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ÜBBT T. MOSKLY, Bdttor.
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VOL. XIII.
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Our stack was never so larga* so pre tty and so complete.
Knives and Forks, Spoona, Castors, Tinware and Granite Ironware in
almost endless profusion and at all prices.
H ousekeepers can find everything they need at our place. Prices
were never so low and goods so pretty.
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BROAD STREET - - - • - • - ATHENS, GA.
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" AT DANIELSVIELE, GA.
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before the rife, and he is giving
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Groceries
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Hfe dees not propose to be undersold. He also carries
Coll and complete lines of Hardware, Glassware, Tinware,
Wooden ware, etc.
His prices are as low as the lowest, and all he asks is
that you give him a call, see his goods and hear his prices.
Remember the place
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DANIELSVILLE, ©A.
Professional.
DAVID W MEADOW,
Attorney at Law.
DaNiklsvuxb, 6a
Office on corner, west of Court
House, opposite Masonic Corner.
Will practice in all the court s, All
usiness promptly executed l
Jno. J. Strickland.
Attorney.
Athens Ga
BERRY T. MOSELEY,
Attorney at Law,
Dajuklsville, 6a.
Office on corner, west of Court
House, opposite Masonic comer
Will practice in all the Courts
Business promptly executed.
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Geo, C Thomas,
Attorney,
Athens, Ga.
dOHN E. GORDON,
Attorney at Law.
Danielseille, 6a
Will practice wherever desired.
Prompt attention given to all busi
ness entrusted to hiscare. Office
north of court house.
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FOR MAIWOX COUNTY.
DANIELSVILLE, GA., .FRIDAY, NOV. Bth. 189?.
MR. NESBITT'S TM
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Regular Monthly Letter tothfl
Farmers of Georgia.
A SUDDEN DECLINE IN OOT^pN.
The Great Display of tlie State at thejßot
ton State, and International ExposSjsß
at Atlauta—Gaorgiau, \\>*lng Up tJjtUe
Itiriines. of tholr State —Other fatiAat*
lug Topics Dlsousscd.
Department or. Aißicui.Teama I
nor truthfully r.-raarkad,
ginns ar Just beginning to reitlEtifS# j
treasures that lio buried in'thd hUMdI
valleys of their native sta|e. . WInHM
look upon the wealth of praduor*|jjpl|
tred together iu the Stato buildiiljGMre
are impressed, not only with the *ma
danoe anil the flue quality of tseflpd
crops both for miu aud boast, bat tjptfc.
ihe diversity from field, farm, gxrifiiti,
orchard, vmeyanl aud mine*. tiimV
played. The different
cotton, iu wool, in leather in mKm|
work ; the almost innumerable *gjjflj.
mens from mine aud furuaceig|ti ; fHp**’
shop ; the grand collection of mange*
granites and ores, ail impress us tik
the magnitude of oar natural resoqjpa,
aud the progress, which-has been Wilde
since 1865, thirty years ago, when our
state was devasted and out people dSm
trate. The more one studies this cope
tion, especially of the prduots agxjpd
tural aud horticultural industries ofxfae
state, the more one la convinced, Spat
a country, so varied in olimate, mpi
versified in soil and products, MR a
bright future, if ouly her peopleware
thoroughly alive to the demands of the
times, aud keep abreast with the im
provements and progress necessary to
the development of iier various iirfras-
tries. Our agriculture must not b#|nf
fered to lag behind the other intSus*
triee, and One of the most favorjblo
indications to be noted in stndftig
Shis exhibit of the state's promLss
iu- agricultural work, is the evifijnt
care and attention given to develofljbg
heretofore negleoted factors.
