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FARMERS’ COLUMNS.
THE GEORGIA EXPERIMENT STATION.
EXPERIMENT, GA.
Feed Formulas.
[The following extracts are taken from Bui
leiln No. 21, published in August, 1*93 Tae
bulletin contains articles on practical dairying,
d-'hcrutng cattle, feed formulas, etc. Tae ex
tracts give an idea of the practical character of
the bulletin. No. 18 published in August, 1892,
is on butter and cheese making. Taese. as well
as any otuer bulletin, will be sent to any Geor
fia farmer, free, on application to Director R. J.
Led ding, Experiment, Ga.]
Experience has determined that in
compoundig a ration for milk cows,
there should be about 24 pounds of or
ganic substance (dry vegetable matter)
for each 1,000 pounds live weight of the
cows. Of this 24 pounds of dry food,
there Bhould be 2)4 pounds of digesti
ble protein or flesh formers, and about
IS pounds of carbohydrates, or fat and
heat producers. A horse or mule, at
hard work, should have a little less,
and an ox. at hard work, a little more
in gross weight of organic matter con
taining the same relative proportion of
proteins and carbohydrates. So then,
a milk cow should have just as srood
and nutritious food as Is required by a
hard working horse or mule, in proper
tion to live weight The following ta
ble gives the amount of digestible sub
stances required by different farm
animals, according to the researches of
the celebrated German scientist, Dr.
Emil Wolff:
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In the above table we have consoli
dated the “ether extract,” or fats, etc.,
with the other carbohydrates, and mod
ified the rations in some respects, for
the sake of greater simplicity and
brevity. The table is to be understood
as follows, take No. 1 for instance:
An ox standing at rest in his stall
should have 17.5 pounds per day of dry
organic matter for each 1,000 pounds of
live weight; and this 17.5 pounds
should contain 0.7 of a pound of protein
and 8.33 pounds of carbohydrates, This
0.7 is to 8.33 as 1 is to 12, which is the
“ nutritive ratio ” of a ration for an ox
standing idle.
8o with the others. If the ox is put
to regular, hard work, then his ration
should be increased in quantity to 26
pounds of organic substance per 1,000
pounds live weight, and this should
contain 2.4 pounds of protein and 14.30
pounds of carbohydrates, giving a nu
tritive ratio of l to 6.0.
Dally Ration for 1,000 Found Live Weight.
For MUk Cows.
No. 5. Pounds.
Hay, mixed grasses 20
Wbeat bran 5
Cotton need meal 3
No. 8. Pounds.
Cow pea hay 20
Wheat bran 6
Sweet potatoes 10
No. 7. Pounds
Clover hay 10
Oat straw 12
Wheat bran 6
Cotton Beed meal. . 2
No. 8. Pounds.
Timothy hay 10
Corn stover— .10
Wheat bran 6
Corn meal 3
No. 9. Pounds.
Wheat straw 18
Cow pea hay 10
Cotton seed meal 4(4
No. 10. Pounds.
Cow pea hay 20
Cotton seed hulls 15
Cotton seed meal 2
No. 11. Pounds.
Oab grass hay 20
Bhuoks 10
Corn meal 3
Cotton seed meal S%
No. 12. Pounds.
Rutabagas.. 25
Lucerne hay 15
Com meal 8
Cotton seed meal 2
No. 13. Pounds.
Corn silage 40
Cotton seed hulls 10
Wheat bran 6
Cotton seed meal 3
No. 14. Pounds.
Lucerne (green) 30
Corn shucks 10
Cora meal 5
Wheat bran 6
No. 15. Pounds
Cow pea hay 25
Corn meal 4
No. 16. Pounds.
Sweet potatoes 25
Corn fodder 10
Cotton seed meal 4
Corn meal 8
No. 17. Pounds
Average hay 16
Wheat bran 8
Linseed meal
Corn meal 2
No. 18. Pounds
Cora fodder .18
Wheat bran 4
Cottonseed meal 4
Corn meal 6
No. 19. Pounds
Clover ensilage 60
Oats i grain) 12
No. *O. Pounds.
Corn silage 40
Clover silage 40
Wheat bran 6
Cotton seed meal 1
(Then fellow formulas for fattening eattle.
bags, and for work animals !
