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If you have any cash we can save y^u 15cts on each and
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and We want will pay a Name, $300.00
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plates of Vick's Branching Aster, Svreet Feas, Vegetables, Hibiscus, and Gold Flower. •jyj
Honest illustrations; descriptions that describe, not mislead; hints on sowing and trans
planting. Printed in 17 different colored inks. Mailed on receipt of i* cents, which oay
m be deducted from ffrst order. Vick’s Seeds contain the goim of PEAS. life.
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a 40 CENTS A POUND, POSTAGE
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V/e have grown tons of Sweet Peas the past summer of ?. very fine quality to be able to
>*} give our friends a real treat. Think of it, 25 varieties and colors mixed. A pound only 40 21
cents; half pound 25 cents; quarter pound 15 cents; ounce 10 cents.
PAT T\ E 1 ! AIIfUD Hardy, Grand Bedder, Charming Pot Plant, Fjtcellent
m r uULLJ rJuUWJ-iJli* for iicrders. Plants 25 cents cadi; two for 40 cents.
COLUMBIAN RASPBERRY. <£=
sisting drought; propagation by tips, no suckers; fruit very large, color dark red; belt
Si berry for canning, retaining sire, color and flavor; long sor.v,or» of fruitir*g , high quality of
jjf late fruit; fruit adheres to the £tem,»ot dropping; does not crumble in picking, excellent
shipper; wonderfully prolific, over 8000 quarts per acre; very hardy. Proved Sy years
trial, and texted by different Experiment Stations and Prominent Pruit Growers. Single
plants 50 cents; one dozen plants $5.00.
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THENEWS
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Schedule in Eff<?ct;ji»n, 6. 1895.
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For further information apply to
«. E. Robinson, Agent. Ellaville, Ca.
J c Haile. Cen. Pass. Agt. Savannah, Ga
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DEVOTED TO GIVING TNB NEWS, ENCOURAGING TUB PROGRESS AND AIDINo THB PROSPERITY OF SCHLEY COUNTY.
KLLAVILLE GEORGIA. THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 21st 1805.
DID YOU EVER
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
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get relief, This medicine has been found
to be peculiurlyadapted to the relief and
cuie of all female complaints exerting
a wonderful direct influence in giving
strength and tone to the organs. If you
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ache, fainting spells or are nervous sleep
less; excitable, melancholy or troubled
with dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the
medicine you need. Health and strength
are guaranteed by its use. Large bottles
only 50 c at Dr J N Cheney A co.
Have You any Farms For Sale?
The General Passenger Department
of the Central R R of Georgia will ud
▼erti8e, free, any farms located along its
lines that are for sale, in a book , which
will he published and distributed
throughout the Northern and Western
states to J prospective * settlers in this
. Persons having , ^
section. any property
foi sale are requested to advise J C
Haile, O P A, Savahhah, oa, giving
data. A limited space will be reserved^
for advertisements of real „ estate. Mrr
G E Robinson (the OntraHn agent at this
point* will be glad/la furahdr any one
dUIKIIlM
NESBITT’S TALK.
Regular Monthly Letter to the
Farmers of Georgia.
HE GIVES SOME PRAOTIOiL VIEWS.
Thu Funnart of tl >0 SUt* Short 1 <1 Study
Carefully tl>a Best MetHo laon Fanning;.
The Cotton Situation—Dlveniflnd Crop*
for Georgia, and Other Matter* of In.
lerui and importance.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, Fob. 1, 1895.
The painful lesson of the past year
has taught us that there are certain
immutable laws of our calling which
we cannot transgress without eventu
ally paying the penalty. For years we
have presumed on the almost unbound
ed resources of our section and have
apparently escaped some punishment,
but the time has come when we cannot
longer evade the issue.
