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8 5 -acre tracts Nos. 1301,1303 and 1303. Deed-
ed. 91.00 cash. Railroad on part of two.
Lot 13, Sq. 5, Blk. 2. Deeded. House 30x30,
pump-16 fruit trees, etc, *100 cash. Wants
to improve farm.
Lots 27 and 28, Sq. 9, Itlk 11. Deeded. Cor-
ner South Grant and Jessamine. $300 cash.
10-acre tract No. 2822 and house 10x10, fenced
—0 acres plowed; also 10-acre tracts Nos, 2817,
2807 and 2809, deeded, for $450. All of them an
old farm.
Lot 12, Sq.l, Blk 15, deeded, $120. This is an
alley lot on South Grant st.
7 5-acre tracts Nos. 1407 to 1413, deeded, for
$600. This is a bargain of tho age.
5-acre tract No. 637, deeded, for $100 cash.
Timber on same.
125-acre farm, 254 miles south of city; 15
acres improved. House 16x45, sheds, etc; well
28 ft deep. The timber will sell for one-half
asked for farm. Deeded $900.
East Pine avenue Lot 13, Sq. 2, Blk 16, $150;
cash, y* short time.
Lot 5, Sq. 10, Blk. 11, with 7 roocsed house,
16xz4 by 12x12; kitchen 12x10; barn 16x16. Lot
fenced; well 23 feet deep. Nine fruit trees,
grape vines, strawberries, etc., for $500 cash,
or will take good 5 acre tract near city on part. S.
Can rent for $12 per month. This is on
Grant.
Lots 5 and 6, Sq. 7, Blk. 9, deeded; house lGx
24, picket fence; well 23 feet deep; 42 fruit
trees; price only $425 cash or part short time.
Colony stock bought at market price.
Peach orchard for sale, one year old on five-
acre tract No. 870; 700 fruit trees: tract all
Ull der good board fence, $350 cash or $400, half
cash, balance on time. The trees are worth
the price, they will bear in two years. The
fruit crop will pay for land.
Lot3,Sq. 15, Blk. 1, deeded; house 12x16,
kitchen 10x12; wellSTfeet deep; cleared and
fenced. Think of this, for $100 cash.
Lotl.Sq. 16. Blk. 1, deeded. $75. This is a
corne r lot adjoining northwest school house.
Lot 20, Sq.3, Bik. It, deeded, on E. Pine ave-
nue; tivo storv. 24x40, and barn 18x26; well,
picket l'ence,etc. Kents for $10 per month;
for $600 cash: wants to improve on farm.
Lot 4, Sq. 4, Blk. 9, deeded, on W. Central
avenue. $125 cash.
5-acre tract No. 1400, deeded, posts set and
about 25 fruit trees setout: price *85 cash.
Lot 2I ; Sa- -• B J. k L? 1’ d C deep; u : 0 rents tor $200
room, 24x60; well 20 teet , m
Der vear. Wants to fix up residence property.
For 8800 cat h, or one-half cash, one half one
year at 8 percent interest.
5-acre tract No. 1251, deeded, all plowed three
e nn’sh b0ard fenoe ' Th,sls a flee 5-acre tract
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Lot8, Sq. 11, Blk. 9, and buildings, deeded,
$200, or for rent.
20-acre tract Nos. 2521, 2522, deeded; house
14x2ll; several acres plowed; 10 acres under
fence, $175 cash. This is a snap.
Lot 1, Sq, 5, Blk. 11, deeded, Longstreet, plowed and for
fenced, corner lot, W. Pine and
*100.
Lots, Sq. 7, Blk. 6, deeded, house 16x20, one
and a half story; kitchen 12x20; well 20 feet
deep, picket fence, 8250 cash.
Lor 9, Sq. 12, Blk. 14, deeded, $200. This is a
corner lot on S. Main and Lemon streets.
20-acre tracts Nos. 2,324 and 2,325. deeded,
with 100,000 feet of standing timber; small
house, 1 Z> acres plowed, [nice $150 cash.
Lots 11 and 12, Sq. 0, Blk. 10. deeded, house
23x24, 4 rooms. 3 ready to plaster; board fence;
good well, fruit and grapes on same, $300 cash.