In the past our agriculture wsjHe
veloped too much in one dircctioA at
tho expense of ethers eqnalty UsHK
ant. and the oonseqnenoe
stead of a syuimetiical, well hfipndfiH
eystem, we Were weighted down witm
too mnoh cotton on one side, aud not
enough of home midaiaentt; broad and
clothing on the other, to preserve tho
propor equilibrium. B.t one cannot
fail to see that the farm* re have real
ised their miscake, and that the broad
foundation of independence is being
laid in the well filled barns and smoko
homes, whloh will bless our state an
other year.
THE SUDDEN DECLINE
in ootton has made many paupers, but
while those men, who sold before tha
decline are most fortnnate, ths above
conditions have made our farmers, even
those who did not sell, virtually in
dependent of the cotton market and
they oan afford from their protected
situation, to view the flurry in tha
business world, with the balm confi
dence of me who are safe in any event
—became th-dr money crop is absolute
ly demanded by the needs of the world
—and must sooner or later bring a re
munerative price. There oan be no
donbt now that
THE CHOP 1 SHORT.
Then was a decrease in the acreage
planted; the yonug plants were very
much retarded and injured by the late
Spring; it was almost the middle of
summer before the belated erop began
to take on its usual vigorous appear
anoj, and about that time the rainy
season oame on and was so protraoted,
that when the snn finally oame out
most. of the squares and young bolls
formed daring the wet weather drop
ped off. Added to this, in some sec
tions of the state the crop suffered from
rust, boll worms and caterpillars, and
the early frost, four weeks in advance
of the usual time, effectually cut off
the top orop. By the first part of this
mouth if not earlier, the principal parti
of the orop will have been gathered.'
With thie powerfully illustrated lesson
brought home to their very doors, oaii
farmers be so foolish as to risk another
overwhelming cotton crop the coming
year f We hava jnst gotten well start-,
ed on cnr policy of home independence,
let ns not turn back or be swerved from
our course, by the fictitious promise of
a large oottou orop, however alluring
the prospect. Let ns settle this ques
tion right now. "He. who hesitates,
is lost.’' Let ns keep this fact steadily
in view, that the policy ot outting
home supplies short, in order to get in
a big acreage in cotton, is bad in the*
ory, and worse in practice. Let ns re
solve so take oaro first of home needs,
and then pat in all the oottou we are
able to manage and work to advantage,
If this policy is rigidly adhered to, an
other year will witness a still more
prosperous agriculture and a happy
and contented people.
sowing chain.
The long con tinned drontb has much
delayed the sowing of the oats, clover,
grass and wheat, because of the Impos
sibility of plowing the land, and un
less there is rain before very long, the
danger is that this area of thsee crops
will be materially reduced. When the
gains do oorae, the temptation to sow
the seed on land badly and hastily pre
pared, will be very great. But wo
strongly nrge that thw mistaken plan
be avoided as far as possible. The la
ter the land is prepared, the better it
should be done, on account of the
danger to the crop from cold. The
thoroughly prepared, well seeded bed,
particularly if the land is rolled.' stand*
a much better chanoa, than where the
seed is just scratched4n on the surface.
Added to whioh orop on the
thoroughly prepared Wld gets a good
Md which it uudeuhSfrdLr will, with
ordinary seasons, liie p.aut, are vigor
ous end strong nod belter ablo to resist
even severe cold.
It is not yet too late to sow German
clover, of which we hear sueh glowing
coconuts from thine who have tried
this crop, if we cm secure a good,
fine seed bod this crop may yet be sown.
There will doubtless be more rye sown
this tall than is nauui, lrom the delay
la sowing other grain crops It resist*
oold more snecussinLy iua.it other grain
crops, and white uot so valuable as
clover as an improver of tho laud, it is
a very fair substitute, and beside, fur
nishing green winter loud, serves to
cover the land aud keep it from wash
lad- About a bushel and a half or two
bushels to the acre is about the right
■winter orop
>uld do well
inter vto’x
a. who has
, sty a it has
thjio 0 over^
thoi-
Even oaths
rery study,
the. heavier
aoaMMjtib’
If she land is left in loose oomlitibn,
the effect of the winter will be to hasten
the disinto.-at ou and dacompS.itiou
Of the vegetable matter, widen it may
Contain. There ure also manysebsuoiui
of insect life, which are destroyed, aud
in very odd sene *tw,. the weed seeds
tkue'exposed arc effectually eliminated.
