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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 & 'yr*-