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Ordinary’s
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
Whereas, E A. Huckaby, administiator
de bonis non of Nathan Fornby, represents
to the court in his petition, duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fnllv admin
istered on Nathan Fomby’s estate. This is
therefore to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if
any they can, why said administrator
should not be discharged from hie admin
istration, and receive letters of admission
on the first Monday in March, 1899. Dec.
6th, 1898.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
TATE OF GEORGIA, ~
O Spalding County.
Whereas, B. R. Blakely, administrator
of Mrs. Melvina Couch, represents to the
c >urt in his petition, duly filed and enter
ed on record, that he has fully administer
ed on Mrs. Melvina Couch’s estate. This
is therefore to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if
any they can, why said administrator
should not be discharged from his admin
istration, and receive letters of dismission
on the first Monday in March, 1899. Dec.
8,1898.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
To all whom it may concern: J- C.
Gilmore, administrator Clark Gilmore, de
ceased, having in proper form applied to
me for leave to sell Three fourths (J) of an
acre of land in Barnesville, Pike county,
Ga., bounded as follows: North by Baptist
church (colored), east by lands of Mrs.
Ella Turner, south by lands of Mrs. Nancy
Mathews and west by lands of G. W.
Speigle.and sold for the purpose of paying
mortgage in favor Mrs. C. N. Pixley and
administra tion.and I will pass upou same
on the first Monday in February, 1899.
Jan. 2,1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
STATITfjF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
To all whom it may concern : S. J.
Hale having, in proper form, applied to me
for permanent letters of administration ou
the estate of Mrs. Silvey Anderson, late of
said county, this is to cite all and singular
the creditors and next of kin of Mrs. Sil
vey Anderson, to be and appear at my
office in Griffin, Ga., on'the first Monday
in February, by 10 o’clock, a. m., and to
show cause, if any they can, why perma
nent administration should not be granted
to 8. J. Hale on Mrs. Silvey Anderson’s
estate. Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this 2nd day of January, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
By viriue of an order granted by the
Court of Ordinary of Spalding county,
Georgia, at the January term of said
court, 1899,1 will sell to the highest bid
der, before the court house door in Griffin,
between the legal hours of sale, on the
first Tuesday in February, 1899, Two
shares of the Kincaid M’fg. Co. stock No.
89. Two shares Griffin Compress stock
No. 3.5, Two shares the Griffin M’l’g. Co.
stock 196, four shares The Merchants &
Planters Bank stock No. 131, One 2nd pre
ferred Central Income R. R Bond No.
3911 Terms cash.
Jan. 2,1899. S. GRANTLAND,
Administrator of Mrs. Susan M. Bailey,
deceased.
In Re Application for set-
B. R. Blakely, admr. i dement with heirs
of the estate of Mel- and for adiecharge
vina Couch, deceas- V us administrator,
ed. [■ in Court of Ordi-
! nary, Spalding
I county, Ga., Dec.
) Term, 1898.
B. R. Blakely, administrator of the es
tate of Melvina Couch, late of said county,
deceased, having represented by his peti
tion duly filed in this office, that he is pre
pared to settle with the heirs of said es
tate, and citation having been issued and
published according to law. And it ap
pearing that there are a number of non
resident heirs of said estate, and on appli
cation made by said administrator, ?n or
der was granted at the December term,
1893, to serve said non-residents by publi
cation.
It is therefore ordered that. Mrs. Sarah i
Hendrix, of Water Valley, Miss., Thomas ■
P. Hendrix, of Water Valley, Miss , Mrs. |
Martha M. Martin, of Nashville, Tenn.,
Mrs. Virginia A. Bellour, of Boston, Mass.,:
Miss Nannie F. Crawford, of Boston, !
Mass., Mrs. Nancy Crawfoid, of Morgan
county, Ala., George Crawford, of West
Tennessee, Reckerson C. Pierce, of Acme,
Tex., Mrs Mary King, of Oswell, 0., Mrs.
Sarah Crow, of Algiers, La., Mrs. Eliza- j
beth Holland, of Montgomery, Ala., James
J. Crawford, of Mobile, Ala., Mrs. Nancy
F. Calvin,of Orwoil, Ala., and the heirs of
the above named parties, if any of them
are dead, and all other heirs and next of
kin of the said Melvina Couch, late ofi
Spalding county, Ga., deceased, be and ap-1
pear at the March term, 1899, of the court;
of Ordinary of Spalding county, Ga., then \
and thereto submit to a settlement of the
accounts of B. R, Blakely, administrator'
of the estate of Melvina Couch, deceased.
This Jan. 5, 1899.
J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
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WARNING TO FABMERS
AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER
SI EVENS ON THE RECENT
RISE IN COTTON.