POTATO**
which have not already been gathered
aud atored, should receive utteution
before the rains sot in It Is very im
portant to dig them, in dry weather, as
they are earner handled and there are
fewer chances of losing them after they
are stored. This once carefully done,
the main care should be to keep the
temperature as uearlv uuiorin as pos
sible, about 40 or 45 degrees This oan
[ be managed by leaving the ventilators
open in pleasant weather and olosiag
; taem in cod, and also throwing on art
dUfcgpflvitiyth or covering daring cold
R T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
BETHAVEN NEWB.
Mr.NA Clement’s house wns
robbed of all its contents one night
last week, during his absence No
clue to the thieves.
Mr. Faiii Pittman is back from
the Exposition. He snvs he
[Lived twelve months during his
necks stay there.
||&£' Wm Bnmettjifts -rdygnwd,
lloftm from Atlanta. He speaks
with glowing terms about the great
show. If any one is anximiß
for a fight just ask him why it was
he slept with Grover while , there.
Messrs George McKinuy and
Noah Mathews, two of our Sunday
School boys, gave an exibition of
their skill in punching each other
in John L style the other night at
Center. Both parties claim the
belt.
Mr. William Witcher of Lexing
ton, is visiting ills mother Mrs. M
E Witcher, ’•
toast bread
and keep it dry. There’ll
be no danger of its mold
ing. But moisten the bread
with water, and see the re
sult. It is covered with
mold. So with consump
tion. Its germs will not
grow in the lungs unless
everything is suitable to
them. Weakness, poor
blood, loss of appetite,
coughs and colds often pre
pare the ground for the de
velopment of its germs. To
destroy germ-life the sys
tem must be kept in a well
nourished condition. Do
not lose flesh.
Take Scott’s Emulsion,
with hypophosphites, as a
preventive. It furnishes
the reinforcements neces
sary for the body to con
quer in the easiest pos-
I sible form. The oil is m a
state quickly taken up by
the organs and tissues.
Scott A Booms, ChsarfsU, Nsw York. jc. tni turn
If yon owe L G Johnson & Son
and don’t want to be sued, pay
up. We are out of buaineae
and must wind up.
L, G. Johnson & Son.
If you owe me a note or acct.
.that is not paid by Oe c. let. I
am going to give you trouble and
a heap, of it. No exceptions —I
mean you, J T Baker, Comer.
All you back sliders indebted to
me that 1 have carried over from
time to time, lam going to give
you trouble this fall sure, if you
don’t pay me,
1 LE Greene.
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Commissioner Nesbitt’s Inquiry
Box For the Month.
VERY IMPORTANT lIIFORMATION.
Bag* Destroying Cabbage—Hern'eMlngand
Gearing a. Mate In the Pie*—How to
Prevent Smut In Wheat—Keeping Wee
vil* Out of Cora—When to Plant Oats.
Etc.—outer Matter* Of Internet.
Question 1. —I enclose a plant which
Is getting common in' the pastures aud
fields of this section : Please name and
teli'ikow to got rid of It. B. M.
Answer 1. —The enclosed specimen
-ts.thi wild oarfol (Dancnp Oarola). It
is fonud in nearly oil the states, east of
S*l . meaio
spreading over the entire ootmtryf
seeming to thrive on all soils and in alt
•lima tea.
It flowers from Jane to September.
The seed are distributed by becoming
attached to animans, and that being
carried abortt; or remaining on the
plant until winter, are blown consid
erable disttucea by the wind. The
seeds retain their hard covering.
