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FROM MAKING TOO MUCH COTTON.
“In our circular letters of Jan. 19
and Feb. 5 we endeavored to show the
undeniably enormous losses that the
south has invariably sustained when
more cotton was produced than neces
sary to supply the wants of the world.
“If we should bring the tabulated fig
ures made then, up to this date, the i
losses to the farmers on this year’s crop j
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Until the Crip Broke Down His
Health —Hood's Sarsaparilla
Cave Him Appetite and Sleep,
“ Up to the time when I had the grip I
was a strong, healthy man. After that I
had no appetite and was not able to
rest well at night. I decided to try
would appear still more startling; and, j Hood’s Sarsaparilla and purchased a sup- they’d suspend you 1”
with the ‘Condition of affairs now pre- ply. It has done me a vast amount of
vailing throughout the world, the lie- i good. I have a good appetite and can
cessity for a reduction in acreage this gjeep well.” Joseph M. Ward law',
In Suspense.
An escaped murderer wrote a
friend:
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myself up they’d suspend judg
ment?”
The latter replied.
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a reduction in acreage this
j year should appeal to every farmer with
greater force and induce him to largely
| increase the production of food crops.”
threatened war.
The threatened wars in the east and
j between Spain and the United States
! are a serious r, naoe to the cotton pianfc-
j ing interests 01 the south. On this sub-
! ject»he report says:
“The planters of the south have no
Rome, Georgia.
I “ I have found Hood’s Sarsaparilla in-
i valuable for purifying the blood and loss
1 of appetite. It cures all eruptions and
’ makes me feel better in every way.”
J. A. Crgel, Brunswick, Georgia,
j Wonderful cures of Scrofula, Salt
j Rheum, Ulcers, Sores, Dyspepsia, and
other diseases, prove the great curative,
A New York clergyman says the
world will “come to an end” thir
ty days from date. Just about
the time that note in the bank
falls due.
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The best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Insist upon Hood’s ; take no substitute.
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| encouragement to plant cotton largely , blood purifying and enriching powers of
i this year, with the Anglo-Kussian-Chi-
| nese complications existing in the east,
j which might before the new crop could
! be marketed greatly reduce the value of
j cotton, and the strained relations of our
| government with Spain, which possibly j
flight result in war, staring them in j
tLe face.
“Even with permanent peace existing 1
between all the nations of the globe, the. j
consumptive demand for cotton would |
not be sufficient to warrant the produc- i
tion of another such large American i
crop as last year. An inevitable loss to j
the whole south, in our opinion, would
surely follow.”
THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF COTTON.
From a recent circular of Messrs. Elli
son & Co., Liverpool, the highest au
thority on cotton consumption in the
world, we make the following extract as
to future prospects:
“In our annual report issued in Jan
uary we showed that with an American
crop of 10,750,000 bales, and a consump
tion of about 9,650,000 bales,
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WARNING NOTE
Agricultural Commissioner on
Unwieldy Areas.
FLAN
OT PROFITABLE
TLe Danj^-v of Plowing Over More
Land Than You Can Cultivate
Thoroughly—Deep Preparation Ena
bles Crops to Successfully Resist
Drouth.
Depar
vent of Agriculture,
Atlanta, April 1, 1898.
i don't try tc cultivate too much
LAND.
The exet v nally dry and open win
ter has en d Ad industrious farmers in
all sections to be well advanced with
their work. For this reason, seme may
have been .. x.pted to plow over more
land than ’ ey will be able to thor
oughly cultivate during the coming sea
son . To 11. esc v. e would sa^, repair this
error right now—don’t wait until you
axe overcropped and struggling vainly
against giasr and accumulated work
and worry to find out your mistake. It
is better to abandon part of the land,
&ven after it is planted, and bring the
remainder ro the highest point of culti
vation than .o endanger the entire crop
by a too large area, which must be hur
riedly and imperfectly cultivated. A
farmer sin if d be able to get around his
irons at least every ten days or two
tr -ks, a longer interval than this means
risk and oi i< n irreparable injury. April
Jins become the great cotton planting
(nentk in Georgia. Of late years the
planting of this crop has been gradually
ielayed from a later to a later date.
