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Agricultural Department
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TnoMAf4'u*, La., leb,7th'
Tho I'peOn t '• nt ml twf
at 2 o’cloHcpv vn.in thcWiurt
President T. S. Sharinan in the
chair.
Minute:- of lost meeting read and
conflict'd.
After giving several matters of
minor tamtam on
their regiilur order tho question of
the day and lioflr for tdic monthly
meeting untie tip and Was fully
discussed.
There were objections urged to
the first Tqrosduy as c<>mn:iissionei H
court and either legal business al
ways kept awny some who would
he glad to attend and Saturday is
an unsuitable day for'every Satur
day is the church day for quite ft
numlierjof member:;. Tjhe hour of
2 o'clock pin on any 'lay would
not suit because the 0,1 ah lias a
good many members living 8 10 or
12 miles from Ibe court house and
the time must he fixed to suit t la< iu‘
convenience.
The hour of 1 o’clock p m, on Hie
first Tuesday was finally unani
mously agreed upon and all inter-,
estedmay now rest assured that the
time is now fixed and the club will
always be called to order promptly
at time set, by its very efficient
president.
The committee whose duty it was
to selecta subject for discussion re
in rind that they had selected J. \V.
brown as principal speaker and
he preferred ns subject the preser
vation of lands and keeping up
maximum yield, and was ready,but
was too umvell. On motion sub
ject, was postponed until.next meet
ing when Judge Brown is expected
to make an aide talk.
The regular order of business
having been gone through with a
number thought that some good
rniglit result from a few minutes
talk about fertilizers. Subject la
ken up but no especial fact of. pub
lic interest brought out.
W. A. Miller wanted information
about fodder plants and asked A.
and. Williams what lie could say for
millo maize.
Mr. Williams accused Mr. Miller
of becoming excited from reading
Mr, Benson’s article oftwo or three
columns in the Constitution. Mr.
Benson makes some extraordinary
statements, lie says the season
was not long enough to mature seed
llie first year hut he matured them
in four and a half months last year,
lie means to say that tho process
of acclimation has advanced so
rapidly that in four years it takes
three months less time to mature
seed, and he says his millo tells a
great, deal more than at first. Two
very extraordinary statements. As
a rule, ho (Williams) does not
think there is an exception to it,
the earlier a plant matures the less
it will tiller. The earlier small
grain is sown the more time it has
to grow and therefore it branches
more, Burt oats tillers less than
rust proof because of the loss time
in growing and maturing. His
(W illiams) millo had not under
gone any changes that he could see
V.v the four years he had grown it.
ll'is seed nearly all matured the
first year and a heavier crop ma
tured last year hut the difference
was owing to a difference
in seasons. He had it on bottom
and upland. About the t ime the
first stalks began to advance to
wards seeding the drouth came on
and stopped the branching or tiller
ing on the upland and the whole
force of plants were expended in
maturing seeds on stalks already
formed and not turning aside to
multiplying others, and as a result
of the unprecedented drouth he
made the heaviest crop of the fi
nest saed lie had ever seen, lie
made more stalk and fodder nod
less seed on bottom than on up
land. 1
But Mr Miller wanted to know ofj
its value as a fodder plant. It is
certainly the most valuable green j
fodder plant we have and Mr. Ben
son nor any One else can hardly say
too much in its praise for this use.
Plant at same time of planting
corn covering the seed very shal
low as they are small and will not
come up if planted deep especially
if the land hakes on them. So
soon as it gets high enough to
cut at all commence cutting and
keep cutting successively until
frost. More and better cutting < an
bo had during summer and fall if
the land is moist as the growth is
not so much cheeked by drouth.
Society adjourned to meet at i
o’clock P. M on firs: Tuesday in
March.
Farm Economy.
Oakes Ames, the corrupt con
ssiuan from Massachusetts,once
said he always put a dollar where
it would do the most good. So true
farm economy requires that every
lick should be put where it would
pay the best or do the most good.
