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Meal Advice
You need a doctor many times when you
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cause you hope that the pain “will go
away after a while.” And, too, you know
by experience, that that first visit of the
doctor is generally followed by many others,
with the inevitable consequence of a big
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A Battleship’s Destructive Weapons.
A 12 inch rifle is 38 feet long, with
4 feet external diameter at the
breech and weighs 48 tons. Its 850
pound shot driven by a 430-pound
charge of brown prismatic power
leaves the muzzle with a velocity ex
ceeding 1,400 miles per hour, and
would reach a target at its effective
range in 24 seconds, while it would
take the report of its discharge 27
seconds to traverse the same distance.
At a range of a mile and one half
th : s shot would perforate 19 inches of
solid steel. The 250 pound projec
tile of the 8 inch riflle will penetrate a
foot of armor at the range of one
mile. The six 4 inch rapid fire guns
within the superstructure each deliv
ers eight 40 pound projectiles in a
minute, while the 26-pounders dis
tributed over the vessel can lie relied
jipon to clear an enemy's decks or to
disable torpedo boats by maintaining
a terrific hail of explosive shell capa
ble of destroying any unprotected po
sition. The final offensive resources
of the citadel are the four torpedo
tubes, each prepared to launch auto
matic and dirigible destroyers con
taining 150 pounds of guncotton. —
Chautauquan.
God’s Love of Beauty.
When we think of all the beauty
which human eyes seldom behold,
but see only often enough to know of
its existence, we gain anew thought
about our heavenly father. Many a
brilliant sunset occurs in the tar
oceans where no ships sail. Many a
wonderfully colored flower blooms in
the jungle where no human foot has
penetrated. Many a striking effect
of light and shade, or tender glow of
semi twilight, or strange picturesque
formation of mist and cloud, occurs
in the remote arctic regions, if what
returned explorers tell us be true.
There are many lorins of beauty here
upon our earth of which we, its in
habitants are almost unaware and
which only God sees.
Scrofula, a Vile
Inheritance.
Scrofula is the most obstinateof blood
troubles, and is often the result of an
Inherited taint in the blood. S. S. 8.
is the only reim*dy which goes deep
enough to reach Scrofula; it forces out
every trace of the disease, and cures
the worst cases.
My son, Ohnrlic, wss Afflicted from infancy
With Scrofula, and be suffered so that it was
Impossible to dress him
(or three years. His
held and body were s ff
mass of sores, and his I 1
eyesight also became V
affected. No treatment W n.J jj wf
was spared that ..o \ ,1* M
thought would rellfYe V tffl 'J
him. but he grew worse 1 ' t Jv . tpj;
until hla condition was, . s-jm\
Indeed pitiable. 1 hadMEflV
almost despaired of his rTOjJ
ever being cured, when VF J f
by the advice of a friend VI7 /rt
We gave him 8. S. 8. a \MW\j f 1
(Swift's Bpeclflcl Ade ” ’
elded improvement was the result, and after
he had taken a dotsn bottles, no one who knew
of his former dreadful condition would have
leeognlted him. All the sores on his body
have healed. Ills skin Is |>erfeetlv clear and
Smooth, aud be has been restored to perfect
health. Mas. S. 8. Mahky.
WO Kim St.. Macon, Ha.
For real blood troubles it is a waste
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bther remedies have no effect upon. It
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NESBITT REVIEWS
HIS STEWARDSHIP
The Retiring Commissioner ol
Agriculture to Farmers.
GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT
Ho Give* 1* Brief Resume of the Inrio
vat lon* anil Retrenchments InnugH
rated Since He Took Charge of the
Department Right Years Ago.
Department or Agriculture.
Atlanta, Sept. X, 1898.
As this will perhaps tie my lasi
"monthly talk" to tho farmers of Geor
gia before my successor takes charge of
the affairs of the agricultural depart
ment, I wish through this medium te
thank the people of the state and the
farmers more especially for the mannei
in which they have "held up my hands''
in my efforts to build np the agricult
ural interests of the state and to focus
public attention on some of the more
: important agricultural issues of the day.
I am indeed grateful for the considera
tion and courtesy which I have received
from a large majority of my fellow citi
zens during my administration of the
affairs of tho agricultural department,
and I feel that I owe it to myself and tc
them to give a short review of my stew
ardship since they entrusted me with sc
important work.
