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JOHN H. HODGES, Propr.
DEVOTED-TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. «l.SO a Year in Advance,
VOL. XXXL
Cowpeas By The Wholesale.
Macon Telegraph.
The growing of cow peas has
become one the of features of farm- j
ingin Macon’s territory. It is 1
*aid that a greater area is devot
ed to this crop this year than was
ever known. Last year forty-eight
carloads of shelled peas were ship
ped from. Macon to the North,
West and Southwest. The year
before that very few 'peas were
shipped and prior to 1900 none at
all were shipped from Macon. A
carload is about 600 bushels.
In speaking of the matter yes
terday, a drummer for a milling
company said: “If I had known
that so many peas could have
been bought on this market I my
self could have handled 50 oars
each year during the past eight or
ten years, but it never occurred
to me to come to Macon to buy
them.”
“I cannot tell, but it seems to
me that the demand for peas will
be greater this year than ever be
fore,” said Mr. C. T. Bailey, who
has been making a specialty of
buying and selling peas in whole
sale lots for the past two years.
“The peas are in demand forVfer-
tilizers. The farmers of the North
west and of sections not very far
above us in latitude buy them and
plant them to turn under when
the vines are in full growth. They
have learned that it is the cheap
est as well as the very best they
can get. Of course, mill men can
not expect to grind very many
peas into meal for stock feed when
the prices are so high. But when
the prices run down low, then
mills use a great many peas, for
it makes the best cow feed in the
world.
The seasons have been very fa-
varable for the growing of peas in
this section this year, and it is
thought by some that as many as
one hundred carloads of them will
be shipped from this market at
prices ranging anywhere from 76
cents to $1.50 per bushel. Some
of the farmers do not gather their
peas, however. They say the cost
of picking is tpo great, the aver
age cost being about 25 cents per
hundred pounds, or 20 cents per
bushel. The shelling and mar
keting adds from five to ten ceuts.
It is calculated that the vines
can be profitably cured for hay
while the peas are in the dough or
the vines are in bloom, and an
acre of land will produce twice as
much value in hay as in peas,
when the hay can be properly
cured.
There are still other farmers
who plant the peas without any
thought of them at all; but after
allowing stock to forage on the
fields a short time in the fall, all
of the foliage is plowed under to
fertilize the ground for the spring
planting of other crops. Some
insist that this method brings
better results than either of the
others, but the prospects is that
all of the methods will be tried
this year.
The peavine hay is admitted to
be best that can be bought in this
market. Livery stablemen say
that when the vines are cut with
the peas on them in the dough
state, ib comes as near being corn
and fodder combined as any feed
that can be purchased. Dealers
offer about fifteen dollars a ton
for it in the Macon market.
:
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1902.
NO. 37.
Savannah News.
The main reason probably why
the South is prosperous is that
she has been getting a good price
for cotton for several years. The
money she has been getting for
this crop has gone into industrial
undertakings and has contributed
to the opening of new farms.
A question therefore which pre
sents itself in this connection is,
what is the prospeot for the price
of cotton remaining about what it
is at present or going higher dur
ing this season?
It seems to us to be very good.
The world is consuming a great
deal more cotton than it did be
fore the Spanish-Amerioan War.
The consumption jn this country
is increasing rapidly, and in the
Far East it is much larger than it
was a few years ago. In this coun
try the better times have enabled
the people to spend more for cot
ton goods.
According to excellent authority
the spinners’ takings during the
year just closed were olose to, if
not quite,* 11,000,000 bales, while
the crop waB less than 10,800,000
bales. The report of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange shows
that the world’s visible supply at
the olose of the last season was
about 150,000 bales less than it
was at the close of the previous
season.
Now what about this year’s crop?
The estimates of course differ
widely. The commissioners of
Agriculture of the Cotton States,
at their last meeting at Nashville
last week, estimated that the crop
would be 9,719,894 bales. Other
estimates,place it as high as 11,-
250,000 bales. The truth is prob
ably between these two extremes.
If the crop does not go over 10,-
250,000, the world’s demand, un
der existing conditions, will hard
ly be met, and the present price
ought to be fully maintained. In
fact, it ought -to go higher.
