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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, LrA« TUESDAY JANUARY 20 188'J
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SUCCESSFUL FARMERS.
Bow Fifteen Bales of Cotton Was Raised on Fire
Acrea-Good Farming in Washington County
-Sending Out Seeds—Tobacco Culture-
Its Mode of Cultivation, Sto.
Next week we will print In this department
the methods l»y which four farmers made
3 1*3 bales of cotton to the acre on 0 acres
each, and how four other farmers made over
100 bushels of corn to tho acre, being; the
eight prize fanners In Geo. W. Scott & Co.'s
contest. Don't fall to get It.
How Fifteen Bales Was liaised on Five Acres.
We are glad to be able to give our readers tho
method by which Mr, Geo. W. Smith, of Troup,
raised fifteen bales of cotton ou five acres and
won the gossypium phospho prize. It is well
worth reading and should bo filed in every
former's book:
LaGbakge, Ga., January 18.—Editors Con
stitution: In response to yonrs of recent date
I submit the following offhand statement of
iny forming operations in 1885, and a brief
&ystcm by which I have worked, and under
which poor thin hilly land has been brought up
to a remunerative state of fertility.
In the year, 1878 I bought between
600 and COO acres of land, five miles south of
LaGrange—all upland except about twenty-
five acre* of creek and branch bottoms which
had never been in cultivation. My first
year's business resulted in fourteen bales
cotton and scarcely enough corn and food
crops to meet mv needs for another crop, I
commenced with the determination to always
make enough corn, oats, etc., for homo con
sumption. A former living ten miles from
market can make a crop of corn
in about tthe same time it would
take to haul it that distance,besides saving the
loss of wear and tear to team and wagon.
I soon felt the importauco of directing all
my spare time (early morn and rainy days) to
saving barn, yard and stable manures which I
managed to gather up in large quantities and
applied it liberally in tho shape of compost—
havo paid close attention to terracing and the
preservation of terraces, and prepared all my
cotton and corn lands every year for the past
four years, with large two-horse plows follow
ed by a subsoil—have rotated my crops and
given my lands all tho possible advantage of
vegetable mould, and managed to turn under
stubble in time to get the benefit of freezes.
I made last year flfty-fivo bales of cotton
with two mules, with tho exception of abont
ten day’s work with yoke of oxen—which will
bo. seen below—and on about tbo same
number of seres of land that only
barely one-third as much four years ago.
On five acres of creek Itottom I raised fifteen
bales of cotton, and ns that turned out to bo
the middle of April I broko up tbo flvo acres
with a large two horse plow, followed with a
pulverizing harrow, layed tho rows four feet
with a large sized straight shovel and bedded
on 520 pounds gossypium phospho to tho acre,
afterwards checking the rows four feet, drop-
ping my seed five or six to the hill, covering
with boot. As soon as the plant would admit
of a ploughing I gave it with a long scrapo
and snort scooter, running with tho beds in
order to keep the guano well under the plants
while young. I continued plowing it at in
tervals of eight or ten days until layed by—
only went over the patch twice with a hoe—
thinned the plants out with hand mostly,
leaving one stalk to the hill, and was careful
not to bruise the stalk left.
My upland crop of cotton was bronght al
most to a stand by running a Thomas smooth
ing harrow diagonally across the rows,which I
did by hitching a couple of oxen—one each to
a section of the harrow—and driven by ten
year-old hoys, thereby saving much time and
expense, affording me the use of my plows
with other crops at a time when mnch needed,
and really benefited land and crop. I repeated
with the harrow about ten days later in the
season, running in opposito direction from tho
first—and it waa as late as 10th Jnne before it
wss necessary to go Into the field with the
plow and hoe. My rows on upland was 4 feet
in width and the plants all of 18 inches apart
in the drill. For several years I havo usod
tho Thomas Brooks cotton planter, the cheap
est and best planter ever made (at least as for
as my knowledge extends in the south,) and
1 will never foil to use tho Thomas smoothing
harrow as above indicated, as it is no longer
an experiment.
I had nearly forgotten to stato that I broad
casted 200 pounds gossypium to the acre on my
premium patch tho third ploughing, ahead of
the plows.
