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TRY AN Al). IN THE TIMES!
A ISig Ad. Will,
Sell Your Goods:
It attracts ucvy custom' r ■ .and bolds
the old ones. People will forget you
and yoar goods if you don't constantly
“jog their memory.”
A Little Ad. Will
Bring back your stray animal,
find a purchaser for your house and lot, 1
horse and buggy', or anything else.
TRY AN AD. IN THE TIMES!
THROUGH THE STATE
News of the Week Gathered
From All Parts of Georgia.
MANY IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
Tlio Southern Hallway tu Move Its Gen¬
eral Ollices From Washington to Atlanta.
Sale of the Georgia, Mhtlaud ami Gull
Conflrined—HU Walker, CliargeU With
the Murder of Frank MAcquitted.
Dahloxega, Ga., Feb. 10.—A few
nights ago Mr. Blake, who had given
information against illicit distillers in
Lumpkin county, was forced to leave
that countv and seek other climes- He
W -..0 Dawson, county and IcnW .
place from a Mr. Brown. When ho
went v\ ith his wife and three children
to take possession ho was informed by
AIi. Brown that lie (Blake) was au4u
former and that he could notoccupy his
Blake with his family then proceeded , ,
on their Way, they kfiew not whither,
in search of a home. They camped that
night a few miles from Brown’s liouso
on the side of the road. About mid
night the Blnkes were awakened and
found themsel ves surrounded by a crowd
ot men, who had tlieir guns leveled at
th $P x -
1 WaS . , '7^ rop °5 and I h0u
7 short distance from where
h »i ^children were
SJSiiK wH°Sf n“7,S s “f* °S 0b, =?■ ““ 7
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A Peculiar Accident.
Albany, Ga., Fob. 8.—An unusual
aud almost fatal accident occurred at
Kiuger IT,.™,™ * or,? Pace s variety • * woi-ks , in . this .. .
city. J. 0. Culpepper, a white work
man, was at ono of the saws handling a
P * k - ^ he “. suddenly a splinter 3 feet
long and 3 inches wide was knocked
lavWi ;! pepp StnV 7 aUtl which ?*£ S01lt passed harlla entirely ? \°
tbronglr one of his thighs and none
trating the other t° tho bouo. Culpep-
7 > f y0 d * h0 “«* horolc “ ervo
' v e - of , timber being
,. ,i piece was
n y 1 ? F? * dgm0Kt P ’ f rc£u S HowiU ug
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recover.
The Sale Confirmed.
Columbus, Ga., F*. H.-MgeW.
T. Newman arrived m Columbus and
held a short but very important session
ttgf the United States district court. The
otritelastod for about two hours,
B of the' Georgia Midland and
railroad was confirmed, and it wiy»
mlBor ordered that a certain amount ovajj
/jSHtwyors’ proceeds of the sale be paid
fees and. other expenses,*
of stated.,
rTha-Jj^ll for liv; ■,
agceJj® '-''iA-:-:-'
be ^
tI.«K '
Athens and Harmony Grove Connect!__ r
Athens, Ga., Feb. 8. —The first tele¬
phonic message from Harmony Grove
came to AtTieus announcing the comple¬
tion of the Hno from Jefferson to that
placo. This is the second line built by
a company of Jackson county citizens,
whose intent is to build lines to all tho
prominent towns in their county. This
venture is proving alreadya good busi¬
ness investment.
To Move to Atlanta.
Atlanta, Feb. 11.—The Southern
railway is about to begin to move its
general Jo Atlanta. offices Captain back John from Washington A. Dodson,
tho officp general hero fdadmaster, next month, will anil move Superin¬ his
tendent Lnm, qf bridges and trestles,
\vjll porue here in a fety days.
Iu tlie Hands of a Receiver.
j Savannah, Feb. 12. — Crohan &
Dooncr, a largo drygoods firm on
Broughton street, has gone iuto the
hands of a receiver. Mortgages amount¬
ing to $10,500 were filed and those hold¬
ing them made application for tho re¬
ceiver.
Free Schools For Douglasville.
I PQUGfiASVlLfjB, Ga., Feb. 13,— Aq
election was held here for the purpose
'of determining the question of free
s -bools for the city. The result was 141
for free schools and 4 against them.
Boys Must lletire Early.
. Wavcrgss, Ga., Feb. 7.—Boys under
18 years of age are prohibited from be¬
ing on the streets of Wayeross between
10 p. m. and daylight, by an ordinance
y»*° just passed. *’
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The Case Will Be Appoaled.
, Dublin, Ga., Feb. 1L—Counsel for
fvouis Tillery, couyicted of mauslaugh:
for jn the killing of David Gray, wifi
jippoal the case to tho supreme court.
I Ed Walker Not Guilty.
