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ADD.RE.j3 BEFORE THE STATE AG
ED JLTURAL SOCIETY.
Work of the Agricultural Depart
ment-Necessity of Agri
cultural Education.
The following address, which was de
livered before the State Agricultural
Society, treats of two important sub
jects. The Department of Agriculture
and its relations to the farmers, and the
necessity of particular education relat
ing t* agriculture. The object and
aims of the Department are set out. and
the Commissioner is anxious that those
who desire to render the Department
more useful may he able to co-operate
with him in the work. The iutroduc
tion into our school system of studies
that would be of particular advantage
to those who intend to engage in farm
ing and which would invite others to
investigate and induce them to make the
farm their home, and upbuild our agri
culture, is a subject of great interest, and
which has been but little agitated in the
•State. Few men can succeed at anyoc-
without possessing natural
qualif 'urioii or being fitted by educa
tion. Complete success on the farm is
no exception to the rule, embodying as
it does in its entirety a large and varied
knowledge of scientific and business af
fairs. Tne farmer of the future, with
increasing population, will have to ask
and require more of the soil, and must be
fitted to obtain these results. The ques
tion involves the place our children raised
on the farm, who shall become farmers,
shall take in the advancement of agri
culture in the future. We trust that
all who see those reports will read with
care and thought what is said on this
subject.
The Work of the Department.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Agricultural Convention:
In making this, my yearly report, be
fore your society, there are two sub
jects of utmost importance to which I
would like to call your attention, and I
will do so as briefly as possible. The
first is “The Relations of the Agricult
ural Department anil tin J aipertance of
its Work to the People ot Georgia,” and
the second is “The Relations of Agri
culture to the Youth of our Land and
the Importance of its Being Taught in
Our Public Schools.”
In order to arrive at a better under
ttanding of the first, I will outline the
principal work of ttie Department since
its organization, seventeen years ago,
leaving it to the minds of my hearers to
feed on the details, and then explain its
present management and the benefits
which our State agriculture receives
from its work. Before ’opening this
subject, I will state that there is a wide
spread prejudice in the minds of aver
age farmers against the department,
arising most often from want of infor
mation as to the aims and the
manner in which those aims are
carried out —and it is in part to combat
those prejudices and give the needed in
formation that the present paper has
been prepared.
About seventeen years ago, owing to
the rapidly increasing use of commercial
fertilizers, there was a popular demand
for some more thorough and effective
means of protecting the consumer
against fraud in the purchase of these
goods, and at the same time promoting
the sale of goods suitable to our lands
and to the needs of the crops under cul
tivation. We all remember the beauti
fully prepared Peruvian guano, costing
from S9O to SIOO per ton, according to
the distance from market; the tremen
dous life-giving principles it possessed
causing our crops to spring torward as
if by magic, but we also remember that
at gathering time the results were most
disappointing. After this came the era
of cheaper goods, which in many cases
possessed no merit, and were prepared
often with no other object than to swin
dle the purchaser. The results from
their use were not as represented or
expected, and the fanners were natural
ly disappointed and disgusted. Then
followed garbled reports of these results
made by designing salesmen to mislead
and entrap unsuspecting farmers. As a
sequel suspicion crystallized into cer
tainty of fraud, and caused our courts
to be crowded with litigation, the duped
buyers seeking by law to right their
wrongs.
Our lands were deteriorating and ex
hausting from years of mistaken agri
cultural treatment, and with the conse
quent spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction
arose the demand for an Agricultural
Department, whose duties were defined
as protective and educational. In all
countries, as the population becoines
more dense and the natural products of
the farm fail to meet the increasing
demands, commercial fertilizers play
their part in solving the problem and
with their aid comes the demand for
more enlightened agricultural methods,
and thus follow agricultural schools,
agricultural colleges and departments
of agriculture.
It was under this pressure, and to
throw around the farmer the protection
of which he stood so much in need, that
our legislature in 1876 established our
Department New and
untried, it met with much adverse crit
icism even from those for whose benefit
and promotion it was created. All
through its history it has had to com
bat prejudice, sometimes denunciation,
and often its life has trembled in the
balance. Doubtless there have been
mistakes, but these are so far outnum
bered by its advantages that we should
pardon them for the sake of the great
work it has accomplished in securing
the farmers against fraud, If nothing
else.
