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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION". ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY MARCH 2 1886
SUCCESSFUL FARMERS.
SHORT TALKS WITH FARMERS ON
FARM TOPICS.
Tlif Vine Farming Ml ilnN <■*"'1111 “ d
lii. Or..t Iww or IM riroin - wool .
Kcrthcrn Iimil Boo Bono oa Oooctlo
HanT'ERSvillf, Oa, Febrntry *7.— Wall,
sir, If yon will git in my baggy I'll *how you
some of our best ftnoinf country and tome of
onr tuccrasfn! farmer,; and tomorrow I'll take
yon to Louisville or bring yon back to Davit'
loro."
Tho opeaker waa a man of 45 yean, medium
tire, a pleaiant voice and n mild blue eye. Ula
OaLiO vm Thomai Hardeman.
It la hardly needfbl to any that the invitation
was thankfbUy accepted. We were soon be
hind a spirited little sorrel hone that span
along with credit to himself and master.
Tbe road waa smooth and level and seven
miles long, ao that I had some opportunity of
getting In aomo work while on the way. What
work? Solving tbe problem of "Does firming
In Georgia pay)"
Now, It may be stated here that the average
Georgia farmer Is ao mod eat as to his own
merits and the merits of his country that the
stranger la generally led at once to cooclude
'that the country la a bad one for the farmer.
Hr. Hardeman once labored nnder the same
trouble, but baa come to look upon all such re*
S ired communications as matters of business,
it require his attention. So on the way he
pointed out the good and bad features of his
country, telling of the aneceea of this man and
the Ikllnreof that—each time living tho rea
sons for success or failure. Some of these
farms were well Improved, while othera were
just as they were, or worse than they were,
twrnly yearn ago. , ,
A little after nooa we turned through a
gate, drove np an avenue of forest trees and
alighted before the door of a beautiful cottage.
"This Is our home,” said mine host, “and to
It my family and myself am glad to welcome
you."
And now, as an example of what a Georgia
farmer may accomplish, I want to give a brief
history and description of this farm and Ita
owner. It will require only a few minutes to
read what I was two days in learning from Hr.
II. and bis neighbors.
Thomas Hardeman Isason of Judge Robert
Hardeman, of Jones county, connael for Hrs.
Loftier, defendant In the celebrated "Ticb-
borne case of GeorglA” Hr. Hardeman came
to Jcflrrson county, less than twenty years
ago. Fifteen years ago he bought, on a
credit, 720 acres of what
was known as the Alexander
Telfair plantation, ten miles from I<ovllelsu,l
on tbe Davisboro road. The place had only a
log cabin for a dwelling house and only two
or three hovels for his laborers. For this land
ha gave his note bearing ir> par cent. Interest,
for lie had only a horse and fifty dollars, lie-
fore he got thin paid for an adjoining place was
put on the market and be bought It at the
same price—*10 per acre—and on the same
teller. Soon he bought other lands nntll his
plantation contained 2,400 acres. .
Speaking of those days he said: "I worked
very bard, and my wire helped mo to econo-
mlse, but we always lived comfortably and I
si*nt my evenings with my Dually. Our house
waa a small logbouse, but Itwaawoll Airnlsbod,
and my wife always had a carriage and
hone*.*
Tlilt sras said with a degree of nride that was
creditable to his refined manhood.
After a good dinner and an hour with his
family Hr. Hardeman proposed to show ns
over his place. Ileally wo walked over only
cue-half of Ills plantation, but we put In tbe
entire afternoon. Hla land had just been
prepared for planting, and bus entire
lurto had taken that afternoon
to plow their gardens and patches.
We walked among his herd of cattle, his sheep,
goats and hogs, of which he baa a bountiful
supply; through bis cane bottoms, where the
cattle grase In winter, and through five hun
dred acres at “wild swamp” for rammer grax
Ing. Hammock lands of the most productive
kind lie heavily wooded on the banks of tbe
Ogccche and Dead riven.
Before wa returned I had seen much of Ills
9,400 acres of land, for which he bad paid *10
K rarre besides having added elegant real-
nee, good harna,outhouaes and cabins. I had
aeon hla sixty bead of cattle, sixty goats,
large fleck or sheep and numerous swine, a
and
he had assured me that ha had never done
anything aside from legitimate farming. Then
1 asked him to give me the figureeso that the
reader could see Just where the money was
made.
bitting down on a lag the farmer began;
"lly land rapt me teu dollars per acre, but
U would not bring half that If put on tho mar
ket; but I can show any reasonable man that
It la worth more than ton, I run twenty
plows, of forty aeres to tbe plow. We will tike
one plow as a basis. Now, on an average In
this country, fbr every forty aeres of cultivat
ed land there at* sixty acres of uncultivated
land. Of course tbe w hole 100 aeres must be
couulcd as an luvostuont. Then, on this forty
pete fatm we have as a permanent Investment
One hundred acre* at tlo per acre ...
One mule and the fuicrr.i he lepremi
Wacom, Implements, pre-1 uder, etc.
