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THE. GEORGIA CRACKER SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1902
A reward of $25,000 is offered by
the department of agriculture in
Queensland for the discovery of
a means of eradicating the ’’prick
ly pear” pest, which is a cactus
imported from America. The
remedy must not cost more than a
certain sum per acre.
Neglect Means Danger.
Don’t neglect biliousness and consti
pation. Your health will Suffer per
manently if you do. DeWitt’s Little:
Early Jtisers cure such cases. M. B.
Smith,' iBufcternut, Mich., says “De
Witt’s I/'jtle Early Risers are the most
satisfactory pills l ever took. Never
gripe or cause nausea.” Kohertson &
Law. j
^ The preponderance of aliens in
East Side districts in New York
pity is showniby the fact that id
the eighth assembly district, in
which the total population, as
returned by the federal census,
was 72,125, there were only 4,748
votes cast last November.
lowed to exercise Ills liiaivrGual judg
ment as to time and method of pre
senting the different subjects and to
make his instruction conform to the
agricultural needs of the district in
which his school, is located.
Thus at this German village nearly
every owner or renter of even a small
piece of ground is an experienced gar*
dner, understanding thoroughly the
value 1 of* "cultivation and the money
worth of every pound of compost. The
farmer’s wife and children assist him
in his labors and the children at an
early age have a very clear under*
Biliousness
* j**» Mt* temM be
bila will be tferertru ofi fa the right
to lyUa «t the ease time should W j
by a.ioaie.thet Nature may begin her
*•**$*•*• the eurej
Smcdl jcrpps, unsalable veg
etables, result from want of
l ^anoTONIC pellets
n thB modem mild power cure that completely <Ioea
* withoet ehock or Injury to any the
ytfem. Booklet* and sample* fa* of any dealer i
or oocagtefce treatment, Twenty-B*e rw, * /
, BROWN MFCL CO. W
MEW VORK jft/A
AMO OREENEVILLE,
tenn,
•The school garden is intensively
farmed; and made a spurce.of reyenue.
The' beei are aiso made a subject
of special study.
•v It is not to be inferred that every
German neighborhood is fortunate
are especially
i. Write for
fortunate
J enough to have such a school^ and the
[ teachers who make use of the school
garden for instruction are the excep
tion. But the success of the few
schools of this sort prove their worth.
The interesting article of Mr. C. B.
Smith was recommended for publica
tion by Mr. A * C. True, di/ector of ex
periment stations, and its publication
was authorized by Hon. James Wilson,
United States secretary of agriculture.
In view of the faetr that the desira
bility of an agricultural course for the
sfchopls in ;rura,]l districts is being so
generally discussed we thought that
some useful hints might he derived
from the account of this, practical Ger
man school. *
GERMAN KALP WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
Agricultural Course For Ru
ral District, Schools.
For all kinds of sores, burns, bruises,
or other wounds. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve is a sure cure. Skin diseases
yield to # it at once. Never fails in
cases of piles. Cooling and healing.
None genuine but DeWitt’s. Beware
of counterfeits. “I suffered for many
years from a sore caused by a gun shot
wound m my left leg,” says A. S. Ful
ler, English, Ind. “It would not heal
and gave me much trouble. I used all
kinds of remedies to no purpose until
I tried DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A
few boxes completely cured me.”
Robertson & Law.
AS NOW. TAUGHT IN GJERMANY
.There the Common Schools Have a
Garden Attached and Pupils ape
Given Practical Instruction in Ag
riculture.
Sugar Qane.
Though some of the farmers are
nearly through planting their cane,
some are waiting for dryer weather.
The importance of this crop cannot
be overestimated. There is an ever
increasing demand for the bast Georgia
cane sirup. Overproduction of either
sugar or sirup need not be feared.
The consumption of sugar in the Unit
ed States exceeds the home supply.
Raising sugar cane costs less than
raising cotton, and to the planters of
many parts of southern Georgia there
is more money in it. When this crop
receives the attention due it, sugar.re-*
fineries will increase in number. As
we have said before, there is no rea
son why the sugar and sirup business
of Georgia should not at least approxi
mate that of Louisiana.
