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HARLEY k HOLMES.
Good New Goods, Low Prices.
■WE ARE T1IE LEADING DEALERS IN-
Hardware, Builders’ & Shop Material
Tinware, Stoves and Crockery.
We carry an Elegant Line of PAINTS, Etc. Send for our
Color Card. Our Specialty is Improved
IMPLEMENTS. ’
In fact everything needed on the farm. Agents for CIIATTA-
NOOGA PLOWS, Planet, Jr. Cultivators, McCormick Mowers,
Mitchell Celebrated Ore and Two-IIorse Wagons. Turpentine
Mill Supplies, Steam Mill Fittings, Emery Wheels, etc.
All Goods Guaranteed to be just as represented at time of sale.
HARLEY & HOLMES.
HELLO! HELLO!
■ For the New Grocery
On Pine Av., between Sheridan and Thomas Sts.,
A new and Fresh stock of Goods,as good as tbe bestcan afford -none
better to be had in the market and more coming all the lime. Please
call and see me and you will receive prompt attention, paook for the
name of the proprietor on the front of the building.
Yours Truly,
J. E. BENTZ.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES
UZlvelll foro^eeln^jiiylmck^d^ettm^DiypHces^^^ Ferny Mahomet donM;^et about the middle of October; f ^ r so do not give
yard on Sontl.
O B. y M Ur wiN8L0W,Manager. 6 ^ Vitzgrerald Nursery Co.
E. NICHOLSON,
Auction e e r 9
East Pino Avenue,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
Is now prepared to give rates on short notice.
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Our assortment of Dry-
Goods, Notions, Shoes and
Millinery is incparable and
worthy of your most care-
ful inspection. In Dress
Goods such exquisite styles
were never before seen in
Wiregrass Georgia. Colors
an( l designs modest t and
unobtrusive. And there
are ma ny other styles of
0 PP 0S it e effects—brilliant
tints criss-crossed reckless-
lv and daringly. Quality
unsurpassed. Ladies, you
must see these goods to
appreciate them.
In Ladies fine Shoes we
have nothing but what we
can recommend. Ladies
and Childrens’ Shoes a spe¬
cialty.
Our Notion stock is full
and complete. headquarters for
W e are
all kinds of late stvle Mil-
linery.
Hurst Bros.
Falace Rofel,
Mrs. Orcelia R. Smith, Prop.
Cor. Jessamine and Main Streets.
We ai-e now making special the rates North. to our When fel¬
low colony members from
you reach the depot here have the hack driver
take you to the
Palace Hotel
Everything new and strictly flrst-class.
$HURST BRQTH E1332:
COTTON SACKS
X ,-, FOR VI rt ,i t FERTILIZERS -ntTT»mrxTr»Tvi-»n 1- 1J-IX I HJl tj 1JXIV
Farmers cf Georgia Demand
That a Change Be Made.
PBESE11T PLAN UNSATISFACTORY
Coin in is «i oner of Agriculture Nesbitt Now
In Correspondence Witli Donlorit »«» to
tbe Feasibility of Adopting of 107
pounds Capacity Instead of Those Now
la Use—Work For July—Fall Crops.
Department op Agriculture,
Atlanta, Ga., July 1, 1897.
COTTON BAGS FOR FERTILIZERS.
Referring to several communications
recently received we notice a growing
ing demand on the part of farmers for
cotton bags of 167 pounds capacity in¬
stead of those at present used for sack¬
ing fertilizers. The cotton bag, besides
adding another item to the long list of
demands on our annual cotton crop,
would have several advantages over
that now used. It is more durable;
■hows and retains the brand more per¬
fectly; is easier to handle. If fertilizer
dealers can consistently use the cotton
sacks, it will be a help to farmers, and
we are now in correspondence with fer¬
tilizer men as to the feasibility and de¬
sirability of the change, from their
standpoint. Another matter to which
we would call attention is
AN ERROR IN ANNUAL OF ’90.
