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THE AMERICS WH2BKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, I960.
ADDRESS BY STEVENS
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S0UND5 A WARNING NOTE
Farmers l'rge<l to Plant but Little
Cotton 1 hi* Yt*ui —>1 aii it fur lur
ing Interrsts lhvlved.
This day, which has been set apart
for the first annual meeting of the As
sociation of Comimsttioueri, looking as
it does to the upbuilding of our com
mon country and to the improve
ment of the condition of the cotton
states, is to me an auspicious one lam
glad of this opportunity to meet with
you and join in so laudable an under
taking, remembering that it is for the
good of the present as well as future
generations. Permit me, therefore, to
offer a few suggestions in the begin
ning of our meeting for your considera
tion.
For years the farmers of the south
have been drifting aimlessly into a con
dition of bankruptcy and demoraliza
tion, greatly to their own hart and to
the detriment of the common welfare.
This is not due to sterility of soil, nor
to unfavorable climatic conditions. Na
ture lias not done more for any section
than for the cottou states; nor is it
altogether fair to lay the fault of fail
ure to our farmers; for, as a class,
they havo worked industriously in and
out of season, but they have not worked
with any fixed purpose of permanent
benefit in the end. I have for years
been urging the farmers of Georgia to
reverse their methods, if they would es
cape the conditions which have resulted
from a lack of diversification in plant
ing their crops. The salvation of the
people depends upon rural independ
enco—by living at home and raising
home supplies; by cutting off imports
and increasing exports; and I urge
upon you, the commissioners of the
cottoo-growing states, to call upon yonr
people to change their methods of farm
ing. It is true that for 30 years the balance
of trade has been somewhat in our favor,
hot much can yet be done along this line.
The farming interest has been the sub
ject of much discussion by the press and
people of the south for the past
months; so mnch so that the people of
the rural districts are seeking informa*
lion by reading the daily and weekly
papers and agricultural journals. This
is one of the most important mediums
upon which this association must rely
in reaching the farming class, by
writing monthly letters upon agri
cultural subjects and questions, to
be published once a mouih iu your
newspapers. The work of reformation
has begun, and it should be the object
of this association to reach every home
and cabin within its territory.
The last crop was a profitable one to
the farmers of the south. Everything
bought with which to make it was
cheap—mules, labor, fertilizers, plough
tools, farming machinery, cotton cloth,
meat, coruaud forage; in fact, farm sup
plies of every description wore exceed
ingly cheap, and consequently the crop
of came into the market at a very
low cost Our people made light bills.
The fail being favorable for gathering,
and the cropsmali as compared with for
mer years, it brought much better
prices, aud consequently the people ol
the cotton states are in better condition
than in former years Our farming ex
penses, with a few exceptions in certain
unfavored localities, have been paid
and our debts reduced, and we have
more home-raised supplies than we
had one year ago. A change has taken
place; a different state of affairs
exists. 1 think there is uo doult that
the south is more prosperous today than
at any time within the last 30 years.
Prices have advanced, and our peo
pie arc mure hojwful. Males and fer
tilizers have advanced 3o per cent;
corn, forage and meat are 15 per ceut
higher: plow tools and farming ma
chinery are 7«*> per cent higher; cotton
goods ate 60 per cent higher; no the crop
and wring from them the fruits
their labor without a fair reward.
I The cotton manufacturing interest
COMM IS- { the southern states has been greatly
vived. Its influence is already felt, anc
we should give it all the encouragement
and aid iu our power. While farmers arc
raising millions of the raw product, it
the height of folly for our business mec
to sit idly by and see the profits in the
manufacture of cotton go abroad. Each
railroad town in the cotton states should
have a cotton mill. The millions
dollars which pass through their haudi
for cotton goods should be kept at home
Let us encourage and welcome capita
to come among us, to open up and de
velop our varied interests; but let the
profits from the manufacture of cottor
be spent among our own people. Wc
prodace the raw material, and why nol
ship to other states the goods manufac
tured? The item of transportation,
alone, will be enough to pay them
abundantly for their enterprise, and,
besides, these mills would give employ
ment to thousands of operatives, whe
must be fed by the farmers from theii
breadstuff*, dairies and gardens,
this way additional facilities for the
marketing of onr farm products will be
furnished.
That it i9 the duty of the state to edu
cate its youth has never been ques
tioued by the intelligent citizenship oi
any commonwealth. The sains anna
ally expended tor this purpose are
profitable investment, making retnrnf
in after years of better government, t
strong aud intellectual people, and t
full development of our institutions.
