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0. B. STEVEN’S LETTER
Commissioner . . of Agncultnro
to Georgia Farmers.
COTTON AND CORN BACKWARD.
Long Continued Wet Weather Ha3
Dclayed Planting—Hopes Entertain
ed for More Propitious Seasons.
This has been an unusually back
ward season for our two staple crops,
The long, continued wet weather de
layed planting, and to consequence
caused much despondency among some
of our farmers. But Nature as a
general rule brings in a compensa
lion somewhere and somehow. The
backward seasons will probably be
followed by such conditions that dur
lug the next two or three months, by
Intelligent, well directed labor, assist
ed by improved modern machinery, all
disadvantages may be overcome and
Georgia retain her high rank as a corn
and cotton state.
The present conditions are about as
follows:
In the counties of north Georgia oot
ton planting Is well advanced, and in
some of them about completed; in
some of the more southern counties
of the northern belt the cotton is
coming up and doing fairly well, al
though in some places the stands are
poor owing to continuous rains and
tool weather. In some places the
early corn has poor stands, in others
it Is doing fairly well.
in Middle Georgia there are in many
places complaints that cotton is being
retarded by rain and cool nights and
want of sunshine, which is true also
of corn to some extent. At the same
time good stands of both are reported
in many places.
Southern Georgia reports in gome
counties cotton and corn both doing
well. others report cotton greatly re
tarded and much of It replanted.
Corn is generally reported in good
tondition, though in some localities
much damaged by bud and drill
worms. Ifi both Middle and Southern
Georgia good reports are made con
cerning sugar cane. Looking over
the general field, oats are doing fairly
well, which is for the most part true of
wheat. Both of these crops, how
ever, fire In some sections suffering
from rust.
1 The price of cotton In New York
on
the 12th of May was 11% cents. The
November and December cotton sold
it 9 cents a pound, but now that it is
out of the farmers’ hands, the price
has gone up. If farmers should now
have an opportunity to dispose of the
coming crop for future delivery at
8% cents, it would probably pay them
to sell at that price; for, although the
season is backward, there may yet
be a good crop, and, if a very large
one, prices may go down.
T". Middle ... Seel. Oe.,,1.
g cane .s for the most part doing
we ■
Fruits.
»**»*». are report
(1 as scarce, In Middle Georgia from
a slight crop to 50 per cent, while
apples are stated to be plentiful in
both sections.
Strawberries are of superior size
and flavor and our home markets are
full of them at 10 a quart, while many
truoh truck fov*vN fauns are sending lu thousands i of e
crates to toe north and west.
As they are exhausted, dewberries,
blackberries and raspberries will come
in. Georgia, already renowned for
peaches and melons is coming to the
front among the grekt berry states.
THg fan Tn i a au Wnrict n
do well - n Geoi^.a and a no one need r
fear any danger of over production.
Does Trucking Pay in Georgia?
Thos^ 1 who hare gone about this
business in an intelligent manner say
that it does.
Of course we do -not mean to say
that every farmer should give all his
attention to trucking, because some
have grown wealthy by so doing. Geor¬
gia is admirably adapted to be just
what she has long been—a great corn
and cotton state, and Is rapidly be¬
coming a great grass an d hay
State and though in some
places truck farming is the best busi¬
ness that a man c-an eoegage in, we
would not be understc-o-d as advising
any negle-et of our tw-o staple cro-ps.
But every farmer who is in easy dis¬
tance of a shipping point on one of
the many great lines of railways that
traverse our state, would do well to
devote a few acres to the raising of
some one of the table products for
which there is such p. great demand in
•very part of the United States.
One who will take the proper pains,
can easily make from $50 to $500 to
the acre on strawberries and raspber¬
ries, tho latter of which mature
Just as the strawberries are exhausted.
These luscious fruits always have a
great demand, not only in the large
cities of the north and west, but also
!n the cities of our own and neighbor
lag states. While the father and old¬
er sons are cultivating the cotton,
corn and peas, the mother, the girls
and younger boys can raise berries,
the sale of which will greatly increase
the ready money- of the family..
Berries do not constitute by any
means the only paying crop raised by
truck farmers. While one man can
do best with thp™ 'll? ..wm-.
haps, can make more money on pota¬
or SOnje otier garden product,
such as asparagus, lettuce, cabbages
or celery. Another finds watermel¬
ons and canteloupes h1s most profit¬
able crop. Ilach farmer must study
the nature of his land and decide in
telligently as to what crop will best
fepay his thought and toil.
The United States Department of
Agriculture in Bulletin No. 21.
on ’‘Rates of Charge for Transporting
Carden Truck, with Notes on the
Growth 0 f the Industry,” includes
' vuaL !t properly styles the justly ro¬
Downed Georgia peaches, There is
Co Bmit to the growth of the trucking
business, and its profit* are bound to
increase from year to year. Although
the western end of Long Island is so
occupied by this industry as to have
appearance of a great, truck farm,
>' et nearly all Its products are con
fumed by the millions or people with
in the radius of a few miles. The
great cities of New York and Pbila
delphia not only furnish markets for
the truck farms in their vicinity, but
ftlso Purchase largely from the market
gardens of the south. In fact, New
York city is probably, says- the bul
letin, the greatest market in the Unit
e d States for the trucking districts of
south.
