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BARGAINS 1. i. MB 4 111. The Reliable 22(52 'V h . u i: ; ft a ,K 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 *)«i 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. lit- !'i! k $ “ 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, »:E33iFJ7 , x:sT 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 WE List - Property .....= = AND - ....... + Pay : Taxes For non-resident property owners. Small and large tracts of land for sale. Enclose stamp giving full information. F, WILLIAMS, M l CO, Fiazgerald, Ga, Real EstateDealers. DON’T GO TO ALAS As There are Plenty of Golden Nugg Picked'Up Right Here in Our Store Risking Life and Limb in the Far Nortl OUR II STO Is aA eritableKlondyke, and Worth Pros Our Line of the Celebrated<^® nm ^s Barnesville k Rockliill Bi Is Complete, and the Prices Lower ths If you are in need of a Wagon, come ai over the “FLORENCE,” either one or tv The RAMBLE BICYCLES are goum $37.50. 8 8 Our Mampioth Stock o ® © HARDWAR Is Full and Complete and Embraces 1 Builders’ Material, Farm Machinery, Crockery, Mixed Paints, Wire Screens 4 SHELF HARDW4 In fact we keep in Stock Everything to the Hardware Trade. l MILL - SUPPLIES - 4 When in need of anything and yo know where to get it, come to thfj Boyd Hardware k Fitzgerald, Georgia * S. M. Whitchurd & Bn * * m ——«n»*F Are Constantly Receiving VIWW" * Fresh Groceries * V Which are Going at Bottom Prices. («§►) 500 bushels of Lamps. Texas Rust-Proof We make Oats specialty for Seed, of Tobacco, and Georgia Cigars Rye. and Car Snu i m Crockery and a * (’Phone 19.) Corner Thomas and Oconee *1* m — The ! i v*: t * — * A Full Line of Drugs, Patent Med¬ $ icines of all kinds, Druggists’ Sun¬ $ . ’ dries, Etc., Etc. $ *> Toilet Soaps and Fine Perfumery. The Finest Soda Fountain in Wire- K v grass Georgia. Prescriptions Com¬ w $ pounded Day or Night. I w * * Tlio Josey Urns Co * + South Grant, Fitzgerald, Ga. * Headquarters For iCmre ©ru Goodman’s New Drug i ( Cor. Pine and Grant Street. Everything Fresh and New with a Ful Patent Medicines. Prescriptions Comp GET Our prices on all of Job work.