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mules, fertilizers, labor and other
things.
Combination^5£:JfcC<iuce the Price.
There appea^^jh now strong evi
dence of a combination among cotton
mills, domestic and foreign, cotton fac
tors and cotton manipulators, that will
prove disastrous to farmers in case of
too large a crop. For then the setting
of the price of cotton will not be with
the farmer, as it was last year.
What, then, farmers of Georgia, is
our duty to ourselves and at the same
time the protection of our great money
crop? It is more corn and peas, more
sugar cane and potatoes, more food
supplies, more beef cattle and more
dairy products, and after these things
as much cotton as we can raise. Then
we can still name the price of our sta
ple.
The warning has already been sound
ed from Liverpool to Hew York and
from Hew York to Hew Orleans, from
large'buyers to small, that they will not
another year pay the prices that have
ranged during this season. They say
this because they believe that the farm
ers will greatly increase the crop of thin
year. O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner.
The Stomach controls the sit
uation. Those who are hearty and
strong are those who can eat and
digest plenty of food. Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure digests what you ? eat
and allows you to eat all the good
food you want. If you suffer from
indigestion, heart burn, belching
or any other stomach trouble, this
preparation can’t help but do you
good. The most sensitive stom
ach can take it. H. M. Holtz-
claw, druggist.
never again be as disastrous as they
have been in the past.
But if, in spite of all warning and in
defiance of all past experience the farm
ers persist in an increase of the acreage
in cotton? we may look for a crop much
larger than that of last year and of ne
cessity a decrease in the prioe.
Like Oliver Twist, children ask
for more when given One Minute
Cough Cure. Mothers endorse it
highly for croup. It quickly cures
all coughs and colds and every
throat and lung trouble. It is a
specific for grippe and asthma,and
has long been a well known reme
dy for whooping cough. Holtz-
claw’s Drugstore. ,
Tlie Best Prescription for Malaria,
Chills and'Fever is a bottle of
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.
It is simply iron and quinine in a
tasteless form. No cure—no pay.
Price 50e
65 the Bermuda lasted. This is a strong
^■itness to the superiority. of Georgia’s
avorite grass in flavor and nutritions
power.
Increase your acreage ' for grass
rase both, beef and dairy cattle,
! ut be careful to keep the breeds dis
tinct.
Hayproduclng Counties Have the
Best’ Stock.
^hile maintaining her high rank as
a cotion producing state, Georgia can
11 should press to the front in the
growing of grasses and all forage plants.-
1 eady there is a marked difference
etween the cattle, hogs and horses of
ay producing counties of Georgia,
those of other sections of the state,
tfi whose farms are covered
a a rich carnet of blue srrass. has
cattle. One of the friends of
apartment who two’summers ago
several weeks in the far-famed
§lass section of Kentucky tells us
vdiile his eyes were feasted on
BEST THE
gia have known for
31 ANY YEARS.
figures
Large Increases In Various Cro.ps-State
Stands In Front Rank of All
Lines of industry.
The sea gon of 1899 and 1900 was the
test that the farmers of Georgia have
x uown in many years. The cause of
A his prosperity is known to alL A large
r* cen taji of all supplies were raised at
jjoiae aud the comparatively short crop
of cotton brought good prices. The
United States statistician estimates the
crops of Georgia for 1900 as follows:
Corn, 34,110,580 bushels; wheat, 5,011,-
133 bushels; oats, 7,010,040 bushels, and
hay, 190,:237 tons. The cotton .crop was
something over 1,200,000 bales. The
average prices for these crops were:
Corn, 57 cents a bushel; wheat, 95 cents;
oats. 49 cents, aud hay, $12.75 a ton.
The average price for the cotton was 9
cents a pound; but this does not include
the good profit made on ciotton seed. It
is sincerely to be hoped that the acreage
of cotton will not be increased, and that
those who seek to run down the price of
our great staple will be foiled in their
attempt. With a cotton crop not larger
than that of last year, and with good
seasons and a full crop of corn and the
small grains, the prosperity which a
year ago began to dawn upon the agri
culturists of Georgia will mount still
higher toward the zenith.