And, however difficult the task may
be, W6 must, if we would prosper, be
guided by the teachings of some agri
cultural economy, aud so regulate our
business that uo matter what the fluc
tuations or depression of the ootton
market, we are at least secure of au
independent home living for ourselves
aud families. To enable us to take
this position, it will become our duty,
not only to study everything in our
reach pertaining to scientific and suc
cessful agriculture, but to give our at
tention also to many questions of politi
cal as well as agricultural economy. Ot
these the •
REDUCTION OF THE COTTON ACREAGE
is just now perhaps the most important
and the most pressing, because each
farmer must decide iu the next few
weeks, if he has not already done so,
his individual responsibility iu this
matter. Many have realized, the error
of our profitless one crop and many
acre system, aud are laying the founda
tions broad and deep for a more inten
sive and reasonable plan of farm man
agement. 13ut others are still hesita
ting, the force of habit is strong, and
they argue that if there is a general re
ductiou of the area the price will be
good, and it is so much easier to work
on the accustomed liues than to venture
on new and heretofore untried plans.
It is to these still unconvinced farmers
that we wili appeal for a careful con
sideration of this question, not only as
it may affect them individually, but as
regards the general welfare of their
state aud section. We would not be
understood as advising them to run
after new and untried crops, far from
it. There are already many which the
aouthern farmer understands aud which,
if he will give them the same care that
jhe bestows on his cotton crop, will pay
him a fair profit. The past year the
l profit on five our times individual large hog crop from wai
four or as as that
our cotton, and with far less expense
and worry. Let us turn our attention
to the profitable cultivation, not by the
told, careless, indifferent methods, of
corn, oats, forage crops, peas, potatoes,
etc. The cheapness with which we can
produoe beast, and all food crops, climatic for man condi- and
should our superior
tions, forever set at rest the
question chickens, of home supplies, of lard, beef, pork, mut
ton, eggs, butter,
etc. When we accomplish this we have
entered on a system of reasonable agri
culture, by which we not only produce
our cotton at less cost, but are return
ing to our lauds in the form of home
manures the larger part of the elements
removed, and are aiso laying the basis
for that steady adjustment of supply
and demand, witftout which there can
be no profitable agriculture of any du
ration. We have been sending vast
•urns to the north aud west for meat,
bread, butter, cheese, forage clothes,
furniture, form implements, horses,
xpules, wagons, buggies, and so on
through a long list ot articles, for which
We have trie material facilities here at
home, and which wo could have raised
and manufactured at less cost. But
when rue annual ootton crop of Georgia
was worth from $ 50 , 000,000 to $do, 0 no,.
000 it wak possible n* send off for these
articles of every day u<< and still k-tefi
part of that large amount for h^me oir
cv.-.u.-in
p0 ‘ lcv oJ th «
cotton market nas rn«luo*id , our income
from that source to hardly $30,000,000
aud when we would still Import nil
th<we n»<*i*ftari«* instead of raising
them,- the outrun tnonev is consumed
and thero is nothing left to keep tbo
home wheels of commerce and trade
moving the consequence is general dis.
-**#••' At Tvoeut oonvontion of
zn* gravity or the conditions con
fronting the cotton growers is recog
nized. To what extent this may lie
traced to financial legislation is nseless
to discnss. The overiiroluctiou of cot
ton is recognized os one of the chief
causes. This must be corrected, or
universal bankruptcy will follow. Self
interest must impel the grower to a
change. Every tanner is appealed to
not to plant so much cotton A de
crease of not less than 25 per cent is
recommended; 50 per cent would be
better. The farmers should be made
self sustaining by planting peas, corn,
potatoes, oars, etc , and raising plenty
of meat. The tide of immigration
turned this way will change methods.
Farmers are urged to form county or
ganizations all over the south to carry
ont these resolutions Cold storage
houses are recommended wherever
practicable. The committee promises
better times and higher prices for cotton
if its recommends lions are observed.”
On this subject, S. M. Inman, of At
lanta, high authority, says;
“To be prosperous the farmers of the
aouth must raise less cotton than they
are doing, the crop is entirely too large.
