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VOL. IV
Only 50 Cents
to make your baby strong and
welt. A fifty cent bottle of
Scott’s Emulsion
will change a sickly baby to
a plump, romping child.
Only one cent a day, think
of it. Its as nice as cream.
Send for a free sample, and try it.
SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists,
409-415 Pearl street, New York.
50c. and Ji.oo; all druggists.
GEORGIA PEACH CROP
SOMK VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS
IO THE (IKOWKK OK THE
JLUCiOUS hKUiT.
GRADING AND PACKING
Method. Practiced In Large Georgia
Orchard—The Necessity of a
, Canning Factory.
. t «
Jane 1st, 1901.
• JUNE TALK OF THE COMMISSIONER.
As the peach, crap has become one of
the most important in Georgia, and as
some peach-growers in our state are new
at this business, some hints on this sub-
ject may porve helpful to many, The
condition in which peaches reach the
market and their adaptability for the
fruit trade depend largely upon the
manner in wliiok they are graded and
packed. In some orchards no special
preparations are made beforehand, and
there is no special organization for the
work. Unskilled hands do the packing
and through carelessness in the selec¬
tion a few peaches, perhaps but slightly
tainted, find their way into the crates,
with the result that the whole mass be¬
comes infected and the fruit rejected by
'the dealers is thrown back upon the
hands of the shipper. Then we hear
the complaint that there is no money in
peaches. But Providence has never yet
bestowed a gift upon a people for the
handling of Which there could not be
found some intelligent and hence suc¬
cessful metnod.
The orchards of Georgia have attrac¬
ted such wide attention throughout the
United States that we find them fre¬
quently mentioned in periodicals de¬
voted to farming and horticulture even
in the distant north.
In the American Agriculturist, pub¬
lished in Springfield, Mass., and in New
York and Chicago, Professor W. G.
Johnson thus describes the method
practiced in the orchards of J. H. Hale
Of Georgia.
1 "The fruit is sorted into three grades
ahd placed in long canvas trays arranged 1
in compartments in front of the worker,
about one foot above the center of the
table, with the packers on the opposite
Bide. The peaches are classified into
three grades and then packed into car¬
riers of six baskets each. About 100
peaches of extra large size are packed in
a .carrier. The No. 1 size usually re¬
quires from 120 to 160, while No. 2 takes
from 190 to 210. Peaches below this
size are, as a rule, not placed iu carriers.
The fruit is carefully graded by experts,
many of them being orange packers
from .Florida. Every peach must be up
to standard size, without blemish and iu
perfect stage of ripeness before being
placed in a basket. The general forp-
maa of the packing shed keeps a very
careful watch over all the fruit packed,
and before the lid is nailed on a crate an
expert makes a full inspection, being
sure that every peach is up to standard.
If a single peach is found containing a
bruise or a blemish of any kind, the en¬
tire crate is returned ta the packer and
as a penalty must be repacked.
“The fruit is handled mostly by white
men aiid women, and expert packers
can put up frorii 80 to 100 oarriers per
day, the number depending largely upon
the variety and amount of fruit being
packed. Some experts pack, from 176 to
200 carriers a day, each person handling
from 20(000 to 80,000 pieces of fruit, in
addition to removing the baskets and
middle'tray of each carrier. ”
Every, well equipped orchard should
have not only its packing house, bul
also its canning factory, where the
peaches not selected for shipping nor
reserved for- home consumption can be
put up in oaus and thus 1 preserved until
required'lor fall and winter use at the
home or lor sale in all the cities and
towns, where there is elways a demand
for None such of goods. the fruit i ould be wasted,
THE r -i i n •• * v . €
"Don’t Grlve Up tlio Ship.”
BUCHANAN, GA,. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901.
but the peaches not shipped or canned
or consumed at home while fresh from
the trees should be carefully dried mid
nor to th, old n«hT l> Tho l Mt‘t° «
dried looks whiter and cleaner and finds
a readier sale than that dried by the
sun, though some prefer the latter.
Among the famous orchards of Geor-
gia are those of Messrs. Rutnph, Stubbs,
Gober aud Miller.
Save the Farm Manure.
