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To President of Georgia State
Agricultural Society.
LATTER’S TIMELY SUGGESTION
Close Alliance of the Society and the
Department of Agriculture Can and
Will Do IVJaterial Good—Mr. Stevens
In Hearty Accord.
Danville, Ga., Jan. 80, 1902.
Hon. O. B. Stevens, Commissioner of
Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir—
The Georgia Statq1 Agricultural So
ciety and the State Department of
Agriculture should co-operate and use
their combined efforts for the advance
ment of this, the most important
branch of all industries, not only in
the south, but throughout the Union.
I will be installed on the 12th prox.,
and do not hesitate to ask the contin
uation of the great interest you have
always manifested in the success of
our organization.
It is gratifying to note the progress
of the last decade in rufal life. Farm
ers have broader views; they have con
clusions determined by thought, and as
they conclude they execute. The best
method of preparation, fertilization
and cultivation is being adopted.
Homes are being made more comfort
able and wives more happy, surround
ed by their flowers to adorn and their
fruits and vegetables as luxuries to
their larders, laden with home-made
substantial^.
A future of surprising wonder awaits
this southland of ours. We should
grasp it, keep the line of electric
thought ever ready, that by a touch
the light may flash in every rural
home.
A close alliance between the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the Georgia
State Agricultural tSociety, which I
know is your desire, as well as mine,
can and will do material good.
Appreciating your record in all that
pertains to advance the farmers of
Georgia, I am, yours very truly,
DUDLEY M. HUGHES.
“Senator Hanna does not claim
to be a scholar,” remarked one of his
colleagues, ‘‘but frequently he sur
prises his friends by quick"and keen
quotation from philosophers and his
torians.
‘I was enjoying luncheon with
him recently and was struck with
the charm and range of his conver
sation. In a moment of confidence,
and perhaps a mischievous purpose
of decoying him into an expression
of possible further political ambi
tions he might entertain, I said,
‘Senator, you have great wealth
and many honors, and I know that
you are a man of abundant happi
ness, but do you not at times cher
ish a wish for something in addition
to all your present achievements?’
“Yes, I have a wish,’ he replied,
’und it is very similar to one express
ed by an ancient Roman. My wish
is that I might eat what I please
and compel some Democrat to digest
it.’”—Ei
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4, 1902.
Hon. Dudley M. Hughes, President of
the Georgia Agricultural Society,
Danville, Ga.
Dear Sir—
In reply to your letter of January
80th, permit me to say that you may
count upon the continued co-operation
of the Department of Agriculture with
the Georgia State Agricultural Society
In all efforts for the advancement of
agriculture, which you rightly charac
terize as “the most Important branch
of all industries, not only in the south,
but throughout the Union.”
Ever since my accession to the of
flee of commissioner of agriculture it
has been my aim to encourage every
thing that would tend to promote the
introduction of the very best meth
ods and appliances of scientific farm
ing employed anywhere In this pro
gressive age. Recognizing also the
necessity of retaining upon the farms
the best intellect and strength of the
rising generation, I have constantly
urged the importance of making the
country homes attractive, so as to bind
firmly the affections of the sons and
daughters of our farmers to the old
homestead, for bright, cheerful sur
Toundings tend greatly to make a con
tented, happy rural population. Con
sidering the Georgia Agricultural So
ciety one of the most powerful agen
cies for the promotioij of these ends
I assure you that I will heartily sec
ond all your efforts to advance the
prosperity and happiness of the farm
ers of Georgia.
With kind regards for yourself, I am
your friend and co-laborer,
O. B. STEVENS.
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The Heartfelt Wish of Hannah.
Items of Interest.
Excursion Rates to Charleston, S. 0.,
via Central of Georgia Railway.
The Central of Georgia Railway will
sell low rate excursion tickets to the
South Carolina Interstate and West
Indian Exposition at Charleston, S.
C., and return from all coupon tick
et stations on its lines from Decem
ber 1st, 1901, to May 31st, 1902.
Superior schedules, sleeping and
parlor car service are offered via Sa
vannah and Plant System.
For full particulars apply to your
nearest agent or representative of
this company.
OIL IN GEORGIA.
via Central of Georgia
Railway.
Georgia Chautauqua, Albany, Ga.
April 20-27,1902. One fare for the
round trip, plus 25 cents admission
to the Chautauqua for individuals;
one cent per mile is each direction
for military in uniform, twenty or
more on one ticket! Tickets on sale
April 19-26, inclusive; final return
limi; April 28,1903.
Confederate Veterans’ Reunion,
Dallas, Texas, April 22-25, 1902,
Tickets on sale April 18-20, inclu
sive; final return limit May 2. By
depositing ticket with joint agent at
Dallas and paying a fee of 50 cents,
an extension to May 15, 1902, may
be obtained. For further informa
tion ask your ticket agent.