ONLY DELUSION AND SNARE
Dawn of Better Times In Sight If
Farmers Will but Stand Firm
and Diversify Crops-
Atlanta, Feb. 1.
It is to be regretted that many of our
farmers are almost in despair at the
outlook ahead of them, and numbers of
them (particularly of the tenant class)
are talking of abandoning the farms
and seeking employment in the cities.
This would be a fatal move to the great
majority of those who might try it. The
cities are already overcrowded with peo
ple who cannot obtain regular work,
and additional numbers would only ag
gravate this already bad condition. Re
member how your fathers acted at the
close of the war, 34 years ago. Return
ing as they did to ruined homes, with
out money, without credit, many of
them broken down in health, they went
to work with the same resolution and
bravery that had enabled them for four
years to resist the overwhelming armies
of the north, and out of that ruin they
built up a great state, and in a measure
restored their shattered fortunes. You
are sons of those heroic sires, and should
not be daunted by difficulties no greater
than they met and overcame. Industry
and economy are bound to win now, as
they did after the war.
While the results of last year’s opera
tions have in very many cases been dis
couraging, let us not lose heart, but
with redoubled energy and with re
newed hope let us strive for better re
sults this year. “Where there is a will,
there is away,” and if we earnestly de
sire to be rid of the despotic rule of
“king cotton,” we can certainly find a
way to do so. I think I can see the
dawn of better times coming for our
farmers. With the reports of largely
increased seeding of small grain; of
many fiour mills being erected in the
state (the largest in the south, now
about completed in Atlanta, which will
consume 5,000 bushels of wheat and
3,000 bushels of corn daily, and will fur
nish a cash market at railroad stations
for grain); of packing houses being es
tablished, that stand ready to purchase
every fat hog and beef that we will
raise, I am sure there is reason for the
“faith within me” that Georgia has
reached the last milestone on the
downward road to poverty, and will from
this point, steadily, and I hope rapidly,
advance towards the goal of prosperity
aud independence. Do not be deceived
if as planting time approaches the men
who control the prices of cotton, permit
it to advance a little in value. They
want a large crop planted and are even
now getting anxious, because of the
prospective decrease in acreage. You
have been caught by this attractive bait
in former years, and experience should
teach you to recognize and avoid it now.
Don’t forget the caution that I gave in the
January letter, viz: to repel the thought,
that because your neighbors will plant
less cotton you will plant more in hope
of better prices. This is most danger
ous ground to take, for if generally
adopted, the logical result would be an
enormous crop, with still lower prices.
I know that advice on this line is sel
dom appreciated, but being a farmer of
long experience, I deem it my duty to
put the matter plainly before my brother
farmers, hoping that good may result
from it. If my advice given last month
has been followed, the fences on our
farms have been repaired; new terraces
run off and old ones mended where nec
essary: many compost heaps have been
made; as the weather permitted, much
grain has been seeded, and the prepara
tion of the ground for other crops is
fairly under way.
While the season for wheat sowing is
past, there is still time to plant oats,
this being probably the best spring
month for that purpose. As the period
for rooting and growth of the crop be
comes shorter as the the season advances,
it necessarily follows that the land
seeded to oats during this month should
be richer, and if possible better pre
pared, than land seeded in the fall. The
root growth of the spring sown oats will
not be as great as when seeded in the
fall, therefore if a good crop is expected
from the spring planting, there must be
more available plant food in the soil.
You also need a variety of oats that will
mature quickly, and I known of none
better than the “Burt.” While they
do not yield as heavily as some other
varieties, they mature very early and
seldom rust. Do not fail to put in a
good acreage in cats while there is still
time to do so, for you are likely to need
them badly next summer, and you could
have no better feed for your work stock.
In the southern part of the state corn
planting should commence before this
month expires, particularly on the red
lands of that section. These lands warm
up earlier than do the gray lands, and
can therefore be planted from ten days
to two weeks sooner. Don’t make the
mistake (so common among negro ten
ants) of planting corn very close. I
prefer 7 feet rows and 3 feet in the drill,
with a ’•ow of ground peas or field peas
in the middles. By this plan as much
or more corn will be made than by closer
planting, and a oropof peas also. What-
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j ever fertilizer Is nsed for the corn should
be strewn along the planting furrow
no fear but that the corn roots will find
it. In planting ground peas in the corn
middles, I advise the use of the whole
ground pea, dropping one every 15 to 18
in liss. Planted with the hull on
broken they will take longer to come
ap, but in my experience you get a bet
ter stand. They should be planted in
this way immediately after planting
corn. Many, however, prefer shelling
the peas, and in that case the planting
should be done two to three weeks later.