Total. . 4l,aoo
Then, as an annual Investment:
2 Ions fertiliser- *»
lilacttmlihlng, tool*, etc 10
Total CO
Now. for ret nine wo have 7 bales cotton,
*2M1, 150 bushels corn, and 1,500 bundles fbd-
der.
Tlih gives to tho landlord 75 bushola corn
ond 750 bundles of fodder, which will
cany tbe mule through neat year. This
leaves him with two-thirds of tSHO, or*18(1
cotton money. Out of this must como *30 ex-
pcnic,leaving him *150 interest ou his Invest
ment of $1,300. That glvos a return
of 111 per cent. Now, 1 have allowed tho
maximum of outlay and the minimum of re
turns For instance, If I count my land at *t
per acre, which la about Its market value, the
return would he twenty, two and two-seveuth
a cent. Then, seven hales to tbe plow it
iw the avenge on my plantation; my fet-
till ten never coat me (ato to the plow. I buy
one ton of acid with which I make five
tons of good manure, bettor that! a commer
cial fetUlUer that costa *35 per ton. Forty
dollars par kale for cotton la a low price. I
never sold mine that low until this year. 8o
you see, these figures might be made much
larger. But, aa they are, 1 have an Income of
*3,120. Then, too, unlike tke merchant or the
lawyer, I do not have to eount my livingont of
that. That which I consider worth not lorn
thee *1,500 has cost me practically nothing.
Hy garden and track patches, rattle, hogs,
sheep and goats give me ample living, end
they cost me nothing. Hy garden Is cultivated
by tbe wages, of Made who cultivate their
forty acres brslda Itiacettala to my mind
that Hr. Hardeman's annual living is not
worth I cm than *1.800, for ha lives In absolute
east—tot to say luxury. His table
la loaded with good thlago-atl except sugar,
cofiac. tea and oy stela—the product of hie own
Cum. Ills bouse la a quern Anne cottage,
wraith slant *4.000, elegantly finished end
furnished. Books and pepeisnreinnbnndaacA
His fhmlly, consisting of s wife and lire chil
dren, tints well, and hit child ran are being
Cdaraled. it goes without saying that they
are refined.
, Aft” ieklng this sU in I aakod the
rarmer, Mr. Hardeman, to what do you at
tribute the 1st,, si degree of yossr success?”
Hie answer surprised mo—sail would have
■ttprtied almost soy other man. I rather ex-
* oiwfUUim on “industry,” “econo*
” *?“• kindred fresh and interesting
h * Uml)r Nft It this way:
bJuemaUc Btanagement of my labor."
sec^!^ naked for part leutars hr continued:
"When l ame here the cabins were ell like
£5£* 10 * ,ow - ><>* h «» with a "stick
P°L" on the roof
tobnidtbadtpbeanU. "Than was no labor
h * |J ***’ “ "«M*I could not get any.
1,0 > * 0 ** *• I ®e«*d I began building
nest frame bouses like that.” pointing
(o a comfortable frame house of two rooms,
with a brick chimney. “And tho first oc«roe4
I got on my place are with me yet. They
have good homes, with two acre* of land Tor
patches, rent free, and* mule to plow it, and
plenty of wood with a team to haul it. Vet I
keep them entirely under my co ^trol.
I say when they plow their
patches and haul their wood I allow
each family to keep three bead of cattle and
as many hogs and aheep as they want and
charge nothing for pahturage. Lvery family
on my place u accumulating property; and
two negroes on my place can lend money any
day they want to do ao. I furniah those who
have to buy meat, flour and corn
at caih price. and never
allow them to go in debt at a atore. J»very
negro on my place, under thirty years of age,
can read and write, and I think almo*t every
family takes a paper. I never refuse a favor
that I can grant, and never make unreason
able demands of them. They trust mo as a
friend.” Mr. Hardeman'* books, sinco W7Sr,
show but very few changes of laborers. Ho
will not keen a tenant that doe* not save some
thing from his year's work.
Another commendable feature of Mr. H.s
system Is that he keeps his accounts so that he
can, in five minutes, tell joat how he stands
with his tenants or his bankers. Yes, ho has
“bank account”—one I’d like to bavo.
Mr. Hardeman is only one of a num
ber of successful farmors I’vo recently
met; and he has accomplished nothing
that other men cannot accomplish. - His land
Is not above the average In point of fertility,
though it is in point of productiveness.
After spending a conplo of days in his
charming household I came away impressed
with tbe Idea that “farming pays.” Clay.
What a Northern Farmer Did.
Vinyabik Oa., February 20.—Editors Con
stitution: Yours of the .id instant, in which
you request me to briefly write up what a
northern farmer did tbo first year In Georgia,
etc., came properly to hand. I will try to
meet your request In my plain, common man
ner on a small scale. On the 20th of January,
Ihfcf*, I bought seven and a quarter aeres
of James Beaty, about one mile
south of tbe city of Griffin, in Bpaldiog coun
ty, Go., and the same day I went to the city
and got lumber for a small house. In three
weeks I moved into it and commenced keep
ing bachelor’s hall and went to work at it and
rainy days and evenings preparing grape
cutting* and grafting pegch and plums. In
February 1 hired my land all turned as deep as I
could with two mules and grubbed out the
sassafras, wild plum and chinabcrry and
briers and a plenty of them, there was as ray
land was mostly an old turned out lot. I set
out 100 peach and .305 wild goose plum trees
and 42.5 grape vines and about a quarter of an
acre to strawberries and put out a small
nursery of 1,500 peach aod plum and about
04,000 grape cuttings in March.