It is an evident and accepted fact that
eech individual should be taught those
branches that will best fit him for the
work he will follow upon reaching hit
majority. Our states have long since
provided departments for teaching law
and medicine, and the general govern
ment is supporting a department of ag*
ricnlture; but, when we remember the
thousands of country schools in the
cotton states, attended by three fourth!
of our boys, a large majority of whom
are unable to attend the agricultural
colleges and schools where the highei
branches are taught, we are at once im
pressed with the fact that these youths,
upon whom will depend the duty ol
supplying the country with food pro
ducts, and furnishing the bulk of out
exports, are not being folly prepared
for the calling that the great agricult
ural interests of our states will demand.
Agriculture may properly be classed
among the sciences, and farming as s
profession. The intelligent man will
manage his herds and cnltivate his fieldi
with profit. Information that cheapen?
the production of vegetables, fruits and
cereals will be disseminated among the
cotton states, and we hope yet to lead
the world in agricultural production,
and to contribute in like ratio to hex
prosperity. The manual labor of the
farm must he intelligently directed,
to insure success. The state that lead?
in the dissemination of information on
agricultural subjects will, in the end,
outstrip other agricultural communities
in wealth, progress and a full develop
ment of their resources. If wo will teach
our childreu in the common schools the
elementary principles of agriculture-
facts that have been ascertained by
practical tests at efficiently conducted
experimental stations—we will add to
onr farming population a class of young i
men aud womeu full of strength and
vitality, aud better equipped than were |
their fathers aud mothers for the de i
velojnuent of the great interests of the
south. The necessity for imparting
this information in the common school!
seems so upparent— the cost being really
insignificant, while the results are ol
momentous value—that it should not be
deferred or neglected.
What, thou, is this knowledge that
tho modern famer must have? H«
must kuow the chemistry of his farm;
lie must kuow the life and constitution
of tho things which grow from the soil
he must kuow their mauner of growth
he must know the insect life of the lo
cality iu which he lives; he must tx
a success ul student of geology and zo
ology—especially that branch of zoologj
which deals with minute animal life,
entomology. This he must know, and
kuow well. He must know the friendi
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S Must Study the ins and outs °* business like a
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must be overlooked. Nothing must be slighted.
He must •—
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keep in close touch with the newest ideas of the furniture
world, because nothing is quite so disappointing to a wo-
man as an out-of-date
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Americus is not the largest city in the world, but it has a furniture store that would
be a credit to a town ten times as large. That store is ours. We don’t say these things
in a boasting spirit, but merely say what everybody knows to be true. We have not
merely the largest and best assortment of FURNITURE and CROCKERY, but our
prices are never a bit higher than they ought to be. There is no question about it—
its the plain truth to say that no dealer in America can give you better satisfaction
than we can. No dealer can sell better than the best.
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Corner Forsyth and Jackson Streets, Americus, Ga.
them. I am clearly of the opiniou that
it would be well to eliminate a large part
of the trash which is inserted iu out
big text books on geography. In
place of these things we should teach
facts about the earth in the neighborhood
where we live. In a great many of oui
cities appropriate studies are introduced
for the better instruction of the black
smith, the carpenter, the engineer aud
the man of affairs.
Hundreds of high school hoys and girls
in the cities and towns at this time are
tudying the very scieuoes which the
farmers’ boys and girls should know.
Science not taught from books, but in
the laboratories, where the electrical
machines are made by the h inds of the
students; where the chemical forces are
discovered by the student; where the
potato bug. the chinch bug, the grass
hopper and the beetle are exauiiued,
studied, and classified. What, then,
tho duly of the hour? It is to
turn our eyes iu the direction of new
things and true things that we must
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
JOHN M. WILKES,
DENTIST
Office over Bank of Southwestern
Georgia. t
l)R. B. B. HUDSON,
u PHYSICIAN AND SURG EON
Tenders his professional services to the pub
lic. Calls left at Hudson’s drug store will
receive prompt attention.
v.&SL,g <* !*'<*■
icfcuum ^uaiauiuuu.
with Judge Maynard.
flOBT.
. L. MAYNARD,
Attorney at Law.
Offlce In Wheatley Building; Room 1.
Will practice in all courts except County
Court of Sumter countv.
