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FRAZER & DOZIER, Wholesale and Retail
7 Columbus, Ga.
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FCllEISIIED liVEIJY FRIDAY
SUBSCRIPTION $1,00 A YMK,
J. L. Dennis,.. .Proprietor.
it ami ivroM GEORGIA,
March 30,....... 18S8
For flic H'lnrlton Journal,
THE GUANO QUESTION.
Fertilizers are scarce in Hamilton,
Chipley, Greenville, LaGrange, West
Point and elsewhere. The question
is often asked: “Is there more gu
ano being used this year than usual?
1 he answer is,“No, simply for the
reason that it cannot be obtained.
The guano factories have been una
hie to supply the demands, First,
because not near so much guano has
been made The pending of the Bra¬
..
dy Bill last summer made it prudent
for the manufacturers to wait and see
if their business was to be destroyed
by the provisions of that bill and
much less was manufactured. And
secondly, the teiritory calling for gu
nno has been mu$Ji Jtnlafgrffl ar) d
thus the supply is short. But it cer¬
tainly would be better for all concern
ed if not a pound was Used in the
cotton States. The “same money
would be realized if only half as
much cotton was made. The. mar
ket is overstocked with cotton and
hence the low price. Besides,
guano is a costly luxury, it ought not
to be a necessity. Suppose the mon
ey expended for guano was applied
in work to making home fertilizer f*
What a laige sum of money ■Su
he saved to the farmers. 1 he grange
and the farmers’ alliance are making
most commendable efloits to help
tiie farmers and they ooulo in this re
gard render a very valuable service.
It is hoped that they will do so and
so doing will benefit the whole coun
t rv. Farmer.
CHAT WITH MY BETTER-HALF.
Well, Mr. Editor, I have had an
other talk with the good old man
the house. He says the alliance is
en a boom at this time. They seem
to be in earnest about carrying out
their plans to make the merchants
sen their goods at a living price for
them and the farmers, and if they do
the farmers can pay them for their
goods and make both parties feel
better next fall. He says: “I ihink
1 he farmers’ alliance is a good thing,
It will bring about sociability and
confidence in the ranks of the labor
ing class, so they can hold up each
other. It is the capital of the farm
ers that moves the machine in this
shape. He mortgages all he has and
the merchant deposits in the bank as
collatteral for money at lawful per cent
and makes about thirty five per cent
on the farmers and the farmer is se
curity (as his property is) with a prof¬
it to the merchant of twenty seven
per cent in the trade. Now if the
Grange and the Alliance can remedy
this extortion on the farmers, the great
propelling wheel that moves the whole
machine of prosperity and industry,
w jjj ( j 0 q ie COun try good, for it
j s near ]y come to a stand still under
the pressure of extortion.
Some of the papers say the coun
try is prosperous, That some man
has two bales of cotton to the acre
he says,“well, if he has it has cost him
three bales per acre to make it
when the expenses are paid. If they
were to lose as much on the whole
crop as they lose on the brag patch
they would break in one year.”
jje gays tl^e , farpejes- would
§^ c ceed if they Would farm more
like they did when he was a boy
when old Harris was filled with such
men as Henry Dean, Brittain Wil¬
liams, Robt. Weldon, Wrn. Roper,
Jas. Robertson, Ben Henry, Mr.
Brooks and various other old settleis
of Harris county that farmed on
their own plan and that was to make
their home supplies of corn, meat
and wheat enough for themselves and
some to spare to their neighbors if
they needed it. Hesa-sthe people
lived those days; lived for the
good of the country. They didn’t
take the advantage of no man’s down
f a p They were always ready to pull
them up if they would try to help them
selves. He says these men in their
c ] a y only wanted what the law gave
them. They asked no usury charges
on nothing they had to sell. He
says in those days the citizens
Hamilton looked to those old heads
for a support and now the farmers
has to look to the merchant for a sus
tainence and some men are ready to
say the country is in a prosperous
condition. He says it it is lie can t
see it when he looks back and draws
a line of comparison with times then
an d now. There is moFe uistiess in
good old Harris now financially ihan
he ever knew before. The money is
all gone for supplies and guano into
the hands of the capiatlist to be is
sued out through the warehouse
with mortgages on all the property.