The most important problem with
horse manure is to prevent it from
leachin^ Somp hn.nl ir m th# a . *
once ll aud t snrend r ir i) K , ** h cr °P
season while the ; growing plants al
ready have all the fertilizers needed for
them, this manure can be profitably
used by spreading it upon the meadows
and pastures. In spreading manure
when the fields are bare it must be so
placed that rain will not leach materilL our th«
ammonia and other l r vaiuaoie valuable materials.
If the manure cannot be taken ^ to the
fields, a shed should be built in close
proximity to the stable and so construct-
ed that the rains will not fall through
it, and under this shed the manure
should be placed from day to day.
Mauure from cattle can be treated w in
the same way, though ,, , the .. matter ol
keeping it from leaching is not so im-
peratiye, as it does not heat so readily,
being known as cold manure. For this
reason it should not be used for hot bed.
and cold frames.
Where beef cattle are stall-fed and
a lot or around a straw stack, when
animals have been sent to market,
inanure can be put upon a spreader
distributed over the fields. Some of these
spreaders will distribute the finest com¬
mercial fertilizer or the coarsest lot ma¬
nure filled with unrotted straw and fod¬
der. The work done by the spreader is
far better than that done by hand.
Concerning Sugar Cane.
In a compilation of the comparative
value of field crops made by the Florida
Experiment Station. Lake City, Florida,
it is shown that sugar cane is by.far the
most productive crop for that state, aud
that the next best paying crop is pea¬
nuts. Such also is the case on such
South Georgia lands as produce only
one bale of cotton to three acres, nine
aud a half bushels of corn and nine ol
oats to the acre. But there are large
stretches of very ferrile land in Middle
and South Georgia which produce a
bale of cotton to tne acre, trout tweuty-
five to thirty bushels of corn and oats to
the acre, aud 300 bushels of potatoes.
Ou lands of this sort there is not such
a marked superiority of sugar cane over
other crops. But with skillful manage¬
ment It holds its own with the best of
them, and is superior to most of tnem.
Therefore we conclude that sugar cane
is a great wealth producing crop and
that its cultivation will add greatly to
the prosperity of the farmers of South¬
ern Georgia as well as of our seaports,
Savannah and Brunswick. These cities
will need a large growth of the syrup
and sugar industries to take the place
of the lumber and naval stores business
which must grow less in proportion as
the great pine forests are exhausted.
This may seem to many a worn out
theme, but the Department of Agricul¬
ture, realizing the supreme importance
of this great crop to the farmers of all
South Georgia, feels that it will be ex¬
cused for keeping this subject before the
minds of those most interested.
There are some very encouraging in¬
dications of growth in the syrup and
sugar industries. One of these is the
fact mentioned by Colonel I. C. Wade,
land and industrial agent of the South¬
ern railway, that in Appling county,
where two years ago only 100 acres were
planted in sugar cane, there are now
1,600 acres devoted to it. Another is
that a company of Illinois capitalists,
believing that Georgia can produce as
good sugar as Louisiana, has purchased
o 'er 60,000 acres of timber land iu
Clinch county, intending to saw out the
lumber, and, after the land is sufficient¬
ly cleared, to build large sugar mills
and plant thousands of acres in cane.
One of the most indefatigable workers
in this cause is Captain D. G. Purse of
Savannah, and his efforts are heartily
seconded by that liberal minded journal,
the “Louisiana Planter and Sugar
Manufacturer.,” which gives encourage¬
ment to every scheme for the upbuilding
of the entire South. We are glad to see
that other journals besides those of
Georgia are taking an interest in what
so much pertains to the welfare of our
Statd.
The establishment of a sugar experi¬
ment station in the cane belt wh.on was
recommended by the Brunswick con¬
vention has met with strong endorse¬
ment by the Brunswick Board of Trade,
which offers to furnish 600 acres for
that purpose, and by the Macon Cham¬
ber of Commerce which also urges upon
the Georgia legislature the passage of a
law for preventing the adulteration of
Georg - ______ _
‘ a syrup.
T his department is exceedingly anx-
““- v >*" *■** tor ,hB »' h " «™P» •*»'
dave been worth so much to her in the
paSt ‘ Geor & la already takes high rank
among her southern sisters in both ag-
r i ou * ture and manufactures. We wish
to see her in the front rank iu the
growth minuted" of every product for which her
soil is Nature im* ! J ]ibnr„!i„
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de *' r *» *•* bhe should mak 1 « the
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Oats for r orage.
