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Americus
Recorder.
[-; Published 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1885.
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AMERICUS.
Ann non* is th.‘ county iM-nt of Snniter
county, Georgia, situated on the bomb-
weateru railroad. 71 Uiilufl aoutliwest of
M icon, and about HO miles north of tLe
Florida tins It ia situated in the flneat
••■etion oftieorgio, raining a greater Tari-
Hy of ugnculturd and horticultural pro-
ducta than uuy other part ot the South,
condoning all the fruits, gmin and vege
tables of the U uipt-rate and semi-tropical
coues—wheat, oorn, rye, oats, rice, Irish
*h«l sweet potatoes, peanuts, chufaa,
notion peas, sugar cane, apples. Dears,
peaclns, grapes, plums and other fruit*.
The i Innate is mild and equable, and oue
••f the most healthy in the world, the air
being pure and itrv and most U. oefloial for
lung and throat diseases. All kinds of
outdoor work can be performed without
inconveuicuce from summer beat or
winter cold. Americas has s population
of 0JIOO, is beautifully situated on high
»ud rolling ground and toasts of some of
the huudsomest business blocks iu the
i>outh. The city has tine public schools;
K'shI churches; a largo public library;
one daily, one aemt-weekly anil two
weekly newspapers; a new opera bouse,
completely furnished witu scenery and
(■ipableot seating 1,000 persons; a well
organised tiro department, including
two tine steamers; the streets are well
paved, sewered and lighted; Ultra are
two flouring mills, a cottonseed oil tuill,
l Inning mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and n uumber of minor manfacto-
nss; about two hundred Arms are engaged
in mereantilu business; three banks with
an abnnduiico of capital; two good
hotels InrnihU good Hccommodattion.
Americas is the centre of trade for six
counties comprising the richest agricul
tural section in Georgia, the average an
nual cotton receipts being 30.0U0 balea,
which will be largely increased by the
completion of the Preston and Lumpkin
railroad now in process of construction.
R is the largest city in Southwest Geor-
K* *• * n 'l ha* been appropriately uatm-d
the “Commercial Capital" of that •ac
tion, and it i a rapidly g rowin g in popa-
lati.in and wealth. As a place of bust
ness residence it presents attractions
equaled by few cities iu the South,
i 1 fopetty of all kinds is comparatively
C “**P. although rapidly advancing in
value; ib»- inhabitants of both city and
|ooniur. are cultivated, courteous and
"piUhle, with a cordial welcome to ini-
I migrants. !o enterprtaing tradsamen, ja-
l<licious capitalints and iodustrloas farm-
I® 1 * ll| u section of Georgia offers fine op-
I port on i* tea. Any information ia regard
|to city or country will be cheerfully fur-
intshcd by addreweing the Aaaairtie 11k-
5ow,| «. Americus, G*.
PlyinoMth.
FEW pain or trio, of yonaf Ply-
. moufc Book ChJck.su tot ml*. Bo-
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CAPACITY OF GEORGIA SOU..
The various agricultural products
common to Georgia having bccu
given with minuteness in the chap-
U‘, on Soil, and Productions, wc
proceed to give the results ol a
number ot experiments in the cul
tivation of those products, in each
of those divisions, conducted with
proper preparation aud fertilization
—such as arc given in the more
densely settled portions of the
world. As but little is accomplished
by inadequate means in any de
partment of human industry, the
actual producing capacity of a
country can only be tested by the
results of judicioui oulture. I he
| crops, to which wc shall refer, were
reported to the various State and
county lairs within the past few
years, at)d both the culture and its
results were verified by the aflidavils
of disinterested parlies.
In 1873, Mr. K. H. Hardaway
produced on upland, in Thomas
county (Lower Georgia),
l bushels of Indian corn on one acre,
which yielded a net profll ol $i7.17
I In the same county, the same
year, Mr. K. T. Davis produced 96 J
bushels of rust-prool oats per acre.
After the oats were harvested he
planted the same land in cotton,
and in the fail gathered 800 peunds
of weed cotton.
Mr. John J. Parker, of the same
county, produced, in 1874, on one
acre, 6944 gallons of cane syrup,
at a cost of 177.50. The syrup at
86 cents per gallon, the market
price, brought $520 87—net profit
from one acre, $443 37.
In 1874, Mr. -Vilcy W. Groover,
of Brooks county .(Lower Georgia;,
produced, with two horses, on a
farm of 126) acres, without the aid
of commercial fertilizers, cotton,
corn, oats, peas, sugar cane and
potatoes to the value ol $3,2us '-o
The stock raised on the farm was
not counted.
Joseph Hodges, of the same
county, produced, on one acre,
2,700 pounds of seed cotton; W m.
Borden, 600 gsllons of syrup; J.
