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THE GWINNETT HERALD, )
THE LAWEKNCEVILLE NEWS, t CODSOllddtßd J(M. 1, 1898.
Established In 1893, )
Every One of the Great Departments of J ohn 13. Brogdon’a,
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“The Peoples Department Store,”
Has Boon For Tho
Greatest Fall Business
'This House Has Ever Known.
In justice to himself, every buyer, now considering, will find it to their interest to examine my
Mammoth Stock before buying a dollar’s worth of goods.
I HAVE BOUGHT IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS MORE THAN $5,000 WORTH OF DKY GOODS, CLOTHING, AND SHOES, FOR
SPOT CASH, THEREBY SAVING 25 TO 40 PER CENT; THIS I WILL SAVE TO ALL CASH BUYERS.
JOHN B. BROGDON, LEADER OF LOW PRICES,
Suwauee, - - • - ■ > Georgia,
PLANTING WHEAT.
W. P. Walker’s Method.
The Telegraph advocates wheat
sowing, a general diversification of
crops and less cotton. To stimu
late the good work, it offered in
1898-99 for the best yield of wheat
on four acres, SIOO iu gold. For
second best, SSO iu gold. Third
best, $25 in gold, and for best
yield on oue acre, $25 in gold. A
convention of wheat groweas met
on Jnly 12, 1899, in Mason, and a
committee, composed of Messrs. J.
M.Gray, E. Taylor and C. H. Jor
dan, who were appoinaed by the
convention, made the awards of
prizes as follows •
First Prize, $lO0 —W. P. Wal
ker, of Spalding, 4 acres, 147 bush
els and 56 pounds.
Secoud Prize, $50 —Mrs. M. E.
Wilson, of Spalding county (sister
to Mr. Walker), 4 acres, 125 bush
els, 48 pounds.
Third Prize, $25 —Jesse M. Tan
ner, of Washington county, 132 i
bushels on four acres.
Fourth Prize, Best yield on one
acre, $25—W. P. Walker, of Spal
ding, 40 bushels and one pound.
It will be seen that Mr. Walker
and his sister captured $175 of the
S2OO-offered. Mr. Walker’s meth
od of planting wheat, consequent
ly, became of much interest, and
he received a great number of in
quiries, which he kindly answered
through The Telegraph. These
have been printed in The Tele
graph several times, and the paper
put them inta pamphlet form for
preservation and reference. Mr.
Walker prints the most common
questions asked him, and then
gives bis answers, as follows:
Question —When is the best time
to sow wheat ?
Answer —Just after the first
freeze or killing frost in Novem
ber.
By waitiug till then many in-
THE NEWS-HERALD.
sects that are so destructive to
wheat are destroyed. To sow in
October, wheat would be more li
able to get killed iu early spring.
As to the Kind of land, I suggest
that you sow your best upland.
Nearly all wheat growers are par
tial to red land, but I must say
that two of the paorest yields I
ever had was on red land. Tell
me what your season will be next
April and May and I can tell you
the kind of soil that will give the
best result.
My wheat laud is not especially
prepared before sowing. I sow
wheat after cotton that has been
well cultivated. If the stalks are
large I usually drag something
over them, after which I plow
them up with a scooter plow and
let them remain where they are,
Q —What is the best manure,
and how do you use it ?
A—l use all mannres broadcast.
Nothing better than stable ma
nure. Cow manure when obtained
from cotton seed meal and hulls
equals anything you can use. Cot
ton seed are fine for a rainy sea
son and will not leach like other
munures. As to commercial fer
tilizers, I know nothing of them.
But you can always rely on acid
phosphate and cotton seed meal,
mixed two of acid and one of
meal, though dryer the season the
better the result. Too much meal
wili kill the seed wheat at the time
of germination.
Q —What variety of wheat do
you sow ?
A—lt is purple straw.
Q —How do you treat your seed
wheat ?
A—l shake all of the small
grains possible out of the wheat
by passing same through a fan
over a 8-16 inch mesh sieve at
about thirty degrees incline. If
you cannot secure your seed in that
way go to some place in your field
where you have only ordinary
wheat and there cut off enough for
your seed. It is perfectly natu
ral for wheat to have two grains
to the mesh, and when you grow
more than two you will find a
great many small grains.
Q —Why select the best grains
for seed ?
A—Because it is the mother to
the little plant. The larger the
grain the more vitality it has, the
more uniform in its growth, and
all the plants are more liable to
withstand injuries. To get the
growth and ripening more uniform
increases the yield, improves the
seed.