Isotwithstanding the wise and benefi
cent aims of its founders, some un
checked abuses had found their wav
into the agricultural department through
the inspection of oils and fertilizers,
duties simple enough in themselves, re
quiring integrity of purpose rather than
superior skill and knowledge, hut which
brought disproportionately large emolu
mont* to the fortunate holders of such
positions.
In justice to inv predecessors it should
be stated that the condition referred to
was Yhc outgrowth of an unforseen
and rapidly increased consumption of
both oils and fertilizers, for -which
no provision was made in the
stautu law of tho state. At leading
central points like Atlanta or Savannah,
under this system, ns much as SB,OOO or
SIO,OOO annually were received by indi
vidual inspectors of oils and fertilizers,
these two offices being at that time con
solidated. That is, one inspector re
ceived about as much as the entire su
preme judiciary of the state In 1890,
when I took charge, the farmers, whose
interests were especially to he served by
the de|iurtiiient, having found a few
tares amidst au abundance of wheat,
wore in the front ranks of those who
were, willing to tear down au institu
tion which had been built up mainly
for their protection and guidance. I
don’t think I am assuming too much
when I state that in the eight years of
my incumbency the department has
gradually been growing in favor with
tho farmers and that my earnest efforts
to make it effectively and actively use
ful to them are even now hearing fruit.
Tho state legislature was in session
when I took charge in 1890, and I Im
mediately suggested and urged the abol
ishment of the system by which oil in
spectors were receiving such exhorbi
tant foes. An act allowing them to re
tain only $125 per month out of inspec
tors’ receipts and requiring them to
make monthly returiis td the state
treasury of all sums in oxeesa of
this amount, was npproved Dec.
20, 1890, nnd since then by this in
novation SIOO,OOO from oil and $125,000
frqm fertilizers have been saved to the
■lam ami piaced in the treasury.
In December, 1801, following the
same lino of retrenchment, the fixed
salaries of the 12 guano inspectors were
reduced from $126.00 to SBB.BB per
mouth, nnd only four of these were kept
on duty the whole year, the others from
four to nix months. Here was another
saving of several thnufaud dollars. The
office expenses wore also reduced by tho
salary of one clerk $1,800.00 annually,
and although the office duties have
steadilv increased uutil they have been
more tlian doubled and trebled, the work
ha# been carried on by the original
Lumber Of clerks, with u slight increase
of ialvies.
During my administration the whole
plan of fertiliser inspection has beeu
revolutionise... The old plan was in
bulk* and before leaving the factories.
The new bill, which is now the law,
was most carefully planned to give full
protection to both buyer aud seller. Jit
pt'ovides that the inspecting shall be
done only afttr the fertiliser is shipped
to different points and put upon the
market in separate packages. The pro
visions of this bill are such as to place
Georgia in the lead as to the judicious
aud careful supervision of her immense
fertiliser trade. This law, ss compared
with thoae in force in other states, is
superior, whioli is evidenced by the fact
that many inquiries have come on this
subject to this department from differ
ent southern states. The Georgia fer
tiliser law has finally become the basis
for similar laws in her sister states.
Another important change has beeu
the removal of the state laboratory from
Athens to the capital, where the impor
tant work of analysing every brand put
on sale in the state, is carried on under
tho immodiato supervision and inspec
tion of the commissioner of agriculture.
This affords increased advantages and
facilities to the state chemist in his
daily routine work which has increased
tremendously since 1890
Auotlier innovation which has made
the department the medium of commu
cating valuable information to the farm
ers throughout the state is the substitu-
tion of plate matter, furnished to tho
weekly press, in lieu of the circulars
and bulletins previously issued. The
“monthly talks" aud answers to ques
tions containing practical hints on topics
connected with the farm, the garden,
the dairy, the orchard and kindred sub
jects, carefully arranged as to time and
season of the year, are published iu the
weekly pajiers of the state. These go
to the remotest sections each month and
thousands of farmers, who are practi
cally cut off from the usual sources of
information, are thus reached aud placed
in touch with the busy world and kept
Informed on many subjects moat valua
ble in the oondnet of their farm opera
tions. Beside* these publications the de
partment has Issued a handsomely illus
trated manual entitled “Georgia, a
Fair Field For Homeeeekers nnd In
vestors,'' nnd in addition to this
other larger volume has been prepared
and issued entitled "Georgia. Her Re
sources and Possibilities.” Tne lattet
volume was intended as a sequel t<
"Tho Commonwealth of Georgia," and
not only points out the various advance!
made m the economic industries of the
state, but shows by an exhibit oi
the resources of every county through
out her length and breadth what
her boundless possibilities are. Both
of these volumes have been widely
circulated and widely read, and I be
lieve have been largely instrumental in
advertising the enormous advantage!
which our state offers to those seeking
homes in a healthy section, where wise
laws are rigidly enforced, and where tht
faithful laborer will iti due time real
the rewards of faithful work.