Fan iers are beginning to more fully
realize the importance of thorough pre
paration , i.,id that any reasonable delay
ai planting is more than atoned for by
putting til? hind in firstciass condition
for the recent-ion of the seed. Of two
crops, the one planted early and hur
riedly on imperfectly prepared land, and
the other later, on land more completely
fuiti carefully plowed and fertized, it
will be found, as the season pro
cesses, that the crop on the well pre
pared land, other conditions being
Jqnal, will attain to more satisfac
tory and perfect development and
*lso that it s proper cultivation is more
easily mahaged. On the land where the
fanner has trusted to subsequent culti
vation to correct the mistakes and short
comings of hasty preparation the condi
tions will be found far from satisfactory.
Of one fact the farmers should be thor
oughly convinced, and that is that no
ffnount of after cultivation will ever
4tone for the planting of a crop on
rough, ill conditioned land. Oui lands,
w a rule, do not receive the careful
preparation which will insure their
greatest yield, and this neglect is the
ffiain cause of short crops, as well as of
innumerable harrassing and retarding
experiences during the period of cul
tivation.
THE LACK OF THE USUAL RAINFALL
fnreishes another argument for the
thorough preparation of the land. We
could cite innumerable instances coming
under our observation where thorough
and deep plowing and subsoiling, before
the crop was planted, have enabled it'to
Burvive, and even develop during a pro
tracted drouth. There is now complaint
from almost all sections of lack of water.
Some farmers, even this early in the
season, are compelled to haul from some
distance nearly all the water needed for
household and farm uses. Fortunate is
the man who has by deep and thorough
plowing formed a reservoir to catch and
hold such rains as have fallen, to be
ready for tne demand# of the crop3
when the usual summe- drouth comes
Mb Not only does this careful prepara
tion enable him to lay up a supply of
but -the condition of his land
that he can practice the level
*uv-?ace culture which is conceded to be
•he culmination of successful farm
This shallow cultivation erf well
4 prepared ran a, never allowing a
j crust to remain long on the surface, not
j only keeps down weeds and grass, but
prevents the unnecessary evaporation of
the moisture, which our deep plowing
has enabled us to store up in lower depths.
David Dickson, the most successful of
sou-thern farmers, speaking from his
abundant experience, maintained that
every inch tdded to the depth of .prep
aration, largely increased the droutn re
sisting powers of the crops grown
on that land. Farmers who have
not exercised the precaution of thor
ough preparation must now take the
chance of injury from lack of necessary
moisture. They should counteract these
difficulties as far as possible and con
serve their limited supply of moisture
by such shallow cultivation as the con
dition of their land will admit.
1 REDUCTION OF THE COTTON ACREAGE.
In another column we call attention
to a recent publication from Latham,
Alexander & Co on this subject, and
we would emphasize, with all the force
at our command, what is there so plainly
e ;ted. Under present conditions farm
ers have not the moral right to risk the
well being of themselves, their families,
of the whole south on an abnormally
large cotton crop and a correspondingly
short food supply.
In a conversation with one of the larg
est cotton planters in the Mississippi
valley I was most forcibly impressed
with the folly of our past and present
policy. This man keeps an accu
rate account of all expenditures, uses
improved implements, pays cash for all
Deeded supplies, and though he makes a
tales of cotton to the acre, without any
fertilizer, his crop cost3 him 5 cents a
pound—independent of the interest on
his large investment. He makes about
2,500 bales. At the small margin of
profit allowed by ruling prices he does
not clear enough to pay even a moder
ate interest on his investment. The
lame conditions apply with even greater
force to the small farmers. The man
in Georgia who plants 2o acres in cot-
l ton at a cost of 5 cents a pound, though
! be should, make a bale to each acre, will,
| at the prices ruling during the greater
| part of this season, scarcely clear enough
! to pay for the fertilizer, which, under our
present system of farming, has become
I an absolute necessity. Where then is
OUR HOPE FOR BETTER CONDITIONS?
