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cil of the City or Griffin tha't from and’
after the passage of thia Ordinance:
Sec. Ist. That it shall be unlawfol for
any person to damage, injure, abuse or
tamper with any water meter, spigot, fire
plug, curb box, or any other fixture or
machinery belonging to the Water Depar
tment of the City of Griffin; provided that
a licensed plumber may use curb service
box to test his work, but shall leave ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty of
the above section.
• Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any
consumer to permit any person, not em
nloved bv them, or not a member ot their
faudly, to use water from their fixtures.
Sec ird It shall be unlawful for any
person to use water from any spigot or
Bohrota other than those paid for by him.
tjec. 4th- It shall be unlawful tor any
person to couple pipes to spigots unless
paid for as an extra outlet.
See. sth. It shall be unlawful for any
person to turn on water to premises or add
any spigot or fixtufe without first obtain
ing a permit from the Water Department.
Sec. Oth. It shall be unlawfol for any
person to allow their spigots, hose or
sprinkler to run between the hours of 9:00
o’clock p. m. and 6:00 o’clock a. m., for
any purpose whatever, unless there is a
meter on the service. Spigots and pipes
must be boxed or wrapped to prevent
ireezing; they will not be allowed to run
for that purpose.
Sec. 7th. The- employes of the Water
Department shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
of reading meters, examining pipes, fix
tures, etc., and it shall be unlawfol for any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
so.
Sec. Sth. Any persap violating any of
the provisions of the above ordinance shall
be arrested and carried before the Criminal
Court of Griffin and upon conviction shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding one i
hundred dollars, or sentenced to work on
the public works of the City of Griffin for
a term not exceeding sixty days, or be im
prisoned in the city prison for a term not
exceeding sixty days, either or all, in the
discretion of the court.
Sec. Sth. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power of 1 regular policemen of the
City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc
ing the above ordinance.
Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of the above are
hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sale of second hand and cast off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board ot Health of
the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for
the disinfection and the proper registry
thereof, and for other purposes.
Sec. Ist Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Council of the City of Griffin, that
from and after the passage of this ordi
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
or persons, flrm or corporation to keep
ana expose for sale any second hand or
cast off clothing Within the corporate lim
its of the City of Griffin, unless the said
clothing has been disinfected by the Board
of Health of the City of Griffin, and the
certificate of said Board ot Health giving
the number and character of the garments
disinfected by them has been filed in the
office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the
City of Griffin; provided nothing herein
contained shall be construed as depriving
individual citizens of the right to sell or
otherwise dispose of their own or their
family wearing apparel, unless the same
is known to have been subject to conta
geous diseases, in which event this ordi
nance shall apply.
Sec. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That for each garment
disinfected by the Board of Health of
Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to
said board the actual cost of disinfecting
the said garments, and for the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum of twenty-five cents, and to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin
for the registry of said certificate the sum
* of fifty cents.
Sec. 3rd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of
a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
and sentenced not more than one hundred
dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang,
either or both, in the discretion of the
Judge of the Criminal Court, for each of
fense. It shall be the duty of the police
force to see that this ordinance is strictly
enforced and report all violations the
Board of Health.
Sec. 4th. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict here
withare hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One t-inch opening for subscribers'
use only $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 8.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries. 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of SI.OO per month will be charged
for water while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters will be held
K proof of use of water, but Should meter
‘ fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
3. Meter rates will be as follows:
7,000 to 25,000 gals. month.. 15c 1,000
95,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “
50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 12c “
10U.000 “ 500,000 “ « 10c “
500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ 9c “
The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per
month, whether that amount of water has
been used or not
4 Notice to cut off water must be given
to the Superintendent of the Water De
forfollti otherwise W6tCT 1)6 charged
5, Water will not be turned on to any
unleß » provided with an approved
P«>Periy located in
®“® Ba ’h’ e Posidon.
*““ department shall have
the right to shut off water for necessary
?P° n the system, and
they are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reason of the mm*
n.L^^ n ,? Pp! A catio .?, tothe Water De
partmeat, the city will tap mains and lav
P*P“ to , Bidewalk for $2.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers’ expense. i
HIS STEWARDSHIP
The Retiring Commissioner of
Agriculture to farmers.
GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT
He Gives a Brief Resunte of ths laao>
vatlon* and Betrenclimente Inauga.
rated Sinew He Took Charge of the
» Department Kight Yean Ago.
Department or Agriculture,
Atlanta, Sept. 1, 1898.
As this will perhaps be my last
“monthly talk” to the farmers of Geor
gia before my successor takes charge of
the affairs of the agricultural depart
ment, I wish through this medium to
thank the people of the state and the
farmers mors especially for the manner
in which they have * ‘hold up my hn-nda”
in my efforts to build np the agricult
ural interests of the state and to focus
public attention on some of the more
important agricultural issuesof the day.
I am indeed grateful for the Considera
tion,and courtesy which I have received
from a large majority of my fellow citi
zens during my administration of the
affairs of the agstoultural department,
and 1 feel that lowa it to myself and to
them to give a short review of my stew
ardship since they entrusted me with so
important work.
Notwffhrinhdfog the wise and benefi
cent aims of its founders, some un
checked abuses had found their way
into the agricultural department through
the inspection of oils and fertilizers,
duties simple enough in themselves, re
quiring integrity of purpose rather than
superior skill and knowledge, but which
brought disproportionately large emolu
ments to the fortunate holders of such
In justice to my predecessors it should
be stated that the condition referred to
Was the outgrowth of an unforseen
and rapidly increased consumption of
both oils and fertilizers, for which
no provision was made in the
staute law of the state. At leading
central points like Atlanta or Savannah,
under this system, as much as SB,OOO or
SIO,OOO annually were received by indi
vidual inspectors of oils and fertilizers,
these two offices being at that time con
solidated. That is, one inspector re
ceived about as much as the entire su
preme judiciary of the state. In 1890,
when I took charge, the farmers, whose
Interests were especially to be served by
the department, having found a few
tares amidst an abundance of wheat,
were in the front ranks of those who
were willing to tear down an institu
tion which had been built up mainly
for their protection and guidance. I
don’t think I am assuming too much
when I state that in the eight yean of
my incumbency the department has
gradually been growing in favor with
the farmer* and that my earnest efforts
to make it effectively and actively use
ful to them are even now bearing fruit.
The state legislature was in session
when I took charge in 1890, and I im
mediately suggested and urged the abol
ishment of the system by which oil in
spectors were receiving such exhorbi
tant fees. An act allowing them to re
tain only $125 per month ont of inspec
tors’ receipts and requiring them to
make monthly returns to the state
treasury of all sums in excess of
this amount, was approved Dec.
20, 1890, and since then by this in
novation SIOO,OOO from oil and $125,000
from fertilizers have been saved to the
state and placed in the treasury.
In December, 1891, following the
same line of retrenchment, the fixed
salaries of the 12 guano inspectors were
reduced from $125.00 to $83.33 per
month, and only four of these were kept
on duty the whole year, the others from
four to six months. Here was another
saving of several thousand dollars. The
office expensed”were also reduced by the
salary of one clerk $1,800.00 annually,
and although the office duties have
steadily increased until they have been
more than doubled and trebled, the work
has been carried on by the original
number of clerks, with a slight increase
of salaries.
During my administration the whole
plan of fertilizer inspection has been
revolutionized. The old plan was in
bulk, and Wore leaving the factories.
The new bill, which is now the law,
was most carefully planned to give full
protection to both buyer and seller. It
provides that the inspecting shall be
done only after the fertilizer is shipped
to different points and put upon the
market in separate packages. The pro
visions of this bill are such as to place
Georgia in the lead as to the judicious
and careful supervision of her immense
fertilizer trade. This law, as compared
with those in force in other states, is
superior, which is evidenced by the fact
that many inquiries have come on this
subject to this department from differ
ent southern states. The Georgia fer
tilizer law has finally become the basis
for similar laws in her sister states.
