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laundry.
For the convenience of my patrons
I have opened . »«oeh Laundry at
the second door be « th, Griffin
Banking Company, which I will run
in connection with my old business
on Broad street. I will superintend
the work at both Laundries and guar
antee satisfaction.
harry lee.
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Ordinary’s Advertisements.
Guardian’s Sale.
C TATE OF GEORGIA,
O Spalding County.
By virtue of an order granted by the
ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia, at
the March term of said court, 1899,1 will
sell to the highest bidder, before the court
house door in Griffin, Georgia, between
the.legal hours ot sale, on the first Tues
day in April, 1899, the following proper
ty: Two-thirds (j) inte-est in twenty
three acres of land, more or less, bounded
as follows: North by lands of J. T.
Beasley, east by lands of E. T. Kendall,
south by lands of Mrs. Sarah Beasley and
B. C. Head and west by lands of W. J,
Bridges. Sold for the purpose of encroach
ing on corpus of ward’s estate fortheir
maintenance and education. Terms cash.
W. T. Beasley,
Guardian of his minor children.
March 6th, 1899.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, A. J. Walker, Administrator
of Miss Lavonia Walker, represents to the
Court in his petition, duly filed and en
tered on record, that he has fully admin
istered Miss Lavonia Walker’s estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said Adminis
trator should not be discharged from his
administration, and receive letters of dis
mission on the first Monday in May, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
February 6th, 1899.
Consumption
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who have Consumption,Throat, Bronchial or
Lung Trouble, if they will write me their
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FARM WORK THE
LATEST IN YEARS
I
Commissioner O. 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.
lie Also Urges a Barge Increase of
Food Supplies For Man and Beast
For Home Consumption, as Well as
of All the Products of ths Farm (Ex
cept Cotton) That Will Bring Spot
Cash and Large Profits In the
Markets.
Atlanta, April 1. 1899.
The year 1899 is a memorable one in
the backwardness of all kinds of farm
work, preparatory for the coming crop.
The months 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
cumstances 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
Southwest 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 year. But late
planting with deep and thorough prepa
ration at the start, is much better than
slip-shod work and planting at an ear
lier period. Every intelligent farmer
knows that more than half the work
is done, in making, when a crop is put
in after this kind of preparation. But
there is one other reason why late plant
ing and deep and thorough preparation
of soil should go together this year,
which I submit to your reflection.
I refer to a fixed natural law that
regulates the labor of farmers through
out the world, and enables them to turn
the sunshine and rain God sends us to
their own profit.
It is this: That the mean annual rain
fall in any given locality, whether 10
inches or 110 inches a year, does not
vary much, either in any given year or
series of years.
In most of the states east of the
Mississippi, wo have had an excess
of rainfall, commencing last August
and perhaps ending with February, for
this reason the possibility or perhaps
probability of a drouth more or less
protracted daring the growing 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 in
corn and cotton this year. Every weak
point in every terrace on the farm
should be looked after and repaired so
that rains that do fall during the com
ing months of crop maturing will be
consumed and utilized by the growing
crop. With perfect terraces, deep prepa
ration and shallow culture afterwards,
growing crops will be exempt from
drouths when compared to lands that
are un terraced.
We have now arrived at the cotton
planting month of April, the most
critical in the history of the entire
state, tecause on her agricultural pros
perity ail other interests hinge or rest,
either languish or prosper, upon the
decision of the farmers of Georgia
during this month touching the re
duction iu acreage as well as in fer
tilizers of at least one-third from
that used the last two years, not only
in 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 glance 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 11,200,000, and this dis
astrous crop brought less than fl 1,000,000
more than the crop of 1897. In other
words, 2,500,000 bales of the crop of the
1898 crop were sold at 4.soper bale, weigh
ing 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 3 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 the 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 Virgin)'. to Louisiana, including
that used on ihu wheat, of the first and
the sugar cane of the last I She has
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taken the lead in the “all cotton*’ craze
folly. For the res: two years, until the
meshes of the spider web mortgages
woven around her hospitable homes by
the crop of 1898 that brought disaster
and ruin to very many, have redoubled
their meshes on very many more in
1899.
