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ME. NESBITT’S
MONTHLY TALK
The Commissioner’s Letter to
the Farmers of Georgia.
IMPORTANT MATTERS DISCUSSED
Farmers Advif.d Against the Foolish I’rtff
t!of Hanning After Untried Crops,
When There Are So Many Well Known
m E -p ciallr Suited to Georgia—Econom
ical Methods of Handling Cotton.
Atlanta, April 1, ISOCI.
Again our inquiry columns are s.> full
•oneerning many of the principal farm
operations for this mouth, as to leave
as little further to say, but there are
one or two subjects that we would like
to touch on us being of especial interest
to farmers. Ouc is tire disposition in
some quarters to run after new and un
tried cri ps, forage crops more especially.
With the experiment stations, run at
government expense, and whose main
objeet is t > test such crops, as well as
the best methods of preparation and cul
tivation. we would not advise farmers
to enter largely into experiments of this
kind. There are so many well known
rrops of this class which liavo been
provou tJ be peculiarly suited to our
soils and climatic conditions that it will
pay better to invest our time and money
in developing these. This question of
forage crops is one of peculiar interest
to the south just now and the growing
and developing interest in stock and
rattle raising causes ft more general de
sire for information on this and kindred
subjects. Questions as to the merits of
Sacaliuo, Lathyrus Sylves ris, Beggar
Weed, etc., have been received, to all
of which we reply as above; that their
merits have not been thoroughly estab
lished, and until this is the case we
would adhere to those that we know
suit our peculiar conditions, leaving to
the experiment stations the work of
thoroughly testing the claims of these
new candidates for our fav >r. We are
oil familiar with that sheet anchor of
southern farmers, the cow pea. which
*>t only furnishes a splendid forage
crop, but pays back to the land in roots
and stubble, more of the expensive ele
ment, nitrogen, than the crop has con
sumed. Then, there is the fodder corn,
according to all testimony the most val
uable silage crop yet developed. Be
sides these Soiglmui, Kaffir Corn, Millo
Maize, German Millet, give u.s a variety
of green crops which, if judiciously man
aged, will furnish green food during
the entiie season. While Spanish
ground peas and sweet pi tatoes con
tribute valuable and cheap crops for the
fall manufacture of pork, to be ready
later for a short hardening process on
corn feed, before slaughtering.
B.lnn.
If a farmer has a well constrneteil
rile imii li valuable green fixxl that.sis
often wasted may be, utilized for feed
ing during tho winter months, when
every pound of such food possesses an
enhanced value. A carelessly con
structed silo is 1111 extravagance, but if
careful attention is given to every de
tail, and good, s mud silage is secured,
all farm animals, except bogs, have
been found to eat it with relish and
benefit. From careful tests it has been
found that three tons of silage is equal
in feeding value to one ton of hay.
Quoting from the United States agri
cultural report on this subject, we find
that “a much larger amount of digesti
b.e food can be secered from an acre of
silage than an acre of liny. The food
equivalent- of fout tons of hay can easily
be produced on ati acre of land planted
in corn.” It is nls > a more economical
and compact method of storing fixlder
than the hay mow, and possesses tho
same relation to dried hay, that canned
fruit dtxnrto dried fruit. A silo of 180
tons capncity which will contain 54 tons
of dry matter, will hold only about 28
tons of dried clover hay, which contains
less than 20 tons of dry matter. It will
readily be seen that the “oamiing” pro
cess has several advantages over the
•■drying" plan. In feeding silage enro
mast be taken not to depend on it en
tirely for dry food. While it is an im
portant and economical addition to farm
supplies, being easily digested, ami cat
tle and liorses judiciously fed on it,
show its beneficial effects ill an im
proved general condition, it is advisa
ble in feeding to mix it with hay and
grain. For full grown cnttle 25 or 80
pounds per day is considered sufficient,
while for horses tho ration is less. On
first opening the silo the ration should
be smaller, until the animals havo be
come accustomed to the change in
food, or a too great activity of the
bowels may be induced, and in milk
cows the taste of the milk might
otherwise become .affected for a few
days. Most green rrops may bo
successfully cured in the silo. The
proper time for harvesting is before the
leaves turn brown, bnt when the water
content of the plant begins to diminish.
