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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
VOL XXI.
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The Cheapest, Purest and Best Family
Medicine in the World I
For DYSPEPSIA, CO. * lIPATION, Jaun
dice, P>i‘ioitsattacks, SICK : - vDACH 10, Colic,
Depression of Spirits, S* • K STOMACH,
Hearlburn, etc. This \ dcd remedy is
warranted not to contain < - agio particle of
MfiRCUKV, or any mineral substance, but is
PI'RKLY MX i i ABLE,
containing those Sotithc: Roots and Herbs
which an all-wise Prov •: :o lias placed in
countries where Liver 1 ises most prevail.
It will cure a!i Diseases ,iii>ed by Derange
ment of the l.iver and Bowers.
The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a
bitter or bad taste in the mouth; Pain in the
Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheu
matism; Sour Stomach; L< >.s of Appetite;
Bowels alternately costive and lax; Headache;
Loss of Memory, with a ; . infill sensation or
having failed to do someth ho; - which ought to
have been done; Debility; I .ow Spirits, a thick
yellow appearance of the s. in and Eyes, a dry
Cough often mistaken for Consumption.
Sometimes many of tin s?* .nptoms attend
the jjiser .se, at others very t< . ; but the Liver
is generally the seat of lim disease, and if not
Regulated in time, great suffering, wretched
ness and DEATH will ensue.
The following highly esteemed persons attest
to the virtues of Simmons l.iver Regulator;
Gen. W. S. Holt, Pres. Ga. S. YY. K. R. Co.; Rev.
I. R. Felder, Perry, Ga.; Col. IC. K. Sparks, Al
bany, Ga.; C. Mnsterson, Esq., Sheriff liibb Co.,
Ga.; Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
“We have tested its virtues, personally, and
know that for Dyspepsia, biliousness and
Throbbing Headache it is the best medicine tire
world ever saw. We tried forty other remedies
before Siinraons Li ver Regu lat or, L l l l nonc gave
us more than temporary relief; but the Regu
lator not only relieved, but cured us.”—El>.
Telegraph and Messenger, Macon, Ga.
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ahati’B Lung Troubles, Debility, di.stressing stomach and
female ills, and is noted tor making mrcs when all other
tmUiiieiit fails. Every mother ar.i invalid should hr.vr it.
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JIH Cleanses anil beautifies the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
| Never Falla to Restore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures pcaip d leases & hair falling.
50c,aod$l.l»U at Druggists
HINDERCORNS The only suw Cura for
Corns. Slope all pain. Makes walking easy. lJc. aiDru”^.*.
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FOR THIN PEOPLE
Are you thin?
Flesh made wilh Tliinacura Tablets by a
scientific process. They creale perfect as
similation of every form of food, seeieting
flic valuable parts and discarding the worth
less. They make thin faces plump and
round out the figure. They <i>e the
STANDARD REMEDY
for leanness, containing no arsenic, ami
absolutely harmless.
Price, prepaid, $1 per box, 6 for $5,
Pamphlet, “HOW TO RET FAT,” free.
THE THINACURA CO.,
949 Broadway, New York
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P .». REAGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts ot weorgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend alltne Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Thk Wi xKi.v office.
A. IIROWN,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. juni-ly
t. ih( Ki:a,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MeDonoioh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
ofGeorgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-1y
yMUIRXOA .V KTEPIIENN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Office over Star Store, south side square
At business carefully and promptly at
enden to.
g2jp'’Ain prepared to negotiate loans <n
cal estate. Terms easy.
Bn. Geo. & Xiw. TIMER,
OEMISIS.
Grant R’ld’g. Corner Iboad and Marietta
streets. Atlanta. Ga.
Will oc in their office at McDonough. Ga..
from the -Jlst a. m. till the l ist ot each
month.
j|K. G. V. CAJIPIUII.I,
DENT! ST.
McDonough Ga.
Any one desiring work done can be ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
arc otherwise made.