Deep ploughing, thorough, shallow and rapid
cultivation of crops, the saving of all manures
which accumulate around a form from pen
ning of cattle and stock regularly, leaves, etc.,
which can be done at odd times, commencing
as soon as lone crop is out of the way of an
other, would in a few years make Georgia for
mers money-lenders instead of money borrow
ers. Yous truly, Gbosok W. T*uitt.
[We will ' *
ties from l
Look out for them.-
Good Farming In Washington.
Mr. X. J. Newsom, near here, made tho post
year with ten plows 200 bales of cotton aver
aging 450 pounds, or 20 bales to the plow
and 2,000 bushels of corn, or 200 bushels to the
plow. This was reported to mo by his agent.
Mr. Cris. Woodard, also of this county, made
with two plows 38 bales of cotton, or 10bales
to the plow, and plenty of corn to run him
for another year. B. F. Leoxabd.
OVER IK ALABAMA.
Editors Constitution: 1 see that you
havo added a department to your paper
that I am confident will provo of great
benefit and interest to one class of your
subscribers, and that is the sketches of Geor
gia’s progressive fanners. Knowing that you
have a large number of readers in our vicinity
I am In hopes that a short sketch of a few of
Taladega’s live farmers will stimulate others
to put on extra energy this coming year. This
county, and narticufariy Taladejra valley, has
long wen celebrated for the fertility of its soil
and its romantic and beautiftil scenery.
Fifty years and more, however, of almost
exculsive cultivation of cotton has sadly ex
hausted even the best lauds, so that tho use of
fertilizers has become a necessity. Among the
first of our progressive men I will mention
Mr. E. Ledbetter. Hibought some years ago
a farm that waa called worn out—full of gul
lies, overgrown with broomsage and saaaafraa.
It was a discouraging outlook for a jroung
1 follow this admirable paper with artl-
thc railing of tho other premium crops.
>r them.—Eds. constitution.]
man. Procuring tho beat of plow, and with
three mules to it. he soon filled up the washed
places and buried the sassafras and sedge out
of sight His first efforts were successful.
I think he has always raised his graiu
and meat, while his Jersey cattle,
fine hogs, hundreds of sheep and
goats, are a guarantee that he needs no ad
vances and can livo comfortably at home. Mr.
Bily Thompson, a near neighbor, started life
with a piece of laud that was thought to be
poorer than Ledbetter’s, and waa without
buildings of any kind. He, also, raises his
grain and meat, and has a fine orchard, vine
yard, a good dwelling, a steam gin, grist mid
sawmill. Dr. I. W. Peacock and Mr. William
Gooden started outpretty much the same way,
with poor’land. Their efforts have always
been first to have something to eat. and cotton
as a surplus, and they have suc
ceeded. 1 might mention others,
such as Dr. Rhodes, J. M. Hancock and Mr.
Tom Welch. All these are successful farmers
and the true and only secret of their prosperi
ty is they have raised their eatables with their
cotton as a surplus. Home of them hire their
laborers by the month, others work on the
share system, and a few rent their lands.
Their motto is a full barn all the time.
. CHEMEO.
SENDING Ol’T SEED.
*here is a good deal of life and activity
nt the agricultural department, and the
look promises even more than is now seen
re every day. ...
lie demand for tobacco seed is as large aa
r. Every mall brings on an average fifty
Notions for them, and these applications
forth iu their letters, is that cotton is no longer
king in Georgia, and that the crown will havo
to go to some other product Although the
crop of cotton in this state was large last year,
the nullity was poor In consequence of the bad
weather, and prices have not been satisfactory.
As a general 'thing tho formers raised
enough corn to carry them through to tho
next crop, but are out of money as, it took ail
ions. There seems to be a strong feeling
favor of planting diversified crops, and mak
ing tobacco one of the leading products.
FULLY A THOUSAND PACKAGES
of seed havo already been sent out. all of thorn
upon applications, and that is the only way
that they can be procured, as tho commissioner
desires to famish. seed to only such persons
who will give tho planting of tobacco a fair
and square trial. He docs not waut to see the
seed wasted by getting into tho hands of auy-
one who will not plant it.
While tho work of distributing to
bacco sped is going on other seed
are <
sent out
watermelon seed of the variety known as tho
Kolb Gem variety havo been received at tbo
department, and yesterday one hundred bushols
of peanuts or “goobers," of a Spanish variety,
said to bo very prolific, were delivered at the
department. It is said that this variety will
produce three hundred bushels to tho aero on
ordinary soil, and that aboyt a peck of them
will plant an acre. A largo quautlty of cotton
seed and ten pouuds of Orinoco tobacco soed,
which seems to ho more in doniand than nuv
other variety of tobacco, havo been ordered.
