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GOOD YEAR FOR FARMER
1909 Most Prosperous of All
Years in Agriculture.
CROPWORTH $8,760,000,000
Secretary Wiloo:‘i:;; Annual Report
Pictures the Results of the Farmers’
Work for the Year.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary Wil
son, of the department of agricul
ture, in his annual report just issued,
says the farmer prospered more in
1909 than in any previous year.
“Most prosperous of all years is
the place to which 1909 is entitled In
agriculture,” is the way the secre
tary puts it, The value of farm pro
ducts was $8,760,000,000, a gain of
$869,000,000 over the preceding year.
Of great popular interest are the
results of a unique investigation con
ducted by the department, which
shows that in fifty cities the total
retail cost charged to consumers for
beef above the wholesale cost paid
by the retailers averaged 38 per cent.
The lower the grade of beef, the
greater the percentage of gross profit.
In the upward movement of beef
prices, the farmer, the report says,
has not shared equally with the
packer, retailer and wholesaler; but
as to hogs, the case is different, the
farmer receiving his fair share of the
higher prices of pork in the increased
price ot his unfed hogs.
Secretary Wilson notes a great for
ward movement in enforcing the food
and drug acts, the willingness of man
ufacturers to comply with the laws
and to co-operate with the depart
ment( making the work largely edu
cational. .
Secretary Wilson says in part:
“Kleven years of agriculture, be
ginning with a production of $4,417,
000 and ending with $7,760,000. A
sum of $70,000,000,000 for the period.
It has paid off mortgages, it has es
tablished banks, it has made better
homes, it has helped to make the
farmer a citizen of the world, and it
has provided him with means for im
proving hiss oil and making it more
productive.
«The most striking fact in the
world’s agriculture is the value of the
corn crop for 1909, which is about
$1,720,000,000. It nearly equals the
value of the clothing and personal
adornments of 76,000,000 people, ac
cording to the census of 1900. The
gold and silver coin and bullion of
the United States are not of greater
value. It has grown up from the soil
and out of the air in one hundred
and twenty days—=sls,ooo,ooo a day
for one crop, nearly enough for two
dreadnaughts daily for peace or war.
This crop exceeded in value the aver
age of the crops of the five preceding
years by 36 per cent.
“Cotton is now the second crop
in value, and this year’'s cotton crop
is easily the most valuable one of the
farmer that has been produced. With
cotton line selling at 13.7 cents on
the farm November 7 and with cot
ton seed selling for about $25 per
ton, the lint and seed of this crop
are worth about $850,000,000 to the
farmer. No cotton crop since 1873
has been sold by farmers for as high
a price per pound as this one.”
ANOTHER PROBIBITION FIGHT.
Arkansas to Have a Prohibition Can
didate for Governor.
Little Rock, Ark.—That Professor
John H. Hinemon of Arkadelphia, ad
vocator of statutory law on state-wide
prohibition, will be a candidate for
governor against Governor Donaghey,
candidate for re-election; that Hine
mon will be supported by the anti-sa
loon faction of the state, and that
statutory state-wide prohibition will
be. the principal issue of the cam
paign, is the announcement made here
by the friends of Professor Hine
mon.
Anti-liquor leaders ignore the de
feat of prohibition in Alabama, de
claring the vote was not a fair test
of public opinion. ~
FORTS NEEDED AT PANAMA.
Congressman Sherley Says the Con
struction Should Begin at Once.
Washington, D. C.—The necessity
for immediately building fortifica
tions on both sides of the Panama
canal will be urged upon congress by
Representative Sherley of Kentucky
of the subcommittee on fortifications
of the committee on appropriations.
Mr. Sherley estimates the cost of for
tifications. at between four and five
millions and the cost of the canal
when complete at $500,000,000. He
says the fortifications can be con
structed more cheaply now than later
and that the vast work should not be
left unprotected. Mr. Sherley has
just returned from an inspection ot
the canal.
CHAMPIONSHIP PRIZE FIGHT.
Jeffries-Johnson to Fight in California
July 4, 1910.
New York City.—The fight for the
heavyweight championship of the
world between James Jeffries and
Jack Johnson will be held in Califor
pia, in the vicinity of San Francisco,
on July 4, 1910, and will be staged
by “Tex” Rickard of Nevada, and
John J. Gieason of San Francisco.
Their bid of SIOI,OOO and two
thirds of the moving picture privi
leges to the contestants was formally
accepted during a stormy meefing at
Hoboken, N. J. It is believed the fight
will represent more cash than any
other fight in the history of t prize
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.
New that the 1909 cotton crop is
about marketed in the Jackson sec
tion, the farmers are turning their
attention to sowing wheat and oats
and other grain crops. It Is expected
this season will witness the largest
acreage in grain crops in the his
tory of Dutts county. This season’'s
crop of cotton will be between ten
and eleven thousand Dbales. Ugll
now farmers have been selling the
staple as fast as possible, but now
there seems to be a tendency to hold
cotton until later,
The bank statements of the banks
of Waynesboro show over a halt
mililon dollars on deposit with them,
This is a fine showing lfor them, and
shows that prosperily .3 not a thing
to be dreamed of, but an actual fact
in this city.
J. F. Simmons of Jasper has resign
ed the office of United States cominis
sioner to accept a position with the
inspector. Mr, Simmons has served
as a commissioner for the United
States for nearly seventeen years.
