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AGRICULTURVL NOTES.
Farmers, Read This-
National Economist.
There is prosperity and prosperity.
Here is metropolitan prosperity. It is
a New York business man talking in ref
erence to a question of a newspaper re
porter:
“ The people of the country are enjoy
ing more prosperity than they have had
for five years. Our grain and cotton
I crops arc bigger than they have been for
years, and the freight rates are so mod
erate that farmers generally are enjoying
the profits of the great plenty in their
fields.”
Another business man in Gotham gives
this glowing response:
“Everybody seems to have enough
« money for the necessaries of life and
something to spare for the luxuries. The
big cotton crop gives Southern planters
a chance to scatter their cash, and the
grain and cattle raisers have seldom en
joyed a more bountiful year.”
Here is rural prosperity as told by a
Western paper of the same date:
“ Corn is selling at 16 to 17 cents, de
livered; wheat at 55 to 60 cents ber
bushel; Irish potatoes at 15 to 18 cents
per bushel; hay at $3 per ton. But
notwithstanding these low figures, debts,
interest and takes remain as high as
ever.”
The Farmers’ Voice, of Chicago, speak
ing of the cattle raisers, says:
“If does seem a hard and cruel thing
for farmers to be compelled to sell to the
beef trust below the actual cost of pro
duction, while the trust realizes such ini
mense profits.”
As to the cotton raisers, it will not take
them long “ to scatter their cash,” as far
as profits on cotton raising is concerned.
Thus General Prosperity appears to con
fine himself pretty closely to his princi
pal residence —on Wall street, New York.
Where Our Swine Come From-
American Cultivator.
The first swine introduced into Amer
ica were probably brought from Spain to
Hispaniola, by Columbus, in his second
voyage, in 14',13; for, as a portion of his
cargoes consisted of horses, cattle, seeds,
plants, etc., it is not likely that he would
have omitted 'so common an animal as
the hog.
The first swine of which we have any
reliable account as having made much
improvement in the breeds of the United
States was a pair of pigs sent by the.
Duke of Bedford to Gen. Washington, by
a Parkinson, an English farmer, win*
came to this Country toward the close of
the last century. He leased a farm in the
vicinity of Baltimore, Md., where he re
sided for some time. Instead of deliver
ing these pigs to Washington he dishon
estly sold them. They were generally
called th Woburn er Bedford breed, but
" were kimwvi l>v the name of the Parkin
son hog. This breed originated at Wo
burn, the estate of the Duke of Bedford,
produced by a cross of a Chinese boar on
a large English hog. At one period they
were widely diffused in Maryland and the
border counties of Virginia, as well as in
Delaware and Pennsylvania; but it is be
lieved that the purity of the breed no
longer exists, either in England or in this
country. Gen. Ridgely, of Maryland,
bred these hogs in perfection. lie sent a
pair to lion. Timothy Pickering, of Salem,
Mass., the descendants of which and their
crosses were extensively propagated in
Massachusetts as well as the adjoining
states.
Some Famous Farmer Boys
Pittsburg Dispatch.
How many presidents and other prom
inent men were born on the farm? Wash
ington, Adams, Monroe, Andrew Jack
son, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Taylor,
Buchanan, Lincoln and Garfield were all
born on farms.
Jay Gould was a country’ boy who came
to town with a patent mouse trap. Henry
Ward Beecher was a country boy who
loved farm life all his days; William M.
Evarts came from a farm in Vermont;
Chauncy M. Depew used to run barefoot
around Peekskill till Vanderbilt took a
'ancytohim: Whitelaw Reid is from
Ohio, and was 30 years ridding bis hair
of hayseed; DeWitt Talmage first ex
panded his lungs calling to an ox team;
Sunset Cox hoed potatoes as a lad on his
father’s farm near Zaiesville, Ohio;
Abram S. Hewitt was a rosy coun'ry lad
whose garments were made by the vil
lage seamstress when he first went to
New York; Thomas C. Platt was born
on a farm: so was L. M. Bates, who got
his first commercial training in lending a
cross-roads store; Addison Cammack was
raised on a plantation; so was Tom Ochil
tree The list might be continued in
definitely.