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.
tUstler thla bead short inquiries from fann
ers on practical farm topics will be answered
by one of the Station staff and published, if of
tfneral Interest, otherwise the answers will be
sent by mall. Make your inquiries short and
to the point, always give your name and post
office. and addressed to the “Director Georgia
Experiment Station. Experiment. Ga.“J
Rosette.
A gentleman from Macon. Ga., writes: Sa
closed please find a twig from a peach tree.
What is the disease * Is it “ curled leaf ’’ or
‘ Rosette V' How does it spread ? Hare never
seen two trees aids by side with it.
[Answer by Hugh N. Starnes. Horticulturist:]
Specimen sent way so dry and shriv
elled that it was difficult, even after
the twig- was thoroughly soaked, to
predicate anything from its appear
ance. The affection, however, seems
to be Rosette, not Curled Leaf—a very
much more serious malady; so serious,
in fact, that it yields precedence only
to the dreaded Yellows in importance.
To southern growers it Is even of more
moment than the Yellows, by reason of
its greater prevalence. It is also more
virulent and rapid in its action than
the Yellows—a single season sufficing
to destroy a previously unaffected tree.
1 say unaffected instead of uninfected
because the disease is not infectious,
but coutagious.
Dr. Erwin F. Smith has made for the
the I’. S. Department of Agriculture a
careful study and investigation of both
Yellows and Rosette and has published.
as the result of his labors, a pamphlet
rom which the following facts and
conclusions may be gathered:
1. liosette covers all varieties of
peaches. None appear exempt. It is
uot confined to peaches alone, but
occurs in plums, also —notably those of
Chickasaw and Japan strains.
2. Like Yellows, it occasionally at
tacks one or two branches at first, but
generally the whole tree is diseased
from the start. Six months usually
suffice to destrov a tree, and never does
it last for two seasona It never lin
gers on from year to year like Yellows
3. The disease commonly appears in
the unfolding shoot-axes in early spring
when the buds first open. These snoots
push out only one to three inches, and
lose, almost completely, the ability to
develop and ripen wood. The short,
abortive shoots, thus formed, put out
diminutive, soft branches, which them
selves branch again, so that it is not
unusual to find 15 to 30 branches on a
short axis, less than three inches long.
The leaves on these dwarfed, branch
ing shoots are multiplied correspond
ingly aud the result is compact tufts or
rosettes containing sometimes as many
as 400 diminutive leaves. Thus the dis
ease gets its name. The older and
larger leaves near the base of the shoot
frequently reach a length of several
inches and are characterized by a very
pronounced inrolling of the margins of
the leaf, and by a certain stiffness due
to a Peculiar straightening of the mid-
no. 1 nese leaves turn yellow in early
summer and fail very readily. Jarring
causes them to fall by the hundred as
in autumn. Very often they are
blotched, browned and dead in places,
especially at the ends and margins,
from the attacks of various leaf fungi.
The younger and central leaves of the
rosette remain small and green and
free from fungi They are usually some
what folded but seldom rolled. The
bunching of the leaves is conspicuons
and makes the trees noticeable at a
long distance.
4. Attacked trees generally drop their
fruit early and while it is still green
or yellowish green.
5. There is, however, no premature
ripening of fruit as in case of Yellows.
6. As stated, the disease is virulent
and contagious, though Dr. Smith has
never succeeded in identifying the germ
producing it. It is settled, however,
that Rosette cannot spread except by
direct contact—but this is of frequent
occurrence from the pruning knife
which oftentimes serves as a very rapid
inooulator. This is the reason why a
tree may remain perfectly healthy
alongside of one affected, while the dis
ease is manifested, perhaps, one or two
trees further on in the row. Even
mocking birds are presumed to inocu
late healthy trees by the puncture of
their claws in the tender top sprays,
after they have previously punctured a
diseased tree by alighting on it simi
larly.
7. The disease is much to be dreaded,
especially as there appears to be no
remedy except the prompt and con
certed destruction of all affected trees.
Root them out bodily. That is the
only way yet ascertained to keep the
disease in check, when it once puts in
an appearance.
New Ground t. Old Land.