The '“ value of J™ well cured Bd J out 0Bt h W * y * f or r
Bl1 kmds of fa ™ scock ‘ especially . for
cows anf * sneep, is well known.
S° , mt) preler to cut the oats tor hay just
as are beginning to bloom, while
with some varieties ic “ay be better to
begin a little earlier, with others a little
later ' ^ is better to leave the stubble,
a ® r c " n ^> should be about
the same as that for hay. Oat hay can
be stacked out of doors, but it should be
topped with some other grass The cropi«
safer, however, under a shed or in a
barn. The only serious objection T to
this feed . 4 is . *U that . rats . .. aud J mice are apt
to damage it badly. A remedy against
these pests is to stack the oats on a fouu-
dation of poles or scantlings, so thal
cats and dogs can get under it and de-
stroy the rata O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner.
Mr. W,S. Whedon, cashier of the
First National Bank of Winterset,
Iowa, in a recent letter gives some ex¬
perience with a carpenterin his em¬
ploy, that will be of value to other me¬
chanics. He says; "I had a carpenter
working for me who was obliged to
stop work for several days on account
of being troubled with diarrhoea. I
mentioned to him that l had beensim-
ilariy troubled and that Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
had cured me. H- bought a bottle of
it from the drugg'st hereand informed
me that, one dose cured him. and he is
again at his work.” For sale by Cope-
land Bros Bremen; S Gaulding & Co..
Waco.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
WHERE A HEADY MARKET MAY
BE .'ECUKK 1 ) FOR A Clf.OP
OF WHEAT HAY.
ATLANTA MEN WILL TRY II
Grain Dealers Will Sell It on Com¬
mission and Do Their Best
to Create a Demand.
Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 1901.
J. W. Harris, Jr., Cartersville, Ga.:
Dear 8ir— Your favor of May 22 re¬
ceived, in which you ask, “Where can
we find a market for 100 tons of wheat
hay?” This is rather a hard question tc
answer. We have made some inquirie
from , the wholesale , , grass and ^ grain
men
of Atlanta to see if we conld not induce
them to take hold of this wheat hay and
put it ou the market, that it might take
the place of timothy and other north-
western grasses. They say that they
are perfectly willing to give this hay a
trial, and if yon and other parties desire
to consign to them a few tons they will
sell it on commission and do the very
best in their power to create a market,
not only for wheat hay, but for other
good Georgia Bermuda „ , and ,
grasses, as
peavine. They say the reason why they
handle the northern grasses is that they
«<r* “ —* “ d
year to year, aud that having bunt up a
considerable trade, not only in Atlanta,
but in the surrounding sections, with
these grasses, it is hard to break che peo-
ple away from ahem. However, they
are willing, as we have said above, to
undertake to create a demand for our
Georgia grasses, provided the Georgia
farmer wiil put on the market a uniform
grass, baled in uniform bales, 100 pounds
each.
The prices of wheat hay run from $15
to $18 per ton at LaGrange, where the
farmers in aud around LaGrange have
built up a market for this very valuable
hay. Such men as George W. Truitt,
R. W. Milam, A. T. Dallis and A. H.
Griffin have been growing this hay for
the past six years. These gentlemen
write onr department that for years no
western hay has been sold iu LaGrange,
but that this hay has been almost ex-
clusively used by livery stable men,
lumbermen, merchants, and farmers
who are so thriftless as not to raise a
supply for themselves. Wear- satisfied
that you and a few other good farmers
in Bartqwr. countjL.cou.ld_ do the same
tEingTdr CaFd^vTirr aOT HaftoWTTVC
these gentlemen have done for
srsasass:
L" ‘ftonp.’’
W e might state iu this connection
that Prolessor John M. .McOandless,
our stare chemist, will at an early data
analyze this wheat hay, comparing it
Rot only to other Georgia grasses but to
tlie northwestern grasses as well. Theso
analyses wid be published iu his com-
meroial fertilizer bulletin No. 8b. which
will be issued lrom tins teiwtment
some time in August. You understand
chat uk*s« gentlemen claim riie wheat
hay to be a weii balanced ration, takiug
the place both of grass and grain You
might write to A. P. Morgan & Go.
aud j D Frazier & Go., Atlanta, Ga..
wno c | ea ] ver y largely m hay aud grain,
Now as to curing the nay. Cut the stalks
close to the surtace of the ground while
the grain is in fairly good ••dough”
state, so that when all is cured
will be about half matured grains (in
size). To wait later tue straw would
become woody; to cut earlier would be
wa!jlei lu that weight and nutriment
would be wanting. Wheat hay is easily
cured, and comes in when you have barn
room and nee(i a K° od - non-hearing food
8tock ' ilowati vou would “bother grass.
