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or County’ S primary of June
gubject to the democr r KELL.
» m subject to the action of the
have the anppo j TIDWELL.
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At the solicitation of many voters I
t.«hv announce myself a candidate for
Commissioner, subject to the dem-
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to an honest, buslnees-fike adtelitetra-
Sin of county affairs m the direction of
tower tS£ RF - STRICKLAND.
t hereby announce myself a candidate
J-County Commissioner, subject to the
nnmical *nd business methods in conduct
ini! the affiirsoi the county. raTTn , o<T
ln * ? W.J. FUTBAL.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
10 r County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic primary
ot’june m W. W. CHAMPION.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
hereby announce myself a candidate for
reflection to the office of County Commis
sioner of Spalding county, subject fun the
democratic primary to be held on June 23,
1898, My record in the past is my pledge
for futu re faithfulness.
D L. PATRICK.
ForlSepresentatiye
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
am a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary of the
Editor Call: Please announce my
name as a candidate for Representative
from Spalding county, subject to the action
oi*the democratic party. I shall be pleased
to receive the support of all the voters,and
if elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the wholecounty.
J. B. Bxll.
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For Tax Collector.
"I respectfully announce to the citizens
of Spalding county that I am a candidate
for re-election to the office of Tax Collec
tor of this county, subject to the choice oi
the democratic primary, and shall be
grateful for all votes given me. ■
T. R. NUTT.
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For County Treasurer.
To the Voters of Spalding Couptv: I
respectfully announce myself a candidate
for election for the pffice of County Treas
urer, subject to the democratic primary,
and if elected promise to attend faithfully
to the' performance of the duties of the
office, and will appreciate the support o.
my Mends. W. P. HORNE.
To the Voters of Spalding County > I
announce myself a candidate for re-elec
tion for the office of County Treasurer,
subject to democratic primary, and if elect
ed promise to be as faithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future aa I
have been in the past s
- J. (J. BROOKS.
For Tax leosiver.
Editor Call : Please announce to the
voters of Spalding county that I am a can
didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub
ject to the Democratic primary of June
23rd, and respectfully ask the support of
all voters of this county.
Respectfolly,
R.H. YARBROUGH.
I respectfoliy announce myself «s a can
didate for re-election to the office of Tax
Receiver of Scalding county .subject to the
action of primary, if one is held-.
S. M. M'COWELL.
< For Sheriff. .
I respectfoliy inform my friends—the
people of Spalding county—that“ am a
candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject
to the verdict of a primary, if one is held
Your supporkwill be thankfully received
and duly appreciated.
MJ. PATRICK.
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I am a candidate for the democratic
nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask
the support of all my friends and the nub
ile. >Jf nominated and elected, it shall be
my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of
fice as faithfully asm the past.
M. F. MORRIS.
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for “that tired feeling,’* apring fever and
the general lassitude that comes with
warm days, when the system hasn’t been
cleansed from the impurities that winter
, harvested in the blood, you will find
in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters.
For purifying the blood and giving tone
to the body they are unexcelled I
N. B. DREWRY* SON,
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Registration Notice.
®°unty registration 4xx)ks are now
open at my office in Hasselkus’ Shoe Store
to do eo should call and
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FORAGE CROPS THE
HOPE OF FARMERS
Best Moans of Supplementing
Food Supplies.
NESBITT GIVES POINTERS
Agricultural Commissioner or| thflT
Course to Pursue In View of the
High Wheat prices and With the
Prospect of a Continuance of Such
Market Conditions.
Department qf Agriculture,
Atlanta, June 1, 1898.
With wheat quoted at au almost un
precedented figure and prices of other
food crops advancing, and with the
prospect of such market conditions be
ing sustained for at least some months
to come, prudenl farmers are row cast
about for -practical means of supple
menting their food supplies. There is
no section, of the world in which.a
greater variety of • nfW’
FORAGE CROPS
may be grown than in the south, and as
» measure of safety it would be well for
Georgia farmers to put in such of these
W opportu
nity? render possible, first and fore
most comes
forage'corn as a fodder crop or for
SI LAG B. i■ W- fe' ’ i «*•
As to the best methods of managing
this crop there are somewhat conflicting
opinions, but these result from amis
apprehenrian.rather than from any real
M tbe proper
Ing, 5 cultivating, etc. It depends upon
the purpose for which the crop is in
tended, as to Which method should be
adopted. If the crop is intended for*
fodder, that is, to be cut and cured, the
object is to secure a large yield of. small
and medium sized stalks, having an
abundance of leaves and little grain.