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R. J. STa.NUl.IFT,
Veterinary Surgeon
Offlce at 231 Cotton Avenue.
know today. Every one says educate the street
doctor, that he may heal us when sick,
Offlce over Kembert’s Drug store. Forsyth
and teach us to be strong in body aud
limb. Educate the lawyer, undoubtedly,
that he may do our busiuess iu legal form
and keep ns out of litigation Educate
the schoolmaster, that be may guard,
guide, awaken aud properly start on
way the boys of tomorrow. We
favor the education of the preacher,
that he may be grand, full rounded,
soul-abounding in sympathy, kindness
wisdom aud hope, so that he may
make men’s burdous lighter and their
lives better; aud I say, and urge, by all
means educate the farmer, that he may
fill the earth with plenty, enjoy the
fruits of his willing labor and make the
hearts of all men glad.
*T»AH. p. IIAV1B,
DENTIST,
Amenciis, ut.
No f**y% Korsytn street, nretslr* o*e)
riMIN KBCOUDBR Ofllt r 117tf
Cleatuea and beautifies the hair.
riant growth.
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Hair to it* Youthful Color.
M CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH
of 1899-lwOO will colt fully 30 per ceui
and euoiuiei of tbs applo tree,
more to market it than did tbs crop
of 189b 99. I urge you to sound a note
of warning right now. Tell yonr farm
ere to make email bills; to buy for cash,
if possible; to plant largely of food crops,
and rednee the acreage in cottou even
below tbet of last year. Tbs cotton
crop for 1899 1900 will barely reach 9,-
000,000 bales, end the average price
paid thne far baa been 7 cents, eo that
if we again curtail the use of fertilizers
and the acreage in cotton, and produce
only 8,000,000 bales next season, we
may expect not less than 9 cents per
ponnd for onr crop. But, if onr farm
ers go wild again, as they did in 1898—
bny everything on time, plant the
whole earth in cotton and make a crop
of 11,600,000 bales, the country will be
ruined, almost beyond hope. Such a
crop next season would tell from
to 6 cent, per ponnd, and leave
ns hopelessly in debt It may be read
ily seen that an 8,000,000 bale crop will
bring mere maneytban an 11,600,000 bale
crop,' to say nothing of the cost of mar
keting, and what we lose by leaving off
food crop*. If we can only induce onr
farmers to adopt this method, tbe>. will
be maxtera of the situation, and no con-
eplraoy can control the cotton market
of the cabbage, of the grass of ths
meadow; bo most know about the mil.
lions of living things that creep, rue
and Hr. But bow can the farmer learo
these tbiugs and thereby keep his land
from weariug out and his crop from de.
•troction? Mot by discussing the silver
questiou; not by adopting free trade;
and not by a discussion of onr policy iu
the I’hilipnlnos. He mnst study care
fully the tariff annually levied bj
tho apple tree borors and moths,
cabbage worms, potato bags and
caterpillars. This is the field for in-
Tostigation. The insects daily chal
lenge the farmer to deadly combat. It is
a battle to the death, and cannot be
evaded. The farmer of today most know
the science and philoiophy of physical
life, tbe life of the animal and tbs
plant, that he may be successful in his
nndertak ag. We ehonld, therefore,
encourage the teaching of these sciences
in onr common school!.
How delighted the boys and girls
would be to learn abont wheat and
corn; abont the apple tree, tbe peach,
the plum and the penr; how these
trees grow and are propagated; bow
they may be cared for and protected from
the enemies that annually prey opon
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CII1 (; 11KSTE It'S ENGLISH
ko! Oold metallic boats sealed
* ribbon. TssLi- no other, Itrftiao
rooo toubatjtutlona ond I ml to-
f ". r i r *».Teatlaonlol*
••lief f«r Last Ira,” in lutar, by re
nt*. I O.pttu Tsr.tlBoalkle. Hold by
( hlchntcrt'hrialealOoa
Alodl.ou Pork, 1‘illL.i.,
McaMou this pa
HOOK AGENTS WANTED FOR
tho gnndrot and faateal-a*Iling booh ever published,
E A. HAWKINS,
• Attorney at Law.
Ufflce in Wheatley Building upjronlte the
W ELLBORN F. CLARaE,
Attorney at Law
S11M Lamar Street. Americus.
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D.PEARLMAN ~ ricu "
“Save vour Pennies and your
Dollars will save themselves."
This motto is given to the trade, and benefit yourself by it.
Havo just returned from the Eastern market and have
bought very heavy of every line, and by that got cut prices,
and certainly WILL GIVE THE BENEFIT TO MY
CUSTOMERS.
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The Largest Line of Clothing ever
brought to Americus for Hen, Boys,
and Youths—prices no object. . . '..