If indications of an 11,000,000
bale crop should become convinc
ing the price might decline a lit
tle. If business should continue
prosperous, however, the world
could easily take an 11,000,000
bale crop at the present price,and
there are good reasons for thining
it would do so.
Never Look Cross.
“As a man thinketh in his heart,
so is he,” And, conversely, as a
man appears to be, so will he
think in his heart. In other
words, if one is happy and cheer
ful and kind, he will smile, he
will speak cheeringly, he will do
acts of kindness. On the other
hand, aud this is just as impor
tant, to smile and speak quietly
aud in a kindly tone, even if one
feels unhappy or angry or discour
aged at the moment, so reacts on
the man’s inner being that he be-
gius to feel what he has simulated
This is a good thought, and it
points to a plain duty. We should
never allow ourselves to express
outwardly by word or by look any
unkind or unhappy thought or
feeling. To do so is only to tend
and foster that feeling, to make it
grow and get final hold on the
character. But by affecting the
helpful virtues we will dwarf, and
finally pluck out altogether, the
evil in our nature, and we become
in character the good things we
have caused to appear in our coun
tenances and in our voices.—Sept.
Woman’s Home Companion.
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Fortune Favors a Texan.
“Having distressing pains in
head, back and stomach, and be
ing without appetite, I began to
use Dr. King’s New Life Pills,”
writes W, P. Whitehead of Kenne-
dale, Tex.,aud soon felt like a new
man.” Infallible in stomach and
liver troubles. Only 25 cents at
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
IMS® GOVTCH.
My patrons in Houston County are my references.
Ship me your Cotton.
C. B. WILLINGHAM, Cotton Factor,
Macon* Q-eoxgria,.
The Price Of Beef.
Valdosta News.
The outlook is that the prioe of
beef wiil remain high for some
time to come. The dispatches
say that there is a beef famine in
Germany, which has been one of
our best customers for meats of
all kinds, and that steaks are sel
ling there at forty-five cents, a
pound. In spite of the great in
crease in the number of mouths
to be fed in this country aud the.
great increase in the demand for
beef as a result of prosperous
times among the laboring classes,
there has been a falling off in the
ambunt of beef cattle during the
past four years of about fourteen
per cent. The increase in popu
lation has been fully ten per cent,
while the demand'for beef on ac
count of better times among all
olasses of laborers has' been very
great.
Conditions of this sort—a large
increase in demand and a short
age in supply makes it easy for
the trusts to control the output
and to make prices to suit them-
selfes. There are some products
upon which the trusts may con
trol prices and the farmers may
remain helpless, but beef is not
one of these products. The splen
did cattle raising lands of this
soction puts it in the power of the
farmers of South Georgia jio defy
the trusts, or rather to profit by
their greed, for, while the trusts
raises the price, the southern
farmer can sell his beef and get
better prices thereby. The greed
of the trusts could be made
blessing to the farmers of this
section if they paid more atten
tion to cattle raising.
The secret of success to the
farmers who have made a signal
success of their calling is in the
fact that they have learned the
art of making two blades of grass
grow where only one grew before,
and of letting that grass walk to
market after it has been made.
More grain and grass to be fed to
cattle and stock means more fer
tilizers, at less cost for the pro
duction of other crops,less cottbn
smaller fertilizer bills, more mon
ey and less debt, with more of
the comforts of life in the home.
The raising of beef is about the
most profitable industy that can
be tackled in this part of the
country at the present time.
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The city council of Quitman re
cently appropriated $300.00 for
advertising the town and its ad
vantages to the outside world. A.nd
it will prove a good investment
for Quitman, too.
w. A. DAVIS.
BEN. T. RAY.
GEO. H. LOWE.
W. A. DAVIS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
405-407 Poplar St. :: MACON, GEORGIA
BEST SALESMEN IN THE GITY
They are active, accommodating
and courteous.
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Send them your cotton; they are honest in thjir dealings
and wise in their judgement.
.A., <Sc CO.,
MACON, GEORGIA.
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