Lot 5, Sq, 2, Blk. o. deeded, *50, or trade for
10 shares of colony stock.
House to rent, same to repair and apply on
rent. Call and get prices,
Lot 11, Sq.l, Bik. 15, deeded; house 18x84,
kitchen 10x14, Plastered and painted; picket
fence; good well and pump on porch; all kinds
of fruit and straw ben ies set out; rents lor $7
per month in advance. Only $3-:>0 cash, or$400,
one-half one year at 8 per cent. This pays 23
per cent on the investment.
lO-ncre tract No. 2225, deeded, under good cash. 6
board fence; partly cleared for $150
School house to be across the road. This is a
bargain.
5-acre tract No. 972. deeded, all old land,
fenced and cleared, with 12x18 building, for
$150 cash. This is cheaper than you could clear
a new tract. Don’t forget it.
Lota, Sq. 9, Blk. 15, deeded, house 24x26,
ready to plaster, 3 rooms down and3 rooms up-
stairs; kitchen 14x18. porch in front and side;
well on porch; lot fenced and_8fct to fruit and
ahrubery. Sale or rent for $550 cash.
Lots 8 and 9, Sq. 10, Blk. 0, deeded, two story
house 16x23 hv loxl6. five rooms; lot under 6
board fence. $300. This is on Oconee street.
Remember that we can sell from a 24 foot
to 50.060 acres of timbor; also farms near city
and other states.
Mining stock to trade for property or stock.
Northern and Southern property for trade.
We are traders from theground up. Come In,
swappers;
Sayi Have vou paid your taxes? Thoclty
faxes not paid have 10 per cent added since the
1st of November, and the state and county
taxes are due and will be advertised in De¬
cember. It'you have not paid them do so at
once.
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“ J. A. Justice & Co. fitted us out with
a nice littie home.”
J, A. Justice & Co
Pine Avenue, near Cor. Grant St.
FITZGERALD, : GEORGIA.
SHORT CROP
IS NOW SURE
Commissioner Nesbitt Talks
Cotton Conditions.
PRICES ARE UNUSUALLY POOR
Despito tl»© Probability of a Strong De¬
mand, the Staple Is bringing a Cent
Less Than at the Same Time Lust Year.
Importance of Saving First Pickings Be¬
fore Equinoctial Storms Set In.
Department of Agriculture.
Atlanta,
cotton.
The cotton crop, which a few weeks
ago promised to be the largest ever
grown, has suffered a severe backset.
Notwithstanding this indisputable con¬
dition, as well as the fact that the
world’s surplus from the past season is
very small, both indicating the proba-
bility of a strong demand, prices have
opened very low, ruling at least a cent
less thau at the same period last year.
The largo surplus of manufactured
goods on hand will partly, but not en¬
tirely, account for this anomalous con¬
dition of the cotton market. It is cer¬
tain that a large supply of cotton will
be necessary to meet current demands.
It is also certain teat the crop will fall
short of our August expectations, for farmer but it
is always a risky business a
to speculate oh his cotton crop. In an
experience of „v.*r iiu years we have
found that. t:“cera,llv e,-.,'., speaking, gathered it pays
herti-- "of t.., <t-b and* •« it H
weight, if stored, insur-
storage ^c. run up the ex-
pease account very rapid.v, and
often, as w. s the case last year,
tii.c.h there in a v ho every reasonable
pii,b.toi,i!y of higher prions, the farmer
is. i:i the end, disappointed. The truth
is no ad vice can he given wuich will
suit nil cases. A mail’s own judgment,
his obligation, his peculiar environment
and financial condition must all exer¬
a deciding influence as to when
at what price iie can afford to sell.
A matter of far greater importance just
and one which he lias almost un¬
his entire control, is to save the
pickings in nice, clean condition
the-equinoctial storms damage it
remedy. The earliest picked
usually sells the best, and it is
folly to leave it in the field to waste
from the bolls, or to become stained and
spoiled by rain and wind. If handled
carefully and neatly from the time it is
picked from the bolls until it is safely
landed at the nearest shipping station,
we will hear less complaint of the
wretched condition in which American
cotton reaches the markets of the world.