Another important change has been
the removal of the state laboratory from
Athens to the capital, whore the impor
tant work of analyzing every brand put
on sale in the state, is carried on under
the immediate supervision and inspec
tian of the commissioner of agriculture.
This affords increased advantages and
facilities to the state chemist in his
daily routine work which has increased
tremendously since 1890.
Another innovation* which has made
the department the medium of commu
cating valuable information to the farm
ers throughout the state is the substitu
tion of plate matter, furnished to the
weekly press, in Beu of the circulars
and bulletins previously issued. The
‘‘monthly talks” and answers to ques
tions containing practical hints on topics
connected with the farm, the garden,
ttesdafry, the orchard and kindred sub
jects, carefully arranged as to time and
season of the year, are published in the
weekly papers of the state. These go
to the remotest sections each month and
thousands of farmers, who are practi
cally cut off from the usual sources of
information, are thus reached and placed
in touch with the busy world and kept
informed on many subjects most valua
ble in the conduct of their farm opera
tions. Besides these publications the de
partment has issued a handsomely illus
trated manual entitled ‘‘Georgia, a
Fair Field For Homeseekers and In
vestors," and in addition to this an
other larger volume has been prepared
and Issued entitled "Georgia, Hee Be
sosroes and PoawMlltk*. ” The latter
volume was intended as a sequel to
“The Commonwealth of Georgia.” and
not only points out the
made in the economic industries of the
•tote, but shows by an exhibit of
the resources of every county through
out her length and breadth what
her boundless possibilities are. Both
of these volumes have been widely
circulated and widely read, and I bo
ilers have been largely instrumental in
advertising the enormous advantages
which our state offers to those seeking
homes in a healthy section, where wise
laws are rigidly enforced, and where the
faithful laborer will in due time reap
the rewards of faithful work.
TO my record in the agricultural de
partment I can refer with a feeling of
just pride. The department has been
elevated to a high plane of usefulness,
and the farmers throughout the state
are beginning to realize its importance
and close relation which it bean to
every line of their bustaess. The oppo
sition among them to the department,
once so pronounced, has subsided, nnd
it is with gratitude that I point to
the fact, that my staunchest supporters
have come from the ranks of the farm
ers, those who once so bitterly opposed
it. I trust that the farmers will extend
to my successor the same cordial sup
port that they have given to me and
that he will rise to the full measure of
the vast work yet to be accomplished
through the Georgia department of ag
riculture.
It is the farmers who keep the life
blood of our country in fresh, healthy
Condition. The business of farming
feeds the whole people. It is the basis
of the prosperity of our transportation
lines in railroads and ships, as well as
of all the money transactions of the
country. It pays its own taxes and
much besides that should be paid by the
monied powers of the country. It sends
the life blood centring through the ar
teries of trade and commerce. It lies
at the foundation of the „ moral and po
litical power of the nation. Without
its sturdy support all that is beautiful
in literature and art, and even in sci
ence, would languish and die. Statis
tics show that but for the infusion of
fresh blood from the country into city
families the latter would die out in three
generations.
It has been said that the success of a
nation is measuring by the condition of
its agriculture. Granting this to be
true, how all important that every
means, agricultural departments, ex
periment stations, farmers’ institutes,
agricultural and mechanical colleges,
agricultural societies, farmers’ clubs,
county and state fairs, in other words
every educational engine should be used
to elevate and broaden our agricultural
interests. I believe that Georgia is on
the threshold of a wonderful agricult
ural era. May her people, from the
governor down to the humblest citizen
within her borders, work harmoniously
and together to secure the advantages
which will accrue to each and everyone
ot them, when Georgia becomes a self
sustaining state, buying largely, per
haps, but selling more.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
Sugar Beets.
Question.—Can sugar beets be grown
successfully in Georgia, and can the
sugar from them be manufactured in a
small way by the farmers.