TOBACCO CULTURE.
Its Mode of Cultivation—Cutting and Drying
It, Etc.
When the plants In tho plant-bed show
leaves as largo as a silver dollar, or larger, they
are ready for transplanting. A damp, cloudy
day should bo chosen for this operation.
Prepare the ridges in the field, just in advance
of planting, by striking off tho crust with a
plow board or light harrow. Draw tbo suita
ble plants from the sced-bed with care, avoid
ing ail bruising, and set them as you would
choice cabbage or tomato, taking care to press
the soil firmly around tho roots and atoms, and
using such precautions and expedients, accord
ing to circumstances, as are used in planting
other tender plants. Tobacco plants are oven
more tender than cabbage or potato plants,
and should not bo permitted to wilt in tho
least before rc-ecttiug in tho soil. When a good
season for transplanting occurs, and a largo
area is to be planted everything else should
give way to this work, and it should bo pressed
through sunshine and shower.
CULTIVATION.
Tho cultivation of tobacco in tho oarly
stages, before tho growth of tho plant is re
newed, is very similar to that of tho sweet
potato. Within a fow days tho surface soil
should ho lightly stirred around each plant,
and as soon as they havo become well estab
lished and commenced to grow, loose soil
should be drawn around them with the hand-
hoes. The subsequent cultivation is similar to
that of cotton, consisting in frequent stirring
of the soil to a modcrato depth, and tho do-
stiuction of all weeds, using tho hand-hoe as
may be necessary to keep tho soil near tho
plant smooth and mellow and well drawn up.
When tho seed heads, or “buttons,” as .they
aro called, begin to appear, cultivation with
tho plow should cease. Weeds which may
spring up after this stage is reached will do
the crop no injury, though unsightly.
TOPPINO.
In about seven or eight weeks after trans
planting, tho plants will begin to show tho
seed-bnds. Excepting for seed purposes, these
should not bo allowed to develop, as tho
strength of the plant will bo absorbed in
flowering and maturing seed, instead of per
fecting the leaf. This operation must be per
formed with judgment, as the quality or the
product will be materially affected by the
number of leaves each plant is permitted to
mature. Careful hands should go over tho
field, snd selecting such stalks as may be
showing the bud, they should be first primed, or
have their lower leaves removed to say four
or six inches from the ground. Then top to
ten leaves. At intervals of seven or eight davs
the field should be gone over again and the
plants ready to be topped should be primed and
reduced to nine leaves, snd so on at Intervals
of a week, reducing tho number of leaves by
one each time. It is important that the plants
be not permitted to carry too many leaves—a
temptation to beginners.
TOBACCO WORMS.
Though infested in its early stages by the
common garden cut-worm—with which, snd
the more or less effectual preventives used, all
are perhaps familiar—the “horn worm” Is the
great insect foe of tho tobacco plant. This
green monster is identical with the Urge worm
that infests the tomato and Irish potato pUnts.
No means of destruction have been found to
be equal to a persistent war upon them with
the finger and thumb. After they have mado
their appearance the crop most be gone over
nt least once a week, and each marauder de
stroyed. The first brood makes Itsappearanco
in May or June, and, like the early brood of
the cotton caterpillar, docs but little injury.
But every worm that is permitted to
live snd undergo its transformation will de
velop in August into a full-grown moth, wliicl
immediately lays its eggs for a for more nu
mcrous snd destructive crop. The chang
from the caterpillar form to that of the moth
ia effected by the descent of the worm into the
ground. When the moth emerges, many of
them may 1* destroyed by placing in the flow-
era of the “Jimson” weed a solution of peris*
green or cobalt. Other devices similar to thoso
used for entrapping tho cotton caterpillar
moth, such as lanterns set in pans of molasses
and placed about tho field at night, have prov-
cd more or less effective In catching the tobac
co moth.
MUCKERING.
After the plant has been topped it puts forth
suckers at every leaf. They should be broken
offwbile still tender, with the fingers, as fost
ss they sppenr.
HARVESTING THE CROP.