A LLEN FORT,
Attorney at Law.
Americus, Oa. Special attention given t<
cases in bankruDtov.
L. J. BLALOCK O. 8. OOI B
BLALOCK & COBB
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
A MBtUOUH, G So KOI
Offlce In Watt* building, opposite cou»i
J K A NS LEY, ) ! ,,, nrn .. a w
A ANSLEY, JK. f At,ornt 7" « *-•“
Americus, Ga.
U R. CATO. M. D.
• PHYSCIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence 330 F .rider street Telephone OS
Tenders bis pxotesstonal services to tbe
people of Americus and surroundlcr coun
ties. Special attention given to general
surgery, diseases of women and cffll. __
Offlce 40Jackson street. Ca Is left at Dr
Eldrldgc'sstore will receive prompt atten
Pulpit Echoes
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1'UnlLng stories- Incident*. tVramud F.xpcri*nc««.etc., u told
By J). L. Moody
ItWith * complete history of his life by Iter. CHAR. F.
t.O*m, Pastor of Mr Moosty ■ Chicago Church for year*,
ind at Introduction by Hev. I.YUAN ABBOTT. 1>. 1>.
Brand new, RAO pp., hr.,Mtu,iUft iUuttrntrH C /" 1.000 more
AUK.NT* WAStV.B —Men and Women. ty'Salea
mmenae-n harvest time f„r Agents. Send for terms to
A. D. WOUTULNUTO.N A CO„ Hartford, Conn.
Christopher Sign Co.,
rullDEI.E, (iEOIKilA.
LOCAL
and
CLIMATIC
CATARRH
Nothing but a local
remedy or change
of.clitnate will cure
CATARRH
The specific Is
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sorbed. Ol’ _
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Pi inters of wood, card-board, oil cloth and
paper, out-of door advertising slgus. Big
muslin signs painted in b lght fast colors 01
black ix itch wide 2>c yard; 36incn wide60c,
By mat postpaid. Store signs made ot brassy
gold, nickel, gibs . enamel and aluminum
nly factory ot the kind south of Baltimore
Daily capacity 10,000 signs.
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Our line of Dry Goods is complete and ask
an inspection.
Shoes for the millions.
Our other lines consist of Trunks, Milli
nery, Hats, Caps, Rugs, Blankets, Shirts,
Trunks, Valises, Hosiery, etc
Wo don’t price on paper, but call.and jif wo'have not tho
revelation in prices don’t buy.
Thanking all for past favors, and wishing a continuance
of Bamc,
Yours aoxions to please,
D. PEARLMAN
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L. G. COUNCIL. _
COTTON FACTOR,
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House For Rent.
That most desirable dwell
ing on College street occupied
last two or three >ears by F.
H. McGhee. Apply to
THOS. HARROLD
the Nasal Passages. Allays Inflammation.
Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores
the senses of Taste and Smell No N urcurv,
No Injurious drug. Regu'ar Size, ft) cent*:
Kami v Size. 91.00 at Druggists or by maiL
ELY|BROTHERS,f* Warren St .New York
CURE YOURSELF!
t T *« Big <J for uo natural
diechnrgi-a,inflammations,
irritations or ulccratiou*
■vMiarv. of roncooi tnrtibrauca.
-v«ou«i«n. Palnlcaa, and nut aatria-
lTHEE»AliSC:uu:c*tCo. sent or poiaonoai.
Sold by Druggist*,
ar sent in plain wrapper
voUr *■>, oa nmmt.
BAAGGGE&r
—^TRANSFER
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ble tranaer agency lnthe ell
All
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orders attended to promptly It left
Windsor hotel. Hours Oam to 10 p l
Orders for night trains must be left
before p m, Respectfully,
PHOi<E «' STEVE WOOTEN.
Miss Clara V. Roebuck
Is located at tba Allen House, where
stao is prepared to do Fashionable
Dressmaking. Patronage solicited.
Satisfaction gaaranteed. 2 ml
dealer IN Fertilizers, Coal, Brick, /jj
Lime and Portland Cement. JJj
My Coal la the celebrated D| OfTHNI I HMD conceded
the finest domestic Coal sold DLUVf 1 tflN UUIflP, j n t h i H f|l
market. All orders for Coal’ promptly delivered My prices as low as the .f.
lowest. ^
Telephone 38. $
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M. CALLAWAY,
REAL ESTATE,
RENTS,
FIRE INSURANCE.
Stores, Dwellings, Lands, for sale or rent.
Write, or cal! at office opposite Hotel Park.
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