The price has gone down and down and
cannot reasonably be hoped to rise to
any considerable degree until there is
less cotton promised for tile future. The
one solution of the wnoie business is a
decrease in the crop. This must corao
right speedily for the safety of the cot
ton planters of the south. It is as plain
a matter as two and two make four.
We Americans have only ourselves to
blame for the low priuo of cotton, and
if we persist in planting and raising
more cotton than tin world no ids, se i
ing it below cost, thus wording for
nothing and boarding ourselves, we
ought to quarrel with nobody but our
selves.”
To show that so far wo have nothing
to fear from for sign competition, he
gives the following tab to of average
American and foreign crops for periods
of fivo years each, lrorn 1807 to 18t»4,
27 years.
American .av. Foreign 2,337,000 av.
1867-72............3,107,000
1873 78 . 4,771,000 2 . 022 , 0,)0
1879 81.. . .6,721,000 2.07J,0i)0
1885-90 . . .7,659,00 ) 2,269,00 J
1891-94 (four years).9,484,060 2,505,000
Weight of bales, 400 pounds.
Showing that while the foreign in
crease has been about 10 per cent tlio
American increase has been .■>■> per
cent, aud if wo include the c. op now on
the market, 210 per cent.
Surely no tjaurible man c;.u longer
halt between two opinions.
In another column is published a the sy
nopsis of the resolutions adopt d by
Jackson convention Colonel W. A.
Broughton, of Madison, was appointed
president of the Georgia association for
the reduction of the cotton acreage,and
doubtless the planters iu each eouury
will hear Irom him before the time au
pointed for the next meeting. Tin- ob
ligations are not binding unless 75 per
cent of the cotton growers iu 80 pa
tent of the cotton counties sign the
agreement.
Iu regard to
OTHER REMUNERATIVE CROPS,
we publish in another column extracts
from ex-Goveruor Northern's woii con
sidered article, an 1 also some facts ob
tained from prominent dealers and
commission men of Atlanta, who daily
receive car loads of farm products.
There are at least 39 firms who do an
averago business of $509 a week, each;
their sales being confined to fruits aud
the more important articles of table
consumption—eggs, butt>*r, chickens,
onions, Irish potatoes, cabbages, celery,
tormps, beans, canned corn, tomatoes,
etc. Tho extracts referred to are taken
from a recent is.;uo of The Constitu
tion.
Let Georgia farmers, with convenient
means of transportation, demonstrate
that they can be depended upon to pro- and
duce these articles of good quality,
there wili be no difficulty in finding a
market. But we would not advise a
hasty or ill-considered plunge into the a
new and untried business. Study
business, and satisfy yourself that you
can produoe the orops. But that is
only half the battle. Sttsdy the mark
ets aud perfect your arrangements for
disposing of your products, ere they aro
ready u> be marketed; nave ail your ar
rangement* complete; leave-nothing to
chauge.
WORK FOR THE MONTH.
The cold rains and snows have delay
ed farm work. But something has been
done by wide awake farmers in the
v.*ay of ivpatrs. composting and clear
ing land wvi.ty for the plow. February
is the host raon’h im sowing spring
tints; but tfiev wnl not do well on poor.
turn laud. Tim soil should be good or
else made so by manures.
1 hi farm should »Do be looked
tho malture leiwa good, rubbish
off, briad east, and wheu the
ground ir*dry enough, plowed in. If a
k »ub»oUe* is run iu each furrow.no
much the hotter for » good arop drouth of vug- ef
et:ml<pi a«a imnvuhiry from
foctn. Iu the southern part of the state
Irish potatoes, groan pea*, lottum. rad
Liu**, vciiAsabio* (utVyed. be all pJBtttod the hardtet in H**
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box, but I feel like a new man. I think they
are the most pleasant and easy to take of
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coated that even a child will take them. I
urge upon all who are in need ef a laxativo
to try Ayer’s Pills. They will do good.” ’
For all diseases of the Stomach, Liver,,
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AYER’S PILLS
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thing Something everv body wants, some*,
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with beau iful colored plates. Full list
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Unusual and astonishing offeis, such
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