In sl>out 100 days from transplanting, or in
from two to three weeks after topping tho
plant licgins to ripen. This is indicated by
the leaf Iwoming smooth, the ftizz disappear
ing snd the appearance of yellow spots, tam
ing to reddish and brownish. By this time
also the upper leaves will have Income nearly
as Urge as tho lower.
The operation of cutting is now in order.
This should not be done when the pUnt U wet
with dew. nor within two or three days after
a rain. With a sharp knifo the stalk is split
down the center, as it sUnds, cut off below the
tottom leaf, and then placed astride the tobacco
stick or Utb, four feet long, which U in the
hands of an assistant A better pUn U to
pierce the bntts of the stalks with a spearhead,
which fits on the end of the lath by a socket, and
msvbcxtmoved when the UthU full. From five
to eight plants are strung on each Utb, accord*
ing to the size of the plants—they must net
I c crowded—and carried immedUtely to tbe
wagon. The Utter has a high frame so adjust*
cure by Saturday, or on Friday and Saturday,
commencing tbe curing on the following Mon
day.
TOBACCO BARNS*
Sixteen feet square is the usual sise of R
tobacco Urn, which U built of round logs, six
inches in diameter, closely notched down, the
cracks chinked and daubed with mud, and
provided with a close-fitting door, 4 by 4 feet
square, in tbe north or south side, and the whoU
covered with a water-tight roof. The ground se
lected should slope to the east to admit of the
easy construction of fornaces In that side.
While the walls are-being built, at the height
of five feet, the first set offive tierpoles, four
inches in diameter, are Uid acro« from north
to south, dividing toe space into four equal
parts. The next set U Uid about three logs
above, and so on until five sets of tier poles aro
in position. The Uths, laden with plants are
adjusted one foot apart on tbest poles, just as
in smoking meat, the first tier, however, be
ing left vacant.
THE TLUES.
The curing of tobacco by the process called
snd undergo its transrormat
»in August Into a full-grown
ediately lays iU eggs for a
ms and destractive crop.
“flue-curing’’ fs rapidly superseding other
methods.
The Smith patent fluo is most commonly
used. The following description of tho man
ner of constructing tho flues, and the process
of flue-curing, is taken from an article in vol
ume X, United States census of 1880:
“Furnaces aro built, if tho barn is properly
located, on tho east side; and if tho ground is
rightly inclined, only ono log need bo sawed
out, which is done four inches from tho comer
next to both the north and south walls. The
arch is built of brick or fireproof stone, fivo
feet long, projecting externally eighteen
inches. The walls aro built of brick two
bricks thick, and two foot apart; eighteen
iuclus high, four inches from the walls of the
bain, the apaco being Ailed with dry earth,
and tile spaeo between tho two carefully Ailed
npto the Arst log. A covering la tliou mado
over the external arch, running tho length of
tho barn, and an ash bed is dug out iu the front
of the opening of each arch. The iron lino pipca
aro let in about (i inches from tho lloors of tho
arches, and the cracks are stopped with
clay. In order to give tho greatest heating
enpneity, the lines aro built ono from the
north, tho west and south walls,audaa a protec.
tton against Are, when this is done, a thlu wall
is built between the pipes and tho ground sills,
running from where tho pipo joins the furnace
ti feet along the Aac, the distance to which tho
pipca nre heated red. Tho pipes aro mado of
No. S I iron, except tlio two joints that enter
the furnaces, which aro of 18 inch iron,
and aro from 12 to 15 inches in diamo*
ter. The pipo is elevated gradually nbout ono
inch or two feet, and runs continuously from
both Aaes along tho northlandsouth and wost
wall. In the center of tho pipe, along tho west
wall,which llespiorizontat.and one foot from tho
wall, tho return pipo makes a T, and conduct,
the draught through the center of the barn,
back to tbo cast wall, rising gradually so a# to
mike the perpendicular distance between I bo
points where tho pipes leave tho furnaces aud
that whero tho return pipo cornea out through
the wall abunt eighteen inches. A short cl-
bow in a smnll chimney receives tho retnrn
pipo on tbo outside.
‘•From two to three cords of dry wood supplies
for one curing. Haras thus constructed, with
Ancs complete, cost from §50 to $75 each;
packing houses about $200 each. Witli barns
und Hues properly constructed Arcs ore always
the result of carelessness, and yet about ono
barn in twenty ia lost by Arc.”
[To l>c continued.]