In permanent pasture, mowing the
pi huts as often as the flowers appear,
wilt eveutnally destroy them. Or the
root may be cut off several inches be
loir the surface of the ground Vhich
Will nanally kill them at once : Or the
plants may bo palled by haqd when the
ground is wet: this is probably the
surest way of getting rid of this weed.
The wild carrot U not often trouble
some in cultivated fields.
Question 3.—1 seed yon some bags
which have been eating my* cabbages
and turnips. Please name them and teli
me how to get rid of them.
• L. H , Taylor eoauty. On
Answer 9.—The bags are Harle
quin Cabbage Bugs (Murgautla His
triouion), so oalled from the gay,
harlequin-like manner in which the
blaok and yellow oolors are ar
ranged upon their bodies. It feeds
upon oabbage, turnips, radish and mus
tard plants, and its ravage* as a rule are
confined to the states south of Pennsyl
vania The first eggs are hatohed oat in
April or May and thi* brood at onoe be
gins its work of destruotlon by sucking
the sap from the leaves. They axe
hide behind the most
convenient item or leaf of the plant
they are feeding on. In this eeotion
there are Mveral broods each season.
The most efficient remedy la to de
stroy the brood that lives over winter
When they congregate upon the mustard
or radish plants. Then they can he de
stroyed very easily by the application of
kerosene by means of a common water
ing pot. '
If these bags art.thus destroyed early
in the season it will almostentirely pre
vent injury later. These inseots fly but
little and are tfalas not apt to oome from
neighboring fields
All bags and eggs whioh may be aeeu
on cabbage plants should be pioked off
and destroyed. Clean cultivation and
burning of all rubbish in aud about the
garden areimportant preventive meas
ures.
In .he spring and fall many of these
bugs may be Wanned by laying cabbage
or turnip leave* between the rows; the
inMots will harbor under these and may
be collected and destroyed eaoh morn
ing.
Quksiok 8,-Give me some advice about
harnessing and gearing a mule in the
plow ? D.
Answer 9.—The following article
much good advloe on the
subjeot of harness. "It may appear
trifling to make allusion to the har
ness of -a plantation mule as it is
ordinarily so scant, bat, be that as it
may, there is quite sufficient, when
not properly adjusted, to be responsi
ble for a large mortality among planta
tion mules.
In considering this topic we will have
■‘to include almost the whole gears, es
pecially that used iu the plow, and we
will commence with the bite, or rather
the fitting of the bit* whioh is important
The points to obMrve are, that they fit
the month and are neither too.wide nor
too narrow. The mouthpiece requires
fitting with care; it should be sboutthe
breadth of two fingers above the corner
teeth. They are often placed so high
in the mouth as to cut the angle* of the
lips; the angles should not oven be
wrinkled.
Collars—Fitting a collar for draught
purposes is a point of hygienic import
ance. The main things to attend to
are, that it ha* an even bearing on the
shoulders; that It is deep enough be
low, so as to avoid any pressure on the
windpipe and the blood vessels of the
neck; that it does not pineh from side
to side, and that the traces should not
be attached to it too near the point of
the shoulder. The evils of a badly fit
ting collar are great, snoh as collar
galls or sors shoulders; congestion of the
brain from pressure on the jugular*
preventing the return of blood from
that organ; and partial suffocation from
premure on the-windpipe.
Collars of all varieties have eaoh
their votaries,, but we consider non*
SUBSCRIPTION :
Oh Bolter For Ytr.
better than thoee lined with leather
next the ekln, when kept dean and free j
from skin secretions, which if allowed '
to remain on the collar, becomes hard j
and rongh, and then produces irrita-1
tion. To keep the shoulders in good -
Condition and preveut galling—preeusn
pg that the oollar fits—lt is a good mis
to have the drivers bathe the shoulders
With a little cold water each time tha
collars are taken off. Thte could easily
be dona at tha drinking trough when
the mules ace being watered.