The sugar refineries at Baxley, in
Appling county, and Dupont, in Clinch,
are doing good work for their respec
tive-sections. At Cairo, in Thomas
county, is a large sugar plant of the
best modern construction, where the
juices of the cane are being chemical
ly treated in the most scientific man
ner. Within a radius of 15 miles from
this town there are 2,000 acres plant
ed in sugar cane. The shipments of
sirup from Cairo amounted last year to
10,000 barrels. At Quitman, in Brooks
county, one firm sells on an average
8,500 barrels of sirup a year. The
Most of the common schools in the
smaller German villages have attached
to them a small garden. Though these
gardens are generally for the use of
the teacher and his family, occasion-
ally some wideawake teacher uses his
as a means of instruction. Here he
takes his pupils to show them how
plants grow from the seed to full ma
turity. The nature charts used in the
schools to teach plant and insect life
are supplemented by observation of
real plants, flowers, fruit trees, insects,
birds and bees. * *
Mr. C. B. Smith, of the office of ex
periment stations, United States de
partment of agriculture, has given us
the benefit of his observations' at Alf-
ter, a village*of 2,000 inhabitants, in
the German Rhine province, between
.Bonn and Cologne. Mr. Smith, who
-visited this village in 1899, gives the
■following account of it: “The whole
region lying about the village is inten
sively farmed and forms practically
one vast garden. Vegetables alternate
wit horchards, yrith occasional strips
of grain or forage plants. The school
is what is known as a ‘people’s school.’
This is the common school of Ger
many. Only the fundamental branches
are taught in these schools, and the
whole course is completed in eight
years. .Ahe Alfter. common school con
tains 400 pupils and six teachers. In
this school, as in all others in this
province, two hours instruction week
ly In fruit culture, gardening and gen
eral farming during the last two years
of the course is required. This has
been compulsory by law since 1895.
Outline suggestions for this work are
. sent the principal of the school by
the provincial government, as follows:
First Year.
a April and May (1.) Inner structure
^of plants, pl|^it cells and tissues and
their functions. (2) Other divisions of
"plants: (a) the roots, their function in
the nourishment of plants by the ab
sorption of; mineral; matter, as Jpihos-;
phorous, potassium, sodium, iron* chlo-
rin and : water; (b)j the trunk; its
branches and buds, the structure of
the cambium and the occurrence of
ring growth.”
The course goes on through every
month of the year, describing plant
life tn all its stages, the improvement
of theshit the jusing up plant food
and its replacement by fertllizeris of
various kinds, the influence of the cli
mate on plants, fruit culture and the ;
management, of fruit, trees, the ene
mies of fruits and vegetables and how
to get rid of them.
In February and March of the next
year’s course the various minerals are
discussed. In April, May and June
garden work is discussed from the lay
ing out of plats to the utilization of
vegetables. 1.1,1
In the latter part of June of the
second year’s course the pupils study
field work, plowing, harrowing and
The Wyoming National Bank of
Warsaw, N. Y., claims the young
est bank president in the country.
He is Wolcott J. Humphrey, 24-
years old, and graduated from
Williams’ College in 1900.
Saved Many a Time.
Don’t neglect coughs and colds even
if jt is spring. Such cases often result
seriously at this season just because
people are careless. A dose of One
Minute Cough Cure will remove all
danger. Absolutely safe. Acts at
once. Sure cure for coughs, ,colds,
croup, grip, bronchitis, and other
throat and lung troubles. “I have
used One Minute Cough Cure several
years,” says Postmaster, C. O. Dawson,
Barr, Ill. “It is the very best eough
medicine on the market. It has saved
me many a severe spell of sickness and
I waymly recommend it.” The chil
dren^ favorite. Robertson & Law.
The Meldrim Guidon thinks that
all three methods of selecting
judges are bad. ’’Whichever one is
adopted appears to be the worst. A
governor appoints political favor
ites ; the legislature makes up a
slate, and the people know noth
ing of the real fitness of a can
didate, and, as a rnle, cares less.”
Where can you find a superior to these goods?
And there’s ’
You cannot afford to disregard
the warnings of a weak and
diseased heart and put off tak
ing. the prescription of the
world’s greatest authority on
heart and nervous disorders—
department ever since our accession to
office, .that in the great sugar cane in
dustry .Georgia would ^BLncl even, a ■ bet
ter, because a more permanent, source
of wealth than in her rapidly disap
pearing forests of pine.
We can and will please yen if you’ll only give