I slso sowed over an acre
of oats. Tbe ?th of April, I planted
all to corn but where oats and strawberries and
nursery were.
On the 21st I went homo to Michigan and re
turned on the 2 of July tnutingjothert to tend
the land during my absence. My daughter re
turned with mo and stayed two months. We
dried .'Ktyounds of peaches and put np (i0or .70
ran* of all kinds of fruit which Is just as
nlco now as when fresh—so you
•eo there is no trouble to keen canned fruit
good hero if properly managed, i put mino
in my cellar—only ono can hurt and that
sprung a leap. In Juno I had peas planted
among the corn. In September I built a snug
little barn 10x24 end a hen house 0x10. In
October 1 gathered sixteen one huise wagon
double box heaped up loads of coni and three
loads of. peas in the pod, and ono big load of
oats in July. I fat tod a nlco pig
which dressed the first of December 128
pounds of fine meat, and I think I have enough
corn, oats, peas and fodder to keep my hone,
cow aod 60 fowls through and to eat myself. I
sowed the oats ground to rye whloh looks fhlr
for being sewed too early. By tho way, in July.
1 built a rook room to tho houso 10X12 foot. I
bought 14 hens and a rooster in the fall and*
have sold and got on hand of my own raising
forty-one chickens.
This fall 1 have enlarged my strawberry
patch to liaif an acre, aud this winter have
enlarged the peach orchard to 250 trees, the
plum orchard to 500 and the grape vineyard to
«45. 1 have tho grapovlncs aud plum orchard
trimmed.
■ Aside from cultivating uiy laud while
north, 1 have paid out for work,
excluding tho first breaking, $10.00,
only about $20, doing all tho rest of the work
anu cooking my own grub. The building I
did all of myself, but about $3 negro help on
them. When setting trees I put stable manure
in every pit, and also manure or guano in
every hill of corn, which I planted three
and a half feet apart each way.
In December the strawberry patch looked
nicely when I mulched it with pine leaves.
The dry weather in May hurt the nursery
so that I shall have only about thirty peach,
two hundred wild goose plum trees, ami eight
hundred grspo vines to sell, after using what I
want myself.
I have a snug cellar under my house, which
la a great convenience. When the corn be
comes bard I cut off the
tops close store the cars and cured
it aud stripped the blades which made a nice
quantity of fodder. I bed myjiorse and cow
heavily with the refuse fodder and pine straw to
catch the urine and manure and every day
put it on a pile, and thereby am getting a
nice compost heap with cottou seed aud phos
phate, every forkful of which 1 look upon as
gold. 1 clean tho hen house once a wook aud
barrel It for liquid application
small fruits and garden.
Home of my land is slightly inclined [and wor-
by washing, which I am anxious-
rlcs mo some l
by deprive me of the butter.
Fanning here differs very much from north
ern forming.
1. I think the “No stock or no feucc law”
is a very great rune, for no fence uo fields, no
fields oo cattle; no cattlo uo compost
heaps, no compost heaps no - corn
or cotton without expensive fer
tilisers, and no corn or cotton no gold. I
would toon expect to plow a hoi so hard
every day without good feed, and have him
thrive as to plant my land every year without
abundant and appropriate food, aud expect
gt m1 crops.
It genus to me there is far too much cotton
aud two little corn, oats* wheat, rye and hsy
giown, and too ftw cattlo, liogs and horses
raised here for home use at least.
Second. Northern fenuers practice rotation
of crops and a mixed farming, aud raise cattle
and stock of all kinds, aiming to product auf
ficicut home supplies of every thing possible,
and then as much surplus of the best cash
product as they can.
My exiwrlrnrc anJ obrarvxtion I, th.it to
ranted In farming, It it *11 Important to rail*
aa much of the .upplira consumed on the farm
aa la tnartirabla and poasible. Aud In coaclu-
alon I would aa,: “He that Ire the plow would
thrive, must hinuetf either hold or drive.'”
I am contented and happy here, ami the Ioni
cs 1 «tay the better I like the country and cfl-
lion.ton County Farm.no
Uacoh, Ga, February 21.—[Special.] —A
good turner, who Uvee near Byron, wa* in the
city today. Knowing him to bo one of the
representative fanners of Houston county,
your correspondent loet no timo in battouhol-
ing him and putting the stereotyped question
"What do you know?” "I know,” replied tho
gentleman, “that Hymn farmers are starting
off more bravely this season then for years
before. We nae two-horse plows to brink with,
yon know, and to oorlande are about all real,
prepored, and the boys are determined to win
this year.”
“I feared last season's experience would dis
courage you,” remarked the scribe.