E. S., Bremen, Ga.—(l) Would it be more
profitable to buy and clear up wild land costing
115 an acre, or buy adjoining land of the same
original fertility that has been well oultivated in
corn and cotton for ten years, at the same price?
The question is whether the land that has re
ceived the ordinary cultivation and fertilization
for ten years can be built up with green ma
nuring and fertilizing to equal the new land, at
a less expanse than the cost of clearing. (2).
How would you go to work to redeem old,
“ worn-out ” land ?
Answered by Director Redding: I
would prefer to buy the old land if it
has been reasonably well cared for and
not in gullies, rather than unreclaimed
forest land of same original character,
at the same price, unless I could sell
the fuel and timber at a good price.
By a proper rotation of peas, or clover,
corn, small grain, and cotton, and the
judicious use of fertilizers the old land
may be brought up to a higher produc
tiveness in three or four years than it
ever had, and at less expense than it
would cost to remove the forest growth,
stumps and roots from the new land. 1
would first sow the land in small grain
-oats, rye or wheat—fertilizing well.
After harvesting the small grain imme
diately sow in cow peas, using one
bushel of seed and applying 200 pounds
of acid phosphate and 25 pounds ol
muriate of potash per acre. Make hay
of the pea vines and immediately turn
under tne stubble and sow in rye—say
in September—without manure. Turn
under the rye in February and plant in
cotton, fertilizing with compost, or
with commercial fertilizers. The fol
lowing would be a good formula, per
acre:
250 pounds Superphosphate,
20 pounds Muriate of Potash,
(Orßo pounds Kainit),
60 pounds Nitrate of Soda.
(Or 130 pounds Cotton Meal).l
Instead of the above you might apply
400 pounds of a well balanced, high
grade guano, in a brand that would
analyze:
Phosphate Acid (available) 10.00 per ceni
Potash (K2O) .. 3.00 per cent
Nitrogen 3.00 per cent
Or, 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of a well bal
anced compost of stable or cow ma
nure, acid phosphate and cotton meal.
In August give the cotton a light
harrowing and at the same time sow in
rye—half bushel per acre ; or perhaps
September would be early enough to
sow the rye, the object being Tor the
rye to appropriate any soluble fertili
zer left in the soil by the cotton and to
keep the land from washing during the
winter. You may graze the rye lightly
during the winter. In February turn
under the rye and plant in corn iu
April, using as far as possible stable
manure compost. Sow peas in corn at
last plowing and gather the peas when
ripe, or pasture with stock. Then sow
in wheat or oats for a grain crop, fer
tilizing well, thus commencing another
three year rotation. The fourth year
it will be in cotton again, and if ma
nured a little heavier than before, it
should yield nearly, or quite, one bale
per acre.
Of course the above system is subject
to such modification and changes as the
circumstances may demand. For in
stance in the second three-years rotation
red clover may take the place of cow
peas, and occupy the land two years,
thus extending the series four years.
Ginseng.
W. L. H., High Point, Ga.—l received a letter
from the Agricultural Department which ad
vised me to write you in regard to Ginseng and
other valuable plants which could be raised in
this section of the country, and as to where 1
could get seed or plans to get a start, and
about what it would cost to put out from one to
two acres in Ginseng and otuer plants. Please
let me hear from you soon.
Answer by Director Redding: In re
gard to the cultivation of Ginseng the
following extract *rom the annual re
port of the U. S. Commissioner of Agri
culture for 1887, contains all the avail
able information ou the subject:
‘ - So far as has been learned Ginseng
has not been successfully cultivated in
this country. It is a product of the
woods, and efforts made in its culture
have not been satisfactory. Chinese
Ginseng is closely allied to our native
species; seeds have occasionally been
received from China and Japan, but se
far as ascertained they have not vege
tated. It is possible that they soon
lose their germinating power, as it is
stated that the Japanese deposit the
seed in the ground as soon as they are
collected, in order to keep them fresh
until wanted to sow. The Japanese
cultivate the plant to some extent, and
their method is to select a sheltered
position and make a bed of leaf-mold
in which the seeds are sown, and where
the plants remain until wanted for
use. The beds are protected from the
sun by a roof of straw laid on poles
and posts. After growing four years
the roots are lifted, carefully washed,
scalded in boiling water, then dried in
a high temperature until they become
brittle. The best article sells for about
$7 a pound in Japan. It is a plant that
does not submit readily to cultivation,
and its profitable production would be
very doubtful.”