, Dublin, Ga., Feb. 11.—Tho jury in
the case of Edward Walker, charg' 1
with the murder of Frank Moss, re¬
turned a verdict of not guilty.
; Southern Express Office Robbed*
! Millkn, Ga., Feb. 7.—The Southern
JExpress frtfe unlocked office here and was about broken $100 into, the
robbers escaped. stolen;
: SpIciiU ol Colonel Henley.
Athens. Ga., Feb. 6.— Colonel Albert
.'committed jl’. Henley, suicide a member by of shouting tho A f hens bar,
himself
through the heatl.
! Keener Is Suite.
i
| Clayton, Ga., Feb. 8.—The jury has
(decided that W. S. Keener, the con¬
victed murderer, is sane, and he will be
banged Feb. 14.
Six Thousand Dollars Stolen.
j Leesburg, 0„ Feb. 13.— The safe of
;fhe Leesburg bank was opened by ex-’
plosires aiidulU tho- money, amounting
to $6,000, was taken away.’
! Many Insurgents Killed.
Madrid, Feb. 12, *— pi^patebea yo
eeived here fi^sn Cuba say that 107 in¬
surgents were killed during the recent
fighting there.
Vol. IV.
TRADE IN THE SOUTH.
Review of Industrial and Dullness < omll
Hons For the Fast Week.
Chattanooga, Feb. 11.—Tho Trades¬
man has received reports as to indus¬
trial and business conditions all over
the south for the week ending Feb. 11.
The bond subscriptions being so large
and so widely scattered have had a re¬
kinds. markably good effect on business of all
The approach of planting time
is bringing out the cotton remaining in
tiie bauds of the planters, who find
prices satisfactory. It- is believed this'/ear. Unit
General a very large crop will bo made
merchandise business is active
and is increasing in amount. Lumber
dealers report that the export demand is
iron grousing larger each week. Coil! and
men are still doing a largo business,
lmt t!le demand is not so active as it
BdiL'S 1
the week.
The following mills wevo chartered
or organized during the week: The Iu
dian Head mffls, capital $600,000. to be
built at Cordova, Ala., by the Nashua
H.; Manufacturing company of Nashua, N.
a $500,000 mill to bo built at ltuth
erfordton, N. O.; the Beaufort cotton
mills of Beaufort, S. 0., capital, $300
000; the Sumter Manufacturing com
pauy of Sumter, S. 0., with $ 100,000
capita]; ville, n $75,000 cotton mill at Branch
S. O.; ono to cost $50,000 at Ox
ford, Ala., and one to cost $50,000 at
Washington, Ga.
The following new industries are re
ported as established or incorporated
during * the week: The Automatic Pack
-aSf’WTL 01 h3£S
010o,, “‘ r “‘ cap
D. Gribble Lumber
company of Houston, Tex., with $50,
000 capital; the R. C. Lumber company
of Napier, Tex., also with $60,000 capi
a $25,000 lumber company at Shreve
port, La., and a boiler man ntact tiring
company at New Orleans, La., with
$25,000 capital
Brick works are to bo located at Lib
e rty, S. C.; canning factories at electee Hump
ton, Fla., and Dublin, Ga.;
lighting m plants at Ocala, Fla., Burkes
v and e grist and Lawrenceburg, mills Bakersport Kv., and and Lou- flour
at
don, Ky., and Thorn Grove, Tenh. Ice
factories are reported at Macon, Ga.,
and Lawrenceburg, Ky.; marble works
at Luttrell, Team, and a mill supplies
factory at Memphis, Teuu. Coalmines
are to be opened at Denning and Jeuuy
Lind, Ark., and a sandstone quarry at
SfStefeiSS. La Porte, Tex.; &EKS *££$
Reidsville, N. 0., a tobacco woodworking factory at
and
plants Ga., Raleigh, at Seaborn, Ala., Fitzgerald,
N. 0,, Branohville, S. O.,
Memphis, Team, and Richmond, Va.
The enlargements of industrial plants
include‘brick -and ■ tile works at Owens
h° ro t Ky-. cotton mills at Stonewall,
Miss., and w ki
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t: ii
FATAL EXPLOSION.
Oue Man Killed, One Fatally .Injured and
Five Slightly Hart. * w
,
Pawtucket, R. I., Feb. 10.—One
man was killed, ono fatally injured and
five others wore slightly hurt by tho ex¬
plosion of a 110-horse power boiler at
the Ann Hop© cotton mill, Lonsdale. The
list Patrick of killed anil injured is as follows:
MeCanuon, unmarried, a flre
mau, instantly killed
Hugh coal McOlarel, carrier, married, fractured two chil¬
dren, a skull,
will die.
James Finnegan, a fireman, badly
scalded, will recover.