“Fbr from it. Whatever tms.'alcnlatlous
and failures vro made lost year have but stim
ulated the farmers of my sectiou to greater
exertions. They will put in a good
coin crop and a heavy cotton crop,
which will bo more highly fertilised and more
rareftilly cultivated than over before. Wo
bavo decided that the more bolls wo can make
to tho stalk meant the most pounds lotho acrj
and that, again, means more money with a less
expense to the planter. Our farmers were never
more hopeful of success than in the planning of
the present year's crop.”
“Sugar cane seed all lost, of courset”
“No: I was most agreeably surprised when I
opened my bonks to begin planting. I thought
sure that the blixzard Had ruined it, tbe banka
being but lightly covered, hot I found that,
with the exception of a little near the surface,
my seed was safe.''
“Potatoes were ruined, though?”
“No; my seed potatoes kept remarkably well,
and I have a plenty, and shall plant a lsrgi
cron. Oats and wheat are killed—that* if, thi
early planting—bat I still bellevo there will be
a better avenge crop made than was made last
year.”
“How la that?” asked the reporter.
“Well, when the fanners found that the
early crop waa killed they set in and sowed a
second crop, and they put in plenty of manure,
and the result is going to bo os fino a yield on
a much smaller acreage. Speaking of nunu re,
there is more home raised fertilizers In my.
neighborhood this spring than I ever saw bo-
fore, and it is going to tell in next fall's har
vest.” %
“How have voor stock stood the winter?”
••Remarkably well. Our cattlo are all fat,
and our hogs doing well. But perhaps you
don't know that we have tho stock law
in active operation. That law has been an un
qualified blessing for us. You see, wc are a
community of amsll farms, and under the old
order of things we were put to a great deal of
expense keeping up fences. How, each man
has only at much stock os ho can caro for, and
the result la a marked improvement in our
stock. Men who, three years ago, vehemently
opposed tho 'no fence* law, would not do away
with it for any consideration now. When a
neighbor's cow or hog gets ont and does any
damage, the injured party takes the animal up
and sends for tho owner, the damage, if any, U
easily adjusted and it works like a charm
in Houston county.”
The scribe let up here, and went away con
vinced that that little strip of fertile lands be
tween tbe Echecoonee and Moss creeks, on
tbe upper lino of Ilounton county, must be a
good plsco to live.
Tobacco Culture.
Bonsack, Vo., February 4.—Editors Con
stitution: One of tbe chief pleasures I have,
and especially during this unpleasant weather
Is Tub CoNhTiTt’Tiorr, and among the articles
which excites my interest are those on tobacco
culture, which It seem# Is claiming the atten
tion or the farmers of Georgia. How, as a
farmer and tobacco planter I feel itmy duty to
give yon a full and impartial description or the
work ncceerary to the culture of a crop of to
bacco. First it is necessary to bavo now ground
for the production of aflrst*class article
Now, for the “modus operand!.” Situation of
land if hill side must hare a southern ex
posure. Supposing tho timber to have boon
cleared away, tbe ground must bo thoroughly
broken with the colter, then harrow, collect
all roots, etc., pile and burn thorn. Next lay
off in hills with' hoe, then tho land Is ready
for the plant i. Plant bed, having selected*
damp situation it roust bo thoroughly burned
off. The seed must bo sown about February.
Tho plants are ready to transplant about tho
first of June. Tho transplanting must ho don®
during a rainy spell, no cthor time will
answer. Abont three weeks later work with
lioe; watch rarcfully and keen clear of worms;
this is very Important. At the tint budding
E ritnc, (i e) take ofTnil defective loavos at tho
ottomof stalk and top tho plant, leaving
about' nino or ten leaves. Hoxt build houioa
in which to cure. Thcso may bo mado of log
or weather boards, but must bo tight. Com
menco tier poles aboqt nine feet from floor
tiers two aud one*half feet apart; poles four
feet apart. Next burn coal pits. It will re
quire one hundred bushels of charcoal to ono
thousand pounds of tobacco.
Abcnt September 20th tho tobacco is ready
to cut, which Ixdonoin this ways. 8j*'**^‘
•talk down tho middle to within six inc
the ground, cut tho plant off bolow tho split
and hang on tobacco sticks which aro ono inch
thick and fonr feet long, put so von stalks on
each stick, which must to taken immediately
to the house and bung on tier poles, having ex
cavated holes about four inches deep by ono
foot across and' six feet apart all ovar tho
ground floor. Fill thcso with coal, though at
first nut only about ono quart in each and start
the fire. Keep thermometer at eighty until
leaf is half yellow; then rsiso about ton de
grees every six hour* until tho thermometer
stand* at one hundred ami fifty (150), hold tho
heat at that for forty eight hours; the tobacco
is theu cured. Then come* tho classing, strip
ping and packing. Lynchburg is our market
and surh tobacco as I bave disertbed brings
from eight to twenty dollars per hundred
pounds.
With this letter I send you a sample of threo
thousand five hundred pounds raised by my
self this past year. I am now getting it ready
for market. With an apology for such a long
letter. I am respectfully
James K. Smith,
Bonrack P. O., Roanoko county, Virginia.