Lucerne, or Alfalfa.
G. M. D., Hamilton. Ga.- Please give me
some information about Alfalfa. When and
how to plant it. and ail aboot it.
Answer by Director Redding: Lu
cerne, or Alfalfa—as it has been called
of late years, (Medicago Sativa) has
bas been grown in the Southern States,
in a small way, for more than sixty
vears, or long before we had ant’ com
munication with California, whence
the name of Alfalfa came. It is a
forage plant belonging to the same
order with red clover to which it is
somewhat similar in appearance and
uses. It is superior, however, to clover
in productiveness, nutritiousness and
ease of cultivation. Lucerne requires
a very deep, mellow, well drained and
very rich soil. A sandy loam is best if
rich enough. It is not worth while to
attempt to grow it except on a rich,
well prepared and clean soil. Avery
good preparation for lucerne is a crop
of cow peas sown in June or early in
July; but it may follow a rich plot
that is now in cotton. October is prob
ably the best month in which to sow
the seeds, but I have succeeded very
well with sowing as late as the middle
of November, and it may be sown with
success in February or March, on very
clean land. Plow and cross-plow deep
ly and harrow welL Sow as you would
turnips, in rows SO to 24 incites apart,
about 8 to 10 pounds of seeds being re
quired for one acre. It is advisable to
apply three or four hundred pounds of
fertilisers per acre when preparing tha
land, even if it is already very rich.
This should consist of acid phosphate
and kainit equal parts, and a little well
rotted stable manure (containing no
weed seeds), or, instead of the stable
manure about 25 pounds of nitrate of
soda. A good way to prepare is first to
plow and harrow well; then lay off
rows the desired width (I prefer not
leas than two feat), distribute tha far
JL WISE WOK AIT
Don't delay makings her callings and election sure, when the
chance oiler* to make money hy sudden and judicious
purchases. Asa rule, a merchant's necessities
-A-R/E "WOIN/njAISPS OPPORTUISriTIES.
To realize on his hopes a man must first realize on his goods, and when money must he had,
goods must be sold. We w ill make a stir in the Dry Goods business for the next
fifteen days with necessities as well as luxuries.
ALTBRATIO3STS AJNTD REPAIRS OIST OUR BUHjDIKTG
will soon commence, and in order to make room for the carpenters and painters, we will be forced to sell the goods. Everything must go. No
Reserves. Each and every article will share alike its proportional cut. Wool Dress Goods, Silks, Wash Dress Goods, White Goods, House
furnishing Goods, Table Linens, Napkins, Towels, White Quilts, Mattings, Rugs, Lace Curtains, Chenile Portiers and Table Covers,
Umbrellas, Parasols, Trunks and Traveling Cases, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Gloves, Mitts, Fans, Ribbons,
Laces, Embroideries and Notions of all kinds.
Black. G-oods.
37}c for Albatross worth 60c. %
37}c for Tamise worth 50c.
75c for Henriettas worth sl.
50c for Henriettas worth 75c.
75c for Tamise worth sl.
65c for Tamise worth 90c.
Colored Goods.
38c for Serges worth 60.
38c for Henriettas worth 60c.
58c for Crapons worth 85c.
38c for Albatross worth 60c.
68c for Granite Cloths worth sl.
Storm Serges.
Navy and Black, 1$ yards wide 75c, never sold for less than sl.
Clayton Street,
unzer in tnese rows and bed on them.
Then smooth off the beds and sow the
lucerne seed just as you would ruta
baga, or other turnips, using plenty of
seed. The young plants are delicate
and grow slowly at first, but even when
sown in October a very fair cutting will
be afforded in March, and one or two
more during the early summer. When
fully established, or two years old, a
lucerne patch will afford from four to
six cuttings during the season, the first
often as early as March 1.