A proper fertilization of the soil Is
one °f th e most essential conditions
$ or success in truck gardening. Lands
*o rich as to require no fertilization
are rarely found. Some crops re¬
Quire a great deal more fertilization
than others. According to the bul
^ etin from whic-h we have already
Quoted, the cost of fertilizer per acre
f° r leading varieties of vegetables in
the Savannah trucking district, which
embraces the entire coast country of
Georgia, is as follows: Asparagus,
$25; beets, $16; string beans, $8; cab
base, $22; cucumbers, $10; kale, $22;
watermedons, $8; peas, $12; irish pota
toes, $ 2 "’; sweet potatoes, $15; spin
B&ph, $15; tomatoes, $20.
We have the authority of the United
States Department of Agriculture for
the statement that ‘‘probably the fin
fr st trucking country in the wrold is
located on the Atlantic coast from
Norflok, Va., to southern Florida,”
embracing the entire Georgia coast .
The best soil for trucking is one in
Which there is more sand than elay,
because this kind of soil retains Jess
Water, warms up more rapidly and
promotes a quick growth of the crop
during winter and spring,
Many of our farms have more or less
land of this type, which will bring its
largest profit when devoted to truck
gardening.
O. B. STEVENS,
Commissioner.
His Last Hope Realized.
,„ *£& . S'olhS^ ,, , ,, . ,
settlers in 1889, the ediior of this paper
was among the many seekers after for
tune who made the big race one SSS fine day
, he encountered much bad water, which
together with the severe heat, gave hi r.
a very severe diarrhoea which i seemed
almost impossible to check, and along
in June the case became so bad he ex
Pected to die. One day one of his neigh
h ?"Lj >r<)U f hf hi ln ‘»‘, e 8, “ a 1 3 n ttle "
of Cliambeilam , . , 8 Colic, Cholera n r and
Diarrhoea Remedy as a last hope A big
dose w as given him while he was rolling
about, on the ground in great agony, and
in a few minutes the dose was repeated.
The good effect, of the medicine was soon
noticed and within an hour the patient
was taking his first sound s'eep for a
JortiiJtrhfc, Ibal one little bottle workud
a complete cure. The season lor bowel
( ji sor ders being at hand suggests this
iUMn Kjr s . l]e by Everett Bros. k. C. C.
Keith.
List of Confederate Dead.
By request of (Japt. Thomas J.
Kamsey, adjutant John B. Gordon
camp No. 50, U. C- V., we publish
below a list of Confederate dead
buried in Spring Place cemetery.
T. P‘ Edmondson,
Unknown, (Alabama man),
\V. G. Stuart,
Wm. Lufi'man,
W. J. Patrick,
Dr. Wm. Anderson,
W. A’ Anderson,
Nally Neill,
John H. King,
J. Q. Steed,
I. N. Heartsill,
H. Heartsill,
John Gladden.
W C. Ti'ton,
Frank Dwight,
Lem Gainer,
John O’Connor,
J. D. Temple,
W. H. Staples,
R. E. Wilson,
E* W. Rembert,
Joe Gurd,
Revarius Keister,
Manton Wilson,
S. Eldridge,
S. J. Howard,
Wm Howaad,
Thomas Dill,
M. Roberts,
E. G. Crawford,
John Mathis,
James Howard,
Asbury Hill.
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy
Is everywhere recognized as the o.ie
remedy tiiat can always be depended
upon and tiiat is pleasant to take. It is
especially children valuable for summer diarrhoea
in and is undoubtedly the
means of saving the lives of a great many
children each year. For sale by Everett
Bros. A C. C. Keith.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR’S
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
GEORGIA, Murray County.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :
Agreeable to and by virtue of an order
granted by the Court of Ordinary in and
for the aforesaid county, I wDi sell at
public outcry befoie the court house dooi
in Spring Place, Ga., on the first Tues¬
day in July, 1903, between the legal
hours of sale to the highest and best
tinker the following described real es
tate being and lying iu Murray county,
Ga., to v\ it - lot of land number two bun¬
dled and four (204) in the eighth ,8th)
district and third (3rd) section of said
county, containing one hundred and six¬
ty (100) acres more or less, except thir¬
teen (13) acres off of the north-west
corner of said lot number two hundred
and four (204); also lot of land number
one hundred and ninety-four (194) in the
eighth (8tii) district and third (3rd) sec¬
tion of said county, containing one
hundred and sixty (100) acres more or
less. All the above mentioned parcel of
lands being the lands heretofore set apart
by the Court of Ordinary Of Murray
couniy to Elizabeth Elrod, lately de¬
ceased, as a year’s support, and sold for
die purpose of distribution among the
heirs and paying the debts of said de¬
ceased. Terms cash. This the first day
of June, 1903,
Elizabeth Thomas Elrod, R. Elrod, Adrnr.,
of deceased
PETITION FOR PARTITION,
Thomas M. Wright Petition for
vs , pa-tilmn of real
Thomas Guay et al ) estate in Murray
Superior Court
at the August Term, 1903.