The Jersey Cow.
Editors Constitution: Leaving unmen-
tioned the obligation of Georgia to Tan Con
stitution, the Jersey breeders and farmers in
J 'tncral of the stato are deeply indobted to you
or your unswerving and' perhaps poorly re
quited friendship. But, sir, the cause is a noble
one, and though many of the first etfoits may
fell, finally the dairyman will bo tho most inde
pendent of all formers.
Recently Mr. J. C. Sibley, of Pennsylvania,
In a long address to hla fellow-citixons, praised
tho Jersey and expressed himself cheerfully
and hopefully of her fbturc. He showed that
there weio only about 17,000 breeding
fcmals Jerseys now iu tho United State*,
and to keep pace with the demand and in
creasing population it would be necessary for
these 17,000 to increoao to 8,000,000 by 1005.
He said: “While prices on Jerseys may not
rule fobulouslj high, yet |we confidently
bclievo that for the next twenty-fivo years the
business of thoir breeding and development
will prove both a pleasant and lucrative branch
of agriculture. I believe in tho lloroford and
short born for beef, and in the scrub to holp
us on to poverty, but os tho choicest morsel to
the eye of all tne bovine kind, for milk for
children and invalids, delicious butter and
cheese for tb»table, aod for money in my
jwcket the Jersey cow first, last and all the
When men like Mr. 8tbley praise her as a
profitable investment, when men like M^ior
t'smpbell Brown are willing to publicly declare
her the healthiest thoroughbred, and when
you observe the fact that one animal intro
duced iuto a community is sure to be tho cause
of many more getting there, there is no quo#-
tlon as to her faturc. There is more merit in
a Jerrcy cow thsn any other animal we have
had introduced Into the southern part of the
United States. Matilda 4th In nino months
bos made over 13,000 pounds milk. Landseer's
Fancy has just finished a public record of over
105 pounds butter in ono year. It required
less than one-half gallon of her milk to mako
one pound of butter.
A Jersey heifer with first calf will produce
more butter thsn aud aa much milk in a year
•s the ordinary family cow of the country.
The Jersey is going to get Into the hands of tho
iutclligf ut (aimers. They are now cheap, la
tcu yean, the scrub will be unknown tu the
best fanning districts of this state.
Butlxb Woodward.
Human Life
greatly depends upon the purity of air and
water, and most Infectious diseases reach us
through the medium of one or the other.
Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid will take oat of a
rcctu every atom of poisonous gas aud noxious
effinvis aud recharge It with ozone (nature'
purifier). Sprinkled over any putrescent mat
ter it not only destroys the odor but kills the
disease germs. A few drops of the Fluid will
purity a large quantity of water.
targe rhecks for skirts end boys' kills bave solid
colored bodice* and waists
‘ Two hearts that beet as one,”—St . J scobs
Oil and Red Star Cough Cure,—the conqueror
of rheumatism and healer of coughs.
Life would be too smooth If it had no rubs ta It
BEWAREOF CgTTOW SHARKS.
An Appeal for Less Cotton and More
Corn.
Memphis, Tenn., February 26.—The inter-
state agricultural convention, which ha# been In
»cMion at Jackson, Tcnn., since Wednesday, ad
journed this evening. Tbe following resolutions
were adopted with amendments to include bread-
stuffs and hog products, as well as cotton:
Tbe manipulation by speculator! of the cotton
forces upon ine planters ch toe aouiii me hwc-hij
of relieving themselves, as far as In their power
lie. from the Influence of so ruinous a sys
tem as that which now controls the chief
exportable products of the country, and with this
end in view the representative# or the agriculture
interests of Tennessee, In convention assembled,
call upon our brother planters of all tbe southern
states to protect themselves by united action. Em
boldened by post successes, the speculator has
already fixed the standard prices for the cotton
crcp of 1880-87. This be has done before the
reed has been put in tbe ground, or even a plough
bave been started. Cotton futures for the months
of October. November and December, lm, and
January, l&*>7, are today quoted in New York
at from 8-CO to 8-75,75 according to months. This
means not exceeding W cents for middling cotton
in New York, or6% cents — — “
shipping points or the 8ou„,
as New Orleans. Charleston,
i at the principal cotton
Mobil" ”” Galveston — _
Middling cotton at these cities —
for 8% cents means not more than cents to tbe
planter, who must pay freight, insurance aod reg
ular commission charges, w*-'** 1 *
rom % to 1 cent per pound,
condition*, so ruinous of our interests, we appeal
[pound. The answer is already given in the nega
tive. The next question following upon this is
what Is the remedy? We answer diversified crops
Plant one-third less cotton and morsdHjjMg|
k-rsHCN. Italic hogs and hominy,
lie a surplus crop. Instead ofHIMP
six and a half million bales, msks only four and a
half million bales. By this moons wo may realize i
the long price of our labor, and at the same time
mm Independently of tbe sharks, who profit by I
losses. In addition to this, the legislature of
each southern stats should be petitioned toi
make dealings for future delivery, unless Mttpal
Is actaslly on hand to sell, and b actually deliv|
ered to contracting purchaser, a felony, punish
blc by fine and imprisonment, not less than «1 JX)e
and two years in the penitentiary. ThO
time (snow propitious for united action, and we |
ratio, to Apply It. M. M. Msecs, i
sprcsl. which we (cel esnnot hut remit benencist*
11 io the planter If promptly acted upon and llred
np to honestly. _
HOIMFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE,
Assists Mental Labor.