Corn should be cut when it reaches the
"roasting car" stage, and if the season
Is very dry and the plants lack jnice, it
is advised to pour considerable water
over the silage after the silo is filled,
•specially if tho contents are at a high
temperature. Experiments have shown
that it is advisable to cut the corn into
short lengths, the shorter the better,
rather than store the uncut stalks. One
half inch is the usual length. It must
be carefully distributed, and well
tramped at the sides and corners. As
the silage will settle considerably dur
lrg tho process of heating and ferment
ing. the silo shoulri be filled above the
top edge. A. temporary covering may
b put on for a few days. After this
settling has taken place, the best and
most efficacious plan for preserving the
contents intact, is to place a layer of
tarred paper smoothly over the surface
of the silage, and then cover this to the
depth of one or two feet with cut straw.
Rapidity of filling is unimportant, so
long as fresh f<xider is placed in the silo
before mould is formed at the surface.
The following table gives the average
composition of different kinds of silage
as compiled from American analyses:
Composition of IHfferent Kln.fs of Silage.
Nitrogen
Free ex-
Protein Fiber tract Fat
Per Ct. Per Ct. Per Ct. Per Ct.
Com 1.7 6.0 11.0 0.8
Borghtun ...... .8 6.4 15.3 .8
BedTc’over 4.2 8.4 11.6 1.2
Soja bean 4.1 2.7 6.9 2.2
Cow pea vinos 2.7 6.0 7.6 1.5
Field pea vines 6.9 13.0 28.0 1.8
Cow pea and
• oja beaa
Vines mlxgd 8.9 9.5 11.1 1.8
Happy is the mail in this day who
doesn’t want an office.
A civil tongue is better protection
than a steal armor an inch thick.
We are wot trusting in God unless
we make His will the law of our life.
Seven-eighths of the bread baked
in London is made el foreijjn wheat.
Most men bear the image of some
woman in their hearts. In many
cases it is the same as the one on our
American dollar.—Chattooga News-
A Kind Voice. *
There is no power of love so hard
to get and keep as a kind voice. A
kind hand is deaf and dumb. It may
be rough in flesh and blood, yet do
the work of a soft heart, and do it
with a soft touch. Hut there is no
one thing that love so much needs as
a sweet voice to tell what it means
and feels, and it is hard to get and
keep it in the right tone. One must
start in youth and be on the watch
night and day, at work and at play, to
get and keep a voice that s ha.ll speak
at all times the thoughts of a kind
heart. It is often in youth that one
gits a voice or tone that is sharp, and
it sticks to him through life, and stirs
up ill will and grief and falls like a
drop of gallon the swee's of home.
Watch it day By day as a pearl of
great price, for it will be worth more
to you in days to come than the bext
pearl hid in the seas A kind voi eis
to the heart what light is to the eye.
It is a light that, sings as well as it
shines.—Marrietta Journal.
Luck.
Luck |>ictures a dollar, while work
earns it.
Hard luek is almost a synonym for
laziness.
Luck walks while* work rides in a
carriage.
Luck dreams of a home, hut work
builds one.
Good luek is the twin brother of
liard luck.
To trust to luck is like fishing witli
a bookless line.
Luck is a disease for which hard
work is a remedy.
Luck longs for a dinner, while labor
goes out and earns one.
Luck goes barefooted while work
never lacks for a pair ot shoes.
Luek is a weather vane with the
distinguishing points broken off.
The man who relies on luck is lucky
if he keeps out of the poorhouse.
Luck takes a nap while brains and
hard work are w inning the prizes.—
Exchange.
Snares for the Tongue.
Six 'hick thistle sticks.
Flesh of freshly fried Hying fish.
High roller, low roller, rower.
Strange stratgetic statistics.
Give Grimes Jim’s gilt edge gig
whip.
She says she sells sea shells.
A cup of coffee tn copper coffee
pot.
Say, should such a shapely sash
shaboy stitches show ?
Sarah in a shawl shoveled snow
softly.