To my record in the agricultural de
partment I can refer with a feeling of
jnst pride. The department has been
elevated to a high plane of usefulness,
and the farmers throughout the state
are beginning to realize its importance
and close relation which it bears tc
every line of their business. The opj>o
■ition among them to department,
once so pronounced, has subsided, nnd
it is with gratitude that I point to
the fact, that my staunchest supporters
have come from the ranks of the farm
ers, those who ones so bitterly opposed
it. I trust that the farmers will extend
to my successor the same cordial sup
port that they have given to me and
that he will rise to the full measure of
the vast work yet to be accomplished
through the Georgia department of ag
riculture.
It is the farmers who keep the life
blood of our country in fresh, healthy
condition. The business of farming
feeds tho whole people. It is the basis
of the prosperity of our transportation
lines In railroads and ships, as well as
of all the money transactions of the
oountry. It pays its own taxes and
much beside* that should be paid by the
monied powers of the country. It sends
the life blood coursing through the ar
teries of trade and commerce. It lies
at the foundation of the moral and po
litical power of the nation. Without
its sturdy support all that Is beautiful
in literature and art, and even in sci
ence, wouk languish and die. Statis
tic* show that but for the infusion of
fresh blood from the oountry into city
families the lutter would die out in three
generation*.
It has been said that the suocess of a
nation it measured by the oondition of
its agriculture. Granting this to be
true, how all important that every
means, agricultural departments, ex
periment stations, farmers' institutes,
agricultural and mechanical colleges,
agricultural societies, farmers' clubs,
county and state fairs, in other word*
every educational engine should be used
to elevate xnd broaden our agricultural
interests. I believe that Georgia is ou
the threshold of a wonderful agricult
ural era. May her people, from the
governor down to the humblest citizen
within her borders, work harmoniously
and together to secure the advantages
which will accrue to each and every ouo
of them, when Georgia becomes a self
sustaining state, buying largely, per
haps, but selling more.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
Siigttr Beets.
Question.— Can sugar beets be grown
successfully in Georgia, and can the
sugar from them be manufactured in u
small way by the farmers.
Amswkk. —According to the depart
ment of agriculture, at Washington,
sugar beets can not be grown profitably
in the southern sU.t.-s. I quote you
what that department says on the sub
ject:
“Experience has shown that tho sugar
beet reaches its highest development in
north temperate latitudes. So far as
the production of beets with high ton
nage is concerned, it is found that this
can be accomplished far to the south,
but beets grown in such localities are,
upon the whole, less rich tti sugar and
less suitublu for the manufacture of
sugar than those grown farther north.
It must be remembered, however, that
the expressions north and south do not
refer fo any absolute parallels of lati
tude, but rather to isothermal lines,
which in many cases run obliquely to
the parallels of latitude, aud in some
cases across them almost at right angles.
Asa result of many years of careful ex
perimentation, it nmy be said that as
far us temperature alone is concerned
the sugar beet attains its greatest per
fection in a zone of varying width,
through the center of which passes the
isothermal line of 70 degrees Fahrein
heit for the mouths of June, July and
August.”
If the agricultural department at
Washington is correct in the above
statement, and they doubtless are, the
cotton states are deba-red from growing
the 6ugar beet profitably, as the south
ern boundary' of the belt spoken of ns
suitable to their cultivation, passes
through the central part east and west
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, In iiana, Illinois,
lowa and Nebraska, and thence dips al
most due south to the boundary of Mex
ico. The same authority, however, says:
“There are doubtless niauy localities
lying out-side of this belt, both
north and south, in which the sugar
beet will 1* found to thrive;
but this will be due to some
exceptional qaalities of the climate
or soil, aud not to any favorable influ
ence of a higher or lower temperature.”
My opinion is that the sugar beet
would find suitable soil, temperature
aud moisture in the valleys of onr north
ern counties and ou the plateaus of our
mountain rouges, but not elsewhere in
the state. The cost of growing sugar
beets is variously estimated at from
$ >O.OO to #(>0.00 per acre, and the value of
the crop nt from $-10.00 to $70.00 per
acre, according to yield and percentage
of saccharine matter in the beets.
