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BANNER-MESSENGER.
VOL. XV.
TIMELY’ ADVICE TO FARMERS.
Editor Constitution—I have been read¬
ing the articles in ■your excellent paper,
and wish to thank you for the attention
you have given to this most important
branch of industry.
I cannot hope to express myself as well
as some have done but have thought
that a true extract from my farm book
of accounts foi last year might aid you in
your argument, and hence I send it be
low. It is no great showing, but for a
small two-horse farmer it will pass in
these so-called hard times and foi so bad
a crop year as we have just ended. I do
not know what some mean by wanting
“class legislation.” No kind of legisla
tion can possibly help a lazy farmer, who
is always behind at everything but the
plow handles.
***
My statement is for my tenth crop
heie. I began farming as a tenant in 1S80,
and by hard work and economy, bought
my farm and paid tor it in 1894. All 1
have has beeu made by cultivating the
generous soil of Georgia. While I am
not a rich man, thanks to a kind provi
deuce, I am comfortable and independent,
and my dear family wants for nothing.
This would never have been if 1 had not
raised my own provisions. When I com¬
menced farming in 1880 on my own ac¬
count I resolved to make my provisions
foi rfiy family and to run the farm
through one year, and have never failed
to do so. I have always beeu a corn and
meat seller, and never a lien, mortgage,
note or a dime have l paid for these.
My aim has been to make all the cotton
raised free from any claim against it.
By pursuing steadily this plan and being
blessed with a good, sensible, industri¬
ous wife, I have never failed, when a
tenant, to fay my rent and to have
enough money left after all expenses
weia paid to pay for the farm in time.
***
1 will never forget the first day of Jan¬
uary. 1894, when 1 made the last payment
and carried home my deeds. No con
querer ever felt prouder. From almost
nothing at the start but good health and
a determined purpose, I had supported
my family in comfort aud had become
the owner of a good farm of 250 acres
fairly well stocked and with moie than
one year’s provisions on hand. There
never has been a year since then, 1894,
that 1 have not loaned, at good interest,
some money. Some years more. but
Lever less than last year’s cash surplus.
Lvhen my yountr orchard of peach trees
;et iu full beaxing I will do better.
V*
STATEMENT.
Assets.
Farm, 250 acres.................$
Two mules, $125 each............
One brood mare and colt........ 00
Three cows, two calves..........
Two yearlings...................
Two wagons and harness........
Tools and arm implements.....
Three brood sows and pigs.......
Ten shoats......................
Poultry..........................
Total...... ....... $3,221 00
Products.
Twenty-five acres in cotton, 16
bales, 8,032 pounds at 5c pound $401 60
Thirty acres in corn, 750 bushels,
50c bushel............. • • • 375 00
Ten acres in wheat, 135 bushels,
75c bushel.................... 101 52
Twelve acres in oats, 360 bushels
BUCHANAN, HARALSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 1899
, .
at 50c a bushel ........... 7 ... 180 00
Barley aud rye patches, 5 acres,
garden 2 1-2 acres (estimated
value)............... 75 00
Foil Vet* and hay......... .... 60 00 j
Peas, twenty bushels, 50c bushel 10 00
Bacon, 3,250 pounds, at Go pound 195 00
Fresh meats sold during year.... 18 50
But ter eggs and poultry sold dur¬
ing year................. 48 25
210 gallons sirup, 20c gallon 42 00
Gross receipts........... ..... $1,506 60
Expenses.
Taxes..... $31.50
Labor. .. 75 00
Blacksmith 12 00
Fueti for muie8 aud bor8es . 125 00
Feed for cows. .... 75 00
Feed for hogs...... ..... 50 00
Feed for poultry... ..... 10 00
Wear of machinery. .... 10 00
Fei ulizers......... ..... 60 00
Total expenses.........$446 50- 446 50
Net receipts $1,060 10
***
Cash Sales.
Cotton................ ..... $401 CO
Go. n.................. ..... 125 00
iiacon................ ..... 90 00
\\ heat................. 18 75
O its.................. 25 00
Fie.-Gt meats.......... 18 54
Butter,eggs, etc...... 48 25
Fifty gallons sirup.... 10 00
Tola' cash sales...... ...... $737 10
Cash Paid Out.
