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I Many persons have their good
day and their bad day. Others
are about half sick all the time.
They have headache, backache,
and are restless and nervous.
Food does not taste good, and
the digestion is poor; the skin
is dry and sallow and disfigured
with pimples or eruptions;
sleep brings no rest and work
is a burden.
What is the cause of all this?
Impure blood.
And the remedy?
It clears out the channels
through' which poisons are Mg
carried from the body. When
all impurities are removed from
the blood nature takes right bold ■■■
and completes the cure.
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" Address, I DR. J. C. AYER. w M
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FARM WOK THE
LATEST IN YEARS
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Commissioner 0. B. Stevens Urges
a Reduction In Cotton Acreage
and Fertilizers Used on Cot
ton of One-Third at Least
From That Used the
Past Two Years.
Also Urges a Large Increase of
Fu.ml Supplies For 31an and Beast
For Hume Consumption, as Well as
of AH the Products of the Farm (Ex.
crpt Cotton) That Will Bring Spot
Cush and Lrirge Profile in the
31m rkcts.
Atlanta, April 1, 1899
The year 1899 is a memorable one in
the .tackwaraness ot all kinds of farm
Work, preparatory for the coming crop.
The mouths of January and February
Were almost entirely lost, and the un
stable weather into March, has retarded
the usual progress made in this direction
during last month. Under these cir
cnmstanot'a it is a. fixed fact that all
crops of 1899 must be planted much
later than usual.
Even with the corn crop in South and
Bout a west Georgia, most of the usual
planting in February was extended to
March, while much of the March work
of the corn crop in Middle, North and
Northeast Georgia, will of necessity, be
carried into April this But late
planting with deep and thorough prepa
ration at the start, is much better than
■lip-shod work and planting at an ear
lier period. Every intelligent farmer
knows that more thad halt' the work
Is done, in making, when a crop is put
tn after this kind of preparation. But
there is one other reason why late plant
ing and deep and thorough preparation
©f soil should go together this year.
Which I submit to your reflection.
1 refer to a fixed natural law that
regulates the labor of farmers through
©uc the worai, and enables them to turn
the sunshine and ram God sends us to
their own profit.
It is this: That the mean annual rain
fall in any given locality, whether 10
inches or lit) inches a year, does not
▼ary much, either in any given year or
tenei of years.
lu most of the states east of the
Mississippi, wa have had an excess
©f rainfall, commencing last August
•nd perhaps ending with February, for
this reason the possibility or perhaps
probability of a drouth more or less
protracted duriug the growmg season of
the coming crop would seem to be in
dicated; an additional reason why deep
and thorough preparation and late
planting should go together, both iu
corn and cotton this year. Every weak
point in every terrace on the farm I
should be looked after and repaired au
that rains that do fall during the com
ing months of crop maturing will be
consumed and utilised by the growing
crop. With perfect terraces, deep prepa
ration and shallow culture afterwards,
growing crops will, bo exempt from
drouths when compared to lands that
are unterraced.
We have now arrived at the cotton
planting month of April, the most
critical in the history of the entire
state, because on her agricultural pros
perity all other'interests hinge or rest,
either languish or prosper, upon the
decision of the farmers of Georgia
during this mouth touching the re
duction in acreage as well as in fer
tilizers of at least one-third from
that used the last two years, not only
iu Georgia, but in all the other states
east of the Mississippi, and as substan
tial a reduction in the acreage of the
cotton states west of it. The imperative
necessity for the reduction will be seen
by a short glauce at the crops of 1898
and 1899.
The crop of 1897 was 8,750,000 bales,
and sold for from 7 to 8 cents. The
crop of 1898 was 11,200 OCO, and this dis
astrous crop brought less than $11,000,000
more than the crop of 1897. In other
words, 2.500,000 bales of the crop of. the
1»98 crop were sold at 4 50per bale, weigh
iug 507 pounds; so much for making more
cotton than the world needs, and allow
ing the cotton spinners of Manchester
to set the price on the entire crop, and
the loss sustained on the present crop
is much greater than on that of 1898, as
many millions of it Were sold at 8 cents,
and some of it even less than this.
There is now more than cotton enough
assured to supply the world’s needs the
present year, or until next September
I know that the farmers of Georgia
have been surfeited with newspaper
advice in thp management of their own
business for years, but in this instance
you are advised by one who will do
more than practice the precepts here in
culcated, both in the reduction* of his
own acreage devoted to cotton, as well
as the quantity of fertilizers used by
him this year.
