. Trial bottles free at Dr. It, J. Held Drug Store. The great ram-rnakerH experiment has turned out. to be a “bust,” just as we expected. If food sours on tnc stomach, digestion defective. De Witt« Little Kiser# will remedy thi . The P 111 * that uever gripe and never The New York legislature Demor:ratic the senate howeved Lalf aiu I !1. l»os#d WajO Oood Look: or ng open a h«*4thy condition of vital organs. It the Liver nu vou Iwyc a Biiiosm lyrok. If Djl 3d be disordered >•<»■ have • ar ” 1 ] ‘f your Kidneys be alf«| Uo\"whI ; ^ ba^e goenoolrs ^ L ^ ^ |rectlyofl tLetts vlUi orfi PimpW> Brik and R.f ] ■ Bold at Dr. p, r bottle Dr. U. J. Raid’s Tnicim never was a he'terj exposi tion in the South than the one in progress at Augusta IH»W. The show is good and it will i • !>nanotal¬ ly a success. Gov. Noktiik.n has opened all the fairs in Georgia litis year and the Governor will open somebody’s eyes too when the next gubernatorial race comes along. , Tub diffm'ue#botwoen the price of food-stajfs and cotton at this time should be convincing to the S nit It¬ em farmer what will pay best to raise next year. These are sound arguments and are hard to get around. . , v -. — -----—■—--——— CAtARRh Is a constitutional and not a local illsnaso. anil therefore It cannot be cured by local applications. It requires a constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, working through tho blood, eradicates the Impurity which causes and promotes the disease, and effects a permanent cure. Thousands of people testify to tho success of Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for catarrh when other preparations had failed. CAtARRh “ I will say 1 have been troubled for sev¬ eral years win* that terribly <Usaitreeabl« disease, catarrh. I took llocd’s fiarsapo rllla with the very best results. It cured me of that continual dropping In my throat, and ■tufted up feeling. It lias also helped niy mother, who has taken It for run down state of health and kidney trouble.” Mrs. B. l>. Heath, Putnam, Conn. “I have used Hood’s Sarsaparilla for ca¬ tarrh with very satisfactory results. I havo received moro permanent ifenefl t from 11 than from any other remedy 1 have ever tried." M. E. Head, of A. Bond & Son, Wnuseou, O. Hoods Sarsaparilla •old by all druggist*. gU j six for pa. Proparad only by C. I. HOOP it CO., Apotliecurloi, Lowell, lOO 0O8QO Orso Dollar ■■•af.Z VlAWtv.i m YRAOEMAftK. 5* FITKHUGH I,EE, Lisxihoton, llawkim; Va., January Mr—When n, isbO. Mr. A. K. Dear I require the use crystaflzod of glusses 1 wear your PoiitUcopli! and louses, in rospoot to brlUlaucy cleaniess of vision, they mo used. superior Respectfully, to any giitsses I have over Frrxunoir Lmk, Kx-Governor of Virginia, All eyes fitted anil the 111. guaranteed al, the store of Titus Itlclmids, Craw fordville, Ua. UKOUGIA RAILROAD CO Stone Mountain Route. Office ofUknkual Manaouh. ( Auoiibta,Ua., May., lODi, 1881. S /~lOMMKNOfNO KI7NIMV, 17tli, Insl V_yilie folio wig l’lUMenger Schedule# w = be operated: ;• — 5 FAST LINF— No. Lv 27 West Duly. No. 28 Hast Daily. 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R. | Leave Union Point # 10:10 a m *8:40 : Arrive .v.loau ] Ar *a j fl * THE DEMOCRAT * 13 THE Best Ad'ft Medium IN Middle Georgia. $1.25 Per Xm NO. 48. NEW STOKE! NEW GOODS! &m Si «■ >. ■ ME, KIM.BKOUGtH &CO. Grand Nucccss Nince Our Opening! Proves that new goods, lowest prices, best quality, polite and prompt attention paid to all customers will prove a S UC cep. Thejabove has been our motto and shall always continue to be. We will keep up our stock with fresh and newest style goods at lowest prices. Our Dress (a ood n 1 Trimming Departm’t Has proven a grand success, Wo have sold more colored and black Dress Goods in the last month than ever has been sold in the san e length ol time since the history ol Greenes boro. We have still a complete and be autiful line of the lat¬ est styles in colored and black goods, including many new novelties just out. Our vriety is too numerous to enumerate, Our Millinery Department Is still in the lead with the most beautilul and latest style goods to be found. Miss Amanda Warfield has proven toth ladies that sin: is by far most stylish trimmer that has eve been to our city. She cordially invites all to look at her stock before they Huy. She can prove that she will suit you at lower price than any one els SHOES?! SHOES! W o can show the wewost, bent and cheapest stock to be fount! in the city^ lie ware ol old stock in other houses Ours are all hruninn-w. We ;uv agents for the well known Krippendorf, Din man & Co,, Sh< )(!$ for ladies and misses, None as good and stylish. H very lady should specialty buy a of pair school of the O, K. #1,90 Shoes, "W<‘ nuke a slides lor hovnaud girin, Every v>:uf warranted. Clothing, Hat shins, Htiifrrwoar. We have the , mid the lowest prices newest style ane L< Kf stock to K at Grreeneatooro, Oa. i w OGERS Furniture Ware.rooms. LOW PRICES 2 The Uttt stock in tbe city. Goods carefully packed, and prompt shipment. I will makcjt to your interest to call and see me. 838 Broad St. Augusta, Georgia* WASHINGTON FOUNDRY k M’FG CO. PLAMMCf MILLS and MAC HI3VE SHOP. We are prepared to do Repairs on Engines, Hoiler, Gins, Separators ike, in the BEST MANNER. Send Us Your Work! Rough and Dressed Lumber, Mouldings, Brackets, Sash, Doors and Blinds in fact all GUARAN Buildings Materials, always on hand. SA i lSFAC l ION I EED. L. M. SIMS, Manager. .SHINGTON, GEORGIA. o. 1 ’ . Lombard & Co. tUvAf Tf ; '•'* ’ * fii k IM mi p I & BAILEE 03.1KS,— •jjo; . t GUST A, < i EOlff* IA. M J,L •] HK CBEAP88T AND BEST ICC.-,.* . 5 ENGINES & BOILERS ■ (.omplete < Hn amt Mill outfits a Specialty. Mill .! Koglneerlng Supplies,CotP»u, Drain,Saw Mill and bor>savinK Machinery, Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, -*ws, lnspirAtari, Injectors, etc. k Prices Low. Goods Guaranteed. au {■*r’<.'a‘>tlnEs South of every kind, and new work (light and beayy) it outfit . ___ YORK New and wrtteU^»M| Repairs, pri you