The engineer, assistant engineer-, an¬
other fireman and a coal carrier, who
were iu the building at the time, were
also hurt, but their injuries ape not se¬
rious,
An Explosion at Pittsburg,
Pittsburg, Feb. 10.—By an explosion
of gas iu a furnace at Jones & Laugh
lin’s iron works, Martin Kronski, a
workman, was fatally burned and three
others seriously injured. The explosion
was Caused by the gas from a leaking
valve igniting from a match struck by
a workman to light his pipe
ARRESTED in MEMPHIS.
A Man Who Ha<l Forged His Owu Pardon.
Had Murdered His Father.
Chattanooga, Feb. 10.—A special
from Stevenson, Jackson county, Ala.,
says that D. L. Boyer, the patricide,
who forged letters and recommenda¬
tions to Governor Turney aud secured
his owu pardon from the Tennessee
penitentiary, was arrested in Memphis,
Sheriff Teufi., of ou Jackson inforifiatfou county. furnished by the
Boyer was sentenced to life imprison¬
be ment front Cocke indictment comity, Tenn., where
is also under for forging
a deed to fiis father's farm. Be hoped
by the murder of his father to come
into possession of the home place. His
relcaso from state’s prison was effected
Jan. 9, 1896, but no reward was offered
for his capture until a few days ago.
The fugitive has been hiding iu Jack
son county, discovered Ala., only and recently his hiding through place
was
letters passing between his relatives
living ifi the two states. Boyer was
supposed to have an Nashville; accomplice outside
the prison walls in
STORM IN BROOKLYN.
Brick Building Blown IIowii and Three
Persons Burled In the Ruins.
Brooklyn,. Feb. 6. —A 3 -story brick
building on Secon# avenue, between
Thirty-nieth aud Fortieth streets, was
blown down during a storm and three
persons wero buried in the ruins.
Their names are:
I James Quigley.
Michael Mulcahey.
-Simmons.
Tho building was occupied by Burr &
Denison, chemical manufacturers.
Appointed by Governor Turney.
Nashville, Feb. 7.—Governor Tur¬
ney has appointed the state board of
charters authorized by the last legisla¬
Bolivar, ture, as follows: and W- Albert If- Taylor T. McNoal of New of
Market, one year; Lewis Tillman of
Km xvillo, and G. H. Slr.ughter of St.
Bethlehem, two yeara; Bolton Smith of
Memphis, and J. D. Barbee of Nash¬
ville, three years. ■ ■ „ «*
BULLOCH TIMES,
Statesboro, Biillocli Comity. Georgia, Thursday, Feb. 13, J8%.
PLEADING BISHOPS.
They Aik the Haler* of Four Nations to
Interfere In Behalf of Armenia.
New York, Feb. 10.—Sixty-tvro bish¬
ops of the Protestant Episcopal church
in this country, who, ft week ago, peti¬
tioned President Cleveland to take some
forcoful action that would lead to a ces¬
sation of the massacre of Christians in
Armenia, have sent petitions to tho
archbishop Augelican of church, Canterbury, head of the
and to the various
minister of foreign affairs, to the czar,
the president of France, and the empe¬
rors of Germany and Austria.
In their letter to the Archbieh of Can¬
terbury, the bishops declare that a cru¬
sade supported by Christians the world
and over plead would that be the truly warranted, church Eng¬ and
land, through its great should of
action. episcopate tako
The great powers, they pray in the
name aid of or their Christianity, persecuted to brethren come to who the
are than suffering from a persecution worse
the Roman emperors ever pepe
trated, worse than the martyrs of tho
early church endured.
“Our differences of doctrine, “they
say” arc as nothing in the presence of
a crisis like this. All we, who profess
and call ourselves Christians, must seek
the rescue of hundreds of thousands of
onr fellow Christians from death, or
what is worse than death. It is not a
of policy but of Christianity,
even of common humanity. For
sake save our brothers from
and rescue a Christian commu¬
from extinction. ”
WILLIAM H. CRAIN DEAD.
nad Represented the Eleventh District of
Texas In the Last Six Congresses,
Washington, Feb. 10.—William H.
Crain, representative from the Eleventh
district of Texas and a member of that
hotly since the Forty-ninth congress,
died at his homo hero at 4 a. m.
William H. Crain of Cnero, Tex., was
born at Galveston, Nov. 25, 1848. He
graduated lege New at St. Francis Xavier’s col
in York city on July 1, 1807,
and received the degree of A. M. several
years afterwards. He studied law in
the office of Stockdalo aud Proctor at
Iudjanola, Tex., and was admitted to
practice in February, 1871. He prac¬
ticed law since that time.
In 1873 he was eleotod as tho Demo¬
cratic cahdidate frtr district attorney of
Texas rite Twenty-third and electod judicial district of
the Democratic was a state senator
on 187(5. ticket in February,
He has occupied a seat in tho
past six Congresses, beginning with the
elected Forty -ninth and being successively re¬
to the Fiftieth Fifty-first, Fifty
second, Fifty-third aud Fifty-fourth
congresses.