I.. I I < KEU,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Mo Don ugh, Ga.
Prompt attention civ- n to ail professional
duties day and nighl.
Office in Nolan building, room north of
Cols. Bryan and Dicl.cn.
snap shots.
The senatorial race is run—
When quationed, you can say:
The name of all bill one was “mud,”
vt liiie that one’s name was Clay.
* * *
The ne next four years a curious sight
Hie United States will see—
Mark Hanna in the president’s chair,
With McKinley on his knee.
—Bruce Martcilo, in Jonesboro Enterprise.
Sketch of Senator Clay.
Hon. Alexander Stepheus Olay,
bearing the name of the great common
er, has under our free American insti
tutions, riseu from a poor farmer’s boy,
not only to a promineut position m his
profession in law. hut to an eminence
die Highest in the national council.
He was boru iu Cobh county forty
cwo years ago iu a log cabin. His
father, W. .1. Clay, lives on a farm
near Austell and was born in Washing
ton county in 1828. He moved to Cobb
in 1840. He served in the Confederate
army, is a worthy farmer and a strict
Methodist. The mother of Senator
Clay is a daughter of Ilev. James Peek
a native Georgian and a minister of
the Baptist church, which he'served
uutil his death in 1890.
Senator Clay in his boyhood days
attended country schools, then a pre
paratoiy school at Palmetto, and then
entered Hiawassee college and gradua
ted in 1870. lie taught school for a
while, then began the study of law in
the < luce of Judge David Irwin. After
he was admitted at the Marietta bar,
he soon began to. commaud a large and
lucrative practice. He has represented
Cobb county in the legislature several
times, the first time in 1884. He came
prominently to the front as an active
legislator and was made speaker. He
subs' quentiy was elected to the State
senate and was elected president of
that body. As a presiding officer he
acquitted himself with credit.
He was made chairman of the State
Democratic executive committee in
18144, conducted the last two campaigns
landing Georgia safely in the Demo
cratic column each time with large
AfiJfffitTes. lUifeTeefTon 16' the IT. S.
Senate crowns a brilliant career with
well earned fame and honor.
In 1890 Mr. Clay was maried to
Miss Fannie White and as the result of
this uuiou they have four boys aud one
girl. They have an elegant home on
Atlanta street, surrouuded with every
thing to contribute to their happiness.
Mr. Clay is an Odd Fellow, a Mason,
and a member of the Methodist church
and chairman of the board of stewards.
—Marietta iournai.
John Byrom, a merchant planter of
Byromville, ha 3 a pet crow which loafs
around the store during Business hours.
Last Saturday a customer came in aud
paid Mr. Byrom S4O on account, two
tens and a twenty. There was a rush
of busiuess aud Mr. Byrom left the
money on his desk. At the close of
business on Saturday the cash failed to
balai.ee by S4O. The S4O collected of
the customer was gone. A search
failed to reveal its hiding place. On
Suuday morning Mr. Byrom found the
remnauts of a S2O bill, which had evi
dently been manipulated by the ‘ pet
crow. The two tent were found in the
possession of a little negro boy, who
had picked them up where the crow
had dropped them after having mutil
ated one of them.
An illustration of the proverb that
it is an ill wind that blows nobody
good occurred the other day in Indiana.
A whirlwind visited the Decatur sec
tion. It gathered all of the corn oil
several farms and deposited it on the
land of one man. This man refuses to
give it up uuless it can be identified
and ownership proved by the parties
claiming it. The claimants have begun
a law suit to recover their property.
There is immediate demand for a Solo
mon in Decatur.
A drowning man man would have
little use for a method of rescue which
which would require days. A dyspep
tic doesn’t want to bother with a reme •
dy that is going to take weeks to show
its benficial effects.