Cotton Crop of 1889
Tlie New Mississippian (Jackson, Miss.).
If the cotton crop of 1889 is as large as
that: of 1888, 49,000,000 yards of bagging
will be required to wrap the crop. If the
cotton crop be wrapped in jute, $4,300,000
will pass out of the planters’hands. If
the cotton is wrapped in bagging, $4,900,-
0IM) will remain inside the lines of the
cotton States to be added to the circu
lating medium. The making of 49,000,-
000 yards of bagging will consume 100,-
000 bales of cotton, which decreases the
number of bales -for market and en
hances the value of the remainder 1 cent
per pound, making the gain of the cotton
planters $8,625,000.
Mr. J. W. Gurris one of Terrell’s most
successful young farmers. He tells us
that from a quarter of an acre of cane he
had made 108 gallons of syrup. He also
made 50 bushels of corn on one acre. So
far Mr. Gurr stands head.
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FARMER, ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER 20,* 1889.
The Ladies’ Home Journal.
A delicious holiday flavor pervides
every page of the Christmas number of
The Ladies’ Home Journal. Never has a
better number of this wonderful domes
tic magazine been issued. Will Carleton
opens the feast with a beautifully illus
trated full-page poem; Mrs. A. D. T.
Whitney and Maud Howe supply the
novels, while Catherine B. Foot begins a
strong Christmas story which W.'L. Tay
lor illustrates. Theodore It. Davis gives
the best glimpse inside the White House
and the State dinners under several ad
ministrations we have as yet read. Mrs.
A. G. Lewis has a quaintly-conceived
Santa Claus poem for the youngsters,
which Margaret E. Sangster follows widi
illustrated verse. Edward W. Bok tells
what are literary tastes of two such great
men as Gladstone and Bismarck. Then
follows a perfect wealth of suggestions
for Christmas dinners, women’s fashions,
holly decorations for the home, still fur
ther succeeded by the most readable arti
cles and stories by Florence tlowe Hall,
Eben E. Rexford, Eliza 11. Parker, Emma
M. Hooper and Mary Barrett Brown. To
be surprised what a really perfect maga
zine can le given for almost nothing, let
any one of our readers send 10 cents for
this number of The Ladies Home Journal.
The address is 435 Arch street, Phildel
phia, Pa.
The Care of Colts.
Country Gentleman.
The care of colts is one of the stepping
stones to successful horse breeding. At
four months old the colt is fit to wean.
If that comes in the fall, sometimes he
is allowed to depend entirely upon his
own resources for a living. At this time
of the year the grass is frost bitten and
affords little nourishment. The result is,
the colt gradually grows thin in flesh,
and loses his shape, and no amount of
good care in the winter will make up en
tirely the loss. The first winter with a
colt is of the utmost importance. He
should have a comfortable place where
be can take plenty of exercise. A little
good hay and four to six quarts of oats
and bran mixed per day will cause him
to thrive, and when spring comes you
will have wintered him with but little
more expense than to winter a calf. The
colt will then sell at SBO to $100; the calf
will sell at sl2 to sl4. With land at an
average price of $75 per acre, we can raise
colts—aside from the service fee of the
stallion —at a cost not to exceed $75 at
three years old. All that is fed to them
goes back to enrich the farm.
The Farmers’ Alliance.
Kans is Farmer.
The object of the Farmers' Alliance,
expressed in one word, is education, the
word used in its best, purest and broad
est sense; education that will reach from
the cradle to the court, and will give us
batter homes, better schools, better poli
tics, better legislation, and better ad-
of the lajvs; i .'pit
will give us better methods in the home,
on the farm, in the storeroom, in the
marketplaces; education that will do
away with every species of gambling in
the products of labor; that will give the
fullest freedom for trade consistent with
the general welfare; that will secure rea
sonable compensation for labor and fail
profits in its productions; education that
will give the farmers an even chance
with his fellow-citizen in every depart
ment of life and work, that will aid him
in his farm work; in his business affairs,
in trade, in politics, in law: education,
briefly, that, will build up agriculture on
a high, broad level, where farmers shall
be in all respects abreast with the fore
most men of the time.