I say give me back the good old
times when everybody was happy,
I will close, Mr. Editor, hoping you
will not think my husband an Alii
ance or Ganger and that I am try
ing to get the secret. I have such im
plicit confidence in his judgement
about things I merely want his opin
ion. More anon,
Farmers Wife.
SURRENOar LETTER.
Mr Editor: —In my last, I prom¬
ised to give more in detail of the
lumber interest of south west Geor
gia. And as I was giving you a short
history of the J. J. McDonough saw
null located , this ,, - • I T will
at . / point, . ’ con- ___
tmue the same, as I am very much ,
interested in its operation.
This mill having been located here
ten years ago, the necesity for build
ing what , . are called n 1 1 here ..... tram roads ......
&
for r the wood train to bring in the .
logs from the woods to the mills,
which has been done in every direc
tion radiating for ten or twelve miles,
and in order that I might see ail its
operations, -I boaided tl>e log trdhn
and was carried some four miles
the piny woods where I found Mr.
Ray, superintendant of the hands
cutting and hauling, some twenty in
number. On our arrival, we were
met by ihe Supt. and five of his la¬
borers,who proceeded immediately to
the business of loading their train of
trucks, ihe ogs being in readiness
conveniently placed by the teamsters
bearing in the logs. I was perfectly
amazed to see how soon this train
was loaded and ready to return to
the mil!.
The process of loading these trucks
is simple and done by placing two slides
on the trtick and log chain of suffi¬
length which are fastened to the
of the trucks on which the mules
operated and then brought back
the trucks placed under the
an ^ brought back over the trucks
»d attatched to four mules who are
trained and carry the log rapidly to
p ace on the trucks. r l he hands
the chain, one adjusts and
the chain to the mules and
others bring up the logs in reach
distance ol the chain all working
harmony. One of the five acts as
boss, directing the whole matter,
under this process, fifty logs are
placed on these trucks in forty to fif
ty minutes. Some o the logs fifty
in length.
'Hie whistle blew and I .again board
ed the engine and was soon, brought
to the platform at the mills where
the hands running these saws met
the wood train and these fifty logs
were unloaded in ten minutes.^ This
is repeated from four to five times a
da/ and two hundred logs are brought
j n and ".awed up each day, the large
mill using the laigest and longest and
the smaller mill the remainder and
upon a test this morning of a log. 35
feet in length of each the large and
small saws. The large one cleared
it from the time it was placed on the
carr i a ge until removed in one and
a half minutes and the small one in
^ w0 ml nutes.
At each mill there is an inspector
of lumber sawed. The large & saw
mill .... • • .u the
inspector .
supervising square
stickS) and a , the sn)a „ saw the in .
spector nas charge of the-boards, Mr.
Parker having charge of the large
m id an d D. B. Poer, the small mill.
And only two grades of lumber are
retained . by each all , heart
. inspector,
Deing first grade selling at eighteen
dollars per thousand and any mixture
of sap at nine dollars per thousand,
Such lumber as our mills sell at half
P ri f is coave )' ed t0 burnil M P«
b e j n g burned each day to fence 25
acres of land.
Every part of the business is car¬
ried on like clock work under the ex¬
perienced head of the superintendent,
Mr. Geo. S. Offerman, who has not
only the care of this mill, but anoth¬
er owned by Mr. McDonough on the
S., F. & W. R. R., seventeen miles
below Jesup, Ga.
This lumber being inspected is
transferred by convenient tracks to
the planing mill, and as nearly all the :
orders for V) quare 1 C mber being
ceived for ~0 laned sticks, • each piece
planed and the number feet labeled
on the stick. The small boaids ior
flooringand ceiling are planed,tongued
and grooved and piled in large stacks
for drying (the large machine for the
steam process being burned down
last year,) and every day cars are
loaded and shipped per order to dif¬
ferent points in the states.
For fear, Mr. Editor, that you be¬
come wearied and tired of this scroll
I will soon close.
This country ,, is healthy, thoughdow
and seeming unhealthy, a sufficient
quantity of lime is in the water for
delicate and dyspeptic constitu
tions. The farmers, as a general
class, are at least half a century be¬
stdrholdingufthe oMpnmltivcfstyte
j-jding the horse hitched to his dump
cart an d his wife ana children in the
cart and a truly hard featured set
th e y are > without energy and pride
.
^^ c ^^^hristia^peor)le^f our
empire state? w hicn is truely to be
deplored. Very respectfully,