The Mount Lebanon Shakers are
offering a product under the name of
Shaker Digestive Cordial which yields
immediate relief. The very first dose ;
proves beneficial in most cases; and it
is owing to their unbounded confidence
in it, that they have put 10 cent sara j
pie bottles on the market. These can
be had through auy druggist; and it re
pays the afflicted to invest the trifling
sum necessary to make a trial.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial re
lieves by resting the stomach and aid
ing the digestiou of food.
I.axol is the best medicine for cltil
jdreu. Doctors recommtnd it in place
i of Castor Oil.
mcdonough, ga , Friday, November 27, isoe.
CHATS FACTOR 1’ HIKAIIO.
tflO.OfO Worth of Jliichlßcry
Ib'olro.vi il :11 Siunii) Nile.
I
There was a destructive fire at Sun
ny Side Saturday morning about two
o’clock. The basket and crate factory
belonging to A. G. Vandyke, with
about SlO.OOl) worth of machinery and
a largo stock of good* and material,
caught fire and burned to the ground,
resulting in a total loss, without any
insurance.
There is a freight train that goes by
the place about midnight, and it is one
theory that a spark from it caused the
fire. But an hour after that Dr. Gray
i drove by on professional business, and
I there was no fire then, aud as the ma
terial was very intiamable it is not
probable that a tire could have slum
bered that long. As Mr. Vandyke was
known to have had unpleasant rela
tions with some of his neighbors, and
had some enemies to whom he was very
obnoxious, it seems more likely that
they took this terrible method of stat
ing their hatred. This became more
plausible when it was known that Mr.
Vandyke was expecting to move his
mill to Mobile in about ten deys.—
Griffin News.
Horace Greeley once said: “The
way to resume is to resume,” speaking
of again putting gold into circulation
after the war. But you may say “re
sume” any number of times to that
torpid liver of yours and it won’t budge
until you take Simmons Liver Regula
tor. Many people seem to forget that
Constipation, Biliousness and Sick
Headache are all-caused by a sluggish
liver. Keep the liver active.
A Book tor Christmas.
The Christmas number of Demo
rest’s Magazine presents a table of
contents attractively suggestive of
Christmas cheer, aud a glance through
the pages shows a profusion of pictures
appropriate to the season aud attrac
tive enough to please at any time.
The number opens with sketches of
the Holy Land, very appropriately
called “The Cradle of Christianity,”
written by Dr. Thomas P. Huges, who
has long been a student of that region
and writes from the observer’s point of
view. New aud beautiful pictures are
given, fully illustrating the article and
making it a fine feature for a Christ
mas publication.
The departments are good as usual,
and contain useful suggestions for
Christmas presents, for the furnishing
of the dining room, aud other practical
matters pertaiuiug to dress, fashion,
health, aud the household.
The Best Way To Cure
Disease is to establish health. Pure
rich blood means good health. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla is the One True Blood
Purifier. It tones up the whole system
gives appetite aud strength and causes
weakness, nervousness and pain to dis
appear. No other medicine has such
a record of wouderful cures as Hood’s
Sarsaparilla.
Hood’s Dills are the best after-dinner
pill; assist digestion, prevent constipa
tion. 2oc.
When Sam Jones was speaking in
Town Creek, he said among other
things:
“The curse of beauty is fatal. I
had rather that a daughter of mine be
scarred from her forehead to her chin
than that she should have a beautiful
face.”
Mr. Jones paused and looked steadi
ly into the faces of the silent crowd, add
ing.
“But I don’t think any of you wom
en need have any alaim on this score.”
It was just at this juncture that a
lover sitting next his sweetheart re
marked fondly:
“I’ll bet he ain’t saw you, Sallie.”
Where She Had Him.
Jones —There is no truth in the say
iug that a house divided agaiust itself
must fall.
Brown—How so?
Jones—Green's wife’s taken to wear
ing bloomers against his wish, but you
know, she once found a letter from an
other waman in his pocket, and all he can
do is to grin and pretend that he doesn’t
care —Cleveland Leader.