-
b UCrake l m ° windrow ® the afternoon of
the 1 day / the cutting is done. Tue lol-
lowill day carrv tc che barn. If the
weather is clear and warm this is ail
that is needed. Iu about ten days to
two weeks from tne time the hay is put
“ barn it can then be baled. The barn
curing, like the field curing, is quickly
over. Do not let your hay remain un-
baled longer than two weeks, because it
loses not only its nutriment, but the
pleasant odor and beautiful color.
‘‘The following were the ruling prices
of hay at LaGrange on May 1, 1901,”
writes A. T. Dallis: ‘‘Wheat hay, $17
to $18 per ton; peavine hay, $12 to $11
per ton; Bermuda, $13 to $15 per ton;
Johnson grass. $8 to $10; Englisn vetch
and red clover (mixed), $13 to $U;
shredded corn stalks, $5 to $6 per ton.”
If you desire further information as
to wheat hay, write to the above par¬
ties at LaGrange, Ga , and any one of
them will take pleasure in answering
your letter.
Hoping this will be satisfactory, I am
yours very truly.—state Agricultural
Department.
Yon may as well expect to run a
hte , m pnjf j np witho ut water as to find
an a(!tivi , er ,e r gotic man with a torpid
liver and you 01 '"' know I hat his liver
is torpid when he does not relish his
food, or feels dull and languid after
eating, often has headache, and some¬
times dizziness. A few doses of Cham
her Ini it’s Stomach and Liver Tablets
will resrore ins liver to its normal
functions, renew his vitality, improve
his digestion and make him feel like a
new man. Price 25 cents. Samples
free at Copeland Bros. Bremen; S
Gaulding & Co. Waco,
RESCUE OR ARCTIC GRASS.
New Crop For the Southern States Is
Suggested.
Rome, Ga., June 1, 1901.
Hon. O. B. Stevens, Commissioner ol
Agriculture, Atlanta. Ga.:
Dear oik—I u repiy to yours of a re¬
cent date in regard to wnat I know
about Rescue grass, will say:
I have sown for the past four years
what you refer to as ‘‘Rescue grass,” ot
what we locally call it, ‘‘Arctic grass,”
which of course is no proper name for
it, but only given to describe one par-
ticular characteristic of its habit of
™ eXtreme
vVitnuut Knowing positively, myopin-
ion is that tnis grass belongs to the
Bromus species oi grass; that it is the
winter variety of this family as the
Bromus iuermis is the summer variety,
Bromus iuermis, under successive ex¬
perituents made by the United States
government in the hot and arid far
west has proven itself to be able to re-
sist che hot, dry weatner ot that climate
jj ett;er than any other grass, and with
QS R should prove a valuable pasture
grass in summer as well as a good hay
c„!' «r.iL b k n&ns
rooCed t0 enable it to resist, the winter,
After cutting off a crop of hay iu
summer it should be allowed to grow
until autumn, when ic will afford abuud-
aut pasture during our usually dry
mouths. With this grass for Suiunicf
or autumn pasture and the Rescue grass
for winter pasture, oattle and sheep wiil
do well ou very little other feed, except
during the months of January ami Feb-
ruary, when our lauds are usually tod
wet for cattle to run upon. It would be
bard to find a better combination thau
these two grasses afford for not only an
all the year round pasture, but for vai-
uable and abundant hav as well.