Both Sides of the Question.
‘ Every cow kept for butter will keep
a sow and pigs,” says Mirror and Farm
er. “The skim milk and buttermilk
form a basis for healthy feedk and if given
a run in the pasture or in the orchard
the litter of pigs in the fall will bring
nearly as much as the housewife has
made from her butter.”
Howard’s Dairyman, commenting on
the above, says:
“Yes, that will be the case, provided
enough additional food is fed the sow
and pigs to give them a rapid growth.
This trying to get more out of food than
there is in it is what disappoints in the
end. If a man would think a little on
the above absurd proposition he would
see that the cow would be lessening the
amount of skim milk she could give each
month, while the sow and pigs were
growing and making demands for addi
tional food. And if they did not get it
they would either stop growing or die,
or do both. The only way we know of to
get pork for nothing is to steal it.”
Four Pounds of Steer.
Labette County (Kan.) Statesman is
responsible for this: “Four pounds of
steer will pay for one pound of steak, and
180 pounds of wheat will buy fifty pounds
of flour, and two or three dollars in
money will pay what was originally one
dollar of debt. People are getting just
what they voted for, and still they are
not happy. As Sol said: “A fool (at the
polls) and his money are soon parted.”
Willie Martin, a 13-year-old boy, of At
lanta, was killed by falling from the top
of an E. T., Va. and Ga. freight train.
This was the fatal result of disobedience.
He had often been told not to jump on
the moving trains. Boys, take warning.
Don’t try to do a business on nothing
and feed yourself. Aboye all things
don’t get some one else to feed you
unless you have a good prospect C ’ pay
ing them. Too many boys are afraid to
plow. Stay on the farm, boys, and make
an honest living.
The public schools in Atlanta teach ste
nography, penmanship and book-keeping.
JOHN M. GREENE,
PRESIDENT OF THE
Atlanta Guano Co. of Atlanta, Ga.
Americus Guano Co. of Americus, Ga.
Walton Guano Co. of Social Circle, Ga.
Manufacturers of the following first-class brands of Amoniated Guanos and
Acid Phosphates:
Eddystone Soluble Guano, composed of blood and tankage, Acid Phosphate, and
Potash, with a guaranteed analysis of: Available Phosphoric Acid, 11 per cent:
Ammonia, 24; Potash, Is.
Atlanta Ammoniated superphosphate, with guaranteed analysis of 11 per cent.
Available Phoric Acid, 2J per cent. Ammonia and I) per cent, potash.
Rainbow Soluble Superphosphate. 13 per cent. Available Phosphoric Acid, per
cent. Ammonia, and 2 per cent. Potash. ' “
Atlanta Soluble Bone, guaranteed analysis 151 per cent. Available Phosphoric Acid.
Americus Guano, guaranteed analysis, Available Phosphoric Acid, 10 per cent.;
Ammonia, §1; Potash, If.
Walton Guano guaranteed analysis: Available Phosphoric Acid, 10 per cent.;
Ammonia, 2j; Potash, 11.
Orders for any of our brands may be sent to either of the factories, or to my
address here.
We challenge comparison with our goods in field or laboratory.
croniT zml GtezEZEisr,
ATLANTA, GA. President.
4DUNCAN*
N GROCERS.
Flour, Meat, Lard, Sugars, Coffees, Tobaccos, Cigars, etc., etc.
HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN AND FEED STUFFS A SPECIALTY
-77 WHITEHALL AND 88 BROAD STKEKTS. Atlanta, Ga.