Q —How do you keep down
smut ?
A—l have never seen any smut
in my wheat. Neither will you if
you will annually put one-quarter
of a pound of well pulverized blue
stone into a gallon of boiling wa
ter. When ditsolved pour it over
one bushel of wheat while hot and
stir until every grain is wet. Af
you have done this you should ap
ply slack lime, just as much as
will adhere to each grain. You
will find this to be very profitable.
The wheat will grow a little taller
and will stand a much harder win
ter than without this application.
I sow my wheat broadcast in the
manure so as to give the little
plant all the strength possi
ble during the winter mouths.
Q. —How much wheat mnst we
sow per acre iu order to get the
best result?
A.—ls you select your seed
wheat as you do your corn, I say
sow nothing less than one bushel
per acre. An acre of land that
will nquire two bushels to be well
seeded can be sown with oue
bushel and the yield will be nearly
as good but not near so satisfactory.
Why? Because when it is thinly
sown the pli|nt will spread, it
shoots up irregular, is uotjuniform
in growth, does not ripen evenly,
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1900.
it haß a coarse straw and the only
good thing that can be said about
it is that it has a good head.
Q. —How do you plow in your
wheat and how deep?
A.—l turn under with a com
mon turn plow, and I suppose the
seed could be found on an average
of three to four inches under the
top of the soil. I level the ground
with a harrow, brush or anything
that will put the ground iu good
shape for the harvesting machine.
We have now six months to rest
from seed time until harvest.
Q.—At what time do you cut
your wheat?
A. —When you see the heads be
gin to turn down you can get
your machine ready for harvest.
Q. —Why not cut on the greeu
order so as to have better straw?
A.—By so doing you open up a
channel for mold and rust in
your next crop. Give the little
wheat germ all that nature calls
for and it will be more able to
ward off the much dreaded diseases
Now if we can trust our wheat
in the hands of nature let’s do our
field likewise. Nature says to
man “ditch your land.” Man says
to nature “I will terrace.” And we
evidently see that man is wrong.
But I will add for safety—good
seed, good soil and proper drainage
is a successful road for all wheat
growers to travel. I have seen
wheat under water on terraced
laud nearly a week at a time.
Wheat is not rice. Neither is an
excess of water hemmed up on a
hillside iu keeping with the laws
of nature.
I have been asked if the height
of wheat had anything to do with
the yield That depends on the
seasons and amount of manure
you used. Where I raised fifty
bushels of wheat to the acre last
year it grew to be five feet tall.
I had another piece as tall that
grew only thirty-five bushels per
acre.
The former was broadcast with
barnyard manure, about fifteen
loads per acre. Also acid phos
phate, two to one of cotton seed
meal, about 300 pounds per acre.
The latter piece had never been
manured with barnyard manure,
but was broadcast with cotton
seed, about fifteen to twenty bush
els peracre,aud acid phosphate two
to one of cotton seed meal, 300
pounds per acre. This piece of
land an ordinary year will yield
about 1,000 pounds of seed cotton
per acre.
You can safely use 400 pounds
of acid phosphate and cotton seed
meal as above mentioned.
Q. —Will it pay to raise wheat?
A.—Yes. I raised last year 850
bushels of wheat, at $1 per bushel,
$850; twelve tons of straw at 80
cents per hundred, $72; fourteen
tons of hay, $l4O. Total, $562.
Leaving the land benefited 20 per
cent. The expense of these seven
acres: Seed wheat, sl4. preparing
land, $7; fertillizer—cotton seed
meal and acid $17.50, barnyard
manure $62 50, harvesting $lO,
threshing $25. Total expense
$lB6, loavii g $426 profit und
eleveO'menti s to flay and one to
work. If I had only raised one
seventh ol what I did I would
have had more profit than if 1
had raised one bale of cotton per
acre at 5 cents per pound,—-Macon
Telegraph.
During the winter of 1897 Mr.
James Reed, a leading citizen
and merchant of Clay, Clay Co.,
W. Va., struck his leg against a
cake of ice in such a manner as to
bruise it severely. It became very
much swollen and pained him so
badly that he could not walk
without the aid of crutches. He
was treated by Physicians, also
used several kinds of liniment
and two and a half gallons of
whiskey iu bathing it but nothing
gave any relief until he began
using Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
This brought almost a complete
cure in a week’s time and he be
lieves that had he not used this
remedy his leg would have had to
be amputated. Pain Balm is
unequaled for sprains, bruises and
rheumatism.—For sale by.Bagwell
Drug Co.
