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JOHN H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. #1.450 a Year iu Advanee.
VOL. XXXIII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1903.
NO. 43.
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..COTTON FACTOR
STEADY MOVEMENT TO SOUTH,
HD
MACON, GA.
By a liberal policy and honorable methods I have
built up che largest Cotton Commission business in Macon,
Georgia,
Ship me your Cotton and get the best returns.
o. ib. ■wiXiLiisro-iac^.ayn
W. A. DAVIS.
BEN. T. BAY.
GEO. H. LOWE.
W. A. DAVIS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
405 & 407 Poplar St.
MACOX, GEORGIA
BEST SALESMEN IN THE CITY.
They are active, accommodating
and courteous.
Send them your Cotton. They are honest in their dealings
and wise in their judgment.
"W". CO.,
MACON, GEORGIA.
HOME COMFORT
is best promoted by being well provided with
Furniture, Carpets, Shades, Etc
of the best grades and most attractive styles.
It is also necessary and desirable that there be
Stoves, Lamps, Pictures,
and kindred articles of House and Kitchen Furnishiags
All these and more are sold in the latest styles and at
correct prices by the
LOWE FURNITURE COMPANY,
W. C. SHEPTALLj] President.
458 Poplar St.,
MACON, GA,
FURNITURE AND COTTON.
See my Toilet Set* at $3.50, $6.00 and $7.50.
Shades from 25c lip. Lamps from... .$2.50 to $5.50.
The best Dining Chair you ever saw for. ... $1.25.
Rocking Chairs $1.50 and up.
RUGS, MATTINGS, CLOCKS, ETC.
FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS.
A complete line of Coffins and Caskets always in stock.
My
Soutliom Farm Magaeluo.
“Those who have witnessed the
settling up of the west, the north
west, the far north, and latterly Ok
lahoma and Indian Territories* are
now directing their attention to
the advance guard of the greatest
movement in years. This refers to
the influx of northern and western
people into the south and southwest.
To the olose observer it would seem
that the forces that builded up the
west and northwest', peopling those
vast domains with the best blood
and brawn of the overcowded east
and central west, are now uniting
for a greater work in th southwest.
The claim that it is impossible to, at
tract white immigration to the south
contradicted by the experience of
every man who has kept in touch
southern development, is refuted by
every authoritative statement of sta
tistics, including the findings of the
federal census, and so obviously un
tenable a proposition that it should
excite amusement rather than appre
hension. I was identified with im
migration work in the west 20 years
ago. The foundation work was laid
20 years ago. So it is in the south.
W,e expeot the next 10 years will
bring us due reward for our work.
These statements are from men
acquainted through personal experi
ence with successful immigration
in the past for the west, and who
are applying well-tested, practical
merhods to peopling the south with
ty farmers and other settlers.
The field of one is west of the Mis
iigsippi; the field of the other is east
of that river. Their utterances re
flect the spirit of a score .of letters
fi’oni officials of southern ahd south-
^western railroads engaged in the task
of finding suitable southern homes
for thousands of men from the north
and west and elsewhere, who have
begun to realize the wonderful op
portunities for them in the south.
Nearly two years ago analysis of the
population figures of the census
showed that there was a greater
movement of whites to the south
than from it, and at the same time
that the negro population was dif
fusing itself eo rapidly that nearly
1.000. 000 of the 8,840,000 negroes
in the country then lived ouside of
the south. Since the censuB was ta
ken this movement of whites to the
south and the negroes from it haB
been ascelerated, and the reasons for
it, as far as the whites are concern
ed, appear in the letters from the in
dustrial and immigration agents of
the southern railroads.
