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THE 1 CONYERS WEEKLY
YOL. XVIII.
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CONYERS. GA. SATURDAY, NOV- 17, 1900.
Some tin* »*- a rural l»(*r
the following: 1 hast
week a barn in buck county was
struck by lightning, set on fire
and burned t,o tne ground. This
makes the fifth c-aso of incendi¬
arism in the district this year 1 i •
This reminds the London Daily
Chronicle of an account publish
_
journal in Scotland of damage
church by lightning, a part, of
which read thus: “This, the
act of a wise providence that
oatinot err, might have been a
voided if the steeple had been
provided with a lightning con
d ictor, as it ought to have been.*
i i To PATENT Good 1dm
may be secured by
i our am, Address,
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SnbscrtDtlons to TSo r.tent Itecord ll.a.ptr^n-r
Pianos and Or¬
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My undertaking establish¬
ment is well fitted up and
my stock of undertaking
goods is complete.
Attention prompt and ca
pable.
Hearses free of
Charge.
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Undertaker & Embamer
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HcELVANEY & BRODNAX
AGENTS,
We represent some of the
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in existence and ask the public
generally to see us before plac¬
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Office in Banner office under
hotel.
McELVA NEY <& BRODNAX
^BOUT RESCUE GRASS
A CORRKSPONOKXr G1VK9 HIS
KXl’KRIKVCK WITH THIS
VALUABLE CROP.
PROPER. SEASON TO PLANT
If Properly Cared Kor It Can tl(
Drought Vp t® iv High State of
i promotion la UeorgtM.
Oobncl O. B. Stevens, Commissioner oi
Agriculture!
Quk.stion’.—I have read with much in
terest your article on Rescue Grass pub
lisbed in one of your monthly talk!
some time since. ‘ I have determined to
try this grass this fall, aud should liks
for you to give me, if possible, tried the expo it iu
rienoe of some who have
Middle and Northern Georgia. Hoping
to hear from you by Nov. 15.
Answer.—I n reply to your inquiry
we are satisfied that we cannot bettci
answer your letter than by giving the
experience of Mr. J, P, Baxter of Sn>
wanee, Ga., and Mark W. Johnson ol
Atlanta.
In reply to an inquiry of ours Mr.
Baxter wroto us as follows:
Suwaner, Ga.
Hon. R. F. Wright, Assistant Commis¬
sioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Sir—I n reply to your request
about my experience with Rescue Grosf
I auswer that I think it to be the fines!
grass for winter grazing and the mod
prolific grass of southern latitudes. Rt
quiriug a rich, loamy soil, coming up iu
September, growing rapidly even din¬
ing the coldest winter days, affording
rich pasturage of the most sucoulen!
stems and leaves from Dec. 1 to May I,
or it may be mowed for hay two to thre<
times daring April and May, and theu
allowed to mature a crop of seed, which,
in gathering, will shatter or leave
enough seed on the ground to reseed tht
land, so that one sowing, if proj orly
treated, will suffleo.
I have been growing It for fire year!
and have, after mowing two or threi
times, made at the rate of 100 to 15(
bushels of seed per acre. Got off of 1
rod, measured, garnered and threshed
by others, pecks, equal to 200 bush
els per acre.
The seed may be sown from June tc
February.
There are some peculiarities about th«
grass seed. They will not gerinitiate in
summer, the colder the weather in win¬
ter the faeter it grows, unless the stemi
have commenced jointing, when afreew
will kill it down, only to come oul
again in increased numbers. It make!
a gradual growth when not grazed oi
mown. Mowing it down only hasteni
it* growth. I have hod the same plat,
part mown once and pert twice, all ma
ture at the same time.
I have three plats which mature aboar
May 1 to 10. Owing to seed of head*
mot all ripening st same tune enough
nod will be left on the ground to re
•eed the land.