Georgia made more cotton than both
the Carolinas in 1898 and manufactured
less of it than either, while the two
Carolinas united consumed the entire
crop of North Carolina and reduced the
cotton crop of South Carolina 120,000
bales in 1898. Georgia uses one-fourth
of all the fertilizers used from Maryland
and Virginia to Louisiana, including
that used on the wheat of the first and
the sugar cane of the last I She has
taken the lead in the “all cotton” craze
folly. For the past two years, until the
meshes of the spider web mor; gage
woven around her hospitable homes by
the crop of 1898 that brought disaster
and ruin to very mafiy, have redoubled
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Kans (P. O. Box 61). writes: "My wife was
troubled with prolapsus, or*female weakness,'
for several years. She was not able to do her
work, she had such bearing down pains and pain
in her back. Her periods were irregular, vary
ing all the way from two to six weeks. At those
times she would have fainting spells so trad that
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Every day, a dose. Once you start, you
can never stop them. That is tlie way with
some so-called remedies for constipation.
It is different with Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant
Pellets. They are a positive, complete and
permanent cure for constipation and they
don’t become a habit. One “ Pellet ”is a
gentle laxative and two a mild cathartic.
Druggists sell them. Nothing else is
“just as good."
It is a druggist’s business to give you,
not to tell you, what you want.
ui'eir metnes ou very uxauy mu.e iu
1899.
Bat Georgians have tin almost infii
nite power of active potential endur
ance and energv, and their helpmeets
are iu every way worthy <m them it
their work were shown to them
A fanner uear A lanta brought 10C
fine turkeys here larely and sold them
for cash as quickly as cotion for s!<• to
I the retail trade, u sum equal to seven
bales of cotton at 3 cents! They cost
absolutely nothing but care and protec
tion while young. Thev liveou insects,
bugs aud pienty of corn, and corn uevei
ought to l>e bold off the farm in Georgia
until alter it has been te<t to pigs and
turkeys, worth 0 and 12 cents a pound,
at least, dres«ed. The cortou bales cost
$8 a baie to pick mid cover |>er bale after
it is made, leaving a net balance of $49.
The farmer fancies that the bagging
pars for itself, but there is a tare of 2J
pounds deduoted on all cotton exported
—deuucted from the price of every hale
of cotton, whether consumed at home
or in Europe.
A half million turkeys raised by ths
farmers’ wives will be a labor of pleas
ure, leaving three filths lor home con
sumption and two fifths for the market.
Dre-feed turkeys can be sold in the
cities at from 10 to 15 cents per pound
through the winter aud early spring
mouths, and paid tor on delivery, by
using svstenpitiu business methods. Ev
ery city, t< wn and village will furnish
a trfarket forth to l *
The treight on such products would
be irom 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds
from any county to anv city in Georgia.
Why should Georgia depend upon
Tennessee -'•r h< r dairy and uonltxy
pruouvis. and on the west for nearly all
ot her mutton, beef and pork supplies?
The only answer to flits is that the cot
ton producers of Georgia have been ex
pending their entire, energies on cotton
for two years past, much to their own
sorrow, and have had uo energies to ex
pend on any other product of the soil.
A half million bu-nels ot sweetpotatoes
can be dißjKised of iu the same way at a
stipulated jir.ee before shipment, and
spot <-ash on delivery, and millions more
for home consumption, as well as to fat
ten ports i nd poultry. They retail today
ar $1 a bushel iu Atlanta, and in almost
every other large city iu the state, and
never sell 1 en>w 50 cents, and farmers
would not be compelled co market them
at the lowest price, as they always arg
with cotton.
It has been tbe custom for many years
for farmers’ wives to have a “cotton
patch” to supply them with Christmas
cash for lamiiy necessities or luxuries,
bur alas, like the large body of labor
who “work on shares,” nothing or next
to nothing has been left of their
“patches” after the picking and bag
ging were paid 'or. This year let her
"cotton patch” be substituted with a
flock of 100 turkeys. She will find
pleasure in raising them and seeing
them grow up. At an average weight
of 10 pounds dressed they will net in
spot cash over SIOO, equal to four bales
of middling cotton at 5 cents on the
helping in a small :
■tfaVlo'recluce the volume of "Georgia
oottou that has well nigh ruined Geor-1
gia the past two years. By the eud of
this month an approximate estimate of
the coming crop will be arrived at and ;
by tbe last of May the stuiisticiaus will
be able to give the exact acreage iu cot
ton planted, the amount of fertilizers
used, and on these two as- basis give
their estimate of the coming crop in ;
bales for 1899 aud 19V0; 'the Neils
among them giving a large margin to
their guess work, iu the interest of the
cotton manufacturers of the world, mid
by this moans robbing the cotton pro
ducers of the south, us they have done
iu the crop of 1899. Already they are
boasting and assuming that the small
grain erojts destroyed by the severe win
ter in Arkansas, west of the Mississippi, .