Answer.—According to the depart
ment of agriculture, at Washington,
sugar beets can not bs grown profitably
in the southern states. I quote you
what that department says on the sub
ject:
‘‘Experience has shown that the sugar
beet reaches its highest development in
north temperate latitudes. So far M
the production of beets with high ton
nage is concerned, it is found that this
can be accomplished far to the south,
but beets grown in such localities are,
upon the whole, less rich in sugar and
less suitable for the manufacture of
sugar than those grown farther north.
It must be remembered, however, that
the expressions north and south do not
refer to any absolute parallels of lati
tude, but rather to isothermal lines,
which in many eases run obliquely to
the parallels of latitude, and in some
cases across them almost at right angles.
As a result of many yean of careful ex
perimentation, it may be said that as
far as temperature alone is concerned
the sugar beet attains its greatest per
fection in a* zone of varying width,
through the center of which passes the
isothermal line of 70 degrees Fahrein
belt for the months of June, July and
August."
If the agricultural department at
Washington is correct in the above
statement, and they doubtless are, the
cotton states are debarred from growing
the sugar beet profitably, as the south
ern boundary es the belt spoken of as
suitable to their cultivation, passes
through the central part east and west
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
lowa and Nebraska, and thence dips al
most due south to tire boundary of Mex
ico. Ths same authority, however, says:
"There lire doubtless many localities
lying outside of this belt, both
north and south, in which the sugar
beet will be found to thrive;
but this will be due to some
exceptional qualities of the climate
or soil, and not to any favorable influ
ence of a higher or lower temperature. ”
My opinion is that the sugar beet
would find suitable soil, temperature
and moisture in the valleys of our north
ern counties and on the plateaus of our
mountain ranges, but not elsewhere in
the state. The cost of growing sugar
beets is variously estimated at from
SBO .00 to $60.00 per acre, and the value of
the crop at from $40.00 to $70.00 per
acre, according to yield and percentage
of saccharine matter in the beets.
The latter part of your question is
fully answered by the Washington de
partment as follows:
"On account of the elaborateness of
ths process and the costly nature at the
machinery which is necessary to pro
duce beet sugar, even in a small way,
, it is not believed that it coted be profit
ably made in the way indicated. The
department has no knowledge of any
successful beet sugar factory of this
kind. There is no country producing
any notable quantity of beet sugar in
which home apparatus costing only a
few thousand dollars has any appre
ciable influence on the output of sugar.
Russia has been cited as an exception to
this rule, but the average annual output
of each factory there is in round numbers
$.000,000 pounds, reporting an afar
age consumption of 25,UX) tans of beets.
It wouMnotbs right toencouragetbe
attempt to manufacture beet sugar in
any such way: nor should the expecta
tion be excited among our farmers that
they will be able to make a crude arti
cle of sugar which they can dispose of
to a central factory for refining pur
poses.”
The cost of a firstdass beet sugar
factory, with a capacity of not less than
800 tons of beets per day, will be from
$225,000 to $250,t00. In 1896 and 1897
the world’s production of cane sugar
amounted to 2,747,500 tans, while of
beet sugar the output was 4,960,000 tons.
In that year the beet sugar made in the
United States amounted to 40,000 tons.
—State Agricultural Department.
Best Season to Cat Timber.
Question.—When is the beat sense.i
of the year to cut timber for durability?
There seems to be various opinions on
this subject.
