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THE EMERSON NEWS.
EMERSON, GA.
Published Weekly By
EMERSON PUBLISHING CO.
A NOTABLE MEETING.
The meeting held last week by
the farmers of Bartow county is
the commencement of a movement
that cannot fail of success.
The objects to be attained a\e
laudable and just ones. The sack
ing of guano enters largely into
the cost of farming in the South
besides the wonderful economy in
saving the wastage of the fertili
zer before it reaches the furrow.
It is nothing but right that the
guano manufactories should pat
ronize an industry from which they
are made to flourish. The putting
of guano in cotton sacks makes
this much more demand for the
raw material. And demand is
what is needed to make better
prices.
Let the State Agricultural Com
missioners throughout toe South
take prompt action, and the news
papers of the land could do no bet
ter service to their constituency
than by giving the matter prompi
and aggressive agitation.
Below The News reproduces
the resolutions as adopted at the
meeting :
“We, the farmers of Bartow county,
in mass meeting assembled, do hereby
adopt the following resolutions, to
wit:
“1. Realizing the need of more ex
tended markets and greater consumpt
ion of our crop, we hereby call upon all
fertilizer companies to co-operate with
us in the use of cotton sacks in sacking
their fertilizers.
“2. We call upon all farmers and
farmers’ organizations throughout the
country to join with us in this effort
for our mutual benefit, thereby increas
ing the demand for our cotton and the
sacks, being better, would cheapen
handling and save a great loss from
waste.
“8. Further, that we purchase from
companies using cotton bugs and de
sire that said companies shall sack
same in 1(17 pound sacks.
•‘4. We extend our thanks to our
county papers for the publication and
notices of former on this
subject and ask them and the press
generally for their co-operation and
aid in this and our future efforts to ob
tain for ourselves and brother farmers
this great benefit.”
Talks on the subject were made by
Messrs. G. A. Fink, M. L. Johnson,
James Gilreath, W. II Lumpkin, W.
H. Howard and Ed Strickland.
The following amendments to the
resolutions were made:
“That we invite the guano agents to
co operate with us on this subject.
“That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to Commissioner R. T. Nesbitt and
ask him to publish a notice calling at
tention of guano companies as well as
farmers to the importance of this ac
tion and ask them to co-operate with
us.
“That Mr. M. L. Johnson be request
ed to confer with Mr. Nesbitt in this
matter.
That copy of the above resolutions
be sent to the Constitution and South
ern Cultivator.”
The amendments and the original
“*-lot»ted.
On motion the meeting adjourned to
meet al the call of the chairman.
At a Jackson day diuuer in umcago
W. J. Bryau declared that bolters could
return to the Democratic ranks only
after unconditional surrender to free
coinage.
Cardinal Rampolla declared in a let
ter to Archbishop Ireland that the pope
was deceived regarding Bishop Keane
and his policy as rector of the Oatholio
university.
Private telegrams received at Madrid
from Havana say it is possible that
Maximo Gomez and other influential
Cubans will surrender to the Spanish
authorities.
Boies Penrose has been nominated for
United Stales senator by the Republi
can legislative caucus of Pennsylvania,
receiving 183 votes to 75 cast for John
Wanamaker.
It is said that Queen Victoria has de
cided to commemorate the fact that she
has enjoyed the longest reign in English
history by abdicating in favor of the
Prince of Wales. .
EMERSON’S SHif-
ABVANTAOESo
Situated in the Best of the Future Eldorado, the South—Health, Happiness and
All are Here- Its Mines are Many and Other Resources
Too Numerous to Mention.
Emerson
Is situated in Bartow county, Ga.,
upon the Western & Atlantic Rail
road, forty-three miles north of
Atlanta and ninety-five miles south
of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Bartow County
Lies in the northwestern part of
the State, just north of the 84th
parallel of latitude. It contains
500 square miles, or 320,000 acres.
There are 91,325 acres of improved
land, valued at .$2,162,212. The
remaining - portion reems with trm
erals, and is probably far more val
uable than the improved acreage.
The soil is varied as to the sur
face, but almost in variably the
subsoil is red or yellow ciay. The
red or gray ridge lands, the mulat
to uplands, and the deep alluvial
of the croek and river bottoms aro
all productive, and generously re
spond to the skill and care of the
cultivator. Cotton, corn, tobacco,
all the cultivated grasses, wheat,
oats, barley, rye, sorghum, Irish
and sweet potatoes, in fact, all the
products of the temperate zone,
excep' seme varieties of the citrous
family, find in Bartow county a
congenial soil, and reach here their
highest degree of perfection. The
average yield per acre of cotton for
the whole county is one-half bale;
the average yield for the State is
one-fifth bale. The average yield
of corn for the State is 24,000,000
bushels. Of this county
TITO EMERSON NEWS
GRAPHITE MILL.
produces about 400,000 bushels.
