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About Conyers weekly. (Conyers, GA.) 1895-1901 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1897)
VOL. XV f. A 2 * DIRECT FROM MILL TO WEARER,^^| . i Which Saves you 4 «»ig Profits. Tir Cotnwss/o:. thus a, The Valsr, The Jobber ana Store Keeper. 7 AHN8MER & f!) Ml NEW YORK CITY. i *'«>• (treat SargKins . ■ J taps-W-v 5 vvru XJ U .-_i u i •'■rav-.'-r .Kfieute Sr 3 ' Us, s.jgjs to t;. * Kill; tktra |h»if of poiifs, ;,j. * n. m “Ti’T Mark. w‘ Bate, N, , L-rcy, El ’ n «... ■ rrom - v! ■ : ‘ J ; " '• • - >-y emDroi .>ti cd .n m -lv. do . u m*k • icvrt , •• i dteut 1 aK '- l3Ai ':'r~' : nmn; ’• ' 1 VK * • • U\c ■' >3JT)« UZfiS , 2 ■■■'■ i*r-£t. ,L - JOT Jkt.. i- 0 ' 3 *. l will: Saikr Collar. See Pattern’*, SC.-.y. ' 2 I r,» Rl "l , t OM -.V r t>; •«,.vah * =>=>« J -- 91 V • C ■; I p C 3 Mr*. v? And •• A< - Pair c, - i >=-<■ IJg*} ■ , , ! i F V. Jh ' ' i'SrljJxS /w o-o c\ 1 \ ji \ I I imi° V a o \ i j=Uy^ .. r ; I iir?f-!P“ ? a UL— oC mLx.M <11 I ’ ?f|| \ uJ \ \ / lm\ M nn I - ‘ -^aaa — —mm J A 'A'hen Order ordering send Registered Post OfTice, Express fm &vi W Money la^t birthday, or Letters, also I 5Ji' ;*t and if i^rge or small for his ape. Money cheerfully refunded if k--§rm 3 not .satisfactory. Send 2 c. stamp: s for sam \ •jLo. tape measure, measurin'.’. b', lacks, e'e >- - 1 ertiiizers! Fertilizers! W 3 a are < wai- * 'V «C US LOB* aTfalrE. tlb-Is season' ‘vT’itiri |a f"Lll line o± Fertilizers Of the Highest Grade In the meu kc« These goods Rave been thoroughly tested throughout Geor¬ gia, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama, for the past twen h years, with uniform success. We want to sels you your Fertilizers this J and invite you season before io get our prices 1’iTece in Dr. Lee’s Drug Store. Respectfully SMITH & lifsey. Wm f*, =a ys A a ■ v mm iV ( \ JR LINE OF most i! to date Wagons, Harness etc. is the up ,iund anywhere and our prices and teams are clever. buy before examining my stock ten to one jou It costs you nothing to look through oui storm F v E, Evevitt. / k j ! 4 \ & ja A / a? / ❖ CONYERS, GA„ SATURDAY, APR. 3 , 1897 WE HAVE A CORNER IN COTTON. That we hsve a monopoly is attested today by the fact that wo produce at least three-fourths of the world’s oottou crop. All the other cotton growing countries, many of them with strong government have backing and encourage, ment, so far been able to produce only one-fourth of the general crop. By using every means at unur command, they have, in a period of 27 years, in¬ creased their crop only 10 per cent, while our increase during the same pe¬ riod has been over 200 percent. From 1867 to 1872 our average crop was J 107, 000 bait s of 4 10 pounds each. During ) crop <ho same average period of 2 live 337,000 years bales. the foreign From was 1891 to 1894 our average crop was 9 484, 000 bales; foreign, 2,595,000. These fig. ures show for the years mentioned: In¬ crease in American cotton, 0,317.000; increase in foreign, 258,000; increase in American over foreign cotton, 0,059,000 bales. barely r„ , with ... such a monopo . y as that, be “h 6 h nrf Utl -' tlie lual ' kets or the world. Why is it, then, that the co.tou growei is at the nie.rcy ot the buyer and must accept Ins ulti maturn, whether it bare,y pays him back the cost of production or leaves him in debt. Let us examine into the subject a lilt,',e. We