Mr. Allen Flemming, of Augusta,
bought last week, the oldest bale of
cotton in the world. It was grown by
a Mr. Watts iu 1842 in Laurens coun
ty, S. C., and was set aside from the
| balance of his crop to pay his burial
expeses in case be should die destitute.
But he was in good financial shape when
ha died, and the cotton was transmitted
j by will to the present day. It was snowy
white, and without the yellow tiuge.
WIGGERS COMPROMISES
Aiul Gets Half the value of the
Polices.
The iwo insurance polices on the
life of Alonzo Maddox were settled in
j Macon Friday morning.
The polices were for 53.000 each,
one being in the New York Life and
the other in the New York Mutual.
Maddox died in May, 189.5, and pay
ment of the policies wbb deferred by
the companies.
The beneficiaries filed suit aud Fri
day both claims wore settled lor half
the face value of the policies. Messrs
Smith & Jones represented the benefi
ciaries, Messrs. Hardeman, Davis A
Turner were attorneys for the New
York Life, and Guerry & Hall foi the
New York Mutual.
This compromise is the closing chap
ter iu what promised to be a very sen
sational case.
Alonzo Maddox was a young white
man the sou of £. P. Maddox, the res
ident guard at Camp Northern, aud as
sisted bis uncle Christopher H. Wiggers
on his farm at Bullard’s Statiou,
Twiggs couuty. Wiggers was also re
cently of this county. Maddox took
out two insurance policies on his life,
one of $3,000 for ibe benefit of his
younger brothers and sisters, who lived
at Bolinghroke, and the Ooer a like
amount for the benfit of Mr- Wiggers
Mr. Wiggers was to pay the premiums
on both policies. ».,J
The policies were taken opt io April
1895, and about a month later the
young fellow died. The circumstances
surrounding his death wetfe Thought by
some people to be suspicions, and a
warrant was issued for Mr^-Wiggers’
arrest. At the commitment, trial there
was no evidence ageing^BSDjraggcrt
aud lie was straight way I ,’acquitted.
’flie insurance Sompanies, however,
refused to pay the polices. The# did
not rest their refusal solely upon the
suspicion of foa! play, but claimed,
among other thingtr that MW)
meats were made by Wiggers in order
to secure the insurance.
Suits were filed against b >tli com
panies returnable to the September,
1895, term of the city court of Macon.
The defendants being non residents,
filed a motion to remove the cases to
the United States court, and the mo
tion was granted.
The trials would have taken place
at the approaching term of the district
court, but the contesting parties man
aged to settle their differences Friday
morning, and the suits were withdrawn.
The settlement by the companies is
in the nature of a complete vindication
of Mr. Wiggers, agaiust whom they
had previously made such severe
charges. The many people of Spald
ing counly who know Mr. Wiggers
never bad any doubt as to his character
at any time.—Griffin News.
In the course of a long editorial on
“Business Improvement” the Cincinna
ti Enquirer says:
“Those who most carefully watch
the financial, commercial and manufac
turing reports in the newspapers must
believe that there is a decided improve
ment in the business aspect. Even
after the situation is carefully analy/.ed
and the dross and bluster sifted out,
the most conservative man must see au
appreciable advance iu busiuess and a
brighter promise for the future. There
has been much change for the better
in less than two weeks, and it is not
spasmodic or sensational. It has a
wholesome looking steadiness about
it.”
Patsy Took It Bilin.
Patsy had been in the country only
a few days aud had not recovered from
the effects of his ocean voyage. He
complained of a headache, and his sym
pathetic aunt finally decided to give
him a Seidli'z powder. She got two
glasses and put tho contents of the
blue package into one and emptied the
white package iuto the other. .
“Now, you hold your mouth open,”
said his aunt, bolding the glasses, one
in each hand.
Young Patsy opened a spacious cav
ern, displaying two (me rows of molars,
aud, with a dexterous motion, his auut
mixed the conteuts of both glasses and
poured the Seidlitz powder into his face.