Tobacco*
One of the most successful and experienced
tobacco growers in Virginia, in his remarks on
raising and curing tobacco, says on the subject
of manuring:
"Unless the toll is naturally rich, and such
ia not often tho ease with soils heat adapted to
ycilow tobacco, it will bo well to apply some
fertilizing material to hasten forward tho
J lints and mature them properly and oarly.
Icrc, commercial fertilizers havo dono, atul
aro doing their best work, llulky, coarse man-
urea often do more harm than good on new
anil ruify soils. Tho smaller tho bulk, and tho
rnoro concentrated the fertilizing clcmonts,
the moro readily they aro appropriated and
assimilated hy tho plants if of tlio right ma
terial aud iu tho moat available form. NUro*
gen, phosphoric arid, potash, lime and soda,
ate most necessary for the tobacco plant, and a
fertilizer which supplies tho relative quantity
of each,and from tho proper loaroes will never
fail to show good cA'ccts thcrofrom, if tho rain-
fall ia sufficient to quicken their action."
Tiro Eddyatone soluble gnanomccts all theso
requirements fully.
It Is concentrated and it contains nltrogon
phosphoric acid, potash llmo, and soda from
the very best sources, in their moat avaliablo
and an early maturity.
R. W. Kearney, »U ‘'
used one ton of Edd;
B. W. Kearney, Mlddlchnrg, N. C., aaya: “I
lystone with soven stand'
ard brands on tobacco, and like it bettor than
ent brands of fertilizer>, and did not seo any
difference in tho growing of tho tobacco, hut
And the tobacco, after cared, a Anar and riebar
quality, and do not aspect to nao any other
next season.”
Bar. George A. Rote, Hanson, N. C., says:
"I used one ton of Eddyatone guano under
tobacco, which gave me perfect satisfaction.
In fart, I can truly say it is tho beet I ever
used,”
W. J. Norwood. Warrenton, N. C., sags:
“Tho Eddyatone told last season, for tobacco,
lias given universal satisfaction. Some plan-
ten aay they have never had anything to act
so well,.* ill havo a good trado for it this
’ James Y. and E. 8. Merritt, Chappell IIIII,
N. C., say: “That the ten tons Eddyatone
furnished them has givon entire aattefaction,
it wee ell used on tobacco, and it ia tbo tobacoo
fertilizer. It ia ahead of three other reliable
brands, and will use nono other this season.
It yellows the tobacco on the hill, and gives it
a smooth, silky texturo—tbe kind of tobacco
that always cures and Mils beat. We heartily
welcome it in the tobacco belt."
A. Anderson, Riiabec's store, N. C.,aaya: “I
nave been railed ra the tobacco belt, and havo
used several different brands of fertilizers, but
I have never used any which equaled tba Ed*
dystonc. I tested it with other brands, and
could tell tho Eddyatone tobacco in tho dark
from tho other branda I used, it being flnoaml
silky, and of a nice yellow color, and aella at a
silky, ant
T. IhY
that their aalea of tho Eddyatono soluble gt
havo given universal satisfaction, and it has
built up for Itself a reputation that will in-
crease the aale another year by doublo that of
the past season. The Airmen say that it pushes
a tobacco plant Aram tho start to tho end,
making It mature early, rich and heavy.”
Mr. John H. Green, of Atlanta, (la., has
charge of the salt of this brand of guano, and
will be pleased to communicate with tho read-
era of tala article, or have them call upon tho
dealers thronghoot tbo eonth for tbo Eddy-
•tone soluble guano, as there is nothing bettor
offered to the entire planting interest, not
only for tobacco, but for everything raised
from the toil, in this entire section.
Aw Oi.d Tobacco Ghoweu!
The War on Rye.
At a meeting of tbo town council of Elbcr-
ton, in regard to the prohibition law, it was
resolved that “we will use every means in our
powor to have said law strictly enforced, and
to defeat any attempt made to violate the same.
We call upon the cltisens of the town and
county to unite with and aid us in snppreeaing
tbe traffic.”
The revenuo men have been suddenly etlr-
king np the citizens in the neighborhood of
8uwanee. Seventeen warrants have been eued
ont, and tbe informers are having a lively
time of it.
The new council of Lawrenceviiio has fixed
the liquor license at $250.
