Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

AgriculturEl ’DEpartment. Southern Agriculture. We think most of our writers have UtakeL the true policy for restoring prosperity to our cotton section. We have on several occasions presentee our views on this subject, and we brief, v present them again. Much has been said about money crops. Cotton is not the only money crop. All crops are intended for mon ey crops; corn, wheat, oats, dairying and everything grown or raised on a farm is intended for a money crop. The cereals are grown to save the monev that "would be paid for them if they had to be bought. Hogs and cattle are raised to save tiie money that would be paid for meat: and so of other productions. It is self evident that cotton cannot be a successful money crop to the man who ^ expends more monev to make it than it brings him after it is made; and so of any other product of the farm. The rem edy is to make everything that is grown or raised on a farm, worth more than the cost of _ growing or raising it. JSverv agriculturist, rich or poor, should study this prob lem. We bold that it is in the power of every farmer to make the produc tions of his farm worth more than the cost 'if production. That is the great secret of success. Men must learn to know that they cannot accomplish impossibilities. He might as soon look for snow Hakes on a hot summer dav, or rain without clouds under burning sunbeams. He might as well attempt to check a cyclone with a palmetto fa A. If lie can only work ten acres and make them yield him more than the work costs, it is the supremest follv to work twenty with the hope of success and especially if the 20 w'ill yield him only one fourth or fifth of the cost of the work. Many farmers owe their misfortunes to themselves. The farmer ought to know the yielding capacity of his land. If a 20 acre farmer knows that 20 acres will yield him only four bales of cotton, he ought to know that the work of the 20 acres will cost him at least live times as much as the four bales will yield him in money. If the 20 acres cause as many, or nearly as many days, to get over and take out the grass his crop will be lost, for it should l>e gone over every 8 or 10 davs. The inference is plain. Use less land, fill it with manure, almost of all kinds, horse, cow, compost, gua no. ashes, decayed vegetable matter, charge it with humus. Plow’ when the ground is a little more than halt dry, and that itself will be equal to a good manuring. Ho all this and the ten acres will make 10 or 12 bales of cotton. Let all the other crops be treated the same way, and all will be money crops, and the cry of hard times would be heard no more in the land. Thk South.—With all her troubles the pluck of our Southern people breathes the true spirit of progress. Manv are pursuing the true policy in agriculture and by degrees all will eventually fall into the line of culture which, we have been suggesting. . If our papers would unite in advocating it. our entire section would soon be in a high state of prosperity. As to man ufacturing our section i> on the right track. We can beat the North in that industry in iron, steei, and miner al productions. With even moderate changes in the tariff our progress will be onward and upward. The whole country, unmistakably shows this. Labor is never inadequate, for if the laborers in this country withdraw, there are a plenty of new comers from abroad every year to supply their places, so that the high duties enure to the benefit almost exclusively of the manufacturers. The report of the commissioners of emigration show that the number of foreigners that ar rived at New York alone was 340,149 in the year 1885. Florida Orange Trees.—The people in every section were much in terested about the orange trees of Florida during the bitter and freez ing cold spells of last winter. Cor rect information from that state is to the effect that but a very few of the old trees were injured seriously. Ma ny >^ere at one time • supposed to be killed, or so greatly injured as to be lit only for fuel. *lt turns out that but a very few suffered to that ex tent. The account is that the old Trees are in fine condition and will furnish this year as good fruit as ever. Not an orange grove can be bought lor a dollar less than last year. This is very gratifying to all the lovers of That delicious fruit. The Franklin Review and Journal, of Tenn.. says: “W. L. Wilkes has sold his crop of Bartlett pears from 15 acres for £3,000 to Mr. Nobles, of Cin cinnati. This is the second$3,000 crop J which Mr. Wilkes has sold from the orchard within the last four or five years, besides other small crops, ag gregating something near $8,000 in that time, or an average of near $2,000 a year from 15 acres of land in pears, while the expense of keeping it up has been a mere trifle/’ A COAL OPERATOR, With a Thousand Dollar Experi ence. MR. w. P. JOHNSON, Whose picture adorns the head of this column, is an extensive coal and wood dealer, at No. 36 N. