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County Directory.
Superior Court Officers.
W N Spence, Judge.
3V E Wooten, Solicitor General.
E M Davis, stenographer.
S E Cox, clerk.
I Smith, sheriff.
Court sessions Tuesday after
3rd Monday in April and October.
City Court Officers.
I A Bush, Judge.
S S Bennet, Solicitor pro tem.
S E Cox, i lerk.
i Court sessions on 2nd Monday
in January, April, July and
tober.
Commissioners— T. R. Bennett,
Chairman, Wyatt Adams, A.
B. Joiner, J. W. Everett, and
G. Wood, clerk. Regular meet¬
ing second Tuesay in
month.
> Ordinary’s court every
Monday J. G. Wood, Ordinary.
County Officers.
J. L. Stewart, Tax collector.
G. T. Akridge, Tax Receiver,
jonah palmer, Treasurer.
Samuel Lucky, surveyor.
Green Spence, Coroner.
Board of Education.
J P Heath, Chairman,
Ga.
Nat Bradford, Pelham, Ga.
J T Glausier, Bacomon, Ga.
W E Davis, Meigs, Ga
J B Lewis. Camilla, Ga.
J H Powell, C. S. C. Camilla, Ga.
CITY DIRECTORY,
Mayor—J. H. Palmer
Mayor Pro-tem—M. O. Bennett.
Conncilmen—M. O. Bennett, H.
Dasher, Sr., A. B. Joiner, F. S.
J. C. Turner, C. E. Watt.
Clerk—J. L. Cochran.
Treasurer—C. L. Taylor.
Marshal—J. K. Hilliard.
Night Policeman—Raymond
HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTORY.
Board of Trustees—J. W. Butler,
L. Cochran, F. L. Lewis, A. R.
.T. H. Scaife, W. N. Spence, J. C.
Secretary and Treasurer, C. L. Taylor.
Church Chimes.
Methodist Churoh—
ITarney and Stephens Streets—
Rev. C. T. Clark, pastor. Preach¬
ing second and fourth Sundays
in each month at 11 o’clock, a. m
7:30 o’clock p. m. prayer meeting
every Thursday evening at 7:30
o’clock. Sunday school every
Sunday morning at 9.45 o’clock,
I. A.. Bush, superintendent. Ep
worth League every Sunday af¬
ternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The pub¬
lic corially invited to att end all
church services.
Baptist Church — Broad
Street. Sunday school every
Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock;
J. L. Cochran, superintendent.
The general pnblic welcome to
ail service!.
Presbyterian Church - Broad St.
Rev. Archie McLauchlin, pastor.
Preaching on the third and fourth
Sundays in each month at 11 o’¬
clock and at night. Prayermeet¬
ing every Tuesday night. Sun¬
day school at 9-30 a. m. All cor¬
dially invited to attend these
meetings.
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The Cotton Crop 1904*05.
(By Hon. Martin Y. Calvin.)
The agricultural and manufac¬
turing situation, for obvious rea¬
sons, was never so interesting or
vital as now.
The purpose of this article is
not to give the farmers^ advice.
They do not need it. The sturdy
men who wrought out of chaos,
who have restored to the South,
in aggregate amount, the for¬
tunes which were swept away by
war; who have grappled with,
and successfully solved, a larger
number and a greater variety of
difficult problems than were ever
thrust upon the attention of any
body of men in the world do not
need advice. But they do need
to participate in, and follow, the
discussion, now in progress
throughout this country and Eu¬
rope, of the issues involved in
the situation with which they are
now face to face.
A portion of the press seems
to be apprehensive lest the true
price of cotton, (by someregarded
as abnormally high,) should lead
to a greatly increased acreage in
the plant this year.
Before touching upon that im¬
portant question, I wish to empha¬
size the fact that the crop of 1904
’05 will command 12jc to l5c,
with 15o as the average price for
the entire crops rather than 12^u.
The lack of cotton, not specu¬
lation, fixed the price of the crop
1903-’04. A comparatively small
crop will hold the true price
steady for 1904-’05.
It would be perfectly natural
under labor conditions which
prevailed fifteen years ago, that
the cotton acreage would be
greatly increased. Existing con¬
ditions forbid resort to such poli¬
cy. More than that, existing
c< nditions, which are a matter of
growth not accident will permit
the favorable consideration of
such policy.
Regardless of what he might
like to do, there is not a farmer
in Georgia, or in any of the eight
strictly cotton states, who does
not know that it would be ex¬
ceedingly unwise to attempt the
acreage of last year, much less
an increase of that acreage.
Very recently the writer was
in conference with representative
agriculturalists from every Con¬
gressional district in this state—
observant, conservative, gentle -
men each of them. In reply to
inquiry on my part, each report¬
ed that it was practically impos¬
sible to secure requisite farm la¬
bor so far as the negro is con¬
cerned. and that for this reason,
if for no other, an increase in the
cotton acreage is absolutely im¬
possible.