The most important protective duties
with which the department is charged
are the inspection and analysis of the
tremendous amount of commercial fer
tilizers which annually cover hundreds
of thousand of tons, and the sampling
and testing of the enormous bulk of
illuminating oils offered for sale in this
state- Millions are annually spent for
these two articles needed and used on
nearly every farm and in nearly every
farm-honse in Georgia.
The old system of each fertilizer in
spector being a chemist and conducting
his own analysis, which was practiced
during the earlier days wiien the
amount of commercial fertilizers used
was by comparison merely nominal, and
the latter system of inspecting in bulk,
have both been abolished, and onr svs
tem is at present regulate! on a differ
ent basis, and in its provisions for pro
tecting the farmer at the same time
dealing fairly with the manufa sturers,
McDonough, ga., Friday, march it. usoa.
is considered nearly perfect. The anal
ysis of the different fertilizers are pub
lished to the world, but any individual
farmer wishing an analysis of any
brand of goods sold in this state, has
only to drop me a line and the knowl
edge will be forthcoming.
In the sampling and testing of illumi
nating oils a much simpler and less dif
ficult test is made. Under the present
law the inspector is only required to
make a fire or explosive test. It is not
allowed to be stored or offered for sale
in this state unless it is demonstrated
by the test that it will not explode at
120 degrees Fahrenheit. The depart
ment has no power to apply an illumi
nating test, and repeated complaints
have reached us as to the inferior illu
minating qualities of much of the oi!
which has passed the fire test. The
defect in many cases probably arises
from the presure of foreign matter in
the oil. notably sulphuric acid, which
is largely used in refining the crude oil.
To meet this difficulty will require a
special act of the legislature. During
the last session of that body I called
attention to this defect in the law, but
in the pressure of other matters this
was passed over. Until we have fur
ther legislation on this subject the rem
edy must be with the people themselves.
When inferior oil is put upon you, write
to the merchant from whom you pur
chased anil ascertain the name of the
company manufacturing it, anil also the
inspector's name, which should be
branded in plain letters on the barrel.
As soon as you ascertain these facts
notify me at the department. In this
way we have been able to have several
lots shipped hack to the manufacturers,
and we can thus create a decided
demand for further legislation on this
important matter.
In its educational capacity the depart
ment is further charged with the duty
ef collecting such farm statistics anil
information as, when properly pre
dated, will aid the farmers in the intel
ligent management of their affairs. To
say that this information will not be of
value to our farmers is to assert that no
agricultural education is necessary, and
to set at naught the painstaking and
successful investigations of such emi
nent men as DeSaussure, Sir Humphrey
Liebig and others. But for the patient
and scientific researches of these men
we would be today groping in darkness,
not only as to the necessary elements of
plant food, but as to the best methods
of their application to the growing
crops. It was only after years of per
plexing experiment that Liebig discov
ered that these elements, to be effective,
must be in soluble form, and that the
very means he had taken to hold them
in the soil was the cause of successive
disappointing crop results. Thanks to
him, we now know that we might apply
ton after ton of high grade fertilizers
and unless the elements of growth were
in soluble form, or if there was not suf
ficient moisture in the soil to render
them soluble, the plants would actually
starve to death, the elements of life
within their reach, but entirely unavail
able.
The department has used every means
in its power, through the press and
through its monthly seports, to dissem
inate such information as would benefit
the farmers, but until the interest in
these questions is more widespread I
feel that much of the labor is lost. The
Department has also contributed some
where near three-fourths of a million of
dollars to the public school fund of the
state, and this brings me to the second
branch of my subject, viz.:
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
“The Relations of Agriculture to the
youth of our laud and the Importance of
its being taught in our public schools.”
For my treatment of this subject I
am indebted tq a recent very interesting
bulletin froth the Canada Department
of Agriculture, and from this I have
taken the liberty of quoting at length.
The comparative statements I have col
lected most carefully, and their evidence
is to my mind a very strong argument
on the affirmative side of this most im
portant and far-reaching question. In
discussing the subject it naturally re
solves itself into three heads—
Should agriculture be taught in our
public schools?