Aii Englishman once bought a
farm on which were a great many
stumps. The farm was a geo lone,
: n l ifhe had been satisfied to work
the land for a few years most of
the stumps would have rotted and
disappeared. But the stumps
were a terrible eye sore lb the Eng
disjbmau, sulpHtiud of dire. tinghis
tifnu and eriteagmo cu Aval in grille
lamLutfl plowing Mli* tulac.-t
chips that the spil wAnd\ioldW he
hltaui taui mc
roots. I h spent the larger portion
of his time for several years in re
moving stumps'and rocks, conse
quently he made very littlerjcjpjjs
and in a fmv years Ins cap fun was
juibausffditUfLllia stock had to Is
sold. Now this man miled because
he did not uritctiwi' Pertnwvfc in
labor. He did utd,jMt hfrt licks
like Oakes Ames uidvittF dollars,
where they would UO;tjn: ipyst good.
11l passing L ,lln
ty, North < aroluia, l siw. on a. term
owned, by < in plait U'hibpftS many as
lour one steer carts *').i(i hauling
green rails. The were, driven
bv men. This was a great waste
of labor as all the oxen could have
been hitched to uno cart, in which
case one driver would have driven
all, and the labor of three men could
have been saved,, . ,
A fen days ago, I walked imo the
field of Mr.’ A. .1. ZeJluor, who is
one of the most prosperous farm
ers of this, section. He was clear
ing up new ground. He had two
able bodied negro, men cutting
wood the proper,length fpr hauling.
A son of Mr. ZWIpW) a hoy of 15
years of ago, was driving three
large oxen all hitched to one wag
on, This imy (Ijd the work that:
would have required three in mi to
perform under thq.pnp steer earl
system Cor tie liaglvd as much at
one load as thrive* one ox carls
could have hauled, and hy so doing
saved the labor,men.
It is my opinimjj Ljiat, Mr. Zcil
ner is right, as regards the mode oi
putting down furtiUzuVf*. The pro-;
pur place for manges in rot is on
or in the land.
A shrewd, N'p| England J.-i.m
er, who was .„ close observer and a
till closer ealqdatyr, once . aid
that many agricultural writers ad
vised that farm yard and ,--table
manures to he put tm in neaps and
that these heaps ho forked over fro
quently but said tjns ):< (h fellow, |
for my part lam content to let ii
alone until lam ready to apply il
to my land. Bor siiid he, every,
time it is bandied it costs money,
and there is such a thing as making
it -so costly as to destroy all it pro
fits.
The writer knew two men who
farmed on the Potomac. One of
these men when he made a. fence
out of new rails built it ton rails
high; the other man built his fence
fifteen rails high. Now here was a
useless expenditure of fifty per cent
of labor, as the fence ten rails high
was sufficiently high to turn stock,
and was really better, for a fence,
fifteen rails high would be more
likely to blow down than a fence
just "high enough to turn stock off
the land.
This writer grew up in a tobacco
growing section. The old plan of
preparing seed was to pile great
neaps of brush and wood, and then
hoe up the land and after thorough
preparation to sow the tobacco seed
Tho object of burning the brush on
the land was to destroy the grass
seeds in the soil.
But this was a mistake, for the
natural tendency of heat is to as
cend, and all this vast amount of
labor, which often required weeks,
was entirely unnecessary. For it
is almost impossible to heat the
soil for any depth.
About, thirty years ago a man by
the name of Langley had enough
originality and independence about
him to make a departure from the
old beaten tract. It occurred to
this man that burningthe soil was
not essential to raise tobacco plants
so he selected a piece of land suita
ble to grow plants.
He cut off’the wood and raked
off'the leaves, then ploughed up the
soil, raked it thoroughly, and ap
plied a largo quantity of Peruvian
Guano to the land and had tobacco
plants ready to set out before any
of his neighbors and the labor of
preparing the soil was notone forth
much as was employed hy his
neighbors.
This man Langley was a poor man
in !S i when Peruvian Guano was
introduced in that section of South ;
>! trvland. This man soon aban
doned the use of the compost on j
tobacco lie used nothing but
Peruvian Guano on the land ho j
putin tobacco. After a tobacco
. ron b.e seeded his tobacco land in
wh and clover. The clover fed
! the soil much more economically
| than by the old system of casting
| out compost to keen up the fertili
ty of the soil. Uniter this system
this man Langley got rich in ton
years. Before he made that new
departure in the cultivation 1
of tobacco lie was a poor land rent
er.
But to show how slowly agricul
tural progress is made 1 will refer
to a statement that appeared in the
Constitution, a few Weeks ago. 1
refer to a statement that ap
peal'd m the Atlanta, Constitution
describing the process of preparing
tobacco beds, as is practiced in
I North Carolina at present.