The plants may, therefore, be planted
in narrow rows and crowded in the drill.
In curing this crop the gerplus moisture
is dried out and, we have a nutritious
forpge, which, supplemented with grain,
makes a good and complete ration. But
in planting corn for tlje silo, the object
is to secure a good yield of well de
veloped stalks, each one bearing at least
one well grown ear upon it The plants
rtustnot be crowded too closely to
gether. The rows should be at least 3to
< feet apart, and the plants should stand
from 15 to 20 inches in the row. If .the
[ffifhts stand closer thia the stalks
do not have room to mature sufficiently
and the consequence is watery stalks,
and the ears which form are not well
filled with grain. Silage made from
such corn as this is apt to be very unsat
isfactory—sour and innutritions. From
this explanation we see that fodder corn
should be crowded as close as the
strength of the land will admit, while
a corn crop intended for the silo should
have sufficient distance to produce a
heavy yield of stalks and eai> suffi
ciently matured to be cured into good,
sweet silage.
THE pea crop.
Field peas give us another crop for
forage, of which too much cannot be
said. Among the many advantages of
this crop is the faetthat it can be town
from May until July, and also that it
can be utilized as a three-fold food, for
man, for beast and for the land. No
matter in what way we, decide to us? it
so will return -with interest whatever
amount we have invested in it
MILLET.
Millet also may be seeded at any time
from May to August, and though it re
quires richer land and more thorough
preparation than corn or ’peas, it is a
good in vestment where forage promises
to be short. One bushel es German
millet, sown on an acre of land, well
prepared and the seed harrowed in, will
make a heavy yield, and when cured at
the proper time, that i? before the seeds
mature, will make a most acceptable ad
dition to our forage supply.
SORGHUM.
Sorghum is a crop which should find
a place on every Georgia farm. It is
not affected by drouth to the ruinous
degree that our corn crop often is, and
the stalk and the main are both ex
oellent foo| for cattfi and hogs, besides
which thereto usually a good demand
for the syrup. With the improved sys
tem of evaporating, now in general use,
the syrup has become a desirable article
of food in most farm households. Dur
ing the hot season the man who is for
tunate enough to have a sorghum patch
is assured of green food for his stock
when every other crop is drying up,
while the cured fodder makes a nutri
tious and appetizing feed for the winter
months.
It is not too late to plant any of these
four crops—indeed, all may be planted
later than this date, and under favor
able conditions will be very satisfactory.
Though there are other crops, which
in time may supersede them, we would
advise, as we have, these four forage
stops of such well known value, and
with the cultivation of which we are so
thoroughly familiar, that we do not
venture, except byway of experiment
on a small scale-, on the culture of new
and untried crops. It is well for each
farmer to give his attention to these
new crops and to thoroughly satisfy
himself as to their merits before under
taking their culture to any large extent.
.In these days, when inquiries are
Hramttwntly being received at this de
partment as to the value and efficiency
of certain insecticides, and when Paris
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green is coming intc such general use,'l
SUBSTITUTE -3® PARIS GUXEN, I
which has been thoroughly tested at
the Ohio Experiment Station, may bo
of service in reducing the cost in cases
where large quantities are used.
White arsenic, in a soluble form, <x»ta
about one-third as much as Paris
. green, and unlike the latter gives no
trouble in the way of settling: Paris
green does not dissolve readily and needs
Constant to keep it from set* I
tling. Here is the formula:
Dissolve 2 pounds of commercial white
arsenic and 4 pounds of carbonate of
sqda (washing soda) in 2 gallons of wa
ter and use junta of this mixture to
50 gallons of Bordeaux mixture. This
will be found sufficient for any purpose
where A combination mixture forfun
gua and insect peste is required. As for
instance, potato blight (fungus), and
potato bugs (insect); apple scab (fun
gus), and apple worms (insect).
The easiest way, says the bulletin, to
make the solutions is to put both the
white arsenic and the carbonate of soda
in a gallon of boiling water, keep boil
ing about 15 minutes, or until a clear
liquid is formed, and then dilute to 2
gallons. . „
This is the season when it is neces
sary to wage an unceasing warfare
against all kinds of insect and fungus
pests, and the above combination of
Bordeaux and white Arcenic is effective
destroying a large proportion of these
most annoying and destructive enemies.