Backhands and traces. No part of
the plow gear produoee ee much perma
nent injury or loss as tha baokban&
The importance of, the proper ad jasl
ment of the backhand may be some
what appreciated, when w* state that
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itta*, aCM Aud OOdtlUMu (KNfs
sere on the spine aver the loins
It is am an unusual sight to as*
nudes htffcfaed So tha plow with this
book bands over the loins, behind the
last rib, where there is the least sup
port to the baok, not only palling, but
lifting the plow with thin, the weakest
park At a matter of fact, tha Only
progag. function of a backhand is to
prevent the tracts (oiling amongst the
animal's feet whan the-thsaton is tokeh
off thnt-
Pluoiag the book band beyond the last
rib it a mast dangerous procedure, nnif
is the canto of the death of gmny a voi
nublo male. J*
The truss should have W straight pell
from its attachment to the home* to
the single trace; there ehould be no an
gles in it at all. If it le
an indication of undue pressure on the
back. If there is a ueoaftity fok any
portion of back Jiving to bear
weight, the band blocks on either
aide of the spine, oiuthst which carves
over the spine, is Referable to the plain
baekb’and, as thgfcae hiS no direct bear
ing on the spkfn column; the other has.
More atteutiWi paid to the proner gcag
ing of our animals would oftsn prevent
serious lofS.
"QuußTioN 4—l hare lost several head
of young cattle lately, They swell oh
the neck or loins, look dull and droop
ing, refuse to eat. are constipated, urine
high ooloreil and have died in from 19
to 84 hoars. Want is the disease and <
your outti* have died ot anthtMh
a disease known in different k
call ties as "bloody murrain." “Mack
leg.” I 'black tongue,” "charbon." eta
It is a common disease, attacking nM
only cattle, bat other animals aa well.
I remember in lfcM, when the *<biek
tongue,” os’ it was oitUed, swept ©vet
Florida and South Geotfcia, killing m
number of cattle and Sdnost ex termi
nating the deer, which at that time wet*
very numerous: A gentleman from
Florida told me that during a day spent
in the woods looking after hie oattle, he
counted over 80 dead deer, and raw oth
fre walking about aimlessly, rendered
,t*me by the disease with whioh they
were suffering.
.... The causes of this disease are usually
traoeable to stagnant ditches, swamps,
eta the water in which has been low
ered by a long period of drouth, also to
food or water that has beeu tainted
with decaying animal or vegetable mat
ter and contagion. The disease is most
common in flat districts, where daring
dry seasons ponds and pools of stag*
aant water am found and ths decompos
ing vegetable matters are exposed. This
Is essentially a disease of the blood aad
iepraottoally confined to yonag oattle,
rarely attacking an animal over two
years of age.
Ia this disease, prevention is better
than cure, as there is little hope of ear*
ing an animal after the disease te con
tracted. a few boars asnaliy bringing
a fatal termination. Three -drachm
donee of chlorate of potassium, dissolv
ed in water and given every three hoars,
is good treatment, and if the naimnl te
weak give ia addition whiskey and qui
nine.
Change the pasture at onee, when this
disease appears, toons on higher ground
if possible, mad with parse water. Sep*
era to the siok animals from she reel.
Bury deeply ail oattle that die, or bet
ter still, burn the oaroassea.
.The sheds or (tables where animate
have been confined should be thorough
ly cleaned end sprinkled with quick
Hme, and tho woodwork, walls, etc.,
washed with a eolation of ehloride o t
lime, four ounces to a gallon of water.
This disease onn be contracted by e—,
therefore great care should be taken ia
handling n siok animal or a dead oar
ones, as a scratch or sore on the hands
might be the means of oanaiag inoosla
latioa. After any exposure the hands
should be washed with a weak solution
of oarbolio aotd. .
TTgriffith., ;■
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Danielsville. Ga.
Office South of Court House:
Cal la answered god prescription*,
filled p tomptly.
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