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For the Hamilton Journal.
THE FARMING OUTLOOK.
r phat the last year was disppoint
ing and disastrous to the farmer all
know. r Phe season was unpropitious
but this was not the only cause.Many
farmers were late in planting and late
cotton did badly. No one need ex¬
pect an easy day’s journey who starts
at 9 o’clock. The old saw which
says “Plough deep while others
sleep,” has a great deal of practical
philosophy in it and it would be wise
to heed it. From present indications
the incoming crop will be planted
early. The preparation is well ad
vanced for the season. 1 he oat crop
has been planted and looks very
promising and the acreage is larger
than usual, but not so large as it
ought to he. The grain crop is es¬
sential to the farmey and there can
be no prosperity without it. Wheat
rye and bailey are looking well, but
the patches are too small. The suc
cess of the farmer is the success
or the means of suc
cess of every other occupation. Upon
the farming interest depends the mer¬
chant, manufacturer, the laborer in
every class of work and material suc¬
cess in every class depends on the
farm. Hence the solicitude that the
farm should be successful. But of
all classes the farmer is the slowest
to take advice or make improve¬
ments. They are wedded to old
ideas and methods. It is |o be hop-
ed that the grange and the alliance
will inspire new ideas and thrift and
business and that a better day is
about to dawn upon the farmer. The
pass-word ought to be adopted and
practiced: “Buy less and work more.”
Xiiis is the key note to harmony,
unity and success and without it no
permanent success will be attained.
No farm can be prosperous encum¬
bered by mortgage, The “cotton
craze” prevails to an alarming ex¬
tent as the large receipts of corn and
bacon from the west abundantly
shows, all to be paid for by cotton
yet to be made. Will the common
sense idea of home-supplies made at
home ever prevail ? Why make cot¬
ton with which to buy every thing
else when the experiment proves a
failure, ruinous in its consequences ?
Sound philosophy says make the
farm self-suppqjting and then the
ledger will show a profit.
Farmer.
FOR THE CURIOUS.
Mr. Editor: It is next to impos
sible to form any clear conception of
two hundred million dollars. Per
haps the following recital may aid in
so doing. At least, it may interest
the curious. O. P. T.
Mr. Vanderbilt was worth $200,
000,000. If we say that he was
worth $500,000,000 or $1,000,000,
000 do we get a perceptibly different
impression about the bulk of his for¬
tune? Most people do not. To the
average mind the conception of enor¬
mous wealth is much the same
whether it be reckoned in hundreds of
millions or in quintillions. The hu¬
man mind cannot grasp these great
sums or clearly appreciate the differ¬
ence between one hundred millions
anr ft wo hundred millions.
Let us try and describe Mr. Van¬
derbilt’s great fortune in terms of
linear, square and cubic measure¬
ment and of weight. Every one un¬
derstands these terms and they make
a definite impression on men’s
minds.
If this sum of $200,000,000 were
in standard silver dol ars it would
present such features as this:’
Put lengthwise, dollar after dollar,
it woukl stretch a distance of 4,672
miles, making a silver streak from
New York across the ocean to Liver¬
pool.
Piled up, dollar on dollar, it would
read a height of 355 miles.
Laid flat on the ground, the dol-
lars would cover a space of nearly
60 acres.
The weight.of this mass of silver
would be 7,160 tons,
To transport it would require 358
cars carrying 20 tons each (this is the
capacity of the strongest freight cars)
and making a train just about 2J
miles long.
On ordinary grades it would re¬
quire 12 locomotives to haul this
train. On roads of steep grades and
sharp curves, 15 or 20 locomotives
would be needed.
In one dollar bills this $200,000,
000 fortune would assume such shapes
as this:
The bills stretched lengthwise
would extend 23,674 miles, or nearly
the circumference of the equator.
Piled up one on another, close as
leaves in a new book, they would
reach a height of 12 miles.
Spread out on the ground, they
would cover 746 acres, or nearly the
whole surface of Central Park, inclu
ding ponds and reservoirs.
A safe deposit vault to contain
these bills would require to be 23
feet long, 22 feet wide and 20 feet
high.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
A correspondent of the Newnan
Herald and Advertiser goes for the
State Agricultural Department as fol
lows:
“I have just received the report of
the Agricultural Department of the
State of Georgia, as made out by
Commissioner Henderson for the
year ’85, ’86 and ’87, and I acknowl
edge thal (ftpartmen I am surprised at the cost
of said to the State. For*
one year, I find that the cost to run
the concern amounts to $4,450.00.
I never knew before that the peo
pie of Georgia were taxed to pay for
the water that Commissioner Hen
derson drank, or used during the
year; or thut the tax-payers had to
pay the Commissioner’s private sub
scriptions to newspapers; or to pay
for private use $16 per quarter rental
for a telephone; or that the State had
to pay $4 a year for a copy of the
city directory of Atlanta; or for the
railroad traveling expences of himself
or Mr. Redding in going to big din
ners: or for ice tickets and matches
used by them; and for a thousand
other things too tedious to mention,
x- Now tor the proofs. Among tk- the
items charged on the expence ac
count of this department I find.
Jan. 18, 1886—
Paid Mrs. O’Conor for 9
months’ use of well $4.50
“ for one copy city directory 4.00
“ for 1st qr.rent of telephone 16.00
“ for 1 gas stove 10.00
“ 1 doz. boxes matches ■5°
“ for cleaning office carpets 6.65
“ for rent of telephone 2 qr. 16.00
“ for 3rd qr. rent telephone 16.00
“ foi 1 year’s subscription
to Century 4.00
“ Mrs. O'Conor,use? of well
from Jan.22 to June 22 G 50
Aug. 16, 18S6—
Paid for subscription Macon
Telegraph to Jan. 1887 10.00
“ for subscription Augausta
Chronicle to Jan. 1887 10.00
“ for subscription Macon
Telegraph,Jan 22 to
June 22, 1887 * 5.00
The state of Georgia pays Mr.
Henderson a a salary of $3,000 a
year; and now I ask where is the
justice for the people to pay his pri¬
vate expenses, some of which I have
enumerated above, and those men¬
tioned are scarcely a drop in the
bucket. I could name many more
private items that are charged to the
public.
Then again the extravagance in
his office is enough to bankrupt the
state of Georgia. I will mention a
few things, as follows:
$100 paid J. F. Jones for 75 bush¬
els of cotton seed, and I am credita
bl y informed b y a gentleman from
sectlon ^at the same cotton
seed can be bought at 15c. or 20c.
per bushel.
$50 for 12 bushels of kaffir corn..
$25 for 25 bushels cotton seed.
$60 for 50 bushels Peter’s cotton
seed. I will sell the same seed for
15 cents per bushel.
$75 f° r 3 bushels melon seed.
Postage and telegram foi 3 months
$ 5 ^ 5 * 79 *
The writer concludes by advocat
mg the repeal of the law creating the
department.
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