One of the wnost important move
ments ever inaugurated by a com
mercial organization in the state,
and perhaps in the south, is to be
launched by the Savannah chamber
of commerce. This organization will
purchase or lease fifteen or twenty
acres of good average land near Sa
vannah, and upon this show the best
and most modern methods of farm
ing. It is planned to securc an ex
pert, who knows all about soils, the
pest methods of rotation in crops,
scientific fertilization, and, In fact,
everything connected with farming.
Behind this movement, and one of the
leading spirits in it, is Joseph F.
Giray, a member of the railroad com
mission, and who still retains his
place as vice president and secretary
of the Savannah chamber of com
merce. He believes that his organi
zation can do no greater work than
to demonstrate to rarmers what the
sail can produce in that section when
intelligently managed. It is also be
lieved that the showing will be so ex
cellent that it will induce many of
the best farmers of the east and
northwest to come south.
Governor Brown is planning to g 0
to Washington, D. C., tor the purpose
of attending the Southern Commercial
Congress, a body whose meetings wili
be of interest and importance to this
gsection. It is his purpose to attend
in the event there is no public busi
ness to demand his presence here,
and there is nothing at present fore
gseen to detain him. Much interest i 3
being manifested in this gathering,
ani also in the Rivers and Harpors
Congress, which wiil convene in
Washington at the same time, and it
is stated, judging from the accept
ances already received at the govern
or's office, that probably seventy-ive
of the delegates appointed from Geor
gia to these two conventions will at
tend. It is stated that if any of tnose
who have been appointed delegates
to one of these conventions, expect
ing to attend, desire also to bhe ac
credited to the other, proper creden
tials will be furnished them upon re
quest made to the executive office.
The famous old Newell home was
destroyed by fire at Milledgeville.
The Newell home was constructed in
1836. When the state of Georgia de
cided to build its own executive man
sion in Milledgeville, architects and
builders were brought out from New
York and Boston. After the comple
tion of the old executive mansion,
which, from an artistic point of view,
s probably one of the most stiriking
buildings in the south, these build
ers were engaged by Isaac Newell to
construct this home. It was a typicar
colonial residence, and in ante-beilum
times was the social and political
headquarters of the state. Members
of the secession convention foregath
ered in this house and in caucus plan
ped the stroke for declaring Georgia
' an independent state.
The general prosperity throughout
Georgia has by no means failed to
make itself visible in Turner county.
Farmers, merchants, bankers and all
other classes of business men show
evidence of prosperity, such as has
never before been seen. Sales have
been better, collections have been
much easier and better and deposits
more numerous and larger than ever
before. The good price of cotton
overcame the slight shortage, and the
enormous corn crop has filled the
cribs to their utmost capacity. Turn
er has at present one other evidence
of good times which, perhaps, few
counties which are thickly populated
can boast—for many years the coun
ty jail doors have swung idly open.
The jailer divides his time between
his barber business and the attend
ance upon his sick wife.
The indications are that a number
of crooks are doing a profitable busi
pess in western communities dispos
ing of fraudulent Georgia land titles
—selling land that has no existence,
and never had any. The second case
within ten days has just come to the
notice of Secretary of State Phil
Cook through a letter received from
Brobst & Son. of Knoxville, lowa,
who are seeking information with re
gard to land which clients of theirs
purchased, or thought they ,purchas
ed, in Washington county, Georgia.
The other case was in Los Angeles,
Cal.,, where some patries were in
veigled into buying some land‘alleg
ed to have been granted by the state
in Montgomery county, but of which
there is no record, showing it to
have been among the fraudulent
grants. In seventeen (eorgia coun
ties there were fravdulent land
‘grants, covering more than eighteen
mililon acres, tor one thousand acres
each and covering from five thousand
‘to one mililon acres purporting to
have been granted to one person.
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The Salt Lake Typographical Union
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At the close of the third quarter of
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The total income of the Austrian
Woodworkers’ Uaion rose from $lO,-
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expenditures from $7500 in 1902 to
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The working women of England
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% SPORTING NOTES.
Yale’s football receipts were $30,-
000 for the season.
There is talk at Princeton of get
ting Bill Roper back for head coach.
The Berlin Aero Club appointed a
committee to gather information for
air charts.
Colonel Robert M. Thompson advo
cates the substitution of lacrosse for
football in the public schools.
Yale not only played the best foot
ball of the year but the most open
and interesting game from first to
last. \ .
The presidents of C\hlcago. Minne
sota, Wisconsin and Nebraska Uni
versities have joined to urge a Tre
vision of football.
Members of the American Associa
tion of Trotting Horse Breeders vote ‘
against three-in-five heat and two-in
three heat races.
The Davis lawn tennis cup will stay ‘
in Australia, owing to the defeat of
the Americans, Messrs. McLoughlin‘
and Long, in the doubles. ‘
Cornell apparently has solved the
problem of developing cross-country
teams as effectually as Columbia and
Princeton have failed to do it.
Ketchel says he will agree to fight
Papke after January at 165 pounds
ringside and will allow the middle
weight title to go with the result.
Friends of Tony Aste, the boot
black king, say that he has decided to
retire permanently from racing, but
may continue to breed horses on a
small scale.
Harry L. Hillman, of the New York
A. C., has been engaged as coach of
the track team at Dartmcuth. He
will begin work at Hanover on Jan
uvary 1, 1910.
. Pontiac, winner of Suburban Hand
jcap in 1885, landing a fortune in
ante post betting for the late Pierre
Lorillard, died at the Rancocas stud,
New Jersey, in his twenty-ninth year.
The Habit Grew.
Mary went to church for the first
time. During the sermon she said
aloud to her mothdr, “I feel sleepy.”
Frightened at the sound of her own
voice she exclaimed, “Oh, dear, I
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