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Fruits and Vegetables in Family
Garden.
By E. A.. Ross, Central of On. Railway Co.
I cannot better illustrate my
subject than by telling of the suc
cess of a lady in Macon, or rath
er J.t8 flourishing suburb, Vine
ville. She has five ncras in her
place, two and a half acres devot
ed to Bermuda grass on which
she keeps two cows tethered, half
^au acre is covered by buildings
" and the remainder is devoted to
garden aud orchard. In her gar
den she has spinach and aspara
gus, of early spring or late winter,
English peas, radishes, red pep
per, corn, okra and tomatoes and
lettuce. Such fine tomatoes as
are never shipped from Florida
fire grown hero. The soil is a poor
sand ridge near the Vineville sta
tion on the Central of Georgia
Railway. No poorer land is to be
found anywhere. It yields! every
known vegetable in season in
great abundance, apd in sufficient
quantity io supply the wants of
the family of three.to five, besides
that of her gardener with nine in
family, and she frequently gives
of her choicest to many friends
besides selling tho surplus.
The orchard contains every
known catalogued variety of peaoh
of any merit, as fine figs as Smyr
na over knew .and as many kinds
as were ever seen anywhere; pears,
plums, apples, grapes, currants,
cherries, mulberries, blaokberrios,
strawberries, raspberries, iu tact
every fruit that will mature in
our climate, and this without the
cost, of a dollar. She informs mil
that .after, supplying the wants of
her family and friends and ser-
vauts and their friends, she sold
$79.00 worth of tho products of
this garden and orchard last year..
There is hardly an acre of
ground in Georgia on which simi
lar results might not be obtained.
No one would think of attempt
ing to make a garden without
breaking the land deep, and thor
oughly fertilizing. One of the
beat gardens I ever saw was made
nut a bald knob from which every
thing but the red clay had washed
away. It contained one acre.
Probably 50 two-horse wagon
loads woods earth, leaves and
straw wore hauled on this land
•and turned under. This lay three
"P four' weeks undisturbed, when
20 loads of tiompost, acid phos
phate, Iftnit, cotton seed and sta
ble manure were applied broad
cast add plowed iu. This work
was all dono in the fall and win
ter. When the seed were planted
in early spring, u small quantity
of a complete fertilizer was ap
plied in the drill. More than a
ton of eoinmercial fertilizer was
used on this acre besides the sta
ble manure, and yet it paid and
continued to be. profitable for
years with ordinary applications
of fertilizer.
While a number of enemios, in
sects and diseases, have come to
us through the growing of fruits
iV,nd vegetables on an extensive
f civic, there ■ is no community
where these crops can be so cheap
ly grown, and there is uotn mouth
in the year when we may not have
fresh fruits and vegetables grown
on qur premises. -Peaches from.
May to October, plums for about
the same pbriod, pears and apples
may be kept well into the winter,
currants and ail the berry family
are easily grown, grapes grown
any aud everywhere, and while
they have not proved profitable to
ship to distant markets, are a de
licious addition to the summer
and fall list of fruits for home
use. The fig, the pomegranate,
and in fact the entire list of fruits
grown outside of the tropics
thrive in our home gardens and
orchards.
The Abolition of Direct Taxes.
Atlanta Constitutian.
One of the inevitable reforms
of the future, will be the abolition
of direct taxes upon the property
of the peoples of the several states
as they arrive at fully settled’in
dustrial conditions. New York
has already come to the place
where only the constitutional tax
of 18 mills is levied for the in
terest and aiukiug fund charges
on its canal b&nds A constitu
tional amendment will be adopted
in 1905 permitting even those
charges to be paid from the gen
eral fund and thereafter there will
be no direct tax levies in that
state* Ohio is new virtually in
the same condition,, finding its
revenues almost entirely in fran
chise, license and other forms of
indirect taxation.
How is it done? By carefully
listing tho values of all privileges
of the people that are used for
gain, assessing them according to
their ability to divide profits
with the state, and thus making
incomes’—dollars and franchises —
and not the laboring, saving,
wealth-producing people, pay the
state’s necessary expenses.
Under this system the man who
has worked half a lifetime to ac
quire a $5,000 farm is nob called
upon to pay more taxes than a
lawyer with a $10,000 annual in
come,'or the owner of-a buildiug
that returns a yearly rental three
times larger in money than the
farmer's crop. The mechanic who
buys a $200 lot and builds an
$800 home for his family, under
the old system, paid taxqs on a
valuation of his property equal to
76/per centum, at the least, of its
estimated completed worth to
him ns a home. Just above him
a millionaire with a home costing
$100,000 would probably pay on a
valuation of it not greater thau
$15,000 or $2Q,000 at the most.