On page 105, the proportion of Paris
green is stated as 1 pound to 2 of road
dust or ashes and 5 pounds of flour or
lime. It should read 1 pound of Paris
geeen to 60 pounds of dust or ashes and
5 pounds of flour or air slacked lime.
The last ingredients are used to cause
the mixture to stick to the plants. This
is the season when the advantage of
using insecticides and fuugicides be¬
comes powerfully apparent. The own¬
ers of orchards, vineyards aud gardens,
which have been judiciously sprayed,
are now eujoying a comparative immu¬
nity from the attacks of myriads of in¬
sect and fungus enemies, which are prey¬
ing upon their neighbors’ ft less carefully
protected fields, is a fact, however,
that one neglected orchard in a neigh¬
borhood of fruit growers becomes a
“rock of stumbling and offense,” be¬
cause of the extra diligence required carefully to
bar the pests from the more
kept orchards. Among up-to-date fruit
growers and gardeners, spraying is in
universal use. and is one of the regu¬
larly calculated expenses. The man
who allows his fruit trees aud vegeta¬
bles to take care of themselves, with the
exception of an occasional hurried
working, is not only losing the best re¬
turns for his labor, but his carelessness
is a menace to his more successful
neighbor. Farmers are reading more
and studying more on this and kindred
subjects, and we trust to see the day
when these precautions will be consid¬
ered as muoh a part of the fruit and
garden industry as the planting of the
trees or the sowing of the seeds. Spray¬
ing calendars, with full directions, may
be obtained at almost any experiment
station. One from the Ohio Experi¬
ment Station is arranged on a large
sheet, which may be taoked to the wall
at any convenient place, and is then al¬
ways ready for reference.
WORK FOR THIS MONTH
is considered to have a powerful de¬
ciding influence on the yield of the
crops. A carefully planned and exe¬
cuted spring aud early summer cam¬
paign may be almost entirely marred by
one injudicious plowing at this season. If
we keep in mind that the object of plow¬
ing now is not so much to break the
land as to check incipient weeds and
grass and to spread a thin mulch over
the surface which will conserve mois¬
ture aud also promote the free access of
air to the shallow lying plant roots, we
will not be apt to put the plow in too
deep. An inch is sufficient, and if the
wide cutting scrape or expanding culti¬
vator is used, the work may be done
very effectively and very rapidly. One
thing to be remembered is that differ¬
ent varieties of the same crop require
different treatment. For instance, the
late maturing, large growing varieties
of cotton are not benefited by late
work. The plowing in such fields should
cease at the earliest practicable moment,
because plowing promotes the very con¬
ditions which we wish to check, namely,
a development of foliage at the ex¬
pense of fruit. On the other hand, as
the tendency of the smaller, quickly
maturing kinds is to cease leaf growth
and begin to take on fruit very early,
therefore, in such varieties a shallow
center furrow even in August is known
to be of benefit.
PEAS
for forage may be sown all during this
month. The prolonged drouth of last
summer just at the season when this
crop was.maturing, has caused seed to
be scarce and high But the fact that
large quantities are being sold and
sown, shows that at last farmers are be¬
ginning to appreciate their value as a
forage and aB a renovating crop. If
their luxuriant growth is encouraged
by an application of acid phosphate
and potash, the extra expense will be
returned in the increased yield of a
moBt nutritious and convenient food
crop and in the stored up nitrogen,
which they have gathered from the air
and deposited in the ground.
potatoes
planted now make smoother and better
keeping tubers experienced than those farmers pat out ear¬
lier. Many prefer
cuttings taken from the vines to slips
taken from the bed. Don’t commit the
mistake ot making these enttings too
long, three eyes is considered sufficient
to insure rooting. If cut longer there
will be more potatoes to each vine, but
they will be smaller and not of as good
quality. If, however, these late plant¬
ings are to be used for fattening hogs,
it matters little whether the cuttings be
long or short. For this purpose, that is
for fattening hogs, sorghum is a most
valuable crop, but it should be fed to
the hogs before it becomes too hard,
that iB before the seeds become per¬
fectly ripe. The plantings of this crop
may continue through this month.