George W. Scott Mf’g, Co,
ATLANTA, GA,
v MANUFACTURES OF
GOSSYPIUM PHOSPHO,
Scot’s Animal Ammoniated Guano,
FOTASSO FHC'SFHO,
Tlig'h. G-iade -A.oid. nFlxOsTOlxscte-
Our Fertilizers are Kept up to the High Standard on which they have won their
great reputation, and are. for the season of 1889 and 1890 at the lowest pos
sible prices for cash or on time for currency and cotton.
ii 14m. " FOR OITOOTJ L_A.:R,S.
The
- •fIHpNTA.’GA.- '' ' ■
* HIGH GRADE AGID PHOSPHATE y
And Clifton Complete Fertilizer
Will sell their products at very low prices.
Correspondence Solicited. CLIFTON CHEMICAL & PHOSPHATE CO
dec 63 in OlHce <» West Wall Street, ATLANTA, GA.
GEO W. CASE. Z. B- WHEELER-
CASE & WHEELER,
MARBLE ANT G-R.AXLTITE WORKS
Monuments, Headstones, Tablets, Iron Fencing,Etc.
Get our Prices Before Ordering.——— d
MaCON. - : - - G-EOKGIA.
July 5 ly
All future improvements in the productive powers of money must come mainly through co-opera
tion.
TZEZZS
Farmers Savings, Building & Loan Association,
NASHVILLE. ------- TENNESSEE.
Authorized Capital, $20,000,000; Shares, $1.03 each.
OFFICERS.
Lewis T. Baxter, President; J. H. Brice, Vice President; W. K. P. Wilson, Secretary; Frank
I’oiiTEuriELn, Treasurer; Jas., c Itnanroitn, Attorney; W. 11. Raymond, Manager of Agencies.
DIKECTORS.
LrwfsT Baxlei , I’rer. Nashville Commercial Club fl J- II- Bhuce, of Marshall AND Bruce, Blank
Books, stationery and printing: Frank l’oi<Ti:nin:i.i>, Cashier Commercial National Bunk; W. K
I’. Wilson, Secretary of the Association; Jas. C. Buani'oiti). Attorney at Law ; W. 11 HavmOXD,
Manager of Agencies of the Association.
ADVISORY BOARD.
W. H. Gbaetkax d, Cashier EiratjNational Bank of Nashville Teuessee; J. H. Tho.mi-son, Presi
dent Nashville Fire and MaiGre'insur.inee Company, Nashville, Tennessee; J. B Richardson, of
Richardson BroL x Co., wholesale boots and shoes, Nashville, Tennessee; B M. Hokd, Commis
sioner of Agriculture of Tenuess-.x*
The first and only Building and Loan Association to oiler farmers the advantagesof these success
ful co-operative institutions. , , , „ , . ,
It is practically a Co-operative Savings Bank: is purely mutual, and the profltsare shared alike by
investors and farmers. , . v • . „
11 loans its money exclusively on improved farm lan Is—the most st.iole and solid of all securities.
District and County Agents wanted. Liberal commissions will be paid.
THE FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE M’F’G CO.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.—
W. E H. SEARCY, President; J.-H. WALKER, General Manager-
This is purely an Alliance Company; no one else has any
stock in it. We make Alliance Standard Guano for ourselves,
and will be glad to sell some of the same tor cash at low figures.
Put in orders now for January and February delivery.
We buy empty Kerosene Barrels paying SI.OO for same de
livered at the mill, and we sell cotton seed meal, the best cow
food in the world.
Address Farmers’ Co-operative Mf’g.Co’
GRIFFIN, GA-
SOUTHERN PHOSPHATE COMPANY.!
Factory and Acid Works on R. D. Railroad,
We have for sale the following well-known and established brands of
unsurpassed in quality and mechanical condition. ' x >
SOUTHERN ACID
This brand is manufactured from the best qualify >4 Charleston
very liiuli in Soluble and rcvertec Phosphoric A .-id. am: has less
insoluble matter. Mechanical condition line.
