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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1896)
>-£3. •«i 1 gjH^,-~ - y hi? Lr=3 NX I a jSa. CM W ii.-x. k a .S' * =3 ( - VOL. S T OF MIDWAY. biof clerk of conees be c exposition Mr. Dyer, 19 at the estimate , of what mad® up his ; midway attractions hoi the d: of Cairo received he streets into ,549. 112,840 went £gt, while 37,000 went to see Icoocbee-coochee dance. ■fil 000 people rode on the Se l|j’ il ff ay and paid $16,305 for a n43 000 people visited the Mexi b village and paid $14,382. Hu,504 Shot the Chutes for fich they people paid visited $28,126. the haunt¬ 170000 ing, took in the and 61,309 ^gtic i Maze. 42,388 visited the iauty show, and 63,720 rode und on the Phoenix Wheel. This does not look like money a scarce, and yet there is a hue d cry in the city about hard 168. These amounts were only r amusements. The total gat ndaneeto the exposition was 286,863 and over $369,000 was ikeu in at the gates. WHY NOT YOU? Lo ; rids of people are king Hood Sarsaparilla to ess andlan n which ire ?o common at this sason, why are you not doing ... :,? wr lien you know that I / • ..•ijU- i-us power to Bio, rhenautl: sm, dyspepsia and E. :..uoo caused by impure food, jeffer? why Hood's do you continue to cures others, why tot you? pood's fficient. Pills are prompt and 25c. LIBERTY CHAPEL. I New year and glad tidings. I Rev. J. M. Thurman is teaching Ichool at- Shadydale academy, pie pH Prof, is an old iiistructol, as as a good preacher. I Miss Ivey Hardin is the guest p Keron Hardin. [The plousehton, Rev. J. C. Forister, of filled his first appoint at the Congregational church F the first Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Waldrop, Sunday. ' ■ Newton, was in our section last Mr. Clarence King is in north -ergia at work at Brasw ell sta¬ tion. Mr*. .J. ij. Thurmon, of Locust F was the guest of Mrs. M A rar ker last week. * Iisses Ollie and Fannie Veal of capping Shoals , touait was in the com y last week. C M Veal visited i Newton last Saturday an * ha PP- v Mew Year to the Cure fluffs^ e ° P ^ s F r * en cl- In for fifty r use years. Grinne R^ gh u-S° ,d ’ Crou P» Whooping = Cough,, for*oniv hR RniAsthma LL COUGH SYRUP and Lung Affections. ° is sold everywhere 2 5_^nts ^^Refuse cheap substitutes. s ^ PLUGS,The 1 Great Tobacco Antidote.10c. Dealers or mail.A.C.Mener & Co., Ba!to-,MA CONYERS, GA., THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1896. Nerves Are like Fire. They are Good Servants But make Poor Masters To keep your Nerves steady, Your Head clear, Build up your Strength, Sharpen your Appetite, You must have Pure Rich Blood The Best Medicine to Vitalize and Enrich the Blood, is Hood’s Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifier Prominently in the Public Eye. Hood’s Pills © tn 25c* ner and its many readers. Mr Lem Hardin and Miss Ollie Head was united in matrimony last Sunday evening by Rev. Jo¬ seph Fincher. DIXIE. Bishop Haygood is not ex¬ pected to live but a day or two. He was stricken with paral} r sis sometime ago which will prove fatal. Colony Post No, 14, G, A R; has been organized at Fitzgerald* TEN DOLLARS FOE A NAME. The Georgia Southern & Flor¬ ida By., in addition to their fa¬ mous Pullman Buffet trains, “Quick Step” and “Dixie Flyer,” have inaugurated the fastest Pull¬ man line in tho South between Macon and Tampa, the route be ing Georgia Southern & Florida to Jasper and Plant system to Tampa, leaving Macon daily at 11:28 p. m., arriving in Tampa 2:30 p. m. next afternoon; return¬ ing, leave Tampa 10:15 a. m., ar¬ riving in Macon at 4 a. m. As the names of its two Jacksonville Pullman trains have become household words, it desires to christen its new route with a name that will be as appropriate and popular as its two sisters. Mr, G. A. Macdonald, General Passenger Agent, Macon, ha 8 therefore offered a prize of ten dollars in gold for the most ap¬ propriate name, bearing in mind that the train passes the famous Suwanee River by daylight. All that is necessary is to send in this clipping, giving name of pa¬ per and date, together with the name and address of one or more persons who expect to visit Flor¬ ida this season, to G. A MCDONALD, G. P. A., G. S. & F. Ry Macon, Ga. IT LEADS THEM