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Nominated by the l*re«i;tent to H *
) tador to Germany. • l|
Washington, Feb. 10.—The president
has nominated Edwin F. Uhl of Michi¬
gan to be ambassador extraordinary and
States minister plenipotentiary of the United
Formal to Germany.
assurance had been received
here that the appointment would bo en¬
tirely Mr. satisfactory William to Emperor William.
assistant R. Rockhill, the third
nominated secretary fill of state, will be
Jo tfie office of the first
assistant secretary, vacated bv Mr. Uhl,
place It is will probable in that Mr. 'RockRill’a
turn be filled by a p roino,
tion of some person in the state d( eparf-.
meat.
Found Dead lit tho I'ntomaa Rivor.
Washington, Feb. 10.—William L
Littleliales, a lawyer, 37 years of age,
who lived at 938 Twenty-third street,
was found drowned in the Potomac
river. His death was, it is believed,
the result of an accident, as he suffered
from vertigo and probably fell iuto the
water. Mr. Littleliales nad practiced
law in Pottsville, Pa., previous to com¬
health ing to failed Washington, aud before his
several years crimuiailawyaf ago had a
brilliant reputation as a
SIilp anil C<trgo Binned,
Cedar Keys, Fla., Feb. 10.—The
schooner John F. Foster of Philadel¬
phia, with a cargo of lumber from Pen¬
sacola aud Rio do Janeiro, was burned
100 miles west of here. The ship and
cargo are a total loss. The captain aud
crow of seveu in* n left tho vessel in an
open managed yawl and afterwards capsized.
They where to they get on the bottom of
the boat reuiaified for 68
hours before being picked’ up by the,
Bessie Wiss and landed here.
Death I«\ the. Pri^e Rln|.
Philadelphia, Feb. As a result
of a prize fight in this city, Frederick
Schlochter, aged 40 years, one of the
principals, Henry Pluckfelder, is dead and ex-Policeman
other principal, is aged charged 38 years, the
in jail with
murder. The fight took: placo in the
second storv of Schlochter' mattress
factory. Schlechter was knocked down
aud his head hit she floor so hard that
his skull was fractured.
Sugar Coming From Egypt,
Philadelphia, Feb. ifi.— About 12,-
300 tons of sugar are bow afloat on the
way to this port from Alexandria, Egypt,
These cargoes are on board hero British
tramp stempers, gnej are dare about
March 1, The importation in large
quantities of Egyptiau sugar is a new
thing made necessary through the ap¬
prehensions that the Cuban crops, by
reason of the war, will be very poor.
An* Aerolite Exploded Above Madrid.
Madrid, Feb. 10.—An immense aero¬
lite exploded above |his city at 9:30 a.
m. There was a vivid glare of light
and a loud report, followed by a general
panic. All the buildings were shaken
and many windows were shattered.
According to the officials of the Madrid
observatory the explosion occurred 20
miles above the ear.' p.
One Killed aqd Severe*! Injured,
St. Joseph, J|o., Feb. 10, — Word
reached here that at a free-for-all fight
at Sugar Lake, Mo., a few miles south
of here, on Sunday, one man was killed
injured. and several others wore or less seriously
QUESTION
AND ANSWERS
Commmissloner . Nesbitt’s In¬
quiry Box For the Month.
MUCH INFORMATION FURNISHED.
time and Other Ingredient* In Hardwood
Slid What They Are Worth—How to
llnrn a Kiln of Lime to Be Used on the
Farm m s Fertiliser—Hardwood Saw¬
dust For Young Fi uR Trees, Kto.
Question 1.—I have abundance of
corn and meat to make a cheap cotton
crop. Would yon adufee me to Increase
giro my acreage of cotton J Yes or no, and
your reasons.
Answer l.—My enndid opinion of
any man that wants to increase his
acreage of cotton at this time is, that he
is very deficient in business judgment.
Too much cotton was planted in the
south last year, aud had tho seasons
been suitable, the crop would have
reached 8,500,000 or 9,000,000 bales, and
5 cents would hav%-bo«n the ruling
price for it. There is a disposition
among individual farmers to increase
their acreage in cotton on the ground
that there will be a reduced acreage
planted and they will benefit by it My
friend, this theory carried out by all
the farmers—and very many of them
entertain it, would result in tho largest
crop and the lowest price in the past
30 years. Contrast the condition of the
state at this time with its condition a
year ago. Note lioW much better con
touted aud happier the farmers are, and
rOmoinbcr that the change was brought
about by reducing the cotton acreage,
and increasing the acreage of all food
crops, resulting in p, fair price tor cot¬
ton, and bountiful provision crops of all
kinds. If we are continue on this
road to prosperity, abnndanco aud hap¬
piness, we must still reduce the cotton
acreage, and increase Qiat of tho provi¬
sion crofts. If yoUhWant to return to
6 cent Cotton, S*1 | scorn, debt, dan¬
ger and destrucjju quicko^\t>|*V djinaucially, the
surest aud is to increase
the cotton acreagvo 1 ' 12 months or
There will suffice to pa^ ,u there.
haa never bai j| ft time in thd
of oottoiicp|i| ^^lig when a small
was prosper
.of the “ '
so'
Tho eotto > revision
OV-
inc! noi
j by HKditiou ggfTn cotton.