I have said this much about the
Bromus inermis because it is a new
grass for tne south, being a native of the
far west, aud to suggest that ic would
be a good scheme to have your depart-
menc introduce it here, for I am quite
suro not one farmer in a dozen knows
the value of this grass,
As for the winter Bromus, or Rescue
grass, as you are pleased to cull it, there
s no grass tbar will make better hay.
and as a winter pasturage grass it 1
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incomparably tue uest. No* even rye
t,r ' ,!m ey wili stand the winter better of
wr £?& are:
"'So'i'e.l'tad SSu be well pr.p.r.,1,
a* for any other grass, und tho seed
sown about a bushel and a half to the
acre, early iu the autumn—say the first
week iu September, or as soon there¬
alter as possible, it you want early win-
ter pasture, i shout i judge it might be
sown iu spring, as it is safe to sow oats,
but tho difference will be that you find
between spring aud fall sown oat-s. I,
will not bo sate to sow it late in the
spring, as it Is not fond of hot weather,
It can be cut early in may. when fully
green, lor hay, and tneu, if the season
is propitious, von may harvest Inter in
June a light crop of seed, owing a good
deal to the strength ot your laud. Bug
left to seed it will bear an abundant
cron, say at least 60 or more bushels per
acre.
li out in the "uough” state, as we some-
times cut oats it will give you a feed
equal to that ol sneat oais.
There is no ocher grass that wili stand
more water. It will remain unhurt for
t e n days under 10 feet of water aud
seem to continue to grow. Therefore,
it is valuable for low, wet river lauds,
In reference to this subject Mr. W. M-
Gammon o Rome says as follows:
‘‘X am neither a farmer nor an agroa-
tologist and don’t pretend to know, but
it would give me great satisfaction .if
Mr. Redding was mistaken. I have 60
acres of it, am catting and have been
for two weetss, for hay. Am selling it
in the field for $15 per ton. Off of
acres of good land I cut five tons of lmy
cured. All I know is that it maices good
hay and sells readily. ”
Yours truly,
J. Lindsay Johnson.
A Sprained Ankle <|niekly Cured
“At one time I suffered from a se¬
vere sprain of the ankle,” says Geo. E.
Cary, editor of the Guide, Washington
Ya. “After using several recommend¬
ed medicines without success, 1 tried
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, and am
pleased to say that relief come as soon
as [ began its use and a complete cure
speedily followed.” Sold by Copeland
Bros. Bremen; S Gaulding & Co Waco
STANDARD TIME.
A Table of tlie Hoar ReckOBlngi •(
All Nations.
The difficulty of appreciating the dif¬
ference in time that prevails between
different countries is very general, and
the following list is printed for the pur¬
pose of a ready reference guide by
which to calculate the time of any oc¬
currence in another country. All na¬
tions except Spain, Portugal and Rus¬
sia calculate their time from the meri¬
dian of Greenwich, accepting as stand¬
ard some even hour meridian east or
west of Greenwich. For instance:
Western European time, or that of
the meridian of Greenwich, is legal in
England. Belgium, Holland and Lux¬
emburg.
Central European time, or one hour
east of Greenwich, is legal in Germany,
Austria-Hungary. Bosnia and Herzego¬
vina, the Kongo Free State. Denmark,
Italy. Servfa, Sweden, Norway and
Switzerland.
Eastern European time, or two hours
east of Greenwich, is adopted by Bul¬
garia, Roumanla, Natal aud Turkey lu
Europe.
Eight hours east of Greenwich ap¬
plies to the Philippines.
Nine hours east of Greenwich Is
adopted by central Australia ar.d Ja¬
pan.
Ten hours east of Greenwich is offi¬
cial in Victoria, Queensland and Tas¬
mania.
Eleven and a half hours east has
been adopted by New Zealand.
The United States, Canada and Mexi¬
co have adopted the fifth, sixth, sev¬
enth and eighth hours west of Green¬
wich.
The Hawaiian Islands adopt the me¬
ridian of 10Vi hours west.
In Spain the meridian of Madrid. 14
minutes 45 seconds west of Green¬
wich. is legal; in Portugal, that of Lis¬
bon, or 30 minutes 31) seconds west,
and in Russia, that of St. Petersburg,
or 2 hours, 1 minute and 13 seconds
east of Greenwich.—Detroit Free Press.
A Good Cough HI edict no.
It speaks well for Chamberlain's
Remedy when druggists use It
in their own families in dreference to
other. “Ihave sold Chamberlain’s
Remedy for the past five years
with complete satisfaction to myself
customers,” says Druggist J Gold¬
smith, Van Etten, N. Y. “I have al¬
ways used it in iny own family both
for ordinary coughs and colds aid for
the cough following lagrippe, and flnti
it very efficaciiusFor sale by Cope-
land Bros. Bremen; S Gaulding & Co.
Waco.