ALL. The time-honored Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer gets brighter and better as the years roll by. The January numbers, which begins the fifty-fourth year of its usefulness, is on our table, with its columus replete with instructive and entertaining matter. The table of contents contains an interesting variety that cannot fail to benefit its readers. The front cover page contains and illustration of a typ¬ ical Southern scene picking cot¬ ton in the field, a familiar one to Southern people. We are spec all v pleased with the number of the departments in Tho Culti¬ vator, all filled with choice, prac¬ tical suggestions. From cora posting manure to keeping one hunched hens on an acre, and from managing the brood sow to the culture of the soil, its readers will find its pages profitable The editorial pagesteem with live and progressive thoughts main¬ taining its pre-eminence as an ag¬ ricultural journal of the first rank. Every one interested in farming should take it. The subsciption price is very low for so valuable a publication. Send $1 to The Cultivator Pub¬ lishing Company, Atlanta, Ga; and get the paper. We will send The Cultivator and Dixie Farmer and the Ban ner one year for $R25, Send in your subscription to this office* DID YOU EVER Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for troubles? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medi¬ cine has been ’found to be pecu liarly adapted to the relief and cure of all female complaints, exerting a wonderful direct influ enee in giving strengh and tone to the qrgans. If you have loss of appetite, constipation, headache, fainting spells, or are nervous sleepless, excitable, melancholy or toubled with dizzy spells, Elec trie Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and strength are guaranteed its use. Fifty cents and $1.00 at Dr. W. H: Lee‘s drug store. Leap Year balls are the order of the day in many Georgia towns. QUESTIONS ANSWERS. AND Commmissioner Nesbitt’s In¬ quiry Box For the Month. MU0H INFORMATION FURNISHED. The Kind of Grass to Plant on a Wet Bot¬ tom Por a Winter Pasture—The Feeding Value of Cottonseed and Cottonseed Me»l_How to Improve Land So That It Will Become More Productive. Question 1.—What grass can I plant on a wet bottom for a winter pasture ? Answer 1 .— There are none of the cultivated grasses that will thrive on a wet bottom. (I suppose you mean by a wet bottom one on which water stands most of the time). Some of the native swamp grasses of your section might do i well on such land, bnt they offered poor pasturage, as a rule. The best plan is to thoroughly drain the wet bottom, and then it -will pro | dneein perfection anything that will grow on the hiirh land. For a winter pasture you might sow a few acres iu scarlet clover, about the first’of October. In six to eight weeks (if you put it in properly) you can begin to pasture on it, and keep it up until about the first of March. Then take your stock off and the clover will make you a good crop of hay, and in time to make a crop after the hay is gathered. In addition, the roots of the clover will supply your land with nitrogen. Of course you could not pasture rhe land while wet, as that would ruin the clover and injure the land. The vetch is another good plant to furnish a winter pasture in vonr opcHnn Question 3.—Do you think it will pay to haul cottonseed 13 miles and ex¬ change for meal and hulls, where I can get for 900 pounds of cottonseed 300 pounds of meal and 900pounds of hulls? Answer 3.—The 800 pounds of meal would be worth say $3.00. The 900 pounds of hulls $3.00. Thus you would get $5.00 for 30 bushels of cottonseed after hauling them 12 miles. Tho hire of the driver and team you must conder at least $1.50, so you will have left $3.50 in meal and hulls for 30 bushels of cottonseed. Don’t do it; don’t s&ll it at 12, or even 15 cents a bushel, bnt use it on you 1 : farm, iu in¬ creasing the fertility of your, land, and in this way making it worth more to you than you can possibly sell it for. OrrasTmt: X ’Will if •*><«■**• havil.ehirt manure and spread'on the galled spots in the fields ? Answer 4. —I know from practical experience that it will pay you to haul out and spread your chip manure on the thin or galled spots on the