But Georgians have an almost infii
nite power of active potential endur
ance and energy, and their helpmeets
are in every way worthy of them if
their work were shown to them
A farmer near Atlanta brought 100
flue turkeys here lately and sold them
for cash as quickly as cotton for $lO5 to
the retail trade, a sum equal to seven
bales of ootton at 3 cental They cost
absolutely nothing but care and protec
tion while young. They live on insects,
bugs and plenty of corn, and corn never
ought to be sold off the farm in Georgia
until after it has been fed to pigs and
turkeys, worth 6 and 12 cents a pound,
at least, dressed. The cotton bales cost
$8 a bale to pick and cover per bale after
it is made, leaving a net balance of $49.
The farmer fancies that the bagging
pays for itself, but there is a tare of 23
pounds deducted on all cotton exported
—deducted from the price of every bale
of cotton, whether consumed at home
or in Europe.
A half million turkeys raised by the
farmers’ wives will be a labor of pleas
ure, leaving three-fifths for home con
sumption and two-fifths for the market.
Dressed turkeys can be sold in the
cities at from 10 to 15 cents per pound
through the winter and early spring
months, and paid for on delivery, by
using systematic business methods. Ev
ery city, town and village will furnish
a market for them.
The freight on such products would
be from 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds
from any county to any city in Georgia.
Why should Georgia depend upon
Tennessee for her dairy and poultry
products, and on the west for nearly all
of her mutton, beef and pork supplies?
The only answer to this 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 no energies to ex
pend on any other product of the soiL
A half million bushels of sweet potatoes
can be disposed of in the same way at a
stipulated price before shipment, and
spot cash on delivery, and millions more
for home consumption, as well as to fat
ten pork and poultry. They retail today
at $1 a bushel in Atlanta, and in almost
every other large city in the state, and
never sell below 50 cents, and farmers
would not be compelled to market them
at the lowest price, as they always are
with cotton.
It has been the custom for many years
for farmers’ wives to have a ‘'cotton
patch” to supply them with Christmas
cash for family necessities or luxuries,
but 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 for. 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
plantation, besides helping in a small
way to reduce the volume of Georgia
cotton that has well nigh ruined Geor
gia the past two years. By the end of
this month an approximate estimate of
the coming crop will be arrived at and
by the last of May the statisticians will
be able to give the exact acreage in 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 and 1900; the Neils
among them giving a large margin to
their guess work, iu the interest of the
cotton manufacturers of the world, and
by this means robbing the cotton pro
ducers of the south, as they have done
in the crop of 1899. Already they are
boasting and assuming that the small
grain crops destroyed by the severe win
ter in Arkansas, west of the Mississippi,
as well as in Georgia and states east,
will now undoubtedly be planted or re
planted in cotton. If these predictions
come true in Georgia or Arkansas it
will be hailed as a sure omen for another
large 4-cent cotton crop, and irretrieva
ble ruin to the 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 and bis
mind as clear as his city merchant
cousin. What he wants are cold facts
in plain language, and these he can deal
with and master as easily as they are
presented to him. Debt, debt, for many
years has pat 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
mitted at a ratio faster than he could
pump it out, unless he worked with all
his might, with no volition of his own, he
was left for a given time to make his
choice between pumping and 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 his best
laud, planted It with this "apple of the
earth.” worked at it with the irreslst
i ible and untiring energy f a Georgian,
' shipjied the 2,000 lusheis promptly on
j time to lift :hc mortgage, and bank the
I other 2,000 carefully for the spring
I market, at 75 cents yer bushel.
But his creditors accept cotton only
on all debts due them. All other agri
cultural product.-, are valueless. Cotton
alone brings spot cash, say they, and
yet the s. uth in past years has paid out
millions annually for sun cured grass
to feed the stock engaged in making
cotton to glut the cotton markets of the
world with. Wu have a.ready shown
the utter impossibility of the farmer
ever being able to cancel that |I,WW
mortgage with cotton, by the actual
sale of seven bales at .1 cents per pound,
counting only th > actual cost of picking I
and covering it, if te this were added
the cost ot picking, i hopping, hoeing
and cultivating, we leave others to com
pute how much of the m; proceeds of
that seven bales wi -aid be left to credit
that SI,OOO niort, :: ■-> w itli.
Let those \ I i: ex :i the all cot
ton farmer put themselves in his place.