James Monroe's Popularity.
No man except George Washing
ton has ever actually received the
unanimous vote of the electoral
college for President of the United
States, and yet to one other is
really due the glory of such an
election. While he did not receive
it actually, he did, virtually.
His first four years had been so
eminently satisfactory to the peo
ple, they so thoroughly approved
of hie course in all essential
points, he was so much the popu
lar idol of the people, his political
enemies so rapidly melted from
view and from every existence
during those years that formed a
part of the “Era of Good Feeling,”
that when the time for election
came, everybody with one accord
seemed to be shouting “Mcuroel
Monroe 1 Monroe!” And it was
the same later, when the electoral
college met: vote after vote was
registered for the President, uutil
he had received two hundred and
thirty-one, and there was one vote
left. Mr. Blumer of New Hamp
shire arose when his name was
called, and asked the privilege of
making a statement. The privi
lege being granted, he said that he
desired to have it known that he
considered that Mr. Monroe had
earned a re-election, that he was
entitled to it, that he had brought
prosperity to the country and
honor to the Presidential chair,
that he, Blumer, would rather see
him in that office than any other
man then living, that he was
greatly pleased to see him receive
such a large vote, but, he went on,
he wished to announce that he in
tended to cast his vote for anoth
er, for it would break his heart to
think of anyone else being given a
unanimous vote and thus being
honored on an equal with “our
dear Mr. Washington,” so he cast
his ballot for Mr. John Qniucy
Adams.—Exchange.
You have read of the cures by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla and you
should have perfect confidence iu
it. It will do you good.
The Ball of Fsm*.
Thu selections that have been
made for the proposed Hall of
Fame in New York will probably
be generally commended. The
eminent Americans named in the
list were all truly great men, and
the summary of their achieve
ments would embrace practically
the salient features of the history
of their country. As the list now
stands it is as follows:
Statesmen —GeorgeWashingtou,
Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Web
ster, John Adams, Henry Clay,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jef
ferson.
Preachers audTheologians—Jon
athan Edwards, William Ellery
Chauning, Henry Ward Beecher.
Soldiers and Sailors—U. S.
Grant, D. G. Farragut, R. E.Lee.
Scientists —J. J. Audubon, Asa
Grey.
Lawyers and Jurists —John Mar
shall, James Kent, Joseph Storey.
Authors—H. W. Longfellow,
Washington Irving, Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
luventors—S. F. B. Morse, Eli
Whitney, Elias Howe, Jr.
Philanthropists—GeorgePeabody
Peter Cooper.
Educatoas—Horace Mann.
Architects—William M. Hunt,
Painters—Gilbert Stuart.
It is the purpose of the projec
tors of the Hall of Fame to add
to the foregoing from time to time
such names as the board of judges
may decide to be worthy of the
distinction. Within a few years,
therefore, it is to be expected that
names like those of Thomas J.
Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston,
and Edgar Allen Poe will find
tbeir way upon the tablets of the
American immortals. It is grati
fying to note that the true great
ness of the South’s beloved Lee
was ackuswledged among the first.
The vote by which he was selected
was only ten less than that for
Farragut, notwithstanding a ma
jority of the electors were men
of;the north and west, whose sym
pathies were not with Lee at the
time when he crowned his reputa
tion by conducting one of the
VOL. VIII. NO 1
most marvelous wars the world
has ever seen. We are now get
ting far enough away from the
great event to view the actors in
it with an unprejudiced eye and
to judge of them upon their mer
its. Thus the south is coming to
a better understanding of the
characters of Lincoln and Grant,
as the north is of tne characters
of Lee and Davis.—Savannah
Morning News.
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A new short story by Robert
Barr, entitled “The Wizard of
Wall Street,” iu Everybody’s Mag
azine for November, has never been
exceeded in its quality of inter st
by anything from the pen of that
popular writer. Iu jts conception
of certain Wall Street types, it is
peculiarly true to life. A story on
tramp life, entitled “A Dead One”
is remarkably impressive, while
the philosophy of this creature of
the Uuder World is most enter
taining. The hardshsps and dan
gers to which fishermen off “The
Banks” are constantly exposed,
vividly described by Caprain H.
D. Smith, of the U. S. Revenue
Cutter Service, in rd artiole fit
tingly entitled “When Death Rides
on the Waters,” “A Tale of the
Gridiron Field” is a lively story of
seasonable interest, and it more
than well repays the reader for his
ten-oent investment.