He spluttered aud coughed and ran
about the room
“Well, how did you like it?” &*ked
his aunt smilingly when he had recov
ered somewhat.
“I wudn’t ha’ minded it so much if
ye hadn’t give it ter me whin it wuz
biliu!” he gasped between chokes.
It cured Patsy’s headache, however.
' New York Sun.
A RKCEN T INTERVIKW
■’
Witli Dr. Hartman, the Renowned
Catarrh Specialist.
A newspaper contributor was lately
admitted into the extensive suit ol ofli
ces which constitute tie headquarters
of Dr. Hartman, who treats catarrh
patients by the thousand. Amid the
busy swarm of assistant doctors, clerks,
stenographers and book keepors, Dr
liartmau stopped loug enough to say a
few words: •
“The number of catarrh patients who
visit me is large, but the number who
are entored on my books as regular pa
tieuts (hut are treated without charge,
by correspondence), is very much lar
ger. Hundreds of letters are received
aud answered free every day. A yet
greater multitude take my catarrh rem
edv, Fe-ru na, and are cured, of whom
I never hear. Some of this latter class
write me years after their cure. I
never allow a name published except
by the written consent of the patient.
We make no charge at any time. The
medicine only is abtaiued by each pa
tient at his own drugstore. Those de
siring to become regular patients have
only to send address, duration of dis
ease and treatment previously received,
aud directions for first mouth’s treat
rnent will be seut at ouce.
“Over half the people have catarrh
in some form or another. And yet
probably not a tenth of the people
know that their disease is catarrh. To
distinguish catarrh of various organs,
it has been named very differently.
One person has dyspepsia; another
bronchitis; another Bright’s Disease;
another liver complaint. These peo
pie would bo very much surprised to
hear that they are all suffering with
ebrniEe catarrh. Hut it is so, neverthe
less. Each one of these troubles, aud
a great many more, are simply catarrh
—that is, cltrouic inflammation of the
mucous lining of whichever orgau is
affected. Any internal remedy that
-will euro catarrh in one location will
cure it in any other location. This is
why Be ru ua has become so famous
n the cure ot catarrhal diseases. It
cures catarrh wherever located. Its
cures remain. I’e ru na does not pal
liate; it cures.
A catarrh book is sent free by The
Pe-ru-ua Drug Manufacturing Com
pany, Columbus, Ohio. This hook
coutains 64 pages of reading matter
and instructive illustrations.
Kiimace iu the Sunday School.
The Sunday school needed money,
and Mr. Smart, the superintendent,
had a new way of getting it.
He proposed giving each hoy half a
crowd. At the end of a month the
principal, together with what it earned,
was to he returned to him.
The scheme was good, but it didn’t
work quite as Mr. Smart had anticipa
ted.
The fourth Sunday found the super
inteudent ready to audit the profit aud
loss accounts, and he commenced with
Johnnie’s class.
“How have you done, Johnnie?’’
“My half crown has earned another
one,” said Johnnie, with the air of one
having an option on a halo.
“Good!” said the superintendent.
“Not ouly is Johnnie a good boy in
helping the school, hut he shows busi
ness talent. Doubling one’s money in
a single mouth requires no common
ability. Who can tell but what we
may have another budding Croesus
among us?” Johnnie, you have done
well, aud now, Thomas, how much has
your crown earned?”
“Lost it,” said Thomas.
“What! Not only failed to earn any
thing, but actually lest!” said Mr.
Smart. “How was that?”
“I tossed with Johnnie,” was the re
ply, “and he won.”—London Tit-Bits.
There is sensible and timely advice in
the following from the Marietta Jour
nal: ‘ Now that the election is over,
our people should turn their attention
to the pursuits which make life wotth
living. Ilonest fruitful industry is
much more profitable thau politics aud
it never does one good to allow politi
cal excitement to take hold of him as
in the recent contest. We have entire
ly too much politics anyway, so much
that our people are constautly iu a state
of agitation and are therefore divorced,
as it were, from their business. The
election is over and it behooves every
body to go to work to build up the
state and its resources ”
An lowa man bet $lO that he could
ride the flywheel in a saw mill. When
his widow paid the bst she remarked,
sympathetically: “WiPiam was a
good kind husband, but be didn't know
much about flywheels.”