Frofutor Adolph Ott, New York, mja ot the
Acid Phosphate: “I hare been enabled to de
vote myself to hard mental labor, from shortly
after breakout till a late hoar In the evoning
without experiencing the slightest relaxation,
and I would not now at any rata dlspenso
with It’’
Don’t yield to rhenmatiam till yon have
tried Salvation OU. Twenty-live cento a bot-
THF. COTTON
CONSTITUTION OPTION,
Atlanta. February 27* 18ML
NEW YORK, February 26-The ftlkflVtag If thf
comparative cotton statement far the weekending
today:
Net receipts at all United 8tatcs porta... 97.867
Same time lost year 60,272
* 42.G95
.4,506,796
ra.mwt.858,514
.........2,880,451
......mm3,079,941
199,489
-4,025,290
802,225
....ram. 222.0M
26,000
Total recelL
8smo tlmo last year...-
_ Showing an Increase...........
Exports for tho week
Some tlmo last year
1 bowing an Increase........
Total exports to dote
feme tlmo last year
Fhowlng a decrease
Block at all United States ports...
Same time last year.
Showing an lncresae......m....m.
StOCk at lntCriOr tOWnS.....mm.......m.....mmm
Same time lost year....
Showing an increase
Stock at Liverpool
Same time last year
* Showing a decrease —...—..~~m.
American cotton afloat for Great Britain..,
£amo time last year....
Showing a decrease-
New York -There was a little improvement lu the
cotton market today. Futures closed firm. Spots,
middlings 1.8-1 Cc.
Net receipt, today 13,479 tales, aralnit 7,393 balm
last year; export. 6,744 balm; law year 7,KM balm;
■lock 1,029,660 balm; last year 797,183 balsa
Below we glra the opening and cloatng quotation.
f llAlInn fnl.lvn. In Vnu, Vnab .nAan,
8.67
8.76
A 86
June
July
August.......
September
October.....
November..
Closed firm:sales 113.200bfiitt
Local—Cotton steady: prices marked a shade
lower. Wo quota: Good middling We; middling
IJaC; strict low middling 6V0; low middling 7^o;
strict good ordinary ?Het good ordinary 7%c; mid
dling stains 7J*o; tinges 7Ha
NEW YORK. February 27—The total visible sup
ply of cotton (tor tha world Is 8,619,407 boles, of whloh
2,623,907 bales are American, against 2,863,897 boles
and 2,I7«J>t» respectively last yoar. Receipts stall
Interior towns 49,677 baks. Receipts from planta
tion! 87,203. Crop in sight 6,686,802 balm.
PROVISIONS, GRAIN, ETC,
CONSTITUTION OFFICE,
^Atlanta. February 27,1668.
Th* following quotations Indicate tho fluctastioM
on tht Chicago board of trad# today:
WHEAT.
Opening. hihIwhl Lowest gaming,
February ....™7f& 795* 79% tSR
February 10 70 10 70 10 70 10 70
CLSAH bib non*
February....am., 5 40 5 40 6 40 5 40
8.75«
ATLANTA. February 28—Tbe market active,
especially for mules. Tho supply of mules to
equal to the demand at the follow
itgprices: Multi-14 to U',; hands •90#tll9; 14K
to UH hands tJlWH25. ttorscs-Maiket quid;
suypfy; plug «66««Wdrivt I100#fl40.
BUsceUjraeoas.
timothy, large bale) 91.00; choice tlmo
bales. 11.06; No, L Ions boles,
small bales, 91.00. Peas—Red 91.00;
red 8l.ro. Wheat Bran |1.00*91.05.Grltl
thy,
96c;
clay fl.CO.mixed
•3.75 pbbl. Oo_ ....
meut Java 2fa. Bugare—fcuuxlard A 6*40; granu
lated 7Sc; white extra G 4?qC. Syrup-Now
Orleans choice 48c; prime 50033c. Teas-Black SI
»-:6Cr; green 36tfti0c. Mackerel—No. L >tfbbU,96.8i;
No. 8, VM.. ga.r-o: s bbls £3.50; kite60e;pallsSOASSCl
srsswi'jiVOT
ham?, largo average, lO^c; small average, lia
Lard—Tk-rres, refined, 7c; choice leaf.
Lcmons-FJ.7MMB.75 p box. Horse shoes jUg
mule rboes 9&.00; hont shoe nails 12M920C. Iron-
bound homes 64.00. Trace chains N*§70. Ames'
ihoTels 19.80; spades 90.60*918. Axes 97.00fefl0.00
w dozen. Cotton cards l&OOfef&OOi Well buckets
M.C0. Cotton rope 16a Bwede iron 5c: rolled, or
merchant bar, 2Hnte. Cost stool 18c. Nalls 92.65.