Can it be taught?
How can it be taught?
Ist. Should it be taught?
Among the foremost of the reasons for
an affirmative answer and view of this
question is that the large per cent, of
our people who are engaged in agricult
ure are dependent upon it, either di
rectly or indirectly. Nearly 80 per cent,
of the people of Georgia are farmers, or
are obtaining their living either directly
or indirectly from the soil, and four
fifths (4-5) of the public school popula
tion belongs to the farms and villages.
In studying this phase of the subject
we must note one fact—that is the
movement citywards of our rural popu
lation. The farmers’ sons and daugh
ters are each year being drawn towards
the towns, and as time moves on the
changes produced by this tendency are
becoming more and more marked, and,
if not checked, will seriously affect our
prosperity. Various reasons have been
adduced to account for this fact, which
is also true of nearly every other coun
try, except, perhaps, France, but among
the most plausible is this, that the fault
lies in the defective systems of educa
tion. The systems of education may
not he the direct cause, but perhaps
through them something may be done
to check the exodus from the country
to the towns. This tendency must
eventually affect our social and politi
ical life, because as a rule it is taking
from the country its best element—
those from 20 to 40 years of age—and
leaving on the farms the old and infirm
and the young and immature.
In the United States the rural popu
lation, which was, in 1790, 95.65 per
cent, of the whole, was, in 1890, only
70.88 per eent. In Georgia, from 1880
to 1890, the increase in citi.’3 of over
8,000 inhabitants amounted to over 8
per cent, of the whole population, and,
if we include towns of 500 inhabitants
and upwards, the increase in urban pop
ulation amounts to over 10} per cent.,
with an almost corresponding decrease
in rural population. We can thus real
ize the loss to our rural districts, which
becomes a subject for serious considera
tion when one remembers that we have
lands to which we wish to direct immi
gration. and that ours is first and fore
mosfran agricultural country.
Again, instruction in agriculture
should lie given because of the large
amount of capital invested in it, and
because other industries are largely de
penitent on it, both for a market and
for sources of supply. The more care
fully we study this question, the more
will we be convinced that success in ag
riculture underlies success in manu
facture. in trade and in commerce; that
according to the number of persons en-
gaged in and directly dependent on ag
riculture, the capital invested in it and
the wealth which it adds to the country
every year, agriculture stands wa>
above any other industry in
and that anything done to develop >
riculture, to help those nm*. i. In
it or who are spoil ti/enga rin 1
receive every encfitirag t
there is certainly ariinss; i
minis improvement in civ
in Georgia, comparison
the other countries such a
France and Germain* will ;
From the fiSrej'qfjig it wU
Ist, that the large msgorifi cl'
pie are intimately ilfcoeia
work; 2d, that ■ the'ft>nd-.■
best element to remove ti
and, 3d, that thb VeaJtli
of the country arc !y
agriculture; three eirbng r
agriculture should lip tai
To answer the second quest in i.
“Can agriculture lie in ■
lie schools?” we hinjfe only
France as the most
vanced of all civilized im
matter of ngrienfutni!
France has a popnlat of
farms are the beatenunou- ■
and her produce per raid I
by one-half in the lasScpiTrirt ;
tnry. Let it be ii \.
that period that agrittaliu .il nit c
has become compulsnj»iu the (in ri p i
lie schools.
There are also in e#ch of the eigol y
six departments of Iffibice, betide tin
public schools, farm WKpols, apprenls e
schools, agriculturafrarpluuiagis ami
other institutions dewted to agricult
ure alone, anil in this number (I) we do
not include the Agricultural University
at Parts, famous the over for it
investigations, nor tlj| three national
schools of agriculture.Xno of horticult
ure, one of dairying, tltfin of veterinary
science, two of forestflf {iiul two shep
herds' schools.
It was in 1879 that in France a law
was passed compelliog|'‘every normal
school within six year£ to provide agri
cultural instructions fof the teachers in
training, and requiring : the primary
schools within three to make ag
riculture a compulsorsjflbject of study.