O LI) DO NIIZTION Gr U A
A superior and soluble guano, compounded from high grade
animal. -etable ami niiner.il matter. Mechanical mlition very line.MH|M
SOUTHERN AMMONIATED DISSOLVED B 0N t H|
A good standard brand equal to any on the in trket. For terms,
JVEJLTD3DOX, RUCKER & cl
Dec 13 3m General Agents,
Joseph 11. Dav.
DAY & TANNAHILL, ■
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
CARRIAGES, WAGONS, BUGGIES, CARTS and.
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. ,
AGENTS FOR WILSON, CHILDS & CO-, PHILADELPHIA WAGONS,
Saddlery and Harness, Coach Material, Wheels, Axles, Bolts, Etc.
Leather, Calf Skins, Shoe Findings, Trunks, Bags, Umbrellas, Whips, Leather Belling .
Packing. Rivets, Etc. Children’s Carriages, Goat Wagons, Etc. Alliances write us for special pF
We want, your trade. 733 and 735, Broad St., AUGUSTA,
This is the only sped-
curo f° r Uiiicken n v
Cholera yet discovered u f
** ?t°p the course ’ A »
.—disease in fifteen
minutes and cure nines
out. of ten of the sick -
before taking. ones by following the after taking.
directions.
Many testimonials; also the endorsement of Com’r of Agriculture.
Manufactured by TS. ZDOLDG-IE,
No. 62 Frazier St.., ATLANTA, GA.
Prio«, 25 oeuU per package, by all Wholesale nnd Retai 1 Druggist*.
STf SAAXXi, SO CEKTTS.
Cole’s Improved 1889 Cotton Pres
4 K Guaranteed The Besjj
Ii Yet Offered For The Price !
' ff “2,000 IN USE-!
9 D«'O|sj|St And They Never Fail To Please.
B ■ lT WILL PAY YOU
'1 rfepl ‘ To Get Prices Os
f ENGINES,
I Saw*aiuTU'risM Stflls’ 1
■ l : From The Builders } t 1
R. I), COLE Mfg. Co., Newnan, Ga.
THS
Porter Iron Roofing and
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS C«
Roofing and Corrugated from
specialties: standabd, “v” crimp, roll aud cap, standing sea®
101 and 103 WEST FRONT ST, CINCINNATI, OHIO. ■
Write for prices and testimonials, and mention this paper. • M
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THE LUMP ROCK
Mined bv the RE ESOE MINING (’(>., of Piffard, New York, is the purest and bekt that
ottered L»r sale in this country . The Chemical Analysis made by Prof. Chas. E. <
salt to be 01) 84-100 pure.
We can nhip the salt in assorted lumps of any size, in any <pian ity. from a small ba;
load. Eor prices and further information, address
FOSTER, BROWN & CO., Agents, 146
Every farmer should have it ns it lasts four times as long as pure salt, and is much
as tlii-t can get it dissolved in small quantities, at. any timo llmv want it. Also we
kind- id su't for curing nu ats, hid, s and tie. zing ice cream and in ail purpoHes where a
is needed.
Jordan & SmitFß
COTTON FACTORS, ■
JLTTG-TTSTJA, - - G-EOKzCS-lJ
Our .Salesman, Mr. W. M. JORDAN, im . been engaged in the cotton By '
since 1874, having 15 years experience. ”'
References: Mr. Chas. G. Goodrich, Cashier Ga. 11. 11. Bank; Mr.
man, President Graniteville Manufacturing Company.
We will store and hold cotton for Planters, advancing three-fourths
the cotton and charge only seven (7) per cent, interest. n<|H
THE GEORGIA SEED CO, Macon, Gafl
SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHERN SEED COMPANY.) ■
Whole and Retail Dealers in Farm and Garden
We ire strieilv in the seed business ami nothing else. We handle only the best
any quantitv South Georgia. Hye. Barley, Seed Wheat, Red Rust proof Seed Oats, <lai
Uk’iv. ; New cron Turnip Seed, Cabbage, Spinach, and all varieties ( lover,Grasses,
We pay strict at tentiou to freight rates. Write tor price list. We advertise no goods
not keep in stock.