Hake Evevy Acre Productive.
The effort of the farmer should be to
make every acre under cultivation pro
ductive. To this end he should plant
no more than he can well cultivate. By
just so much as the cost of production is
diminished, by so much is the net gain
increased. i
If some men have by the best meth
ods produced 50 or more bushels of
wheat to the acre, why cannot others
with as good land be just as successful?
Our farmers are making wonderful pro
gress in the improvement of their lands
and the beautifying of their homes, and
they are doing much toward confirming
the proud title “Empire State of the
South,” conferred Upon Georgia before
the civil war on account of her being
far in the van of all the south in the
construction of railways and in the va
riety and extent of her various manu
facturing enterprises, and still more de-
seryed by the fact that even in the
gloomy period of “reconstruction” she
maintained over almost all her territo
ry white supremacy, and was among
the foremost in throwing off the oppres
sor’s yoke.
Large Increase of the Hay Crop.
One of the most gratifying signs of
agricultural progress in Georgia is the
fact that the 69,769 tons of hay harvest
ed iu 1890 had increased to 190,287 tons
in 1900, valued at $12.75 a ton, or $2,-
425,521.75 for the entire crop. This
gives promise of more and better breeds
i °f both dairy and beef cattle. There is
) 110 reason why Georgia should not raise
just as good beef, and have just as rich
uiilk and cream and as delicious butter
as are furnished by the great grass
growing states of the west and north
west. We have lands on which alfalfa,
Timothy, clover and even blue grass
respond to the farmer’s labors with
abundant harvests. At the same time
there is no more nulritious food for cat
tle tlian that furnished by onr own na
tive grasses, crowfoot, crab and Bermu
da, and that marvelous restorer of ex
hausted soils, the peavine. A gentle
man who spent his youth in Baldwin
county, often noticed on his father’s
farm that when sheep were turned in to
Sraze, the Timothy to which they had
many sleek cattle, and horses marked
by beauty of form and grace of move
ment, he had seen just as fine animals
od some of the model farms and also in
several Georgia cities and towns.
More Hay Means More and Better
Beef, 3111k and Butter.
Much has already been accomplished
by our most progressive farmers. The
hay product of Georgia inoreased during
the jiast decade almost three-fold. If
during the next decade we could have a
ten-fold increase on this line, it would
mean an almost inestimable advance in
prosperity. It would mean abundance
of the best beof on onr farms and in onr
towns at cheaper rates than ever before,
milk and butter rivaling the best im
portations from northern dairies and
creameries, and an independence of for
eign food supplies that would make the
farmers independent of the price of cot
ton, which would then be a pure - money
crop. Ho people have been more richly
blessed by the bounty of the Almighty.
The best way to show our gratitude to
the giver of all good is to improve th9
opportunities presented with such lav
ish hand.
“Onward!” Ia the Word.
When Georgia in her hour of need
summoned her sons to defend her rights
and honor, the offering of property and
life was spontaneous and general. When
the heel of the oppressor was upon her,
her sons, amid appalling adversities,
wronght by the blessing of God her re
demption. Will they prove laggards
now, when fortune smiles and points
the way to greatness and wehlth? Ho.
Already the onward march has began,
and it will continue until Georgia
stands in the front rank on all lines of
industry, inferior in no particular to
any star of onr grand constellation of
sovereign states.
Cotton.
So many of the farmers of Georgia
understand the cultivation of cotton,
that the principal thing to be said on
this subjeot is to give a note of warning
against an increase of the acreage, with
a consequent iiicrease of' the supply
over the demand and the reduction of
the price of the staple below the point
of reasonable profit to the planter.
Many of onr most progressive farmers
have, by intelligent use of the best
methods, restored exhausted lands and
caused them to show a production
almost equal to that of the original
virgin soil. In fact, such has been the
advance of Georgia on this line as to
elicit, years ago, from the compilers of
the United States census the compli
mentary statement that “the high posi
tion of Georgia is due, not to natural
advantages, but to better cultivation of
the soil, the use of fertilizers, and the
thrift of an industrious population.”