The work, it will be (seen, began with
the training of teachers, a stop cer
tainly in the right dipction. This in
struction is given by professors of agri
culture, whose duties yftf'three-fold : to
instruct teachers in training, to hold
conferences with the and to
carry out investigations, suggested by
the government.
Let|us examine some of the results of
this system. In an interesting article
on “Village Life in France and Eng
land,” Rev. W. Tuckwell. an English
man, says : “In these small farms, ay in
all the other holdings, hail seen
farming was extraordinarily skillful.
Not only was the land far cleaner than
most farms in England. * * but
we were arrested by the; dextrnu i coon
omy in laying out i#ops, tin unex
pected rotations, file u»e pf chemical
manures. This wits doe (re were told,
to the government #*riculturul col
lege.” • m •
He concludes with tme following re
markable statement, showing some of
the results of the French system: “111
Eugland the owners of estates above
one acre in size are about 800,600. In
France they are 7,000,000. In England
the-average extent of a single farm is
390 acres. In France ten acres 4,000.-
000 owners holding properties of two
acres, while farms of 200 acres are so j
few that they can bfl‘ counted on the
fingers. * * * In 1890 Prance ex
ported about $120,000,(>00 worth of fond:
England imported $360,000,00(1. In;
sixty years 8,500.000 emigrants have 1
left England; less than 500,000 have left
France, In England the rural popula
tion is 33 per cent, of the whole; in
France upwards of 75 per cent. In
England, finally, the peasant is misera
bly housed, underpaid, servile, despair
ing; in France he is decent, well-to do,
independent, hopeful.”
In the French Postoffice Savings Bank
there are $600,000,000 in 6,500.000 de-j
posits, an average iff less than SIOO for
each depositor. The conclusions to bo
derived from a study of this question
are:
1. France has found it advisable to
supplement the work of her agricult
ural colleges by introducing agriculture
as a special study into her general school
system.
2. The work has been begun by train
ing the teachers first, and while general
methods have been prescribed, tne sys
tem is sufficiently elastic to meet the
varying abilities of teachers and pu
pils.
3. The work is, as yet, in only rhe
first stage of development, and although
all the rural children of France have
not yet been reached, and the end
aimed at has not yet been attained, the
success achieved is very encouraging
and worthy the imitation of other na
tions.
C. C. James, deputy minister of agri
culture for Ontario, Canada, to who-e
valuable paper I am indebted for much
of the information on the subject, says:
“It may not be advisable to follow the
lead of France in all particulars, but
her experience certainly warrants the
conclusion that the education of the ru
ral classes in their own work is very
beneficial. The imparting of a little
agricultural information in public
schools would doubtless have a good ef
fect upon the attendance of onr agri
cultural colleges, and possibly create a
necessity for increasing such facilities.
“The agricultural colleges have, in all
countries, had to do too much begging
for students, while at the same time
schools of law. medicine, dentistry,
pharmacy, technology, have been soon
crowded. The United States schools of
agriculture are also schools for training
teachers and for giving instructions in
manual arts and in commercial coursi s.
Many of these institutions, to obtain
students for their agricultural depart
ments, have been compelled to rely
almost entirely upon short courses of
six months or two months.”
,In proof of this last I have only to
mention the winter’s course of two
months now being taught in onr Htale
College of Agriculture, at Athens. A:i-1
now we come to the third question.
How ca agiculture be taught in or.r
public schools? Upon this question
hangs the whole difficulty, and here 1
borrow again language from Mr. James’
paper:
"All are now agreed that agriculture
should be taught if it can. and many
who have studied this question are quite
satisfied that it can be taught in some
form, hut when we come to the ques
tion of how it is to be taught, much dif
ficulty arises from the variety of con
flict of opinins. But one or two conclu
sions are indispensable, and first and
foremost is this, that all or nearly ail
depends upon the teacher. Second, that
too luueh should not be attempted at
first. The work should he introduced
gradually, and the understanding at the
outset should he very definite that bv j
I teaching agriculture in the public schools \
it is nor intended to teach how to plow, i
j bow to harvest or how to feed btoek. ;
j but rather the why anil wherefore, anil
larouse nil interest in agricultural
| operations. Third, that tin principal
| aim ami object, of this instruction m our
public schools should be the creation of
j a sentiment m favor of agricultural
1 work; the arousing of a noble a übition
in young minds to become progresive
ami successful agriculturalists; the
spreading abroad of the idea that the
industrious, thoughtful, honest farmer
is the most valuable citizen in this land
of ours -a man to be respected, appre
ciated and honored by every member of
the community."