These are not theoretical. They
give defiinite facts. They tell of
more than 75,000 northern and west
ern farmers settled during the past
ten years between New Orleans, La ,
and Corpus Christi, Texas; with
3.000. 000 acres of farm land, 800,000
of them irrigated for rice, brought
under up-to-date agricultural meth
ods; of 1,200 farmers from outside
who, during the last year, purchased
and settled upon lands on one rail
road south of the Potomac and east
of the Mississippi; of 100 miles in
3 Virgingia counties, without cross
ing an acre of land owned by a ne
gro, and a large percentage of the
farms thus crossed in the Lands of
farmers from the north and west; of
and old field in Georgia transformed
within 12.months into a flourishing
settlement of 400 people, with an
other colony of 200 persons from
Indiana and Ohio not far away, and
of the incoming to various points of
individual farmers, merchants and
millmen.
Thousands more are coming south.
SUBSOILING-DOES IT PAY?
Southern Cultivator. ,
This is no new question, but it is
a very live one. At present it is en
gaging the thoughts of farmers with
renewed interest.
As all our readers know. The
Southern Cultivator believes and
teaches that subsoiling does pay in
the south. We say in the south be
cause in some respeo.ts our condi
tions are peouliar end lncal. In the
north and northwest one-horse plows
are not used to break or prepare land.
They use two, four and six-horse
plows, hence they have a deep Soil.
They have never made a hard-pan
such as we ha\e to contend with.
Again, they have hard winter freezes
whioh pulverize the soil fine and of
ten deeper than any plow. They
have heavy winter snows.
In the south conditions are differ
ent. Our ancestors used one-horse
plows. We have continued to use
them. Our plowing as a rule is shal
low, not more than three inches.
Below this there is a hard layer of
clay which has been made very hard
and compact by years of bad treat
ment. We have plowed and pastur
ed our fields when the soil and clay
were wet. The constant tramping
by the mule’s feet, the plow’s foot
and the plowman’s feet, together
with the oattle at pasture have made
this layer several inches deep. Gen
erally it is deeper as the farm is old
er. This hard-pan renders the best
farming impossible.., It prevents the
soil from drinking in the rain water,
It forces this water to run down the
hills and carry off the finest and best
of the soil. This makes the gullies
that have ruined so many farms. But
many fields .are greatly injured by
leaching whioh does not appear to
the eye, By leaching we mean soak
ing out the potash, phosphoric acid,
nitrogen and other elements of plant
food wich are soluble in water, and
carrying them away.
These two sources of damage leave
millions of acres unfit for cultivation
or incapable of producing paying
crops. We call such lands worn out
Again, this hard-pan prevents the
plant roots from going deep, into the
soil in search of food and water. It
makes plants that are naturally deep
rooted become shallow rooted. It
greatly diminishes the amount of
Come and see me.
prices nre close.
I sell cheap for cash or on installment.
• Respectfully,
R, L. Marchman,
PERRY, GEORGIA!
I am also manager of the Planters’ Warehouse,
me with a feW bales of cotton. Cash advanced on cotton
in store. Warehouse near the depot.
soluble plant food in the soil. Hence
the productive power of soils are
greatly reduced by this hard-pan;
makes it impossible to grow large
crops.
Evidently the remedy is to plow
deep. To get a deep soil we must
break the land deep. ^Whether this
be done with one plow or with two
will depend upon circumstanoes. In
most cases it will require two. One
team cannot do the work. Hence
we generally advise two teams, one
following the other.
As it is not convenient or desira
ble to turn the clay on top, we use a
different plow for the second team.
This is called a subsoil plow, because
it merely breaks the earth under the
soil broken by the front plow. This
front plow is generally a turner. But
this is not essential. The object to
be attained is the breaking of the
soil very deep. This should be about
fifteen inches in order that we may
be pure we have reached the porous
substratum of earth. It does not
matter materially what the instru
ment used may be. The best work
has often been done with a spade
THE REPUBLIC DOOMED.
St, Louis Republic Special.
Dallas, Texas.—John H, Reagan,
only surviving member of Jefferson
Davis’ cabinet, in an interview re
cently, freely discussed government
al conditions in this country, and
largely from the standpoint of a
pessimist. Among other things, he
said:
“I feel that the American Repub
lic is doomed.