find that Georgia alone pays out annually over $3,000,000 for mules; that in the present year Georgia farmers will use over 350,000 tons of commercial fertilizers; that the importations of corn ami meat, while greatly reduced in the last few years, are still much too large in a section where the facilities for producing these items cannot bo surpassed. In 1879. Alabama, Mississippi, Lou¬ isiana. Texas and Arkansas each raised more cotton than Georgia. Now Geor¬ gia makes more cotton than any state, except Texas, and more to the acre fclnfu does Texas. We find that Georgia raised in the year Cot ten. Corn. Oats. Wheat Bales. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels 478,000 17,00.1.0!) I 2 1 .‘7 00 ) 1,191,00J 29,000,0110 4,700,000 l.oWS.000 The of bay, , crops sweet potatoes etc., were ah increased, but the is still short of what it be, while Georgia's contribution the biggest cottou crop ever made is farmers only to the largest. Here we struggling to force a cot¬ crop on the world, for which they aieept less than cost price, because arc compelled to have the money pay for provisions, which con'd have raised more cheaply at home. Glancing over the tables wo Hud that had iu Milch ctm-s. Other cattle. Sheep. r i,5IHVJ0 Su-iim w,u,u, No material increase in any item ex-, hogs, aud yet we have a country natural advantages for stock in climate and feeding crops, and dry, cannot be surpassed meal, in -world. Cottonseed hulls and former for many years a waste pro¬ furnish perhaps the cheapest stock known to man—and the sooth has in almost unlimited, quantity—I have known of a large lot of cattue from North Georgia to England, were in fine condition, sleek and and which had been fed solely on meal and hulls. 1 have in mind several other lots and fattened on cottonseed meal without any other feed, which sold at a profit, leaving the ma rich iu fertilizing elements, to - . credit side of the . account. My ,, ob¬ the these facts and ject. in referring to figures is to emphasize the importance the of all these socallcd by-products Corn, to success of our agriculture. oats, forage crops, cattle, sheep, hogs from import adjaucta to tlic success! ul , iai9 iuir of cotton, indeed, are the founda¬ tion on which it must rest in order to make it absolutely safe. Jr., assistant Dr. Charles W. Dabuey, widely secretary of agriculture, in his circulated and widely read article ou ‘The Possibilities of Cotton,’ states that tho value of the hulls and meal from 765; in oil, $41,751,009; iu liucers, $8,- 100,000; in man mat value ot hulls, 540, 832.627, a grand total of $94,239,- 393, whereas wa get only $;jo,UUU,- loss of ! 000 for tiieso products—a soutlierq of $40,000 000 to the ern farmer. A big leak somewhere! The«e figuies aptly illustrate the point under discussion, namely, that the gcutlieiu farmer, in reaching out to an uncertain cotton market, actuary throws away a certain profit at home. COTTON IS CASH. It is true that cotton represents cash, and the farmer can always sell Ins cot¬ ton, whereas be often finds it diilicu-t to market his other crops. But where is the advantage of a cash market for cotton if, hv reason of injudicious man¬ agement, he is compelled to accept less than it cost, him to raise it? Mr. Dabney also estimates that m the year 1910 ," the world That will need is long 20, 000,0u0 bales of cottou. a glance into the future, bat I trust that when that demand comes tne south will be able to supply, as today, the greater part of tho marketable cotton, always provided that the demand is a customs me to oftom *a r^nn?TTf cn | f : ills suit} | »HsJ! | >d aranfeed to De nude (rum A!) Wool, I ’’TAY ■!., AATUA m ml."' s ., Hwd with lmou.:«f fvnM. ;r.