Prof. Calvin Thomas says; “Very lit
tle can be done by common schools to
check the drift towards tin cities. * * *
Whatever tends to improve the econ
omic status of the farm industry and to
elevate the plane of the farmer's life
will tend to correct this evil.”
In other words, let us insist on ‘show
ing the farmer boy a world at home,
I full of inter»st, of beauty, of thought,
of study, of doing.” It may he that the
condition of the rural school bus been a
repelling force in sending many a boy
to the town and city.
In arithmetic, in reading, in drawing,
in history, subjects r, > r included in our
public school curriculu n. a turn could
lie given toward and applications made
to agriculture. If the purpose ofi such
instruction he carefully kept inmind,
viz.: to interest the pupils in matters
pertaining to agriculture, and to instruct
them in tin use of their eyes to see
wliat lies on all sides of them, and to
see correctly, it matters little what part
of the immense field of agriculture be
selected, the roads upon which they
come to school, or which so often keep
them from school; the weeds by the
roadside and in the fence corners the
flowers, shrubs and trees beyond the
fences, the soil of the fields and the dif
ferent crops growing upon that soil;
the insects and the birds, which are in
some cases so necessary, in others so
destructive to the crops, the fruits and
vegetables. These and other subjects
will suggest that the instruction must
be confined to but a small part of what
is probably the widest and most com
prehensive science known to man—the
science of agriculture.
Prof. Huxley says: “The farmer must
be made by thorough farm work. * *
Nevertheless I believe that practical
people would be all the better for scien
tific knowledge. It would keep them
from hopeless experiments and enable
them to take advantage of the innumer
able hints which Dame Nature gives to
tie s i who live in direct contact with
things. * * If I were called upon to
frame a course Of elementary instruc
tion, preparatory to agriculture, I am
not sure that I would attempt chemis
try, or botany, or physiology, or geology
las such. * * The history of a bean,
of a grain of wheat, of a turnip, of a
: sheep, of a pig, of a cow, properly treat
ed, withjthe introduction cf the elements
of chemistry, physilology and soon, as
they come in. would give all the ele
mentary scieee which is needed for the
comprehension of the processes of agri
culture, and in a form easily assimilated
by the youthfrl mind.”
Again I quote from Mr. James: “In
conclusion I would say that these sug
gestions do not involve any upsetting or
overturning of the present system of
education, but rather an adaptation to
agriculture as far as po. sibleof subjects
now upon the curriculum. If pothing
more be done than to st irt our rural
pupils to thinking; to give them an im
petus or a turn in the right direction; to
develop in them a taste for agricultural
study', and investigation; to arouse in
them a desire to know more and read
more about agricultural affairs, and
especially to increase in them a reject
for their work and a pride in their call
ing. then the moHt important end of
their education will have been attained."
< otlon Acreage*.
The monthly talk of the commissioner
closes with an appeal for self-sustaining
farms and a reduction of the cotton
acreage. Through all the publications
of this department we have endeavored
to emphasize this appeal. From the
commissioner of Texas comes a circular
letter Hi tting forth onr former disaster
and the loss that will again attend over
production: also a private letter request
ing the co-operation of this department.
The commissioner stands ready to do all
in his power to prevent an increase in
acreage. Will our farmers not heed
any of these warnings with a disastrous
experience yet fresh in their minds? We
have confidence in the good sense of onr
agricultural classes, and trust that they
will.
The following extracts from a letter
of a leading and successful farmer, pre
sents in a concise way the benefits that
will accrue from a small crop, and the
low price and loss that come rom pro
ductions bey'oml the demands of con
sumption :
“It is generally admitted that with
meat at 8 cents per pound and corn at
75 cents per bushel, the average price
of producing a pound of cotton is N
cents. With these admitted facts be
fore the cotton growers, their policy
should be to still further reduce the
acreage and place the American
crop as near as possible to
a 7,000.010 bale basis, thus in
suring 10 <‘i*nts a pound for cotton, or a
profit to the farmer of at least 2 cents
on the pound, but If to the contrary
they return to an increased acreage, and
an increased nse of fertilizers, and pro
duce a 9,000,01)0 or 10,000,0 0 bale crop,
values will be reduc’d below 7 nr
and every pound of cotton wi 11/ >; i
at a net loss of 1 cent or mor- perp.i : !.