The writer gave a full descrip
tion of how the brush and wood
; were piled on the land and burntbe
forc sowing the tobacco seed beds,
i
!No whore is*the point I wish to
make:
V The nojfflienjjboundazy f North
(Birolina booing at about 30) de-
Aess of NonhlaMtudeX 'Jlie s®-
jwion wli' ls 1 n iPy li\wd \as ip
] 38A degrees of North latitude in
5 South Maryland. The distance be
■ tween those two points is about 140
njjli'S ay 1 > atitlf. Garniimans have
fiWyelT.MMbhVd the hid ;M t< -
,diom plan of burning land
ton wnTeh they 7iti'' sow
Ei-tv fcu
first (Mine to Monroe county to live
(many
old wooifou foot.ubwgb slock llOl
withatmaiing the rapid strides that
made ittaliklhdßdffiirm
j ing in the si ates-fiu't.ticf’ if. Tn
a fifamr lu the wrlfir keli-rjod
to iWrfdHa* mtm4
I most I'm- a se< t,irn. there
1111144 does the bond, This truly
unfortunate. Thy poet Ileum
after viewing what nature had done
forthc smith sett* islands, low she
shipvei-ed so many blessings on that
favored land, used this language’:
“every prospect pleases, and man
alone is vile.”
The*people of Middle La., have
one of the best countries on which
j the siin shines,but the trouble f
-do not properly iqipreeiate if.
Nature has scattered law bieiits
in wild profusion here. M e have
i good climate, good water ; tbi i
' one of tlie healthiest soetwma of the
! nation. Nearly all kinds of fruit
I grow hm-'v, and on niktjii.- Jiyyl jyj!
j both tfie early amt 'Tarter reins. Nov,-
! let us see what nnturcilwswloiie fir
I VS WiN >“• ikv ~ * "I U: ™1
productivengss oTtne soil,
i In lhfb’MK A. L Zem.rß of th
I wriicr to assistjbim in measuring 1
j off an . re of wlwaf. That yea”,
wheat uasnnusiudly heavy weigh-.
ing as much ns fin to <’•? pounds to j
the hushe}; This .SUV made ,T
bushels of wheat bv measure but l>y |
weight it made 40 bushels wheat.
The-i v, a•rm k ind <f f 'iiz.i r us
ed on this, land the crop was tfi
natural fertility im th- • *il Tin
Isantc \ear I a- u i led \fr. M ilKniti ,
! Dewberry to n, im off on aere I
jof his whent land. This acre ot j
I wheat when thrashed made Igj
bushels hy measure and 46 bushels I
by weight. No manure or fertili- i
zer was used on this acre.
With a soil so rich by nature if 1
would lie shameful in us to wear if
and to turn over to our children as ,
a l ognev, btnd-o poor that they 1
would be l'oreed to len\ e t i'cealise it !
would not produce a living for them
and io seek homes in tho far west.
G. F. T.
Cox's District, Monroe Go., Fob.
7th, is,S5.
Farming Does Not Pay.
Thomastox La.
Editor Lazio ti-k : 1 have read*
witli jileasure some of the articles ,
on agriculture in your paper: dis-;
cussing the successful and unsue-!
cessful features of farming.
If there is no profit in farming, j
the question arises: what is the rea- 1
son? and how arc wo to overcome ;
the obstacle?there has been a great j
deal said and written on this sub- \
jeet. The intention of the Grange j
was to remove these obstacles. By
holding their produce, buy and soil
at their command, and not through |
the instrumentality of otherparties : *
do away with the credit system,
quit mortgaging their homes, and
what they iiavent got. do without .
But it failed, why'.'because they fail
ed to unite and work as a band of
brothers for the maintenance of each
others rights. To accomplish these
things, will he a long time to come, j
We may not look for any thing but
speculators, and money loan asso
eiatipns to sweep across our sunny
land, and take possession ot tho hap
pv homes of our children. Wemay
discuss when to plant, and how to
plant,when to sow, and when to|
reap; when to plow and how to
plow, what crops to plant, and
which is the most profitable, what !
fertilizers t.o use, and how to use 1
and apply ; in fact we may reduce it
to ttie long sought for science, but;
until we can command our own
prices for our produce, making the j
prices increase instead of decrease,
draw more money from the specu
lators and dealers, by pricing your
j own produce, raise all you need at
; home in order that you may ho able
to hold your cotton. This will place
; the laborer or the fanner on an equn
j lity with the, other occupations.