Other farm animals besides hogs are
very fond of it, but care should be exer-
oised in regulating the feed and the ra-
1 tiou should oontain some kind of dry
matter as corn, hay, oats, etc. * Any
Kreen crop will proTe injurious if hun¬
gry animals, after being previously
confined to dry food, are allowed to
gorge themselves on the more tempting
and succulent growth.
HOGS
are sometimes neglected in the natural
anxiety to push the other important should
work of the mouth, but they
not be allowed to take their chances
of getting food in sufficient amount and
variety. Time used in seeing that they
are abundantly supplied with a health¬
ful variety of food and plentv of clean,
fresh water, is well bestowed. Keep
their quarters and feeding places clean
and disinfected as far as possible and
give an occasional dose of copperas,
about a small teaspoonful to the hog—
this will prevent worms, Kerosene
mixed with melted lard or oil and ap¬
plied through a watering pot while the
hogs are being fed and are crowded
close together, will keep down vermin.
As a disinfectant, lime wash, in which
a little carbolic acid is dissolved, is a
powerful agent. If these simple pre¬
cautions are observed there will be far
less complaint of loss from the fatal dis¬
eases which have heretofore carried off
so many thousands from our annual
hog supply. These and other means
used for pushing the spring pigs to
early and healthy maturity enable us
to obtain pork of flue quality and at a
fair profit.
PLANNING FOR FALL CROPS.
After the summer crops are “laid by”
we will have time to take a calm sur¬
vey of our surroundings and plan general
our fall crops and also for the
rotation, which we propose for another
year. One of the most iraportant laws
in any system of rotation is that plants
of like habits and growth, aud abstract¬
ing the same elements from the soil in
the same proportion, should not succeed
each other. AH plants demand more or
less the same elements, but absorb them
under such different conditions and in
such different proportions, that plans as
to equalizing the draught upon the soil,
are worth the most careful study. At the
south, under present conditions, the three
year rotation lias been fouud the most
profitable. First oats, followed the same
year by peas, then corn, then cotton.
Of course this may ba varied or ex¬
tended to suit individual cases, always
keeping in mind the rule that no two
crops of like growth aud habits should
follow each other.
FALL GRAIN.
September is the usual month to sow
the fall grain crops, but July is none
too early to pluu for them. A poa stub¬
ble furnishes an excellent foundation
for wheat, oats or rye, aud to be put in
first class condition the stubble should
be plowed under aud the land then har¬
rowed and reharrowed until the surface
is fine and smooth. Of course, if this
work is delayed until the last moment
it cannot be satisfactorily done. After
crops are “laid by,” the interval be¬
tween the making and gathering of the
crops cannot be better employed than
by making this thorough preparation
for fall grains aud grasses. In some
sections i* has been shown that crim¬
son clover sown in the corufields at the
last plowing, is a most profitable and
convenient crop. Not only will the
little plants spread and cover the soil
with a dense growth and thus prevent
washing, but they will furnish our
stock with a most acceptable aud nutri¬
tious green food in the late winter aud
early spring months, the time when it
is most heeded, aud also they will in¬
dustriously gather up and deposit in
the soil the flue nitrogen of the air, the
most expensive and most generally
needed element of plant growth. The
humus formed from the stems and roots,
after the clover is cut, performs the im¬
portant office of binding together sandy
soils which are too Dorous, or of loosening
the stiffer clays, which have too great
tenacity. Rye, in a smaller degree,
performs somewhat the same work.
Those who have tried vetch consider it
better than either rye or crimson clover.
Of it the United States Department of
Agriculture says as a forage plant it
has no superior. Now is the time to
study these different fall crops, decide
which are most suited to our circum¬
stances and lose no time in getting
ready for them.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
Sore-ham Hi iff life.