The latter part of your question is
fully answered by the W ashmgton de
partment as follows:
“On account of tho elaborateness of
the process ami the costly nature of the
machinery which is necessary to pro
duce beet sugar, even in a small way,
it is not believed that it could l>e profit
ably made in the way indicated. The
department has no knowledge of any
successful beet sugar factory of this
kind. There is no country producing
any notable quantity of beet sugar in
which home apparatus costing only a
few thousand dollars has any appre
ciable influence on the output of sugar.
Russia has been cited as an exception to
this rule, but the average anneal output
of each factory there is in round numbers
6,000,000 pounds, representing an aver
age consumption ot 25,000 tons of beets.
It would not be right to encourage the
attempt to manufacture l-eet sugar in
any such way; nor should the expecta
tion be excited among our farmers that
they will ba able to make a crude arti
cle of sugar which they can dispose of
to a central factory for refining pur
poses.”
The cost of a firstclass beet sugar
factory, with a capacity of not loss than
800 tons of beets per day, will be from
$225,000 to $250,u00. In 1896 and 1897
the world’s production of cane sugar
amounted to 2,747,500 tons, while of
beet sugar the output was 4,960,000 tons.
In that year the beet sugar made in the
United States amounted to 40,000 tons.
—State Agricultural Department.
Best Season to Cut Timber.
Question. —When is the best season
of the year to cut timber for durability?
There seems to lie various opinions on
this subject.
Answer. You are entirely correct in
the statement that there aro various
opinions ou this subject, and even in
this age of education and enlighten
ment men may be found who will con
sult some out of date almanac to find
whether the moon and the signs are
right before they will cut timber of any
description or for any purpose. Of
course such guides are worthless and
aro simply remnants of past supersti
tions in which our ancestors believed,
but which modern science has proved to
be false. There is, however, a proper
time to cut timber where durability is
desired, und the reason for it is plain
and simple. “Other things being equal,
timber will naturally last longest if the
tree is felled at a season when the wood
contains the smallest amount of sugar
or starch, or other matters fit to feed
fungi and worms.” So says Storer, the
best authority that could be quoted on
the subject. At what time of the year
tbeu is the tree in the condition indi
cated? Why plainly when the spring
and early summer growth is completed
and the winter’s store of starch, sugar,
etc., is exhausted In the making of
leaves, twigs, fruit, new wood, etc. Con
sequently the late summer and fall are
the proper seasons in which to cut
timber. An eminent authority says,
that when timber is cut in the spring,
when the sap is rich in sugar, the fer
mentative process changes the sugar
into an acid, which is the very first stage
of decay, and thus early started, can it
be wondered at that posts and crossties ‘
do not last as long as they would if cut
when these conditions oonld not possi
bly exist, 111 1860 in Virginia a fence
was set with posts split from an oak
cut when the leaves were of full size
and vigor. Twenty-two years after
wards these posts were taken up and re
set elsewhere and most of them are
doing duty yet after being used
more than 80 years. Had these posts
been cut in March or April they would
not have lasted over ten years at the
utmost. Away back in the time of Ju
lius Caesar it was found that ships were
not duruble when built of timber from
trees that had been out down in tho
spring. And the Roman architect, Vi
trurius, held that "trees should never
be felled in the spring.” While nt that
time the want of durability in spring
felled timber was attributed to wrong
causes, still the effect was well known,
and the people were notified of it.
Now as regards cutting timber to be
used as fuel, doubtless the winter is the
best time for that purpose, for as an
eminent writer on the subject says
"any given number of sticks of cord
wood that have boen cut in the winter
would naturally weigh more and con
tain more combustible heat producing
matter than the same uumber and kinds
of sticks cut in the summer, after the
starch, etc., had passed ont from them.”
Another valuable point is that trees
cut in the late summer will send up but
few shoots and sprouts as compared
with those cut from December to March.
This is important to those who wish to
destroy any particular kind of tree, or
to clear laud. To sum apt
1. Timber for posts, rails, building
purposes, etc., should be cut iu the late
summer and early fall.
2. For fuel cut in midwinter, and up
to the putting out of leaves in the
spring.
8. Where you wish to prevent shoots
and sprouts cut in midsummer.—State
Agricultural Department.
The Peaell Crop—Cunning Factories.
Question.— Can you give me some
idea of the size of this year's peach crop
and its value to the growers? I mean
its net value.