Another important view: Cur¬
rent discussion has impressed up¬
on the minds of the farmers the
fact that, on an average, the crop
of 1903-’04 was not a profitable
crop. Why? Because three
acres of land were necessary to
the production of one bale.
There is no money in cotton
unless the yield per acre be one
half to three-quarters of a bale—
a 500-pound bale. This is now
generally accepted as a fact.
Is labor scarce, difficult to en¬
gage, because of wages or be¬
cause of antagonism between
landowners and laborer? Not at
all. The younger negroes, who
today constitute the body from
which farm help is to be obtain¬
ed, are in a transition state and
averse to the character of work
necessary on a farm. That work
is in no sense exhaustive, but it
must be regular and persistent
from the day the orop is pitched
till it is haivested.
The situation in Georgia is du¬
plicated in each of the
states.
Existing conditions would
alarming, I had almost 9aid ap¬
palling, were it not for the inex¬
haustible resources and the un¬
faltering coyrage of :he farmers.
Rest assured, the farmers will
compass the situation and sum¬
marily relegate to the rear every
difficulty, every obstacle that
stands in their pathway.
How?
First, By .'educing the cotton
acreage.
Second, By a more thorough
preparation of the soil,
each acre a seed-bed by
skillful use of improved, labor*
saving farm implements.
I want to run in a
right heie in order to say
through labor saving farm imple¬
ments and machinery, wondrous
ly improved during the past de¬
cade, the labor problem will
easily, most satisfactorily,
profitably solved.
Third, By the use of the
seed, the earlier and more pro
lific varieties preferred
Fourth, By adopting the check
system of planting—four feet
three feet generally; in many in
stances four feet by four feetdn
stead of the old system of three
feet rows and two feet drills.
Fifth, By the freer and more
liberal, i. e., intelligent applica¬
tion of high grade commercial
fertilizers, rich in food especial¬
ly adapted to the plant.
Sixth, By the best methods
cultivation.
Chemists who analyze soil and
fertilizers, tell us that phospho¬
ric acid, nitrogen and potash are
the elements in which generally
the soil is more or less deficient.
A long series of careful experi¬
ments have demonstrated, be¬
yond all doubt that the three ele¬
ments named sustain to one an¬
other a relationship that is ex¬
pressed by 3/ r 1: 1 ;
Availaole phosphoric acid is
supreme importance to cotton.
Soil conditions considered, nitre
gen stands next; potash next.
The thought is to get a balan¬
ced ration, and feed it to
plants, according to soil, at the
rate of 300 to 4Q0 pounds or 450
to 500 pounds per acre—a 500
pound bale of cotton from eaen
acre being the standard, toward
which every effort should be per¬
sistently directed.
Every farmer will, of course,
cling to the old and sensible prac
tice of spreading over his land,
and ploughing in, all the stable
and lot manure he can command,
and leaf mould according to his
judgement.
Existing labor conditions can
not be changed. By and by, we
shall have a full quota of
to spare. Meantime, the
gentlemen in Georgia, and
cotton states, who cheerfully be¬
gun workjon the farm January,
1904. will make a crop, they will,
as a rule, make home
in adundance.
I bring you the assurance
a larger number of young gentle¬
men in Georgia have
turned to farm werk this
than at any time in thirty years.
I have given considerable
tion to this feature of the
tion, and I know that what I
stated is a fact. It means
for our grand old
A greatly exaggerated idea,
to the crop of the eleven
1889-’90 and 1899-1909, has
into the public mind. It is
that the crop of 1897-’98
ed to 11,199,994 (480
bales and that of 1898-’99
gated 11,274,810 (489
bales, but the average yield
year, the eleven years, was
than nine million bales. So tiu
with ths two large crops
ed, the actual average yieldj
year, the eleven years, was
8,816,117 bales.
With the most favorable
sons, the crop of 1904-’05 can
possibly exceed ten million
if, by chance, it should
that number.
The world’s necessitous de
mand is nearer twelve
than eleven million bales.
The gravity of the situation,
it relates to the cotton
ers ot the world, was voiced
the King of England, in his
cent stated address from
throne. His majesty
touched upon the scarcity of
ton and the unpromising
for a large crop of American
ton during the year under con¬
sideration, and probably for
to ten years to follow
No anxiety need be felt in
country as to the renewed and re¬
doubled efforts which all
proposes to put forth to grow
own cotton, She cannot
American cotton: that is
genous to our soil, Europe tried
cotton culture in 1861-’65.
made then, as she can again
make, cotton of a certain
and grade, but it is lacking in
the high quality of the American
grown staple.
1 repeat an encouraging and
controling fact: During the de¬
cade, 1890-1900, while the in¬
crease in the number of
consumed was 61 per cent, the in¬
crease in the number of
produced was only 29 per cent.
Those figures are far from be¬
ing meaningless.
In closing this article, I
to stand uncovered in
presence of the young gentlemen
in Georgia and the South who,
having put their hands to
plough, will not turn back.
immediate future of great
perity and usefulness
them.
The slogan is: A
acreage; one 500 pound bale,
least, from each acre.
Martin V. Calvin.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 18, 1904.
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