The planting will last many years,
requiring only to be kept free’ from
weeds, and an annual manuring of
phosphate and potash, and it will prob
ably afford more rich food per acre
than any other crop whatever. The
lucerne should be cut before it blooms,
using an ordinary mowing blade. It is
best to cut the day before feeding, per
mitting it to wilt. Seed cost 15 to 20
cents per pound, and are sold by all
seed dealers. Every farmer who keeps
a horse, cow, pigs and chickens, should
have an acre or so of lucerne. There
is no doubt of its value.
Chicken Cholera and its Prevention.
Why submit to heavy losses from thi
disease ? Up to April, 1894, this dis
ease had not been on the Experiment
Farm to our knowledge. Early in that
month a hen became sick and dumpish
with a dark comb; all food and water
refused. It was thought useless to treat
this case, but Epsom salts were admin
istered and this was followed with
copious watering placed in the mouth
with a spoon. The hen was put in a
warm, sunny place, isolated from usual
runs, and recovered very slowly.
Another hen died in a few days and
then another and a cockerel, and several
persons who had had experience with
cholera pronounced this disease to be
cholera. The hen and cockerel died
near night, and next morning two
other hens were dead and eight more
were in different stages of the disease.
Treatment was begun at once. Two
hens were killed and buried as those
previously dead had been. The six
were brought out into the sunlight and
given salts and water.
The house and yard were thoroughly
disinfected with 1 pint of strong sul
phuric acid to 8 gallons of water, as
suggested in poultry books. The hens
themselves were sprayed with this.
Their drinking water was charged with
carbolic acid (1 teaspoonful to half gal
lon water) and aa&foetida was put in
their food at the rate of 1 heaping table
spoon to the food of 30 chickens.
The next morning six hens could not
get off the roost, though all but two
had gone up as usual the night previ
ous, after their treatment These were
treated as before and pu t outside the
yard. Before night all but four hens
were walking about pecking grass.
After three days of isolation these four
were returned to the yard cured, and
all have been in good health since. Six
hens and a cockerel were lost before
the health of the flock was restored by
the treatment as given above.
Had we known the disease at first,
it is doubtful if a single bird need to
have been lost. Promptness to disin
fect and treat the sick birds will save
many losses. The doses of salts, not
before recommended to my knowledge,
doubtless helped rid the‘birds of the
cholera bacilli sooner than if it had
not been given, and so hastened the
eradication of the disease. The asafce
tida acts as a diffusible stimulant to
help keep the birds warm.
The drinking water was for some
days kept charged with carbolic acid,
and all. that is now needed to secure
immunity from another attack is a
second thorough disinfection and to
continue for some time the addition of
carbolic acid to the drinking water,
F. E. Emery, Agriculturist, N. C. Ex
periment Station.
Cucumbers for pickling are gener
ally grown by gardeners as a second
crop after some early crop has been
harvested. The seed are planted late
in July in well manured hills four and
on--half to five feet each way, and cul
tivated like cantaloupes. They should
be out when the length of one's linger.
Nothing Strange.
Intelligent people, who realize the
important part the blood holds in
keeping the body in a normal condition,
find nothing strange in the number of
diseases Hood's Sarsaparilla is able to
cure. So mauy troubles result from
impure blood, the best way to treat
them is through the blood. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla vitalizes the blood.
Hood’s Pills are the best after-dinner
pills, assist digestion, prevent consti
pation
DAVISON &, LOWE,
The Condition of the South.
The following speech was delirered
by Dr. E. Morgan at the Oconee and
Dry Pond Sunday school picnic, June
16th, 1894:
Ladies and Gentlemen:—“Will I
overdraw the picture? Impossible.
Our people are wrong, mentally, mor
ally, socially, religiously, financially,
agriculturally, domestically and mat
rimonially. We are not what we
should be: and, by the blessing of
God, not what we shall be. We
should be the richest people on earth,
and it will b ■ our own fault if we do
not become so- But our people are
restless, raving, and, like Reuben, un
stable as water. They are planning,
scheming, plotting and dreaming of
soft places with good pay and little
work. Some of them will absolutely
starve to death in hunting a place or
devising a plan to live without labor.
‘•lf a little office becomes vacant the
candidates swarm like rice birds, and
the smaller the place and less the re
sponsibility the greater the number
of applicants.