Imagine Ml with if yt^JH lO.OSiPP mado, next
a 6 crop
corn and meat scarce, id a war with
England on onr ban__ Your entire
cotton crop would notlrobably, gnalo in such
a case, pay your bibs- On the
other hand, imagine i Jr country over¬
flowing with provisif as of all kinds,
with a 7,000,000 baSf Vop of cotton
made; then war or m: war, we could
get along first rate, and. in the event
that the world was at peace, our cotton
would certainly brtug Q cents a pound.
No farmer need flatter himself that he
can steal a march on & neighbors by
planting a big, crop of cotton, while
everyone else reduces their acreage. If
it is in your mind to Go this, you can
rest assured that it is iu the minds of
thousands of others' to do the same
thing. Consequently, to attain the de¬
sired result, each man most do what he
knows to be right in the preufisai, aud
the outcome will than fie assured pros¬
perity fqr. himself and the state.
Question 2.t= Would you advise one
who is just plan beginning, to farm on the in¬
tensive or In the manner usually
practiced ? Which would be the most
profitable and satisfactory? subject
Answ'er 2.—This has been so
fully discussed in the agricultural pa¬
pers that evory farmer should be famil¬
iar with it. As yet, however, yery. few
work their lan^ ou the intensive sys¬
tem, though obliged to admit that theory
and practice are both in its favor, |jy
intensive fanning is simply meant bet¬
ter preparation of the sojl, heavier for
tilisiug and faster working of the crop
When up. There i« »a question what¬
ever, aud absolutely no doubt, that if
you will subsoil ton acres of land, put
upon it the manure that you would or¬
dinarily put upon 20 acres, and culti¬
vate the crop twice as ofteu ns you would
the 20 acres, then the ten acres so
treated will produce as mush as the 20
acres, as usually prepared and culti¬
vated. The above statement is an ax
jom that does not admit of dispute, and
you and every other fariper in the state
<pan demonstrate the fact for yourselves.
H yofi are afrajd to test it on a largo
icala, try tt on two or three acres in any
crop you please and I venture you will
then be convinced. If then you admit
that my statement is correct, the ad
vantages of the intensive system will
at ouce present themselves to you. Yon
can leave out half the land you have
been cultivating, letting ^e |( past, eg you
?an Rpt if In oat? to fojjowed by pea#,
thus getting it in goad shape for an¬
other year. You will be rid of half tho
labor of hoeing, aud you will be im¬
proving your land year by year, instead
of wearing it out. These vfogld be tho
advantages gained by the intensive sys¬
tem of farming, and tt seems to mo
they are sufficient to induce evory
farmer to try the plan. The prefl* and
satisfaction of such farming wo*ld
naturally follow from the advantages
gained over the ordinary system pur
cued.
As you sure a beginner, take my ad-
vico, avoid the old rots, and commence
yonr farm llfo aright, keeping abreast
with all the Improvements, that mod¬
ern thought and science and experi¬
ments havo developed, and juy word for
it, you will find the occupation of farm¬
ing not only healthful and attractive
but profitable as well. The old order of
things lias passed away. It is no longer
possible to take a fow crops from a farm
of virgin soil, and then leaving it
scarred and eroded and almost ruined,
move further west to ropeat the same
process on other soil. It is our interest,
therefore, to improve and not wear out
our farms, and this can host be done by
adopting improvements in preparing
our land and cultivating our crops, in
other words, by intensive farming.
There are millions of acres in the old
countries of Europe, that after liuu
dreds of yoars of cultivation, are better
today than when the original forest
growth was first cut cut from them,
while in this new ccruutry it wouid bo
difficult to find many acres of farm land
as good os wliou first cleared, while mil¬
lions of acres have boon rendered almost
worthless by careless cultivation. Lot
us not forgot that our descendants must
look for a support to the sarao lauds
that wo are now cultivating, and that
therefore it is our duty, and should be
our pleasure, to preserve and improve
them. This cannot be done by the old
plan of shallow plowing over a largo
area,‘putting the soil in the best possible
condition to be washod away by evory
heavy rain, but it can bo dono and with
profit to ourselves by the intensive plan
of farming.