The one thing that the Georgia cot
ton growers need to learn is, how to
avoid overproduction with its accompa
nying low prices.
If, however, tney will raise such food
supplies as may be counted among the
necessities of life, and thus make cotton
a surplus money crop, low prices will
While at the same time the produc
tion of that crop will cost them more
than it basin many years, on account
of the increased cost of food supplies,
labor and other
uce the Price,
now strong evi-
n among cotton
foreign, cotton fac-
Should Use Improved Tlethods.
Proper preparation and cultivation
of soil are impossible with the anti
quated tools used by onr grandfathers.
Improved plows, rollers, harrows, plant
ers, weeders* and cultivators are abso
lute essentials of success in these days.
The man*who persists in the use of old
time tools and methods will soon be left
behind in the race by his more progres
sive neighbor. While he finds the old-
fashioDed tools unfitted for proper pul
verizing of his soil, leaving many clods
unbroken, or to be broken one at a time,
his neighbor with improved implements
plows the land to the necessary depth,
and then crushes the clods on a strip 7
or 8 feet wide each trip across the field.
With the same implement that fines
the surface the weeds may be killed
without allowing one to reach a height
of even 1 inoh.
The old rule of 1 acre a day will not
do for these progressive timea Ten
times that much can be done bv a many
toothed instrument made for the pur
pose.—State Agricultural Department.
It has been decided by the Taft
commission that civil employes
in the Philippines shall work no
more than six hours a day, exclu
sive of Sundays and holidays, and
that the larger a man’s salary the
longer shall be his annual vaca
tion. The vacations will range
from fifteen days to the man who
gets $600 to thirty-five days to the
lucky fellow who is in receipt - of
over $1,800.
Pianos
At Greatly
Reduced Prices.
Fifty new Upright Pianos will ciose out at
greatly reduced prices within the next few
weeks. Among them such celebrated makes
as
Steinway, Solimer & Co., Kranicli
& Bach, Stultz & Bauer, Bush
& Gests, Lester and Royal.
Call at once and secure one of these bargains
F. A. GUTTENGERGER & CO.,
452 Second st., Macon, Ga.
Mug the Nail on the lead
Is what you do every time
you buy your
Lumber, Sash,
Doors,
Mouldings,
Blinds,
Trimmings
ind all kinds of mill work and builders supples from our
superior stock, .Builders and contractors will find that
they get a superior grade of lumber and workmanship in
their line at lower prices than they can get elsewhere.
T31. L. HARRIS <Sc CO.,
’Phone 187. FORT VALLEY, GA.
CALBER B. WILLINGHAM, JR.,
Wholesale and Ketail Dealer iu
Crockery, Stoves, Lamps House-
Furnishing Goods,
it OOiPLETE LINE OF GH1MWARE-
TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MACON*, GA.
MBST..
Eat arid. Sleep.
We can satisfy you in every
particular.
ISAACS’ CAFE,
413 Third Street,
MACON, CA. ..
Under new management,
well illuminated, home
like, everything selected
to afford comfoet. Best
rooms and table service.
I have recently returned in harness to
meet my old friends, and will endeavor
to make as many new ones as possible. I
am now prepared to
FEED ALL WHO COME,
$1.00 to $2.00 PER DAT.
Convenient to business
center of the city. If you
are in search of a com
pletely satisfactory situ
ation, come this way.
and will give them a cordial greeting and
satisfy the inner man with the best in the
market at most reasonable prices. My
Bestaurant is more
ESPECIALLY fob LADIES,
! having no connection with saloons
j If you want anything choice to eat, you wi
l know
I That Isaac’s s the place to go.
Old Veteran Caterer,
. E. ISAACS.
J. R. SIMS,
W. A. Ilerin, Prop’r. operative /. dentist.
' Crown and Bridge Work.
Next to Academy of Music, . offlM Near Perry Hotel, Main Street,
MACON, GA. I PERRY, GA.
50
Perry
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