But some may say advancing your
j cotton induces the manufactures to
i raise his prices on goods and after
all it comes out of the farmers. Tho
farmer does not consume scarcely
any cotton goods compared to the
amount of cotton raised, and by this
means part of the burden falls on
people engaged in other occupations
We have had much written about
; the intensive system of farming..ln
its present condition it will prove
! beneficial to its devotees, but when
1 every one becomes an intensive far
mer, there will be more cotton made.
What the result? the prices will fall,
j and we are no better off than at first.
1 In the next place it is hardly pro
bable, that every one can bean in
; tensi\ e farmer. He can use what fer
| tilizev he produces, but for every
j man to buy the guano that some
advocate to the acre, the demand
would be too great for the supply.
! besides building up a class of peo
ple to advance their goods, and
I make fis pajf affain ,
we woitld buib* uy lx Ti4li fins si n|
' farmers da butdPnmthe ptjin sosd
from 111 itff> ooi\r elws|^)n vflg IpR i
price- for guimiFtnalcing tne poor,
poprer, and the rich richer. Intact,
in a few more years these United
State , will he.owned by a few, and
mor-fof tho r* will tie thiir
‘Tvants, Let us all work to gather
1 tor each nthiTEhrowfift "let the fwro
farmer showing as
he rich. Tina let fttg rvh TSTmer be
j oil an equal footing with men en
mkillll! (iIA/u/ionsA lijrtr^
• tifttbtrn nisK-wiF lirm:fs
and work together for each others
| good, v ilbfit anfiest. rmm up
,:i , , American Continent. Tim
• difnliir dipjier. qf agriculjilri cud
, ('. F. f. Are cerxamly eofreet when’
j they sav t hat there is no.money in
1 farmin'?’. To inklteihc fitittW plain
,to every farmer, I will give astate
* meut of the amount of money in
vested in a one horse farm, the* avo
: i'age yield on tho same,.and tiro cx
: i leases of the same. My figures 1 urn
certain arc not too Iqw inestinjut
| ing the yield, because they are above
an average. In order to have a good
farm,let us take 60 acres of land.
Bo.a.'icfi. I’• <’ . Value;
•Tj <-/(’* in ctiifur— f27*i urt
f k e*-iu < pr •n.'*— tk>— X&tOO
15acres in t
with corn —3 Ifti. jNr u<*n* —nic— *p ch
; Kauri kin ■-* 1 j<‘i!t —0 ini. iwr it.vc—f] -IH j
j H itcivs in oiitfi—-Obtl. pt-r acre —l'K* ( ‘l 1 j
I ten in |iol *itocH—so Iju. —4oc—* 2tl 0W j
Buianco in — — 1
Tofal - - - - - -
KXPJS2CSjf.
On • Iluvl - *l'/ ‘ o
i oiv> b;uul i-ioiirdt - - • ••Gtiw,
j K X (11 i la<n*, - - - - - iMu
! l-VrllliitvitW ' - -
; Mule .‘■b4 ■ - - - - - •> *■ 'm
! Mii'c wear. ....
j Wagon am! lnij'tfy wear. - - *•' 4 **- > j
: wSui *' ' i
n.'iHbliuHh, - * *
| Tax on lain!. *vc., - ■ “ ~
■ c<. itiimf, itK ttiiil tics. - - 1 * •* |
-id Mary :n*iiclc' trf i|Qiw*li'* <? -
1 it; ,1 of man anti wife, and <■ Jot!***, •w*. 50 iB)
|4iS5 00 j
*558 p-s sf-lfifileaves for the;
farmers profit. Now let us see the ,
amount of capital invested:
■ i •* .# li*i<l ' i|r n*r. • • I
•me \v;i"t>n ;• nl ImriK -4, - - , ‘ HI
; One mule, - - - : 12 OU ;
ia ttfly it l>Ui4-r v ami iian> j > ;
J i>- *l-. Ah'.,, . . - * 7'i‘y
j < )nc row, - - ■
Ile has .ffiOO. investivl works hard
all the vimr. ami hai F'73- left and
in the same ratio,we can proportion!
a two or ton horse farm-anil as w
increase in number we decrease in
profit. The best and most forcible
reasons to me that farming does not
pay are these. Let us go out in to
! the country, where they live and |
work for their bread. We see that
thev have th poorest and most,
common clothes, living in their log j
huts. Oecasionly we see a nice dwel
ling it having been built when times
were honest. We also see white
women laboring in the field trying
to help their husbands to make a
crop to pay the merchant in order
that the mortgage lie gave him for
their food may not dispossess them {
! of their home. Itinnkes rnv cheeks
Lin- i with shame whom I recall
such scenes. On tin* contrary look
at the merchants, the bankers and
clerks wives and all others in cities,
what (lo we see? We see them array
ed in silks and satins, going in the
grandest style. It takes money to
support these fashions, and who is ;
it that have it? All occupations ex- \
eept farming have systems ; they eo- j
operate, work for each others good.