Taxes...... .... $31 50
Labor...... 75 00 •
Fevtil zors. 60 00
Blacksmith. 12 00
F r family expenses, store
account......... 176 25
Total cash paid out.... $364 75 364 75
Cash balance on hand Jay. 1,1899 $372 35
***
And so it appears that I commenced
the year 1899 wit*h all bills paid, my crib
and barn full, all the assets I am charged
with unimpaired in value, if not increas¬
ed; my good wife’s pantry full to over¬
flowing with preserved fruits, jams and
jellies, my smokehouse containing more
bacon, stuffed sausages and pickled beef
than we cau possibly use, and the snug
little amount of $372.35 in cash,
***
There are two items among the gross
products of 1 st year’s farming that I
have overlooked and which should be
added by all means. These are sweet
and Irish potatoes. Tiiev were not meas
uied when banked, but I am within the
mark when I claim a yield of 300
of yams and about seventy-five bushels
of Irish potatoes as the product of the
past season. So I have omitted chufas
and ground peas sown for my hogs.
***
Now, Mr. Editor, while this is no great
showing and my figures do not go into
the Vanderbilt column, yet it is a very
comfortable source of reflection to me.
My family has lived in comfort, my
hearty, happy children have enjoyed the
benefits of our good neighborhood
schools, and when vacation comes, enjoy
working in the field, where their merry
songs lighten the toil of a father.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM D. GARSQN,
In Atlanta Constitution
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BLOCKVILLE.
Blockvillk, Feb, 21. —I thought I
would give you a few dots from this
section.
Health is pretty good around here.
Think will have some weddings to re¬
port soon.
The old Squire took a peddling round
the latter part ot last week. 11c says it
is very dull, but he got some eggs and
a wooden-legged hen. He had the mis¬
fortune to have thirty dozen eggs to
freeze. He has a very good load of chick¬
ens, eggs, rabbit hides and butter. Think
1 will go to the city next week.
Tell Buddy to come up and 1 will write
him up to the boys that had the dishes
to wash.
Mr. Editoi, you ought to have been up
to the corn shucking at Mr. Ed Black
man’s and have partaken of that rabbit
pie. J
If Wild Bill will come up w e will go
to see Bob.
Well, we fixed up the old l oad law in
th« . part . of - the ,, county. , ... U e w.il .,, do , be
school house question the same. If tlie
whiskey question was to be Voted on, we
w ouId give it a “black eye” too.
Will close with best wishes to the edi
tors, I close. Ragged Jim.
A two or throe week's course of Dr. AJ.
A. Simmons Liver Medicine will so regu
late the Excretory Functions that they
will operate without any aid whatever.
GOLDEN.
Golden, Feb. 14.—Dear Editors: 1
come again with all the news I can get.
We are having some snow and some
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very cold weather, too.
All the gentlemen around here are hav¬
ing a nice time rabbit hunting. Messrs.
Wm. S. and \V. F. Weathington, 1). liar
ry* 6. w. and Bernard Harrison, of this
place, all went hunting yesterday and
killed three rabbits
No sickness to report at this writing.
Joe Goldin and Jim Williams visited
this place to-day.
J. J. Goldin visited W. S. Weathington
yesterday.
E. W. Harrison is suffering with a
frost bitten ear, hope lie will soon recov
gj*
I wonder if the professor got home
Friday night. Look out, professor, we
don’t want the school to close yet.
1 wonder why a certain young man
comes down the road so much.
B, how long has it been since you saw
the widow.
I guses C. A. G. is having a nice time
talking to his girl this snowy weather.
1 will close for my fingers are almost
fiozen.
Success to the B.-M. It is always a
v»- Jcome visitor in our home.
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gave myself up to my Saviour, determin¬
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earth. I would meet my absent ones
above. My husband was advised to get
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took in all eight bottles. It has cured
me, and thank God 1 am saved and now a
well and healthy woman.” Trial buttles
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