Richard I.. Bark, of Cedartown, waa tried by
Commissioner Beck, in Rome, for retailing
liquor without licence. There were several
witnetses against him from Polk eounty, who
swore that Burk bad retailed liquor. IV
to the
Polk is
a dry county, and according to the evidence,
Bnrk would buy a gallon of whisky at Seney
and retail among the Imbibers of bia town and
, It waa also said that ho
iky that maddened the
e who participated
itngo on tho day Hell's
there. Gommiaeloner
county by the drink. It was also laid that he
furnished the whiaky that maddened the
bralna of those
In the Rockmart oni
circus exhibited
Beck required Burk to give a $300' bond for
hie appearance at the next term of tha Unitad
States conrt for the northern district of Geor
gia, and upon his failure to do so waa sent to
the Atlanta Jail.
Eliutow, January 22.—[Special.]—Prohi
bition has gone fully and completely into effect
in Elberion, and there seems to be no effort or
1 stock before the law went into effect,
leaving the town emphatically dry. Tha effect
tbit tbe law will have on the business of the
5 lace ie yet an unsolved problem. Business ia
ull now bat there are other causes for its be-
ing so.
"The Rest and Cheapest.”
W. V. Kibosh, Aiken. H. C.-'Tbe best and
cheapest piper in tbe south ”
A TERRIBLE CONFESSION.
A PHYSICIAN PRESENTS SOME START
LING FACTS.
Can It Re That the Danger Indicated is
Universal.
Tho following atory—which la attracting
wide attention Aram tho press—ia so remarks-
bio that we cannot excuse ourselves if we do
not lay it entire bofare onr readers:
To the Editor of tho Rochester, <N. Y„) Democrat:
Bib:—On tho flrstdav of Juno, 1881, I lay at
my residence in this city eurrounded by my
friends aud waiting for death. Heaven only
knows tho agony 1 thou oudured, for words
can never describe it. And yet, if a fow -yean
previous any one had told me that I was to bo
irought so low, and by so terrlblo a disease, I
should have scoflfed at the idee. I had always
been uncommonly strong and healthy, and
weighed over two hundred pounds, and hardly
knew in my own experience,wlint pain or sick.
ncs3 were. Very many pooplo who wijl road
thist statement renlizo at times they aro uon-
suallytirodandcannotaccoantfor it. They fee{.
dnil pains iu various parte of tho body and do
uotuudentand why. Or they arc exceedingly
hungry one day and entiroly without au appe
tite tho next. This waa just tho way I felt
when tho relentless malady which had fasten
ed itself upon me Arat began. Still 1 thought
nothing of it; that probably I had taken cold
which would Boon pass away. Shortly
after this I noticed a heavy, and at
times neuralgic, pain in one side oi my head,
but as it would come one day and bo nono tho
next, I paid llttlo attention to it. Then my
stomach would get out of order nud my food
often failed to digest, causing at times groat
inconvenience. Yot. evon aa a physician, I
did not think that these things meant uny-
thing serious. I fancied I was suffering from
malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But
1 got no better. I next noticed a peculiar col-
or and odor about the Aulda I was passing—
also that thcro wero largo quantities ono day
end very little tho noxt, and that a persistent
froth and scum appeared upon the surface, and
a sediment settled. And yet I did not realize
my danger, for, indeed, seeing these eymptoms
continually, I Anally bccamo accuatomod to
them, and my suspicion was wholly dlssrmod
by tho fset that I had no pain in tho affeeto i
organs or in their vicinity. Why I should
have been lo blind I cannot understand!
1 consulted tlio best medical skill in tbe land.