Bower. 500 bushels of sweet pota
toes; 4. O. Morton, 75 bushels ol
oats; Mr. T. W. Jont* made 12
barrels, or 480 gallons of syrup on
one acre, and anved enough cane
for seed.
In Bollock county (Lower
Georgia), 1,600 ponnde of eeed
cotton were produced by Samuel
Groover; and In the mum oounty,
21 barrels of sugar atone time, and
700 gallons of syrup at another per
acre.
In Clay county, Mr. Hodgo
produced from one acre, a few
years ago, 4,500 pounds of seed
cotton.
Mr. J. R. Res pass, of Schley
county, gathered the present year
(1878) a little upwards of 500
bushels of oats from five acres.
Mr. J. R. Respass, of 8cblev
J county (Lower Georgia), in 1877,
| by the uses of felilizera, grew on
five acres of naturally poor land,
j 15,000 pounds of seed cotton, which
neUed him when sold, $66.02 per
acre.
I Mr. II. T. l’eeples, of Berrien
I county, reports to this Department
! a crop of 800 bushels of sweet pota
toes grown on one acre ol pine
land.
I In 1876, Mr. G. J. Drake, of
Spaldirg county (Middle Georgia),
produced 74 bushels ol coru on one
I acre of land.
‘ Mr. John Bonner, of Carroll
county, made three liales of cotton
,(500 pounds each) on one acre.
Mr. K. II. Springer, of the same
j county, produced nine bales from
live acres, without manures, and
ninety-four bales from 100 acres by
the use ol fertilizers.
In 1873 Mr. W. S. Leak of the
same county produced on one
acre 40] bushels of wheat, worth
$80 50; cost $14.50—net profit
I $66 00.
In Wilkes county 123 bushels ol
corn were produced on one acre of
bottom l-tnd; also 42 bushels ol
Irish potatoes on one-tenth of au
acre, the second crop same year on
■sue land, the secoud crop very
fine, but not so good.
Mr. J. F. Madden, ol the same
county, produced in 1876. on one
acre, 137 bushels of oats.
Mr T. C. Warthen, of Washing
ton oounty (on .he line of Middle
and Ixjwer Georgia), produced in
1873, on 1.1125 acres, 6,917 pounds
ol seed cott >n, equivalent to fire
bales of 461 pounds each, worth, at
174 cents per pound—the average
prioe of that year—$403 37. The
coat of culture wa* $148.51; net
profit $$54.79 for a very amall frac-
, tion »ver one acre.
Dr. Wm. Jonea,of Burlcecomity,
produced 480 galloon of ayrnp on
one acre. Weeley Jonea, of the
tame oounty, prodoond 4bras balna
, of notion, 600 pounds rash, pnr
I nets. Jns. J. Dnrtn, In tho mm
county, made, in 1877, with two
mules, thirty-four bales of cotton,
500 pounds each, 600 busbela of
corn, and 300 bushels of onts. Wm
C. Palmer, of same county, made
ic 1877, with one mule, twenty
five bales of cotton, 500 pounds
each, and a fair crop of corn
j per acre, first year, on reclaimed
swamp, without manure.
Mr. K. M. Brooks, of Pike coun
ty (Middle Georgia), produced, in
1873, on five acres ol bottom land,
500 bushels of rice. The total cost
was $75—net profit $300.
Mr. R. B. Baxter, of Hancock
county (Middle Georgia), in 1872,
harvested at the first cutting, first
year's crop, 4,862 pounds of dry
clover hay per acre.
Mr. A. J. Preston, of Crawford
county, gathered trom one acre of
Flint River bottom, 4,000 pounds
of seed cotton, and from another
on same place 115 bushels of corn.
Dr. T. P. Janes, of Greene coun
ty (Middle Georgia), produced, in
1871, five tons of clover hay per
acre, in one season, at two cuttings.
Mr. Patrick Long, of Bibb coun
ty (on the line of Middle and Low
er Georgia), harvested from one
acre af land, from which he gath
ered a crop of cabbages in J une of
the same year, 8,646 pounds ol na
tive crab grass hay.
Mr. 8. W. Leak, in Spalding
county (Middle Georgia), gathered
in the fall of 1878, Irom one acre,
from which he had harvested forty
bushels of whest in June, 10,720
ponnds ot pen-vine bay. Net profit
from wheat, $66; from |>ea-vine
hay, $233.08, making in one year,
from a single acre, a net profit of
$299.08.
Mr. William Smith, of Coweta
county (Middle Georgia), produced
2,200 pounds of seed cotton per
acre on ten acres.
Mr. Edward Camp, of the same
county, produced 1,000 bushels of
oats from ten acres.
Mr. J. T. Manley, of Spalding
county (MiddleUeorgia), produced
115 bushels of oats frem one acre.