Which will the fame r chi >se, a de
crease of labor and plenty oi uome sup
plies at a handsauie profit, or an increase
of labor v.dr 1 ’ soioschouses and corn
cribs in the West, and ruinous on
tin production of their cotton crop? Can
any t-ene mm hesitate? A 7,000,000
bale crop will bring 10 cents, or in round
numbers, $355.000,000; while a 9,000,000
bale crop will bring not over 7 cents, or
s,iy $315,000,009, a loss of revenue of
$35,000,000, and how alxnit the cost of
production? To raise a 7.00 ytSK) bah
cit>p at 8 cents per pound will cost
$2s().000,000. which if sold at 10 cents
will net the farmers a profit, over and
above cost of production, of $70.000,OtO;
on the other hand to raise a 9,01)0,000
bale crop at 8 cents jer pound, will cost
$360,000,000, which if sold at as much
as 7 cents a pound, would only bring
$315,000.1 00. or a net loss to the produ
cers of $45,000,0"'0, showing a difference
In favor of the lesser crop of $115,000,000,
and that with plenty of home supplies
for the next crop.”
Highest of all in Leavening Power. — Latest U S. Gov’t Report.
RcYal l^a
1 v«8 Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Til'S A XI) HA TVEX 1 XGS.
If we are going to have a Fair it is
lime some initiatory steps were being
taken in the matter. There is a strong
ly expressed sentiment all over
the county in favor of holding if, and
that it would prove a success seems an
assured fact. Wouldn’t it be a good
move for our business to set a day for
and call a mass meeting of all interest
ed to consult together and see what
can be accomplished m the matter?
If auy oue would liko to make any
suggestions in the matter, we beg them
to speak right out.
By all means let’s hold the Fair.
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Beach and plum trees in full bloom.
Unless a heavy frost should occur in \
the uext week or two another good
fruit crop is assured.
The disciples of Izauk Walton turn
ed out in full force last Friday evening,
and gathered in the volunteer crop of
“horny heads” from old Camp cieek.
Your “Uucle Jim Alex.” chaperoned
the party.
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There seems to be quite a diversity
of opiuion about the proposed changes
in the court house. A gentleman said,
when questioned, recently, “The only
objection we have yet heard offered to
the recommendation, is that the county
is not financially able to bear the ex
pense. And that idea to me seems ri
diculous. Why, sir, Henry county is
out of debt with a small surplus in ihe
treasury, and her tax rate last year
was among the lowest in the state
Let Henry’s tax rate he brought up on
a par with that of the counties around
and money sufficient would ho collect
ed for the above mentioned purpose th
first year. I see no reason why the
improvements should not be pi rfcctid
as planned.”
Seth 1 hornus, the musical prodigy,
gave an exhibition at Institute Hall
lust Friday evening that was enjoyed
by a large audience. No admittance,
fee was charged, but at the couelu.ion
of the performance lie distributed a
number ot envelopes throughout the
audience and requested all who felt ?o
inclined to contribute what they
thought proper. Ho then stated that
he would awaid a silver cup to the
most popular young lady present, and
every one that contributed as much as
ten cents would he allowed to vote for
their choice, sealing the money and the
name of their candidate in the envel
opes before mentioned. Mr. J.
Nolan was selected to count the votes.
After an exciting contest the cup was
awarded to Miss Ida Lou Tomlinson,
she having received over three bun
dred voles. A second cup was pre
sented to Miss Thornton Zachry, she
being Miss Tomlinson’s closest compet
itor.
The boys have found out that, a “free
show” is not “sometimes always” jus*
what the name might indicate.