“In that event, Texas is the hope
of the people for a free, representa
tive government. Some day there
will be at least 80,000,000 more
people in this state than there are
now.
I do nob want Texas to be divi
ded. When Texas was admitted in
to the Union of States the right was
to make five states of the territory
embraced in Texas. That should
never be done.
T do not base ray opposition up
on the pride that all Texans have in
the territorial greatness of their
state. That is one thing that makes
a sentiment against division of the
state, but the real reason—-the one
that outweighs all the potent argu
ment for dividing the state in order
to increase the influence of the west
in the United States Senate, is
found in k more grave condition.
The reason Texas must never be di
vided is this—there oan be but two
kinds of Republic, the confederation
of states and the centralized govern
ment, the latter of whioh becomes
nothing in the epd but a monarchy.
“The United States is drifting
rapidly into a raonarohial form of
government, It is'not even now
governed by men. It'is controlled
by money. The power of the finan
cial interests is paramount to the
power of the people.
"The result will be dissolution of
the confederacy of states or a inon-
archiul form of government.
“I want Texas to be big enough
to stand alone, to be once more the
Republic of Texas when the dissolu
tion of the Union shall come. That
is reason enough for never dividing
this Btate.”
—. W-Ok-4 — .
Advancing values of farm lands in
the cold and uncertain climate of
the North and West and a better
understanding on the part of'farm
ers there as to opportunities in the
South are bringing thousands of ex
perienced tillers of the soil, men
who are able to purchase when their
wants are suited, and who, recogniz
ing vastly greater chances in the
South to men of energy and thrift,
are not slow in taking advantage of
the low prices of land to become de
sirable and useful citizens, and are
being welcomed by the people of
the South, who realize that an addi
tion to the white population there
means the betterment in every re
spect.—Southern Farm Magazine.
A Love Letter.
Would not interest you if you’re
looking for a guaranteed Salve for
Sores,Burils or Piles. Otto Dodd,
of Ponder, Mo. writes: “I suf
fered with an ugly sore for a year,
but a box of Bucklen’s Arnica
Salve cured me.” It’s the best
Salve on earth. 25c at Holtz-
claw’s drngstore.
| |8ubBoribe for The Home Journal.
The new convict lease layr seems
to be a gold mine for the state of
Georgia. According to the bids
which were opened two weeks ago
for the hire of felony convicts for a
term of five years, the state will re
ceive net about $260,000. Under
the old lease the state got $90,000.
The state will rec3ive nearly three
times as much money under the new
lease for one-third less convicts.
Confessions
Rev. Jno. S.
of a Priest.
Cox, of Wake,
Ark., writes, “For 12 years I suf
fered from Yellow Jaundice, I
consulted a number of physicians
and tried all sorts of medicines,
but goo no relief. Then I began
the use of Electrict Bitters and
feel that I am now cured of a dis
ease that had me in its grasp for
twelve years.” If you want are-
liable medicine for Liver and Kid
ney trouble, stomach disorder or
general debility; get Electric Bit
ters. It’s guaranteed.
at JHoltzclaw’s drugstore.
Broke Iu to His House,
S. Lee Quinn of Cavendish', Vt.,
was robbed of his customary
health by invasion of Chronic
Constipation. When Dr. King’s
New Life Pills broke into his
house, his trouble was arrested
and now he’s entirely cured.
They’re. guaranteed to cure, 25o
at Holtzclaw’s drugstore.
■ .— 1 ~ .
With the exception of a few hun
dred inaccessible heathen on the
east coast, Greenland, with its 10,-
000 population, is now under a unir
form Christian influence.—Ex.
^ , . TO CT7BB A COLD IN ONE DAY
OulV 50c Take Laxative, Dromo Quiuine Tablet*. All
I druggist* refund the money if it fail* te cure.
E. W. Gkotb’b eignktureis on each box. Igc.