Answer.—You are entirely correct In
the statement that there are various
opinions on this subject, and even in
this age of education and enlighten
ment men may be found who will con
j, 'suit some out of date almanac to find
Whether the moon and the signs are
right before they will cut timber of any
description or for any purpose. Os
course such guides are worthless and
are simply remnants of post supersti
tions in which our ancestors believed,
but which modern science has proved to
be false. There is, however, a proper
time to cut timber where durability is
desired, and the reason for it is plain
and simple. "Other things being equal,
timber will naturally last longest if the
tree is felled at a season when the wood
contains the smallest amount of sugar
or starch, or other matters fitMfeed
fungi and worms.” So sayb Storer, the
best authority that could be quoted on
the subject. At what time of the year
then is the tree in the condition indi
cated? Why plainly when the spring
and early summer growth is completed
and the winter’s store of starch, sugar,
etc., is exhausted in the making of
leaves, twigs, fruit, new wood, etc. Con
sequently the late summer and fall are
the proper seasons in which to cut
timber. An eminent authority says,
that when timber is ent in the spring, -
when the sap is rich in sugar, the fer
mentative process changes the sugar
into an arid, which is the very first stage
of decay, and thus early started, can it
be wondered at that posts and crossties
do not last as long as they would if cut
when these conditions could not possi
bly exist. In 1860 in Virginia a fence
was set with posts split from an oak
cut when the leaves were of full size
and vigor. Twenty-two years after
wards these poets were taken np and re
set elsewhere and most of them are
doing duty yet after being used
more than 80 years. Had these posts
been out in March or April they would
not have lasted over ten years at the
utmost. Away back in the time of Ju
lius Caesar it was found that ships were
not durable when built of timber from
trees that had been cut down in the
spring. And the Roman architect, Vl
trurius, held that “trees should never
be felled In the spring.” While at that I
time the want of durability in spring
felled timber was attributed to Wrong
causes, still the effect was wpll known,
and the people were notified of it.
Now as regards cutting timber to be
used as fuel, doubtless the winter is the
beat time for that purpose, for as an
eminent writer on the subject says
“any given number of sticks of oord
wood that have been cut in the winter
would naturally weigh more and con
tain more combustible heat producing
matter than thr same number and kinds
of sticks cut in the summer, after the
starch, etc., had passed out from them.” 1
Another valuable point Is that trees
cut in the late summer will sendup but
few shoots and sprouts as compared ;
with those cut from December to March.
. This is important te those who wish to
destroy any particular kind of tree, or
to clear land. To sum up:
1. Timber for posts, rails, building
purposes, etc., should be cut in the late
summer and early fall.
2. For fuel cut in midwinter, and up
to the putting out of leaves in the
you wish to prevent shoots
and sprouts cut in midsummer.—State
Agricultural Department.
The Peach Crop—Canning Factories.
Question.—Can you give me some
idea of the size of this year’s peach crop
and fts value to the growers? I mean
its net value.
Answer.—We can only approximate
the sias of the crop, and as the returns
- are not yet reported can only folrm a
7 partially correct idea of its value. Be
aides the large amount sold at home,
and the thousands of bushels wasted
frqjn inadequate shipping facilities, and
the long continued mins, there were 1
shipped from Georgia B,KO carloads of
pbanhes. As meh car contains 600 (
crates of 8 pecks each, this represents
450 bushels to the par, in round num
bers 990,000 bushels in all. Itlsgen
ekalty agreed that at least one-third of
the fruit was wasted. The-4emqnfi»for
orates wMmmh lareer tbtffi the sup
ply. The peach erffp matures- and is
marketed in a very limited tiisg, and
the delay in securing crates caused a
beefy lose of the most saileaNe peaches,
while thousands of bushels, of second
qtedtty, were either fed to pigs or
suffered to rot on the ground. Had
there been canning factories and evap
orators conveniently located much of
this loss could have been prevented,
and instead of paying larger sums the
coming season for canned and evapo
rated peaches shipped into the state
from outside sources, the home demand,
always a steady one, could have been
supplied by our own people. Oannlng
factories can be so quickly erected that
even after the crop has become set, and
a fair eetimase of its amount is thus
rendered possible, enterprising workers
may get everything in readiness for*
utilizing the surplus fruit, should the
promise of the crop justify the outlay.
Under the conditions surrounding our '
peach production, Georgia being the
l&rgeet producer and shipper in the
Union, it will certainly pay to "gather
up the fragments, that nothing be lost”
We trust that in the future adequate
MTangemente will be made to utilize as
i nearly as possible every bushel of Geor
gia’s truly wonderful peach crop.—State I
i Agricultural Department.
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WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA,” AND
CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
1, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, o/
vms the originator of "CASTORIA ” the same that
has borne and does now bear every
the foe ‘ simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original "CASTORIA” which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.k;.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought on the
and has ihe signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
March 24,1898. /7 J -
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which sonde druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know."
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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