A Charleston company is now bor
ing a well near. Rome in search of
oil, and the indications are so far ex
ceedingly flattering. It Is probable
that the boring will have to extend to
not less than 1,000 feet, and perhaps
deeper, but If the final result is a pro
ductive oil well its influence on the
future of our state can hardly be esti
mated. Although the state has large
fuel resources of timber and,coal, un
der proper conditions and with proper
appliances neither wood nor coal can
.compete with oil as a, fuel from the
standpoint of economy and efficiency.
There is every reason to suppose that
oil will he found in Georgia; if not
at Rome, then somewhere else. The
topographical and geological condi
tions are identical with those of other
localities where the oil has been found
—In Tennessee, Pennsylvania and
Texas, knd it now resolves itself into
a question -of looking for it. Our peo
ple should educate themselves on this
subject, find out the condjitions that
generally obtain where the oil has
been discovered, and then systemat
ically and patiently bore for it. There
will probably be many dry wells bored,
but one producer will solve the prob
lem. The Standard Oil company, con
trolling the oil business of America
and careles of competition or desirous
of new fields to conquer, have erected
at the Charleston Exposition the most
complete and instructive object lesson
for the oil seeker or the. geological
student ever seen. It consists of a
large model of a topographical cross
section of the country between Me
Donald and Oil City, Pa., showing in
detail the forest of derricks which dot
the surface and the tubes which pene
trate the earth. Each stratum pierc
ed is shown, the point at which gas
and oil were tapped and the height
to which the latter rose in the well.
Accompanying the model are speci
mens of the various rocks, gravels,
Bands, etc., which were penetrated in
boring. No one need be long in doubt
as to the condition surrounding oil
wells in the known fields of the coun
try. This is only one of an infinite
number of beautiful and instructive
exhibits at the Exposition, but this
alone is worth a Georgian’s trip to
Charleston. If properly studied and
the information applied it may mean
much for our state.
Japan’s foreign trade has. iiS 30
years increased from less than $1 to
nearly $7 per capita per annum,
Washington retains its rank as
the first negro city in the United
States, with 86,000 colored popula
tion.
The material used in the great
wall of China would build 160-such
structures as the Pyramid of Cheeps.
Some of the caterpillars found in
the. vicinity of the Darling River,
Australia, are over six inches in
length.
The Chicago drainage trustees
have been given the right to increase
their bonded indebtedness $20,000,-
000.
The grand opera hou :e in Paris
holds a record for any one building
in the way of locks and keys. Its
total is now 6,742 of each.
Twenty years ago a few foreign
ers had risked their lives in land
ing in Korea, but to-day its capital
has an American street railway plant
American pine when green weighs
44 pounds 12 ounces to the cubic
foot. When seasoned its weight is
reduced to 30 pounds 11 ounces.
Animals are found to be subject
to hypnotic influence. Lobsters, it
is said, can be hypnotized by stand
ing them on .their heads five or ten
minutes.
The yield for cranberries for 1901
was as follows: New England 240,-
000 barrels; New Jersey, 120,000
barrels; the West, 40,000 barrels, a
normal crop.
A new periodical has appeared in
a suburb of Berlin, It is entitled
Der Heico, and its modest aim is to
bring back heathenism and annihi
late Christianity.
?j? is signature is on every box of the genuine
P laxative Bromo=Qumme Tablets
tbe_remedy that cures o cold in on© doy
BETTER THAN PILLS.
The question has been asked,
In what wa| are Chamberlain’s
Stomach & Liver Tablets superior
to pills?” The answer is: They
are easier and more pleasant to
take, more mild and gentle in ef
fect and more reliable,as they can
always be depended upon. Then
they cleanse and invigorate the
stomach and leave the bowels in a
natural condition, while pills are
more harsh in effect pncl their use
is often followed by'constipation.
For sale by all dealers in Perry,
Warren & Lowe, Byron.
Cecil Rhodes was literally despis
ed by nearly everybody who did not
know him during his life, yet his
death reveals the fact that his chari
ties were more conspicuous than even
tliose of Andrew Carnegie. He left
millions of dollars for the education
of the youth of Germany, England
and the United States, the idea be
ing to cement the bonds of friend
ship between these three mighty na
tions.—Exchange.
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Recent investigations show that
more than 15,000 horses are used as
beef in Chicago annually. The
greater part of them are killed for
the purpose, but a portion probably
died natural deaths. Of course this
kind of meat is eaten mainly in the
cheap feeding shops, and some of it
is shipped east. At one time the
cheap horses out on the ranges were
grown for meat, but they are too
valuable now.
A man is alwa.ys on time when
he has an appointment with a
pretr-f girl.
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