Smith’s spirit flask split Phillip’s
sixth sister’s fifth squirrel’s skull.
Strict strong Stephen Stringer
snared slickly six sickly snakes.
Swan swam over the sea; swim,
swan swim; swan swam hack again;
Well swum swan.—Ex.
m..
Poor soil
and exhausted fields which
were once productive can again
be made profitably fertile
by a proper rotation of crops
and by the intelligent use of
fertilizers containing high per*
centages of
i
Potash.
Strikingly profitable results
have been obtained by follow
ing this plan.
Our pamphlets ar* not advertising circulars boom
ing special fertilizers, but are practical works, contain
ing latest researches on the subject of fertilization, and 1
sre really helpful to fanners. They are sent free for !
the asking.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
fa* Na&aau St.. New York. i
Heart disease,^
many other ailments when they
havo taken hold of tho system,
never gets better of Its own accord, but
Constantly groira wot-xc. Thero are
thousands who know they have a defective
heart, but will not admit the fact. They
don't want their friends to worry, and
Don't ktune *rhat to take for it, as
they havo been told time and again that
heart disease was Incurable. Such v. as the
case of Mr. Silas Farley of Dyesvillo, Ohio
who writes Juno 19,1594, as follows:
“I had heart disease for S3 yoarm,
my heart hurting me almost continually.
The first 15 years I doctored all tho time,
trying several physicians and remedies,
until my last doctor told me it was only -
t question of time
I could not bo curet
I gradually gre
worse, very weak,
and completely dis
couraged, until I
lived, propped half
up In bed, because I
couldn't lie doten
nor sit up. Think
ing my tin. bad
come I told my .an ■
lly what I wantec
done when I was
gone. But on the first day of March on
tho recommendation of Mrs. Fannie Jones,
of Anderson, Ind., I commenced taking
Dr. Miles’ Xete Cure for the Heart
and wonderful to tell, In ten days I was
working at light work and on March 19 com
mencod framing a barn, which Is heavy
work, and I hav’nt lost a day since. lam 56
years old, 6 ft. 4!4 Inches and weigh 2501b5.
I believe I am fully cured, and
I am now only anxious that everyone shall
know of your wonderful remedies."
Dyesville, Ohio. Silas Farley.
Dr. Milos Heart Cure Is sold on a positive
suarant.ee that the first bottle will benefit.
.11 druggists sell It at sl, 6 bottles for *6 or
It will be sent, preixiid on receipt of price
by the l)r. Milos Medical Cos., Elkhart, lnd.
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure
Health
Prof. Smith, fur 19 Years Principal of the
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tb#' l ri order that unur letter* may reach this College
save this notice and address as beloie,
WILBUR R. SMITH, LEXINCTON, KY.
Cures.
Botanic Blood Bairn s
The Gieat Remedy for the speedy and permanent
cure of Scrofula. Rheumatism, Catarrh, Ulcers,
Eczema, Eating and Spreading Sores, Eruptions,
and all SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES. Made
from the prescription of an eminent physician
who used it with marvelous success for 40 years,
anJ Its continued use for fifteen years by thou
sands of grateful people has demonstrated that
it is by far the best building up Tonic and Blood
Purifier ever offered to the world. It makes naw
rb h blood, and possesses almost miracu’ou*
healing properties.
WRITE FOR BOOK OF WONDERFUL
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If not kept by your local druggist, send SI.OO
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medicine will be sent freight paid by
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CROSS ROADS, BETWEEN
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is
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OROCEUI EW
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easy terms, $3OO.
OSCAR BROWN,
Homer, Ga.
TO
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&
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BLACKSMITHS
and
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HOMER, GA.
Old Buggies and Wr-gons made
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Superior To All sarsapariUos.
Down in Georgia, over fit* r year; ago, a marvelous medicine was discovered. It Trw whftt
Is now known as P. p, p., < >man's Great Remedy), and its fame and reputation has bee
growing with the years. ■ .... •
Bor Rheumatism, t! ii -o<2 i'-. L-.twirg, Pain in the side, wrists, shoulders, back and
Dyspepsia, Malaria, Scrofula, asd r.ll k.ood and 3kiu Diseases, it has never been equalled.