Some good farmers will doubtless
differ with me in regard to such early
planting of the above mentioned crops,
but from long observation of results I
am satisfied that early planting of any
stop gives the heaviest yield. Great
care should be used in the selection of
seed corn, as there is such a large
amount of damaged corn this season,
much of which is hard to detect with
out careful examination. Many perfect
looking ears have a rotten cob, with
the germ of the grain discolored and
dead. You cannot be too careful in
this matter of selecting seed, as the en
tire success of your crop depends on it.
In the middle and upper portions of tho
state the same general directions for
planting will apply, save that the time
for planting gets later and later as we
go up the country, until there is fully a
month’s difference between the two ex
tremes of the state. When the moun
tain section is reached ground peas
would hardly be a profitable crop, and
field peas should be substituted for
them. The advice as to 7 feet rows for
corn, of course, applies only to uplands.
The river and creek bottoms will bear
much closer planting.
Sugar cane should also be planted the
last of this month. The ground should
be deeply broken and well fertilized for
this crop. If the stalks are long cut
them in several pieces, and iu planting
let the pieces or the whole stalks lap,
for one-third of their length. By this
plan you will get a better stand.
Commercial fertilizers are best for
sugar cane, as stable manure heavily
applied gives the syrup a dark color and
an unpleasant taste. Tb.efß" is very lit
tle profit in making syrup to sell
at 15 to 18 cents a gallon, as at
present; bat if greater care were used,
resulting in a fine article of syrup, and
the same should be put up in half-gal
lon and gallon cans, attractively la
beled, I believe cane-growing could be
made very profitable. The maple syrup
from the north is put up in this way,
and readily sells for high prices, though
not a whit better than our best cane
syrup. There is great room for im
provement here. Irish potatoes should
be planted this month, also all hardy
garden vegetables. Should a cold snap
threaten after they are up, cover lightly
with straw or leaves, which will afford
ample protection. Don’t fail to make
every effort to have a good garden, for
no other ground on the farm will pay
one-fourth as much on the investment as
will a fertile and well-cultivated garden.
It is to be hoped that you have given
ample care to your stock of various
kinds during the severe weather through
which we have passed. A good thick
bed of straw or leaves, under shelter, is
as much appreciated by your stock dur
ing cold and wet winter nights, as your
own comfortable bed is by yourself. “A
merciful man is merciful to his beast,"
and will provide for its wants, but many
of our improvident farmers will permit
their cows to stand all night in a wet lot,
drawn up in fence corners, shivering
with cold and hunger, while their hogs
run around squealing for warmth and
shelter, which they perhaps finally find
in the dust under some old outhouse.
This picture is not overdrawn, but can
be seen in every neighborhood in the
state. There is no profit in such treat
ment of stock, and if you can take no
better care of your animals, you had
best sell them to some neighbor who
will care for them. This mistreatment
of stock is only one of the many curses
brought upon us by the all-cotton craze,
and will quickly disappear, when our
people learn that there are many farm
products that pay better than cotton.
The excessive amount of wet weather
that we have had during tho past three
months has very much delayed the
work of the plow, but we must not on
that account become impatient and
plow our lands when too wet. This
would be almost certainly fatal to the
crop that follows and might diminish
the productiveness of such land for sev
eral years. The energetic fanner will
always find plenty of work on his place
requiring his attention, whether it be
wet or dry, and nothing is gained by
plowing the land when not in proper
condition.
This applies not only to the top soil,
but the subsoil as well. The passage of
the plow through either, when wet,
will simply puddle the clay and render
it, when dry, impervious to the roots of
the growing crop. O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Rise of Fount In Churns.
Question. —Why is it that sometimes
in churning foam will rise in the churn
and it will take hours for the butter to
“come?”
Answer. —One of the best authorities
on the subject gives the following rea
sera for the condition you mention:
1. The temperature is not right—us
ually the cream is too cold in the churn.
2. The cream may have been kept too
long.
3. The cream of a “farrow” or “strip
per” cow may be causing the trouble.
4. Tho cream may be too thin—get
rid of some of the skim-milk.
5. The cream may be too thick—add a
little skim-milk or water.
6. The churn is too full.
To make good butter the cream when
churned should have a temperature of
between 55 and 75 degrees. If the tem
perature is below 55 degrees the butter
will not “come” readily, and if above 75
degrees the product is apt to be a white,
spongy butter. Overchurning is also
to be guarded against, and care must be
taken to stop the churning at the point
where the butter separates itself from
the milk. Otherwise the granular ap
pearance and character of the butter
will be lost, and you will have a smooth,
fat-; -?oJuct.—State Agricultural De
part incus.
ENGLISH ARMY LIFE.
MOV/ TOMMY ATKINS FARES IN THE
MATTER OF FOOD.
What He M«it Attain Before He Can
Seenre the Privilege of .Hurrying.
How the Wives of the Pel voter Live
In the Darruek*.