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U S. Gov’t Report
Rteiiiag
absolutely pure
Respect the Stomach.
Few people do have proper respect
for the stomach If a thing “taßtes
good’’ and is not so hot or so cold as
to be painful to the month or throat
it is swallowed by too many people
regardless of consequences.
Do not give the stomach food that
will irritate it or retard it iu the per
formance of its ualural functions or it
wil! retaliate in a way that is decidedly
uupleasant. A headache, a “lump” or
“heavy feeliug” in the stomach, and
irritatious of the skin, are mostly
symptoms of disordeied digestion re
sulting from uuwholesome food.
Alum baking powders are responsi
ble for the larger part of this unwhole
some food, for it is a fact well recoguiz
ed by physicians that alum renders food
indigestible and unwholesome.
The danger to health from this cause
is so imminent that it behooves every
one to adopt precautionary measures to
keep alum baking powders, which are
now so numerous, from the kitchen
stores. It will be found that those
powders sold at a lower price than
Royal are almost invariably made from
alum, aud therefore of inferior quality
aud dangerous to health.
The safer way is to look for the
well knowu red aud yellow label of the
Royal Baking powder. That is cer
tain to cover a powder free from alum.
The lioyai is made of cream of tartar
a pure, wholesome fruit acid derived
from grapes, it is renowned for add
ing anti dyspeptic qualities to the food,
as well as for making fiuer and better
food.
Ills Motto.
A boy walked into a London mon
chant’s office in search of a situation.
After being put through a series of
questions by the merchant he was ask
ed; “Well, my lad, what is your
motto?
“Same as yours, sir,” ho replied.
“Same as you bavo on your door—
push.”
Ho was engaged.
OASTOniA.
Tit he- .
“A young man who prefers loafing
on the streets to working for a little
less than what be thinks bio labor is
worth, or is extremely anxious to find
an easy place, seldom ever accomplishes
much. The brightest examples of suc
cess iu the business or intellectual world
to day are those who hegau un
der adverse circumstances.
The boy who acts upon the principle
that he will ouly do pleasant work, aud
that ouly at bis price, rarely ever does
anything. He will dead beat his way
through on relatives or the public.
The great Shakespere wrote, “Thiice
armed is he who bath his quarrel just.”
lo this Josh Billiugs adds, “Yes, and
four times he who gits his blow iu
fust.”
An Ohio man, arrested the other da/
for bigamy, acknowledged that he had
seven wives, but “supposed it was all
right because he had changed his name
each time.”
OASTOniA.
Ti«fu- y? _ _
3,
Watts— Did you know they could
make whisky out of sawdust? I’otts—
H'm. Last time I was in Atlanta I
got hold of some that I think must have
been made from the buzzsaw itself.
A unique double wedding has occur
ftt l’aris, Texas There were two wid
owi rs forty years of age, each of whom
had a daughter fifteen years of age,
The girls, with the ready consent of
the parents, married the widowers, aud
thus each man became the other’s son
in-law.
r (HU gA j from U. 3. Journal o/ UTedlHm
w M Prof. V/. H. Peeke, who
gg *e|l a specialty of
M B S L Epilepsy, las v. ithout
ftp —rv. M tL doubt treated an<l cur
-3 * H I ed mors cases than any
1 living Physician; his
.S' ■ k M success is astonishing.
We have hear J of case;
of & years’ standing
Vi cured by
M Ho
nirttpi
\A\l \Mm
tlo of his absolute cure, free to any sufferers
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Worm* In reaches.
Question. —I havo four dear-stone
peach trous; they were well fruitod. Tho
fruit should ripen from July 1 to 10.