All cotton producers in Georgia and in
all the other old cotton states east of
the Mississippi have been too much on
the "all cotton” plan m the past years,
with Georgia far in the lead. We have
tried faithfully to make this matter
plain in cold facts and figures, and the
necessity of raising not only an opulent
abundance but a sup< rribundiincc of all
food supplies for man and beust, not
merely for homo consumption on the
farm, but for every product of the farm
that will find a spot cash market in
every village, town and city in the state,
and at mare remunerative prices than
cotton ever brought. A few only of
these have been indicated by us, because
every farmer can supply many addi
tional products that will bring them the
hard cash for himself.
The farmers of Georgia are the poor
est people in the state, I mean the cot
ton raising farmer. A woman cotton
mill bund can make S3O to S4O per
month, ami has more money than the
average farmer has seen the past two
years. He has been trying to clothe
the world at his own private expense.
He sold in 1897 and 1898, 2,500,00 u bales
of his best cotton at less than 1 cent a
pound. He has been doing even more
charitable deeds than this in 1898 und
1899, but at heavy cost to himself and
family.
The facts are before you; the remedy
is in your hands. If you heed them
now the wrecks of the past two years
may still be repaired. But if the farm
ers of Georgia are saved from hopeless
bankruptcy and ruin it can only come
to them by a reduction of the acrege in
cotton an<L«n fertilizers devoted to the
production of cotton this year of at
least one-third of each.
O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Treatment ot Fruit Trees Injured by
the February Freeze.
Question. —To what extent did the
February freeze injure the fruit trees of
Georgia, and is there any treatment for
frozen trees?
Answer. —The unprecedented cold
wave that swept over the state last Feb
ruary greatly injured fruit trees in
many sections of the state, and it is
highly important that such trees should
be properly treated at once, that the
damage may be overcome as much as
possible.
Peaches, plums and figs have suffered
most, while apples and pears seem to
be very little damaged. Os the peaches,
the Alexanders and Tillotsons are the
most injured. All of the other varie
ties are greatly damaged, but to a less
extent.
In a great many cases the Satsuma
plum was nearly killed to the ground,
while the Abundance and most of the
other varieties are not so much dam
aged. The damage seems to be confined
almost entirely to the bearing trees.
Young trees from nursery stock to 2 year
orchard trees have escaped with little
damage. Unfortunately the principal
injury is to the trunk of the trees. The
bast tissues and the cambium layer of
the bark are frozen and blackened from
the surface of the ground up to 12
inches or more, and in a few cases the
bark is loosened from the trees. Us
ually, however, there are about 2 or 3
inches of bark on one side of the tree
that escaped freezing. This green streak
of bark is usually found on the
south side of the tree. In some sections,
however, it is found on another side.
The twigs and limbs are apparently not
so badly damaged. The wood just be
neath the buds is browned, and some of
the twigs killed. In my opinion most
of these trees may recover and be re
stored to a fair condition. This, how
ever, is a question. Many will undoubt
edly die in the course of this summer.
Trees that were badly weakened from
the San Jose scale, or from the depre
dations of other insects, or from neglect
or otherwise, in most cases were killed
beyond a doubt and should be dug up at
once. The work of restoration can be
greatly aided by cutting the trees back
severely. Each grower must determine
for himself how much must be cut
away, according to the extent and the
location of the damage. As a rule, at
least one-third of the growth of the
limbs should be cut off In a few cases
it will be wise to cut the limbs back to
stubbs about 24 inches. All badly dam
aged limbs should be taken out entirely.
Tnis pruning will reduce the surface to
>e fed through the roots and will stim
ulate new growth of healthy wood. If
the tree lives at all, it will regain rap
idly its vigor and retop iself during the
growing season and be prepared for a
fruit crop next year. In doing this
work a smooth, clean cut should be
made with a saw or sharp pruning knife
The cut surface should be painted over
with white lead to exclude the air and
prevent evaporation. This work should
have been done in March. However,
it is not too late yet, and should be done
at once. Several prominent growers
have already commenced the work.
Prompt action in this work may save
your trees.
Neither should cultivation be neglec
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tion now more than ever. Oreii.irds
should be thoroughly cultivated c
the season as though you expect • :
crop of fruit. If cultivation i*
lecU-d, a little hot sun and ! ■•■ w : ■
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