We reply, in concentrating our forces
and thus reducing the cost of produc
tion, and in raising’ cn each farm as fax
as possible everything needed to carry on
the operations of that farm. When
these two principles of reasonable and
successful agriculture obtain a general
recognition, and farmers everywhere
put them into energetic operation, a
reduction of the cotton area will be suc
cessfully accomplished and our farms
will become once more the bone and
sinew of our land, rather than the un
certain dependents of merchants and
Inoney lenders.
We would
STRONGLY URGE
the making and utilizing of every pound
of farmyard manure which our sur
roundings make possible. Not only will
this year’s crops show the benfiit, but
our lands will be improved and future
crops will be increased. Plant every
acre possible in peas, using potash and
phosphoric acid to produce a more luxu
riant growth, and thus to increase
their nitrogen gathering power, as well
as to assure an abundant yield.
THE MINOR CROPS
of sorghum, potatoes, ground peas, not
to mention melons, vegetables and fruits,
should all have their allotted space
and their full quota of attention. Com
fort, health, independence lie along
these lines and may be ours by proper
effort. In closing we would urge upon
every farmer to
WATCH THE WAR CLOUDS.
Should war with Spain become a cer
tainty, the probable effect on the price
of cotton would be most disastrous,
while provisions would take a corres
ponding rise.
FARMERS SHOULD STUDY CAREFULLY
the following facts presented by two of
the best informed cotton authorities in
America and England. They are con
tained in the latest report of Latham,
Alexander & Co. and are reproduced
be re in order to give them the widest
circulation and to bring them more di-
of American cotton in the ports of tbe
United States, Europe and the surplus
stocks at the American and European
mills would be about 1,906,000 bales,
against only 800,000 last year, and we
remarked that in regard to the future of
prices everything would depend upon
the prospects of the new crop.
“With as great a reduction in acreage
as took place in the spring of 1895, we
should see a repetition of the upward
movement in values witnessed in that
year; but, if planters are satisfied with
present prices and do not reduce the
area planter , then cotton will become a
greater dru ~ than it ever has been in the
history of the trade, and planters will
not get anything like present prices.”
In their report Messrs. Ellison & Co.
based their alculations upon a crop of
only 10,760,000 bales, when 9,975,418
bales have already been received, and
the indications favor 11,000,000 bales or
more.
MERCHANTS SHOULD USE THEIR INFLU
ENCE FOR REDUCTION OF COTTON AREA.
The present unfavorable outlook for
prices of next year’s crop should induce
every merchant in the south to use his
influence \Mth the planters to cause a
marked reduction in acreage, which
would d? surely followed by better
prices and greater confidence in general
business operations throughout the
south. R. T. Nesbitt,
Commisssioner.
| and allef : tire first" rain break out the
“middies” with a turn plow, throwing
! the furrows towards the bed, and finish-
| ing up with a “water furrow, ” which
! will serve to drain the beds.
! Two plowings w r ill generally suffice,
; the first at right angles, or across the
i beds, and the second parallel with them,
: and both should be very shallow, using
j a cultivator or scrape. At the second or
! last plowing broadcast about a peck of
I Whipporwill or New Era peas to each
i acre. These w ill serve to keep down the
j w T eeds, shade the melons from the
; scorching sun and put the land in fine
! condition for any succeeding crop. The
j above is a summary from a very inter-
j e sting bulletin published by the Georgia
j Experiment Station. In this bulletin,
| No. 38, Horticulturist Starnes has given
; much more full and explicit directions
than can be attempted in our limited
space. We would advise you to send
for it. Address Director R. J. Redding,
Experiment, Ga. The bulletins are
sent tc£kll farmers who apply for them.
State Agricultural Department.
Probably the war
sponsible for the rain in th
sissippi districts.
A Georgia exchange tells ns that
“John Rubber is the father of a
boy.” He must be a bouncing
one.
Spain is buying mules in Geor-
gia.\ There will be some high
kicking about this.—F. L. S., in
Constitution.
QUESTION BOX FOR MONTH.
Information Given by tlie State Agri
cultural Department.
Question.—I am a new comer to
Georgia and write for information in
regard to watermelons. Having never
engaged in their culture, I would like
to know the soil and exposure best suited
to them, also the various details of plant
ing and cultivating. I wculd like also
to be advised as to the best fertilizer to
nse. Should the land be made very
rich?