The horticulturist or farmer, indeed any
man, who looks to the products of the
soil as the reward of his labor, would do
well to study the diseases and insects
which are liable to attack his special
crops and at the first indication of their
presence use active ahd prompt meas
ures to prevent serious injury. Some
times a few days’ delay in using proper
remedies is fatal, more especially in the
rapidly maturing mops. Personal ob
servation in the different sections of the
rate confirm the reports of promising
crop conditions, although in tome sec
tions the dry weather has retarded the
satisfactory development of the young
plants and cut off the oat crop.
R. T. Nesbitt, Comissioner.
condition" of theT
" Reduced Cotton >rea and Corn Small
Throughout the State.
COTTON.
This crop somewhat retarded by high
winds and cool nights in May. Acreage
less than last year. Stands not good in
many counties on account of dry
weather. Some fields have bad to be
replanted. Plants small. Cultivation
good. Will improve with the advent of
warm nights and hot suns.
' CORN.
Small throughout the state, on ac
count of cool weather in April and want
of rain. Stands fairly good. Some dam
age from cut worms.
r - OATS.
. ..Have suffered greatly from drouth,
particularly in South Georgia, where
many fields have been ruined.
The crop is so injured by dry weather
that the yield will not be up to the
average.
i WRBAT.
Largest acreage planted in years. At
least twice as much as last year. Pros
pects fine for the best crops in many
years. Wery little rust reported and the
crop is almost assured. The-good price
will be a great boon to the farmers of
North Georgia.
CANE.
Acreage greater than last year. Stands
not good on .account of- the unprece
dented drouth through South Georgia.
, rice. ■ •
Increased acreage and plants doing
well were irrigation is used. Upland
rice small and backward.. s
Minor crops, such as potatoes, hay,
etc., have suffered in many counties for
want of rain.
FRUITS.
The peach crop promises to be one of
the largest ever made. Allothar fruits,
except apples, promise well. The straw
berry crop, though somewhat injured
by tl be cold snap in April, rallied later
on, and an immense crop will be mar
keted. Blackberries and other small
fruits are promised in profusion. Mel
ons are doing well.
INFORMATION ON FARMING.
State Agri cultural Dwartmeut Re
plies to a Number of Inquiries.
Question.—Pleas^-wdvise me about
composting. For several years I have
composted my stable manure with cot
tonseed, chemicals, rich earth, etc., but
it is a heavy job and requires so much
extra work in handling that I have been
debating iai my own mind whether avam
pthte? ptan would not pay better. Re
cently my attention has been called to
articles in agricultural journos on this
subject, in which tite writON this
ploK will toon beoome a thing of the
past. Do you agree with this view, or
what would you advise?
Answer.—lt is not advisable to han
dle a heavy article like njanureahy more
than is absolutely necessary, and wliere
it is possible to haul the manure directly
to the land, we have found that it pays
| better than the more costly jfian of com
posting. But often the hauling cannot
be done, when in the busy season every
mule and farm hand is engaged jn the
different crops. Under such circum
stances, rather than allow the manure
to accumulate in the stables, to the man
ifest injury of the animals, or to waste
it by throwing it in loose piles in the
stable yards, we would select Wet days,
when it is not possible to work in the
fields, and put-the manure in compact
compost heaps, when its valuable con
stituents will be held until such time as
we can utilize them. Where a. farmer
has a largo number of cattle, which ho
is feeding for market, which practice
is becoming quite extended since cotton
seed meal and hulls afford such a cheap
and certain means of fattening beeyes,
it is a good plan/ except in severe
weather, so pen the cattle directly on
the land to be improved. Near Atlanta
there are 25 acres of most magnificent
oats, sown the lasttrf ifor, neariy ready
for cutting, which are a striking and
wonderful object lesson as to the wis
dom of this policy. The manure from
feeding the hulls and meal contains ele
ments of fertility in the highest
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degree beneficial to both
ject from Prof essor Massey is both op
portune and practical, and outlines an
economical plan not only for utilizing
farm manures, but for obtaining at a
comparative small cori, M part, at feast,
cesaful farming. Os course we cannot
expect to feed cattle enough to enrich
the entire farm each year, but ly Pur
suing this jjan, even on a limited area,
one will be surprised at the results, in
the increased yield of mops: i»'
“No matter how carefully the manure
is handled while in the stable or barn
yard there will be a constant loss, and
there is less of loss when it so spread on
the land than anywhere else. Let one
hauling do for the homemade manure
and let that be to get it out and spread
it broadcast on the land where the corn
. crop foto be planted. Then if theoorn
so followed by a crop of winter oats, as
s it should .be in the cotton belt, there
will be found enough to carry the oat
crop through to success. Then after the
oats are cut give all the land a liberal
dose of the mineral plant foods that the
pea delights in—acid phosphate and pot
ash in the form of muriate of potash.