All this kind of injustice is done
away with by the New York and
Ohio Systems. And it ought to
be done away with wherever and
to that degree possible.
There are many of our states,
of which Georgia is by no means
tho least, wherein values amount
ing into hundreds of millions of
dollars are escaping taxation al
together, or paying but a tithe of
that they should, in which the in
itiation of this reform is urgently
needed. A campaign of popular
instruction in the fundamental
principles of taxation and dem
onstration of tho righteousness of
laying burdens on money rather
than on ' mon, women and chil
dren, would soon bring an agita
tion in any state that would ,m>t
end until this reform should be
safely under way. Soon or late
it will come, but the sooner the
better for just and humane gov
ernment in the state.
. Worst of All Experiences.
Can anything be worse than to
feel that every minute will be
your last? Such was the experi
ence of Mrs. S H. Newsou, Deoa-
tur, Ala. “For three years” she
writes, “I endured insufferable
pain from indigestion, stomach
and bowel trouble. Death seem
ed inevitable when doctors and
all: remedies failed. At length I
was induced to try. Eleotric Bit
ters and the result was miracu
lous. I improved at once and
now l am completely recovered.”
For Liver, Kidney, Stomach and
Bowel troubles, Electric Bitters is
the only medicine. Only 50/i
It’s guaranteed by Druggists.
Holtzolaw’s Drug /Store.
The Ocean Springs Progress i3
responsible for the statement that
nob long ago the editor 'of an ex
change received a letter from a
large distilling firm asking him
the names of citizens who
might be interested in the litera
ture of the firm, setting forth the
merits of a new brand of whisky,
and promising him: a commission
on sales. The editor being some
what of a practical joker,sat down
and wrote out a list of the fore
most prohibitionists, of the place,
and forwarded it. He forgot all
about the matter uutil a month
later, when it was called to his
attention by a letter from the
firm of distillers,enclosing a draft
for $10, with thanks for the list,
which had been found pecuniarily
remunerative.
Cuts, Bruises ami Bhrus Quickly
Healed.
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is an
antiseptic liniment, and when ap
plied to cuts, bruises and burns,
causes them to heal without ma
turation and much more quickly
than by the usual treatment. For
sale by all druggists.
Georgia has a total of 187 coun
ties. Coffee is the largest in area,
Fulton in population. Colquitt
made the greatest gain in the
number of its inhabitants frbm
1890 to 1900.
WANTED—SEVERAL INDUSTRIOUS PER-
An Important Subject.
Southern Cultivator. ,
We desire to call the attention
of the readers of The Cultivator
to a very peculiar situation. The
extraordinary weather of the last
ten days of - May and the first ten
of June has developed a very pe
culiar situation in the farming of
the country. Some, damage has
been done to the cotton, bub that
may or may not be a matter of
concern. Bub extensive and irre
parable damage has been done to
the grain orops of the country. It
is impossible now for the North
and Northwest to make a very
large yield of corn\ This makes
I it certain that corn as well as
meat will be vefy high next year.
It is too late now for them to re
pair the damage, but, owing to
cur longer seasons, it is not too
late for the Southern farmers to
plant more com.
Every farmer should add to his
corn crop. Plant all the stubble
land in corn. Plant all the unoc
cupied patches in corn. Plant all
the fields that have a sorry stand
of cotton in corn. This will pay
you in the end. Do not" turn a
deaf eV to this appeal. Do not
shut your eyes to patent facts
The Cultivator is no alarmist
sheet. We do not deal in sensa
tional matter, bub we advise you
at once to add to your corn. crop.
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Cure for Hog Cfholera.
Mr. William Castleberry, one
of the most prosperous farmers
and influential citizens of the
Riverbeud neighborhood, has a
remedy for hog cholera which he
has used with great satisfaction
for the past five years, not. hav
ing lost a hog from that disease
eince he began the use of the
remedy. It is a cure not only for
cholera, but for mange, etc. This
is the remedy:
Make a strong tea of red oak
bark. To a gallon of tea add five
cents worth of burnt pulverized
alum. Mix with slop and feed to
hogs, or soak corn twelve hours
in tya and feed to hogs.—Valdos
ta Times.
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penses and hotel bills advanced in cash each
week. Experience not essential. Mention refer-
Summer School, July 1 to Aug. 9,1903
fOvcuision Rates to Athens, Ga„ and
Rot uni via Central ot Georgia
Railway.