THE POSSIBILITIES OP OUR SOIL
But few of our farmers are aware of
the immense productiveness of tho soil
when thoroughly prepared, highly fer¬
tilized and well worked. To oncourago
and stimulate intensive farming, tho
Weekly Atlanta Constitution last .spring
offered a premium of $100 an acre for
the best results from au acre each of
corn, cotton, sweet potatoes, water¬
melons and tobacco. The following
farmers took the premiums offered:
For the best aero of cotton: Mr. W.
G. Cross of Bibb county, Ga., for 7,089
of seed cotton, raised and gath¬
at an expense of $52.20.
For the heist acre of corn: Mr. G. B.
of Newborn, Ga., for 17641
raised at an expeuse of $ 0 .70.
For tho best acre of watermelons: Mr.
(.90.
For the best acre of tobacco: Mr. J.
8. DcJarnette of South Fork, Ark.,
1,052 pounds of fine tobacco, raised at
an expeuse of $43.25.
For the best acre of sweet potatoes:
Mr. W. & Dill of Sandy Flat, S. O.,
J29}$ bushels, raised at an expense of
$24.80.
There were some 80 or 40 contestants,
all of whom made excellent crops, bat
those above mentioned were the best.
Now, in view of such results as these,
why will farmers persist iu cultivating
12 to 15 acres to mako five bales of cot¬
ton, when the same amount can bo
made on two, or certainly three acres of
land, with much less labor, too, in tho
hot summer weather. If Mr. Dill of
Sandy Flat, S. O., can mako‘529^
bushels of potatoes, then I am sure any
good farmer in Georgia can make some¬
where in that neighborhood. Lot us
aim to diminish the number of acres
that cultivate, but at the same time
increase our crops.
This can only be doue by thorough
preparation of the land and judicious
manuring, combined with good cultiva¬
tion nfter the crops are up. Let m not
strive to put in a largo acreage to the
plow, but confine onr efforts to a smaller
acreage, better prepared, bettor fertilized
and better cultivated.
By this coarse, while our crops will
be increased, the cost of making thorn
will be diminished, and we will have
more land to devote to pasturage and
the raising of stock. It should lie tho
aim of every farmer to so manage his
land, that year by yoar its fertility
would be increased aud not diminished
as is usually the case.
be Question increased, 8. and —Will why the do cotton acreage' it?
you oppose
Answer A—As Commissioner of Ag¬
riculture I am iu a position to know bet¬
ter than any yther man in the state,
vow prospective plans, and as yonr di¬
rect representative in the stato govern¬
ment, I deem it my duty to warn you
against increasing the acreage in cotton.
The signs all point £o this intention.
The sale of mules throughout this and
adjoining states, is much larger than
for some yeais past, and the sales of fer¬
tilizer tags from this office, are almost
double what they wore, at this time last
year.
These facts and others that have
: knowledge, indicate with
come to my
certainty yunr intention to increase tho
aerf-agfi fej cotton, aud I want to warn
^pu while it is not too late, of tho dan¬
ger of such action. I have been a
farmer all my life, am one still, and ex
pect to coutiiiuo iu the saific occupation
while l iiyc; therefore I can write to
you with a full understanding of your
needs and desires, and in entire sympa¬
thy with you in every respect. Yoff all
know that in 1894 with a 10 , 000,000 balo
epofl. GW cotton was sold at from 4 to
5 ceuts a pound. You know also that
with a crop of about 7,009,000 bales in
1805 wo sold our cotton at from 7 to 9
ceuts a pound, and it would have sold
for a stiU better price, but for the largo
surplus left on hand by tho enormous
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crop o the previous year. Now like
causes will always pr< dneo like re¬
sults, and therefore, as surely us the
sun rises and sets, just so suiely will a
10,000,000 bale crop of cotton for 1894
result in the ruinous price of 1 to 5 cents
a pound, while on the other hand, n
crop of 7,000,000 bales, following tho
present crop of about Hie same size, will
just as surely result in a price of 8 to 10
cents, or perhaps more, per pound.
If you are working a i-horso farm,
would you prefer to have at the end of
the year a scant supply of corn, potatoes,
syrup, moat, etc., with ten bales of cot¬
ton worth $‘350, or would you prefer to
havo plenty of all kinds of provisions, a
bountiful supply of meat and seven
bales of cotton, worth from $800 to $350?
It should not take you long to make a
choice between those t wo propositions.
Tho first stands for increased cotton
acreage, the last for restricted cotton
acreage.
Again, look at the quotations now in
the New York market and you will
find October and November cotton fu¬
tures at least half a ceut a pound below
prices for February or March. There
is no reason on earth for this, except
that tho speculators havo already made
up tlioir minds that you arc bent on
planting a largo cotton crop, and they
are forcing down tho price in anticipa¬
tion of a big yield.