“The street corners, sidewalks and
all public places are crowded with
idlers who complain fearfully of hard
times, and almost despair because the
‘niggers’ won’t work.
“Every man wants to be the ‘mid
dle mar.’ Everybody is consuming
and very few producing; and here is
the secret of our poverty. Able and
strong-bodied men will stand guard a
mouth over a box of sardines and a
quart of onions or a bottle of oheap
whisky, in a filthy barroom, waiting
for a customer to come along and buy.
Writers and j utrnalists indite elabo
rate, fine spun theories explanatory of
hard times, but the explanation, so
far as the South is concerned, is em
bodied in the words ‘idleness and bad
management. Care and anxiety are
settled in almost every mans face,
and filling it with premature wrinkles.
By poor management and short
sightedness he has grown poorer
every year until despair finally takes
possession of him, and he is only fit
for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
He loses confidence in himself, in hu
man nature and in his God, and with
suicidal purposes takes his life into
his own hands and plunges into an
unknown future. Reeking with b s
own blood he staggers into the veiy
presence of an offended God, and by
his acts tells Him He is an imposter
and His word is a lie. Infidelity,
atheism, suicides, murders, drunken
ness, adultery, fornication, cheating,
swindling, gambling, corruption and
malfeasance in office are cursiog the
whole nation—North, East, South and
West—and I sometimes wonder that
the fires of Sodom and Gomorrha!
have not long ago fallen upon some
of our larger cities and swept them
from the face of the earth.
“We are rushing, my countrymen,
with telegraphic velocity and light
ning speed to some fearful end, unless
we call a halt and seek the old paths.
There are infiuecces at work in our
political and social systems which will
sooner or later destroy this gr* at gov
ernment, unless they be corrected.
There is no guiding hand to lead us.
The race of great men is well nigh
$4.95.
Choice of fifteen Imported Dress Patterns. Not one in the lot worth less than
#12.50.
12}c for Challies worth 20c.
27Jc for French Challies worth 40c.
27}c for Silk Striped Challies worth 40c.
21c for Fancy Dress Goods worth 35c.
15c for Fancy Dress Goods worth 25.
38c for Swivel Silks worth 58c.
39c for Printed China Silks worth 65c.
59c for Printed India Silks, very wide, worth 85c.
extinct in America. The eye wanders
with painful suspense over the nation
for some great and commanding intel
lect to guide us in the hour of danger;
but no Webster, no Clay, no Calhoun
is to be seen, and as sure as old
Babylon fell, as sure as old Tadmor
in the wilderness, and the great
Grecian and Roman Empires went
down, so sure will this great Ameri
can theory go down, unless the evils
which are undermining it shall be cor
rected. No government can long ex
ist which is not based upon the virtues
and intelligence of its citizens. And
when it falls, my countrymen, it will
be final. The lamp of experience
shows no paths leading from the
tombs of buried republics.
“Despotism rolls to the mouth of
the sepulcher a great stone and an
arohy seals it forever. The nations of
antiquity went down under their own
vices and corruptions.
“As has been said, the glory of
Athens had departed long before the
man of Macedon riveted his chains
upon her at Cheroma. And so we are
going. Confidence between man and
man is well nigh gone. No neighbor
is willing to trust his neighbor; and
that old Abr&hamic hospitality, once
so characteristic of the South, is al
most a thing of the past Greed for
money, selfishness and laziness have
taken possession of the people, and
for neighbor to cheat neighbor, or
brother to slay brother, is the order
of the day. It seems like that omin
ous star in the Apocalypse has fallen
all the fountains of our social
system and turned them to worm
wood. It is all wrong, my oountry
men. Selfishness is a crime before
high heaven, and the judgment of the
Almighty will be visited upon it No
man liveth to himself. You are your
brother’s keeper. Love thy neighbor
as thyself, for upon this and one other
commandment hangs all the law and
the prophets. Jehovah smiles upon
such love. The two brothers who
were rescuing their aged parents from
the fires of Vesuvius were saved, while
the others around them perished.
“O, wicked and perverse generation!
Because you haven’t lands, houses and
property you must hate your neigh
bor, and cheat him if you can ; borrow
his money and go into bankruptcy.