The peaches havo all fallen off before
ripening, and every peach has from one
to four worms in it. What are they,
and how can I prevent them?
Answer. —Tho insect that has rained
your peaches is the “Onrculio," which
is a small, brownish beetle, and attacks
indiscriminately all the stone fruits.
This beetle lays its eggs just under the
skin of the poach, and in four to eight
days the egg hatches out a soft, footless
grub with a horny head, which com
mences to oat its way at once to tho
center of the peach. It will remain
from throe to five weeks in the peach,
when the injured fruit usually falls to
the ground, and tho grub then burrows
from 4 to 6 inches in the earth, whore,
after remaining about three weeks, it
becomes a beetle, and issues forth to
again begin its destructive round. As
a rulo, tho fruit containing this' grub
falls to the ground bofore maturity,
though this is not always the ease. It
requires constant oaro to got rid of this
post. They havo a habit, when alarmod,
of folding their legs close to the body
and dropping to tho ground, thero re
maining motionless as though dead.
By taking advantage of this habit many
can be destroyed by giving tho tree a
sudden blow and catching tho beetles
in a sheet sproad for tho purpose, then
burning or mashing them to death. Re
peat this frequently. Whore possible
it is also well to lot hogs and poultry
have the run of the orchard, as they de
stroy most of the grubs beforo they bury
themselves in the ground. Spraying is
also recommended, with a vory weak
BUIUUUU Ui 4. Mato gtvuui uuj * |>OmmCL «v
400 gallons of wator, to which add sev
eral gallons of ltme water. Tho foliogo
of the peach is very easily injured, and
I would suggest thu other remedies as
tho surest and least daugorous.—State
Agricultural Department. _
Dropping" From the Poultry House,
Question. —I have always been in the
habit of keeping the droppings from the
poultry house during the summer
mouths in boxes or barrels and applying
them the following fall or spring to any
place which I wish to mako especially
rich. But I find that they become hard,
food. To get tho host results you must
compost it with stable manure, which
would rosuit iu a fermentation which
would bring inert materials into avail
able forms and lmprovo the mechauical
condition of both the muck aud the
stable manure. One load of mauure to
throe loads of muck, of good quality,
will make a compost which some au
thorities couteud is as good, load for
load, as mauure. Now you can either
uro this compost as you would lot man
ure, or if you wish a stronger fertilizer,
add 500 pounds of acid phosphate aud
50 pounds of muriuto of potash to each
1,450 pounds of tho compost.
Your cottou fires no doubt for want of
humus iu the soil, and the humus must
be'restored bofore you can hopo to pre
vent the firing of tho cottou by the use
of fertilizers. According to the best au
thorities “humus supplies nitrogen to
tho plant,” “it imbibos aud absorbs and
holds wator, and tho vapor of water,”
“it improves the texture of many soils."
“And it absorbs dud holds ammonia and
tho salts of ammonia, as well as various
othor substances.” “Moreover, by its
slow docay humus supplies carbonic
acid for the dissolving of plant food.”
To replace tho humus in your soil you
must plant rye this fall, to bo turned
under in tho spring; follow that with a
crop of peas, fertilizing at tho same time
with 100 pounds of acid phosphate and
50 pounds of kuiuit to tho acre. Gather
the peas and let the vines remain upou
the land. The following spring put in
cotton if you wish, aud usiug the above
fertilizer, lam sure you would make a
good cotton crop. After that rotate
your crops in such a maimer that you
will not have cottoq on the same laud
ofteuer thau once iu three years. Plant
more small grain, more field peas, eta,
and iu this way you can keep up the fer
tility of your soil, and make crops that
will be a pleasure and a profit.
“Blight” '
costs cotton planters more
than five million dollars an
nually. This is an enormous
waste, and can be prevented.
Practical experiments at Ala
bama Experiment Station show
conclusively that the use of
“Kainit”
will prevent that dreaded plant
disease.
All about Potash—the results of its use by actual ex*
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