I visited ail tbo famed mineral springs in
America snd traveled from Malno to Califor
nia. Still I grow wurso. No two physicians
agreed as to my malady. Ono said I was
troubled with spinal irritation, another, dys
pepsia; another, heart disease: another, gen-
oral debility; another, congestion of tho base
of tho brain; and eo on through n long list of
common diseases, tlio symptoms of many of
this way several yesrs
wbicli I really had. In
passed, duringwhleh time I wasatoadlly grow
ing worso. My condition had roally bccoino
pitiablo. The slight symptoms I had at Arst
experienced were developed into terrlblo and
constant disordcra. My wolght had boon re
duced from 207 to 150 pounds. My life was a
bnnlcn to myself and friends. I conld retain
no food on my stomncli, and lived wholly by
injections. I was a living mats of pain. My
pulse was ncontrollabiu. In my agony I fro-
qucntly fell to tbo Aoor and clutched tho car-
pet end prayed fordonth! Morphlno had llttlo
or no effect in deadening tho pain. For six
days and nights I had the death premonitory
hiccough! constantly! My water was Alloa
with tube-casts and nltmmen. I was atruf
_ ig-
S ling with Bright's Disease of tho kidneys in
a last stageal
While suffering thus I received a call from
In tlio courso of conversation Dr. Foote do'
tailed to mo the many remarkable cans of
cssee Uke my own, which had come under his
ot salvation. Asa practicing physician and a
graduate of tbe achoola, I derided the Idea of
any medicine outside the regular channels
being in the lcaet beneficial. 8o solicitous,
however, was Dr. Foote, that I Anally prom-
bed I would waive my prejudice. I began ita
use on tho Ant day of Jnne, 1881, and took It
according to directions. At first It slckonod
me, but this 1 thought waa a good sign for ono
in my debilitated condition. I continued to
take it; the sickening sensation departed, and
I waa finally ablo to retain food apon my
stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided
change for tho better, aa also did my wife and
Mends. My hiccoughs ceased and I expert-
Sliced leas pain than formerly. I waa ao re
joiced at this improved condition that, upon
wbat I had believed but a row days before was
my dying bed, I vowed. In tbe presence of my
femily and friends, ahould 1 recover I would
both publicly end privately make known this
remedy for the good of humanity, wherever
in opportunity, and this
ist vow. My im-
ra tha' "
i I had
pounds in flesh, becamo entirely
psin end I believe I owe my life and present
condition who! ‘ " "
remedy which
are caused by Bright's discaso of tho kldnoys.
This may sound llko a raali statement, blit
I am prepared to verify it ftally. Bright's
disease naa no distinctive feature of its own,
(Indeed, it often develops without any pain
whatever in tho kidneys or their vicinity), but
bis tho symptoms of nearly every other com-
mon complaint, llnndred of pcoplo die daily,
whose burials are authorized by a physician's
certificate aa occurring from “heart aiaeaae,"
''apoplexy," ''paralyiis," "spinal complaint,”
“rheumatism, "pneumonia,” and tho other
common complaints, when In reality it ia from
Bright’s discaso of the kidneys. Few physi
cians, end fewer people, realise the extent of
this diaceso or. its dangerous and Insldiona
nature. It steals into the system like a thief,
manifests ita presence if at all by tho com-
moneet systoma and fastens itaelf ir. tbo consti
tution before the victim is aware of it. It ia
nearly as hereditary ea consumption, quite as
common snd folly as fatal. Entire families,
inheriting it from their ancestors, have died
•ml yet none of the number knew or realized
the snyetcrioue power which was removing
them. Instead of common symptom! it often
shows none whatever, but brings death sud-
■lenly, from convulsions, apoplexy or heart
disease.
As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter
experience what he ears, I Imploro every one
who reads these words not to neglect the
sllgbtost symptom of kidney difficulty. No
one can afford to hazsrd such chances.
I make the foregoing statements based upon
facta which I can substantiate to tho letter.
Tho wclfkre of those who may possibly be
sufferers such as 1 was is an ample inducement
for me to tako tho step J have, and if I can
■uccessAsily warn others from the 'dangerous
l»th in which I onco walked, I am willing to
endure all the professional and personal con-
sequences. J. B. IlKKIOX, M. D.
Rochester N. Y., December 30.
given Crazy Brothers.
ST. Lorn,' January 24.—S4ven brothers
all raving maniacs, enronte for the
Jacksonville, Illinois, asylum, passed through
tbie city yesterday. The commissioner in
charge of the lunatics states that prior to the
war a wealthy farmer, by the name of Anson
Arnold, settled in Hickory connty, Mo., with
a large family. Tho acquirement of money
seemed to be their highest aim in life, and the
whole family, seven sons and five daughters,
deprived themselves of the necessities of life
In order to gain it. Abont three yean ago a
stranger visited their home, and after convin
cing them that they could, in a short time,
largely Increase their wealth, induced them to
invest their all in what proved to be a mythi
cal silver mine in Nevada. After a month's
anxiety they learned that they had been im
posed upon, and all seven of tbe brothers, upon
the receipt of the news, Immediately became
“ 'with a violent form of Insanity.
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