as well as in Georgia and states east,
will now undoubtedly be plauted or re
planted in cotton. If these predictions
come true in Georgia or Arkansas it
will be bailed as a sure omen tor another
large 4-eent cotton crop, and irretrieva
ble ruin to tbe cotton producers. But
we have an abiding faith in the cotton
producers of Georgia and we shall con
tinue to cherish it for one or two months
longer. Georgia farmers learn nothing
from didactic instruction, like school
children. The intelligence of the aver
age agriculturist is as broad aud his
mind as clear as his city merchant
cousin. What he wants are cold laets
in plain language, and these he can deal
with and master as easily as they are ,
pre-ented to him. Debt, debt, for many J
years has nut him in the position of the
most, stubborn criminals a century
ago. When they were enclosed in a
tank, chained to a pump, and water ad- ;
Diitted at u ratio faster than he could |
pump it out,.umess he worked with all j
his might, with no volition of his own, he
was left for a given time to make his ■
choice between pumping aud drowning, ’
the guards alike indifferent which he .
preferred.
If he owed his creditors SI,OOO they
never offered to take 1,000 turkeys for
the debt, nor 2,000 bushels of sweet po
tatoes; if they had selected the potatoes
he would have taken 20 acres of bis best .
j land, planted it with this “apple of ths
earth,” worked nt it with the irresist
ible and nn tiring energy of a Georgian,
shipped the 2,000 bushels promptly on
time to lift the mortgage, and bank the
other 2,000 carefully for the spring
market, at 75 cents per bushel.
But, his creditors accept cotton only
j on all debts due them. All other agri-
I cultural products are valueless. Cotton
| alone brings spot cash, say they, and
J yet the south in past years has paid out
I millions annually for sun cured grass
i to feed tbe stock engnged in making■
j cotton to glut the cotton markets of the
j world with. We have already shown
the utter impossibility of the farmer
ever being able to cancel that SI,OOO.
mortgage with cotton, by the actual |
: sale of seven bales at 3 centSjj’er pound, |
counting only the actual cos« ot picking,
aud covering it, if to this were added
tne cost of picking, chopping, hoeing:
and cultivating, we leave ocuers to com
pute how much or tho nd proceed* ot
that seven ba.es would be left to credit
that SI,OOO mortgage with.
Let those who b.am • even the all cot
ton larmer put themselves in his place.
Ah cotton pronuceis iu Georgia and iu
all the other oid cotton states *ast of
the Mississi ipi have oeeu too much ou
the "ail cot on’ pan in the past years,
witu Georgia rar in the lead. We have
lai th. uhy to make this matter
plain in cold mete and figures, and the
necessity of raising not only an opulent
abundance but a superabundance of all
food supplies for man and beast, not.
merely for home consumption on the
farm, but for every product of the farm
that will find a spot cash market iu ,
every village, town and city in the state, ,
and at inois remunerative prices than 1
co'ton ever brought. A few only of'
these have been indicated by us, because I
every fuimer can supply many addi-1
tional products that will bring them the 1
hard cash for himself.
The farmers of Georgia are the poOKr I
est people in the state, I mean the cot
top raising farmer A woman oottou
mi'l hand call make SJU to S4O pef
month, and has mote money than the
av rage tanner has seen the past two
years. He has been trying to clothe
the world at his own private expense. |
He sold itr 1897 aud 1898, 2,500,00 U biles
of his best ctnron at less than 1 cent a
pound. He has been doing even more
charitable'deeoS than this in 1898 ami
1899, but at heavy cost to himselt and
family.
The facts are before you; the remedy
is in. your hands. If you heed them
now the wrecks of »he past two years
may snli be repaired. But if the farm
ers ot Georgia are saved irom,hopeless
bankruptcy and rum it can only come
to them by a reduction of the acrege m j
cotton and iu fertilizers devoted to the j
production of cotton this year of at
least one-third of ea< h.
O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
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A Little DttTerence.
Here is a good story of a passage at
arms between a well known English
woman and the late Sergeant Parry
“Yon are Mrs. Georgiana Weldon?*,
asked the distinguished lawyer.
“No, 1 am not."
“You don’t understand me. I aske4
you, are you Mrs. Georgiana Weldon?’*
“1 know you did. and I say I ant
not?”
“But you are the wife of Mr. Wei*
don 7”
“Yes, I am."
“Then surely you are Mrs. Weldon ?*
“Os course I tun "
“And is not your name Georgiana?**
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“What is i ~ tlic n
“Georgina " '
“Then why could you not say so al
first?" j
“Because yon didu t ‘isk me."
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