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2 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 fesJß--- 1 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.