1 wish every one had for bis mot
to, That in unity there is strength.
Farmers are the most crippled, in :
their finances, the least thought of, :
work the hardest, and get the least j
for it, of any set of people on the j
face of the globe. I wish 1 could hy
ena stroke of my pen, make it the
most profitable and most desirable
occupation that adorns the mover-j
sc. As Dan’l Webster proclaimed.
Let it rise, let it rise, untill it meets I
the sun in its coming lot its earliest
lights gild it. and the shades of de-j
parting dav linger and plav upon it. I
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Thomaston, La. Feb,7th IHS.3.
In vour paper of Jan, 26th” is an i
! article of great note since therein!
; is set forth a theory that I have no
doubt will revolution the econo- 1
my of this and all other conn- i
; t ries.
The writer has discovered that
| labor, as compared with guano is
\ nothing. Considered in any light,
j the question is one of moment, and j
■ the author must eventually stand
:to human economy as Newton to j
the law of gravity or Darwin to creu '
! lion.
But for the present, the subject
! relates to fariningand from obser
vations present and past, l ameon
j vinced, that too much labor is em- ;
* ployed on farms and too little gua
no. The place I am now living on j
is a good illustration, for there are
actually thirteen persons living
| there-on and the gentleman who |
i runs the place is foolish enough to
employ as many as two laborers.
Now it is evident to any thinking
i man that this gentleman is in error,
by this new] economic law he could
discharge one of these worthless
I wretches and invest his wages in
guano and thus be enabled tomain
ten forty four idlers.
Henceforth, all thrift must come
from guano, the soeial and politi
cal questions of the day, thatthrea
| ten to revolutionize the civilized.
: world, arc easy of solution, for it is
: only needed to stand, or slay pover
ty, use guano and never again know
want. I will not give any super
. wriptiftn or do If expert ptij#iica-
P 1 im. for afteing irfko is of lcj| im
portaaDe is ruwglit.
fief A hm l romthPUwtfyin imll hr
r rmcWd soun . *
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Thomastox, Ga. Feb 7th ISSA.
'Aifthe January meeting of the
Central Upson Agricultural Club
<J. Muimiu. \V. A_ Jaukeixa
and G. J. Lewis were aunuiuted a
! committe to draft suitaT’if resolu-
I tioiMlAtfn Ac |l|atfti 4 ftobt r'.
#uil cpiimpttie n.:wbii’it- follmv-
lvuh w%sf jpuyiimous
lf aaopfedTh"fi Asulg vote of th
j club. ' ■
llesolveil 1 That whereas if has
pjeased Aimigl.ty L.-d to remove
i from our club our friend andbroth
: cr Peibt. F\ Ju'.kj.oii, and transplant
, him to ay j.ij!i|iv'a|i(ilit>l>k-r oni-apa
i tiie great kind jfe'lpT ia*'d
' We as nw-fclisr* ft tb s* f-ntral T
-1 son Aitn'-filVr':’. 1 muro-dWreto iron?*-
| our griefs with those of his parent
! and relatives.
Hi solved 2 fib at .while wo yield to
IthrdispßiiSH fnt.-oT ilim whadnrLh
j airthhig" vo-fl ii '-.-lti but iwAtf'-ks
j our sincere regret and profound sor
j row that the summons should come
pi. t;ikf finf- front qiy midft :-<>
youngsy meful. and *><• kind. :m<t
Wftlt the yfi-< ilrtiso of k pfeMwtufb
j befnre hum
Kysplv Tjl That in the death of
i:ll< f ?B.!:i.:sfcnjjth* *f 1 J>hi- ••let
one' lit bl-t and m -st tah nf'
! moi bi jsilil-Vn'iitt a )•! 4 and jn
ft-llm'-tu •Of'iY. ids ; >w f>ei!tt'**s •
true and noble eompaiuon bis pa
rents a dut ' ful son.