There are 138 counties in the State,
Bartow leads them all in the num
ber of bushels of wheat raised, and
all her farm products per acre will
be found largely in excess of any
other county in Georgia. There
are within the county, as we have
stated, 9L325 acres of improved
lands, valued at $2,i62,212, which
produced in 1879 —census of 1880
—a crop valued at $908,588; or,
in o’.her words, the land in one
year produces nearly half its val
up. Tffis needs no
Sf ‘-.'or the sake of comparison let
us ;ake Adams county, Illinois,
where farms valued at $17.595,477
produced crops valued at $8,294,-
250, or about one-sixth of the
value of the farms. These figures
speak for themselves.
Brftow is peculiarly adapted to
the growth of all the grasses. Al
though too far south for the fa
mom h*je grass of Kentucky and
Ten <ee, yet her farmers find an
exce »it substitute in
Orchard, Lespideza, Striata, and
the native grasses which are succu
lent and lasting. Clever finds in
the red soils of the county a home
w r here it reaches perfection. From
one to two tons per acre are easily
produced, and it soon becomes
practically indigenous.
Examples of Fertility.
We now give a few of many ex
amples of the fertility of our soil
PUMPKIN VINE WATER POWER.
and its productiveness. Each of
these yields were reported to the
county and State fairs and verified
by the affidavits of disinterested
parties.
Mr. T. H. Moon produced on
one acre 105 bushels i f corn,while
his neighbor, Mr. Jeremiah Dan
iel, produced 125 bushels. Mr,
R. Peters, Jr., harvested from
three acres of lucerne four years
old i 4 tons and 200 pounds of hay,
or 9.400 pounds per acre.
Capt. C. W. Howard produced
from one acre of unmanured land,
which cost him 25 cents per acre,
with one hoeing and ploughing,
108| bushels of Irish potatoes.
Major Charles H. Smith (Bill
Arp) produced from one acre 127
bushels of corn.
Many other instances like the
foregoing might be given, but we
deem these sufficient to show the
capacity and productiveness of
the soil under proper cultivation.
4 Fruits*
The fruits successfully grown
here are the apple, cherry, pear,
plum, in all its varieties, grape,
peach, gooseberry, rn uMn ■■
blackberry and strawberry. Many
oi the small fruits grow' wild all
over the country in luxuriant pro
fusion.
Vegetables.
Almost every variety of vegeta
ble attains to greatest perfection
and are raised in abundance with
but trifling labor and care, Our
markets are excellent, near by,and
facilities for quick transportation
are ample and unsurpassed. The
truck gardener will find here a
most remunerative field.
Tiryiber
Is abundant, and the variety is
wonderful. Said a settler in writ
ing upon this subject: “A few
years ago one of my boys, who is
a mechanical genius, made sixty
four rulers of as many different
vinds of wood found upon the
Home place of one hundred acres
in forest. There* were twelve of
oak, three of hickory, three of
ihb, three of elm, three of poplar,
two of locust, two of pine, four
of hawthorne, then there were
beach and willow, and walnut and
crab, and osage orange, and cherry
nul apple aud peach, and plum
and pear, and persimmon and
elder, and redbud and sour wood,
tnd blackberry and sour bark, and
cedar and a number of others. He
made one of a grape vine that
measured eight inches in diameter,
and split four rails to the cut.”
This gives the stranger a fair
idea of the extent and variety of
our different woods. All land
not in cultivation is beautifully
and luxuriantly timbered.
Water.
An attractive feature of our
country homes is the number of
bold, gushing springs that give us
pure water and supply the stock
in almost every field. Running
streams of purest water permeate
the valleys in all directions, and
such a state of affairs as we have
lately heard of in the state of
Texas never obtains in the county
of Bartow. The Etowah river
runs through the county from
northeast to southwest. There
are also numerous creeks that; in
many instances would elsewhere be
dignified with the name of rivers.
In several portion* of tk© county
fine mineral springs of alum, sul
phur and chalybeate gush forth
their offerings of health and
strength to the invalid. When
springs are not convenient a never
failing supply of water, pure, cold
and sparkling is obtained from
wells at depths ranging from 25
to 50 feet.
Climate.
In many of the Northern and
Northwestern States a most erro
neous idea prevails in regard to
the climate of Georgia. Because
its winters are mild, and it is lo
ti in the far south our Northern
friends imagine that the summers
must be extremely long, hot, and
unhealthy. No greater mistake
could possibly be made. Let U 6
consider our altitude. Emerson is
about 1200 feet above the sea.
Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, Michi
gan, are 700 feet. Saratoga, N.
Y., is 1250. Mackinaw, Mich., is
800. And Waukesha, Wisconsin,
900. Now for the actual tempera
ture for the mild winter months of
TX'cemhei?, January and February,
the mean temperature is 44.8 de
grees ; for the midsummer months
of June, July and August 78 de
grees. The mean temperature for
the entire year 61.9 degrees. Rain
fall for the year 47.2 inches; for
the months of June, July and
August 10.18 inches. These fig
ures are compiled from observa
tions made from 1574 to 1884 un
der tlie direction of the Commie*
sioner of Agriculture. The North
ern reader is invited to compare
them with the temperature of fiis
own locality. The climate is in
■ Ued delightful. The days, are
mild and the nights cool and de
lightfully refreshing. Outdoor
work can be done the year round
without fear of sunstroke in sum
mer or blizzard in winter.