Men who were supposed to be good
men have recently borrowed five and
ten thousand dollars from our banks
the day before they announced their
f ilures. No wonder there’s no confi
dence. There is no telling whom to
trust Because you haven’t plenty of
gold, silver and greenbacks you must
drink and steal and make a vagabond
of yourself. Because you can’t sit in
the shade and grow rich in two, five
! or ten years on cotton you must blame
the Almighty. Because you can’t
hang about the street corners and bar
rooms, and drink and smoke and ac
cumulate stocks and bonds, you must
wear lugubrious countenances and
meditate suicide. Because you can’t
lounge in ease and dress in purple and
fine linen and luxuriate in all the
pleasures and vices of the age, and, as
Shylook says, ‘make money breed and '
grow’; because you once had proj •
erty and have none now, you must
ooneluds there is no God, and nothing
for you to do but to drag out a miser
able existence and dream of what you
once were and what you once had,
like the Israelites eighirg for the
melonp, flesh pots and cucumbers of
Egypt- You must let your dwellings
go to destruction, your barns and
fences fall down, your stock die of
hunger, your families suffer for food,
your fields grow up in weedp, your
schools, colleges and churches lan
guish, the widows and orphans of the
land starve, and grinding poverty
brood like an incubus over all this fair
and God-favored section. And all this
poverty and suffering, too, in this
glorious Southland, which should lit
erally flow with milk and honey; a
land out of whose hills you may dig
brass, suck honey out of the rocks and
oil out of the flinty rocks ; a land
whose clear, rippling streams make
joyful music over golden sands and
untold mineral wealth as they hum
their way to their oacan home; a land
whose hills and mountains glitter with
silver threads and hold in exhaustless
deposit iron ore for the machine shops
of the world ; a land whose coal fields
lie around us in illimitable prodigality
for our wealth and comfort; a land
whose fertile soil is glad to yield to
the hand of industry every conceivable
luxury ; a land whose soft, balmy at
mosphere, swept and purified by gulf,
ocean and mountain breezes, is a per
fect Colchian enchantress, infusing
new strength and energy into the
blood and making life long, sweet and
happy ; a land whose pure, crystal
waters gush up in sparkling beauty at
every man's door, and whose rolling
rivers and gushing streams invite
manufactories and machine shops for
supplying all the wants of man ; a
land whose firm, clay soil will receive
and hold any degree of fertility and
yield more than the husbandman can
gather or his barns oontain ; a land
whose flashing cascades, laughing
brooks and broad, smiling lakes reflect
summer skies of far more surpassing
beauty than ever shone on famed
Italia’s sunny clime; a land where
red, ripe, purple and golden fruits
hang in ever growing richness and
luxuriant abundance at every man’s
door, and he has only to stretch forth
the hand and pluck and eat; a land
whose myriads of artistically plumed
birds make music for our cheer as
their warbling madrigals go up in
blended and glorifying harmony to
the listening Creator ; a land whose
deep old woods, towering hills, deep
valleys and wide spreading savannas
are decked in prodigal profusion with
every species of flowers, which per
fume the atmosphere as with grateful
incense ; a land whose vegetable king
dom is rich and exhanstless ; whose
clustering vineyards supply new wine;
whose streams are thick with fish, and
over whose emerald hills browse herds
of cattle and wild deer ; a land whose
staple products have enriched the
world and supplied labor, bread and
money to millions upon millions of
famishing souls ; a land where God
has established churches, colleges and
schools, and permits every one to
worship Him according to the dictates
of his own conscience; where the
genius and talents of the poor man
may enter the raoe and compete with
Entire lot Black and Colored Silks at less than cost.
10c for fine Satteens worth 15c.
15c for White Swiss, embroidered in colors, worth 25c.
9c for China Lawns worth 15c.
10c for Black Satin Striped Organdies worth 20c.
5c for Check Muslins.
5c for White Lawns.
5c for Printed Battiste worth 12}c.
5c for Linen Lawn worth 10c.
5c for Chambrays worth Bc.
3}c for Scotch Lawn worth 7c.
B}c for Irish Lawn worth 12}c.
BJc for Gingham’s worth 12}.