farm. Well rotted chip manure not only contains considerable fertilizing properties, but its application has a mechanical effect also, putting such spots in better tilth for cultivation, thus enabling the fertil¬ izing elements of the atmosphere tp more easily penetrate to tho roots of plants. By applications of this kind, and by sowing peas on such spots, you can soon bring them up to the average fertility of tho adjoining land and thus have no thin or galled spots in your field. Question 7. —I have a lot of stable manure and scrapings from fence cor¬ ners that I wish to compost 1 or cotton. What amount of cottonseed and acid should I use in the comnost. ? How loner should it stand oerore using : Answer 7.—The following formula makes a good compost for cotton: pounds. Stable manure.............500 Green cottonseed ..........700 “ Superphosphate. 700 Making a ton of...........2,000 pounds. If the soil is deficient in potash the stable manure and cottonseed may each be reduced 50 pounds and 100 pounds of kainit used instead. Tho formula would then be: Stable manure... 550 pounds. Green cottonseed 550 Superphosphate.. -7 o Kainit.......... HA o - Making a ton of...........2,000 pounds. These ingredients may be varied in proportions to suit different soils and crops. Directions for Composting:— Spread under shelter a layer of stable manure 4 inches thick; on this sprinkle a portion of the phosphate; next spread a layer of cottonseed 3 inches thick; wet these thoroughly with water and then apply more of the phosphate; next spread an¬ other layer of stable manure 3 inches thick, and Continue to repeat these lay¬ ers in the above order and in proportion to the quantity of each used to the ton until the material is consumed. Cover the whole mass with stable manure or scrapings from the fence corners 2 or 3 inches thick. Let the heap stand in this condition until a thorough fermen¬ tation takes place, which will be from four to six weeks, dependent upon a proper degree of moisture and the strength of the materials used. When the cottonseed are thoronghly killed, through tne layers; pulverize and shovel into a heap. Let it lie two weeks after catting down, it trill then be ready for use Another plan is to mix the cottonseed and Btable manure in proper proportion, moisten them with water, apply the proper proportion of phosphate and mix thoronghly, shoveling into a mass as prepared. This will render unnecessary the chopping down and mixing as iu the first method, and in that way might bo a saving of some labor. NUMBER 48. FARM LOANS. For Farm Loans in Rockdale and adjoining: counties, call on or write to the Georgia Farm Loan !o., room G13, Temple Court, At anta, Ga. W. P. Davis, Atty. 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If boys orrfrte Write for apply parttoub-rs. tber must bo well zctvun I l ACME CYCLE COMPANY, ELKHART, 2ND. DELTA CU’JLTGN CO. MEMPHIS TENN., OCT. 3, 1895. Acme Cycle Co., Elkhart. Ird. Dear Sirs:—Y ours of the 1st inst. to hand; also the Acme Bell for my daughter, a^d to say that she is delighted with it would bo put : ug it too mild. I had the wheel sent out to----Seminary, and ri the close of school, it crea¬ ted more excitement am oner the girls. than theproverbial “Mary’s ■jittle Lamb.” Again thanking you for the nice wh.ee ‘ I am, Youis trulv, R. W. HARRIS, Vice-Pros, and Gen. OHIO ASSOCIATION UNION EX-PRISONERS OF THE WAR. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1895. Acme Cycle Co., Elkhart, Inch Dear Sikh:— The Acme Road¬ ster came to Land O. K. on the 10th inst., and I must frankly any it meets my fullest expectations, and I am very much pleased with it. I consider it a strictly high grade up-to-date wheel in every detail of design, material, con *ti action and finish, and is fully f-qua 1 , if not superior io many of the best $100.00 wheels sold on the market here. I believe the Acme frame is the strongest and most rigid and the most graceful and lightest frame built. It is a beauty among beauties, and can¬ not fail to satisfy. Yours truly, Sect. Chas. T Keetch, Rec. : FEMALE r . {.HUIIhIiUL - u -- nhr flfll - w am 3 Opens |‘PLwo r ks% t h." C GyS"ui: in con* ^ervatory advantages , " u * , fA ir e Health unsurpassed. Best ro Rufus W. Smith, Pres., Lagrange, G , t