(Hidden barbed wire, galvanized, 7o P A; painted
fo. Powder—Riflu 14.00; blasting 9170. Bar lead
7c; shot 91.85. Lest her-G. D. P. 1). 210
2tc; best 23C»c; white oak sote ttto; harness toother
IMS aro: black upper 396140c
Butter — Htrtctty choice Jersey
choice Tennessee 1bc#M; otbes
l aific. Poultry—Voting chtekea* ifkAJOo;
■S-SSfr
r»*dcs l.aico.
DR. JOHN BULL’S
Sol's Tonic Sm
FOR THE OURE OF
FEVER and AGUE
Or CHILLS and FEVER,
AND AU MALARIAL DISEASES.
Th. pnsri.tar of thli etlthraUd n.dteln.
!nitty claims for It a superiority over all nm*
ediei.var offered to tha public forth* BATE,
CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT enr*
of An. and Pav.r.or Chill, and r.ver.wh.tt.
«r of thort or long atanding. H. raftr. t# th.
antlra Weitern and Southern country to brar
him tutimony to tho truth of thaatrarUon
that In no caie whatavar will it foil to euro U
tho direction, arartrictlyfonowedandcarriod
ont In a gnat many cama a .Ingle dee> ha.
bran .nfflelent for a enr., and wbolo fomille.
have bran eurad tar a ringlo bottle, with ap«>
foot roitoratlon of the general health. Itlr,
how.ver, prudent, and fit every eara mor. cer
tain to enro, If iti uu la continued in .mailer
dee. for a wa.k or two after tha diaeau haa
Zra'hx: cock. arc. Sweet;
Dried Fruit—Keogh
practice Cc: rough dried
owing to quality. Prannt
Omflna 4*- VlttMaMo
FREEiasasiiVE
I ■■«■■■ Nf «ark,>LJ. fend suit pa f.»r po«i’*
Mcntioa this paps-.
fohJJ-wkyfl
11" on 2n\u JiiKEEP BEES?
ltd Trice List or Simplicity HItm, noucr Extrac
tor.. Seerion., Comb Foundation. Smohera, Bee-
Rooke and every thin, needed in Modern Bra Cut-
tun. Nothing Patented. I. M. Jusut* Wotntn-
la, Elmore Co., Ala Mention thli paper- wh.
good order, thonlftho paUonLhowovor.ro.
qnlr«*eath*rUemedieIn.,aftcrhavlngtaktn
three or four dotaa of tha Tonlo, a tingle dote
of KENTS VEGETABLE TAMILY POLS
trill bo aufflolant Die no other.
SR. JOHN BULL'S
SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP,
BUU’S SARSAPARILLA,
BULL'S WORM DESTROYEB,
The Popular Romedl** of tha Day.
Frliclpal Office, SSI Mala St, MUISTII.LF.HT.
tori —.Ota ut mon tbnr A why top cot n tin
KAFFIR_C0RN.
The seed grown by Dr. J. H. Watkins, ot Camp
bell county, Georgia; price 91.25 per pound. His
directions for planting accompany each pack-
o^e^By midi, post paid, 1 pound IL42, K pound
GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS,
Grasses and ill Seeds of Forage Crops. Nearly
everything desirable; both old and new. Priced
list on application J. H. ALEXANDER.
■■ BMa,tore -»&a
Mention thi. paper.
in Cotton Seed.
FORTY PER CENT OF NET LINT.
[PEN GROWING, PROLIFIC UPLAND COT-
1 ton, yields abundantly, bears drought hotter
„jm other sorts, large bolls, easy to gather. Small
seed well tinted, staple equal to best uplands, and
1,250 to 1,800 pounds yields 600 pounds net lint
Many excellent planters have sold it is tho
ONLY REALLY IMPROVED COTTON.
Letters from nearly every southern state report
uniformly in favor of every clahn made for this
seed, many over 40 per cent of lint, none less thsn
87 to 88,
SEND FOR THE CIRCULAR
and see the statements of yield per acre, and yield
of lint, made by men who bave tried It. Every
sack bears the brand of J. A. Petcrkln and his ship
ping agent, R. E. Clark.
TAKlf NO OTIUSR*
Price, ti.60 perbulhol.
J. H. ALEXANDER.
Augusts, O*.
General Agent for Gconrts and all Points West
N. B. TpYunplr more distant points, agencies
will be established in some principal cities in the
several states, of which notice will bo given on ap
plication.
pMention this paper.doc!7 wkyM
AUCTION SALE1
70 Head Choice
A, J, C C, JERSEY CATTLE,
■JJNDER THE AUSPICES OF T1IE GEORGIA
Jersey Breeden’ Amoclstion, st Atlanta, as., on
,, 10th day March next.
Drafts from tne herds of Rlcnsrd Peters, John L.
Hopkins, J. B. Wsde end Woodward, McClellan A
Oo., consisting of many valuable animals, strong
In tbe blood of Coomasois, Stoke Pogls, Signal
Alpha, Mercury, St. Heller, Rex and Duke 76.