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. He said lately in presence of a re porter : “My business necessitates a good deal of exposure upon me, and last winter, owing to this fact, I was attacked with a very severe case of inflammatory rheumatism. “Wliat 1 suffered from this dread disease can better be imagined than described. “I did everything I could to cure myself. 1 tried every means in my power and every remedy left me as bad or worse than I was before. I could not raise my hand to my head, and it looked as if, even if I were rid of the disease, its effects would CRIPPLE ME FOR LIFE. “About four weeks ago I was per suaded to try Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure, and my relief was almost in stantaneous. I am now on my fourth bottle, and 1 am as sound a man as there is in Georgia. “Have I any objection to the pub lication of these facts? Not the least in the world, and 1 only hope they will meet the eye of every person suf fering as 1 was, and that they will be lieve, try, and be cured; and I want to say right here that I would not, for one thousand dollars, be in the condi tion 1 was, when 1 began using the remedy which made me whole again —Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure. “1 also have been a great sufferer from indigestion and stomach troubles —dyspepsia, in fact—and since I be gan the use of the Cure this has en tirely left me, and I have as good and sound digestion and appetite as I ev er had.” This wonderful remedy for the cure of all kinds of Rheumatism and all Blood and Kidney Diseases, is now sold at $1.00 a bottle by all druggists. Manufactured by J. M. Hunnicutt & Co., Atlanta, Georgia. A correspondent of the American •Cultivator sends in the following rec ipe for breaking up the sitting habit in hens. Shut up the hen in a close coop, feed as much Indian meal at a t ime as can be rubbed in a quantity of hog's lard the size of an egg. Con- tinuethis regimen for three or four days, and the most inveterate sitter will be cured. In a test made by, an Ohio pork- raiser lie found that a bushel of corn fed from the cob made 9 pounds of pork. A bushel, of corn boiled made 13$ pounds of pork, and a bushel ©f meal looked made 164 pounds. Now' that the bill against bogus butter has passed the house, it is pos sible that some Kentucky statesman will make a move against imitation whisky. Old-Time Farming. Our veteran Georgia farmer, Major John H. Dent, of Floyd county, in a letter to the ‘Country Gentleman,’ makes this reference to a much-dis cussed subject : What has operated much against the farmers of late days is depending so largely (or 1 may say, entirely depending) on expensive bought fertilizers, instead of raising crops that w ould leave vegetable mat ter to turn under to benefittheir lands. Making lot manures has nearly been abandoned, as it was found so conve nient to purchase the commercial fer tilizers, not taking into consideration the expense of such fertilizers, and in some cases their worthlessness. This unwise system has ruined many, both in pecuniary results and in using fer tilizers that were of no permanent benefit to their lands. Humus we need; without humus, the lands will not hold moisture; hence so much complaint is made of drouths. To sum it up in a few words, the best of lands and most favorable of seasons, cannot maintain any farmer who buys his fertilizers and all his food supplies. We want going back to the old-time, common-sense farming— en tirely self-sustaining and independent. There is too much gilt-edge about it now—more fancy than substance— when we should remind ourselvfs that “it is not all gold that glitters." Forage Crops. Would German millet and speckled peas, sown broadcast together, make a good forage for horses? If so when ought they to be sown, and what ma nured with? If there is any better method, please inform me. Also what would be good in this climate for ear ly spring cutting, green for horses, something easily raised.— C. S. L., Richland Co., B. *C. Answ er.—German millet and peas would make a good combination, if both matured or were ready to cut at the same time; but the millet would have to be cut before the peas had made full growth. Sow' the millet by itself and sow corn and peas together; the latter is an excellent combination. For all, the land should be manured, either with lot and stable manure, or a combination of phosphate and cot ton seed meal—say 200 pounds of phosphate and 800 pounds of meal per acre. These crops may be sown from the first of May to the last of July. Rye is the best crop for early green feed. It stands any degree of cold, shoots up early, grow\s tali and can be cut easily.—Southern Cultivator. Hoven.