B}c for Printed Organdies worth 15c.
5c for Outing Cloth worth 10c.
B}c for Black Satteen worth 12}c.
$2.75 for Matting worth $5.
$4.95 for Matting worth $6.50
$7.50 for Matting worth $lO.
$8.50 for Matting worth $12.50.
the rich man for the prizes and honors
of life ; oh, yes, a land of beauty—a
land of wealth—a land of luxury,
where we may live on ambrosia and
rosy nectar, the brain of singing birds,
roe of mullets, sunny halves of peaches
and golden fruits from Amalthea’s
horn ; a land of learning, science and
philosophy—of Bibles and gospel civ
ilization—of noble men and women—
of heroes, of statesmen and orators ;
yes, a land which God Almighty him
self loves and illumines with His own
shekinah and has girdled with His
rainbow arch of ineffable glory; a
great, grand and glorious land, where
the sunshine falls cheerily through the
grand old boughs and the wood
nymphs dance in the checkered shade;
a land where the breath of the pine
smells sweet, and where God has
planted the wild flower and painted
its tiny petals as none but the finger
of God could paint them, and from
every hill and mountain and plain
should go up our gratitude in a dia
pason of sevenfold hallalujahs and
harping symphonies forever and ever.
“And, notwithstanding all this, we
must wear long faces and look like
condemned criminals; must dream
forever that there is a better place
somewhere else. No doubt two thirds
of the people of Northeßst Georgia
are thinking all the while they could
do a great deal better if they were in
Atlanta, South Georgia, Texas or Cal
ifornia, and they are expecting every
year that they will start the next
The old home is allowed to decay,
and the family is deprived of every
comfort and convenience under the
idea. There is a bonanza for them
somewhere save just where they are.
But it is a mistake, my friends. It is
only a fearful halucination like the
mirage of the desert or the misty vis
ions of the Scottish coast. You are
already in the grandest country on
the globe. Those who have left are
dying to get back. The bones of
their fathers and mothers slumber
here, and it is here they would have
their bones sleep. But thousands
cannot and will not return. Drive
down your pegs where you are and
thank God for the millions of blessings
which surround you. Learn with
Paul to be content with your lot,
wherever it may be, and believe with
the wise old Virgil that happiness de
pends not on climate or place, but
upon the condition of the mind. In
conclusion, be men and women ; be
self-sustaining and independent; t e
candid and honest. Let us all set a
higher value on virtue and honesty.
If yon owe your neighbor, let him put
faith enough in your honesty to feel
easy about it.
“What we want in the South is more
confidence in one another. We have
plenty of money. Let every man
unite heart and hand in bringing
about a healthier moral t entiment,
and a higher appreciation of personal
integrity and individual rights. Let
the man who knowingly wrongs or de
frauds his neighbor or steals from the
public treasury be branded as a thief,
and suffer the punishment he incurs.
Do these things and it will hasten the
coming of the new South. This is
the destiny of this country. It will
yet bloom as a garden. The old hills
Athens, Georgia.
will blossom like the rose. The
crowded millions of other lands have
long had their eyes turned in this di
rection and nothing has kept them
away but slavery and sectional bitter
ness.
“But this is all passing away, and
the tide will, ere long, turn in this
direction. Our States are now in the
hands of our own people; the laws
are administered with impartial jus
tice, and the administration of our
present rulers, it is hoped, will bring
permanent peace and prosperity to
the whole country. Bayonet rule h—
ended forever. Law and order will
reign supreme. This Southern land
will yet flow with milk and honey.
The dawning of the New South is al
ready visible, and it will eclipse the
world in glory and wealth. Our peo
ple are learning slowly, though surely,
from hard necessity. Fine horses,
fine cattle, oomfortable homes, waving
fields and an earnest and industrious
population will cover the entire area,
while the music of machinery will
sound along our streams.
“Christianity will cover the land
with its richest blessings; our col
leges, schools and literature will flour
ish abundantly, and we shall be the
riohest, happiest and most grateful
people on the green earth.”
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Don’t snub a boy because of the
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Don t snub a boy because he wear#
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Don’t snub any one. Not alone
because they may far outstrip you in
the race of life, but because it is
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