: Be-oiV'^L-i.Thot *<texfofiil qur
cSnn<4roi<VwittWe jwremV atW G-m.
ily bf otif deeenf and Brother in this
their greatest trial and bereitviinent
and may He who rules all things
and ;d retiily "Bfbib' , r:|.
fi'- Mvc t 5/rimt the MfldliGe.*!
gia T>me arid Cm > i :*■
bo requested to publish this tribute
to his moiimiy and w copy betrnn
smited to Ms forroufiiijr parortls.
Coxconb, Feb, loth.
As all mankind seiAna t 6 be in
terested in farming and why farm
ing does not pay jplease let me have
a say so in the matter. In the isf
place we are too lazy, too many of
us sitting around directing free
negroes What to do instead ofpitcli
ing in ourselves. In the 2nd place we
buy too much on time truly paying
fifty per cent too much for goods.
1 can come to Barnesvillo with one
dollar in cash and buy more than ;
Powell’s bank can on time with !
one dollar and fifty cents. A man
seeking credit is a beggar and must j
do as others say. In tin- 3rd place
we buy too much guano instead ot i
making it at home, a 1 letter fertilizer i
only costing a little attention and i
labor. place we make ,
cotton at the f expense of eatables, j
A farmer who makes cotton to buy j
all other things will, inn year or two
apply for a Homestead or perish. I
It'we will make corn, wheat, oat
and raise our own mules, there
will be little to buy.
J. A. W.
Barnyard manure is not a com-1
plete fertilizer because it lacks one !
important element which the soil
needs to produce a cron of grain, i
TTiis is phosphoric acid. The wlmat .
and corn take out a considerable
quantity of this element, and a few ,
crops soon exhaust tho soil of it
so that it is necessary to use super
phosphate of lime, which contains j
a large quantity of phosphoric acid,
in addition to the stable manure. ,
In growing corn about 200 or 300 j
pounds of superphosphate of lime
to the aere should be used. This
is a small handful to each hill. The •
same quantity is required for a i
wheat crop, audit should lie spread ,
broadcast over the young plants
in the Spring.
The Keifl'er pear, about the beau- |
ties and excellences of which so j
much has been said by the people i
who have the trees for sale, has 'teen *
severely sat upon by the Michigan
1 lortieultural .Society. The meniln i
considered it excellent for canning
purposes, but it ripens after th
canning season, which is a fatal
“but” for this poor pear. Then it i
rotted badly, and has not been si'
productive as might have been ,
expected from the pictures of it. j
which have been pointed to with
pride by the tree agents.
Grass must necessarily be the basis
of all good farming. It is one of the
great fundamental facts in agricul
ture that when the soil is not cover
ed with vegetation of some kind it
is being rapidly exhausted by the :
percolation of the rain water
ot its most important
elements of fertility. This in fact
exhausts the soil more than the
growth of the crop does.
COUGHS. COt,I>S. CATAHH 11. CONSUMPTION. !
All Throat, ln • st, ami 1-uiiir Affections,
curni 1 y the o!d-e<t:tl>jis*nl **sv.-.iym* WjUI-
Cherry.” i he first 4 >s- thvi-s relief, and a cure >
speetlily follows. 25 Cts., or *I.OO. at I)rui£-
gists.
—*•
Imndon Tlaik Kestojjf.h—irEKAT ExGtrsii i
Toilet Article! Kestotres irrm-*CTh. clor, ai
ft ml >’ 'ftness. lU*nMv>. 1 k'.rlritß. A ilshK*'- -.tu
famTltes of Crivift Ifritftih endtirse it. Eleyrant j
dressing. Fragrantly perfumed. The favoiite i
of fashion. At Druggists for 3c* l 1 and or7sCts. in 1
l . S. money.
