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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. J. H. HUFF’S BOOK AND MUSIC STORE is the place for you to buy your Books, Stationery, Window Shades, and Fancy Goods. PIANOS and ORGANS. All at Bar gain Prices, J. H. HUFF, 24 HILL STREET. 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 % AND ITS *CURI? To the Editor :■ —I have an absolute remedy for Consumption. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been already permanently cured. So proof-positive am I of its power that I consider it my duty to send two bottles free to those of your readers who have Consumption,Throat, Bronchial or Lung Trouble, if they will write me their express and postoflice address. Sincerely, T. A. SLOCUM, M. C., 183 Pearl St., New York. The Editorial and Business Management of this Paper Guarantee this generous PropostUoru TO THE ss:s.<><> SAVED BY THE SEABOARD AIR LINE. Atlanta to Richmond sl4 50 Atlanta to Washington 14 50 Atlanta to Baltimore via Washing- ton 15 70 Atlanta to Baltimore via Norfolk and Bay Line steamer 15.25 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Nor- folk 18.05 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Wash ington 18.50 Atlanta to New York via Richmond and Washington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va. and Cape Charles Route 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, via Wash , ington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, ' a., Bay Line steamer to Balti more, and rail to New York 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk and Old Dominion 8. 8. Co. (meals and stateroom included) 20.25 Atlanta to Boston via Norfolk and steamer (meals and stateroom in -I,<tluded), < t luded ) 21.50 Atlanta to Boston via Washington and New York 24.00 Ihe rate mentioned above to Washing t*more ’ Philadelphia, New York ail 'Fv 011 are fe® B fhan by any other to. lne -_ The above rates apply from * 4uta - T j clcets to the east are sold from P oints in the territory of the r ,? States Passenger Association, the Seaboard Air Line, at $3 less than by any other all rail line. t; f'ckets, sleeping car accommoda ns, call on or address B. A. NEWLAND, Gen. Agent Pass Dept. Tv * WM. BISHOP CLEMENTS, wTPAYS2OO raxh for a single stamp like rut! We pay & toffWOeaeh formanyi>oßtage st am paused between IM7 and l.'7t Look up your old letters aM vhose or vour neighbors; you may find stamps worth thousands ‘E'Jhtra. Send to-day for Hsia. ——— —- -■ ■‘’l.HHn ST.MPCO,, frt. Uulfc Mo. 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 -X' 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 ted. The trees need the best of ntteu 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 : ■ wii: o 11 a doleful tale blAil- Em XUL «.) 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