To the heirs of Robeit Gray, late of
said county, deceased: Yon will take
notice that at tiie superior court of Mur¬
ray coii! tv t > lm belli on the second
Monday in Align t '1903. T will apply for
partition of the lands the late Robert
Giav, died seized and possessed, being
lot of land number lortv seven in the
eighth (8 h) district and third (3rd) sec¬
tion of said Mu ray county. This the
23rd day of Jnm*, 1903. Wright
T. M,
At Chambers,
CnrtersvUle, Ga., May 23rd, 1903,
It appears to the court that some of
the defendants in the above stated ease
reside without the limits of this state.
It is there ore ordered tiiat they be
served by publication of the foregoing
notice, together with this order, o-c« a
week for six necks, during the months
of June and July next, in The Spring
Track Jimuleui’Tb, a newspaper pub
fished at Spring Place, Murray county,
Georgia. A. W Fitk, J. S. C. C. C.
Georgia, Murray County.
I, (1. II. Arrowood Clerk of the supe¬
rior court for said county, do hereby
certify tiiat tiie above and foregoing
coni) o-« a true copy of the orig iml
notice and order as appeais on the min¬
utes of court. This the 2nd day of June,
1903. G. II. ArboWooD, Clerk S. C.
Mmmmm
JWipItiohJ
than Constipation clogging is nothing bowels! more j
a of the
and nothing less than vital stag
nation or death if not relieved.
If every constipated sufferer
could realize that he is allowing
poisonous filth would to remain in his
system, he soon get relief.
Constipation invites all kind of
contagion. and Headaches, bilious¬
ness, colds many other ail¬
ments bowels disappear relieved. when consti¬
pated ford’s Black-Draught are thoroughly Thed
cleans out the bowels in an easy
and natural manner without the
purging of calomel or other vio¬
lent cathartics.
Be sure that yon get the origi¬
nal Thedford's Black-Draught,
cine made Co. by The Sold Chattanooga by all druggists Medi
in
25 cent and 81.00 packages.
Jlurifan, Ark., Mar 26, 1901.
I caanot. recommend Tiieuford’s Black
Draught too highly. hare 1 keep It In my house
ail the time and used Kfor t! he last
ten years. 1 never gare my children
any other laxative. I think 1 could
sever be able to work without It
on account of being troubled with _
Jk constipation. 1‘our medicine Is m.
M ' all that keeps me up.
C. B. .McFARLA.VD.
Laxative
■
WARRANTED PURELY VEGETABLE.
NATURE’S OWN LAXATIVE. NO GRIPING
CHILDREN TAKE IT WITHOUT TROUBLE.
NATURE’S OWN REMEDY FOR ALL DISEASES ARISING FROM
torpidity op tije LIVER, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, BILIOUS
HEADACHE, SOUR STOMACH, JAUNDICE, RESTLESSNESS
HEARTBURN, DIZZINESS, FOUL BREATH, STOMACH
PAINS, ETC , ETC.
A useful evacuant iu Dysentery, affections of the Kidneys and
Bladder, Female Complaints, etc, etc
PUT UP IN TEN AND TWENTY-FIVE SIZES. UNSAMPLE FREE,
DALTON, GA.
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SaiMIf 3
PRACTICAL i
FARHER5
have long since learned to use Done but the justly celebrated
Deering *
Harvesters,
Mowers & Rakes.
This conclusion was Detnn^^chine^^reTuSonger
and the undisputed fact that
lived and more simple of construction than those of other
manufacture. anv 3
A positive guarantee goes with each machine which insures
most marvelous results, superb workmanship in every minute
particular, ease of manipulation, lightness of draft and the great¬
est degree ot strength in all parts.
For further information write 1 wilMak^ pteaiuro
Cohutta Springs and our representative in
paying you a visit.
I'ull supply of Deering Oil, Deering Binder Twine and re*
pairs for any of the Deering machines.
Owens & Harris,
Cohutta Spiings and Spring Place, Ga
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CHARLES X. KINO,
Attorney at Law,
Will practice in all (lie courts
• ^“Special att ention given collections
C. L. HENRY
attorney at Law.
Will practice iu all the courts.
$3T~Special _
f h ^ention eiven collections.
E. O. STAFFORD, M. D,
Ramsey, * - Ga
J am still in the practice of Medicine
and Surgery and can be found at mv old
residence on Rock Creek, near Ramsey,
Ga. StSTChrome dieases and all diseases
ssssac" * s “ wa "
s. A. BROWN. r. h. steed.
BROWN & STEED,
physicians and surgeons,
Spring Place,
r tb pr ? fe ?.* ionaJ services to the
public nuhlh. . Oh Chronic diseases and diseases
of W omen and Children a specialty.
H0GHii8 - “^87
JSSS'Bftffi'i swered, * an*
Full line of Medicines kept on hand
hi troubles preparitious suited to Ch«,n-.
pied Residence, by Col. J. dwelling formerly y occu¬ PQa
J. Bates. -