Spread this also broadcast, for the
broadcast use of manures and fertili
zers is what tends to the improvement
of the land,, and its building up for im
proved crops. Then sow the land in
peas, and by the use of the previous
dressing of 800 to 400 pounds of. the
phosphate and potash mixture you
should get a crop of hay that will ena
ble you to feed more stock than ever
and thus raise more manure to put out
broadcast.
“But what we especially wanted to
oppose was the laborious hauling of
earth, manure, cottonseeds and all sorts
of rubbish to make agile, and to turn
and mix and pile and repile the mix
ture, thinking that by this process the
whole will become stable manure, so a
great waste’ of labor. If there are valu
able accumulations of wood and mould
handy, haul it and spread it on the land
and haul and spread the stable manure
and put your cottonseed down in a fur
row deep between the cotton rows,
where after it has rotted the cotton
roots will find it just when they need
it most—at fruiting time.
“Acid phosphate and potash, spread
? BOsdcast on the land for a big crop of
peas, will leave nitrogen enough in the
land for the cotton that so to follow,
and you will need to buy, if anything,
only the same mineral fertilizers, while
the great crop of peavine hay will en
able yqp to feed more stock and to add
a profitable industry for the winter in
selling beeves or milk and butter.”—
State Agricultural Department.
What Should Farmers Do to Raise
Cotton at a Profit?
Question.—l have seen the unjust
criticisms which have been spread
abroad in regard to the experiment car
ried on at the Georgia Experiment Sta
tion aa to the cost of raising cotton. I
remember the mannex in which your
words were at the time perverted, and
also the effort which has all along bepn
matte to get political capital out of
what was really a most sound piece of
advice to farmers. This was six years
age, and if this advice had been gener
ally heeded much; of the subsequent
hardship consequent on the low price of
cotton would have been avoided—in
deed I, with many others, believe that
the price of cotton would have been
maintained at a reasonable-figure, be
cause, under your system, it would have
been impossible to so overcrowd the
, markets as to make our staple drop al
most valueless, as it has been, except to
cotton buyers and speculators, the
fanner not teing “in it.” Reviewing
the past six years, and all that has been
said, pro and con, as to the low price of
cotton, cost of production, etc., what is
your present opinion as to how we shall
meet and combat conditions, which so
far have proven too much for us?
Answer.—My position on this ques
tion is the same today that it was six
years ago, namely, that when a farmer
has made ample arrangements to raise a
full supply of bread and meat for his
family and food for his cattle,, mules
and other farm stock, then hdis at lib
erty, and not until then, to cultivate in
cotton all the land which he can’suc
cessfully manage. And just here I
would emphasize the fact that at pres
ent low prices no cotton crop can be a
success where it takes 3 acres of land to
make one bale of cotton. We must, by
a system of terracing, to hold the fer
tility of our lands, by deep plowing to
hold the mofoture and to utilize hereto
fore unsuspected elements of plant food,
by planting renovating crops, by rota
tion and by manuring, intelligently
managed, change the results from acres
to the bate to bales to the acret Xam
aware that many, who have not studied
thin question, will mairttein that this
system is not justified by the ex
tremely low prices which have
ruled during the past season, but
it is just here that the mistake
comes in. If by this careful and judi
cious management the yield am be
doubled or trebled, lam satisfied, from
observation and personal experience,
that instead of being a loser the farmer
will be a gainer and that instead of be
ing extravagant it so the most econom
ical, as well as the most intelligent,
method that am be followed. The al
most universal practice of forcing a few
more pounds of cotton from our hard
run fields by the simple application of
100 or 200 pounds of commercial fertili
zer is bringing our lands to poverty and
our farmeas to wnut Stutc
oral Department
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EXCLUSIVE t£E OF THE WORD “ CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I, DR. SAMUfcL PITCHER, qf Jfyannis, Massachusetts,
uas the oripnator of -PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same
This is the original “ PITCHERS CASTORIA, which has been
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March's, 1897.
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