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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. : Potatoes from the world’s great est single crop, 4,000,000,000 busheTs being produced annually, equal in bulk to the entire wheat and corn crops. SMITHS NERVE RESTORER. This medicine is guaranteed to cure all cases of Nervous Prostration oaused by overwork. It is a true Nerve Tonic and restores Nervous Vitality or Loss of Manhood. It will not only relieve these nervous troubles and weaknesses, but will restore them to full vigor and man hood. Guaranteed. Sold by Dr. R. L. Cater. 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. —. -©-•■«*— 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. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature on each box.25c. «*-*-*» . 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. / Send them your cotton; they are honest in thjir dealings and wise in their judgement. .A., <Sc CO., MACON, GEORGIA. OXFORDS... 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