—The Toronto Mail says : Hoven, the result of eating too much green clover in pastures, is easily pre vented. Have a good straw stack ac cessible to cattle, and they will always eat sufficien t of the dry stuff to neu tralize the evil effect of clover. If one lias no stack then give a small ration of dry hay or straw each day. If the trouble appears, administer to the af fected animal, as soon as discovered, five or six tablespoonfuls of spirits of turpentine. Unless the subject is too tar gone to stand, this will give relief. | THE SOUTHERN AGRICUL TURAL SITUATION. A correspondent of the New' York ! Commercial Advertiser, writing from | New Berne, N. C., in regard to the all I cotton system, has these interesting statements and suggestions: It is this ruinous system that has led to the enormous interest rates re- i ferred to in the statistics. Leaders of southern thought have long had their eyes open to the evils of this system, j Such influential papers as the New i Orleans Times-Democrat, The Atlan ta Constitution and the Charleston News and Courier have published columns of argument and expostula tion while trying to create a move ment in favor of diversified farming. The agricultural business of North and South Carolina and Georgia have done everything possible to the same ! end, and the National Cotton Plant- | ers’ Association, a most excellent and progressive society, has joined with all other agencies in trying to produce a change. YVhile none of these ef forts have been in vain, but have in every cotton-producing state, induc ed many citizens to diversify their agriculture, yet the majority of plant ers and small farmers still stick to cotton. There are several reasons, for this. One was told me by a Georgian I met on a train the other day, who began discussing this subject of liis own ac cord. After telling how the system worked, lie said, in reply to a ques tion: “Here’s the trouble, sir. We all w r ant some one else to try some thing new, and if he makes a hit, then we’ll all follow'. Many's the time me and my neighbors has talked this over at Sunday meetings, w'hile we sat around the spring, and all a- greed The Constitution had the right of it, and we’d shut down on cotton and go in for corn and hogs. But when planting time came round I've looked into their fields and saw' all were going in for cotton 'bout as usu al, and so I’ve done like the rest. You see, if I liadrPt, and they’d chanc ed to make a hit, because prices rose then I should a felt like a fool.' 1 Another reason why many plant nothing but cotton is that the plan ter's merchant creditor will not agree to carry him otherwise. Having been caught in the meshes of this net, there is no escape for the victim. He and his are but tenants at will of the real owner, and in so far as mere crea ture comforts go, are actually w'orse off than were the slaves under their masters. A third and controlling reason is that cotton is the only cash crop. One gentleman of large infor mation, a thorough farmer and care ful economist, said he could not afford to grow r cotton alone, for he should lose money and run into bankruptcy. “But,” he said, “cotton is my bank of exchange. It’s the only product of my farm that I can send to market and turn into cash—I'm too far from transportation to make other ship ments pay. The money 1 get from cotton, whether much or little, repre sents the net cash earnings of my year's work. The cost of my living, and the cost of making my cotton is all paid from my farm. I sell butter, eggs and chickens. Sometimes a fat ox, or o few sheep or lambs. Most of what my family and people consume is raised on the place. I keep an ac count of every field, every crop, and I all other departments—my invest- j merits are all made with money that cotton brings, but that all these others have made.” It is true that The Constitution [las written hundreds of columns on this important subject, and its efforts, w r e believe, have had some effect. At any rate, it has demonstrated the fact that where a farmer will raise his own supplies, making cotton his cash cro he will be reasonably successful, he does not put by any great amount of money for a rainy day, he will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he is even with the w r orld. But It should be borne in mind that the successful management of a farm, under the extraordinary conditions under which southern farmers labor, requires special intelligence, tact and experience. We say extraordinary conditions. The truth is they are something more than extraordinary, albeit they have come to be a natural and an inevita ble part of every southern farmer’s experience. The agricultural situa tion in the South must be very diffi cult for a northern editor or a north ern correspondent to understand, since it is misunderstood daily even by our own people w ho ought to be thoroughly familiar with it. The situation, briefly stated, is this that no matter how unprofitable a cotton crop may be from a business point of view, the farmers of the South are nevertheless compelled to raise it. In point of fact, it is a crop that cannot be raised profitably for a less price than ten cents a pound. It will be seen, therefore, that there have