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Just Suppose.
About Growing Sweet Potatoes
All the meat and lard consumed;
in the south, to say nothing of hay, j
oats and flour, was raised at home,
wouldn’t we have money to burn?
That all the money that has been
paid out for mules to, make cotton
since the war had been raised in
Georgia, the people would have
money to throw at jay birds.
That if till the greater portion of
the cotton made in the south had
been manufactured into the thous
ands of things needed by the peo
ple, not only of this country but for
eign chuntries, we would be the
richest people on earth.
Suppose the thousands and tens
of thousands of negroes and white
people in Georgia and elsewhere in
the south were at work instead of
loafing around eating and doing
nothing, wouldn’t the country fairly
roll in wealth?
We could suppose a column arti
cle along this line. Isn’t it a won
der that as a people we have any
money at all?—Americus Herald.
The above has been our idea of
the situation and the cause of the
cry of “hard times" that was heard
from the lips of countless millions a
few years ago, when the People’s
party was at its be3t. When the
farmers raise a sufficiency of the
things they now have to buy there
will be good times in store for them.
No political party in the world will
ever raise the necessaries of life for
its people or cause them to receive
better prices for produce. The law
of supply and demand is the para
mount controller of prices. What
the people of the south need is to
make a larger supply of the above
articles.—Vienna News.
Martin V. Calvin in Augusta Herald.
“Fine words butter no parsnips,"
we are told, but it remains that in
season, the Georgia yam heads the
list of tubers.
We raise a good many sv^eet po
tatoes in Georgia; we ought to raise
an extra large crop this year. There
is no crop easier of cultivation or
more profitable.
I want to give an intimatipn of
what has been accomplished along
this line ia this state in the recent
past. For this purpose, I shall use
round numbers in giving the aggre
gate of the crop. I give the names
of a few counties with the number
of bushels annually produoed and
the average yield per acre, omitting
those that, fell below 7,5,000 buehelB.
Want Others to Know.
“I have used DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers for constipation and
torpid liver and they are all right.
I am glad to indorse them for I
think when we find a good thing
we ought to let others know it,”
writes Alfred Heinze, Quinoy, 111.
They never gripe or distress. Sure,
safe pills. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
A H0ME-L1K& HOTEL.
HAVING LEASED THE
SMMId House
Mulberry St., MAOON, GA.,
Next to Academy of Music,
It is my purpose to oonduot a hotel that
will be home-like and satisfying to all
guests. It is specially suitable for ladies
or others visiting Maoon for a day or
longer.
We Strive to Please.
George S. Riley.
The Post Check Proposal.
Bushels.
Average
Per Acre,
. 94,000
90 6
. 93,000
98.7
. 92,000
69.6
. 88,000
75.6
. 86,000
84.4
. 84,000
66.1
. 81,000
75.9
61.4
. 80,000
88.0
. 80,000
102.7
. 77,000
67.4
. 77,000
86.4
Counties.
Monroe....
Fulton
Washington
Thomas
Chatham ..
Houston...
Berrien
Hancook...
Sumter....
Laurens ...
Burke
Greene ....
It will be seen that Laurens leads
in the average yield per acre, with
Fulton, Monroe and Sumter well up
on the list.
Unquestionably, the average yield
per acre could be greatly increased
and the flavor and size of the pota
toes greatly improved by the use of
the right kind of fertilizers in prop
er quantity.
There is no economy in “skimp
ing" when you start out to feed the
plants on which you expect to de
pend to a certain extent for cash or
its equivalent. If you look for good
returns you must feed the plants
generously.
Chemists tell us that too much ni
trogen makes the sweet potato plant
run to vines at the expense of the
roots. This means that while you
have a small per centum of nitrogen
you should have, must have, a liber
al supply of phosphoric $cid and
potash.
Seven per cent available phos
phoric acid, 2 per cent of nitrogen
and 8 per cent of potash represent a
good average of fertilizer for sweet
potatoes. The sulphate of potash,
60 per cent actual, is preferred, be
cause it affects favorably the saccha
rine matter in the tuber.
Tests made indioate that 300
pounds per acre, of the grade of fer
tilizer mentioned, should be applied.
Experience has shown that, in
preparing for the plants, it is well
to spread over the tract set apart for
potatoes an abundance of \egetable
mold or pine litter. Broadcast this
litter till the piece is covered 4 to 6
inches deep, then plough under, lev
el off, open the furrow for the fertil
izer and complete the work by set
ting the plants as soon as they are
ready.