Tickets for this occasion will be
on salo June 26th, 29th, 80th, July
1st, 2ii(J/>4th, 11th, 18th and. 23rd,
1908, with liual limit fifteen days
from date of sale, ao one fare plus
25 cents for tho round trip (mini
mum rate 50 ceuts).
Extension of the final limit to
September 30th can be secured by
depositing tickets with Joseph Rich
ardson, Special Agent, Athens, Ga.,
ami upon payment of fee of 50 cents
at time of deposit. Tickets on sale
ac all ticket.offices.
Further information will be fur
nished by any agent of Central of
Georgia Railway.
A simple method of taking cas
tor oil, according to tho Medical.
News, without producing any nau
seating effects is to instruct the
patient to wash out the mouth
with water as hot as can be borne,
and then swallow the oil, and fol
lowing this by rinsing out the
mouth well with hot water. The
first swallow of the water cleans
es the mouth, makes, the mem
branes hot, so that the oil does
not stick and consequently slips
down easy. •
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Driven to Desperation.
Living at an out of the way
place, remote from civilization, a
family is often driven to despera
tion in case of accident, resulting
in Burns, Cuts, Wounds Ulcers,
etc. Lay in a supply of Buck-
len’s Arnica Salve. It’s the bes on
earth. 25c at Holtzclaw’s drugstore
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The greatest pumping plant in
the world is one which draws 5,-
000,000 gallons of water a day
887 miles to the gold fields at
Bulla Bulling, Australia.
Women’s Pains Cured,
They are often; caused by a Rheu
matic oondition of the system, which, if
not checked, results in heart, kidney and
bladder troubles, ovarian dropsy, eto.
URIOSOL, the great California Rheu
matic Remedy, neutralizes tho undue
accumulation of aoids in the system
and onres pain and disease. Send
stamp for book of particulars to the La
mar &Rankin Drug Co., Atlanta Ga., or
URIOSOL Chemical Co., Los Angeles,
Cal. Druggists sell it at 1.00 per bottle
or six bottles for $5.00.
“Where Ocean Breezes Blow”
is the place to go in the summer for rest,*
recreation and a real good time. Travel via
The Centra! of Geergaa SMway«
In a few hours you can be on the shores of the Atlantic, listening
to the roar of the surf, drinking in the wine-like air, bathing, boating,
fishing and dancing, and mingling with a gay throng of charming,
good-natured people; the bluest of blue skies above you.
A maximum of pleasure at a minimum of cost'.
For full information, rates, schedules, etc., ask your nearest
Ticket Agent.
LOW-RATE EXCURSION TICKETS SUTJ&aa
W. A. WlttBURN, J. C. HAILE, F. J. ROBINSON, .
Vice-Pies, and Traffic Mgr. Gcn’l Pass'r Agent. Ass’t Gen'l Pass'r Agent.
SOUTHERN NURSERY COMPANY
. (INCORPORATED.)
WINCHESTER,
TENNESSEE.
Offers to Planters 1,000,000 Peach'Trees, 500,000 Apple Trees,
Grape Vines, Pecan Trees, Ornamental Trees, in fact,
everything grown by first-class Nurserymen,
absolutely free from any disease.
TREES' THAT - GROW AUD BEAR FRUIT
AT LIVE AND LET LIVE PRICES.
AGENTS WANTED, Write to
Soatherq Nursery Gornpany, Winchester, Teqp
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Bought
aud Sold
jjm our Circulating Library
Picture Frames made to order
in best manner at lowest prices.
McSivoy Book & Stationery Co.,
572 Cherry Street, MACON, GA
T EASE
a Best Stassamea?
Meciacua^o Blpids (Si Children.
_ Spring and Summer bring gravo dangers to babies’and children.
Thousands of little ones die of bowel; troubles brought on by eating
unripe fruits, vegetables, etc. Serious results often follow a slight
derangement of tho digestive organs. Baby Ease is the safest, most-
effective ond best medicine for all stomach and bowel troubles of
babies and children. Pleasant,in taste—children like it.
25 CENTS FOB. LARGE BOTTLE
If your druggist hasn’t it, write to the manufacturer,
T. Pa MARSHALL, MACON, GA.
Ash about the E(REE GOL(b (RING offer.
Health'
For a Quarter
’ A
People who have torpid liver find life a
' misery. All they need is a mild remedy like
.i
and Tonic Pellets. The Pill stimulates thej
liver to its proper work and the Pellets invig-/J
k orate the system. In short, they both assist^
Nature, as a medicine should do, ^
^Complete Treatment
" jfo* ° n 'y 2 5 cents.
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