CORN.
The general corn crop will also be un¬
doubtedly shorter than that of last year,
which, it will be remembered, was the
largest ever grown. Corn all is now ad¬
vancing and prices will, in probabil¬
ity, be steady, which is a strong addi¬
tional reason for seeding a full area of
fall oats, and also for saving every part
of the porn crop. It has been often
stated in these columns, and in many
other agricultural publications, that a
very large part of the corn crop is actu¬
ally thrown away by our usual method
of allowing the stalks to rot in tho
fields. We have been gratified by tiie
number of letters of inquiry H on this sub-
jQct . , which have ^ ,__ been __^ .eceiveu by the ..
department. All over Georgia attention
j s concentrating more or less on this
important matter. In my own comity
j know of tw0 shreddin „ machines re-
cently purchased, one by an individual
and the other by a combination of farm¬
ers. Their reports can but be favorable,
and another year we hope to see the en¬
tire product of our Georgia corn fields
successfully housed for winter feed. It
is probable that corn will maintain a
higher price the coming year than has
ruled the past season, and this may in-,
duee some of our farmers to plan for a
larger area in corn. A better policy,
however, would be to put ia a heavy
crop of
FALL OATS.
In the more northern sections of tho
state progressive farmers have already
seeded down the area intended for this
crop, but in southern Georgia there is
still sufficient time to add to the num¬
ber of acres originally intended for oats.
There is no better stock food than clean,
well developed oats, and the fall sow¬
ing has this advantage, that the crop
may be taken off in the spring, and a
crop of peas or late corn planted and
matured on tho same land, thus real¬
izing two crops instead of one from the
same area. To get tho best returns from
an oat crop, the land should be thor¬
oughly prepared and fertilized and a
liberal early seeding seoured, that the
plants may be well set before cold
weather checks their rapid growth. A
better plan than increasing the area
will be to increase tho productive ca¬
pacity of the land by thorough prepara¬
tion and high fertilization.
WHEAT.
October is usually the great wheat
sowing menth, except in the far south,
where most of the wheat is sown
in November. If we could regulate this
matter accurately we should pefer to
bow just long enough before frost to get
the wheat well started, otherwise there
is dauger that the dreaded fly may de¬
stroy the stand. The high priee of
wheat may tempt some farmers to think plant
more largely than usual, but we
this a mistaken policy, because our
lands are not especially suited to wheat
aud almost without exception, of will pro¬
duce a better paying orop of oats, wheat. even
at the high prospectiva hnrried. price and
It is delayed and then con¬
sequently careless preparation and seed¬
ing, which so often causes both these
cropB to be disappointing. Although
this year’s crops are not yet all gath¬
ered, we may now regard onr farming well
operations for another year as
started. Wheat, oate and other fall
grains and essentially grasses, thongh another seeded now, and
belong to year,
must be included in our plans and esti¬
mates for ’98.
REPAIRS BEFORE COLD WEATHER.
Before cold weather sets in, examine
stable and barns and put in all needed
repairs. A email leak unheeded now
may become a damaging, even a de¬
structive, agent after the crops are
stored. In our mild climate the need
for very close stables is not so impor¬
tant as in higher latitudes, where the
rigors of a northern winter make it im¬
perative that all farm animals be care¬
fully protected from the cold weather.
But even horo we have some cold
days in every winter, and the careful
farmer will see that his animals are not
exposed winds. Nail to cold all draughts or biting
on looso boards and
get everything about the farm in neat
and convenient order for the winter
months. The living house, outbuild¬
ings, fences, few ditches, terraces, all usu¬
ally need a touches. It is particu¬
larly important on all land sown in
grain that arrangements are made for
carrying oil all surplus water. Noth¬
ing is more injurious to a grain crop the
than to allow water to stand on
laud.
FILLING SILOS AND SAVING SHREDDED
FODDER.