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Brother Norris Hale had the fol
lowing pun in the last issue of his pa
per :
“ The political war still rages over in
old Henry county among “the Stew
ards and the Wise men ”
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A lot of Henry county raised hay
was shipped from t!r : s place oue day
lasi vee't by our wideawake fart i i
frit ii I, Mr. S. M. Oglesby.
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Wilson Pullin, who is recognized as
one of the most prosperous larmeisiu
this section, not only raises a sutficiei cy
of home supplies, but usually has a sur
plus to spare to his less fortunate neigh
bors. He has never jet bought a
pound of western meat for his own
table, an I lias sold in the last mouth
near oue hundred pouuds of home
raised lard at the prevailing high price.
Yet there are some people who still
contend that it is cheaper to raise cot
ton and buy meat.
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Mr. E. Oglesby is sodding five
acres in the famous Bermuda, on his
valuable farm, for pastu’e purposes.
5 CENTS A COPY.
1 here is no better summer pasture
known than a plot of Bermuda grass.
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l uele Davie Wilson, of McMullen’s
district, brought somo juicy country
hams to town last week, for which he
found ready sale. Another evidence
; that there’s life in the old land yet.
TUSSAHAW.
Mr. Editor:—To day, at about the
time we write, cold and windy as it is,
great changes aro taking place in our
nation. Four years ago to-day Grover
Cleveland went out and Benjamin Har
rison was inaugurated President of the
Luited States, having received a major
ity of the vote of states or electors.
He has made his ricord—has done
some good things.
Grover Cleveland must be a great
man—very magnetic, or a great states
man—for the like has never been seen
before. How the people rallied to him
in the renomination in his own party;
though a hard fight was made and great
influence brought to bear against him,
when tbo crisis came whatever differ
ences existed were all set aside, and it
was evident that Grover was the choice.
And when the time ar
rived for the people to declare whom
they would chose as the chief officer
of our great country, such a rally to
one man among so many was most
phenomenal ; and the grand manner in
which he has borne himself during all
! °
I these changes and campaigns challenges
j tiie admiration of all; and to-day Gro
| ver Cleveland is inaugurated President
[ in the full confidence of the people,
; having received a majority of the pop
j ular vote, states and electors.
Mr. Editor, we have had a serious
{ mad dog sensation in our midst this
week. \\ o saw the dog a most rabid
one—attacking and biteiug most vicious
ly every thing in his way, and contin
ually seemed to bo burning something
to bite ; killing geese and chickens and
biteiug dogs and hogs. We learn that
he bit one valuable horse. All the
dogs were killed that were known to
have been bitten. Strangely, no -per
son bitten that we know of. Only a
few days before we learn thers was
one just below us, in Butts county, that
much damage. This is serious. What
is to ho done ? One tiling we will ven
ture to suggest, and that is, that those
who can, build good fences around
their yards ; and the fewer dogs tiie
better. Another tiling, don’t put out
poison as that may originate the trouble
or intensify the malady.
We think vour suggestion in regard
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to holding a County Fair a good one.
Thai a small Fair, such as one two or
three counties would make, are the
h st, end produce the best results.
Mo t excellent grounds lie around Mc-
Donough. What say the Alliance?
1 don't believe we have an Agricultural
Society in Henry (wish there was).
Hope you will succeed. It will bring
us together. The social feature is in
its favor, and there is nothing that
would stimulate interest in agriculture,
stock raising, dairying, handicraft, etc.,
more generally.
In conclusion Jet us say one word
about the court house, as the question
is being asked about its being changed,
improved, etc. We have great respect
lor the opiui jn of our last grand jury,
and for all our grand juries as for that.
We are sure they fully investigated the
matter and believe that the change is
d maud'd, but they bad n t seen the
Treasurer’s report at that time, and did
not know but there would be cash on
band to prosecute the work. Seeing
the embarassriicnt it will throw us in,
cspec’allv our economic Ordinary, we
are sure that all will agree to wait un
til a more opportune time. As to our
selves, we suppose it is owing to our
raising, we like the present construc
tion best; it is so convenient to us.
Notwithstanding the hard winter and
difficulties of sowing oats all small
grain crops present a fine appearance.
March 4th. Lundy.
[This communication should have ap
peared in our last issue, but was un
avoidably crowded out. — Ed ]
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