Mr. 8. W. Bloodworth, ol the
same county, gathered, in 1870,
137 bushels of corn from one mere.
Mr. L. B. Willis, in Greene
county (Middle Georgia), in Juna,
1873, trom one acre and a third,
harvested twenty bushels of wbsat,
sad ths following October 17,180
ponnds of corn forage. Trom the
forage alone ha raoai vtd a profit of
181.11 pnr nsre.
Dr. W. Moody, of the same
oounty, harvested at one cutting,
from one aero of river bottom, in
1874, 13,953 pounds of Bermuda
grass hay; coat $12.87, value ol hay
$200.29, net profit $196.42.
Mr. J. R. Winters, of Cobb ooun
ty (Upper Georgia), produced, in
1873, from 1.15 acres, 6,675 pounds
ol dry clover hay at tho first cut
ting of the second year’s crop.
Mr. T. H. Moore, of the same
countv, produced on one acre, 105
bushels of corn, while Mr. Jere
miah Daniel produced 125 bushels.
Mr. R. Peters, Jr., of Gordon
county( Upper Georgia), harvested
in 1874, from three acres of Ineern,
four years old, fourteen tons and
200 pounds of hay, or 9,400 pounds
per acre.
Capt. C. W. Howard produced,
on Lookout* Mountain, in Walker
county (Upper Georgia), in 1874,
on one acre of unmanured land,
which cost him twenty-five cents
per acre, with one hoeing and plow
ing, 108) bushels of Irish potatoes,
which he sold in Atlanta at a net
profit of $97 25. On land manured
and better prepared and worked,
doable that quantity could be pro
duced.
Mr. Thomas Smith, of Cherokee
county produced 104 bushels of
corn from one acre.
Mr. John Dyei, of Bibb county,
produoed in 1873, from one sore,
at a coat of $8, 398.7 bushels of
sweet potatoes, which he sold at a
net profit ol $290,92.
Mr. Haddon P. Redding, of Pul
ton county, in 1877, produced from
one acre 400 bushels ol 8U Domingo
yam potatoes, which he readily
sold in Atlanta at an average of $1
per bushel.
We add the award made upon
the returns of n number of con
testants for the eiopof 1884, which
it is seen presents Georgia Agri
culture in a most favorable light.
The summary ia taken from tbe
Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 13,
1884, and ia attested by names ol
tbe bigbest authority:
VABMIXU THAT PATS.
Messrs. George W. SooU A Co.,
ot Atlanta, manufacturers of Goe-
•vplum-Phospbo, the Cotton and
Corn Fertiliser, offered prises for
the beat seres of oorn and cotton
grown with their fertiliser. The
retail was an nnlontaking one.
Over 100 handled formers In difo
of II
tested, and seat In their returns
properly eword to and attested.
There were 75 farmers who plant
ed cotton. They averaged 774
liounds of lint cotton to iba acre,
with $15 an acre spent for fertiliser.
The bigbeet yield was 1,545 pounds
to tba acre, or praetionlly 4 balsa
to the acre of 400 pounds enoh.
There were 16 corn planter*, who
made au average of 81 bushels to
tbe acre—the highest yield be
ll ag 116-2 buabels.
The five successful contestants
made an average of 1,855 1-6
pound* of lint oettoa per acre, and
used nn average of 087 pound# of
Goeeyplum.
The corn premium* show just as
gratifying results. There were
sixteen contestants end tbe average
yield was eighty-on* bushels to
tbs acre. Tbe first praaiaa won
taken with 116) buabels and tba
last premium with 103 bushels.
These results are gratifying. Tnkan
with the cotton yield they show
that the farmers of Georgia nr*
making rapid progress. We doubt
if ever before a hundred farmer* In
the State oould have mad* up each
an average. It shows that they
are rapidly coming to the latently*
system in farming. It shows that
they are abandoning the looae, old
plantelion methods, and are begin
ning to tee the profit and oomfort
In small farm* well tilled.
Teaatlag the Patients.
Alphonse Karr recently para
lyzed tome physician* in Parte ata
dinner, by offering a toast to tba
health of their pattern*. Boa* peo
ple think doctor* do not like their
patients to get well. There are
many doctors In tbit country wbo
not only want their patients to get
well, but give them Brownie Iron
Hitlers. Dr. G. N. Roberaoo, Him
Grove, N. C., rays, U X prescribe
Brown’s Iron Bitter* and find Rail
it 1* recommended to be." Cares
malaria and all nervon* and dys
peptic troubles.
fi Utter frem Cilambra.
Columbus, Ga., Am. fid, Tfo
Dun Sin—Yoor Georgia OMM
Remedy Is selBng very "
we are yet to btni
baa not cared. Y<
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roar Georgia OMB
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