In packing the green crops in oomplete the silo
do not be in too great haste to
the work. The whole mass will be in
better condition if the filling is done
every alternate day. If one is careful
in filling and packing the corners,
and if, after the silo is filled and
tramped the contents are covered with
a layer 12 or 15 inches in depth of
cottonseed hulls, chaff, straw or other
similar substance, and this well sprin¬
kled with water, there need be no fear
that the whole will not consolidate and
seal up the silage, effectually preserving
it from injury.
In saving the shredded fodder, that is
either the bare stalks shredded, or stalks,
leaves and tops all shredded together,
groat care must be exercised to have the
fodder free from dampness, that is from
rain or dew. No matter how dry the
stalks may appear outwardly there is
always more or les3 natural moisture
inside, but this will not prove at all in¬
jurious, if the shredded fodder is care-
fully packed and the air thus excluded.
The natural moisture will cause the
mass to heat, but this will improve
rather thau injure it, provided it is left
undisturbed until the fermentation
ceases. If disturbed before the heating
is over, it will cause the mass to
mould. We are yet novices in this
new method of shredding or curing fod¬
der, but each year will add to our expe¬
rience and skill until the process be¬
comes finally entirely perfected. A gen¬
eral adoption of this plan will work a
in southern farming. The
of abundant forage will be for-
settled, and more stock and better
will be a comparatively easy
DEMAND FOR SEED IRTSH POTATOES.
Conditions indicate that there will be
a good demand next spring for southern
fall grown Irish potatoes for seed. The
drouth and potato bugs in some sections,
and long continued wet weather in oth¬
ers, have greatly injured the general
crop. Be careful in saving the crop to
take out all diseased or damaged pota¬
toes and put up in banks just as sweet
potatoes are protected. Let them ma¬
ture as far as possible before digging,
but don’t allow them to be injured by
severe cold. A slight frost will not hurt
them. R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
THE CONDITION OF CROPS.
COTTON.
Since my last report of Sept. 1, disas¬
ter has overtaken this crop all over the
state. Rust and shedding and drouth
have done their work, aided in some
counties by caterpillars, and I think it
a fair statement to say that the prospec¬
tive yield is 25 per cent off from what
it promised to be a month ago. I have
been in all sections of the state darim-
September, I have observed the crop
closely myself, and I have talked with
experienced farmers from many coun¬
ties, and I venture the assertion that
Georgia will make no more cotton than
she did last year. In addition to this
disaster, the price has declined more
thau a cent a pound in the same time,
and our farmers are now face to face
with a small crop and the price in most
cases below the oost of production. The
crop is being rapidly gathered and on
many farms where rust appeared, early
picking is practically over. Should good
weather continue for a few weeks
longer the crop will all be gathered, in as
there is very little top crop anywhere
the state.
CORN.
Fortunately this crop is good, goner-
erally, though a few counties report
short on account of local drouth. It is
fortunate that our farmers will have
but little corn to buy, for there will be
little or uo money left in their hands
from the sale of their cotton. I adviso
every farmer to save his corn carefully
and allow none of it to be wasted, for
corn promises to be higher in price next
year than it has been for a year or two
past,
OTHER CROPS.
Bice is reported good from the coast
counties, where the bulk of the crop is
raised, and no severe storm having oc¬
curred in September most of it is now
safely harvested. Sorghum and sugar
cane have made fair crops, though the
latter has been retarded in growth by
dry weather in the early summer. The
crop of peas is good and they should be
gathered in spite of the pressing sold de¬
mands of the open cotton. Peas
this year in Atlanta from $1 to $1.25
a bushel, and every farmer that has
them should at least save his seed, if
no more. A great deal of fine fodder
and hay has been cured and housed,
and this good work should still go on
wherever rains have kept the grass
green and nutritious.
Groundpeas and sweet potatoes long are
an average crop, and will go a
ways towards fattening the killing
hogs, particularly in South Georgia,
where groundpeas are largely planted,
for this purpose.
STOCK
Are generally reported healthy and
in good couditlon, and with plenty of
corn and fodder are likely to continue but less
so. Some reports of cholera,
than nsnal.
Sand Vetch.
Question.—I tried a small plat in
sand vetoh as an experiment, but it
spread so close to the ground that I am
convinced on a large scale it would be
an exceedingly difficult crop to gather.