Pain is subjugated, Health Keucr.ed, Appetite restored and sleepless nights banished, bw
its wonderful influence. . .. . ' .
I*. P. P- is_ a wonderful t ,nic and strongtheaer. Weak women should always take (
P. I*. V. It builds them up. It 1> a the universal ccinineudrtion of medical men throughout •
the country, becauao we publish the formula on every bottle, artd ona trial will coavthoo Qm
moat sheoiicttl that it is a genuine health restorer. t ’ j\ • '
rjcacl The Truth And Be Convinced.
A Vv'jnc’crful C uro.
Iwjsr.r?.:Tyr lo inttscuUr rhru::i&*. km fr>r thirty
yc.:l tr -4 fi.i ki rCia •/, - j ci;.etoro mlh yo jvr
tux;i:etr re'jrf I sri/irud 'o like ?
Lclorc ! l.a 1 finished t#ro h tea . y yciu
t-o I rras r.b’.e t* wo k. I fuel better thia I rare /of
years, and tn coed iert of a c r i?i- >'.* rfctf. v.
J 6. DUPKIS3, :ct/ a cavil! c, Flo,
frzr.: ii\a fiayot
t s!T?rc4 tr.th rh*Kniathm for Cf.c*a years.
all tbe fcO-cali'-d aprci.** j, Lul ui pnr;>o*c. 34 y
frandsen jot a Lottie of F r ? , cu-1 i lc: lilt* *
u:u.
W. VTXX.DFX. Mayor of Albany.
Frsm Two Vton-3;nowr. .'’hyfc.Yiana.
We arc ttav'.ng a biy tale for rov.r |\ I*. Y., and
w proscribe it ia a greatmanr caac-, a wl find it cx
The above letters are taken from many received by v.s. p, p. p_ ( Lippman'a
Crcnl Remedy,) is a medicine whose virtues are known front the Atlantic to the i'aclfic.
P. P. P. bcrir.a its,work by purifying the blood, which i> the source of all lifej
and does not cease until * pencct and entire cure is effected.
The mortifying eruptions that disfigure the complexion, the tired feeling that prv
ven Is thorough accomplishments of the daily tasks, sleepless nights, lass of appetite,
irritability of disposition, til mean a derangement of the system consequent front
impure blood, which can arid will be cured by p, P # V> %
P. P. P. {Lipfxuan-s Great Remedy), is cctccded by physicians and the people
to be the Greatest Blood Purifier of the Age. It positively and permanently
cure*. For sale by all druggists or direct from us ; price $1 a bottle, six bottles fbr $£
UPP223 6R25., I Fpgsn Black. SAVAHHASj, G-A.
THE
LITTLE
ONES
Are the joy and sunlight of our
homes. Use all care to keep the
little ones in health. Do not give
them nauseous doses. You can
overcome their troubles with Dr.
King’s
Royal Germetuer.
They all like to take it because it
does not taste like a medicine,
but like a lemonade. It cures colic
in young children, overcomes all
bowel troubles, givesgood digestion,
and quiet, healthful sleep.
Asa tonic for weak children and
as a remedy for use in teething, it is
the greatest in the world.
by Druggists, new package,
large bottle, 108 Doses, One Dollar.
Manufactured only by
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c. Wcnt this;*. We handle aboirt one down bottWti
week.
Jurti. J. M. AM. T. RICIIARDSOK, Picdcmt, ft.C i
Met Cprlngo Surpaeoecf.
A bet tit of Y. F- F.. be* done me more good IIUM
SHrce mouths’ treatment at the Hot Bprines, Ark.
JAMES VI. KBVfTON, Abcrd, iivuwu Cos., 4V
Pimple®, Core* and Eruption* Cured.
I tike treat pleaaure iu teitifyina; ts the efflcießS
qualii.c. of ike popular rueiiciuc tor .kin tiltcueai
Irovrii ai P. r. T. I auffered for eever.l yeara wifi
an uu.lj tally axd disagreeable cruptiua on my fks.
Xf.rr taking three boltlea iu .ecordtuce witlr At*
Uoua, I ana entirely cured.
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