Answer.—Replying to your last ques
tion first, we would state that to raise
the best melons, it is not necessary to
have a very rich soil, indeed a large
amount of humus is a positive disad
vantage, but it is important that the top
soil be well drained and that it be un
derlaid by a clay subsoil. The warm, light
grey soils of the “wire grass” region of
Georgia are peculiarly suited to the
needs of the watermelon, and from this
section come the finest melons in the
world. The land should be preferably
dry, but not too dry, and the exposure
ihould be toward the south, as the
melon is a typical plant. The prepara
Harlequin Dug.
Question.—Please find enclosed some
bugs, which are eating up eveiy green
thing that they can find. There were a
few on my cabbages last fall, and now
there are thousands of them on my
turnip greens and they are sucking "and
killing the salad. If we don’t get rid of
them we cannot have any vegetables
this year in our neighborhood. There
is great complaint of their destructive
ness from all sides.
Answer.—The bug sent is the much
dreaded “Harlequin Bug,” the worst
known insect enemy of cruciferous
plants. They live through the winter
hidden under leaves or trash of any
kind. All rubbish, under which the
bugs can take refuge during the winter,
should be carefully burned, and infected
fields or gardens should have clean cul
ture. These bugs are very difficult to
deal with, as they cannot be reached
by any of the arsenical poisons.
When the bugs are young Persian
insect powder in decoction, or dry,
will often prove effectual. Hand
picking is often resorted to, throwing
the bugs as picked into pans or cups
containing kerosene. Cabbage growers
plant mustard between the rows of cab
bages. The bugs prefer the mustard
and it attracts them in large numbers.
They can then be destroyed with pure
kerosene. Rather than let them live
Whenever Mr. Tom Watson’s
name is mentioned in a convention,
or m other manner to bring him
into public notice, paragraphers all
over the country immediately be
gin to-fire quips and jests at his
devoted head while very few edi
tors treat him seriously. Can any
one tell wTiy this is so? Mr. \\ at-
son is an intensely earnest man,
and is unquestionably sincere in
his beliefs. Some of his ideas may
be erroneous, but that does not
warrant a shower of shafts of al
leged wit and ridicule against him
on every possible occasion.—Sa
vannah News.
And consider that in addressing Mrs.
Pinkliam you are confiding your private
ills to a woman—a woman whose ex
perience in treating woman s diseases
is greater than that of any living phy
sician, male or female.
You can talk freeiv to a woman when
it is revolting to relate your private
troubles to a man; besides ; a man does
not understand, simply because he is a
man. #
MRS. PINKHAM’S STANDING
INVITATION.
Women suffering from any form of
female weaknt ss are in vi tc d to promptly
communicate with. Mrs. Pine: a am, at
Lynn, Mass. All letters are ^ re
ceived, opened, read, ana ans' - erea by
women only. A woman can freely
talk of her private illness to a woman.
Thus has been established the eternal
confidence between Mrs. Pinko am and
the women of America which has never
been broken. Out of the vast volume
of experience which she has to draw
from, it is more than possible that Phe
has gained the very knowledge that
will help your ^rse. She asxvi> nottn ig
in return except your good will, and
her advice has relieved, thousands.
Surely any woman, ricn or poor, is very
foolish if she does not take ad van cage
of this generous offer of assistance.
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A Timely Friend.
With perfect propriety may we call
that excellent remedy, Salvation Oil*
a timely friend. This liniment rapidly
cures rheumatism, neuralgia and pains,
when other remedies fail. Mr. Jno.
M Hall, Ashland, Va., writes : “I
suffered with rheumatism in the ankle
and the muscles connected therewith.
Salvation Oil at once relieved the sore
ness, reduced the swelling, and cured
the pain. No other liniment that I ever
used did me so much good.”
A Good. Object hoason.
.A minister called upon fi mem
ber who had been n
wee k-n i gh t service,
straight up to the hr
sitting-room, and
removed a live
fire and placed it cn tho hearth,
then watched it while it turned
from the red glow of heat to a
black mass. The member in ques
tion carefully observed the pro
ceeding, and then said: ’You
need not say a single word, sir;
I’ll be there on Wednesday night.’