been many periods in their his tory when southern farmers raised and marketed enormous crops of cot ton at a loss. A northern or western farmer would doubtless say that the remedy for losses of that character is a very simple one—namely:to stop cul tivating the staple. And yet, so far as the southern farmer is concerned, this is no remedy at all, This is no paradox, but a plain fact. For, no matter how much the farmers may loose by raising cotton, a certain a- mount of cash is indispensibie in their business, and cotton is their only cash crop. They are compelled to grow it, even at a loss, for it is the only crop that will bring them in ready money. This is the situation, and there is but one remedy for it. The correspondent of the Commer cial Advertiser quotes one farmer as saying that his trouble is lack of trans portation; that is to say he is “too far from transportation to make other shipments pay/? The trouble, as we have pointed out in these columns be fore, is not a lack of transportation, but the lack of home markets w'hieli are absolutely necessary to the com plete success of the southern farmers. If. like the farmers of the north and west, they had home markets where the products of diversified agriculture could be as readily turned into cash as the cotton crop, then the farmers of this section would have an immense advantage. They would still ha\ e cotton, and, with it, all the other pro ducts of the soil, as money crops The free traders say that the tantl tax on the tools and clothes of the southern farmer is all that is keeping him down, but any person of common sense knows that if the southern farmer was provided with Ins clothe* and tools for nothing, lie would still labor under {he disadvantage of being compelled to devote his attention to an unprofitable cotton crop in order to secure a little ready money. His land w'ould not be improved in value, his farm w ould bring him in no great er profit, and he would still be the victim of a situation which can be improved only by a system of internal economy that will give our people home markets.—Augusta Chronicle. POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength ana wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans, Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall St. New York. - 15 lira Would have been written on the Waitzfelder Building over the door of L H, WOOD & 00. If they had not sold good goods cheap and worked hard to attract business. Our extremely low prices and meritorious goods have in creased our business' hundreds of dollars above what it was last Spring, and profiting by our experience, we shall continue to giy Q Bargains to Consumers! Throughout the coming season. We invite attention to a lot of NEW ORLEANS SYBUPS, which we bought low and are selling accordingly. SUGAR IN BBLS. AND HALF BBLS., COFFEE BY THE SACK OR DOLLAR’S WORTH AND TOBACCO BY THE BOX OR PLUG, are our specialties. We have a few packages of Mackerel, Macaroni, Preserves, Pickles and Buckwheat to close out at greatly reduced prices. We keep the celebrated FLOATING SOAP, 3 bars for 25c. £*pCall and get our figures. L. H. WOOD & CO., No. 18 S. Wayne Street, Milledgeyille, Ga. April 20, 1886. 31 ly Brick! Brick l Brick l 1,000,000 FIRST-CLASS BRICK for SALE. P ARTIES intending to build on the line of the Georgia or Central Railroads, would do well to consult us before making a contract. First-Class Paving Brick a Specialty. We are making Brick with the latest Improved Machinery, on the celebrated Cara- ker yard. BRICK DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF TOWN. «?*We take pleasure in referring to Maj.J. FUSS, Architect and Building Superin tendent. foster & McMillan, Contractors and Builders. Milledgeville, Ga., June 10th, 1885. - 48 ly Central aiut Soutn western Railroads. by which is 36 minutes slower than time kept by City.] Savannah, Ga., Nov. 15, 1885. N AND AFTER THIS DATE, PAS- „ SENGERTrains on the Central and Southwestern Railroads and branches will run as follows: GOING NORTH. [All trains of this system are run Standard (90) Meridian time, 0 : Leave No. 51. Savannah, D Arrive No. 51. Augusta D Macon D Atlanta D Columbus D Perry D E S Fort Gaines Blakeley Eufaula Albany D Montgomery.. D Milledgeville Eatonton . .. No. 53. 8.40 a.m.. D 8.10 pm No. 53. 3.43 pm... D 6.15 am 4.20 pm... D 3.20 a m 9.35 pm... D 7.32 am 3.42 am... D 215pm 8.45 p m D ES 12.05 p m DES 4.38pm DES 7.10 p rn D 4.06 p ru 10.45 pm.. D 2.45 p m 7.25 p m D E S 5.49 p in DES 7.40 p m Yi Connections at Terminal Points. At Augusta—Trains 51 and 53 con nect with outgoing trains of Georgia Railroad, Columbia, Charlotte and Augus ta Railroad, and South Carolina Railroad. Train 53 Connects with outgoing train on Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. Train 51 connects with trains for Sylvania, Wrights- ville and Louisville. At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 53 connect with Air Line and Kennesaw routes to all points North and East, and with ail di verging roads Tor local stations. • COMING SOUTH. Leave—Nos. Augusta . 