I believe it is as valuable as crimson
clover, as a winter crop it is batter
adapted to dry soil, and if this difficulty
oan be overcome it will become one of
opr moat valuable crops. Oan yon sug¬
gest a plan for successfully saving it?
Answer.— It has been found that if
vetoh is seeded with wheat or rye, the
latter will hold it up, and prevent it
from spreading so close to the ground.
It is richer in albuminoids than clover
and stands the winter equally as well,
hut it should be cut before it becomes
too woody. —State Agricultural Depart¬
ment.
Ladies Who Suffer
From any conjplalot peculiar to
their sex—such as Profuse, Paii)-
ful, Suppressed or Irregular Men¬
struation. are soon restored to
health by
Bradfield's Female Regulator.
It is o combination of remedial
agents which have been used with
the greatest success for njorc then
25 years, ai)d Known to act speci¬
fically with and on the organs of
Menstruation, and
recommended for
such complaints
only. It never fails
jrg to give relief and
restore the health
j of the suffering
a woman- It should
be taRen by the
* girl just budding
/ N Sj' into Womanhood
mi x| when Menstrua-
tion is Scant, Sup-
* pressed. Irregular
or Painful, and
all delicate wonjen should use it,
as its tonic properties have a won¬
derful influence it) toning up and
strengthening the system by driv¬
ing through the proper channels
all impurities.
“A (laughter of one of my customers missed
menstruation from exposure and cold, and on
arriving at puberty her health was completely
wrecked, when until she was twenty-four years of
age, bottle of upon Bradfleld’s my recommendation, Female she used
on© Regulator, com-
pletely restoring J. W. her to health ”
Hellums, Water Valley,Miss.
The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
SOLO BY. ALL DRUGGISTS AT Si PER BOTTLE.
Highest market price paid for beef
hides at IIowell-Gardner Co., E. Pine
avenne. 45-3m
Turkeys.
The 1. X. L. grocery will have a
supply of large, juicy turkeys for
Thanksgiving.
For Sale or'Trade.
A farm of 100 acres, one-half mile
from Fitzgerald. Improvements and
thirty-five acres old ground. Address
P. O. box 335, Fitzgerald, Ga. 43-tf
Oleomargarine.
A large supply of oleomargarine
constantly on hand at the I. X. L.
grocery, much cheaper and better than
butter. 46-21
For Sale
One year lease and furniture in ho¬
tel, besi location in Macon, Ga., one
hundred yards from Union depot. Ad¬
dress, C. D. Bapst. Macon,Ga.,or The
Leader, Fitzgerald. 44-2 w
Seed Oats.
Grown by A. K. Fisher can be found
with the following dealers in Fitzger¬
ald: Jonathan Peiper, Clare & Co., B.
M. White, F. J. Ileintz and M. H.
Plopper. 45-lmx
War is declared on high prices and
San Jose scale. Is your fruit tree man
prepared to give you a certificate, by
State authority, that your stock is
clear from all disease. lean. I have
just received a sample stock. I am
prepared to fill all orders, great or
small. I have a lot of pure hud peach
trees, and if taken soon I will sell foi¬
ls per hundred. Come quick, before
they are gone. E. M. Winslow,
Fitzgerald Nursery.
Drs. G. A, £ L> C. Kotadorf,
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Office—I n Slayton & Kern building, oppo¬
site Commercial hotel.. Fitzgerald, Ga
Phone 21.
OPTICIAN,
Have your eyes fitted by John Ad¬
ams, a man that has had twenty-seven
years sxperienee. I have the best as¬
sortment of goods in the city. Gen¬
eral line of optieal goods in stock.
Lenses, spectacle and eye glass frames,
cases, also opera and field glasses, tel¬
escopes. barometers, microscope, com¬
passes, etc.
JOHN ADAMS,
GRANT STREET,
FITZGERALD, GA.
For Tailor Suits
CALL ON
E. J. DANCY J
Fine At>, Vest Boor to Commercial Hotel
A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask.
All garments out and made on promises.
Cleaning, Repairing ani Pressing a Specialty
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