Answer.— We can only approximate
the size of the crop, and as the returns
nre not yet reported can only form a
partially correct idea of ita value. Be
sides the large amount sold at home,
and the thousands of bushels wasted
from inadequate shipping facilities, aud
the long continued rains, there were
shipped from Georgia 2,200 carloads of
peaches. As each car contains 600
crates of 8 pecks each, this represents
450 bushels to the car, in round num
bers 990,000 bushels iu aIL It is gen
erally agreed that at least one-third of
the fruit was wasted. The demand for
crates was much larger than the sup
ply. The peach crop matures and Is
marketed in a very limited time, and
the delay in securing crates caused a
heavy loss of the most saleable peaches,
while thousands of bushels, of second
quality, were either fed to the pigs or
suffered to rot on the ground. Had
there beeu canning factories and evap
orators conveniently located much of
this loss could have been prevented,
and instead of paying larger sums the
coming season for canned and evapo
rated peaches shipped into the state
from outside sources, the home demand,
always a steady one, could have been
supplied by our own people. Canning
factories can lie so quickly erected tb *t
even after the crop has become set, aud
a fair estimase of its amount is thus
rendered possible, enterprising workers
mav git everything in readiness for
utilizing the surplus fruit-, should the
promise of the crop justify the outlay
Under the omlitions surrounding our
peach production, Georgia being the
laigjst producer and shipper in the
Union, it will certaiulv pay to “gather
up the'fragmeuts. that nothing be lost ”
We trust that in the future adequate
arrangements will be made to utilize as
nearly as passible every bushel of Geor
gia's truly wonderful peach crop—State
Agricultural Department.
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From the Chieftain, Pueblo, Col.
While the P.nckv Mountain region is
Justly famed for its salubrious climate, and
is becoming more and more the rnecca toward
which pilgrims are traveling from all parts
of the world that they may fill their weaken
ed lungs with its life-giving air, yet there
are ailments in that climate as in any other,
one of the chief of which is sleeplessness.
This is due to the rarity of the air which on
some constitulioifs is too stimulating to the
nerves. In some eases patients are com
pelled to remove for a time to the sea level
to escape the high nervous strain. As sleep
lessness is not an uncommon accompaniment
to certain nervous conditions (in any clim
ate) the story of a woman of Pueblo, Col.,
may point a moral toothers, wiio have had
a similar affliction.
The woman came to Pueblo thirty years
ago, when the town was a frontier settle
ment, and Indians were by no means un
usual visitors, hands of Ute’s often passing
through on their way from the mountains
down to the plains to hunt buffaloes.
She had been in good health, until a few
years ago when at each recurring spring
time she became debilitated, weak and lan
guid. Her strength left her, she was listless
amt lifeless. This, too,in spite of the stimu
lating effects of the high altitude. The most
serious difficulty, however, was sleeplessness,
which she could not cure. The long weary
watches of the night told on her health and
she dreaded the approach of night. Tins
lack of sleep weakened her strength and
brought on extreme nervousness, until she
was a physical wreck. ...
sAs she could not well take the long jour
ney necessary to a change of climate, she
sought for some nerve restorative, that would
build up the nervous system, and thus cna
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ble her to get that sleep and reet without
which she could not long endure the strain.
She at length found this-in Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills for Pale People. She said to the
reporter: by the time I had taken one box
of these pills, 1 not only lelt stronger but
to my surprise found that I could sleep.
" 1 have taken four boxes now and can take
a long nap during the day and sleep soundly
all night.
‘‘The medicine not only takes away that
weary depressed feeling but creates a buoy
ancy 'and exhilaration that does not pass away
when one stops taking the pills.
“ I am forty-nine years old and about thirty
years ago 1 began to he troubled with gather
ings in inv head. The trouble continued until
I was unable to hear a sound through my
right ear and my left ear was badly affected.
I had no idea that the pills would benefit my
ears but they evidently did as my hearing is
very much improved.
"I consider Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
Pale People a wonderful medicine. The
address of the woman is: Mrs. 11. L. Graham,
214 E. 4th St., Pueblo, Col.
State of Colorado, )
County of Pueblo,}
Subscribed and sworn to before me thi
6th day of July, 1897.
George W. Gill,
(SEAL) Notary Public.
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and richness to the blood and restore shat
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! in boxes (never in loose form, by the dozen
1 or hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes
! for $2.50, nnd may be had of all druggists or
| directly hv mail from Dr. Williams’ Medl
1 cine Cos., Schenectady N. Y.