On the other hand, could it bo posi¬
tively known that the next crop would
not exceed 7,000,000 bales, cotton would
today be bringing from 1 to 2 cents a
pound more than at present, and the
quotations for next full and winter
months would be still higher. If ono
year of bountiful provision crops, with
ft moderate ootton crop, brought com¬
parative prosperity to tho farmers of our
stato, which yon will all admit is a fact,
what would be tho result of ton years’
farming on tho same plan? Why, my
friends, wo would be tho most prosper¬
ous and therefore the best contented
farming community in tho world, and
lands would sell for twice or three
times ns much as they do now.
Whilo then so near prosperity, let me
upon you, not to hinder our ad¬
by any acts of yoa« own. Lot us
throw away tho substance by grasp¬
at tho shadow, (a Id jthe (log-in
fable, who, lug tho brook
‘-a log, with afcIFQ mouth,
lost like tho lose
bouo und fniVto- eatoh thwWsdhW'.
j^t ns press on iu tho way we marked
out last year. Let ns plant corn, oats,
potatoes, peas, sorghum aud sugar cane
in sufficient quantities to insure us an
abundant supply, even though we
should have poor seasons. Let ns raise
even more hogs, cattle and horses tliau
we did iu 1898. This way and this way
only leads to prosperity and iudopeud
ence.
Question 4.—Pleaso toll mo how to
lmprovo my land so that it will become
more and move productive.
Answer 4. —. The suggestions from
this department upon this subject are
intended, of course, for tho averngo
fanner of tho stato who has no money
to threw away or to risk upon costly ex¬
periments, but who wants information
obtained from tho experience of others
which can be put iuto practice cheaply
and effectively.
i There are practically but two ways
of improving the soil.
1. Mechanically.—Draining, subsoil
iug, etc. Chemically.—Adding plant food to
2.
the soil in any manner whatevor.
3. Evory intelligent man knows
some of the advantages of drain¬
age; it makes the soil warmer; it
keeps the plant food from becom¬
ing too diluted and leaves it plant; in ft
proper form for absorption by tho
it permit# free access of uir to tho roots
of plants; it brings about a decomposi¬ the
tion of organic matter aud prevents
formation of hurtful acids. Therefore,
us ono step towards improving tho laud,
drain all your wet lands where they ad¬
mit of it. This can be done located cheaply with l>y
covered ditches of properly rocks tho
ten or 12 inches at bo.ttom,
or if rocks are not inches convenient, iu diameter pin© polos and
from four to six
with the bark off will answer almost
as well. With the low places drained,
then comes deep land, plowing -which and will snbsoiliiig enable
for the higher surplus of heavy
it to hold the water
rains without washing aud permit tho
Toots of plants to run down deeper in
search or food. Your low lands being
drained ftud yonr uplands all that subsoilod,
you havo douo about you can
do for the mechanical improvement of
yonr land. Of ootirso all lands with any
inclination to wash must be terraced, for
no dept h ot snbsoiiiug will alone prevout
washing of the soil during very heavy
rains.
j To chemically improve the soil land,
there must bo returned to tho more
plant food than is taken away by the
annual crops. all
1 To do this tho farmer must bend
his energies to the making of manure haul
iu his stables aud lots; he must
muck from the swamps an.l leaves from
the woods, with which to bed his stock
of every kind, removing and removing
the bedding as often a* necessary; he
must keep his cottonseed or exchange
them for eottouseed meal, which, with
acid phosphate and stable nnsuuro, ho
must use in making a compost. This
compost should be in applied the drill, liberally, and if
either broadcast or
not enough to manure all tho crops,
should be supplemented with sufficient
commercial fertilizers for that purpose.
In additiou to this all small land-mast grain
crops followed as soon as taken off the
bo by peas sowed broadcast,
and all land iu corn must be sowed in
peas at tho last simple plowing. and inexpensive
By these c-f
means, with a common sense rotation
crops, the fertility of the average Geor¬
gia farm, can not only be maintained
but increased. •
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WITH TERRIFIC FORCE
An Immense Water Main Broke
Loose In Cleveland. /
HOUSES SWEPT INTO THE RIVEB
Ono Life Known to Have Uecn Lost and It
Is Feared Others Have I'erished— Many
Narrow Escapea From Heath UeportedN
Johnstown Disaster Almost Kepeated— A
Howling G:»!o Glowing.
Clbyelasd, Feb. 13—At an early
hour an iminoiiso water main burst
with terrific force on Franklin avenue
hill, just west of tho Cuyahoga rivor,
and with tho groat volume Of water
that poured out, several hundred feet of
the hill, on which was located many
small frame houses, was washed into
tho rivor.