--j.-«icd and LmsheJ in the'best or Custom ; . manner Vcu cannot duplicate it in Vo.-; town lor Cih.oo. Sizes *4 lo 42. n 1 . ****** . niaue for , V outh s, ?({ „ OC __ i tn Long '/ants, Cost and % cst, «• *«v M-ure for S ] IIS l-rr UTf . f dirlfl , ? ® y. Ccs Suits J ' V !u ‘ | 5 V C--1 ‘f #/5 easu r e the \v ' i sV over AXl 9s Vest, Crotch ami M 'Mg I-,bC\ :ctn fa/# A . ,J H<*1 tv V-'e Pay Ex Char a n it F ;1 "v : Aaj(t v 1 it uMOjg You buy '»»/& from of the Clo- t m dM Manu- o tacturers in l I 1,ac kert Dr a place ’winch will tlle ii,r -e out-ay of capital and j necessary to make that crop. Just, ! our chief concern should be to j profit—auu our present this cotton cauuot prodncum ha done- a i>y .la¬ ! ponding on ether markets for supplies, ami putting nil our land, our money ami time and labor iu such an uncertain investment as cotton has heretofore proved. OUR cm IIP DUTY NOW. r i.h’ re is 5 per ceut of lantl in If oar cot¬ ton. wo wouitl expand the crop to meet the iucreasiup: demand, let us zi‘>r reacli out- to iucieaso the area, but rather by judicious methods of prepa¬ ration auu lertiiization and regular ro¬ tation of crops, endeavor to increase the production of the present urea. I, for one, am in favor of each man’s making all the cotton he can, after he has taken care that his position is so cured bv ample provision supplies at homo. Cotton is undoubtedly our mon °y cn> l ) ' but . like a 'iv other monop oly, requires forethought and judicious management. Oil buDposa the standard company, or any other giant mo nopcly, was so shortsighted as to over stock the market to a point where it would ho compelled to sell at a loss, in order to pay running expenses, would not such u course bo condemned as wanting in the first principles of a sound business polioy? And yet that is exactly what the farmer ig doing when lie loads himself with a cotton crop for Which lie cannot fully pay. It' he has allowed himself sufficient margin to be secure of a clear profit on his cotton, be it one bale or hundreds of bales, be is in no nan gem I am con¬ vinced that, this i]uesti >n of the cotton area is one which each farmer must solve for himself, and once the great body of farmers, each man aceoruing to his surroundings and condition--, has decided on the number of acres which he, as an individual, can safely afford to put in, the great question of how much cottou to pi tut each year will bo forever sett ted. L’.i better enable farm¬ ers to arrive at correct conclusions, and to throw more light on all suhje sts cou nected with our farm management, farmers’ institutes, farmers’ chautau quas, experiment work and every other means of diffusing information should be systematically used. What we need is a more thorough knowledge of the. conditions sutround xng us. 11. T. Nesbitt, State Agricultural Commissioner. Snpet ior courl: GRAND JURORS. Jas II Peck, Robert L. Hudson. Huff, Geo Hollingsworth, M Kennitt, .Tas L MoCaHa, W Tucker, Judson It Ros¬ Win W Swann, Jas D Ray, J J A J Smith, D M Alinni'L Goo W Walker, Jm 1 A O vens, M IT IVeelej-, Jas 