Two Ki rids of Smut.
j Prof. J. T. Burrill, of Illinois Indus
trial Uittvemky: . Tb**r ate two
kifids i|kii| onwiJF-atM lYr one
iliertHn# vey eitictent meve
r\icas(‘|iraycal®emet; for the
■ otrfer, i#* jnwciHwt. hairotieen dis
covered. They are both species of
vegetable parasites of the great
group of Fungi. Both kinds are
propagated by seed-UlsV )£rnultl<*V
' called sjiores, which, indeed, con-
I Ounite kite oi Lie oot V ivoi.ee
rial Juiown as the smut. Tiie suui
. s a§- excelling smalLiin'ftid# to
#i nby tlrf- •i(Fili'iw F <k)iJß Bifqi-dv
- eojM. (>'f contwe oicrat:Ao full
! cftlf m in tie If afcfWl* Wiiucil
tl u|e l.ead oi'fbinf: ret. si Anti ;#
tlffTtire, each otic to£v fernmiinUrc
i under the proper coiwiw"iis. and
nqiroduce Jlrtoth' r year the
i whale amount found ten one wheat
plant. The tissues ofUieiatterbe
i:oim* more or less filled with the
fin e white Tilde If tsifikcs up
tin- -#|.-tatMcttrttf-tiifrc\iftho smut
y.liiit Ind filsf tn|c|<f' (myee
iime. abjo#i>4iwl’fH#-ilt/Afniln the
wheal stem, fee.; then penetrate
the wheat grain titid produce there
tie- -pores. TJa-re is thus one crop
iol'-fout >aoh year, ate there is one
icia rationlof t|t<- whlkitf
ThK DIFFIinKXOK.
Both k their sooty
min % vottfig wlgegt kernel,
Ifut v/itfl) fic tlm iatti;*-. p-taiiis pret
ty nearly bis fiwifit v shape, tlpufrW,
; perhaps, somewhat swollen. It
I may, however, be < rushed between
th :htjfii|'l;n- ! at id i- th< n
foitad to he olagrcasyJorput!\-liko
C'H: -i tfif-4 lutd fpc -f M \ of an
o;ft*'i; ivw'ofl.iT.' riff m-adJil*Arbeflt
i-areely shows externally the seri
! ..ns change that has taken kernels.
! This dis -me js often eatfed ? bvm>,
: nd rJI-ap.-f AiufiM t>ew so named
: generally, t-o distinguisi) it from
; thrill xt. Tbesi '-otid kind ofsnmt,
;s. distinguished from the foregoing
u <iU' -t( 1-y the t anilyaranc*** of the
• I;.-.4 and fip.ids,wlii/h tint readily
-ft an d - -evutd anunvir the miitifk-iirg
I healthy ones. These first are slen
-.i l, tbe bail open ami . the |iro
■ Crucltiiq mast of black inaterial,
! oeeiijryTng t lit place of the wheat
j grai t. is luou powdery-and is read
il v •)i .-i■ and iii the air as a fine dust.
'There is nothing to be seen of this
in the threshed wheat, unless one
| examines, with a microscope, for
the seattei and sjiores. For this last
kind of smut there is unfortunate
ly. no feasible remedy. There is
siill need of careful scientifiei nves
tigation as to the life process of the
fungus, and methods of destroy
ing it.
The Atlanta Constitution,
In •! long iirticlu relating to the I>. li. Ii. t of
that city, says:
Tin lllood Balm (''onipuny started one year
!i;. i tviili >102.1 D, ljut to-day the business can
n-u o.* hQturht rtr'su.iHHi.iHt!
T!t*-lieiiiatt'l and tic >:it isfartitin given is
said io he wit hunt a }>.irallrl, as its action is
pronouneed wonderful.
W. :tr- giad to announce that druggists have
already si cured a -uppiy, and we hope our
re i'i'-rs will supply themselves at once.
It is said to he theonh speedy and perman
ent hloofl poison remedy oifered, giving entiro
* : -i.tcti ni m ;t!l lu foiv one bottle has
n u>ed. For hlofd Disrasi-s, Kidney
'rmuhl' F'c *oi''ula, t 'atarrh. old Fleers and
SJ;in lii. i>i■>, try one bottle of B. 15. B.
Terrible Calamity.
I done oil 1 could last spring to
o ; ! mv friend b who were unable to
:ny nil their mdehtedness to me,
uni extended most oftbeir delitsat
the fir -1 of October inet and up to
this day not one has paid a dollar. I
h ■_> to ask them if they will not at
o all and pay each and every
one the small amounts they owe me
Ihoi.ii- every one ofthem when they
re: 4 this notice will rememher that
it is a calamity for any man in bus
iness to fail to pay his debts at
maturity, and unless they aid me, I
am in that unenviable condition.
Come and jmy what you owe.
A. J. White.
Milner, La.. Oct l oth.
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