The orderly man Hatters in at the
door with a steaming can of tea, from
which he rapidly tills the basins, the
milk and sugar having been already
added before the ten left the cookhouse.
No allowance is made in barracks for
men of fa tidious .stis. If a man pre
fers his tea ned, he can go
elsewhere; tho tr. te of the majority is
alone consulted. T'o tea having beta
served out, tb« orderly man now pro
ceeds to divid- the bread into chunks,
one for each man, and announces that
the “extra” that morning is butter.
This announcement is a welcome one,
and the butter, beitur produced in its
wrapper of blue canteen paper, is speed
ily divided into < i:al portions, one for
each member of the mess.
Should any comrade be so unfortunate
as to be languishing in the guardroom,
awaiting disposal by tbe commanding
officer, the orderly man has now to take
his allowance to him, the tea being
poured into a tin canteen and the bread
and butter wrapped in paper and stowed
in a haversack.
But it may be asked: “Surely we
have been told that soldiers enjoy more
variety than plain bread and butter at
their breakfasts. Have we not heard of
savory kippers, of porridge—yes, even
of eggs and bacon?”
True, such are the dishes encouraged
by generals and colonels who like to
earn a reputation for looking after the
welfare of their men, but these fancy
relishes are not much encouraged by
Tommy Atkins, for the simple reason
that bls funds will not allow of his re
ceiving more than an infinitesimal por
tion of the kipper or whatever may bo
the favorite breakfast dainty of his
commanding officer. All that the cor
poral in charge of the grocery book has
to spend daily is threepence per man in
mess or under $4 for a company with
the average strength of 60 men in mess.
When it is realized that with this
money tea, salt, pepper, vegetables for
dinner, flour, if a “duff” is to ornament
the dinner table, and all the groceries
which the soldier needs to eke out the
rations of bread and meat already de
scribed have to be provided, it will bo
understood that the question of provid
ing extras for breakfast and tea is a
difficult one to solve, and that the cor
poral naturally prefers something like
butter, which all appreciate, to some
other' dainty which may not appeal to
the tastes of his constituency.
The question of permission to marry
is a burning one in the barrack room.
Only alimited number of men are al
lowed to marry, the strength of the roll
varying with the establishment of the
corps. Sergeants are given permission
to marry as a matter of course, if there
is a vacancy in the establishment, but
no soldier is allowed to enter the blessed
state unless he has seven years’ service,
£5 in the savings bank and two good
conduct badges. I have heard it said
that there is such a thing as borrowing
the £o till the necessary permission has
been obtained, but there is no getting
over the other two conditions.
The married quarters seem comforta
ble enough. What strikes us most is the
enormous number of babies and quite
young children who swarm round the
door of every quarter, occasional yells
leading to the hasty arrival of a flushed
and heated looking matron to restore
order in a summary fashion. The allow
ance of space does not strike one as par
ticularly liberal, soldiers with small
families being given only one room, with
the minutest possible scullery, the fa
thers of larger families rejoicing in an
extra room. Sergeants, as a rule, have
two rooms, but otherwise have no pull
over their comrades of lower rank.
The wives of the private soldiers add
largely to tbe scanty pay of their hus
bands by doing washing for the men of
their husbands' company, and twice
blessed is tho woman whose good man
belongs to a company having few mar
ried soldiers. In this case she will be
able to get more to do than her less for
tunate sisters. Some of the women who
have a reputation as washerwomen earn
plenty of money by washing for the of
ficers of the regiment. The soldier’s
wife seems to drift naturally into being
a washerwoman.
A little conversation with the ladies
is a liberal education in esprit de corps;
each woman thoroughly identifies her
self with the regiment to which her hus
band belongs, and even in these days of
short service it is not difficult to And
women whose fathers and grandfathers
have soldiered in bygone days under the
tattered colors now hang’jg in the sa
cred precincts of the officers’ mess.
Tho ladies of the regiment, as a rule,
take great interest iu the welfare of
their humbler sisters, frequently visit
ing them in their quarters and giving
more than their sympathy at one of
those arises which occur so frequently
in tho married block and generally lead
ultimately to the object of their solici
tude applying for extra accommodation
owing to an unauthorized addition to
the strength of the battalion. —“Social
Life In the British Army," by a Brit
ish Officer, in Harper’s Magazine.
Burton mid Tobacco.
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent
tobacco, which goes far beyond all the
panaceas, potable gold, and philoso
phers’ stones, a sovereign remedy to all
diseases; a good vomit, I confess, a
virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, op
portunely taken and medicinally used;
but as it is commonly abused by most
men, who take it as tinkers do ale,
'tia a plague, a mischief, a violent pur
ger of goods, lands, health; hellish,
devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin
and overthrow of body ami soul. —“Au
atomy of Melancholy.'
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