Question. —This year my young sor¬
ghum crop has grown very slowly—the
development has been so unusually de¬
layed as to attract ray attention, and I
notice now that the lower leaves are dy¬
ing and thnt little red spots in clusters
are appearing on the plants. On exam¬
ination I find that the roots seem dis¬
eased—in some oases seem to have rot¬
ted. aud even the larger plants may be
pulled up without difficulty. As sor¬
ghum roots, after the first few weeks,
are usually tough aud tenacious, I must
think that the trouble lies in the roots
and not in the leaves, altnough the
leaves indicate a diseased condition of
the plaut.
Answer. —You are correct in suppos¬
ing that the seat of the disease is in the
roots, and the dlstiuot species of bacte¬
ria causing the blight can only be seen
with the aid of high microscopic power.
So far as is known, rotation of crops is
the best means yet fouud for prevent¬
ing this disease, and also to burn up all
stalks, stnlible and refuse from the in¬
fected sorghum crop.—State Agricult¬
ural Department
Spraying Ostfli.
■praying Question.—W outfit? hat firm makes the best
Answer.—I am not prepared to say
which is the best of the many spraying
outfits now offered for sale. Yon mast
examine and judge for yourself. The
desirable points are force in throwing
the liquid used and minute subdivision
of the liquid in spraying. The object
aimed at is to cover every portion of
the tree, with a fine drizzle as it were,
of the insecticide used, dropped on the
leaves and stems in a light spray that
will remain and dry thero for the fu¬
ture destruction of the insects.
If the liquid is thrown in large drops
it simply runs off the leaves and results
in little or no good being accomplished.
Guided by the points I have given, you
should have no trouble in buying a
first-class sprayer.—State Agricultural
Department.
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Some People do noth¬
ing but talk. We pre-
frer to let our custo¬
mers talk in regard to
our low prices and im¬
mense stock to select
from. We have no
competition that can
duplicate our Prices.
Remerfiber we are the
Pioneer and here-to-
stay Hardware dealers
of Fitzgerald, Ga. Our
interests are identical
with yours. We are
here to assist in devel¬
oping this Garden spot
of WiregrassGeorgia.
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^RE )Jy I^. BIGHAM,
Contractor # Builder
Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notic
Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Notice to the Public.
Notice is hereby given that we have
sold our interest in the store known as
the Paulk Grocery Company, to John
B. Paulk. All accounts due thr firm
are payable to the undersigned as well
as all claims against said firm will be
paid by us. D. T. Paulk,
W. T. Paulk.
This, 23d day June, ’97. 26-4t
Vitality and Sexual Strength.
A modern treatment tor debilitated,
weak and nervous men. The Ameri¬
can Cure for this class of weakness is
put up in the shape of small nerve
tablets and called “Mazo Tonic.” It
will cure. It brings strength and
vigor. The price is $1. We will send
it to your address upon receipt of the
price. American Remedy Co.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
P. O. Box 168. 23-2 m
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We are located on the
corner of Central Av.
and Grant St., in our
own brick building,
Our Mammoth Stock
of
Is full and Complete,
and embraces
Tinware,
Builders’ Material,
Farm Machinery,
Stoves, - Crockery,
Mixed Paints,
Shelf - Hardware,
Wire Screens, Etc.
In fact we keep in stock
everything known to
the Hardware trade--
MILL - SUPPLIES
A Specialty.
Bicycles
Of the Bdst and Latest
make.
Notice to Colony Stock Holders.
The stock of the Colony Co. v
now be retired and taken up by I
Colony Co. under the following p,
visions: • ;
It will be taken at face value
payment for any and aU new pureha j
made for either city lots or land trai
payment It will of be all taken allotments at face where value J j
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sons prefer to take out their deeds >3
On such transactions the stock
be Stock taken cannot in any be amounts taken presentee J j
to pay i j
obligations such as notes given pi id
to this date, but. applies to all
purchases and to allotments whl
improvements have been made, il
Board of Directors.!
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