A small 1 -story frame house, occupied
by Mrs. Mary Ravey, 00 years old, at 9
Franklin Hill, was inundated, and with
it,s oontoiits was hurled into the river.
Airs. Ravey was drowned. Her body
was recovered au hour later.
Cars Carried Iuto the River*
A New York, Peuusyvauin and
Ohio freight train was passing ut
tho foot of the bill at the time
ana tho force of tho water carried At'i.
several cars into thp rivor. On the care
wero three of the train crow, and the
men wore carried down with the ears.
Two of thorn jumped before the river
was reached and escaped, but tho third
was tho dumped into tho rivor, and but for
assistance of the tenders of the Co¬
lumbus street bridge, would have beeh
drowned. Houses Tho washed man was along badly injured. dropped
wore or
into a great pit scooped out by the
raging douo. water and much damage Was
Many Narrowly Escaped Death.
Many narrow escapes from death are
reported. in the John McDermott, who lived
lin rear of his saloon, corner Fianfc
avenue aud Columbus Streot, nar¬
rowly escaped drowning with liiR whole
family. His wife and two childreft,
one tv 4-months-old babe, slept-in aback
room aud tho husband in the adjoining
room. About 3 a. m. it watchman ffoin
tho Columbus street bridge aroused Mc¬
Dermott by breaking in a window. Too
water was thou knee deep. On entejf- ‘
iug his wife’s room, McDermott found
her sleeping with a child on oifhor sidb
and the water swirling almost on a level
with their heads. McDermott cOfiLs^i
them all to the street la theirw
clothes, v',y.
wj
iOWMWg gale, which comififtfleed
ig from the west early Monday
WtX
struments of 64 miles recorded^ hour. maximum, Much damage velocity of
an 1
a minor nature has been caused by the
storm. Signs and telegraph and all tele¬
phone wires In wore soveral blown down vehicles over
tho city. cases oft
the streets were piekod up and turned
upside down by tho wind.
SHEA ELECTROCUTED.
Tlic Murderer of Robert Ross, at Troy,
Fays the Penalty.
Dannemora, N. Y., Feb. 11.—Bar¬
tholomew Shea died iu the electrical
chair, paying the penalty for the mur¬
der of Robert Ross at Troy in March,
1804. Ho was attended to the electrical
machine by a clergyman from his home
and by a priest from the Roman Cath¬
olic church of this place. Aftor receiv¬
ing tho last sacrament Shea said:
“I am innocent, father, innocent,”
an assertion which he repeated during
the rite of anointment. When ho wa#
conducted into tho death chamber he
started as ho camo in sight of the elec¬
trical chair, but said adjusted, nothing.
The straps being the priests
in low tonos road the service for the
dead. When turned the priosts read, It the first $:63
voltage o’clock was Shea entered on. was
when the rtKitn,
aud 9:58% o’clock when he Was pro¬
nounced dead.
Tho current sent the body tightly
against tho straps and the neck ana
bared leg grew purple. For 34 seconds
tho contact was maintained and was
thou reduced to a Mght voltago for 81
seconds. When the current was turned,
off there was an esoape of air from the
tilled lungs and Dr. Ransom ordered the
current on again. A contact of 27 sec¬
onds was maintained aud then the
stethescopo failed to show any life.
The escape of uir from the lungs
sounded like a prolonged sigh and made
some people think that there was life,
but the physicians said that death Was
instantaneous.
CYRU§ E. CARTeS^DEAD.
Asphyxiated In Bit Room at IHA Palmer
House, Chlcaeo—Retired] Arm
Chicago, Feb. 11.-—Cyrus 4S. Carter,
a retired sergeant of the United States
army, was fouud dead in a room at the
Palmer House. Death was caused by
asphyxiation, but it is. not thought he
committed suicide. In a bolt worn by
Carter around his waist was $1,400. Ho
also had some valuable jowelry. How
the gas came to be turned oil is a mys¬
tery, as it is supposed Carter No motive was ac¬ for
quainted self destrnction with its is use. apparent.
Sergeant Carter bad the distinction
of having served 23 years with the
Seventh cavalry, General Ouster’s old
regiment. Ho participated inadofleh
engagements with hostile Indians and
earned a record as a brave soldier oft
charged the frontier. front He the was Sixth honorably regiment dis¬
of
cavalry Daring at Fort Myer, Va,., last July.
his long service Carter had
seen much hardship, contained and in a memoran¬
dum found, are accounts of
his many services with General Custer
during the Indian wars.
No record is given, however, of the
terrible fights in the lava beds, where
the gallant Custer lost his life.
Foucil Dead In Hi. Room.
New York, Feb. 11.— John Jones,
president of the United States Grate
Bar company, was to and dead in his
room at the Grand Island hotel. It is
believed that ho committed suicide
while temporarily insane, by taking
morphine.