Two *f the*# plat* I break up aboai
June 1 to 18, fertilize and sow in pea*,
the other I plant iu corn and field beans
1 think the gra*« by this pr<>ce*s im¬
proved the last three years, and mad*
in may mnjf dormant until the oool
night* in September.
The seed are quoted by eeedmen at VI
cents per ponnd, but about >00 poaudl
may be had of Dr. A. M. Wiun & Sob
of Lawrence ville, Ga., at 18 cents pel
ponnd, or 10 ponnd* at 11 eents, or ol
undersigned a small amount, say ICC
ponnd*, at same price.
Note—Thirty pound* will sow out
acre.
C05T0F REVENGE.
Last wet>k at the Pick wick'a
party of gentlemen were convers
ing, I3aid oue of them:
“Twenty t ears ago I was hunt
ing on the field of a neighboring
farmer and hart h-*«grd a good¬
ly number of f.u quail when the
land owner appeared, took the
fruits of my hunt and severely
chastised me. I went, home
much angered, but kept my
own council. The days passed
md I seemed to be overcome
by a burning desire for ven¬
geance. I chanced to read some
thing about Jehnson grass, in
rhe New York Sun one day,and
I struck upon a plan to get even
with my enemy. Ilia farm '* ap
i fine one, embracing about 300
acres. I procured a bushel of
the grass seed and under cover
of night I scattered them over
that farm. A few months later
my father moved to a distant
state. The years passed by and
I grew to manhood 1 The mem
ory of ray chastising and my le
venge had been long forgotten.
One day some years ago, I met
a lovely young lady at the home
of a friend. I was smitten, laid
siege to her heart and hand and
m irried her. Her parents were
dead andher worldly possessions
consisted of a 300 acre tract of
of what she termed wild land
in my former state of residence
I vent to see it, and imagine
my surprise to recognize in it
the old field where I had Bun¬
ted, received the licking and
sowed the seed for revenge
The whole truth at once dawn
ed upon me. I had married
the daughter of the old fanuei
and my wife was the undisput¬
ed owner of one of the finest
fields of Johnson grass on the
face of the eaith. That iand
in its present condition is worth
about 50 rents an acre, but if J
could just get rid of that accurs
Johnson grass, it is worth
NO. 46
$30 per acre • l have *pent$10M
on it already an l it begins to
look as if ns much n.ore would
he required to reclaim it.—Dal¬
las (Tex) News •
flora 1 Cou r-age.
T! e moit pitiful paradox in 11 a
ture is physio*! bravery allied
with moral cowardice. A iikui
may he as brave as a lion when
it comes to a personal encount¬
er. where mere brute force is
all that is required, but if he
has not the moral courage to do
right for the sake of right., he
is a detestable travesty on mail
hood- No man need be afraid
to do right, He may avoid the
coniequences of a fiUiculi' and
still lie braver than Uaesar
.
It takes a fine sense of cour
age and a pure heai t to bo able
foreknowledge an error and eu
deaver to Fepair a wrong and
the man who can do it deserves
all praise from his fellow m ill
and God will not withhold
from him his j ist reward. If
.we were true to our nobler and
better instinct*, temptations
would not find us vulnerable
to every assault, but too often
we areleJ fs'ray by our selfidi
motives •
The thing to cultivate is not
so much of iron muscle, but a
hea>t cf st al, yet sufficient to
resist every temptation. The
least sin possible is the lope o?
mankind. Absence of sin is a
drnani of Angels—Ex • •
Sava u all has made her first
shipment of phosphite lock to
Honolula • In speaking of the
event The Morning News has
this to sav: “This shipment,
which wtnl in an American V68
sel, must traverse the long route
around South America, consutu
ing 150 days or more in the pas
sage. If such shipments can
be profitably made over that
long distance, how ruuch more
profitably could similar ship
meats be made by way of an
isthmian canal. With a ship
canal across Nicaragua the dis¬
tance from Savannah to Hono¬
lulu would be cut in half, and
the commerce from this port to
the islands might reasonably hi
expected to become important, ’*