Cattle eligible to the association sales are cither
bom in this state or havo been thoroughly
acclimated. Catalogues will be ready for distribu
tion about; 20th of February. Applications for
same must be addressed to
GEO. M. HOPE,
Secretary and Treasurer, Atlanta, Go.
Mention this paper. fob 9 wky 4t
GRASS SEEDS!
We have just received a large
quantity oi the following grass
seeds: Orchard grass, blue grass,
herd* grass, red clover, white clo
ver, lucerne or alfalfa, timothy,
German millet, red and white onion
•ets, seed potatoes and all kinds of
field and garden seed.. Write for
quo f ations.
j. c McMillan & co.,
No. 25 Marietta St.
Mention this paper.marJ—wkylm sfmp
ACME HARROW.
TTTE HAVE IN STORE A LARGE LOT
“ ootebntedHarrows. Nofluma —
-oae. Price# (brons horse F. O. A* VM;
two horse F O. B. 627.50. Bend for droolers.
MARK W. JOHNSON A OO.,
wkyly 27 Marietta HL, Atlanta. Gs.
SSYRACUSE
SWIVEL PLOW.
THE BEST SWIVEL PLOW IN USE.
Equally food on level land. No farmer ahould
be Without on*. Mend for free IllsstrstodCota*
Iosco aud Almanac*
SYRACUSE CHILLED PLOW CO.
8YRACUSE, NEW YORK.
Mention this paper. febiC-wkyst
A tine Farm Free.
T OFFER TO GIVE TO ACTUAL SETTLKR3 OF
J good moral character and Industrious habit*, one
hundred and sixty eight thousand acres of fine
agricultural lands In the Panhandle of Texas, with
in half a day's ride of Fort Worth, divided Into
forms of ICO acre* each. Comfortable houses ex
ccllent u ater,fine climate andhcalthtalneMuasur-
ported in the world- fell from twelve Inches to
ten *rct deep. Free rang* for cattle-forms fenced.
Alto six hundred thousand acres for isle. Wettest
a L. MAN GUM,
THE GREAT COTTON AND CORN
FERTILIZER
MANUFACTURED BY
GEO. W. SCOTT & CO.
ATLANTA, GA.
rr IB FOR Bits AT MOST OP THE PROMT-
1 nent towns In Georgia, Alabama and Booth
Carolina. If no agent at your depot, write far cir
culars containing analysis, results of contests (hr
premium# In 1884 and 1*85, and
LIST or PREMIUMS rOR 1886,
nts. Go.
—wkytet
TheG lobe Cotton and Corn Planter
Fertilizer Distributor.
Hlchnt twtrd *t!n-
teraalion*! Cotton ex-
Sttte fair, tho Nt-
tlonal Cotton Flu.
ten-uwdauoo, th*
IR&R
-was
failed In tnjr eon tret, hu been «UU further lmprov-
ed. ind 1< no* fhlljr udaptod to any character ot
aoU and th. moat tuukUled labor, two atylaa and
tl/.cv beinenow mndc.
It la th* mo«l durable planter mad., and will
Save its Cost Three Times Over
—IN A—
SINGLE SEASON .
“Tin*
TWO HANDS AND ONE TEAM.
The price hu been reduced to lult the tlmee,
Bend for circular string full deacriptlon and
GLOBE PLANTER M’FO. CO..
320 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Mentlln this paper.
i-AnoKST SEED HOUSE «
nnii naniiT.t Kirn.OFUlWBB
SEEDSIOPUNTS
•^i°;ss , .s , ji.«. e si5 , t?WFaa£ a *
T. W. WOOD & SONS,
Wholesale and Retail Seed*man. Richmond. Vto
Mention this paper.JanlD—wkylm
Plants for the Garden I
Plants for the House I
Blooming Bulba I
Flower Seeds
S ]
END FOR DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED
“ catalogue. Free to oil, to
EDWARD WACHENDORFF.
Awirnnu nAvaaiMri/ltrf ,
, Prop. Atlan ta Floral Bazar, Atlanta, Go.
fcb23wy4t Mention this paper.
ENGINES,
SAW MILLS, WATER-WHEELS, MILL
STONES, CllUBUER HILLS.
T)E SURE TO GET OUR PRICES BEFORE YOU
EUfDIKICEDTHAT
Mention this paper.
ffigSSGt
Mention this paper mart—wky!3t
GEM
ink SOUTH '
IRON AND tJTREL FRAME.
«CH
Straub Machinery Co.,
CUelassif, O.
Mention this paper.
fcbis—wkniSi e o w 1
Ain? Pack Fun Cards
MBfUg ,w,a *
4 oeats. __
seplwCm eomnoa
AN ACTIVE MAN OR
ft POWILL ft M V, 160 Kola It, 1
FQr Stockings and
Csocitxnico,
gSJKK&S
’ ATLANTA SAW
WORKS. |
BAWSI!
And dealer. In $
SAW MILL -4
SUPPLIES
dt.
i
give F«fcct
«U-vh,«a
Atlanta, Ga.