18 D Macon — 52 D Atlanta—52 D Columbus 20 D Nos. 9.30 am..20 D 9.30 p ra 9.40 am..54 D 10.50 p m 6.00 am..54 D 6.50 pm 9.00 p m.. 6 D 11.10 a m Perry 24D ES6.00am. .22 D ES3.00p m Ft. Gaines 28 ” 10.05 am Blakeley 26 ** 8.15 am Eufaula 2 D 10.55 am Albany 4 D 4.10 am.. 26 14 1215 pm Montg’ry 2 D 7 30 am Mill’dg’ve 25 D E S 6.37 a m Eatonton 25 D E S 5.15 a m Arrive—No. No. Savannah. 52 D 4.07 pm.. 54 D 5.55 am Conueclions at Savannah with Savannah* Florida and Western Railway for ail points in Florida. , A _ Local Sleeping Carson all Night Pas senger Trains between Savannah and Au gusta, Savannah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Macon and Columbus. Tickets for all points and sleep ng oar berths on sale at the ticket office, No. lOtK Mulberry street, and at the Union Depot, Macon, Ga., 30 minutes prior to the leav ing of all trains, WM. ROGERS, G. A. WHITEHEAD, Gen.Supt.,Sav. Gen. Pass. Agt. Sav. T. D. Kline, A. C. Knapp. Supt. Macon. Agt. Macon. W. F. Shellman, Traffic Mang’r., Sav. “D” daily 4 ‘D E 8,” daily except Sunday. CAMPBELL'S ONE SPOON Baking Powder! For sale by C. L. CASE, Druggist. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26, ’86. 43 1 Car Load of Nails. T HAVE JUST RECEI\ T FD a car I load of Nails which I will sell as anywhere, cheap as they can be had at wholesale or retail. JOSEPH STALEY: Milledgeville, Feb., 15th, 1886. [32 It HAGAN’S Magnolia Balm is a secret aid to beauty. Many a lady owes her fresh ness to it; who would rather not tell; and you cant tell. LUMBER! LUMBER!! I have moved my Saw Mill into a fine lot of timber, six miles south of Milledgeville, and am prepared to fill orders promptly for any and Ai! kinds of Lumber at the Lowest Prices, in any quantity. Will fill orders and deliver lumber on short notice. W. H. H. BARNES, April 6tli, 1886. 39 3m Agricultural Implements —AND— C3-T7 JL3STOS I As the prosperity of every country depends upon the success^ of agriculture, and realizing the necessity of tliet liorough breaking of land and cultivation of the crop, I have supplied myself with v large lot of two and one horse Plows of the best makes, consisting of the Syracuse, Benton & Harber, White’s Clipper, Meikle’s Blue Pony and the Boss, and I also have a large lot of Steel Plows, Haiman and Southern Plow Stocks, single and double, and farming implements generally. To all who use Guano, I would recommend the Chesapeake or Pendleton Goods! And to all who -would like to have a Pump put in their wells, I would recommend the Buckeye Force Pump, which myself and many others have been using with perfect satisfaction for some time. All who wish to supply themselves with any of the above articles will do well to call and examine my stock and get my prices before buying elsewhere. 29 ly Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26th, 1886. Midville, Ga., 94 C. R. R., —MANUFACTURE— Yellow Pine Lumber, Of Every Description, Rough and Dressed. Framing Lumber, Ceiling, Flooring, Weatherboarding, Staves, Shingles, Laths, Fence Pickets. VEGETABLE AND FRUIT CRATES. •HTSteam Saw and Planing Mills in Emanuel County, connected with Midville by Private Railroad and Telephone Lines. April 6th, 1886. 39 6m. Machine Shop. T HAVE REMOVED my Machine I Shop from Milledgeville to Scotts- boro, where I am prepared to do any and all kinds of work in iron and metal. Any person having intricate or particular w ork in repairing would do well to call on me. My P. O. ad dress is MilledgeviUe, Ga. A. CORMANNI. March 2d, 1886. 34 tf Spectacles and Eye-Glasses. Wool Carding. I AM prepared to do Wool-Carding at my place, at Scottsboro. Wool sent to my address at Milledgeville, Ga., w’ill be promptly carded and re turned. All persons shipping wool to me should, also, mark plainly their ow n name and address on the package, 1 so that no mistake can be made in re-i turning carded wool. A. CORMANNI. Milledgeville, Ga., March 2, 1885. tf THE “PEEPERS’’ “OUR BOOM’’ 1 “PRINCE EDWARD,” all favorite brands of Cigars, at 5 cts. at C. L. I CASE'S Drug Store. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26,18SG. 43 ly OLD EYES HADE NEW! A N astonishing announcement which will please the people, is that JOSEPH MILLER has the largest, and one of the best select ed stocks of ‘‘King’s Combination” Specta cles and Eye Glasses, in the State of Geor gia. We have studied to supply the need of every eye requiring assistance, and with our large stock and long experience, we guarantee to fit the eye. Call and see them in prices ranging from 25c to $3.00. JOSEPH MILLER, The Jeweler and Optician, Milledgeville, Ga.. Jan. 5,1886. 26 tf c h o i c estorybooksT Games, Toys, Ac., for the little ones. Croquet Sots. Hammocks, Fishing Tackle, all at nrices to suit the times. C. L. CASE, Druggist. Milledgeville, Jan. 26, ‘S6. 43 ly_ “Harrison’sCombined Writing and Copy ing Fluid for sale at this office.