51 B Goode, 13 i j !) Whatlv, Win A Cast ley, ffm U Wallace, John L Pale, Jas F Milch A!, I.J Boro, J R O’Neal, A N Plunk* t, Jtio G StcplicuFon, Joa P Eekles, Chas G Turner, Geo 11 Bryan, Zach T Aimand. TRAVERSE JuItO'IS. Thomas D Street 0 Humphries, J O Bobamui, G W Cain, L J Al m».nd ( D T Vaughn, J no F Ber¬ nard, P II White, John M Aimand, D F. Clotfeher, Chas B Fanil!, George W Ivey, Walter Wood. Thomas J I>ay, 3m H K-nuiU, b n i amia WaUin, Win F Stanley, J Isaac S Treadwell, Jas , R 0 ,,, Lead- , i wo l, Win A White, A S Wooley, C R J-’ Watkins, J os L A bite, B !1 Bower, !d L Almaad, Gto N Sftfi" ders, Thos H Bryrn, Jaa K White, Wnrr n B Thrasher, John H Taylor. •J.,o Wa kev Aimand, -Rio W VVp-. liaais, -John S Thompson. M C W hi'C Edvard li Aimand, Chas M Taj lor. Court. Next Monday our court will con- Re veues and many people in Conyers, We request ail those who may coroo to town, who are indebted to the V* bkk ly, to come in and make set meat. OUR NEW MILLINERY S For tlie Sdring Season has arrived and we can truthfully say that it is a beautiful selection of goods. OUR HATS, RIBBONS AND LACES Can’t be excelled for the money in any retail in the whole country. Those who have,examined our stock delighted with it, and you will likewise be pleased. COriE AND SEE US. ncDonald <& Haygood. rrnrffuiuuiui J ||| iiiilidL ,.110101 mi', i ■ __ ---- i—Ak ! /Aegc tabic Preparation for As sinvuating ihcTood andRegula ; - sing the Stamadis andBowels of • j 1 \ Promotes Digestion,Cfxierful ncss and Rest .Con tains neither I Opium,Morphine nor Mine rah >JOT NAXiCOTIC. ntape r/fOld DrYLMClh POVHEli Serai ~ si lx. Senna > lloffucllc Salts .— jdruse Sa d * Jlrpcrmmt /ft Curb - JiStmSced (matt Soda, * - Clarified Sugar . McaUry/r<n f/i/izr tion, Aperfecf Sour Remedy Stomach,Diarrhoea, forConslipa Worms .Convulsions .Feverish¬ ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signclurc of AT ;'.T At-/M, k.'.; HEW YORK. ■9 : —2 , EXACT copy OF WRAPPEB. 7 'Wk' WE SELL THE BEST, We sell the Highest grade Guano on the market, or that has bet u here for many yt aye. We are me L 1 leaders in Joods and low prices, tl. BV ■ r we i -.W ,«:w A mm -ready ft/ substantiate wl hat we say. a/ If you Want tho !n-t GUANOS and Adi'S see us. If you '.van!, the LOWEST PRICK > see us. v X r % * <w w II save you mon ev« C-. -FFM * 9 OHM > f At'dv'i ' HrtWrt* ***** w - 7Vi sens 1 pc ' 1 “S’ y -:a.o 'Tv e, "v : vt.a s ^ JiJle VfA 1 c , i. MN '4/ O <&• <? T- r 3 f. ® •«!- i CX2 mmmrn <4 ■' 7n 5 4' 2 r^^SaSr^LOOK W'WM AT TH US. V.V» sftd -4^ IT MEANS • -< > - /fri: H| DOLLARS TO 0 aexw - -Kei W, Y, A < i IsMANB £31 <0 Have the Largest, Boft and most, complete line of Buggies, Phaetons and Surries manufaetuv* d. Such a display lias never be en on the market here before. If you want' to buy you can’t afford to miss this opportunity, We also carry a full stock of Harness, Hardware and Under¬ takers goods. Be sure to call on us before you buy. W- v- ALMAND & SON !i CON YE *13, GA. , NO. lu 0 % epp ■ THAT THE FAG-SI MILE SIGNATURE ——OF- ; /7 V IS ON THE OF E7EEY BOTTLE OB’ •j v»ie m <5tm> %£zZ3Z& n ygi Castoria ia pat rp In cro-tico bottles only, IS is not sold in balk. Don't allow aiiyono to Bel! you is 1 just anything che cn tho "will ploa or promisa that it aa gocii" and mower ovary pur¬ pose.” tt<>* £ico that yoa get C-A-S-l'-0-B-I-A. 7ho fan- /? „ _ Iu <m ovory vr^ppor.
