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AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT
Workings cf This Branch of the
State Government.
HOW IT HAS GROWN SINGE 1390
ChangHl That Haro lire.. Made by the
1’rMent ('niimil.fiiiner—NVai-ly u Million
Dollars Turned Into Hie Treasury For
the llenettt of the £cl>»nl Fund—Some
Id trie* ting lauit and Figure*.
Question.-—I am a farmer, and like
thousands of others, feel interested in
the work of the Department or Agri¬
culture. In your monthly answers to
questions give me some information on
this subject. Is the department au ex¬
pense or a source of revenue to the
state? This is not strictly an agncult
ural question, but it is strictly business,
and the farmers want information on it.
Answer l.—Answering your specific
question first, the State Agricultural
Department, so far from being an ex
peat to tho state, has paid into tho
treasury, for the benefit of the school
fund, something Uko $700,000. At first
the inspection fee was 50 cents a ton.
The fertilizer business had not reached
its present magnitude, aud it was
thought that 50 cents a ton would about
pay the expenses of running the depart¬
ment. The idea of a revenue from this
source was not thou thought of. jj ur
tho sale of fertilizers increased very
rapidly, aud the inspection fee was cou
eequeutly reduced to 10 cents, an
amount so small that the seller cannot
claim any additional price for the fertil
izers and yet it protects the consumer,
• aud iu the aggregate the department
puts into the treasury a clear annual
profit. That is after every expense,
Inspector’s salaries, Inspector’s expen¬
ses, tags, bottles, express charges, pub¬
lications, salaries of commissioner, his
olorks, state chemist and two assistants,
have all been paid, the state is a gainer
by between $20,000 and $150,000 each
year. This result has been noconi
plished by the exercise of the utmost
care and economy iu the management
of the affairs of the department. The
business of the office has increased tre
meudously since 1890, when the present
commissioner took charge. .
3. The work of the chemical depart
merit has more than doubled. In 1889
•0 there were 688 analyses; iu 1896-97
1,058 analyses, aud the number of brands
tucreased from 410 to 1,178. One of the
first changes made by the pros mt com
missioner was to bring the chemical de
partmeut to Atlanta. The laboratory is j
now in the capitol and all the aualyses
are conducted there.
8. Inspecting is no longer done in bulk
•t the fnotories. The system of inspecting
Inaugurated by the present oommissiouer
is the best of any state in the Union,
although the Inspection fee of 10 cents
is the smallest of auy state. Inspectors
are forbidden to take samples until after
the fertilizers leave the factories. They !
get their samples from farmers’ wagons,
on the can, in the merchants’ ware
houses, etc., but always after the goods
have left the hands of the manufaetur-!
ers aud are on Bale. By this method!
the entire state is carefully covered, and
H is au extremely difficult matter to sell
(ipurloi^ goods in Georgia. But for this
oareful and thorough inspection (h®
state would be floodtu with wortmess \
fertilizer* and the farmers suffer iu con
o?t>aeuoe.
4 Another reform inaugurated by the
present commissioner was the reduction
of the annual pay of fertilizer iuspec
tors from $1,500 to $1,000 each, and
stead of keeping a large force on duty
all the time, only four are appointed for
the full time, the others are employed
fiuriug the busy season, aud when the
pressure is removed they are discharged.
Thus, though the sale of fertilizers and
ihe consequent work of the inspectors
hare both increased tremendously, the
oost is about the same, aud until the
unprecedented sales of fertilisers the
past season, the ooet of inspecting was
aotually less than formally.
5. Under the present administration
•f the department, the pay of the oil iu
•pectors has been so reduced that
whereas formerly the state did not re
•eive one oeut from this source the pres
eat eommissiooer has been able to put
t 000 into the treasury after all ex
ses have been paid,
f. Although the office work of the
••part meat has doubled and trebled
Auce the present commissioner took
•harge, the office expenses are several
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hundred dollars less each year now than
thea ■ Tho increased work is doue by
the same number of clerks, three, aud
their combined salaries have been re¬
duced from $4,o(K> to $3,720, an annual
reduction of $780 in oierk hire. Until
last year the saviug in clerk hire was
over $1,000 each year, but owing to in
creas ® 11 W01 ^ a:i< ^ responsibility the sal¬
aries' 1 of two of the clerks were raised.
(j. Besides the “Monthly Talks and
Answers to Questions,” which are pub
linked by tho weekly press through*
out the state, tho commissioner has
prepared and issued thousands of
pamphlets and books, giving informa¬
tion as to the resources of Georgia.