—The Christian.
and Whiskey Habits
•cured at home with
out pain. Book ox ppr-
^ tieul v. - t:;t & .14 E S.
mtamS b.m.wov;LL.ft, m.d.
nfffclvOffice 101 N. Pryor St.
Some one suggests that perhaps
Joe Blackburn’s paralytic stroke
can be traced to the use of water
in christening the battleship Ken
tucky.—Savannah Press.
The Devil
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_ , DISCOVERY kills the root of all Dis
and multiplv, if nothing else can be j ease by a three-fold absorption cu mois-
, ; v \ - ... „ ! gore, according to God’s plan, through
done,, apply kerosene. This will, of | ^ or ^ ans 0 f the head, (eyes, ears and
-• \ i*l TV - ^ J C tt-/•xy’C' t > m
course, ruin the turnip salad, but better
that than to allow them to continue
their ravages.—State Agricultural De
partment.
Grain Louse.
Question.—We have a small patch of
oats in Griffin that is being ruined by a
small green insect; we enclose sample of
We called on Mr. Kim-
_ _ them in letter
“b" ddAVG I referencAo
soil should be refluced to as fine a tilth : ^e matter and to send your man down
as possible by repeated harrowings and to investigate same. Any information
then checked off 10 feet away. This last j you can give us will be highly ap-
will render it easy to cultivate the patch
both ways.
If you have the choice of selection,
land which was planted in field peas
preciated.
Answer. — The insect sent is the
“Grain Louse.” It lives by sucking the
sap of wheat, oats, etc., and thus ifi-
last year, and on which no succeeding | j^ring and frequently killing the pHnt.
crop was grown, will furnish best con- ^. a W )ea ™ a e
. . 4? .m- v .1 this family are females, and they pro-
ditions for proper feitilization. Stable!^ ~~ J ,
1 duce living young, beginning as soon as
manure is also a fine fertilizer, but
should be applied the previous fall to
obtain the best results. After the land
is checked off, run a wide shovel plow
in one set of the checking lines, all in
the same direction; the opposite lines
only serve to mark the places where the
seeds are to be planted. Into the shovel
furrow put the fertilizer, well decom
posed stable manure or compost, or lack- j stems,
this, a commercial fertilizer in the fol- j water. .
lowing proportions: One part mnriate or I ^ TstLshly riaked
lime with a little carbolic acid, soph
adult, and continuing during life. No
male or egg-laying female of the “Grain
Louse” ha-s ever been found. They
multiply with great rapidity and fre
quently do much damage. From ex
periments that have been made it has
been found that this pest can be kept
under control by spraying the oats when
young with a strong decoction of tobacco
or with kerosene emulsion and
Use about 100 gallons to the
It has also
sulphate potash, two parts nitrate soda, ; ^ ^ Ufctle ^ acid ,
four parts high grade acid phos-! broadcast on the infested oats or wheat,
phate, and at the rate of about Q enera iiy this insect pest is worse on
pounds to the acre. Bed up the field where oats
700 pounds to the acre. Bed
on this with a torn plow two
furrows on each side, four furrows in
all, and leave until planting time. When
the ground has warmed up sufficiently
and all danger of frost has passed, put
in the seeds—the cross furrows will in
dicate the proper places. Allow about
20 seeds to the hill, and don’t plant
deeper than 1 inch, nor in a bunch, but
put in each seed separately, which can
be easily done by spreading the seed on
the .surface and pushing in with the
finger. When the seed come up. thin
down gradually tc one plant in the hiU.
or wheat follow
oats*—State Agricultural Department.
An Old Idea.
Every day strengthens the belief of emi
nent physicians that impure blood is the
cause of the majority of our diseases.
Twenty-five years ago this theory was used
as a basis for the formula of Browns’ Iron
Bitters. The many remarkable cures effected
by this famous old household remedy are
sufficient to prove that the theory is correct.
Browns' Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
Four-fifths of the worlds supply
of cloves comes fronj Zanzibar and
Pemba, Africa.
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