Use the cultivator, follow with the
hoe, finish with a sweep. Let the
cultivation be largely level.
By the by, has not the hoe, in the
language of the old song, been hung
up? The work of the hoe is attempt
ed in too many instances to be done
with the plough. Keep the hoe in
action—it has a special mission.
A liberal premium will be paid in
cash at Augusta’s country fair, Oc
tober 14-17, next, for the best dis
play and greatest variety of sweet
potatoes and for the best bushel of
any variety.
Macon Telegraph.
Congress is being urged to con
sider the adoption of a new kind of
fractional money, called the “Post
Oheok Fractional Currency,” that
promises to be very useful when
small amounts are to be remitted
through the mails. The use of post
age stamps for this purpose is troub
lesome, both to the sender and re
ceiver, and money orders are still
more troublesome, besides being ex
pensive. It is olaimed {bat the pro
posed check fractional money will
meet the difficulty, profiting the
government as well as serving the
public convenience.
The plan is recommended for trial
by Mr v E. O. Madden, third assist
ant postmaster-general. The pend
ing bill provides for printing one,
two and five dollar notes, and suita
ble denominations of fractional cur
rency, with blank spaces in order
that the holder may at once turn his
money into a bheok or money order
by writing the payee’s name and ad
dress in the blank spaces. A fee is
paid to the government by affixing
and canceling a two-cent stamp on
the large bills and a one-cent stamp
on the fractional pieoes. These fees
“will pay for reprinting the bills and
yield the government a larger ag
gregate income than the present
money order system, it is estimated,
and the oontinual fresh issue to re
place the canoeled bills will insure
the long-desired clean-currency."
The modus operand! is described
as follows; “When one wishes to
send money by mail, say 60 cents or
he will take from his pocket the
proper post check, write on its face
the name of the person, or firm, to
whom it is to go, the city and state,
affix a one-cent stamp (a two-cent
stamp for $1 and over), and sign his
name on the baok. The stamp will,
of course, be canceled by writing on
it one’s initials and the date. The
bill, which previously was negotia
ble money, is instantly transformed
into a personal cheok on . the United
States government for $2, as safe
for transmission as any bank oheok.
This is inolosed in a letter to the
person or firm desired, and can be
collected by the receiver upon iden
tification at the postoffioe named."
If some such plan were put into
effective operation the public would
be saved much inconvenience and
the opportunities of robbing the
mails would be greatly reduced.
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Now that Mr. Bryan has announc
ed that he will under no circum
stances be a presidential candidate
again, it is to be hoped that some of
our esteemed contemporaries will
oease having nightmares and agon
izing conniption fits over the bare
mention of his name. However,
Bryan is one of the biggest men the
Uuited States has ever known, and
will continue to be a leader in the
councils of his party. He oan’t be
kioked aside by a few soreheads and
past papsuckers.—Dawson News.
Like a Drowning Man.
“Five years ago a disease
the
doctors called dyspepsia took such
hold of me that I could scarcely
go,” writes Geo. S, Marsh, well-
known attorney of Nocona, Tex.
“I took quantities of pepsin and
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well.” Kodol is the only prepa
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the natural digestive juices and
.consequently is the only one which
digests any good food and cures
any form of stomach trouble.
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
The silver bullion in an American
dollar at the present time is worth
nhout 37 cents, the lowest price it
has ever touched.
If You Can’t Sleep At Night
use Smith’s Nerve Restorer. It is a true
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Whooping Congli.
A woman who has had experi
ence with this disease, tells how
to prevent any dangerous conse
quences from it. She says: Our
three children took whooping
cough last summer, our baby boy
being only three months old, and
owing to our giving them Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy, they
lost none of their plumpness and
came out in much better health
than other children whose parents
did not use this remedy. ( Our old
est little girl would call lu.stily
for cough syrup between whoops—i
Jessie Pinkey Hall, Springville,
Ala. This Remedy is for sale by
all dealers in Perry, Warren &
Lowe, Byron.
A North Carolina paper, the Gas
tonia Gazette, says that cotton seed
meal is an effective remedy for pota
to bugs. The Gazette tells of a far
mer who put some meal on his vines
and in two hours the bugs had dis 1
appeared—they did not die, but left
the vines. This farmer, says the Gafl
zette, is firmly convinced of tho vir
tues of meal as an anti-potato bug
powder, which is much cheaper and
safer than Paris green.
Stops the Cough and Works off
the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
cures a cold in one day. No cure,
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