These hooks aud pamphlets have been
sent throughout the north and west,
but so great has been the demand for
*hem that it has been impossible to
raeer
7. In the matter of buying tags the
commissioner has been hampered by
the fact that tho state printer claimed
this as one of his perquisites, and in
this he was sustained by the printing
committee. Notwithstandsng this fact,
the commissioner demanded a reriuc
tion in the price aud succeeded in re¬
duciug it from $3.00 to $1.60 per 1,000.
Finally he appealed to the attorney
general and was advised that he could
make the purchase wherever he pleased,
Proceeding on this authority ho entered
into negotiations for obtainiug the tags
cheaper, and then advertised for sealed
bids. The first firm which received the
contract failed to comply with the terms,
so also the second, aud after a third ad
yertisiug for bids the contract was
finally awarded to the Deuison Mann
facturiug company, at 45 cents per 1,000.
—State Agricultural Department,
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Hog Cholera.
Question.— Is there any cure for hog
ekoiera? I see spme advertised in the
papers, but will they do what they
claim?
Answer.—V arious remedies for this
very fatal disease have from time to
time been published to the worid. Many
of them were no doubt worthless, while
a few of them possibly possessed some
merit. Not one of them, however, up
to this time has proved a sure cure, and
many million dollars continue to be lost
annually by hogs dying of cholera. It
u °- f custom of this department to
advertise tne merits of any medicine,
but 1 deem the matter of so much im¬
portance to our farmers that I will now
depart from the custom, aud say to you
»nd other farmers that I believe hog
cholera can be cured by a medicine put
op by Mr. K. P. Dodge of 74 Frazer
street, Atlanta, Ga. His testimonials
as to the wonderful results of the use of
his cholera remedy are, many of them,
from as good men as we have in Geor¬
gia, some of whom I know personally.
They assert most positively that their
sick hogs were at once cured, and the
spread of the disease stopped by the use
of this medicine. I have not tried it on
my farm, simply because I have had no
oholera among my hogs, but I cannot
*oubt the testimony of men whom I
know have tried it, and I take this
means of advising any who are losing
hogs from oholera to write to the above
address for the remedy. I hope I am
not mistaken as to the efficacy of this
medicine, which, as 1 view it, promises
to be a boon, not only to the farmers of
Georgia, but of the entire country. Mr.
Dodge is now in the northwest, but will
soon be in Atlanta, aud he offers to go
to any part of the state where cholera
exists and demonstrate that he can cure
it, and this he proposes to do at his own
expense. —State Agricultural Depart¬
ment.
$100
PR. E. DETCHON’8 ANTI DIITRETIC
May be worth to you more than $108 if you
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fi. sold bv Dr. W. H. Lee, druggist, Con¬
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?n ADVERTISE¬
MENTS.
Geougia, Rockdale Coun’y.
To v.-’iurn it may concern:—E. H, Almand
i s ud .1 •! a mand have lu due A^rm applied to
tii' ’ cr ;ned lor permanent letters of ad
tniiUss ration on the Estate of D. M. Almand,
late of said «•< unty. deceased, and I will pass
upon aniil application on the first Monday m
December, next. Given under my hand and
official signature,this Nor. 8,1897,
adv £3 A. M. Helms, Ordinary.
Ge* v :ia, Rochdale County,
To whom if mny concern:—Mrs. W. O. White
has in due form applied to the undersigned
for 1cHu of administration on the estate of
A'. •:. Wi 're, fate of said county, deceased,
sind ! will pass ufirm said application on the
fir. t Monday in Deccinifer, next. Given under
nn hand and official signature,'this Nov, 10th,
1897. A, M. Helms, Ordinary. .
Administrator’** Sale, /
Agreeably to an order from the Court of
Oi dinary of Rockdale county, will be sold at
public outcry, at the court house dooriti Con¬
yers on the first Tuesday in December, dur¬
ing the legal sale hours, th° following prop¬
erty, lo-wit: Forty acres of land, more or
less, lying in the 4th district of originally
Walton, now Rockdale county, adjoining
lands of R. H. Cannon, T, J. Millerand W, A.
Cannon. Sold as the property of Wm. H.
Cooper, deceased, for the purpose of paying
debts and distribution. Term cash.
ad v $3 R. H. Cannon, Admr.
Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordi¬
nary of Newton county, will be sold at the
cou i t bouse door in Conyers, Rockdale coun¬
ty, on the first Tuesday in December. 1897,
within the legal hours of sale, One hundred
acres of land in--district of Rockdale,
bounded north by Sam Huson’s old place,
west by-T, D. Scott, South by P G Turner,
east by J. B. Graham; also a house and two
acres of land, bounded north by J- A. Parker,
west by Husou place, south by A. L. Veal and
east by A L. Veal- Sold as the property of
J. A, 11, & J. A. Stewart, late of Newton coun¬
ty, doc: ased. Terms cash. Nov 1, 1897.
J. K. Stewart, admr,
adv i’3 90 Carrie J. Stewart, admtr’x,
Letters of Dismission.
Georgia, Rockdale County.
To whom ;t may concern:—S. F, Bohanan,
administrator of Jesse T. Weaver, deceased,
has in due form applied to me for letters of
dismission. This is, therefore, to notify all
persons concerned that I will pass upon said
application on the first Monday in February
1S9R. Given under my hand and official signa¬
ture, this Nov. 1, 1897.
adv $0 Helms, Ordinary. t
A. M.
Georgia, Rockdale County.
To whom it way concern:—H, P. Bryans,
administrator of T. H. Bryans, er„ deceased,
has in due form applied to me for letters of
dismission. This is, therefore, to notify all
parties concerned that I will pass upon said
application on the first Monday in December,
next. Given under my hand and official sig¬
nature, this August 30th, 1897.
adv $6 A. M. Helms, Ordinary.
SHERIFF’S SALE FOR
DECEMBER.
Will be sold before the court bouse door, in
the city of Conyers, Rockdale county, Ga t
within the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in December, next, the following
property, to wit:
A four-sixths remainder undivided interest
in and to six hundred and sixty-seven acres
of land, more or less, in the 16th distrtet of
originally Henry, then Newton, now Rock¬
dale empty, Ga, being the remainder inter¬
ests of the defendants. Misses Kittie Carr,
Fannie Carr, Eva Carr and I. Watt Carr, af¬
ter the life estate of Mrs. Mary E, Carr term¬
inates, tho lands described in trust deed
made Aug. 29th, 1873, by B. F, Carr to John T.
Henderson, trustee for Mrs, Mary E. Carr
during her natural life and to such children
as she may have -iving. and recorded ,n book
of deeds A on pages 276 and 277, clerk Super¬
ior court office, Rockdale county, Ga., Nov,
27th, 1873, which record of said deed is refer¬
red to fora full description of the levy and
advertisement of sale.
Levied on as the property of Mi ses Kittie
Carr, Fannie Carr, Eva Carr and I. Watt Carr,
bo satisfy twofll'as issued from Rockdale Su¬
perior court, in favor of the Neal Loan and
Banking Company vs. Mrs. Mary E. Carr and
others. Tenants in possession notified of this
levy, this Nov. 2nd, 1897.
adv $7.18
Also, at the same time and place, will be
sold one undivided two thirds interest in 50
acres of land, more or less, being in the south
side of lot of land No three hundred and
twenty-six,in the 4th district of originally
Walton, now Rockdale county, and bounded
as follows: On the west by lands of Lee
Graham, on the south by lands of J. L. Mc
CaMa. on the east by lands of G. P. Sigman
and others and on the north by lands claimed
by Brazil Bardford. Levied on as the proper¬
ty of W. D. Nickols to satisfy a fl fa in favor
of A. C. MeCalla vs W. D. Nickols.
W, H- M. Austin, Sheriff.
This Nov. 2nd. 1897.
The other undivided third interest in said
land will be offered for sale at the same time
and place, J. N. Olxnn,
adv $4.59 Atty for Owners of same.
Also, at the same time and place, one hun¬
dred aud fifty-five acres, more or less, in the
11th district of originally Henry, now Rock¬
dale county, Ga,. being part of lots 210 and
211 the same being fifty-five acres in sc nth
.
east corner of lot No 211. and one hundred
and five (105) acres off of lot No 310. commenc¬
ing at the south-east corner of lot No 210.
thence running north on the original line to
the branch heading in said lot. theace up the
branch to the head thereof, thence a direct
Ifne to the south-esat corner of said lot,
thence Weston the original line to the com
J tneneing corner, Fleming and bounded and Thomas as follows: Pyles,
; North bv James
j east by Mrs. Fannie Hollingsworth and G. W.
: Walker, south by G. W. Walker and west by
J lands of the Arch Stewart estate of John H. Tay¬
Levied on as the property
lor to satisfy five Justice court flfaa in favor
of Jobu H. Almand and <>ne Superior court
fl:a in favor of John H. A unu’<1. Tenants m
possession notified, this Nov. 2nd, 1897.
adv $6.24 W. H, M. Austin. Sheriff, "
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